Democrats angry at David Hogg for using DNC contact list to fundraise for his PAC

David Hogg, who made a cottage industry off the dead bodies of his classmates at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2014, was recently appointed as vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). 

The slender-armed leftist is being criticized by some in his own party for allegedly using DNC resources (their donor list) to solicit donations for his persona action committee (PAC); and while it isn't illegal to do so, it's as scummy as a grease trap at a Popeye's restaurant at the end of a long day.

According to a report by the New York Post, Hogg has been sending fundraising messages to DNC contact lists, asking people to donate to his PAC, from which he reportedly earns over $100,000 a year. One of the eight messages sent out said: “David Hogg here: I was just elected DNC Vice Chair! This is a huge win for our movement to make the Democratic Party more reflective of our base: youthful, energetic, and ready to win.”

The messages included a link to Hogg’s “Leaders We Deserve” PAC.

This has caused some controversy among party officials. An unnamed top Democrat reportedly told the New York Post, “David Hogg — talk about living up to your name. A trough of DNC dollars all for him and he doesn’t seem to give an oink.”

Hogg co-founded Leaders We Deserve in August 2023 with the aim of electing young progressive candidates. Since its inception, he has personally made over $175,000 from the PAC. Although his fundraising methods don't break any official DNC rules, some officials argue it raises ethical concerns.

“It’s especially important for all Democratic national officials to focus on raising support for the party and not using their position to raise money for themselves or their personal political PACS,” another senior Democratic Party official stated. “It’s a stunning lack of judgment that is concerning to many people.”

Hogg, who is 24, was appointed as the party's vice chair just under two weeks ago. He became well-known for his activism against gun rights after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where he was a student. He has also publicly supported radical left-wing policies like defunding the police and abolishing ICE.

“I mean it’s just very frustrating to be in a party in desperate need of increased accountability for our struggling leadership, and watch someone who is never held accountable ascend to leadership,” said Cameron Kasky, another survivor from Stoneman Douglas.

Hogg responded to the report by stating he “was not doing any interviews,” according to the New York Post. A spokesperson later added, “David has already raised money for the DNC since becoming Vice Chair, and many times before.”

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Leftist activists [aka media, Democrats] edit clip of POTUS calling MS-13 gangbangers 'animals'

Seriously, there really should be a law preventing political parties from deceptively editing out the true meaning of their opponent's message.

Democrats, fake news "journalists," and far-left activists [there I go being redundant] have used a deceptively edited video clip from last year to depict President Trump as a heartless xenophobe. The clip showed Trump calling immigrants and asylum seekers "animals," when, in fact, he was referring to members of the notoriously disgustingly violent animals of the MS-13 street gang.

Mark Elliott, a Twitter user, posted the following tweet on Friday with the caption: "[email protected] on people asking for asylum 'These aren't people. These are animals.'" It conveniently left out the context of who the President was referring to.

Elliott embedded the video from a CSPAN tweet.

CNN, believe it or not, was one of the few news organizations that accurately reported the full context of what Trump said when he made the remarks. Here is the relevant part of the transcript:

Sheriff Margaret Mims: "There could be an MS-13 member I know about — if they don’t reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it."

President Donald Trump: "We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It’s crazy."

Here a few of the Democrat politicians, far-left activists, and people in the media who have peddled this lie since Friday:

Democrat presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand: "Racist language like this has led to violence throughout the world’s history. No human being is an animal. We have to be better than this." Then she ate a spider.

Photo: The Onion

Democrat presidential candidate Pete [pronounced 'Butter Judge']: "You do not refer to human beings as animals. You just don’t." Pete refers to humans as 'vegetables' when he disagrees with them.

DNC Chairman Tom "Potty Mouth" Perez: "This type of dehumanizing language is dangerous, and against everything we stand for as a country." Then he said a word meaning excrement.

Far-left activist and national twerp David Hogg who got his fame by the shooting deaths of his classmates: "Step two on the pyramid of committing genocide: Dehumanization."

CNN's Ana Navarro: "This is journalist, @TifaniRoberts comforting a small boy on the border. He was shot in the throat by Ortega’s thugs in Nicaragua. This little boy is seeking asylum in the United States. His name is William. Trump calls him 'animal'."

