JEB BUSH SAYS 'STUFF HAPPENS' IN RESPONSE TO GUN VIOLENCE

[Efilroft Sul]

Source: ABC13 Eyewitness News

Presidential Candidate Jeb Bush made an eyebrow-raising comment in the wake of the Oregon school massacre -- saying "stuff happens" in response to a discussion about gun violence.

Bush called the shooting in Oregon "very sad," but said he also had challenges that he faced during his tenure as governor of Florida.

"Look stuff happens, there's always a crisis and the impulse is always to do something and it's not always the right thing to do," Bush said at the Conservative Leadership Project in Greenville, South Carolina, referring to taking away rights.




Read more: http://abc13.com/news/jeb-bush-says-stuff-happens-in-response-to-gun-violence/1013725/

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He really raised the bar for Ted Cruz to say something stupid.

[I dunno]

1. Well look, stuff DOES happen

Remember that STUFF in Iraq and your brother?

Hilarious, eh!

[murielm99]

2. Other stuff happens, too.

Like 9-11, on WHOSE watch?

[Rocknrule]

12. Clinton's, right?

I heard that Clinton was getting a BJ in the Oval Office right when the towers were hit. Also, Obama was president when the economy tanked, and W personally killed bin Laden with his codpiece of doom. Fox said so, so it must be true, right?

[I dunno]

13. Watch? If you wanna call it that, more like "reading book to children" then

run and hide in Air Force One.

[wordpix]

46. Chain-eeee told * to hide on AF1 so Darth could take over

[hibbing]

3. wth

Maybe he needs to read his idiot brother's ghost written book about decision making, since he made so many excellent ones during his reign as the selected president. I keep thinking Jebby will eventually get the nomination, but he will need to not veer away from his script.....what an dumbass.




Peace

[seaotter]

4. Sen. Ted Cruz and Douglas county Sheriff John Hanlin..

have just released a joint statement saying that the Oregon Shooting never happened. When Sheriff Hanlin was asked about his deputies that were reportedly on the scene, he said" It was only a vast left-wing illusion. " Cruz then added " Tuna Fish!".

[underpants]

5. Trump said basically the same thing

I believe I read that earlier.

[PatSeg]

6. Almost exactly the same thing

"....horrible, but these things happen."

Yes, these things DO happen in a country that puts little or no restrictions on guns.

[underpants]

7. They both fear the NRA backlash

Not an excuse. It's pretty clear they just decided to shrug it off.

[PatSeg]

35. Its a political mindset

that is hard for regular people to comprehend. They get so entangled in all the political BS, I don't think they even know what they think anymore. It is a soul-sucking and dangerous game. Just imagine having to overthink every word you say for fear you will offend a certain demographic or donor.

I remember the movie The Candidate with Robert Redford. What he went through was child's play compared to the way it is today. I keep waiting for one of them to have a "Bullworth" moment, but I guess that only happens in the movies.

[branford]

8. It's essentially the same comment as Trump,

and for Republican primary voters, it's entirely uncontroversial. That's precisely why no significant gun control legislation has a chance of passing Congress.

[C Moon]

9. Someone from the media asked the President what he thought of Jeb's response to Oregon...

his response was GREAT!

[mainstreetonce]

14. Yes

Brilliant

[C Moon]

22. I haven't watched one of those in a long time...

he is very good at it.
I wonder how GW Bush got through 8 years of those. He must have hated it, because it appears there's a lot of thinking off the top of your head—which was not his forte.

[Rocknrule]

54. Hard to think off the top of your head

when you have fewer brain cells to rub together than a zygote

[C Moon]

55. :D

[wordpix]

47. what did he say? link?

[C Moon]

50. I found a video....

[louis-t]

10. It's also what cheeney said about

the worst economy in 80 years.

[Rocknrule]

11. More proof that Republicans are sociopaths

GOP = Guns Over People

[mainstreetonce]

15. Grieving families

Are told "stuff happens"

Shame on Jeb.

[dinger130]

16. Yeah,

sounds like something his dumbass brother would say.

[tabasco]

17. Depraved piece of shit asshole like his entire family

Fuck Jeb Bush and his family of sick psychopaths.

[llmart]

37. I'm rec'ing your post......

because.....my sentiments exactly! F* the whole lot of them. They're all sociopaths which is why they have no empathy.

[Rocknrule]

18. Imagine if Obama had said that after Benghazi

The Pubs would've literally crucified him

[TwilightGardener]

19. Hey, man, shit happens, get over it.

[sailfla]

20. To quote George W's press secretary Ari Fleischer

45 soldiers killed one day... his response. " Its only a number"

[mac56]

21. Maybe this is Jeb's "47 percent" moment.

[CanonRay]

23. Isn't that pretty much what Rumsfeld said about Iraq?

Is this the new Republican mantra when the shit hits the fan because of their stupidity?

[TeamPooka]

24. "there's always a crisis and the impulse is always to do something and it's not always the right the

..right thing to do,"
Like the Patriot Act?
That took away a lot of rights.

