Shooting at WHCD, Trump rushed off stage

[kalm]

I’m flattered but I created that thread in CH’s and your honor. Has the Conservative Treehouse or the Heartland institute found a real scientist yet, to confirm their climate change denial?

Pointing out rigged climate sea current models is not climate change denial

But we know you’re fine with tinkering with inputs to get a desired result

Oh. Did you post something to scientifically show how sea current have been rigged? I just remember you proclaiming the Gulf Stream wouldn’t shut down ergo the currents that bring warm water to Northern Europe are not in threat.

While we’re at it, even IF you were right, are you denying global rise in temperatures and other indications? You do know the difference between climate and weather right?

[SeattleGriz]

This belongs in Klamdami's conspiracy thread.

You're right - lake calling out "a bunch of the disgusting Media who have been pushing hatred toward President Trump for years" and claiming they "are a big part of the discord in this country" is pretty whackadoodle.

No. You insinuated this was a false flag. It's this sort of horseshit that causes these attacks. You should be ashamed.

[UNI88]

You're right - lake calling out "a bunch of the disgusting Media who have been pushing hatred toward President Trump for years" and claiming they "are a big part of the discord in this country" is pretty whackadoodle.

No. You insinuated this was a false flag. It's this sort of horseshit that causes these attacks. You should be ashamed.

I was trolling. Isn't that what MAQA yahoos say when trump says or posts something outrageous?

If he can do it then so can I. Don't like it? Tough, fvck your feelings.

[BDKJMU]

lol if you believe trans committing those murders aren’t ideologically motivated as part of team Left. They sure as hell aren’t Team Right.
-Also added the 2016 BLM inspired murder of 3 police officers in Baton Rouge (your list included the 2016 BLM inspired murder of 5 police officers in Dallas).
-Also added the N Dakota teen murdered over MAGA.

I don’t think so because your list is leaving off A LOT. And even if the Right was ahead with those past decades events, the Team Left right now is in overdrive trying to catchup the past few years.

If I apply your own gerrymandering logic, the left is only trying to catch up with the right.

I don't think either of my lists were exhaustive but you're nuts if you think it's only the leftwing list that is missing examples.

Renee Good and Alex Pretti weren't listed either and they were the victims of rightwing political violence. Everyone who was beat up, gassed or shot by ICE/CBP is an example of rightwing political violence.

[BDKJMU]

What did kimmel do? He joked that FLOTUS Melania Trump had the glow of an “expectant widow".

Melania Trump urges ABC to ‘take a stand’ after Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘widow’ joke

In hindsight was it in poor taste? Yes.

But let's compare it to a few of melania's husband's violent and/or inflammatory comments/posts.

• “We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.”
• Labeling the Patriotic 6's video as “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” As well as sharing posts calling for them to be hanged.
• Immigrants (like 2 of his wives) are "poisoning the blood of our country".

melania needs to "take a stand". How many times will she enable her husband's "atrocious behavior at the expense of our community".

Wrong . Trump wasn’t referring to immigrants. He was referring to illegals.

[UNI88]

What did kimmel do? He joked that FLOTUS Melania Trump had the glow of an “expectant widow".

Melania Trump urges ABC to ‘take a stand’ after Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘widow’ joke

In hindsight was it in poor taste? Yes.

But let's compare it to a few of melania's husband's violent and/or inflammatory comments/posts.

• “We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.”
• Labeling the Patriotic 6's video as “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” As well as sharing posts calling for them to be hanged.
• Immigrants (like 2 of his wives) are "poisoning the blood of our country".

melania needs to "take a stand". How many times will she enable her husband's "atrocious behavior at the expense of our community".

Wrong . Trump wasn’t referring to immigrants. He was referring to illegals.

Tell us how the blood of illegal immigrants is different enough to poison the blood of our country.

[Caribbean Hen]

Pointing out rigged climate sea current models is not climate change denial

But we know you’re fine with tinkering with inputs to get a desired result

Oh. Did you post something to scientifically show how sea current have been rigged? I just remember you proclaiming the Gulf Stream wouldn’t shut down ergo the currents that bring warm water to Northern Europe are not in threat.

