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Monday, June 30, 2025

It's summer in our hemisphere, and people across Guns America have nothing to do but shoot other people.

New York Times: “A gunman deliberately started a wildfire in a rugged mountain area of Idaho and then shot at the firefighters who responded, killing two and injuring another on Sunday afternoon in what the local sheriff described as a 'total ambush.' Law enforcement officers exchanged fire with the gunman while the wildfire burned, and officials later found the body of the male suspect on the mountain with a firearm nearby, Sheriff Robert Norris of Kootenai County said at a news conference on Sunday night. The authorities said they believed the suspect had acted alone but did not release any information about his identity or motives.” A KHQ-TV (Spokane) report is here.

New York Times: “The New York City police were investigating a shooting in Manhattan on Sunday night that left two people injured steps from the Stonewall Inn, an icon of the L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. The shooting occurred outside a nearby building in Greenwich Village at 10:15 p.m., Sgt. Matthew Forsythe of the New York Police Department said. The New York City Pride March had been held in Manhattan earlier on Sunday, and Mayor Eric Adams said on social media that the shooting happened as Pride celebrations were ending. One victim who was shot in the head was in critical condition on Monday morning, a spokeswoman for the Police Department said. A second victim was in stable condition after being shot in the leg, she said. No suspect had been identified. The police said it was unclear if the shooting was connected to the Pride march.”

New York Times: “A dangerous heat wave is gripping large swaths of Europe, driving temperatures far above seasonal norms and prompting widespread health and fire alerts. The extreme heat is forecast to persist into next week, with minimal relief expected overnight. France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece are among the nations experiencing the most severe conditions, as meteorologists warn that Europe can expect more and hotter heat waves in the future because of climate change.”

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Commencement ceremonies are joyous occasions, and Steve Carell made sure that was true this past weekend (mid-June) at Northwestern's commencement:

~~~ Carell's entire commencement speech was hilarious. The audio and video here isn't great, but I laughed till I cried.

CNN did a live telecast Saturday night (June 7) of the Broadway play "Good Night, and Good Luck," written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, about legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow's effort to hold to account Sen. Joe McCarthy, "the junior senator from Wisconsin." Clooney plays Murrow. Here's Murrow himself with his famous take on McCarthy & McCarthyism, brief remarks that especially resonate today: ~~~

     ~~~ This article lists ways you still can watch the play. 

New York Times: “The New York Times Company has agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon for use in the tech giant’s artificial intelligence platforms, the company said on Thursday. The multiyear agreement 'will bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,' the news organization said in a statement. Besides news articles, the agreement encompasses material from NYT Cooking, The Times’s food and recipe site, and The Athletic, which focuses on sports. This is The Times’s first licensing arrangement with a focus on generative A.I. technology. In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, for copyright infringement, accusing the tech companies of using millions of articles published by The Times to train automated chatbots without any kind of compensation. OpenAI and Microsoft have rejected those accusations.” ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: I have no idea what this means for "the Amazon customer experience." Does it mean that if I don't have a NYT subscription but do have Amazon Prime I can read NYT content? And where, exactly, would I find that content? I don't know. I don't know.

Washington Post reporters asked three AI image generators what a beautiful woman looks like. "The Post found that they steer users toward a startlingly narrow vision of attractiveness. Prompted to show a 'beautiful woman,' all three tools generated thin women, without exception.... Her body looks like Barbie — slim hips, impossible waist, round breasts.... Just 2 percent of the images showed visible signs of aging. More than a third of the images had medium skin tones. But only nine percent had dark skin tones. Asked to show 'normal women,' the tools produced images that remained overwhelmingly thin.... However bias originates, The Post’s analysis found that popular image tools struggle to render realistic images of women outside the Western ideal." ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: The reporters seem to think they are calling out the AI programs for being unrealistic. But there's a lot about the "beautiful women" images they miss. I find these omissions remarkably sexist. For one thing, the reporters seem to think AI is a magical "thing" that self-generates. It isn't. It's programmed. It's programmed by boys, many of them incels who have little or no experience or insights beyond comic books and Internet porn of how to gauge female "beauty." As a result, the AI-generated women look like cartoons; that is, a lot like an air-brushed photo of Kristi Noem: globs of every kind of dark eye makeup, Scandinavian nose, Botox lips, slathered-on skin concealer/toner/etc. makeup, long dark hair and the aforementioned impossible Barbie body shape, including huge, round plastic breasts. 

New York Times: “George Clooney’s Broadway debut, 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' has been one of the sensations of the 2024-25 theater season, breaking box office records and drawing packed houses of audiences eager to see the popular movie star in a timely drama about the importance of an independent press. Now the play will become much more widely available: CNN is planning a live broadcast of the penultimate performance, on June 7 at 7 p.m. Eastern. The performance will be preceded and followed by coverage of, and discussion about, the show and the state of journalism.”

No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land. -- Magna Carta ~~~

