President Donald Trump's re-election campaign used a photo of a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, shooting in an email Saturday that asks its recipients to donate money to the campaign.
The email contains a photo of 17-year-old Madeleine Wilford in a hospital bed surrounded by her family, Trump and the first lady. The President visited Wilford on February 16, two days after the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which left 17 dead.
"The nation has turned its attention to the senseless school shooting in Parkland, Florida," the email reads.
"Trump is taking steps toward banning gun bump stocks and strengthening background checks for gun purchasers," it says. "The President has made his intent very clear: 'making our schools and our children safer will be our top priority.'"
Near the end of the message, there's a link to the campaign's donations page.
If you ever needed evidence that Trump is a classless POS, well now you have it.
I have heard that this young ladies parents are Trump supporters, so MAYBE he had their permission to use this photo, but even if that is true using a victim of a school shooting to raise money for the NRA's favorite president is simply disgusting.
I hope she has a full recovery.
ReplyDeleteAnd if the family did NOT give permission to use that photo, I hope they have the energy and emotional stamina to sue trump millions - and use some of the money to fight him and the nra
Everything nasty dirty evil is don johns payment to putin for his debt. Don and his mob owe billions of money to putin and his buddies. Death Destruction hate, shootings of americans makes the KGB puppets happy. Cut the crap and tell it like it is. Don john trump is America's enemy. Putin is second. And the NEW republican party of traitors will end.
ReplyDeleterewind 101 years, then u r caught up. same shit. full monty. ;)
DeleteI detected that this young teenager does not agree with her parents but was forced to sit there and listen to her smiling mother and father while she took bullets from their hateful party of liars and crooks.
ReplyDeleteIf I was in that bed when littlefingers showed up I would have reached for the water pitcher and dowsed the idiot with cold water and then say something like “I’m sorry. I was really reaching for my AK47.
DeleteThis morning the networks were saying she was to have a press conference. I was expecting some pro-Trump speech, if not from her, from her parents. All I heard from her were sincere words of gratitude to many people. Unless more happened and I missed it, it was not a press conference and Trump praise session, like he may have expected it to be.
DeleteParents or no parents, I would have refused to let him in. And if he was let in anyway, I would have turned over away from him. Let him get pissed off. It's better than getting pissed ON!
DeleteEveryone knew Donny was pond scum as soon as Sarah endorsed him.
ReplyDeleteBefore that, even.
DeleteHer endorsement verified it.
i knew he was scum a long time ago. his second wife was not happy with him. he gave nasty interviews and named anything he could after himself. not to mention he was always being sued for not paying his workers.
DeleteHe Made the Gun That Slaughtered Parkland’s Kids
ReplyDeleteCEO James Debney makes $5 million a year for manufacturing the type of gun that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-made-the-gun-that-slaughtered-parklands-kids
Hi, I'm a military vet and gunowner.
I've compiled a thread of fellow vets speaking out in support of gun control and/or against Trump's terrible idea of arming teachers, including links. Consider this a resource. I'll add to it as necessary. (thread)
#GunControlNow #BoycottNRA
https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/967726960288911363
John Oliver Unloads on Trump and the NRA for Wanting to Arm 700,000 Teachers
In the wake of the Parkland mass shooting, the ‘Last Week Tonight’ host couldn’t believe that Trump floated the idea of arming 20 percent of U.S. teachers—or 700,000 of them.
...“Yeah. So it’s no wonder the NRA likes this solution—it involves buying hundreds of thousands of guns, and that’s their solution to everything. They probably deal with climate change by pointing a Glock at the ocean and daring that motherfucker to rise,” cracked Oliver. “And it’s worth noting that one of the key groups expressing doubts about this idea are teachers.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-oliver-unloads-on-trump-and-the-nra-for-wanting-to-arm-teachers
Only 6.5% of gun owners belong to the NRA. Only 1.3% of Americans do. Well under half of Americans approve of the NRA. A majority of the NRA's members disagree with its positions. The NRA is a radical group run by gun manufacturers—it runs U.S. gun policy via large-scale bribery.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/967625855831826433
No surprise: Dana Loesch lied about the Founding Fathers, lied about the Constitution, and lied about how the Second Amendment was understood in the 1700s at CNN's Town Hall. This is what these people are—propagandists bought and paid for by the gun lobby.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/967816554304950272
(THREAD) BREAKING: This thread is a live-read of the House Intelligence Committee's just-released "Democratic Memo." The new memo torches the so-called "Nunes Memo" that Trump and his allies recently used to try to undermine or halt the Mueller probe. Hope you'll read and share.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/967515588913491968
NEW YORK TIMES: "The presumption in Mr. Trump’s circle is that Mr. Manafort...could threaten Mr. Trump."
