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This is Cynthia Tisdale.<\/p>\n

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Some time back her husband was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.\u00a0 So, living in America, which tells people like her husband to die if they cannot afford treatment, she went to work at two jobs to try to support her family and save him if she could.<\/p>\n

One of those jobs was in a classroom in Santa Fe, Texas, where a boy who felt entitled to sex was told \u201cNo\u201d in front of a bunch of other students.\u00a0 So the boy, his Facebook page bedecked with MAGA and Trump and Nazi regalia, came to school on Thursday and exercised his second amendment right to kill her and nine other people.\u00a0 She was 64.\u00a0 No worries about the\u00a0 boy.\u00a0 He is white and so was apprehended unharmed.\u00a0 Not like Philando Castile, who was obeying the law while black and so is dead.<\/p>\n

Here is her husband:<\/p>\n

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His GoFundMe has now exceeded his initial goal.<\/a><\/p>\n

But, of course, now he will have to live without his wife.\u00a0 And he will have to do so as the Pack of Nihilist Predators for whom his wife\u2019s murderer had such murderous support are busy sacking Social Security and Medicaid and Medicare.<\/p>\n

Libertarians always tell me they are full of burning charity for the \u201ctruly needy\u201d.\u00a0 Time to step up and prove it, boys.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, if you are not a Libertarian but an actual disciple of Jesus, I know you will do the right thing because you always do.\u00a0 Thanks in advance for your generosity in this hour of tragedy.<\/p>\n

And when you are done doing that, take some step, however small, toward voting out every slave of the Gun Cult and voting in somebody who will break the back of the NRA and institute gun law sanity.\u00a0 I know you will do that too because our insane gun regime is a prolife issue too.<\/p>\n

ENOUGH!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"