~~~ New York Times: “Bought for $27.50 after World War II, the faint, water stained manuscript in the library of Harvard Law School had attracted relatively little attention since it arrived there in 1946. That is about to change. Two British academics, one of whom happened on the manuscript by chance, have discovered that it is an original 1300 version — not a copy, as long thought — of Magna Carta, the medieval document that helped establish some of the world’s most cherished liberties. It is one of just seven such documents from that date still in existence.... A 710-year-old version of Magna Carta was sold in 2007 for $21.3 million.... First issued in 1215, it put into writing a set of concessions won by rebellious barons from a recalcitrant King John of England — or Bad King John, as he became known in folklore. He later revoked the charter, but his son, Henry III, issued amended versions, the last one in 1225, and Henry’s son, Edward I, in turn confirmed the 1225 version in 1297 and again in 1300.”

NPR lists all of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners. Poynter lists the prizes awarded in journalism as well as the finalists in these categories.

 

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The Commentariat -- August 9, 2016

Presidential Race

Anne Gearan of the Washington Post: "Democrat Hillary Clinton will participate in the three presidential debates as scheduled, her campaign said Monday in response to complaints from Republican Donald Trump that the dates are unsuitable.... The prime-time sessions are set for Sept. 26, Oct. 9 and Oct. 19." -- CW

In Kissimmee, Florida, Hillary Clinton reacted to Donald Trump's economics speech. (more on the speech below):

Adam Pearce of the New York Times: "People who donated to establishment Republican candidates in the primary season are more likely to give money to Hillary Clinton ... than to their own party's candidate, Donald J. Trump.... Of the donors who gave at least $200 to Jeb Bush, Gov. John Kasich, Gov. Chris Christie or Senator Lindsey Graham in the Republican primaries, more have also contributed to Mrs. Clinton than to Mr. Trump, according to Federal Election Commission filings through June.... Donors to Mr. Trump's primary opponents are backing him at a historically low rate.... Mrs. Clinton has received $2.2 million from donors to candidates who dropped out of the Republican presidential primary, about $600,000 more than Mr. Trump has received from such donors, the filings showed." -- CW

Sean Sullivan of the Washington Post: "... Donald Trump used a familiar turn of phrase Monday evening to suggest without evidence a possible link between the execution of an Iranian nuclear scientist and Hillary Clinton's emails, saying that 'many people' were drawing a connection between the two.... By late Monday night, the hashtag #ManyPeopleAreSaying was trending on Twitter nationwide, a sign that the mogul's word choice, which he has used to perpetuate other unsubstantiated claims, had attracted widespread attention." -- CW ...

... Josh Rogin of the Washington Post: "Despite what you might read on Donald Trump’s twitter feed, the Iranian execution of a nuclear scientist who defected to the United States and then changed his mind was not caused by Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. The scientist outed himself; it wasn't Clinton's fault.... There's no reasonable connection between the discussion of Amiri's case on email by Clinton's staff to Amiri's eventual execution.... Add Shahram Amiri to the list of deaths Trump has carelessly speculated that Clinton is responsible for with no real evidence. At least he can't blame her for the Kennedy assassination; he's already got a conspiracy theory for that one." -- CW ...

