And here is the new American leftist military recruiting message as compared to Russia's.
Whom do you think is more serious about defending their nation based on this video? But at least we will have a politically correct and "woke" military fighting for social justice. God knows we will struggle to defend the nation and actually win any wars if we allow this crap to continue.
H/T: Carrie. Thanks!
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One was about defending freedom. The other was not.
Which side are you on?
If she has made a commitment to die fighting for our country, I don't care what other beliefs, or sexual orientation she has.
Unless the Russians use atomic weapons there is no way they win a ground war against America and its allies. Putin loves to poke the bear. The point is to avoid a war like that. We win, but millions die. We should be more concerned about a militant China.
The Oathkeepers leader schmoozing with the GOP establishment at CPAC tells us everything you need to know about the state of the Republican Party today.
American conservatism and the Republican Party have been subsumed by radical Right white nationalism.
Lansing and 1/6 were rehearsals. There will be more terrorism from them.
As their Dear Leader said, "Hitler did a lot of good things".
More lies at CPAC from your favorite domestic terrorist:
...Unless you have your "proof" that supports the Big Lie....Still waiting...
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Trump: "And we were doing so well until the rigged election happened to come along. We were doing really well."
The election was not rigged. Trump lost fair and square.
Trump: "Unfortunately, this was an election where the person that counts the votes was far more important than the candidate, no matter how many votes that candidate got -- and we got record numbers of votes."
Joe Biden was the candidate who earned a record number of votes: more than 81 million. Trump earned more than 74 million votes -- a record for a sitting president, but that's not what Trump said here.
Trump: "You know, the New York Times asked me a question: 'What happened in 2020 -- that was different from 2016.' I said, 'Well I'll tell you: we did much better in 2020 and we got 12 million more votes. We won by a much bigger margin."
Trump lost. Biden beat him by 74 votes in the Electoral College, 306 to 232, and by more than 7 million votes in the national popular vote.
Trump did receive about 11.2 million more votes than he did in 2016 -- side note: that doesn't round to "12 million" -- but Biden received about 15.4 million more votes than Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton got in 2016.
Trump: "Every time the media references the election hoax. they say the fraud is: 'Unproven! And while there is no evidence...' No evidence? No evidence? There's so much evidence."
There was no election hoax. And while there were some scattered cases of fraud, including some by Trump supporters, there is indeed no evidence of widespread fraud or outcome-altering fraud -- as Republican elections officials in various states, Trump-appointed former Attorney General William Barr, and numerous others have pointed out.
Trump: "...the Justice Department, they failed to call out a late-night ballot stuffing that took place in Georgia, remember that? Where they made up a story of a water main break in order to get people and security to leave the premises. And then they went into a rampage of stuffing, essentially, the ballots."
There was no ballot "stuffing" at an elections facility in Georgia. While initial reports of a burst pipe or broken water main at State Farm Arena did turn out to be inaccurate -- the reality was that a urinal had overflowed -- Trump's claim that local elections workers proceeded to stuff the ballot box has been debunked by the office of Georgia's Republican elections chief, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Trump: "They deleted, Georgia, over 100,000 votes."
Didn't happen. Rather, Raffensperger announced in June that more than 100,000 names would be deleted from Georgia's voter registration rolls to keep the state's voter files "up to date," saying "there is no legitimate reason to keep ineligible voters on the rolls." That is not even close to the same thing as deleting actual votes.
Trump: "The drop boxes were off very late. 'Where are they? Where are they? What happened?' They're supposed to be -- they're not. I could tell you what happened. Sometimes late by days in showing up to the vote-counting areas."
There is no evidence that ballot drop boxes were delivered improperly late. There is no evidence for Trump's suggestion that something nefarious happened with ballot drop boxes.
Trump: "Detroit was so corrupt."
There is no evidence that Detroit was "corrupt" in the 2020 election. In fact, a Republican-led investigation debunked some of Trump allies' false claims about what happened in Detroit, such as their inaccurate assertion that large numbers of ballots were cast in the names of deceased Detroit residents.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/12/politics/fact-check-trump-cpac-election-lies/index.html
If CRT, called “Marxism” by the radical Right, is against racism, then conservative white Americans are for it, amirite? I'm only half kidding.
Here’s the real racism:
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Turning Point USA (Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, etc) advisor Rip McIntosh remains unapologetic about the anti-Black screeds he has published. Owens said: “If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine. The problem is that he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize.” She resigned a few months later after a number of Turning Point campus chapters called for her to be fired.
An advisor for the influential conservative youth organization Turning Point USA recently published an essay for subscribers of his personal newsletter that, among other things, said Black people have “become socially incompatible with other races” and “American Black culture has evolved into an un-fixable and crime-ridden mess.”
It also said white people aren’t racist but “just exhausted” with Black people. It portrayed post-Civil War America as a 150-year-long “experiment” to see whether Black people could be “taken from the jungles of Africa,” enslaved, and then integrated into a majority-white society. It said that experiment had failed.
The email, which included Turning Point's logo and a fundraising appeal for the group, was sent out on April 29 by Rip McIntosh, an 85-year-old white Florida man who sits on the organization's advisory council, a board that includes the likes of former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
The essay, titled “On the Question of Systemic Racism in the United States,” was emailed out just hours after Sen. Tim Scott, a Black Republican from South Carolina, gave a nationally televised speech on behalf of the GOP in which he said “America is not a racist country,” a claim that was debated for days afterward. The essay made no direct mention of the speech, but it closed with a similar phrase: “America is not a racist nation.”
McIntosh acknowledged that the essay, which it turns out borrowed heavily from an article first published years ago on a prominent racist website, was “a bit extreme,” but said he had no regrets about publishing it. He also said he believed both Turning Point and Kirk would stand by him.
“I think that if you got right down to it, not one of them would object to the fact that I let somebody speak their mind, even though they may have been slightly uncomfortable with the statements actually made,” McIntosh said.
A spokesperson for Turning Point declined to discuss McIntosh’s role with the organization, his friendship with Kirk, or the contents of the email, saying only that Turning Point “does not put out that newsletter.” The spokesperson asked for further questions to be sent by email and then declined to answer them. McIntosh’s name and photo still appear on the organization’s governance page.
In recent years, the group has been embraced by Trump, who spoke at two of its conferences in 2019 and who is scheduled to speak at a rally for its campaign arm, Turning Point Action, on July 24. It has received additional support from many of the personalities who surround him, such as Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), attorney Rudy Giuliani, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and the former president's son, Donald Trump Jr. Testimonials from several adorn the organization's website.
https://www.informant.news/p/rip-mcintosh-tpusa-racist-newsletter
Darrell,
This seems to be your kind of guy, all the way.
https://americanindependent.com/nick-taurus-katie-porter-california-town-hall-house-2022-election-extremism/
"GOP House candidate who led disruption at Porter town hall holds extremist views"
Republican Nick Taurus's social media feeds are full of anti-LGBTQ, white supremacist, and racist comments.
Nick Taurus, a Republican running for the seat in California's 45th Congressional District currently held by Democratic Rep. Katie Porter, was reportedly involved in what the Los Angeles Times called a "scuffle" at a town hall Porter held on Sunday in Irvine, California.
According to the Times' reporting, Taurus and a group of his supporters interrupted Porter with chants and shouting as she spoke, leading to physical confrontations between his supporters and hers that were broken up by police.
On July 8, Taurus had posted a call on his Instagram account for his supporters to cause disruption at the event. "CONFRONT KATIE PORTER!" Taurus wrote, adding, "Her America Last policies are awful for the 45th district and we intend to voice our displeasure."
"It is disappointing that a small but vocal group of attendees, who advertised a 'confrontation rally,' created unsafe conditions at a planned family-friendly event," Porter said in a statement after the event. "My team and I are evaluating next steps, but my promise to Orange County families is that I will continue to hold town halls and to be in conversation with them."
Taurus, who filed official paperwork declaring his candidacy with the Federal Election Commission on June 15, says on his official campaign website, "Our Movement of 'Christ, Country, Community,' Starts in Orange County!"
(Gott Mitt Uns! was embossed on Hitler's Wehrmacht's belt buckles.)
"I am an American nationalist and Roman Catholic who is most concerned with addressing the issues surrounding immigration, vaccination and Critical Race Theory," the site reads.
Taurus has also praised white supremacist Nick Fuentes.
In the caption of a selfie with Fuentes he posted on June 30, Taurus wrote, "This guy is the truth and it was an absolute honor to meet him! AMERICA FIRST IS INEVITABLE!"
The slogan "America First is inevitable" has been used by Fuentes and his white supremacist allies as a rallying cry.
After former police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on April 20 in the murder of George Floyd, Taurus unleashed a barrage of posts, writing, "Current mood following the Chauvin verdict. #JOKECOUNTRY #DEATHTOAMERICA."
"White America: GUILTY AS CHARGED! The Derek Chauvin trial was a farce. A joke. An absolute charade. The 'justice' system in this country is concerned with persecuting the enemies of their preferred pawns rather than ensuring law & order," he wrote in another post.
Hitler was also very big on nationalism and "law and order". Well, except for minorities.
How white of them.
"I am an American nationalist and Roman Catholic who is most concerned with addressing the issues surrounding immigration, vaccination and Critical Race Theory," his campaign website reads.
Radical Right thug Taurus has also praised white supremacist Nick Fuentes.
Radical Right white nationalism is our version of Germany's National Socialism.
Robert Owen Paxton is an American political scientist and historian specializing in Vichy France, fascism, and Europe during the World War II era. He is Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science in the Department of History at Columbia University.
He noted this about American fascism.
