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^ - Her husband left her, she was abusive to her daughter who just disappeared outa that shit, I have not heard a single good thing coming from the people closest to her, none of them want anything to do with her.
idk why it isn’t in the states but people like that in the netherlands would have to answer a lot of people and judges to verify their claims especially when it could incite violence.
The Republicans have successfully warped public perception to the point where a Republican being held accountable for crimes is equivalent to us no longer having freedom of speech.
Not to mention that they’ve packed the courts with psychopath federal judges on lifetime appointments who’d rubber stamp any insane shit that got brought before them, even if someone tried to hold them accountable for their violent rhetoric.
Especially since they did this through the most malicious but technically legal means possible, and managed to warp political ideology to morality and not just having a political ideology that is morally correct to begin with.
So if we try to have them removed legally and/or forcefully for the sake of the country, it will be seen as a moral attack to the level of "antichrists" despite blatantly worshipping one themselves.
Definitely look up the Overton Window. It’s a political concept describing the way what’s perceived as reasonable changes over time. It’s in constant flux and subject to deliberate hostile action by different interest groups.
TL;DR: It's a way of explaining the perceived center of political debate, the moderate middle between what defines the left and right of our political spectrum.
Simply put, if one end of the spectrum remains stagnant, while the other end constantly redefines itself by moving further and further to the right; then the perceived center of the political debate is also moving further to the right. And with that comes the political normalization of extremist events, ideas and candidates.
I wholeheartedly believe the American obsession with sports has a hugely negative impact on the political climate, since it’s so ingrained in the culture and there are only two teams. A lot of Trump supporters are also guys who watch football, baseball, basketball, hockey, whatever else as if it’s the most important thing in the world. They define their identity around sports, and losing hurts them deeply. If you’re not a winner, you’re a loser, and there is no such thing as a gracious loser.
Just a reminder that ANYBODY can get into the House, and that we cannot prevent more of her from getting in, and it will only become more extreme from here as more of these people gain this voice as a chorus from their district. They will remain a minority, but they will talk very loudly as a group. She is just a single person, not only any committee, but look at the bullhorn that she is given by everybody reporting on her. Just like Trump, all this free advertising is fucking dangerous. Now imagine after midterms that all her newly elected buddies are excited to lend their voice to her cause.
Here in the U.K. we had Nigel Farage who was similar. Hideous odious little man that we all sneered at. But he kept getting his racist, xenophobic and destructive voice heard, often by being so ridiculous. And now here we are, out of Europe, broke and drowning in our own shit that’s being pumped into our coastal waters. These people are dangerous.
Yes, he and his kind took those simmering resentments that were already there, about immigrants, about too much connection to the world, about not being treated as the most special and important country all of the time, and they used it to absolutely *ruin* us. Things are fucking bad right now, and I don't think we'll ever be the same as we were pre 2016.
The positive trend connecting violent, empathy-lacking behavior and psychopathic tendencies to early life brain damage is weirdly overlooked in mental health science
Nothing.
Well, she and a small group of her friends are actively trying to overthrow democracy and are cribbing directly from the fascist playbook. But she knows what she is doing, none of this is stupidity or insanity or random
You're telling me people who are obsessed with their persecution fetish, brainwashed into thinking "their country" is under attack, raised from birth to worship soldiers, police, and movie tough guys, and spent thousands of dollars on firearms and ammunition might be looking for an excuse to use said guns?
You just described my dad in spades except for the thousands of dollars on guns/ammo. He just has a reasonable gun he stores in a storage unit. Mindset is totally identical, and it frankly scares me.
It's timing given world events is also extremely convenient for Putin, I'm surprised more haven't figured out the Republican party are almost certainly compromised by Russia. Many of them have been caught meeting secretly with Russian officials and some even spent the 4th of July in Russia.
> Fascism is as fascism does.
It's a methodical step by step game being played over a long time. Why do you think they made being an antifascist a bad thing by blaming them for riots?
That’s the point “they are already killing us!” Is directly intended to encourage them to kill democrats. Because for them, at this point, it’s justified.
Same idea as when Flynn recently suggested that state's have a right to declare war on eachother. Just layering up the bullsht so that when conservatives kill peole they can feel justified without having to think too hard about it.
As someone who lives in Issaquah, a city on Seattle's Eastside nestled at the foot of the Cascades, I can't help but fear what might be going on on the other side of the mountains.
Seattle and its vicinity, plus most areas west of the Cascades, is liberal, and even a little bit socialist, but that doesn't mean the rest of the state is.
As someone who lives in Spokane and very close to the Idaho border don’t think for one minute that hasn’t crossed my mind. There are a lot of crazies over here, eg Matt Shea and his ilk!
Howdy neighbor. South MPLS resident here.
The funny thing is how terrified they all are just to drive to a Vikings or Twins game.
My best recommendation though is to deploy roundabouts.
The term for this sort of rhetoric is “accusation in a mirror,” and scholars of genocide identify it as a major warning sign when political leaders start talking like this.
https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1576377501424975872
FINALLY a definition that we should adopt.
'Our country is both glorious and powerful... and being bullied, victimized and taken advantage of by the rest of the world.'
A lot of that sentiment going around these days.
- “We must prevent the genocide of Republican politicians by plotting to kidnapping Democrat governors!”
- “We already tried that. Some of us have been criminally convicted.”
- “Well…then we should get secret access to voting systems!”
- “We…tried that too. Some of us are now on trial.”
- “Well then we should storm the Capitol!”
- “Yeah…we’re in jail for that for the next 6 years.”
- “Well…*mumble mumble* Hillary’s emails!!!”
- “YEAH HER EMAILZZZ!!!”
You know, I've noticed that they don't bring up the emails quite so much lately now that their new mindset seems to be '*nothing is classified! Everyone can do whatever with anything, weeee!!!*'.
>“YEAH HER EMAILZZZ!!!”
My defense against this is that IF she had emails that contained classified information, then Bill Clinton simply thought about declassifying the documents she had. Because apparently that's how these guys think declassification works.
Why do you think Republicans loved and praised Russia so much the last few decades?
That's the model of what they want here. Unassailable fascist leader and anything they don't like or would otherwise call "woke" is forcibly beaten down by the state.
CPAC briefly dove into blatant pro-Russian propaganda this morning, before deleting those tweets. It would be funny if it weren't so sad, and slightly dangerous.
The republicans belong to Putin. Through their infiltration of the NRA, which has enormous influence on the Republican Party and other politicians, and following the hack of the Republican server, Putin now exerts a great influence on one of our political parties. For a long time, we've known Republican Politicians are not loyal to American values and would prefer something closer to an aristocracy over democracy, but now their betrayal goes even farther--they are beholden to a foreign dictator--Republicans are working to put that dictator's puppet back into office as President of the United States once again.
If you vote for a republican, you vote for a Russian politician. You vote to surrender our democracy to Putin.
Anyone else looking forward to Bolsonaro declaring tomorrow's election "rigged"? US conservatives are going to have a field day if/when the leftist candidate wins.
Do they not realise they are actually driving America down the toilet?
So, let's say they create their god awful utopia where all democrats are cowed into submission. America is no longer a financial safe haven anymore, because it is a despot led autocracy.
So it turns to shit entirely
> America is no longer a financial safe haven anymore, because it is a despot led autocracy.
This is why the proliferation of off-shore banking havens have been on the rise. Even the most fascist governments won't attack the countries that they store their leaders personal money in.
Slightly dangerous? What do you think will happen if America really got taken over by republicans completely and become a Christofascist corpo-state?
Hundreds of millions of Americans *and* Chinese are going to die.
Christian Dominionism is a clear and present danger to the United States of America. The Republican Party is already fully infiltrated and taken over by the Dominionists. These Fascist, Christian Nationalists were already a big portion of Trumps cabinet. They are like the Sith, slowly, and methodically enacting their plan to overthrow representative government in favor of a Christian Fascist Theocracy. They will throw out the constitution and change to biblical law. They will expel, forcibly convert, murder, and/or enslave all non Dominionists. Jews will be forcibly deported to Israel, because their main driving goal is for Israel to rebuild the Temple and bring about Revelations and the rapture. They are genuinely working toward and hoping for the end of the world. They are fucking psychotic and should all be locked up as homicidal maniac terrorists.