Christine Teigen: "f***ing vile man." Yes, but you're not vile Christine--you're a classy chick.

MSNBC's Joy "The Homophobe" Reid: "Asylum seekers 'aren't people.' They are 'animals.' This is particularly frightening language coming out of a person vested with the power of a presidential office."

Mikel Jollett, frontman of the band The Airborne Toxic Effect: "The President of the United States literally saying immigrants aren’t 'human.' This is the literal definition of the 'dehumanization' which precedes genocide." Kind of what MS-13 practices in smaller doses.

Sherrilyn Ifill President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "This is so irresponsible and dangerous. We have seen this around the world." Except you either didn't really watch the video or you're an irresponsible liar.

Democrat Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (NY): "This is appalling. This is cruel. This is dehumanizing. This is racist. This is un-American. This is Donald J. Trump." This is bull crap.

Democrat Rep. TJ Cox (CA): "Immigrants aren’t animals. Children aren’t animals. And they don’t deserve to be locked in cages, separated from their families." It was Obama who initially put the children in cages.

Democrat Rep. Chrissy "Hot Lips" Houlahan (PA): "My father, who was welcomed by this country after surviving the Holocaust, is not an animal. The people seeking refuge and asylum in America like he did are not animals. Smart and effective border security does not involve denigrating our fellow humans. Full stop."

New York Times columnist Wajahat Ali: "Glad it's out in the open. Dehumanization. It always begins with language. Soon they will be rats and rodents and a horde. And what do we do to those animals when they 'invade' our homes?...."

Glad it's out in the open how the dishonesty of the media is being exposed. But it isn't enough that the conservative media is doing this because the left may never see it. Example: I spoke to my liberal sister a few days ago to wish her a happy birthday. I asked her what she thought about Democrats supporting late-term abortion and in some cases, abortion right up to birth and even after delivery. She said, "That's not true."

She didn't believe me!

So I researched the latest news on this issue and emailed it to her. She soon responded that it was a video from Fox News and that she wouldn't even open it because they're so opinionated.

Do you see the screaming irony?

I told her that it was video with Democrats actually voicing their opinions about late term abortion, but still, she didn't want to watch it because it was from Fox News.

What have we learned? That the Democrats will take a video and only show what they want you to see, but will not look at a video that might challenge "their truth" with "the truth."



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David Hogg mocks Laura Ingraham and looks really stupid

Soon-to-be low-end Harvard student and gun-control activist David "Wart" Hogg sent a mocking, albeit misinformed, New Year's wishes to Laura Ingraham of Fox News.

The triangular face twit used a Daily Kos headline about Laura's media situation. Being that it came from the Daily Kos, you know it's as accurate as Blind Willie Bland Pea Pod shooting at scared rabbits with a slingshot.

Hogg tweeted Monday:

“Happy new year @IngrahamAngle,” he wrote Monday, while re-tweeting a Daily Kos article from earlier in the afternoon headlined “Laura Ingraham’s Radio Show Cancelled Due To Advertiser Boycott.”

Mr. Hogg came to national prominence  by using the deaths of fellow students and thus leading anti-gun students among the Parkland High School student body in, among other things, a boycott of Ms. Ingraham’s advertisers. 

Ms. Ingraham had mocked his having been rejected by several public universities in California and Florida because his grades aren't good enough, and he, in turn went ballistic, if you can say ballistic about an anti Second Amendment weasel.

Ms. Ingraham will no longer do a live radio show in 2019, but she announced that fact in early November, saying she no longer could do a daily live radio show along with her Fox News program. 

This had nothing to do with anything Hogg tried to accomplish, which is to ruin everyone who disagrees with him that the Second Amendment should be abolished, guns removed from the hands of all citizens, and only the government should have the right to have firearms. Kind of what happened in Nazi Germany.

Instead, Ingraham will host a daily podcast series “The Laura Ingraham Show” on PodcastOne. The Daily Kos article mentioned those facts, though the headline didn’t, which is absolutely their intention. [Kos in Russian means "crap"--probably.]

