‘Ignore Guns, Talk Inflation’: Memos Show GOP Strategy After the Uvalde Massacre

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

‘Stay cool. Run out the clock. Scare some gun nuts while you can. But don’t worry: this moment will be over soon.

That’s the message the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and conservative leaders rapidly coalesced around after a series of mass shootings in recent weeks, including at one at a Texas elementary school.

Several strategy memos and private communications, prepared for a variety of conservative candidates and organizations, reviewed by Rolling Stone in the days following the Uvalde school massacre were clear: change the topic to literally anything else, and let this news cycle run its course.

“Ignore guns, talk inflation,” one such memo, written for a top-tier GOP Senate candidate, succinctly reads, citing polling data of voter concerns ahead of the critical 2022 midterm elections. Other documents predictably decried liberal desires for “gun-grabbing” and “gun confiscation,” and made whataboutism-type references to gun violence in Chicago.’

'Ignore Guns, Talk Inflation': Memos Show GOP Strategy After the Uvalde Massacre

The GOP plan? Change the topic to literally anything else. Trump, for his part, “talked a lot more about Johnny Depp than he did about guns”

www.rollingstone.com

Run out the clock until November, of course.

With control of Congress next January, Republicans can ignore mass shootings, gun crime and violence altogether.

So?

 

[Oddball]

‘Stay cool. Run out the clock. Scare some gun nuts while you can. But don’t worry: this moment will be over soon.

That’s the message the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and conservative leaders rapidly coalesced around after a series of mass shootings in recent weeks, including at one at a Texas elementary school.

Several strategy memos and private communications, prepared for a variety of conservative candidates and organizations, reviewed by Rolling Stone in the days following the Uvalde school massacre were clear: change the topic to literally anything else, and let this news cycle run its course.

“Ignore guns, talk inflation,” one such memo, written for a top-tier GOP Senate candidate, succinctly reads, citing polling data of voter concerns ahead of the critical 2022 midterm elections. Other documents predictably decried liberal desires for “gun-grabbing” and “gun confiscation,” and made whataboutism-type references to gun violence in Chicago.’

'Ignore Guns, Talk Inflation': Memos Show GOP Strategy After the Uvalde Massacre

The GOP plan? Change the topic to literally anything else. Trump, for his part, “talked a lot more about Johnny Depp than he did about guns”

www.rollingstone.com

Run out the clock until November, of course.

With control of Congress next January, Republicans can ignore mass shootings, gun crime and violence altogether.

Pearl clutching isn't going to get you assholes out of the immense economic hole you've dug for the Murican people, dickweed.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

‘The problems are real: lack of affordable housing, the debt-inducing cost of health care, inflation, underemployment. But these issues are all also complicated and honestly not something Republicans even pretend to have any plan to address. They are in the business of supplying villains, not solutions. And, mere days after a teenager armed with a legally purchased AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and large-capacity magazines entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and gunned down 19 students and two teachers, GOP lawmakers cast porn as the villain.

Now, what do school shootings and porn have in common? Absolutely nothing. But that didn’t stop Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) from shifting the blame over to it (and, of course, video games).

“Let’s stop all the porn that our kids are absorbing every day,” he said before arguing against an assault weapons ban.

[…]

Ohio Senate candidate and Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance preached a similar message in the wake of the Uvalde mass shooting, even calling for a total ban on porn.

“I think the combination of porn, abortion have basically created a really lonely, isolated generation that isn’t getting married, they’re not having families, and they’re actually not even totally sure how to interact with each other,” he opined.’

Republicans Are Blaming the Uvalde School Shooting on Porn. Porn Stars Think They’re Nuts. - Daily illinois

The problems are real: lack of affordable housing, the debt-inducing cost of health care, inflation, underemployment. But these issues are all also complicated and honestly not something Republicans even pretend to have any plan to address. They are in the business of supplying villains, not...

dailyillinois.com

More dishonesty, lies, and idiocy from the right; Republicans will do nothing to address gun crime and violence.

 

[Oddball]

More dishonesty, lies, and idiocy.....

None of that is going to win elections for you assholes either.

 

[Failzero]

‘The problems are real: lack of affordable housing, the debt-inducing cost of health care, inflation, underemployment. But these issues are all also complicated and honestly not something Republicans even pretend to have any plan to address. They are in the business of supplying villains, not solutions. And, mere days after a teenager armed with a legally purchased AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and large-capacity magazines entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and gunned down 19 students and two teachers, GOP lawmakers cast porn as the villain.

Now, what do school shootings and porn have in common? Absolutely nothing. But that didn’t stop Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) from shifting the blame over to it (and, of course, video games).

“Let’s stop all the porn that our kids are absorbing every day,” he said before arguing against an assault weapons ban.

[…]

Ohio Senate candidate and Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance preached a similar message in the wake of the Uvalde mass shooting, even calling for a total ban on porn.

