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According to a report from WAVY, the chairman of the Virginia Hampton GOP has called for the ousting of the electoral board chair over an ugly tirade on Facebook where he used a racial slur to describe Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and retired Gen. Russell Honoré -- both of whom are Black.
In his tirade, Dietrich wrote, "The situation with the United States military is getting more disgusting and dangerous by the day."
After listing off the names of the two Black military men, he added, "These so-called 'leaders' are so vile and racist, there's no way to describe them other than in terms their own people understand. They are nothing more than dirty, stinking n*ggers."
https://www.rawstory.com/virginia-gop-official-calls-bidens-pentagon-chief-a-stinking-n-word-and-calls-for-a-good-public-lynching/
Mysterian
(4,587 posts)He is one of the finest, kindest, most capable people I have ever known. I am so proud that he is the Secretary of Defense.
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)SKKY
(11,807 posts)...He was headed to the Middle East and stopped in Rota, Spain where I was stationed. He was delayed due to weather in AFG. There is a VIP room set up in the Air Terminal there, but there was no connectivity of any sort. So given my job at the time, while I was still Active Duty, we had to set up the VIP room with NIPR/SIPR drops for him and his staff. I remember his Comms person (Kayla? She was an Army Captain.), she was really, really cool and bought me and the three Sailors working with me lunch. He spent time thanking each of us, asking us about our lives, and just seemed genuinely interested in hearing what we had to say. And of course, he gave each of us a coin. Pretty dope.
pandr32
(11,584 posts)tblue37
(65,357 posts)MerryHolidays
(7,715 posts)For the sake of this country, I hope whatever Rs who still have good will left (and I still think there are many) try to stop this kind of behavior.
If not, I wonder what's left of this country.
smb
(3,471 posts)CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)Did you hear what Mitch McConnell said the other day? There is nothing a republican could do to sway him from supporting them. That is how that party rolls.
Walleye
(31,023 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)sop
(10,179 posts)PJMcK
(22,037 posts)I had to drive through Virginia last week. As I crossed from Maryland into Virginia, there was a huge Confederate flag flying on the side of the road. The symbol of sedition and racism. They don't even try to hide their hatred.
These are the traitors that attacked the Capitol.
TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)I could think of a few other choice words to describe this racist Republican asshole.
thomski64
(454 posts).. on her basket estimate. its each official that holds,
these racist views, each voter, any of those who don't
overtly express these views, but remain silent. So 98.3%
dalton99a
(81,488 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)634-5789
(4,175 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)tishaLA
(14,176 posts)Honoré sounds like a black nationalist? What?
whopis01
(3,514 posts)yessuh and nosuh, I am sure this guy considers them a black nationalist.
ZonkerHarris
(24,226 posts)struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)if he would just resign and go away
We'll even allow him a little excuse on the way out. Maybe his GOP friends could help him find the right words, like
I meant to say that the best way to pull us back from the brink is a good snort of coke and an orgy
or
I was just trying to warn folk about how all those space lasers are causing forest fires
spanone
(135,832 posts)fucking fucks.
intheflow
(28,473 posts)Complaining people are vile and racist in one sentence and then actually supporting this stance by being vile and racist is peak doublespeak.
At least he admitted conservatives are racists and white nationalists.
Every once in awhile these asshats step on their dicks and accidentally exposes the truth about themselves.
calimary
(81,267 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)They'd cashier him in a minute. Reading his vile tirade, I'm inclined to ask about Mr. Dietrich's military service, and won't be terribly surprised if the answer is "none."
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)This guy essentially said, "That person is so racist, I am going to call them the most well known and egregious slur out there to let you know how racist THEY are"
This person is so stupid, so utterly devoid of decency, that they actually think that Generals Austin and Honoré believe that Black people are Superior to White people and are capable of using the levers of power to discriminate against White people in some large scale way. Because that is what "racist" means in the context of the wielding of political power.
I do not know what is in the Generals' minds. The only way we can approximate that knowledge is to observe their behaviors and words.
I am assuming that this "statement" was made over recent testimony about working to make the military more culturally competent and the inclusion of diversity training in the curriculum of the military academies, that got the idiot Matt Gaetz so worked up.
oldsoftie
(12,537 posts)Just as everyone in the military should think.
Aviation Pro
(12,168 posts)Maybe Hugo Stiglitz.
Yes, Im kidding.
634-5789
(4,175 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Staff Sergeant Donny Donowitz would be better.
634-5789
(4,175 posts)From the movie:
Aviation Pro
(12,168 posts)Yep, he'd go yard.
EndlessWire
(6,531 posts)We need to win the midterms so bad. We need to rally forth and make sure that we hold the power. If the GOP gets anything on us, they will kill us.
I also thank G-d for my mother, who came from the South and made a deliberate decision to raise me nonracist. I can see that being a racist is such a burden. I really think that their brain wiring is so fucked up that they don't even know how bad they sound.
