Dayton, Ohio has become the blip of a mass shooting. Nine lives were lost in a senseless massacre.
The city is not only the place of a mass shooting, but a tornado that wiped out portions of the city. It's also a place where the opioid epidemic is a prime focus. It's also the place for sex trafficking.
The bodies of women who are either prostitutes or drug addicts are being found wrapped in blankets in Dayton, Ohio. This is a problem here.
Somehow these are the forgotten. Women who are victims of sexual trafficking and opioid addition. I know a few women who were victims and I sympathize with them.
The body of a woman whose body was found wrapped on a sheet on an abandoned street in Dayton was found by a passerby.
The woman was identified as Victoria Simpson, 34 of Dayton.
The body was recovered on Thursday. The Montgomery County bag-em ups are now trying to determine if the body found had been a victim of sexual abuse.
Her grief-striken mother had to share the news on social media.
She said that her daughter lived a rough life. She believes that those who were "friends" let her die.
In addition to the bag-em ups, the Montgomery County Homicide Unit was also called to the scene, although the case has not been ruled a homicide. However, police say that the fact the body was wrapped in a sheet is suspicious.
While an accidental overdose is being considered as a possible cause of death, reports of gunshots fired in the area late Wednesday night are being considered in the investigation.
Our youngest victims are people of color. I've said it best, it's never good to have a male friend around your underage daughters. If I do have any daughters, I would never want them around any men and teenage boys. I don't trust them.
Even though I have a son, I think about the same thing. Who's to say if that friend, that family member or that complete stranger takes advantage of my child's innocence.
Gun violence isn't the only thing to worry about. It's rape and child abuse too...!
This sexual predator impregnates a 10-year old girl who was watching cartoons. This happened in South Carolina. The predator was convicted and sent to the iron college for LIFE.
The man was convicted of first-degree sexual assault and rape.
Authorities said that they took DNA evidence from the fetus after the girl was given a termination and it determined that this predator was the father.
The predator came into a room while she was watching cartoons in a home in Estill. The predator turned off the lights and raped her. He told her that he's playing a little game.
A few months later, the little girl was complaining about her stomach. The mother took her to the doctor and they determined that she was pregnant. The girl's mother of course was angry and demanded the police investigate.
They determined that predator was a family friend. He was too close to the daughter and was acting "like a friend" and "mentor" towards the girl. He found a way to impregnate her while the family wasn't around.
Prosecutors took less than an hour to convict this predator.
Now this predator will find bars and no chance of ever leaving the iron college.
"This girl should be ready to go back to school, making friends, braiding her hair--- things other girls her age typically are engaged in," said the prosecutor Hunter Swanson, who said the victim didn't want to testify out of fear of her life.
"Instead, she's in a courtoom, reliving a horrific ordeal. [He] is to blame for that. This man was someone she trusted, someone who lurked inside her home, someone who change the fabric of his victim's life forever."
The judge Carmen Mullen handed the sentence and said that this predator will never experience a day of freedom, ever.
Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers won't heal the wounded or bring back the dead. It's just meaningless platitudes and I am getting sick and tired of folks posting on social media saying they have their condolences for those killed by gun violence.
THERE IS NO GOD. GOD IS NOT FIXING THIS. GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
A road rage incident has the Houston Metro Police and Harris County boys searching for an armed individual who massacred three people on Interstate 10.
Is mental illness the reason for mass shootings? (Expect far-right trolls to pick the dumbest answers)
There is a search for the motorist who shot and killed two people and injured a third on a Houston freeway after they crashed into his car during evening rush hour.
The incident happened on the East Freeway (Interstate 10) just around 6pm on Thursday night, when the road was back up because of an accident.
According to witnesses, a silver Nissan sedan spun out of control after it crashed into a second vehicle. The driver of the second vehicle got out of his car and began firing at the occupants of the Nissan.
He shot through the Nissan and it struck the driver and passenger. The two were killed on sight.
The victims were two men.
Mass shooting on Interstate 10 causes more than a headache it caused many lives lost.
The shooter used an AR-15 and did not stop firing until a nearby truck began shooting at the terrorist.
The terrorist did aim at the "good guy" and injured him. The terrorist managed to escape the gunfire and grazed the vehicle of the person who shot at him. The terrorist would speed off into the side streets.
