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Republican Calls for Violence Are Going to Get People Killed

 

It’s already happened: Heather Heyer, 32, a civil rights activist born and raised in Charlottesville, Virginia, was killed on August 12, 2017, by James Alex Fields Jr., who drove his car into a crowd of people protesting the Unite the Right rally that had been held the night before on the campus of the University of Virginia. Fields, who drove to Charlottesville from his home in Maumee, Ohio, to attend the white supremacist rally, hit Heyer with his car and killed her as she stood on a street talking with other protesters. Twenty-four other protesters were injured in the incident.

 

I raise this seven-year-old murder because of statements made recently by two prominent Republicans calling for violence and vigilantism. On Sunday, Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake told a crowd in Lake Havasu to “strap on a Glock” to ready themselves for the upcoming election in November because “they’re going to come after us with everything.” Lake also urged her followers to “put on our helmet or your Kari Lake ball cap. We are going to put on the armor of God.”

 

On Monday, fist-raising insurrectionist macho-man Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton responded to reports of pro-Palestinian protestors blocking the streets of multiple cities by putting out a tweet calling for political violence against protesters: “I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic: take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way. It’s time to put an end to this nonsense.”

 

He also tweeted a video of a man dragging protesters off a street and throwing them to the ground with the comment: “How it should be done.” Later the same day in an appearance on Fox News, Cotton told an interviewer that “if something like this happened in Arkansas on a bridge there, let’s just say, I think there would be a lot of very wet criminals that have been tossed overboard, not by law enforcement but the people whose road they’re blocking.”

 

It’s tempting to use the cliché “I don’t know what planet these people are on” to describe these kinds of calls for political violence by Republicans, but I know all too well what planet we’re all on. On this planet, when prominent people call for violence in public comments, such rhetoric sometimes leads to violence and even death. When Donald Trump urged a large crowd of his supporters gathered on the Ellipse on Jan. 6 to “fight like hell,” enough of them took him at his word that five people lost their lives in the hours immediately following Trump’s call for violence at the Capitol that day. Responding to the violent Unite the Right rally that ended in the death of Heather Heyer, instead of denouncing the violence, Trump claimed that “there were good people on both sides.”

 

In a country with more guns than there are people, telling a crowd at a rally to be ready to “strap on a Glock” to prepare for an election isn’t just irresponsible, it is a statement intended to provoke gun violence, of which we already have more than we can handle. 

 

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Jabbyrwock

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3 hours ago, Califan007 The Constipated said:

 

Monthly reminder that Barr is still a complete and total piece of ****...

 

 

 

 

 

Of course he's gonna support Trump.  Same reason Mitch does.  Alito is 74.  Thomas is 75.  They have to support Trump or they risk putting the S.C. majority that they sold their souls for in the dirt.  No real cost in selling their souls a bit more by supporting the treasonous ****bag.

 

Every time you hear them say "Biden is dangerous", its a simple dog whistle to their supporters: "you better vote Trump if you want to keep your gun totin' white christian nation."

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11 minutes ago, Jabbyrwock said:

 

Of course he's gonna support Trump.  Same reason Mitch does.  Alito is 74.  Thomas is 75.  They have to support Trump or they risk putting the S.C. majority that they sold their souls for in the dirt.  No real cost in selling their souls a bit more by supporting the treasonous ****bag.

 

Every time you hear them say "Biden is dangerous", its a simple dog whistle to their supporters: "you better vote Trump if you want to keep your gun totin' white christian nation."

 

 

Bingo.

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Busted: Paul Gosar campaign consultant linked to antisemitism and white nationalism

 

The campaign committee of far-right Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) is engaging a North Carolina firm whose owner proudly promotes white nationalism and antisemitic tropes, while pushing false narratives surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

 

The Gosar campaign has paid Southern Pines Strategies a total of $136,342 for “fundraising services” since 2020. The campaign’s most recent filing shows that a consulting firm owned by political consultant Noel Fritsch received $594 in the first quarter of 2024, spread out across nine payments ranging from $3.50 to $138.25, most recently on March 10.

 

In one recent X post, Fritsch sarcastically wrote, “Not shifty at all,” while resharing a post by an anonymous account calling attention to the fact that the Jewish owner of the World Trade Center broke with custom by not eating breakfast in the North Tower on the morning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack.

 

Alon Milwicki, a senior research analyst at the extremism watchdog group Southern Poverty Law Center, told Raw Story that antisemitic content is increasingly prevalent on social media, including X.

 

Gosar has cultivated ties with election deniers and white nationalists, but he breaks with many in the far-right movement through his professed supporting Israel. 

 

The Gosar campaign could not be reached for comment for this story.

 

Payments from the Gosar campaign to Fritsch’s firm — representing a cut from small-dollar donations — peaked at $84,798 in 2021, following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

 

Fritsch told Raw Story he no longer does “business” with the Gosar campaign. But when informed that the Gosar campaign reported nine payments to his firm in the first three months of 2024, Fritsch declined to elaborate on what “fundraising services” he provided, suggesting the phrase is self-explanatory.

 

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10 hours ago, balki1867 said:

 

 

That's not a podium, that's a lectern.  Sarah needs to learn English.

 

She's the governor of Arkansas...she doesn't need to learn anything.

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WAIT.

 

Now Paul GOSAR is a Nazi?

 

Yet another example of us "busting" someone for something we have all ****ing known for years. And of course, nothing will happen.

 

~Bang

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I figure Melania is grifting for herself, kinda like icing on the cake, or a rainy day fund housewives in the 50s were encouraged to "put by".  The other thought is she's doing it for her beloved, although their relationship is transactional like all of his relationships. 

 

The more I think about it, the more I think she's doing it for herself, although the ides may be Trump's likr his sneakers and Bibles. And she's going to scam him.

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3 hours ago, The 12th Commandment said:

Why on God's green earth would anyone want live in FL?  No offense Larry.

 

Disney. 

 

And after summers in DMV, it's not that hot or humid. 

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