That's a stunning sentence. It suggests that Trump's circle knows he committed crimes and knows that Paul Manafort knows about those crimes.
And Manafort is likely to flip.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/968145945551613952
"A Man Who's Been Defrauding People for Four Decades Is Too Stupid to Collude With Russia By Simply Agreeing to a Pro-Russia Policy for Money"
This is the last argument Trump dead-enders have. Pathetic—and a sign that, while a ways off, the end is coming.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/967958941656322049
I've no idea what's going on at POLITICO. First its editor-in-chief wrote a piece calling himself a "Russiagate skeptic"—relying wholly on misstatements of fact in the Trump-Russia probe. Now we get this.
The reality: Trump won't be on the ballot in 2020.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/967861558331301888
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/02/26/manaforts-la-bankruptcy-fight-may-offer-new-avenue-mueller-probe.html
DeleteTo WH staff, Trump keeps proposing the idea to arm "not just teachers, but an employee at every workplace." Janitors, waiters, even priests. Says "there shouldn't be a gun free zone anywhere."
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/RogueSNRadvisor/status/968139575393583109
I wonder how many will "go postal".
DeleteThe man is a degenerate. There is no human decency inside him. It is all about 'winning'. He is a deeply flawed and deficient personality.
ReplyDeleteTeen rips Trump for using friend’s hospital photo to raise campaign cash
ReplyDelete'Don’t you fucking dare use a photo of one of my best friends for your benefit. If you truly cared, maybe you would have stayed at the hospital longer than 20 minutes.'
Trump’s ghoulish move of using an image of a student wrapped in bandages to raise campaign funds adds to the growing list of insensitive and unsightly missteps, including blaming the community itself for the shooting, and having aides call the tragedy a “relief” from the administration’s other mounting scandals.
Trump himself was reduced to using empathy Cliffs notes at a White House “listening session” with survivors of gun violence so he could fake a connection with them.
But Trump clearly didn’t listen to their concerns, because after their heartfelt pleas to address gun violence, he simply launched into his NRA talking points about flooding American schools with more guns.
https://shareblue.com/survivor-photo-trump-campaign-money/
Billionaire NRA member won’t donate to GOP unless he gets gun control
...Republicans received a fresh blow in the wake of the Parkland school shooting as a major South Florida billionaire donor issued an ultimatum: Support gun control or lose funding.
Mike Fernandez, a private equity manager who has given millions to GOP candidates including Gov. Rick Scott, is taking a stand. “I will not give one cent to anyone who does not support major change regarding military-type weapons being sold,” he told reporters at WLRN.
Fernandez, a dues-paying member of the National Rifle Association, also said he will not renew his membership.
https://shareblue.com/nra-member-gop-donations-gun-control/
Crowd roars for teen who stands up to GOP senator over guns at town hall
...Grassley, one of the few Republicans willing to face his constituents at town halls, was confronted by 18-year-old Eden Knoop at an event in Manchester.
Knoop described the catastrophic injuries that result from firearms like the AR-15. With those weapons, “the bullet leaves the rifle with such velocity and such energy that it tears through organs and muscle,” she noted.
“Students are afraid, and they are afraid because of weapons like the AR-15,” Knoop continued. “So my question to you is, what are you going to do to prevent, and to protect us from weapons like the AR-15?”
The crowd immediately roared with approval.
https://shareblue.com/chuck-grassley-iowa-eden-knoop-town-hall/
Mike Fernandez is also the head of the Miami mafia.
DeleteNRA spokeswoman confronted with the facts on the assault weapons ban. She had no answers.
ReplyDeleteRather than face the facts, NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch ducks, dodges, and distracts.
https://thinkprogress.org/nra-assault-weapons-ban-9c9b92598190/
In the end...More like sitting duck$...
DeleteHe treats common ordinary respect for others as something upon which to wipe his feet.
ReplyDeleteI vote him into the first seat of the tumbril.