The man is being described as a Hispanic wearing a tan shirt.
It's unclear if the terrorist was wounded in the gunfire but the good Samaritan did suffer minor injuries after the gun fight.
The terrorist will be charged with felonious assault, murder and reckless endangerment. The charges also include vehicular homicide, aggravated homicide, and discharging a firearm in crowd area.
The murder charges in Texas are LIFE or DEATH. The suspect are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The Gun Violence Memorial page is where you find the names of individuals killed by firearms.
These are the people who don't get the major media coverage. They are just blips on a radar.
White terrorist arrested after he entered a Walmart armed filming himself.
The inept lawmaker Mitch McConnell is delaying. He said that the Senate will take up the matter after the recess is over. Oh by the way, McConnell is not going to listen to his constituents protesting.
The Kentucky Senate Majority Leader has once again proven time after time, it's not about the people who elected him. It's about serving the folks that keep him and fellow Republicans in power. It's about focusing on issues that suit the needs of the lobbyists, religious zealots and the far-white billionaires who ensures victory in McConnell's reelection.
What is the number one problem with mass shootings?
It's the firearms.
It's not the fault of video games, rap music, mental illness, the internet and fatherless homes. It's the easy access to firearms and the lack of action from lawmakers to do something to ban these weapons of war.
Do you want to protect your home from a threat? Why do you have a firearm that could shoot 100 rounds within 15 seconds?
I am tired of this fake narrative about how "good guys with gun" can stop a mass shooting. E.J. Bradford was a "good guy" who tried to stop a bad guy with a gun. He was killed by the law and they made the narrative that he sparked the mass shooting. The bad guy was arrested a week later.
The far-white and junk food media are praising the El Paso and Dayton Police for their quick responses to stop the white terrorists. Yet, they were not fast enough to save the 31 lives lost within seconds of the attack. The Dayton Police killed the white terrorist within 30 seconds. The terrorist killed nine people and injured 32 others within 15 seconds. The El Paso terrorist managed to kill 20 people within a span of 45 seconds. He was arrested without a bullet fired. However, the Gilroy terrorist went out like a punk and the Virginia Beach terrorist (by which was Black) was killed upon a minute of the mass shooting in which he killed 11.
I am getting tired of the far-white always running towards, "He was a registered Democrat" excuse whenever there's a mass shooting in the United States. That's a deflection. The politics of the terrorist doesn't matter. The terrorist doesn't care about the politics of these victims. He wanted to create chaos.
Walmart Neighborhood Markets are big in Arkansas and Missouri.
THERE IS NO GOD. GOD IS NOT FIXING THIS. GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
Okay, this white terrorist went into a Walmart in Springfield, Missouri to do an experiment.
He wanted to prove to the public that a "law-abiding" gun owner can enter a Walmart without panic.
That experiment failed miserably.
The far-white terrorist went into Walmart on Thursday afternoon and was recording himself entering the facility with 100 rounds of ammunition.
The folks who knew this terrorist said that he was a lock and barrel Trump supporter and had hated how the left was going after the National Rifle Association.
In February, the terrorist wrote: "It's official. I hate Walmart. Apparently they won't sell (a firearm) and shotgun ammo if your under 21. [This new policy is a joke. However] I can walk into the store with a loaded .40 and nobody says anything. What a joke!"
A manager saw him entering the store and hit the fire alarm.
The terrorist would exit the Walmart through the emergency door and proceed towards the woods.
An off-duty firefighter (the so-called "good guy with a gun") stopped him until police arrived.
Police later arrested this individual and immediately charged him with inducing panic, trespassing and felonious assault. He also is being held on making terrorist threats. These are felonies and in the state of Missouri, he could face up to 10 years or more for these charges. He will be held until a court appearance.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Unrepentant white terrorist wanted to prove a point. You can be sane and still be a mass shooter.
Details of the terrorist are being shared online. Once again, giving a backstory to a potential threat in order to sympathize with his "mental illness."
The terrorist was allegedly an ammo-loving freak. He was showing on social media him shooting off rounds and bragging about bagging him an Asian bitch. On his social media, he married a Filipino woman and knocked her up. They were expecting his first child soon.
Yadda, yadda, yadda..... I don't care.
The woman represents that theory that Asian woman can be just as racist as white men.
