What’s the best definition of a (in Trump’s words) “shithole country?” Maybe this: Any nation where teachers have to practice “lock down” drills with terrified children because their government won’t protect them from mass murder due to endemic gun manufacturers’ lobby corruption.
As parents in Florida bury their children murdered by the GOP/NRA/Gun Lobby, Trump and the Republicans will do NOTHING to curb the killing of children with assault weapons. It’s a mark of extreme political corruption when unaccountable cliques like the NRA/Gun Manufacturers block solutions that enjoy broad public support (even among gun owners like me) and force their selfish interests to prevail over the common good.
While mental illness exists everywhere, other countries without an NRA, gun-Lobby and Republican Party dominated by pagan Gun God worshipers do not have killing sprees comparable to America’s. And some of these countries have many gun owners and guns. They also have sensible laws.
What to say about a country that watches its children gunned down again and again and does absolutely nothing? Maybe this: They elected bought-and-paid-for Republican shills of the NRA/Gun Manufactures-Lobby again and again with the support of people who say they follow Jesus who (as far as I know) never said “Let the little children come unto me so that we may shoot them with an AR-15.”
How sick is Trump’s America? There’s even a Presidents’ Day sale on bump stocks (the device the Las Vegas shooter put on his rifles). Slide Fire Solutions, a bump stocks manufacturer, is offering 10% off with the coupon code MAGA, a salute to the campaign slogan of Trump, who promised to “Make America Great Again” (MAGA).
The NRA’s outright purchase of senators Richard Burr ($6.3 million in 2016), Marco Rubio ($3.2 million in 2016), Roy Blunt ($3 million), and Rob Portman ($2.2 million) – and Trump ($30 million in the presidential race) – is obviously corrupt.
On this fateful “President’s Day” we have no president. We have a lickspittle craven servant of the NRA and Putin who puts American safety second to Russian and Gun Lobby interests. Trump is not defending Americans against internal enemies – the gun lobby – or foreign enemies – Russia. And these two stories are oddly intertwined.
Trump used to be for gun control then following a $30 million NRA bribe and after his election he told the NRA “You came through big for me and I am going to come through for you.” After Trump’s election I’ll bet he said similar words to Vladimir Putin as well.
Another reason Putin’s pal Trump is screaming “unfair” over the FBI investigation into his Russia-deformed election is that the FBI is also investigating whether a top Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association– to help Donald Trump win the presidency. Some of that $30 million NRA Trump bribe may well be Russian money.
No one wants our political system to fail more than Vladimir Putin does and whether Putin gave the NRA money or not, that explains the proven deep relationship that Russians close to their government are cultivating with the U.S. gun lobby as part of the outreach by pro-Putin forces to the American far right.
Putin knows what white American evangelical Trump-supporters won’t admit: nothing hurts America as much as our gun lobby. As reported by McClatchy, “FBI counterintelligence investigators have focused on the activities of Alexander Torshin, the deputy governor of Russia’s central bank who is known for his close relationships with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and the NRA.” Read more here.
Why would Putin help our NRA-Gun Manufacturers Lobby to help Trump? Why would Russians be stirring up hate and paranoid delusions in the far right gun worshippers’ circles online? Simple: people who hate America wish people like the Florida killer Nikolas Cruz, well. They want lots more like him.
Nikolas Cruz faced a long string of escalating disciplinary measures throughout his academic career for insubordination, profanity, disruption, fighting and assault. Yet it was lobbying by the NRA, the Republicans in FL and Congress that made sure he (and many more disaffected white youths like him) could and can buy military-style weapons suited best to mass murder.
The GOP leadership’s “thoughts and prayers” are a sacrilege against God, a cover for cowardice made by those for whom there is no higher moral law than greed for power and money.
If you actually follow Jesus and are going to pray for anything, please pray for the just and utter biblical desolation of the entire child-sacrificing abomination called the Republican Party.
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Frank, do you believe in Jesus Christ? Please just say only way or the other.
So you are censoring.
It’s Frank’s blog. He can censor anyone he wants.
Clarissa … so you are the newest cast member of the GB Sock Puppets on Ice show ?
Why golly gee … methinks you are !
