Comments by "girl from the bronx by way of el barrio" (@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288) on "Face the Nation" channel.

  1. Wow, this must be the latest talking point from your local militia. I've already read this nonsense multiple times on multiple channels. No originality. The first amendment does not depend upon the irresponsible application of the second amendment. NYC is a very strict gun control environment, thank goodness, yet New Yorkers have never been accused of being shy about freedom of expression. If the second amendment can't keep innocent school children from dying in horrific terroristic events, then the second amendment has outlived its usefulness to the nation. Time to get to work on effective comprehensive federal gun safety legislation, or a new amendment to enshrine public safety in the constitution. The second amendment is not working.
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  2. Repeal PLCAA to restore liability to gun manufacturers, and their own lawyers will insist on gun safety protocols to demonstrate due diligence in court proceedings. Now gun manufacturers rake in profit with total impunity.
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  3. Amendments to the Constitution are overdue. The framers intended the Constitution to grow with the nation. 🗽
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  4. I think we were spoiled as a nation that we enjoyed so many decades of solid SCOTUS interpretation and opinions. Because of this current SCOTUS reliance on so-called textualism, however, now the honeymoon is over. They simply seem to say, "Well, this concept was not written into the Constitution by the framers in the 1700s, so we strike it down.". Strangely, textualism didn't seem to apply when they were reviewing the 14th amendment and its provisions for keeping insurrectionists off the ballot. And when they needed to completely fabricate a king-like immunity for presidents that can be found nowhere in our founding documents, again the lack of textualism was not a problem for the majority. So I guess they are textualists until they are not? So if everything has to be written into the Constitution, amendments are the way to survive this SCOTUS until some retirements or some reform creates some shifts. The amendment to make it clear that presidents are not immune is the first order of business. If the SCOTUS is confused about how to apply the right to privacy to the modern realities of marriage equality and reproductive healthcare, then we will have to spell it out for them in an amendment. We could probably use most of the ERA, but explicitly add the right to privacy in medical decisions, and mention contraception, miscarriage treatment, followup care for incest and rape, and abortion. The marriage equality piece could be a separate amendment, again connected to the right to privacy as in the current controlling opinions, but this time adding explicit language about marriage equality, mixed race marriage, and same sex marriage. Then we need to move on to drafting a new amendment to protect public safety, by being explicit about what national gun safety regulations need to look like. Misinterpretations of the second amendment are multiplying, and it's clear that we cannot continue this carnage of daily gun violence. The second amendment can remain, but a new amendment needs to provide balance to protect innocent school children, shoppers, worshippers, etc. "Shall not be infringed" is not solving anything. Guns cannot continue to have more rights than innocent people. We have a lot of work to do. Let's get busy. 💙🌊⚖️💙🌊
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  5. COVID 19? We were all in great shape?
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  6. Huzzah Kentucky! 💙
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  7. 19 states have red flags, even Florida so it's hard to claim that this is unconstitutional. Justice Scalia in the Heller opinion stated that gun rights are not unlimited. The Breun opinion contains guidelines for gun regulations. You must remember, the second amendment fan club makes stuff up. Have they read the SCOTUS opinions? Doubtful. We know the majority of the USA population supports gun safety legislation. That is the will of the people. I'm fairly sure most law enforcement supports gun control too, because this chaos doesn't help them. When a house gets robbed, those stolen guns go directly into the hands of criminals. We have a lot of work to do. Voting these people out of office is part of that work, by the way. Be well, stay safe.
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  8. "She touched it, she did not steal it."
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  9. Thank you. The trespass was the problem. If it truly was a "tour" of the Capitol, nope, because the building was closed to the public. If it truly was a peaceful protest, even if it got loud, the protest would end at the doors of the building, would end at the very obvious metal barriers supervised by Capitol Police. It's the "I don't care. I'm coming in anyway, and here's this mob that's coming behind me.". Anyone who truly says they don't understand that.... Truly, next time for your own safety don't listen to grifters and con artists. Use reliable news sources. This is not a joke, this is our nation. It is your responsibility to use better judgement .
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  10. Not sure I believe all of that. If he was filming as a journalist, he should have had credentials. If not, then he was filming a crime in progress while doing little to nothing to stop it. Think about how you feel when adolescents with beyond horrible judgement film a fight after school where someone is clearly being injured and they are just watching and filming it like it's a cool thing to post on their page. Many times those teens are charged, I believe as accessories.
