A woman lost her life in a bizarre accident and now the incident is some political joke. Quite deplorable iyam.
Somehow Chicago will get brought up I’m sure. “Well, we have a cat 5 hurricane about to hit the gulf coast but you know there were 6 shootings in Chicago just last night?”
Parler Chronicles: Mixing it up with some disgusting right-wing insurrection fantasies What do these gun nuts think their AR-15 rifles would do against this? Anti-vaxx Chronicles aren’t going anywhere, but it gets to be a grind sometimes. So I will occasionally mix it up with Parler Chronicles, exploring the right-wing Twitter-wannabe social media outlet. Reddit’s r/ParlerWatch subreddit tracks the ridiculousness, and is the source of the material I’ll pull. Today, it’s an insurrectionist’s fantasy about a conservative vs. liberal civil war. His “points” are nearly impossible to read in this screenshot, so here they are for your convenience: Spoiler I mean, a civil war would inevitably be between the “conservatives” who dominate the heartland and south, and the “liberals” who dominate the coasts and the population centers. Chicago would not last long even if there was a Minneapolis-Milwaukee-Chicago axis (not the WW2 alliance, the military term) since it’s isolated from other support by Eastern Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. Detroit would also fall quickly because of this. Texas would quickly crush any liberal resistance within and then focus on steamrolling New Mexico. The West Coast, already united, would begin moving steadily eastward, but would find itself bogged down in mountain and deserts were Texan and Upper Midwest forces would meet them and bring their advance to a halt. After Chicago is tamed, the forces on the East Coast would nullify Atlanta and other liberal strongholds and begin converging on DC. Once DC falls, the rest of the east coast would. Cali would be on its own. If there were to be a civil war I doubt any country besides Canada or Mexico would join. Most certainly NOT other super powers. They would be too busy consolidating their forces to take over the world while the US is fighting itself. But because the conservatives would eventually win the war there would be an eventual comeback where the US invades its enemies with the newfound patriotism and hype of a successful revolution. Does StormzAComning make good points? No, he doesn’t make good points. OMFG, who thinks this shit? Who sits there and fantasizes about a second American civil war, then thinks any such military endeavor could be distilled to a game of Risk? “After Chicago is tamed ...” ha ha ha ha. So how are these magical fantasy conservative “forces” going to take and hold Chicago? Isn’t it conservatives who love to remind everyone of how many guns are circulating in that city? Do you know who holds those guns? Do we want to guess what those people in marginalized neighborhoods would do to these modern-day Klansmen in their Ford pickup trucks? A bunch of country yokels would be lost navigating Chicagoland, just like they’d be lost navigating any of our major cities. I do wish they’d settle on a narrative: Are liberals violent and dangerous, driven by antifa and BLM, or are liberals weak and cowardly? Because if they’re really worried about antifa and BLM, then oh boy, best of luck, y’all! Let’s borrow from Casablanca: (Nazi) Major Strasser: Are you one of those people who cannot imagine the Germans in their beloved Paris? Rick: It's not particularly my beloved Paris. [...] Major Strasser: How about New York? Rick: Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade. Why do they assume that the National Guard wouldn’t defend against these domestic terrorists? Why do they assume that drones wouldn’t be deployed against them? I know, I know, they think “military equals conservatives,” but that’s the kind of flawed and foolish conservative-bubble thinking that got them in trouble on Jan. 6. They thought the cops and National Guard would take their side during their insurrection. Oops. Guess not. And the military vaccine mandate is doing a great job of weeding out some of the worst nutbags, as many of them refuse to take the jab. Where will the conservatives get its foot soldiers? Who are these people who will abandon their families and jobs, and march from Texas to … Chicago? And sure, there are likely a few cranks that might, but tens of thousands? Where would they begin building the logistical supply lines to support such an endeavor? The vast majority of our military forces aren’t combat troops, but supply troops, and it costs an eye-watering amount of money to build a proper logistics chain. The U.S. military can do it. FedEx can do it. Amazon can do it. None of those will be supporting this insurrection. Let’s not even start with the ridiculous notion that a civil war that would kill who-knows-how many, that would decimate our infrastructure and food supplies, and leave the nation financially bankrupt, would then be able to “invade its [foreign] enemies” because of “hype” and “patriotism.” Remember, these are the same people that have melted down over wearing a thin strip of cloth over their mouths and noses. Does anyone really think they have the resilience to actually do something hard, when they’re currently getting the vapors because their Christmas