While we’re at it, even IF you were right, are you denying global rise in temperatures and other indications? You do know the difference between climate and weather right?

You totally whiffed on the whole gulf stream thing

But it was entertaining watching you comment on things that were only in your biased narrow one way limited imagination

I Can forgive you because I know you’re hooked on drugs

[kalm]

Oh. Did you post something to scientifically show how sea current have been rigged? I just remember you proclaiming the Gulf Stream wouldn’t shut down ergo the currents that bring warm water to Northern Europe are not in threat.

While we’re at it, even IF you were right, are you denying global rise in temperatures and other indications? You do know the difference between climate and weather right?

You totally whiffed on the whole gulf stream thing

But it was entertaining watching you comment on things that were only in your biased narrow one way limited imagination

I Can forgive you because I know you’re hooked on drugs

When you make up false victories is my fav!

You lost the Gulf Stream debate. You can’t answer any of my follow ups. It’s ok. You shoot wildly from the hip. We’re used to it.

And thank you for showing your ignorance when it comes to drugs. I’m a recovering alcoholic. A physical addiction that often requires a medical detox to monitor the shock of withdrawal. I had mine in the hospital after nearly bleeding out. Required 3 pints of blood and lost around 40lbs in 4 days.

Of course you have no problem with booze. It’s more socially accountable in your circles despite being addictive. Weed is not addictive. People drink themselves to death every day. No one has ever over-dosed from weed.

I smoke weed most nights before bed. I can and do skip it without losing a beat. Aside from the relaxation, it’s a decent pain reliever and sleep aid. Weed is very common with cirrhosis patients for pain management and insomnia. My entire medical team knows I use weed and are perfectly fine with it. They may ask me to avoid it if/when I become listed for transplant. Which is fine by me. You know what they will test for? Every transplant patient is given a Peth test which can identify alcohol consumption going back 6 months.

Bottom line is your failed insults like “hooked on drugs” simply show you as a highly ignorant man. Just like with climate change. Not a huge surprise.

Congratulations and stuff!

[Caribbean Hen]

You totally whiffed on the whole gulf stream thing

But it was entertaining watching you comment on things that were only in your biased narrow one way limited imagination

I Can forgive you because I know you’re hooked on drugs

When you make up false victories is my fav!

You lost the Gulf Stream debate. You can’t answer any of my follow ups. It’s ok. You shoot wildly from the hip. We’re used to it.

And thank you for showing your ignorance when it comes to drugs. I’m a recovering alcoholic. A physical addiction that often requires a medical detox to monitor the shock of withdrawal. I had mine in the hospital after nearly bleeding out. Required 3 pints of blood and lost around 40lbs in 4 days.

Of course you have no problem with booze. It’s more socially accountable in your circles despite being addictive. Weed is not addictive. People drink themselves to death every day. No one has ever over-dosed from weed.

I smoke weed most nights before bed. I can and do skip it without losing a beat. Aside from the relaxation, it’s a decent pain reliever and sleep aid. Weed is very common with cirrhosis patients for pain management and insomnia. My entire medical team knows I use weed and are perfectly fine with it. They may ask me to avoid it if/when I become listed for transplant. Which is fine by me. You know what they will test for? Every transplant patient is given a Peth test which can identify alcohol consumption going back 6 months.

Bottom line is your failed insults like “hooked on drugs” simply show you as a highly ignorant man. Just like with climate change. Not a huge surprise.

Congratulations and stuff!

How did I lose the gulf stream debate when you didn’t participate in the debate?

you took a powder the whole time and just replied with silly nonsense

And you just confessed to being hooked on drugs but say I’m highly ignorant ….

Nooooo, everybody knows that you are the Rocky Mountain high guy around here

You should really get off the weed because it’s affecting your memory and your brain function

[kalm]

When you make up false victories is my fav!

