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What REAL TDS looks like

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Monday, June 15, 2020 10:05 AM

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I'd like to know what these "people" think is going to happen. All ethnic people are just gonna up and leave because they get mad??

The very epitome of narcissism. If they were any worse, they'd be 6ix...

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Monday, June 15, 2020 5:18 PM

Is this deranged enough? Texas Trump lovers urged to bring guns to Black Lives Matter rallies. Obviously intended to get Trump's people to kill protestors.

No, Texans can't all tote concealed guns to protests during a state disaster

The claim: A 2019 Texas law “allows any Texan who can legally own a firearm to carry their handgun, open or concealed, for a full week after a state or natural disaster is declared." — Facebook post.

The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.

PolitiFact rating: Mostly False. The Facebook post stated the law applied to the ongoing state of disaster and allowed open carry of handguns. The post omits a major part of the law, which specifies that it only applies to areas affected by mandatory evacuations.

A Facebook post circulating online urges Texans to take advantage of a recently passed state law allowing people to carry firearms during disasters.

It goes further: "Arm yourselves, protect your family, loved ones and neighbors," the post reads. "Stand together, Stand your ground, protect your family and your property. If you feel threatened, You have every right to protect yourselves! Be vigilant and look out for one another, stay safe."

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration on May 31 in response to violence that broke out at protests in some parts of the state.

The law highlighted in the post moved through the Legislature as House Bill 1177 and it was authored by state Rep. Dade Phelan, a Republican from Beaumont.

The bill does regulate firearm usage during a natural disaster, having been passed with 2017’s Hurricane Harvey front of mind, with lawmakers arguing that the measure was necessary to give survivors of natural disasters a way to protect themselves and their property.

The law allows handgun license holders and other Texans who are not prohibited by law from possessing a firearm to legally carry and transport their handguns during a mandatory emergency evacuation.

It includes parameters that dictate when the law is applicable: not only must there be a state of disaster, but a person must also be "evacuating from an area following the declaration of a state of disaster" or "reentering that area following the person’s evacuation."

The post does not make mention of the circumstances that would trigger this protection and insinuates that the law applies at any time within a week of a disaster declaration.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20200615111317/https://www.houstonchronicl
e.com/local/texas-politics/politifact/article/No-Texans-can-t-tote-concealed-guns-to-protests-15334399.php


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, June 15, 2020 7:35 PM

What a clickbait title.

"What REAL TDS looks like"

I thought wishy was going to post her own picture here.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 12:03 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What a clickbait title.

"What REAL TDS looks like"

I thought wishy was going to post her own picture here.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

The military has a case of TDS:

West Point was the only university that forced its graduates to return to campus, quarantine themselves for two weeks, and then sit for a ceremony that none of their friends or family could attend, all in order to watch a half-hour speech from the president. “The heads of the Army had begged the president, Look, don’t do this,” says Slate’s Fred Kaplan. It was not the first time in recent weeks that leaders of the military spoke out against President Donald Trump. Kaplan, who writes Slate’s War Stories column, joined me on Monday’s episode of What Next to discuss when the military turned on the president and how he lost their support.

When you’re a military officer, one thing that is just pounded into your brain from the moment you put on your uniform is the primacy of civilian authority. But there is also a tradition, also pounded into your head, that you’re taking an allegiance to the Constitution, not to any particular person. And what Trump has set himself up with is a tension between those two things.

You’ve covered the military for years and years. What have you heard from military people?

There’s great discomfort among a lot of military people. They’ve never really had to face the potential tension between obeying lawful orders and answering to the Constitution.

The first person who spoke out was Adm. Mike Mullen, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is really not the kind of guy who would put himself out there. Mullen is more of a company man. For him to write an article in the Atlantic saying, I can no longer keep my silence, is just a remarkable thing.

And I think that finally got Jim Mattis, who’s been silent for a year now after writing a blistering letter of resignation, to finally speak up. He skewered not just Trump’s reaction to the protests but Trump personally, saying that we’ve had three years of immature leadership. This is wild. He’s a retired four-star Marine general. We’ve never seen this kind of … revolt might be too strong a word, but let’s say strong dissension.

I think the thing that has endured about June 1 is all of the imagery where you see the protesters, sometimes journalists, being pushed back roughly. And then you see, well, what is it for? And it’s the president just standing in front of a church with a Bible. It was pretty impressive how within a week you had just a torrent of people coming out and pushing back on the imagery.

It didn’t even take a week. The people who actually run that church spoke out immediately. And then Defense Secretary Mark Esper called a press conference and said he does not agree that the Insurrection Act should be applied to what was going on in the streets of Washington. He sort of realized there are costs to his reputation and to what he’s supposed to be doing here to giving complete, unblinking obedience to the guy who is running things right now.

I’m wondering if there’s a charitable interpretation of what Esper and Milley did that night on June 1. Is there a way to see it as sort of the choosing the least evil?

I think that’s right. I think these guys realized very quickly that their playing along with the total loyalty game had now gotten them into trouble. But what’s remarkable is that they spoke out publicly about it. Nobody had done that without getting fired first.

This instinct to assuage has been the modus operandi for the military for the past couple of years. Just try to keep things level.

The difference now is not just the volume of people speaking out, though that’s important, but it’s the fact that we have these people in positions of power who go into meetings with the president having press conferences and giving speeches where they reject what the president’s doing.

That’s a brand new thing. I think Milley must have done what he did knowing that he

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 1:39 AM

Your mom has a case of TDS.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 2:02 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Your mom has a case of TDS.



I bet your own mother hated/hates you.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 6:46 AM

Okay.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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