presents might be late? None of this is to say that a genuine American Civil War 2.0 wouldn’t be catastrophic to the nation. Just like the first one, it would be devastating. Liberals have used the democratic process and our cultural institutions to turn public opinion in our direction. Conservatives have surrendered that fight, because changing hearts and minds would require talking to Black and brown people, and they can’t stand to do that. When was the last time anyone said, “America is a center-right nation”? It hasn’t been for a long time, and no one is pretending anymore. As a result, conservatives have decided that even with a system skewed in their favor (gerrymandering, the Senate, overrepresentation of rural America), they can’t win the democracy game. Hence these violent fantasies. Look at conservatives fantasize about “kill zones” in American cities. These aren’t Americans. They are heirs to the traitorous confederacy. Someone makes a good point! Banking and money are a big one. Once the banks shut the new confederates down, then what? What about hospitals? Maybe liberal America just sits and watches rural conservatives age themselves into extinction, with a hefty accelerant from opioids and COVID-19? Let’s not forget that urban America subsidizes rural America. By a lot. Turn off that spigot, and rural America withers away. Even in this absurd cosplay fantasy, these rural “conservative” areas would immediately lose internet and cell service. Good luck engaging in basic life without such modern amenities. And their Facebook would be cut off. OMG, what would they do without Facebook? Living like the Amish isn’t going to bring about the Great Conservative Victory. They are talking about “exterminating” Americans, because they are liberal, while studying police tactics to make it easier to murder them. Because blue lives matter or something. Oh good, now we need to debate whether the media is controlled by Jews or by Satanists. But look, they compromised! It’s controlled by Satanist Jews! Look, the problem here isn’t that there’s a serious risk of a second American Civil War. The problem is that these nutbags with guns are convincing themselves that they’d “win” such a violent campaign, and thus be encouraged into more acts of violence to try and spark it. And part of that process is dehumanizing the opposition to make it easier to justify murdering other human beings, talking about “kill zones” around cities, and “exterminating” police that might resist them. They don’t want a war. No one wins in any civil war. We already had one here which pitted the industrialized, technologically advanced, populated side of America versus the rural agrarian side. It didn’t go so well. What these zealots really want is a genocide. And that’s the real terror in this. These are domestic terrorists. And like all terrorists, it only takes one to create mass carnage.
Remember when FNC got its new "newsroom" filled with shitheads sitting at massive touchscreens out of sci-fi? Fucking morons.
Bundy’s ‘People’s Rights’ network keeps expanding reach, drawing recruits into extremist web A protest organized by Ammon Bundy's 'People's Rights' network in December 2020 outside the offices of the Central Health District Board in Boise, Idaho. We already know that the recent spate of far-right attacks on local government entities—particularly school boards, health districts, and various county commissions and city councils—involving threats and intimidation from aggravated right-wing activists, with accompanying violence, is being orchestrated by a handful of extremist groups operating primarily on social media, using such names as Parents Defending Education and No Left Turn in Education. Among these groups, one in particular stands out for its ever-expanding reach and its worrisome spread around the nation: Ammon Bundy’s “People’s Rights” network. A fresh report from the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR) details how the organization has grown by over 50% in the past year, expanding from 13 to 38 states. And its purpose—to serve as a nexus for recruitment and radicalization into far-right patriot-movement ideology—continues to operate largely under the radar. Spoiler The study, which springboards from IREHR’s original 2020 report on what it calls “Ammon’s Army,” presents data showing how the People’s Rights, originally built largely on Facebook, expanded its national membership from 21,851 to 33,431 in the past year, an increase of 53%. The dedicated activists on the list with key on-the-ground roles as “assistants” grew from 153 to 398, a 160% increase. The report includes detailed interactive maps that enable readers to examine the network’s reach in their own home areas. It also demonstrates how People’s Rights has expanded its reach into Canada, and charts how the organization has expanded its leadership roles for key members. According to the data, Bundy’s network is primarily expanding its reach in the West, the region with far and away the largest numbers of both members and “assistants” (some 24,000 of them in 2021). Indeed, some 72% of its members reside in the West; the region also has the highest per capita membership, with 12.82 times the members-per-10,000 count of the Northeast and 7.74 and 7.26 times that of the Midwest and