Sickening Mass Shooting, More 2022 Primary Results
The David Pakman Show - May 25, 2022
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Republicans Say Arm Teachers to Deal with School Shootings
Yesterday, there was a tragic mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas that took the lives of 19 students and 2 teachers. The 18-year-old shooter also wounded his grandmother, 15 other children, and a police officer before he was killed. This is the worst mass shooting at a school since the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre that took the lives of 26 people. The American right wing is responding to this travesty in their typical fashion, by saying that the true problem the country needs to solve is mental health, that we need more guns in more places, and that more teachers and school administrators should be armed. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued for this on television yesterday, as did Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield. Early reports say that an armed school district police officer tried engaging the shooter but was unable to stop him, showing that even though there was a “good guy with a gun” at the school, it wasn’t enough to stop the shooter from committing this terrible act.
Trump HUMILIATED, His Pick Loses in Landslide
Donald Trump added two more losses to his endorsement record yesterday with his picks for Governor and Secretary of State of Georgia both losing in landslides. Trump endorsed former Senator David Perdue in the gubernatorial election and Perdue lost to incumbent Brian Kemp, 22% to 74%. Kemp refused to go along with Trump’s bogus voter fraud claims about the 2020 presidential election, whereas Perdue entertained them. Brad Raffensperger, who also refuted Trump’s voter fraud claims, easily defeated Trump endorsee Jody Hice, 53% to 33%, earning him another term as Georgia’s Secretary of State. The former president did get some easy wins on the board, with Herschel Walker winning the Senate primary race and Marjorie Taylor Greene winning her primary for the Representative of Georgia’s 14th district. However, where it mattered, Trump and his voter fraud narrative couldn’t do nearly enough to propel his candidates to victory.
From yesterday’s show:
LOL: Republicans Now Fighting EACH OTHER Over Counting Mail-In Ballots
Republicans seem awfully confused about how to approach mail-in ballots. In the lead-up and aftermath of the 2020 election, Donald Trump argued that voting by mail is bad and that the ballots cannot be trusted. Fast forward to this year and there’s a tight Republican primary battle for US Senator from Pennsylvania that may come down to the mail-in count. Mehmet Oz is currently leading Dave McCormick by approximately 1,000 votes but not all of the ballots have been counted yet and the race will surely go to a recount. Predictably, McCormick who is behind wants all the votes counted, including ones that weren’t properly dated, so he has an opportunity to catch up. Oz, on the other hand, is being encouraged by Trump to declare victory early as a way to delegitimize the mail-in count. In this instance, Republicans can’t blame the left for rigging the election since it’s a GOP primary, so they’re simply left confused about how to spin this and whether they should say mail-in votes are good or bad.
From yesterday’s show:
Beyond Parody: Tucker Carlson Tells Democrats to De-Escalate the Rhetoric
Tucker Carlson on his show this week spoke about how Democrats need to de-escalate their rhetoric in the ultimate case of Fox News projection. Tucker has been trying to distract all week from how his Great Replacement Theory talking points were repeated verbatim in the manifesto of the Buffalo supermarket shooter. This is the latest example of projection by Tucker, who claims to believe the left is responsible for division and violence in this country. Carlson said, “rhetoric has its own internal logic. You’ve experienced it. You can talk yourself into things. We’ve all done that. Democrats are doing it right now. And what they’re talking themselves into right now is ‘something worse.’ It’s scary. It is time to pull back. It is time to de-escalate, otherwise this is going to get really ugly really soon.” Of course, political situations have turned ugly in this country but more often than not it’s due to the rhetoric propagated by Tucker Carlson and his ilk.
--More on the show:
--Daniel Levitin, psychologist, neuroscientist, Professor Emeritus at McGill University, and author of multiple books including "A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method" and "Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era," joins David to discuss lying, false believes, cognitive biases, and much more
--Another mass shooting, this time at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, leaves 19 dead and is the deadliest school shooting in the United States since Sandy Hook in 2012
--Reviewing the endless cycle of mass shootings, followed by news coverage, calls for thoughts and prayers, and nothing ultimately getting done or being changed
--Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott are both scheduled to speak at the National Rifle Association convention this week, just days after the Uvalde, Texas mass shooting
--The View segment goes off the rails as former Trump staffers Kellyanne Conway and Alyssa Farah Griffin get into multiple arguments
--Despite blaming Joe Biden for these problems, Republicans voted against funding to deal with the baby formula shortage and against a bill to deal with price gouging, including gas prices
--17-year-old voicemail caller explains he has grown up afraid of being mass shootings at school
--On the Bonus Show: "Curly hair" becomes code for gay in Florida high school speech, 6 in 10 Trump voters agree with Great Replacement Theory, new policy requires officers to stop each other from using excessive force, much more...
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Even if a teacher has a gun, they will keep it in their purse at the bottom of their desk drawers. No teacher is going to keep a gun on top of their desk in front of the children "just in case." Veterans should be hired to stand at the entrances of the schools. They are trained to take care of business.