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  11. A plea deal means he pled guilty. No, he didn't need a trial. He admitted to the judge and to the court that he did something wrong, something illegal, he admitted that he was guilty. Before the judge will accept such a plea, the judge asks the defendant if he understands the charges, accepts responsibility, and expresses remorse. I don't understand why he wants sympathy after all that. There are real people with real problems who did not participate with a violent mob. I will save my energy and sympathy for them. I think that's what your pastor might want you to do too. Luckily, this guy has figured out how to turn his brush with the law into speaking engagements and "advocacy". I assume he is not volunteering? Wow, a new career for a guilty man who broke the law. Well, at least he admitted to it. At least he saved the taxpayers the cost of a full trial..
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  12. It would be difficult to know what the position on reproductive healthcare is from Escobar's perspective, because Brennan didn't allow her to finish a sentence. Luckily, the bill that was passed by the House is public record, so I guess we could read that. What I heard loud and clear from Escobar: we need 60 senators to get it done. Vote harder everyone! Difficult, but nothing is impossible. Given how unsafe it is to be pregnant in Texas right now, vote harder if you ever plan on having a family in a red state, or anywhere in the USA if they get away with a national ban. Stay safe, vote. 💙🌊💙🌊
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  13. If every state is a border state, Abbott and other border states must share the INS funds they receive for resettling migrants. The distribution of immigrants to various cities and states must be managed by the INS, not Abbott stuffing people into buses without food, water, or medical screenings, without notice to the localities that will receive them so that they can plan. Abbott loves chaos, always has. That's why his section of the border is a "humanitarian crisis". Btw, how are those charter bus contracts awarded? Do these charter companies have friends in the Texas legislature? 🗽
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  14.  @edmondhuot5509  💙🌊💙🌊
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  15. Go Kamala go. Go Tim go. 💙🌊🐬💙🌊
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  16. The Tulsa shooter purchased the gun just hours before going to the medical center where the shooting occurred. State to state regulations that vary widely are dysfunctional,; national gun control legislation is needed.
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  17. Declassifying documents is a process. Declassifying with your mind after you are out of office....nope. Please use reliable news sources.
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  18. jamestemple:. People who cannot get pregnant might not realize that severe complications can develop in a pregnancy at any week. There is no guarantee that all the bad stuff happens before 15 weeks. That's why Roe provides that OB GYN MDs can provide the correct standard of care in pregnancy and miscarriage treatment, with the consent of their pregnant patients. Maybe it's 14 weeks, maybe a horrible miscarriage occurs at 20 weeks. The decision can be made by the doctor and her patient to protect the life and health of the mother. Period. Pay attention to the lawsuit of the women in Texas who were pushed into sepsis and other dangerous horrors because the aberrations in their pregnancies could not be addressed until they could prove that they were dying. The danger of that approach should be obvious, but I can see that it's not. When you become pregnant, let me know if living with that danger, know that your medical consent is meaningless, knowing that your doctor's best judgement will not be considered, knowing that a safe standard of care is not permitted, let's see if that works for you. Codify Roe. 💚💙💚
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  19. Adding amendments does not require a constitutional convention.
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  20. If the second amendment cannot keep innocent school children alive, it has outlived its usefulness to the nation. The framers would never have stood by and watched this carnage and done nothing to stop it. You dishonor the constitution to say otherwise. The constant second amendment arguments with people who don't understand the amendment and have not read the SCOTUS decisions are beyond exhausting, and people are dying. It's time to draft a new amendment to enshrine public safety in the constitution. People want to go to the grocery store and come home alive. When the 18th amendment (prohibition) became a public safety problem, the 21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment. Comprehensive federal gun safety legislation plus a new public safety amendment. Get to work. Children want to go to school. You know, basketball teams, science projects, prom, talent shows. Teaching and learning.
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  21. It seems that constitutional carry is built on zero crime prevention. Let everyone carry any weapon anywhere all the time, felons too. We know that crimes will be committed if we allow this. Bloody horrific crimes. Then we will just hope that we find the criminals afterwards. Wow. Crime prevention is really all most residents of any town, any city, any rural area, prevention is what everyone wants. It feels obvious that "constitutional carry" will never get us there. This is another abuse of the second amendment. The second amendment has outlived its usefulness to the nation, especially because it is too frequently used as an excuse by irresponsible people.
