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My heart aches for them.
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/742406452443222016
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Artist @silverspoonart Jun 12
Obama Administration sent to SENATE to Reinstate Assault Rifle Ban 1994
2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
GOP SENATE VOTED DOWN
https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/742486461270925313
https://twitter.com/DannyEFreeman/status/742492440024649728
They are so young.
Yes, they are Liza. They’re at that age where parents finally breathed a sigh of relief, because they got them over ‘fools hill’ (my mother calls 15-22), and now, you can just enjoy your child, watching them in their adulthood, right before they decide to settle down and have a family (which gays of this generation can do without a second thought). They’ve been through the growing pains of ‘ coming out’ with their kids, and have seen them growing into their own.
I can’t imagine the parent’s pain…because, part of a parent’s fear is that they didn’t want their child’s life to be impacted because they were gay. No parent wants their child to be hurt because of their mere existence. And yet, that fear, sadly became the reality for these parents.
https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/742348437694218243
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/742491080629878787
https://twitter.com/deray/status/742491466602303489
https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/742434004796723202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Jeet Heer @HeerJeet 1h1 hour ago
Media outlets: if Trump is not revoking your press credentials, what are you doing wrong?
https://youtu.be/cFm97YUvlH8
https://twitter.com/MichellCClark/status/742429809863725056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/742478709513457664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
From the moment I heard about this case, it didn’t smell right.
The ‘radical Islam’ never hunted for me.
You drive 118 miles from your home to go to a GAY CLUB to target?
REALLY?
SERIOUSLY?
Then, we heard about his background. Immigrant parents. Married and divorced- so abusive HER family supported her leaving him.
Then, the father said that he saw two men together and it angered him.
Uh huh.
uh huh.
Yeah, ok.
It ‘angered’ him.
IMO, he hated what he was, which is gay. He’s in the closet. Beat the wife when she wouldn’t ‘ cure’ him of being gay. Couldn’t reconcile it, and decided to kill what he hated in himself. How dare these gay men be out, open, and expressing themselves freely as gay. And, don’t forget the timing – during Pride Month – so, of course, the club would be even more crowded than usual. This was a hate crime, from beginning to end.
https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/742464224585093121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/742475540720848897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Holy crap, yes, that makes sense, Rikyrah.
Nailed IT
Trump is dragging America.
https://twitter.com/Rsherlock/status/742443606032683008
So sick.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/742478492340789249
https://twitter.com/juliehdavis/status/742447172789108736
https://twitter.com/JoseRCabanas/status/742444569921499136
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/742464224585093121
I had a feeling they may have made the wrong assumption about where his rage came from
Y’all see this. And so it begins. Look for more to come. This is what war hawk Hillary Clinton believes. True colors shining through.
https://twitter.com/politico/status/742356348369797120
There’s a pattern here. Hillary is parroting GOP rhetoric. She always have.
Super predators, welfare deadbeats, radical Islam. Not good!
I was listening and losing my shit…she is Trump lite
Yes, ma’am
The debate over ‘Islamic terrorism’ goes off the rails
06/13/16 12:46 PM
By Steve Benen
In a way, it’s incredibly difficult to satirize the far-right line on counter-terrorism because, in reality, the conservative rhetoric is already pretty laughable.
President Obama has launched strikes that have killed the head of al Qaeda, the head of the Taliban, the head of ISIS in Libya, a senior leader of al-Shabaab in Somalia, the al Qaeda operative in charge of suicide bombings and operations involving explosives, among many, many others. In The Atlantic, in which Jeffrey Goldberg, hardly a liberal, wrote, “Obama has become the greatest terrorist hunter in the history of the presidency.”
It’s against this backdrop, the joke goes, that Republicans say, “Sure, but Obama doesn’t call it ‘Islamic terrorism.’ Counter-terrorism successes are fine, but what really matters is word choice.”
Except, the joke has become real. Here was Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential candidate, on Twitter yesterday:
Though others weren’t quite so clownish, Trump wasn’t alone. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) whined, “As a matter of rigid ideology, far too many Democrats – from Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton – will refuse to utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’” Republican media personalities echoed the same line.
For Hamilton Fans, TONY Award Winner Leslie Odom, Jr., has been doing this series on Broadway.com, called Aaron Burr, Sir- backstage at Broadway.com. He’s up to episode 4. You never know who will show up in his episodes. This week, he was like, ‘ we’re at this eatery, and I’m going to see Josh.’