Stop Lying To Those Kids And Telling Them They’re Going To Win The Gun Debate
ReplyDelete...Contrary to the myth-making, it won’t happen because the all-powerful NRA, from up on high, will send down orders to their minions to vote the way they want. Those legislators will vote a particular way because it’s their constituents they’re worried about.
https://www.redstate.com/arbogast/2018/02/26/stop-lying-kids-telling-they-are-going-win-gun-debate/
Red State? Ok.
DeleteThose kids will take out the minions at the polls. They will be replaced with public servants not owned by the NRA. It may take a while, but it will happen.
DeleteOH, and learn to use some fucking QUOTATION MARKS!
DeleteMany decades ago, Stalin was addressing his advisors about a certain course of action. One of his advisors told Stalin the Pope would oppose him. Stalin mockingly asked: "How many (Army) divisions does the Pope have?" And the room erupted in laughter as everyone agreed with Stalin. I notice the Pope is still here while Stalin is . . .
DeleteFirst they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they mock you.
Then they attack you.
Then you win.
And now there's *this*. Preznidint Mighty Mouth rushing in to save the day!!!!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/draft-dodging-trump-says-personally-stopped-parkland-shooter-even-didnt-weapon/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/cant-walk-300-feet-unassisted-internet-buries-trumps-fantasies-able-stop-parkland-shooter/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsPa8QgGGkc
Unarmed...and with bone spurs. What a guy!
DeleteHHHMMM. Sounds to me - if he thought he could do that - like he was lying about being unable to serve back when he was younger. Can we still prosecute for that? It's lying to a Federal agency, right?
Deletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/trump-taunts-press-not-knowing-lunch-nras-wayne-lapierre-days-mass-shooting/
ReplyDelete"Trump says he had lunch this weekend with LaPierre, others from NRA. Says he's shocked press didn't find out."
Delete"“I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon and I think most of the people in this room would have done that, tOO,”
the president opined." RiiiggghhhttT!
$ure as shit...don't stink.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/cant-walk-300-feet-unassisted-internet-buries-trumps-fantasies-able-stop-parkland-shooter/
Deletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/watch-testy-trump-folds-arms-pouts-dem-governor-rips-apart-plan-arm-teachers/
" Inslee then chided the president>“I just suggest that we need a little less tweeting here, and a little more listening.”
"rump ignored Inslee’s remarks and proceeded to call on Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to change the subject."
tic tac toc.
Trump says that he would have ran in and stopped the gunman himself. Cadet bone spur is a fearless man. As he blabbers on he talks of mental facilities between snorts and lies. The shithole is on damage control along with his ignorant daughter.
ReplyDeleteThe pos is so toxic and disgusting we cannot take another day of his ugly face and mouth He is full of dangerous lies.
Every governor sitting there bowing to that dangerous evil pos must be told. NO to BS get out of the room and file charges against that pos today.
8:14 here.
DeletePreznidint Mighty Mouth is, indeed *such* a 'fearless man' (/s), that he'd probably would have turned his fat tail (if, indeed, he'd have been able to schlump up the stairs of that fine school) and run, shrieking, at the very first sight of blood!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-time-donald-trump-turned-away-in-disgust-while-a-man-bled-to-death-in-front-of-him?ref=scroll
When I heard that, two 2016 rallies came to mind during which he freaked out and ducked and twisted and turned when someone rushed the stage.
DeleteYea because she 'knows he loves me' RiiiggghhhttT?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politicususa.com/2018/02/26/ivanka-trump-says-doesnt-believe-father-guilty-sexual-assault.html
" i know my father " I bet she 'knows' everything!
Deletehttps://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/politics/ivanka-donald-trump-sexual-misconduct-accusers/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/politics/ivanka-donald-trump-sexual-misconduct-accusers/index.html
DeleteIvanka might just say the many women who allege her father's sexual misconduct, including her mother's rape, are liars.
DeleteShe has to support her father if it means bigly lies. She must scrutinize and talk about each woman and accusation. What do you think Ivanka?
like he gives a damn about anyone's kids. remember his slip? say are concerned about these kids, boss.
ReplyDeleteOh...no...he...di-in't!
ReplyDeleteGovernor of Washington DARES to tell President Trumplethinskin that his harebrained 'arm the teachers' plan is BS. Trumplethinskin reacts in predictable manner:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/watch-testy-trump-folds-arms-pouts-dem-governor-rips-apart-plan-arm-teachers/
"Dear Lisa, (Murkowski)
ReplyDeleteIt was nice to see the 'Find the Good' headline in the Empire today, following your speech. It's a great way to walk in this world.
