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This is the thread where we skewer the fascist-right wingnuts. Let's start this off with everyone's favorite, Marjorie Taylor Greene:
Quote:The governor of Guam offered to send Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) a history book after the conservative firebrand incorrectly referred to the U.S. territory as a foreign land during a speech railing against federal financial aid going to other countries.
Krystal Paco-San Agustin, the communicators director for Gov. Lourdes Leon Guerrero (D), told The Guam Post on Thursday that they would be "more than happy to send Representative Greene's office a copy of 'Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam.'"
Del. Michael San Nicolas (D), a non-voting delegate representing Guam in Congress, told the outlet that he would be delivering Greene "delicious Chamorro Chip Cookies as part of our ongoing outreach to new members to introduce them to our wonderful island of Guam."
Guam has been part of the United States since 1899, and people born on the island in the west Pacific Ocean have been considered U.S. citizens since 1950. Guam's roughly 170,000 residents do pay federal taxes but not federal income tax.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/54276...ing-us?amp
... annnnd ...
Quote:Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called Rep. David Cicilline "Rep. Mussolini" after the Rhode Island Democrat proposed a rule change to block her from forcing motions to adjourn.
The comment came after Greene was asked by Newsweek about a proposed rule change from Cicilline that would only allow a member to make a motion to adjourn if they are a member of a committee.
The House voted to strip Greene of her committee assignments last month over her previous endorsement of conspiracy theories and violence against Democratic politicians, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
When Newsweek asked about Cicilline's proposal, Greene said, "Do you mean Rep. Mussolini?"
"Not only did Democrats unilaterally strip away my committees, now they want to remove any powers I have to represent my district," she added. "The Democrats run the House of Hypocrites with tyrannical control."
Cicilline responded to Greene's comments on Twitter, saying, "I'm an Italian and a Jew. Mussolini was a fascist dictator in league with Adolf Hitler, who murdered six million Jews. Marjorie Taylor Greene can get lost."
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/54275...solini?amp
As Pa Thump used to say, "You've got two ears and one mouth for a reason. Use them in that order."
Thread is not terribly topical, meant more as fun, so let's see your favorite examples.
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Here you go. An Okie clown show.
https://www.rawstory.com/health-and-freedom/
Quote:Capitol rioters and coronavirus cranks to gather for two-day conference with new GOP candidate
Quote:Attorneys Sidney Powell and Lin Wood will appear with former Trump national security adviser Mike Flynn at the April 16-17 event at Broken Arrow's Rhema Bible College, alongside notorious vaccine skeptics Andrew Wakefield and Charlene Bollinger, who spoke at the Jan. 6 "Stop The Steal" rally and said her husband stormed the Capitol.
California physician and infamous COVID-19 truther Simone Gold, who was arrested for taking part in the Capitol riot, will also take part in the event, which will also feature coronavirus contrarian Dr. Richard Bartlett and "Chicken Soup for the Soul" co-author Mark Victor Hansen.
Only the fascist right can put together a collection of fuckheads like this.
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(03-19-2021, 05:45 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Here you go. An Okie clown show.
https://www.rawstory.com/health-and-freedom/
Quote:Capitol rioters and coronavirus cranks to gather for two-day conference with new GOP candidate
Quote:Attorneys Sidney Powell and Lin Wood will appear with former Trump national security adviser Mike Flynn at the April 16-17 event at Broken Arrow's Rhema Bible College, alongside notorious vaccine skeptics Andrew Wakefield and Charlene Bollinger, who spoke at the Jan. 6 "Stop The Steal" rally and said her husband stormed the Capitol.
California physician and infamous COVID-19 truther Simone Gold, who was arrested for taking part in the Capitol riot, will also take part in the event, which will also feature coronavirus contrarian Dr. Richard Bartlett and "Chicken Soup for the Soul" co-author Mark Victor Hansen.
Only the fascist right can put together a collection of fuckheads like this.
That's a gravitational well of stupidity right there. Sorry we Texans gave y'all the Powell.
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03-19-2021, 06:31 PM
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Kevin McCarthy ... lying his lips off, now trying to get us to buy that he never tried to overturn the election.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/18/politics/...index.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-mc...on-2020-11
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(03-19-2021, 06:12 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (03-19-2021, 05:45 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Here you go. An Okie clown show.
https://www.rawstory.com/health-and-freedom/
Quote:Capitol rioters and coronavirus cranks to gather for two-day conference with new GOP candidate
Quote:Attorneys Sidney Powell and Lin Wood will appear with former Trump national security adviser Mike Flynn at the April 16-17 event at Broken Arrow's Rhema Bible College, alongside notorious vaccine skeptics Andrew Wakefield and Charlene Bollinger, who spoke at the Jan. 6 "Stop The Steal" rally and said her husband stormed the Capitol.
California physician and infamous COVID-19 truther Simone Gold, who was arrested for taking part in the Capitol riot, will also take part in the event, which will also feature coronavirus contrarian Dr. Richard Bartlett and "Chicken Soup for the Soul" co-author Mark Victor Hansen.
Only the fascist right can put together a collection of fuckheads like this.