Once again Frank at his best . Simple fact is We the People have allowed ourselves to be hijacked by an NRA minority while we stand on the sidelines expecting bought and paid for politicians to give a damn while we waste our time and efforts on divisive identity politics
Dear TJ Martin:
Hijacked by an NRA minority? That’s lame even by your standards!
When peaceful protests routinely meet military-style responses, when organizers are intimidated, targeted, arrested, what’s the next move for the ruling class?
Disappearances?
Bodies on the roadside riddled with bullets?
Black sites like Homan Square in Chicago?
Standardized torture and executioners in police stations?
As the Patriot Act is applied to criminalize dissent, when protest is terrorism, when clause 1021 of the NDAA becomes operative and indefinite military detention becomes a fact of life, what then?
Under Washington’s ‘leadership,’ whole countries in Latin America have fallen and are falling again under dirty wars conducted by CIA trained police where dissenters are vanished and whole populations duck down for 40 – 50 years without a peep for sheer terror of the state.
The US ruling class is loading the Winchesters and is bitterly determined to keep pillaging the country until everyone who isn’t wealthy ends up toiling for $.50 an hour in a free trade factory making bullets and other munitions for the military.
We have de facto martial law on a selective basis now. Who is explaining what exactly the response is to be?
You?
In a pig’s eye!
A blessed Lenten walk with Christ!
Ahhh .. yes … once again the Village Idiot comes to the fore . Clueless as ever having succumbed to the influences of fake news lies and propaganda ,.
And what solutions are you offering gdd … other than your SSDD SNAFU failed communist manifesto rhetoric ?
PS is that what passes for intelligent and constrictive criticism in your l minuscule little world as you hide behind your screen .. accomplishing nothing ? … No wonder you lead such a meaningless trite little Internet Trolls life
But hey .. thanks for playing …. but next time …. at least have the decency to make it at least a little bit … entertaining … if not challenging ?
Dear TJ Martin:
I posed policies on housing and health care already, and can do so again.
You?
You dismissed those policies out of hand.
You’ve given us naught in their stead.
Yet your fact-free campaign continues claiming that yes, you indeed have policies capable of resolving at least one or two of the major crisis besetting this great, lordly kakistocracy.
So listen up, Bub — since you in fact HAVE workable policies capable of correcting at least one or two of the major crisis facing this great kakistocracy — when can we see them?
You don’t need to remind me I’m an idiot. So no narcissistic supply for you today.
A blessed Lenten walk with Christ!
PS: ‘Russian Meddling’ IS the ‘fake news…’
1) You’ve never so much as proposed anything . Blathered on with your constant effluence of worn out communist manifesto bs ? Yes . But proposed even one viable solution to anything ?
No
So again PUT UP OR SHUT UP
2) Again you need to visit the definition of the word .. narcissistic … lest you once again make a fool of yourself by the misuse of the word
3) You’ve never so much as presented a single verifiable fact in any comment you’ve ever made . A plethora of conspiracy theory bs ? Oh yeah child … you’re full of that .. but facts ? You wouldn’t know a fact if it smacked you upside your troll little head
4) Oh … now the troll hiding behind a screen too afraid to engage in a public debate before his / her peers is going to try and play the tough troll routine ( Bub ? .. seriously little one ? )
5) Glad to know you have enough self awareness to recognize the fact that you are in fact an idiot . Now if you’d only finally admit you’re a troll …. with a very definite obvious and subversive agenda . That being to sow discord and division amongst us
In closing … the only thing FAKE here … is you …. comrade
On this particular page and subject … this conversation is over gdd … though please do feel free to carry on blathering on your own seeing as I’m absolutely sure you’re fully capable of shoving your virtual foot down your throat all by your lonesome with little or no outside help .
A cursed walk to you along the path of perdition of your own creation .
Tell you what lil buckaroo … when you can come up with some verifiable facts to back up your endless delusional rants … y’all lets me know .
In the mean time … might I suggest at minimum .. counseling at the very least … if not intensive therapy .
Dear TJ Martin:
And I suggest professional psychiatric help with your Narcissistic Personality Disorder and narcissistic rage. That in mind, you owe Gary B a confession of wrongdoing toward him and his family. If you are a Christian, you will do so.
https://www.facebook.com/gary.bryson.35?fref=ufi&rc=p
A blessed Lenten walk with Christ!
gdd … SSDD … now trying to dredge up a long resolved past in order to distract .