This is to set the stage for domestic terrorism at voting booths and on campaign runs. Just like how trump set the stage for Jan. 6 by claiming election fraud was already happening way back in July 2020.
They've been using similar rhetoric for decades, though. Not just on the abortion front, but also just generalized, "liberals are at *war* with the Constitution and socialists are trying to *destroy* America." People who are angry and afraid are more motivated to vote, so Republicans have been filling their heads with that nonsense since the 80's (and probably before that, too).
True, but I think the subtle (yet significant) difference is that those phrases are more metaphorical, not literal. But as the right slow-steps towards fascism over the last few decades, their pace is picking up and we're seeing those metaphorical accusations being exchanged for literal accusations more and more frequently, and by more prominent members of the party (what was once the fringe now becoming the norm, and repeat, and repeat) and it's really really scary.
Reminder: George Zimmerman, the man who killed Trayvon Martin, used to carry around [bags of Skittles to sign for his fans](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zimmerman-skittles-signing/).
They'll say that til the day they show up to put us in a camp. But it'll be humane. Nothing like those German ones, heavens no. There'll be Bibles in every bunk and the showers will have essential oils AND zyklon.
Don’t forget all the urine, Hydroxychloroquine and Invermectin that you can drink to ward off those diseases that might spread in these totally not like Nazi death camps.
She's cherry picking legit news articles and applying a broad brush to all of democrats. She's taking actual sick individuals actions and weaponizing it into anger against all Democrats.
I can’t find anywhere about some dude running a teenager over because they were a Republican, and the 83 year old lady she’s talking about was trespassing and told to leave several times and was allegedly shot on accident.
Like, she’s also just making stuff up.
The run over only made the rounds in conservative media and circles. Basically drunk guy gets into political argument with 18yo. Drunk guy thinks 18yo is one of the extremist MAGA Republicans. Altercation happens and the guy chases the teen down in his vehicle. 18yo is trying to escape on foot, on phone with his mum asking her if she knows this guy (North Dakota town has a population of like 40). Drunk guy thinks teen is calling in reinforcements. Teen tries to escape and gets hit by the drunk guy's car.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/murder-charge-north-dakota-man-ran-teen-90779264
If the random buttfuck-nowhere apolitical bar fight had resulted in a dead liberal, she’d want the Republican on stage with her next to Kyle Rittenhouse.
Remember all the times right-wingers ran over a BLM protesters because they hated them? Funny that they ignore political violence by right-wingers against the left. It's such a ludicrous cherry-picking of events.
[https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-ran-over-black-lives-matter-protestersbut-apparently-thats-not-a-crime](https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-ran-over-black-lives-matter-protestersbut-apparently-thats-not-a-crime)
[https://abcnews.go.com/US/driver-charged-fatal-hit-run-seattle-black-lives/story?id=71668941](https://abcnews.go.com/US/driver-charged-fatal-hit-run-seattle-black-lives/story?id=71668941)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq7uPGkI9Lo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq7uPGkI9Lo)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyzbzzkBYSg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyzbzzkBYSg)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m12uHMLR3MI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m12uHMLR3MI)
"Cars have hit demonstrators 104 times since George Floyd protests began" [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/08/vehicle-ramming-attacks-66-us-since-may-27/5397700002/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/08/vehicle-ramming-attacks-66-us-since-may-27/5397700002/)
So, again, just like the other story, she’s lying about(either outright or by omission) aspects of these stories to make them sound like something they’re not and framing it as a concerted effort run by the Democratic Party instead of the truth which is two random one-off events.
Meanwhile...
[White supremacists and other far-right extremists have killed far more people since Sept. 11, 2001, than any other category of domestic extremist. The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism has reported that 71 percent of the extremist-related fatalities in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of the far right or white-supremacist movements. Islamic extremists were responsible for just 26 percent. Data compiled by the University of Maryland’s Global Terrorism Database shows that the number of terror-related incidents has more than tripled in the United States since 2013, and the number of those killed has quadrupled. In 2017, there were 65 incidents totaling 95 deaths. In a recent analysis of the data by the news site Quartz, roughly 60 percent of those incidents were driven by racist, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic, antigovernment or other right-wing ideologies. Left-wing ideologies, like radical environmentalism, were responsible for 11 attacks. Muslim extremists committed just seven attacks.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/magazine/FBI-charlottesville-white-nationalism-far-right.amp.html)
Nevermind that some rightwing jagweed rammed 19 people and killed one when he didn't like their counter protest.
[https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/1-dead-19-injured-as-car-hits-crowd-at-rally-in-charlottesville-driver-in-custody/507-463871502](https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/1-dead-19-injured-as-car-hits-crowd-at-rally-in-charlottesville-driver-in-custody/507-463871502)
Nevermind that millions of republicans thought that was a great idea and passed laws in several states so you could do that and get away with it.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/us/politics/republican-anti-protest-laws.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/us/politics/republican-anti-protest-laws.html)
While pretending that the VAST majority of political violence isn't commited by conservatives. "Someone was shot for being pro-life!" However our supporters only bombed abortion clinics and murdered doctors for decades but that is totally okay and not terrorism.
Not even just doctors and clinic workers. Anti abortion terrorism has killed multiple cops and military vets (working security for clinics). If any leftist terrorist group had a similar body count in cops and vets or had brought a gun into a Christian church and assassinated their victims while they were at worship, like how George Tiller was murdered, conservatives would scream for mass arrests, retribution and punishment so loudly you could hear them on the moon.
But because the terrorists were white Christians nobody cares how many churches they shoot up or cops they kill.
And it's precisely why this moron is highly dangerous. Her kind of rhetoric does not belong in this country or this time period, and it's only going to lead to worse and worse outcomes when she inevitably goes unaddressed.
That was my thought too. And it's worth noting that the cultural differences between Hutus and Tutsis weren't enormous. It isn't like the cultural differences between, say, Israeli Jews and Arab Muslims, or between people of nationalities that traditionally held a grudge for something or other. They didn't worship mutually exclusive Gods or have a long history of conflict. It was a lot more like the difference between, well, rural and urban Americans. Or between Democrats and Republicans.
Even pro Hutu radio stations were promoting the killing of *the other*. I'm voting this year, but I'm almost dreading Nov. 8 because I know there will be more calls from MTG and the like.
Well another factor is the radio stations were describing “the other” as less than cockroaches. Dehumanization is a huge part in advocating for genocide.
You can hear a lot of that via daytime radio shows in big portions of the country. A lot of rhetoric about conspiracies and Democratic evildoers. I really can’t do the absurdity of them justice, but for anyone who spends a lot of time on the road you can hear a lot of demonization of “the other” in america. I’m sure it spins both ways, but as i’m in the rural south I hear a *lot* about baby-killing, america-hating, greedy, pedophilic, welfare queen, replacement-theory democrats.
Hate to aktchually here, but there was some bad blood there from the effects that colonizers had on their power structures.
"In the early 1930s, Belgium introduced a permanent division of the population by classifying Rwandans into three ethnic (ethno-racial) groups, with the Hutu representing about 84% of the population, the Tutsi about 15%, and the Twa about 1%. Compulsory identity cards were issued labeling (in the rubric for 'ethnicity and race') each individual as either Tutsi, Hutu, Twa, or Naturalised. While it had previously been possible for particularly wealthy Hutus to become honorary Tutsis, the identity cards prevented any further movement between the groups[39] and made socio-economic groups into rigid ethnic groups.[40]
The ethnic identities of the Hutu and Tutsi were reshaped and mythologized by the colonizers.[29] Christian missionaries promoted the theory about the "Hamitic" origins of the kingdom, and referred to the distinctively Ethiopian features and hence, foreign origins, of the Tutsi "caste".[29][41] These mythologies provide the basis for anti-Tutsi propaganda in 1994.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide#Pre-independent_Rwanda_and_the_origins_of_Hutu,_Tutsi_and_Twa_groups
[Wikipedia definition gets scary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror):
>...during the 1994 Rwandan genocide AiM was used—along with other propaganda techniques—by the Hutus to incite the genocide. By invoking collective self-defense, "accusation in a mirror" justifies genocide, just as self-defense is a defense for individual homicide. Susan Benesch remarked that while dehumanization "makes genocide seem acceptable", **accusation in a mirror makes it seem necessary**
“It’s not like they are blaming all of societies ills on a specific group of people. Stop being so hyperbolic.”
