From the office of Rep. Elise Stefanik:
Any implication or attempt to blame the heinous shooting in Buffalo on the Congresswoman is a new disgusting low for the Left, their Never Trump allies, and the sycophant stenographers in the media. The shooting was an act of evil and the criminal should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Despite sickening and false reporting, the Congresswoman has never advocated for any racist position or made a racist statement.
The Washington Post reports:
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), the No. 3 House Republican, and other GOP lawmakers came under scrutiny Sunday for previously echoing the racist “great replacement” theory that apparently inspired an 18-year-old who allegedly killed 10 people while targeting Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo.
A series of Facebook ads published in September 2021 by Stefanik’s campaign committee that charged that Democrats were allowing undocumented immigrants into the United States as a ploy to outnumber, and eventually silence, Republican voters.
“Radical Democrats are planning their most aggressive move yet: a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION,” reads one of the ads, which shows a reflection of migrants in sunglasses Biden is wearing. “Their plan to grant amnesty to 11 MILLION illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.”
Category: Anger
‘Great Replacement Theory’ Embraced By Growing Number Of GOP Lawmakers
WSJ Board: “Condemn White Replacement Theory”
From the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal:
Partisans are already using the massacre to leap to broader political conclusions, as they always do. There’s no doubt that a racist subculture exists in America and is spread on social media. Politicians and media figures have an obligation to condemn it and such conspiratorial notions as “white replacement theory.” But mass shooters have had many motivations in recent years, and mental illness seems to be the most significant common denominator, to the extent there is one.
The full editorial is behind a paywall.
(((heleninedinburgh))) • an hour ago
mass shooters have had many motivations in recent years, and mental
illness seems to be the most significant common denominator, to the
extent there is one.
I’d think the ready availability of guns which are quick and easy enough to use that they will mow down a roomful of people in a few minutes and powerful enough to shred small children into pieces is probably also a factor.
You knew all this white bullshit during the Charlottesville tiki-torch march.
You heard all the chants back then about their ‘Replacement’ crap.\now 6 years later you suddenly wake up to the enemies in the heart of society.
What are you?
Slow learners?
liondon#loserpresident • an hour ago
I supervise expectant parents…. They tell me how expensive it is to even have a baby in the United States now…. People can’t afford $10,000 just to have a healthy baby. Nobody can afford that.
SemiFriendly Atheist liondon#loserpresident • an hour ago
Those who want to adopt a child have it even worse. It can run tens of thousands.
SemiFriendly Atheist • an hour ago
Is it really a matter of skin color that these people are worried about? Or is it a decline in some sort of idealized culture?
Because if it’s a matter of religious ideology, they’re missing the fact that immigrants from Central America and Mexico are giving the Catholic population in the US a boost, according to a number of studies.
“Partisans are already using the massacre to leap to broader political conclusions, as they always do.”
This attempt at deflection by the WSJ editorial board should be taken as an indication that those connecting the dots between the massacre and the right’s adoption of white nationalism are absolutely correct.
What was unspoken in the last half of the 20th Century (but those with ears to hear knew was there) is now, horribly making itself known.
We really have a horrific group of racists whom Trump emboldened. Fighting them is just as important today as it was after Dred Scott.
School Board member BLASTS parents for using religion to target LGBTQ kids
Francis EXPOSES Tucker Carlson’s influence on Buffalo Hate Crime
Cheney Calls On GOP To Denounce White Nationalism
The New York Times reports:
In just the past year, Republican luminaries like Newt Gingrich and Elise Stefanik, the center-right New York congresswoman turned Trump acolyte (and third-ranking House Republican), have echoed replacement theory. Appearing on Fox, Mr. Gingrich declared that leftists were attempting to “drown” out “classic Americans.”
In September, Ms. Stefanik released a campaign ad on Facebook claiming that Democrats were plotting “a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION” by granting “amnesty” to illegal immigrants, which her ad said would “overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.”
That same month, Rep. Matt Gaetz wrote on Twitter, “@TuckerCarlson is CORRECT about Replacement Theory as he explains what is happening to America.” In a statement after the Buffalo shooting, Mr. Gaetz said that he had “never spoken of replacement theory in terms of race.”
Read the full article. Cheney’s tweet, at least in part, appears to be aimed at her successor Stefanik.
Yeah! Republicans are going to denounce their own base? While they’re at it maybe they could denounce their religious extremists and their anti-vaxxers and their conspiracy theorists! LOL!
Gustav2 TampaZeke • 35 minutes ago • edited
After 50 years of coddling this faction, funding and promoting these people because they needed them for power, it is not going to change until they lose a series of Red States governors, etc.
And that ain’t happening soon. Besides this faction now runs the show.
rmthunter TampaZeke • 16 minutes ago
They won’t denounce — they’ll deflect: they’re already claiming the Buffalo shooter is FBI.
Oh, for fuck’s sake, NYTimes. Elise Stefanik is not a “luminary.” She’s an ignorant racist upstate trash heap.
crewman Tulle • 23 minutes ago • edited
She knows. I think she’s trying to expose this to a broader Republican base that the cuurent GOP are actually super extreme. She is hoping that she can rekindle a return to a more “moderate”/civil Republican base.
