{"id":13695,"date":"2019-06-27T23:06:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T03:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=13695"},"modified":"2019-06-27T23:37:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T03:37:22","slug":"democratic-debate-night-2-cheers-jeers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/27\/democratic-debate-night-2-cheers-jeers\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Debate Night #2 &#8211; Cheers &#038; Jeers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My take on the gun-grabbing, governnent-loving, tax-exalting, climate-fearing, and severely amnesiac #DemDebate Round 2&#8230; Second Democratic debate with 10 candidates seemed more vacuous than the first round of 10. Nobody asked Rep. Swalwell about his plan to use nuclear weapons to punish gun owners who refused to surrender their AR-15s. Lots of wailing about police abuses but nobody wants to curb TSA&#8217;s power. &#8220;History need not apply&#8221; seemed to be the rule for candidates&#8217; comments on economics, govt. policy, and most other subjects. At least the scene was energized by that crazy cat lady.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemDebate<\/a>  How many gun owners is Swalwell willing to kill in order to confiscate all private AR-15s?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1144435125763137536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemDebate<\/a>  Kamala Harris: &#39;there are moments in history where states fail to support the civil rights of all their citizens.&#39; Like when she was a prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1144427462903959552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemDebate<\/a> All this yammering about  police abuses.  Will any of these candidates speak up about the  pervasive daily outrages inflicted by TSA?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1144426574399377408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemDebate<\/a>  Buttigieg  determined to &#39;make every person &#8211; white or black &#8211; driving feels a  sense of safety when they see a police officer approaching.&#39;  Won&#39;t happen. Politicians made so many laws that police have far too much power.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1144426199013384192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemDebate<\/a>  Will the debate end early if all the candidates exceed their Blather Quota?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1144425080908369920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemDebate<\/a> Amusing to hear politicians who failed to leash NSA spying on Americans yammering on Chinese govt. using high-tech to repress their people.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1144424282321235973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemDebate<\/a> Gillibrand blames &quot;greed of NRA and gun manufacturers&quot; for no progress on violence. What about pawn shops?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1144429634030907392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemDebate<\/a> Buttigieg invokes &quot;soil management&quot; to fight climate wording. 1950s we had &quot;Soil Banks&quot; &#8211; 1980s+, we had Conservation Reserve Program &#8211; We don&#39;t need another fraud.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1144431261714456576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemDebate<\/a> Swalwell keeps calling for &quot;passing the torch&quot; to the guy who wants to drop nuclear bombs on gun owners who do surrender AR-15s<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1144431889836650498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"_3l3x\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1144435125763137536<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"_3l3x\">*Kamala Harris bringing up her record at Attorney General of California. Did I hear the ACLU just howl?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>*<span dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"_3l3x\">Kamala Harris: &#8220;America doesn&#8217;t want to witness a food fight &#8211; they want to know how we are going to put food on their table.&#8221; Who is waiting for presidential candidates to feed them?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* <span dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"_3l3x\">Swalwell has $100K in college debt? WTH?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"_3l3x\">* Gillibrand had an excellent answer on Iran &#8211; one of the most coherent of the evening. Good to hear Biden call for repealing the AUMF BS from 2001.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>*<span dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"_3l3x\">Yang &#8211; $700 billion economy boost from &#8220;mentally healthier populace&#8221; ?!? ??<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My take on the gun-grabbing, governnent-loving, tax-exalting, climate-fearing, and severely amnesiac #DemDebate Round 2&#8230; Second Democratic debate with 10 candidates seemed more vacuous than the first round of 10. Nobody asked Rep. Swalwell about his plan to use nuclear weapons to punish gun owners who refused to surrender their AR-15s. 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