Truly you are pathetic
But suffice it to say .. the only confession owed .. is yours … to all of us … for your each and every falsehood lies and propaganda you fill these pages with
And again child … do take the time to look up the definition of narcism … before shoving your foot down your virtual throat any further
gdd
Blatant Cynicism and the believing in Conspiracy Theory leads directly to .. Delusional Paranoia … which is the prelude to Schizophrenia
Right about now … assuming there is even a shred of authenticity within your online personality ………
… you’re currently sitting smack dab in the middle of delusional paranoia with one foot in the abyss that is .. schizophrenia
By the way gdd … one would of thought in light of my constant and consistent rants and railings on the ills of social media … that by now … even a pseudo intellectual idiot such as yourself would be aware of the obvious fact that …
I DON’T DO NO STINKING FaceBook ! .. or any other demented form of social media
Sigh … seriously child … I fully comprehend the fact that you in any way becoming a challenge is well beyond your mental capacities , intellect and skill set … but for the love of God in Heaven could you try your best to at the very least be just the tiniest bit entertaining ?
Oh … and to reiterate .. people who refuse to vote or actively participate .. are not entitled to an opinion .
As well as … take your insincere Platitudes & Attitudes and shove em where the sun will never shied … right next to your deluded and no doubt substance addled little head
Dear TJ Martin:
Not entitled to an opinion? Since we’re discussing entitlements, ponder that after the whole political establishment supported Colin Powell’s WMD lies, this establishment forfeited any basis for expecting to be believed.
As with the Bush administration’s lies about Iraqi WMD, the claim that Russia ‘attacked’ the US by ‘meddling’ in elections is aimed at creating a justification for war.
After visiting the US last year, UN special rapporteur Philip Alston said of our extreme poverty and ‘human rights’ that …
‘There is no other developed country where so many voters are disenfranchised and where ordinary voters ultimately have so little impact on political outcomes.’
So to repeat myself – the American population doesn’t need Vladimir Putin to undermine ‘public confidence in democracy.’ They know it is a fraud and a hoax now.
The working class knows this fraud system is a political weapon cynically used by the ruling class to divide/conquer/rule it. And the Democrat/petty_bourgeoisie Party wouldn’t have it any other way!
Nothing terrifies the ruling class or angers you more than the inability to offer a solitary reason for which anyone should believe one word from the ruling class. So you bellow and belch and bluster, stamp your feet, turn on the capitalization, and rage and rage with all the petty insults your tormented narcissistic soul can devise.
Contact Gary B. Confess your wronging of him and his family. Begin to find the healing you need.
A blessed Lenten walk with Christ!
Again .. you refuse to vote … you refuse to participate in the process …
THEREFORE YOUR OPINIONS ARE MEANINGLESS , IRRELEVANT and ABSURD
By the way gdd … nice to see you’re still up to your old ways of spewing out a mass of irrelevant verging on the absurd information/propaganda in your desperate attempts to draw attention away from who and what you really are .
Unfortunately for you though … your Mao’s Little Book of Propaganda 101 for Dummies ( and internet trolls ) tactic .. as ever .. fails miserably ..
But there is a cure …. intensive psycho therapy .. a few psychotropic drugs … .
….and perhaps … just maybe .. a daily dose of Kaopectate / Imodium . I mean … what the heck … if it works on one orifice … perhaps it’ll work on the other as well … especially in light of the fact that in your case the two are one in the same .
Welcome back to the big leagues splinky … and thanks for playing .
PS; … a fact gdd
Currently the NRA boasts a membership of 5 million .. a minority .. albeit an extremely vocal and well funded ( by the arms manufactures ) minority if there ever was one
Dear TJ Martin:
Did I say it didn’t/wasn’t/isn’t?
You might at least make an effort to show you’ve read posts before replying.
A blessed Lenten walk with Christ!
Ahhh genius ,, forgotten your initial comment on the article where you blatantly and insultingly criticized me for stating the FACT that we’ve allowed ourselves to be overrun by an NRA minority ?
Suffice it to say you might at least make the effort to remember what you’ve posted less than 24 hours previously
But hey child … thanks for playing … do come again ..
PPSS – Marial law in the US ? Obviously you’ve never stepped foot out of the US … have you ? Don’t make me laugh child ! You haven’t got a goram clue what martial law even is …never mind what living under it is like .
