Politics of Petulance (title renamed to match original post)

[Family 3,988]

Karama …karma 😂

 

Back in 2016, the felon-who-can’t-vote Donald , was laughing when his opponent was hacked . …today, not so much.
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“I love WikiLeaks,” Trump said while campaigning against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in October 2016, after the organization had posted online tens of thousands of emails hacked from the account of Clinton’s campaign chairman. “This WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable,” he said two days later, as the site posted daily troves of internal Clinton campaign emails. “It tells you the inner heart; you gotta read it.”

 

Trump campaign claims it was hacked by 'foreign sources'

Trump’s campaign on Saturday said in a statement it had been hacked.

 

The Trump campaign statement cited a report published by Microsoft on Friday, which said, "In June 2024, Mint Sandstorm—a group run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence unit—sent a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign from a compromised email account of a former senior advisor. The phishing email contained a fake forward with a hyperlink that directs traffic through an actor-controlled domain before redirecting to the listed domain."

 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/election-kamala-harris-donald-trump-vice-president/?id=112568134

[TBoneTX 45,259]

2 hours ago, Family said:

Trump campaign claims it was hacked by 'foreign sources'

Anyone who's celebrating this -- hacking by enemies who would brutally kill all of us with great relish -- needs to consider the objective implications.

[Boiler 45,449]

They are at it again:

 

Ferguson officer ‘fighting for his life,’ several arrested after protests marking 10 years since Michael Brown’s killing

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/10/us/michael-brown-protests-ferguson-missouri/index.html

 

Vote Dem

[Pooky 3,781]

On 8/9/2024 at 6:53 AM, Family said:

 

 

Durbin Reads Out Death Tolls of Deadliest Mass Shootings in Last Decade, Calls on Colleagues to Pass Gun Safety Legislation in Wake of Nashville School Shooting

In speech on the Senate floor, Durbin calls for banning of high capacity magazines, emphasizes horrors of mass shootings

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip ####### Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today took to the Senate floor to discuss the devastating toll of mass shootings and the dangers of failing to implement proper gun safety legislation to regulate the ownership of assault weapons, including AR-15s.  Durbin spoke about the heartbreak the families and community of the Nashville school shooting are feeling after a shooter killed three children and three adults earlier this week.

“The events this week in Nashville, Tennessee, are still fresh in our minds.  The thought that a shooter went on the campus of a Christian school, a school for children, little children, this person who went on that campus blasted her way into the building and then took the lives of three, nine-year-old children and three adults… It is heartbreaking to think that we are reliving this scene over and over again where our children who are sent by their loving parents off to school, lunches in hand, never came home,” Durbin began.  “Never came home.”

 

 

I’m going to read the names of these communities into the record, as they should be,” Durbin continued. “Las Vegas, Nevada, 2017, an AR-15 was used, 60 people were killed… Newton, Connecticut, Sandy Hook Elementary School, 2012.  The shooter had an AR-15.  The shooter killed 27 people, including those beautiful little children.”

“[In Highland Park], Fourth of July, 2022, an AR-15, seven killed, dozens wounded, including an eight-year-old boy who will be paralyzed for life.  These are the realities of the AR-15 as it is being used.  It was designed to do just this, kill massive numbers of people, of human beings,” Durbin emphasized.

 

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/releases/durbin-reads-out-death-tolls-of-deadliest-mass-shootings-in-last-decade-calls-on-colleagues-to-pass-gun-safety-legislation-in-wake-of-nashville-school-shooting

 

But when 19 people died in shootings in Chicago alone over July 4th to July 7th, that’s just another holiday weekend in America. Does the Little ####### say a word about that? No.

 

i apologize if this sounds callous and uncaring, but don’t those 19 American citizens deserve the same level of outrage as any other mass homicide event? Yet those politicians clamouring for gun control say nothing. Why?

 

Because Illinois, and Chicago in particular, has among the strictest gun control laws in the country and they do NOTHING to lower the death rate.

 

I am as anti-gun as you can get, but gun legislation is the coward’s way out of an ongoing crisis in America. Single event mass shooting events are statistically insignificant within the overall rate of death by firearm in America and camouflage the real problem, giving the gun control lobby a way to make it seem like they are doing something, when all they are doing is avoiding what needs to be done to make a real difference.

 

The change needs to be socio-economic, to provide a viable alternative to the current circumstances driving the violence, the hustle and get-rich-quick mentality prevalent where the murder rates are highest. It would be a heavy lift for any politician, because there is no obvious political edge to be gained. It would be unpopular and would take character, dedication and a willingness to risk their political career. Which is why career politicians like Little ####### will do NOTHING to address the real issues.

 

Someone needs to read the names of all the murder victims shot in Chicago, New York, Baltimore, St Louis and all the other cities in the USA over the past decade and ask him what he intends to do to prevent their deaths.

 

His silence would be deafening. Because he benefits by doing NOTHING.

[Family 3,988]

5 hours ago, Pooky said:

I am as anti-gun as you can get

I adore you ! 😇

But America loves its guns, so a total ban is unrealistic….just yet 😂 ..although there are countries that took drastic measures when faces with just one devastating mass massacre . They banned guns…and guess what…no Chicago  weekend shootout-bangers in their land…

 

They still have their bad guys, mind you, just not the loss of human life  to gun violence, as we face daily.

 

‘Statistics do back that up…but unlike war theaters, where strategy has a built in ratio of acceptable casualties , I find it daunting that we still allow assault weapons…when it’s clear as day that loss of life would be exponentially diminished.