Ms. Ingraham explained it thus to the Washington Examiner in November:

“But listeners demanded a more flexible listening experience, and my kids need more of my time. Podcasting is where all the action is happening now, and I intend to inject my own brand of humor and substance in the national conversation with in-depth interviews, conversations and even more audience interaction.” 

Certainly not to Hogg's doing, she  also continues to host one of the highest-rated TV shows in cable news.

Good luck at Harvard, you weasel whisperer.

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David Hogg: a snot nose kid who thinks he's not

David Hogg shows off his new tee shirt

David Hogg has a surname that's befitting someone who grabs the spotlight from those who were killed that deserved it.

The leftist schmuck-weasel said on Morons Spouting Nothing But Crap (MSNBC) over the weekend, after the tragic Tree of Life Synagogue murders, that Americans should elect politicians that DO NOT go after the perpetrators of evil.

The narrow-minded cretin made the statements on "Kasie DC" after an raging anti-Semite shouted "Death to all Jews" and proceeded to kill 11 and injured six more on Saturday morning.

Hogg believes we should leave him alone. Maybe he was having a bad day.

"This Congress in this election on November 6, Americans have the chance to go out and save lives and elect politicians that don't try to divide and conquer but try to unite and conquer the challenges that we face as a people, that attack the sources of evil and not the people that are perpetrating it," the moron said.

"Because in reality, none of us are Democrats or Republicans, we're Americans that have to face the same issues every day and we're not going to get anywhere by blaming other people," Hogg bloviated. "We have to go after the sources of evil and not those perpetrating it, contrary to what the president likes to do."

If Hogg is the young voice of liberal reason, the liberals are in deep trouble.

The low information activist about not blaming people who kill people based on what group they happen to be in, came after the turd spent the whole weekend attacking the National Rifle Association (NRA) and President Trump over the synagogue shooting.

The garbage mouth hog wrote on Twitter: "F*ck the NRA vote," only he didn't use an asterisk because he's a big boy now and his mommy allows him to act like one.

He added: "Saying the NRA has nothing to do with gun violence is like saying big tobacco has nothing to do with lung cancer."

By conflating the two, Hogg will get others like him to believe that there's a connection in the analogy. Smoking tobacco causes lung cancer--it doesn't prevent it.

Shooting a rifle or handgun causes a bullet to leave the weapon. Where it goes depends on who is doing the shooting. It can be for good or evil, but it is nothing like tobacco, which is always harmful to the user. Guns can save lives and is estimated to have saved many thousands each year.

Had any of the worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue had a gun, there would likely been fewer senseless deaths. You're not going to take guns away from white supremacists.

And how in the world has the NRA caused the death of people and contributed to gun violence? The NRA teaches gun safety and advocates for the Second Amendment.

Hogg is merely a glory-seeking twerp.


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Toilet-mouth Hogg calls Pelosi "Old" and 'it' hits the proverbial fan

David "Publicity" Hogg called Nancy Pelosi "Old," specifically that "Older Democrats just won't move the f*ck off the plate and let us take control. Nancy Pelosi is old."

Note the word 'control'--it's relevant regarding how this power-hungry kid thinks.

Now the Hoggster is facing criticism from his supporters in a New York magazine article on Sunday about his obvious ageism insult to Pelosi [who can be insulted on so many other levels--age not necessarily one of them].

A spokesperson for the geriatric congresswoman told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday that she had no comment about Hogg's mindless remarks. His stupidity speaks for itself, and his anger and prejudice in his identity politics gives liberals the true reputation they deserve.

The ageist Hogg said "the reason Republicans are successful right now is because they're empowering young people."

He said that Paul Ryan was 45 when he became the youngest Speaker of the House and that "older Democrats just won't move the f*ck off the plate and let us take control. Nancy Pelosi is old."

If it was up to Hogg, there would be no Second Amendment and the First Amendment would only apply to progressives and Antifa. College tuition would be free to students and paid for by taxing the hell out of working people. Healthcare would also be free with a one-party provider. Conservatives would not be permitted to speak on college campuses because all conservative speech would be classified as hate speech.

Socialism would prevail, if it was up to Hogg, until it no longer prevailed.

But you've got to hand it to Hogg--he's an opportunist who took the tragedy of the Parkland massacre and turned it into a sweet profit.