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  22. Because red states consistently starve their public schools for funds, therefore creating an undereducated population. This creates a docile group of low wage workers that certain businesses crave. Uneducated voters are a liability in a democracy, because informed citizens are necessary for critical thinking and thoughtful voting. Remember how much the grifter loved his uneducated voters. Think carefully, vote carefully. 🗽💙🗽
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  23. What??? Is this some qanon crazy who thinks that JFK is still alive???? OR are you just incapable of proofreading or writing or basic logic? I don't mean to be insulting, but wow.... This madness is enough already. This is not a game. This is our nation. Vote blue 💙 🔵💙 up and down the ballot to clean up all of this mess. Go Kamala go.💙🌊🐬💙🌊
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  24.  @the_lightnessofbeing  Nope, none of the above. He's not qualified for the presidency. If he's sincere, he would run for a local office and develop a resume in government service. Go Kamala go. 💙🌊
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  25.  @Tasi9107  Wanted to apologize, but they took down my comment on that. Don't know why. It seems that you are correct about the cuts. Those details were just not included in the short video I saw. The New Yorker has a story about this incident, might have been released already. What a mess this guy is. He needs help. Go Kamala. ,💙🌊
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  26. ERA has been ratified by enough states, but past an expiration date. Not sure if all amendments are tagged with an expiration date (sounds weird to me) but the ERA did have an expiration date. However, the amendment that granted the right to vote to 18 year olds, that amendment was ratified in approximately 4 months, so ratification is not easy but it is not impossible. I feel confident that the 14th amendment will not be tampered with. However, we are overdue for a public safety amendment for comprehensive gun safety so that we can end the carnage and provide context and balance for the second amendment that is so frequently misinterpreted. Let's give our children relief from the active shooter drills and provide them with a public safety amendment instead. 🗽
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  27. 25 th amendment
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  28. Viability refers to the point at which the fetus can survive independently outside the womb. No fetus can survive outside the womb at 14 weeks. Therefore, it is not a baby, it is a fetus. Please pay attention in biology class.
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  29. Any arbitrary number of weeks does not reflect the reality that serious dangerous defects can arise in a pregnancy at any point. There is never a guarantee that all miscarriages, all fetal defects will arrive on schedule before 14 weeks. Therefore, Roe is most useful. Roe states that medical decisions are made by the mother and her doctor. Period. All medical care is conducted in this fashion, with the doctor and the informed consent of the patient. Imagine a man who is experiencing a heart attack who is not allowed to seek medical care for the heart attack, but instead is forced by the state legislature to wait until he is nearly dead before a cardiac surgeon is allowed to help him. This is the situation that has been created by these nonsensical anti abortion laws that don't seem to exhibit any understanding of how pregnancy or miscarriage or fetal anomaly occur. Currently, there are a group of women in Texas involved in a lawsuit because they were denied care, and several of them were pushed into sepsis because their doctors needed to wait until they were close enough to death to qualify as saving the mother's life. Great physical damage and infertility resulted.
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  30. President Biden's legislative record is impressive. If being old can result in that much signed helpful legislation, wow, let's have more old presidents. 💙🗽💙. However, I do adore VP Harris. Go Kamala go. Let's do this! 💙🌊🐬💙🌊
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  31. He likes a photo op, and the whole "my hair is on fire" thing works for him. He's just a bad mayor. Imagine Fiorello LaGuardia saying that he couldn't handle immigration. 🗽🌎🗽
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  32. Because Palestinians want to live in Palestine. Forcing them to evacuate against their will to live in tents as refugees in someone else's country....that's another Trail of Tears. And probably not have the right to return .... That's a land grab. Pay attention to history.
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  33. Yes, I miss John Dickerson.
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  34. Thank you, Face the Nation, for that solid fact check on this "abortion after birth" misinformation. I hope there can be a policy that all debates will include a scroll at the bottom of the screen to handle fact checking in real time. Let's stop the fire hose of lies. 💙
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  35. He never served in the military, I think that is the distinction. Hand over heart is more appropriate for civilians?
