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Marjorie Greene Gets Smacked Down For Blaming Latest Mass Shooting On Antidepressants

Eager to prove her complete lack of comprehension and featly to the gun lobby, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is desperately trying to blame the July 4th mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois on antidepressant medications and video games instead of weapons of mass murder.

Robert Crimo III is the suspected shooter who allegedly killed 6 people during an Independence Day parade and wounded 31 others.

Greene, however, thinks guns had nothing to do with the crime, and took to Twitter so she could proudly declare her ignorance for the entire internet to see, writing:

“What drugs and/or psychiatric drugs was he on for his mind to be ruined in alternate reality games that caused him to commit a mass shooting? His parents know. The police know. School, arrest, hospital records? The public DESERVES to know.”

She also posted this:

“When are we going to talk about drugs and SSRI’s? When are they going to release the shooters records? Why wasn’t his threats of mass shootings in his videos taken seriously by LE that knew about him? What did his parents know? Gun control won’t stop this epidemic of evil.”

Shannon Watts, the founder of firearms safety advocacy group Moms Demand Action, quickly reminded Greene of some cold hard facts she had neglected to mention regarding mass shootings and gun crime.

“Iceland is the world’s biggest consumer of [selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors]. They’ve had 5 gun homicides since 2020; in the US, there have been over 30,000 in that time. Japan is one of the largest video game markets in the world. They have only 10 shooting deaths a year; the US has 40,000. It’s the guns.”

Video games and antidepressants, according to Greene. But how many people would have died if Crimo had been unable to obtain the weapon he used? Would tossing knives off the roof where he carried out the shooting have killed and wounded so many people? No. And yet it’s all about drugs and games.

Marjorie Taylor Greene and the vast majority of the Republican Party are whores for the NRA and gun manufacturers. It’s that simple and that easily diagnosed.

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Kyle Rittenhouse Has Launched A Video Game Where Players Can Kill ‘Fake News Turkeys’

In his ongoing effort to try and make a buck off the fact that he shot and killed two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin back in 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse has just launched a video game in which players can shoot and kill what he calls “fake news turkeys.”

The New York Post reports:

Kyle Rittenhouse announced the release of a new video game Thursday in which you can shoot “fake news turkeys” — and proceeds will go to his ongoing effort to sue media outlets for defamation.

Rittenhouse, who was acquitted last year after fatally shooting two men and injuring a third during a 2020 protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, said on Twitter that the game is part of his effort to “fight back against fake news.”

“The media is nothing but a bunch of turkeys with nothing better to do than push their lying agenda and destroy innocent people’s lives,” he said in a promotional video for the game, which he is selling on his website for $9.99.

In case you’re wondering who would choose to go into business with a figure as controversial as Rittenhouse, the game was created with the help of Mint Studios, whose CEO told the Washington Examiner:

“We had to step in to help Kyle after we saw what was done to him.”

What was done to him? He’s still alive, which is more than you can say for Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, the two men Rittenhouse shot and killed. He later claimed self-defense and was acquitted by a jury on charges of homicide, attempted homicide, and reckless endangerment

Rittenhouse recently claimed he would be attending Texas A&M University, but the school said that was untrue.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Says School Shooting Victims Are To Blame For Not Carrying Weapons

According to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) students who are the victims of mass shootings have no one to blame but themselves because they weren’t armed so they could shoot back.

Greene’s comments came in a series of responses to David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting that took place at Stoneman Douglas High School.

Hogg asked:

“Please explain to me how my classmates’ rights including the second amendment were not infringed upon when they were killed in their classrooms. If you are killed because of our unregulated militia you lose all of your rights including 2A- death is the ultimate infringement.”

That led Greene to go on an extended Twitter rant that raised more questions than it answered and also included plenty of false equivalencies and outright lies, with the Georgia Republican seeming to suggest that all students should be armed.

“When a student brought guns to my school to kill other students he was mad at, unlike you, my reaction was why is he the only one with guns and why is there no one with guns to defend us? Your reaction was joining a women’s anti-gun lobby funded by billionaire Bloomberg.”

“Tragically because of senseless gun free zone laws, many people have been killed by bad guys with guns who are willingly breaking many laws to commit murder and they don’t care about gun free zones, while law abiding innocent people are unable to defend themselves with guns,” Greene said. “Just be clear, if a bad guy is trying to kill me or my family, I will gladly use my 2A rights to defend myself and others with whatever gun I choose and with as many and as much ammunition I choose to fire.”

Apparently, Congresswoman Greene is advocating for every American to be armed with a weapon, but has zero evidence that such a policy would actually reduce gun violence. As is so common with those on the right, they have no practical solutions, just lots of empty rhetoric.

What Greene neglected to mention is that all rights have limits. The First Amendment doesn’t allow you to shout “fire!” in a crowded theatre. And you aren’t allowed to own a fully automatic machine gun the way you could in the 20s and 30s.

Of course, Ms. Greene doesn’t have time for actually trying to understand the Bill of Rights. She’s too busy trying to figure out how she can immediately arm every first grader in the United States.

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Ted Cruz Got His A*s Handed To Him At A Senate Hearing – So He Stormed Out Like A Child

Though it’s been said millions of times before, it bears repeating: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is the biggest, most obnoxious douchebag in the U.S. Senate.

Cruz proved what a petulant shitbag he is once again recently during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence when he accused Democrats of wanting to “defund the police,” which is a lie that gets repeated by conservatives whenever anyone says there’s far too much death and destruction caused by the weapons of mass murder produced by arms companies in the United States:

“You just said a moment ago that no Democrat favors abolishing the police. If that were the case why did every single Democrat vote to confirm Vanita Gupta—a nominee for the number three position at the Department of Justice who said last year in writing, in written testimony before this Senate, advocated abolishing the police?”

Of course, what Cruz said contains not a shred of truth. Gupta has written that she favors using some of the funds currently spent on cops to programs that would focus on improving care for the mentally ill, addressing the underlying economic causes of violent crime, and looking for alternatives to merely hiring more police officers.

Despite having already misstated what Ms. Gupta stands for, Cruz continued to trash a woman who dares to have an opinion that differs from his:

“And [Gupta] was confirmed by one vote. Every single Democrat was the necessary vote to confirm a radical who advocated abolishing the police and just this week we’re taking up Kristin Clarke, another radical, who has last year in testimony before this Senate advocated abolishing the police. If you don’t support abolishing the police why do you keep voting for nominees who advocate abolishing the police?”

But Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (CT) called Cruz out for his nonsense, reminding him:

“As you well know Senator Cruz, that is a complete distortion of their positions. We’re not here to talk about those nominees. If you want to stay, we can do it at the end of the hearing. But right now we’re going to move on.”

Rather than stay and participate in rest of the hearing, Cruz stood up and walked out like a child taking his toy and running home to mommy. Seems the Texas senator isn’t just a lying asshat, he’s also unable to take criticism, which is a sure sign of insecurity.

Maybe it’s time to rename Sen. Cruz the Raving Infantile Liar. It’s a hell of a lot more accurate.