This of course happened before this most recent mass shooting, but still....it happened.So @DonaldJTrumpJr appears in this commercial praising silencers as wonderful and for kids then pushes the Silencer bill! How much💰💰 Junior? pic.twitter.com/liofkmQ2mx— Olga_Lautman NYC ✨ (@olgaNYC1211) October 3, 2017
Of course what could we actually expect from this guy?
You can read more about this over at the Washington Post.
“Thank you, Hillary.” Miley Cyrus tears up as she channels raw emotion of 65 million Americans
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"CYRUS: Thank you, Hillary, for being a constant beacon of strength, hope, and determination for me and millions of other young women. You’ve been a role model and an inspiration, and a voice of reason in uncertain times. I could go on and on, but I’d like to get right to the point. Can I give you a hug?""
DeleteGOP senator who received $50,000 from NRA slams any efforts for gun safety
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Repeal the Second Amendment
After receiving donations and praise from the NRA, Sen. Chuck Grassley is already leading the effort to stop regulation of bump stocks, which were used by the Las Vegas shooter to modify his weapons to make them deadlier.
https://shareblue.com/gop-senator-who-received-50000-from-nra-slams-any-efforts-for-gun-safety/
The NRA is a powerful political force — but not because of its money
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Here's a list of NRA puppets.
Deletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/nra-donations/
You can search it by state.
Notice how many Republicans.
"Update: Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) was listed as receiving a $1,000 donation, but he did not accept it. Additionally, Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) donated both of the contributions he received in 2012 and 2016 to various funds.
Correction: A previous version of this graphic stated sitting members of Congress received $2,996,519 in donations. The correct number was $3,781,803 (in 2016). Several members of Congress had incorrect titles. All titles and figures have been updated."
Donald Jr, would these little children bring their silencers to school so they won't get caught shooting each other?
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ReplyDeleteThe Las Vegas Massacre Was A Ritual Sacrifice To The Second Amendment
The gun rights crowd’s mask comes off after the latest horrific mass shooting.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/las-vegas-shooting-second-amendment_us_59d3a3cae4b0f962988a1bbb?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Double standard from the media.
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"“In many cases when there is a white mass-shooter or domestic terrorist, we get personal details about them, like the reports that the Las Vegas shooter was a country music fan,” she added. “But how often do we learn personal details about terrorists and mass killers, or even street criminals in the US, when they are not white? Who gets humanized in news coverage is important ― and telling.” "
"What’s more, after Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas, at least one headline stated that Paddock “doesn’t fit [the] mass shooter profile,” noting his lack of a known criminal record.
Actually, Paddock precisely fits that profile. Most mass shooters and domestic terrorists in this country have been white, multiple studies show."
"Just hours after the mass shooting in Vegas, the media was calling Paddock a “lone wolf.” Yet there are clear disparities in who receives this label: After Muslim people commit acts of violence, critics often point to Islam as the root of the problem, and when black people are involved in shootings, they point to the myth of ”black-on-black crime.”
When white people commit mass violence, however, there is often an emphasis on the fact they were acting alone. The implicit assumption is that they are in no way responsible for representing the larger demographic group they belong to. "
"What’s more, the response to the Las Vegas shooter follows another familiar pattern: White violence is often explained away as a mental health issue."
https://twitter.com/miqdaad/status/914830553467248640/photo/1
Trump’s Different Responses To The Orlando And Vegas Massacres Reveal His Hypocrisy
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https://twitter.com/miqdaad/status/914830553467248640/photo/1
DeleteI noticed the CNN screenshot. According to the GOP and WH, there is no good time for gun debate.
ReplyDeleteThe GOP is famous for grabbing topics for discussion. It's time we do the same. It's not "gun control", it's "weapon control."
A knife is designed to cut things, and I certainly can't cook without one. A vehicle is designed to transport people and goods from one point to another. A gun has only one purpose, and that's to kill.
The NRA may say that the Vegas gunman could have used a knife or truck, but since he was firing from the 32nd floor, that's obviously bovine excrement.
Wasn't it John Oliver who showed a series of "This is not the time" clips after every single shooting? Could have been Stephen Colbert or Seth Meyers. But one of them did.
DeleteSandy Hook, Orlando, Las Vegas, ALL of them a "This is not the time for debate" by politicians and (right wing) news people.
