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What say you Christian thanes, grand council of lieges in the White Temple upon the Hill, what’ith thou design against the madness that you speak, the dread consumeth the souls of our people? Canst thou not minister to minds diseas’d, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, bring halt to the violent tribulations it hath wrought?

Fucking seriously, what’s the plan? That little girl, in that picture, taken less than 24 hours ago, is dead now because of a “mental health problem” you say is the root cause behind these ceaseless massacres. “The root of a lot of these issues is mental health, and this has been the case for a long time… COVID certainly didn’t help,” said your guy Tony Gonzales, the Republican Congressman who represents the District in which that beautiful 10 year-old girl, Amerie Jo Garza, breathed her last after a man suffering from this mental health crisis shredded her body with bullets on Tuesday. So Congressman Gonzales, and Senator Ted Cruz, and Governor Greg Abbott, and Attorney General Ken Paxton, and other Senator John Cornyn, what are you going to do to address the malaise you yourselves and/or others in your party say is the root cause of such savagery?

With eerie similarity to the white nationalist who killed ten people at a Buffalo supermarket, the shooter who killed 21 people, including 19 children, purchased the two weapons he used in the massacre on his 18th birthday, The Daily Beast reports.

The Uvalde shooter also hinted to his plans to a random girl from California who he contacted on social media, telling her he wanted to tell her a “lil secret” after tagging her in photos of him and his new guns the day before the slaughter.  Puzzled why he chose her and not feeling well, the girl went to sleep Monday night only to learn that the man who messaged her went on a shooting spree.

He also messaged an old classmate he was in sporadic contact with photos of the guns and at least seven magazines of ammunition, to which the friend replied, “Bro, why do you have this?”  The shooter responded, “Don’t worry about it.”

Perhaps the most famous native of the town, Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey mourned the murder of 19 fourth grade students and their two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, urging politicians to take action to stop further violence, Deadline reports.

“As Americans, Texans, mother and fathers, it’s time we re-evaluate, and renegotiate our wants from our needs,” McConaughey posted on Instagram.  “We need to rearrange our values and find a common ground above this devastating American reality that has tragically become our children’s issue.”

At one time thought to be a candidate for governor Texas, the actor is an outspoken advocate for mental health services and runs a charity that helps boys and girls learn how to mature and deal with problems in healthy, productive manners.” 

An analysis of voter data in Tuesday’s Georgia Republican primary by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows that 7% of them had cast ballots in the 2020 primary election. While this certainly did not make a difference in the gubernatorial or AG primaries, where Gov Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr crushed their Trump-backed challengers and won with more than 57% of the vote (assuming, pretty safely, that most if not all of the crossover Dems voted against Trump picks), the same can’t be said of the Secretary of State primary, on either side. Incumbent Brad Raffensperger won with 52.3% of the vote, without the Dem voters helping he certainly would’ve been sent to a likely tough runoff against MAGA challenger Congressman Jody Hice. On the other side, Stacey Abrams ally State Rep Bee Nguyen is stuck with a runoff in the Dem primary, having taken 44.2% of the vote to nearest challenger Dee Hawkins-Haigler’s 18.7%, but it’s less clear if Bee would’ve hit 50% if not for the Dems crossing over in the open primaries.

We can say for sure however Jody Hice is an idiot for throwing away a career in the US House to run for a lower office overseeing elections and then not even making it to a runoff in that one. What a fucking cuck, pathetically trying to curry favor with the Orange God Emperor and failing because of Democrats. He was in a safe seat, could’ve stayed in Congress until he was dead, now some other asshole will take over while Hice has to look down the list of all the companies who he thinks owe him a job for the favors he did for them while in office. How the hell did he not at one point think to himself “Oh shit, Stacy Abrams is unopposed and Warnock’s primary isn’t competitive at all so there’s going to be at least a few Dems looking to vote for Raffensperger to troll Trump. I wouldn’t put it past those sneaky bastards to crossover in an open primary, so maybe I should just quietly back out and file to run for my seat instead”? Man, what a loser.

Cook Political Report election analyst Dave Wasserman reports that Minnesota state house representative Jeremy Munson, a member of the state’s far-right Freedom Caucus, was defeated in the Republican primary for the state’s 1st Congressional District by establishment GOP member Brad Finstad.  It is another loss for the far-right fringe of Party who support Donald Trump.

