Holy crap, I just got the most disgusting flyer in the mail!

[Ocelot II]

Last edited Thu Nov 3, 2022, 03:12 PM - Edit history (1)

Anybody else get one of these? It's from some outfit called "America First Legal," whose president is, of course, Stephen Fucking Miller. I can't imagine how I got on their mailing list, unless they stole it from the DNC or the ACLU, to which I have donated for years.




And no, I am not "sharing" right-wing sources. I am alerting DU to the existence of a loathsome new Nazi-adjacent organization which apparently has a fair amount of money behind it or they wouldn't be able to send out full-color mailings to pretty much everybody. This shit has gone mainstream.

[Easterncedar]

1. Yikes

[forgotmylogin]

26. Boy, they sure are figuring out racism sucks!

But they're also against CRT which would teach historically there were "whites only" fountains and swimming pools.

They want to equate this course-correction with that in reverse.

[rurallib]

2. Is this the Stephen Miller group? Any idea?

[Ocelot II]

5. It is. I looked them up, and there's his Goebbels-lookalike face front and center.

He's its president.

[LakeArenal]

3. Racist lying pigs.

[live love laugh]

4. They're pulling out all the dirty tricks in desperation now.

[scarletlib]

14. Evidently they have a commercial running in some areas saying this very same thing.

[brooklynite]

6. Got one as well; it's tied to the Supreme Court case.

[Ocelot II]

9. I figured as much.

[jalan48]

7. Replacement Theory scare tactics must be working.

[Scrivener7]

8. It would be great if we followed up on that with a mailing of our own pointing out their lies

and saying how many jobs we have created.

[keithbvadu2]

10. They don't mention Herschel Walker?

[onecaliberal]

38. 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[wnylib]

61. +1000

[Initech]

67. Well their character is extremely ugly and vile! So...

[tishaLA]

11. I've been getting internet ads about Pres Biden hating Indians

of all things. The voiceover is a woman with an Indian accent saying that Pres Biden is racist against Indians and doesn't care about Indian children--just because they're Indian. I've tried several times to catch who's paying for it and I think it says America First PAC, but I can't swear to it.

It's especially odd to me when you consider that VP Harris has Indian heritage an the fact that it seems like such niche advertising.

[IronLionZion]

62. Most Indians are Democrats

It's just another way they try to divide people in diverse battleground states.

[sop]

12. "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression" is the root of all white GOP

grievance.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

13. I clicked on this wondering if it would be the same flyer we got.

It is. Straight into the recycling bin.

May I ask if anyone in your household is Asian American? The way the text is written, I almost feel like it's targeting Asian Americans and trying to split them off. Or maybe they just had to add someone other than white people so it would seem less racist.

[PatSeg]

16. That makes sense

[Ocelot II]

17. Nope, I'm as WASPy as they come, as is my surname. No idea why I got it.

[Demovictory9]

22. Was mailed to Asian neighbor put in my box by accident

[IronLionZion]

59. Unfortunately the racists have gotten Asians to oppose affirmative action programs

so they get one minority to step on others. Kind of like the German Nazis using Japanese and Turkish against other peoples.

[Solly Mack]

15. They're running the same shit on TV as a political ad here.

Disgusting.

[Nevilledog]

18. The ad

Link to tweet

[Solly Mack]

57. Not just Georgia. Here in Louisiana as well.

[wnylib]

63. OMG! I'm appalled that stations agree to run it.

[Nevilledog]

19. Facebook targeted ads

Link to tweet

Tweet text:

z3dster
@z3dster
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Facebook lets you see detailed targeting for political ads and this from Stephen Miller's Citizens of Sanity racists ads targeting

They excluded people that liked PETA, Toyota Prius, and Trader Joes but most targeted "Parents"

https://facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_type=political_and_issue_ads&country=US&view_all_page_id=107013225481098&search_type=page&media_type=all…
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10:30 AM · Nov 3, 2022

[Chellee]

24. If you were looking for a good reason to buy a Prius, this is it.

As for me, I've been saved by my love of Trader Joe's.

"Citizens of Sanity" is very Goebbelsesque.

[IronLionZion]

58. He's hoping parents are racist?

that plan could backfire if they're against racism.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. It's coming from one those UPS mailbox facilities.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+UPS+Store/@38.8851966,-76.9977167,3a,75y,234.64h,91.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syBwfg3qyoT8P2K7OzhLcXA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7b8326cff1a3d:0x6e06defbe56af593!8m2!3d38.8851308!4d-76.9979377

There's surely software that can convert the barcode on the flyer into your home address.

