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Post by jkjacq on Aug 5, 2019 9:40:37 GMT -6
I LOVE that every single candidate is out there telling Mitch to get off his ass and call the Senate back into session.
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Post by AmyG on Aug 5, 2019 10:05:49 GMT -6
If mitch is out sick/injured he isnt going to call them back from break but isnt up to it to come back himself, he cant risk someone else being in charge and continuing his obstruction of justice by keeping things from coming to a vote.
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Post by jkjacq on Aug 5, 2019 10:07:02 GMT -6
If mitch is out sick/injured he isnt going to call them back from break but isnt up to it to come back himself, he cant risk someone else being in charge and continuing his obstruction of justice by keeping things from coming to a vote. He needs to suck it up and get his ass back. Take a tylenol
I dont care if he broke his face. Put the damn country first for once.
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Post by ldubhawksfan on Aug 5, 2019 10:07:13 GMT -6
The Hill reporting: "Democrat J.D. Scholten has launched his second bid to oust Republican Congressman Steve King in Iowa's 4th District, after losing by single digits in 2018." Second time's the charm? YAS!
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Post by AmyG on Aug 5, 2019 10:10:25 GMT -6
If mitch is out sick/injured he isnt going to call them back from break but isnt up to it to come back himself, he cant risk someone else being in charge and continuing his obstruction of justice by keeping things from coming to a vote. He needs to suck it up and get his ass back. Take a tylenol
I dont care if he broke his face. Put the damn country first for once.
Well it would be great if he'd call them back and stay home himself but...
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Post by JukEboX on Aug 5, 2019 10:21:25 GMT -6
If mitch is out sick/injured he isnt going to call them back from break but isnt up to it to come back himself, he cant risk someone else being in charge and continuing his obstruction of justice by keeping things from coming to a vote. He needs to suck it up and get his ass back. Take a tylenol
I dont care if he broke his face. Put the damn country first for once.
All I can hear in my head is him sitting in his comfortable chair "This is not the time to talk about gun control." -_-
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Post by JukEboX on Aug 5, 2019 10:37:53 GMT -6
What is even more worrying is that it just hit me that this morning we went to orientation for DD at her first pre-school. Here it is a school run by the BOE so it is an actual school. THey have locks, cameras, the whole nine yards. Now I am racking my brain with how to talk to her about having to have an "active shooter" drill. She doesn't yet need a back pack but is looking for a bullet proof one I should start considering when she head to kindergarten?
THESE ARE NOT THINGS WE SHOULD NEED TO BE FUCKING WORRYING ABOUT!!
And my parents didn't need to think about it either. Yet another thing the previous generation got to enjoy as they screw our kids over.
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Post by cakewench on Aug 5, 2019 10:49:00 GMT -6
The Daily Show sees me:
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Post by cakewench on Aug 5, 2019 11:00:47 GMT -6
The El Paso death toll has risen to 22, per the hospital CEO.
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Post by ktg on Aug 5, 2019 11:02:22 GMT -6
Finally got off my ass and joined MDA.
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Post by lemondrop on Aug 5, 2019 11:17:55 GMT -6
CT Rep. Chris Murphy is phenomenal.
I don’t know how to post pics anymore, but per his Twitter:
“19 out of 20 murderers have no mental illness diagnosis.
4 out of 5 mass shooters have no mental illness diagnosis, and half showed no signs on a prior, undiagnosed illness.
Framing this as just a mental illness problem is a gun industry trope. Period. Stop.”
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Post by elle on Aug 5, 2019 11:23:30 GMT -6
CT Rep. Chris Murphy is phenomenal. I don’t know how to post pics anymore, but per his Twitter: “19 out of 20 murderers have no mental illness diagnosis. 4 out of 5 mass shooters have no mental illness diagnosis, and half showed no signs on a prior, undiagnosed illness. Framing this as just a mental illness problem is a gun industry trope. Period. Stop.” Yep. It's an angry white man and white supremacy issue.
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Post by sctiger on Aug 5, 2019 11:24:48 GMT -6
I just finished a book about domestic violence (which was extremely enlightening) and the author spent a good bit of time discussing how dangerous guns are for women in volatile domestic situations. In a group of 14 men she interviewed who had killed their partners, 11 said they would not have killed had a gun not been available. So the "they'll just find another way" argument doesn't hold up. We focus a lot of mass shootings, which is important, but sometimes I think it's easy to forget about the homicides that happen every day that we don't hear about, and some people are too violent to have a gun. Link to the book: www.bloomsbury.com/us/no-visible-bruises-9781635570977/
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Post by lemondrop on Aug 5, 2019 11:25:37 GMT -6
Amy McGrath tweeted that hours after the El Paso massacre, McConnell tweeted a pic of a yard with fake RIP gravestones of her name and “socialism”, with his re-election signs surrounding them. Because that’s normal and not threatening at all. www.democraticunderground.com/100212350085(This is a very biased website, obv) (Don’t care anymore tho) (Fuck Republicans) ETA: looks like McConnell deleted the tweet. ETA again: NM, I found it. It’s still there. Because of course it is.
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2019 11:36:39 GMT -6
At our national conference this weekend a student from Baltimore gave a great speech about remembering that mass shootings get a lot of attention but people die from gun violence every single day, and there's almost never broad coverage when the victim(s) are black or brown. (He got a well deserved standing ovation).