The white terrorist bragged about how he's in love with GOD.
"Love my GOD, Love my wife, Love my guns."
He shared anti-AOC (Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-NY), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), anti-Black Lives Matter and Michael Brown memes.
The folks at Walmart immediately condemned the man's actions. They said that he will no longer be allowed to shop at a Walmart. The company thanks the police and citizens who were involved and still offer grievance to those affected in El Paso and those in Dayton.
The El Paso massacre happened at a Walmart that was frequently shopped by those who came from Mexico. There were 22 individuals were killed. Some were Americans and some were Mexicans.
The terrorist came from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex to commit a mass casualty event. He wrote a manifesto on 8chan and had language similar to the far-white agitators on Fox News and that imbecile.
Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador condemned the white terrorist. He also called upon Donald J. Trump and Congress to do something about gun violence. He said that Trump and far-white agitators rhetoric towards Mexico hurts business relations and the possible USMCA deal.
Mississippi Highway troopers under fire for chokholding a motorist after a routine stop.
The Mississippi State Highway Patrol is doing damage control after a motorist and his girlfriend recorded an encounter with one of its troopers. The trooper allegedly placed the motorist in a chokehold and slammed him against the vehicle.
Now the man is filing a federal lawsuit alleging the trooper violated his civil rights and engaged in an unlawful stop based on his race. This happened a couple of weeks ago in July. The motorist was traveling on a highway in Tupelo when he was pulled over by the Mississippi State Patrol trooper.
It was an apparent traffic stop that turned into a controversy.
Mississippi Trooper Brandon Berry claimed that he told Robert Morton over numerous times to comply with his orders.
Mississippi tattoo artist and his girlfriend were manhandled by the state highway troopers.
Berry told Morton to get on the ground at least a dozen or so times.
Porsha Martin shared the clip with her friends and it went viral.
Her friend Laquisha Cummings decided to ask the NAACP and Black Lives Matter to get the ball rolling on this.
The 4 1/2 video shows Morton standing behind his car on the side of the road in Clay County, chatting with the trooper, seemingly agitated. The trooper started to engage in verbal insults and demanding to be arrested.
The allegations of the motorist traveling over 100 in a 65 speed zone was the pull over. Morton claims he didn't speed. Morton refused the orders to put his hands behind his back to be handcuffed.
"Why am I getting arrested?" Morton repeatedly asked.
A second trooper then pulls up and immediately puts his hands on Morton's throat. The troopers then start to wrestle Morton to the ground.
Shields recording the encounters is screaming that this is police brutality. She said these troopers were supposed to protect everyone.
"You're all supposed to be out here protecting us!"
Morton was criminally charged with traffic violations and felonies for resisting arrest. He was given a "get out of free card" and will have a trial soon. He hired a lawyer and is seeking a federal lawsuit against the troopers who arrested him.
The charges were speeding more than 20 miles over the posted limit, failure to wear seat belts, failure to have a proper seat belt for a child, failure to comply to an officer, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, malicious mischief and failure to display license and registration to a peace officer.
The charges could have him in the iron college for up to three years with a suspended license up to five years. In the state of Mississippi, the vehicle could be impounded if the motorist fails to pay fines.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The troopers haven't been placed in the freezer. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety has opened an investigation to determine if the troopers handling of Morton was justified.
BAD COPS WILL GET GOOD COPS KILLED. GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES. AGAIN, THAT RUSSIAN-BACKED BLUE LIVES MATTER CROWD WANTS TO JUSTIFY THE DETAINMENT OR KILLING OF PEOPLE OF COLOR AS US OVERREACTING AND PLAYING THE "RACE CARD" TO HATE ON THOSE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT. PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE NOT HATING ON LAW ENFORCEMENT. WE JUST NOT GOING TO ALLOW OURSELVES BECOME THE NEXT HASHTAG WHEN WE DIE. I AM SICK OF HEARING THIS BULLSHIT. CONSERVATIVES (AS WELL AS COONSERVATIVES AND FAR-WHITE TROLLS) SAY THAT THERE ARE MORE BLACK CHILDREN LIVING IN SINGLE PARENT HOUSEHOLDS WITHOUT A FATHER. IT'S FUNNY! WHEN SOMEONE SHOOTS AN UNARMED MAN OF COLOR, THAT COULD HAVE BEEN THE CHILD'S FATHER. WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING TO KEEP OUR CHILDREN AND WOMEN OF COLOR SAFE. WE NEED TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM THESE RACE SOLDIERS WHO BELIEVE THE BADGE OR ENTITLEMENT IS THEIR WEAPON OF CHOICE.