I am concerned about the reference to a "Civil War." This, and over, what? Because they don't like the color of someone's skin? Or, race?
I blame Donald Trump and his Russian handlers for most of this, although each adult is responsible for themselves. I am totally astonished by the conduct of the GOP, a truly fascist party that has revealed itself to be AntiAmerican, AntiDemocratic, and a real threat to our Democracy.
Why is FaceBook (excuse me, Meta) tolerating that racial slur? Ban this asshole.
I apologize to anyone who read the slur and was offended. Remember, we now have the first Black, female Supreme Court judge in history. There is nothing that the supreme asshole can do about it. Rejoice! We are going to move forward.
Whatthe_Firetruck
(557 posts)Was some kind of freudian slip or dog whistle. He was thinking of the term with regards to these men, and used it in the other context when he issued his threat (instead of all the other ways that could have been phrased).
whopis01
(3,514 posts)Samrob
(4,298 posts)doc03
(35,337 posts)whenever there is a mess to straighten out they send in Gerneral Honore.
sciencescience
(109 posts)in his group think.
bahboo
(16,339 posts)of saying this vile shit out loud....
hlthe2b
(102,276 posts)intense admiration for both of these men.
This is painful. It just feels like the factions of hate are taking over (or damned well trying) throughout the world.
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)2naSalit
(86,616 posts)That needs fixing right away.
Warpy
(111,261 posts)mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)This time. Well see if they do it.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)They'll applaud this at the May CPAC conference in Hungary, when republicans will be stuffing their pockets with foreign autocrat's cash.
Trump will probably give him the "presidential" Medal of Racist Merit (a bottle cap from Busch Beer with a used rubber dangling from it).
Yep, this is Trump's GOP. You have much to be proud of, Donald.
70sEraVet
(3,501 posts)The Republican party NEEDS to remove these modern-day klansmen.
Celerity
(43,379 posts)TeamProg
(6,131 posts)The guy needs to BE FIRED PRONTO !!
Celerity
(43,379 posts)they SOOOOOO wanna drop the N word 50 times a day
childfreebychoice
(476 posts)Confed flags or statues. My dad had a saying, he preferred his racism straight up no chaser. The only thing that is new is t* giving racists carte blanche to come out into the light, sans sheets.
Botany
(70,504 posts)It is how just about all of them think. Yesterday's walk out should be proof enough along with Blackburn flashing a white power sign.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)BradAllison
(1,879 posts)Those are so 2015.
keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)Mission accomplished: they got the message out to their base....
Cokie's Law - about politics and media coverage...
Cokie's Law states that it does not matter if it is true or not. It's out there.
Cokie Roberts journalist, author, reporter
Then they can apologize in a much smaller forum. (If they do)
peppertree
(21,635 posts)Because every now and then, they have to tell us how they really feel.
barbtries
(28,795 posts)over and over and over. maddening that they have power in this country.
Steve Canuck
(45 posts)Wasn't lynching voted to be categorized as a hate crime not too long ago?
shrike3
(3,600 posts)Because he would not respect or recognize the authority of senior officers of color.
He was lucky all they did was encourage him to resign.
Ironically, he's all about mistreated veterans now. AND a holier than thou type.
No surprise we have little to do with him.
Jack the Greater
(601 posts)Well, no Christmas card for this guy. In fact he is on my official shit-list. My God, they are parading around in figurative Klan robes.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)BY JASON LEMON ON 4/8/22 AT 3:31 PM EDT
... Dietrich said in the post that Austin's efforts to root out white nationalists in the military was actually a ploy "to remove conservative, freedom-loving Americans from the roles" ...
"If it is a civil war they want, they will get it in spades," he wrote. "Perhaps the best way to pull us back from the brink is a good public lynching" ...
https://www.newsweek.com/gop-official-who-called-lynching-lloyd-austin-refuses-resign-1696507
Ohio Joe
(21,756 posts)Open right wing racism is fine now.
GB_RN
(2,355 posts)He should be linked to Moscow Mitch "The Bitch" McConnell (Q-Yertle The Turtle), and Qevin McQarthy (Q-Spineless Jellyfish), et al., at every available opportunity.
This, in part, is what I mean by changing our messaging. Stop playing nice and bringing dinner knives and forks to what is now, no longer a dinner party: The other side changed the rules to make it a gun fight decades ago.
Scottie Mom
(5,812 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)I can't believe they aren't grooming him to run for elected office.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Beartracks
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demigoddess
(6,641 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)by this republikkkan in the least. The complete Party minus 3 or four and the base feel the same as this jackass and his leader...trump
Evolve Dammit
(16,733 posts)The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Philly ran white supremacist out of town and they have not come back. They marched in one of the safest areas of Philly! They ran away from counter protests!