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Hogg's security: locked and loaded

How do you spell hypocrisy? Easy. D-a-v-i-d H-o-g-g.

The 18-year-old publicity hog who attended the Parkland, Florida school where a student murdered 17 people last February, has become the voice of the left in their call to take away our Second Amendment rights to defend ourselves.

Hogg now has a book deal, publicists and armed security.

But he's walking along in the streets of New York City, a town with extremely strict gun laws. Why would he need armed security?

Sean Di Somma snapped photos of Hogg and tweeted:

"Here's @davidhogg111 in NYC today with armed guards and a bunch of publicists. #neveragain #Hypocrites."

Hogg simply responded with:

"Love you too."

The exchange next involved Hogg defenders claiming the book he's writing will have all proceeds go to anti-gun causes, not to Hogg. One defender, Jeff Walsh tweeted:

"The book proceeds are going to gun reform charities, not to David or his sister, so yeah, the more he promotes the book, the more it supports his cause (albeit not his wallet)."

Then the Hoggster tweeted:

"This ^^^^, you know @SeanDiSomma you should really read the book if you did you would know we're pro second amendment."

Di Somma replied:

"I'm going to take a pass. I'm not really into books pushing shallow agendas not written by the listed author. Good luck to you though; if this sells well, surely there's a nice advance for the next one. #capitalism"

But perhaps the best tweet [although there were some great ones] was from a person in Georgia:

"But @davidhogg111 I thought armed guards were not an answer to security? Who is Paying for him? @Everytown? @georgesoros? What makes you Special or better than anyone else in NYC?" --GA Patriot (@GA_Patriot912)

Never letting a tragedy go to waste, Hogg has been in the spotlight since the school shooting. He has gone to rallies to fight against the National Rifle Association--an organization that promotes gun safety and security checks for firearm purchases. He has called for boycotts of companies that advertise on Fox News and other media that support the Second Amendment and disagree with his leftist ideas.

Hogg has also called for a political revolution, but evidently he wasn't taken seriously enough to have one evolve. After all, he's an 18-year-old who can't spell very well, uses profanity to substitute for his lacking of vocabulary, and who failed to get into UCLA and other schools to which he applied.

In his previous life, Hogg may have been a member of Hitler's Nazi Youth movement.

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Parkland self-declared gun control experts: 'If you don't support us, it'll look like you're going against kids'

Gun control 'expert' Emma Gonzales 

I suspect George Soros is funding the Parkland kids who on Monday are expected to announce plans for a 20-state summer bus tour hawking anti-Second Amendment garbage and acting as if victimhood makes them experts on this issue.

For a teenager, this kind of stuff is way cool. They get to pontificate and tell grownups what they must do. If the grownups for whatever reason refuse to obey their directives, well that just means that it'll look like they're going against kids.

What bull crap!

And more than that, what bullying!

David Hogg [what an appropriate name] and Emma González will be the stars of the March for Our Lives: Road to Change gun-control protest on their 75-stop tour. These kids will meet with victims and survivors of shootings [except for those survivors who favor self-protection measures acknowledged under the Second Amendment] and focus on even more gun control legislation that thus far hasn't been properly followed by law enforcement.

These kids will also register fellow youths to vote, hopefully only on only one issue.

Hogg, 18, promoted his bus tour saying, "I'm glad I'm getting my diploma and not my death certificate."

Sieg Hogg

Actually, he would not be the one to get his death certificate--that would be his parents, but it's a nice emotional line that should get people to vote with their hearts, not with the facts.

Fellow child opportunist and Parkland anti-gun activist Emma González will be with Hogg on the bus tour [whose sponsor is remaining in the shadows] and had the temerity to say, "If you don't support this . . . it'll look like you're going against kids."

Obviously this isn't true.

If you don't support anti-Second Amendment rights it merely means you're pro-Second Amendment and a free-thinker who sees the problem not in the existence of guns, but in those who would use them for evil--much like those who use knives and trucks for the same purpose. Trying to make pro-Second Amendment people feel guilty, and manipulate other misinformed people about how guns are guilty of crime, isn't going fool very many people whose brains are intact.

