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The NRA is a bunch of whiners…

Well…I have been laughing at the meltdown that has been coming out of the NRA over the past couple of weeks as their advertisers and partners flee them in the aftermath of the Florida murders…as people rightly assign blame to them for preventing meaningful gun control by buying repub politicians. The response from the NRA to these latest developments started out with denial…that there was no problem with losing partners since it was a only a few leaving…that changed when almost all of their corporate partners bailed over the past week and then they turned to anger at the companies that left calling them “unpatriotic” and bleating that the NRA was the only organization protecting our “freedom” and that these companies would be sorry for leaving…that one made me laugh since it was just so predictable…sounding like an 8 year old throwing a tantrum. The latest is that they are now attacking the survivors of Parkland, calling the teenagers “bullies” for working to neuter the NRA and make sure that anyone taking money from them will be voted out of office. Now, that is just too rich..the biggest bully in the political sphere is calling a bunch of teenagers bullies for standing up to the NRA and fighting their nonsense….I just love that the nuts at the NRA are finally getting a dose of their own medicine…maybe we can get some sensible gun legislation now…..geez…

The right smears the victims…

Well…almost as predictable as the sun rising, the hard right, pushed by the NRA is smearing the kids who survived the shooting in Parkland Florida, calling them “FBI plants” and rolling out the right’s perennial bugaboo, George Soros, as being behind the student protests. No, assholes…these are teenagers who have had enough, who look to the adults in this country to protect them, and all they see is the repubs saying there is nothing that can be done, that dead children are the price we pay for “freedom”. I understand how they feel…not from a school shooting when I was young, but we did walk out at my high school to protest the Vietnam war and the lies that started it and continued it…and the same tactics were used against us that are being used now…calling us communists and un-patriotic while we were just trying to stop something we knew was wrong. Just like the Parkland kids. The knuckle dragging, NRA funded gun fetishists on the right are trying to use the fact that these kids are organized and putting together protests so quickly that it must be a left wing plot, that no group of teenagers could do what they’ve done in the past few days…hey, knuckle draggers…do you know any modern teenagers? With how social media is ingrained into their lives, they know how to use it to organize…I mean, I even set up my Facebook page in less than 5 minutes, and I’m an old guy. It is imperative that those of us on the right side of this issue, those of us who support these kids trying to finally DO something about children being murdered have their backs, and to push back on these right wing assholes who would smear and denigrate their efforts…go get ‘em Parkland!

Trump is just unhinged…

Well….as every day goes on, it gets clearer and clearer that the idiot trump is unhinged and divorced from reality. After the indictments that were released for 13 Russians and two Russian companies for throwing the election to trump, the idiot boy went into full meltdown mode, trying to reassure himself in tweets that, because he wasn’t indicted in this round, that there was not going to be one for him…something that anyone who has even one foot in reality knows is just not true…this is the first round of indictments, and I’m sure that Mueller released them now to insulate himself from being fired, and to make it completely clear that if trump tries it, he is doing the bidding of Putin…something he has been doing since he was installed. The second shoe that dropped over the weekend that fed into trumps madness was the announcement that Rick Gates (Paul Manafort’s business partner and trump campaign manager), is going to plead guilty and is going to help Mueller build his case…this is in addition to Mueller loading bank fraud charges onto Manafort to up the pressure on Manafort to flip. So, we know why the meltdown happened….and to rub salt into his wounds, the survivors of the Parkland school shooting have refused to meet with trump and be used for a photo op….that must just burn the idiot and I wholeheartedly agree with them….what’s the point of meeting with the idiot? He’ll just give a thumbs up and make it all about him…impeach….

six frickin minutes….

Well…I know, I promised to not do another one on the idiot over the weekend but I just had to comment on the hospital visit the moron did yesterday on the way to another golf weekend….and yes, it only lasted 6 minutes including the walk from his limo and back…so really, he was in the hospital for around 3 minutes to get the photo op that the repubs are so good (bad) at…just like Paul Ryan washing clean dishes at a homeless shelter, the idiot trump basically walked in one door and out another while trying to praise the staffers at the hospital where many of the injured were being treated…and failing spectacularly at that….the feeling of the community was conveyed succinctly by some of the students in Parkland who tweeted “just stay the hell away from us”…a sentiment that is shared by most of us here in the US…just stay the hell away from us….and go golf…geez…