President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump “met Wednesday with some
of the dozens wounded or injured in the weekend mass shootings in Ohio and
Texas that left 31 dead,” Fred Lucas reports in The Daily Signal.
“In between visits with survivors at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, the
president and first lady thanked the medical staff.” While there, the President
told survivors that “you had God watching. I want you to know we’re with you
all the way.”
Later yesterday, “the president and first lady visited with first responders
and hospital staff as well as victims and their families at the University
Medical Center of El Paso.”
From the offical White House email.
Come on, isn't Trump awful enough that you don't need to make stretches like this? That quote is obviously meant as "you were shot but didn't die because God was on your side." And "I want you to know we're with you all the way" is just something his pandering ass would say and not mean.
Some White House aide DID compare his greeting to that of "rock star" though, which is insane. And Trump did attack local politicians in Texas and Ohio, which is also insane. But I don't think he's equating himself to God here. Even if he probably does think that in his peabrain.
Did those who died not have, "god watching?" were they somehow sinners or unworthy? Seems a bizarre thing to say but he probably didn't think about what he'd say until he was in their presence and had to speak. Just another check box. POS. And what does he mean by, "we're with you all the way?" How? US Govt. going to pay their medical expenses? Give the folks his personal cell number to call if they ever need anything? He forgot about them as soon as he left the room. Or as soon as he left Toledo.
Trump’s openness to extensive background checks for gun buys draws warning from NRA
President Trump has repeatedly told lawmakers and aides in private conversations that he is open to endorsing extensive background checks in the wake of two mass shootings, prompting a warning from the National Rifle Association and concerns among White House aides, according to lawmakers and administration officials.
Trump, speaking to reporters Wednesday before visiting Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, where weekend shootings left 31 dead, said there “was great appetite for background checks” amid an outcry over government inaction in the face of repeated mass shootings.
Trump’s previous declarations of support for tougher gun controls, including after the deadly Parkland, Fla., shooting in February 2018, have foundered without a sustained push from the president and support from the NRA or Republican lawmakers. Even Trump’s advisers question how far he will go on any effort.
I guess a 3% to 6% drop in legal gun sales has the NRA and the gun industry concerned. That 3% to 6% drop might just save your life, but yea, you know, nothing can be done.
This shows the true weakness of Trump politically. He doesn't shape opinion, he parrots it.
I've been saying the same thing. There's a reason that Trump has the highest in-party approval rating of any president ever. He'll do or say anything the GOP wants. Or more specially, he'll do or say anything the GOP has wanted to say or do over the years, but didn't have the nerve to.
Say he ignores this "warning" from the NRA and goes ahead with more extensive background checks. Would that really hurt him politically? Sure it would piss off some people on the right and maybe his GOP approval rating drops from 89% to like 80%, but he'd pick up some support from other people that just want the president to do the right thing when it comes to mass shootings.
I think that the NRA spent about $30 million to help Trump get elected in 2016. Is Trump afraid of losing that? That's chunk change in the grand scheme of things. And it's not like the NRA would ever endorse or contribute to Biden or any of the Dems. So Trump really has nothing to lose politically by going against them. In fact, he'd have a lot to gain. He wouldn't look like such a puppet.
I'm not sure if that's true or not. He needs every vote he can get, and the last thing he can afford is the base peeling off and staying home. They won't vote for Dems, but there were a fair number of unexpected voters in the last election. I think this is why he is so subservient; because he has nowhere else to go.
Yeah I guess that's true. I just wonder sometimes how much of the Republican electorate are obsessed with guns. And when I say "obsessed," I mean people that are against assault weapon bans, not someone that just loves their handgun or hunting rifle. Trump would lose support of the "obsessed," but I think your common gun owner would be for more extensive background checks.
If every registered Republican was polled and asked what are the issues that mean the most to them are, I wonder where gun rights would rank among the usual things (stopping illegal immigration, small government, pro-life, etc). Maybe at the top, but maybe not. I have no clue. I'm sure there's a poll like this somewhere though.
I thought I heard that 80% of dems and 67% of repubs were for expanded universal background checks? Anyway, it seems a no brainer except in those gerrymandered super red districts and the fear the likes of Moscow Mitchy Baby being primaried by the NRA. Spineless little fucks.
I think those are pretty good numbers. A majority of both parties.
You seem to know more about how the congress operates than I do. How is it that McConnell (or any majority leader) is able to not allow a vote? That shit pisses me off when people try that in my fantasy football league, let alone in the congress.
You know, you are probably right that he has some politically movement on this one. There is some crazies out there for sure, but the congress is more beholden to the NRA than the voters.
