Just Askin'

[NanceGreggs]

As school shootings are on the rise, Republicans are responding by making firearms easier to obtain.

I'm just wondering if this ties-in to the GOP's position on abortion.

Are Republican lawmakers and elected officials afraid that if there are fewer schoolkids in future, the people they are arming today won't have enough targets tomorrow?

Just askin' ...

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. I think they are obsessed with blastocysts, but after birth? Not so much.

Infants need baby bootstraps to get on in this world.....

[usonian]

2. I view their policies as the result of unholy alliances.

• With business, as always
• With power-hungry "ministers"
• With racism, that powers fascist movements through history, and
• WITH VLAD PUTIN. ... because ...

Whether or not he's been financing the movement through time (his reign, anyway), being a paper tiger military power, he has bad to enlist a fifth column in the U.S. to bring about domestic terrorism, division and general destruction of the government. This benefits nobody in the U.S. other than playing to ignorant people with a death wish, but it benefits Vlad a whole lot. He almost had Ukraine handed to him, and NATO in tatters.

List of "coincidences" here:
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17778690
When you start with the premise that Russia has instigated a campaign of disruption in the U.S. to bolster its aims, ALL the pieces fit together perfectly.

By aiding and abetting war on schoolkids, the GOP is losing an entire generation, and its own existence.
They'll say that it's just "collateral damage" in order to get THEIR dynasty in place.
The message repeats through history, because these unholy alliances gain power through racism, our forever curse.


More here and in Rachel's series
“Democracy in Crisis: We’ve Been Headed Here for Decades.” Part 1of 8
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/6/2044226/-America-2021-The-Good-the-Bad-the-Ugly
Read all 8 to get the "plan" in detail.

[ShazzieB]

4. I agree with all of this.

When it comes to the gun issue, in particular, they are in thrall to the huge campaign contributions they receive from the NRA.

[usonian]

6. Russia infiltrated the NRA, Surprise!

Their agent Maria Butina was convicted of a crime in the states.

https://news.yahoo.com/maria-butina-convicted-russian-spy-150828461.html

Maria Butina, the convicted Russian spy who tried to infiltrate the NRA ...

Mar 24, 2022 Butina pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge and served 15 months in prison before returning to Russia. Maria Butina, a Russian woman convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent before and after the 2016 election, is among the hundreds of Russian lawmakers facing new sanctions from the Biden administration

Below is from my link above. NRA is just one arm of this sabotage operation.

SNIP
When you start with the premise that Russia has instigated a campaign of disruption in the U.S. to bolster its aims, ALL the pieces fit together perfectly.

• The conservative movement took a hard swing right from its Limbaugh days of conservative issues and hate to pure hate and destruction. This coincides with the breakup of the Soviet Union. Anti-Soviet messaging ceased.

• Russia’s economy is extremely oil-dependent. Oil interests control many legislators, and reap massive subsidies and favors.

• Russia is an Orthodox “Christian in name only”, mostly white state. The church blesses nuclear warheads and Putin has declared his intention to expand his White Christian Nationalism.

• Putin wants Ukraine. Arguably, that is the cause of his interference in the 2015 election to install an asset as president and weaken NATO, effectively delivering him Ukraine.

• Bots spread lies and divisive messages to get Americans to fight one another.

• A major news outlet repeatedly praises Putin, when there’s nothing apparent to gain by doing so. On the surface, anyway.

• Russia financed and infiltrated the NRA with the goal of replacing constitutional government with mob rule, and domestic terrorism.

• The abortion issue is just the first volley. They have others at the ready, and are working top-down and bottom-up to destroy constitutional rights, the constitution and the country, and hand it over.

The GOP is Putin's "fifth column" in the U.S.

[sheshe2]

3. They seem to have all the bases covered.

Lots of dead kids, meh. It makes the gun nuts, GOP lawmakers and NRA happy to have easily obtained firearms. Everyone gets a gun while others get their pay offs. Every one of them are happy!

The loss of kids are easily replaced with the abortion and birth control bans. Notice there are no bans for Viagra. So, you have the students replaced and the poor underage kids are available to work in the factories. See Sarah H Sanders newly signed law.

It is a supply and demand kind of thing and they have it covered.

[rubbersole]

5. putin installing a potus...

...is the greatest espionage coup in history. As fucked up as it is for us, it would be hard to top. He's got to be laughing his ass off.