That's a gravitational well of stupidity right there. Sorry we Texans gave y'all the Powell.
Powell is going to learn the hard way, that lying about Dominion's ballott machines was not a good thing for her bank account.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/p...65510.html
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03-21-2021, 03:36 PM
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Watch: John Oliver Dedicates Entire Segment to Exposing Tucker Carlson as a ‘White Supremacist’
https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/w...premacist/
Quote:
“When you put all of this together, the pattern is clear,” explained Oliver. “He is scared of a country that ‘looks nothing like the one he grew up in’ because diversity ‘isn’t our strength,’ immigrants make our country ‘poorer, dirtier, and more divided,’ and any attempt to change that culture is an attack on Western civilization. All of which is really just a long way of saying that when Tucker asks, ‘What is white supremacy?’ the answer is: basically that. It’s a belief that in a country where white people are dominant, that’s all down to their natural and innate abilities, and any effort to change that is an affront to the natural order of things.”
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Quote:Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson [R] on Sunday said that the vaccine hesitancy reported among supporters of former President Trump is due to “a natural resistance to government,” calling it “worrisome.”
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Dana Bash asked Hutchinson what he made of the hesitancy, noting that voters in his state of Arkansas are largely pro-Trump. Earlier in the program, Bash noted that half of Trump supporters have said they do not plan on getting a coronavirus vaccine.
“Well I've thought a lot about that and I think it's a natural resistance to government and skepticism of it. But you look at the breadth of support here in Arkansas for President Trump, and you have rural voters, you have minority voters and their hesitancy is worrisome, not just here but all across the country,” Hutchinson said.
“And I expect, as a country, we'll get the 50 percent vaccination rate of the population, but we're going to have a harder time getting from 50 percent to 70 percent, and it's about overcoming the skepticism,” he added.
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk...is-natural
In other news, the virus doesn't give a shit about your politics. It'll kill you just as dead.
Of course, those states with a large number of these idjits will probably suffer prolonged economic difficulties as the virus continues to circulate. But hey, they'll have the satisfaction of political purity.
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03-21-2021, 06:13 PM
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Watched it earlier this week. Really awesome.
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That reminds me, this is not just about the American far right. There's bullshit the world over.
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Indeed. From Canada. Apparently nazis are not even polite in Canada.
I guess "White Pride" involves punching out people in wheel chairs? Such heroism by these shits.
https://www.rawstory.com/nazi-wheelchair/
Quote:'Nazi' punches wheelchair-bound man and assaults wife with flagpole at 'freedom rally': report
Quote:"I don't give a fuck where I am," the counter-protester replied. "If I see someone wearing Nazi shit, racist shit, I'm calling them the fuck out. We didn't fight a war against fascism and Nazi scumbags like this piece of shit just to let this happen again."
Good for you, lad.
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(03-21-2021, 07:36 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Indeed. From Canada. Apparently nazis are not even polite in Canada.
I guess "White Pride" involves punching out people in wheel chairs? Such heroism by these shits.
https://www.rawstory.com/nazi-wheelchair/
Quote:'Nazi' punches wheelchair-bound man and assaults wife with flagpole at 'freedom rally': report
Quote:"I don't give a fuck where I am," the counter-protester replied. "If I see someone wearing Nazi shit, racist shit, I'm calling them the fuck out. We didn't fight a war against fascism and Nazi scumbags like this piece of shit just to let this happen again."
Good for you, lad.
Nazi subhumans. Always so heroic. 
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03-22-2021, 08:59 AM
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A feature of far-right movements was characterised in the 1960s by the American political
scientist Richard Hofstadter as the "paranoid style" —a style of mind that evokes a sense
of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy.
This is a pretty comprehensive listing of Australian ultra/far right nutcases:
• William Baylebridge [dec], writer and poet, later associated with Stephensen's Australia First Movement.
• Fraser Anning, former Queensland Senator[!], former One Nation member and founder of Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party.
• Eric Campbell [dec], political activist, Chief Commander of the New Guard, Leader of the Centre Party.
• Graeme Campbell, former One Nation member, pro-apartheid, anti-immigration, founder of Australia First Party.
• Ralph Cerminara, anti-Islamist, founder of Australian Defence League.
• Blair Cottrell, neo-Nazi, founding member of United Patriots Front, Lads Society, provides security for Fraser Anning.
• Neil Erikson, anti-Muslim, founding member of United Patriots Front, Lads Society.
• Pauline Hanson, current QLD Senator[!], founder of One Nation. (Graeme Campbell, Jim Saleam and Fraser Anning, all former members of Hanson's One Nation).
• George Hodges Knox [dec], former Nationalist Party, United Australia Party and Liberal Party member, Deputy Chief Commander of the New Guard.
• Danny Nalliah, Young Earth Creationist, anti-Islam, founder and leader of Rise Up Australia.
• Debbie Robinson, founder and leader of Yellow Vest Australia and director of Q Society Inc.
• Jim Saleam, founder of National Action, former National Socialist Party of Australia, leader of Australia First Party.