“No swastikas in an American fascism, but Stars and Stripes (or Stars and Bars) and Christian crosses. No fascist salute, but mass recitations of the pledge of allegiance. These symbols contain no whiff of fascism in themselves, of course, but an American fascism would transform them into obligatory litmus tests for detecting the internal enemy.”
What did we see during Trump’s coup on 1/6?
“Stars and Stripes (or Stars and Bars) and Christian crosses.”
When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
They will attack everything they disagree with as "Marxist", just like Hitler did.
"The Big Lie is just that: A big lie," Biden said.
President Biden spoke the truth today:
"The 2020 election was the most scrutinized election ever in American history. Challenge after challenge brought to local, state and election officials, state legislatures, state and federal courts, even to the United States Supreme Court not once, but twice. More than 80 judges, including those appointed by my predecessor, heard the arguments. In every case neither cause nor evidence was found to undermine the national achievement of administering the historic election in the face of such extraordinary challenges,"
In contrast, Trump lied at CPAC.
Donald Trump: "I won the election!"
82 million American voters said no.
67% voter turnout said no.
The 6.8 million vote difference said no.
306 electoral college votes said no.
All television networks (incl Fox) said no.
62 court cases said no.
Mitch, Pence, Barr, McCarthy said no.
But Alex Jones, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the Klan, the Pillow Guy,... and Darrell think Trump would never lie.
This is the hallmark of the American Radical Right.
This Trump cult is taking our country into the darkness of hate, lies and authoritarian white nationalism.
AND they want to ban the study and teaching of the history and effects of racism. They call that "Marxism".
Mighty white of them.
Whitewashing and red-baiting at the same time, just to shut down those uppity Black folks from sharing their history and experience.
They laughably claim they "don't see color".
HA. They're colorblind all right. Whenever they see Black, they see red. You don't get whiter than that.
Spongebob Whinepants
In today's episode The Orangutan cries about how Bill Barr would not let Department of Justice investigators make bogus claim about fraud in Pennsylvania vote. Next Trump cries about his boy Kavanaugh not being loyal to Trump vs US Constitution
Remember when Obama said Cuban Dictator ‘Should Be Congratulated’ For Health Care, Education ‘Progress’…
Watch how the current insurrections in Cuba will be blamed on Trump and or on America by our commie friends who post here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FW8HBOFlew
Our low-information white nationalist friend sounds like he could use some information.
Cuba's problems are real.
Covid has a lot to do with it. The embargo has something to do with it. Poor leadership has something to do with it.
Cuba also ignored advice from other communist countries.
From the New York Times:
Cuba’s government blames the economic crisis squarely on the decades-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, which was tightened by the Trump administration, as well as on the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. In a speech Monday, President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the U.S. “politics of economic asphyxiation” was having a “cumulative effect” on Cuba.
But the embargo is not solely to blame for Cuba’s woes. One of the most important factors that has led to years of economic stagnation is the country’s Soviet-style, centrally planned economy and its hesitation to adopt market-oriented reforms that other remaining communist countries have taken.
“Reforms in Cuba do not depend on the embargo, and the embargo should be eliminated unilaterally, independently from reforms in Cuba. Both cause problems,” said Pavel Vidal, a former Cuban central bank economist who teaches at Javeriana University in Colombia.
The 1980s were a period of little scarcity in Cuba, thanks to subsidies from the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, subsidies dried up, and Cuba struggled with extreme deprivation and massive food shortages, its economy contracting by over 35 percent. Many economists say Cuba never really recovered.
The U.S. embargo does have a negative impact on the economy, restricting imports and exports and making it riskier for investors to put money into Cuba, Vidal said.
But at the same time, Cuba has not heeded the advice of China and Vietnam in adopting economic reforms. During an official visit in 2018, the general secretary of Vietnam’s Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, urged Cuba to embrace a market economy, as Vietnam did in the 1980s. During its period of rapid economic growth, 30 million Vietnamese were lifted out of poverty.
“Since the 1990s, many opportunities have been lost to reform the economy,” Vidal said.
Why we compare the radical Right Trump/Q-anon cult to Nazis:
Trump's "Stop the Steal" assault on the Capitol was an insurrection. So was Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch.
The Washington Post reports this from a new book.
As Trump ceaselessly pushed false claims about the 2020 presidential election, Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, grew more and more nervous, telling aides he feared that the president and his acolytes might attempt to use the military to stay in office, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker report in “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year.”
Milley described “a stomach-churning” feeling as he listened to Trump’s untrue complaints of election fraud, drawing a comparison to the 1933 attack on Germany’s parliament building that Hitler used as a pretext to establish a Nazi dictatorship.
“This is a Reichstag moment,” Milley told aides, according to the book. “The gospel of the Führer.”
The racist radical Right Trump cult is closer to Hitler's cult of Nazis than anything in American History.
Note their extreme nationalism. Note their resentment of minorities seeking justice and equality. Note their sense of victimhood. Note how only Blacks are accused of racism. Note how only white conservative definitions and history of racism are valid. Note how anyone not in their cult is accused of being "Marxist" and a "commie".
They are what they are. They trust and believe their Fuhrer and his Big Lie. No matter what.
Liz Cheney is no liberal. She is no moderate. She is no Democrat.
But to her credit, she is no neo-Nazi insurrectionist.
January 6,th 2021: “We have sworn an oath under God to defend the Constitution. We uphold that oath at all times, not only when it is politically convenient. Congress has no authority to overturn elections by objecting to electors. Doing so steals power from the states & violates the Constitution.”
In a statement announcing her impeachment vote in January, she said the then-President had "summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing," she said.
She is 100% correct.
And she has some words for one of Trump's sleazy toadies.
“That f**king guy, Jim Jordan. That son of a bitch,” is how Liz Cheney describes him.
During Trump’s insurrection she told him, “You f**king did this”.
I heartily concur with Liz. Now Trump's radical Right cult thinks she betrayed Trump.
No. Trump betrayed our country and constitution.
Since you all still support Trump and his Big Lie, prove me wrong, boys.
Still waiting....
And waiting...
And waiting....
It's Trump or the Constitution, boys.
Try thinking and learning before you believe your Fuhrer without question.
I guess I'm asking too much. Radical Right authoritarians never, ever, examine their beliefs. They have ALL the answers.
Attention, all Putin's Patriots.
We know the Radical Right will side with Trump over our Constitution. We also know they favor Putin over Biden.
Remember when Trump sided with Putin over US Intel agencies in Helsinki?
Yeah, that’s also the time Putin said Trump was his preferred candidate in 2016.
The Radical Right favors Putin over Biden now.
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-polls-higher-biden-among-112415032.html
Putin polls higher than Biden among Trump voters
There’s more evidence that Putin interfered for Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers-appear-to-show-putins-plot-to-put-trump-in-white-house
"Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House"
Exclusive: Documents suggest Russia launched secret multi-agency effort to interfere in US democracy
So what does the radical Right think of those who disagree?
Putin's Patriots call us Marxist and commies, as they betray America in their loyalty to Trump.
I stand in amazement at how the radical Right authoritarian mind can disregard all the facts and evidence to continue to blindly trust and believe their Dear Leader.
They are tearing our country down, just to have their authoritarian one-party rule.
Just don't call them fascists.
The authoritarian third of our country have followed Trump to the brink. Their descent into madness will pose a lethal threat to our republic for years to come. We can't allow them to take power again.
What kind of president tells his chief of staff, John Kelly: “Well, Hitler did a lot of good things"?
The kind with an extremely authoritarian cult following.
The radical Right insurrectionists are at war against our Constitution, our democracy and our people. Nothing less.
Dear Cuba,
We will gladly take your people seeking freedom adn trade them forour people seeking socialism.
Trump's 8 AM Tweet on Jan. 6:
“States want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud, plus corrupt process never received legislative approval. All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!”
Then Vice President Pence had no Constitutional authority to do what Trump called on him to do. Trump was asking Pence to break the law.
What happened to the "Rule of Law" Republicans? Why are they okay with Trump's lawlessness?
The radical Right may not like communism, but they sure do LOVE a dictator.
Wonder why Niagara hasn't rushed to help Cuba out of their crisis.
The left love Biden's executive orders and the move to restrict the rights of Americans...the radical left LOVES Communism. White House Giving Your Facebook Posts To Zuckerberg To Censor…Back in the USSR.
Remember when Trump asked Russia if they were listening, when Trump wouldn’t enforce the Russia sanctions, when Jared & Jr met with Russians about “adoptions” in Trump tower, when Trump had a private convo with Putin & when he said Putin didn’t interfere?
Putin "just said it’s not Russia," Trump said at the news conference.
"I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be, but I really do want to see the server."
America's Putin Patriots agree. (They approve of Putin over Biden.)
"Putin never interfered in 2016, and Trump won 2020."
This is not realty. These are radical Right lies.
This is a cult.
They are the greatest domestic threat since the Civil War.
And they WANT another. They are traitors.
And they are too brainwashed to know it.
"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," Trump declared, urging his mob to overturn the election.
More of Trump’s Traitors, incited by Trump’s Big Lie, have been arrested. How many more radical Right domestic terrorists are lurking and waiting to strike?
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(CNN)Federal authorities have arrested two men in California who allegedly wanted to start a movement to overthrow the government and discussed blowing up the Democratic headquarters in Sacramento in a new, major case of would-be domestic terrorists motivated by former President Donald Trump's election defeat.
Five days before the presidential inauguration on January 20 -- which prosecutors believe was to be a key date in the planning of the attack -- the Justice Department apprehended one of the men who had amassed a large arsenal. Ian Benjamin Rogers, 45, of Napa, California, showed strong support for White supremacy and for Trump, and said in text messages he realized he would be labeled a domestic terrorist, according to Justice Department court filings.