And ahhh …. by the way gdd … your ESL skills are slipping again ….
Dear TJ Martin:
Yet if the petty bourgeoisie protests such displays oh say in Ferguson, MI, you’re right there on-board. With you, there ARE no issues. Everything is determined by class interests. You deny Marxian analysis on one hand, yet affirm it at every turn!
A blessed Lenten walk with Christ!
A truly disjunct , disparate and irrelevant reply verging on the absurd if there ever was one .
But then again … what else should one expect from a ” Paranoid Android ”
” Lease could you stop the noise, I’m trying to get some rest
From all the unborn chicken voices in my head
What’s this? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)
What’s this? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)
When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
What’s this? (I may be paranoid, but no android)
What’s this? (I may be paranoid, but no android)
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking, squealing, Gucci little piggy
You don’t remember
You don’t remember
Why don’t you remember my name?
Off with his head, man
Off with his head, man
Why don’t you remember my name? I guess he does
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height, height
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height, height
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
That’s it sir
You’re leaving
The crackle of pigskin
The dust and the screaming
The yuppies networking
The panic, the vomit
The panic, the vomit
God loves his children,
God loves his children, yeah! “- Thom Yorke
With Dr. Martin here as this is excellent work!
“Another reason Putin’s pal Trump is screaming “unfair” over the FBI investigation into his Russia-deformed election is that the FBI is also investigating whether a top Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association– to help Donald Trump win the presidency. Some of that $30 million NRA Trump bribe may well be Russian money.”
If true the idea that foreign money came to the NRA to influence the election for Trump is very very disturbing as to how do we fix this mess?
Got a call from my pal who told me of how his dear neighbor was robed and home invaded by an armed assailant and even the Police recommended that he arm himself.
What gun did he buy?
A classic 38 special and not a semi-auto hand gun such as a Glock such as the Police and military use as “B” is uncomfortable with such weapons in his house.
The weapon was inexpensive and not used to fight wars but for basic protection against what happened to his dear neighbor. Our attitude as a nation towards guns has changed dramatically from the seventies and before where gun ownership meant a 38 special or your basic 22 riffle to a shot gun for hunting birds or even deer!
No American civilian needs to own military type weapons designed for the battlefield and I have dear friends who would almost be willing to shoot me over an opinion such as that one….
Nine
Nine … every person in the House and Senate who votes against all forms of gun control is receiving a healthy amount of campaign contributions .. either from the NRA or one of the gun lobby’s many subsidiaries .
So how do we stop it ? Vote against everyone who sided with the NRA minority … which they are … regardless of gdd’s substance addled delusions
PS; .. just so you know …
” No American civilian needs to own military type weapons designed for the battlefield ”
I’m with you 150% percent on that . Guns for sport ? Own a few myself .. but semi automatic weapons easily and cheaply converted to full auto and military assault weapons ? No !
Join the March for Our Lives in Washington or in your local community! It’s time to step up to the plate. There are more of us than those who support the NRA! Let’s march folks.
!https://www.marchforourlives.com/
Financially support this march if you can. I’ll be there. Frank, I hope to see you too. Cheers.
Dear joelyn:
You’re welcome to march, but protests have no political efficacy. People have marched and protested and protested and marched. Look at the protests on the eve GWB’s war on Iraq!
Unless dealt a hand which makes it impossible for it to rule, the state won’t give working people the time of day.
A blessed Lenten walk with Christ!
Dear gdd:
All journeys began with the first step and anything worth accomplishing takes time. You’re welcome to give up the fight easily if you want but to claim that protest marches don’t have efficacy simply because things didn’t change as quickly as one hope is mistaken. Recent example like the Women’s, LBGTQ and Black Civil Rights movements come to mind. Folks didn’t just march and leave it at that and while there have been some reversals but the fight continues. I love how Frederick Douglas said, “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” He took action instead of relying on some deity to help him. Did Black folks get their full civil rights as American citizens after the Civil War? No, but the fight continues and some things have changed for the better.
Revolution; No justice, No peace!
Once again gdd … the opinions of little ” Paranoid Android ” trolls who refuse to vote or participate in the process and are then stupid enough to admit it are completely irrelevant due to the fact that they have excluded themselves from the conversation by their own volition .. and sins of omission .
e,g, If you don’t pay ,… you don’t get to play … in this .. or any other form of governance and society .