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  36. ⚖️💙🌊💙🌊⚖️
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  37. Because rudeness is the best demonstration of logic and critical thinking.... 60+ democratic senators can get it done, finally.
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  38. Dear Mr skull, your last comment did not post on the thread. Maybe you didn't want others to read it? You sound very stressed, maybe all those guns are increasing your anxiety. Stay calm, don't forget to breathe. If fox news told you that half of the NYPD was fired for lack of compliance on COVID vaccination, then you have been deceived. I am glad that virtually all NYPD came to their senses and continued to serve the public by supporting COVID control measures. New York paid a tragic tragic price for the early ineptitude of t****p on infection control, so I cannot turn COVID into a joke. It is ghoulish. Gun violence is ghoulish. Street crime vs mass shootings are very different concepts with very different solutions. Making fun of NYC doesn't reduce these grotesque school shootings, especially since NYC doesn't have them. Restricting or eliminating AR 15 would be helpful, because AR 15 was used in more than 12 of these horrific events:. Buffalo, Uvalde, El Paso, Aurora, Las Vegas, Parkland, Sandy Hook, etc etc etc. It is ghoulish and grotesque.
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  39. First, let's focus. This is about Sandra Day O'Connor. She deserves her day. Having said that, President Biden has signed an impressive amount of legislation. That's the job. So you're angry at him for doing his job? Inflation down to 3%, no additional interest rate increases from the Fed, interest cuts predicted soon, gasoline down to $3, green energy on the march to make gasoline obsolete. Presidents getting stuff done, I'm for it! Maybe he's old, but FDR and LBJ were old and ugly too. Presidents getting things done, I'm for it. 🗽💙🌊🗽 Thank you, Justice O'Connor, for meeting your moment in stupendous fashion. Enjoy your rest well earned, enjoy your roses gathered in winter. ❄️🌹❄️
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  40. Some of this goes back to deep flaws in our public education system. So called low tax red states are starving their public schools, therefore reducing the critical thinking of their populations and creating a desperate population of low wage workers. Therefore a population that might not make the best decisions on election day. The current tendency to book bannings just makes all of this worse. True oversight of state Departments of Education is overdue.
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  41. NYC has been handling immigration for a hundred years. Where do you think Ellis Island is located? Adams is just a bad mayor. Can you imagine Fiorello LaGuardia complaining about immigration? Please pay attention to history. 🗽
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  42. I was glad they chose to interview him. I had heard that he ran for office, and I hoped they would ask more about his election. Oh well.
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  43. Huge voter turnout in 2020 freed our nation from that embarrassing orange con artist and grifter. And we danced in the streets. We can vote in large numbers again in 2022. Vote like our lives depend on it.
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  44. Please remember that when Congress is in recess, the members go home to their districts. That doesn't necessarily mean they are on vacation. That means that their constituents have access to their representatives when they are in their district offices. Just saying, sometimes accuracy matters. Do you connect with your representative? If your congressional representative is NEVER in their office, never has a town hall meeting, then you can complain, and then you must vote them out. If you have never visited your representatives in their offices, shame on you. Democracy requires citizens to participate, not just complain. 🗽
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  45. Interesting way with words. Snark is rarely helpful to augmenting positive political discourse. Crisply anecdotal? Hmmm..... But you do you. 🗽💙🌊🗽
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  46. Again, most congressional representatives don't spend all their time in Washington DC. The "spaces" in the DC schedule are likely filled with another schedule in their home districts.
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  47. Yes, it was commuted. That means he is still under the supervision of the court. The judge in his case has already issued orders reminding him of that fact. There is now an order in place that Rhodes cannot enter DC without the permission of his court. We cannot be overwhelmed by the firehose of falsehoods and misinformation and WH actions. Stay strong stay aware stay awesome. Start organizing for midterms now..
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  48. Rhodes' judge blocked him from returning to DC without the permission of the court. Commuted sentence, he is still under the supervision of the court.
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  49. Stay awesome stay aware. Dont become overwhelmed by the firehose of falsehoods and wh actions. Midterm elections are right around the corner in 2026. Start organizing now, start volunteering now. ⚖️💙⚖️
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  50. Mandate gun safes. Any responsible gun owner already uses a gun safe.
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