STOP IT! Stop Saying "We" or "Americans" or "Congress"... Start F*cking Saying "REPUBLICANS"!

[babylonsister]

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STOP IT! Stop Saying "We" or "Americans" or "Congress"... Start F*cking Saying "REPUBLICANS"!
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Wednesday May 25, 2022 · 11:40 AM EDT


This is a short diary but I am fucking pissed with the ongoing carnage and fucking furious with the ongoing shitty media coverage, the generic words of our Democratic leaders, and the generic words of anyone in front of a fucking camera.

Say the fucking word “Republican”. In his moving rant, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy did not once say the fucking word “Republican” and lay the blame for lack of action at their feet. Nope. He said “we” 50 times as if Democrats are as much to blame for the lack of action on the gun issue.

I watch two hours of Chris Hayes on MSNBC last night and he too danced around saying the word Republican. He implied Republican by saying, “One party wants to do something about guns the other does not” a dozen different ways as if EVERYONE knows. Same thing with nearly every one of his guests wringing their hands using a bunch of generic speak. Only one Democratic guest actually CALLED OUT THE FUCKING REPUBLICANS by name.

The American people need the repetition of THIS IS THE FAULT OF THE REPUBLICANS beaten into the fucking heads so there is zero question about the differences between our two parties.

snip//

Say it right. Say their fucking name, Republican.

Stop with the weak-ass generic speak, “Americans have a gun problem.”

No. It is Republicans who have a gun problem. Republicans accept this carnage. Republicans refuse to join Democrats to pass common sense legislation.

It is not “we”. It is not “Americans”. It is not “Congress”. It is not “Government”. It is not “our leaders need to do something”. No. Knock it the fuck off.

This is 100% the fault of Republicans at every level of Government and it is long past time to take off the fucking gloves and rub their fucking faces in their blood-soaked mess.

[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[SharonAnn]

52. And it is MEN who are doing the killing, usually YOUNG MEN!

[Ellen Forradalom]

62. And men need to step up to address it

Too often I hear the word “people” applied in a situation of men’s making.

[FalloutShelter]

2. K&R

THIS x 1M

[betsuni]

3. Have been happy at least a few news stories have said it's Republicans.

[DENVERPOPS]

31. Hell,

the respected Basketball Coach's rant went off on the Republicans and he even included naming Mitch McConnell directly as well as the entire Republican U.S. Senate. And he directly blamed them for the situation we are now in...

His three minute rant at a press conference was incredibly excellent and VERY emotional.

[Beartracks]

67. I've heard that, too, like it's just 50 random Senators or something.

There must be SOMETHING that ties such tone-deaf, power-hungry, self-serving blowhards together. Hmm... What could it be?? I wonder... Hmmmm...

[DENVERPOPS]

74. In all truthfulness.....

It was 52 Senators, we can't forget the two Dem Senators that are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Republican Party......

back to the old adage: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

[Walleye]

4. How about this one? "Congress is gridlocked"

[Beartracks]

66. That is aggravating. It's not gridlicked; it's being roadblocked by Republicans, period.

[barbtries]

5. that's what i do,

every chance i get. it is almost shocking how well our fucked up media has worked to convince people that there are 2 lousy parties and not just the one that is fucking up EVERYTHING. deliberately! and has been for decades!!

i feel that frustration. another pet peeve: calling anti abortionist pro forced birth women haters "pro life" - i call it out every chance i get. that's gotta go.

[agingdem]

46. referring to Trump's never-ending vomit of lies as

untruths, exaggerations, falsehoods..but never LIES...

[sprinkleeninow]

60. misspoke, or was just kidding

[BumRushDaShow]

6. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

And this needs to happen on DU too.

I was screaming at the radio news this morning demanding they "SAY 'REPUBLICAN'" when they were reporting on the PA State House vote of 111 - 87 AGAINST a bill banning assault-style rifles and any other semi-automatic weapons in the state.

SAY THEIR NAME - REPUBLICANS.

Pa. House votes against taking up gun bill after Texas school shooting

By Associated Press May 25, 2022


An effort by Democratic lawmakers in Pennsylvania to ban owning, selling or making high-capacity, semi-automatic firearms went nowhere Wednesday as state House Republicans again displayed their firm opposition to gun restriction proposals. The state House of Representatives voted 111-87 against the effort by Democratic Rep. Danielle Friel Otten of Chester County to take up the bill after Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff argued it should have to go through a committee first.

The bill has spent more than a year in the Judiciary Committee, where Chairman Rob Kauffman, R-Franklin, has bottled up most proposals to regulate or restrict firearms. During floor debate, Otten said the massacre of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday created a “moral obligation to act, today, before this happens one more time.”

Minority Leader Joanna McClinton, D-Philadelphia, listed communities across Pennsylvania that have recently been the site of gun violence. The bill would not apply retroactively and result in people losing firearms they already lawfully bought, McClinton said.