... Amy Chozick of the New York Times: "The parents of two Americans killed in the 2012 attack on a United States diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, filed a lawsuit on Monday against Hillary Clinton, saying that her '"extreme carelessness" in handling confidential and classified information' while secretary of state contributed to the conditions that led to their sons' deaths. In the wrongful-death lawsuit, Patricia Smith and Charles Woods allege that the attack that killed four Americans, including their sons, Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, 'was directly and proximately caused, at a minimum' by Mrs. Clinton's use of a private email server while in the State Department." ...

... Josh Gerstein of Politico: "Republicans have opened a new front in the sprawling legal war over the release of State Department emails: a battle to open up thousands of pages of schedules for former President Bill Clinton. But the clock is ticking down on the GOP's hopes to use the trove of details on Clinton's post-presidency against his wife ... before the November election.... State revealed the existence of the large collection of Bill Clinton schedules after the RNC made an unusual legal move last month, asking a federal judge to declare that the former president's schedules should be released in their entirety because the former president worked closely with State officials and his post-presidency office is funded with taxpayer dollars. The GOP also pointed to the ethical controversy over the Clinton Foundation soliciting donations abroad while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state." -- CW

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Sean Sullivan & Jim Tankersley of the Washington Post: "Donald Trump on Monday proposed collapsing the federal income tax rate from seven brackets down to three and called for allowing child-care expenses to be exempt from taxation in a speech allies hope will help the GOP presidential nominee turn the page on a tumultuous period some Republicans fear has severely damaged his campaign. Trump was interrupted every few minutes by protesters for much of his address at the Detroit Economic Club. He took sharp aim at ... Hillary Clinton in the speech, holding up Detroit, which has been devastated by manufacturing job losses, as 'the living, breathing example' of her 'failed economic agenda.'" -- CW (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ...

... Binyamin Appelbaum of the New York Times fact-checks some of Trump's nonsense. -- CW ...

... Glenn Kessler & Michelle Lee of the Washington Post do the same, providing "a guide to 16 of the more fact-challenged assertions made by the GOP nominee." They pepper their report with language like "ridiculously false," "fairly absurd" & "ridiculous talking point." -- CW

Whoever wrote this, I don't think they know what carried interest is or how it works. -- Ryan Ellis of the Conservative Reform Network ...

... Kelsey Snell of the Washington Post: "Trump promised to reduce taxes for the middle class and reform a system that he said favors the rich.... 'He's actually doing less for the middle class than he originally planned,' said Martin A. Sullivan, the chief economist at Tax Analysts.... Many tax experts said Trump's latest speech reveals an even sketchier picture of his economic vision than previous proposals.... He introduced a proposal for an investment income loophole that could actually benefit hedge fund managers and suggested a tax break for child care that would do little for the lowest income earners." -- CW

... New York Times Editors: "Donald Trump said on Monday that he wanted to usher in 'economic renewal,' but most of his proposals would hurt the economy, rack up huge deficits, accelerate climate change and leave the country isolated from the world. In a speech billed as a blueprint for stimulating growth and creating jobs, Mr. Trump offered a grab bag of ideas that borrow from discredited supply-side economics, the fossil fuel industry's wish list and 'America First' isolationism. He also criticized Hillary Clinton and President Obama for what he called their 'job-killing, tax-raising, poverty-inducing' agenda. It was vintage Trump, full of promises of greatness and victories backed by fantastical proposals." -- CW ...

... Washington Post Editors: "Mr. Trump's economic policy speech to the Detroit Economic Club managed to embrace the worst of traditional Republican doctrine while repudiating the best of it.... There was, in short, little in the way of tangible benefit for the downscale Americans for whom Mr. Trump claims to speak.... Brimming with statistics, larded with footnotes, Monday's speech was meant to instill 'message discipline' in the Trump campaign. But even that message's most carefully scripted version is held together by smoke, mirrors and scapegoating." -- CW

... Pat Garofalo of US News: "... Donald Trump delivered an address before the Detroit Economic Club on Monday that was equal parts conservative pablum, distortion and conspiracy theorizing.... The policy content of the telepromptered speech was warmed-over Republican orthodoxy: tax cuts, deregulation and an insistence that any effort to combat climate change be subverted.... He layered on top of that some of his favorite lies: That ... Hillary Clinton called for raising taxes on the middle class (she didn't); that regulation is costing the economy $2 trillion per year (it's not); and that Obamacare will kill some 2 million jobs if it remains the law of the land (it won't). And then he threw in some conspiracy fearmongering about the official Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs numbers, one of his favorite ridiculous theories." -- CW (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ...