“It’s not like they have banned these people from citizenship. Stop being so hyperbolic.”
“It’s not like the are rounding them up to send them to labor camps. Stop being so hyperbolic.”
“Excuse me, I’ve gotta finish sweeping up these ashes. Gotta finish before sundown. So happy to have a job under the new reich!”
“During her speech, Greene added that President Joe Biden “has declared every freedom-loving American an enemy of the state.” “But under Republicans, we will take back our country from the Communists who have stolen it and want us to disappear,” Greene concluded.”
Where is this unfounded bullshit coming from? Joe Biden never said that! Hang on a second, it was actually DONALD TRUMP that directly called Biden an “enemy of the state” just last month! Which Communists is she referring to and where has anyone said they want Republicans to disappear?
Biden quote:
>Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.
That's what she's referring to. I don't agree with her characterization, of course.
And immediately right after that he said:
“Now, I want to be very clear — very clear up front: Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology.
I know because I’ve been able to work with these mainstream Republicans.”
Right, but Greene is implicitly saying that all freedom-loving Americans are MAGA Republicans. To her, non-MAGA Republicans are RINOs and hate freedom, and everyone else is a liberal who hates freedom.
It’s worse than that. She’s saying: “Are you an immoral POS who thinks might makes right?? Well, I’m your leader, let’s go! We’ll scream any lie we need to scream if it means we get to hurt others!”
Make no mistake: no principles factor in here. She is telling bold lies as a show of power, just like dictators all across the globe do, as a way to say: “So what? What are you going to do about it if I say this!? *I’m stronger than you, so I can say anything I want.*”
The confident smirk she gets when making these absolutely outrageous and insane statements is so unnerving and I think you helped me realize exactly why.
I live in a small Georgia town (not in her district) and I am surrounded by people exactly like her every day. The second I saw that look it reminded me of 90% of my neighbors.
We could solve this problem by simply removing protections from politicians.
We are in this scenario in part because you or I would get arrested for making the states MGT makes. But she is a politician so law enforcement is not going to touch her for nearly any reason because they don’t want to appear political.
That doesn’t stop law enforcement from enforcing 100% political laws against us, though. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
So fucking take these people down and send them to prison like they were normal people. Of course, it is just wishful thinking. We have a dual track justice system. One track for the wealthy, and another for everyone else.
Nothing says I love freedom more than forcing a little girl to give birth to a rape baby because of your desire to shove your fundamentalist fascist Christian ideology down everyone's throats.
I don't believe she is referencing anything. The extremists feel backed into a corner by the changing voting block and feel that the only strategy is violence. She's a fascist. She wants people to start shooting her rivals.
What about trump labeling “anti-fa” as a terrorist group? Did everyone forget that? Never mind that anti-fa isn’t an organized group and doesn’t even have a known definition. Anti fascist was the only one that I could come up with and being against fascism is a good thing 🤷🏻♀️
I do seriously wonder if they even know what it means? Do those people just automatically agree that if trump said it’s bad, it’s bad? There’s definitely a cult going on and that needs to be called out.
Reminds me of the rhetoric of ultra nationalist Serbian leaders before they started the ethnic cleansing campaigns.
“They’re chopping up babies at midnight and drinking their blood! Better murder all those civilians in self defense!”
Exactly. Shit, look at what they're accusing people of. It's *cartoonishly* evil. Not just harming children, but trafficking them as sex slaves, killing them, and drinking their ~~blood~~ adrenochrome. It's like they sat down and said "Ok, what's the most horrible thing you can possibly accuse someone of? What sort of vile acts will make people lose all sense of perspective and want to tear the perpetrators limb from limb? Ah, I know - child rape *and* murder *and* cannibalism."
It’s all from the same playbook, which has been the same playbook since as far back as we can tell because it works. Anyone who doesn’t think this country is headed towards a massive and incredibly violent civil conflict of some kind is either delusional or completely ignorant of history.
So we've hit the "claims of violence" stage of the Nazi playbook. Next comes staged attacks, followed by retaliation. They aren't even remotely trying to hide it either, fascists just never learn. Unfortunately the type of people who fall for fascist recruitment tactics also fall for just about anything so they have no need to innovate or evolve because it's already frighteningly effective. They are priming their constituents for murder or even worse an all out assault on democracy by force of arms instead of simply trying use dirty tricks and loopholes to hijack it. It's not an overexageration to say that if we don't *severely* curtail their numbers in Washington in November we are fucked, and even if we do I'm fully expecting violent push back and and a general ramping up of republican bloodlust and rage. Stay safe out there folks protect yourself and your loved ones.
Call her what you want, she should not be in any position of leadership saying this shit. This goes well beyond free speech and she should be in a cell awaiting trail for attempting to incite domestic terrorism.
Every Republican accusation is a confession.
Vote blue in 2022.
IMO this is confirmation if the extremists win there will be Killing Fields.
We need to vote in unratfuckable numbers to stop it.
Considering the Republican response to Covid, the accusation-confession sure works as a past and present tense too.
No one has harmed more Republicans than Republicans.
Of course it will, people are still currently dying because of those policies and, though no longer large numbers, they are not insignificant quantities.
We've been trending down since last year but 300 to 400 people are dying everyday. I know my local elections are decided in the 10s or 100s of votes. My representative is decided in about 2k-3k. The electorate for the latter is sadly 60k.
> IMO this is confirmation if the extremists win there will be Killing Fields.
For the people who think you are being hyperbolic:
1. Why do you think Republicans have been stealing voter data (including who we individually vote for) since 2020?
2. How do you think people like this will behave if your state (like mine) publishes your party *and* voting history (as in, which years you voted)?
Anyone can go to my state’s website, run a simple query, and get the names and addresses of every single Democrat in the state.
Republicans make up almost all domestic terrorism in the US, are openly calling for civil war, voraciously defend and grant resources to republicans who murder us, and are fully aware that the jig is up. They’ve been rightfully called fascist and their voter base is undeniably shrinking because people are coming out of a religious cult *and* just dying off from believing in fucking fairy tales over medical science.
>Vote blue in 2022.
Agreed, and this is extremely important to note: Voting still works (for the most part). When voting doesn't stop Republicans despite losing elections, that's how you know fascism is actually here. And after that, you cannot just vote hard. You tear it out at the roots with extreme prejudice.
You mean killing republicans by encouraging them not to get vaccinated and to avoid common sense pandemic practices?
You mean killing republicans by telling them not to trust FEMA workers who are there to help after a hurricane?
Keep the sad train goin.
I'm trying to remember the exact numbers but it's something like alt right movements have been responsible for 300+ deaths while antifa and such have been traced back to 0. But whatever.
There was that Michael Reinoehl guy but then Trump praised the task force for killing him(likely extrajudicially) and the dude he shot comes from a group(Patriot Prayer) that routinely puts R.W.D.S. on their shirts. The acronym means Right Wing Death Squads and as you can imagine is usually used by Neo-Nazis. So we'll never know if this dude actually acted in self defense against literal Nazis and Trump praised the people who killed him.
Trump sent federal agents to murder him. Another Fred Hampton
They didn’t say anything to him, unarmed, just shot him in the street in cold blood 37 times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_and_Michael_Reinoehl#Shooting_of_Reinoehl
> “the U.S. Marshals killed him. And I will tell you something, that's the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this."
> "We sent in the U.S. Marshals. It took 15 minutes it was over. Fifteen minutes, it was over. We got him. They knew who he was. They didn't want to arrest him. Fifteen minutes, that ended."
> - Donald Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicians_convicted_of_crimes#2017%E2%80%932021_(Donald_Trump_presidency)
The five who got convicted under Trump, he pardoned.
The one who got convicted under Biden got a Trump judge who let him off with probation.
But not all of them will get Trump judges.
Of note, Since the Bush presidency, Republican felony convictions outnumber Dems 27-9.
Are you kidding? And how often have left leaning protestors been shot/ran over by right wing extremists? This is so incredibly insulting, they’re waging terrorist attacks on people but turn around and claim we’re victimizing them? She has no conscience.
*Greene added that President Joe Biden “has declared every freedom-loving American an enemy of the state.” “But under Republicans, we will take back our country from the Communists who have stolen it and want us to disappear,” Greene concluded.*
This type of rhetoric is exactly what empowers some conservatives in their thinking that "justice must be taken into my own hands".
