Above: Hitler Youth at a book burning in the 1930s. It is only a matter of time until Hitler Trump Youth start burning books about Critical Race Theory which exposes the structural racism inherent in white supremacy and white nationalism. Privileged prep school trust fund baby Tucker Carlson no doubt will emcee the live event on the Fox Fascist propaganda network.
The Hitler-admiring Donald Trump – Trump told chief of staff Hitler ‘did a lot of good things’ – is bringing his slow-motion insurrection to Arizona for an event sponsored by his own Hitler Trump Youth, Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, possibly timed to the Arizona Senate’s GQP sham “fraudit” big reveal, and to kick-off his second seditious insurrection which he believes will “reinstate” him as America’s first dictator by August.
The Phoenix New Times reports, Donald Trump Is on His Way to Phoenix Very Soon:
Turning Point Action, a pro-Trump nonprofit political advocacy group, announced today it will host the former president at the Arizona Federal Theatre in downtown Phoenix. A spokesperson for Trump confirmed his scheduled attendance at the rally, per the Arizona Republic.
[T]rump has been egging on the Arizona election audit, which continues to drag on. The Phoenix rally, which is titled the “Rally to Protect Our Elections,” will presumably cheer on Arizona Republicans’ ongoing efforts to re-litigate and delegitimize the 2020 election.
[In] a tweet announcing the rally, Kirk said that Trump was coming to Phoenix for his “first post-presidency rally in America’s most important swing state.”
HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT
President Trump is coming to Arizona for his first post-presidency rally in America’s most important swing state@TrumpStudents and I are honored to host the President July 24th in Phoenix for the Rally to Protect Our Elections
TICKETS—https://t.co/q24V7nzV8z pic.twitter.com/QTTA5xSN0L
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 9, 2021
This is a major slip-up by Charlie Kirk. Donald Trump believes that he is still president and about to be reinstated. Trump’s Big Lie requires fealty from all of his sycophant MAGA/QAnon personality cult followers to question the legitimacy of the 2020 election. Sorry Charlie, you really fucked up, big time!
Last September it was widely reported that Turning Point Action (USA) Created Its own Russian Troll Farm in Phoenix to support Donald Trump’s failed reelection campaign.
The troll farm operator, now state Rep.Jake Hoffman, president and chief executive of the Phoenix-based digital marketing firm Rally Forge, which was running the program for Turning Point, confirmed the online workers were classified as contractors but declined to comment further on “private employment matters.”
The GQP-friendly media in Arizona has done little to follow up on this scandal, and have been content to let this reporting disappear from the public consciousness. Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, Rally Forge and Jake Hoffman have suffered no legal consequences for their actions.
Now comes this racist white supremacist on the advisory council of Turning Point USA. The Informant reports Advisor to major pro-Trump group runs racist newsletter:
It was an email so racist it might make a ku klux klansman blush.
An advisor for the influential conservative youth organization Turning Point USA recently published an essay for subscribers of his personal newsletter that, among other things, said Black people have “become socially incompatible with other races” and “American Black culture has evolved into an un-fixable and crime-ridden mess.”
It also said white people aren’t racist but “just exhausted” with Black people. It portrayed post-Civil War America as a 150-year-long “experiment” to see whether Black people could be “taken from the jungles of Africa,” enslaved, and then integrated into a majority-white society. It said that experiment had failed.
No wonder Donald Trump is being hosted by Turning Point USA – this racist white supremacist is what Donald Trump calls “very fine people.”
The email, which included Turning Point’s logo and a fundraising appeal for the group, was sent out on April 29 by Rip McIntosh, an 85-year-old white Florida man who sits on the organization’s advisory council, a board that includes the likes of former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and, until his recent death, GOP mega donor Foster Friess. The newsletter, which McIntosh says has more than 25,000 subscribers and which he sometimes publishes as often as five times a day, is frequently filled with culture war rants, conspiracy theories, racism, and other types of bigotry, but this email stood out even among that toxic stew.