... John Cassidy of the New Yorker: "... the contradictions attending Trump's economic platform are more glaring than ever. He goes into the last months of the election campaign as a political schizophrenic. On immigration and trade, he is a pitchfork-wielding Pat Buchanan Republican; on taxes and regulation, he is a dark-suited Paul Ryan Republican.... The Detroit Economic Club ... marks the resting place of Donald Trump the economic populist." -- CW ...

... Timothy Lee of Vox: "With few policy ideas of his own, [Trump] has adopted the standard-issue Republican agenda by default.... The two relatively unorthodox ideas in Trump's plan -- rejecting trade deals and providing tax breaks for child care expenses -- put Trump firmly in the traditional of populist conservative thinkers and politicians. Yet in practice, these ideas represent only a small departure from mainstream conservatism." -- CW ...

... Brian Beutler: "Donald Trump is now running Mitt Romney's campaign plus racism. After perhaps the most damaging political week any presidential candidate has ever endured, Trump went to Detroit to deliver a hastily prepared economic speech intended to make peace with the Republican Party leadership. As the terms of his surrender, Trump offered two key concessions: He adopted House Speaker Paul Ryan's tax policy and the GOP's gaffe-centered 2012 campaign strategy of misquoting or misrepresenting the Democratic candidate's words." -- CW

David Fahrenthold of the Washington Post: "Last October, at a rally in Las Vegas, a friend of Donald Trump's introduced [Trump, saying,] 'You won't hear this in the media, but Donald gave $20 million to the St. Jude children's home. Twenty million dollars,' said Phil Ruffin, the owner of the Treasure Island casino, which was the site of the rally. The crowd cheered. Trump mouthed 'Thank you' twice and waved.... Later that day..., Trump retweeted a message from a fan, criticizing the mainstream media for not broadcasting Ruffin's story about the gift. If Ruffin's story were true, then Trump's gift to St. Jude would appear to be, by far, the largest charitable donation of Trump's life. But when The Washington Post looked for evidence to back up Ruffin's story it could find none.... It seems possible that what Ruffin was referring to actually" was a pledge from Eric Trump's foundation, an entity entirely separate from Donald Trump. (Emphasis added.) (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ...

     ... CW: Maybe you should start getting your friends & associates to introduce you at social & business gatherings by saying, "You won't hear this in the media, but [Your Name Here] gave $20 million [or more, what the hell] to [name of your favorite charity]." Think how much more people would like & admire you if they thought you gave all your worldly goods & then some to a worthy cause.

David Sanger of the New York Times: "Fifty of the nation's most senior Republican national security officials, many of them former top aides or cabinet members for President George W. Bush, have signed a letter declaring that Donald J. Trump 'lacks the character, values and experience' to be president and 'would put at risk our country's national security and well-being.' Mr. Trump, the officials warn, 'would be the most reckless president in American history.'" (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ...

     ... CW: This is as big a kick at Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, et al., as it is Donald Trump. Trump may be a bloviating buffoon, but Congressional leaders & other big-name enablers are supposed to be smart enough not to put the country at risk. The letter, a copy of which is here, gives less lily-livered Republicans permission to abandon ship. ...

... ** Fred Kaplan of Slate: "... Donald Trump's foreign policy ideas ... qualify as the most dangerous, disruptive, self-destructive ideas that any major party's nominee has peddled in any living American's memory.... Even if he didn't start a [capricious] war, or escalate one with no notion of how to end it, he is likely -- judging from what he says -- to wreck the few remnants of the post -- World War II order that sustain America's influence and its broad network of (mostly) democratic allies.... Putin in particular must be agog at his potential good fortune." Read on, as Kaplan runs through a parade of horribles that would follow Trump's election. -- CW ...

... Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), in a Washington Post op-ed: "I will not be voting for Donald Trump for president.... My conclusion about Mr. Trump's unsuitability for office is based on his disregard for the precept of treating others with respect, an idea that should transcend politics. Instead, he opts to mock the vulnerable and inflame prejudices by attacking ethnic and religious minorities.... I am also deeply concerned that Mr. Trump's lack of self-restraint and his barrage of ill-informed comments would make an already perilous world even more so." -- CW ...

... Paul Waldman: "... even if none of these defections represents an inspiring profile in courage, their political significance is still profound. That's because it's one thing when you have one or two defections, but the more they start to pile up, the more likely further defections become, each one giving momentum to the next." -- CW

Brian Stelter of CNN: "From the looks of Matt Drudge's home page, Hillary Clinton is so sick, she needs help getting up a flight of stairs.... But looks can be deceiving. The Drudge Report, one of the most widely read sites on the web, is misleading visitors by taking a six-month-old photo out of context. Clinton slipped on some stairs while campaigning in South Carolina ahead of the February 27 primary -- that much is true. A couple of men helped her up the stairs. Photos of the awkward entrance were published right afterward by two wire services, Reuters and Getty.... A right-wing blog called The American Mirror picked up on the tweets and published a short story on Sunday. 'SHOCK PHOTO: Multiple staffers help unstable Hillary up stairs,' the headline said.... The blog post was all Drudge needed to splash the photos across the home page of his hugely popular tip sheet." (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ...

     ... CW: I scanned the American Mirror blogpost; it's worse than Stelter lets on. I'd like to see Drudge keep a schedule like Clinton's, then try to bound up slippery steps in tiny, slick-soled high heels. Women-haters! ...

     ... Oh, look. Here's a pic of President Obama stumbling on stairs at a campaign rally in July 2012. He was indoors! And wearing big ole man-shoes! I guess all the wingers were right: he is totally unfit for the presidency:

Danielle Paquette of the Washington Post: Ivanka Trump, Donald's daughter, "has built her personal brand around this cause, penning a book called 'Women Who Work' and leading the family-friendly policy charge on Donald Trump's presidential campaign. But the company that designs her clothing line, including the $157 sheath she wore during her convention speech, does not offer workers a single day of paid maternity leave.... The company allows just 12 weeks of unpaid leave, the legal minimum for employers with more than 50 workers.... Last month, British newspaper The Independent revealed most of the Ivanka Trump brand's clothing was manufactured in Vietnam and China.... [Ivanka's] message [in 'Women Who Work'] starkly contrasts with past words of her father, who has blamed his wives' careers for troubles in his previous marriages. In 1994, Donald Trump told ABC News, 'I think that putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing.' There is no reference to a paid family leave policy on his campaign website." -- CW ...

... CW: If you want to read a boatload of malarkey (I didn't bother), Lisa DePaulo of Harper's Bizarre (or Bazaar) interviews Ivanka Trump & probably finds out Donald Trump is a great dad & wonderful human being. Also, sexy photos.

Other News & Views

Annals of "Journalism," Ctd.

"Shelley Ross, once one of the most powerful women in TV news, writes exclusively [in the Daily Beast] on resisting Roger Ailes's invitation to have a 'sexual alliance' with him, the epidemic of sexual harassment in TV news, and how to solve it." -- CW ...

... Gabriel Sherman of New York: "Fox News' senior executives have said they were unaware of sexual-harassment allegations against Roger Ailes before former anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit against him in July. But those claims are now being challenged by Fox host Andrea Tantaros, who says that she complained multiple times to senior Fox executives in 2015 about Ailes's inappropriate sexual behavior toward her. Tantaros says that, after she came forward, she was first demoted and eventually taken off the air in April 2016. Fox continues to pay her." CW Note: Tantaros is a complete ditz, but of course that doesn't mean Ailes has droit du seigneur. ...

