Republicans: continued

[Tero]

Back to Republicans!

[pErvinalia]

[Svartalf]

that's why we keep dogs and hunt foxes.

[Joe]

And why Trump doesn't own one.

[Sean Hayden]

I found this posted in response to some guy who showed up at a Kamala Harris rally with an AR.

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[Sean Hayden]

The guy at the rally...

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I know, it's one crazy guy. It's funny though. What's he thinking?

[pErvinalia]

I love how he's got the "special forces" checkered scarf..

[Scot Dutchy]

Sean "thinking" is not part of their mental build up.

[Sean Hayden]

It's bizarre. I mean how convenient that your hobby, your obsession, also happens to be the single most important political issue for you!

That's a gravy train for someone.

[Seabass]

Jeremy Richman, father of Sandy Hook shooting victim Avielle Richman, found dead in suspected suicide
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/je ... nd-n987006

The father of a Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victim was found dead in Newtown, Connecticut, on Monday in what police are calling an apparent suicide.

Jeremy Richman, 49, a neuropharmacologist, was discovered at Edmond Town Hall on Newtown's Main Street by officers responding to a report of a suicide at 7 a.m., according to the Newtown Police Department.

Richman's daughter, Avielle, was among the 20 first-graders and six adults killed during the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, police confirmed.

Richman and his wife were among the families who sued right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, alleging he had defamed them by repeatedly claiming that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax.

Richman’s death comes a little over a week after Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor Sydney Aiello killed herself. Officials said Sunday that a second student from the school died in what police are calling an apparent suicide.

Father Of Sandy Hook Shooting Victim Dies By Apparent Suicide
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/70660233 ... nt-suicide

In the years since Sandy Hook, the constant news of subsequent shootings would come as body blows. At first, "we would just bawl. It would just hit us so hard," Richman said. But as the years went on, and the shootings kept happening, he said, their anger grew.

"I feel like we're letting it happen. There are things that could be done that aren't being done," he said.

[pErvinalia]

[Seabass]

Bizarre fight breaks out in House over whether socialists are Nazis
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/ ... te-1237472

This inane debate began on Monday when conservative hardliner Rep. Mo Brooks (Ala.) went to the House floor to berate the Democrats and the media for pushing the “big lie” that President Donald Trump or his campaign may have colluded with Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign. Special counsel Robert Mueller didn’t find any evidence to back up the collusion allegation following a nearly two-year probe, according to Attorney General William Barr.

Barr’s bombshell announcement led to Brooks’ outburst, which in turn led to discussion about whether socialists are Nazis because they both use the word “socialist” in their title.

“A ‘big lie’ is a political propaganda technique made famous by Germany’s National Socialist German Workers' Party,” Brooks said in his floor speech Monday. Brooks quoted from Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" about the use of the "big lie" tactic to dominate political struggles, and the Alabama Republican claimed that's what Democrats did to Trump over the Russia allegations.

“For more than two years, Socialist Democrats and their fake news media allies, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, and countless others … have perpetrated the biggest political lie, con, scam and fraud in American history," Brooks declared.

Brooks also said — incorrectly — that Hitler was a socialist. “The author was Socialist Adolph Hitler in his book, 'Mein Kampf,'” the Alabama Republican claimed.

Of course, this isn’t true. The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, was fascist, not socialist — the opposite end of the political universe from socialists. But that hasn’t stopped other Republicans from jumping in as well.

On Tuesday, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), another of the more bombastic GOP lawmakers, waded into the “Socialists are the same as Nazis” flap.

[Svartalf]

Actually, it's the reverse, Nazis were a right wing form of socialism, but socialists are rarely nazis, if only because it takes full blown communism to reach that degree of totalitarianism.

[JimC]

A right wing perversion of socialism is how I'd put it...

[Seabass]

The BOUNDLESS stupidity of the GOP is on full display in this clip. Holy mother of god. This dumbshit is a senator. The planet is fucked. We're all fucked. Sorry, non-Merkins for taking the rest of you down with us.

Senator uses photo of Reagan on Velociraptor to trash Green New Deal
During a speech on the Senate floor, Republican Sen. Mike Lee joked that if the Green New Deal passes, people would get around by riding Tauntauns, a fictional creature from "Star Wars," and said that the real solution to fighting climate change is to have more children.