You lost the Gulf Stream debate. You can’t answer any of my follow ups. It’s ok. You shoot wildly from the hip. We’re used to it.

And thank you for showing your ignorance when it comes to drugs. I’m a recovering alcoholic. A physical addiction that often requires a medical detox to monitor the shock of withdrawal. I had mine in the hospital after nearly bleeding out. Required 3 pints of blood and lost around 40lbs in 4 days.

Of course you have no problem with booze. It’s more socially accountable in your circles despite being addictive. Weed is not addictive. People drink themselves to death every day. No one has ever over-dosed from weed.

I smoke weed most nights before bed. I can and do skip it without losing a beat. Aside from the relaxation, it’s a decent pain reliever and sleep aid. Weed is very common with cirrhosis patients for pain management and insomnia. My entire medical team knows I use weed and are perfectly fine with it. They may ask me to avoid it if/when I become listed for transplant. Which is fine by me. You know what they will test for? Every transplant patient is given a Peth test which can identify alcohol consumption going back 6 months.

Bottom line is your failed insults like “hooked on drugs” simply show you as a highly ignorant man. Just like with climate change. Not a huge surprise.

Congratulations and stuff!

How did I lose the gulf stream debate when you didn’t participate in the debate?

you took a powder the whole time and just replied with silly nonsense

And you just confessed to being hooked on drugs but say I’m highly ignorant ….

Nooooo, everybody knows that you are the Rocky Mountain high guy around here

You should really get off the weed because it’s affecting your memory and your brain function

As usual, you had a tough time tracking a conversation regarding Climate change.

Regarding whether you think I’m “hooked on drugs”. A quick review of the definition of marijuana addiction in light of my comments shows you are simply wrong. I’d like to think deep down you’re aware of this and are just attempting to use someone’s previous substance abuse as an insult. If it’s the latter, it proves your cognitive dissonance, calls into question the quality of your character, and you can kindly go fuck yourself.

Here’s your chance to prove you aren’t a complete tool. Godspeed!

[Caribbean Hen]

How did I lose the gulf stream debate when you didn’t participate in the debate?

you took a powder the whole time and just replied with silly nonsense

And you just confessed to being hooked on drugs but say I’m highly ignorant ….

Nooooo, everybody knows that you are the Rocky Mountain high guy around here

You should really get off the weed because it’s affecting your memory and your brain function

As usual, you had a tough time tracking a conversation regarding Climate change.

Regarding whether you think I’m “hooked on drugs”. A quick review of the definition of marijuana addiction in light of my comments shows you are simply wrong. I’d like to think deep down you’re aware of this and are just attempting to use someone’s previous substance abuse as an insult. If it’s the latter, it proves your cognitive dissonance, calls into question the quality of your character, and you can kindly go fuck yourself.

Here’s your chance to prove you aren’t a complete tool. Godspeed!

Wow, you’re awful sensitive about this whole drug addiction thing aren’t you

Just drop your stash in the garbage can and say goodbye

Take another road where maybe you could see another kind of mind there….

[kalm]

As usual, you had a tough time tracking a conversation regarding Climate change.

Regarding whether you think I’m “hooked on drugs”. A quick review of the definition of marijuana addiction in light of my comments shows you are simply wrong. I’d like to think deep down you’re aware of this and are just attempting to use someone’s previous substance abuse as an insult. If it’s the latter, it proves your cognitive dissonance, calls into question the quality of your character, and you can kindly go fuck yourself.

Here’s your chance to prove you aren’t a complete tool. Godspeed!

Wow, you’re awful sensitive about this whole drug addiction thing aren’t you

Just drop your stash in the garbage can and say goodbye

Take another road where maybe you could see another kind of mind there….

So I see you choose the go fuck yourself route.

When someone shares with honesty and openly their past mistakes and trauma I find that honorable and courageous. I become a fan and try to lift them up. Everyone including you have inner demons and have faced trauma in your life. Many choose to try and shove that down deeper out fear, failing to recognize how it shapes them. Some even lash out and attempt to weaponize others honesty like you’ve done here. That makes you a shitty person. The kind I warned my kids about.