... Kyle Blaine of BuzzFeed: Fox "News" sources dispute Tantaros' claims. "During the legal proceedings [over a book Tantaros wrote], according to the sources, Tantaros alleged that she had been mistreated by several Fox News employees, both men and women. Five specific allegations, including 'inappropriate male behavior,' were detailed by Tantaros's legal team in a March 2016 letter made available to BuzzFeed News. Ailes was not among those accused in the letter.... When Tantaros sat down with Fox News' legal and HR team on April 7, she was asked directly if she should could recall any specific statements made to her of a sexual nature. According to the source with direct knowledge, she answered that she could not recall." -- CW ...

... Sarah Ellison has a long piece in Vanity Fair titled "Inside the Fox News Bunker." All the staff are skeert of What Happens Next. CW: I'm sure a lot of Fox employees are nice people who don't deserve to be jerked around by the vicissitudes of Ailes & the Murdock boys. But, for reasons of necessity or opportunism, they did sell their souls to the devil. They should not be surprised that sometimes there is a price to pay.

Beyond the Beltway

Patricia Cohen of the New York Times: "... as more and more states seek ways to help the richest Americans protect their wealth from creditors, divorcing spouses and children, as well as some federal and state tax collectors, critics worry that the effort to attract the lucrative trust business is turning into a competitive game of giveaway.... The clear leaders are Nevada, Delaware, South Dakota and Alaska, but other states have also joined the frenzy. New Hampshire, Wyoming, Tennessee and Ohio all hope to dip a spoon in the trillion-dollar-plus pot of cream that had traditionally been preserved in offshore tax havens like the Cayman Islands." -- CW

Way Beyond

Duet of the Despots. Neil MacFarquhar & Tim Arango of the New York Times: "President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, are expected to reconsider their dispute over Syria when they meet on Tuesday in St. Petersburg, with both leaders interested in a public display of affection to show the West that strained ties have not left them isolated." -- CW

David Sanger & Rick Gladstone of the New York Times: "The most recent satellite photographs [of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea]..., collected and scrutinized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based research organization, show the construction of what appear to be reinforced [Chinese] aircraft hangars at Fiery Cross, Subi and Mischief Reefs, all part of the disputed territories. There were no military aircraft seen at the time the photos were taken. But a summary of the center's analysis suggests that the hangars on all three islets have room for 'any fighter-jet in the People's Liberation Army Air Force.'... While China may assert that the structures are for civilian aircraft or other nonmilitary functions, the center says its satellite photos strongly suggest otherwise." -- CW

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Reader Comments (5)

The word 'news' has a new meaning. Every day Republicans say no to the Republican candidate. A totally unique event. And I am sure it is much more than we see when you consider that the same thing is going on in individual States. Never mind the 'dangerous' President (from the 50 experts). I have no expertise in economics but I can add and subtract. Cut taxes, increase spending, reduce deficit.

August 9, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterMarvin Schwalb

"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/opinion/what-the-military-owes-rape-survivors-like-my-daughter.html". This is a sad, heart-felt opinion by a father. The idea of using the military against rape, in a way akin to the integration of the armed forces and how integration foretold Brown vs. Board of Education, leading society away from tacit acceptance and diminishment of the crime of rape would be a thorough repudiation of violence of sexual nature in a civil society. Imagine using the military to repudiate violence in general.

August 9, 2016 | Unregistered Commentercitizen625

Third party candidates. A collection of egomaniacs who don't give a damn about America.

August 9, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterMarvin Schwalb

Trump now advocating the cold blooded, planned assassination of his opponent.

Still no retraction of endorsements from the increasingly diminishing moral midgets.

When is enough enough? When some gun knobber actually does shoot Clinton? Oh but then it will be another unfortunate lone wolf actions and their prayers will go out to her family.

Seriously. Assassination. Advocated by the candidate they endorse. And pay no attention to all the flacks trying desperately to walk this back or "explain" it. There is no mistaking the intent.

This asshole has surpassed even his own subterranean low points.

And still no word from the Leaders...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/09/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-second-amendment/

August 9, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterAkhilleus

And from the Guardian on the "second amendment" lunacy:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/09/donald-trump-second-amendment-quote-hillary-clinton

August 9, 2016 | Unregistered Commenterexalto
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