South, respectively. However, the organization also grew by 39.17% in the South. “The states with the ten largest memberships are Washington (6,908), Oregon (5,544), Idaho (3,133), Utah (2,348), California (1,721), Florida (1,721) Colorado (1,306), Texas (1,142), Montana (952) and Arizona (895),” the report states. And while the main focus of the network has involved organizing resistance to COVID-19 health restrictions, that is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the range of right-wing politics it encompasses. The pandemic, as it is, has primarily served as a recruitment tool for drawing people into its large alternative universe of extremist beliefs and conspiracy theories. “The People's Rights network's COVID denial activism is not just about masks, mandates, or misinformation,” Devin Burghart, IREHR’s executive director, explained to Daily Kos. “Rather, COVID denial is used by the People’s Rights network as an entry point to draw people onto a quickly moving radicalization conveyor belt. While COVID denial activism has been the largest source of new recruits, it is far from the only area that the People’s Rights network is involved. For instance, in the Klamath River Basin, the group used last summer’s drought to threaten an armed standoff over water. During Bundy’s tour through Utah earlier this spring, in addition to COVID denial, presentation themes included food supply and federal land use. Militant on-the-ground activism is the most prominent factor driving the growth in recruits. “Once involved with the group,” he continued, “though they might have joined to protest pandemic restrictions, recruits are immediately inundated with the far-right ideology, including the ‘constitutionalism’ of figures like KrisAnne Hall and the middle American neighborhood nationalism of Ammon Bundy. At local meetings and online, recruits are exposed to a myriad of conspiracy theories beyond COVID denialism. Attacks on democracy and democratic institutions, political violence, and talk of a second Civil War have become disturbingly common topics inside the People’s Rights network.” The group’s initial spread on Facebook was temporarily stunted by the platform’s decision to ban COVID denialism, though in fact “People’s Rights maintains a presence on Facebook through posts on members’ personal pages and People’s Rights activists and supporters’ participation in other COVID denial Facebook groups.” Undeterred, the network moved its recruitment and organization efforts to an internal text network, as well as such chat platforms as Telegram, Mewe, and Wimkin. The Washington State chapter of People’s Rights operates a Telegram channel with 1,359 subscribers and an active chat group of 558 members. In Florida, People’s Rights activist Chris Nelson has 1,377 subscribers to his Telegram channel. Activists also communicate through the network’s website, as well as using Slack and more traditional forms of technology, including telephones, walkie-talkies, and Ham radios. For his part, Bundy complained afterwards that the report actually undercounted the People’s Rights membership. He told the Associated Press that the network now had over 62,000 members. “The IREHR report is drastically inaccurate. Not sure where they pulled their info from,” Bundy wrote in an email. “I’m glad they under reported so the FBI does not think we are too much of a threat to ‘democracy,’” Bundy wrote. “If we keep growing the way we are the FBI may get jealous and throw me in jail for no reason again.” But in fact, IREHR’s researchers admitted as much when they published the study, noting that they took a conservative approach to counting membership. Its methodology information notes: “There are likely individuals in the People’s Rights network overall membership not assigned to a state or area, but that data was not available to IREHR researchers.” “The data was collected a bit ago, and there are undoubtedly people that don't have an assigned area,” Burghart told Daily Kos. “Unfortunately, those numbers aren't available to anyone but Bundy. If he wants to make that info publicly available, we'd be more than happy to revise our figures. Until then, it's the most accurate estimate of membership data available.” Burghart also noted that Bundy—who is currently running for Idaho governor—may have admitted to campaign-law violations with his remarks to AP. “The quotes are an admission that Bundy is still running the organization while in the midst of a gubernatorial primary,” he observed. “The admission poses serious questions about the co-mingling of the campaign and the organization that the Idaho secretary of state might want to explore.” “I think the report underestimates their overall strength, because they’ve also built out alliances with a range of groups, from the tea party to the Proud Boys and anti-vax groups,” Chuck Tanner, IREHR’s research director, told AP. “In certain places they are able to mobilize at levels that make an impact on policy.” The central fact, as he explained, is that the organization is rapidly expanding its reach in an increasingly radicalized American right. “What People’s Rights does is spread really radical ideas about overturning civil rights in the United States,” Tanner said. “This is a broad-based, antidemocratic and bigoted social movement.”