“I think the combination of porn, abortion have basically created a really lonely, isolated generation that isn’t getting married, they’re not having families, and they’re actually not even totally sure how to interact with each other,” he opined.’

Republicans Are Blaming the Uvalde School Shooting on Porn. Porn Stars Think They’re Nuts. - Daily illinois

The problems are real: lack of affordable housing, the debt-inducing cost of health care, inflation, underemployment. But these issues are all also complicated and honestly not something Republicans even pretend to have any plan to address. They are in the business of supplying villains, not...

dailyillinois.com

More dishonesty, lies, and idiocy from the right; Republicans will do nothing to address gun crime and violence.

Just as the Democommies won’t secure the southern border and deport criminal illegals

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

I thought this was a country of one, so in other words Republicans just try to use Chicago as a political football they don't actually give a damn about what is happening there. Which we knew all along.

Your gun grabbing ilk try to take our weapons by assigning gun violence to the entire nation based on the ridiculous gun violence in Chicago.

Agree that we should have zero gun laws and it won't matter.

The laws-abiding folks in Chicago need and deserve protection.

 

[daveman]

I thought this was a country of one, so in other words Republicans just try to use Chicago as a political football they don't actually give a damn about what is happening there. Which we knew all along.

Oh, so the GOP is obligated to clean up the messes Democrats cause -- but the GOP gets no say in how Democrats run things while they're screwing them up.

Clean up your own mess.

 

[WEATHER53]

Inflation effects 100% and brutal consequences from guns about .01% so very rational strategy. Libs prefer unbalanced emotion over rationality thru facts.

 

[WEATHER53]

Affordable housing (make it cheaper for me) is largely ass backwards. The housing does not conform itself to your pocketbook but rather your industry, or lack of, determines what you can pay.

 

[Weatherman2020]

‘Stay cool. Run out the clock. Scare some gun nuts while you can. But don’t worry: this moment will be over soon.

That’s the message the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and conservative leaders rapidly coalesced around after a series of mass shootings in recent weeks, including at one at a Texas elementary school.

Several strategy memos and private communications, prepared for a variety of conservative candidates and organizations, reviewed by Rolling Stone in the days following the Uvalde school massacre were clear: change the topic to literally anything else, and let this news cycle run its course.

“Ignore guns, talk inflation,” one such memo, written for a top-tier GOP Senate candidate, succinctly reads, citing polling data of voter concerns ahead of the critical 2022 midterm elections. Other documents predictably decried liberal desires for “gun-grabbing” and “gun confiscation,” and made whataboutism-type references to gun violence in Chicago.’

'Ignore Guns, Talk Inflation': Memos Show GOP Strategy After the Uvalde Massacre

The GOP plan? Change the topic to literally anything else. Trump, for his part, “talked a lot more about Johnny Depp than he did about guns”

www.rollingstone.com

Run out the clock until November, of course.

With control of Congress next January, Republicans can ignore mass shootings, gun crime and violence altogether.

Two bills that both sides agree would actually help address gun violence are being held up by Democrats.

Why?

Thread 'My Moral and Intellectual Superiors Say Conservatives Want to Do Nothing About Gun Violence'
My Moral and Intellectual Superiors Say Conservatives Want to Do Nothing About Gun Violence

 

[struth]

Can you show me one bill or policy Republicans have put forth in regards to Chicago or Baltimore

is there a republican that represents those cities? i believe they are all dems…and no i can’t think of one bill their representives have put forth to help them

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Two bills that both sides agree would actually help address gun violence are being held up by Democrats.

Why?

Thread 'My Moral and Intellectual Superiors Say Conservatives Want to Do Nothing About Gun Violence'
My Moral and Intellectual Superiors Say Conservatives Want to Do Nothing About Gun Violence

“The same social maladies that fuel mass shootings also motivate the GOP base. The party has no reason to want cultural ills like bigotry or disaffection addressed because a more well-adjusted society won't produce enough GOP voters for them to win elections. The same forces that motivated two of the most prominent mass shootings in the past month — one in a Buffalo, New York grocery store and another in a Uvalde, Texas elementary school — are uncomfortably evocative of modern right-wing recruitment strategies, particularly those that target young men.”

Here is the disturbing reason why Republicans will always ignore the red flags of mass shootings

During his Thursday night address to the country following a staggering series of mass shootings across the country, President Joe Biden mostly focused his attention on the need for better gun laws. But — likely due to the fact that Republicans will block even the mildest of restrictions on gun...

www.rawstory.com

Republicans will do nothing to address gun crime and violence.