Two men charged in alleged scheme to attack Democratic headquarters in Sacramento inspired by Trump defeat, DOJ says.
A man Rogers communicated with, Jarrod Copeland, 37, of Vallejo, California, was arrested in Sacramento this week, DOJ said.
In January, Rogers had told Copeland, "I want to blow up a democrat building bad," and Copeland responded in agreement, writing, "Plan attack."
"I hope 45 goes to war if he doesn't I will," Rogers allegedly wrote.
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This radicalized cult of deranged Trump fanatics are an ongoing domestic terror threat. Their political leaders of Trump’s party are only making it worse.
Trump is an enemy of the republic. He is a traitor.
His party and supporters are complicit.
Putin's Patriots, every last one of them.
They are not all “Putin Patriots”.
A “thank you” to some true Republican patriots, the House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for inciting his insurrection.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois
Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming
Rep. John Katko of New York
Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington
Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington
Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio
Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina
Rep. David Valadao of California
History will be kind to these brave patriots. (Radical Right Trump terrorists have threatened their lives for knowing the truth and acting with a conscience.)
The Big Lie resulted in radicalized domestic terrorists, dead Americans and a failed coup.
Donald Trump: "I won the election!"
82 million American voters said no.
67% voter turnout said no.
The 6.8 million vote difference said no.
306 electoral college votes said no.
All television networks (incl Fox) said no.
62 court cases said no.
Mitch, Pence, Barr, McCarthy said no.
President Biden:
Electoral Votes-306
Popular Voter: 81,264,673 (51.3%)
Sore Loser Crybaby Trump:
Electoral Votes- 232
Popular Voter: 74,210,838 (46.9%)
Only Putin’s Patriots and every radical Right neo-Nazi, white nationalist, and Trump cultist disagree.
Which version of Trump Derangement Syndrome are you suffering from?
There’s a cure. It’s called reality. It’s truth.
But they cling to their Dear Leader’s Big Lie and prefer to live in a state of willful delusion.
This is beyond sad. It is tragic.
Remember..."Communism is a failed system — a universally failed system. And I don't see socialism as a very useful substitute." President Joe Biden.
"Communism is a failed system — a universally failed system. And I don't see socialism as a very useful substitute." President Joe Biden.
Yet the crazed deranged radical Right calls Biden and democrats "socialists".
They're nuts, of course.
Regulated capitalism and democratic socialism are needed to balance each other in a free, equitable and prosperous society.
This is beyond the grasp of the radical Right. I expect this point to go unchallenged.
Here's a little test for anyone brave enough to respond.
Can you name one prosperous and free country, at any point in history, that had pure capitalism without the elements of democratic socialism; meaning fair and free elections with proportional representation, public education, public health care, public services and social safety net programs?
Anyone?
While you're looking up that capitalist paradise, let's look at the history of how people fared with unregulated capitalism.
There were 60-80 hour work weeks. There was slavery, child labor, and dangerous working conditions. There were company cops beating workers for wanting to unionize.
Not to mention a Gilded Age of ultra-wealth built on the labor of underpaid workers. (This is what Republicans are bringing back.)
All of these cruelties and inequalities were the reason Marx, communists, democratic socialists and others were searching for alternatives.
OK.
Your answer, please. Name that pure, unregulated capitalist paradise.
Expecting crickets...
Rational, evidence based discourse and good faith discussion have always frightened the authoritarian conservative.
Prove me wrong.
Can he do it?
Can Vern name one prosperous and free country with unregulated capitalism? One with with no element of democratic socialism; meaning fair and free elections with proportional representation, public education, public health care, public services and social safety net.
Vern can't do it, obviously.
Without regulations and socialized guardrails for the people, capitalism is a failed system.
This is why the founders put "provide for the general welfare" and "regulation of commerce" in the Constitution.
Poor Vern....
He's hopelessly ignorant and brainwashed by his cult. He thinks capitalism and Donald Trump alone can save the country.
Can't get more wrong than that.
Remember folks, ONLY white conservatives are allowed to define racism, and to limit teaching of our history to their whitewashed standards.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/social-justice/texas-senate-votes-to-remove-required-lessons-on-civil-rights
Texas Senate Votes to Remove Required Lessons on Civil Rights
The Texas Senate on Friday passed legislation that would end requirements that public schools include writings on women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement in social studies classes.
Among the figures whose works would be dropped: Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King Jr., whose “I Have a Dream" speech and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” would no longer make the curriculum cut.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), who presides over the Senate, said in a statement after the vote that “Senate Bill 3 will make certain that critical race philosophies including the debunked 1619 founding myth, are removed from our school curriculums statewide.”
“Parents want their students to learn how to think critically, not be indoctrinated by the ridiculous leftist narrative that America and our Constitution are rooted in racism,” Patrick said.
The bill would prohibit teachers from being compelled to talk about current events or controversial issues, instructing those choosing to engage with students to discuss without “giving deference to any one perspective.”
Speaking on the chamber floor, state Sen. Judith Zaffirini (D) said the legislation amounts to “tying the hands of our teachers.”
“How could a teacher possibly discuss slavery, the Holocaust, or the mass shootings at the Walmart in El Paso or at the Sutherland Springs church in my district without giving deference to any one perspective?,” she said.
MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech is targeted for censorship in Texas.
Carl Sagan saw what was coming back in 1995:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
"Celebration of ignorance".
The path of Trumpism and the radical Right's dumbing down of America with lies was predicted.
Biden won. Trump and Qanon lied.
Deal with it.
Trump incited an insurrection. "Stop the steal" means "overturn the election". What the hell ELSE could it mean?
But what's the point in bouncing facts off the skulls of closed minds that think they have all the answers?
The radical Right will continue to celebrate their willful ignorance.
This is the great American tragedy of our time.
Those in the throes of their "celebration of ignorance" are revealed by vaccination rates:
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll in June shows Vaccination Rates of Selected Groups in the US.
Democrats 86%
Independents 61%
Republicans 52 %
College Grads 79%
No four-year degree 59%
Women 70%
Men 61%
White 67%
Hispanic 63%
Black 60%
One of these groups should NOT be allowed the power to dictate any public policy, from voting rights to education to healthcare.
The fact they support Trump's Big Lie and deny his incitement of insurrection should be enough to tell us how ignorant (or outright evil) they really are.
Not only are they a public health menace, they are the greatest domestic threat to our Constitution and republic.
"Ignorance is strength". Orwell's Big Brother has given the GOP, the Party of Trump and Qanon, its new motto.
I suppose you support Biden's door-to-door vaccination squads too. Let's make America into Cuba! Dumbass...
Rex,
Nobody wants to make the US into Cuba. This is fringe radical Right nonsense.
You've shown yourself to be utterly inadequate to rationally discuss any points I've raised. You merely jump to your radical Right indoctrination crap. Name calling like a typical ignorant bully.
Cuba doesn't have a door to door campaign to urge vaccinations.
What the hell is a "vaccination squad"? Another figment of the crazed radical Right echoing the non-existent "death panels" of Obamacare.
You're paranoid and ill-informed, as well as an anti-science anti-vaxer.
You're in line with crooked "GED Genius" Boebert's "Needle Nazi" hysteria. You probably think Biden's storm troopers will come for your guns and Bibles and stab you with diseases.
There's no limit to the Qanon/Trump cult's ignorance. You're a victim of lies and fear-mongering.
(CNN) National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness, which outlined that "the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will provide toolkits for local leaders and state and local organizations, empowering Americans to have one-on-one conversations with friends, family members, neighbors, and members of their communities."
After many Republicans attacked Biden's "door-to-door" quote, Psaki was asked about the criticism during a July 8 press briefing.
"Let me first say that this has been ongoing since April, and the best people to talk about vaccinations are local, trusted messengers: doctors, faith leaders, community leaders," Psaki told reporters.
"They are not members of the government," she continued. "They are not federal government employees. They are volunteers. They are clergy. They are trusted voices in communities who are playing this role and door knocking."
But as I noted above, after ALL the facts I've given, "But what's the point in bouncing facts off the skulls of closed minds that think they have all the answers?"
Only ignorant buffoons or cult members call someone a dumbass when they have no logical or factual rebuttal to what they are challenging.
Name calling is your default Trumpian reaction.
Prove me wrong with evidence, respond in good faith discussion, or parrot your ignorance and hate.
I can handle it. Can you?
I've asked good faith questions above. I've offered facts and opinions based on facts.
None have been answered with evidence in good faith. None.
Calling me "dumbass" is both idiotic and hateful.
If that's all you got, then it tells me exactly what you are.
Your right there with Trump, Rudy, Qanon, the pillow guy, Flynn, Stone, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, radical Right white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Klan.
Every one of them are crooks, insurrectionists, racists, and enemies of equality, the Constitution, and our democratic republic.
Real pillars of decency, amirite?
Which is YOUR club? You're probably too old for a Proud Boy, but prime age for an Oath Keeper or 3%er. Or maybe the Klan. David Duke agrees with everything you think.
"Ignorance is strength." Orwell saw what was coming.
"I love the poorly educated"! DJT
"Well, Hitler did a lot of good things!" DJT
And there's your boy.
Instead of being a frightened little authoritarian thinking we want to be Cuba, you come across as the type wanting a Fourth Reich. They love to label their enemies "Marxists" or communists, whether they were or not.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Why FOX(R) is being abandoned by the radical Right as "too liberal":
Doocy: 99% of people who are dying are unvaccinated
Kilmeade: That's their choice!
Doocy: They don't want to die. The admin and gov't says mask mandates are to protect the unvaccinated
Kilmeade: That's not their job, it's not their job to protect anybody!
