Posted on 05/01/2022 12:07:42 AM PDT by weston
Tulsi is DEFINITELY going for the dem nod. She’s sounding middle of the road, definitely filling a void. She’s seeking that void the same way Trump saw the void on the right.
Texas School Shooter Made Multiple Rape and Death Threats. Here’s Why Nothing Happened to Him.
Another mass shooter that was all but saying he was a ticking time bomb—and no one did anything. This seems to be a pattern. Salvador Ramos shot and killed 19 students at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas which has spurred another wave of anti-gun activism, opportunism by desperate Democrats, and all-around sensationalism in the media who are also hoping to use this mass shooting to distract us from the failing Biden presidency. We all know this.
What is keeping these wounds raw is the ongoing investigation into this shooting, specifically the police response which has earned low marks. The Department of Justice is launching an investigation as the Texas Department of Safety is now saying the decision to hold back and not breach the classroom where Ramos was barricaded was the wrong decision. It’s not known yet, but it wouldn’t shock me if this decision to hang back cost lives. It was nearly an hour before police breached the door which could be locked from the inside.
Yet, we’re also getting reports that Ramos was not some quiet kid, at least not online. He posted various death and rape threats. He was reported. And nothing happened (via WaPo):
He could be cryptic, demeaning and scary, sending angry messages and photos of guns. If they didn’t respond how he wanted, he sometimes threatened to rape or kidnap them — then laughed it off as some big joke.
But the girls and young women who talked with Salvador Ramos online in the months before he killed 19 children in an elementary school in Uvalde, Tex., rarely reported him. His threats seemed too vague, several said in interviews with The Washington Post. One teen who reported Ramos on the social app Yubo said nothing happened as a result.
Some also suspected this was just how teen boys talked on the Internet these days — a blend of rage and misogyny so predictable they could barely tell each one apart. One girl, discussing moments when he had been creepy and threatening, said that was just “how online is.”
In the aftermath of the deadliest school shooting in a decade, many have asked what more could have been done — how an 18-year-old who spewed so much hate to so many on the Web could do so without provoking punishment or raising alarm.
But these threats hadn’t been discovered by parents, friends or teachers. They’d been seen by strangers, many of whom had never met him and had found him only through the social messaging and video apps that form the bedrock of modern teen life.
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The girls who spoke with The Post lived around the world but met Ramos on Yubo, an app that mixes live-streaming and social networking and has become known as a “Tinder for teens.” The Yubo app has been downloaded more than 18 million times in the U.S., including more than 200,000 times last month, according to estimates from the analytics firm Sensor Tower.
On Yubo, people can gather in big real-time chatrooms, known as panels, to talk, type messages and share videos — the digital equivalent of a real-world hangout. Ramos, they said, struck up side conversations with them and followed them onto other platforms, including Instagram, where he could send direct messages whenever he wanted.
But over time they saw a darker side, as he posted images of dead cats, texted them strange messages and joked about sexual assault, they said. In a video from a live Yubo chatroom that listeners had recorded and was reviewed by The Post, Ramos could be heard saying, “Everyone in this world deserves to get raped.”
A 16-year-old boy in Austin who said he saw Ramos frequently in Yubo panels, told The Post that Ramos frequently made aggressive, sexual comments to young women on the app and sent him a death threat during one panel in January.
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“Decoded, we’re transitioning from milk & honey to living in a Biden toilet bowl 🚽!”
from milk & honey
To the land of bilk and money!
Thanks for breakfast lysie, love the breakfast sandwich, biscuits my favorite.
Anyone got the Flu going around in their area?
Going around here, test neg for covid, positive for flu.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Bye-done is so far removed from reality, just can’t understand why he isn’t the most beloved of Presidents.
Can’t possibly be his fault that 75% of the US thinks we are going in the wrong direction.
Charlie Spiering
@charliespiering
“Biden was furious that his remarks were being seen as unreliable, arguing that he speaks genuinely and reminding his staff that he’s the one who is president.”
