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Donald Trump Gun Nuts

Trump Turns His Friday NRA Speech Into Early Festivus And Airs His Petty Grievances: Video

Indicted and failed one-term former president Donald Trump showed up at the 2023 NRA convention in Indianapolis on Friday, but he used most of his speech to air his own grievances as numerous criminal investigations continue to close in on him.

The one-term ex-POTUS began by attacking New York Attorney General Letitia James.

“What they are doing is destroying our great country. I want to congratulate you for fighting it so bravely, all of the things that have been happening to you, the racist and — ran for office on, I will get Trump. Didn’t know anything about me, running for office. I said, who is that maniac? A lot of people in the race, you get a few people to vote, very few people it takes to get in. She proclaimed I look forward to going into the office of attorney general every single day, suing him, and going home, very happy. I — I said, I hope she gets in.”

Did he move on? No, he continued with his rant aimed at AG James.

“What is fueling my soul right now, she announced, is getting Trump. She knows nothing about me. It’s not an investigation. It’s a persecution.”

Then he turned to others investigating him.

“Just like her attacks on the NRA and the witchhunts against us by the Manhattan D.A., the Marxist D.A. In Atlanta and the guy I have a watching — the guy from Washington, special prosecutor, special counsel, I call it a prosecutor, it’s better. Biden has a 1850 boxes that are unaccounted for. He had many boxes in Chinatown. Classified information, many boxes. They got them out of there, but they got caught. That’s called obstruction. They sent them up to Boston. Then it was revealed he got millions of dollars from the Chinese.”

Woe is me! And there was even more.

“But he has boxes in Chinatown, boxes all over the place. They don’t care about that, they only care about Trump. They are trying to arrest their political opposition. It’s very much like the old Soviet Union. With the elections and interference. They are interfering with the election. It’s going to be hard for them to get away with the kind of corruption they did when they had Covid because Covid made a lot of things bad for a lot of. They cheated and it will be hard.”

Boxes in Chinatown? What in the hell does that even mean? Oh, and be sure and notice that he returned to the bullshit about how he was cheated out of a second term.

If this is any indication of the speeches we can expect from Donnie in the future, he should just go ahead and concede the 2024 race right now, because he’s even more batshit crazy than he was the first time he ran.

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Gun Crime Gun Nuts

WATCH CNN’s Jim Acosta Dismantle An NRA Board Member Who Mentions ‘Praying’ For Schoolchildren

CNN host Jim Acosta wasn’t buying the BS being peddled by a National Rifle Association (NRA) board member who tried to offer the worthless notion of thoughts and prayers for children who have been killed in mass shootings such as the one that took place Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Judge Phillip Journey of the 18th Judicial District Court in Kansas serves on the board of the NRA, which held its convention in Houston despite the horror that took place last Tuesday in the Lone Star State. He told Acosta that his court handles family law, and for children that feel terrified, “we all pray for you — lift you up in prayer, that we want to hope that you get through this without the consequences that we see so often in victims of domestic crime.”

That led Acosta to ask:

“Can they bring an AR-15 in your courtroom?”

Judge Journey admitted that guns aren’t allowed in his courtroom, adding that they aren’t allowed in schools, either, which led Acosta to retort:

“Well, people don’t seem to have much trouble if they want to unleash that kind of destruction to do just that. NRA supporters like yourself keep saying that the answer to all of this is good guys with guns. The 19 good guys with guns failed in Uvalde. The cops were there in the school. There was a resource officer that was apparently MIA and none of that helped.”

Journey suggested law enforcement might be to blame in Uvalde, to which Acosta noted:

“With these mass shootings, it keeps coming back to the AR-15 and similar models. Why do people need an AR-15 anyway?”

Journey was silent for a few seconds that seemed to last an eternity, finally responding:

“You know, it’s just a semiautomatic rifle. If you want to be prejudiced about the way it looks. I was aware of what happened in the ’94 semiautomatic firearms ban and there were rifles of similar function that just didn’t look as ugly. They weren’t black guns like a Ruger mini 14 and the Ruger mini 14 was appropriate and the other was not.”

Acosta countered:

“I do want to ask you about the assault weapons ban. How is it an 18-year-old can buy an AR-15 style rifle and have 16 rounds of ammo like we saw with him in Uvalde?”