[Demovictory9]

21. I. Got one meant for my neighbor by accident.

[SeattleVet]

23. Yeah, we got this garbage earlier this week.

It was only in my wife's name, which is very Asian. She thinks that's why she was targeted for this crap.

[Ray Bruns]

25. Does Stephan Miller realize he is Jewish and if these brown shirts ever

get into power, he’s one of the first to go?

[Ocelot II]

28. He has been effectively disowned by his Jewish relatives.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/

[electric_blue68]

46. Well, THAT'S good. Bastard! I guess he's thinks he's immune from anti-Semitism?

[keithbvadu2]

55. Like the capos who were last to go into the ovens. They thought they would be spared.

[Aviation Pro]

27. Yeah, I did too

This is the handiwork of that fucking bald headed fuck, Stephen "I Was Beat Up By a Latina Freshman When I Was a Senior" Miller.

My bile just rose when I saw that statement on pilots because as one and an instructor, I know that's not even close to fucking true given the pilot shortage we're experiencing right now.

How that fucking shitstain has avoided the glare of accountability is beyond me.

[Ocelot II]

30. I used to work for a major airline,

also in pilot training, and everyone was held to the same exacting standards. The airline went out of its way to standardize and quantify training goals and outcomes (AQP), overseen by the FAA, and I never saw anyone given a pass because of their race or other reason. Herr Oberkommandant Miller is trying to scare snowflakey white bigots into assuming a Black pilot must have been poorly trained because of affirmative action. There wasn't any such thing.

[Aviation Pro]

33. Yep, and we've upped the game from AQP to CBTA

Competency-Based Training Assessment, you should see how we've aligned with ICAO on the evidence-based side and inter-rater reliability.

[Ocelot II]

36. Good, sounds like an improvement.

[Aviation Pro]

42. It is

One of my mentors was part of the United team that implemented AQP. They collected the data the FAA wanted and the agency did nothing with it so the fleet managers started spreading it around to everyone going through recurrent was exposed to it and, well, you know how much it improved safety and overall quality of the operation.

[Behind the Aegis]

29. It is interesting to see Asians added to the mix.

Anyone who has read in-depth about Nazi ideology knows they thought there were two superior races, white (Aryan, specifically) and Asian! I only learned this a few years back and was rather surprised, but in the Nazis estimation, the Asians (Chinese, specifally), were intellectually superior in many ways, and culturally as advanced as Aryans.




So, here we are again...the history mirror.

[Ocelot II]

32. Like I said, these guys are Nazi-adjacent. The only difference I can see

is that they won't use the word "socialist" in their organization's name.

[Initech]

31. America First is a white supremacist movement started by Trump and Steve Bannon.

No wonder it's filled with racist fearmongering bullshit.

[Ocelot II]

34. The America First Committee was an organization formed in the early '40s

to oppose American involvement in WWII on the ground that fascism wasn't our problem, and it soon took on anti-Semitic overtones, especially once Charles Lindbergh, known to have expressed anti-Semitic opinions, became publicly involved. But the slogan is even older:

The phrase “America First” became a national slogan in 1915. President Woodrow Wilson used it to tell the country that what were known as “hyphenate Americans” at the time, which is to say immigrant communities – German-Americans, Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans – needed to identify their loyalty. Was it “America First”, he demanded, or was it not? In other words, the President of the United States used the phrase “America First” as a loyalty test for recently naturalised American citizens. The slogan immediately exploded into a national catchphrase. Both Wilson his Republican opponent used it in the 1916 election, then it became a wartime jingoistic slogan on par, as was noted at the time, with “Deutschland über Alles”.

After the war, “America First” was used by isolationists, including William Randolph Hearst, to keep America out of the Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations. Then Warren G Harding successfully campaigned in 1920 on an isolationist, protectionist, “America First” platform, before the phrase was used to pass anti-immigration, eugenicist, restrictionist legislation in the mid-1920s. At the same time, a new political group was organising and asserting a national presence – the Ku Klux Klan. By the mid-1920s, the Klan had as many as five million members. In other words, one out of every three or four white Protestant American man was a Klansman.

More here: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/podcasts/10-minute-talks-america-first-and-american-fascism/

I have no doubt Stephen Fucking Miller is very familiar with the history of "America First" and its association with anti-Semitism and the KKK. And he approves 100%.

