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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
Mon Apr 29, 2019, 05:15 PM Apr 2019

Beto O'Rourke on Synagogue Shooting and Guns at Los Angeles Rally (VIDEO)

Apparently, we will be still be able to keep and bear firelocks, as the US military never issued those-see for
earlier discussion of LA Times article covering the same rally:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1172207897


https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-beto-orourke-los-angeles-rally-20190427-story.html

...“We will also insist and ensure that weapons that were designed and sold to the United States military, with the express purpose of killing people as efficiently as effectively and in as great a number as possible, are kept on the battlefields and are no longer sold in our communities, because they will end up in our synagogues, in our churches, in our mosques and public places.”

The crowd responded with strong applause...




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Beto O'Rourke on Synagogue Shooting and Guns at Los Angeles Rally (VIDEO) (Original Post) friendly_iconoclast Apr 2019 OP
Question: Is he ashamed of his Irish background? oneshooter Apr 2019 #1
Fox has a whole crew of jumped-up gombeen men(women)/Castle Catholics on payroll... friendly_iconoclast Apr 2019 #2
Beto is a common nickname along the border, BaileyBill Apr 2019 #3

oneshooter

(8,614 posts)
1. Question: Is he ashamed of his Irish background?
Mon Apr 29, 2019, 05:26 PM
Apr 2019

He does not want to be called by his true name, Robert Francis O'Rourke.

 

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
2. Fox has a whole crew of jumped-up gombeen men(women)/Castle Catholics on payroll...
Mon Apr 29, 2019, 06:41 PM
Apr 2019

Last edited Wed May 1, 2019, 12:40 AM - Edit history (1)

...and who show up there regularly, so having a good Eirish name means little these days

Personally, I'd go three rounds with any one of the Fox crew's sorry asses...

BaileyBill

(171 posts)
3. Beto is a common nickname along the border,
Mon Apr 29, 2019, 06:45 PM
Apr 2019

and I believe it was given to him to differentiate him from other, older family members named Robert. Nothing at all to do with shame.

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