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US PoliEra 2019 |OT6| Have You Hurd About These GOP Retirements?
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Thank god the other countries are not laughing at us anymore!
Looking into the cause of violent crimes is not excusing their behavior. We know that life expectancy has been declining for years, and people feel more lonely than ever.
22% of millenials say they don't have a single friend. How much more susceptible are they to hateful messaging because of this? Obviously access to guns plays a huge role. Happy people of any political spectrum typically don't go shooting people.
The world economy wasn't doing so hot in 2015/early 2016 either and that *may* have helped Trump, but I'm not sure most Americans noticed if they weren't looking at their 401Ks.
They've always wanted a police state. Anything accusing Dems of that was projection.
They will continue to pursue a police state. It builds the military industrial complex and keeps "others" in line. Two goals at once.
I don't know what hurts more, the insult or the fact that the Japanese lack so much self awareness to see their own xenophobia and conservatisim matches his that they have no issue with him.
Rubio was also a popular incumbent. Not saying Beto shouldn't run, but his circumstances were a little different.
WaPo: 'The headline was bad': New York Times amends front page on Trump's response to mass shootings after backlash
The New York Times weathered intense backlash Monday night for its front-page headline about President Trump's response to the pair of mass shootings that read: "TRUMP URGES UNITY VS. RACISM."
A preview of Tuesday's front page shared to social media sparked instant criticism from members of the public, journalists and politicians, including several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, many of whom took issue with how the publication framed Trump's comments on the weekend attacks in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, that left at least 31 people dead and dozens injured. In the aftermath of the tragedies, major media outlets have faced scrutiny from all sides over how they confront Trump and his often inflammatory rhetoric.
About an hour after the headline went viral, the Times announced that it had amended its wording.
"The headline was bad and has been changed for the second edition," a spokesperson for the Times told The Washington Post in an email.
Later editions of the print paper feature the words, "ASSAILING HATE BUT NOT GUNS." Subheads above the two stories about Trump's speech were also changed.
Neera Tanden @neeratanden
A headline that is accurate. Not so hard. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1158683716329385986 …
6:36 AM - Aug 6, 2019
A headline that is accurate. Not so hard. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1158683716329385986 …
President's teleprompter words stand in stark contrast to his tweets https://wapo.st/2Kuo2jV
6:36 AM - Aug 6, 2019
I am so sick and tired of feeling sick and tired about the constant bunker mode this entire country has been under my entire life.
We need a policy of Radical Peace and Love®
Marianne 2020
We need a policy of Radical Peace and Love®
Marianne 2020
Please don't vote for that crank
Matthew Miller @matthewamiller
Funny, Obama didn't mention Trump's name. He just talked about those who feed fear and racism. But a hit dog barks. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1158691113047416832 …
7:42 AM - Aug 6, 2019
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
"It's political season and the election is around the corner. They want to continue to push that racist narrative." @ainsleyearhardt @foxandfriends And I am the least racist person. Black, Hispanic and Asian Unemployment is the lowest (BEST) in the history of the United States!
6:57 AM - Aug 6, 2019
Funny, Obama didn't mention Trump's name. He just talked about those who feed fear and racism. But a hit dog barks. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1158691113047416832 …
"Did George Bush ever condemn President Obama after Sandy Hook. President Obama had 32 mass shootings during his reign. Not many people said Obama is out of Control. Mass shootings were happening before the President even thought about running for Pres." @kilmeade @foxandfriends
7:42 AM - Aug 6, 2019
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
"It's political season and the election is around the corner. They want to continue to push that racist narrative." @ainsleyearhardt @foxandfriends And I am the least racist person. Black, Hispanic and Asian Unemployment is the lowest (BEST) in the history of the United States!
6:57 AM - Aug 6, 2019
Didn't police confirm that the Dayton shooter's sister was there and killed? I would tend to focus on that and his obvious toxic mysoginy and fantasies of violence exhibited by his "pornogrind" band.
We may have Eliot Rodger v2. 0 or 12.0, I can't keep up at this point
Mark Knoller @markknoller
Conway confirms Pres Trump to visit Dayton and El Paso on Wednesday, just as he's gone to sites of other incidents of gun violence. Says he'll meet with injured survivors, the families of the slain, with law enforcement - just as he's done on previous visits of this type.
