#GOPDeathCult strikes again: The GOP & NRA want to stop🔫violence research. Although the USG began funding gun-violence research again in 2019, after a 20 yrs-long drought -funding is under threat from HSE Rs *vowed to kill it. Scientists have only begun to understand the factors that put Americans at risk of🔫injury -double blow of ending fed funding & cutting off researchers’ access to CA's data could set the field back years +number of studies on 🔫s would⬇️. #GOPSabotagehttps://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-25/california-gun-violence-research
A good omen for Dems in Texas for 2024? Or will most voters side with the #GOPDeathCult again? TX ranked worst state to live in the US -rankings come from the CNBC's yearly research on the best states for bus in 2023. 1 of the 10 criteria for the list is Life, Health & Inclusion -determines the best and worst states to live. CNBC allots 350 possible points to each state, measuring categories such as per capita crime rates, ENVIR quality, health care & worker protections. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/19/worst-states-to-live-in-2023-cnbc-list/70430783007/
Everyone must do their part to ensure the #GOPDeathCult doesn't assume power in 2024 bc there's no route back to democracy🚨: Heritage FND's plan for the next GOP admin: “Nothing's more impt. than deconstructing the centralized admin. state.” +as the organizer of their effort to assemble lists of potential admin. appointments -devotion to #TFG: nonnegotiable: If you have fought against his admin incl. by blaming him for J6 - that'll get you off the list. THE PLAN MAY WORK! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/19/trump-plan-federal-takeover/
💙states are enacting stricter🔫laws that most Americans want, while🩸states are becoming more lenient: open carry at age 18, castle doctrine, black rifles & NFA items are unrestricted... "US Dist. Judge Immergut ruled that banning large capacity magazines & requiring a permit to purchase a gun falls in line with the nation’s history & tradition of regulating uniquely dangerous features of weapons & firearms to protect public safety." Vote out the #GOPDeathCult. #GunReformhttps://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4098803-judge-upholds-stringent-oregon-gun-control-law-as-constitutional/
“The life expectancy in the South and they’re not expanding Medicaid and prenatal care and providing child care? It’s jaw-dropping…Infant mortality? You care about life, and you have kids that are gunned down by weapons of war?“
Gov Abbott knows that most construction workers, esp. in Texas, are Latino. He’s a barbaric inhumane xenophobe, hopefully the owners of the companies will grant them water breaks. #GOPDeathCult Texas Ends Water Breaks for Construction Workers Amid Heat Wave
Death threats are common now bc #TFG championed them during his reign of terror & he continues to incite violence, he/his co-conspirators haven’t yet been held accountable of their roles in J6, MOC & other Republican elected officials employ the tactic to intimidate their ‘enemies’, RW dom. terrorists are everywhere with their🔫s… The #1A seems to inoculate them… so the normalization of death threats &🔫violence aren’t taken seriously by the FBI & local LE. #GOPDeathCulthttps://www.alternet.org/fox-host-trigger-trump-prosecutions/
FL’s moral decay makes more sense now: 1st state to enact ‘stand your ground’ law in 2005 -a person has the right to meet force with force if they believe their life is at risk. When the act of self-protection is simply a veil for for racism & & hatred: law helped George Zimmerman walk free after killing Trayvon Martin -acquittal sparked the BLM mvt & contributed to the spread of SYG laws in🩸states. AJ Owens was🔫ed down, leaving 4…🚨 SYG will likely be used… #GOPDeathCulthttps://www.thedailybeast.com/why-stand-your-ground-killings-matter-to-the-2024-election
Fear, anxiety, drills… Sad, I attended a March for Our Lives event today. Many of the speakers were HS students. They were adamant that their elected officials enact🔫 sense laws. The most powerful speaker said he’s 16 & scared -traumatized by mass 🔫shootings -didn’t feel safe at school. He supports Gov Newsom’s #28A. The HS panel shared that sentiment -demand change now. There’s hope for the future, but it’s being sabotaged by the #GOPDeathCult. 655 teens have died by🔫 s this year. #GunReform
Hopeful: a growing number of younger Republicans are rejecting the pro🔫policies of their elders' #GOPDeathCult ideology: Recent survey: 32% said the Constitution only protects access to guns for militias➡️ >2X the share of older Republicans who expressed that belief -could also challenge WH hopefuls & MOC to eventually refine their message on guns -There're some concerns from Gen Z voters bc they’ve had to deal with it more growing up -it's become more rampant in society-: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/08/millennial-gen-z-republicans-gun-restrictions-mass-shootings-00100878
US LIFE EXPECTANCY⬇️Health disadvantage: unhealthy behaviors: our diets +USE of🔫FIREARMS, INADEQUATE HC & public health systems, poor socioecon. conds., unhealthy & unsafe environments & deficient public policies -last category esp. exerts a powerful influence -helps explain why other advanced democracies are outperforming the US on almost every measure *life expectancy⬇️for 3 consecutive years -mortality in midlife *25-64⬆️phenomenon not occurring in peer Cs🚨. #GOPDeathCulthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/01/american-life-expectancy-decline-covid/
#SundaySermon
This is why I never argue Republicans or #MAGAts
They have made the choice to remain willfully, ignorant, and embrace a #GOPDeathCult that worships pain, suffering hate, lies & treason
But I certainly will mock & expose them #VoteBlueToSaveAmericanLives
Another dangerous member of the #GOPDeathCult, threatening over half the US adult population, SC Gov McMasters today at the Republican State Convention: McMaster repeating one of his favorite GOP lines: "I look forward to the day that Democrats are so rare, we have to hunt them with dogs." -Joseph Bustos, reporter