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It sure is suspicious that these Florida teens are suddenly mad about watching their classmates be murdered.

What’s the real story here?

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Two days, 23 false claims from Donald Trump — including one spectacular lie
Trump said a total of 34 false things last week, bringing his total to 1,175 in his first 395 days in office.

A 15-year-old student who was shot five times during last week’s massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is credited with saving the lives of at least 20 other students.

What's the problem? I for one am going to enjoy watching the little freaks break down and sob when they are prevented from violating our civil rights.

And Then They Came For Mass Shooting Survivors

February 21, 2018

[...] These teenagers have spoken quite bluntly about the moral atrocity of those who care more about the gun lobby than victims of gun violence.

And for a few days there, these survivors were able to deliver this message without being smeared by the right-wing hate machine. Why? Because they were so obviously innocents: young people bewildered and traumatized by nearly being massacred, and by watching their classmates murdered.

When conservative demagogues tried to impugn their motives, or suggest that this wasn’t a gun control issue, the students were able to shame them into silence.

The president himself, never one to restrain from conspiracy mongering when cornered, naturally tried to pile on, by blaming the FBI for the shooting, rather than the assailant’s easy access to tools of murder.

He, too, was swiftly and convincingly shut down by the students.

But we’re living now in a merciless age, and that means that anyone who attacks the moral rot of the president, or his congressional enablers, inevitably becomes the right-wing media’s public enemy number one.

And so naturally, its in-house propagandists are now spouting wild conspiracy theories about how these kids are being coached up by radicals and funded by George Soros.

Yup, it took a grand total of 48 hours for right-wingers to target the victims of a mass shooting.

That’s where conservatism is at these days. The only abiding creed of the movement is to attack without shame or remorse. Don’t tell us what you’re for, or what you plan to do in office, just tell us who to hate. To paraphrase: Lock her up! Lock her up!

There is no issue too large, and no target too sacred: Gold Star families, war widows, handicapped people, child immigrants and now traumatized children. [...]

Dinesh D'Souza has competition in the getting-vile department.

When conservative demagogues tried to impugn their motives, or suggest that this wasn’t a gun control issue, the students were able to shame them into silence.

The president himself, never one to restrain from conspiracy mongering when cornered, naturally tried to pile on, by blaming the FBI for the shooting, rather than the assailant’s easy access to tools of murder.

He, too, was swiftly and convincingly shut down by the students.

Jon Cordova, the principal deputy assistant secretary for administration at the Department of Health and Human Services, has been placed on leave in the wake of revelations about conspiratorial and racist posts he shared on social media, CNN reported Tuesday.

“Mr. Cordova is currently on administrative leave while we look into this issue further,” an unnamed agency spokesperson told CNN.

Cordova was suspended after CNN’s KFile team asked HHS about the posts, the network reported.

Cordova’s bio on the HHS website notes that he joined the administration in February 2017, shortly after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, and that his current duties include “providing direct support to the Assistant Secretary for Administration for HHS and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Office of Human Relations, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Office of Security and Strategic Information, Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance and Operations Office and the Program Support Center.”

Among the posts flagged by CNN: a story Cordova shared on Facebook in July 2016 falsely alleging that Khizr Khan was a “Muslim Brotherhood agent” and “a Muslim plant working with the Hillary Clinton campaign.” In March of that year, he shared a false story alleging Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), then competing with Donald Trump for the Republican nomination for President, “frequented prostitutes,” in CNN’s words, among other claims.

In August 2015, Cordova shared a photograph of an African American man holding a photoshopped protest sign that read “No mother should have to fear for her son’s life every time he robs a store,” the report said. In a two-year-old tweet, according to a CNN screenshot, he shared a meme comparing MoveOn.org and Black Lives Matter protesters to Nazi Brown Shirts.

Mad dogs will bark. Doesn't mean they're listened to.

D'Souza and oralloy aren't alone in this, of course. What's happening again on the American right is like sewage seeping up through the ground.

On the other hand, what's happening with the kids of this school is really amazing. They've gained the attention of the world for what they are doing following what has happened.

Local church to hold four-day celebration of assault rifles

In recent years, the famous Moon family has brought to Pike County both a company that sells assault rifles and a church that puts them at the center of religious observances. The church's pastor and his followers say their devotion to the AR-15, a weapon of war used again and again in the nation's worst mass shootings, is rooted in Christian love. They do not see the police or the military as a sufficient bulwark against "the tyrants," "the wicked," or "the mafias...raping our children." Nor do they trust public schools, which they say are indoctrinating children into homosexuality. The pastor says it's up to heavily armed "local militias" to save "our children."