Posted on 08/04/2019 6:13:35 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
This is the cancer the political left represents in our country. – After another tragic mass shooting took place in El Paso early Saturday afternoon, Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit reports that leftwing activists discovered the shooter had a profile page on “MyLife.com” on which he listed himself as a “registered Democrat.” Within an hour after the shooting had made the news, these activists had gone into his page and changed pretty much every element of his profile, including his party affiliation to “Republican.”
The new profile also now says he was a disciple of “Qanon,” “INCEL” and a conspiracy theorist, which of course conveniently matches him right up with the profile we learned this week that the FBI is now trying to have defined as a potential domestic terrorist. The same activists for some reason initially changed his ethnicity from “Caucasian” to “African American,” and then later went back in one more time to correct that idiotic error.
Folks, this kind of craven activity is a sickness, every bit the mental illness that the shooter was obviously suffering from. Luckily, these activists were caught in the act, but you can still be sure that talking heads on CNN and MSNBC will use the fraudulent profile page they created to claim the shooter was a Republican who was motivated to commit his heinous act by President Trump. Because those talking heads are also mentally deranged people who will do and say anything for political gain.
The politicians the activists support are, if anything, even worse. Within minutes of the shootings going public, pretty much every candidate for the Democrat presidential nomination had issued near-identical tweets ignoring the shooter’s obvious mental illness and claiming gun control was the only “solution” to the issue of mass shoootings. The most craven opportunist among them was failed South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who issued this despicable tweet:
Pete Buttigieg ✔ @PeteButtigieg America is under attack from homegrown white nationalist terrorism. That ideology is evil. It is being condoned at the highest levels of our government. And today it inspired a gunman to claim at least 20 lives in #ElPaso.
Enough is enough. We have an obligation to act.
Embedded video 39.1K 7:49 PM - Aug 3, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 13.1K people are talking about this But the sickness isn’t limited to the presidential candidates, oh, no. At a joint press conference held late in the afternoon, El Paso congresswoman Veronica Escobar made faces and shook her head repeatedly behind Governor Gregg Abbott’s back as he pointed to the real problem: Mental illness and the de-institutionalization of the dangerously mentally ill that took place during the 1960s and 1970s. When a member of the press saw Escobar’s antics and directed a question to her, she offered a non-answer in which she pontificated about guns and then promised that she and her Democrat colleagues would issue a “strong statement” later in the evening.
Democrats are now incapable of even presenting a united front in the face of mass tragedy, because their narrative does not allow them to do so. That’s a sickness. That is a mental illness.
This mental illness of protecting the narrative now even extends to local law enforcement. Because the El Paso shooter is a white male who meekly surrendered and who conveniently has his own “manifesto” that was somehow immediately released to the press, his identity was revealed to the public within moments of the shootings.
Late last night, another gunman used a high-power rifle to shoot up a bar in Dayton, Ohio. He apparently doesn’t have a ready-made “manifesto” or an easily-faked “MyLife” page, and probably also isn’t a white male since, as of this writing fully 8 hours after he committed his atrocity, local law enforcement officials are completely mum on any details of his identity.
When the facts don’t fit the narrative, it takes a little more time to get the story and talking points together, right? Right.
This is a sickness. It is a mental illness brought to us by the radical political left. And it, more than any other factor, is why our society is continuing to progress inexorably down the sad, tragic road to a second civil war.
The truth about this 21 year-old El Paso shooter is that, at some point during his early teens (if his “manifesto” is to be believed) he developed a sick, irrational hatred of Hispanics. On Saturday, he acted on that hatred, driving 650 miles from his upper-middle-class home in Allen, Texas to El Paso to carry out his demented mission.
The seeds of this act will not be found in politics – his “manifesto” clearly lays out his radical progressive political views, including his advocacy of pet leftist policies like universal healthcare and universal income – but in mental illness. As the days go on we will no doubt find out that he had serious issues in school, most likely was identified as a problem by his teachers and school officials, and had trouble socializing with other students. We will also almost certainly find out that local law enforcement in Allen was aware of his issues. But no one was able to take any real action to get him the proper care he really needed because of idiotic policies forced on our schools and law enforcement officials by the federal government.