Let's face it, this tour is well-organized and has leftist money behind it. The kickoff is set for June 15 in Chicago, home of the illegal handgun and Barack Obama [unless you believe he was born in Kenya].  The tour will make 50 additional stops across the country while a "simultaneous" Florida tour will make 25 stops in that state.

In a March for Our Lives news release, they said the student gun-control self-proclaimed policy experts are calling for "universal, comprehensive background checks [not counting the background checks that weren't followed up by law enforcement in the Parkland shooting and others where the warning signs were there]; creating a searchable database for gun owners [in case the government wants to confiscate their weapons like what happened in Nazi Germany];
funding the Centers for Disease Control to research gun violence [because these kids feel that gun violence is a disease that can be cured with the proper drugs];" and "banning high-capacity magazines and semi-automatic assault rifles," [proving they don't know what a semi-automatic weapon is, nor how lawless people don't give a crap about what size magazine they're allowed to have as they commit acts of violence].

These kids are obviously looking for their 15 minutes of fame and some money under the table. I hope people are smart enough to see through their gun smoke screen.


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Florida school shooter wants inheritance to go to charity says his lawyer

Miami -- The 19-year-old scumcrumpet who is accused of killing 17 people at the Parkland, Florida high school on Valentine's Day had inherited an $800,000 trust left to him by his adoptive mother. Now his defense lawyer is claiming on Wednesday that this piece of garbage wants to donate the money to charity.

It's so nice to hear the shooter had a change of heart [or in this case, actually grew a heart] and wants to pay for his sins.

The accused shooter appeared at a hearing in Broward County Court to determine if he needs a court-appointed lawyer or can afford one through the trust he and his 18-year-old brother received.

"He wants that money donated to an organization that he believes would facilitate healing in our community," his defense attorney, Melissa McNeil told the court. Judge Elizabeth Scherer did not yet make a ruling on the matter.

Perhaps the shooter should leave the money to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of the shooting. 

The funds could go directly to David Hogg, the 17-year-old who, by virtue of being at the school during the shooting, is considered by the mainstream media of being a gun-control genius [in spite of his inability to be accepted to any of the four colleges to which he applied]. The money could fund his transportation across the nation for his profanity-laced TV appearances in which he bullies conservatives and claims victimhood.

I believe the charity offer is a ploy for this heartless shooter to avoid the death penalty and I hope the public isn't fooled by it.

We need to keep their names and photos out of the news of the mass murderers. And when people like David Hogg stand on the graves of his fellow students to push a political agenda, we need to push back. 

If Hogg has an opinion that says, for example,  anyone who disagrees with him wants to see more dead children (e.g., Dana Loesch, an NRA spokesperson) we have the right and obligation to push back on such an immoral and disgusting accusation.



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Alyssa Milano tweets racist anti-gun claims against NRA and is schooled by NRA spokesman

Alyssa Milano is an actress, and like many in the performing arts, knows everything about everything, and is chock full of advice on how to run the world. The progressive activist took to Twitter to reprimand the National Rifle Association and pull the trusty old race card on them.

Her racially-charged tweet created an inundation of internet responses.

Earlier in the week, Milano tried to contribute to the gun control debate by trying to debase the NRA with this tweetard:

"If @NRA or @NRATV were run by brown of black people, it would be labeled a terrorist organization with hate propaganda programming that incites violence."

Colion Noir, an NRA spokesman, who happens to be black and who never lets progressives get away with bringing race into the gun rights discussion, jumped on her tweet with this response:

"That's odd because I spent all last week being called a Terrorist by people who say what you just said only without the passive aggressive tone." (H/T Twitchy)

Another Twitter user named Victor Nikki also came back at Milano and tweeted: 

"There are so many times I believe that some Lib has concocted the absolute stupidest tweet to have ever been tweeted but then another Lib tweets & surpasses the previous tweet's stupidity. For now, this is the stupidest tweet ever, but Libs have an infinite capacity for stupidity."

JH19 tweeted:

"5 members of the NRA board of directors are black, but you knew that didn't you."

BuckinTennessee tweeted:

"Never has the NRA incited violence. That is a blatant falsehood. Do you enjoy spreading lies?"

