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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Yeah, the shooter had a bad day. Don't we all? I know whenever I find myself frustrated at work or having a disagreement with Mrs. Derelict, I just want to go kill some random minorities.

The fact that the sheriff could even THINK such a thing--that the shooter "had a bad day"--much less actually vocalize it is nothing short of completely fucked up. He needs to resign yesterday.

And, of course, I am once again struck by the disparity in how law enforcement treats citizens. Here's a heavily armed White man who has just killed 8 people and wounded several more. Police manage to take him into custody without even mussing his hair. George Floyd is suspected of maybe having passed a bad $20 bill, so naturally he has to be killed while being arrested.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

If spokesman wasn't a documented piece of shit and could make the sarcasm clear, sure the little creep had a bad day. Just not as bad as his victims.

Maybe worse for the kid killer, his withe privilege surely saved him from getting his ass capped at his apprehension but I'm not so sure a life imprisoned (or maybe institutionalized) is better than an ass capping would have been.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Seeing how exercised the Sheriff is over the plight of the presumed perp...The man might just snap and shoot some dang reporters ...purely as a sort of “stressbuster”..I mean we’ve all wanted to..amirite?

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It's Georgia.

You know, the place where they weren't going to do anything about the three sister-fucking wanna-be cops who murdered the Black jogger until the story began getting national media attention months later? THAT Georgia?

One Senate run-off does not a blue state make.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Cherokee County. Just north of Atlanta, just south of Marjorie Taylor Greene. Named for the former residents they dispossessed.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Spot on, as always.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Bravo, Roy.

Yesterday I got a paper cut, learned my car needed an $800 repair, ate at McDonalds, and didn’t get laid. No man is safe around me, better clear the streets, guys.

Oh, wait .....

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Man, really sorry to hear you had to eat at McDonald's.

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*gasp* At least you didn't... didn't...

Have a 7/11 hot dog

*shudder*

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

SHERIFF MANT: If only we had sane gun laws. Then things like this wouldn't happen.

My dream.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Good to know that guns don’t kill people, evangelical racists with “sex addiction” having a bad day kill people.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

You know who had a *really* bad day? The people the gunman terrorized and murdered.

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well you know in these Oriental cultures they place no value on human life. Hence their expressionless, inscrutable faces. They don't feel things as deeply as little Jimmy Bobby.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Plus, that's what happens when you worship Buddha and not the one true lord and savior.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

You kid, but no.

There’s a sequence in the 1974 Vietnam war documentary 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 in which General Westmoreland says, in an interview, “The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner. Life is plentiful. Life is cheap in the Orient.” This is juxtaposed with footage of a weeping woman at the burial of her ARVN husband, almost as though his life had mattered to her. The scene was much-discussed when the film was released, and it pains me to think what a bad day the General must have had when he was called out on this (today he’d probably say “That isn’t me”).

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Nowadays probably "That's not who I am." It was, though.

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Boy, do I remember that scene.

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Not to mention their loved ones. However, you don't see any of them going on a shooting spree. And if that ever happened, you wouldn't see the media or police spokesmen making excuses for them.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

#KillerKrackerLivesMatter

But a few more clarifications to the mainstream reportage:

One's not a sex addict if one's an incel or otherwise not, shall we say, getting lucky to speak of. More: The little fucker appeared to be kind of rootless which, Venn diagram-wise, has huge overlap with mass murdering. Just saying. And maybe it's and my documented antidisestablishmentarianism, but having father who apparently is a youth pastor sets off my Spidey sense. I get images of Gym Jordan and Jerry Sandusky, sort of. (Okay, more the former than the latter. Still.) And someone anything like that having undue influence on a young man with a limited life, well, you know.

And then there's the irony: Were the little fuck Black, odds are better than even that the po-lice apprehension would have resulted in him being killed on the spot. But white privilege is going to get him at least a couple of decades in maximum security where a) he's likely to be in the minority and b) his sex addiction will unlikely be treated. So next time someone envies white privilege, I guess the little fucker's going to be the poster boy for the retort that, no, it isn't always beneficial.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Don't forget, Jimmy Bobby Walter's entire life has been ruined by this incident. Think of all that lost potential!

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Dumb and incompetent cops I expect but our Prime Minister, replying to a question yesterday about a Women's March which was prompted by a rape allegations directed at a senior Minister in the Government, said, “Not far from here, [Myanmar] such marches, even now, are being met with bullets, but not here in this country.”

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

“…more’s the pity.”

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Sounds like he's expecting a cookie, or at least a pat on the head.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

The modern conservative: When hate and fear doesn't work, there's flat out idiocy. And if BoJo wants to compare the UK to Myanmar, well, it's a goddam shame the UK's voters gave the Tories an absolute majority.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I missed prominent mention of the shooter's Christianity in your item. Try to keep it real.

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Laffing heartily, although of course it's not funny. Meanwhile, what's the deal with "snapped"? Is it the same as losing one's temper? Even I've done that (not often enough, alas). But it also seems to include some kind of psychotic acting-out. Is it that common? Have any of you guys ever "snapped"?

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

If we had "snapped" we surely wouldn't admit it, would we?

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

When poor Jimmy Bobby Walter was arrested he only had two names. The Sheriff's department supplied the "Bobby" because it's a rule that mass shooters and assassins must have at least three names for media consumption.

Tucker Carlson will point out that Walter never shot anyone until he saw the "WAP" performance at the Grammys.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

*chef’s kiss*

Unfortunately, we live in a media world where I would never bet even $5 Tucker Carlson would NOT say that, because it’s too likely I would lose my money.

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Mar 18, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

(The classic "Twinkie Defense" updated. "Oreo Defense?")

Possibly noted elsewhere, but it's interesting (to me) that he was finally captured in Crisp County, which is about 100 miles from the Florida state line and at least a 4-hour drive down I-75 from Cherokee figuring in Atlanta traffic. It's heavily traversed by truckers especially south of Macon.

And on that stretch of I-75, you know what there are numerous billboards for? Massage parlors.

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"He suffers from an addiction to sexual behaviors, and also methamphetamine and chaw.."

You know , your real life inspiration had it so much worse - that poor bastard is a Southern Baptist. You give a Southern Baptist a gun and a few Monster Energy drinks, why , it's a miracle you find any so-called POC South of Knoxville.

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