If sensitive means educated and self aware then yes. Guilty as charged. Let me know if you’d ever like to get things off your chest. It can be liberating.

[Caribbean Hen]

Wow, you’re awful sensitive about this whole drug addiction thing aren’t you

Just drop your stash in the garbage can and say goodbye

Take another road where maybe you could see another kind of mind there….

So I see you choose the go fuck yourself route.

When someone shares with honesty and openly their past mistakes and trauma I find that honorable and courageous. I become a fan and try to lift them up. Everyone including you have inner demons and have faced trauma in your life. Many choose to try and shove that down deeper out fear, failing to recognize how it shapes them. Some even lash out and attempt to weaponize others honesty like you’ve done here. That makes you a shitty person. The kind I warned my kids about.

If sensitive means educated and self aware then yes. Guilty as charged. Let me know if you’d ever like to get things off your chest. It can be liberating.

Just hush it with the righteous all about me speeches

Walking through life with a clean head and not saturated with weed and booze is truly the way

There are many different approaches to trying to help someone… mine is very direct and I realize the honest approach doesn’t always work

[kalm]

So I see you choose the go fuck yourself route.

When someone shares with honesty and openly their past mistakes and trauma I find that honorable and courageous. I become a fan and try to lift them up. Everyone including you have inner demons and have faced trauma in your life. Many choose to try and shove that down deeper out fear, failing to recognize how it shapes them. Some even lash out and attempt to weaponize others honesty like you’ve done here. That makes you a shitty person. The kind I warned my kids about.

If sensitive means educated and self aware then yes. Guilty as charged. Let me know if you’d ever like to get things off your chest. It can be liberating.

Just hush it with the righteous all about me speeches

Walking through life with a clean head and not saturated with weed and booze is truly the way

There are many different approaches to trying to help someone… mine is very direct and I realize the honest approach doesn’t always work

It’s all about all of us. Human nature. Sorry that’s uncomfortable to the point you have to proselytize and judge.

You truly know nothing of addiction and psychology do ya?
Study up, Buttercup! Your hero was drug addict! His music got better the more he experimented and expanded his mind!

[UNI88]

So I see you choose the go fuck yourself route.

When someone shares with honesty and openly their past mistakes and trauma I find that honorable and courageous. I become a fan and try to lift them up. Everyone including you have inner demons and have faced trauma in your life. Many choose to try and shove that down deeper out fear, failing to recognize how it shapes them. Some even lash out and attempt to weaponize others honesty like you’ve done here. That makes you a shitty person. The kind I warned my kids about.

If sensitive means educated and self aware then yes. Guilty as charged. Let me know if you’d ever like to get things off your chest. It can be liberating.

Just hush it with the righteous all about me speeches

Walking through life with a clean head and not saturated with weed and booze is truly the way

There are many different approaches to trying to help someone… mine is very direct and I realize the honest approach doesn’t always work

To paraphrase SG "don't judge others".

[UNI88]

[Caribbean Hen]

Just hush it with the righteous all about me speeches

Walking through life with a clean head and not saturated with weed and booze is truly the way

There are many different approaches to trying to help someone… mine is very direct and I realize the honest approach doesn’t always work

It’s all about all of us. Human nature. Sorry that’s uncomfortable to the point you have to proselytize and judge.

You truly know nothing of addiction and psychology do ya?
Study up, Buttercup! Your hero was drug addict! His music got better the more he experimented and expanded his mind!

He didn’t need drugs to expand his mind. He only experimented so he could connect with the lower half of the best songwriting team in history.

[kalm]

It’s all about all of us. Human nature. Sorry that’s uncomfortable to the point you have to proselytize and judge.

You truly know nothing of addiction and psychology do ya?
Study up, Buttercup! Your hero was drug addict! His music got better the more he experimented and expanded his mind!