If that’s true and the judge allows them to be called rioters, arsonists, and looters…he’s getting kicked the fuck off this trial, right?
FWIW the judge said that the defense couldn’t use those terms unless they provided evidence that the, uh, dead guys were rioting, looting, or setting shit on fire.
??? Spoiler: full part of that Q&A https://www.mediamatters.org/charli...mber-asks-charlie-kirk-when-they-can-use-guns
We know they were trying to overturn the election because they said, “We should overturn the election.”
Mind you this guy lives with his mother who's a stay at home mom He's anti vax after admitting to receiving the vaccine He believes there's no need for Planned Parenthood, women can simply get birth control at the grocery store He also believes that the Civil War was fought over Christian rights and that gay marriage insults Christians who died in the war
Dan Patrick's voter fraud bounty blows up in his face Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick paid out $25,000 to a progressive Pennsylvania poll worker who turned in a Republican man for voter fraud. Spoiler One week after the 2020 presidential election was called for Joe Biden, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick put his money where his mouth was and offered a hefty bounty to voter fraud whistleblowers. The PAC Texans for Dan Patrick was willing to pay up to $1 million and a minimum of $25,000 to “anyone who provides information that leads to an arrest and final conviction of voter fraud.” The Dallas Morning News reports that Patrick issued his first $25,000 check this week to a poll worker in Pennsylvania. That poll worker, Eric Frank, comes from a family of progressives. His father is an election judge and mother works for Pennsylvania Democrats as a campaign manager. Frank’s father was the person he notified when he saw that 72-year-old Ralph Thurman cast a second ballot some 45 minutes after initially voting. The Daily Local News notes that Thurman, a registered Republican, asked if he could cast a vote for his son, a registered Democrat, but was told doing so would be illegal. He nonetheless returned wearing sunglasses and tried to pass himself off as his son. Thurman eventually pleaded guilty to repeat voting in elections and was sentenced to three years probation. He will be unable to vote for four years. “It’s my belief that they were trying to get cases of Democrats doing voter fraud. And that just wasn’t the case,” Frank told the Dallas Morning News after depositing his check. “This kind of blew up in their face.” So far, Patrick has been absolutely silent about the payout. There’s no mention of it on either his campaign or lieutenant governor website and nothing related to the reward posted on his Twitter account. The controversial Republican, who once said he and any other grandparents should be willing to die from COVID-19 to keep the country moving forward during the pandemic, could very well feel embarrassed given how he was roundly mocked by Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman when news of the bounty program first came out. Fetterman isn’t kidding: The man who tried using his dead mother’s name to receive an additional absentee ballot pleaded guilty to violations relating to absentee or mail-in ballots, a misdemeanor. He was sentenced to six months probation and 40 hours of community service. Fetterman isn’t getting a cut of the bounty pot because Patrick’s spokesman said it doesn’t apply to politicians. There have been very few verifiable instances of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election. According to a Bloomberg Law report, just 200 cases around the country went to court. Nearly half of the states polled reported no cases at all. Yet, conspiracies of rampant voter fraud remain a key issue for right-wing voters and even GOP candidates. A Reuters report examining 15 Republican secretary of state candidates in five battleground states found that 10 still questioned the outcome of the 2020 election. It’s not the people who intend to vote twice or circumvent the system that are the problem. It’s the many voters who face extensive obstacles even to cast a legal ballot in the first place. Urge lawmakers to pass the Voting Rights Advancement Act to ensure that every citizen has the right to vote. hahahahahaha and I love Fetterman
Everyone reading this has more charisma than JD Vance. But Vance wont lose the Ohio senate primary because he isn't charismatic. Josh Mandel is equally off putting, but Josh is a legitimate fucking whack job and not just playing one. I can't decide which flavor of Republican is worse. But I hold the most contempt for Condoleezza Rice's of the world, who "neutral" reporters and pundits are sworn by blood oath to defend as serious people. They all support fascism and want to make everyone's lives worse for money and power.