[Initech]

64. I was referring to the more current America First movement.

But I have no doubt that the historical context is based on nationalism and isolationism movements, neither of which are good.

[Ocelot II]

65. The current movement is a direct descendent of the earlier ones.

Any time we hear "America First" in any context we know it's a right-wing trope.

[LymphocyteLover]

35. Assuming we get past this ugly period, there will be a LOT to write about, in terms of the

incredibly despicable and racist ads and tactics used in this election.

[LymphocyteLover]

37. It's so gross but this is the same tactic they are using to overturn affirmative action and it's not

New. It's Orwellian-- calling efforts to overcome racism as racist.

[NullTuples]

39. His group has been running radio ads attacking trans kids in swing states, too...

No candidates mentioned, just pure Nazi style hate messaging.

[Grins]

40. Sub-group is "Citizens for Sanity."

Falls under Stephen Miller’s “American First Legal.”

I saw one of their spots during the World Series and almost shit a tire-iron! Pissed the networks or MLB would allow it.

Got another one via email yesterday from someone I thought I knew. Going to fire it right back at him!

[geardaddy]

41. Oh goody, I suppose I can expect this in our mailbox soon.

It'll make for good kindling.

[Ocelot II]

50. Too bad the paper is too stiff and smooth to be used in the bathroom.

[geardaddy]

66. LOL

Yes, indeed.

[LymphocyteLover]

72. Indeed!

[Ohioboy]

43. That is disgusting!

[Tracyjo]

44. Yes!

I threw that thing in the recycle bin yesterday. And people believe this crap.

[Warpy]

45. Call the local news, tell them about this

and maybe they'll investigate who's behind it. It looks like Klanner boilerplate to me, but there are other contenders these days.

[Ocelot II]

47. They aren't making a secret of who's behind it.

It's Stephen Fucking Miller's organization, formed as a counter to the ACLU.

[Warpy]

60. Still, it would be nice to let the media know

I consider that excrescence on the body politic one of the worst threats to this country.

[Pacifist Patriot]

48. Horrific!

[Evolve Dammit]

49. Deplorable. And so much more. They are emboldened and DOJ is understaffed.

[calimary]

51. And they're doing that bad-guy-shadow thing.

Notice how Biden’s image is darkened ever so slightly? They do that A LOT. Subliminal messaging. I just hope WE do that, too, only bigger, badder, and MORE!!!

[jcgoldie]

52. I've been getting bullshit texts from the GOP about JB Pritzker

With some shit about how he plans to release everyone from prison... usually accompanied with a mugshot of some random black male just to add a touch of racism to stoke the fear. I reply with "fuck off" but I don't think anyone sees it.

[Ocelot II]

53. Remember the Willie Horton ad from GHWB's 1988 campaign?

Nothing new...

[jcgoldie]

54. yep 1st thing I thought of as well

.

[IronLionZion]

56. Wait until you see what that asshole puts in Black and Latino neighborhoods

Right-wing groups spend millions of dollars on ads targeting transgender kids
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/03/1133741967/right-wing-groups-spend-millions-dollars-ads-anti-transgender-kids

Stephen Miller group’s ads on race abandon any sense of subtlety
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/stephen-miller-groups-ads-race-abandon-sense-subtlety-rcna55243

Ex-Trump Aide's New Radio Ad Claims Biden Is Racist Towards White Americans
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ex-trump-aides-radio-ad-194500205.html


Stephen Miller is the biggest pile of shit in America and has some stiff competition to achieve that title. He's spending tons of money in all the big battleground states to troll and outrage voters with complete lies.

[Ocelot II]

68. On MSNBC just now (Nicole Wallace), Eddie Glaude said he got that mailer, too.

I guess that piece of shit is everywhere. He mentioned it during a discussion of the new movie Till.

[Torchlight]

69. Seems the guys crying out "why do you always make everything about race?!"

are the ones who actually do make everything about race. It just so happens to be one particular race they make everything about.

The meme that goes 'even white people are getting tired of other white people's shit" is becoming more and more accurate (in my case) every damn day these bigots are given airtime, press, and headlines.

[TigressDem]

70. Equity ain't no code word. It simply means EQUAL UNDER THE LAW.

Propoganda the old fashioned way, in the mail.


WOW

[LymphocyteLover]

71. I just got one today in central Indiana. Makes me sick.

How many of these are they sending?