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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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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Well and truly said, and every word of it!
My REAL conclusion is: The world needs Jesus.
Going gun shopping today. Something small and inconspicuous.
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Good that you’ve decided to arm yourself. Self-defense is your most important unalienable right. On the other hand, instead of something small and inconspicuous you should shop for something designed to save your life.
Personally, I think the rise of the 24 x 7 news and commentary on television/cable has contributed in a very big way to the divisions in society and the increase in violence.
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BINGO! I have been tooting that horn for decades. When I was a kid in the 1950s, what was happening in our own neighborhood was pretty much all that we were aware of or cared about except for national elections, wars and rumors of war, professional sports, etc. All this other garbage blasted at us 24/7 today is definitely a detriment to the common good.
Gun free zones are the problem 85% of the time. Can’t fix crazy without identifying them and locking them up. Meanwhile we are being invaded by criminals from crime ridden countries. What could possibly go wrong?
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The problem will only get worse until the criminal justice system is forced by the electorate to try, convict, sentence to death, and publicly hang the guilty within days of their apprehension. No appeals, no exceptions, and no consideration of the motive for the crime.
Think of it this way: The shooter doesn’t believe he did the shooting. He has been taught since birth that he has a mental illness and he cannot control what he does. The mental illness makes him do things.
The shooters are telling the police right now that they didn’t do the shooting. Their OCD/Anxiety/Depression/BPD/PTSD did the shooting.
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Any consideration or discussion of “motive” should be completely irrelevant and therefore impermissible at trial.
They are a victim of their psychosis. I constantly hear “I can’t stop doing something. It’s just not possible”. He had to shoot those people. He had no choice.
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In my world these characterizations would be conclusive evidence of the need for these people to be executed within days of their apprehension.
I'd like to see swift justice in these cases too; particularly when there is no possible doubt as to who the perp is but until a constitutional amendment is made, which could also open up a can of worms, we have to work within the system. I do agree changes in the system do need to be made. Sitting on death row for 10-20 years while appeals wind through the court system is simply not acceptable. No more than one year should be the norm in these cases and then only for good cause.
I bet something would be done if someone's loved one who is high enough in the system was killed in this manner. Then again Republican pols were shot in DC by a madman and I haven't seen the needle move on this so who knows what it might take.
It's worth noting most of these shooters were far left zealots. Perhaps society could "target" them for close observation and mental institutional incarceration. We could start with all the dem pols. Just a year or two of in-asylum observation should be a good start.
The Mass Shootings Will Continue Because We Refuse to Deal With the Real Cause
Answer: Democrats and other in kind ilk.
99.9% are democrats/socialists/anarchists/communists
Mas murderers and killers of politicians.
#18 I went to mylife.com and searched on my name.
The report came up.
What does it mean ‘Sociopath’ ...? : )
Remember the time when Walmart sold guns and ammo? And were forced to STOP?? Sure would’ve come in handy in El Paso. Employees, guns, bullets as soon as the came under fire. HELL, the sick twist probably would NOT have gone in there to begin with if he thought there could an arsenal behind the counters.
They still sell guns and ammo in Walmart where I live.
You are right. They do still sell guns & ammo. But that raises another question: IF they had the means to stop this sick twist, why didn’t they? I don’t understand
If I have to ‘splain it to ya.....................
There are many similar factors that occur in many of these shooters: 1. Either no dad or no strong male presence in the home, 2. mental illness and the use of heavy duty hpertrophic(ph) drugs), 3. Heavy playing of violent video games, 4. Being a loner, 5. Many of these shooters just plain look crazy.
Many people say we should begin a national discussion on these mass shootings. If someone proposes that, ask them if they are willing to address these problems. If they are not, tell them to shut up then walk away from them.
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