Gavin Newsom calls out Sen. Marsha Blackburn

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Link to tweet

[WarGamer]

1. that's MY Gov...

[LoisB]

3. Mine too. I hope she's not stupid enough to respond.

[housecat]

19. Oh she's stupid enough x10

[LoisB]

22. You're right.

[GoodRaisin]

21. She is.

[BlueKota]

8. We need more like him.

Willing to stand up and call the magotts out the moment they spout their ignorant crap & hypocrisy, instead of always being concerned about the optics of taking the "moral high ground, and good manners." It's time to start calling the assholes, assholes, loudly, often, publicly, and directly to their face.

[Magoo48]

12. Mine too.

[paleotn]

15. Good governor.

[Meadowoak]

2. Marsha Blackburn is a condescending phony hateful bit*h

[Funtatlaguy]

4. No she's worse that that. Completely vile

[Meadowoak]

5. +1

[ShazzieB]

7. Amen to this.

She's a condescending, phony, hateful, vile, disgusting hypocrite!

[Uncle Joe]

28. She is totally corporate. n/t

[peppertree]

30. And how

I knew of a Clarksville physician who criticized her, and "mysteriously" ended up on Bush's no-fly list.

She (the doctor) did a lot of charitable work in the third world, which of course required her to fly often.

My understanding was that before long, she was removed from the list - she had no doubt who was behind it.

Now - can you imagine the Marsh Thing as President?

She'd make Elena Ceausescu look like Jill Biden.

[JanLip]

6. Phony

Is exactly right. I live in Tennessee and she is the worst of the worst. I really can’t think of anything nice to say about her. I will never vote for someone like her ever.

[Thunderbeast]

9. FU Marsha!

and all of your anmosexual friends.

Praying to your sky-god for comfort will NOT change the fact that these children and their caregivers will never see another sunset, will never smile at their mothers, spouses, or neighbors again.

Your cynical political calculus values your own power over innocent lives.

[NoMoreRepugs]

10. Reading some of the comments from the Deplorable rabble on Twitter makes me shake my head

and wonder what will it take to wake these buffoons up.

[NullTuples]

18. Honestly I think it would either take...

...them being systematically discriminated against & magically gaining empathy.

or,

it would take rebuilding the legal and social restrictions that once kept people within the bounds of healthy social behavior to a higher degree than now. As our nation stands now, most of them have been systematically torn down over the last 10-15 years. Thus allowing GOP supporters to act like selfish children.

Imagine if we had a big enough movement promoting values like love, generosity, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-ableism, etc., etc.. It's a tall order though, as they are getting increasingly more radical supportive messaging from both their political and religious leaders.

[housecat]

20. Vote them out whether woke or awake or not

[PatSeg]

24. I figure at the rate that gun violence

is escalating, eventually pretty much everyone in the country will have been affected by a mass shooting. Do these heartless monsters have to lose a child, grandchild, spouse, sibling, or parent before they realize the need for sensible legislation is urgent? Because it is obvious they are totally incapable of empathy. If it doesn't happen to them, then it isn't their concern.

[Journeyman]

11. Let's give some "thoughts and prayers" for Marsha Blackburn resigning . . .

[Farmer-Rick]

13. She is my Senator

And it's embarrassing the crap she does.

I can't believe TN voted for the idiot.

[peppertree]

31. I lived in Mi'ssippi for several years

Not far from Memphis.

I can almost hear some of the Republicans in that area:

"I dunno much about her politics - but I do like the sound of her name!"

[independent think]

14. They Really Don't Care.

I agree with Newsom. These Congressional representatives who tell you how sorry they are about the shootings of children really don’t care. If they did they would take actions to try to stop this from happening. They always say their prayers are with these poor parents. Their prayers mean nothing. They really don’t care. These killings go on and on. Nothing changes. Newsom cares. He has children. The rest I don’t know how they sleep at night.

[paleotn]

16. Marsha Blackburn doesn't give...

a good goddamn. She could care less. Another Repuke, Steve Scalise, was shot and damn near killed by a mass shooter, and STILL lives comfortably in the NRA's back pocket. I don't understand these people.

[NullTuples]

17. He's a keeper. I hope he runs for even higher office at a time where he could be most effective.

By that latter bit, I mean a Democratic administration or two *after* the GOP's un-American, un-democratic obstructionist mechanisms have been blocked or dismantled. He'd be really good in that fight as well, but Dems have a habit of sitting back when we have power & "reaching across the aisle" a bit too much for my taste. As California has shown, he tends to use it as a chance to push the needle to the left, hard.

[CTyankee]

25. In the meantime, I and my loved ones all live in beautiful blue states (w/one exception that is

acceptable). One family is in CA and I couldn't be happier. Another family is in MA, and there is another in NY.

[NullTuples]

33. Same here - everyone we care about is here in California.

[republianmushroom]

23. like it

What a hypocrite Blackburn is. You maybe heart broken Marsha, but that NRA money
is healing it and you want more of it.

[Maraya1969]

26. They need to start, including the word "safety" in common sense

Gun laws. We have to emphasize that these regulations are to protect the safety of our citizens, and most especially our youngest ones.

[Uncle Joe]

27. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Yo Mama Been Loggin

[usonian]

29. She's not alone.

[Paper Roses]

32. This picture makes me sick. As do all the repubs who do not support reform.

Is it just the money that keeps these repub idiots from passing some laws against gun reform? I am having trouble trying to figure out why these pro-gun people feel there is no need for long overdue change. I bet if some poor member in their family was a victim, there would be a quick change of position.

Whenever I see a picture of some gun-toting idiot with his gun on his hip as he walks around, I want to scream. As to the military weapons..they should be confiscated.
To the states which allow this, shame. I hope you never come close to a tragedy like all of those this past year.
As I remember from the news yesterday, there have been 135 mass shootings since March this year. How disgusting is that?

[usonian]

34. It seems to have gotten wired into their "platform" even before that degenerated into a fascist cult

Perhaps politicians live in fear of losing those gun-lover votes.
No other country seems to have been so spellbound by the arms industry.

I've been posting this or similar today.

In response to:
https://democraticunderground.com/100217770189
School Shootings Are The Front Lines Of The GOP War On Kids


https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17770314
They're trying to hold off a demographic tide.
In the short term, "energize the base", a minority who are trying to cheat their way to power.

But they are selling away the future.

Such is the nature of greed. It's alway short-sighted and destructive.

In an earlier post I made today:

Gun fanatics live lives of fear.

Florence Shinn, in her book "The Game of Life and How to Play it" says:

Fear is inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

And that "man attracts what he fears"

Gun fanatics live lives of fear, rather than faith.

They will be enlightened sooner or later, and perhaps the ministers of fear, including Rupert Moloch, will get their due.

But we can all set an example of living in hope rather than fear.
And raise a wave of public opinion.
Politicians live by votes and bucks.
Despite dirty tricks, (i.e. bucks buying votes) votes do count more.
At some point, people will reach some kind of tipping point that can't be countered by the propaganda mills and lobbyist$.