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28 Tuesday Mar 2023

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Thoughts and prayers? Prayers and thoughts? Good enough, apparently.

Yesterday:

Erin Hahn @erinhahn_author
Please stop acting like arming teachers is the answer. You don’t even trust us to pick out books for your children.
1:17 PM · Mar 27, 2023

A response:

Not to mention that anyone who has ever worked in a school knows FOR SURE that the teachers who would happily volunteer are that last people we’d want to have a gun in the school.

Yesterday:

David Hogg @davidhogg111
Senator Blackburn took $1.25 million from the NRA.
[….]
12:53 PM · Mar 27, 2023

Responses:

I’m sending her a check today.

America is a gun.

Where does it say that he like to see kids die??

Yesterday:

Mark Alford @markalfordkc
Out to lunch… and ice cream. Sad.
[….]
7:37 PM · Mar 27, 2023

Some responses:

Did I miss your statement about today’s tragedy in Nashville and what your plan is to stop school shootings?

Mark has done exactly zero things to help Americans, zero

What’s your plan to prevent more school shootings then?

What have you done to stop the murder of our children?

Is it getting a little warm in here, or is it just me?

[….] from the party of “thoughts and prayers” that’s pretty rich.

What are you doing for American children Mark?

So, Mark, please elaborate – what are your proposals to end senseless gun violence?
I’ll wait for your response.

You are really solving problems out there chief

You’re just gonna have to forgive me for not buyin’ your bullshit feigned outrage.

Do you have any solutions, congressman, or are you just flapping your gums?

You’re nuts. This wasn’t a press conference about the shooting. This was initially for a women’s small business function.

Yes you and you’re partisan bullshit is sad.

You were a hack on the news & preyed upon rural folks for votes. Gfy. Everyone in KC knows you’re a mook & an embarrassment.

Go on puppet, rattle off some more dumb shit.

What do you plan to do to make it better Mark? Alwsys wondered what plans you have to help or you just another Twitter dipshit?

Two weeks ago:

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Rep. Eric Burlison @RepEricBurlison
BREAKING: I’m excited to announce Fresh Freedom, a podcast cohosted by myself, @RepBrecheen, @RepEliCrane, @RepLuna, & @RepOgles.

Join 5 freshmen representatives as we give you a behind the scenes look inside the People’s House!

Links to Fresh Freedom available below.
5:03 PM · Mar 13, 2023

Andy Ogles (r) represents the 5th Congressional District in Tennessee.

What will they all talk about next?

Yesterday:

Rep. Andy Ogles @RepOgles
UPDATE: In light of the tragic losses at Covenant School today, this telephone town hall is being postponed until April 11th. More details to follow.

For now, please join me in continuing to pray for all those involved and impacted by this senseless violence.
5:08 PM · Mar 27, 2023

Some of the responses:

Cooooooowwwwwwwwaaaaarrrrrrrddddddddd

It’s time for you to take responsibility for your actions and rethink your choices.

This would’ve been the perfect day to hear from your constituents. Ogly.

Wouldn’t today be one of those days you’d WANT to hear your constituents? [….]

be a grown up and talk to your constituents.

Save your thoughts and prayers. Do something about the guns.

I’m assuming you’re not interested in what we have to say.

That Christmas card photo you took to own the Libs was pretty hilarious wasn’t it?

You’re part of the problem. You. Personally. Are part of the reason this happened.

You glorify guns on your Christmas card. Please visit with the victims’ families tonight and explain why you do so – why you celebrate a Christian holiday with weapons meant for murder.

Are you afraid about what people are going to say to you?

Topics for your next town hall – 1) Lying about educational credentials, 2) Where did the $25K go supposedly for a burial garden, 3) Why did you cosplay with weapons on a Christmas card?

Coward.

Will prayers bring back the dead? Or will they just make you feel better about doing nothing that actually helps anybody?

Understandable postponement. But it won’t get any better for you on April 11th.
[….]

Prayers are meaningless.
But I bet you’re happy you found this year’s Christmas card.

Families Belong Together – Columbia, Missouri – June 30, 2018

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On Saturday morning approximately 500 individuals attended the Families Belong Together rally and march which started in front of the Boone County Courthouse in Columbia, Missouri. The event was one of around 700 rallies and marches held across the country yesterday in opposition to Donald Trump’s (r) policies of separating immigrant children from their parents and placing them in concentration camps.