A task force of intelligence experts have concluded that instability and backsliding democracy to the nation’s south will become a major challenge to domestic security in the coming years, the CBC reports because – haha! – the intel experts are Canadian and the backsliding democracy is the United States. We’re so clever with our little bait and switch headlines and ledes, right?

“The United States is and will remain our closest ally, but it could also become a source of threat and instability,” says the report from the panel, whose members include former national security advisers, former Canadian Security Intelligence Service directors, ex-deputy ministers, former ambassadors, and academics. The report pointed specifically to the support the Ottawa Clustertruck drew from Fox News and other MAGA propaganda channels in the United States, saying “This may not have represented foreign interference in the conventional sense, since it was not the result of actions of a foreign government. But it did represent, arguably, a greater threat to Canadian democracy than the actions of any state other than the United States. It will be a significant challenge for our national security and intelligence agencies to monitor this threat, since it emanates from the same country that is by far our greatest source of intelligence.”

A report on an official investigation by British government journeywoman administrator Sue Gray has determined Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s staff basically acted like there were no COVID-19 restrictions at his birthday party in 2020, getting absolutely shitfaced and trashing the official residence at 10 Downing Street until the early morning hours, the New York Times reports.

“A number of these gatherings should not have been allowed to take place or to develop in the way that they did,”the report said, adding “at least some of the gatherings in question represent a serious failure to observe not just the high standards expected of those working at the heart of Government but also of the standards expected of the entire British population at the time… I was made aware of multiple examples of a lack of respect and poor treatment of security and cleaning staff. This was unacceptable. Many will be dismayed that behavior of this kind took place on this scale at the heart of Government. The public have a right to expect the very highest standards of behavior in such places and clearly what happened fell well short of this.”

As of Wednesday the Donald’s ultra-precious 2022 GOP primary endorsement record now stands at about 80-something wins and 11 losses for his candidates, including Idaho Lt Governor Janice McGeachin, MAGA bro North Carolina Congressman Madison Cawthorn, Nebraska sex machine Charles Herbster, former Georgia Senator David Perdue, MAGA Georgia Congressman Jody Hice (Georgia Secretary of State GOP primary), John Gordon (Georgia AG GOP primary), and Patrick Witt (Georgia Insurance Commissioner) who lost outright. Tennessee US House Candidate Morgan Ortagus and Michigan State House candidate Jon Rocha were disqualified, Mo Brooks he undorsed for the Alabama GOP Senate primary in March, and Sean Parnell dropped out of the Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary in November 2021. Seven more Texas candidates ran unopposed and even though the fat orange fuck still counts those as wins, we don’t.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that ExxonMobil must face trial for lying to the public about its understanding of climate change, minimizing the impact of fossil fuels, Reuters reports.

In a 7-0 decision, the Court ruled that Attorney General Maura Healey could pursue a lawsuit against the fossil fuel giant following a three year investigation into misleading consumers and investors about the role fossil fuels plan on worsening climate change.

ExxonMobil moved to dismiss the suit under the Massachusetts SLAPP provision, saying the lawsuit was motivated to keep the company quiet.  The Court, however, struck down the company’s argument, saying the SLAPP standard did not apply to state agencies.

Moderate Democratic incumbent Congressman Henry Cuellar is holding onto a 177-vote lead in the runoff for the Democratic nominee against Jessica Cisneros in the Texas 28th District with all precincts reporting, Dave Wasserman of Cook Politic Report reports.  Cuellar, an anti-choice Democrat, faced a challenge by pro-choice candidate Cisneros.

Moments after Pastor John B. Lowe II of the New Life Christian Church & World Outreach in Warsaw, Indiana confessed to his congregation that he had committed adultery–and received a standing ovation–a woman took the microphone to tell the church that she was the one who Lowe had the affair with, and she was only 16 when Lowe took her virginity on the floor of his church office.

As People magazine reports, the woman, who is now in her 40s, said that she was encouraged to come forward after her younger brother broke decades of silence to ask what was happening when he found her in bed, dressed only in a t-shirt and panties, with the pastor of their church.