What the radical Right rejects in favor of willful ignorance and Trump's lies:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America"
And forget this part:
"To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;"
(Except for Trump's insurrection, of course.)
Trump's toady acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller issued a memo to the secretary of the Army placing some extremely unusual limits on National Guard forces for that event. It's not a to-do list. It's a list of thou shalt nots. A long list. A list that says guard forces can't arrest any of the pro-Trump protesters, or search them, or even touch them. And that's just for starters.
The full memo shows that the D.C. Guard did receive a request from D.C. government for guard presence during the Jan. 6 event. Miller responds promptly to go ahead, so long as the soldiers are given no weapons, no body armor, and no helmets.
Maj. Gen. William Walker testified that he had National Guard troops at the ready and sitting idly for hours before he was finally given authorization to send them into the field.
He said Piatt and Flynn relayed to him: "It wouldn't be their best military advice to send uniformed guardsmen to the Capitol because they didn't like the optics. And they had also said that it could 'inflame' [the protesters]."
Walker said he "immediately" alerted Army senior leadership of the request. He was not informed of the required approval from then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller until 5:08 p.m., he said — "3 hours and 19 minutes later."
What kind of dumbasses can't see that Trump WANTED a coup?
Rudy invoked "trial by combat".
Trump incited an insurrection. "It will be wild! Fight like hell!" and "Stop the steal" means "overturn the election". What the hell ELSE could it mean?
And HE PRAISED THEM! "We love you. You are very special."
But what's the point in bouncing facts off the skulls of closed authoritarian minds that think they have all the answers?
FOX(R)'s Kilmeade is the dumbass. Hell yes, it's the government's Constitutional job to protect the people and put down insurrections.
What the hell is wrong with you radical Right cultists?
You people are no different from "good obedient Germans" in 1939.
HE PRAISED THEM!!!! "We love you. You are very special."
He lost the election, lied about it, and incited a coup.
It was his version of Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch.
And his cult will still believe, serve and obey him.
Now tell my why I'm the dumbass.
You don't even know. It is simply your cult programming.
All you got are lies, Hitler's stale commie card, and your white nationalist hate.
HE PRAISED THEM!!! "We love you. You are very special."
Good God. This county is finished.
Hey, Rex,
While you bask in your radical Right celebration of ignorance, would you like to tell us who the real dumbasses are?
This one reminds me of certain people here.
On Tuesday, the Cape Cod Times reported that Linda Zuern, a former member of the Bourne, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen and a Trump-supporting figure in the local Republican Party, had died of COVID-19.
Zuern died at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston of severe complications caused by COVID-19, according to the report. She was 70 years old and had not been vaccinated.
"She was a strong woman who believed in speaking the truth and defending our freedoms in America," Republican State Committeewoman Deborah Dugan told the Cape Cod Times.
Zuern also expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, posting their creed of "WWG1WGA" (Where We Go One, We Go All).
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll in June shows Vaccination Rates of Selected Groups in the US.
Those in the throes of their "celebration of ignorance" are revealed by vaccination rates.
See if you can spot the "Party of personal responsibility".
Democrats 86%
Independents 61%
Republicans 52 %
College Grads 79%
No four-year degree 59%
Women 70%
Men 61%
White 67%
Hispanic 63%
Black 60%
We can add another casualty of Trumpism and ignorance.
Linda "Q" MAGA Zuern: RIP. And to the next victims of her contagion.
As you can tell, Rex, we can benefit from more of your deep understanding of what a dumbass thinks. Show us the courage that Linda “Q” showed by "speaking the truth".
Come on, Rex. Put on your MAGA hat and "Q" t-shirt and enlighten us. Surely it is the Christian thing to demonstrate your Christian love for the lost souls and dumbasses of the world who think vaccinations help.
LOL. I know what to expect. More of the same crickets I get for non-answers from the rest of your cult.
We do know you're quite capable of projection, so thanks for that.
More "Holier than thou" conservatism, Catholic Church style.
Catholic Monsignor Who Wanted to Deny Biden Communion Resigns After Cellphone Links Him to Gay Dating App
https://hillreporter.com/catholic-monsignor-who-wanted-to-deny-biden-communion-resigns-after-cellphone-links-him-to-gay-dating-app-107426
He's probably another one of your kind who see only Black people as racists.
Instead of urging his cult to get vaccinated, this is what the Spreader-in-Chief said:
“He's way behind schedule, and people are refusing to take the Vaccine because they don't trust his Administration, they don't trust the Election results, and they certainly don't trust the Fake News, which is refusing to tell the Truth." - The Former Guy
Never mind he's the fascist jerk who lied to them all along.
"I love the poorly educated." DJT
"Ignorance is strength." Big Brother "1984"
See if you can spot the "Party of personal responsibility".
Vaccination rates:
Democrats 86%
Independents 61%
Republicans 52 %
On November 23, 2009 your Dear Leader tweeted:
“Obama’s handling of this whole pandemic has been terrible! As President, ALL responsibility becomes yours during a crisis like this, whether or not you’re entirely to blame. John McCain, and for that matter myself, would never let thousands of Americans die from a pandemic while in office.”
I guess he was too busy making America great by downplaying covid lethality and mocking mask wearing to worry about all those sick people and nearly half a million dead Americans.
The ONE RULE: It’s OK if you are Republican.
Also Trump had nothing to do with his 1/6 coup to "stop the steal" and "take back your country".
Only leftist commies blame Trump for anything.
When did Trump urge Americans to wear masks? When did Trump urge Americans to get vaccinated?
Oh, he didn't?
No wonder we have a death cult of anti-vaxers on the radical Right.
The House just passed by a 407-16 vote the bill to allow Afghans that worked directly with the US military to emigrate to the US. Here is a list of the disgusting people who voted to leave them behind to be murdered. All Republican. The usual suspects.
Biggs, Boebert, Brooks, DesJarlais, Duncan, Good(VA), Gosar, Greene(GA), Hern, HIce (GA), Massie, Moore (AL), Perry, Posey, Rosendale, and Roy.
Not that the con-servative radical Right gives a damn. They will all vote to re-elect these cruel, back-stabbing, idiots.
Right, Rex?
Another example of the bottomless racist cruelty of the radical Right:
The Attorney General of Texas wants to demonstrate that elections are being stolen by fraudulent voters. So he finds someone who stood in line for 4 hours to vote, who by law was supposed to be allowed to vote, who thought he was registered but wasn’t, and who cast a provisional ballot. So that voter is now facing years in prison.
BTW.
I have said Darrell is a good person, just misled and lied to by bad people.
I see none of that goodness in Rex. Only hate.
Rex, I allow Dave to post here because he is a great example of the leftist mindset. His greatest hits diatribes are informative of what the leftist woke culture truly thinks in their monolithic, myopic, and often factually-challenged viewpoint. Occasionally he does even make a good point or two as well.
Oh, and by the way, please tone down the language,sir. Dave, don't let Rex goad you into reciprocating in kind either. Rex is a good guy, but when he sees the nonsense of the left, he gets a little carried away. Sorry Rex, but it is true, my friend! :)
Thank you, Darrell. You're a gentleman and a scholar. Well, at least a gentleman. ;-)
I'll have to continue to guess what my factually-challenged viewpoints are. For some reason I'm left in the dark here.
As always any remarks from you are more than welcome at my blog. I enjoy the peek inside the authoritarian Trump followers' beliefs.
Even Rex is welcome, as long as he can maintain a more civil tone. As a leftist I do tolerate dissent, but not hate. I will enthusiastically reject lies and misinformation as well. I'm not a squishy meek liberal, as you have learned. And I'm not naive enough to think Biden, or Trump or any other president or politician will "make America great". Slogans and easy answers are for the simple minded. Yes, even "Defund the police". Very stupid.
Making America great is what we the people are supposed to do. And an informed public without partisan-restricted voting rights, and with fair non-partisan controlled elections, and proportional democratic representation remain the best way forward.
I'm even a Second Amendment supporting firearm owner, who has spent many an Autumn day tromping the woods. We just have different notions of what weaponry is best in the hands of untrained doofuses.
I happen to think we'll still be a free country without millions of heavily armed idiots.
I think we may even agree nobody needs the right to carry RPG's into McDonalds?
Or not. I'm open to discussion on that.
Any evidence-based information you may have that contradicts mine will be appreciated. It's called "having an open mind".
You have been correct once or twice yourself, old buddy.
Rex is half correct. I'm not a dumbass, but I won't disagree with anyone calling me a smartass.
I really am smart enough to know the difference.
I remain your fellow American. Peace, brother.
Another true believer Trumpist anti-vaxer bites the dust.
Stephen Harmon, a 34-year-old congregant of Hillsong Church and graduate of Hillsong College, who tweeted, "I got 99 problems but a vax ain't one,” died Wednesday after a month-long bout with the coronavirus.
But, hey, at least they go out "owning the libs", amirite?
It has become apparent that many conservatives cannot comprehend the fact that Trump is a liar. Everybody else is lying about the election. The poll workers, the secretaries of state, the electors, the courts, the press, etc. Everybody but Trump and his cronies is telling us lies.
Hard to imagine. But that’s what Trumpism is.
Carol Leoning and Philip Rucker interviewed Trump at Mar-a-Lago. When asked why he encouraged Americans to believe lies about the pandemic, Trump starts rambling about the brilliance to be found in his genes, but then he returns to the question. "Are you talking about disinformation or are you talking about lies?" he asks, adding, "There is a more beautiful word called disinformation."
There, he gives away the secret. Disinformation, as every spy chief knows, as the Kremlin has made us all learn, is not just any lie. It is false information, deliberately disseminated, usually for tactical political purposes. It's all still unfolding.
Disinformation is a “more beautiful word”. You so see, Trump never “lies”, amirite?