He didn’t need drugs to expand his mind. He only experimented so he could connect with the lower half of the best songwriting team in history.

He admitted that weed positively influenced the BANDS music. And he continued to smoke decades after the Beatles were done

[Caribbean Hen]

He didn’t need drugs to expand his mind. He only experimented so he could connect with the lower half of the best songwriting team in history.

He admitted that weed positively influenced the BANDS music. And he continued to smoke decades after the Beatles were done

So you caught the song reference earlier?

[BDKJMU]

After the SS’s colossal failure at Butler you had Biden’s DEI hire raked over the coals in Congressional hearings by both Rs AND Ds, and she resigned.

The next head of the SS was raked over the coals by Congress after the failure at West Palm. It was luck that they discovered the assassin before Trump got close. The SS fired multiple shots at the guy and missed, let him get away, and he was only captured because some citizen wrote down his license plate #. The new head of the SS failed to fire anyone over Butler or West Palm.

Trump takes over and appoints another SS director. Last week in DC was a colossal failure. The security to get into the hotel was reportedly a joke. Reportedly 5 shots were fired at the guy. All missed. The SS didn’t stop the guy. They got lucky he tripped and fell. The guy is armed and shooting at the SS. How AFTER shooting at the armed guy AND missing do they put handcuffs on him? They should have mag dumped into him. Utter failure by the SS.

[BDKJMU]

The 3 against the wall are TSA. Some of the others aren’t SS.
https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/2050040875233706353

[Caribbean Hen]

Wow. Maybe this TDS infected judge needs to be locked up for a few days…. Sympathizing with assassin‘s is dangerous to public safety.

The magistrate judge who apologized to suspected would-be Trump assassin Cole Allen for his treatment inside a Washington, D.C., jail during a Monday emergency motion hearing has been criticized for his standoffishness with the Trump administration over the city's crime crackdown, and praised for his career-long commitment to DEI.

"To me, it’s extremely disturbing that he was put in five-point restraints, a person with no criminal history," Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui, who devoted much of his career to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, said during the hearing, adding that Allen is presumed innocent.

[kalm]

Wow. Maybe this TDS infected judge needs to be locked up for a few days…. Sympathizing with assassin‘s is dangerous to public safety.

The magistrate judge who apologized to suspected would-be Trump assassin Cole Allen for his treatment inside a Washington, D.C., jail during a Monday emergency motion hearing has been criticized for his standoffishness with the Trump administration over the city's crime crackdown, and praised for his career-long commitment to DEI.

"To me, it’s extremely disturbing that he was put in five-point restraints, a person with no criminal history," Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui, who devoted much of his career to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, said during the hearing, adding that Allen is presumed innocent.

This seems like an appropriate place for this. It didn’t start with Trump. But his era put it on steroids.

In a recent podcast interview with The New York Times, political science Professor Robert Pape pointed out that acceptance of political violence is today higher than it’s been in generations. Tens of millions of Americans, his research shows, are now accepting of things as extreme as assassination as a way to change politics.

This follows the third attempt at Trump’s life, the murder of prominent Democratic politicians in Minnesota, the murder of Charlie Kirk, and the ICE assassinations of at least three US citizens in the past year.

We’re also seeing an increasing acceptance of violence toward minorities and women.

ICE brutalizes mostly Hispanics, including children, sending them to foreign torture camps, deporting them to Congo and other war-torn hellholes, and keeping over 70,000 — including thousands of children — in brutal, primitive conditions that in some cases would get an animal shelter closed down.

Violence against women is also increasingly accepted across the right wing of American society. Trump has been credibly accused of multiple rapes and assaults (and nailed for one by a jury of his peers), Hegseth’s own mother called out how he’s abused his previous wives, and accused rapists like the Tate brothers are tight with the Trump boys as an online “Rape Academy” got 62 million American visitors in a single month this year alone.

Republicans shrug it all off — or revel in it— while attacking and dismantling DEI and “woke” as anti-white-male, as if it’s all just fine with them. Bring up the topic and you’re accused of being a snowflake.