In other words, it will be the same story we have seen so many times before, from places like Parkland and Columbine and Sandy Hook and on and on and on. At this point, this is all so predictable – it’s the same story over and over again.
But because of our national political sickness, we are never allowed to deal with the real problem at hand, because the real problem at hand does not fit the narrative that leftist politicians and their baggage-carriers in our fake news media prefer. That narrative mandates that guns – the inanimate objects involved – are the problem and the only problem that needs to be addressed.
So long as that narrative dominates in our society, these mass shootings will continue. It really is that simple.
That is all.
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Gun control? What we have needed for decades is nut control.
Never happen-because most nuts vote democrap.
This is the kind of "dangerous rhetoric" that Jesse Jackson deplores.
Q anon to blame? Sure. In huh. This was a Deep State op.
The first paragraph should state a connection to the headline.
Liberalism is its own mental illness. We live a couple of miles from a mental health facility and we've ministered to many mentally ill people at our church. NONE of them has ever up shot up a crowd of people.
The left’s perpetual altering of our nation’s culture is paralleled by increased violence and degredation of major American cities (Detroit, SF crapping in streets, etc).
Add to this more recent unabated infiltration into our country of illegals, many of them criminals prior to entry, and what do we have? Chaos supported by the dem party.
I pray to God Trump wins a fair election and continues to fight these American hating leftists.
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Okay. Now I get it. The mental illness is not on the part of the perpetrator, it's on the part of the elected "representatives" and those who vote for them.
Within an hour after the shooting had made the news, these activists had gone into his page ...
I’m not saying that I don’t believe this, but....
How does anyone know this? How did they get access to his profile? If they did then shouldn’t there be some digital trail?
I’ve postulated that instead of gun restrictions or gun control, we should control who has and raises kids. Not that some of the parents didn’t do their best, and they can’t be blamed entirely, but I’d bet if one looked into the backgrounds of each of these mass shooters, we’d find family dysfunction. And the parents couldn’t have been oblivious to the growing mental illness of their child.
bttt
Had enough. Seen enough.
The wife and I applied for our Concealed Carry permits on Friday.
Going gun shopping today. Something small and inconspicuous.
I always figured this could never happen to me.
Now I am going to make sure it doesn’t.
Mansons ghost!
Problem with “nut control” is the liberals want to prove we all are nuts and need to be locked up......and they are passionately working toward that end.....
They truly believe that conservatism is a mental illness. When in reality, it is progressivism and leftist thinking that is a mental illness.
In many cases, "mental illness" is nothing more than a cop-out aimed at reducing/eliminating the concept of personal responsibility in one's life.
From what I've seen, it seems that this guy in El Paso was just a loser -- plain and simple. How he got to be a loser isn't clear to me. How a free society deals with losers is the real problem here.
The good news is that this isn't a new problem. Societies have dealt with this question since the dawn of human civilization. The bad news is that "fixing" it usually involves measures that nobody wants to admit are even being implemented at all -- like totalitarian governments with death squads, brutal punishment for crime, and what might euphemistically be called "ethnic cleansing" in some cases. Here in the U.S. we try to sanitize the process by paying Planned Parenthood to do it for us ... even as we look the other way while they make money on the side harvesting human organs in the process.
Because of liberals doom and gloom message our youth is traversing some dangerous ground.
Imagine being a young teenager and being guilt ridden with burning the planet down, then hearing that it is TOO LATE, WE ONLY HAVE 11 1/2 YEARS LEFT, GO TO HIGHER GROUND.
Imagine being white and growing up with a sense of guilt BECAUSE YOU WERE BORN WHITE AND THEREFORE BORN A RACIST.
Imagine having some issues and understanding that when born you could have been left to die and HEARING APPLAUSE FROM THAT ANNOUNCEMENT.
See post 18 of this thread.
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