Ok, so this is a giant steaming pile.
There is in fact no fracking evidence that George Soros has been secretly funding the Parkland Heroes and their efforts to end Gun Violence. None. Zero. And more importantly — SO WHAT IF HE DID? This is a cheap attempt to delegitimize a valid movement as being somehow simply the result of biased partisan influence, not a strong and passionate response to a horrifying tragedy that happened directly to these kids.
As a matter of fact, Jack Kingston when he was a Trump surrogate actually went to Russia and told businessmen there that sanctions should come down because they’d been around “long enough.”
So Jackhole is anti-Sanctions just as he today complains that “Obama didn't do anything” about Russia — yeah, except IMPLEMENT SANCTIONS.
President Donald Trump’s administration missed its deadline to implement sanctions on Russia — and Republicans in Congress are starting to worry about why.
"I'm going to get on the phone with someone," Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), who played a key role negotiating the sanctions bill as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters on Wednesday. The bill was a direct punishment for Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
The law, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress and which Trump signed into law in early August, required the administration to identify which Russian entities would be penalized with new sanctions by October 1. They still have not done so. The State Department has said it is “working to complete the process and provide the public guidance to the relevant people just as soon as possible.
So when Kingston isn’t talking bullshit about Obama, Russia and sanctions he’s also now talking bullshit about the kids who barely survived with their lives when they were attacked by an AR-15, because clearly the problem wasn’t the gun — nope — the problem is, wait for it, violent TV!
And then he tried to blame Hollywood Violence….
Next of course we can expect he’ll be blaming Ozzy Osborne and Marylin Manson — because, well why not since those have worked as a distraction before haven’t they? Even though those CDs and MP3s have been labeled as “Explicit” for decades.
Kingston isn’t the only one making claims like this — Don Jr via GatewayPundit has done it too because one survivor David Hogg is the son of a retired FBI agent.
Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday signaled his approval of a new conspiracy theory that accuses a teenager who survived the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School of being part of a plot to cover up for the FBI’s failures.
As documented by the “Trump Alert” Twitter bot, Trump Jr. liked a tweet from conservative talk show host Graham Ledger that linked to a Gateway Pundit article attacking Parkland survivor David Hogg, who has been outspoken in his advocacy of stronger gun laws.
Commenting on the article, which attacks Hogg for having a father who is a retired FBI agent, Ledger questioned whether Hogg was being used as a way to take heat off the FBI for failing to follow up on tips it received about school shooter Nikolas Cruz, who murdered 17 people last week in Parkland, Florida.
“Could it be that this student is running cover for his dad who Works as an FBI agent at the Miami field office Which botched tracking down the Man behind the Valentine day massacre?” Ledger asked. “Just wondering. Just connecting some dots.”
His dad is retired, so why would he be “running cover” for them when the ball on this was actually dropped at the West Virginia Call Center, not the Miami Field office who just simply weren’t even informed about Nikolas Cruz?
That’s a pretty pathetic theory, but wait, it’s not the worst. Not yet.
Kingston’s other red herrings included claiming that Democrat could have implemented “Gun Reform” after Sandy Hook and other shootings, but it wasn’t for lack of trying.
During his 2012 re-election campaign, Obama said he wanted to work toward reintroducing a federal assault weapons ban, because "weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets."
With little interest from Congress, renewing that ban rates as a Promise Broken.
"The gun control-gun rights debate is already so heated and often is deadlocked so that very little legislation, whether prompted by a mass shooting or any other form of violence, is passed," said Jaclyn Schildkraut, an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Oswego’s Department of Public Justice.
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Obama couldn’t institute another ban without Congress, but he could still strengthen existing laws. (He had promised to "enforce the laws we’ve already got" during his re-election campaign. We rated that a Promise Kept.) He included the ban as part of a sweeping set of suggested legislation and 23 executive actions he announced in January 2013.
His plan to reduce gun violence included a focus on mental health treatment, limiting magazine sizes, strengthening background checks and restarting federal gun research that had been frozen for years. Obama issued further actions on medical histories in background checks in 2014.