At least Trump’s AG Bill Barr called his stolen election “disinformation” bull**it.
Whatever you call it, you guys seem to swallow it.
I’ve given up on requesting evidence to support the Big Lie.
Why? Because not only don’t you have it, you don’t need it. Radicalized true believers never need evidence.
Don't be angry. You can't say I don't understand your perspective. I've given an extended presentation of
your radicalized Trumpist perversion of reality in my "Only One America News" post. I think its good enough even for FOX(R), Newsmax(Vaccines are “against nature") and OANN(Q-Anon).
Pardon my facts.
Confederates were “patriots”?
Only from Republicans:
Arizona Republican State Senator Wendy Rogers:
White Nationalist “Replacement Theory”? Check.
“We are being replaced and invaded,” she tweeted on Saturday
Endorsing the Big Lie? Check.
“I have heard enough... I call for the Biden electors to be recalled to Arizona & a new election must be conducted. Arizona's electors must not be awarded fraudulently & we need to get this right,"
Her call for a new election earned her immediate praise from former President Donald Trump and considerable ink from far-right media channels.
“The highly respected State Senator Wendy Rogers said in a tweet the hearing today means we must decertify the election,” Trump said on Thursday. “In any event, the Senate patriots are moving forward with final results to be announced in the not-too-distant future, but based on today’s hearing, why even wait?”
Embrace of neo-Confederate treason and racism? Check.
"I like Indians and I like Redskins. I like Aunt Jemima and I like Uncle Ben. I like Robert E Lee and I like Stonewall Jackson. I don't like traitors who hate America. Stand up for our culture!"
No such thing as “Driving while Black”?
https://twitter.com/DonLew87/status/1418997864047448067
I suppose there’s no reason to think the white cop is a racist.
On this blog, only Blacks are called racists.
Correct me if I’m mistaken.
Or attack me for showing reality.
Covid is survivable but long term covid survivors are still suffering from various medical ailments. The virus can remain in the brain for months. One guy survived covid but is so delusional he thinks he won an election he lost by 7 million votes.
What’s your excuse?
Viral brain disease, Exhibit A:
“Take all of the dead people that voted, and there were thousands of them, by the way. We have lists of obituaries,” Trump argued. “If you take the illegal immigrants that voted. If you take this—Indians that got paid to vote in different places. We had Indians getting paid to vote! Many, many different things, all election-changing.”
Good God. Now it's "the Indians".
That's YOUR guy.
From the Donald J. Trump "Just tell them and they believe it" file:
Note what I posted this morning:
Carol Leoning and Philip Rucker interviewed Trump at Mar-a-Lago. When asked why he encouraged Americans to believe lies about the pandemic, Trump starts rambling about the brilliance to be found in his genes, but then he returns to the question. "Are you talking about disinformation or are you talking about lies?" he asks, adding, "There is a more beautiful word called disinformation."
Tonight it's called projection. But his cult can't see it.
Trump just tonight at the radical Right Turning Point rally:
“That’s what they’re doing. You know what it’s called? Disinformation. They make up a lot of crap and they say it over and over and over…”
“Like it or not, we are becoming a communist country. That’s what’s happening.”
"The radical left democrat communist party"
Remember:
“The Art of the Deal,” 1987: The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration — and a very effective form of promotion.
There's NO SUCH THING as "truthful hyperbole".
It's called "disinformation".
Anyone want to debate this one?
Anyone?
Helllooooo?
Not only are there commie democrats everywhere, but now there's them thar Injuns out a stealin' the election.
Make that "commie Injuns", amirite?
You guys would vote for him again, wouldn't you?
Be honest, unlike your hero.
Or are you so full of koolade, you think I'm a commie for stating these facts?
Sigh....
I know. I know....
Pop quiz time.
Can you spot three lies? (Hint: Assuming John McCain was not a "bad guy, a bully, and a nasty guy".)
“John McCain was a bad guy,” Trump said of the decorated prisoner of war. “He was a bully and a nasty guy, bad guy. A lot of people disliked him. Last in his class in Annapolis. All that stuff, but he was a bad guy. I say it to you. I don’t care. Does it affect me? I won Arizona, okay? By a lot. Didn’t turn out that way in terms of the vote, but I won Arizona. Everyone knows it. He didn’t affect me. I won the first time. I won it the second time.”
The leader of the Republican Party, gentlemen.
Just what a terrorist would say:
Michael "Sworn oath to Q" Flynn is presented with a rifle as a gift in Yuba, CA, and says that now, “Maybe I’ll find somebody in Washington, DC.”
I can respect some Republicans, even though we would rarely agree.
Some Republicans understand Trumpism is not conservatism.
They know Trump lied about the election and incited his insurrection. They know the truth.
That’s really the only standard for Republicans to be welcome in the House select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Why should participants and co-conspirators be allowed to investigate themselves? If they want a voice, let them swear their lies under oath.
CNN FACTUALLY reports: Liz Cheney was formerly the No. 3 member of House Republican leadership before a very public break with Trump following his role in inciting the January 6 riot. Cheney was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump earlier this year and has been an outspoken critic of both the former President and GOP lawmakers who support his “Big Lie” about the 2020 election. She was ousted from her leadership position in May.
Adam Kinzinger has been a vocal critic of Trump and was one of 10 House Republicans to vote for his second impeachment. Kinzinger served in the Air Force in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. He continues to serve in the Air National Guard as a pilot. “I’m a Republican dedicated to conservative values, but I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution—and while this is not the position I expected to be in or sought out, when duty calls, I will always answer,” Kinzinger said in a statement accepting a position on the committee. “This moment requires a serious, clear-eyed, non-partisan approach. We are duty-bound to conduct a full investigation on the worst attack on the Capitol since 1814 and to make sure it can never happen again.”
Or are they just disloyal RINO “socialist appeasers”?
I would like to hear a clear-eyed conservative explain their resentment for these supporters of our Constitutional rule of law and peaceful transition of power.
Hey, Michaels, sorry about the language.
As for dumb ass Dave, I'll quit with using factual names for him when he stops calling every conservative that might have voted for President Trump a racist, authoritarian, or Nazi. Until then, he is D.A.D. Dumb-ass Dave.
Hey dad, you write nothing but hate for anyone that isn't a bed-wetting leftist and then project your hate onto us for responding in kind.
Michaels, I guess I understand why you let him post here. His factually challenged world view is rather humorous!
Ok, cue the hate troll's response... right, dad?
Gee, Rex.
I'm delighted you find entertainment in my writing. It's why I do it. ;-)
" I'll quit with using factual names for him when he stops calling every conservative that might have voted for President Trump a racist, authoritarian, or Nazi."
That's not true. I've allowed for the fact some Trump voters are also misinformed, deceived, emotionally reactive, low-information voters, or simply ignorant dupes. (Hint: Trump is a pathological liar. Feel free to prove me wrong, sport.)
Perhaps you fit in one of those other groups? The more you rage and spew, with no evidence to support your accusations, the more I see an authoritarian personality. In fact, I'd bet money on that. I'm probably more educated in psychology and well-read on authoritarian personalities than you are. But by all means, have a go at it. After all yours is the superior intellect.
“Bed wetting leftists”. LOL. That alone indicates the radical Right authoritarian personality. Didn’t Nazis say that kind of stuff, and worse, about Jews, Gypsies, gays, and, yes, democratic socialists. It’s the same attitude towards human beings who are different, or don’t see the world the way they do.
Look up “First they came for the socialists.” Go ahead. It’s on a plaque at the Washington DC Holocaust Memorial Museum.
So why is it so difficult for you to provide any verifiable facts or evidence that disprove any of my points?
If I'm as dumb as you think I am, this should be a very easy request to honor, as you fume over the keyboard. I always appreciate any information that would enlighten me to the degree where I would no longer know Trump is a dangerous liar who PRAISED his loyal gang of vandals, felons, thugs, racists, white nationalists, Q-Anon true believers, Proud Boys, neo-Nazis, Oath Keepers, Klansmen, and assorted radical Right terrorists from the military and law enforcement.
AFTER they stormed the Capitol.
Am I mistaken?
How difficult can it be for a person of your superior cognitive abilities and grasp of facts to set me straight? As a progressive type, I do have an open mind, you know.
I do sense a strong emotional element in your reactions. You seem quite sensitive and delicate in your defensiveness.
Can you show me where I personally called you a Nazi? Numerous times I have called Trump's true believers "radical Right", and for good reasons based on facts and evidence presented. The Klan, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, etc are all radical Right supporters of Trump.
And so are you. Not that I’m saying you are one of any of those groups, apart from the general term, radical Right. I mean you believe Trump’s Big Lie. That’s the common delusion of the radical Right.
Pointing out similarities between Trump and Hitler and their fanatic cult followers doesn't count. See "Camp Auschwitz Guy" at Trump's insurrection. Yeah, he's one of your boy's big fans.
Or are those similarities the source of your rage?
I've often asked radical Right Trump fans to show me evidence revealing the errors of my conclusions. Or how about proof the election was stolen? No court would buy any of it, so good luck with that. How about showing us how Trump had nothing do to with his January 6 coup to "Stop the steal, fight like hell, and take our country back"? Many thugs have admitted they thought they were following their Leader's orders. Why is that?
So here's your big chance. Ya got what it takes, big boy?
Prove me wrong. How hard can it be?
Here’s what I think will happen. You won’t offer any information that I requested.
You’ll either spew more ad hominen hate towards me, or you’ll walk away, having your anger further exacerbated by my rational response.
Radical Right authoritarian and House GOP conference chair Elise Stefanik wants to blame and punish the Speaker: “The American people deserve to know the truth. That Nancy Pelosi bears responsibility, as speaker of the House, for the tragedy that occurred on Jan. 6.”
