There Republicans go again, siding with thugs

[Zorro]

The Republican Party has completed its transition from the “law and order” party to the party of thugs, violence and harassment.

Eight Senate Republicans — Cynthia M. Lummis (Wyo.), Mike Lee (Utah), James Lankford (Okla.), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Kevin Cramer (N.D.), Ted Cruz (Tex.), John Hoeven (N.D.) and Rick Scott (Fla.) — wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday to protest the creation of a no-fly list for passengers who lash out at airline personnel attempting to enforce mask requirements. They claim the list “would seemingly equate them to terrorists who seek to actively take the lives of Americans and perpetrate attacks on the homeland.”

Seemingly. Only defenders of anti-mask thuggery would be unable to make the simple distinction between the two categories.

In reality, the problem of violence against airline personnel and disruptive conduct requiring pilots to turn flights around has become pervasive. That’s why Delta Air Lines chief executive Ed Bastian asked Garland earlier this month to address the problem by creating the no-fly list.

The only surprise here is that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who went berserk over Garland’s vow to investigate threats and violence against school board members, did not also sign the letter. He, along with a slew of other Republican senators recently accused Garland in grossly misleading letter of “policing the speech of citizens and concerned parents.” Right-wing media picked up the issue as well, claiming that parents were being labeled as “domestic terrorists.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/16/republicans-support-violent-passengers/

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. How about we put those Terrorist sympathizers on a NO-FLY list?

Might make getting to their home states a bit troublesome.

Tit for Tat. Just my honest opinion.

[RKP5637]

3. K&R!!!! n/t

[Botany]

2. "They" want the chaos, the disease, the social unrest, and those pissed off white people who ...

....watch Fox and read that Russian crap on Facebook to be out there and stirring up shit to get
headlines a la the Canadian Truckers. And in stirring up this shit the economy gets hurt, or more
people get C-19, or people's lives are disrupted then that is just a bonus because "they*" are
planing on blaming it all on Biden anyways.


Sens. Cynthia M. Lummis (Wyo.), Mike Lee (Utah), James Lankford (Okla.), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Kevin Cramer (N.D.), Ted Cruz (Tex.), John Hoeven (N.D.) and Rick Scott (Fla.) are actively working to make Americans to hurt ... rinse lather and repeat.

[RKP5637]

4. And both senators for Florida seem to love it ... so pathetic. n/t

[Botany]

7. I can't help but think this is chaos theory in action. Just like DeSantis and Abbott (anti vax)are

... deliberately spreading the C-19 on purpose so they can get the people upset and angry and also they
can blame Biden for not getting the disease under control.

[RKP5637]

8. Exactly my thoughts too. They want to disrupt anything as much as possible to then flip it

and blame it on the Biden administration. The most dangerous threat to the survival of the US is from within the country ... as we see playing out more and more. They are organized and use cut-throat tactics.

[NullTuples]

15. "chaos theory" is something very different. This is their affinity for creating chaos.

...usually so they can use privilege to take advantage of any opportunities that arise.

It's much easier to grift in a chaotic environment than an orderly system.

[Atticus]

5. This should be mentioned on Democratic campaign websites and in every debate for midterm contests:

"THIS is what the Republican party stands for!"

Hang it around every Trumpie's neck!

[TheRealNorth]

6. Why shouldn't punching a flight attendant be considered "legitimate political discourse?"

[flying_wahini]

9. Isn't chaos what Bannon has been preaching for all along?

I think Bannon called it throwing chum in the water everyday to create chaos.
Or something close to it.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. Takes one to know one.

Repug senators must fly in private jets. They sure don't expose themselves to the rabble that cause these attacks. "This is the captain. We need some strong men come forward and help subdue an unruly passenger." This was an actual announcement on one flight.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Thugs are on it for what they have done. Terror suspects are on it for suspicion.

If anyone should be on it, that would be thugs, because there is evidence and public evidence of their unsuitability to fly.

They DID something egregious.

The suspects on it? Maybe, maybe not. Many are there through no fault of their own, including Senator Ted Kennedy, for a bit while he was alive.



What RepubliQonners understand but refuse to acknowledge is that unruliness in the air does terrorize and greatly inconvenience passengers. It is bullying and intimidation.

Thugs use bullying and intimidation to extract concessions, just like terrorism, except in the case of thugs it is in a solo self-centered narcissistic snowflaky way.

And now the RNC has laid it out in the open: their "legitimate political discourse" is nothing but bullying and intimidation.

[ificandream]

12. We need a Repughlican no-fly list.

[Lonestarblue]

13. I have been on a flight with a no-mask disrupter.

Fortunately, the plane was still on the ground and we were delayed for at least 20-25 minutes while this idiot was told either to wear a mask or get off the plane. The flight attendants did not close the plane door until the person complied. This was the same man who was not wearing a mask in the terminal even though there were announcements every five minutes that all people were required to wear masks in the terminal at all times. The ground crew knew he was not wearing a mask but did nothing. They could have predicted that he would cause trouble once on the plane. I fully support a no-fly list. These people mostly suffer no consequences for bad behavior and outright assault on flight attendants.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Yes, deliberately infecting others is an attack on the homeland and is terrorism.

Nothing more to say.

[Grins]

16. They had no problem with Ted Kennedy on the no fly list...

…for YEARS!

This is a common sense way to address or minimize the danger of Reich-wing crackpots at 35,000 feet in a pressurized aluminum tube moving 10-miles a minute.