Kansas GOP senator’s two day DUI jail sentence highlights issues of serious inequities Former Kansas State Senate Majority leader Gene Suellentrop Only in America are the rules so skewed in favor of some people, while others never catch a break. State Sen. Gene Suellentrop, a Wichita, Kansas, Republican is one of those lucky few Americans who dodged a legal bullet thanks to the color of his skin and the position he’s fortunate enough to hold. Spoiler After pleading no contest to two misdemeanor charges Monday following his March arrest for driving the wrong way on an interstate while drunk out of his mind, Suellentrop made a plea deal agreeing to two days in jail and one year of probation. The Kansas Reflector reports Suellentrop was driving at nearly 100 mph a the time of his arrest, and when he was eventually stopped, he was incoherent and reeked of booze. An affidavit obtained by CNN at the time of his arrest describes an entitled drunk using his political power, failing to respond to commands while barely able to walk. "Walking to the Intoxilyzer room he struggled with keeping his balance and I had to hold him by the arm," read the affidavit. When requesting a breath sample, he refused, saying, "I don't feel the need to do so," the affidavit read. Officers were forced to obtain a search warrant to get a blood sample. Suellentrop was “aggressive” and called one of the officers a “donut boy.” He was eventually transported to the Shawnee County Jail, but then released without bond after the arrest report was found to be “missing critical information.” When an arrest warrant was issued 10 days later, the senator turned himself in. Suellentrop was sentenced to 48 hours in the Shawnee County Jail and will begin serving his sentence Nov. 18. The judge suspended a six-month sentence for the DUI conviction and 90 days for reckless driving, according to the Kansas Reflector, and the former state Senate majority leader will have to participate in eight therapy sessions and take a substance abuse class. However, eventually, he will be eligible to have the convictions expunged from his record. At least two of the senator’s constituents thought his sentence was a little underwhelming given he drove the wrong way on an interstate for over 70 miles, reaching a speed of nearly 100 mph at times. “A felony is considerably different than this little tap on the arm,” Jane Byrnes told the Kansas Reflector. “We were hoping to witness equal justice here today, what anybody else would have gotten,” Michael McCorkle added. Now, if you’re wondering how Suellentrop’s case was handled in comparison to a Black American man’s case (and not even an average Black citizen, but one with money), look no further than the DUI arrest and sentencing of Ray Donovan actor Pooch Hall. Hall, identified as Marion Henry Hall in a Los Angeles district attorney's news release, admitted to driving under the influence with his 2-year-old son in his lap. The actor was arrested in 2019 in Burbank, California, after his car hit a parked car. He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor for driving with a blood alcohol level of .08%, and another charge of child endangerment. He was sentenced to three years of probation, a mandatory three-month residential alcoholic treatment program, and one year of parenting classes. His license was suspended for six months. Needless to say, there’s inequity in sentencing and nothing shows it more clearly than the senator versus the actor … who just happens to be Black.
These arguments absolutely blow my mind every time. It’s no different than what Manchin is saying. There is never a thought about the welfare of children, only the perceived illusion of handouts. Do we as a nation have the resources and capability to take care of every single innocent TODLER to make sure they have a safe place to go every day with food? Absolutely! Congress: “Fuck them kids”
Republicans only goal is to cut taxes. And sabotage democrats. That's it. Democrats try and do something, "Well, that costs money." The 2 senators per state is an unworkable problem.
I'm terrified that Mandel is going to win in Ohio. The biggest thing going against him is that while he spews the Trumpism bullshit on Twitter he's very awkward and not very confident when he actually has to talk.
Sure, but then the war machine can’t go pew pew and I’ll be damned if I will let kids eat if we can’t oppress one less brown person.
there's a pretty good chance those people aren't far right- anti vaxxers are one weird umbrella group
It’s looking like DeWine has covered his right flank and will not be primaried in the Governor race. If so, DeWine is going to crush the D nominee and have coattails for Mandel in the suburbs. Ryan is spending a lot of time in SE and East Ohio, in addition to hitting the cities. Those areas have flipped though. I’m not sure there are D votes there anymore. On the bright side, Ryan is crushing everyone on fundraising.