During a congressional hearing, the Republican Party reached new lows with their excuses about why they won’t take any action after Uvalde. It was a greatest hits of the worst people, including Louie Gohmert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ted Cruz and other. Texas Paul reacts!
While the gun control debate has been at the center of political discourse for almost a month now, some right-wingers aren’t letting Pride Month pass by without sharing their bigoted views towards the LGBTQ+ community. Former child actor Ricky Schroder is convinced demons and the devil are to blame for the gay community and Texas’ Republican state Rep. Bryan Slaton is opting to shelve gun control measures to propose a bill that would outlaw children from attending drag shows. Cenk Uygur discusses on The Young Turks.
“Two weeks after a gunman armed with a semiautomatic rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition massacred 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a Republican state lawmaker announced that he is taking action—against drag shows. State Rep. Bryan Slaton said Monday he intends to file legislation “protecting kids from drag shows and other inappropriate displays” when the next legislative session begins.
While Republicans in the state and in Washington, D.C. have not been driven to make AR-15s and other semiautomatic weapons inaccessible to Americans after any of the more than 300 school shootings that have taken place since the Columbine High School attack in 1999—or other high-profile mass shootings in other settings—Slaton claimed to be so disturbed by photos of a child at a drag show in Dallas over the weekend that he saw no choice but to act.
“This is disgusting and dangerous. It can’t be allowed to continue,” Slaton tweeted. “My Republican colleagues and I will protect kids from these sickos.””
Well let’s see, the Republicans have blamed mass shootings on porn, lack of praying (Really, I bet those 10 year old kids were praying harder than they ever did to a god who did not intervene) too many doors, liberals, CRT, transgender / transexuals / the entire LGBTQ+, Democrats, BLM, and now it is smartphones. Anything / everything but guns and bullets. Also can you imagine if classroom doors locked each time they were closed? How do all the kids get into the classroom, does someone have to sit at the door to let them in? What about kids that go to the bathroom how do they get back in? These assholes have no idea of what happens in school, did they not go to school, or is it they are paid to be this stupid. They want schools to become prisons. What next strip searches in entry or exit? A officer to lock kids in classrooms or walk the stray kids to the bathroom? Yes it would reduce school shootings but how will kids learn, and what will they learn? All so some people can stroke their unrestricted freedom while people die. He asks what changed in the last 50 years, well for one these guns did not exist that long ago and the idea that everyone could have unrestricted gun ownership also was not a thing back then. Hugs
The congressman made the comments following the emotional testimonies of multiple gun violence survivors and their families.
Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) speaks during the House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing with victims’ family members and survivors of the Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas massacres on June 8, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
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U.S. Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) is rejecting calls to pass stricter gun laws and is instead blaming the use of smartphones for a rise in mass shootings. During a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on gun violence Wednesday, Fallon told members of Congress that guns were around long before mass shootings became disturbingly commonplace in the U.S.
“The truth is that guns have always been readily available in this country,” Fallon said. “But mass shootings and in particular mass shootings of schools are nonexistent or at least extremely rare until they became a grisly recent phenomenon. So what’s changed in the last 50 years?”
The Republican congressman then proceeded to give his own theory. “There’s been a noticeable breakdown of the family. There’s been an erosion of faith and there’s been a seismic drop in social interactions in large measure due to the overuse of these dang smartphones, and the proliferation of social media, which is probably better described as anti-social media,” Fallon said while holding up his own phone.
Fallon claimed passing gun laws doesn’t work and listed out what he called “real solutions.”
“We must harden our schools with controlled access and single point-of-entry with a tiered entry procedure,” he said. “The main office should be located directly by the front door, which is single-access entry. Classroom doors should automatically shut and lock like hotel rooms do.”
The congressman also called for school teachers and volunteers to be trained and armed through school marshal programs, increasing the number of school resource officers on campuses, adding more cameras to schools, and training rapid response teams to address threats.
“Our goal should be to protect our children,” Fallon said. “No parent, educators, citizen legislature or nation has a higher calling. Let’s look at real and effective solutions and shelve the divisive rhetoric because American children deserve nothing less.”
Fallon’s comments followed the emotional testimony of survivors of gun violence and their families, including 11-year-old Uvalde, Texas school shooting survivor Miah Cerrillo who told Congress she covered herself in the blood of her friend to play dead as the gunman shot her classmates and teacher. Other witnesses included Kimberly and Felix Rubio, the parents of fourth grade Uvalde victim Alexandra “Lexi” Aniyah Rubio, who demanded the passage of stricter gun measures during their testimony.
My phone was a rescue, so it was gun-neutered before I even got it. I can’t count the number of times I’ve lost it or left it unattended, so it’s good to know no one was ever at risk.
Well, your right wing social media disinformation and incitement ain’t helping, Congressman, but you Republicans are the one pushing hatred, despair, and a wounded sense of entitlement over the things. Also as a matter of fact all these guns *weren’t* around like this back in the ‘days before,’ …despite them being all over entertainment media.
Hello Everyone. Randy tried to send me the information at the links below. I couldn’t get them with my VPN set to several places in the US, the site blocked my viewing it. But to my surprise when I moved my VPN to Canada I was granted full access. This site has a lot of great info breaking down the math in US gun deaths, mass shootings, and it has charts on the different kinds of deaths and shootings. So I will put a couple of the links as I was unable to copy the information. It is quite illuminating on the US gun problem and which groups are affected. Hugs
The spotted wing drosophila may look like a common fruit fly, but it’s so much worse. Just as strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries are ripening in the field, this fly saws into them and lays her eggs inside. The growing maggots turn the fruit into a mushy mess. Could a wasp and its own hungry maggots save the day?