In an interview, McIntosh said neither Turning Point nor its co-founder Charlie Kirk, whom he considers to be a personal friend, has any role in the publication of his newsletter. McIntosh also denied writing the essay, which was published under the fictitious byline “E.P. Unum.”
Seriously? “E pluribus unum” is Latin for “Out of many, one” – not exactly a view reflected in the white supremacist bile above.
“That’s a nom de plume of a friend,” McIntosh told TPM and The Informant. “He doesn’t want his name out there because he’s a teacher. He doesn’t want to be canceled.”
This racist white supremacist most definitely should be “canceled,” i.e, fired if he is spewing this racist bile to impressionable young minds. But this sounds more to me like McIntosh playing the old “I’m asking for a friend” game, when it is actually him. He is the right age for the White Citizens Councils of the 1950s-1960s.
The essay, titled “On the Question of Systemic Racism in the United States,” was emailed out just hours after Sen. Tim Scott, a Black Republican from South Carolina, gave a nationally televised speech on behalf of the GOP in which he said “America is not a racist country,” a claim that was debated for days afterward. The essay made no direct mention of the speech, but it closed with a similar phrase: “America is not a racist nation.”
Like hell it’s not. 246 years of slavery – enshrined in the nation’s Constitution no less – followed by another 100 years of racial apartheid, i.e., state-sanctioned Jim Crow segregation, all of which has permeated our social , economic, legal and political systems with structural racism, which continues to this day. This asshole says “white people aren’t racist but “just exhausted” with Black people.” You know what I am exhausted by? Privileged white boys who think they are being discriminated against when they have enjoyed every advantage in life simply because they are wealthy and white. Lookin’ at you, Tucker.
McIntosh acknowledged that the essay, which it turns out borrowed heavily from an article first published years ago on a prominent racist website [what, Stormfront?], was “a bit extreme,” but said he had no regrets about publishing it. He also said he believed both Turning Point and Kirk would stand by him.
Do you Chuckles? Turning Point USA should fire Rip McIntosh from its advisory board for this white supremacist bile. But you won’t, because this is what Turning Point USA is.
“I think that if you got right down to it, not one of them would object to the fact that I let somebody speak their mind, even though they may have been slightly uncomfortable with the statements actually made,” McIntosh said.
A spokesperson for Turning Point declined to discuss McIntosh’s role with the organization, his friendship with Kirk, or the contents of the email, saying only that Turning Point “does not put out that newsletter.” [This is not even one degree of separation, the Dude sits on your advisory board.] The spokesperson asked for further questions to be sent by email and then declined to answer them. McIntosh’s name and photo still appear on the organization’s governance page.
The email marks the latest in a series of racist and bigoted incidents that have dogged Turning Point in recent years as the organization has clawed its way from the far-right fringe into mainstream conservatism, aided in part by its connections to former President Donald Trump.
Perhaps as much as any other organization, Turning Point has positioned itself within the ex-president’s orbit and achieved massive growth since his election in 2016. Once a struggling nonprofit with a goal of becoming the right’s version of MoveOn, the group now acts as a network of young conservative activists and claims to have a presence on more than 2,500 high school and college campuses nationwide. (A 2018 article in Politico Magazine suggested that a number of chapters at the time appeared to be inactive.)
This poison should not be allowed in any school, period.
In recent years, the group has been embraced by Trump, who spoke at two of its conferences in 2019 and who is scheduled to speak at a rally for its campaign arm, Turning Point Action, on July 24. It has received additional support from many of the personalities who surround him, such as Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), attorney Rudy Giuliani, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and the former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr. Testimonials from several adorn the organization’s website.
A Rogues Gallery of losers, for certain.
Beginning on Saturday, the organization will host a major four-day conference called the “Student Action Summit” in Florida, featuring speakers like former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, and multiple members of Congress. The purpose of the event is to train and fire up conservative activists ages 15 to 26.