Last year Trump reversed some of those efforts to include people who had been deemed mentally incapable of handling their own finances and eligible for disability because of mental/emotional issues from being included on the background check list. How exactly is person who can’t balance their own checkbook supposed to be trusted with an AR-15? Also Trump’s current budget proposal also decreases funding for the background check system by 16%.
Of the last 70 mass shootings which have occurred since Columbine there have only been 11 were the guns used were acquired illegally. Trump has apparent endorsed the Cornyn-Murphy bill that is supported by the NRA that would make some fixes to holes in the background checks by including records that are currently left out but that would have only affect 1 of those last 70 shootings [Sutherland Springs TX, but not Parkland FL], so that’s not really much of anything.
He claims that we need to look at “Mental Health”, even though Trump has actually made that issue weaker, when the GOP has spent the last 8 years trying to repeal Obamacare which includes in it a mandated essential coverage of Mental Health issues. Trump has since cut the Individual Mandate as of this year which has taken health care — including mental health care — away from 3 Million Americans.
More than 3 million more people lacked health insurance at the end of 2017 relative to the end of 2016, according to the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index. A recent estimate of the connection between a lack of insurance and mortality suggests that for every 800 people without insurance for a year, one will die — meaning that 4,000 more people may have died during the year than would have had they been covered.
That increase in the percentage began in the first quarter of Donald Trump’s presidency. In the fourth quarter of 2016, the percentage of uninsured adults in the United States was 10.9 percent — a low after three years of declines following the passage of the Affordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare). In 2013, before the law went into effect, nearly 1 in 5 adults lacked insurance. Over the course of last year, that figure rose again to 12.2 percent.
So how exactly are those people going to get proper care for their mental health issues?
He claimed that since the lapse of the Clinton assault weapons ban that crime has gone down. Well actually crime was already going down before that so you can’t really make a cause/effect relationship with that one change — in fact you could actually make the reverse argument because violent crime decreased faster during the ban period than it has since, and it even initially went up in 2006 right after the ban expired.
Oh, the other thing that Kingston suggested was the best yet.
School Prayer.
Yes, seriously. He said that the problem with School Shootings is that they don't “Pray Enough.” Uh huh. This was a public school, which means that it’s part of and funded by the Government, and as much as Jack claims to care about the Constitution and the 2nd Amendment he doesn’t apparently know the very first freedom protected in the very 1st Constitutional Amendment.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
Time and time again Prayer in School has been challenged constitutional because it is the government establishment of religion and in many environments it’s being forced onto people that don't happen to be religious, or even part of the majority religion at that school.
Every day starts the same: Announcements, birthdays and school events are broadcast over the public address system. What comes next is what she dreads.
"They say, 'Please stand for the Prayer and the Pledge.' And then we move right into it. And it's the Lord's Prayer," Cole says.
Nearly every other child, in every classroom, stands as a student reads the prayer.
"Our father, who art in heaven..."
Cole is silent, respectful, she says.
"Hallowed be thy name..."
Her classmates glare at her. One, she says, has even muttered, "Devil be rid of me!" at her.
This environment is more likely to create strife and conflict between the students if they dare not to be Christian, or even the same kind of Christian, as others students.
That’s not freedom, and it’s not something that’s going to make our students safer.
Also quite a few mass murderers and shooters over the past decade or two, particularly Robert Dear who murdered three people including a police officer at a Planned Parenthood, or Eric Robert Rudolph who bombed the Atlanta Olympics, Shelley Shannon who firebombed women’s clinics and shot Dr. George Tiller in his arms and Scott Roeder who ultimately killed Tiller were Radical Christian zealots who had been associated with anti-Gay, anti-abortion terrorist groups such as the Army of God.
Not to assume that just because someone is highly devout religiously that they just might be a budding mass murderer — I mean, geez nobody, besides Trump, would serious make that suggestion would they? — We really don’t need any more of them.