Benninghoff, R-Centre, responded that because of the “magnitude” of the proposal it “needs to be vetted through the committee process” so that lawmakers can “get it right.”

(snip)

https://whyy.org/articles/pa-house-votes-against-taking-up-gun-bill-after-texas-school-shooting/

These JACKASSES say - "it needs to go through a Committee" while it IS in the damn Committee and sits with nothing done with it.

[plimsoll]

7. As the spouse of a teacher and parent.

The scariest 8 words in the English language are “I’m from the GOP, I’m here to help.” It’s been their winning formula for decades. Their motto seems to be, “It’s not broken but we can fix that.” Do they ever ask themselves if they’re better off now than they were 42 years ago?

[niyad]

8. KNR plus a gazillion.

[markie]

9. yes, however

who elects these Republicans?

granted, right this very moment, 50 Republicans are to blame and could do something.... but, for decades citizens have elected Republicans knowing they would do nothing about guns and continue to do so

[3Hotdogs]

10. That is now my signature line.

[dalton99a]

11. Absolutely.

[MiHale]

12. KnR

[ecstatic]

13. My thoughts exactly! Start calling the fuckers out by name.

That's why low information voters are so confused. Democrats are way too nice in the face of all the atrocities that republicans are committing daily. Call them out!!

[Aviation91]

14. THANK YOU!

It is absolutely the Republicans in the Congress and Senate! When will people get it through their heads that trying to appeal to their conscious is totally useless! They just don't give a dam! If they don't do anything when white children are slaughtered, they don't give a shit about 21 Hispanics slaughtered even though that includes 19 children!!!
None of these Republicans care because "their" children are safe in school! These mass murders have only happened to "us" not their circle of family and friends!
The ONLY way they will understand our outrage and pain is, heaven forbid, it happens to them!!

[JT45242]

15. AMEN -- heard Stephen A Smith on satellite spouting both sides BS about Coach Kerr

Every single person in the media and in real life needs to say it -- Because Republicans in the Senate will not even allow a vote on the law, this is happening.

Because Republicans in the Senate will not allow a vote, there is no searchable database for guns that law enforcement can use. (A red flag trigger ought to happen for anyone who buys 2 AR-15s in rapid succession).

Because Republicans in the Senate will not allow a vote, there is no assault weapons ban.

Because Republicans in the Senate will not allow a vote, there is no magazine capacity limit.

Because Republicans in the Senate will not allow a vote, there is no law preventing people convicted of domestic violence from getting a gun.

we could go on... we could also add. Virtually every Republican in the House voted against every single gun control measure supported by the overwhelming majority of Americans.

This is not a 'government' problem. It is a problem of Republicans who have been bought and sold by the NRA.
[link:https://elections.bradyunited.org/take-action/nra-donations-116th-congress-senators|

https://elections.bradyunited.org/take-action/nra-donations-116th-congress-senators

Mitt Romney (UT)$13,647,676; Richard Burr (NC)$6,987,380; Roy Blunt (MO)$4,555,722; Thom Tillis (NC)$4,421,333; Cory Gardner (CO)$3,939,199; Marco Rubio (FL)$3,303,355; Joni Ernst (IA)$3,124,773; Rob Portman (OH)$3,063,327; Todd C. Young (IN)$2,897,582; Bill Cassidy (LA)$2,867,074; David Perdue (GA)$2,002,462; Tom Cotton (AR)$1,968,714; Pat Roberts (KS)$1,581,153; Pat Toomey (PA)$1,475,448; Josh Hawley (MO)$1,391,548; Marsha Blackburn (TN)$1,306,130; Ronald Harold "Ron" Johnson (WI)$1,269,486; Mitch McConnell (KY)$1,267,139; Mike Braun (IN)$1,249,967; John Thune (SD)$638,942; Shelley Moore Capito (WV)$341,738; Martha McSally (AZ)$303,853; Richard Shelby (AL)$258,514961; Chuck Grassley (IA)$226,007; John Neely Kennedy (LA)$215,788; Ted Cruz (TX)$176,274; Lisa Murkowski (AK)$146,262; Johnny Isakson (GA)$131,571; Steve Daines (MT)$123,711; Cindy Hyde-Smith (MS)$109,547; Roger Wicker (MS)$106,680; Rand Paul (KY)$104,456;

[sop]

40. Manchin and Sinema are the reasons this ubiquitous "both sides BS" can be spouted.

[BumRushDaShow]

47. That shouldn't make any difference when you have 46 Democrats and 2 Independents IN SUPPORT

and 50 Republicans AGAINST anything that is "common sense", although supposedly in this case, Teabagger Toomey had drafted his own "gun control" bill with Manchin some time ago, so the potential is for "only" 49 Republicans AGAINST.