I am asking you to lead the charge for sanity following the school murders in Florida by demanding universal background checks, banning assault weapons, and banning modifiers to other weapons that allow them to work like assault weapons. No sportsman (or woman) uses an assault weapon, in fact, the best Alaskan hunters I know graduate beyond guns to bows.
Lisa, I had to pass a background check to legally adopt a child.
Think about that for a minute.
This is not a political issue. It's a moral issue.
This is the first time I have ever wished we could trade places. I wish I were in your shoes right now because of the opportunity you have to Find the Good in this tragedy by doing good—real good-- and legislating life-saving gun laws.
Kikkan seized her moment. Please seize yours.
Have Courage,
Heather" (Lende blog)
P.s.>
""You shall love your crooked neighbor with your crooked heart."- W.H. Auden
My favorite lessons are from Matthew's gospel. Blessed are the meek, blessed are the peacemakers, and let your shine in the darkness, pray in private, don't act all holy and good, and the big one: love your neighbor as yourself. "Neighbor" meaning everyone, basically. Even the jerks. And that is the tricky, and yet most crucial part of being a Christian, isn't it? Which is why I love this verse about my crooked heart, from my fellow Episcopalian, poet W.H. Auden.
He also wrote this verse, about why love is so important, no matter what your faith is:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done,
Do evil in return."
Many teenagers do not agree with their parents on many views. Watching both parents with smiling faces as their child was suffering to talk about the most awful event in her life was odd. If they are trump supporters they are pathetic and ignorant. How on earth can people be so stupid.
ReplyDeleteHe loves him them uneducated. I think you’re witnessing his base. Those are the people stupid enough for vote for this doofus.
DeleteHe'll make full use of the victim's parents during reelection and also of the very pro-Trump and pro-gun father of another victim, a man named Andrew Pollack who wore a Trump 2020 T-shirt on the day his daughter was killed.
ReplyDeleteTrump is so gutless that he would use Barron as a human shield. And he's so gutless that he probably won't show up again at the correspondents' dinner.
ReplyDeleteIf only Donald Trump has been at the school that Valentines Day. He would have rushed in without a gun and done something to save all the students and staff. Madeleine Wilford feels real safe now.
ReplyDeleteParkland Student Emma González Opens Up About Her Fight for Gun Control
ReplyDelete"Adults are behaving like children."
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a18715714/protesting-nra-gun-control-true-story/
The N.R.A. Lobbyist Behind Florida’s Pro-Gun Policies
Marion Hammer’s unique influence over legislators has produced laws that dramatically alter long-held American norms.
...Hammer is the National Rifle Association’s Florida lobbyist. At seventy-eight years old, she is nearing four decades as the most influential gun lobbyist in the United States. Her policies have elevated Florida’s gun owners to a uniquely privileged status, and made the public carrying of firearms a fact of daily life in the state. Daley was referring to a law that Hammer worked to enact in 2011, during Governor Rick Scott’s first year in office. The statute punishes local officials who attempt to establish gun regulations stricter than those imposed at the state level. Officials can be fined thousands of dollars and removed from office.
...Hammer is not an elected official, but she can create policy, see it through to passage, and use government resources to achieve her aims. These days, Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature almost never allows any bill that appears to hinder gun owners to come up for a vote. According to Mac Stipanovich, a longtime Florida Republican strategist and lobbyist, Hammer is “in a class by herself. When you approach a certain level, where the legislator is basically a fig leaf, well, that’s not the rule.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/the-nra-lobbyist-behind-floridas-pro-gun-policies
NRA’s Marion Hammer: Governor and legislative plans to limit gun access are “political eyewash.”
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/02/23/nras-marion-hammer-governor-and-legislative-plans-to-limit-gun-access-is-political-eyewash/
Marion P. Hammer was the first female President of the National Rifle Association (NRA) from 1995 to 1998. As an influential NRA lobbyist from the 1970s through 2016, Hammer is credited with influencing many of Florida's gun laws including the 2005 Stand your ground law. The success of her pro-gun lobby impacted on similar laws across the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Hammer
Here's a radical idea, how about we don't spend money on arming teachers we spend it educating students in S.T.E.M. so people like @KyleJeter can do more cool stuff and we'll be able to create jobs in renewable, clean and independent American energy like wind and solar.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/968119169848922112
The PTB won't do that because it is educating the young. And that means the young learn how to THINK! That, of course, is NOT what the repubes want.
