First Gabrielle Giffords images since shooting published on Facebook

[cutforscience]

why didn't we ban gun yet?

 

[guyver01]

why didn't we ban gun yet?

because we're not Europe... and we have this pesky little 2nd amendment that says its never gonna happen?

 

[Jhhnn]

has anyone else noticed the republican pitbulls have toned down the rhetoric since this has happened?

Maybe they figured out that all their raving & trash talking just increased their own chances of being shot...

Kinda like chumming the sharks from a float tube...

 

[werepossum]

Best to Giffords in her struggle. I had hoped that she could recuperate enough to take back her seat, the ultimate reversal to the loon who shot her. Doesn't look like that will happen, although as Thump says, if she hasn't yet plateaued you don't know what she can ultimately do. It's still faintly possible if she can express herself via the written word and the intellect is still there. She'd be a hell of an advocate to those suffering similar problems, stroke victims and the like.

 

[Jaskalas]

Best to Giffords in her struggle. I had hoped that she could recuperate enough to take back her seat, the ultimate reversal to the loon who shot her. Doesn't look like that will happen, although as Thump says, if she hasn't yet plateaued you don't know what she can ultimately do. It's still faintly possible if she can express herself via the written word and the intellect is still there. She'd be a hell of an advocate to those suffering similar problems, stroke victims and the like.

While her character and intellect might recover, enough to suit her for elected office, in today's media circus you are required to look, behave, and speak perfectly in public. Her damaged motor control may not ever allow that to happen, and her physical disability would detest many a voter. Sad, but true.

Short of a full recovery, impossible as that is, the public will likely turn to the next charming snake waiting to take her seat.

 

[Fear No Evil]

has anyone else noticed the republican pitbulls have toned down the rhetoric since this has happened?

But the Democrats seem to have ramped it up.

 

[DominionSeraph]

But the Democrats seem to have ramped it up.

It's different for liberals. This isn't our base:

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

wish her all the best and a speedy recovery

Absolutely well said. And I am still pissed that asshole got away with the insanity plea. That's pure horseshit.

 

[Fear No Evil]

It's different for liberals. This isn't our base:

See this is exactly what I am referring to. There was no indication that this guy was a 'right winger' or 'teabagger' or anything else. It seems if anything this guy leaned more LEFT than RIGHT. Yet we still have this type of thing being spewed here trying to portray this type of shit as something stirred up by right-wing radio or whatever. We have people in this thread (LIBERALS!) spewing hate toward right-wing candidates like Bachmann. Every conservative I see in here is wishing her well, yet the left will still try to use this shit to try to portray conservatives and republicans as the problem.

Completely disgusting and par for the course as far as I am concerned.

 

[soundforbjt]

Absolutely well said. And I am still pissed that asshole got away with the insanity plea. That's pure horseshit.

True, should've been instant death penalty since there was no doubt regarding his guilt.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I am happy she is doing well. I hope she will become 99.9999999999999% of her former self once again. To almost be as before the dreaded day the deranged man found her... Where only a small hidden scar can reveal the past...

 

[QuantumPion]

has anyone else noticed the republican pitbulls have toned down the rhetoric since this has happened?

No, because the republicans were never the ones publicly making death threats against politicians (such as against Wisconsin governor Scott Walker).

Gotta love that liberal logic though, proving my sig line yet again.

Crazy guy shoots politican. Before any evidence is in, liberals immidiately scream "evil racist sexist bigoted homophobe kitten-raping tea party republican murderers...they need to tone down their rhetoric!".

Then when it comes out that the guy was crazy and not political, they change their turn to "why can't we all get along? (except in wisconsin where scott walker should be murdered for hurting unions)"

 

[DominionSeraph]

See this is exactly what I am referring to. There was no indication that this guy was a 'right winger' or 'teabagger' or anything else. It seems if anything this guy leaned more LEFT than RIGHT. Yet we still have this type of thing being spewed here trying to portray this type of shit as something stirred up by right-wing radio or whatever.

And this is typical juvenile deflection.

A mention was made that the right-wing rhetoric has been toned down. Would not that action be an acknowledgement of its acidity?

You do not have to require that acidity to be a cause in this case for a shocking, violent act to remind you of people's ability to perform shocking, violent acts, and lead you to think of the things that can cause them.
Why was "right-wing rhetoric" instantly jumped upon in this case? Because it was so likely! You have propagandists leading an army of illiterate peasants, and those propagandists were beating the war drums something fierce. It takes no great leap to think that one of those peasants would take it upon himself to fire the first volley in the war he had been conditioned to believe was inevitable.

That is a problem that the right-wing has that the left does not. Smart, emotionally healthy people have mobile minds, and a part of exploring new concepts is finding that they are wrong. This preps the field against propaganda. A propagandist would have a much harder time raising an army of liberals by projecting a delusional fantasy because he'd have to corral the much higher degree of independent thought. While he rank and file are limited in their protections, they can bank on atheists tearing down any false god.

Conservatives are mental shut-ins who need somebody else to tell them what the scary outside world looks like. Liberals are fearless explorers who have no need to bank on such unreliable information sources.
While one has to worry about deluding a mental shut-in, the same is not true when dealing with a person who has external sources of information. You can bank on the latter bouncing their emotions off their wider knowledge base.