To myself…does he mean Josh Groban?
Yes, he does.
One week, Shonda Rhimes showed up.
I’ve been watching the clips on youtube.
This is starting to look like a case of homophobia and self hate than a radicalized cuckoo! Irresponsible reporters and politicians
But them 2nd amendment rights THO!
How Marco Rubio hopes to avoid a debate over guns
06/13/16 10:56 AM
By Steve Benen
After learning of the massacre in Orlando, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) traveled to the area and met with many of his constituents. The far-right lawmaker, who’s reportedly ready to abandon his promise not to seek a second term, had a quick response yesterday afternoon to an obvious question.
I’m pretty sure this is exactly backwards. There can be plenty of people with dangerous ideologies, but if they lack the tools necessary to commit mass murder, the threat to society is far less severe.
This point is not lost on the terrorists themselves. The Washington Post reported yesterday, “Terrorist groups have taken note of the widespread availability of assault rifles and other guns in the U.S. In 2011, al-Qaeda encouraged its followers to take advantage of lax guns laws, purchase assault-style weapons and use them to shoot people.”
Speaking in English, an al Qaeda spokesperson said in that 2011 video, “America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms. You can go down to a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle, without a background check, and most likely without having to show an identification card. So what are you waiting for?”
By Rubio’s reasoning, all of this is irrelevant, and U.S. policymakers should pay it no mind.
The issue IS weapons!
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/742010614109900800
REPOSTING here too. So who is briefing POTUS on American history?
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It seems the government, media, and a host of other folks are REWRITING HISTORY, when it comes to MASS KILLINGS.
Apparently, in 2016, an election year, we can now declare yesterday’s massacre the worst ever!!!!
Yeah, I noticed. They want to redefine “mass killing” to exclude those carried out by mobs of white supremacists. Or they can’t be bothered with old massacres, but that sort of contradicts their use of the word “history.”
So many folks seem to be allergic to truth.
PBO yesterday afternoon: “We are still learning all the facts. This is an open investigation. We’ve reached no definitive judgment on the precise motivations of the killer. The FBI is appropriately investigating this as an act of terrorism.”
Now this. Draw your own conclusions, folks.
It’s a political football for both Trump & Clinton. She’s trying to ONE-UP him on the rhetoric. I LOATHE these people, really, I DO.
And this is a former Secretary of State, the nation’s chief diplomat. We get to say “I told you so” before she is even nominated. Keep it up, Hillary, make your apologists work overtime.
Never doubted she would say whatever she felt she needed to. She’s not loyal to anyone or anything but the quest for the office.
And for all those idiots with the good guy with a gun response….here u go…three good guys with a gun, trained officers, unable to stop this maniac with an assault rifle. Take all the stadiums in the worlds worth of seats for me
http://abcnews.go.com/US/inside-orlando-nightclub-massacre-breaking-horrific-hours-inside/story?id=39805133
IT’S GUNS & HATE & FEAR=PROFIT
Will no amount of common sense ever supersede the greed, hate and supremacy? People losing their shit over their guns are simply scared of losing their perceived supremacy over a perceived enemy. Gtfoh!!!!!
Thurgood Marshall…
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Cruz sees Orlando massacre as possible wedge issue
06/13/16 10:09 AM
By Steve Benen
When President Obama addressed the massacre in Orlando yesterday, he took time to recognize “all our friends – our fellow Americans – who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.” Hillary Clinton’s statement did the same, noting, “The gunman attacked an LGBT nightclub during Pride Month. To the LGBT community: please know that you have millions of allies across our country. I am one of them.”
Congressional Republicans, by and large, chose to overlook this relevant detail. GOP officials, including staunch opponents of gay rights, were eager to condemn the mass shooting, but most were silent on the fact that the gunman targeted not just Americans in general, but LGBT Americans in specific.
In an interesting twist, though, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was a notable exception. The right-wing Texan is a fierce opponent of expanding civil rights to the LGBT community, but note how his statement yesterday referenced the Orlando gunman’s targets.
I’m really skeptical about the narrative being put out there. Don’t look, go give blood. Don’t look, Isis. Don’t look, here’s this grieving mom. Distractions from the truth. Wake up, america
Skepticism is right. I haven’t heard a word on any televised network news program about banning assault weapons, the gun lobby, or the Congress people who take money from the gun lobby, or how any of this affects the probability and likelihood of massacres.
