Why is it that Tennessee demands teachers have specialized training, mental health evaluation and enhanced background checks to carry guns around children but they don't demand the same of the rest of the state?

Are teachers somehow high risk individuals to a great degree than the average parent with a gun at home?
Why does Tennessee not demand the same high standards for all gun owners?

I expect one of them at some point, somewhere, to take the weapon they already have in the classroom and start shooting students and colleagues. That's what the teachers we know in Texas were worried about.
#5 | POSTED BY ZED

That's certainly a possibility but it's more likely they off themself in the classroom. Teaching is a stressful job and suicide is more often than not an unplanned act of impulse.

That's a depraved story. She killed the dog because she's a bad owner who didn't train it properly. Very typical of the GOP mindset in general. They fail at leadership and then blame everyone else for their shortcomings.

Donald Trump is a rapist, fraud who stole classified documents and called members of the US military suckers and losers and attempted to overthrow the Constitution.

I'm sure all of the people who felt we should have left Britney Griner in Russia will feel the same way about this guy.

------ testified to paying $30K to kill a story alleging Trump of having an out-of-wedlock child. He also admitted to paying $150K to kill a story alleging that Trump had an affair with Karen McDougal. ------ told the jury that during his first meeting with Trump and Michael Cohen that he wanted the scheme to remain "very confidential" and that he was on Trump's behalf. He also told the court that Cohen would provide him bits of information that the Enquire would then publish embellished or completely made up negative stories about candidates running against Trump such as the one they ran claiming that Ted Cruz's father was an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald.

How many times do we need proof before people understand, the Republican Party is the Pro Rape Party.
#7 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

I'm pretty sure most GOP voters understand that and are fine with it. They did nominate a rapist as their presidential nominee.

Why is this a crime?
#2 | POSTED BY EFFETEPOSER

Was that meant to be a serious question?

Were the four named Elon, Kanye, Donald and Tucker?

I'll give her credit for being consistent.
Anyone who wants to ban abortion but says there should be exceptions is just telling us their real reason for opposing abortion is to control the sexuality of women, not protecting what they consider to be a human life.

"I love the poorly educated"

It prohibits children under the age of 14 from becoming social media account holders and allows 14- and 15-year-olds to become account holders with parental consent.
Hopefully other states will soon follow.
#20 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY

I imagine that will be thrown out.
The Court established in Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville that speech, even that which may be harmful to minors, is protected except in very limited circumstances. The Roberts Court also ruled in Brown v Entertainment Merchants Association that a California law designed to protect children from violent video games did not establish that the state had an interest in protecting children from psychological or neurological harm to minors allegedly caused by video games and even if the state had such an interest, the law was too broad to meet the objective.

I have to give props to Johnson, he acted with conscience and bravery which is not something that can be said about anyone from the GOP most of the time.
People are talking about his risking his leadership. I don't think that is the case. I imagine he had a deal with democrats to protect his speakership before he allowed the votes.

What I don't see people talking about is him risking his seat. He's in a reliably red district. Understandable since his district was created in 2000 and has been held by GOP since. Johnson has won with at least 60% of the vote each year he's ran and was uncontested in 2022.
Here's the catch. Louisiana doesn't have partisan primaries. They have runoffs. His cooperation with the democrats may prompt more republicans to jump in and deny him 50% of the vote in November which would then force a runoff between the top two candidates which could both be republicans. Those elections tend to be more unpredictable.

I'm sure you wonder how can people not vote Democrat and vote for Trump.....

#171 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

That's two different things. I can understand why people wouldn't vote democrat. I've not voted democrat plenty of times myself. But voting for Trump is a whole different ballgame.
What you are asking there is do people not understand how someone can vote for someone who has been found to have committed fraud on a mass scale, raped at least one woman, cheated on multiple wives, stole and refused to return classified documents, organized an insurrection for the purpose of overthrowing the US Constitution and deliberately and admittedly downplayed the seriousness of a deadly pandemic.

I'm sure you wonder how can people not vote Trump and vote for non-rapists
I'm sure you wonder how can people not vote Trump and vote for non-fraudsters
I'm sure you wonder how can people not vote Trump and vote for pro-democracy
I'm sure you wonder how can people not vote Trump and vote for protecting national secrets

That's unfair. I shouldn't discriminate like that. I'm sure the scout leaders and protestants are looking forward to the new opportunities to molest kids and cover it up too.

The catholic priests are lining up for this job.

I should add that Luna, like all MAGATS, is a frequent liar and nothing she says can be trusted.

"Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, warned on Friday of a possible GOP plan that would allow a Democratic House speaker if a motion to vacate is introduced."

What kind of idiot buys anything Trump is selling? He's a conman to the core.

Everything Trump is involved with is a fraudulent.

Completely nuts and lost in all the conspiracy theories he "discovered".

#19 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY

So not really any different from Trump supporters.

The republican party is a criminal organization

Every time the GOP talks about middle class tax cuts it actually means a huge tax cut for the top 1% of earners, peanuts for the rest of us and exploding the deficit.

The OSAC is so blinded by their hate of trans people that they don't seem to realize that pro wrestling is choreographed and scripted performances. This may be the perfect example of just how ridiculous conservatives have become with their culture war garbage.

Will Kari Lake be charged when someone in Arizona commits an act of political inspired violence after her statement?