kpete
kpete's JournalIt's easier to buy a gun than do these 100 things in America
TOP 101. Get birth control
2. Win 'Hamilton' tickets
3. Pay off your student loans
4. Buy a fancy donut
5. Purchase a Kylie Lip Kit
6. Score Beyoncé concert tickets
7. Pick up your driver's license at the DMV
8. Acquire food stamps
9. Qualify for child care
10. Receive affordable health care
There is more:
http://mashable.com/2016/06/18/things-harder-to-get-than-a-gun/#0Cx0GRyDhsqY
This is what America Means To Me
The national anthem before President Obama's remarks. Beautiful:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BGzgNauCwD_6H-eBNrdUs_cWzEQGy6KxTohDUE0/
http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article84585067.html
What, No Popcorn???
Man brings motorized recliner to watch Dallas Trump protests
https://twitter.com/fox5dc/status/743615291511476224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttp://www.fox5dc.com/news/trending/160793249-story
"Rude Awakening" Trump's unconventional campaign is about to feel heat of political organization.
Democrats to give Trump 'rude awakening' in summer onslaughtDonald Trump coasted through much of the Republican primaries largely untouched by his rivals, relying on little more than media coverage of his controversial statements and massive rallies to win contest after contest. That free ride is about to end. Democrats are planning a summer of brutal attacks on the billionaire businessman, reserving more than $26 million in cable and network airtime for largely negative advertising against him over the next six weeks.
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NEW ORLEANS
Donald Trump's unconventional campaign is about to feel the heat of political organization.
Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies have invested at least $41 million in commercials in crucial states such as Ohio, Florida and Nevada over the next six weeks, a series of summer broadsides against her Republican opponent. Those messages will be echoed by hundreds of Clinton workers in those same states and amplified by President Barack Obama and other top Democrats.
Trump has made few preparations for contending with that sort of well-oiled political machine. His campaign has no advertising plans and is just now hiring employees in important states. Republican leaders are far from in agreement on how best to talk to voters about the polarizing billionaire, or if they will at all. And Trump is running out of time: Early voting starts in Iowa in just 3 1/2 months.
"It's political malpractice," said Mitch Stewart, Obama's 2012 battleground states director and a Clinton backer. "He's in for a rude awakening. This isn't a national vote contest where you can be on cable news every day and dominate coverage. This is literally going state by state and coming up with a plan in each."
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Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article84579652.html#storylink=cpy
Don Lemon shames Trump adviser with powerful description of grief felt by families of shooting victi
“I have to tell you it’s not just Democrats who are saying there needs to be some sensible restrictions on some kinds of guns, it’s also Republicans,” Lemon replied, talking over McKay. “It’s also independents, it’s also reasonable people, and what the families say is ‘we’re tired of political talking points.’ Republican families, Democratic families, independent families, who are, all of them, every family I spoke to said they are pro-Second Amendment and that they are tired of this whole gun thing being politicized, and , quite frankly they thought that Donald Trump was politicizing it.”
Lemon then went on to talk about the pain suffered by the families of victims.
“Some people may get upset with me,” Lemon began, “but every time I go to one of these things and I sit with families who have lost loved ones and they staring me in the eyes and they’re crying and I see women, the mothers, who cannot stop moving, they’re so jittery, and they hadn’t slept, and they’re telling me that they cannot sleep at night, they cannot do anything, they’re tired of turning on the television and hearing people bickering about left vs right when it comes to guns. They don’t care if it was a terrorist act! They don’t care if it was an act of hate. They don’t care what it is, their loved one is dead and they want something done about it! The one thing they say, the commonality in these shootings is the type of weapon used.”
A somewhat less belligerent McKay stated, “That’s not the question you asked me,” before once again claiming he didn’t believe Trump was using the mass shooting for political purposes.
VIDEO & MORE:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/don-lemon-shames-trump-adviser-with-powerful-description-of-grief-felt-by-families-of-shooting-victims/
LOL, can't stop...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/heres-who-voters-would-pick-if-they-got-a-do-over-on-the-primaries_us_576454d4e4b0fbbc8bea705c?section=
Now, why was he able to do this? Well, the answer to that question is simple: The Republican party.”
Sen. Charles Schumer Exposed Republicans for Supporting Domestic Terrorism:
“The one undeniable issue when it comes to this shooting is that a person who had been on a terror watch list previously, who also had a documented history of violence, was still able to legally purchase the very guns he’d use a few days later to murder 49 people and wound 53 others. Now, why was he able to do this? Well, the answer to that question is simple: The Republican party.”
http://eclecticdreamweaver.tumblr.com/post/146067282849/sen-charles-schumer-just-exposed-republicans-for
"Hate doesn't have a creed, race or religion, it is poisonous"
The statement from Jo Cox's husband is utterly heartbreaking:
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https://twitter.com/chrislhayes
This is not a good man. This is not a stable man.
The Self-Immolation of the Republican PartyColumn: How the GOP lit itself on fire
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.......Every week that Donald Trump remains the Republican nominee, the party comes closer to removing itself from the presidential gene pool. Self-selection is at work here. Trump’s supporters are choosing their party’s demise.
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This is not a good man. This is not a stable man. It is in the self-interest of no rational person to have him near the situation room. So it does not come as a surprise to see support for Donald Trump collapsing in the Real Clear Politics poll average. Hillary Clinton now leads him by about six points. His unfavorable rating in the ABC News / Washington Post poll is up to 70 percent, a record high. The election isn’t until November 8. Where will Trump’s unfavorable rating be then? 85 percent? 90? He’ll make the record books all right—as the most reviled nominee in U.S. history.
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It’s a joke. All of it: his candidacy, the apparatus of propaganda and grift surrounding it, the failures of governance and education and culture that have brought us to this place. What disturbs me most is the prospect that Donald Trump is what a very large number of Republican voters want: not a wonk, not an orator, not a statesman, not even a leader, really, if by leader you mean someone who persuades and inspires and manages a team to pursue a common good. They just want a man who vents their anger at targets above and below their status.
How cathartic it is to give voice to your fury, to wallow in self-righteousness, in helplessness, in self-serving self-pity. It’s what one expects of teenagers, artists, bloggers, pajama boys—immature, peevish, radical, self-destructive behavior. If that is how Republican voters would like to end their days, in a defensive posture of suspicion and loathing of this big crazy wonderful country that has made them literally the wealthiest and most entitled generation of human beings in the history of the world, well, that’s their right as Americans, I suppose. Best of luck. The Darwin Award will be ready for you November 9
http://freebeacon.com/columns/self-immolation-republican-party/
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