Dems on TV....Use this til the commie coddling traitors CHOKE on it:

[Gabi Hayes]

This should be the NRA’s Benghazi.

Love it or LEAVE it, million dollar Mitch, and all your craven buds......

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-nra-money-20171003-story.html

'Thoughts and prayers' — and fistfuls of NRA money: Why America can't control guns

Excerpts from above article, written shortly after the Vegas slaughter:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.): "This is a moment for national mourning and for prayer." NRA support by 2016: $1.3 million.

.........






But wait, there’s more:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.): “Cindy & I are praying for the victims of the terrible #LasVegasShooting & their families. We appreciate the bravery of all first responders.” NRA spending reached $7.7 million for McCain and against his Senate electoral opponents by 2016, placing him first among all members of Congress........

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa): "My prayers are with all of the victims in Las Vegas and their loved ones affected by this senseless act of violence." NRA financial support since 2014: $3.1 million.


Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): "Saddened by the tragic loss of life in #LasVegas. My thoughts are with all of the families affected by this horrific attack." NRA support by 2016: $4.6 million.


Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.): "Praying for all the victims & those impacted by the tragedy." NRA support by 2016: $122,802.


Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): "Susan and I send our deepest condolences and prayers to the families of the victims of this horrific and senseless tragedy in Las Vegas." NRA support by 2016: $5.5 million.

PLEASE spread this around to the dimwits who still don’t understand who’s pulling their strings.

Comme toujours, suivez l'argent

[gopiscrap]

1. Yes

[Gabi Hayes]

2. Always Loved your moniker, but have you thought about starting it with a K?

Or three?

Seriesly......

Could be HUGH!

[gopiscrap]

3. yeah, I might do that thanks

[Fred Sanders]

4. Much worse than just all that. Unbelievable total of $419 million in 2016.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/11/audit-shows-nra-spending-surged-100-million-amidst-pro-trump-push-in-2016/

The National Rifle Association’s overall spending surged by more than $100 million in 2016, surpassing any previous annual NRA spending totals on record, according to an audit obtained by the Center for Responsive Politics.

The explosion in spending came as the NRA poured unprecedented amounts of money into efforts to deliver Donald Trump the White House and help Republicans hold both houses of Congress.
The audit filed with the state of North Carolina shows that the NRA’s total expenditures exploded to more than $419 million, up from $312 million the prior year.

The jump is even more stark when compared to its spending during the previous two presidential elections in 2012 and 2008, when their outlays topped out at $261 million and $204 million, respectively, according to similar audits.These spending totals include all of the NRA’s operations in 2016, from law enforcement programs and hunter services to education and training.

[kimbutgar]

7. And its just coming out the NRA got money from Russia.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. Engels story from OP goes back to last July, so its been around for 7-8 months

From his MSNBC show

Female reporter, to give due credit

[Gabi Hayes]

9. Thank you!

The visuals seem to me to be quite effective, as in how many millions to the KGOP, as opposed to, what, 16 THOUSAND to the dems????

Per the chart in OP

And from your link



POUND the F#&% out of these scum with this

Over and over and over and over and...........

[Fred Sanders]

11. It is not just campaign bribes, it is massive spending on propaganda and indoctination into

gun culture.

"Cricket" brand pink guns for kids for instance. WTF?

[Gabi Hayes]

12. And the bogus Obama takes yer guns scam is over, causing Remington to approach, uh, dead

BROKE!

May they all follow suit

How many guns?

Four

Five hundred MILLION???

Don’t true Xtians share? Even if there are no more guns produced, we’ll be swimming in them til Waterworld, when we’ll all be swimming, all the time





It’s only s gill vent, not anything else.....no hat needed

[BigmanPigman]

5. Yep, good article from only a few weeks ago

in NY Mag. This should be on the front page and the lead story on every news site tomorrow and every day until the midterms.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/the-nra-is-part-of-the-trumprussia-scandal-now.html

NRA+Putin+Religious Right=$$$$ GOP/THE MORON (simple equation)

[oasis]

6. Russians:grand master chess players. Red state Deplorables: tic-tac-toe.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. Wonder whats up with that powerful, yet extremely feeble minded git from the youtube interview

Bet he’s rollin in more dough than he knows what to do with

Or maybe some honest prosecutor is looking into his scam......naaah

What a tool

Is Mueller interested? Somebody should let him know, if he’s not hip to this

[oasis]

14. Every influential American who is in bed with key Russians, should

be exposed. If they have nothing to hide, there should be no objections.

[Gabi Hayes]

15. Gee....didnt they just love using that on Bill and Hill, over and over and over and over

My favorite table turner for the party of ultimate, unsurpassable hypocrisy

Thank you!

[oasis]

20. I'm afraid the Russia sanctions issue is slowly fading into

rear view mirror territory. GOP legislators need to be pressed on making statements about how they stand on the issue. Dems should look foward to having good campaign ad material when this "Russialove" thing blows up in Republican faces. It's coming.

[Gabi Hayes]

24. Amen to that one!

Can you imagine if the libmedia pushed that one a tenth as hard as they swiftboated Kerry or Hillary?

Got my BP risin’, to paraphrase Mr. Morrison

[spanone]

8. K&R...

[poboy2]

16. Excellent post. eom

[Gabi Hayes]

18. You are a very discriminating newcomer!

Willkommen!

[poboy2]

41. Thank you, and this thread needs more looks, so I am posting.

Good work.