“Caring” – June 30, 2018

“How would you feel…?” – June 30, 2018

“Love resists” – June 30, 2018

Organizers from campaigns and the “No on Propisition A” (opposed to “right to get paid less”) campaign worked the crowd.

“Amnesty is not illegal” – June 30, 2018

“History will remember” – June 30, 2018

The jury is still out on that in Donald Trump’s (r) America.

Reverend Sarah Klaassen, Rock Bridge Christian Church, Columbia, Missouri – June 30, 2018

There were a number of speakers at the rally.

“Families belong together” – June 30, 2018

“Cruelty is not strength” – June 30, 2018

“Resist” – June 30, 2018

And then they marched.

Activism is about showing up, registering to vote, getting the vote out, and voting.

#resist

Previously:

That was so last century (June 30, 2018)

The triumph of privatization (June 30, 2018)

KC Rally for Muslims, Immigrants, & Refugees – Kansas City – June 29, 2018

30 Saturday Jun 2018

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Yesterday evening Muslim community and interfaith organizations held a KC Rally for Muslims, Immigrants, & Refugees by the J.C. Nichols Fountain at Mill Creek Park near the entrance to the Plaza in Kansas City. About 150 individuals showed up to demonstrate and to hear speakers including a poet, imams and a rabbi. All spoke of peace, love and justice.

There was a proactive Kansas City Police presence.

“Why should love stop at the borders?” – June 29, 2018

“No Muslim ban” – June 29, 2018

“I really do care. Do you” – June 29, 2018

“Friends and neighbors” – June 29, 2018

“No ban, no wall” – June 29, 2018

“Only love can drive hate out” – June 29, 2018

Poet.

About an hour into the rally a group of right wingnut anti-Muslim counter-protestors showed up. Wearing t-shirts emblazoned with “no immigrants, no Muslims, no refugees.”

The individual on the right is so badass they deserve another photo posting in our blog.

The badass on the right.

It was difficult to get decent images of this group, the good guys kept blocking the direct view with their signs.

Editorial comment.

His editor would cut the first line and the fourth line, then call it truth in advertising.

Diversity fail.

Celebrating diversity – June 29, 2018

It’s quite simple, really, if you single out a religious minority you’re a bigot. That’s it.

#resist

Previously:

No, we cannot (June 29, 2018)

Children understand (June 29, 2018)

As we are all (June 29, 2018)

Be the badass on the right (June 29, 2018)

Be the badass on the right

29 Friday Jun 2018

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This evening at the KC Rally for Muslims, Immigrants, & Refugees by the J.C. Nichols Fountain at Mill Creek Park near the entrance to the Plaza in Kansas City – the first of the anti-Muslim counter protesters:

We will only be saved by millions of ordinary people acting every day as individuals with moral courage and heroism.

Previously:

No, we cannot (June 29, 2018)

Children understand (June 29, 2018)

As we are all (June 29, 2018)

As we are all

29 Friday Jun 2018

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This evening at the KC Rally for Muslims, Immigrants, & Refugees by the J.C. Nichols Fountain at Mill Creek Park near the entrance to the Plaza in Kansas City.

Legalize humanity #heretostay” – June 29, 2018

Our friends and neighbors, #heretostay.

Previously:

No, we cannot (June 29, 2018)

Children understand (June 29, 2018)

Hey, Sarah, Leni Riefenstahl had to put up with the same kind of “incivility” in 1938

26 Tuesday Jun 2018

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Madera Tribune, Number 24, 30 November 1938
GIRL FRIEND, OF HITLER IS NOT WANTED
Anti-Nazi League Protest to Hollywood Visit of Leni Riefenstahl

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 30. Advertisements bought by the Hollywood anti-nazi league today blared in big, black type: “There is no room in Hollywood for Leni Riefenstahl.” Miss Riefenstahl is the darkhaired German actress frequently mentioned as “Hitler’s girl friend.” She is in Hollywood for her first look at the American film studios. Hardly had Miss Riefenstahl settled her bags and given out another interview denying anything beyond a “business relationship” with Adolph Hitler, when the antinazi league went to work. It bought space in the Hollywood trade papers and urged the film colony to give the German actress a cold shoulder. The same kind of snub was given Premier Mussolini’s son, Vittorio, when he visited here last year. Young Mussolini went home abruptly, and reputedly angrily.

Apparently, Leni Riefenstahl and her dining party of twelve were refused service at a “Cabaret”. For being Nazis.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

#resist