George W. Bush's ETHICS lawyer has a great plan.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/richard-painter-gun-laws_us_59d2fc63e4b048a44324abd9?section=us_politics
Richard W. Painter:
"Americans are sick of political hacks talking about condolences and sympathy while stuffing NRA blood money in their pockets. Do sonething.
We can all pray about it, but we elected you to do something to protect us. What are you doing to fix our permissive gun laws?
Enough BS. For thoughts and prayers call a priest or rabbi. For decent gun laws call a congressman, and if he doesn't DO anything, sack him.
Follow the money.
Has your U.S. Congress person received donations from the NRA? "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/nra-donations/
See it here:
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Good article from Slate;
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{3%}"Three percent of the nation owns
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"Let me put a finer point on what I’m saying. Very, very few of the guns in America are used for hunting. Americans who own guns today keep arsenals in a way people did not 40 years ago. It seems plain to me that that’s because they—not all, but many—have given themselves over to fantasies.—to prepare for an ultraviolent showdown that exists only in their imagination."Why are Americans buying semi-automatic AR-15s and rifles like it more than any other style, 1.5 million each year? Because holding and shooting one makes them feel cooler, more like commandos."
"Another is the fantasy that patriots will be obliged to become terrorist rebels, like Americans did in 1776 and 1861, this time to defend liberty against the U.S. government before it fully reveals itself as a tyrannical fascist-socialist-globalist regime and tries to confiscate every private gun."
"“President Clinton’s army of anti-gun government agents continues to intimidate and harass law-abiding citizens,” as in “Waco and the Branch Davidians.” Today they’re poking into a weapons cache; tomorrow they’ll be taking away everyone’s “right to free speech, free practice of religion, and every other freedom in the Bill of Rights.” The new assault weapons ban “gives jackbooted Government thugs more power to take away our constitutional rights, break in our doors, seize our guns, destroy our property and even injure and kill us. … Not too long ago, it was unthinkable for federal agents wearing Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms to attack law-abiding citizens.”"The 1995 jackbooted-government-thugs letter was the moment the NRA inarguably settled in deepest Fantasyland." Extreme American gun love really is a lot like American religious faith."
"“we face a gathering of forces that are willing to use violence against us … some of the most radical political elements there are. Anarchists, Marxists, communists, and the whole rest of the left-wing socialist brigade.”"
Weapons right
ReplyDeleteTrump Jr is such a tough guy:
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A Republican who has served in the House for more than 40 years ought to know the rules.
ReplyDeleteBut Alaska Rep. Don Young either doesn’t — or he doesn’t care. At least, not when Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is saying things he doesn’t want to hear.
On Thursday, Pelosi delivered a brutal speech about the GOP’s latest tax scheme to give billions of dollars to the ultra-wealthy by raising taxes on the middle class and gutting essential programs, including education and health care.
“This is one of the worst budget decisions that you have made,” Pelosi told her Republican colleagues.
That’s when Young shouted at her, “Time’s up!”
However, as HuffPost congressional reporter Matt Fuller notes, the minority leader is not subject to the same rules and time limitations as other House members.
But Pelosi is unflappable, and no man is going to intimidate or silence her.
“I know you don’t want the public to hear this,” she said, “and I can understand why.”
https://shareblue.com/i-know-you-dont-want-the-public-to-hear-this-pelosi-shames-gop-rep-trying-to-silence-her/
Don Young received over $60,000 from the NRA.
DeleteIsraeli newspaper Haaretz asks if Trump is a ‘moron’ or ‘just an obnoxious racist’ in searing essay
ReplyDelete...“Prejudice and racial stereotypes are such a prominent feature of his personality, they maintain, that he just can’t keep them under lock,” he wrote, then noted that the president has provided plenty of evidence to bolster those critics’ assessment.
“He has described himself as ‘the least racist person ever,’ but since he launched his presidential run by describing Mexican immigrants as rapists and murderers,” he wrote, “Trump has described Puerto Ricans as lazy, Muslims as wannabe terrorists, African-Americans as thugs, Jews as proficient with money and women as inferior sexual objects. It’s only among neo-Nazis, apparently, that Trump has found ‘some fine people.’”
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/israeli-newspaper-haaretz-asks-if-trump-is-a-moron-or-just-an-obnoxious-racist-in-searing-essay/
Hmmmm. Bibi's mouthpiece fights back?
