"...Republicans have plenty of other ways to stoke your rage"

[babylonsister]

https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2022/03/if-fear-of-loss-of-white-dominance-isnt.html

No More Mister Nice Blog
"Hateful and totalitarian." —James Taranto
Thursday, March 31, 2022
IF FEAR OF THE LOSS OF WHITE DOMINANCE ISN'T ENOUGH, REPUBLICANS HAVE PLENTY OF OTHER WAYS TO STOKE YOUR RAGE

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You'll say, "Well, those kids were from Connecticut, which is liberal. Republicans didn't care if they died." Parkland, Florida, where there was another mass slaughter of mostly white young people, was also fairly liberal. But the right doesn't care even when there's a mass slaughter of churchgoing white Texans. Here's a tweet that was posted yesterday by wingnutty Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie:

Link to tweet

Willeford did end this mass shooting, but only after 26 people died and 22 were wounded.

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Wouldn't a party whose prime directive is taking care of white people want to keep people like this from dying? But I'd argue that the Republican Party isn't primarily concerned with taking care of white people. It's primarily concerned with stirring up any culture war outrage that will induce white people -- and non-white people, if possible -- to vote Republican so Republicans can continue winning elections and cutting taxes and regulations for rich people and giant corporations.

Very, very frequently, those culture war outrages have a racist component. But Republicans will use anything that works. They also like to make their voters hate advocates of gun control, whom they portray as either lily-livered, Prius-driving, soy-latte-swilling pajama boys or people of other gender identities who ally themselves with these half-men. Many of these demonized opponents of gun violence are white, but they're still the enemy to the GOP.

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And just as Republicans tolerate the mass slaughter (of whites and others) that's the inevitable by-product of their gun culture, they also tolerate an approach to the COVID pandemic that now kills Republicans at a faster rate than Democrats -- and their voters are fine with that, because the ones who haven't died yet would rather be angry than safe.

Stoehr says that the Republican Party "has mainstreamed ‘the great replacement’" theory. He's right, but that doesn't mean the GOP actually wants to preserve the white race. It just wants to make enough people angry -- about increasing multiculturalism, but also about a hundred other alleged outrages -- to keep winning every election forever.

[old as dirt]

1. The election related violence is getting a little anoying.

Elections here in Iowa weren't always this violent.

In 2016, two Urbandale police officets were ambushed and asassinated a couple of days before the election by a Trump supporter.

Then in 2020, a month after the election, the Pillow guy came to Des Moines and held a rally, in which one if the rally goers, decked out in body armor, started shooting into a car with 4 Black girls in it, wounding one of them in the leg.



I can still remember back in the olden days when we could hold an election here in Iowa without anybody getting shot.

It seems rather quaint these days.

[babylonsister]

2. Those cases are horrific. It's gotten way beyond

'pretty annoying'. I remember working the polls, 2018 being the last time. Between covid and potential violence, my poll days are probably over.

[old as dirt]

3. I can't wait for 2024.

[old as dirt]

4. There was a lot of this sort of thing going on here, as well.

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Donald Trump (And His Supporters) Are Ruining High School Basketball Games, America

Mar 1, 2016,12:19am EST

Donald Trump is a horrible person, a horrible presidential candidate, and even if he were to stop running tomorrow, has already made America a more horrible place. For example, in the last few weeks, there have been incidents where student cheering sections at high school basketball games have tastelessly taunted opposing teams from more heavily Hispanic schools with chants invoking Trump's name.

In Iowa (from WHO-TV), involving two public schools:

At [Perry High's] Monday night’s game against Dallas Center-Grimes, opposing fans used Trump’s disdain for illegal immigrants to target several players of Latino descent.

"We are all aware of racism, it's alive and well in small portions but it's alive and well and it's just hurtful to see that's what they resort to,” said Kevin Lopez, Perry Student Section Leader.

Chants like “Trump, Trump, Trump” and "USA" were said.

According to players, chants like, “Trump, Trump, Trump,” were said and they were trying to intimidate Perry players by reciting things Trump has said about what he plans to do with immigrants and their children if he is elected.

Perry is 35 percent Hispanic, while Dallas Center-Grimes is just under 3 percent. Perry High School Principal Dan Mahburger told Iowa Public Radio that his is one of the few schools in Iowa "that has a plan for what would happen if immigration would come in and take some of their parents."

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobcook/2016/03/01/donald-trump-and-his-supporters-are-ruining-high-school-basketball-games-america/

[Celerity]

5. sickening!!!