Politico Magazine does a deep dive into Blake Masters:
Masters’ views, while hard right, are not quite fringe in today’s Republican Party. He’s a harsh critic of Big Tech and says Trump was robbed in 2020. He traffics in the “replacement theory” that Democrats want to change the electorate through a wave of undocumented immigrants.
He opposes aid to Ukraine and the right to an abortion. (He recently faced controversy for criticizing Griswold v. Connecticut, which legalized contraceptives nationally.) Masters also clearly likes to get a rise out of people.
He counts Ted Kaczynski as among his intellectual influencers — pointing to the Unabomber’s manifesto as a source of inspiration for his own message of the dystopian techno-present. He told one conservative interviewer that left-wing ideology makes “a pretty good candidate for the Antichrist.”
Read the full article. Masters is a former employee of homocon billionaire Peter Thiel, who has dumped over $13 million into his campaign. There’s a lot more about their history at the link.
"Tucker Carlson, who brings @bgmasters on his Fox News show regularly, calls him “the future of the Republican Party.” https://t.co/iJiQXDfjxj
There’s no denying that the inmates are running the asylum. The USA has become a gigantic mental institution when large numbers of voters and politicians look up to psychopaths. It makes me sick to my stomach.
Why do i assume theyre saying:
“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”
Panicked children and teachers placed half a dozen calls to 911 emergency services from the Texas classrooms where a massacre was unfolding, pleading for police to intervene, while roughly 20 officers waited in a hallway for nearly an hour before entering the room, authorities said on Friday.
At least two children called the 911 emergency number from the two connecting classrooms after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, according to Colonel Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Police admitted to a stunning string of failures — including driving right by the gunman — in responding to the Texas school shooting while children were being massacred inside, with the head of the state’s Department of Public Safety saying the time for making excuses about the botched response was over.
The Friday news conference came after days of confusion, inconsistencies and a muddled timeline of law enforcement’s response to the rampage at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Speaking on the delay in breaching the classroom where the shooter was, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said that “from the benefit of hindsight where I’m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision. There’s no excuse for that.”
Chilling details continue to emerge about Tuesday’s mass shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
One of the young survivors told CNN that she and her classmates were watching a movie when the shooter entered her room and shot her teacher and many of her friends. According to officials, the shooter was in the school for up to an hour and had barricaded himself inside adjoining classrooms.
As all this was taking place, parents had joined dozens of law enforcement officers outside the school, desperate to know if their children were still alive.
The gunman is believed to have entered the school through a door that had been left propped open by a teacher, according to Mr. McCraw. The gunman went on to fire more than 100 rounds. Over the next 78 minutes, more than half a dozen harrowing 911 calls were made, at least two of them from students, describing unfolding carnage inside classrooms and begging for the police to come.
As many as 19 police officers were in a hallway inside the school shortly after noon, but Mr. McCraw said they made “no effort” to breach the classroom door. Asked what he would say to parents, Mr. McCraw’s response was a mix of defiance and resignation. “What do I say to the parents?” he asked. “I don’t have anything to say to the parents, other than what happened. We are not here to defend what happened, we are here to report the facts.”
Police were reluctant to immediately engage with the gunman who spent an hour inside the elementary school in Uvalde, Tex., where he killed 19 children and two adults because “they could’ve been shot,” a lieutenant with the Texas Department of Public Safety said in a CNN interview.
“At that point, if they proceeded any further not knowing where the suspect was at, they could’ve been shot, they could’ve been killed, and that gunman would have had an opportunity to kill other people inside that school,” Chris Olivarez said.
The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety said, in hindsight, "it was the wrong decision" for the onsite commander to wait for a specially trained tactical team before trying to enter the classroom https://t.co/hV7stkKslg
That’s common logic amongst law enforcement types… suspects who panic deserve to be beaten or killed because they should have remained calm, but officers who injure or kill a civilian after panicking need to be forgiven because of the stress and danger associated with the job.
The Uvalde police department bragged about their “SWAT team” on their Facebook page earlier in the year. They did active shooter drills at local schools. Then when it mattered, they did nothing.
Worth noting… Texas loves to tell the federal govt to leave them the Hell alone when it comes to issues like legislating access to guns, yet when faced with a very real threat from an active shooter, these state and local law enforcement entities decided to stand by and wait for federal CBP forces to take out the shooter.
Most chilling of all is he said that they have to do better next time. Because he knows there’ll be a next time.
Maybe the attendees at the @NRA convention should hear from the 11 year old who had to smear the blood of her dead classmates on her body and play dead to survive another mass shooting. #StopGunViolence
Uvalde is a largely Latino community. At a press conference earlier today about the shooting, authorities said nothing in Spanish and did not address any Spanish-speaking journalists.
