Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Rod, I'll have to give you credit for one of the funniest posts I've seen on the Political Forum. 

Thanks, Darian. I thought it was pretty funny myself. Remember guys, the astromart exists for purposes of entertainment.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

What is delusional is thinking that Trump's insults, lies, inflammatory rhetoric and glorification of violence are harmless.

James,
Such hyperbole from the likes of you. What's wrong Trump saying "the media is the enemy of the people"? And especially CNN? What wrong with Trump's crowd chanting "lock her up" at a Trump rally yesterday? So what of Trump shows-off his physical prowess by demonstrating how to body slam an opponent and his supporters do the same for a reporter in the crowd? 
Let's take Hillary for a minute, shall we? So what if a significant portion of Republicans polled believe she headed a child porn ring in a pizza parlor in a psycho-version of Chuckie Cheese? She probably employed some of those 300 defrocked pious priests who chose to go over to the dark side. Don't you follow the Q movement? What's wrong with you? How delusional can you be?

Look our collective interest needs to be focused on seeing to it that the SUSPECTED bomb maker gets a FAIR TRIAL because in this country you're innocent until proven guilty. To that end, I suggest and, in fact, insist that we call expert witnesses to testify on behalf of the accused Trump supporter. LOU DOBBS and GERALDO RIVERA blew up the whole case against the accused yesterday on FOX NEWS by advancing their expert testimony that these devices in question were fake bombs based upon fake news. Trump voters at a Trump rally yesterday did the same thing and they should be called as CHARACTER witnesses on this "bomb stuff", as tweeted this morning by PRESIDENT TRUMP.  If anything, the media should stand trial for incitement and ENTRAPMENT of the presumed innocent TRUMP SUPPORTER implicated in this so-called "DOMESTIC" act of terrorism. Let's deal with reality for a change...

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Look our collective interest needs to be focused on seeing to it that the SUSPECTED bomb maker gets a FAIR TRIAL because in this country you're innocent until proven guilty. To that end, I suggest and, in fact, insist that we call expert witnesses to testify on behalf of the accused Trump supporter. LOU DOBBS and GERALDO RIVERA blew up the whole case against the accused yesterday on FOX NEWS by advancing their expert testimony that these devices in question were fake bombs based upon fake news. Trump voters at a Trump rally yesterday did the same thing and they should be called as CHARACTER witnesses on this "bomb stuff", as tweeted this morning by PRESIDENT TRUMP.  If anything, the media should stand trial for incitement and ENTRAPMENT of the presumed innocent TRUMP SUPPORTER implicated in this so-called "DOMESTIC" act of terrorism. Let's deal with reality for a change...

Let's get down to brass tacks and where the rubber meets the road:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/26/donald-trump-supporters-chant-cnn-sucks-at-rally-after-bomb-scare-suspect-apprehended/
Then read the reader comments after the article.Aren't we all sure that these presumed innocents are playing with a full deck?

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Murdered-journalists-remains-found-in-Saudi-consuls-garden-570098
Meanwhile Trump says he doesn't believe the explanation(s) from the Saudis and his administration revoked some visas. That'll show 'em!

The so-called hero in the Giffords killings in AZ nearly shot the wrong man who had wrestled the gun from the shooter and acknowledged so on "Fox and Friends":
But the man with the gun wasn't the shooter. He had wrested the gun away from the shooter. 
"Had you shot that guy, it would have been a big, fat mess," the interviewer pointed out:
Zamudio agreed:
"I was very lucky. Honestly, it was a matter of seconds. Two, maybe three seconds between when I came through the doorway and when I was laying on top of [the real shooter], holding him down. So, I mean, in that short amount of time I made a lot of really big decisions really fast. … I was really lucky."
I suppose a guard in a church somewhere might have gotten lucky, too.But too often, trained officers get killed in domestic violence calls and they know the risks and are prepared when they go in.
The other day in China, where they have STRICT gun laws, the perps who go off often use knives and hammers and the one yesterday did so with a bunch of kids in a class but most survived the assault. I don't think they would have survived if they were shot with an assault rifle or the other weapons used in today's murders.
I believe we ought to start with bans of assault rifles and large capacity magazines.

Originally Posted by Gerald Miller

So, your reason is that the Constitution provides that you have the right to bear arms and that your right to go out and shoot up a bunch of targets for fun outweighs the risk of death to hundreds, if not more, each year, at the hands of some nut with an AR-15?

Sorry, I don't think that's much of a reason.

That same Sup. Ct. said that reasonable controls on arms are allowable. Doing away with AR-15's isn't going to ruin anyone's life. Being killed by one will.

And your argument comparing a vehicle to an AR-15 is like comparing an AR-15 to air. One is used for a purpose needed to live a normal life and at least in this country is a necessity to live. The other is a deadly toy not needed for anything unless you want to kill as many people as you can in the shortest amount of time or as you suggested go out and shoot things up for fun. A short barreled shotgun is a better defensive weapon as well. There simply isn't a reason these weapons should be mass produced and sold.

Trump told a crowd at his rally today he was going to "tone it down." He could have simply done so without saying so and in doing so, the ill-tempered rhetoric fomenting in the heads of various nut cases in the country might have taken the weekend off for awhile, perhaps taking in the world series. But Trump, being Trump, makes his case to his base and they powerfully boo the very notion of "toning it down." They'd rather work themselves up because they get off on it. They reinforce their own belief systems, whatever they may be. Recent examples at Trump rallies include mimicking Trump's demo of a fellow GOP politician body slamming a reporter for asking a question on health care. How's that for rational behavior? Or, the "lock her up chant" all over again with a palpable level of animosity emanating from the crowd. And that doesn't stimulate a nut case or two?
Remember Gerald, nuclear weapons don't kill people, people kill people. That's why were exiting the nuclear proliferation ban...

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

And Joey Biden told a raging crowd of leftist meatheads that he wanted to take Donald Trump behind the gym and kick his ass. 

Maxine Waters told a crowd of raging f'ing nutjob leftists to go out and get in the face of every Republican and make them sure they are not wanted anytime anywhere.

There is some nutjob out there similar to you or Gerald when you left your Hostess Twinkie at home, who becomes enraged and goes after a person with a Trump MAGA hat and beat hims half to death.  It is just a matter of time. 

YOUR leftist leaders are utterly irresponsible and should be in jail.  

Richard, you forgot actor Robert De Niro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfW2TiPAKsw

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Good....because the level of insanity and miss-information being displayed here is both frightening and depressing.....

Lol! That's what happens Greg when you Rich don't do fact checks and when you do post, you seldom have a link except when it's some obscure biased opinion piece or Rich cites some biased crap like the Daily Cocka while he rests on the Town Hall Toilet. You might as well cite Lou Dobbs or Geraldo Rivera from Fox News as your unbiased sources for expert witness summaries of fake bombs based on fake news. Talk about misinformation...

"They should have had armed guards". 
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/27/politics/trump-jba-death-penalty-pittsburgh/index.html
So, every time something like this happens, "they should have had armed guards"? And every synagogue or church or temple that exists everywhere should have "armed guards". Now, look at today's reality: four law enforcement officers, fully alerted to an active shooter situation, go in and get hit before the gunman is subdued and not before he is hit multiple times. From the video I saw, the officers were geared-up and looked as if they were about to rotate to Afghanistan. So, some private security renta-a-cop guard with less training and less tactical gear and unaware until the instant the massacre begins is going to take this guy out first before these cops could?
BS!!!