DeleteI asked 5 House Republicans what Congress could do about the Las Vegas shooting
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/nra-likely-benefit-las-vegas-184536580.html
ReplyDelete"How will the National Rifle Association (NRA) react to the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States? If history is any guide, the nation’s largest guns rights lobbyist will raise even more money to donate to members of Congress in order to oppose stricter gun controls following the shooting deaths of at least 58 people in Las Vegas Sunday."
"Take the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012, in which 20 children and six adults were killed. In the months that followed, the NRA raised what was then a record $2.7 million for its political action committee. That represented a 350 percent increase over the same period the previous year.
That money was quickly put to work, much of it donated to Republicans in Congress who were then debating a bill to expand background checks for gun purchases. Four months after the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the Senate voted against the bill."
"Prior to Sunday night, the worst mass shooting in U.S. history was the massacre of 49 people at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June 2016. Yet the NRA broke its own record for campaign spending during the 2016 election cycle. It was one of the biggest outside donation groups in that period, and the biggest to the campaign of Donald Trump."
"The first test of the response to the Las Vegas shooting could come imminently. The House is said to have a hearing this week on a so-called Hearing Protection Act, which would legalize the use of silencers on firearms. Watts says the attack in Las Vegas means that “what was an absurd idea is now an immoral and repugnant idea.”
There is already evidence that the gun lobby and gun manufacturers will benefit from the lack of pressure for stricter gun control laws at the top layers of government.
Just hours after the tragedy in Las Vegas, gun stocks rose Monday morning."
Supposedly Sonny Boy (Jr. aka Beavis) was in the Yukon recently - moose hunting. That's why he declined the S.S. protection; to avoid publicity. I would have loved to have met him at the airport in Whitehorse, and shove the fuckin' antlers up his ass!!!
ReplyDeleteOT? " "Gradually, it dawns on the reader that Never Let Me Go is a parable about mortality."
ReplyDelete"I can honestly say this is the most amazing book I have ever read"
https://www.amazon.com/Never-Kazuo-Ishiguro-25-Feb-2010-Paperback/dp/B011T6RNRQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1507237943&sr=8-2&keywords=never+let+me+go+book
""It's a magnificent honour, mainly because it means that I'm in the footsteps of the greatest authors that have lived, so that's a terrific commendation. The world is in a very uncertain moment and I would hope all the Nobel Prizes would be a force for something positive in the world as it is at the moment. I'll be deeply moved if I could in some way be part of some sort of climate this year in contributing to some sort of positive atmosphere at a very uncertain time."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/very-much-a-racist-former-apprentice-producer-claims-secret-trump-tapes-are-unfathomably-despicable/
ReplyDelete"Following last year’s leaked Access Hollywood tapes in which Trump brags about sexually assaulting women, Pruitt suggested in a tweet that Trump was on tape saying “far worse” things."In addition to remarks about women, Pruitt said that Trump made remarks that were ”very much a racist issue” directed at African-Americans, Jewish groups and other minorities."
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/very-much-a-racist-former-apprentice-producer-claims-secret-trump-tapes-are-unfathomably-despicable/
Tom Arnold tape?
My own kid, pursuing an engineering degree, pointed out that if Paddock (Vegas) had had a silencer - more correctly called a suppressor -- it would have taken much longer to locate the source of the gun shots, as it also suppresses the muzzle flash. How many more would have been killed?
ReplyDelete"“I held him and talked to him the whole time,” Eardley, who suffered shrapnel wounds to his lower back, told CNN. “I know he wasn’t the only victim and I know that so many other people exactly what I’m going through. My heart goes out to every single one of them.”"
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Wow, every college campus with conceal carry now has to worry about nut in a high rise dorm room. Inspection time.
ReplyDeleteOh YOU Putz psyc-ho>djtjr>He "then took aim at left-wing protests where conservative figures have been scheduled to speak, and a culture at colleges that he said taught young Americans to “hate their country” and “hate their religion.”In the 35-minute address, for which he was paid at least above $50,000 according to his now-removed All American Speakers page, he attacked “social justice warriors” and “Marxists” in reference to the left-wingers he believed were attacking his father.
ReplyDelete"Everyone to the right of them is Hitler,"
“‘Hate speech’ is that America is a good country... that we need borders... anything that comes out of the mouth of the president... the moral teaching of the Bible,” <HOLY$hi'T'
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/donald-trump-jr-slams-atmosphere-of-hate-toward-father/