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pstokely

(10,530 posts)
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 12:55 AM Aug 2018

Democrats angered by display at fair involving toy gun, picture of Senator McCaskill

Source: KCTV

It involved shooting a toy gun at a target with a picture of Senator Claire McCaskill and other lawmakers on it.

It was created by two Cass County Republicans who say the political game is designed to help kids learn.

However, the game used a toy gun to “shoot the issues” and that raised concern with some people in Holden.

“I just find it unacceptable,” said Raymond James with the Johnson County Democrats. “Unacceptable.”

Read more: https://www.kctv5.com/news/democrats-angered-by-display-at-fair-involving-toy-gun-picture/article_36c55894-a7f3-11e8-b028-530030fbb209.html

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Initech

(100,099 posts)
1. It isn't designed to help kids learn, go fuck yourselves, assholes.
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 01:08 AM
Aug 2018

It is a threat designed to harass and intimidate, and it's also hate speech on top of that.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,494 posts)
14. They're starting the brainwashing at an early age.
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 08:52 AM
Aug 2018

Would bet the poor kids are exposed to Faux Non-News and talk radio every day, with no chance with open-minded thinking or discussion. These people are not good parents.

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RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
4. Sadly, there are at least three stories about this kind of merchandise now every election cycle.
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 01:38 AM
Aug 2018

Republicans are sociopaths. Repeat this to everyone you know.

keithbvadu2

(36,876 posts)
7. Would they find it appropriate if the target was Trump?
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 02:04 AM
Aug 2018

Would they find it appropriate if the target was Trump?

RockRaven

(14,990 posts)
8. Stochastic terrorism...
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 02:06 AM
Aug 2018

but media coverage of it spreads this deplorable depravity...

a rock/hard-place situation. Say nothing, say something, lose-lose.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
9. The Trump legacy
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 02:51 AM
Aug 2018

Donald Trump has so lowered the level of political and racial discourse in this country that it will take decades to overcome. We may have to wait for each and every "deplorable" in this country to be planted six feet down, and then we can only hope that their children don't turn out the same way.
Trump is a one-idiot wrecking crew. Everything he's touched since coming to Washington has turned to pure shit. We'd better be the winners in this long game, because the winners write the history books. I don't want one positive word penned about The Orange Shit-Stain's brief (but certainly not brief enough) stay in the People's House. He is deserving of nothing but ridicule and scorn, and that's being too kind to him.
This act of "education" by these Republican scum-sucking pigs goes so far past the pale of reason, honor, and basic humanity, we can only call these Republicans diseased monsters, because human beings don't do things like this to each other.
I never totally despised Republicans this way until Donald Trump slithered onto the scene. I disliked them, certainly didn't trust them, and resented their incessant cheating in order to win. Now I loathe them, and if they were to all perish by some designer virus created to kill only members of the GOP, I'd make it a point to piss on each and every one's grave. There isn't a single redeeming quality in the lot of 'em.

Hekate

(90,773 posts)
10. It's "designed to help kids learn" political assassination. Sick sick sick.
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 03:35 AM
Aug 2018

And as pointed out above: another case of stochastic terrorism.

BumRushDaShow

(129,365 posts)
11. These types of douchebags have done this before
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 06:16 AM
Aug 2018

except with Obama - e.g., at a county fair in NY -





And you had RW nut gun shop owners selling target sheets with pics of Clinton, Sanders, and Obama -



And again... we are supposed to "reach out" to these people and understand their "economic anxiety".

Bengus81

(6,932 posts)
13. They shut down the Dem booth too?? What the HELL FOR??
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 07:51 AM
Aug 2018

I don't recall seeing him having targets there of Republicans to SHOOT at. Like getting expelled from school because you refuse to get punched in the face by the school bully and fight back.

Jedi Guy

(3,246 posts)
15. Oh, this must be that civility I've heard so much about!
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 10:17 AM
Aug 2018

Imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth if it was McConnell's face up there, or Ryan's, or Trump's, or... well, just about any Republican. I'm sure we'd all be subjected to lectures about how hurtful such things are, along with rants about the "radical left" or "alt-left."

rockfordfile

(8,704 posts)
16. This is the kind of thing that encourages mass shooting at schools
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 12:05 PM
Aug 2018

Some kids will grow up thinking the only way to solve a problem is go shoot a person. No time in our history until the un-American republicans today did some pos come up with this kind of crap.

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