Last week Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) was censured by his congressional colleagues for an anime fantasy “snuff video” in which he kills a fellow member of Congress and threatens the life of president Biden (this should earn him a visit from the Secret Service). In any workplace other than the U.S. Congress, this would result … Read more
The House will vote Wednesday on censuring Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and removing his committee assignments, just like his fellow Sedition Caucus member, Rep. Marjorie “Q” Greene earlier this year (who also has an unhealthy fixation on harming Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez). The American taxpayer will now be paying these internet trolls to do nothing but engage … Read more
Just like Hitler Youth back in the day. Update to The MAGA/QAnon Cult Turns to Book Banning – Can Book Burning Be Far Behind? Asked and answered. The Washington Post reports, ‘I think we should throw those books in a fire’: Movement builds on right to target books: Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) attacked Terry McAuliffe … Read more
Above Image: Charles and David Koch, and Leonard Leo. h/t Slate. Christopher Rufo and the right-wing Manhattan Institute for Policy Research have rebranded critical race theory into an appeal to white identity politics. But they are using this new scare word for an ulterior motive. It is the latest attempt by right-wing billionaires to use race … Read more
Beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 (declaring state-sanctioned segregation of the races unconstitutional and ordering desegregation of public schools), the white supremacists have used various scare words to resist desegregation and to unleash an attack on the American public school system. At first they said school desegregation would lead to miscegenation and the … Read more