The nerve of that woman, wanting to investigate the same terrorists who screamed, “Hang Pelosi!” How dare she exclude supporters of Trump’s Big Lie and resulting coup from the committee? She must be punished too.
This is how the authoritarian personality displays itself.
She's your kind of gal, boys.
Feel free to prove me wrong. In fact, I beg you to prove me wrong.
USA gymnast Simone Biles said she withdrew from today's team finals over mental health concerns.
“We have to protect our body and our mind," Biles added. “It just sucks when you’re fighting with your own head."
Biles said those competing are "not just athletes, we’re people at the end of the day."
Question: What kind of person would say this about a very talented young Black woman who has represented the US with such amazing abilities?
Radical Right Turning Point hater Charlie Kirk calls Simone Biles a "selfish sociopath" and a "shame to the country. We are raising a generation of weak people like Simone Biles"
Answer: You radical Right guys don't really want to know the answer, do you?
Let me just point out the fact, among other character issues, there is some real projection from Kirk.
"No one had ever before called me n*gger while wearing the uniform of Capitol Police Officer...To be candid, the rest of the afternoon is a blur." -- Officer Harry Dunn
Your guy PRAISED the racist terrorists.
This is why you oppose this committee. The Truth frightens Trump and his cult.
One more time, in case you ignored it.
Your guy PRAISED the terrorists: "You're special. We love you."
18 U.S. Code § 2331 - Definitions
18 USC Ch. 113B: TERRORISM
From Title 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
(5) the term "domestic terrorism" means activities that—
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States;
Anybody want to explain how Trumpism is NOT a radical Right cult?
Deflections or crickets expected.
Your guy PRAISED the terrorists: "You're special. We love you."
Anybody want to explain how Trumpism is NOT a radical Right cult?
Funny how the stable geniuses here can't answer a simple question from a "dumbass".
What's the matter? Cult got your tongue?
The “fake news” Washington Post accurately reports sworn testimony from Capitol Police on their encounters with Trump’s terrorists:
~~
“We’re here to stop the steal,” Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn described the rioters as telling him. “Joe Biden is not the president. Nobody voted for Joe Biden.”
Dunn rejected that idea, telling those in the mob that he’d voted for Biden. “Does my vote not count?” he says he told the rioters. “Am I nobody?”
“That prompted a torrent of racial epithets,” Dunn testified. “One woman in a pink MAGA shirt yelled, ‘You hear that, guys? This [racist slur] voted for Joe Biden.’ Then the crowd, perhaps around 20 people, joined in screaming, ‘Boo! [expletive "F-word"] [racist slur "N-word"]!’”
Dunn is Black. The slur is the one you’d expect.
He later added that other Black officers at the Capitol that day had experienced similar disparagement.
“Another Black officer later told me he had been confronted by an insurrectionist in the Capitol,” Dunn said, “who told him, ‘Put your gun down and we’ll show you what kind of [racist slur "N-word"] you really are.’”
Gonell is a native of the Dominican Republic and a naturalized American citizen. He served in the military before joining the Capitol Police. But he, too, testified that he faced racist abuse that day.
“Apparently they seen, even through my mask, they saw my skin color and said, ‘You’re not even an American,’”
Gonell said. “Regardless of whether I was in the military, they don’t know that. But they— yelling and saying all these things to me.”
He said it took him a while to process the intent behind those attacks. Only later did he understand that, like Dunn, he was being singled out as something other than a real American.
The experience of D.C. police officer Michael Hodges was very different. Hodges, who is White, described the events of the day as a white supremacist insurrection in his prepared testimony. Asked to explain that description, he noted that nearly everyone he saw at the Capitol that day was White, and that white nationalist organizations had been in attendance.
He also made clear how his experience differed from Dunn’s and Gonell’s.
“Some of them would try to recruit me. One of them came to me and said, ‘Are you my brother?’" Hodges said of the rioters.
~~~
Just don't call them racists, amirite?
Then Trump PRAISED them!
1)
This is truly a horror scenario of the end of American democracy.
Our national nightmare that is Trump's ongoing coup is entering into a total darkness of evil. The former "law and order" Party of Trump sides with the terrorists.
First Trump lied about the election. Next Trump sent a mob to the Capitol to terrorize Pence and Congress into overturning the election. Then he PRAISED the terrorists, saying, “You’re special. We love you”.
So naturally, as every authoritarian cult does, it has come to this. Trump’s cult of radical Right white nationalists are openly emulating his embrace of the terrorists.
The day the Capitol Police testify about Trump's violent mob, the Insurrection Caucus publicly gives aid and comfort to the terrorists, while blaming Nancy Pelosi, naturally.
Washington Post Dana Milbank reveals how, as the Jan. 6 hearings begin, Republicans side with the terrorists.
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Six Republican members of the House, escorted by a man in a giant Trump costume bearing the message “TRUMP WON,” marched on the Justice Department Tuesday afternoon to speak up for those they called “political prisoners” awaiting trial for their roles in the insurrection.
“These are not unruly or dangerous, violent criminals,” Rep. Paul Gosar (Ariz.) proclaimed at a news conference outside DOJ headquarters. “These are political prisoners who are now being persecuted and bearing the pain of unjust suffering.”
Rep. Louie Gohmert (Tex.) speculated that “we have political prisoners here in America.”
They distributed copies of a letter alleging the Jan. 6 defendants had been denied “potentially exculpatory evidence” and subjected to “cruel and unusual punishment.” Their supporters waved signs proclaiming “Free the Jan. 6 Political Prisoners,” and “Jan. 6 Was an Inside Job.”
The lawmakers, ironically, had to cut short their defense of the insurrectionists, because demonstrators disrupted them with heckling, whistleblowing and signs (“Traitors Sit Down”).
The half-dozen lawmakers, including Matt Gaetz of Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, made explicit what has become more obvious by the day: Republicans stand with those who attempted a violent coup on Jan. 6. And it’s not just the wingnuts. House Republican leaders held a news conference before the hearing, blaming Jan. 6 not on seditionists but on Capitol Police and, particularly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
With the Capitol Dome behind her, Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), the House Republican conference chair, proclaimed: “The American people deserve to know the truth: that Nancy Pelosi bears responsibility, as speaker of the House, for the tragedy that occurred on Jan. 6.” Stefanik charged that Pelosi “doesn’t want a fair or bipartisan investigation.”
Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, one of the saboteurs House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy had tried to place on the select committee, announced that Capitol Police “weren’t trained” adequately and that “Nancy Pelosi is ultimately responsible.”
(There's more, sadly...)
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More examples of Republicans siding with the terrorists...
The Republican whip, Steve Scalise (La.) repeatedly accused Pelosi of a “coverup” about Jan. 6. And Rep. Troy Nehls (Tex.) denounced fellow Republicans Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), for serving on the select committee. “Those Pelosi Republicans aren’t interested in the truth,” he alleged. “We’re interested in the truth.”
Right. Seven of the eight Republicans standing there had voted down an independent, bipartisan commission negotiated by the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee.
And now they claim Pelosi is the one blocking a fair, bipartisan investigation? All this while faulting the Capitol Police, who at that very moment shielded them with a ring of officers, barriers, vehicles and a canine unit.
Had the GOP leadership been watching the hearing instead of spinning yet another conspiracy theory, they would have seen what it means to put country before party. Cheney, at the hearing, warned that without accountability for Jan. 6, “this will remain a cancer on our constitutional Republic. . . . We will face the threat of more violence in the months to come and another Jan. 6 every four years.”
She challenged her colleagues: “Will we be so blinded by partisanship that we throw away the miracle of America? Do we hate our political adversaries more than we love our country?”
Police testified about their grievous injuries, the ferocious violence and racism of the armed attackers, and their fears that they would die that day defending democracy. Police officers, and lawmakers, wept. D.C. police officer Michael Fanone, beaten and tazed by the mob, expressed astonishment at “those elected members of our government who continue to deny the events of that day,” including “those very members whose lives . . . I was fighting so desperately to defend.”
But a number of Republicans expressed more sympathy for the attackers. “There are Americans all over this country who are being harassed, who are being targeted by law enforcement!” Gaetz, at the news conference outside the DOJ, said of the insurrectionists.
Rep. Andy Biggs (Ariz.) insisted that it was “a very small group that attacked the Capitol Police.” What really concerned Biggs was “how are these individuals being treated?”
The insurrectionists’ allies grew anxious as more hecklers arrived and unfurled signs calling them racists, rapists and traitors and “Pedophiles for Trump.”
“Wrap it up,” a worried staffer told the lawmakers. “We got to get out.” They fled to waiting vehicles, one of which sped off the wrong way on 9th Street NW. It swerved in front of oncoming traffic onto Pennsylvania Avenue amid a hail of honking horns.
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They are traitors and they don't even know it.
In the authoritarian mind...
Ignorance isn't ignorance to the ignorant.
Delusion isn’t delusion to the delusional.
Racism isn't racism to the racist.
Treason isn't treason to the traitor.
A cult isn't a cult to the cult.
I'd like to say, "Shame on all of you radicalized True Believers of Q-Anon and Trump's lies.
But delusional fanatics are as beyond shame as they are beyond reason.
Rep. Cheney says subpoenas for McCarthy and even Trump are possible: "The American people ... deserve to know about every phone call that was made, in and out of the White House." "If I were saying [what GOP leadership is saying], I'd be ashamed of myself. What happened is absolutely clear. We had intolerable cruelty, a mob that was assembled by Trump & was provoked by him. He lit the flame."
This fealty to conscience and Constitution will NOT be tolerated by the radical Right.