• Jack van Tongeren, neo-Nazi,anti-Asian, anti-immigration, founder of the Australian Nationalist Movement.
• Avi Yemini, anti-Islam, follower of Haredi Judaism, "the world’s proudest Jewish Nazi", associated with the UPF and Lads Society.
• Brenton Harrison Tarrant, white Nationalist, neo-fascist far-right terrorist responsible for Christchurch mosque shootings in NZ.
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A white headmaster reportedly told an 11-year-old Black student to apologize to a teacher the 'African way' by kneeling down to the ground
https://www.insider.com/white-headmaster...ize-2021-3
Quote:A white Catholic school headmaster instructed a Black student to kneel to the ground and apologize, the New York Daily News reported.
On February 25, Headmaster John Holian of the St. Martin de Porres Marianist school in Long Island told Trisha Paul's 11-year-old son, Trayson, to apologize to a teacher the "African way," which he claimed to have learned from a Nigerian father, according to the Daily News.
That day, Trayson had completed his in-class reading early and began working on another assignment. His English teacher noticed and called him out on it, Paul told the Daily News. The teacher allegedly tore up the assignment and escorted him to Holian's office, where the headmaster told Trayson to drop to his knees, the Daily News reported.
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03-22-2021, 05:49 PM
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Quote:St. Martin de Porres Marianist
Naturally!
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(03-22-2021, 05:49 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:St. Martin de Porres Marianist
Naturally!
Quote:Saint Martin De Porres become a saint for several reasons including that he was extremely compassionate toward the human and animal sick and suffering.
Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Mâyâ.
Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies.
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Quote:He is the patron saint of mixed-race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, and all those seeking racial harmony.
Going for a bit of irony here, Danu?
By the way, he's a saint because some jesus freak asshole invented a bunch of "miracles" that he supposedly did. Those morons will believe anything.
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(03-19-2021, 06:39 PM)Bucky Ball Wrote: (03-19-2021, 06:12 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (03-19-2021, 05:45 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Here you go. An Okie clown show.
https://www.rawstory.com/health-and-freedom/
Only the fascist right can put together a collection of fuckheads like this.
That's a gravitational well of stupidity right there. Sorry we Texans gave y'all the Powell.
Powell is going to learn the hard way, that lying about Dominion's ballott machines was not a good thing for her bank account.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/p...65510.html
Powell realized how stupid she was, and now faces the fact that her slander has consequences.
She's now trying to weazel out of what she said ... "Oh, reasonable people know I was lying".
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/22/politics/...index.html
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The latest entrant from Fuck Nut City. From the south, of course!
https://mooresvilletribune.com/news/nati...10e5a.html
Quote:COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina senator has a proposal to make sure no federal law can ever seize guns — make everyone over 17 who can legally own a gun a member of a militia.
So, um, Senator Beauregard T. Shithead, what will you do when all the blacks in South Carolina start carrying guns "legally?" Shit your pants or move north?
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(03-23-2021, 05:55 PM)Bucky Ball Wrote: (03-19-2021, 06:39 PM)Bucky Ball Wrote: (03-19-2021, 06:12 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: That's a gravitational well of stupidity right there. Sorry we Texans gave y'all the Powell.
Powell is going to learn the hard way, that lying about Dominion's ballott machines was not a good thing for her bank account.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/p...65510.html
Powell realized how stupid she was, and now faces the fact that her slander has consequences.
She's now trying to weazel out of what she said ... "Oh, reasonable people know I was lying".
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/22/politics/...index.html
Admitting that her charges were "... even impossible" is pretty much admitting to defamation:
Quote:To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the person or entity who is the subject of the statement.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation
1) The statement was and is false.
2) it was communicated to a third person.
3) Even if her "opinion" was honest, it qualifies as negligent given the dearth of evidence.
4) Beliefs in her false claims caused damage.
That her lawyers admitted to all this in court documents is going to cripple her defense.
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I don't think of her as a "Kraken."
More like "On Crack."
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Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Mâyâ.
Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies.
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(03-24-2021, 01:38 AM)Minimalist Wrote: I don't think of her as a "Kraken."
More like "On Crack."
All of these loudmouths, starting with Trump and then Powell, MTG, McCarthy, they're all empty vessels. It's frightening these assholes command a solid minority. Even McConnell seems to avoid that crap these days, and we know what a twat he is.
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(03-24-2021, 02:36 AM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (03-24-2021, 01:38 AM)Minimalist Wrote: I don't think of her as a "Kraken."
More like "On Crack."
All of these loudmouths, starting with Trump and then Powell, MTG, McCarthy, they're all empty vessels. It's frightening these assholes command a solid minority. Even McConnell seems to avoid that crap these days, and we know what a twat he is.
When McConnell does ANYTHING not in direct favor to his regaining Majority Leader status or blocking ANYTHING a Democrat wants to do, you have to know it is REALLY serious.
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The rise of Reclaim Australia has seen extremist members of the groups splinter off
to form new groups, such as the True Blue Crew and the United Patriots Front. Here we
see a protest march in Sydney NSW, demonstrating against just about everything:
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