Well a lone gunman opened fire and
murdered ten innocent people,
at a King Soopers Grocery Store in
Boulder, Colorado.
GOP congresswoman Lauren Boebert,
who's from the state of Colorado.
Decided instead of tweeting about
what was happening, she would tweet
criticism toward Joe Biden instead.
Now look, there's a possibility
that she was unaware of
the shooting that was taking place,
as she was tweeting her insults to
Joe Biden.
But soon after a wave of tweets
demanding that she address
the shooting.
She did offer more of what we've
actually come to expect from
Republican lawmakers.
And this is what she said,
my prayers of course.
My prayers are with the shoppers,
employees, first responders, and
others affected by
the shooting in Boulder.
May God be with them.
While we are still awaiting
important information,
blah blah blah blah blah, senseless
acts of violence are never okay.
You get the point.
It's the same that we've seen from
other Republican lawmakers,
throughout years and
years of several mass shootings.
And that tweet by the way,
was followed by an email, that she
sent out like two hours later,
okay.
About how the GOP will not allow
for any type of gun regulation.
So as was tweeted by David Gura on
Twitter, two hours after today's
shooting in Boulder began.
Representative Lauren Boebert's
campaign sent her supporters
an email with the subject
line quote, I told Beto O'Rourke,
hell no to taking our guns,
now we need to tell Joe Biden.
For those of you who are tired of
these empty thoughts and prayers,
just know that this is not
something that's isolated with
Lauren Boebert.
We got more of that from senator
Ted Cruz as well.
This is what he had to say in
a recent hearing about mass
shootings in America.
>> I agree it's a time for actions,
and by the way,
I don't apologize for thoughts or
prayers.
I will lift up in prayer people who
are hurting.
And I believe in the power of
prayer, and the contempt of
Democrats for prayers is an odd
sociological thing.
But I also agree thoughts and
prayers alone are not enough.
We need action.
>> I just think the very existence
of Ted Cruz in the Senate is an odd
sociological thing.
I don't know how that man is
thought to be a good representative
of anyone in this country.
But nonetheless, what he's trying
to do is make it seem as though
religion is being persecuted here.
When in reality empty thoughts and
prayers, in lieu of
actually doing your job is what's
infuriating people.
Thoughts and
prayers on Twitter mean nothing.
And by the way for Democrats, your
chest thumping tweets about what
needs to be done also mean nothing.
Just get off of Twitter and
do something, right.
In fact, the first thing that
Democrats need to do is find a way
to get rid of the filibuster.
Or reform it to a point where it
doesn't serve as a giant obstacle,
to actually getting something done
legislatively.
But Was, what do you make of this?
Are we being too harsh to people
who want to share
their thoughts and prayers?
>> No, I don't think so.
I think we're being probably not
harsh enough.
What you see oftentimes with this
issue with Republicans,
is that they find it to be
an opportunistic one.
Because the reason why I said this
is the abortion of the right.
Even though abortion is
the abortion of the right too.
Is that people mobilize, fundraise,
get active behind this very issue.
In a way like that email got sent
out, and I bet she got some money
funneled into her.
I mean her campaign, right.
And so it's something that they
often run on, they know they can
energize the base on.
And conversely you'll never see
them go against the Second
Amendment in any meaningful way.
Oftentimes you'll see people
like the Democrats come out, and
say like I mean,
maybe we can cut Social Security.
I mean maybe Medicare isn't that
important.
You'll see them when they want to
be quote unquote brave.
Go against things that they should
ideologically be 1000% in
support of.
In ways that you will just never
ever, ever, ever see a Ted Cruz
type go against guns that way.
And again you see it with anything
like cops, like when the cops shoot
somebody on the streets, or
choke somebody out.
It's like we gotta make the cops
better, but we still love the cops.
And Joe Biden is going to
talk about increasing funding,
and all of that, right?
But you'll never see
the Republicans ever,
ever go after guns.
They won't even hint at it,
because they know better than that.
These guys are al spineless,
they're all running scared
from their base.
>> No, I mean, it's
such a good point.
Republicans never bend on anything.
In fact,
a good recent example illustrating
what you just mentioned,
is the upcoming $3 trillion
infrastructure proposal, coming
from Joe Biden's administration.
The talks and
negotiations are preliminary.
We're going to talk about that in
more detail later in the show.
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But already you have so-called
centrist Democrats saying like, but
no, but you're you're offering
things that are super popular.
That would make our party
really popular.
No, no, no, we need to think about
bi-partisan legislating,
like F off.
[LAUGH]. >> Please F off.
You're just going to be a pathetic,
feckless, Republican boot-licker,
why are you in office?
Go do something else,
go be lobbyists,
go make money doing something else.
But stop wasting your constituent's
time, with these disgusting bad
faith arguments.
Anyway, we have more from Ted Cruz.
Because he claims that he actually
wants to offer more,
than thoughts and prayers.
It's just that he wants to lie
about what people actually want to
do with gun legislation first.
So let's hear a little more
of that.
>> And every time there's
a shooting, we play this ridiculous
theater, Where this committee gets
together and proposes a bunch of
laws, that would do nothing to
stop these murders.