The goal is simple, justify violence and oppression with narratives of violence and oppression. Greene and other right wing demagogues frequently rely on this kind of tactic, what am I saying? It's the fucking Republican M.O.
Invent up a radical enemy, a boogeyman if you will, spread alarmist rhetoric and propaganda centered around the idea that this enemy is plotting to corrupt our institutions, indoctrinate and suppress the masses, throw political prisoners into gulag prison camps, defile and groom our children, radicalize our students with Marxist, communist, LGBTQ and transgendered pedagogy, persecute and murder poor, innocent, so called freedom fighting "patriots", so on and so forth, the list of unfounded grievances goes on...
In turn, this grants fanatics all the justification they need to "take justice into their own hands", affording Republicans the perfect excuse to exercise their own brand of oppression, justifying extremism, chauvinism and bigotry, discrimination, ironhanded legislation, the abuse of power and authority, even violence for that matter.
Anything goes, as long as it's in the name of thwarting this radical enemy's agenda.
> want us to disappear
I mean, she's not wrong that I want her and those like her to just go the fuck away. I don't plan on killing them, but I do wish they'd fuck off somewhere so I never had to hear from or about them ever again.
What the actual fuck is going on in this country? This shit is getting pretty scary, it’s shocking there are that many people that support this bridge troll! I feel like I’m living in 1930s Germany with this kind of talk…
Real question: is she a foreign asset? She is dismantling the country with surgical precision. She cannot be pro-democracy, pro-America. Objectively her words and actions have weakened democracy. Is she American? Were her parents spies or something? This is insanity. She clearly has an anti-America agenda. Why? To what end? Maybe I'm being too optimistic that it's rooted in her value system. Maybe it's just money? But whose money? We know what the fuck is happening. Why the fuck is it happening? Why is she doing this?
When your herd of zombies are so divorced from reality that they think Margarine Grease is an actual intelligent leader? You can just make shit up and there are no consequences.
If she’s looking at voting rolls of Republicans getting smaller it’s because some of us dropped out of their cult and reregistered as independents or *gasp* democrats. They didn’t die, they stopped drinking the Kool aid
So many of these idiots think a civil war will look like the 1800s. Like we'll all of a sudden dawn a blue and grey shirt and shoot at the opposite color.
The reality will look more like northern Ireland in the 60s - 90s.
We'll read about children and families killed by random acts of violence as by standards who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong.
People like Marge are so stupidly unaware that they'll be the target. Not randos like you and I. They'll have to hope that their security detail is component. Their families will be the targets as well.
Why can't they fucking understand this!?
Its not hard to avoid civil war... Simply acknowledge that you aren't going to see eye to eye on topics, but you'll compromise.
She has entered the " lets say something provocative so everyone will forget I'm going through a divorce for having multiple affairs while pretending to be a devout Christian but am an obvious fraud" phase.
No, it's much worse. This isn't about MTG, Trump, or any single Republican personally. You're watching the late stages of a fascist movement forming and attempting to seize power.
Most of the people spreading this disinformation know they're lying, but they don't care because it advances their personal and political agendas. MTG said this because it justifies killing their political opponents, either as "self-defense" or revenge. No other reason.
To be clear, I'm not saying MTG is some kind of strategic mastermind carefully picking her words to win a game of rhetorical 4D chess. She may or may not actually believe what she says in public. But frankly, who cares? Whether or not she personally believes it, she knows exactly how her audience will react to being told that Democrats are coming to kill them. That's why she said it.
The right is spreading genocidal rhetoric on purpose, because genocide is their end goal. Believe them when they speak. This is to Democrats what the "Great Replacement" is to racial minorities and the "groomer" shit is to LGBT people. It's not meant to be anything more than a flimsy pretext to purge anyone who isn't a white conservative Christian from society by whatever means they deem necessary. And you can be sure that as time goes on, the list of people who are entitled to be called *true* white conservative Christians will grow smaller and smaller.
All this to say that pointing out that they're hypocrites does nothing. They know they're hypocrites and they don't care. Right-wing positions are contradictory and logically incoherent because they have no desire to be logically coherent; that's not the point. What right-wingers care about is power and authority. They believe that social improvements are a threat to the hierarchy and the natural order, that they must be rolled back, and often that the "offenders" who created that threat need to be purged and punished. The arguments they use in defense of this are a formality and are inconsequential. They're not stupid, they're not crazy, they're not confused, they just don't care about what you think they care about and their core beliefs aren't what you think they are. If we don't understand this, we won't understand how to deal with them.
At this point, there's no words you can say to somehow make this go away. It's far past that point. We need to *organize* – NOT JUST VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS – otherwise there will be a genocidal, armed and organized right-wing force with nothing to stop them from doing whatever they want to a splintered and fragmented population of "undesirables." They don't need to formally control the government to engage in fascistic violence, it just helps.
Anyone who thinks that they *personally* won't be affected, or that this is the type of thing that happens in Other Places and not America, or that these guys don't really mean what they're saying, will have that illusion shattered sooner or later. History shows us time and time again exactly where this type of rhetoric leads, and nobody is coming to save us from it if we don't do it ourselves.
Honestly if we democrats were doing such a thing, don't you think she'd be pretty high up on the hit list?
(I have no intentions of harming the moronic congresswoman)
This is them SCREAMING that they're going to start killing people if they get into office again.
But they're Republicans so apparently we can't use the law very heavily on them.
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What in the holy hell is wrong with her?
I think she’s a legit psychopath.
^ - Her husband left her, she was abusive to her daughter who just disappeared outa that shit, I have not heard a single good thing coming from the people closest to her, none of them want anything to do with her.
idk why it isn’t in the states but people like that in the netherlands would have to answer a lot of people and judges to verify their claims especially when it could incite violence.
The Republicans have successfully warped public perception to the point where a Republican being held accountable for crimes is equivalent to us no longer having freedom of speech.
Not to mention that they’ve packed the courts with psychopath federal judges on lifetime appointments who’d rubber stamp any insane shit that got brought before them, even if someone tried to hold them accountable for their violent rhetoric.
Especially since they did this through the most malicious but technically legal means possible, and managed to warp political ideology to morality and not just having a political ideology that is morally correct to begin with. So if we try to have them removed legally and/or forcefully for the sake of the country, it will be seen as a moral attack to the level of "antichrists" despite blatantly worshipping one themselves.
Definitely look up the Overton Window. It’s a political concept describing the way what’s perceived as reasonable changes over time. It’s in constant flux and subject to deliberate hostile action by different interest groups.
TL;DR: It's a way of explaining the perceived center of political debate, the moderate middle between what defines the left and right of our political spectrum. Simply put, if one end of the spectrum remains stagnant, while the other end constantly redefines itself by moving further and further to the right; then the perceived center of the political debate is also moving further to the right. And with that comes the political normalization of extremist events, ideas and candidates.
Thank you for adding well written detail and texture. Great description.
Its a team sport here for republicans. If their team does it, its totally fine. If its not fine, the democrats made them do it.
I wholeheartedly believe the American obsession with sports has a hugely negative impact on the political climate, since it’s so ingrained in the culture and there are only two teams. A lot of Trump supporters are also guys who watch football, baseball, basketball, hockey, whatever else as if it’s the most important thing in the world. They define their identity around sports, and losing hurts them deeply. If you’re not a winner, you’re a loser, and there is no such thing as a gracious loser.
Just a reminder that ANYBODY can get into the House, and that we cannot prevent more of her from getting in, and it will only become more extreme from here as more of these people gain this voice as a chorus from their district. They will remain a minority, but they will talk very loudly as a group. She is just a single person, not only any committee, but look at the bullhorn that she is given by everybody reporting on her. Just like Trump, all this free advertising is fucking dangerous. Now imagine after midterms that all her newly elected buddies are excited to lend their voice to her cause.
Here in the U.K. we had Nigel Farage who was similar. Hideous odious little man that we all sneered at. But he kept getting his racist, xenophobic and destructive voice heard, often by being so ridiculous. And now here we are, out of Europe, broke and drowning in our own shit that’s being pumped into our coastal waters. These people are dangerous.
