Open Thread | Beto…Beto..Beto….Your Courage Scares Me…

Posted on May 26, 2022 by rikyrah

Beto O’Rourke is a man with a deep heart and soul. He is very real. Too real for some people.

His confrontation of that piece of garbage Texas Governor is a moment that I will not soon forget.

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) tweeted at 8:29 PM on Tue, May 24, 2022:
Reminder: In Texas, you can show a gun license to vote but not a student ID.
(https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1529273386647552000?t=bbMJt4VNDtBTa5P0vr67eg&s=03)

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19 Responses to Open Thread | Beto…Beto..Beto….Your Courage Scares Me…

  1. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 2:27 pm

    How does an 18 year old making minimum wage afford a $4000 gun and ammo?

    Just asking.

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  2. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 12:54 pm

    UH HUH
    UH HUH

    The Cityhood Movement Is Defeated in Metro Atlanta
    Brentin Mock – Yesterday 4:57 PM

    (Bloomberg) — The cityhood movement that’s been sweeping through Metro Atlanta came to an abrupt halt in Georgia’s May 24 elections: Voters defeated ballot referendums for three unincorporated areas that were hoping to turn into the newest cities of Cobb County, just west of Atlanta.

    The would-be cities — East Cobb, Lost Mountain, and Vinings — represent some of the wealthiest, and whitest, real estate in Atlanta’s western suburbs. Proponents of the proposals rallied around the issue of housing density, specifically whether these enclaves of mostly single-family homes would have to surrender to zoning changes requiring them to build larger quantities of smaller housing units to alleviate housing affordability problems.

    Or at least that was the argument that animated the push for the three new cities, all of which planned to take over planning and zoning authority from Cobb County. In reality, those concerns were mostly unfounded: As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, the Cobb County Board of Commissioners — the governing authority for the county — had introduced no plans to add density to these areas.

    That didn’t stop pro-cityhood forces from arguing at town halls and through social media channels that Cobb County leaders were gearing up to add mass transit, high-density apartment complexes and subsidized housing to their communities. Only through creating their own cities, said cityhood proponents, could they control land use to stop these developments.

    The city of East Cobb would have claimed roughly 60,000 residents, whose per-capita income of $61,408 is well above that of Cobb County’s $40,031. Just below East Cobb, the proposed city of Vinings, near where the Atlanta Braves stadium relocated in 2017, would have claimed just over 7,000 residents, with a median household income of $110,818. In the western edge of the county, the proposed city of Lost Mountain would have become Cobb’s largest city, with a population of 75,000 and a median household income of $118,919.

    Just over half of voters, 55%, in the Vinings ballot referendum voted against the cityhood proposal (only those who live within the proposed city boundaries can vote on cityhood referendums); 57% voted against the Lost Mountain proposal and 72% rejected East Cobb cityhood.

    ……………………………..

    A demographic shift in Cobb County over the past decade led to the election of a governing board now run by Democrats — three Black women, including the first Black woman to chair the board in the county’s history, Lisa Cupid. It was after Cupid became the chair, and Democrats took control of the board, that rumors of densification and urbanization bubbled up, springboarding into calls for cityhood in these whiter and more conservative parts of the county that went for Trump in 2020.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-cityhood-movement-is-defeated-in-metro-atlanta/ar-AAXICPV?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=f227d6a6fa10480db5533b3d53dbdd40

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  3. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 12:18 pm

    Jay-La 🏳️‍🌈👨🏽‍🤝‍👨🏼 (@artsyboy1985) tweeted at 11:52 AM on Thu, May 26, 2022:
    This is becoming to sound like an incompetent tragedy. There are inconsistencies with the story about the engagement between the resource officer and the shooter. Now the cops only went inside the school just to pick up their kids. This is effing ridiculous on so many levels.
    (https://twitter.com/artsyboy1985/status/1529868133837709312?t=EXMc3_nK6NEj-1s_cM_50A&s=03)

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  4. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 12:17 pm

    Keep asking questions

    Tess Owen (@misstessowen) tweeted at 4:01 PM on Wed, May 25, 2022:
    The cops have been extremely vague & contradictory on the timeline.

    It is clear that the gunman was inside the school for more than an hour. The question is whether there were children inside the classroom that the cops “contained” him into.

    https://t.co/OZO4JOJcwk
    (https://twitter.com/misstessowen/status/1529568361528578055?t=tcbNCvDffQBteaEmIUqe0A&s=03)

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  5. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 12:16 pm

    UH HUH
    UH HUH

    Kevin Knodell (@KJKnodell) tweeted at 4:10 AM on Wed, May 25, 2022:
    Lots of questions about law enforcement response here. Local PD waited for Border Patrol to respond.

    It’s very, very important to note that two cops and a “safety” officer failed to stop this kid. The response seems to have been delayed to prioritize the safety of the police.
    (https://twitter.com/KJKnodell/status/1529389510076665856?t=u9mRATgdCQ3WsdPCUJxuqA&s=03)

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  6. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 12:10 pm

    Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) tweeted at 8:41 AM on Thu, May 26, 2022:
    Police lied about the timeline.

    They lied about shooter having body armor.

    They lied about him being barricaded.

    They lied about border patrol on-scene.

    They went in and got their own kids.

    The armed resource officer failed.

    Local PD/DPS/tactical PD waited for SWAT.
    (https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1529819943608496128?t=-ZYY1Q2KP3Veyz9HyHdEOA&s=03)

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  7. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 12:09 pm

    Make it make sense.