The problem here is the word "even". Otherwise, the point is worth making. We've seen repeatedly how much more Democrats and their allies can get away with, versus Republicans- and EVEN ordinary Trump/GOP supporters.
This is a wonderful grand explanation of conservatism. Regressive. Well worth the read. After watching it then argue with me about it if you disagree. Hugs
This candidate doesn’t even pretend to hedge her belief in this. Yet these same people in this same party are demanding these same teachers be armed to protect children even when the police cannot. All so they can keep their gun fetish. Because that is what it is if you reject common sense regulations, it is a fetish. The Republican party is / has become the party of hate and disinformation. These people think that teachers of the youngest grades are organizing gender swapping sex orgies. In their minds little kids are being made to strip off all their clothing and notice in every story they are always little boys, and then instructed in sexual acts. Some acts I doubt these Republicans really understand how they are done, maybe they should read up on it. Oh wait, those books are banned now aren’t they? These people really think this is going on, when teachers are underpaid, cannot get enough instruction time as it is, and cannot even get supplies to teach normal subjects. What did they read to give them this idea, the erotic fiction of Anne Rice? Do they think the kids have Only Fan accounts? Teachers have to be everything from mothers and nannies, to councilors, to instructors, mandatory reporters, child armed protectors, and so much more.
But beyond that what is the real point here? It is to ridicule the idea that if little johnny asks if it is OK for boys to get married or even kiss the teacher says yes two boys can love each other and move on with the lesson plan. If little Sally says someone has two mommies, the teachers say yes, some families are two mommies and move on with the lesson plan. The teacher taught acceptance of alternative non-heterosexual lifestyles instead of screaming no, no, no never boys must only marry girls and only kiss girls or the great sky daddy will destroy the planet! That is what terrifies the right and what they want to outlaw, so they have to make it as unpleasant and horrible as possible by changing it to the teacher telling the boys to line up, pull their pants down, and suck each other’s dicks.
The rabid right doesn’t want tolerance of other ideas than their own extreme traditionalist religious ideas to be taught to kids. They don’t want kids to be taught that people can be of different religions and it is OK, that people can have different kinds of families and it is OK, that two boys or two girls can fall in love and it is OK. That calling a person by a different pronoun is the right thing if they ask you to do so, and it is OK. No, they demand we indoctrinate kids that an impossible global flood happened, that the earth is only 6 thousand years old despite the evidence, that god created a man and woman from dirt just as they are, magic is real and good when our god does it, and evil and bad when someone else’s god does it or a human does it.
They want their bible to be the new textbooks and their religion to be what all society and understanding to be based on. Anything else is indoctrination and child abuse. They are violent thugs that are willing to use threats and intimidation to get their way while claiming they are victims of cancel culture who are not allowed to get their racist bigoted hate speech out to the public. I am done with these people and this party who have members sitting in congress spouting this stuff and refusing to disavow it. They are the US Taliban! Please watch the last video, it says it so much better than I can. Hugs
“You can’t just sit and say, ‘Oh, that’s terrible. Maybe somebody else will take care it. Oh, that’s not so nice.’ Well, I don’t think it’s so nice when they’re telling your five year-old that he can go suck another five year-old’s dick, do you? This is what they’re doing!” – Rayla Campbell, GOP nominee for Massachusetts secretary of state, speaking at the state Republican convention.
Campbell first appeared on JMG in February when she led a group of QAnon nutjobs and anti-vaxxers in a protest outside a Boston hospital where an anti-vax man had been denied a heart transplant for refusing to get vaccinated.
Of note, some of her QAnon tweets that I included in that report have since been deleted. In the final video below, reporters debunk her insane claims.
Rayla Campbell, Massachusetts GOP nominee for Secretary of State, tells Mass Republican convention that teachers in the commonwealth are "telling your 5-year-old that he can go and suck another 5-year-old’s dick"pic.twitter.com/aEs2ZFn6Ap
When Republicans aren’t demanding that teachers die for their students in mass shootings, they’re accusing them of being groomers and sexual deviants. Real normal party.pic.twitter.com/6unnHWwzzO
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) June 4, 2022
More secretary of state candidates have been added to my QAnon-connected election administration candidates tracker. New additions are Rayla Campbell in Massachusetts & John Cardiff Gerhardt in Nevada. https://t.co/XdxkQ7vmaXpic.twitter.com/XisN7qDOha
Where the hell are they getting this shit ? An overactive deviants mind playing havoc with her mouth. If anyone is perverted it’s people like her coming up with outrageous crap like that. Horrible, horrible person
Its all a diversion from the crisis within the church. Currently the SBC Is having to release all the names of the accused preachers and other church workers involved in sexual misconduct charges with minors.
And never an ounce of evidence that any of this is actually happening–BECAUSE IT ISN’T. I don’t know what the answer is here, but hate speech and lies are not free speech. There needs to be consequences for this.
It’s their strawman argument they use to get the parents riled up to support their next ‘Don’t say gay’ bill. They know it will get people angry, and that almost none of them will look into how true it is.
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