Here are fifteen of my favorite Karma bombs so far, from myself and all over the 'net:
Only the first and the last ones are my own.
And this is just after 10 days. This is never going away. Dulce et decorum est...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Great Baldwin Memes
The perenially butthurt forget that I threw literally the first pitch, when news of Baldwin's disastrous day hit the news stream. Far from upsetting me, despite his lack of culpability in the shooting, the bad karma he's stored up over his frothing moonbat anti-gun lifetime means he more than deserves all the backblast now that he's the one with the body count.
Only the first and the last ones are my own.
Only the first and the last ones are my own.
Aesop, this is exactly the sort of thing that needs to be happening. Make people chuckle or laugh, you have already brought them 50% of the way there. The fact there is a modicum of truth in it may make them think as well.
ReplyDeleteAesop, I know this is an old post but I figured better old and on-topic than derailing a new post.
ReplyDeleteNow that we know it *wasn't* a replica cap-and-ball revolver (at least that's what I've been reading) but, instead, a replica "F.lli Pietta long Colt 45 revolver" with brass cartridges and no wax plugs, wadding, etc, and now that Baldwin has been claiming that "it misfired" without his even pulling the trigger, instead of sticking to blaming the AD and Armorer for their negligence...have any of your opinions changed on the subject?
I, for one, don't understand why he'd lie about something so basic and simple to disprove, but multiple experts on that exact firearm, and the replicas, have expressed that the scenario he described could not have happened based on the mechanism of the revolver in question. His finger had to be depressing the trigger for the hammer to fall. I don't know if the firearm in question was modified in some insane fashion to enable that scenario, or if such modification is possible in that particular weapon's case, but...yeah. Kind of odd.
Hope you're well!
A replica Colt SAA explains how the gun went off.
ReplyDeleteEveryone assumes Baldwin's lying.
Natzsofast, Guido.
The easiest pistol in the world to fire without intending to is a SAA.
If you pull the hammer not-to-half-cock, and let the hammer loose, or simply ride it too fast, hammer-mounted firing pin meets primer, and Mr. SAA isn't your friend any more, courtesy of a grossly negligent PropTart who loaded live rounds into the weapon.
Hell, the rule was "load five, empty under the chamber" and is to this very day in Cowboy Action Shooting, for this exact reason, because simply jumping down hard (off a prop in SASS, off a horse back in the day) could be enough energy transfer to blow a hole in your leg or foot.
Not a problem with a Ruger made with a hammer-actuated transfer bar, but with a replica SAA?
Easiest thing to do in the world, especially for a rookie cowboy, who was supposed to be holding a non-firing prop gun loaded with six dummy rounds, not a live weapon with a live round(s) in the chamber(s).
Baldwin pulls the gun out, exactly as he said. Partially thumbs the hammer back, exactly as he said. Lets it go too fast, inadvertently lets it free, or simple rides it down too hard with his thumb still on it, and you get an earth-shattering KABOOM. One dead, one injured, in milliseconds. QED
The only lie was the 2d AD proclaiming "cold gun", after the armorer put a live round or rounds in it, because she was grossly negligent and wholly incompetent.
If I tell you I fixed your brakes, or changed your tire, but forgot to hook them up properly, and you run someone over as a result, it's not your fault for being the one holding the steering wheel, and there's no jury in the world going to pin it on you no matter what.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Hz6QIbCt0
Baldwin did exactly what he was supposed to do, and exactly what any actor would have done (Reasonable Man standard fulfilled): rehearse a scene that called for pointing and firing a weapon at the camera. (BTW, the director, the cinematographer, and every member of the crew knew this was the situation to occur simply by looking at the script or the Daily Call Sheet, which details every single day's scenes and action. Just like on every set, for decades and decades.)
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ReplyDeleteGutierrez-Reed and Halls did what no armorer and double-checker should EVER do: allowed a live weapon with live rounds onto a set, and put it in an actor's hands, and told him it's safe to handle. Gross negligence elements of the crime completely fulfilled.
Gutierrez-Reed and her senile old man trying to come up with recockulous stories a month later about "sabotage" by some Mystery Man putting the live rounds in the gun sounds like a five-year-old trying to explain to mom and dad how their bed got broken because Someone came in the window, jumped on the bed, and then jumped back out and ran away laughing when it broke, all before mom and dad got to the bedroom.
That's your lie, your liar, and your proximate culprit.
And the gnashing of teeth from asinine internet "gun experts" who couldn't find their own asses with both hands is reaching maximum Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Cooper's "Four Rules" are designed for real guns, and real bullets, and have no applicability to a situation that's supposed to be prop guns and dummy rounds or blanks.
The person who solely and egregiously changed the conditions of that day's work on set, and then lied about it, albeit unknowingly, is your grossly negligent manslaughter culprit, and her idiot assistant who also couldn't tell the difference is her co-defendant. If the two subject matter experts couldn't tell they fucked up (because they had already violated 40-50-60 rules of proper weapons handling on set, out of a possible 79 or so), Baldwin and any 50 actors combined had no more chance of detecting the mistake that they both missed than he had of flying to the moon on the Giant Lunar Moth, and anyone suggesting otherwise has their head so far up their ass they could see out of their bellybutton.
Unless someone can prove Baldwin himself brought the real gun, and loaded it with live rounds, he did nothing unreasonable in this entire affair, except not have the decency to STFU, and wait for the investigation to conclude, before shooting off his mouth on national TV interviews.
And telling these obvious and inescapable truths to people at maximum Reeeee! is like giving them a yard-long beer glass filled with vinegar, and listening to them chug it.