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“We applaud the many courageous young Americans exercising their First Amendment rights today,” White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said in the statement, in which she added that “keeping our children safe is a top priority of the President’s.”
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The White House’s statement was issued as Trump spent time at Trump International Golf Club here, located about 35 miles from Parkland.

“We applaud the many courageous young Americans exercising their First Amendment rights today,”

“keeping our children safe is a top priority of the President’s.”

Upcoming “March for Our Lives” Being Organized by Planned Parenthood, Everytown, and Other Leftist Orgs

Why an organization dedicated to ending the life of children is putting up the front that they care about violence towards children is anyone’s guess.

Planned Parenthood has also been in contact with anti-gun advocate Giffords, who is working with Everytown and Moms Demand Action, two gun control organizations bent on promoting anti-gun hysterics rather than education and safety. According to Buzzfeed, these three organizations are planning the march on Washington.

Acting as their political liaison is Democratic US Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz:

If the March for Our Lives was looking to unite people who are concerned about gun violence in schools, they just lost any chance for a coming together thanks to the inclusion of these activist groups.

But let’s face facts. This was never about concerned kids standing up for safety in their schools. As I mentioned before, these kids were simply a useful shield in the left’s narrative for gun control. If this was really about student’s concerns, they would also promote the message of someone like Kyle Kashuv, who has accurately identified the problem instead of attacking Republicans and Republican-friendly organizations.

Not one thing about why they were marching, or guns. The title is misinformation, a lie.

No, it's neither a "lie" nor "misinformation".

Anti-anti-communism

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Thoughtful observers should suspect any historical narrative that paints the world in black and white. In Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), the Nobel-prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman warns of predictable cognitive flaws that inhibit our ability to think rationally, including something called ‘the halo effect’:

The halo effect helps keep explanatory narratives simple and coherent by exaggerating the consistency of evaluations: good people do only good things and bad people are all bad … Inconsistencies reduce the ease of our thoughts and the clarity of our feelings.

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Conservative and nationalist political leaders in the US and across Europe already incite fear with tales of the twin monsters of Islamic fundamentalism and illegal immigration. But not everyone believes that immigration is a terrible threat, and most Right-wing conservatives don’t think that Western countries are at risk of becoming theocratic states under Sharia law. Communism, on the other hand, provides the perfect new (old) enemy. If your main policy agenda is shoring up free-market capitalism, protecting the wealth of the superrich and dismantling what little is left of social safety nets, then it is useful to paint those who envision more redistributive politics as wild-eyed Marxists bent on the destruction of Western civilisation.[/b]

Aeon

If your main policy agenda is stripping wealth from achievers to gain power from the masses, sublimating individual rights in favor of the Collective, and driving your nation's economy into ruin simply for the sake of power, then it is useful to paint those who envision more free market politics as cold-hearted predators bent selfish exploitation of the workingman.

He's a kid...cut him some slack.

This is a riot and that you, apparently, don't recognize it as such is more of a riot.

The author could just as easily have written:

I didn't write the article. Selecting quotes and posting out of context often leads to simplistic responses and faulty conclusions.

Most of these poor souls [transgender individuals] are mentally ill.

They don't belong in the military.

November 2017WASHINGTON – People with a history of “self-mutilation,” bipolar disorder, depression and drug and alcohol abuse can now seek waivers to join the Army under an unannounced policy enacted in August, according to documents obtained by USA TODAY.

A psychological state is considered a mental disorder only if it causes significant distress or disability. Many transgender people do not experience their gender as distressing or disabling, which implies that identifying as transgender does not constitute a mental disorder. For these individuals, the significant problem is finding affordable resources, such as counseling, hormone therapy, medical procedures and the social support necessary to freely express their gender identity and minimize discrimination. Many other obstacles may lead to distress, including a lack of acceptance within society, direct or indirect experiences with discrimination, or assault. These experiences may lead many transgender people to suffer with anxiety, depression or related disorders at higher rates than nontransgender persons.