Senator from Connecticut just said
the folks on the other side
of the aisle have no solutions.
Well, the Senator from Connecticut
knows that is false.
And he knows that's false,
because Senator Grassley and
I together introduced legislation
Grassley-Cruz.
Targeted at violent criminals,
targeted at felons,
targeted at fugitives, targeted at
those with serious mental disease.
To stop them from getting firearms,
to put them in prison when they
try to illegally buy guns.
What happens in this committee
after every mass shooting,
is Democrats proposed taking away
guns from law abiding citizens.
Because that's their political
objective.
But what they propose,
not only does it not reduce crime,
it makes it worse.
>> No, Democrats are not proposing
taking guns away from law
abiding citizens.
Proposals from Democrats includes
things like requiring universal
background checks.
Closing the gun show loophole that
allows you to purchase a weapon
from a private seller, without
under going a background check.
They want to ban the future sale,
in some cases not all Democrats.
But there have been proposals
including from Joe Biden, to ban
the future sale of assault weapons.
And also block the sale of, this
shouldn't even be controversial.
Bump stock devices that effectively
convert semi-automatic
rifles into automatic rifles.
Like why is this difficult, right?
No one's saying like,
let's go target Jim Bob.
Who likes to go hunting in
Arkansas.
No, no one's saying that.
If you're a legal gun carrier,
you are a law abiding gun owner,
no one's targeting you.
But republicans in Congress just
like with Senator Cruz in the video
you just saw.
Consistently lie to the American
people, about what the proposed
gun legislation would do.
And the argument that no, we can't
have any type of regulation.
Because criminals
are going to break the law anyway.
Okay great, then why do we have any
laws to begin with, right?
It just makes no sense Was, and
it's It's really frustrating.
Go ahead.
>> Well, it's tough because I hear
Ted Cruz spew lies and
nonsense in weasel speak.
Which is basically,
his default posture.
And then I have to watch him with
that ridiculous mullet on his head.
I mean, can we propose a law in
congress that would confiscate
the mullet of every law abiding
citizen in America?
I mean look at that thing.
It's a shag, it's ridiculous, Anna.
>> Yeah. >> And Jim Bob would
probably agree with me.
I'm telling you.
>> Yeah.
>> Shouts to Jim Bob and
his cousin [LAUGH].
[LAUGH] >> When
the people leading these debates,
engaging in bad faith arguments,
then the American people, people
don't have accurate information.
And so if you are a law
abiding citizen,
if you've done nothing wrong, but
you enjoy hunting, right?
You do have weapons, but
you're responsible.
You'll hear this fear
mongering from the right wing.
And don't forget that there's a lot
of corruption involved as well.
Because gun manufacturers certainly
do not want gun regulation.
That means that their bottom line
is going to be negatively
impacted, right?
But when you hear this fear
mongering, unfortunately,
there's a giant part of the country
that buys into it.
But you need to have regulation to
limit the possibility of bad
actors, criminals getting their
hands on these types of guns.
So one thing that I absolutely like
laughed at in regard to this story,
was the reaction coming from
Democrats like Senate
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Who vowed to bring House passed gun
control bills to the floor for
debate and a vote.
Forcing his GOP colleagues to go on
the record with their stance on
the legislation.
What are you talking about Schumer?
[LAUGH] >> What are you
talking about?
What?
You don't even need to do that,
they're on the record,
they're proud of it.
They flaunt it,
they fundraise off of it, right?
I mean ,doing this kind of vote
on legislation where you
suspect lawmakers are lying just to
pander to voters, that's one thing.
That is not happening here.
Republicans proudly say what they
want to say, about trying
to destroy any attempts at common
sense gun legislation.
What Senate Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer needs to focus on,
is getting rid of the filibuster.
That that's what he needs
to focus on.
Like bringing something like
this up for
a vote will accomplish nothing.
It will fail.
And it will fail with Republicans
bragging about how they lead to its
failure.
And it's a political win for them.
>> Yeah, and I would encourage
everybody to just remember,
I mentioned voting rights.
How Republicans have gone about
systemically gutting just some of
the pillars of American democracy.
Within the various Republican
controlled state legislatures
across the country.
Please do be advised to remember
the drug war [LAUGH], right?
Just think about the laws that we
enacted, criminalizing behaviors
such as just smoking crack.
Or dealing crack, or
selling cocaine, or buying weed.
Or just think about the laws
that we enacted against those
activities, these victimless crimes
essentially.
>> Mhm. >> I mean sure,
there's some tax evasion going on,
but we'll talk about later.
And now tax evasion,
does this really seem to be that
big of a deal either.
But just think about
the authoritarian laws that were
enacted to combat what we consider
to be a scourge on society.
Which was this ridiculous racist,
drug war.
And now look at how they operate in
and around the gun issue.
It's obvious where
the priorities lie.
Obviously, the Dems don't feel like
they have the political capital.
Or just the stomach, or want to get
anything done on this front.
And so I guess you can see why
we're in the state of affairs that
we find ourselves in today.