True, although it also looks like the GOP are under enough pressure they felt they had to offer something, it might be a sign things are moving
No, they will consistently refer to the 'massive concessions' that they gave to get this bill passed, for the next 30 years.
Getting all frothy about unborn babies, while letting actual babies die in hails of gunfire for decades at a time, while eventually taking halfmeasures... if the Democrats have even half a brain they will hang this cross around the necks of the GOP for a very long time.
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Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist says she's 'proud' to harass families of children who were killed in mass shootings
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Prove to the world you've lost your son," Kelley Watt wrote, under the username "gr8mom," to Lenny Pozner, whose six-year-old, Noah, was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting.
A suburban Tulsa grandmother of two, Watt has spent the greater part of the last decade "researching" mass shooting incidents — which she considers false flag operations intended to push gun control legislation through the United States government, despite the fact that no significant legislation has been passed in response to such shootings.
Her "research" involves sending harassing messages to surviving family members of people who have died in mass shootings, including the attack at Sandy Hook elementary school that left 20 first-grade students and six adults dead.
"I just had a strong sense that this didn't happen," she said. "Too many of those parents just rub me the wrong way."
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She explained that she spends hours trying to prove her baseless claims about Sandy Hook. Some of her theories include: that the photos of the shooter's bedroom were too barren to have a teenager living in it; that Chris and Lynn McDonnell – whose seven-year-old, Grace, was killed in the shooting – didn't cry enough for parents who had just lost a daughter; and that other parents were "too old to have kids that age."
But nothing, not even proof that she's wrong, has yet dissuaded Watt from her theories, which are in line with those pushed by the likes of InfoWars host Alex Jones — who was found liable in at least four defamation cases for spreading lies that the Sandy Hook shooting was a "hoax."
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Watt's daughter, Madison, said she doesn't have much hope for changing her mother's mind. The conspiracy-mongering has led, at least in part, to the dissolution of Watt's marriage and contributed to tense relationships with her children. The stakes of acknowledging that she is wrong now after she has lost so much, are too great, according to her daughter.
"There's a great deal of narcissism in this idea that 'everyone's got it wrong and we're in this select group of people that knows.' It would explode her own persona to allow any doubt to come in," Madison said of her mother's progressively more extreme theories.
"Her whole identity has been built on this for so many years. She's invested so much."
Secured the perimeter and inside the school searching within a matter of minutes.
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I honestly believe that people that believe conspiracy theories at such an extreme level need to be studied as its clearly a symptom of significant mental illness. Maybe take them to an island somewhere (a nice one) and do brainscans to see what makes them tick and if they can be treated with heavy amounts of drugs.
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I honestly believe that people that believe conspiracy theories at such an extreme level need to be studied as its clearly a symptom of significant mental illness. Maybe take them to an island somewhere (a nice one) and do brainscans to see what makes them tick and if they can be treated with heavy amounts of drugs.
I honestly believe that people that believe conspiracy theories at such an extreme level need to be studied as its clearly a symptom of significant mental illness. Maybe take them to an island somewhere (a nice one) and do brainscans to see what makes them tick and if they can be treated with heavy amounts of drugs.
And the people who spread them for monetary gain should be jailed and fined to poverty, start with Alex Jones.
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Jones and infowars have already filed for bankruptcy, in an effort to protect themselves from civil suits over the Sandy Hook garbage he has been spewing out.
Sad part is, even if he does get sued and loses all of his money and is compelled to make a statement under oath that this was all a lie, meant to grift his audience, the conspiracy nuts still won't believe it...
or some other nutjob will step in, just like when the original Q stepped away...didn't stop the QAnon nutjobs from picking up where he left off...
Jones and infowars have already filed for bankruptcy, in an effort to protect themselves from civil suits over the Sandy Hook garbage he has been spewing out.
Sad part is, even if he does get sued and loses all of his money and is compelled to make a statement under oath that this was all a lie, meant to grift his audience, the conspiracy nuts still won't believe it...
or some other nutjob will step in, just like when the original Q stepped away...didn't stop the QAnon nutjobs from picking up where he left off...
Don't drag John de Lancie into this!
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I honestly believe that people that believe conspiracy theories at such an extreme level need to be studied as its clearly a symptom of significant mental illness. Maybe take them to an island somewhere (a nice one) and do brainscans to see what makes them tick and if they can be treated with heavy amounts of drugs.
I think if you are highly suggestable then media can push you into believing the government (or some hidden force) is out to get you.
If you are suggestable you can believe that, and then you get dragged online and meet like minded people who bring you to more and more extreme ideas and there you are.
But its not even just the Tucker Carlson shows even this article on CBC about the France election has a headline about a 'democratic shock' and the first paragraph talked about how the country could fall into political paralysis. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/france...ions-1.6494112
I know nothing about France politics, but I assume the most likely scenario is some kind of coalition to make things work instead of 'political paralysis'.
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I honestly believe that people that believe conspiracy theories at such an extreme level need to be studied as its clearly a symptom of significant mental illness. Maybe take them to an island somewhere (a nice one) and do brainscans to see what makes them tick and if they can be treated with heavy amounts of drugs.
1000% percent. The fact that someone can yell and scream at parents that lost their young child, saying that that child never existed, or some other God-awful thing is blood-curtingly rage inducing for me.
From conspiracy theorists that I know there's a common trend at the beginning of going deeper into that world - They start out with humility and an outward understanding that a lot of the theories are crazy, but in their minds they're already more far gone than they think.
"Haha, I know most of it's bull****, but kind of fun to think about some of them. Interesting if some are true". But then later they'll drop the humility and understanding and start explaining that you're stupid and not seeing the big picture while they start believing any and every theory that comes across their feed.
It's really difficult to deal with.
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