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No collusion‏
@readonly8808
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the russias collusion is deepstate sharia fake news of the Mueller. Only real Americas here we vote for trump we use the coal. No collusion.
2:50 PM - 24 Feb 2018

oralboy,

"Do not give money to higher education. They are going to put that money directly to the destruction of western civilization—unless it's Hillsdale, Grove City."

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NRA spokeswoman: "Many in legacy media love mass shootings. You guys love it... Crying white mothers are ratings gold to you..." http://cnn.it/2HEHiZF

David Simon
‏@AoDespair
Feb 23
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As a reporter, I covered more than a thousand handgun fatalities and spent a full year following homicide detectives from scene to scene. Covered a mass shooting.

Did I love it?

**** you, you stupid, senseless, sociopathic, Moloch-worshipping mouthpiece for this American hell.

If you care about the health of poor pre-schoolers and contribute to a candidate that you believe will do something about it, have you paid a bribe?

If so, then I agree the NRA pays bribes.

I'm not saying that you love the tragedy.

"And notice I said 'crying white mothers' because there are thousands of grieving black mothers in Chicago every weekend, and you don't see town halls for them, do you?"

I don't know who the hell David Simon is but he is a poster child for excessive emotional reactions.

Ryan Zinke, Donald Trump’s handpicked secretary of the Interior, has been caught hiding a financial interest in a firearms company.

Zinke did not disclose that he holds shares in PROOF Research Inc., a company from his home state of Montana. PROOF’s website notes that it manufactures “composite barrels, stocks, and complete rifles” at its Montana facility.

After being contacted by Huffpost, Zinke and PROOF revealed that Zinke owns 1,000 shares in the private company.

The holdings are not on the disclosure form that Zinke submitted to the Office of Government Ethics when he joined the Trump administration in January of 2017.

In his capacity as a member of the Cabinet, Zinke nonetheless had an official meeting with PROOF in April 2017. In that meeting he spoke to the company’s president and founder K.K. Jense and CEO Larry Murphy.

Zinke also met with the company’s lobbyist and director of research.

In the last year, PROOF received at least one government contract. PROOF was then paid $11.4 million from the Department of Defense for work on future weapon systems.

The Campaign Legal Center has filed a formal complaint with the Office of the Inspector General alleging that Zinke “appears to have violated a federal criminal conflict of interest law.”

Stephanie Ruhle‏Verified account
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What is the real @NRA? Hint: it generates $300 million in annual revenue directly or indirectly from gun makers. #VelshiRuhle @MSNBC 1230pmET

Bright, eloquent young man from Majory Stoneman Douglas High in Floriday, just tweeted to NRA supporters attacking him...

"We will outlive you"

Bill Kristol
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Feb 23
I’d take in a heartbeat a group of newly naturalized American citizens over the spoiled native-born know-nothings of CPAC, who today booed at the mention of citizenship naturalization ceremonies.

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I don't know who the hell David Simon is but he is a poster child for excessive emotional reactions.

Quite so. A shrug would do the trick on these shootings.

And as a spokeswoman for the NRA, her sympathy for the black community brings a tear to my eye.

The audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) responded angrily to conservative writer Mona Charen Saturday afternoon when she called out Republicans for embracing accused sexual harassers including failed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore and President Donald Trump.

“I’m disappointed in people on our side for being hypocrites about sexual harassers and abusers of women who are in our party, who are sitting in the White House, who brag about their extra-marital affairs, who brag about mistreating women,” Charen said. “And because he has an R after his name, we look the other way, we don’t complain.”


Charen, who works at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and writes a column for the National Review, was cut off by booing and shouts from the angry crowd, who yelled out “Not true,” “Prove it,” and “It’s a witch hunt.”