DeleteNRA battles Florida Republicans over gun crackdown
ReplyDeleteThe Florida debate will be closely watched beyond Tallahassee, as President Trump discusses various gun violence-related proposals.
The National Rifle Association, equipped with a vaunted political email list and support from passionate single-issue voters, is gearing up to take on Florida Gov. Rick Scott and GOP leaders as they tee up a rarity in Florida lawmaking: gun control legislation.
The central question for Republicans as the state’s legislative session enters its final weeks is whether the NRA, which opposes the GOP-written measures, will get rolled by a collection of lawmakers it helped get elected.
The Florida debate will be closely watched beyond Tallahassee, as President Donald Trump discusses various gun violence-related proposals, like arming teachers and raising the age to purchase weapons like the AR-15 from 18 to 21. The brewing fight was prompted by the Feb. 14 gunning down of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the worst school shooting in Florida history, which prompted a wave of activism from the school’s students and put NRA-friendly Florida squarely in the middle of the national gun debate.
It’s an awkward spot for Scott and Republican leaders, who are now facing public pressure to push through proposals, unveiled last week, that could box in many of their own rank-and-file members in conservative districts chock full of NRA supporters, and in swing seats where every controversial vote matters.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/26/florida-guns-republicans-nra-parkland-424294
Sweet Thing (she and the Old Redneck have been married for 53 years) is a retired high school teacher. Both our children are high school teachers.
ReplyDeleteWe very much want to see teachers armed. We believe teachers should be armed with:
-- enough money so they don't have to buy their own classroom supplies
-- enough money to put counselors and psychologists in every school
-- enough money to hire enough teachers to get classroom size down to 15-18 students per classroom
-- enough money to put new books in every classroom
-- enough books to fully stock school libraries
-- give us a minute and we'll come up with a few more ways to arm teachers.
State of the art technology replaced every three years.
DeleteA certificated teacher librarian in every library and a library in every school.
#BackfireTrump Will Tweet Every Gun Death At The President
ReplyDeleteAn anti-violence group is harnessing Trump’s favorite social media platform to show him the gun-related death toll.
Over 33,000 people die from gun violence each year in America, yet Trump doesn’t think guns are part of the problem. #BackfireTrump will show the president the scale and seriousness of the issue by auto-tweeting a powerful message to @realDonaldTrump from your account every time someone dies from gun violence
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/backfiretrump-tweet-gun-death_us_5a943314e4b02cb368c447c4
http://backfiretrump.com/
He'll ignore it as "fake news".
DeletePhotographer from @epaphotos caught Stephen Miller nodding off during the hour-plus White House meeting on school safety.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/jeneps/status/968206366631395328
The NRA is losing its grip — on reality and on politicians
ReplyDelete...The student leaders remind us that the NRA’s opponents and to a large extent the media have been far too deferential to the NRA and too respectful of its disingenuous arguments. They grant the NRA’s arguments legitimacy — no matter how afactual or bizarre or off-point. They give LaPierre’s unfounded assertions the same status as a scientific study, personal life experience and elementary logic. That decorum and false equivalency have been exploited by not just the NRA but also the rest of the ethno-nationalist posse that now controls the GOP.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/02/26/the-nra-is-losing-its-grip-on-reality-and-on-politicians
The actual power the NRA has is an illusion. They don’t have the “votes” to have any impact. 1.3% is peanuts. They do have money, but there comes a point where no amount of money will move your agenda.
DeleteI think they’ve reached that point.
They are going to be told to put up or shut up and they won’t be able to put up the pressure in votes to coerce politicians. They won’t be scared of losing their re-elections because the NRA is against them. They’ll be afraid because they are with the NRA and *that* will lose them more votes.
Poll: 61 percent back AR-15 ban
ReplyDeletehttp://thehill.com/homenews/administration/375622-poll-61-percent-back-ar-15-ban
I honestly think Trump thinks all this is just a game. He has no common sense and neither does his followers.
ReplyDeleteGryphen needs to have a daily end to day with a short review of Gavel to Gavel. We got some spitfires asking "why the hell are we spending so much money"
ReplyDeleteon (fill in the blank). It was funny. Watch the ones who vote together to "keep things the same", as they squirmed when the new crew grills the motions before them. Pay Attention! ;)