GOP lawmaker claims KKK is ‘the military wing of the Democratic Party’ in closed door meeting ahead of antisemitism hearing
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Almost as true as GOP being the sole defenders of LGBTQ+ rights...
Equally true as the GOP being the stalwart supporters of a woman's right to choose, the champions of sensible gun control, and the sacred guardians of single payer universal healthcare.
I must compliment you both on the sick burn and for using a proper ellipses character.
iOS autocorrect generates them. I discovered this while attempting to use vim in an embedded terminal emulator.
Ah… I type them manually. Opt-; on Mac and hold the dot / period key on iOS.
That's kind of evil. I hate it when I paste source code from a document and I have to fix non-ASCII characters that some overly clever UI inserted.
The KKK did NOT endorse Hillary in 2016, nor Biden in 2020. Guess who they endorsed, Mr. Perry? Pro-Tip: He's running on your side this year and is currently grousing in a courtroom as they determine if he broke the law or not...
They don't care if their claims are true. Lies spread more easily than the truth.
No, actually, he really believes it. It was said in a closed door meeting, not to a crowd of people.
So standard projection from the GOP. Nice of them to confirm that they consider the KKK to be their military wing, not that that's a surprise to anyone.
The fucking White Supremacy people are just so fucking progressive right?
Every accusation is a confession, as per standard procedure.
Sure, if we were still in 1862.
But then, the current GOP really wishes it were still 1862, don't they?
An easy way to check is to see who gets mad about removing Confederate statues.
It's not the Democrats
They’d all have to move north and emancipate the slaves though. Something tells me they’d be on the wrong side of that history too.
Apart from the huge logical leaps, the KKK's agenda so closely aligns with the GOP's and Trump's, can you even imagine a single member of the KKK being a democrat? Being a democrat is like an excommunicable sin for these groups.
Being in the KKK is a good way to be shunned by every single progressive too.
Really weird thing he's trying to do here, but logic certainly was abandoned long ago.
It's an incredibly common talking point fed to reactionaries by right-wing media.
Try telling a Republican that everyone in the KKK who votes does so for Republicans and watch the denials and accusations fly despite it being perfectly obvious.
A lot of local politics takes place in these very well-financed and well-organized partisan units that operate independent of the national scene. A big part of the Democratic Party in West Virginia has always kinda sucked - putting up guys like Joe Manchin and Jim Justice (who won as a Democrat and immediately flipped to Republican) - without any real respect for popular sentiments in the state. Kentucky Party Democrats put up a "Pro-Trump" candidate Amy McGrath in 2020. Ohio Democrats (other than Sherrod Brown) are almost universally awful, in their habit of supporting climate denialism and copaganda. My own mayor, John Whitmire, has been friendly with Greg Abbott, Rick Perry, and the Bushs since he took office in the state senate in 1983.
So yes. I can very easily imagine a batch of die-hard Zell Miller democrats camped out in a backwater Florida county that think their party has been taken over by Woke Soy Antifa Communists like Joe Biden.
All very fair - depressing yet plausible.
Can…. Can we just give this guy a drug test?
Full panel, and a full panel tox screen, too.
Check his brain for worms too
I mean, we should rule these things out.
For the safety of the worm!
As with anything GOP-related, if they're projecting it onto Democrats, they're guilty of it themselves.
Grooming children? Catholic church, which is largely Republicans in America
Anti-LGBTQ+? The number of GOP members who have been caught with same sex partners of both underage and adult varieties makes that laughable.
Pro-life? Several GOP members have secretly paid for abortions.
Economy crashes or stalls? It's because of policies that a Republican-led government made before handing the mess off to a Democrat.
I'll bet cash money this guy has a clan outfit in his closet.
He sleep in it like a pyjama and night bonet
Funny, they only seem to ever run as republicans.
The military wing of the Democratic Party is the navy in my experience, but the military wing of the American left wants to fight the kkk everywhere they see them.
He's saying Democrats are the KKK while promoting replacement theory, a belief of the KKK
Last year, there was a pitch by the Florida Legislature to ban any party that "previously advocated for" slavery, which the Democratic Party did more than 150 years ago.
They dubbed it "The Ultimate Cancel Act"
Is this 🫱🦋 cancel culture?
Can we cancel any parties that currently advocate for slavery as well?
Only if you've got a majority in the Florida legislature and a friendly court.
[Insert "The What?"] meme here
Trying to sort through the projection, is this why they're so afraid of Antifa? Because the GOP has a military wing with the KKK, they assume the Dems want to create a military group with Antifa or something? Certainly explains how they try to portray Antifa.
This chucklefuck can't even get his story straight.
According to him, is the DNC pro or anti immigration?
According to him, is the KKK pro or anti immigration?
Reactionary asshole.
Not even that. He's simply a liar.
Porque no los dos
I was intending this definition:
To be fair, Biden and Eric Adams can't quite seem to figure out where the fuck they stand on immigration either. Hell, The Obama Administration RAMPED UP deportation during it's era. Ignorance and irrationality are endemic among both parties
That was true when there were Dixiecrats. But they all jumped to the Republican party when Reagan was in office.
Conservatives were always the racists / KKK
Party is irrelevant.
Then why are they marching and getting cheers at GOP conferences? Are they stupid?
Their base is stupid, so at best they're lying openly because their base doesn't know any better
That's a lot of boxes ticked, USA. The elections may not be fraudulent, but they sure aren't fair, either.
Oh don't worry, depending on what happens in November they'll make sure to tick that box too
"I ain't racist, they're racist."
Immediately proceeds to do a racism
Big "I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I?" energy. Brings me right back to grade school...
They've been doing it for years. Like the "National Socialists are leftists because socialist is in the name" thing. Ignoring that in Europe at the time, everybody was basically calling themselves socialist to chase the votes of the working population.
They aren't stupid, it's intentional, to muddy the waters for people that aren't very familiar with that history.
So why are they mostly republicans?
I mean this is such obvious projection, they're basically telling on themselves
He got confused, he meant to say the police is the military ring of the KKK
Bro tried to use this
but desperately failed
Rightists once again chowing down on rancid bullshit and calling it foie gras. They remain a repugnant blight on humanity.
They keep saying shit like this but not one of them will wear a Hillary t-shirt to a Klan rally and livestream the results
Bring your Obama merch boys, we're on our way to the Dem Klan Rally
This guy has brain worms too
He talks about supporting legal migration like his ancestors but honestly it's way more American to just show up here and do what you want, how else would this country have gotten started if not for unsanctioned migration and crimes against humanity?
...Who does he think is joining the current incarnations of the KKK? Does he really think that the people in the current KKK are Democratic voters? Really?
Talk about having reality completely upside down.
The wack part of this is that he said it in a closed door meeting with a few of his peers or staff, not to a crowd of people. That shows he actually believes this bullshit.
Believe might be a strong word. He probably just says things like this to drown out the suffocated, croaking voice of his conscience
He'd be right if this was the year 1870. I checked my calendar and it's not.
Maybe the reason you don't hear so much about the KKK these days is that they decided to be the "military wing" of the anti-military, anti-gun anti-fascist anti-racist party.
I wonder who the KKK voted for
See what happens when we allow unrestricted freedom of speech?
Our "freedoms" aren't as freeing as people think they are. I realize how dangerous that sounds, but I mean, here we are on the cusp of fascism because we allowed these horrible people to say whatever they wanted to the point where people started believing them. There has to be a standard that we hold speech up to.
If I ignored this guy the way he ignores modern history he wouldn't have been fucking born...
TBH, a lot of migrants to the west do not share my progressive, secular values and that bothers me a bit. It's also forbidden to speak of on the left. To be intolerant of misogynist and homophobic religious nutters from elsewhere is racism of course. Obviously it's not a conspiracy, just economics driving people to where the money is, but can we not admit that it has an effect on the culture?
To write off the "other" as "misogynist and homophobic religious nutters" is about as white supremacist as it gets here in the dear ole' west - it doesn't surprise me that leftists aren't interested in what you have to say.
After this meeting he probably participated at a KKK meeting
Is the KKK even a thing anymore ?
Yeah, plenty are also a part of MAGA
This many centuries after The Civil War, and Dems STILL haven't lived that one down
???
Such a charming and rational fellow that one
Heh. Keep trying blueby