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O’Rourke: El Paso shooting makes clear the ‘real consequence’ of Trump racism
The Manchester Guardian ^ | August 18, 2019 | Martin Pengelly

Posted on 08/18/2019 7:18:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The deaths of 22 people in the El Paso shooting earlier this month made clear “the real consequence and cost of Donald Trump”, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said on Sunday.

“From the outset of this campaign,” the Texan told NBC’s Meet the Press, “even before this campaign, I talked about how dangerous President Trump’s open racism is”. The former congressman cited remarks about Mexicans and Muslims and the burning of a mosque in Victoria, Texas “the day after he signs his executive order attempting to ban Muslim travel”.

But he added: “It wasn’t until someone, inspired by Donald Trump, drove more than 600 miles, to my hometown, and killed 22 people in my community with a weapon of war, an AK-47, that he had no business owning, that no American should own, unless they are on a battlefield, engaged with the enemy.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; beto; betoorourke; bobblehead; nra; pedosagainsttrump; secondamendment; texas; trump
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AK-47? What a moron!
1 posted on 08/18/2019 7:18:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Mexicans shooting Mexicans. How did Trump accomplish that?


2 posted on 08/18/2019 7:19:55 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Heaven has gates, walls and immigration policy but Hell has an open border policy. Food for thought.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The six counties that voted for the evil pygmy witch are battlefields...


3 posted on 08/18/2019 7:20:25 PM PDT by northislander
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Shut your mouth Beto and quit lying. By impugning Trump falsely, you are also defaming millions of his supporters who are NOT racist and genocidal as you claim. You’re trying to incite YOUR followers to violence against us. Stop, while you still have a chance to secure peace. Just stop.


4 posted on 08/18/2019 7:22:22 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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no American should own, unless they are on a battlefield, engaged with the enemy

Uh, Beto, you have engaged us, and let's just suggest that we are not the best of friends and allies.

5 posted on 08/18/2019 7:23:00 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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Beto make Fredo look positively butch.


6 posted on 08/18/2019 7:24:10 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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Oh, just shut up, you uptown Yank.


7 posted on 08/18/2019 7:25:58 PM PDT by Tax-chick (It's the guitar solo! Everybody polka!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Still trying to hang on to his 15 minutes, eh?


8 posted on 08/18/2019 7:26:00 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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This clown wont be happy till he lops his verga off in public.


9 posted on 08/18/2019 7:26:13 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Beto needs to be corn holed with an ax handle.


10 posted on 08/18/2019 7:26:31 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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Well, he knew it was a scary gun. Now THIS, this is a scary gun!


11 posted on 08/18/2019 7:27:54 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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I have never heard a “journalist” ask one of these clowns for a documented example of Trump’s “racism”.

I have never heard one of these ersatz journalists ask them to define “racism”.

All they do when a Rat yells racism is nod their head with a vacuous expression that they believe represents deep thought.


12 posted on 08/18/2019 7:28:34 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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What in the world is this guy talking about? Trump racism? They are loonier and loonier in their attempts at getting rid of President Trump.


13 posted on 08/18/2019 7:28:47 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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O’Rourke: El Paso shooting makes clear the ‘real consequence’ of Trump racism

The sad thing is that, there are 'actual' people out there who will actually believe the idiotic 'logic' of butt-o.
14 posted on 08/18/2019 7:30:43 PM PDT by adorno
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And yet something good is coming out of this shooting. Lots of Mexican Americans are now buying and licensing guns for self defense. Once they achieve full citizenship by owning a gun, how willing do you think they will be to give it up to some whiny liberal who wants to take it away from them.

That is, Beatoff is lamenting that a whole bunch of Hispanics are now leaning towards Republicanism.


15 posted on 08/18/2019 7:31:24 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("I'm mad, y'all" -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)
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Damn! can do all that to a Crossman BB gun?


16 posted on 08/18/2019 7:31:27 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Half the country....be very afraid


17 posted on 08/18/2019 7:33:02 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie ( BEST ELECTION EVER....MAGA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I read that poor excuse of a manifesto. It explicitly stated that his actions were not caused by Trump, and that his feelings predated Trump’s presidency.

Easy to ignore, considering most people don’t bother to read the whole thing, they just assume the report is 100% correct.


18 posted on 08/18/2019 7:33:24 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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If a Metís murders eleven Inuits in Yellowknife It's trump's fault!!!
19 posted on 08/18/2019 7:34:41 PM PDT by arthurus (=[ + -O0ooo l+)
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Beta, one of the leaders of Pedophile Supporters Against Trump [PSAT], spews his vile slander.


20 posted on 08/18/2019 7:37:54 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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