Nebraska Democratic Party official won't resign after calling reactions to shooting at GOP baseball
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Joe Duggan
LINCOLN A Nebraska Democratic Party official has refused calls to resign her volunteer position after calling reactions to this weeks shooting of a high-ranking Republican member of Congress so funny on social media.
Chelsey Gentry-Tipton of Omaha said in statement that she will not resign as chairwoman of the partys Black Caucus, saying her post was taken out of context by party officials.
The Nebraska partys leadership asked Gentry-Tipton to step down Wednesday, several hours after she wrote, in a Facebook thread about the shooting in Washington, D.C., Watching the congressman crying on live tv abt the trauma they experienced. Y is this so funny tho?
Later, in the same thread, she stated, The very people that push pro NRA legislation in efforts to pad their pockets with complete disregard for human life. Yeah, having a hard time feeling bad for them.
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uppityperson
(115,679 posts)msongs
(67,441 posts)and did any repub cry for THEM or have a live on TV bullcrap announcement from whats his name?
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)Sticking to her "guns"...
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)fountainofyouth
(409 posts)You can be frustrated all you want about Republican gun policy, but there's nothing amusing -- even darkly amusing -- about citizens shooting elected officials.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Response to fountainofyouth (Reply #5)
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fountainofyouth
(409 posts)Maraya1969
(22,497 posts)bows at the feet of "officials" you just sound really weird.
Maybe if you had included all people and not just authority figures you wouldn't be sticking out like a purple thumb.
fountainofyouth
(409 posts)The woman the original post was about laughed at a shooting specifically because she found it funny that pro-gun politicians were shot.
My mistake. I will assiduously avoid addressing the context of the OP in my future comments.
sandensea
(21,664 posts)I'd go so far so to call their laments pretty pathetic - but of course 'ironic' would have been the more judicious term, given that she's in politics.
tavernier
(12,400 posts)Despite the fact they are very wrong on this side of the issue, everyone has the right to be emotional for a friend who has been gravely injured.
aeromanKC
(3,327 posts)I also have NO F'n sympathy for anyone who has a 100% A rating from the NRA. You made your bed, now sleep in it. No sympathy here as my Momma used to say.
LuvLoogie
(7,028 posts)War Is A Racket
(28 posts)They ignored it and it's obvious dereliction of duty. Playing politics once again.
Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)that Democrats would be coming to grab their phallic symbols, trying to steel themselves, brace their portly legs, hold in their voluminous beer bellies, and prepare for World War III, so sure it would have to be "out of my cold, dead hands."
The fact they are howling like banshees, trying to convince themselves that the well balanced part of the population is going to knock them off, for sure, now that someone who doesn't like Republicans finally ran amuck and dinged one, along with his defenders. They just don't have the ability to remember all the long, long decades the world has watched these right-wing ignorant, spoiled assholes who never learned to control themselves, or even even wanted to be decent like human beings, beating, insulting, lynching, terrorizing, torturing, murdering, letting their vile rage spill in all its putrid excess all over our world, our lives, destroying EVERYTHING we honor, respect, and love.
Idiots. Fools. Dirtbags.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Maraya1969
(22,497 posts)sarisataka
(18,770 posts)classy
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)she was being snide about the Republicans' reactions to the shooting. And who could blame her?
The people who want a gun in every purse and pocket cried harder over this than they did Sandy Hook.
sarisataka
(18,770 posts)"Watching the congressman crying on live tv abt the trauma they experienced."
those who experienced the trauma are victims whether or not they received injuries.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,077 posts)... the results of, "their", steadfast refusal to gun reform for decades. Oh, and they just passed law saying mentally ill folks can buy guns, too...
sarisataka
(18,770 posts)say that out loud and see how it sounds
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,077 posts)... when you can't say, "NO", to an offer or deal. It still means the same thing. Oh, the irony!
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)Perhaps if they ever showed any empathy for people they want to take healthcare from I could find some for them.
billh58
(6,635 posts)Well said.
sarisataka
(18,770 posts)in no way mitigates the damage of their policies, but I refuse to take an iota of pleasure in it.
Wrong is wrong, whether it is mocking the tears of President Obama or mocking the tears of victims now.
denvine
(802 posts)but the ambivalence these same congressmen have had over the 90 lives a day we lose to gun violence is the point she is trying to make. As what seem to be typical of Republicans is that they cannot empathize or understand the struggle until it affects them personally. That same day, 3 people were killed at the UPS office in San Francisco, just another normal day that would and did get little mention. These Republicans have been pushing for everyone to have a gun, not only a gun but a killing machine. The irony writes itself. Don't get me wrong, all violence is awful but hopefully there is a silver lining on this one.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Don't back down.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)experience- don't "volunteer" to be an OFFICIAL in the Democratic Party, please.
All-In
(312 posts)To bash them with.
God knows they deserve it.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)perhaps the person will think how cruel that comment was, present apologies and back away from the face book waste of time.
All-In
(312 posts)luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)think I'll opt out of politics all together and just stop voting. I do not want to become just as nasty as the right. This sort of ugliness is really a huge fucking turn off to me. It's vile. Yuck. I think I've had enough politics this week.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)democrats should stop apologizing for anything. Do I feel sorry for the guy who got shot? not for a nanosecond. There are innocent and much more worthwile people dying everyday from shootings. That guy was not innocent. Let NRA pray for him so we don't have to. It's a matter of priorities. Shit happens.
no_hypocrisy
(46,185 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)The context seems to suggest that she used "funny" in the slang sense meaning "ironic", not "funny" in the usual meaning of "humorous".
Deuce
(959 posts)Paladin
(28,272 posts)Maxheader
(4,374 posts)to minimize someone else pain. But then I remember
how little they care about the rest of us.