Ronnie Reagan’s “Morning in America” was always a fake-marketing ploy to make republicans seem like “aw shucks” Average Joe America.

It was the first Big Lie.

Nixon was a crook. Reagan was a crook and a liar. Dubya is a war criminal. And don’t get me started on The Former Guy, who history will record as our most profoundly corrupt official in modern history.

But why is “Morning in America” ruse important context for today?

Lies upon lies so NRA will keep bribing

Today, feckless imposters like Marco Rubio use Ronnie’s avuncular imagery to paper over their own failures. And no, I’m not linking or embedding Marco’s propaganda. (You can Google it if ya wanna kill some time and brain cells.)

In reality, they’re all owned by NRA. Wayne LaPierre long ago cleaved their balls and tucked them in his man-purse.

Projection of strength is a lie. Claiming “fiscal responsibility” is a LIE. “Pro-life” is a lie. Claiming to be “party of National Security” is… well you know.

Special Report: GOP feverishly fabricating Apartheid in America [UPDATED]

Knowing white men will soon become minority in America republicans are trying to falsely bolster their power by imposing Apartheid in America which, yes, includes acts of violence as a natural offshoot.

Yesterday 19 students and 2 teachers were gunned down in Uvalde, Texas, by a crazed lunatic with a weapon of war.

Disgraced party of “Thoughts & Prayers” knows their favorite platitude is canceled so today their fallback post-mass-shooting reaction is “Heartbroken & Horrified“.

F*ck off with that shit.

Soaring rhetoric needs to matter this time.

Since I’m your official Liberal Helper I compiled some clips of actual Joe America who are supremely hocked off and sick of GOP—Guns over People—destroying families. Folks I highlight below named-and-shamed, which is what our nation’s media should be doing, too.

Beto O’Rourke

“Someone needs to stand up for the children of this state, or they will continue to be killed just like they were in Uvalde”—Beto O’Rourke

Sen. Chris Murphy (D.-CT)

“Why are you here… if not to solve a problem as existential as this?”—Chris Murphy

Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)

“Just get your ass to Cancun”—Ruben Gallego to Fat Dracula, after Ted tried to get scoldy again

Steve Kerr, Head Coach of Golden State Warriors

“I’m tired of the moments of silence. ENOUGH. There are 50 senators who refused to vote on HR8 and there’s a reason they won’t: to hold onto power”—Steve Kerr

Matthew McConaughey

“Actions must be taken so that no parent has to experience what the parents in Uvalde and others before have endured”—Matthew McConaughey

Cliff Schecter, author

“Ashley Parker of Washington Post went after Biden and blamed him for the fact we don’t have gun-control laws”

It’s Mourning in America. We’ve had 27 school shootings in 2022 and it’s only May. Soaring rhetoric needs to make a difference this time… for kids who might be shot dead in a future rampage. 🔴

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Will Pollock is a perpetually cranky New York City escapee based in Midtown Atlanta. He’s a freelance multimedia journalist, media analyst and author of two books (award-winning Pizza for Good & Leaving Triscuit), with more on the way.

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