8:18 AM - Aug 6, 2019
Mark Knoller @markknoller
"This crap has to stop," says Counselor to the Pres @KellyannePolls of those trying to blame @POTUS for instigating shooting incidents. Says @POTUS "can't get advice from people screaming on TV." She says it would be nice "if they turned down the temperature."
8:07 AM - Aug 6, 2019
Conway confirms Pres Trump to visit Dayton and El Paso on Wednesday, just as he's gone to sites of other incidents of gun violence. Says he'll meet with injured survivors, the families of the slain, with law enforcement - just as he's done on previous visits of this type.
8:18 AM - Aug 6, 2019
Mark Knoller @markknoller
"This crap has to stop," says Counselor to the Pres @KellyannePolls of those trying to blame @POTUS for instigating shooting incidents. Says @POTUS "can't get advice from people screaming on TV." She says it would be nice "if they turned down the temperature."
8:07 AM - Aug 6, 2019
New Hampshire post-debate poll (Suffolk/Boston Globe):
Biden - 21
Sanders - 17
Warren - 14
Harris - 8
Buttigieg - 6
Gabbard - 3
Booker - 1
Steyer - 1
Beto - 0
Castro - 0
(not a qualifying poll, sorry Tootsie)
Biden - 21
Sanders - 17
Warren - 14
Harris - 8
Buttigieg - 6
Gabbard - 3
Booker - 1
Steyer - 1
Beto - 0
Castro - 0
(not a qualifying poll, sorry Tootsie)
When pressed on which specific game Biden was referring to and what data he was referencing to come to such conclusion, the answer...
...oh that is giving the press too much credit.
Bloomberg: Republicans Fear 'Extinction in the Suburbs' Over Gun Control
After two gruesome mass shootings in a 24-hour span, some Republicans are raising alarms that their opposition to new firearm limits is making the party toxic to the suburban women and college graduates who will shape the 2020 election.
"Republicans are headed for extinction in the suburbs if they don't distance themselves from the NRA. The GOP needs to put forth solutions to help eradicate the gun violence epidemic," said Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor and oil-and-gas executive who supports President Donald Trump.
Last year, Eberhart said, he was having lunch with Rick Scott when the then-Florida governor learned of the massacre unfolding in Parkland. It marked the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, as a gunman used an AR-15-style rifle to kill 17 people. Eighteen months later, as the country reels from killing sprees in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Eberhart said it's time to join Democrats and majorities of Americans who want to ban those types of guns.
"The GOP needs to make several moves such as universal background checks, eliminating loopholes and banning military-style assault weapons to neutralize the issue," he said. "Otherwise, Republicans will lose suburban voters just like they did in the midterms on health care."
More in the link.
How is this an acceptable solution to anyone with a fully functional human brain? How is you or your neighbor owning an AR-15 with 100 round drum magazine worth having armed police every 50 feet? I just can't even comprehend this thought logic. Does Hannity surround himself with armed body guards to keep his nutjob fans away from him and his family, so therefore he thinks that is just a normal way of life? That is the only possible way I can even knot my brain in any way to make sense of his bullshit.
I don't know what is more scary that all of these GOP politicians and Hannity know what they are saying is ridiculous and they just say it anyways or if they actually believe what they are saying is true.
andrew kaczynski @KFILE
Tulsi Gabbard is running a Facebook ad w/Kamala Harris saying "I am proud of that work" where she's talking about criminal justice reform at the debate – but it's edited to make it sound like she said she's proud of putting people in jail for smoking pot. https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_type=all&country=ALL&impression_search_field=has_impressions_lifetime&id=23843772086390458&q=Tulsi%20Gabbard&view_all_page_id=174866249236469 …
11:55 PM - Aug 5, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard is running a Facebook ad w/Kamala Harris saying "I am proud of that work" where she's talking about criminal justice reform at the debate – but it's edited to make it sound like she said she's proud of putting people in jail for smoking pot. https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_type=all&country=ALL&impression_search_field=has_impressions_lifetime&id=23843772086390458&q=Tulsi%20Gabbard&view_all_page_id=174866249236469 …
11:55 PM - Aug 5, 2019
It sounds totally weird and unnecessary to reasonable people, but that scenario really is the republican wet dream.