What the hell is going on? Why have American men — particularly white men — seemingly gone violently nuts over the past generation or two? Why do they revel in images and memes of violence and follow so-called “manosphere influencers”?

This is being driven by three factors: economics, racism, and misogyny that have been brought together in this moment as a perfect storm…….

First, there’s the economics.

When Ronald Reagan came into office in 1981 and declared war on the New Deal and unions while cutting income taxes on billionaires from 74% to virtually nothing, a massive $80 trillion transfer of wealth began. It wiped out worker protections, froze wages, ended most pensions, and — over the past 45 years — have taken the middle class from two-thirds of us down to around 43 percent of us.

To add insult to injury, men who once defined their masculinity by their ability to singularly provide for their families now have to rely on their wives working to keep a household together. And even that wasn’t enough for Republicans; today over half of working Americans are a few paychecks away from homelessness or bankruptcy as a result of these GOP policies and tax cuts.

Rush Limbaugh was the first to identify this back in the 1990s, calling women who worked and demanded equal rights and pay “Feminazis.” He legitimized that sort of rhetoric, blaming the emasculation of working class men at the hands of corporate bosses on their wives and other women in the workplace.

Republicans in Congress joined the chorus, publicly and proudly opposing the Equal Rights Amendment, which simply and entirely says, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” They continue to block it to this day.
Trump’s famous claim that he could sexually assault any woman he wanted because “when you’re a star, they let you do it” added to the Republican permission structure, giving modern rape culture a huge boost.

But Republicans didn’t just blame the collapse of the middle class on women in the workplace; they also claimed that Blacks and Hispanics were “stealing jobs” and “driving down wages” to deflect attention from the GOP-aligned fatcats whose singular agenda is to “control labor costs” to increase profits and add to billionaires’ money bins.

On this issue of race, there are two clear factors. The first of these reminds us of the last era of widespread white adoption of organized racism when President Woodrow Wilson sponsored a White House screening of the Klan recruiting film Birth of a Nation in 1915 and then embraced an eugenics movement that was explicitly grounded in ideas of a racial hierarchy of intellect and talent with whites on top.

The result of the President of the United States endorsing white supremacy that year was immediate and widespread: membership in the Klan, which had been moribund for a generation, exploded from an estimated 400,000 to over four million in fewer than two years. Klan marches coinciding with the Fourth of July and other patriotic holidays became commonplace events in American cities (30,000 Klansmen marched in Washington, DC in 1925, for example) until the fever was broken by World War II.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartm ... medium=ios

[Caribbean Hen]

Wow. Maybe this TDS infected judge needs to be locked up for a few days…. Sympathizing with assassin‘s is dangerous to public safety.

The magistrate judge who apologized to suspected would-be Trump assassin Cole Allen for his treatment inside a Washington, D.C., jail during a Monday emergency motion hearing has been criticized for his standoffishness with the Trump administration over the city's crime crackdown, and praised for his career-long commitment to DEI.

"To me, it’s extremely disturbing that he was put in five-point restraints, a person with no criminal history," Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui, who devoted much of his career to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, said during the hearing, adding that Allen is presumed innocent.

This seems like an appropriate place for this. It didn’t start with Trump. But his era put it on steroids.

In a recent podcast interview with The New York Times, political science Professor Robert Pape pointed out that acceptance of political violence is today higher than it’s been in generations. Tens of millions of Americans, his research shows, are now accepting of things as extreme as assassination as a way to change politics.

This follows the third attempt at Trump’s life, the murder of prominent Democratic politicians in Minnesota, the murder of Charlie Kirk, and the ICE assassinations of at least three US citizens in the past year.

We’re also seeing an increasing acceptance of violence toward minorities and women.

ICE brutalizes mostly Hispanics, including children, sending them to foreign torture camps, deporting them to Congo and other war-torn hellholes, and keeping over 70,000 — including thousands of children — in brutal, primitive conditions that in some cases would get an animal shelter closed down.

