The last debate was a snooze fest for me with the exception of Beto who did his level best to make the days following the debate were all about him.
And how did he accomplish this feat….and yes these days it is a feat to get the media to focus on anybody other than Biden/Warren…….
He stated on gun violence……
“Hell yes,” Beto insists amid a flurry of f-bombs, “we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.”
And the batcrap crazy went to Twitter and the rest of social media…..the Bulwark calls it what the statement was…….Politics of Bullshit” (love the title)……
“Hell yes,” Beto insists amid a flurry of f-bombs, “we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.”
We are, I guess, supposed to take O’Rourke seriously but not literally when he says that he will confiscate 15 million guns from Americans, because, surely. One in five firearms sold in the United States today is an AR-15. And Beto wants to take them away.
But seriousness isn’t the point is it? Beto is passionate. More passionate and emotional than anyone else. And realism really isn’t the point either, is it?
Beto isn’t making a realistic proposal for action; he’s performing an act of ideological self-pleasuring that is supposed to signal purity of heart and fervor of intention.
The Politics of Bullshit
Of course this corporatist candidate did not mean a word of what he stated…..he wanted to be the “talk of the town” and he got his wish but it did not last as long as he wanted international events crapped on his “chi”……
My personal opinion is that I would not miss them….but then I may be alone in that feeling……I own guns but see NO need for a civilian to need or own an assault weapon. Again my opinion.
Not to worry one of the other candidates will find a hook for the news cycle and Beto will be a sour taste in the mouths of conservatives and a forgotten news bite.
The debates are where the candidates go to try out their one liners and slogans looking for one that will break them out….at least for awhile to make their poll numbers rise…..at least for awhile.
“Be Smart!
Learn Stuff!
VOTE!
“Lego Ergo Scribo”
It’s a bold statement, and it would be good if he really meant it.
Best wishes, Pete.
Typical wannabe stuff….chuq
It would be good if we could ban the future manufacture and sale of semi automatic weapons with large magazines. And have a buy back program that is voluntary.
I think has NO intention of doing any of this in the case he is elected…….a moderate trying to sound tough. chuq
Because armed rebellion won’t ever be necessary in the United States and rifles are no watch for conventional forces, as we learned during 17 years of forever war in Afghanistan.
Americans bitch but I do not see them actually taking up arms…..chuq
There are circumstances where that could change, e.g. Trump running for his fourth term with Jr. as Vice President could do it.
I’m old so if that were happening an overdose would be my way out….LOL chuq