AOC: People Have No Choice but to Violently Riot

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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is condoning violent rioting in order to reach political goals.

During an interview with New York’s Hot 97 earlier this week, Ocasio-Cortez argued “marginalized” communities have no choice but to riot against their so-called oppressors.

“I believe injustice is a threat to the safety of all people. Because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalize and marginalized…once someone doesn’t have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot. And it doesn’t have to be that way. I’m not even taking about Palestinians. I’m talking about communities in poverty in the United States; I’m talking about Latin America; I’m talking about all over the world,” she said.

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WATCH: Trump Gave a Very Good Answer When Asked Who’s to Blame for Dayton Shooting

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Before President Trump boarded his plane to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas on Wednesday to meet with communities in mourning, he spoke with reporters on the White House lawn. The press particularly wanted to know what he thought of his accusers tying his rhetoric to the shooting in El Paso. The suspect used language similar to that of Trump’s immigration remarks in his online manifesto, according to some.

“My critics are political people,” Trump said. “They’re trying to make points. In many cases, they are running for president and they’re very low in the polls.”

He couldn’t be more right if he’s talking about presidential candidates Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, both of whom are struggling to gain even single digit support. As representatives of last weekend’s targeted states, they’ve been two of the most vocal critics of Trump since the shootings. O’Rourke has been especially condemnatory, saying on Monday that Trump has been “reveling in the hatred and the racism” in the country. He’s thrown in a few expletives too. The president told him to “be quiet,” but other than that he hasn’t said much of the critique. . .

In fact, when discussing the shooting in Dayton, which was orchestrated by a young man who claimed to be a “leftist,” Trump said he didn’t blame Democrats for the bloodshed. He blamed “sick people.”

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Republicans Move to Take Most Significant Gun Control Action in Decades

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Following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio this weekend that claimed the lives of over 30 innocent people and injured dozens others, President Trump delivered prepared remarks Monday in which he called for bipartisan action on gun control, particularly “red flag” laws. Now, Republicans in the Senate are reportedly unifying behind legislation which would be, as The New York Times puts it, “the most significant gun control legislation enacted in 20 years.”

After condemning white supremacy and all forms of racial bigotry, Trump urged legislators to take bipartisan action to prevent future atrocities. Among the priorities he listed for moving forward are doing a more effective job of “identifying and acting on early warning signs” and making sure that those who “pose a grave risk to public safety do not have access to firearms.”

“We must make sure that those judged to pose a grave risk to public safety do not have access to firearms, and that if they do, those firearms can be taken through rapid due process. That is why I have called for red-flag laws, also known as Extreme Risk Protection Orders,” Trump said in his list of “just a few of the areas of cooperation that we can pursue.”

“Republicans and Democrats have proven that we can join together in a bipartisan fashion to address this plague,” he stressed, citing the legislation on school protection and gun violence enacted in 2018. “Last year we enacted the Stop School Violence and Fix NICS Acts into law, providing grants to improve school safety and strengthening critical background checks for firearm purchases. At my direction, the Department of Justice banned bump stocks. Last year we prosecuted a record number of firearms offenses. But there is so much more that we have to do.”

Following Trump’s speech, the Times’ Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported that Republicans are “coalescing around legislation to help law enforcement take guns from those who pose an imminent danger.” As examples of the increased unification on the issue, Stolberg cites multiple Republicans expressing support, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has proposed federal grants to help enact state red flag laws, Sen. John Thune (R-SD), who expressed confidence Tuesday that Congress “will be able to find common ground on the so-called red flag issue,” and Rep. Michael R. Turner (R-OH), who pledged to support not only a red flag law but a “military-style” weapons ban and magazine limit. ​(Read more from “Republicans Move to Take Most Significant Gun Control Action in Decades” HERE)

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Millions of Records Added to Federal Background Check System Following Passage of 2018 ‘Fix NICS’ Bill

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It’s been just over a year since President Trump signed legislation passed by a GOP-controlled Congress designed to better enforce existing gun background check laws. So what’s changed so far?

According to exclusive numbers obtained from a Department of Justice official by Blaze Media, implementation of the 2018 “Fix NICS Act” has led to the addition of millions of previously unreported records to America’s gun background check system.

The data show a total increase of almost six million additional records added across the three databases searched during a standard National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) check over the 14-month period between April 2018 and June 2019.

In the same time period, there was also a 13 percent increase of records in the NICS Indices database, which contains records provided by local, state, tribal, and federal agencies about prohibited persons and is a key record source for disqualifying mental health and illegal immigration records.