Noir has been a significant part of the gun debate and school violence, particularly how it relates to race and racism. He recently schooled David Hogg, self-proclaimed gun control expert and garbage-mouth, for speaking on behalf of African-Americans.


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Parkland shooting opportunist goes verbally attacks war hero

David Hogg skipping high school

Parkland shooting opportunist David Hogg, 17, stands on the graves of the victims killed on Feb. 14 by a mentally ill shooter and he used his unearned "expertise" to attack Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for being the top recipient of NRA funding in Congress.

"Why do you take so much money from the NRA?" Hogg asked in response to McCain's tweet about the Phoenix-area "Rio Reimagined" redevelopment project.

While McCain had not yet responded to Hogg's question, perhaps he should tell the teen something along these lines:

"I am the number one recipient for NRA money among all members of Congress for a reason. First of all, I support the Constitution of the United States and that includes all of the Amendments therein. The Second Amendment isn't about hunting--it's about a citizen's God-given right to defend him or herself and their family.

"Second, I support the traditions and ideals of the NRA--they teach gun safety and responsible gun ownership. They were never against background checks, but the left would have you believe that lie. 

"In 2013 I took a lot of guff from my side of the aisle because I supported a bipartisan compromise on gun-purchase background checks, even though it never cleared the Senate floor. My heart was in the right place but you were 12 years old and probably too busy playing violent video games to follow politics.  In fact, I was one of only four Republicans to vote for that legislation. 

"Finally, I don't know why you and others in your school are attacking the NRA instead of going after those in law enforcement and mental health who didn't do their jobs, which would have stopped the shooter before he could have ever gotten his hands on a firearm. The Broward County Sheriff's Department, the FBI and the mental health facility who deemed the young man "not a danger to self or others" dropped the ball in this case--the NRA had absolutely nothing to do with the shooting, but they are the 'go-to' organization liberals go after before the dead are even buried.

I am not a big fan of Sen. John McCain on many issues. Some say he's a RINO because they don't like that he's often willing to work both sides of the aisle. I believe that's true, but I also know that McCain has done a lot more for the country than this teenage bag of bull crap has done, and I offer no apology for my opinion, unlike Laura Ingraham who apologized for tweeting that Hogg whined about not being accepted by four colleges.

After Ingraham apologized, Hogg tweeted to boycott her sponsors and one sponsor, Hulu, complied. That should give you an idea as to what to do with Hulu and with Hogg--just pay them no mind.


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Potty-mouth ageist with no insight into gun violence

David Hogg has a potty mouth and very little else. Hogg is a 17-year-old survivor of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida. He claims that he's the NRA's "worst nightmare" and Mary Lou Clemmons' "best dream" if she is willing to go with him to the prom.

When speaking about gun control issues, the teenager said, "Our parents don't know how to use a f**king democracy, so we have to." But only those people who agree with him can use a democracy--Democrats, for example.

His brilliant words:

"When your old-ass parent is like, 'I don't know how to send an iMessage,' and you're just like, 'Give me the f**king phone and let me handle it.' Sadly, that's what we have to do with our government; our parents don't know how to use a f**king democracy, so we have to."

Use a democracy? I wonder what Hogg's grades were for English grammar. The word 'democracy' is not a noun, idiot. Yes, idiot is a noun. 

I also wonder what Hogg thinks about his own "old ass" parents.

Hogg, who obviously sees himself as some sort of youthful folk hero blathered on with his pedantic garbage as he continues to save the world from evil guns:

"I'm beyond exhausted. I get to a certain point where I just get so tired that I keep going. It creates a positive feedback loop in some ways [because he sees himself as a machine]--the more stress and work I put on me, the more stress and work I can deal with."

Hooray for a Hogg! He is so brave and strong to push on. And he had more to say:

"It just makes me think what sick f**kers out there want to continue to sell more guns, murder more children, and honestly just get reelected. What type of shi**y person does that? That could have blood from children splattered all over their faces and they wouldn't take action, because they all still see these dollar signs."

The 'Hoggster' was not referring to monetary assistance he is likely receiving 'under the table' to send his vulgar message out to us old-ass people, but to the billions of dollars the NRA gives to politicians in constituencies that support the Second Amendment.