Violence against women is also increasingly accepted across the right wing of American society. Trump has been credibly accused of multiple rapes and assaults (and nailed for one by a jury of his peers), Hegseth’s own mother called out how he’s abused his previous wives, and accused rapists like the Tate brothers are tight with the Trump boys as an online “Rape Academy” got 62 million American visitors in a single month this year alone.

Republicans shrug it all off — or revel in it— while attacking and dismantling DEI and “woke” as anti-white-male, as if it’s all just fine with them. Bring up the topic and you’re accused of being a snowflake.

What the hell is going on? Why have American men — particularly white men — seemingly gone violently nuts over the past generation or two? Why do they revel in images and memes of violence and follow so-called “manosphere influencers”?

This is being driven by three factors: economics, racism, and misogyny that have been brought together in this moment as a perfect storm…….

First, there’s the economics.

When Ronald Reagan came into office in 1981 and declared war on the New Deal and unions while cutting income taxes on billionaires from 74% to virtually nothing, a massive $80 trillion transfer of wealth began. It wiped out worker protections, froze wages, ended most pensions, and — over the past 45 years — have taken the middle class from two-thirds of us down to around 43 percent of us.

To add insult to injury, men who once defined their masculinity by their ability to singularly provide for their families now have to rely on their wives working to keep a household together. And even that wasn’t enough for Republicans; today over half of working Americans are a few paychecks away from homelessness or bankruptcy as a result of these GOP policies and tax cuts.

Rush Limbaugh was the first to identify this back in the 1990s, calling women who worked and demanded equal rights and pay “Feminazis.” He legitimized that sort of rhetoric, blaming the emasculation of working class men at the hands of corporate bosses on their wives and other women in the workplace.

Republicans in Congress joined the chorus, publicly and proudly opposing the Equal Rights Amendment, which simply and entirely says, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” They continue to block it to this day.
Trump’s famous claim that he could sexually assault any woman he wanted because “when you’re a star, they let you do it” added to the Republican permission structure, giving modern rape culture a huge boost.

But Republicans didn’t just blame the collapse of the middle class on women in the workplace; they also claimed that Blacks and Hispanics were “stealing jobs” and “driving down wages” to deflect attention from the GOP-aligned fatcats whose singular agenda is to “control labor costs” to increase profits and add to billionaires’ money bins.

On this issue of race, there are two clear factors. The first of these reminds us of the last era of widespread white adoption of organized racism when President Woodrow Wilson sponsored a White House screening of the Klan recruiting film Birth of a Nation in 1915 and then embraced an eugenics movement that was explicitly grounded in ideas of a racial hierarchy of intellect and talent with whites on top.

The result of the President of the United States endorsing white supremacy that year was immediate and widespread: membership in the Klan, which had been moribund for a generation, exploded from an estimated 400,000 to over four million in fewer than two years. Klan marches coinciding with the Fourth of July and other patriotic holidays became commonplace events in American cities (30,000 Klansmen marched in Washington, DC in 1925, for example) until the fever was broken by World War II.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartm ... medium=ios

The nutty professor Pape is a complete moron…

Where was all the outrage when Joey The Con Biden was President?

There was never even a whisper about an assassination attempt on him… that’s the way it should be

Trump comes in and all the spoiled losers and TDS infected, spoiled assholes of the world come out of woods with weapons and knives with the goal of ripping Trump apart
And blowing his head off while he’s at the podium speaking

[kalm]

This seems like an appropriate place for this. It didn’t start with Trump. But his era put it on steroids.





https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartm ... medium=ios

The nutty professor Pape is a complete moron…

Where was all the outrage when Joey The Con Biden was President?

There was never even a whisper about an assassination attempt on him… that’s the way it should be

Trump comes in and all the spoiled losers and TDS infected, spoiled assholes of the world come out of woods with weapons and knives with the goal of ripping Trump apart
And blowing his head off while he’s at the podium speaking

Sigh.

Well I tried…