The Fix NICS Act was passed in March 2018 and aimed to increase compliance with federal background check laws by providing additional reporting resources, imposing penalties on federal agencies that fail to comply and promoting state-level compliance through incentives and public reporting of those who don’t comply.

The DOJ numbers also indicate that the department has now received implementation plans from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 71 federal agencies. The plans are meant to evaluate and improve current NICS reporting practices.

The goal of the Fix NICS bill was to address insufficient state, local, tribal, and federal agency reporting to the current background check system. The effort gained more traction after the horrific shooting in Sutherland Springs in November 2017.

The Sutherland Springs shooter should not have been able to purchase a firearm, but he passed a background check because the Air Force failed to report the records from a 2012 court-martial. Air Force officials conceded that this failure “was not an isolated incident,” and an inspector general’s report revealed that the service branch failed to report disqualifying information on this one shooter four times.

“Just one record that’s not properly reported can lead to tragedy,” bill sponsor Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said when introducing the legislation in the aftermath of the shooting. “This bill aims to help fix what’s become a nationwide, systemic problem so we can better prevent criminals and domestic abusers from obtaining firearms.”

The Fix NICS implementation data provided to Blaze Media also says that available military-related records on the databases have “tripled” since November 2017. (For more from the author of “Millions of Records Added to Federal Background Check System Following Passage of 2018 ‘Fix NICS’ Bill” please click HERE)

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Demagogic Clown: AOC Declares Trump ‘Directly Responsible’ for El Paso Mass Shooting; Trump Told to ‘Stay Away’

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By Townhall. Let’s begin with a reminder that my position on partisan blame after horrific acts of violence has been quite clear and consistent. I believe it’s almost always grossly unfair, and a cheap political smear, to pin mass murder on mainstream ideological opponents, even by implication. Leave it to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to make the least fair point in the dumbest and ugliest way possible. Take it away, lady:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) late Monday said that President Trump’s divisive rhetoric on immigration was “directly responsible” for the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas that left at least 22 people dead. The freshman New York congresswoman made the comments while speaking at a vigil in Brooklyn for the victims of the shooting in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, according to the New York Daily News. “I’m tired of the questioning if the president is racist. He is,” Ocasio-Cortez told a crowd of about 500 people, the newspaper noted.

The only person “directly responsible” for the Texas massacre is the right-wing, immigrant-hating white supremacist terrorist and doomsday environmentalist who perpetrated it. Period. And while I’ve been a frequent critic of President Trump’s language on any number of issues — and while it’s true that the killer’s manifesto mirrored some of Trump’s words and phrases (“invasion” and “fake news”) — it’s a very dangerous and dishonest game indeed to claim that heated political rhetoric is even partially responsible for acts of extreme violence. (Read more from “Demagogic Clown: Aoc Declares Trump ‘Directly Responsible’ for El Paso Mass Shooting” HERE)

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Beto O’Rourke on Texas Shooting: Trump ‘Has No Place’ in El Paso

By USA Today. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, who is from El Paso, Texas — the location of a mass shooting where more than 20 people were killed in an apparent racist attack — said Monday that President Donald Trump is not welcome there.

O’Rourke, who has repeatedly labeled Trump a “racist,” said that Trump helped create the tragedy in El Paso.

“This president, who helped create the hatred that made Saturday’s tragedy possible, should not come to El Paso,” O’Rourke wrote on Twitter. “We do not need more division. We need to heal. He has no place here.”

Trump will be visiting El Paso on Wednesday, Mayor Dee Margo said during a press conference on Monday afternoon. Margo said he will meet with the president, as it is not a political visit. (Read more from “Beto O’Rourke on Texas Shooting: Trump ‘Has No Place’ in El Paso” HERE)

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New Poll Shows Clear Winner of Second Democratic Debates — and a Very Big Loser

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A new poll from Quinnipiac University shows one candidate clearly gaining from her performance at the second Democratic debates, while another losing a lot of support.

The poll released on Tuesday showed that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) got a jolt in support from the debate, with an increase of 6 percentage points from 15 percent to 21 percent, putting her in second place.

Former Vice President Joe Biden lost 2 percentage points of support, but still retains the top spot with 32 percent in the Quinnipiac poll.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) also did well, with an increase of 3 percentage points from 11 percent before the debate, to 14 percent after the debate.

