Cadet Bone Spurs -- Live Action Hero! (UPDATED)

Trump rips Fla. Deputies for not going into school. "I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon."

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) February 26, 2018

Riiiight!

BREAKING: DC area man with five draft deferments who mocked tortured war hero John McCain for being captured says he believes he would confront an active shooter—with an AR-15 assault weapon—unarmed. https://t.co/UDQvhLlJGC

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) February 26, 2018

Trump claims he would have been a hero, running unarmed into the school shooting. But in 2008, he bragged about watching an 80 year-old bleed out in front of him at Mar-a-Lago & fretted about the marble floor but did nothing because it was "disgusting." https://t.co/HxOi70oZES pic.twitter.com/8RGR4OEkJv

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) February 26, 2018

And, classic Cadet Bone Spurs:

Hey, but the eagle wasn't armed with an AR-15!

BONUS:  Andy Borowitz headline: Trump Orders Parade to Celebrate His Hypothetical Act of Heroism in Florida School

UPDATE:

BREAKING: Newly release footage of Trump aka Cadet Bonespurs running in unarmed to stop a mass shooting. pic.twitter.com/SXSSCmRfGw

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) February 26, 2018

Trump on the Parkland shooting: "I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon."

Really Trump? 

Here's a video for America to decide

Hillary Clinton: tested, steady, fearless

Trump: panicked, chaotic & running

pic.twitter.com/np0yyZZz9X

— ☇RiotWomenn☇ (@riotwomennn) February 26, 2018

(h/t Balloon Juice)

Smear Of CNN Busted

Apparently, there was at least one parent of a Marjory Stoneman Douglas student who was willing to use the massacre to smear CNN in service of pushing an NRA/ Trump talking point. Looks like someone got caught lying:

CNN released emails from a network producer on Friday that appear to contradict a Florida high school student's claim that the network scripted a question that he was supposed to ask at a televised town hall event this week.  

Colton Haab, a survivor of last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., said Thursday on Fox News that CNN had initially asked him to "write a speech and ask questions” for the event but that a producer ultimately scripted a question for him. CNN has denied that claim. 

According to Business Insider, CNN and Haab agreed on the question that he would ask at the town hall. His father, Glenn Haab, pulled his son out of the event after the network refused to let the student read a lengthy speech at the event.

The Haabs' also appeared to provide doctored emails to media outlets to back up the claim that CNN scripted the questions, Business Insider reported. CNN's version of the email showed that the producer wrote she wanted the student to stick to a question "that he submitted," but that phrase was omitted in the version released by the family. (our emphasis)

Apparently, the "speech" that CNN actually told young Haab not to give was an elaboration on the statement/ question Haab had submitted himself, and which was to be directed to Florida Democratic Senator Bill Nelson. The statement/ question was,

"Senator Nelson, if Coach Feis had had his firearm in the school that day, I believe that he could have most likely stopped the threat. Have we thought about having a class for teachers who are willing to be armed trained (sic) to carry on campus?" (our emphasis)

Does that idea sound familiar?

Hmmm. The NRA works fast, doesn't it?  Sounds like they got their talking points to Daddy Haab, then he got his son on Fox "News" to smear CNN and the whole movement being led by young Haab's more woke fellow students.

But, hey, mission accomplished!  The intent was to get the smear out there to undercut a legitimate news source and the student movement, and at least one sleazy nitwit was happy to catapult the bullshit far and wide:

“School shooting survivor says he quit @CNN Town Hall after refusing scripted question.” @TuckerCarlson. Just like so much of CNN, Fake News. That’s why their ratings are so bad! MSNBC may be worse.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 23, 2018

NRA- Bought Sen. Marco Rubio Not Popular With This Crowd

Steven Colbert covers Sen. Marco "Glug Glug" Rubio's (R- NRA) appearance at a town hall event the other day (and also scorches some in the media giving him credit for "showing up").  Li'l Marco received $3.2 million from the National Rifle Rampage Association during his 2016 run for the Senate and has an "A+" rating from the rampagers.