Will Trump cave to the National Rifle Association again?
The National Rifle Association continues to interfere in the way of life.
The gun lobbyists group and it's embattled leader Wayne LaPierre hopped on the phone Tuesday and Wednesday demanding Donald J. Trump and Republicans back down from passing legislation that impedes on firearms.
The chief executive of the National Rifle Association is warning President Donald Trump that backing expanded background checks on gun sales would hurt Trump's standing among his core base of supporters, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
The Post said Trump is showing interest in backing legislation to strengthen background checks on people seeking to purchase firearms in the wake of two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio that killed 31 people and injured dozens of others in the course of 24 hours.
But both NRA executive Wayne LaPierre and Trump's own aides have intervened and are trying to talk Trump out of supporting stronger background checks, sources told the Post, which reported that LaPierre argued that Trump's own supporters do not approve of expanding background checks.
The shootings in Gilroy, El Paso and Dayton have Americans demanding immediate action when it comes to firearms.
The junk food media continues to name these the three white terrorists.
They keep saying these white terrorists were mentally ill. i
There were at least seven mass shootings in the span of two weeks. The ones that gotten attention happened at events. The white terrorist who massacred three at the Gilroy Garlic Festival last Sunday.
Thr white terrorist killed at a Walmart in El Paso on Saturday. Hours later, another white terrorist managed to kill at a Dayton nightclub.
Each of these incidents could have been prevented.
In February, the House of Representatives passed two bills to require background checks on all private gun sales and increase the amount of time required to process a background check — neither of which Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brought to the floor of the Senate for a vote.
LaPierre's claim that Trump supporters aren't in favor of background checks is not, however, backed up by recent polling data, which shows overwhelming support for universal background checks across the political spectrum.
According to a Morning Consult/Politico poll released on August 7, 90% of Republicans and Trump 2016 voters and 89% of those who currently hold a favorable view of Trump support mandatory background checks on all gun sales.
Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia are similarly teaming up on a Senate bill to expand background checks to virtually all private sales, and both told the Post they had spoken to Trump in recent days making the case for the bill — which the NRA does not support.
Manchin said that any legislation expanding background checks would need Trump's support to have a fighting chance on Capitol Hill, telling the Post that he expressed to Trump that "if you don't stand up and say, 'This is a piece of legislation I support,' we're not going to get enough cover to have Republicans stand tall. They won't be able to do it."
The Post also reported that Trump is questioning whether the NRA — which has had a huge influence over Republican lawmakers for decades but is currently weathering a number of financial and legal scandals — still holds the same level of sway within the GOP.
After the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, the Trump administration similarly defied the NRA by banning bump stocks — devices that allow shooters to fire multiple rounds more quickly.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Trump's allies on the hill, told the Post he's optimistic that Trump "seems determined to do something and believes there is space to get something done this time around," adding, "he's never been a sports or gun enthusiast. But he is more determined than ever to do something on his watch."
Thanks to a controversial reality television star and celebrity agitator, a young woman gets a second chance. The release of Cyntoia Brown was long awaited. The woman spent three nickels in the iron college for murdering a man who paid for her sexual services. She was an underage teen when she was sold into the prostitution racket.
Initially given LIFE in the iron college for murdering 43-year old Johnny Mitchell Allen in a robbery and murder gone wrong, the young teen got a chance at redemption.
Brown who was released on Wednesday claimed that she did the murder in self-defense because Allen was raping her and trying to kill her.
The prosecutors claimed that Brown was trying to lure Allen into his home, seduce him and then rob him. When she didn't fulfill the offer, they got into a fight and she pulled firearm on him and shot him.
She took his wallet and left the home. She was soon caught and given the maximum of time interned in the iron college. If it wasn't for then-Republican governor Bill Haslam of Tennessee, the woman would have served nearly 60 years before a clemency.
Celebrities and politicians came to Brown's aid. They came up with the hashtag #FreeCyntioaBrown.
