So, background check legislation is all we're gonna get right now? Weren't those promised after Parkland?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/us/politics/gun-background-checks.html
Out of 325 million people, we may get two old farts from which to choose. Both of them obviously deteriorating mentally, and one utterly corrupt. MAGA.
This is true. I think a lot of R hicks like him in the same way that they like to listen to a carnival barker or a street preacher. For some reason, they're fascinated with it.
Trump visiting El Paso and the hospital was a cruelty unto itself. Just picture that asshole galumphing across America to go visit a city that he smeared 6 months ago. His words incited the killing of many innocent people in that city, and he wants to go visit the victims?
For as badly as many of these immigrants have been treated, for all of the indignities that they've suffered, for all of the immigrants who have lost their lives at the words of an American president ... it should be noted that there have been very, very few examples of bad behavior or language from the immigrants.
In every interview you see with an immigrant in a packed cage with no water, there are generally no outbursts or offensive language. They comport themselves with dignity.
They want to come here and contribute to the USA.
I mean, think of all the scare tactics promulgated by right-wing radio and tv. RushFoxHannity told us over and over about dirty bombs, suitcase nukes, and suicide bombers in shopping malls. They got the terror part right, but they didn't tell us it would be their minions carrying it out.
In 2019, you do not want any arm of the government to cast its gaze upon you, esp if you aren't a white R.
You think about calling your reps in DC, but you know that you're going to talk to a pimply faced intern who will 'pass that message along to your rep.'