WASHINGTON — Faced with a worsening political predicament, President Joe Biden is pressing aides for a more compelling message and a sharper strategy while bristling at how they’ve tried to stifle the plain-speaking persona that has long been one of his most potent assets.
Biden is rattled by his sinking approval ratings and is looking to regain voters’ confidence that he can provide the sure-handed leadership he promised during the campaign, people close to the president say.
Crises have piled up in ways that have at times made the Biden White House look flat-footed: record inflation, high gas prices, a rise in Covid case numbers — and now a Texas school massacre that is one more horrific reminder that he has been unable to get Congress to pass legislation to curb gun violence. Democratic leaders are at a loss about how he can revive his prospects by November, when midterm elections may cost his party control of Congress.
“I don’t know what’s required here,” said Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., whose endorsement in the 2020 Democratic primaries helped rescue Biden’s struggling candidacy. “But I do know the poll numbers have been stuck where they are for far too long.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-white-house-adrift-rcna30121
This is a long NBC article that is quite sympathetic to Biden.
This is the part that stuck out to me.....
Beyond policy, Biden is unhappy about a pattern that has developed inside the West Wing. He makes a clear and succinct statement — only to have aides rush to explain that he actually meant something else. The so-called clean-up campaign, he has told advisers, undermines him and smothers the authenticity that fueled his rise. Worse, it feeds a Republican talking point that he’s not fully in command.
The issue came to a head when Biden ad-libbed during a speech in Poland that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” Within minutes, Biden’s aides tried to walk back his comments, saying he hadn’t called for Putin’s removal and that U.S. policy was unchanged. Biden was furious that his remarks were being seen as unreliable, arguing that he speaks genuinely and reminding his staff that he’s the one who is president.
Asked about the staff’s practice of clarifying Biden’s remarks, the official said: “We don’t say anything that the president doesn’t want us to say.”
You mean to say the common flu is back after an almost three-year hiatus?
Hey there, MsB!
How are you doing this chilly, for me, morning?
I wanted to stay snuggled in bed cuz I refuse to turn the heat back on.
Biden sees exodus of Black staffers and some frustration among those who remain
The White House is historically diverse. But there are concerns internally about a wave of departures and the current culture.
By DANIEL LIPPMAN 05/31/2022 04:30 AM EDT
FTA
At least 21 Black staffers have left the White House since late last year or are planning to leave soon. Some of those who remain say it’s no wonder why: They describe a work environment with little support from their superiors and fewer chances for promotion.
The departures have been so pronounced that, according to one current and one former White House official, some Black aides have adopted a term for them: “Blaxit.”
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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/31/biden-white-house-black-staffers-00035931
Thats the new code word.
Well, just got back from dentist. Finally!
I had gotten a new lower partial that was in way too tight. By the time I discovered it, the office was closed 4 days and no emergency help available. A lot of my gum is cut and blistered, will take a few days to heal.
I took a serious pain pill before I went in, good thing I did, because it was stuck so bad the girl was right on top of me and I was screaming. I woke up at 4:45 and only slept a half hour before it was rime to get up. Hopefully I can take a nap.
This time she had me put it in and take out, like the girl on Thursday should have done.
Awww….so true.
Good one, Ms B!
I may have to borrow that 😼
As long as he didn’t say anything against the vax or anything conservative, he was safe.
I didn’t know there was a flu test.
Glad you got that taken care of. And….hope you get a good nap, to rest up. Sometimes sleep is the best medicine for healing.
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dental nightmares, I hear ya. I was a corpsman and I had dental tech friends. I got my wisdom teeth pulled. The dentist blindfolded me and apparently took a chisel like tool and a hammer to knock out my deeply rooted teeth, bouncing my head around. The next day my friends asked me why I let him do that? Some friends eh. Just a snuffy sailor following commands. Ended up with dry sockets. Hard to get good help these days.
Ha.
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