Kim Kardashian-West along with Rihanna, Common, Justin Bieber and many others were hoping that Tennessee spared the woman.
Upon her release, Brown immediately apologized to the family of the victim. She vows to help other women and children who become trapped in human trafficking and gun violence.
The people involved in her life are all but dead. The human trafficker, Garion McGlothen (known as Kutthroat) was killed after being an altercation with Quartez Hines.
The family believes that Brown is unrepentant. They believe she was a "manipulative, calculating teen who used up all her chances in the juvenile justice system and is a danger to public."
Hopefully Brown turns her life around. She needs to prove to the world that she's not a cold hearted killer. She needs to prove to the doubters that she's a proven success, not a failure.
This isn't an immigrant or Muslim. This is a white terrorist.
In the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, many lawmakers are calling upon Donald J. Trump and Congress to do something about gun violence.
Like most politicians, they'll offer nothing more than thoughts and prayers, ridiculous platitudes and of course, blaming each other for the actions of one said terrorist. They call mass shooters that are white, mentally ill.
If the terrorist was Muslim, Black or an immigrant, you would see the far-white and Trump call for laws and restrictions on these groups. We just won't call it what it is.... White terrorism.
For years, we hear that mental illness is the reasons to why mass shootings happen. Fuck this shit.
Mental illness doesn't inspire a man to pick up a firearm. Mental illness doesn't force a mass shooter to kill people. Politics isn't what inspire mass shooters. It's a sense of name-recognition.
A bullet doesn't care which person you've voted for. It only hits targets.
Stop using cop-outs.
What social media unearthed was a well-privileged white man who decided to film himself in a terrorist video.
The man lives in South Carolina and was a student at the Cardinal Newman School in Columbia.
He wanted to make himself clear, he wanted to kill Black people.
There were two violent, graphic and racist videos made this white terrorist in spring.
The videos just recently made it to social media and got the attention of the Richland County boys, Columbia Police and FBI.
"Howdy, I'm ........ and I hate Black people. They're the worst. They're stinky and they just suck. They're just bad people. You'll notice over there, there's a box of Jordans --- the favorite pair of shoes for a Black man. I'm gonna show you what I think of the Black man."
He then unloads into the empty box.
At the end of the video, he said, "fuck all Niggers."
In a second video, the teen continues to fire weapons at the same shoebox.
"It seems that our NIGGER hasn't quite learned his lesson yet," the terroist said. "It seems like he needs twenty-five rounds to the dome."
The disturbing footage was filmed in May but started circulating last month at Cardinal Newman School in Columbia. The videos were turned over by school officials on July 15 to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, The State reported.
The white terrorist is a family member of Richard Quinn, a political strategist who was arrested earlier this year in a corruption probe, FITS News reported. Quinn faces charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
A source close to the terrorist claimed that he filmed the video for the "shock value," the news outlet reported.
"The idea was to see who could be the most outlandishly, ridiculously offensive," the source told FITS News. "They weren't being serious."
Deputies investigating the footage later discovered more footage and texts — including the student’s threat to “shoot up the school,” The State reported.
The teen has since been charged with making student threats — but authorities haven't released his name due to his age.
School officials also didn't identify the terrorist as the student Friday night when they notified parents about the arrest.
“The next few days may be challenging for Cardinal Newman School, so I ask your prayers for our students, teachers, staff and administration,” Principal Robert Loia wrote, according to the news outlet.
Trump gets a lukewarm greeting from Dayton mayor Nan Whaley and Sherrod Brown.
The imbecile and Melania Trump do a pass through Dayton before they head to El Paso.
Trump did visit Dayton, Ohio briefly. He was supposed to tour the Oregon District and have a somber moment with residents. Turns out he didn't appear at the entertainment district. He visited the corporate Premier Health hospital. He met with three victims (likely supporters) and medical officials. He met with the CEO, Mary H. Boosalis of Premier Health. She closed Good Samaritan Hospital.
He arrived at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to greet Gov. Mike DeWine, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) and mayor Nan Whaley.
He traveled down Interstate 675 and U.S. 35 highways. He exited towards the Premier Hospital.
Once he left after he spent less than two hours in Dayton.
Just left Dayton, Ohio, where I met with the Victims & families, Law Enforcement, Medical Staff & First Responders. It was a warm & wonderful visit. Tremendous enthusiasm & even Love. Then I saw failed Presidential Candidate (0%) Sherrod Brown & Mayor Whaley totally.....