 

Yes, the mental health crisis is real, it’s big and sadly not a social discussion. Shoul be, 

 

 

[Family 3,988]

When I read this, I shook  my head in disbelief 

 

‘’Has anyone noticed that Kamala CHEATED at the airport? There was nobody at the plane, and she ‘A.I.’d’ it, and showed a massive ‘crowd’ of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST! She

 

• The Republican presidential nominee claimed the crowd at the airport hangar “DIDN’T EXIST” and that “nobody was there” in multiple posts to his Truth Social platform, sharing a post from a right-wing former congressional candidate known for spreading misinformation

 

• The crowd did in fact exist and the rally was attended by thousands of people, many of whom posted their own pictures and videos of the event, which was also live streamed by dozens of news channels and attended by a slew of prominent politicians

• While some AI-generated photos and videos have been circulated in right-wing corners of social media, it appears the photo Trump posted was in fact real, though it’s possible it was digitally edited
• https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2024/08/11/trump-kamala-harris-michigan-rally-ai

[Pooky 3,781]

18 minutes ago, Family said:

‘Statistics do back that up…but unlike war theaters, where strategy has a built in ratio of acceptable casualties , I find it daunting that we still allow assault weapons…when it’s clear as day that loss of life would be exponentially diminished.

“Assault weapons”, which no Democrat can accurately define, according to the last statistics I saw published, account for just under 3% of total gun-related fatalities. An assault weapon ban will not move the needle on the overall fatality rate.

 

And the argument that they didn’t have those back when the 2nd Amendment was drafted is specious at best. The amendment was drafted to enable the populace to resist a tyrannical government. In order to do so, the populace would need parity with those weapons in use by the government. An AR15 is so overmatched in that context that no sane individual should object to their possession by civilians.

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Chicago shootings: At least 31 shot in weekend gun violence across city, police say

 

https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-gun-violence-police/15173159/

 

[Dashinka 24,481]

On 8/10/2024 at 8:09 PM, Family said:

Karama …karma 😂

 

Back in 2016, the felon-who-can’t-vote Donald , was laughing when his opponent was hacked . …today, not so much.
‘
“I love WikiLeaks,” Trump said while campaigning against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in October 2016, after the organization had posted online tens of thousands of emails hacked from the account of Clinton’s campaign chairman. “This WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable,” he said two days later, as the site posted daily troves of internal Clinton campaign emails. “It tells you the inner heart; you gotta read it.”

 

 

Trump campaign claims it was hacked by 'foreign sources'

Trump’s campaign on Saturday said in a statement it had been hacked.

 

The Trump campaign statement cited a report published by Microsoft on Friday, which said, "In June 2024, Mint Sandstorm—a group run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence unit—sent a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign from a compromised email account of a former senior advisor. The phishing email contained a fake forward with a hyperlink that directs traffic through an actor-controlled domain before redirecting to the listed domain."

 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/election-kamala-harris-donald-trump-vice-president/?id=112568134

It seems quite clear that the Iranians would prefer a Democrat in the WH so they can keep getting money to fund our enemies.

[Dashinka 24,481]

13 hours ago, Family said:

I adore you ! 😇

But America loves its guns, so a total ban is unrealistic….just yet 😂 ..although there are countries that took drastic measures when faces with just one devastating mass massacre . They banned guns…and guess what…no Chicago  weekend shootout-bangers in their land…

 

They still have their bad guys, mind you, just not the loss of human life  to gun violence, as we face daily.

 

‘Statistics do back that up…but unlike war theaters, where strategy has a built in ratio of acceptable casualties , I find it daunting that we still allow assault weapons…when it’s clear as day that loss of life would be exponentially diminished.

 

Yes, the mental health crisis is real, it’s big and sadly not a social discussion. Shoul be, 

 

 

What is an "assault weapon"?  Is a knife an assault weapon?  A hammer? An automobile?  I know, all of those have other functions, but they can certainly be used to assault and batter or even kill someone.  My other question is why are Democrats so against self defense?  Who will come to your aid if for some reason you need it?  The police Democrats want to rid of of?  Police are now a reactionary force as any preventative policing has been described as racist by you guessed it Democrats.

 

Yes, mental health is a major issue, and if you dig into the details of the majority of the mass shootings you will find most of them are committed by people on antipsychotic drugs.  Maybe Rudy was right about broken windows, but by following the Democrat path of letting things like mass shoplifting off with nothing, not even a slap on the wrist, people will become more brazen, and personal protection will become a necessity.  I never felt the need to own a gun, but now I am re-thinking that mentality with how the Democrats and their "progressive" ideals are leading us to ruin.

[Boiler 45,449]

It is an odd term

 

For example a stone can be used as a weapon and if you use it as such it is an assault.

[Dashinka 24,481]

8 minutes ago, Boiler said:

It is an odd term

 

For example a stone can be used as a weapon and if you use it as such it is an assault.

I imagine I could use my carbon fibre walking stick as an assault weapon if necessary.

[Pooky 3,781]

6 hours ago, Boiler said:

Chicago shootings: At least 31 shot in weekend gun violence across city, police say

 

https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-gun-violence-police/15173159/

 

So, it was a quiet weekend in Chi-town, then? I just wish I was being ironic. 🙁

[Boiler 45,449]

My Granny used a swagger stick from the Boer War very effectively

[Family 3,988]