Trump’s openness to extensive background checks for gun buys draws warning from NRA
President Trump has repeatedly told lawmakers and aides in private conversations that he is open to endorsing extensive background checks in the wake of two mass shootings, prompting a warning from the National Rifle Association and concerns among White House aides, according to lawmakers and administration officials.
Trump, speaking to reporters Wednesday before visiting Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, where weekend shootings left 31 dead, said there “was great appetite for background checks” amid an outcry over government inaction in the face of repeated mass shootings.
Trump’s previous declarations of support for tougher gun controls, including after the deadly Parkland, Fla., shooting in February 2018, have foundered without a sustained push from the president and support from the NRA or Republican lawmakers. Even Trump’s advisers question how far he will go on any effort.
I guess a 3% to 6% drop in legal gun sales has the NRA and the gun industry concerned. That 3% to 6% drop might just save your life, but yea, you know, nothing can be done.
This shows the true weakness of Trump politically. He doesn't shape opinion, he parrots it.
I've been saying the same thing. There's a reason that Trump has the highest in-party approval rating of any president ever. He'll do or say anything the GOP wants. Or more specially, he'll do or say anything the GOP has wanted to say or do over the years, but didn't have the nerve to.
Say he ignores this "warning" from the NRA and goes ahead with more extensive background checks. Would that really hurt him politically? Sure it would piss off some people on the right and maybe his GOP approval rating drops from 89% to like 80%, but he'd pick up some support from other people that just want the president to do the right thing when it comes to mass shootings.
I think that the NRA spent about $30 million to help Trump get elected in 2016. Is Trump afraid of losing that? That's chunk change in the grand scheme of things. And it's not like the NRA would ever endorse or contribute to Biden or any of the Dems. So Trump really has nothing to lose politically by going against them. In fact, he'd have a lot to gain. He wouldn't look like such a puppet.
I'm not sure if that's true or not. He needs every vote he can get, and the last thing he can afford is the base peeling off and staying home. They won't vote for Dems, but there were a fair number of unexpected voters in the last election. I think this is why he is so subservient; because he has nowhere else to go.
Yeah I guess that's true. I just wonder sometimes how much of the Republican electorate are obsessed with guns. And when I say "obsessed," I mean people that are against assault weapon bans, not someone that just loves their handgun or hunting rifle. Trump would lose support of the "obsessed," but I think your common gun owner would be for more extensive background checks.
If every registered Republican was polled and asked what are the issues that mean the most to them are, I wonder where gun rights would rank among the usual things (stopping illegal immigration, small government, pro-life, etc). Maybe at the top, but maybe not. I have no clue. I'm sure there's a poll like this somewhere though.
I thought I heard that 80% of dems and 67% of repubs were for expanded universal background checks? Anyway, it seems a no brainer except in those gerrymandered super red districts and the fear the likes of Moscow Mitchy Baby being primaried by the NRA. Spineless little fucks.
I'm pretty sure that approval among actual NRA members is similar to that 67% figure. All of the polling of NRA members that I have seen the last several years is in support of stricter background checks. It's fucking Wayne LaPierre
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Trump’s openness to extensive background checks for gun buys draws warning from NRA
President Trump has repeatedly told lawmakers and aides in private conversations that he is open to endorsing extensive background checks in the wake of two mass shootings, prompting a warning from the National Rifle Association and concerns among White House aides, according to lawmakers and administration officials.
Trump, speaking to reporters Wednesday before visiting Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, where weekend shootings left 31 dead, said there “was great appetite for background checks” amid an outcry over government inaction in the face of repeated mass shootings.
Trump’s previous declarations of support for tougher gun controls, including after the deadly Parkland, Fla., shooting in February 2018, have foundered without a sustained push from the president and support from the NRA or Republican lawmakers. Even Trump’s advisers question how far he will go on any effort.
I guess a 3% to 6% drop in legal gun sales has the NRA and the gun industry concerned. That 3% to 6% drop might just save your life, but yea, you know, nothing can be done.
How the F can any rational person say that tougher, mandatory background checks are a bad idea? I don’t understand this at all. They feel it is a God given right for anyone to walk in and buy a gun, unchecked and unvetted? Fuck the NRA. Wake up.
President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump “met Wednesday with some
of the dozens wounded or injured in the weekend mass shootings in Ohio and
Texas that left 31 dead,” Fred Lucas reports in The Daily Signal.
“In between visits with survivors at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, the
president and first lady thanked the medical staff.” While there, the President
told survivors that “you had God watching. I want you to know we’re with you
all the way.”