....misrepresenting what took place inside of the hospital. Their news conference after I left for El Paso was a fraud. It bore no resemblance to what took place with those incredible people that I was so lucky to meet and spend time with. They were all amazing!o
.@POTUS and @FLOTUS departing Ohio after spending almost two hours with shooting survivors, family members, first responders, & medical staff at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton. Truly special moments for everyone that was present. Air Force One now wheels up for El Paso, Texas... https://t.co/wxn5fmTi5y
Very SAD to see Ohio Senator Brown, & Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley - LYING & completely mischaracterizing what took place w/ the President’s visit to Miami Valley Hospital today. They are disgraceful politicians, doing nothing but politicizing a mass shooting, at every turn they can..
Whaley and Brown both condemned the visit saying that he wasn't sincere in coming.
Not sure what the President thinks @SenSherrodBrown and I misrepresented. As we said, the victims and first responders were comforted by his presence. Let’s hope he’s not one of these all talk, no action politicians and actually does something on gun control. #DoSomething
On Monday, Trump flubbed in his press conference. In his closing remarks, he said, "God bless the many victims of Toledo" and it went viral.
In the video, posted on his Twitter fed, he is filmed from The Beast showing Dayton's skyline and he greets with Premier Health workers and took photos.
Now he's heading to El Paso to greet Gov. Greg Abbott, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) and mayor Dee Margo. He will speak about the mass shooting at the Walmart, meet with victims and greet supporters. He will address the city around 6pm.
Former lawmaker and presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke denounced the visit.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Amy McGrath, the potential opponent and others call out America's most hated politician for the actions of his campaign team.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (born Addison Mitchell McConnell, Jr.) is the most inept lawmaker in Washington. McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader and fellow Kentucky senator, Republican Rand Paul (Randall H. Paul) have been more a problem than a solution.
McConnell earned the nickname "Moscow Mitch" after he failed to enact the House passed bill on election safety.
Far white men pose with cutout of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
They've opposed Barack Obama during his two terms as president. They denied Obama his third pick for the Supreme Court. They eagerly voted Donald J. Trump's Supreme Court nominees without any care in the world.
Many Democrats and progressives are hoping to line up candidates strong enough to send these fucktards back to their hometowns.
Social media slammed McConnell and his campaign staff yesterday after pictures of a group of boys surfaced. The boys were with a cardboard cutout of Ocasio-Cortez allegedly groping and manhandling it.
The photo shows seven young white men, all of them wearing, "Team Mitch" T-Shirt, surrounding the cutout of the progressive lawmaker. One is even mockingly kissing the cutout. Another has his hand near the neck of the cutout.
The lawmaker responds to the inept senator through her social media.
Hey @senatemajldr - these young men look like they work for you.
Just wanted to clarify: are you paying for young men to practice groping & choking members of Congress w/ your payroll, or is this just the standard culture of #TeamMitch?
Also, the potential opponent McConnell is facing is fuming as well.
Amy McGrath has decided to challenge McConnell in 2020. The former military veteran has slammed McConnell as well.
Hours after the El Paso shooting, Mitch McConnell proudly tweeted this photo. I find it so troubling that our politics have become so nasty and personal that the Senate Majority Leader thinks it's appropriate to use imagery of the death of a political opponent (me) as messaging. pic.twitter.com/2x5kO5jwPi
McGrath as well as former Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, Kentucky secretary of state Alison Lundergan Grimes and Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal policy were placed on tombstones.
McConnell's campaign team said that the Democrats are demonizing high school students.
"We've watched for years as the far-left and the media look for every possible way to demonize, stereotype, and publicly castigate every young person who dares get involved with Republican politics. These young men are not campaign staff, they're high schoolers and it's incredible that the national media has sought to once again paint a target on their backs rather than report real, and significant news in our country. Team Mitch in no way condones any aggressive, suggestive, or demeaning act toward life sized cut outs of any gender in a manner similar to what we saw from President Obama's speechwriting staff several years ago."
This type of shit is an example of why white extremism is a danger to the country.
Isn't Ocasio-Cortez a young person who is daring to get involved? She is being publicly castigated, stereotyped and demonized by McConnell and the far-white.