THE CAPE CUBSADER • 22 minutes ago
Can we agree now that America’s ongoing history with racism needs to be taught in schools?— KD 📚🌎🌊🇺🇸🌻 (@kdnerak33) May 15, 2022
That same month, Rep. Matt Gaetz wrote on Twitter, “@TuckerCarlson is CORRECT about Replacement Theory as he explains what is happening to America,” In a statement after the Buffalo shooting, Mr. Gaetz said that he had “never spoken of replacement theory in terms of race.”
Ah, of course, he only meant it in terms of.. what, heritage? “Western Culture”, another buzzword used when they don’t want to say ‘race’? Please, do be specific…
jk105 • 28 minutes ago • edited
Heterosexual Supremacy is the cornerstone of the Republican Party. They didn’t hide their hate. It was straightforward part of the Republican Platform until that platform was chucked in favor of it being “whatever Trump says it is.” . So it should be no surprise that they are now becoming more open about their White Nationalism too.
QAnon AZ Rep Calls Buffalo Shooting Plot By Feds
This bizarre twisting of reality is what is really tearing the country apart and fueling the anger of many. The complete disconnect from the truth changed to attack your opponents. Are these the people that should be in elected office making the laws people have to live under? Do you trust any of these people to make sensible choices about relations with other countries or wars? I don’t. Hugs
Rolling Stone reports:
Nick Fuentes — the young white supremacist who also bemoans “white genocide,” leads the Groyper movement online, and organizes the annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) — took to his Telegram channel as news of the killings broke to immediately (and without evidence) insist it was a “false flag” attack.
Arizona state senator Wendy Rogers — a member of the Oath Keepers who has appeared at Fuentes’ AFPAC conference — made a similar claim, conspiratorially suggesting Gendron was a government agent. “Fed boy summer has started in Buffalo,” Rogers wrote in a Telegram post.
Mike Cernovich, the onetime Pizzagate conspiracy theorist who has tweeted that “diversity is code for white genocide,” labored to paint Gendron as an ideological foe of the right, an environmentalist Nazi who fell under “demonic influence.”
Mediaite reports:
A short recap of Rogers’ not-so-greatest hits includes posting an anti-Semitic meme on her Gab and Telegram accounts hours before she spoke at the White nationalist AFPAC conference, getting censured by fellow Republicans in the Arizona Senate, and praising Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
In another tweet, she pushed to celebrate Confederate generals on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day days after speaking at a rally for former President Donald Trump, and a raging tweet storm she called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “globalist puppet for Soros and the Clintons.”
She’s blaming the wrong “boy.”
Bilderbeck • 14 hours ago • edited
Very good piece on PBS Newshour Weekend by Kathleen Belew. She calls it like it is: these aren’t “lone gunmen”, they’re all white nationalists and connected.
So amusing. Literally, every time a white supremacist commits a mass murder it’s always considered a false flag event. That way they can shut down all discussion about weapons of war in the hands of milita, white nationalists and teenagers.
Uncle Mark’s ugly face returns • 14 hours ago • edited
They NEVER take responsibility for the evil they do…for the inflammatory words they use to incite the crowds for their own political ends, while ignoring the fact that those same toxic words take root in disturbed & violent minds.
Why it seems like just yesterday that Trump & the GOP were blaming Jan 6 on ANTIFA, the Democrats, and even the Feds as a false flag operation, refusing to acknowledge it was their own supporters.
Trump partially restricts himself from using Twitter
https://www.axios.com/2022/05/16/trump-partially-restricts-himself-twitter
So the real question is when tRump gets back on social media will it be politically better for the Democrats or worse. tRump tends to piss off as many or more people as he energizes. As he cannot let any grudge go and is constantly rehashing the past grievances I think it will turn off voters more than energize the Republican base. So I think it is OK if they let tRump back on. What do you think on this?
Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios
Former President Trump plans to partially restrict himself from using Twitter, according to a new federal securities filing from the blank check company taking his social network, Truth Social, public.
Why it matters: Trump previously said he wouldn’t return to Twitter, even if reinstated by Elon Musk, but many believe it’s a hollow promise.
What the filing says: “President Trump is generally obligated to make any social media post on TruthSocial and may not make the same post on another social media site for 6 hours. Thereafter, he is free to post on any site to which he has access. Thus, TMTG has limited time to benefit from his posts and followers may not find it compelling to use TruthSocial to read his posts that quickly.
In addition, he may make a post from a personal account related to political messaging, political fundraising or get-out-the-vote efforts on any social media site at any time.”
Between the lines: This certainly seems to give Trump a massive out, given the caveat about “political messaging.” But would restrict Trump tweets on purely social issues, business matters, etc.
What to know: Truth Social still isn’t a sure bet to go public, as the blank check company appears to still be under federal securities investigation (per the filing).
The bottom line: This filing was written in a way to hedge in case Trump runs again for president.
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