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2019 11:37:17 GMT -6
Also Danica Roem totally owned the room when she spoke
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Post by roloma on Aug 5, 2019 11:40:45 GMT -6
The Hill reporting: "Democrat J.D. Scholten has launched his second bid to oust Republican Congressman Steve King in Iowa's 4th District, after losing by single digits in 2018." Second time's the charm? He is not my district but I am very happy he is running again. He is a great candidate. However, King is getting primaried by 3 people so might not even be the candidate on the R side. The guy who will likely knock him out (Feenstra) is just a little less overtly racist. It is really hard to imagine that district going blue if King is out of the picture, considering Rs outnumber Ds 190,000 to 120,000. I work closely with some people from that area who are deeply involved in politics and say they really see no way that King will be the candidate. But he is like a cockroach so who knows.
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Post by byjove on Aug 5, 2019 11:40:51 GMT -6
dc2london, that is crazy timing of your convention with the other events of the weekend. On Friday we were in SW Virginia and there was a little street festival we went to and there were a bunch of old white men eagerly handing out bright orange "guns save lives" stickers. There were a lot of people proudly wearing them. Of course my DDs were like stickers!?! and I was like no- those are words we don't agree, and words matter. I also found a stack of them on the ground and quickly put them in the trash can.
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Post by stringy on Aug 5, 2019 11:42:29 GMT -6
At our national conference this weekend a student from Baltimore gave a great speech about remembering that mass shootings get a lot of attention but people die from gun violence every single day, and there's almost never broad coverage when the victim(s) are black or brown. (He got a well deserved standing ovation). I will say that by following MDA on fb, you (I) become much more aware of it, as they post stories of people, often children, killed by gun violence every day.
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Post by allisong on Aug 5, 2019 11:54:48 GMT -6
I don’t post here much but I’m just reeling about this entire thing.
And people on my Facebook are seriously posting that Beto LAUGHED while talking about the shootings. He was trying to hold his fucking emotions in you dumb fucks.
I just can’t anymore with this idiocy.
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Post by jkjacq on Aug 5, 2019 11:58:25 GMT -6
While the media is solely focused on El Paso and Dayton
the DOW has plunged 700 points. S&P and Nasdaq are both on track for the largest losses since May.
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Post by ldubhawksfan on Aug 5, 2019 12:00:49 GMT -6
While the media is solely focused on El Paso and Dayton the DOW has plunged 700 points. S&P and Nasdaq are both on track for the largest losses since May. I saw this headline across MSN when I opened a webpage this AM. Cool, cool.
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Post by enchanted on Aug 5, 2019 12:20:18 GMT -6
Amy McGrath tweeted that hours after the El Paso massacre, McConnell tweeted a pic of a yard with fake RIP gravestones of her name and “socialism”, with his re-election signs surrounding them. Because that’s normal and not threatening at all. www.democraticunderground.com/100212350085(This is a very biased website, obv) (Don’t care anymore tho) (Fuck Republicans) ETA: looks like McConnell deleted the tweet. ETA again: NM, I found it. It’s still there. Because of course it is. Was it with the Senate majority leader account or a personal one I can't find? It's not on the Senate one.
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Post by Uncaripswife on Aug 5, 2019 12:20:57 GMT -6
dc2london, that is crazy timing of your convention with the other events of the weekend. On Friday we were in SW Virginia and there was a little street festival we went to and there were a bunch of old white men eagerly handing out bright orange "guns save lives" stickers. There were a lot of people proudly wearing them. Of course my DDs were like stickers!?! and I was like no- those are words we don't agree, and words matter. I also found a stack of them on the ground and quickly put them in the trash can. You know what to do with those stickers and trash can.
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Post by JukEboX on Aug 5, 2019 12:23:12 GMT -6
While the media is solely focused on El Paso and Dayton the DOW has plunged 700 points. S&P and Nasdaq are both on track for the largest losses since May. Yeah CNN has been updating their site as it goes down by 100.
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2019 12:25:11 GMT -6
dc2london, that is crazy timing of your convention with the other events of the weekend. On Friday we were in SW Virginia and there was a little street festival we went to and there were a bunch of old white men eagerly handing out bright orange "guns save lives" stickers. There were a lot of people proudly wearing them. Of course my DDs were like stickers!?! and I was like no- those are words we don't agree, and words matter. I also found a stack of them on the ground and quickly put them in the trash can. The timing was crazy but it's not the first time something like that has happened. While I was at the Moms Summit Pelosi interrupted her remarks after an aide alerted her to a school shooting that was happening.
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Post by lemondrop on Aug 5, 2019 12:35:20 GMT -6
Amy McGrath tweeted that hours after the El Paso massacre, McConnell tweeted a pic of a yard with fake RIP gravestones of her name and “socialism”, with his re-election signs surrounding them. Because that’s normal and not threatening at all. www.democraticunderground.com/100212350085(This is a very biased website, obv) (Don’t care anymore tho) (Fuck Republicans) ETA: looks like McConnell deleted the tweet. ETA again: NM, I found it. It’s still there. Because of course it is. Was it with the Senate majority leader account or a personal one I can't find? It's not on the Senate one. His official campaign Twitter - @team_mitch It’s still there.
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2019 12:37:06 GMT -6
Poor Beto is hoarse but good for him.
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Post by enchanted on Aug 5, 2019 12:50:26 GMT -6
Was it with the Senate majority leader account or a personal one I can't find? It's not on the Senate one. His official campaign Twitter - @team_mitch It’s still there. Vile.
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Post by enchanted on Aug 5, 2019 12:54:08 GMT -6
WaPo reporting Kenny Marchant (Texas GOP rep) isn't seeking re-election. Headline says he's the twelfth GOPer ducking out.
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