The lawmaker as well as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) were told to "go back" by Trump.
She has been subjected to death threats, racist emails, insults on her intelligence and her looks.
A woman of color who wants to make lives better for her constituents is vilified by Trump and the far-white agitators on Fox News and talk radio.
We have two mass shootings in the United States. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is urging McConnell to come back to the Senate and get the ball rolling.
McConnell isn't coming. He is nursing an arm injury. He hurt himself after a fall on his patio.
Paul also going through surgery. He is getting a partial removal of his lung after his infamous fight with a neighbor in Bowling Green. He is not coming back either. Nor is Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH).
He's too busy gearing up for his reelection campaign.
Toni Morrison, the famed African American author who was best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved died at the age of 88. Morrison, who was nearly 40 when she published her first novel in 1970, wasn't an overnight success.
Former president Barack Obama tweeted a response to Morrison after her passing.
Toni Morrison was a national treasure, as good a storyteller, as captivating, in person as she was on the page. Her writing was a beautiful, meaningful challenge to our conscience and our moral imagination. What a gift to breathe the same air as her, if only for a while. pic.twitter.com/JG7Jgu4p9t
Morrison is one of the world's most influential writers. She passed away after a short bout of illness according to her family.
She was an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor emeritus at Princeton University.
Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford) was born in Lorain, Ohio, a city that was divided on racial lines and the golden boom of industrialism. Her family fled the south to settle in Ohio. Her mother grew up in Greenville, Alabama and her father grew up in Cartersville, Georgia.
She said that her father was 15 years old when a mob of white people lynched two black businessmen on his street. She said that he was traumatized by this. He would flee the South to settle in Lorain.
Lorain was safer but was deeply segregated. The city was booming with steel manufacturing. Her father, George was working odd jobs and trying to make ends meet for Toni and her three siblings.
Her mother Ramah was a homemaker and devout member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She would often take the children to church and taught Sunday school.
Toni had two sons. Her oldest son Harold (left) and Slade (center). Slade passed away of cancer in 2010.
When Morrison was about two years old, her family's landlord set fire to the house they lived in, while they were at home. The family were struggling to pay the rent and the landlord was demanding they pay up or pay the price.
She would learn how the world worked at an early age. She started to engage in reading of Jane Austen and Leo Tolstoy. She would start learning about African heritage and American history.
She would learn about African-American folktales and ghost stories and spiritual songs.
She would become a Catholic at the age of 12 and took the baptismal name of Anthony (the Saint Anthony), which led to her pen name of Toni.
After attending Lorain High School, she would enroll in Howard University seeking the knowledge of her fellow Black intellectuals. The University of Washington, DC were she took classes at also was considered very segregated at the time. She would learn how our nation's capital became a focal point of her writing. She saw racially segregated restaurants and buses in our nation's capital.
She would get married to Harold Morrison, a Jamaican architect in 1958. She would get pregnant while in Washington and gave birth to her first son, Harold, Jr. while in college. Before she divorced her husband, she gave birth to her second son, Slade.
Slade would die of pancreatic cancer.
Morrison began her storied career in letters as a college instructor at Texas Southern University and later at Howard, her alma mater.
In 1963, she took a position as a book editor at Random House based in Syracuse, New York, where she worked for 20 years before leaving in 1983. Morrison was editing the works of others when she published her first novel at age 39.
"I didn't become interested in writing until I was about 30 years old," she later said. "I didn't really regard it as writing then, although I was putting words on paper. I thought of it as a very long, sustained reading process -- except that I was the one producing the words."
President Barack Obama awarded Toni Morrison a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
"The Bluest Eye," about an impoverished and abused black girl who longs for blue eyes, was met with middling reviews but gained prestige when it was added to the City University of New York curriculum.
"Required reading," Morrison has said. "Therein lies the success."
The novel has been challenged and called offensive over the years by parents in communities across the country who say the subject matter, which involves incest and violence, is too raw for young readers.
Morrison went on to pen roughly a dozen novels, most lauded among them 1987's "Beloved," about a former slave who kills her baby to ensure it is never enslaved. "Beloved" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Her non-fiction work included 1974's collection of African-American historical ephemera "The Black Book," 1992's "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination" and 2004's "Remember: The Journey to School Integration."