Why not "both sides" it when Collins and Murkowski and sometimes Romney "break ranks"?

(btw not an attack on you but just me ranting )

[Magoo48]

16. But, it is we!

Until massive grassroots pressure is applied, nothing will be done. Every school must organize. Parents must pull their kids from schools until something is done, not discussed, but done.

Our unwillingness to be inconvenienced, to act, will be our final downfall.

[Samrob]

17. Kick!

[wiggs]

18. Do I remember correctly that the GOP passed legislation PROHIBITING fed agencies

from even STUDYING gun related violence?

We are hamstrung from even understanding the dynamics of the problem....going to be even harder to come up with effective solutions.

Come on dems...talk about that please.

[JT45242]

21. It is a funding block

If anyone at an institution does research on it, you can risk losing all NIH and NSF funding for your university

[Escurumbele]

19. You are 100% correct but, in Chris Murphy's defense he wants to bring the "other" side to

negotiate. Would I be so political correct knowing these assholes don't care and won't come to negotiate? No, I would do what you are saying should be done, shame the SOBs so that maybe, maybe, they will start negotiating, but nonetheless I believe that is why Chris Murphy refrained from doing what he, and every Democrat, should do which is exactly what you are saying.

[Hotler]

20. Yes. And start calling them fascist also. nt

[luvs2sing]

22. And maybe, instead of..

calling them Senator X or Governor Z, we replace those titles of honor with “Childkiller”.

Childkiller Cruz.

Childkiller Abbott

Childkiller McConnell

[AnnetteChaffee]

23. AGREE 100%

Attach their party to this because it is NOT BOTH SIDES. It is one side, one mindset. And it is evil and should have a bright light shining on it.

Most importantly - people MUST VOTE.

Lives depend on it - its that critical.

How many children have to die?
How many adults?
How many humans?

Annette in God Help Me Florida

[dlk]

24. Republicans are obsessed w/pregnancy & childbirth, yet do nothing re the slaughter of schoolchildren

How corrupt and perverted is that? Democrats have a moral obligation to clearly point out this ugly truth at every opportunity. This is war; Republicans have essentially declared war on every America’s freedom to be safe, anywhere, at any time from the threat of gun violence. They are holding our country hostage and our children are paying the price.

[Wounded Bear]

25. K & R...nt

[Fla Dem]

26. Totally agree. Drives me crazy when they or a Democratic Legislator doesn't specify REPUBLICANS.

The gun loving, corporate bed partners, career protecting rethugs never hesitate for a minute to point a finger at the Democrats. Time to stop the niceties and call the traitorist party by name. REPUBLICANS! Say it loud, say it clear!

Say 'em loud say 'em clear
For the whole wide world to hear

(I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be) Free / One
Song by Lighthouse Family

[Emile]

27. Thank you! This needs to be said over and over! I

was pretty upset the other day when I saw an opening post blaming a couple progressive politicians, I had to trash that thread because it was making me sick!

[Captain Zero]

28. #NRABloodMoney #BloodSoakedRepublicans

Use those tags.

[world wide wally]

29. Nailed it!

[Lonestarblue]

30. I share your anger at the media--all media, though some are worse than others.

I posted the comment below this morning on a WaPo article. We never look at the cultivation of hate and anger in this country solely so Republicans can keep people stirred up and voting for them. Until we do something about the sources of Republican lies and hate, we cannot stop gun violence.

The media is part of the cause for gun carnage in the US. Some media does its utmost to spread hatred and anger among its viewers (Fox) and listeners (hate radio), preaching about nonexistent issues to rile up people in favor of Republicans—fake issues like loss of religious freedom, schools grooming kids to be LGBTQ, women having abortions upon birth, minorities taking jobs from white people, immigrants illegally in the US living off welfare, and on and on. Anything to stir up the anger.

Other media like WaPo fail to call out the contributing factors that lead people to commit mass murders, most of whom are not mentally ill before they commit murder, but that has become a handy excuse for Republicans to do nothing. The media does not call out Republicans and name then for spreading lies that create anger and hatred. Republican Party leaders also spread lies and do nothing to stop the conspiracies. A good example is Alex Jones, who spread the lie that Hillary Clinton was operating a sex trafficking ring from a pizza restaurant in DC. One of his listeners traveled to the restaurant with his assault rifle to rescue the children. Of course there were no children because it was a big lie. Such lies are spread daily on hate radio, a big source of fake news but many colleges support hate radio by paying them to broadcast sports events.

Robert Bowers murdered 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue because he believed lies about Jews. White supremacists marched in Charlottesville chanting, “Jews will not replace us” and murdered an innocent woman there. These actions result from anger and hatred deliberately created through lies by media personalities, social media, internet conspiracy sites, hate radio hosts and a slew of others because we have no meaningful regulation of such sources and because business leaders continue supporting them with advertising dollars. We need to restore and revise the Fairness Doctrine that Reagan killed and that started the rise of extremist right-wing media.