We will ignore all of the elephants in the halls of Congress and state legislatures, etc… and just say that the guy radicalized himself and joined ISIS if only in his mind. So, apparently we should let the politicians handle this and we should continue praying and telling each other that eventually love will conquer hate if we keep saying it.
I had to stop watching this on TV. Starting to get blood pressure spikes.
There is blood on the hands of Congress because they refuse to ban assault rifles, to ban the AK15 and other assault weapons.
A hand revolver in the hands of one person could never have killed 50 and wounded 53.
https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/742337999220903936
this man was also homophobic and racist….let’s not forget this. Homophobia and racism is taught here everyday, every minute….ask the republicans and Trump. Why is no one talking about that radicalization?
No one is talking about the fact that he targeted a gay club on Latin night!!! No the republicans and their horrible rhetoric has nothing to do with this??? Get the fuck out of here. Every single politician that embraces hate and the instruments used to disseminate that hate can go take several seats and really just shut the fuck up
Congress needs to BAN THE ASSAULT RIFLE NOW.
I have no doubt that this club was targeted. Now, did he wait for Latin night, I don’t know. The timing is also because this is Pride time. They are celebrating all month long.
I can’t with the gun nuts and their illogical responses to our gun problems. The one thing in common in all of these occurrences is the guns!!! Damnit it’s the guns!!! Enough protecting of an amendment that no longer applies to a modern society. I post one thing in Facebook about how disgusting this all is and it’s taken as an invitation for people to tell me how more guns can help this problem. It’s really unbelievably stupid and tone deaf.
IT’S GUNS & HATE & FEAR=PROFIT
Debate over guns, terror watch list to begin anew
06/13/16 09:23 AM—UPDATED 06/13/16 09:30 AM
By Steve Benen
NBC News reported this morning, “How does a man investigated by the FBI for possible links to terrorism buy an assault-style weapon in America? Easily.”
In the case of Omar Mateen, the apparent gunman in the worst mass shooting in American history, the Floridian legally bought an AR-15-style weapon and a semiautomatic pistol recently, despite the fact that the FBI was aware of him and looked into him twice.
Information is still coming together as part of the investigation. There’s more than one terrorist watch list and we don’t yet know if the Orlando shooter was on any of them.
But the detail that’s newly relevant is that even if the gunman was on all of them – even if he couldn’t legally purchase a plane ticket anywhere in the United States – it wouldn’t have made a difference when he tried to purchase the weapons he used to murder 49 people.
After Orlando massacre, Trump faces leadership test – and flunks
06/13/16 08:00 AM—UPDATED 06/13/16 08:10 AM
By Steve Benen
In the wake of the brutal murders in Orlando, President Obama delivered a somber address from the White House, asking Americans to consider what kind of country we want. The massacre, he said, is “a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision as well.”
His remarks followed a related, measured statement from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. “This is a time to stand together and resolve to do everything we can to defend our communities and country,” she said.
And then there was Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who seemed quite eager to talk about Donald Trump. MSNBC’s Benjy Sarlin reported:
Here’s a good general rule: if you learn about the slaughter of 49 innocent civilians, and the first three words you’re eager to share with the public are, “Appreciate the congrats,” perhaps a career in public service isn’t for you.
@Hill Dweller:
Trump suggests President Obama may be terrorist sympathizer
06/13/16 08:46 AM—UPDATED 06/13/16 09:02 AM
By Steve Benen
Yesterday, Donald Trump responded to the mass shooting in Orlando in indefensible ways. This morning, as Politico reported, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee actually managed to make matters slightly worse.
There isn’t much in the way of ambiguity here. As Politico’s Blake Hounshell summarized, “This morning, Trump implied President Obama is a terrorist sympathizer.”
Update: On NBC’s “Today,” Trump added, ”Well there are a lot of people that think maybe [the president] doesn’t want to get it.”
And they let this irresponsible piece of shit to spew this inflammatory and untrue statements unchecked. You know if this is what this country really wants and what they are ready to protect then maybe the USA ain’t really what these politicians say it is. What they say and what they want are clearly different. This country is in a shitload of trouble now
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Good Morning, Rikyrah & Everyone. :))