Later yesterday, “the president and first lady visited with first responders
and hospital staff as well as victims and their families at the University
Medical Center of El Paso.”
From the offical White House email.
Come on, isn't Trump awful enough that you don't need to make stretches like this? That quote is obviously meant as "you were shot but didn't die because God was on your side." And "I want you to know we're with you all the way" is just something his pandering ass would say and not mean.
Some White House aide DID compare his greeting to that of "rock star" though, which is insane. And Trump did attack local politicians in Texas and Ohio, which is also insane. But I don't think he's equating himself to God here. Even if he probably does think that in his peabrain.
Did those who died not have, "god watching?" were they somehow sinners or unworthy? Seems a bizarre thing to say but he probably didn't think about what he'd say until he was in their presence and had to speak. Just another check box. POS. And what does he mean by, "we're with you all the way?" How? US Govt. going to pay their medical expenses? Give the folks his personal cell number to call if they ever need anything? He forgot about them as soon as he left the room. Or as soon as he left Toledo.
I don't disagree with any of this...I just don't think he was calling himself God.
Not to go on a big God rant, but there's nothing dumber than someone saying (as Trump did) that God was on someone's side with they survive something like this for the same reasons you're saying; so God wasn't on the side of the ones that were murdered? Hell, while I type this, a 6-year-old sex-slave is being gang-raped by some businessmen in Taiwan. Where's God for that child?
Trump’s openness to extensive background checks for gun buys draws warning from NRA
President Trump has repeatedly told lawmakers and aides in private conversations that he is open to endorsing extensive background checks in the wake of two mass shootings, prompting a warning from the National Rifle Association and concerns among White House aides, according to lawmakers and administration officials.
Trump, speaking to reporters Wednesday before visiting Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, where weekend shootings left 31 dead, said there “was great appetite for background checks” amid an outcry over government inaction in the face of repeated mass shootings.
Trump’s previous declarations of support for tougher gun controls, including after the deadly Parkland, Fla., shooting in February 2018, have foundered without a sustained push from the president and support from the NRA or Republican lawmakers. Even Trump’s advisers question how far he will go on any effort.
I guess a 3% to 6% drop in legal gun sales has the NRA and the gun industry concerned. That 3% to 6% drop might just save your life, but yea, you know, nothing can be done.
This shows the true weakness of Trump politically. He doesn't shape opinion, he parrots it.
I've been saying the same thing. There's a reason that Trump has the highest in-party approval rating of any president ever. He'll do or say anything the GOP wants. Or more specially, he'll do or say anything the GOP has wanted to say or do over the years, but didn't have the nerve to.
Say he ignores this "warning" from the NRA and goes ahead with more extensive background checks. Would that really hurt him politically? Sure it would piss off some people on the right and maybe his GOP approval rating drops from 89% to like 80%, but he'd pick up some support from other people that just want the president to do the right thing when it comes to mass shootings.
I think that the NRA spent about $30 million to help Trump get elected in 2016. Is Trump afraid of losing that? That's chunk change in the grand scheme of things. And it's not like the NRA would ever endorse or contribute to Biden or any of the Dems. So Trump really has nothing to lose politically by going against them. In fact, he'd have a lot to gain. He wouldn't look like such a puppet.
I'm not sure if that's true or not. He needs every vote he can get, and the last thing he can afford is the base peeling off and staying home. They won't vote for Dems, but there were a fair number of unexpected voters in the last election. I think this is why he is so subservient; because he has nowhere else to go.
Yeah I guess that's true. I just wonder sometimes how much of the Republican electorate are obsessed with guns. And when I say "obsessed," I mean people that are against assault weapon bans, not someone that just loves their handgun or hunting rifle. Trump would lose support of the "obsessed," but I think your common gun owner would be for more extensive background checks.
If every registered Republican was polled and asked what are the issues that mean the most to them are, I wonder where gun rights would rank among the usual things (stopping illegal immigration, small government, pro-life, etc). Maybe at the top, but maybe not. I have no clue. I'm sure there's a poll like this somewhere though.
I thought I heard that 80% of dems and 67% of repubs were for expanded universal background checks? Anyway, it seems a no brainer except in those gerrymandered super red districts and the fear the likes of Moscow Mitchy Baby being primaried by the NRA. Spineless little fucks.
I'm pretty sure that approval among actual NRA members is similar to that 67% figure. All of the polling of NRA members that I have seen the last several years is in support of stricter background checks. It's fucking Wayne LaPierre
A report just came out that LaPierre feared for his life following the Parkland shootings, so he requested the NRA put him up in some six-million dollar luxury home. The NRA is being investigated for even considering it. Hopefully more stuff like that comes to light and NRA members can see where their "dues" are truly going....
