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‘Complete Failure As A Father’: Bobby Jindal Publishes ‘Sermon’ Blaming Oregon Shooter’s Father

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Instead of blaming the UCC shooter’s mother who taught him how to shoot and who stockpiled guns, Bobby Jindal slams the shooter’s gun-control supporting father.

The man who walked into an expository writing class and shot and killed nine people at Umpqua Community College last Thursday was a self-described “loner,” and “conservative republican.” He also shared his mother’s fondness for guns, which is why between the arsenal he brought with him and the one stockpiled in the one bedroom apartment he shared with her, there were 14 guns in total.

The shooter’s mother believed that guns would be confiscated across America, so she bought as many as she could afford, and was an open-carry supporter.

“I keep two full mags in my Glock case. And the ARs & AKs all have loaded mags,” Laurel Harper wrote in an online forum, the New York Times reported. “No one will be ‘dropping’ by my house uninvited without acknowledgement.”

Ian Mercer, the shooter’s father, divorced for many years from the shooter’s mother, rhetorically asked CNN, “How was he able to compile that kind of arsenal?” He called for change, saying that if his son “had not been able to get hold of” so many guns, “this wouldn’t have happened.”

WATCH: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal Repeatedly Says ‘Now Is Not The Time To Talk About Gun Control’

This afternoon, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal decided he had had enough, and posted what he labeled a “sermon” on his campaign website, attacking Ian Mercer as “the problem,” “a complete failure as a father” who “should be embarrassed to even show his face in public,” someone who “should be ashamed of himself,” who “owes us all an apology.”

“This killer’s father is now lecturing us on the need for gun control and he says he has no idea how or where his son got the guns,” Jindal callously states. 

In a blog post titled “We fill Our Culture With Garbage, And We Reap The Result,” Jindal wrote “someone needs to speak the truth for a change,” insisting these mass “shootings are a symptom of deep and serious cultural decay in our society.”

“These acts of evil are a direct result of cultural rot, and it is cultural rot that we have brought upon ourselves, and then we act like we are confounded and perplexed by what is happening here.” 

“Another week, another mass shooting, another press conference by the President lecturing us on the need for gun control, and now Hillary and Obama are in a race to see which of them can be the most extreme in trying to destroy the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Rinse and repeat.”

Jindal goes on to blame the glorification of “sick and senseless acts of violence in virtually every element of our pop culture,” all genres of “movies and TV shows,” “music,” “video games,” the celebration of “every kind of deviant behavior,” and anti-bullying efforts.

The Republican governor who is polling in the single digits and will likely drop out of the GOP presidential race soon, warns that “tens of millions of young boys … will never become real men because they have no values whatsoever.”

For good measure, Jindal was sure to use the term “politically incorrect” and to take a good swipe at liberals and those who support gun control.

“Meanwhile, the shallow and simple minded liberals will continue to blame pieces of hardware for the problem, and they will long for the days before firearms were invented.”

 

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Susan Collins, Under Fire for Refusing to Support Abortion Rights Bill, Endorses Racist Pro-Trump Ex-Governor

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U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) is under mounting criticism for refusing to support a Democratic bill that would make access to abortion the law of the land, as the U.S. Supreme Court, experts believe, prepares to reverse its historic 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade.

Senator Collins, who repeatedly claims to be pro-choice, is being criticized after years of supporting then-President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees at every level of the federal judiciary, including two of his three Supreme Court picks.

According to the progressive group Suit Up Maine, Collins voted to confirm of 208 of Trump’s judicial nominees. She voted to confirm Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, but against Amy Coney Barrett, reportedly because she felt the vote should not take place so close to an election. But Collins did vote to put Barrett on the federal bench in 2017.

The anger against Collins on social media has been palpable Wednesday, but it may be about to get worse.

According to NBC News affiliate News Center Maine, Collins just endorsed former Maine Republican Governor Paul LePage for a third term. LePage was term-limited after two consecutive terms, but announced in April he is running once again.

For those who don’t remember, LePage is a Trump acolyte known for making outrageous and vulgar remarks, is anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ, and pro-death penalty. He opposes legalization of marijuana, opposes renewable energy, supports “school choice,” opposes ObamaCare, wants to reduce the number of hospitals in the state, and has made racist remarks.

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This was Gov. LePage in 2016:

“As Maine recovers from the pandemic, Paul is the best candidate to grow our economy,” Collins said Wednesday in a pre-recorded video endorsing LePage, who once called himself “Baby Trump.”

The outpouring of outrage against Collins is tremendous.

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RIGHT WING EXTREMISM

Busted: Steve Bannon Admits He Helped Plot Jan. 6 Trump Rally to ‘Kill Biden Presidency in the Crib’

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Conservative broadcaster Steve Bannon admitted on Wednesday that he had plotted with President Donald Trump to “kill the Biden presidency in the crib” ahead of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

During his Warroom broadcast, Bannon played clips of journalist Robert Costa and Bob Woodward explaining how events unfolded prior to the Jan. 6 riot.

“You look at January 5th, we discovered that Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist, was there at the Willard Hotel blocks from the White House with Rudy Giuliani, having an almost war-room-type meeting with other Trump allies the eve before the January 6th insurrection,” Costa recently explained to MSNBC. “And Bannon had actually been in close touch with President Trump for days before January 6th. Based on our reporting, he privately told President Trump to have a reckoning on January 6th. And he said to the president, it’s time to kill the Biden presidency in the crib.”

Bannon seemed proud to confirm that the conversation had taken place.

“Yeah, because his legitimacy,” Bannon said of Biden. “42% of the American people think that Biden did not win the presidency legitimately.”

“It killed itself,” he continued. “Just look at what this illegitimate regime is doing. It killed itself. OK? But we told you from the very beginning, just expose it, just expose it, never back down, never give up and this thing will implode.”

Watch the video below from Real America’s Voice.

 

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RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM

Far Right Pastor Says There Are More Gays Than Ever Before Thanks to a ‘Demonic Spirit That’s Come After Our Seed’

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A right wing mega-church pastor who falsely claims Donald Trump won re-election “by about 80 million votes” says more Christian children than ever before identify as LGBTQ, making clear he believes that is bad.

Pastor Kent Christmas, who shares his ministry with his wife Candy, appeared on stage before thousands of his followers and declared, “never have Christians’ children been more taken over by homosexuality, than they are right now,” as Right Wing Watch reports (video below).

The vast majority of Americans support same-sex marriage and equal rights and responsibilities for LGBTQ people.

Christmas blamed a “demonic spirit that comes after our seed” for the increase in people who identify as LGBTQ.

“If I asked each and every one of you to stand that has a son, daughter, or a niece or a nephew, or a brother or sister, that is gay, half of you would stand up in this building, because it is a demonic spirit that’s come after our seed and the church that God has raised it up in this hour is going to have authority over that.”

In 2018 Christmas acknowledged his son is gay, and said, “I know that he wasn’t born that way.”

He claims his son is no longer gay, and is now married with a wife and children.

“I watched the Holy Ghost deliver him and set him free,” Christmas said.

Last year a study published by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law found that “non-transgender LGB people who experienced conversion therapy were almost twice as likely to think about suicide and to attempt suicide compared to their peers who hadn’t experienced conversion therapy.”

It goes on to reveal that more than eight out of ten Americans who were subjected to dangerous conversion therapy “received it from a religious leader.”

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