Chris Murphy FTW

[Nevilledog]

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Chris Murphy
@ChrisMurphyCT
FYI 32 people were shot yesterday in three mass shootings and when Congress returns to work on Monday half the members elected to protect the country won't give a shit.
10:39 AM · Jun 12, 2021

BONUS Brian Schatz

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Brian Schatz
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I think it’s kind of an underrated fact that the animating forces right now on the right are 1) banning certain ideas from being taught 2) overturning elections.
11:05 AM · Jun 12, 2021

[flying_wahini]

1. Yep; they ONLY care when it is one of their own.

[TNNurse]

3. well, Scalise did not die but he might have

and that did not even change him. There is no sanity in it.

[MurrayDelph]

5. If then

Steve Scalise got shot by a crazy person with a gun, and when he got out of the hospital he comforted the "true victim": the NRA.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. Dick Cheney shot a friend while bird hunting with a shotgun.

After he got out of the hospital, the friend apologized to Cheney for getting in the way of his fun.

[Wounded Bear]

2. K & R...nt

[SergeStorms]

4. Gotta' protect gun nuts and the NRA.

That's what republicans see as their solemn duty.

Constituents' lives.........not so much.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. And also prevent a woman's right to choose.

Gotta protect those zygotes, y'know. How else are you gonna keep a woman from getting uppity?

[SergeStorms]

15. Yes!

Because if there's anyone who knows what's best for a woman, her mind and her body, it's a group of old white "christian" men.

[lookyhereyou]

18. who need more consumers , cannon fodder low wage slaves.

population bomb on deteriorating environment no problem

nothing to see here.

[BobTheSubgenius]

6. Chris Murphy is RIGHT on the money with that.

Mr. Schatz is also quite correct, although the meaning of "underrated" has to be stretched a bit to be of full use here. "Underreported" and "underdiscussed" are two others that have to be part and parcel of "underrated."

[Midnight Writer]

7. "Underacknowledged" fits. It's like being in denial. Everybody knows but few admit it.

[BobTheSubgenius]

17. That's it!

"Everybody knows that!" So...why isn't something being done?

[Alice Kramden]

8. Half of Congress is pursuing our doom

As individuals and as a country

[Katinfl]

11. My husband has been saying for years

Since Newtown that the only way anything will be done is if a gunman somehow opens fire in Congress and kills a few of them. That is a horrible thought and I have told him so many times, but I am afraid he may be right. Kind of like the only way we will finally, totally be done with the FG is when he is no more. I am hoping for natural causes.

[ShazzieB]

14. I fear your husband may be right.

But I would alter that prediction to say that even a gunman opening fire in Congress might not work unless he kills a few Republicans.

The Democrats don't need to be convinced, and the Republicans won't care if he only takes out Dems.

[ladym55]

12. The Senator from CT has had it

As one of the people who had to sit with the Newtown parents on that gawdawful day, Chris Murphy has been fighting for common sense gun legislation ever since.

I just read his book The Violence Inside Us a month ago. Highly recommend.

[onecaliberal]

13. If we had an actual media, that fact might get reported to Americans.

[czarjak]

16. If you ain't cussin', you ain't payin' attention!!!