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Blunt, a Missouri Republican, suggested in a statement Thursday the
funding wasn’t required and shouldn’t be included in the Senate version
of the spending bill.
“The reason our committee was so successful
last year is that we made the decision early to not open the bill to
controversial issues,” he said in that statement, citing the House and
Senate’s effort to pass the fiscal 2019 Labor-HHS-Education spending
bill on time. “I’m hopeful we do the same thing this year, which would
mean we wouldn’t change things that have been traditionally in the bill
or attempt to fund partisan priorities.”
Blunt also said, “There has never been a prohibition on HHS doing whatever research they want to do in this area.”
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Add commuting to work or home or just minding your own fucking business as you drive along the freeway to the list of activities and places you need to be thinking about where you might get shot. It’s okay though because Wayne LaPeePupu recommends everyone drive an up armored Humvee. Don’t forget your kids bullet proof backpack when you take them to school and drive the back roads.
Add commuting to work or home or just minding your own fucking business as you drive along the freeway to the list of activities and places you need to be thinking about where you might get shot. It’s okay though because Wayne LaPeePupu recommends everyone drive an up armored Humvee. Don’t forget your kids bullet proof backpack when you take them to school and drive the back roads.
Add commuting to work or home or just minding your own fucking business as you drive along the freeway to the list of activities and places you need to be thinking about where you might get shot. It’s okay though because Wayne LaPeePupu recommends everyone drive an up armored Humvee. Don’t forget your kids bullet proof backpack when you take them to school and drive the back roads.
In Tejas no less. Seems worse than Chicago. Nothing can be done.
Did you read this article?
Yea, I was commenting on the general pervasive number of guns and where they are, who has them and in general, you can’t even drive home from work without being victimized by a “responsible” gun owner. Add to that that bulletproof backpacks are being marketed as a solution to school shootings and you’ve got the greatest country on earth, ‘Murica. And if you look at the gun violence archive, Tejas has a lot of it. Yee haw.
I could have gone to a conference in Houston but I turned it down. I’m not supporting that ass backward state that gives us the likes of ted crud.
Walmart is taking down displays of violent video games in its stores in the wake of recent shootings. But the company plans to still sell the controversial video games -- and guns.
Because voter fraud is so rampant and prevalent that we oughta get a commission to investigate and make sure it’s not happening and doesn’t happen because like you know, illegals cast millions of votes.
Walmart is taking down displays of violent video games in its stores in the wake of recent shootings. But the company plans to still sell the controversial video games -- and guns.
Why bother?
to make it SEEM like you are doing something without actually doing anything
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Walmart is taking down displays of violent video games in its stores in the wake of recent shootings. But the company plans to still sell the controversial video games -- and guns.
Why bother?
to make it SEEM like you are doing something without actually doing anything
You are 1,000% correct. And here’s another whole lotta nothing...”The company will also stop playing violent movies and shows on televisions in its electronics section. It will similarly stop playing hunting videos in its sporting goods section.” it may be time for me to boycott Wal-Mart once again.
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Not to go on a big God rant, but there's nothing dumber than someone saying (as Trump did) that God was on someone's side with they survive something like this for the same reasons you're saying; so God wasn't on the side of the ones that were murdered? Hell, while I type this, a 6-year-old sex-slave is being gang-raped by some businessmen in Taiwan. Where's God for that child?
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These kids didn't buy the guns.
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Blunt, a Missouri Republican, suggested in a statement Thursday the funding wasn’t required and shouldn’t be included in the Senate version of the spending bill.
“The reason our committee was so successful last year is that we made the decision early to not open the bill to controversial issues,” he said in that statement, citing the House and Senate’s effort to pass the fiscal 2019 Labor-HHS-Education spending bill on time. “I’m hopeful we do the same thing this year, which would mean we wouldn’t change things that have been traditionally in the bill or attempt to fund partisan priorities.”
Blunt also said, “There has never been a prohibition on HHS doing whatever research they want to do in this area.”
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In Tejas no less. Seems worse than Chicago. Nothing can be done.
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I could have gone to a conference in Houston but I turned it down. I’m not supporting that ass backward state that gives us the likes of ted crud.
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Walmart pulls violent video game displays but keeping guns
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/business/walmart-violent-video-games/index.html
Walmart is taking down displays of violent video games in its stores in the wake of recent shootings. But the company plans to still sell the controversial video games -- and guns.
Why bother?
Also, you can't hire someone without immigration check legally. So.. you know.. that's bull.
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it may be time for me to boycott Wal-Mart once again.