Don't worry recession will probably happen just as a democrat gets in the house, for every conservative idiot to switch blame.
Hannity is crazy.
I killed so many Bokoblins yesterday.
That makes me sound racist... but Ganon brought them back to life so it's all good.
Brandy Zadrozny @BrandyZadrozny
Everyone has personal politics. Not all mass shootings are politically motivated. (Most are domestic violence.) It's beyond irresponsible to use the Dayton shooter's lefty Twitter to assign a political motive. The far right would like to equate Dayton to El Paso. Don't let them.
8:14 AM - Aug 6, 2019
Everyone has personal politics. Not all mass shootings are politically motivated. (Most are domestic violence.) It's beyond irresponsible to use the Dayton shooter's lefty Twitter to assign a political motive. The far right would like to equate Dayton to El Paso. Don't let them.
8:14 AM - Aug 6, 2019
Am I the only one who likes de Blasio in these debates?!
Granted once he started his "I'll take that as a win!" gloating it became clear why New Yorkers hate the guy lol
I dunno, I get the feeling whenever De Blasio is in the debates that he definitely is forceful. I just don't get the impression that he actually stands for anything, he just seems to stand against others on the stage.
A 7-point spread among the top three, particularly given Biden and Bernie's name ID and Bernie's blowout performance there three years ago, makes it a pretty tight race at this point no? Granted Warren's name ID in NH is prob not as low as it is in many other states, given how close it is to MA (and sharing a media market), but I feel like even there Warren has more room to grow than Biden and Bernie do.
Brandy Zadrozny @BrandyZadrozny
Everyone has personal politics. Not all mass shootings are politically motivated. (Most are domestic violence.) It's beyond irresponsible to use the Dayton shooter's lefty Twitter to assign a political motive. The far right would like to equate Dayton to El Paso. Don't let them.
8:14 AM - Aug 6, 2019
Am I misremembering, or isn't stuff like promoting Antifa on social media an openly-discussed weaponized troll effort on the cesspools these shitstains congregate? Specifically to generate this response?
I dunno, I think this guy was pretty leftist in a dumb way.
But, the shooting was more based on his misogynistic beliefs.
The leftist extremist won't stick with those that actually care because Democrats will have no problem separating from the Dayton shooter. There also isn't a manifesto that uses language the left uses. So the only people that will harp on it are those that have already decided they hate the left.
Brandy Zadrozny @BrandyZadrozny
Everyone has personal politics. Not all mass shootings are politically motivated. (Most are domestic violence.) It's beyond irresponsible to use the Dayton shooter's lefty Twitter to assign a political motive. The far right would like to equate Dayton to El Paso. Don't let them.
8:14 AM - Aug 6, 2019
"Yeah but ya'll called the El Paso shooter a racist who posted a racist manifesto. Ya'll just mad one if ya'll guys shot someone."
Kellyanne completely misses the point as usual and is just hopping mad that the Dayton shooter didn't leave a politically motivated manifesto behind like the El Paso shooter did.
Dems: Let's do something about guns regardless of which party the shooter belongs to.
GOP: We've tried nothing and it's fine.
Dems: Let's do something about guns regardless of which party the shooter belongs to.
GOP: We've tried nothing and it's fine.
These fucks are just advocating for the shooter. "You did nothing wrong. They shouldn't be here."
I bet 8chan is ecstatic... oh wait, nm. They can hang out with Milo now. LOL
Those numbers in NH are pretty damn dire for Bernie. He's a known quantity. He was able to carry the state by a huge margin in 2016. There is no realistic way he can expect to win the nomination without outright winning NH. Warren could survive a second place finish there, but I just don't see a path for Bernie if he cannot win the state. (There's no real path because of his continued inability to connect with black women voters, but you know...) A win in Iowa could propel whomever wins there to the top of the pack in NH. Or NH could NH and end up voting for someone else randomly.
I want to bang my head into a wall every time I read some conservative say, "Trump had nothing to do with it. Read the manifesto. He says he wasn't influenced by Trump."
He also says he isn't a white supremacist and racist. Guess we have to believe that part too.
He also says he isn't a white supremacist and racist. Guess we have to believe that part too.
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