    SHANE ROSS 🎞⚔🎞 (@comebackshane) tweeted at 11:17 PM on Wed, May 25, 2022:
    Yes. The resource officer at the school was armed, confronted but didn’t stop the suspect. Police arrived. Sat outside for 40 min while parents pleased with them to engage. They didn’t. Took an off-duty border patrol officer to go in and kill him. Read real news
    (https://twitter.com/comebackshane/status/1529678189743644672?t=PD0b013bWY4PwLol9gGGCA&s=03)

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  8. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 12:01 pm

    SHANE ROSS 🎞⚔🎞 (@comebackshane) tweeted at 11:17 PM on Wed, May 25, 2022:
    Yes. The resource officer at the school was armed, confronted but didn’t stop the suspect. Police arrived. Sat outside for 40 min while parents pleased with them to engage. They didn’t. Took an off-duty border patrol officer to go in and kill him. Read real news
    (https://twitter.com/comebackshane/status/1529678189743644672?t=PD0b013bWY4PwLol9gGGCA&s=03)

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  9. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 12:00 pm

    The Associated Press (@AP) tweeted at 8:49 PM on Wed, May 25, 2022:
    Onlookers urged police to charge into the Texas grade school where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, a witness says. The rampage lasted upwards of 40 minutes, ending when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team. https://t.co/Q11bo5eR6j
    (https://twitter.com/AP/status/1529640867849551872?t=SRgHiFMZYvyBJAyoIXDpgw&s=03)

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  10. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 11:59 am

    Because, of course.

    Marc Perrone ✊🇺🇦 (@Marc_Perrone) tweeted at 11:35 AM on Thu, May 26, 2022:
    #Breaking

    US Senate Republicans block domestic terrorism bill that would have opened debate on gun measures

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  11. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 11:58 am

    Uh huh
    Uh huh
    Got so many thoughts on this.

    mary elizabeth’s baby (@JanetSnackson) tweeted at 8:17 AM on Thu, May 26, 2022:
    So. Cops went inside to get their own kids. Presumably those kids had friends that were killed/injured. How does their parent explain saving their life but not trying to help their schoolmate?

    Explain it to me like I’m 10.
    (https://twitter.com/JanetSnackson/status/1529813966423302146?t=WUlfai8DIbR_iMMfGnRJwA&s=03)

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  12. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 11:30 am

    This is already so obvious. I am sure that Beto and his team know this.😒😒

    President Kamala’s Hand (Again) (@myronjclifton) tweeted at 1:52 AM on Thu, May 26, 2022:
    I bet republicans in Texas are about to use every cheating & dirty trick tactic they can garner to ensure Governor Abbott cheats. Team Beto better get staffed up/down the state in all key districts and make certain they have folk dedicated to seeing every vote is counted
    (https://twitter.com/myronjclifton/status/1529717028516339713?t=x09mrM7xrqEnU8F9dXjfgw&s=03)

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  13. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 11:30 am

    Dash Dobrofsky (@DashDobrofsky) tweeted at 6:29 PM on Tue, May 24, 2022:
    I have a message for all of my young Democrats in Texas. Take your anger, sadness, and rage…and use it to make sure Beto O’Rourke gets elected as your next governor.
    (https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1529243104879882241?t=Aj1L9NMjpOYJhG7648RN2g&s=03)

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  14. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 11:29 am

    No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) tweeted at 1:45 PM on Wed, May 25, 2022:
    The majority of guns used in Chicago are trafficked in from red states like Texas— we need *national* gun reform.
    (https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1529534010891698178?t=qIM5PaQPSJtlAw8-t8ssIw&s=03)

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  15. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 11:28 am

    👀👀👀for the lie
    See none.

    Jessica Luther (@jessicawluther) tweeted at 2:46 PM on Wed, May 25, 2022:
    The reaction to Beto in that moment shows how rarely those men are pushed at all to answer for their choices and their advocacy, how thin-skinned they are, how much they don’t want to have to answer for anything. W/in 15 seconds there’s a cop in his face and men cursing at him.
    (https://twitter.com/jessicawluther/status/1529549427303661572?t=Y__oZfAfKpoBa2mxwSUVdA&s=03)

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  16. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 11:28 am

    Kevin ☕️🎶 (@KevinSixx13) tweeted at 11:08 PM on Wed, May 25, 2022:
    Nothing says ban assault rifles like cops being scared of the shooter who has one.
    (https://twitter.com/KevinSixx13/status/1529675734230306818?t=_jpGuXueztdLdEXKpdm37w&s=03)

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  17. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 11:27 am

    Tell it👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

    Dr. Virgo (@DrVirgo1981) tweeted at 7:21 AM on Thu, May 26, 2022:
    Only a republican could be OK with watching babies and grandmothers murdered and not go to the polls to vote for pro gun reform candidates.
    Only republicans can sit and watch education being demolished by racists, women being forced to birth children, LGBTQ ppl being attacked.
    (https://twitter.com/DrVirgo1981/status/1529799809581912064?t=5wrJWCPui_WNV8fDTux0lg&s=03)

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  18. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 11:23 am

    Get the answer. Makes no damn sense. Something doesn’t add up 🤔🤔

    Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) tweeted at 6:52 AM on Thu, May 26, 2022:
    Texas police are saying a lot of things. They’re not saying why it took so long to go into the classroom.
    (https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1529792691155894272?t=ncnkY_Ed2TT1tUaJhgRnGg&s=03)

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  19. rikyrah says:
    May 26, 2022 at 3:54 am

    Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊

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