Junior Birdbrain hits the Stamford hustings (Updated)

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Connecticut’s gift to vacuous stupidity, Chris Murphy, held a rally in Stamford for a collection of Democrat geriatrics yesterday, and made a number of claims. First up:

  • Trump is attempting to transition American democracy to an oligarchy, “where a handful of rich money connected elites rule and organize government effectively to steal from the people.”

George Soros and the 501c dark money foundations that have donated literally billions of dollars to Democrats, nationwide and local, were unavailable for comment.

Other Murphy whoppers included:

  • Trump “crushed dissent” by pardoning Jan 6 protesters . Approve of the January 6th riot or not, “pardoning protesters” is not an act of crushing dissent — quite the opposite.

  • The US Attorney in DC is threatening to lock  people up because they interfered with Elon Musk’s operations at DOGE. AG Bondi has warned that those discovered by DOGE to have engaged in fraud — such at the persons behind the 5,593 SBA loans, $312M, granted to borrowers under 11-years-old. Bondi’s only other threat to imprison individuals has been her declaration that TESLA arsonists will be prosecuted as domestic terrorists. Murphy was silent when Biden’s DOJ declared parents protesting transgender material in grade school’s curriculums, just as he’s remained silent on the TESLA attacks. Which looks more like terrorism: parents speaking up at school board meetings, or this?

Murphy also boasted that, thanks to Connecticut’s tough gun laws, Hartford’s fatal shootings have dropped by 50% — from 15 to 8. Gun crime may be down, but there are a number of reasons for that, none of which have anything to do with the laws aimed at residents, because criminals willing to violate laws against murder don’t obey laws addressing gun possession by felons. There are other reasons for the drop: getting gang member off the street and keeping them there, and, possibly, the initiation of armed citizen patrols in Hartford’s worst streets.:

Hartford sees homicides, nonfatal shootings drop. Exactly why depends on whom you ask

  • [Hartford Police spokesman] Boisvert pointed to an April roundup of 13 members of a group called “Get Money Steppas.” Arrested under the state’s corrupt organizations and racketeering activity law, they are tied to homicides, shootings, drug dealing and car thefts, Boisvert said.That definitely took some of the right people off the streets,” Boisvert said Thursday.

  • Police also made some key arrests at the end of last year and the beginning of 2024. The accused were either violent or “catalysts for violence,” he said.

  • Finally, a bill signed into law last year requires certain repeat offenders charged with serious gun crimes to post 30 percent of their bonds in cash. Former Mayor Luke Bronin is one of many people who worked on the bill, Boisvert said. “That’s actually made a big impact,” he said.

  • Meanwhile, the leader of a group called the Self-Defense Brigade said his organization played a big role in the drop in gun violence. Cornell Lewis has been working with community members to set up armed citizen patrols to deter crime. “People don’t realize that that’s the effect of what we’re doing,” Lewis said.  

There are liars, damn liars, and then there’s Murphy.

UPDATE: