Kevin McCarthy on the House floor saying he supports removing confederate statues from the Capitol but “All of the statues being removed by this bill are statues of Democrats”
— Elise Foley (@elisefoley) June 29, 2021
it is absolutely astonishing how these fash keep showing up embedded in the republican party. the world’s unluckiest political organization. https://t.co/kCKyVJ8ZAr
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) June 29, 2021
Too many older white people think that if they can't define America like they want, then they don't want America
— Thomas E. Ricks (@tomricks1) June 27, 2021
And not just the ‘older’ white people…
NOBODY tells Paul Gosar not to cavort with white nationalists. https://t.co/KFAXhQYpHa
— SuspendedHat (@Popehat) June 29, 2021
"David Duke without the Baggage" https://t.co/5MGolsNQkK
— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 29, 2021
(‘David Duke without the Baggage’ was Scalise’s own self-description.)
Nick Fuentes is an open admirer of fascism and Republicans will do nothing to punish Paul Gosar over this collaboration.
I feel like despite the chatter about how bad the GOP has gotten we haven’t processed what a radical transformation this is for America. https://t.co/nCjt1B7ZV7
— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) June 29, 2021
dr. bloor
I see McCarthy has been taking American history seminars from D’ouche D’Souza.
Also, too, I am endlessly amused by non-Aryans like Fuentes who march on not realizing that they will quite literally be victims of their own successes if they get what they think they want.
Another Scott
Cheers,
Scott.
Alison Rose
I hate DC Nazis.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Just remember the people that know Paul Gosar the best, his family, said to not vote for him.
Another Scott
A charming story well told. Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Adam L Silverman
Steve Scalise nor Solomon Yue – the GOP official from Oregon did NAZI that coming!
bbleh
Sigh. And I guess cue up the:
Faux-outrage sympathizers: How dare you criticize an American for exercising his sacred Right of Free Speech™?!? Don’t you know that it’s Constitutionally Protected?! You are trying to destroy America with your unconstitutional criticism of his Free Speech™!
Pusillanimous both-siders: Well, now, as much some might disagree with what he is saying, he does have the right to say it, and there certainly are other people who agree with him, and we shouldn’t be jumping to conclusions, because many people just want both sides to tone down the harsh rhetoric and cooperate to solve problems. Also in 1998 a poster on Daily Kos said something really offensive!
Deadwood Democratic consultant-parasites: The worst thing we could do is respond, because that would just make them mad, and then think of all the terrible things they might say about us! And it might scare off the People We Need, who my polling shows convincingly want us to do exactly as I say. (Also I might not get invited to that dinner party in CC next week.)
Another Scott
@Another Scott: (That should have been posted upstairs…)
Cheers,
Scott.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
How is this legal ?
AWOL
@dr. bloor:
“Also, too, I am endlessly amused by non-Aryans like Fuentes who march on not realizing that they will quite literally be victims of their own successes if they get what they think they want.”
Quite the opposite.
There aren’t enough Anglos and Nordics and (newly white) Slavs to step on the necks of the non-whites they loathe. Fuentes’ help is most appreciated by white supremacists, and Fuentes probably has the same amount of “white” blood as most white supremacists in this creole nation. He’ll be well-rewarded for his efforts.
They’ll also accept other ethnic groups that used to be verboten (see Miller, S, Trump Administration).
dr. bloor
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Forget it, Jake, it’s Noemtown.
piratedan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
in theory it’s not and the fact that the Governor of SD is using National Guard troops in this kind of mercenary fashion is just another example (as if we do NOT have enough of them) of how they’re embracing fascism as the answer to all their desires.
I’m sure that this will be reported sans context (as always) and leave it up to the fully informed viewer at home to extrapolate what they will from this.
bbleh
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Well, they’re under the control of Crayzi Kristi, and I suppose if some Public-Spirited Citizen wants to contribute to something something slosh gurgle to Support The Troops™, then ways are available.
It’s all theater anyway. I would guess that said Tennessee Billionaire is either well into dementia or has some business interest in South Dakota, aka Credit Company Nirvana.
dr. bloor
@AWOL:
Exactly nope. The movement survives on Hating the Other. Once the obvious candidates are vanquished, they’ll start cannibalizing their own movement.
bbleh
@AWOL: Don’t forget the Irish. They were officially non-White as recently as the early 20th century.