[calimary]

30. Welcome to DU, poboy2!

It is indeed an excellent post. Shine a light! The brighter the better. Expose the bastards - and the traitors.

[poboy2]

47. ...and thank you for the welcome. -eom

[Mountain Mule]

17. May I re-post this on another mixed political forum I drop in on?

I'm also a member of another forum where both repukes and dems lambaste one another. God, how I loathe the members of Cult 45! I'd love to stick it to them with the info in your post. May I pretty please?

[Gabi Hayes]

19. Thats exactly why I put this up. Spread it EVERYWHERE

They canna abide the real world. Beat em over the head with irrefutable, concrete numbers

They can’t STAND it

A world in which facts have a liberal bias, or however Jon Stewart put it

[Mountain Mule]

22. Thank you! I'm on it!

[Gabi Hayes]

26. If you ever want to use any feeble mats I put up, no need to axe.....

All I do is copy stuff myself

[Gabi Hayes]

21. BTW, I work in a grade school, and its just beginning to sink in

Not much sleep tonight

Tomorrow will be hard and sad

Those poor kids will be asking about how safe they’ll be

AGAIN

and

AGAIN

how many more agains??

The enablers that FEED and PROFIT from this PROMOTED insanity need to rot forever in the most god forsaken, black hellhole ever imagined

[Mountain Mule]

27. I cry and cry

Every time the news of yet another horrific shooting at a school comes out yet AGAIN. In my younger days I used to actually be pro gun ownership - especially since I'm a single woman alone in rural ranching country. But these god awful people lost their so-called second amendment rights long ago as far as I'm concerned. The hypothetical "people's militia" has killed far too many children starting from day one. They can shove their unregulated AK 47's up their asses (excuse my language, but I'm so angry and so sad).

[Gabi Hayes]

29. We are on exactly the same page, dear, I think

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10232442

My dad had half his ass blown off (literally) fighting these Nazis, who have come home to roost in the POT. He became crazy right wing, but I think he’d know.....wouldn’t you, dad? Don’t you?

RIP

Party of trump = POT

Too late for a drink?

I think not

[SCantiGOP]

23. Uh, the Russians arent commies anymore

I’m pretty sure that was in the papers a while back.

[Gabi Hayes]

25. Really?

Wow!

Thanks!

[oasis]

32. "Better dead than red"

The ultra right wingers once said
But that ruse grew old,
So their country they sold
To Putin, who took them to bed.

It's all about money now with the GOP. 💵💵💵💵💵 "Patriotism" is a word you won't find on a balance sheet.

[Gabi Hayes]

33. When I was a kid, I delivered the Chicago tribune

I’ll never forget this three panel cartoon

Namby pamby looking Adlai Stevenson type mewls, “I’d rather be red than dead”

Semi-Normal, yet not really manly guy offers, “l’d rather be dead than red”

Payoff panel: brawny manly man, armed to the teeth roars, “l’d rather be NEITHER!”

This was before the Cuban missile crisis, the height of bristling, pre-Kubrickian nightmare posturing

Seems nowadays POT, Party Of Trump, looks to be both red red, and possibly dead, in the bargain.

Is that your own limerick?

Like it very much, but perhaps add a few syllables at the beginning of the first line to balance the rhythm ?

Maybe, ‘I’d rather be deader than red’

Eight and eight

Or seven and eight.....much rather be dead than red

Can’t think of anything else

Can I use it? Pls?

[oasis]

35. Glad you liked it. Edit however you wish

and use it freely. The message is what we're going for.

I was first introduced to the saying, "Better dead than red" when I saw it on a bumper sticker in the mid-sixties. It was in California. Orange County was crawling with John Birchers.

[Gabi Hayes]

36. A sad ha.... my dad, who had half his ass blown off fighting the nazis in Belgium, beCAME a Bircher

My mom took me to see Goldwater in 63 or 4

We had this sign in our yard for years


http://gentlereformation.com/2012/01/03/this-house-sold-on-goldwater/

The only shot of this I can find anymore

“This house sold on Goldwater”

[oasis]

37. I admire all the brave men who fought in Europe

or the South Pacific during WWII.

Great OP you started. I'll kick it in the early a.m. so it gets exposure for Thursday's crowd.

Good night for now.

[Gabi Hayes]

38. Thank you!

Now.....this one, blood of my loins, needs rapid mouth to mouth, pls.

It’s byoo t full

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210232665

Party Of Trump

POT

No more GOP

POT

The petard upon which the crusty, scabrous, maleficent corpse needs to be displayed, revealed for true EVIL it represents




The “human” toilet

[oasis]

40. Kick

[C Moon]

28. This is fucking scary.

[global1]

31. K&R

[dchill]

34. Too soon!

(Too late?)

[oasis]

39. GOP hypocrisy/treachery exposed. nt

[Gabi Hayes]

42. Nap time over

Lots of mentions of these donations this afternoon on cable

Get ON it dems, like the governor of Connecticut

Just like him.....no holds barred

Called the congress COWARDS

[Gabi Hayes]

43. I was just on WGN radio,pushing my road to Parkland thread, basically, to sympathetic ears

Talked about Engel’s story, NRA money to McCain, etal, following their BS prayers

Repub complicity withNRA

Their utter hypocrisy

Stuff like that

They’ll be talking more about this til 2AM

[Gabi Hayes]

44. Brunch K

mK?

[Gabi Hayes]

45. He IS trying a bit more these day, to be fair

[Gabi Hayes]

46. Dance, clown dance