Hogg had this to say to Florida Gov. Rick Scott:

"You're kind of like Voldemort at this point. You should just retire, because you aren't going to get elected to Senate."

And to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL):

"What about the $176,000 you took for those 17 people's blood?"

Yeah, Marco, why do you accept money for something that you believe in? Why do you have an A+ rating with the NRA?

Rubio said that he would back four gun control measures since the Parkland shooting:

Strengthen background checks. "I will support changing our background system so that it includes more information than it includes now and that all states across the country are required or incentivized to report all the information into it."

That isn't a bad idea at all, but in terms of this recent shooting and in some of the others, law enforcement was aware of the danger the shooter posed before he went to slaughter. But if a more intensive background check could help, why not?

Ban bump stocks. 

Sure. It really has no useful purpose other than converting the rifle into an almost automatic weapon. I don't see a problem with a ban on that.

Increase the 18-year-old age limit for rifles. "I absolutely believe that in this country if you are 18 years of age, you should not be able to buy a rifle, and I will support a law that takes that right away," Rubio said.

Most mass shootings are carried out by people over the age of 21. If, as Rubio suggests, we increase the depth of background checks, there should be no reason to take away the rights of those old enough to go to war and carry an automatic rifle, from buying a semi-automatic rifle. 

Limit magazine clip sizes [perhaps]. "I traditionally have not supported looking at magazine clip size, and after this and some of the details I learned about it, I'm reconsidering that position [because] it may save lives in an attack."

A bit of a squishy detail. Perhaps he's right, but let's not forget that an experienced shooter with multiple clips can change a clip in just a few seconds.

If we could just stop all non NRA members from committing mass shootings, the mass shooting rate would drop 100 percent!

If we could have just made the Broward County Sheriff's Department, the FBI and the mental health professionals who were directly involved in the Parkland shooter's case simply do their jobs, there would have been no shootings and those 17 victims would be alive today.

But blame the NRA and blame guns because that's politically expedient and on your check list. 

It's sad that we give special credence of expertise to victims of gun violence, as if they know more because of their trauma. Actually, it is because of their trauma that we can generally expect their thoughts to be tied into their emotions and have less world validity than experts who have analyzed real data from an objective, scientific perspective.

So young Hogg, you have your fifteen minutes of fame. Make the most of it.



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Florida deputy who cowered behind a barrier while kids were being killed isn't a coward, eh?

Scot Peterson, the Parkland school's armed school guard who failed to guard the school while children and staff were being murdered by a 19-year-old while he cowered behind a barrier waiting for things to cool down, is not a coward just because he cowered and failed to do his job, says his delusional lawyer.

Peterson was supposed to engage the shooter as quickly as possible to save lives, but he stayed outside.

One of the survivors, David Hogg, who has been appearing on TV over and over to speak out against guns rather than the people who kill with guns, said that cops don't want to face down AR-15s, and he understands why Peterson was afraid to go into the school and do that.

"Who wants to go down the barrel of an AR-15, even with a Glock?" he said.

I wonder how Peterson could know the shooter was using an AR-15. The Colt AR-15 fires a .223 Remington or 5.56 NATO round. But so does a bunch of other firearms such as:

Bushmaster ACR rifle, Kel-Tec SU-16 series semi-auto rifle; Saiga 223 semi-auto rifle; Remington Model 7615 Police Patrol Rifle; Remington Model 700 series bolt-action rifle; Ruger Mini-14 semi-auto rifle; Steyr Scout series bolt-action rifle; Winchester Model 70 series bolt-action rifle; Volquartsen Evolution autoloading varmint rifle; Bushmaster Firearms International#Carbon 15 semi-automatic carbon-polymer-based AR-15 rifle.

And this list doesn't even include international military weapons, which is far more extensive.

So while teenage survivors of school shootings can say whatever they want to say without impunity or challenge of thought, David Hogg doesn't know what he's talking about, and even if he did, Peterson signed up for the job and failed to perform. And some of Hogg's fellow students who were killed might have been saved by a braver deputy.

Peterson's lawyer said that he acted appropriately but that's what his lawyer would have to say to defend the coward.


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