The judge replied:

“Well, he did not have any prior convictions. He didn’t have any prior issues that would have kept him from purchasing one. It’s my understanding from the news that he purchased it through a firearms dealer, and passed the background check. He didn’t have any prior convictions.”

The host then asked:

“Right, but should an 18-year-old have an AR-15? What’s he going to do with it?”

The judge attempted to use a favorite line for those who think there should be no restrictions whatsoever on the right to own whatever gun a person wants:

“Should an 18-year-old have one in the Army?”

But Acosta was more than ready for that assertion, telling Journey:

“They have military training in the army. The 18-year-old in Uvalde did not. He turned 18 and he went out and bought an AR-15.”

Journey wandered off and began talking about mental health being the real issue, only to have Acosta note that there are mentally ill people all over the world, but only the United States has so many mass shootings, to which the judge weakly countered:

 

“There have been several other mass shootings all over the world.”

But Acosta shut the judge down cold:

“Not to the level that we have in the United States, come on.”

The NRA and the gun lobby have no answers, only excuses. Sensible gun reform is desperately needed in this country. How many more children have to die in hail of gunfire before something is done?

 

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GOP Gun Crime Viral Video

Viral Video Shows Man Yelling At Ted Cruz In Restaurant: ’19 Children Died! That’s On Your Hands!’

On Friday evening, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) decided he’d have dinner at a Houston restaurant after he had given a speech at this year’s National Rifle Association (NRA) convention.

But if Cruz was hoping for a peaceful meal, he got the exact opposite, with a TikTok user named Hopey posting a video clip with this message:

“So I was having dinner and got to see a show. Ted Cruz being accosted literally the whole time, lmao.”

In the video, a man is shown screaming in Cruz’s face:

“Why did you come here to the convention? 19 children died! 19 children died! That’s on your hands! Ted Cruz, that’s on your hands!”

The video has since gone viral, and it has also received lots of comments on social media. Take a look at a few:

https://twitter.com/Deb8594444629/status/1530527671083474948?s=20&t=Ddx1yDrf-R1RPvK1Pjk4gQ
https://twitter.com/4everNeverTrump/status/1530563054613585921?s=20&t=Ddx1yDrf-R1RPvK1Pjk4gQ

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Donald Trump Gun Crime

Trump Stiffly Reads The Names Of Uvalde Victims As A Gong Sounds During Surreal NRA Speech

Speaking to the National Rifle Association (NRA) just days after a gunman shot and killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, failed, one-term, twice-impeached former President Donald Trump insisted Friday that there is no need for sensible gun control legislation.

NBC News reports:

Trump described the Uvalde shooting as “a savage and barbaric atrocity” and called for a moment of silence as he read the names of the 21 victims. The former president said those killed “are now with God in heaven” while the shooter “will be eternally damned to burn in the fires of hell.”

Trump then laid into President Joe Biden for urging Congress to take up gun safety legislation, saying Biden’s criticism of the gun lobby was really directed at gun owners across the country.

As for possible solutions, Trump sounded like his speech had been written by the NRA, and he offered nothing in the way of actually preventing such mass shootings in the future, insisting that the issue is one of mental health:

“While we don’t yet know enough about this week’s killing, we know there are many things we must do. We need to drastically change our approach to mental health. There are always so many warning signs. Almost all of these disfigured minds share the same profile.

“Teachers, parents, school officials, and community members need to be recognizing and addressing these alarm bells promptly and very, very aggressively. And our school discipline systems, instead of making excuses and continually turning a blind eye, need to confront bad behavior head on and quickly. And clearly we need to make it far easier to confine the violent and mentally deranged into mental institutions.”

However, the strangest part of Trump’s address to the NRA was him reading the names of the victims (and mispronouncing nearly every one of them), followed by a gong that made it sound as if a game show was being conducted, HuffPost notes:

The names of the 19 children and two teachers, broken up into hardly recognizable syllables in Trump’s stumbling pronunciation, were interspersed with the funereal sound of a gong.

After reading the names, Trump then danced for the adoring NRA gun worshipers.

Twitter users had some thoughts.

https://twitter.com/bourgeoisalien/status/1530325776851251200?s=20&t=knxQRBhsMNacFt-6Apl7PA
https://twitter.com/citizenpi314/status/1530313814452981761?s=20&t=1QpwPqNJJ5q7gLRZzpbcHQ
https://twitter.com/fji002/status/1530323582454317058?s=20&t=z-hn3ZX55sg88aO9l8WwYg