guns

“Crooksy” Brooks Remained a Gunslinging Right-Winger After 2019?

/ Rich Wilkins / Leave a comment

I told you before how Bob “Crooksy” Brooks was a right-wing radical on gun control, even going so far as to say guns aren’t an issue just days after an El Paso, TX Walmart got shot up by a lunatic. Crooksy posted a III% Militia meme just days after that shooting, agreeing with the radical right-wing group. In addition to lacking ethics, he appears to not think political violence is an issue and supports guns on demand.

Of course Crooksy wants you to think that’s the past, and he doesn’t believe this stuff anymore. He’s a liar. He posted that before he became President of the Pennsylvania Professional Fire Fighters Association. Like his hatred of Barack Obama and Colin Kaepernick, he wants you to believe he had an epiphany. He did not. Apparently as President of his union, he used union dues to buy guns, including an AR-15, and raffled them off to the general public. Look, I’m fine with members of the public going into a gun shop and going through the standard procedure of purchasing a gun legally- but what the hell is this shit? Just a straight raffle to any jackass off the street? An AR-15 exists for the sole purpose to kill, it sure as hell shouldn’t be purchased with union dues and raffled off to anyone who is willing to buy it. It’s a waste of union dues and it’s just completely unsafe for the public.

I think we’ve reached the point where we have to ask if Bob “Crooksy” Brooks is really a Democrat at all? I’ve asked this about Ryan Crosswell, and I still have questions, but Crooksy seems more open and shut yet- he’s not. He pretends well because it’s good politics for him, but every unguarded moment where he has shown his values in life, his values are MAGA right-wing. Champion of the “working man?” Sure, the lunatic ones who want war in our streets.

A Pro-Gun Militant Entering the PA-7 Democratic Race?

/ Rich Wilkins / 41 Comments

So this was sent along to me from a woman via e-mail Wednesday. I’m not friends with Bob Brooks on Facebook, but nothing looks inauthentic about it. I also got the sense from the proton mail email address that this person is in opposition research. The woman who sent it to me noted that the folks who posted this are 3%’ers, far right nuts. Sheriff Bieber is definitely a pro-Trump character. I see that last night it got out, so I might as well comment on this.

I’d be fine with prayer in schools if these nut bags didn’t mean their kinda prayers, but our founding fathers were very clear about opposing the establishment of a state religion. I don’t know what Bob Brooks thinks this meme meant about guns, but it meant “no gun control at all.” Zero. If he wants to run as the NRA’s candidate for Congress, I guess he’s welcome to do that. I guess a Ten Commandments in every public building and an AR-15 in every home is the path forward.

I’m sure his handlers will fill him up with the right things to say, that’s their job, but all of this suggests a very “Make America Great Again” world view. As if there was some past time where prayer in schools and a good whooping at home made sure kids grew up right, to be decent Americans. This suggests that our changing society is to blame for our ailments. I guess we could go back to pre-2008, 1972, 1863, 1960, 1954, 1919, or whatever year he’d like. Look, I think the Democratic Party has gone absolutely batshit on plenty of social issues, but I’m really not longing for the backlash of conservatives who long for “yesterday.” All this shows is that the non-candidate Brooks was wildly out of step with Democratic Primary Voters, and this run for Congress is a bait-and-switch.

This is what happens when the DCCC just keeps recruiting more primary candidates, not vetting them, and then wondering why they have massive flaws. They’re already lowering expectations on him, from initially promising the Governor would ask everyone to drop out of the race, endorse him, and raise him money, to he will raise like “$175-200k” in this quarter, and then miraculously every outside group will run here to fund him. By next week they’ll be like Jeb Bush asking you to clap. This is such a bad idea.