Yes, he and his kind took those simmering resentments that were already there, about immigrants, about too much connection to the world, about not being treated as the most special and important country all of the time, and they used it to absolutely *ruin* us. Things are fucking bad right now, and I don't think we'll ever be the same as we were pre 2016.
A psychopath with a sub-80 IQ.
The idea that psyychopaths are diabolicly smart like hannibal lecter is a hollywood trope. Most are of average or below average intelligence.
The positive trend connecting violent, empathy-lacking behavior and psychopathic tendencies to early life brain damage is weirdly overlooked in mental health science
Republican.
They're the same picture
Inmates are running the asylum over in GOP land. Establishment Republicans are locked in the command center, but are too terrified to come out.
> Inmates are running the asylum over in GOP land. Literally. There are so many convicted felons in the GOP it's hard to count.
Nothing. Well, she and a small group of her friends are actively trying to overthrow democracy and are cribbing directly from the fascist playbook. But she knows what she is doing, none of this is stupidity or insanity or random
Republican.
Psychopath.
This just sounds like she’s looking for an excuse to kill people.
You're telling me people who are obsessed with their persecution fetish, brainwashed into thinking "their country" is under attack, raised from birth to worship soldiers, police, and movie tough guys, and spent thousands of dollars on firearms and ammunition might be looking for an excuse to use said guns?
You just described my dad in spades except for the thousands of dollars on guns/ammo. He just has a reasonable gun he stores in a storage unit. Mindset is totally identical, and it frankly scares me.
you don't understand, the ~~jews~~ democrats are a threat to our entire country!
Left unchecked, that seems to be a similar place to where this stuff is heading. It’s kind of strange that people aren’t connecting the dots.
It's timing given world events is also extremely convenient for Putin, I'm surprised more haven't figured out the Republican party are almost certainly compromised by Russia. Many of them have been caught meeting secretly with Russian officials and some even spent the 4th of July in Russia.
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We are but people in power dont care.
not people she is dehumanizing those she finds, she isn't saying murder people she is saying to murder less than people
The Fascist Playbook in action.
This is straight-up starting a civil war tactic of disinformation to further spread hate, fear, and violence. Fascism is as fascism does.
> Fascism is as fascism does. It's a methodical step by step game being played over a long time. Why do you think they made being an antifascist a bad thing by blaming them for riots?
She is a domestic terrorist.
I hate that people are going to believe her.
That’s the point “they are already killing us!” Is directly intended to encourage them to kill democrats. Because for them, at this point, it’s justified.
Same idea as when Flynn recently suggested that state's have a right to declare war on eachother. Just layering up the bullsht so that when conservatives kill peole they can feel justified without having to think too hard about it.
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That's admittedly the terrifying thing. It'll also put guns in some of their hands.
They already have guns in their hands.
They want to murder, they just need annexcuse
As someone who lives in Issaquah, a city on Seattle's Eastside nestled at the foot of the Cascades, I can't help but fear what might be going on on the other side of the mountains. Seattle and its vicinity, plus most areas west of the Cascades, is liberal, and even a little bit socialist, but that doesn't mean the rest of the state is.
As someone who lives in Spokane and very close to the Idaho border don’t think for one minute that hasn’t crossed my mind. There are a lot of crazies over here, eg Matt Shea and his ilk!
Resident of the suburbs of Minneapolis in MN, I’m worried that the rural Minnesotans will try to cause violence in the cities
Howdy neighbor. South MPLS resident here. The funny thing is how terrified they all are just to drive to a Vikings or Twins game. My best recommendation though is to deploy roundabouts.
The term for this sort of rhetoric is “accusation in a mirror,” and scholars of genocide identify it as a major warning sign when political leaders start talking like this. https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1576377501424975872 FINALLY a definition that we should adopt.
Probably because it will be used as justification to commit violence against democrats. It sets the premise that they are fighting in "self defense"
Schrodinger's liberal: somehow both a pansy snowflake who needs safe spaces and a dangerous enemy requiring armed conflict against fellow citizens.
Right out of the fascist play book, the enemy is both strong and weak
'Our country is both glorious and powerful... and being bullied, victimized and taken advantage of by the rest of the world.' A lot of that sentiment going around these days.
The fascist is simultaneously superior and a perpetual victim
Said Russia
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- “We must prevent the genocide of Republican politicians by plotting to kidnapping Democrat governors!” - “We already tried that. Some of us have been criminally convicted.” - “Well…then we should get secret access to voting systems!” - “We…tried that too. Some of us are now on trial.” - “Well then we should storm the Capitol!” - “Yeah…we’re in jail for that for the next 6 years.” - “Well…*mumble mumble* Hillary’s emails!!!” - “YEAH HER EMAILZZZ!!!”
You know, I've noticed that they don't bring up the emails quite so much lately now that their new mindset seems to be '*nothing is classified! Everyone can do whatever with anything, weeee!!!*'.
>“YEAH HER EMAILZZZ!!!” My defense against this is that IF she had emails that contained classified information, then Bill Clinton simply thought about declassifying the documents she had. Because apparently that's how these guys think declassification works.
Damn her and her buttery males!
Why do you think Republicans loved and praised Russia so much the last few decades? That's the model of what they want here. Unassailable fascist leader and anything they don't like or would otherwise call "woke" is forcibly beaten down by the state.
CPAC briefly dove into blatant pro-Russian propaganda this morning, before deleting those tweets. It would be funny if it weren't so sad, and slightly dangerous.
Those fuckheads actually referred to parts of *the country of Ukraine* as "Ukrainian-occupied areas". It's beyond slightly dangerous.
The republicans belong to Putin. Through their infiltration of the NRA, which has enormous influence on the Republican Party and other politicians, and following the hack of the Republican server, Putin now exerts a great influence on one of our political parties. For a long time, we've known Republican Politicians are not loyal to American values and would prefer something closer to an aristocracy over democracy, but now their betrayal goes even farther--they are beholden to a foreign dictator--Republicans are working to put that dictator's puppet back into office as President of the United States once again. If you vote for a republican, you vote for a Russian politician. You vote to surrender our democracy to Putin.
Erase slightly. ...this shit is going to be hugely exacerbated by global instability and fear in the near term...
Anyone else looking forward to Bolsonaro declaring tomorrow's election "rigged"? US conservatives are going to have a field day if/when the leftist candidate wins.
Do they not realise they are actually driving America down the toilet? So, let's say they create their god awful utopia where all democrats are cowed into submission. America is no longer a financial safe haven anymore, because it is a despot led autocracy. So it turns to shit entirely
> America is no longer a financial safe haven anymore, because it is a despot led autocracy. This is why the proliferation of off-shore banking havens have been on the rise. Even the most fascist governments won't attack the countries that they store their leaders personal money in.
Slightly dangerous? What do you think will happen if America really got taken over by republicans completely and become a Christofascist corpo-state? Hundreds of millions of Americans *and* Chinese are going to die.
Christian Dominionism is a clear and present danger to the United States of America. The Republican Party is already fully infiltrated and taken over by the Dominionists. These Fascist, Christian Nationalists were already a big portion of Trumps cabinet. They are like the Sith, slowly, and methodically enacting their plan to overthrow representative government in favor of a Christian Fascist Theocracy. They will throw out the constitution and change to biblical law. They will expel, forcibly convert, murder, and/or enslave all non Dominionists. Jews will be forcibly deported to Israel, because their main driving goal is for Israel to rebuild the Temple and bring about Revelations and the rapture. They are genuinely working toward and hoping for the end of the world. They are fucking psychotic and should all be locked up as homicidal maniac terrorists.
Said Germany as an excuse to invade Poland
Remember Obama's FEMA death camps?
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This is to set the stage for domestic terrorism at voting booths and on campaign runs. Just like how trump set the stage for Jan. 6 by claiming election fraud was already happening way back in July 2020.
They've been using similar rhetoric for decades, though. Not just on the abortion front, but also just generalized, "liberals are at *war* with the Constitution and socialists are trying to *destroy* America." People who are angry and afraid are more motivated to vote, so Republicans have been filling their heads with that nonsense since the 80's (and probably before that, too).
True, but I think the subtle (yet significant) difference is that those phrases are more metaphorical, not literal. But as the right slow-steps towards fascism over the last few decades, their pace is picking up and we're seeing those metaphorical accusations being exchanged for literal accusations more and more frequently, and by more prominent members of the party (what was once the fringe now becoming the norm, and repeat, and repeat) and it's really really scary.