What kind of parent allows their child to participate in a Russian troll farm operation and to attend a racist white supremacy Hitler Trump Youth Camp? what the fuck is wrong with you people? This amounts to child abuse.
Founded in 2012, Turning Point received early guidance from far-right figures, including most prominently from David Horowitz, an anti-Muslim activist who has written disparagingly of Black Americans and whom Kirk has described as a “mentor.” (Among other things, Horowitz has suggested that Black Americans today should show “gratitude” to whites for things like the Emancipation Proclamation.) Those connections to far-right extremism, coupled with Turning Point’s stated goal to “win America’s culture war,” might help explain how the group has repeatedly found itself mired in racism by its staff and volunteers.
There is much more to this in-depth report from The Informant. You should read the entire report.
Arizona’s GQP-friendly media needs to stop treating Charlie Kirk and Turning Points USA as if it is just another PAC. It is something far more nefarious.
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First school boards, now library boards. The white supremacist snowflakes want to “cancel culture” any history or books on racism in America. Truthout reports “Right-Wingers Are Taking Over Library Boards to Remove Books on Racism”, https://truthout.org/articles/right-wingers-are-taking-over-library-boards-to-remove-books-on-racism/
They are the successors of book burning Nazis.
The book burning Nazi scene from the film Field of Dreams. https://youtu.be/WN0_gW1SI78 Annie: “At least he is not a book burner, you Nazi cow.”
Our “Wimpy Kid” Governor wanted to be one of the cool kids in the right-wing media circuit, so Gov. Ducey signed the anti-Critical Race Theory bill from our radical GQP legislature. Um, being “anti” anti-racism is a double negative that actually means you are a racist. Duh!
Gov. Ducey did his best Gov. George Wallace impression, figuratively standing in the school house door and paraphrasing Wallace: “In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say white supremacy now, white supremacy tomorrow, white supremacy forever.”
Good luck with that. Remember when our racist AG Tom Horne and racist Superintendent of Public Instruction (and blog troll) John Huppenthal tried to eliminate Mexican-American Ethnic Studies programs, because La Raza?
Politico reports, “What Arizona’s 2010 Ban on Ethnic Studies Could Mean for the Fight Over Critical Race Theory”, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/07/11/tucson-unified-school-districts-mexican-american-studies-program-498926
(excerpt)
The contours of Arizona’s Mexican American studies debate a decade ago will sound familiar to anyone following the current sparring over the teaching of concepts lumped together as “critical race theory” — which some two dozen states have introduced legislation to ban. Republicans back then saw teachers indoctrinating children to do the left’s political bidding, building a Marxist youth program to fight the power and the white man. Educators and their Democratic backers saw an opportunity to inspire underperforming Latino students by overhauling the way American history is taught. The focus today is on the teaching of slavery and the history of discrimination toward Black, rather than Latino, Americans, but the language and the politics have clear echoes.
Yet, when Arizona lawmakers turned their eyes toward their own “critical race theory” ban this past spring, few seemed to remember how the previous attempt to prohibit race-related studies in schools had turned out here. In 2010, Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law banning Tucson’s Mexican American studies program. But today, 15 years after the curriculum first caught the attention of Republican lawmakers and a decade after they outlawed it, the courses — or at least a version of them — live on, thanks to a court-appointed monitor overseeing TUSD’S longstanding federal desegregation order, a dark reminder of the district’s own discriminatory past. A federal court later ruled that the 2010 ban violated students’ constitutional rights. Today, the program is larger than it’s ever been.
[A]s critical race theory becomes a rallying cry for conservatives, from former President Donald Trump down to local school boards, Arizona’s years-long fight over Mexican American studies is a vivid reminder of what a messy, drawn-out affair a battle over local curriculum can become. The years of protests, political brawls and courtroom battles divided the Tucson community and mired the district in controversy, before reaching a resolution no one is really satisfied with to this day.
It turns out banning a curriculum is easier said than done.