— Maria E. Aguilera (@maria_aguilera) May 26, 2022
Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick made an appearance on Fox News advocating for all schools to have only one entrance and exit, in addition to the armed guards and teachers and metal detectors. Not only is this an incredibly unsafe environment to learn in, but it is also a fire hazard, only encourages more gun ownership, and plays into the right wing’s strategy of dismantling public schools.
Read more HERE: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/15… “Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick on “hardening” schools: “There should be one entrance in and one entrance out in all of our elementary and all of our middle schools. They’re small enough to do that. There should be only one way in, and that should be a well protected entrance.””
The Democratic primary run-off election in Texas’ 28th Congressional District between Henry Cuellar and Jessica Cisneros is still too close to call, yet Cuellar still decided to declare victory even though literally no outlet has called the race yet. This only goes to show that if Cisneros had the support of the Democratic establishment and leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn, the race could’ve easily swung in her favor.
Read Jessica Cisneros’ call to action HERE: https://twitter.com/JCisnerosTX/statu… “This is a close race. We have a call to action: Track your mail-in ballot here: https://teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/Ball… If your mail-in ballot was rejected, call our voter protection hotline: 956-413-7752 & we’ll help you cure it. We won’t stop fighting until every vote is counted. #TX28” ***
Top Trump aide Mark Meadows has been outed for destroying evidence after the 2020 presidential election by one of his own former staffers who told the January 6th Committee that Meadows burned documents after he met with Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry. Perry played a key role in organizing the attempted coup by connecting with DOJ official Jeffery Clark, who then lobbied the department to agree to keep Trump in power.
Read more HERE: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/mar… “Then-White House Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows burned documents shortly after the 2020 presidential election, a witness has told the Jan. 6 committee that is investigating the 2021 Capitol insurrection. According to Politico, Cassidy Hutchinson, who worked for Meadows at the White House, testified that she saw Meadows burn documents after a meeting at his office with Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA). Politico cited an anonymous source familiar with the investigation. A lawyer for Meadows declined to comment to the publication. After then-President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, some members of his inner circle and other allies commenced a haphazard campaign for Trump to stay in power. Trump baselessly claimed the election was “rigged” against him in several states. Documents and testimony show that Perry connected with justice department official Jeffrey Clark, who lobbied the department to assist Trump in overturning the election. As has been previously reported, Politico noted that Trump considered firing Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and replacing him with Clark.”
Tucker Carlson is spreading dangerous lies about gun violence and gun control and even echoing Trump’s call for civil war if gun control legislation ends up getting put into action. This is just another opportunity for Tucker to be washed clean of taking responsibility for his hateful and violent rhetoric. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.
Read more HERE: https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-c… “TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So, we know for a fact that what we are doing isn’t working, but we should also honest enough to acknowledge that it’s very hard to know what to do instead. Despite what you may have heard, the problem isn’t that we don’t care enough. There’s not a person in this country who is not horrified by the sight of murdered children. It’s the worst thing, and everybody thinks that. The problem is that the human mind is much more complex and harder to control than we like to admit. A person who is intent on committing violence is very hard to stop under any circumstances. An act of Congress isn’t going to do it. Neither will gun control. There are more guns in this country than there are people. There always have been. However you feel about that fact, you can acknowledge that you will never get rid of all of those guns. The Constitution prohibits that and you would set off a civil war if you try to do it.” ***
A multitude of reports from eye-witnesses and news organizations say that parents were desperately pleading with police responding to the Uvalde, Texas school shooting to rush the school building as the gunman remained barricaded in the building. The gunman spent roughly 12 minutes outside of the school before police even responded, and spent another hour between the first and last shots fired before police declared the active shooter situation to be over.
Read more HERE: https://www.mediaite.com/crime/go-in-… “Bystanders outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas pleaded with law enforcement officers to rush the school as a gunman was inside, the Associated Press reported late Wednesday night. Separately, a video posted online – which appears authentic – purports to show onlookers yelling at police outside a perimeter around the school. An 18-year-old shooter murdered 19 children and two teachers at the school on Tuesday. Eventually, he was killed by a tactical unit from Border Patrol. An eyewitness named Juan Carranza told the AP that people outside the school shouted at officers to enter the school as the gunman was inside.” https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/… “State leaders and law enforcement officers Wednesday laid out a broad but horrific sequence of events about the actions of the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde a day earlier. Authorities also revealed that 17 more people were injured in the rampage. But many questions remained after a tense press conference Wednesday that addressed the circumstances that led up to gunman’s attack. About 30 minutes before he entered Robb Elementary School, the 18-year-old gunman shared messages through Facebook that he was going to shoot his grandmother, Gov. Greg Abbott told reporters. He then shot her in the face, confirming that in a Facebook message, Abbott said.” ***
If you’re heartbroken and frustrated after yesterday’s mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, you’re not alone. There are things Congress can do right now, Congress just refuses to do them.
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