Keep in mind that Bannon was his mentor so to speak. He also pushed the birther narrative and likes Alex Jones.
How many people who voted for him feel as if they share some of the blame for what happened?
Right. It may be he himself is prone to liking conspiracy theories, I don’t know. He has never struck me as the sort of person to take an interest in managing or overseeing anything himself, which is one reason I said that. He just wants things done and doesn’t want to know how it’s going to happen
I don’t know. Possibly many, possibly not.
Dude, just give it up.
You’re blaming the actions, support, choices of some people on the actions of others, and holding people who have a legitimate interest in a formerly viable (Trump) political figure on people who have no real interest in politics or policy, and are also scum bags.
When really, there’s no connection. People like white supremacists like to lay claim to stuff. I’ve had a few approach me and as half assed gay as it sounds, read all of their hopes and dreams into me, like they wanted me to be one of them for some unknown to me reason. It’s fucking wierd and creepy.
But, I do believe this is part of his allure to that crowd. They really want him to be one of them and have glomed on to his persona.
Now get back on the boat, take your wonderful sauces and beautiful women, and get your fascist moosalini ass outa here.
We also take your women. Even the ugly ones. That’s why you don’t see Italians making threads about how to get a girlfriend.
But let me ask this, it wouldn’t give you pause if a politician you supported also appealed to QAnon and white supremacists, and not by accident but by design?
If you choose to breed with a scots/Irish woman, that’s on you, as will be the consequences.
Can’t even go fishin to get away from them.
Qanon came after. In fact, it’s just speculation on my part, but I’m almost certain that was the work of Bannon. As soon as he disappeared up popped that pimple, filled with exactly his kind of puss. But that’s the extent of my understanding of it. I don’t have any real interest in strung together innuendo and mysterious sources.
But if it were appealing to both, and by design, what is the appeal, and how is it targeted to those specific groups (by design)?
Like, where is the tie in?
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Apparently Lin Wood had a post deleted off Parler which was supposed to be the pure right wing say whatever you want alternative. He’s been calling for Pence to die on there multiple times.
Can’t get that to copy over any better as it’s blurry on this link but the caption is he’s disrespecting the flag.
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Makes you wonder if somehow, probably accidentally, the GOP messaging to their base in the last month or so ended up being garbled due to a string of unfortunate misunderstandings.
I blame Antifa for that - they’ve radicalized the public discourse so much that the term “executing someone” or “giving up their life” implies literal violence.
The sanctity of property rights as well.
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She looks like my mother.
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A “Letter from the Chairman” of the Nye County Republican Committee is well worth a read. It reads like a manifesto. From a serial killer.
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Holy shit what a piece of work! That’s disturbing.
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Reading that I wondered if the writer actually believed what he was saying. Then I thought how could someone who wasn’t a true believer write that.
Italian satellites changed votes? Who comes up with this?
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I wonder what they think of of 9/11, JFK, or moon landing conspiracy theorists? Or flat earthers for that matter.
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That’s some Guyana level kool-aid there.
Have they been studying Jim Jones?
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The timing of this was really good:
Executive Order on Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence
Issued on: June 26, 2020
From Trump’s exec. order:
Sec. 2. Policy. (a) It is the policy of the United States to prosecute to the fullest extent permitted under Federal law, and as appropriate, any person or any entity that destroys, damages, vandalizes, or desecrates a monument, memorial, or statue within the United States *or otherwise vandalizes government property.
(b) It is the policy of the United States to prosecute to the fullest extent permitted under Federal law, and as appropriate, any person or any entity that participates in efforts to incite violence or other illegal activity in connection with the riots and acts of vandalism described in section 1 of this order.
I’d just like to say thanks for this order Donald. I hope it is applied to you and your supporters to the fullest extent it possibly can be.
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Houston Chronicle article on Crenshaw criticizing GOP members for incentivizing the mob - posted due to possible paywall (link at end):
U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw is angry with his Republican colleagues in Congress who he said played a much bigger role in planting the seeds for yesterday’s riots on Capitol Hill than many realize.
While the Houston Republican said he doesn’t like how some states conducted their elections, Congress never had the authority to overturn the elections in those states. He said the problem is some members of Congress gave Trump supporters false hope that on Jan. 6 they could change the results if they just fought harder.
“All of the members who called for everyone to come and fight and make their last stand, all of those members were scattered like cowards while the Capitol Police had to do the fighting,” Crenshaw told Hearst Newspapers on Thursday morning.
Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, wouldn’t single out who he was referring to but said that rhetoric set the stage for what happened.
BLOW BACK: Ted Cruz, Texas Republicans face backlash after mob storms Capitol
“These people have been lied to en masse by the millions,” Crenshaw said. “In the sense that they were led to believe Jan. 6 was anything but a political performance for a few opportunistic politicians to give a five-minute speech. That is all that it ever was. People were lied to.”
Crenshaw was one of the members of Congress who supported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his failed attempt to challenge the election results of four other states back in December. But Crenshaw said that is not the same as calling on people to march onto the Capitol.
Crenshaw said President Donald Trump deserves blame for continuing to ramp up the crowd. Earlier in the day, Trump told his supporters to continue to fight and suggested they “walk down to the Capitol.” The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., took it a step further when he declared to members of Congress during the rally: “We’re coming for you.”
Crenshaw said Trump and his supporters in Congress don’t understand the power of their words when they use terms of war to crowds that they have led to believe that the nation is on the brink of ruin.
Crenshaw made clear that he wasn’t criticizing U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley. He said he disagreed with what those two Senators were doing and voted against their efforts to stop certification of Joe Biden’s win. But he said they were not the ones he saw calling on supporters to come to Washington for some sort of last fight to save America.
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, an Austin Republican whose district runs to Houston, also has been decrying the language Trump and other members of Congress used that helped incite the crowds.
“Rhetoric has consequences,” McCaul said on Twitter. “It certainly did in this case.”
On Saturday, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, was accused by some of calling on Trump’s supporters to take to the streets after he lost a court challenge aimed at forcing Vice President Mike Pence to block the certification of Joe Biden as the next president. After he lost the ruling, he told Newsmax, a conservative media outlet, that the court was refusing to fix the problem.
“Essentially, the ruling would be ‘You have to go to the streets and be as violent as antifa, BLM,’” he added.
Gohmert, a former judge, has denied he was calling for violence.
But it wasn’t just Gohmert. U.S. Rep. Lance Gooden, a north Texas Republican, took to Twitter on Tuesday with the message: “Fight in DC tomorrow!”
Crenshaw, who represents Houston’s 2nd Congressional District, lauded the efforts of the Capitol Hill police but said they were put in a terrible position. He said they did not have enough manpower and were not prepared to deal with the crisis.
“These police officers were just held out to dry,” Crenshaw said. “Where was their backup?”
I’d like to come up with some sort of witty comment but my brain is currently rebooting from the critical mass of stupidity and fear I’ve somehow been infected.
Hell yes
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Cough coughcough
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