The big loser, according to the poll, was Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who slipped to fourth place after losing 5 percentage points from 12 percent to 7 percent. (Read more from “New Poll Shows Clear Winner of Second Democratic Debates — and a Very Big Loser” HERE)

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Disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok, Who Said He Would ‘Stop’ a Trump Presidency, Is Suing the DOJ

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Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who was fired in disgrace for his conduct during the 2016 election, has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice; demanding back pay in what he says was a wrongful termination. Strzok’s antics during the 2016 election place the FBI in an embarrassing situation and tarnished its reputation as a leading and impartial investigative body. The FBI started the counterintelligence investigation that became the Russia probe headed by now-ex-Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who removed Strzok from the case when he learned of the text messages and its contents. Strzok was a counterintelligence agent who was then reassigned to human resources upon discovery of these texts (via NBC News):

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok filed suit against the Justice Department on Tuesday, arguing he was wrongly fired for sending private text messages that ripped Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Strzok was a senior FBI official who worked on the investigations into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state and any links between Russia interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign. Special counsel Robert Mueller had him removed from his investigation into Trump and Russia after the anti-Trump texts emerged publicly.

Strzok was fired from the FBI late last year. His lawsuit says he was fired as a result of a “concerted public campaign to disparage and, ultimately, fire Special Agent Strzok” that “was enabled by the defendants’ deliberate and unlawful disclosure to the media of texts.”

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Did Texas Democratic Congressman Castro Post a List Targeting Trump Donors?

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Texas Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro, brother of 2020 candidate Julian Castro, has targeted Trump donors. He’s revealed their names, the ones who have given the maximum allowed in a year, which has some lobbing allegations of doxxing. If it’s not doxxing, it all but leads the left-wing crazies right to these people in order to be harassed. And yet, these people are the ones who constantly peddle more trust in government because no abuse of power will occur. No one will be harmed…unless you support Trump or have an opinion contrary to liberal orthodoxy (via Daily Caller):

Democratic Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro on Monday tweeted the names and employers of 44 San Antonio residents who donated the federal maximum to President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.

Castro, whose district includes much of San Antonio, claimed the donors “are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as ‘invaders.’” Castro is the twin brother of Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro and chairs his presidential campaign.

Sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump,” the congressman wrote, proceeding to name local businesses whose owners gave the maximum to Trump’s campaign. Eleven of the 44 donors shown in Rep. Castro’s post listed their employment as “retired.”

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California Governor: Mass Shootings Caused by Toxic Masculinity

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Kudos to California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom for finding something upon which to blame mass shootings other than President Trump or the Second Amendment. Unfortunately, Newsom’s scapegoat is just as ridiculous.

During an emergency meeting on gun violence on Monday, Newsom said that the conversation on mass shootings should focus on toxic masculinity, given that such shootings “overwhelmingly, almost exclusively, are [committed by] males, boys, men.”

“I do think that is missing in the national conversation,” Newsom said, according to HuffPost. “If there was anything more obvious, I don’t know what is, why it is that we’ve just come to accept that, that it’s been so normalized and sort of baked in, that it’s not even debated any longer. Why does it have to be, why is it men, dominantly, always?” . . .

“And I think that goes deep to the issue of how we raise our boys to be men, goes deeply to values that we tend to hold dear — power, dominance and aggression, over empathy, care, collaboration,” he continued. “That is a deeper conversation — forgive me — a more difficult one to have, but I want to just introduce that into this debate.”

Newsom, and the leftists who agree with him, fail to understand that traits like aggression and dominance can be deeply important for young men, when correctly directed. For instance, male aggression could be transformed into the courage required to face off against the kinds of toxic men that enact mass shootings. It’s the sort of courage that leads a man to lay down his life for others. Dominance could be transformed into leadership, providing young males an example to follow.

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New York Times Proves Once and for All That It Takes Marching Orders from the Liberal Elite

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. . .If you were looking for proof — real, solid proof — that the once-great New York Times takes its marching orders from the liberal elite in the Democratic Party, look no further.

After two mass shootings within hours left 32 dead and 52 wounded, President Trump delivered a somber statement from the White House on Monday. He laid out several avenues as potential solutions, called for unity and bipartisanship, soothed Americans as the comforter-in-chief and loudly denounced racism and white supremacy. . .

The New York Times captured the essence of the president’s speech with a headline for its first print edition that read: “TRUMP URGES UNITY VS. RACISM.” The headline carried no bias for either Left or Right, simply summing up the expansive message Trump had delivered.

But the Left went nuts — absolutely nuts. How dare The Times not bash Trump as a racist?!

Former Rep. Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, a candidate for the presidential nomination in 2020, found it “unbelievable” and said so as he rewteeted a post from Nate Silver, a former New York Times writer.

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