UPDATE: A spokeswoman for Gov. Bentley has offered an explanation; see end of post. Hiawayi Robinson, of Pritchard, Alabama, a small city on the north side of Mobile, was looking forward to turning nine years old next week. On Tuesday, Hiawayi had talked to her father on the phone about what she wanted for her birthday (a laptop computer) and told him that she was going downstairs to see if her cousin was home. She never came back.
Don't be so quick to judge. There are things that happen we just don’t understand. There are difficulties in brains. We don’t know, maybe derp related; perhaps incest. Maybe metal health related. Maybe problems with a rich, inner fantasy life that doesn't jibe with reality. We just don’t know what the situation is.
I live in the Mobile-adjacent part of Florida, in the viewing area of WPMI-TV, and I agree completely about Rick Scott. The man wants to appeal to hard core racists, whether or not he is one himself.
I have a hair to split about white Southerners, though. It would be wrong to assume that Southerners who are not openly liberal are straight-up racists. It's slightly more subtle than that. Many of them know nonwhite people, have nonwhite friends, respect them, and even love them. They don't agree with racist sentiments. But they are willing to shrug them off or minimize them, in a boys-will-be-boys sort of way, or "Bless his heart, he doesn't really mean that. He's just a little old-fashioned." They won't call someone a nigger, but they will look down, clear their throats, or roll their eyes rather than speak up when someone else does.
It's not much, but it's a baby step away from the plantation.
So, a very lame attempt to drag the news item into his conversation. And still, there's the assumption that it was "family dysfunction", despite his not knowing shit about the circumstances. I award him zero points.
Another Mitt-bot. Someone pressed the 'Republican Talking Point' button instead of the 'Sympathy and Concern' button.
Rick Scott's press secretary is hard at work crafting an equally tone-deaf screed on why bad things happen to Poors and Blacks. As long as there are redneck voters, Scott won't let Florida be out-racisted by Alabama!
</snark><anger>Republicans like Bentley only love life while it's in the womb. After birth, they have nothing to offer but prayers and scolding. Assholes. Assholes! (With apologies to actual anuses.) </anger> <snark> This wouldn't have happened if she had a gun.
Not to mention that his idea of "get to work on these families" means "cutting off the government teat because, come on, people, bootstraps! And while we're at it, see if Rick Scott can send us some drug-testing kits."
Maybe Bentley's next job can be comforting military families. "you know, galldangit, it's a shame, but who's to say, maybe if he'd worked harder in school, he couldv'e had other career opportunities open up. Just sayin'."
...and it turns out it was her own father who killed her while sexually abusing her. So the gov was absolutely, positively correct.
Don't be so quick to judge. There are things that happen we just don’t understand. There are difficulties in brains. We don’t know, maybe derp related; perhaps incest. Maybe metal health related. Maybe problems with a rich, inner fantasy life that doesn't jibe with reality. We just don’t know what the situation is.
+1000
I live in the Mobile-adjacent part of Florida, in the viewing area of WPMI-TV, and I agree completely about Rick Scott. The man wants to appeal to hard core racists, whether or not he is one himself.
I have a hair to split about white Southerners, though. It would be wrong to assume that Southerners who are not openly liberal are straight-up racists. It's slightly more subtle than that. Many of them know nonwhite people, have nonwhite friends, respect them, and even love them. They don't agree with racist sentiments. But they are willing to shrug them off or minimize them, in a boys-will-be-boys sort of way, or "Bless his heart, he doesn't really mean that. He's just a little old-fashioned." They won't call someone a nigger, but they will look down, clear their throats, or roll their eyes rather than speak up when someone else does.
It's not much, but it's a baby step away from the plantation.
It's the corn syrup.
Props. Not much of a stretch considering many of those who enlist are nonwhite.
Were they the ones saying "I'm not ready for a blah president" in 2008?
So, a very lame attempt to drag the news item into his conversation. And still, there's the assumption that it was "family dysfunction", despite his not knowing shit about the circumstances. I award him zero points.
Hey, he cared enough to put his mug on TV and lament about things he doesn't even know about. What more do you want from the guy?
Another Mitt-bot. Someone pressed the 'Republican Talking Point' button instead of the 'Sympathy and Concern' button.
Rick Scott's press secretary is hard at work crafting an equally tone-deaf screed on why bad things happen to Poors and Blacks. As long as there are redneck voters, Scott won't let Florida be out-racisted by Alabama!
Dear god in heaven, where do these people come from? And why do people vote for them?
</snark><anger>Republicans like Bentley only love life while it's in the womb. After birth, they have nothing to offer but prayers and scolding. Assholes. Assholes! (With apologies to actual anuses.) </anger> <snark> This wouldn't have happened if she had a gun.
Not to mention that his idea of "get to work on these families" means "cutting off the government teat because, come on, people, bootstraps! And while we're at it, see if Rick Scott can send us some drug-testing kits."
Maybe Bentley's next job can be comforting military families. "you know, galldangit, it's a shame, but who's to say, maybe if he'd worked harder in school, he couldv'e had other career opportunities open up. Just sayin'."
This is too sad for me to even snark about it and that is saying something. Although I have appreciated and upfisted others' snark.