 

[Weatherman2020]

“The same social maladies that fuel mass shootings also motivate the GOP base. The party has no reason to want cultural ills like bigotry or disaffection addressed because a more well-adjusted society won't produce enough GOP voters for them to win elections. The same forces that motivated two of the most prominent mass shootings in the past month — one in a Buffalo, New York grocery store and another in a Uvalde, Texas elementary school — are uncomfortably evocative of modern right-wing recruitment strategies, particularly those that target young men.”

Here is the disturbing reason why Republicans will always ignore the red flags of mass shootings

During his Thursday night address to the country following a staggering series of mass shootings across the country, President Joe Biden mostly focused his attention on the need for better gun laws. But — likely due to the fact that Republicans will block even the mildest of restrictions on gun...

www.rawstory.com

Republicans will do nothing to address gun crime and violence.

I’ll ask again. Why are two bipartisan bills - one written by a Dem - sitting on Democrats desk?

Need more dead kids?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

is there a republican that represents those cities? i believe they are all dems…and no i can’t think of one bill their representives have put forth to help them

Why do republicans refuse to address the gun problem plaguing this country? You have been reduced to spewing right wing talking points and nothing else. Trump taught you guys well, just keep repeating a lie and hope someone will accept it as truth.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Why do republicans refuse to address the gun problem plaguing this country? You have been reduced to spewing right wing talking points and nothing else. Trump taught you guys well, just keep repeating a lie and hope someone will accept it as truth.

Two bipartisan bills - one written by a Democrat- being held up by Democrat leaders.

My Moral and Intellectual Superiors Say Conservatives Want to Do Nothing About Gun Violence

The issue is that in most cases the actions being pushed will do nothing about stopping the next shooter but will take away gun rights of law abiding citizens. These are real solutions that address real world weaknesses. But Democrats are sitting on them. H.R.1446 - Bipartisan Enhanced...

www.usmessageboard.com

 

[daveman]

“The same social maladies that fuel mass shootings also motivate the GOP base. The party has no reason to want cultural ills like bigotry or disaffection addressed because a more well-adjusted society won't produce enough GOP voters for them to win elections. The same forces that motivated two of the most prominent mass shootings in the past month — one in a Buffalo, New York grocery store and another in a Uvalde, Texas elementary school — are uncomfortably evocative of modern right-wing recruitment strategies, particularly those that target young men.”

Here is the disturbing reason why Republicans will always ignore the red flags of mass shootings

During his Thursday night address to the country following a staggering series of mass shootings across the country, President Joe Biden mostly focused his attention on the need for better gun laws. But — likely due to the fact that Republicans will block even the mildest of restrictions on gun...

www.rawstory.com

Republicans will do nothing to address gun crime and violence.

We'd like to be able to shoot criminals, but that hurts your guys' feelings.

 

[struth]

Why do republicans refuse to address the gun problem plaguing this country? You have been reduced to spewing right wing talking points and nothing else. Trump taught you guys well, just keep repeating a lie and hope someone will accept it as truth.

guns don’t kill people, people do. Why do you dembots keep trying to take guns from law abiding citizens and do nothing about the fact that folks in baltimore ans chicago and left desperate without work and feel the need to resort to violent crime? folks like yourself push the plantation talking point as minorities are forced to live in poverty and crime ridden cities your party masters have destroyed

 

[Weatherman2020]

Why do republicans refuse to address the gun problem plaguing this country? You have been reduced to spewing right wing talking points and nothing else. Trump taught you guys well, just keep repeating a lie and hope someone will accept it as truth.

How many mass school shootings 1900-1960?

 

[Failzero]

Communists need a disarmed populace

 

[frigidweirdo]

‘Stay cool. Run out the clock. Scare some gun nuts while you can. But don’t worry: this moment will be over soon.

That’s the message the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and conservative leaders rapidly coalesced around after a series of mass shootings in recent weeks, including at one at a Texas elementary school.

Several strategy memos and private communications, prepared for a variety of conservative candidates and organizations, reviewed by Rolling Stone in the days following the Uvalde school massacre were clear: change the topic to literally anything else, and let this news cycle run its course.

“Ignore guns, talk inflation,” one such memo, written for a top-tier GOP Senate candidate, succinctly reads, citing polling data of voter concerns ahead of the critical 2022 midterm elections. Other documents predictably decried liberal desires for “gun-grabbing” and “gun confiscation,” and made whataboutism-type references to gun violence in Chicago.’

'Ignore Guns, Talk Inflation': Memos Show GOP Strategy After the Uvalde Massacre

The GOP plan? Change the topic to literally anything else. Trump, for his part, “talked a lot more about Johnny Depp than he did about guns”

www.rollingstone.com

Run out the clock until November, of course.

With control of Congress next January, Republicans can ignore mass shootings, gun crime and violence altogether.

It's been their clear strategy for every mass shooting.


1) is always "Don't talk about it now, they haven't even been buried yet, it's insensitive to talk politics just after someone got shot with the guns I like. "