Katie Britt and one-time Trump endorsee Mo Brooks will advance to a runoff for the Alabama GOP Senate nomination, Cook Report prognosticator Dave Wasserman called.  Wasserman also called the race for the GOP nomination for Georgia Secretary of State for Brad Raffensperger, a Trump nemesis for being honest.

“There have been a lot of school shootings, ah, between 2020 and 2020-ah-21, there was a record number of school shootings across the country.  Somethin’s goin’ on out there,” The Fox Princess of Cattiness (Tucker’s the Queen) Laura Ingraham says.  Th-th-the-there’s something happening, um, urm, to our national psyche, or to families, or to mental illness or… I-I-I-I don’t know what it is, but there’s something very corrosive about our culture, ah, and that we have to get to the bottom of.”

And then some pro-gun idiot from an idiot pro-gun organization says, “Oh, I agree with you.  I don’t think it has anything to do with guns.”

Set aside that it has everything to do about guns; you don’t see a mass murderer go into a school with a knife and massacring children like this.  But how fucking ironic is Laura Ingraham is on Fox trying to figure out what made the culture “corrosive.”  Without an iota of self-awareness, Fox fuckin’ News is wondering what happened to our society.  The network that broadcasts Tucker Carlson and previously aired Bill O’Reilly wonders where the corrosive attitude of people comes from.  To quote Steve Martin:  “Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusssssssseeee meeeeeeee!”

Congrats Sarah! BIG WIN!

The Texas Department of Public Safety says the death toll of the massacrfe at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde is now up to 20 – 19 children and two adults, plus the gunman, Salvador Ramos, whose body should be fed to crows, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports.

MSNBC reports that Republican Texas Senator John Cornyn has canceled an appearance he was scheduled to make at this week’s National Rifle Association conference that will be held Friday through Sunday in Houston, a four hour drive from the site of the school massacre in Uvalde. Cornyn cited a previously undisclosed personal event that would keep him in DC over the weekend.  The other Texas Senator, Ted Cruz, and Republican Texas Gov Greg Abbott are still scheduled to appear, as is Donald Trump, who will never pass on an opportunity to go in front of a friendly crowd.

Republican Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has survived a primary challenge and will avoid a runoff against Trump-endorsed white nationalist John Gordon, the New York Times projects. This marks Trump’s second loss of the night. Meanwhile Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is faring better than expected against Trump minion Congressman Jody Hice. If the current trend holds Raff will win outright Tuesday and avoid a runoff, racking up yet another primary defeat for fat Donald.

The same can’t be said in Texas as the greater of two evils, complete piece of shit Attorney General Ken Paxton, is utterly crushing Texas Land Commissioner George P Bush in the runoff for that office’s primary. There is no projection yet, but the Times has it at 66.9% Pax to 33.1% Bush. May we burn in hell for stealing the great Dave Wasserman’s line, but we’ve seen enough.

President Joe Biden addresses the nation in response to the murder of more than 20 people, including 18 second-, third-, and fourth-graders at a Texas elementary school.

Steve Kerr, the head coach of the Golden State Warriors NBA basketball team explodes at a pre-game press conference when his team will play in Dallas tonight.  “I’m fed up.  I’ve had enough.  We’re gonna play the game tonight, but I want every person here, every person listening to this to think about your own child or  grandchild, your mother or father, sister, brother, how would you feel if this happened to you today.  We can’t get numb to this.  We can’t just sit here and read about it and go, ‘Well,  let’s just have a moment of silence.  Yeah, go Dubs.  C’mon, Mavs, let’s go.’  That’s what we’re going to do.  We’re going to go play a basketball game.  Fifty senators in Washington are going to hold us hostage.  Do you realize that 90 percent of Americans, regardless of political party, want background checks, universal background checks.  Ninety percent of us.  We are being held hostage by 50 Senators in Washington who refuse to even put it to a vote despite what we, the American people want.  They won’t vote on it because they want to hold on to their own power.  It’s pathetic.  I’ve had enough.”

Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and complete mental patient Senate candidate Herschel Walker both cruised to easy wins in their respective primaries Tuesday, Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman projects. The 40 point-plus loss for former Senator David Perdue is particularly brutal for fat former President Trump, who endorsed Chickenshit in a quest for revenge against Kemp for certifying the 2020 election in defiance of the Orange God Emperor’s commands.