 

[Fear No Evil]

And this is typical juvenile deflection.

A mention was made that the right-wing rhetoric has been toned down. Would not that action be an acknowledgement of its acidity?

You do not have to require that acidity to be a cause in this case for a shocking, violent act to remind you of people's ability to perform shocking, violent acts, and lead you to think of the things that can cause them.
Why was "right-wing rhetoric" instantly jumped upon in this case? Because it was so likely! You have propagandists leading an army of illiterate peasants, and those propagandists were beating the war drums something fierce. It takes no great leap to think that one of those peasants would take it upon himself to fire the first volley in the war he had been conditioned to believe was inevitable.

That is a problem that the right-wing has that the left does not. Smart, emotionally healthy people have mobile minds, and a part of exploring new concepts is finding that they are wrong. This preps the field against propaganda. A propagandist would have a much harder time raising an army of liberals by projecting a delusional fantasy because he'd have to corral the much higher degree of independent thought. While he rank and file are limited in their protections, they can bank on atheists tearing down any false god.

Conservatives are mental shut-ins who need somebody else to tell them what the scary outside world looks like. Liberals are fearless explorers who have no need to bank on such unreliable information sources.
While one has to worry about deluding a mental shut-in, the same is not true when dealing with a person who has external sources of information. You can bank on the latter bouncing their emotions off their wider knowledge base.

Unfortunately even though liberals have a higher degree of independent thought - That thought is corrupted by their inability to tell the truth. So you have a bunch of pot smoking (Er, I mean HIGHER INDEPENDENT THINKERS) liars running the country into the ground. On top of that its a well known fact that most liberals have extremely small penises and tend to over inflate their cognitive qualities to compensate. I know you will disagree but since its a proven fact that you are a liar nobody will believe you.

:awe:

 

[FuzzyBee]

Good for her. I hope she has a full recovery.

Good thing the idiot asshats are out to make this thread a "my side is better" argument.

 

[0roo0roo]

has anyone else noticed the republican pitbulls have toned down the rhetoric since this has happened?

No, but have you noticed the folks who quickly jumped to the wrong conclusions and blamed all sorts of crazy sh*t based on total ignorance have yet to apologize?

 

[irishScott]

It's different for liberals. This isn't our base:

And that isn't the Conservative base either. You know this. Stop troll-baiting.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Glad she has come as far as she has. Hope she continues to improve for sure.

To those of you in here stirring up your crap, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

 

[DominionSeraph]

And that isn't the Conservative base either.

Well yeah. He'd now be old and fat.

Religious, white, old people. And how is that not the conservative base?

 

[UberNeuman]

My best to her and her family.

 

[Jhhnn]

See this is exactly what I am referring to. There was no indication that this guy was a 'right winger' or 'teabagger' or anything else. It seems if anything this guy leaned more LEFT than RIGHT. Yet we still have this type of thing being spewed here trying to portray this type of shit as something stirred up by right-wing radio or whatever. We have people in this thread (LIBERALS!) spewing hate toward right-wing candidates like Bachmann. Every conservative I see in here is wishing her well, yet the left will still try to use this shit to try to portray conservatives and republicans as the problem.

Completely disgusting and par for the course as far as I am concerned.

Raving on about "Second Amendment Remedies" does create a certain atmosphere, wouldn't you agree? A highly poisonous one, at that.

Crazy people are easily influenced by the atmosphere in which they kinda function. They're strongly influenced by things the rest of us barely notice, like the phase of the moon. They're not called lunatics for nothing.

 

[0roo0roo]

Raving on about "Second Amendment Remedies" does create a certain atmosphere, wouldn't you agree? A highly poisonous one, at that.

Crazy people are easily influenced by the atmosphere in which they kinda function. They're strongly influenced by things the rest of us barely notice, like the phase of the moon. They're not called lunatics for nothing.

sorry way way off the mark, the guy was crazy to the point where none of this has any relation to anything.

trying to smear your political opponents by associating them with the action of some guy who went out of his mind..and did so long before any current issues is simply misguided.

you might as well blame democrats for casey anthony killing her daughter because they created an atmosphere where talking about abortion aka killing babies was acceptable.

That is the level of crazy the discussion on giffords got to, and frankly lefties that went there should be ashamed, normally they are the first to point out that kind of horrible reasoning.

 

[TechAZ]

Well yeah. He'd now be old and fat.

Religious, white, old people. And how is that not the conservative base?

And the democrat base are a bunch of retards who jack off to pony cartoons.

 

[DominionSeraph]

And the democrat base are a bunch of retards who jack off to pony cartoons.

That's the best you can do? I could drip snot on my keyboard and short out a more interesting response than that.

Try posting with some style.

 

[davmat787]

That's the best you can do? I could drip snot on my keyboard and short out a more interesting response than that.

Try posting with some style.

All of your posts come down to "conservatives dumb, me smarter than all". Wrapping that message up in philosophical douchebaggery does not change that fact. What you think makes you look intelligent on your screen, does not on ours.

Cheers!