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Chris notes that this afternoon, we had the gratifying experience of hearing from people not in the bag of the National Rifle Association.

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[geoffreygeary]

Don't ever respond to bots. They get paid to trigger sensible people.

[markenglish]

Politicians Need to Know. They Can have the Support and Votes of their Constituents or the Can have Support from the NRA. But they Can't Have BOTH.

[fleetstreetemo]

One day people’s strength will trump strength of big corporations and that day democracy will return

[jessetorres]

I am going to start off this comment by stating that I am a Democrat from Texas who is a Second Amendment defender but I have an issue with the National Riffle Association, and all of this is important to know given what I'm about to say. Everybody who is a Second Amendment defender/NRA advocate brings up how they love how they are guaranteed the right to "bear arms, " but there's 2nd part of the Amendment many leave out. While I'm paraphrasing, the Second Amendment when written guaranteed citizens the right to "bear arms" but for a "well regulated Militia." The reason why this part is important to know/was included in the Constitution is because during the Revolution, there was no national military at the time, and when America began the Army had a small budget so the government was unable to provide every patriotic troop with a gun (usually a musket). So the founders included the Second Amendment in this manner as a way of saying that you have the right own a weapon if you are in the "civil population" (which at the time was just Caucasian men) that "supplements a regular army" (which serves the national/federal government). So any person who claims they are pro-guns/NRA or touts the Second Amendment but in order to defend themselves from an abusive government/use against fellow citizens, that's a contradiction since if you own a gun because of the Second Amendment, you are basically (in the mindset of the late 1700s) promising to use it to serve the country/federal government, not for just personal use. Finally, I doubt that any founding father would make the argument that assault rifles and other similar dangerous guns would have been included in that guarantee since they didn't exist at that time. Now all of this is my opinion/argument on these issues, but please share your opinions below if you want to.

[juniorharry]

Hi Chris.👍.
Exceptional reporting.👍👏👏.
👉👉Patience democrats, patience.👍.

[importcamel]

LOOOL Trump can't even fake pray in the introduction video. He broke twice.

[debrarowley]

Oh, yes, here we go again... prayer. I jump out of my skin when I hear people say that the problems with gun shootings can be solved by prayer. This is utter nonsense. Prayer won't work, actions will.

[Someone--Else]

Honestly, after being in love with your guns for I guess centuries at this point, loving your guns, more than your fellow man/person, seems more "American" to many people outside of the US, than speaking out against the nonsense you guys have been living with regarding guns for so long.

[rukhsanakhan]

Trump kept looking up....couldn't even pretend to pray

[thothmark]

Bunch if rich people talking about things they have no idea about poverty in America and what fears of people in poverty have. It's all about money.

[brizzell]

:37 sec in and im wishing they had a editor. i mean really

[randysimmons]

Nra membership will go up!... gun sales will go up also!!

[floydschneider]

MSNBC Host Joy-Ann Reid Was Apparently Russian Trolls’ Favorite Pundit
by Colin Kalmbacher | 5:12 pm, February 20th, 2018
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The Russian trolls indicted by Robert Mueller last Friday had one political pundit they favored above all others: liberal MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid.

Much hay has been made of Russian troll support for various U.S. political figures—such as then-candidate Donald Trump, who received the lion’s share of retweets from the Saint Petersburg-based troll farm during the 2016 election.


That’s a hefty number and the media response has been more or less commensurate.


In sum, Sanders received 27 such retweets from the Russia-based trolls across all of 2016. In turn, multiple mainstream media headlines did some heavy lifting in an apparent bid to balance things out.

Vox went with: “Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Jill Stein all appear to have been helped by Russian election interference.” Meanwhile, Politico chose, “Sanders silent on claim that Russians backed him in 2016. And, USA Today went with, “Indictment: Russia also helped Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein in election.”

And so on.

Reports of the Sanders’-specific trolling immediately led to re-hashing the 2016 Democratic presidential primary across various social media platforms. Sanders’ harshest critics, like Hillary Clinton aficionado Wom Tatson, leapt at the opportunity to cast aspersions about what Sanders knew and when.

Somewhat lost in the flood of recriminations, however, was news that the Russian trolls favored one political pundit far in excess of their support for Sanders—and roughly half as much as Donald Trump.

(Of course, Sanders and Trump are explicitly mentioned in Mueller’s indictment. Reid is not. This could explain some of the media coverage.)

According to an analysis of the raw data by Law&Crime, Joy-Ann Reid–recently and glowingly profiled as a heroine of the #Resistance by the New York Times–received some 267 total retweets by the private sector Russian troll brigade.

The next closest pundit favored by the Russian trolls was Sean Hannity–who received only a handful of their retweets during the 2016 election.

Was Reid aware of her Cyrillic-tinged media boosting? Did Reid herself receive payment for her Russian troll-favored work? Both circumstances are highly unlikely, but certainly worth exploring if the Russian links and interference are as serious as most liberals–Reid herself among them–contend. In any event, these questions are worth asking out loud.

Reid’s signal-boosting care of the Facebook bear is slightly ironic.

Reid, the host of AM Joy has long been one of the most vociferous Russiagaters and shows no signs of stopping. On Sunday, she tweeted, “Russia has played this game before — pretending to empathize with Black Americans’ plight as a way of playing them and stripping them of their rights. The Russian government is not our friend — NONE of us.” Reid was also heavily mocked after she tweeted that Russia is still communist in 2016–it is/was not.

In fact, Joy-Ann Reid has made somewhat of a sport out of criticizing Sanders’ over the Russian issue in particular. Last year, she criticized Sanders and his supporters for repeating claims of Democratic National Committee fraud as little more than a Russian plot.

All in all, Reid was elevated by Russian trolls above Sanders by a ratio of roughly five-to-one.

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[marcmarinacci]

WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS CHRISSY WHY ARENT THEY STANDING UP AND SCREAMING AND DEMANDING CHANGE IN THE CONGRESS LIKE THE KIDS AND PARENTS ARE DOING ?

[radwulfeboraci]

The Mango Moron continues his pathological lying. NOTHING WILL BE DONE, no bump stock, no background checks, no mental health red flags. The NRA has already petitioned in the opposite direction on these issues. Lil' Jeffery will make proposals, Mitch McConnell and Ryan will package some totally unacceptable version of it, Democrats will refuse, Trump will say controls failed because Democrats wouldn't help.

[floydschneider]

Trump Right!! Dumb 3rd rate reporter: Tur Claims Gov. Scott ‘Refusing to Speak’ With Students; Was at a Funeral
Newsbusters.org ^ | February 21, 2018 | Nicholas Fondacaro

MSNBC’s Katy Tur has a glaring habit of letting her anti-Republican hatred run wild while confronting and slamming GOPers on issues she knows little about. The same was true when she hosted the 2:00 p.m. hour of MSNBC Live on Wednesday when the network’s cameras were in Florida Governor Rick Scott’s office documenting anti-gun protestors screaming at the receptionists while he wasn’t there.

Tur declared Scott was “refusing to speak” with them, but was later educated by his office and forced to report he was attending a funeral for one of the students slain in the Parkland shooting. ...