It will be only a matter of days before the next mass shooting because we as a country are awash in guns, hatred, and anger. What we do not have are people willing to look at those causes and do something about them.

[GoodRaisin]

32. Yes. America has "a Republican problem".

The continued murders are a "Republican problem". Our "news" media needs to speak up, but they are a bunch of cowards.

[AllyCat]

33. Well, the GOP +2

[MagickMuffin]

34. Basketball Coach Steve Kerr isn't afraid to lay the blame where it's deserved

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=33978954

[birdographer]

35. This is precisely what I was thinking

before I got out of bed this morning. Almost the exact words. This is what republicans do, this is who they are. I'm so sick of hearing about how we should try to get along and mend the divide. Hell, no. I also won't try to be besties with a serial killer or animal abuser or any other cretin. These are not Americans. These are psychotics.

[d_b]

36. "The Republican Supreme Court"

[marieo1]

37. Total Agreement

I agree 100%............I also believe NRA needs to be charged and dismantled. Wayne LaPier has pushed NRA and guns for years so he can ride around in his fancy yacht!! All involved with the NRA need to be arrested and charged with murder. I wonder how many politicians (republicans) are getting kick backs from NRA!! This needs to be investigated! It's no more 'Oh, gee, it's fun to own guns," - now they are murder weapons.........

[BigmanPigman]

38. Jimmy Kimmel called out the Repubs last night

in a long speech to the camera without an audience.

[GoCubsGo]

42. They did so on "Good Morning America" this morning, as well. So did Stephen Colbert.

Both George Stephanopolous and one of their reporters both specifically called out the Republicans as the reason no sensible gun legislation can get passed. It's about damn time.

Stephen has been going at them for two days. Of course, he goes after Jabba the Gut, Cruz, and others on a regular basis.

[BigmanPigman]

43. Good!!!

[Trust_Reality]

39. Damn right!

Republican politicians are a bunch of greedy self-serving bastards.

Incidentally, any human being who owns an assault weapon and has either a heart or a brain should send their killing machine to Ukraine to help defend against Russian soldiers. Better yet, take it there yourself. You enjoy using a killing machine? Go use it there.

[BlueJac]

41. Agree 100%

[YoshidaYui]

44. Republicans RICH white supremacists

TOTALLY. fuck REPUBICANS! FUCK TRUMP, FUCK Greg Abbott, FUCK RED STATE GOVERNORS... fuck THE REPUBLICAN Senate... THEY ALL HOLDING this country back

[llashram]

45. exactly

It's all a distraction from the start of dealing with the gun madness that grips this nation. Thank you for being real...

[Martin68]

48. +1,000,000

[UTUSN]

49. K&R

[AmBlue]

50. 1000+++!!!

Absolutely time that REPUBLICANS are named and shamed.

[sciencescience]

51. I've thought this to myself many times and not just on gun control

[AllaN01Bear]

53. and nra.

[samsingh]

54. 1000 %

[The Grand Illuminist]

56. Republicans should not be called or treated as FELLOW AMERICANS.

nt

[librechik]

57. Thank you! I've been saying this all day!

Republicans are the ONLY ONES blocking progress on this and any issue. We have to say their names. It's not "partisan" if it's true!

[concretebluetwo]

58. Hell to the yeah

It is way beyond time to drop the niceties.

[live love laugh]

59. DUH. THIS ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾

[JudyM]

61. McConnell wised up and is now in favor or a bipartisan solution. We need to be *trumpeting*

the truth. This should be a HUGE and PESISTENT talking point for us before they cloud the issue with their tripe.

David Hogg was on MSNBC talking about both sides…. that it’s Dems’ fault too because we have Congress and haven’t gotten anything done. Is he ignorant or did someone put those words in his mouth?! We need to grab the narrative and work it till people get that this is what republicans are about.

[whathehell]

64. THANK You!.

I've been saying this for a long time.

[Beartracks]

65. Yes, please. For example, "Congress" isn't the problem; it's "Republicans in Congress."

At the heart of every societal problem, you'll find Republicans.

==========

[empedocles]

73. Republican gun supporters everywhere'

[bucolic_frolic]

68. Carnage is a profitable growth industry and helps control the population .nt

[Evolve Dammit]

69. Excellent point

[SunSeeker]

70. K & R

[BlueIdaho]

71. End "BothSiderIsm"

Name names and identify party affiliation. “Republican Gym Jordan is a sexual deviant.”

[The Wizard]

72. Republicans see anyone not Republican

as a mortal enemy that must be eliminated. This divisive brain poisoning goes directly to Rupert Murdoch who made a fortune fracturing the the bond that once held this country together.