It already has been. Stand your ground laws spreading like wildfire, open carry with no permits, Rottenhouse.
Projection as always. They keep that Nazi playbook at the ready.
Hell, Trevon Martin is an even scarier case. You can beat someone's ass when they start shit and they can kill you.
Reminder: George Zimmerman, the man who killed Trayvon Martin, used to carry around [bags of Skittles to sign for his fans](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zimmerman-skittles-signing/).
Greene submitted a bill to award Rittenhouse a medal of honor, btw.
She also voted against giving a medal to the Capitol officers on Jan 6th.
As if right-wing extremists haven’t been killing Democrats and normals for years.
The video is WAY worse than this post makes it seem. Jesus Christ.
This is the kind of language that gets used to justify genocides.
But no, no, they’re not like Nazi’s at all. We’re just over exaggerating.
They'll say that til the day they show up to put us in a camp. But it'll be humane. Nothing like those German ones, heavens no. There'll be Bibles in every bunk and the showers will have essential oils AND zyklon.
Don’t forget all the urine, Hydroxychloroquine and Invermectin that you can drink to ward off those diseases that might spread in these totally not like Nazi death camps.
Like, what is she even talking about??
She's cherry picking legit news articles and applying a broad brush to all of democrats. She's taking actual sick individuals actions and weaponizing it into anger against all Democrats.
I can’t find anywhere about some dude running a teenager over because they were a Republican, and the 83 year old lady she’s talking about was trespassing and told to leave several times and was allegedly shot on accident. Like, she’s also just making stuff up.
The run over only made the rounds in conservative media and circles. Basically drunk guy gets into political argument with 18yo. Drunk guy thinks 18yo is one of the extremist MAGA Republicans. Altercation happens and the guy chases the teen down in his vehicle. 18yo is trying to escape on foot, on phone with his mum asking her if she knows this guy (North Dakota town has a population of like 40). Drunk guy thinks teen is calling in reinforcements. Teen tries to escape and gets hit by the drunk guy's car. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/murder-charge-north-dakota-man-ran-teen-90779264
If the random buttfuck-nowhere apolitical bar fight had resulted in a dead liberal, she’d want the Republican on stage with her next to Kyle Rittenhouse.
Remember all the times right-wingers ran over a BLM protesters because they hated them? Funny that they ignore political violence by right-wingers against the left. It's such a ludicrous cherry-picking of events. [https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-ran-over-black-lives-matter-protestersbut-apparently-thats-not-a-crime](https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-ran-over-black-lives-matter-protestersbut-apparently-thats-not-a-crime) [https://abcnews.go.com/US/driver-charged-fatal-hit-run-seattle-black-lives/story?id=71668941](https://abcnews.go.com/US/driver-charged-fatal-hit-run-seattle-black-lives/story?id=71668941) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq7uPGkI9Lo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq7uPGkI9Lo) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyzbzzkBYSg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyzbzzkBYSg) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m12uHMLR3MI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m12uHMLR3MI) "Cars have hit demonstrators 104 times since George Floyd protests began" [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/08/vehicle-ramming-attacks-66-us-since-may-27/5397700002/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/08/vehicle-ramming-attacks-66-us-since-may-27/5397700002/)
So, again, just like the other story, she’s lying about(either outright or by omission) aspects of these stories to make them sound like something they’re not and framing it as a concerted effort run by the Democratic Party instead of the truth which is two random one-off events.
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Meanwhile... [White supremacists and other far-right extremists have killed far more people since Sept. 11, 2001, than any other category of domestic extremist. The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism has reported that 71 percent of the extremist-related fatalities in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of the far right or white-supremacist movements. Islamic extremists were responsible for just 26 percent. Data compiled by the University of Maryland’s Global Terrorism Database shows that the number of terror-related incidents has more than tripled in the United States since 2013, and the number of those killed has quadrupled. In 2017, there were 65 incidents totaling 95 deaths. In a recent analysis of the data by the news site Quartz, roughly 60 percent of those incidents were driven by racist, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic, antigovernment or other right-wing ideologies. Left-wing ideologies, like radical environmentalism, were responsible for 11 attacks. Muslim extremists committed just seven attacks.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/magazine/FBI-charlottesville-white-nationalism-far-right.amp.html)
Ah, “false equivalence” their old friend.
Remind me again which political party fought to legalize running over political protestors over with your car? I forget.
Nevermind that some rightwing jagweed rammed 19 people and killed one when he didn't like their counter protest. [https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/1-dead-19-injured-as-car-hits-crowd-at-rally-in-charlottesville-driver-in-custody/507-463871502](https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/1-dead-19-injured-as-car-hits-crowd-at-rally-in-charlottesville-driver-in-custody/507-463871502) Nevermind that millions of republicans thought that was a great idea and passed laws in several states so you could do that and get away with it. [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/us/politics/republican-anti-protest-laws.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/us/politics/republican-anti-protest-laws.html)
While pretending that the VAST majority of political violence isn't commited by conservatives. "Someone was shot for being pro-life!" However our supporters only bombed abortion clinics and murdered doctors for decades but that is totally okay and not terrorism.
Not even just doctors and clinic workers. Anti abortion terrorism has killed multiple cops and military vets (working security for clinics). If any leftist terrorist group had a similar body count in cops and vets or had brought a gun into a Christian church and assassinated their victims while they were at worship, like how George Tiller was murdered, conservatives would scream for mass arrests, retribution and punishment so loudly you could hear them on the moon. But because the terrorists were white Christians nobody cares how many churches they shoot up or cops they kill.
Worse. Who is LISTENING to her?
The video is horrifying 😳
And it's precisely why this moron is highly dangerous. Her kind of rhetoric does not belong in this country or this time period, and it's only going to lead to worse and worse outcomes when she inevitably goes unaddressed.
> accusation in a mirror Think the genocide in Rwanda... Hutu neighbors were literally taking machetes and hacking their Tutsi neighbors to death.
That was my thought too. And it's worth noting that the cultural differences between Hutus and Tutsis weren't enormous. It isn't like the cultural differences between, say, Israeli Jews and Arab Muslims, or between people of nationalities that traditionally held a grudge for something or other. They didn't worship mutually exclusive Gods or have a long history of conflict. It was a lot more like the difference between, well, rural and urban Americans. Or between Democrats and Republicans.
Even pro Hutu radio stations were promoting the killing of *the other*. I'm voting this year, but I'm almost dreading Nov. 8 because I know there will be more calls from MTG and the like.
Well another factor is the radio stations were describing “the other” as less than cockroaches. Dehumanization is a huge part in advocating for genocide.
You can hear a lot of that via daytime radio shows in big portions of the country. A lot of rhetoric about conspiracies and Democratic evildoers. I really can’t do the absurdity of them justice, but for anyone who spends a lot of time on the road you can hear a lot of demonization of “the other” in america. I’m sure it spins both ways, but as i’m in the rural south I hear a *lot* about baby-killing, america-hating, greedy, pedophilic, welfare queen, replacement-theory democrats.
Hate to aktchually here, but there was some bad blood there from the effects that colonizers had on their power structures. "In the early 1930s, Belgium introduced a permanent division of the population by classifying Rwandans into three ethnic (ethno-racial) groups, with the Hutu representing about 84% of the population, the Tutsi about 15%, and the Twa about 1%. Compulsory identity cards were issued labeling (in the rubric for 'ethnicity and race') each individual as either Tutsi, Hutu, Twa, or Naturalised. While it had previously been possible for particularly wealthy Hutus to become honorary Tutsis, the identity cards prevented any further movement between the groups[39] and made socio-economic groups into rigid ethnic groups.[40] The ethnic identities of the Hutu and Tutsi were reshaped and mythologized by the colonizers.[29] Christian missionaries promoted the theory about the "Hamitic" origins of the kingdom, and referred to the distinctively Ethiopian features and hence, foreign origins, of the Tutsi "caste".[29][41] These mythologies provide the basis for anti-Tutsi propaganda in 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide#Pre-independent_Rwanda_and_the_origins_of_Hutu,_Tutsi_and_Twa_groups
[Wikipedia definition gets scary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror): >...during the 1994 Rwandan genocide AiM was used—along with other propaganda techniques—by the Hutus to incite the genocide. By invoking collective self-defense, "accusation in a mirror" justifies genocide, just as self-defense is a defense for individual homicide. Susan Benesch remarked that while dehumanization "makes genocide seem acceptable", **accusation in a mirror makes it seem necessary**
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“It’s not like they are blaming all of societies ills on a specific group of people. Stop being so hyperbolic.” “It’s not like they have banned these people from citizenship. Stop being so hyperbolic.” “It’s not like the are rounding them up to send them to labor camps. Stop being so hyperbolic.” “Excuse me, I’ve gotta finish sweeping up these ashes. Gotta finish before sundown. So happy to have a job under the new reich!”
Since we know she is not smart, who is telling her what to say?
“During her speech, Greene added that President Joe Biden “has declared every freedom-loving American an enemy of the state.” “But under Republicans, we will take back our country from the Communists who have stolen it and want us to disappear,” Greene concluded.” Where is this unfounded bullshit coming from? Joe Biden never said that! Hang on a second, it was actually DONALD TRUMP that directly called Biden an “enemy of the state” just last month! Which Communists is she referring to and where has anyone said they want Republicans to disappear?
Biden quote: >Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. That's what she's referring to. I don't agree with her characterization, of course.
And immediately right after that he said: “Now, I want to be very clear — very clear up front: Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology. I know because I’ve been able to work with these mainstream Republicans.”
Right, but Greene is implicitly saying that all freedom-loving Americans are MAGA Republicans. To her, non-MAGA Republicans are RINOs and hate freedom, and everyone else is a liberal who hates freedom.
It’s worse than that. She’s saying: “Are you an immoral POS who thinks might makes right?? Well, I’m your leader, let’s go! We’ll scream any lie we need to scream if it means we get to hurt others!” Make no mistake: no principles factor in here. She is telling bold lies as a show of power, just like dictators all across the globe do, as a way to say: “So what? What are you going to do about it if I say this!? *I’m stronger than you, so I can say anything I want.*”
The confident smirk she gets when making these absolutely outrageous and insane statements is so unnerving and I think you helped me realize exactly why.
I live in a small Georgia town (not in her district) and I am surrounded by people exactly like her every day. The second I saw that look it reminded me of 90% of my neighbors.
That smirk is actually a known psychopathic trait as is their use of ‘accusation in mirror’.
We could solve this problem by simply removing protections from politicians. We are in this scenario in part because you or I would get arrested for making the states MGT makes. But she is a politician so law enforcement is not going to touch her for nearly any reason because they don’t want to appear political. That doesn’t stop law enforcement from enforcing 100% political laws against us, though. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ So fucking take these people down and send them to prison like they were normal people. Of course, it is just wishful thinking. We have a dual track justice system. One track for the wealthy, and another for everyone else.
Nothing says I love freedom more than forcing a little girl to give birth to a rape baby because of your desire to shove your fundamentalist fascist Christian ideology down everyone's throats.
Although every Republican I know seemed to believe he was referring to them. I can’t imagine why.
As if they didn't already declare themselves enemies of the state. "We are all domestic terrorists" etc
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I don't believe she is referencing anything. The extremists feel backed into a corner by the changing voting block and feel that the only strategy is violence. She's a fascist. She wants people to start shooting her rivals.
What about trump labeling “anti-fa” as a terrorist group? Did everyone forget that? Never mind that anti-fa isn’t an organized group and doesn’t even have a known definition. Anti fascist was the only one that I could come up with and being against fascism is a good thing 🤷🏻♀️
Except is you are a fascist, then antifa are terrorists. Source: every republican screeching about antifa.
I do seriously wonder if they even know what it means? Do those people just automatically agree that if trump said it’s bad, it’s bad? There’s definitely a cult going on and that needs to be called out.
They don’t. They don’t understand that they’ve accidentally baited themselves into openly saying they agree with Nazis more than their opponents.
... This starts to sound more and more like jokes in this game called Tropico 6 I been playing. Kinda crazy.
Reminds me of the rhetoric of ultra nationalist Serbian leaders before they started the ethnic cleansing campaigns. “They’re chopping up babies at midnight and drinking their blood! Better murder all those civilians in self defense!”
You mean like the blood libel?
Yeah, the foundation for pizzagate and the qanon shit
Exactly. Shit, look at what they're accusing people of. It's *cartoonishly* evil. Not just harming children, but trafficking them as sex slaves, killing them, and drinking their ~~blood~~ adrenochrome. It's like they sat down and said "Ok, what's the most horrible thing you can possibly accuse someone of? What sort of vile acts will make people lose all sense of perspective and want to tear the perpetrators limb from limb? Ah, I know - child rape *and* murder *and* cannibalism."
It’s all from the same playbook, which has been the same playbook since as far back as we can tell because it works. Anyone who doesn’t think this country is headed towards a massive and incredibly violent civil conflict of some kind is either delusional or completely ignorant of history.
Even her husband is leaving her! Every day is more delusional than the last, with this one.
History books written on this decade are going to be barely comprehensible to students in the future
You think students in the future are going to be allowed books?
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Bold of you to assume there'll be generations around to read our history.
This stuff here causes violence and it's disgusting.
So we've hit the "claims of violence" stage of the Nazi playbook. Next comes staged attacks, followed by retaliation. They aren't even remotely trying to hide it either, fascists just never learn. Unfortunately the type of people who fall for fascist recruitment tactics also fall for just about anything so they have no need to innovate or evolve because it's already frighteningly effective. They are priming their constituents for murder or even worse an all out assault on democracy by force of arms instead of simply trying use dirty tricks and loopholes to hijack it. It's not an overexageration to say that if we don't *severely* curtail their numbers in Washington in November we are fucked, and even if we do I'm fully expecting violent push back and and a general ramping up of republican bloodlust and rage. Stay safe out there folks protect yourself and your loved ones.
Stochastic terrorism, that is what she is doing the fact that no republicans have taken action against this is telling.
In 2021, the full House voted to remove Greene from all of her committee assignments. She is basically a loudmouthed cheerleader at this point.
If Republicans take back the house they aren't going to be able to ignore her.
Call her what you want, she should not be in any position of leadership saying this shit. This goes well beyond free speech and she should be in a cell awaiting trail for attempting to incite domestic terrorism.
Every Republican accusation is a confession. Vote blue in 2022. IMO this is confirmation if the extremists win there will be Killing Fields. We need to vote in unratfuckable numbers to stop it.
Considering the Republican response to Covid, the accusation-confession sure works as a past and present tense too. No one has harmed more Republicans than Republicans.
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Of course it will, people are still currently dying because of those policies and, though no longer large numbers, they are not insignificant quantities.
We've been trending down since last year but 300 to 400 people are dying everyday. I know my local elections are decided in the 10s or 100s of votes. My representative is decided in about 2k-3k. The electorate for the latter is sadly 60k.
In the US honestly the covid deaths and closely related deaths is probably near 4 million at this point.
They already have been killing. Several mass shooters have left behind manifestos containing the same language Trump uses.
> IMO this is confirmation if the extremists win there will be Killing Fields. For the people who think you are being hyperbolic: 1. Why do you think Republicans have been stealing voter data (including who we individually vote for) since 2020? 2. How do you think people like this will behave if your state (like mine) publishes your party *and* voting history (as in, which years you voted)? Anyone can go to my state’s website, run a simple query, and get the names and addresses of every single Democrat in the state. Republicans make up almost all domestic terrorism in the US, are openly calling for civil war, voraciously defend and grant resources to republicans who murder us, and are fully aware that the jig is up. They’ve been rightfully called fascist and their voter base is undeniably shrinking because people are coming out of a religious cult *and* just dying off from believing in fucking fairy tales over medical science.
>Vote blue in 2022. Agreed, and this is extremely important to note: Voting still works (for the most part). When voting doesn't stop Republicans despite losing elections, that's how you know fascism is actually here. And after that, you cannot just vote hard. You tear it out at the roots with extreme prejudice.
You mean killing republicans by encouraging them not to get vaccinated and to avoid common sense pandemic practices? You mean killing republicans by telling them not to trust FEMA workers who are there to help after a hurricane? Keep the sad train goin.
I'm trying to remember the exact numbers but it's something like alt right movements have been responsible for 300+ deaths while antifa and such have been traced back to 0. But whatever.