Liz was unseated and replaced by Elise Stefanik, a “Real American and True Patriot”.
Stefanik wants to blame and punish the Speaker: “The American people deserve to know the truth. That Nancy Pelosi bears responsibility, as speaker of the House, for the tragedy that occurred on Jan. 6.”
The nerve of that woman, wanting to investigate the same terrorists who screamed, “Hang Pelosi!” along with, "Hang Mike Pence!" How dare she exclude supporters of Trump’s Big Lie and resulting coup from the committee? She must be punished too.
Darrell has also attacked the bi-partisan investigation and blamed Pelosi and Democrats more than Trump and his terrorists.
It is the Authoritarian Way.
Correct me if I'm mistaken.
Apologies for not including Radical Right Rex. (RRR) LOL.
Let's apply Radical Right fascist Stefanik's "reasoning" behind blaming Nancy Pelosi for Trump's coup.
Rudy Giuliani is responsible for the World Trade Center on 9/11.
The Radical Right's "logic".
This is why there is NO REASONING with this cult.
Hardly any democrat ran the stupid "Defund the police" line.
Now hardly any Republican will support the Capitol Police.
Law and order has its limits for the people Trump told, "You're special. We love you."
Now the Radical Right has two new slogans:
"You're special. We love you."
"Support the blue until the coup."
From the thread at my blog:
Let’s review a few points Darrell would NOT address.
First is my point that infuriated him.
“So Trump PRAISED the good Christian conservative terrorists, and Darrell is OK with that.”
It was about being OK with Trump PRAISING the terrorists. For some reason Darrell won’t condemn Trump for that praise.
So instead of addressing his being OK or not OK with Trump’s praise, he attacked me for accusing him of being OK with the terrorists.
The other question he wanted to avoid was this:
“If Muslims, BLM, or antifa had stormed the Capitol, would you support a Congressional investigation?”
Is he a hypocrite or not? I expect a hypocrite would evade the question. He evaded the question.
Darrell had a question of his own.
He asked, "What is this "congressional investigation" going to gain that furthers this?" Your answer was, "Nothing".
I replied:
There's no need for quotation marks. It is real and quite Constitutional. The American people want to know what happened. They want accountability.
You feel there's "nothing to gain" from witnesses and information. You see nothing to gain from hearing personal sworn testimony of how the Capitol Police, members of the Senate and House, their staffs, and journalists were TERRORIZED by Trump's mob
Perhaps you'd prefer NOT to hear of the day's events at all.
Sworn testimony is NOT "partisan". There are perjury laws against false testimony.
It seems you don't want to hear facts, eye-witness testimony, and the whole truth. (We all know why.)
The Republicans emphatically rejected a bi-partisan, and even an independent investigation.
Why? Because their Leader instigated it. Because Republicans supported it.
After pitching some very weak math on the numbers of the mob, he accused me of ignoring his question. He just didn’t like the answer.
That said, of the tens of thousands of people at the rally, only 800 broke off to march to the capitol and riot.
Regardless, law enforcement is proceeding with the investigation and prosecution of these criminals, so again I ask the ignored question, what more can a congressional investigation add to this?
I submit to you, again, it is not about finding and punishing the guilty but rather grand political theater used to demonize all conservatives that may or may not have voted for Trump as potential insurrectionists and traitors. It is being used to further divide the country and ostensibly provide moral high ground to leftist Democrats, whom before this incident were all for defunding the racist police departments around the country. I guess, they only like the police that actually protect them.
NBC Legal Analyst and Former 30-yr federal prosecutor Glenn Kirshcner also answered the question.
"The committee can investigate things that are beyond the scope of DOJ investigations (like communication failures throughout government) & can legislate where appropriate. But simply exposing to public view what happened on 1/6 can lead to accountability. One of the benefits of these public hearings is that We The People will get to see witnesses testify about who funded, who organized and who incited the insurrection (though we’ve already seen how Trump, Don Jr., Rudy and Mo expressly incited the violence). The DOJ grand jury investigation is secret, shielded from public view. So even though the prosecutors at the DC US Attorney’s Office undoubtedly are investigating the funders, organizers and inciters, we won’t get to see any of it until it’s revealed during public trials. But with the Select Committee hearings, we’ll get to see it far sooner. And that is information voters can use."
https://twitter.com/glennkirschner2/status/1421091012370436098
The key word that Glenn and I used was, “accountability”. No wonder Darrell deflected to more blame and accusations for Democrats.
It's not like there's no information out there that clearly shows Trump is a liar and a crook. His cult trusts only Dear Leader, and his pro-Trump radical Right partisan media.
Cue the Radical Right Cult whining, "Deep state! Waaah! Not fair! Witch hunt!" (And the leftist Supreme Court is in on it!)
"DOJ Says Trump tax returns must be released by IRS to Congress"
"The income tax returns of former President Donald Trump must be released by the IRS to Congress, the Department of Justice said.
The DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel said that Congress had made a legitimate request to see Trump’s tax returns.
The decision came more than a year after the Supreme Court said that Trump’s tax returns and other financial records had to be turned over by his longtime accountants to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. as part of a criminal probe.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump did not have an unqualified right to prevent a state prosecutor from getting his financial records.
Vance is investigating how the Trump Organization accounted for hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal before the 2016 presidential election."
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/30/trump-tax-returns-can-be-released-to-congress-doj-says.html
Since the Trump Cult will never hear of this from Trump's sycophantic media, I'll offer it here:
Note taken by a deputy AG Richard Donoghue during Trump’s call with Rosen Dec 27:
Rosen: “understand that the DOJ can’t and won’t snap it’s fingers and change the outcome of the election…
Trump: “Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R congressmen.”
Rosen: “ we are doing our job. much of the info you’re getting is false”
Trump: “people tell me Jeff Clark is great, I should put him in.” (Jeff Clark was the Civil Division head who plotted with Trump to oust Rosen and take his job, vowing to overturn Georgia’s results. Rosen foiled him.)
I already know what the Cult will whine. "Deep state!" Amirite?
18 USC § 595 makes it a crime for a person employed by a US Dept or agency to use “official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting…the election of any candidate for the office of President”.
Matt Gaetz tonight: “We got the native crowd here. That’s probably why we don’t have as many protestors. They know that my supporters are better armed ... than my opponents."
As with all authoritarians, might makes right.
'Better armed" with weapons, not brains, or compassion, or decency.
A cult never learns.
What did we learn this past week?
We learned that last December, the former President of the United States pressured the Attorney General to lie about the 2020 election.
So corrupt. So un-American. So undemocratic.
EVERY American should be outraged. Every single American.
Former Republican Joe Walsh
McCarthy invites the 1,400 at Nashville dinner to DC when he becomes speaker.
He says he wants everyone to see Pelosi hand him the gavel. "It will be hard not to hit her with it but I will bang it down,” he says.
The Party or Trump is the party of dupes, bullies, thugs and terrorists.
Which are you?
What’s the difference between the Trump Cult and the Q-Anon Cult?
Not much. They’re the same gullible, willfully ignorant, very white dupes and racists
For God and Country Patriot Roundup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=192&v=KYKOLwt8pwo&feature=emb_logo
Interviews featured include General Michael Flynn, US Representative and former Colonel Allen West, and former foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos. None of the aforementioned main speakers wanted to address the incredibly prevalalent underlying theme.
Attendees:
“We never were on the moon. I don’t think the Hitler situation is as bad as they said it was either.”
"Jesus and Trump want the same things."
Insightful youtube comment:
Q Believers: "We ain't sheep!" Also Q Believers: "Were we go one we go all!"
How "Q" are you?
We know where the real hate is.
A third officer took his own life.
"God save us from these third-rate theatrics," spewed Hate monger Laura Ingraham, FOX(R)
Siding with the terrorists, Rep. Paul Gosar asked FBI Director Wray, “Do you know who executed Ahsli Babbitt?”
She was a terrorist actively committing crimes with other terrorists that injured dozens of officers. He did his duty to protect and defend Congress and the Constitution.
Outing him would endanger the life of the officer. Gosar doesn't give a damn.
This is the radical Right threat to the republic.
"Support the blue, until the coup!"
Make that FOUR officers dead by suicide.
Republicans refuse them more funding.
Who really "defunds the police"?
Support the blue, until the coup."
Compassion has NEVER been a conservative virtue. This is the demarcation line between "conservative" and Christian.
Not. The. Same. Never was, never will be.
And it's getting worse, the more radicalized the Right becomes.
DJT: “If you say it enough and keep saying it, just keep saying it, they’ll start to believe you.” July 3, 2021
Wherever would he have learned that?
Ivana reveled his book in the bedroom was titled, "My New Order", Speeches by Adolf Hitler.
The only book she saw him read.
At last! Proof that Biden stole the election!!
...Oops. I mean the opposite. Trump tried to steal the election through frivolous lawsuits, and a coup.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/colorado-sanctions-trump-lawsuit/2021/08/04/704dec92-f53a-11eb-a49b-d96f2dac0942_story.html
‘The stuff of which violent insurrections are made:’ Federal judge sanctions Colorado lawyers for 2020 election lawsuit
A federal judge in Colorado has sanctioned two lawyers who filed a lawsuit challenging the 2020 election late last year, finding that the case was “frivolous,” “not warranted by existing law” and filed “in bad faith.”
In a scathing 68-page opinion, Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter found that the lawyers made little effort to corroborate information they had included in the suit, which argued there had been a vast national conspiracy to steal the election from former president Donald Trump.
He particularly called out the duo, Gary D. Fielder and Ernest John Walker, for quoting Trump in their legal filing, which cited a presidential tweet that claimed without evidence that voting machines manufactured by the company Dominion Voting Systems had “deleted 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide.” Neureiter called that allegation “highly disputed and inflammatory” and said the lawyers made no efforts to verify it.