” You’re welcome to march, but protests have no political efficacy. People have marched and protested and protested and marched. Look at the protests on the eve GWB’s war on Iraq! Unless dealt a hand which makes it impossible for it to rule, the state won’t give working people the time of day ”
gdd … re; your above reply to Joelyn .
If there was any doubt as to who and what you are … as well as what your blatant agenda is … ..
With that comment alone … THERE IS NO DOUBT
You are nothing more than a pathetic mindless malicious little Internet Troll ….
… who’s sole intent and agenda is to sow discord and division as well as create the appearance of hopelessness among us …
… in order to give strength to the opposition .
So might I in the spirit of Christian good will strongly suggest that you fall to your knees before what ever ” Small Metal God ” it is you pretend to worship … begging its … as well as our forgiveness for all your blatant lies … misrepresentation .. propaganda as well as your malicious intentions towards us all
Dear Frank Schaeffer:
‘No one wants our political system to fail more than Vladimir Putin…’
Personally, I think the most dangerous opponent of our political system is not Vladimir Putin [who has enough of his own imperial garbage to sort] but the US ruling class. It is acting very swiftly and with all determination to criminalize dissent under the false banner of resisting ‘foreign influence.’
Any political party or movement which valued free speech and/or political liberalism permits all views — left, right and center — to compete freely in the marketplace. This most assuredly is not an agenda supported by all today.
A blessed Lenten walk with Christ!
No gdd … unfortunately the most dangerous opponent to our Democratic Republic is the Collective Stupidity of America we have become by our own volition having allowed ourselves to be ..
Addicted to Entertainment
Addled by Celebrity
Consumed by Social Media
and .. Conned by a multitude of Conspiracy Theories .. Snake Oil salesmen … and Online Trolls such as yourself and the late never great GB
FYI ; In case this little FACT has escaped your virtual attention .. as so much often does … it IS and HAS BEEN Vlad the Impalers stated intent which he has been publicly declaring for over a decade …
.. to Disrupt … and Destroy all forms of Western Democracy that he sees as enemies of his beloved former Soviet Union and the current Russia that it pretends to be
And if the last two thirds of the opening ceremonies of the Sochi Olympics told you nothing else about Vlad’s intentions … it should of made that fact very clear
And a fickle finger of fate to you too .
Friends, this is no time to be wringing our hands and claiming nothing ever changes. Join the movement and strategized. Let’s defeat the NRA and the greedy politicians who support them. The Go Fund Me campaign for the March for Our Live is now over 1 million dollars. Woo Hoo! https://www.gofundme.com/8psm8-march-for-our-lives
Revolution. No Justice, No Votes!
On that young lady ….
WE ARE IN COMPLETE AGREEMENT !
So tell gdd to take his /her paranoid delusional conspiracy addled comments intended to sow division and discord among us … and shove them where the sun never shines and gdd’s head has resided since shortly after his/her birth
PS ; Joelyn .. what this march really needs ….
.. is a million or more participants … not a million dollars .
In part due to the fact that there’s already a $20 million dollar plus war chest in place … most of which was donated by Micheal Bloomberg ..
.. just for such events as this … and trust me … he’s got more in reserve just waiting for this nation to get off its lazy ___ and lay it all on the line for the safety of our children and our country in general against the minority might of the NRA
So keep your dollars and cents … and ” Lay Your Bodies Down ” instead
Cause bodies on the line … not dollars , Tweets and social media is the only thing that can make a difference .
From one who knows .. first hand ( former SDS activist … been tear gassed .. chased …. taken a few national guardsmen down in the process … etc )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMfvYxK9Zoo
I’m decidedly marching! Also, here is a list of some (I’m sure there are more) of the greedy politicians who support the NRA that need to be voted out.
https://twitter.com/TopherSpiro/status/964323810152472576
They are up to $1,778,881 and counting. Woo Hoo!!!!
This article says it all ;
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/opinion/get-out-of-facebook-and-into-the-nras-face.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-2&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article
Get off social media , out from behind the safety of your precious little screens and out of Facebook … and get in the NRA’s face ! Even if that NRA member is part of your family or in your neighborhood !