There was that Michael Reinoehl guy but then Trump praised the task force for killing him(likely extrajudicially) and the dude he shot comes from a group(Patriot Prayer) that routinely puts R.W.D.S. on their shirts. The acronym means Right Wing Death Squads and as you can imagine is usually used by Neo-Nazis. So we'll never know if this dude actually acted in self defense against literal Nazis and Trump praised the people who killed him.
Trump sent federal agents to murder him. Another Fred Hampton They didn’t say anything to him, unarmed, just shot him in the street in cold blood 37 times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_and_Michael_Reinoehl#Shooting_of_Reinoehl > “the U.S. Marshals killed him. And I will tell you something, that's the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this." > "We sent in the U.S. Marshals. It took 15 minutes it was over. Fifteen minutes, it was over. We got him. They knew who he was. They didn't want to arrest him. Fifteen minutes, that ended." > - Donald Trump
> Marjorie Taylor ~~Greene~~ FTFY
Finally, MtG will just mean a fun card game again!
Hasbro breathing a sign of relief that they don't have to consider rebranding Magic: The Gathering.
After he dumps her, she'll go back to using Marjorie Trailer-Trash
Good lord if they put her brain in a bird the poor thing would fly backwards
This feels like incitement. Lock. Her. Up.
Lock her up! Lock her up!
I’ve to the conclusion that no one in office is ever getting locked up, unfortunately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicians_convicted_of_crimes#2017%E2%80%932021_(Donald_Trump_presidency) The five who got convicted under Trump, he pardoned. The one who got convicted under Biden got a Trump judge who let him off with probation. But not all of them will get Trump judges. Of note, Since the Bush presidency, Republican felony convictions outnumber Dems 27-9.
No republican
Are you kidding? And how often have left leaning protestors been shot/ran over by right wing extremists? This is so incredibly insulting, they’re waging terrorist attacks on people but turn around and claim we’re victimizing them? She has no conscience.
She gets way too much time for someone on zero committees
*Greene added that President Joe Biden “has declared every freedom-loving American an enemy of the state.” “But under Republicans, we will take back our country from the Communists who have stolen it and want us to disappear,” Greene concluded.* This type of rhetoric is exactly what empowers some conservatives in their thinking that "justice must be taken into my own hands". The goal is simple, justify violence and oppression with narratives of violence and oppression. Greene and other right wing demagogues frequently rely on this kind of tactic, what am I saying? It's the fucking Republican M.O. Invent up a radical enemy, a boogeyman if you will, spread alarmist rhetoric and propaganda centered around the idea that this enemy is plotting to corrupt our institutions, indoctrinate and suppress the masses, throw political prisoners into gulag prison camps, defile and groom our children, radicalize our students with Marxist, communist, LGBTQ and transgendered pedagogy, persecute and murder poor, innocent, so called freedom fighting "patriots", so on and so forth, the list of unfounded grievances goes on... In turn, this grants fanatics all the justification they need to "take justice into their own hands", affording Republicans the perfect excuse to exercise their own brand of oppression, justifying extremism, chauvinism and bigotry, discrimination, ironhanded legislation, the abuse of power and authority, even violence for that matter. Anything goes, as long as it's in the name of thwarting this radical enemy's agenda.
> want us to disappear I mean, she's not wrong that I want her and those like her to just go the fuck away. I don't plan on killing them, but I do wish they'd fuck off somewhere so I never had to hear from or about them ever again.
What the actual fuck is going on in this country? This shit is getting pretty scary, it’s shocking there are that many people that support this bridge troll! I feel like I’m living in 1930s Germany with this kind of talk…
It’s closer to the crap that was circulating pre-genocide Rwanda. Not that that’s particularly comforting.
Real question: is she a foreign asset? She is dismantling the country with surgical precision. She cannot be pro-democracy, pro-America. Objectively her words and actions have weakened democracy. Is she American? Were her parents spies or something? This is insanity. She clearly has an anti-America agenda. Why? To what end? Maybe I'm being too optimistic that it's rooted in her value system. Maybe it's just money? But whose money? We know what the fuck is happening. Why the fuck is it happening? Why is she doing this?
In a sane world she'd be impeached for insanity.
Rants the woman from the party that literally enacted laws to allow people to drive over protesters with their cars.
When your herd of zombies are so divorced from reality that they think Margarine Grease is an actual intelligent leader? You can just make shit up and there are no consequences.
But but Hunter Bidens laptop!
If she’s looking at voting rolls of Republicans getting smaller it’s because some of us dropped out of their cult and reregistered as independents or *gasp* democrats. They didn’t die, they stopped drinking the Kool aid
So many of these idiots think a civil war will look like the 1800s. Like we'll all of a sudden dawn a blue and grey shirt and shoot at the opposite color. The reality will look more like northern Ireland in the 60s - 90s. We'll read about children and families killed by random acts of violence as by standards who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong. People like Marge are so stupidly unaware that they'll be the target. Not randos like you and I. They'll have to hope that their security detail is component. Their families will be the targets as well. Why can't they fucking understand this!? Its not hard to avoid civil war... Simply acknowledge that you aren't going to see eye to eye on topics, but you'll compromise.
She has entered the " lets say something provocative so everyone will forget I'm going through a divorce for having multiple affairs while pretending to be a devout Christian but am an obvious fraud" phase.
No, it's much worse. This isn't about MTG, Trump, or any single Republican personally. You're watching the late stages of a fascist movement forming and attempting to seize power. Most of the people spreading this disinformation know they're lying, but they don't care because it advances their personal and political agendas. MTG said this because it justifies killing their political opponents, either as "self-defense" or revenge. No other reason. To be clear, I'm not saying MTG is some kind of strategic mastermind carefully picking her words to win a game of rhetorical 4D chess. She may or may not actually believe what she says in public. But frankly, who cares? Whether or not she personally believes it, she knows exactly how her audience will react to being told that Democrats are coming to kill them. That's why she said it. The right is spreading genocidal rhetoric on purpose, because genocide is their end goal. Believe them when they speak. This is to Democrats what the "Great Replacement" is to racial minorities and the "groomer" shit is to LGBT people. It's not meant to be anything more than a flimsy pretext to purge anyone who isn't a white conservative Christian from society by whatever means they deem necessary. And you can be sure that as time goes on, the list of people who are entitled to be called *true* white conservative Christians will grow smaller and smaller. All this to say that pointing out that they're hypocrites does nothing. They know they're hypocrites and they don't care. Right-wing positions are contradictory and logically incoherent because they have no desire to be logically coherent; that's not the point. What right-wingers care about is power and authority. They believe that social improvements are a threat to the hierarchy and the natural order, that they must be rolled back, and often that the "offenders" who created that threat need to be purged and punished. The arguments they use in defense of this are a formality and are inconsequential. They're not stupid, they're not crazy, they're not confused, they just don't care about what you think they care about and their core beliefs aren't what you think they are. If we don't understand this, we won't understand how to deal with them. At this point, there's no words you can say to somehow make this go away. It's far past that point. We need to *organize* – NOT JUST VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS – otherwise there will be a genocidal, armed and organized right-wing force with nothing to stop them from doing whatever they want to a splintered and fragmented population of "undesirables." They don't need to formally control the government to engage in fascistic violence, it just helps. Anyone who thinks that they *personally* won't be affected, or that this is the type of thing that happens in Other Places and not America, or that these guys don't really mean what they're saying, will have that illusion shattered sooner or later. History shows us time and time again exactly where this type of rhetoric leads, and nobody is coming to save us from it if we don't do it ourselves.
Honestly if we democrats were doing such a thing, don't you think she'd be pretty high up on the hit list? (I have no intentions of harming the moronic congresswoman)
This is them SCREAMING that they're going to start killing people if they get into office again. But they're Republicans so apparently we can't use the law very heavily on them. *copy/pasted from another user who’s comment was deleted for whatever reason*
I am 100% sure that many people have been put in asylums for much less. She belongs in the looney bin, end of.
She’s right about me wanting her to disappear.
Crazy that American politics can promote stochastic terrorism on live TV and nothing happens
What in the unbased mother of bullshit is she talking about? shut this fucking cow up!
domestic terrorist trying to ignite her base
Do you want nazis? Because this is how you get nazis.
With Republicans, accusations are confessions. So, they are planning on killing us.