The two lawyers filed the case as a class action on behalf of 160 million American voters, alleging a complicated plot engineered by Dominion, Facebook, its founder Mark Zuckerberg, his wife Priscilla Chan and elected officials in four states. They had sought $160 billion in damages.
The case was dismissed in April, but Neureiter ruled that the attorneys had violated their ethical obligations by lodging it in the first place and by peppering their motions with wild allegations that they had made little effort to substantiate. Legal rules prohibit attorneys from clogging the court systems with frivolous motions or from filing information that is not true.
Calling the suit “one enormous conspiracy theory,” Neureiter ordered that the duo must pay the legal fees of all the individuals and companies they had sued — 18 separate entities in all — as a way to deter future similar cases.
Trump's sleazy "Kraken" lawyers are getting the word:
Kraken lawyers argue they shouldn't be sanctioned because “many Americans" believe the 2020 election wasn't fair
In a new motion, Detroit's lawyer David Fink responds that's no excuse:
"Many Americans believe that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy are real."
Yet older radicalized Americans who embrace belief over reality believe Trump won.
Trump never rose to 50% approval. Trump NEVER polled higher than Biden before the election. And Biden won the election.
The radicalized true believers dismiss all of these realities, just because they think Trump is telling them the truth. Well, "think" isn't really the proper word. It's all about their belief in a liar.
Who needs to think when lies are more easily embraced instead?
5 years after Benghazi -- and after 6 investigations including a select committee -- 65% of Republicans said it was still "very" important to continue probing it.
Today, only 3 in 10 Republicans support investigating Jan. 6.
Belief in lies is all that matters.
Yeah, Rex.
So an "intimidating manner" is grounds for whites pointing weapons at Blacks. Got it.
You'll have no problem if I feel intimidated by you out in the street, off my property, and train a weapon on you?
Right.
White privilege means whites can point weapons at Blacks for “being afraid of them”. They were in no danger. Nobody was breaking in. Nobody approached their house. The protesters were only guilty of walking past it towards the mayor’s house.
They were protesting the mayor giving out the addresses of people who advocated police reform. Not that you give a damn.
Where I come from, pointing weapons at people is a crime. Not for scared white people, though.
Your frightened white snowflakes are trigger happy bigots with a history of brandishing weapons at people. They are litigious “victims” known for spewing out frivolous lawsuits. One was because the McCloskeys didn’t want gay couples living on the block.
Then a neighbor walked to close to their house.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1125809/st-louis-couple-gun-protesters-accused-anti-gay-sued-neighbors/
The argument reportedly concerns a small triangle of land near the couple's house that they claim they have owned since 1988, but the trustees said it belongs to the neighborhood.
The outlet reported that an affidavit filed in the case included words by Mark, which said that he and his wife "regularly prohibited all persons, including Portland Place residents, from crossing the Parcel including at least at one point, challenging a resident at gunpoint who refused to heed the McCloskeys' warnings to stay off such property."
The incident took place in either 1988 or 1989, the Post reported that the couple's attorney, Albert Watkins, said.
On the day of the occurrence, Patricia McCloskey reportedly heard a noise at night and saw someone cutting through the piece of land.
Last I heard, BLM never went out lynching white people like the KKK did to Blacks. BLM never massacred a community of white people in Tulsa with impunity and no arrests.
The irony is YOUR white privilege and bigotry equates BLM with the KKK. No wonder the radical Right wants to cancel schools from teaching the history of racism, calling it “Commie Critical Race Theory”. Not that they need to even understand what it really is. None of them do.
This is why you side with the white gun-brandishing bigots.
As expected.
Ya can’t make this stuff up.
Rep. Ralph Norman, one of the three congressional Republicans suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi over fines for not wearing masks during a vote on the U.S. House floor, has contracted a breakthrough case of COVID-19, the second member of South Carolina's delegation to do so.
“It’s not tyranny when WE do it.”
Kevin McCarthy was condemning Cuban police for detaining protesters. Immediately afterwards, police officers forcibly removed journalist Grant Stern for asking Kevin McCarthy a question—why he opposed the bipartisan Jan 6th Commission.
There is only ONE rule for the radical Right. "It's OK if WE do it."
Remember kids. It's only OK to point your rifle at Black people. You know, because they are "intimidating".
Support the blue only when they protect us from rioters.
Doesn't have quite the same ring, but since all cops are racists other than the capitol hill police, who cares? Amiright?
Right Comrade, Dave? Viva la Castro, Stalin, and Che Guevera!
Here is your hate-America BLM idiots. They hate American and think our flag is a symbol of hate.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/08/blm-chapter-calls-american-flag-symbol-of-hatred/
Oh, and you may want to ask senile Joe about his plagiarism that even cost him one of his past runs at president back when Democrats still cared about honesty.
Look who comes to Michael's blog constantly just to throw firebombs from the left. No hate there, right comrade? Hypocrisy is a leftist value evidently.
One man's "firebombs" are called facts in the real world.
Rex,
Thanks for demonstrating the blind rage and delusions of the radical Right, just as I noted.
You offered more “hate-America-commie-card” BS. Thanks for showing how the radical Right is obsessed with projecting hate into progressives and minorities.
I certainly don’t know anyone who hates America. I know a lot of people want America to be a true democratic republic. Fair elections with fair and proportionate representation. A Republic that derives power from the consent of the governed. We envision better accountability to the majority of voters, instead of the rabid rule by a raging narcissist with his legions of authoritarians, bigots, greedheads, dupes and the other very white misinformed MINORITY of Americans.
And look at you go! More “commie, commie, hate, hate!”
“Castro, Stalin, and Che Guevera!” Oh, my! LOL. It’s a commie straw man party! The radical Right loves nothing more than playing their idiotic, patented red card, just to “own the libs”.
“Castro, Stalin, and Che Guevera!” Oh, my! They have nothing to do with any subject here, only the phantom commies in the fevered, indoctrinated radical Right amygdala.
Gee Rex, didn’t you read your link? YOUR “hate-America BLM idiots” that incited your rage are NOT even part of the national BLM organization. They all look the same to you, don’t they?
“When we see this flag, we question your intelligence. We know to avoid you. It is a symbol of hatred,” wrote the chapter, which founder Lex Scott says is not part of the national BLM organization.
The words: ”not part of the national BLM organization” appeared TWICE, albeit unobtrusively. The point was to piss off all the racists. Look! A Black Commie hates the flag and America! It seemed to have worked on you, not that you’re a racist. Just pissed at all the Black commies and “comrade Dave” and “Castro, Stalin, and Che Guevera!” Oh, my!. I get it.
Yeah, that’s a common point of rage for white nationalists and bigots. They see commies everywhere. To hell with evidence or words that say otherwise. They don’t want to debate policy. They want to attack the person, not the words, not the ideas. Their resentment and rage against minorities and progressives always leads to their “hate-America-commie-card” BS.
“Fear the Black Commie” may as well be the motto of the white nationalist radical Right. It unites them in hate and ignorance.
And Rex,
So who said, “all cops are racists other than the capitol hill police”? Another nice straw man, sport.
But this shines the light on what the radical white Right WANTS to believe. And belief is everything to the radical zealot. The Leader must be trusted and believed. He and his followers are victims of a great injustice. Everyone else is lying. Their facts must be dismissed. Their patriotism must be questioned. They must be demonized, indeed hated, because they are oppressing the pathetic radicalized Right “victims”.
To paraphrase:
“The evil enemy of the people press lied! The poll workers lied! The electors lied! The states lied! The courts lied! Trump is an honest man! Stop the steal! (The Leader agitates his fellow “victims”)* Fight for Trump! He won! And we have the proof!”....and that’s the end of their story. No evidence, no facts, no honesty, no honor, no decency, no compassion, and no grip on established reality. Just resentment, anger, and hate.
Their reality is molded by hate radio, FOX(R), OANN, Newsmax, Prager U, Alex Jones, the Party of Trump and Q-anon. All they have to anchor their minds is BELIEVING. Believing Trump is an honest man and good leader. He said he won, so he won.
Just believe.
This is reality:
Note taken by a deputy AG Richard Donoghue during Trump’s call with Rosen Dec 27:
Rosen: “understand that the DOJ can’t and won’t snap it’s fingers and change the outcome of the election…
Trump: “Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R congressmen.”
Rosen: “ we are doing our job. much of the info you’re getting is false”
Trump: “people tell me Jeff Clark is great, I should put him in.” (Jeff Clark was the Civil Division head who plotted with Trump to oust Rosen and take his job, vowing to overturn Georgia’s results. Rosen foiled him.)
*(The Leader agitates his fellow “victims”)
We know the playbook. Trump’s former wife Ivana said the only book she saw him read was, “My New Order”, a collection of Hitler’s speeches. Guess who were the “victims”? Guess who got the blame. Yup. Commies. And Jews, socialists, progressives, and minorities.
On a visit to Europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war, Donald Trump insisted to his then chief of staff, John Kelly: “Well, Hitler did a lot of good things.”
And this is why you act as if democrats and progressives are saying, “Well, Stalin did a lot of good things.”
Never happened. It just feels so self-righteous for them to believe it, and that is all that matters.
Your hypocrisy is astounding!
You imply if not outright say that anyone that supports Trump is a Nazi.
"Trump uber alles!" and "Trump said that Hitler did good things."
blah blah blah.
That isn't hate to you, but if I point out the clearly stated communist sympathies of the left, it is a hateful strawman. You must be really angry when nobody except your fellow leftists even listen, let alone believe the crap you are spreading.
Ok... cue the next round of projection and hate from dad.
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