Ken
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: And just days in advance of the Heat Dome of Broiling Death’s eastward drift over the Dakotas. We will just have to hope South Dakota’s Guard units aren’t needed for anything else.
(Speaking of which, am I the only one puzzled by the way https://www.weather.gov/ shows the excessive heat watch ending exactly on the Montana/Dakota border? I’m sure there’s some reason for it, probably involving National Weather Service offices or regions.)
AWOL
@bbleh: Yes. I live in the remnants of an uptown Manhattan Irish neighborhood. I have been very schooled by these neo-Nordics that “Obama hates white people.”
I also read Ignatiev’s tome.
dr. bloor
@AWOL:
And what do they have to say about guys named “Fuentes?”
Dan B
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: So…… A Tennessee billionaire can’t get the TN National Guard to go to Texas but South Dakota’s Gov is jazzed to help. It’s been volunteered that the TNNG can’t go is Vacation Bible Camps and Schools are in session in TN and the Guard is needed to round up the escapees.
Discuss.
Mike in NC
So sick of these seditious, white supremacist motherfuckers. That January 6th commission should have been formed months ago.
dnfree
@bbleh: I lived in two different cities in northern Illinois that, in my youth in the 1950s, had a “white” side of town and a “minority/nonwhite” side of town. The Italians lived on the side of town with the blacks and (few) other minorities. In Rockford, East high school was thought of as the Swedish high school, and West high school was for the blacks and Italians. Then, as one of the black residents of the other city said, “The Italians lived with us…and then all of a sudden, the Italians were white!”
dmsilev
Today’s nomination for the prestigious Excellency in Sycophancy award:
bbleh
@dnfree: oh my yes, those Italians, why, they were worse than the Germans, almost as bad as the Poles! Or so I was told by my Scots grandmother, whose family has been here for centuries, thank you very much.
Kattails
@Mike in NC: UMMMM we’ve had a functioning Presidency for a bit over 5 months, and there was this pandemic thing, and then the usual posturing and territorial disputes/displays. Not that I wouldn’t have liked to have seen it on Groundhog day or thereabouts.
James E Powell
@Mike in NC:
I get you. I was screaming the same thing, but I guess this had to play out the way it has played out. And my favorite part – chef’s kiss – Benghazi Rules.
Gravenstone
@Dan B: Hey, Gov. Noem isn’t going to turn down a slush fund when she’s offered one.
karen marie
@bbleh: I never met any of my grandmother’s family even though they lived in the same town as my grandfather’s family. His sisters and their spouses and children would come for holiday gatherings at my grandparents. My grandmother’s father was Italian and had a fish store in White Plains, NY. Grandpa’s family were wannabe WASPs. When nana and my grandfather got married in 1932, he made her promise to never tell anyone who her father was and forbade her from visiting or talking about them because — ew, gross – Italians.
Adam L Silverman
I’ll just leave this here:
AWOL
@dr. bloor: The same thing they say about a guy named “Giuliani”—ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
And when Giuliani was born, most of the nation considered swarthy Catholics outsiders. “Greaseballs.” No mas
Same with the Fuentes of the world.
Soprano2
@dr. bloor: What’s hilarious to me is that I did one of those Ancestry DNA tests, and I’m one of the whitest people you’ll ever meet! English, Scottish, Irish, German and Norwegian. It put the story about Native American Ancestry on my dad’s side to rest – there is none. None from Africa or Asia, either. I’m their dream woman! LOL
MisterForkbeard
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’d actually like to know what they’re going to DO there.
Literally. What is the NG allowed to do? Especially if the Feds don’t want them to? Are they going to try and shoot immigrants? Patrol the desert and… shoot or arrest immigrants?
They could set up shelters and that might actually be helpful, but I can’t see that happening.
James E Powell
@MisterForkbeard:
One of the officers, a Lt. Scheisskopf, will be organizing parade competitions.