A regal presence who'd come to be associated with her crown of gray dreadlocks, Morrison had amassed a body of work that rivaled the most decorated American novelists by the late 1980s, though according to some she had not been fully recognized as the literary institution she was. Morrison herself had championed the work of black writers such as Toni Cade Bambara, Gayl Jones and Angela Davis while at Random House.
In 1988, a group of 48 black writers and thinkers published a statement in The New York Times in support of Morrison and other black writers and critical of the literary establishment, which seemed to have gone out of its way to pass them over for major writing awards.
"Despite the international stature of Toni Morrison, she has yet to receive the national recognition that her five major works of fiction entirely deserve: She has yet to receive the keystone honors of the National Book Award or the Pulitzer Prize," read the statement.
She received the Pulitzer for "Beloved" two months later.
The novel was adapted into a 1998 film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover and Thandie Newton. The movie was not a success.
Morrison encountered personal tragedy in 1993 when her home burned down, and in 2010 with the death of her son Slade at age 45 from pancreatic cancer. She had collaborated with Slade, a visual artist whom she called a "brilliant writer," on a series of children's books.
The lows were countered by the highest of heights. The same year her son died, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her body of work to that point.
"One can delight in her unique narrative technique, varying from book to book and developed independently, even though its roots stem from Faulkner and American writers from further south.
The lasting impression is nevertheless sympathy, humanity, of the kind which is always based on profound humour," said the Nobel committee in announcing the award in 1993.
President Barack Obama awarded Morrison the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 -- the loftiest US honor for a civilian.
The author preferred to let her work speak for her, often appearing publicly as an inscrutable grand dame, reluctant to talk about personal affairs. However, writing, she said, was the one space where she really could be larger than life.
"All of my life is doing something for somebody else," Morrison told New York magazine in 2012.
"Whether I'm being a good daughter, a good mother, a good wife, a good lover, a good teacher -- and that's all that. The only thing I do for me is writing. That's really the real free place where I don't have to answer."
Given that independence, it was perhaps ironic that she stuck with her married name on her books. ("Toni" was a high school nickname.) She'd used it for "The Bluest Eye" and later regretted it, she said.
"Wasn't that stupid?" she said. "I feel ruined!"
The people who know her best call her Chloe, she added.
"Chloe writes the books."
Morrison, author of seminal works of literature on the black experience such as "Beloved," "Song of Solomon" and "Sula" and the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize, has died, her publisher Knopf confirmed to CNN.
Morrison's novels gazed unflinchingly on the lives of African Americans and told their stories with a singular lyricism, from the post-Civil War maelstrom of "Beloved" to the colonial setting of "A Mercy" to the modern yet classic dilemmas depicted in her 11th novel, "God Help the Child."
Her talent for intertwining the stark realities of black life with hints of magical realism and breathtaking prose gained Morrison a loyal literary following. She was lauded for her ability to mount complex characters and build historically dense worlds distant in time yet eerily familiar to the modern reader.
Morrison was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Humanities Medal, the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Trump-supporting moron Mike DeWine gets an earful of angry Dayton residents.
The Republicans want to pass "red flag" laws. That's another stupid idea. It's basically saying that to a mass shooter, you gotta be a nut to not get a gun.
Every time they claim these white terrorists are mentally ill, I want to scream. These folks knew what they were doing. Fuck that nonsense. It's a fucking cop-out.
You guys better get something straight here, it's about the firearms, not the man. You got easy access to these things and these idiots are willing to grab a firearm without any repercussions. Blaming mental health is ridiculous. Anyone can obtain a firearm.
These white terrorists are sane. They didn't give a fuck about who they've killed. They killed people of color because that's their motive and credo.
As Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence make preparations to head to El Paso and Dayton for photo-ops and campaign style rallies, the nation is demanding Congress do something now.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) somehow injured himself in his Louisville home. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) also is going into surgery after his altercation last year with a neighbor in Bowling Green.
Somehow the two inept Kentucky senators are going to take a pass on getting the House bill on gun violence passed.
Yesterday, Gov. Mike DeWine, the bumbling Ohio leader went to Dayton to soothe the crowd.
The crowd decided to give him, Nan Whaley, Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) and Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) an earful.
The governor was trying to reflect on the death of one of his children when the crowd just said directly to him, "Do something!"