[SoapBox]

25. Tell that to the families and the loved ones of the DEAD!

Go ahead, IDIOT, tell them face to face that "stuff" happens.

POS.

[smirkymonkey]

51. +1000

He and his family make me sick.

[Jack Rabbit]

26. Thank you once again for your interest in the open position, Mr. Bush

But please, please, please stop calling us. We'll call you when we've mad a decision.

Meanwhile, please take you idiot big bother and play catch with him on a busy freeway.

[JudyM]

27. "Stuff happens" like global warming, too. Nt

[Tab]

28. I'm actually not going to pig pile on Jeb on this one

It wasn't the context of "Hey, Governor, what do you think of Oregon?" "Stuff happens," he replied. That's what's a lot of these articles are implying. He wasn't being dismissive. What he said, as posted above, the shooting was "very sad" and after acknowledging that then went on to give a realistic comment how crisis play out: "Look, stuff happens, there's always a crisis and the impulse is always to do something and it's not always the right thing to do". I don't think that's an unrealistic comment. But it's been cherry picked to make it sound like he was just blowing off the incident.

That said, his position that we shouldn't "do something" is pretty infuriating, implying same-old, same-old.

[NonMetro]

36. Yup!

You nailed it with that one!

[get the red out]

29. Fucking asshole

Arrogant piece of shit.

[left-of-center2012]

30. "stuff DOES happen" -- Bush beating Gore

Oh wait -- that's shit happens !

[sorechasm]

31. Nothing to see here, move along,...

Keep telling yourself that Jeb. No one wants you around anyway.

[Turbineguy]

32. "Stuff Happens"

A little classier than "Shit Happens", but generally code for "So What?"

[WhiteHat]

33. Bad stuff happens, and the government shouldn't necessarily do anything about it.

Yeah, but if the government CAN do something about it, isn't that the kind of thing government is for?
Don't we want government to protect us from vicious psychotics?

"C'est la vie" is NOT ACCEPTABLE for the head of government.

[lancer78]

42. but the genie is out of the bottle

Not even australian gun laws would have prevented this massacre. America is filled with a ton of angst ridden special snowflakes who want to earn their immortality killing masses of people at once. No gun laws/bans will stop that.

[Paladin]

34. More evidence that he really doesn't want to be president. (nt)

[tclambert]

38. Jeb Bush announces new campaign slogan: "Hey, stuff happens."

[YOHABLO]

39. Isn't that what his brother said about 9/11?

[bkkyosemite]

40. Unless Jebby....................

it's your kids school and they get their heads blown off...........

[lancer78]

41. severely tone deaf

But I can see his point. Republicans seem willing to accept the level of gun violence, which has gone down in recent years, in order to have the ability to own guns with minimal government intrusion.

The deadliest school massacre occurred in the 1920's, long before the term "assault rifle" had been invented. I am sure there were others, just the fact that there wasn't a whore media back then that glorifies these killings for ratings, thereby encouraging more mass shootings.

[More questions]

43. So... This is the "New Normal"?

The lack of empathy is astounding. The new normal is that mass shootings just happen, criminal justice injustices just happen, swimming pool drownings and Katrina's just happen, and so do planes flying into towers, and nuclear attacks. I think the Bush reaction is that nothing should change, don't let this sort of thing discomfort a golf game. So, one wonders...why government? ... Oh, nevermind, Republicans think government is only to keep the masses in chains.

[jtuck004]

44. craven

adjective cra·ven \ˈkrā-vən\
: having or showing a complete lack of courage : very cowardly

Seemed like a good time to review that word...

[wordpix]

45. "impulse is always to do something and it's not always the right thing to do" ! the do nothing pres

This is what we can expect from do nothing Pres. ! I'm looking forward to hearing Trump on this shooting.

[Octafish]

48. It's a chickenshit way of saying ''Shit Happens.''

And the chickenshit mind what thinks human beings are shit is NAZI.

[nolabels]

52. To me, it's really just a corporate way of "Shit Happens."

My other conclusion is that corporations are lower than petrified dinosaur shit. Without Corporations we would have never had the Nazi's coming to power way back when or even now. The billionaire psychos that want to control everything won't be happy till they destroy everything

[Carolina]

49. Oh My God

and he was touted as the smart one?! The Bushes -- all of them -- are dumb and malevolent. A bad combination.

We know Shrub was/is a pure idiot, a fraud, a blubbering puppet of his handlers. But Jeb is proving to be equally daft. And Poppy was no speaker either. Remember in 1992 when he realized he was losing to Clinton and Gore, he was flabbergasted because after all he had won the 1st Gulf War (poor Iraq). So he resorted to name calling, referring to his opponents as bozos. So much for his alleged patrician class, manners and breeding. Frankly, Dan Quayle showed more grace.

I truly loathe the Bushes and hope Jeb continues to sink like a stone.

[Rocknrule]

53. The entire Bush family

is about as classy as a clown with its cock out