TONIGHT: Senator Marco Rubio faced a tough crowd at @CNN's town hall, but one of his gun control suggestions brought them to their feet. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/CchPRDr0vF

— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) February 23, 2018

"Message: I Hear You"

In a moment reminiscent of George H.W. Bush's "Message: I care" moment, rotted- out shell Donald "Rump" Trump apparently had to be reminded to act like he was listening sympathetically at his White (Supremacist) House "listening session" today with people impacted by gun violence at schools:

Trump brought cliff notes to the gun violence listening session. Final note “I hear you” pic.twitter.com/AQZAXIkFep

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) February 21, 2018

A few selected thoughts from the Twitterverse:

Raise your hand if you're surprised that Trump needs to reminded to say "I hear you" in a listening session. https://t.co/O12HICfsUl

— Amy Bingham (@BlondMsKang) February 21, 2018

"Don't forget to show human emotions like a real human" https://t.co/4a6leDmQda

— Will Federman (@wfederman) February 21, 2018

Student: We want universal background checks and stricter regulations.

Another student: Also important to outlaw semi-automatic weapons and recoil tools that make guns perform like automatic weapons.

Trump: I hear you. I am going to eliminate gun-free zones and arm teachers

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) February 21, 2018

Donald reveals the rest of his notes at the school shooting "Listening Session" pic.twitter.com/tVSLExTmmQ

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) February 21, 2018

More reactions at Raw Story.

Kimmel To Trump: "You've Done Worse Than Nothing"

Watch Jimmy Kimmel's powerful reaction to the Florida high school shooting and how Cadet Bone Spurs and those sanctimonious, NRA coin- operated Republicans are responding to the tragedy:

"Learn How To Speak Republican"

Learn how to speak Republican. pic.twitter.com/FLXI1aVI51

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) February 15, 2018

Only In America - NRA's Towel Boys

See if you can spot the problem.

(click on image to enlarge)



That oleaginous weasel pictured above, who momentarily climbed out of the NRA's pocket for this shot, claimed Democrats were "politicizing" the tragedy, while also blaming the Obama administration for something something look over there.

Rep. Beto O'Rourke is the leading Democrat challenging the weasel in November.  Just sayin'.

Only In America

Seventeen people killed, fourteen others wounded in the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida yesterday.

Thirty mass shootings (i.e., where 4 or more people are shot), including eighteen school shootings, so far this year.

So here we are yet again, in a country ruled not by popular will, but by a handful of gun manufacturers, their lobbyists (if you want to talk about "pure evil," look no further than the National Rifle Rampage Association), a craven Republican Congress that cultivates the tiny percentage of gun humpers whose votes and blood money they rely on...  and, of course, the Very Stable Genius. We await the flurry of "thoughts and prayers" coming from these morally bankrupt shits.

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, from the State where the gut- wrenching Sandy Hook school massacre occurred in 2012, speaks for us:

Don't tell me tomorrow isn't the appropriate time to debate gun violence. If you're a political leader doing nothing about this slaughter, you're an accomplice.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 15, 2018

BONUS: Sociopath Donald "Rump" Trump's FY 2019 budget would cut the funding for the Federal gun background check system by 16% ($12 million). They're consistently evil.

BONUS II:  Former Florida Republican Rep. David Jolly on CNN--

“The idea of gun policy in the Republican party is to try to get the speaking slot at the NRA and prove [to] that constituency that you’re further right.”

He further urged that, to have any hope of sane gun laws, voters must "First, flip the House. Flip the House."

BONUS III:  Bess Kalb (a writer for Jimmy Kimmel) has responses to Twitter reactions from Republican pols, noting their NRA payoffs.

BONUS IV:  Here's why Florida is such a welcoming place for gun violence.