MisterForkbeard
This is the billionaire racist idiot who’s bankrolling the NG deployment:
I’m trying to figure out how this applies to the refugee crisis exacerbated by Trump policies and I got nothing, other than general Republican racist “Mexicans are rapists” sentiment. Not to mention he also got the covid information (which he described as one of his main reasons) wrong.
bbleh
@karen marie: And of course if a white woman married one of them, one certainly expected them to blend in, eg by pronouncing one’s name “CAP-a-toe” rather than [shudder] “ca-PEA-toe.”
Jeffro
Since the whole country is essentially nationalized by party down to the office of local dogcatcher, we don’t need a Senate anymore. Or states, or the Electoral College, for that matter. (National) majority rules!!
Jeffro
Like, on January 7th, 8th tops.
Jeffro
@Adam L Silverman: wow.
Go Drax go!
lowtechcyclist
Seems like we’ve got the GQP version of The Onion’s “Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?“
jonas
So let’s get this straight: Ilhan Omar tweets some things critical of Israel and we’re told she’s worse than Hitler. Then we have a GOPer who compares having to get a Covid vaccine to the Holocaust and another who appears at a rally with a guy who actually thinks Hitler was ok and we’re told to quit being so nitpicky. Roger that.
Gvg
@dr. bloor: Italy had it’s own fascist party. So did some other countries that weren’t German.
bbleh
@MisterForkbeard: Per comments elsewhere, it might be fun if Biden, in a spirit of bipartisan kumbaya, gratefully accepted the assistance offered by Crayzi Kristi and the Tennessee Billionaire (now available from Ravishment Publishing), federalized them in the interest of “efficient use of Taxpayer Dollars in Protecting Our National Borders,” and put them to work digging latrines for temporary migrant shelter facilities.
kindness
My father & uncle fought in WWII. Both of them died many years ago but they were Republicans. They would not have stood for someone ‘representing’ the party palling around with fascists.
Funny how this becomes a thing after all the Republican WWII veterans die off.
Helen
Nebraska’s governor, Pete Rockets, is sending some (2 dozen?) State Patrol troopers to the Texas border at the request of the Texas governor. I think that the Iowa governor is also. Nebraskans, even MAGA’s are not impressed.
SteveinPHX
My wife just informed me that the South Dakota NG commitment will be 50 troops. If correct, this is just minor showtime. Maybe they’ll fold bed linens and collect some extra pay.
Helen
Sorry, the Nebraska governor is Pete Ricketts. (I guess I need to be careful of autocorrect.)
Wag
@karen marie:
My mom’s parents ha a similar relationship at about the same time. Pueblo Colorado. She was Irish Catholic, he was Italian. Her brothers told her to “drop that Wop and get yourself a White boyfriend. “.
They met at college, became teachers, and eventually Jimmy became a high school principal. Jimmy had a well developed sense of social justice. I remember him cheering on Mohamed Ali through all of Ali’s tribulations.
Glad to say that she didn’t listen, and I have fond memories of huge holiday dinners with the extended Italian side of the family. The Irish side was kinda in the background.
Wag
@James E Powell: Excellent. I am rereading Catch 22 for the first time in 40 years. I am really struck by the vivid descriptions of PTSD throughout the book. Completely missed it the first time I read it in high school
Nicole
@Soprano2:
Not according to Benjamin Franklin. BF, on the Germans:
“Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.
Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased.”
Oh, Benji, Benji, Benji…
(I, too, count among my ancestors those swarthy Germans that Franklin had such issues about)
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@AWOL: as an italian — with the backhair to prove it — i say fuuity gee is still a greaseball.
Uncle Cosmo
The Irish??? Talk about your persecution complex. My people – the italoamericani – were dagoes, wops, guineas, greasers, anarchists and criminals well into my parents’ adulthoods. We didn’t get Godfathered into Lilywhiteness until After The War – and only then because we were solid anti-comm’nists. (And once we got up the ladder to Paleface Paradise, we set about yanking it up so none o’ them darker types could use it.)
ETA: Cf. dnfree at #21 supra.
Barry
@SteveinPHX: “My wife just informed me that the South Dakota NG commitment will be 50 troops. If correct, this is just minor showtime. Maybe they’ll fold bed linens and collect some extra pay.”
It is a precedent, and all GOP state people are watching, along with billionaires.