A longshot candidate challenging Ohio’s incumbent governor in a Republican primary shared a photo of himself in front of a sign depicting an image of syringes arranged as a swastika — the chosen symbol of Nazi Germany as it waged a systematic slaughter of millions of Jews and others in Europe.
Joe Blystone, a cattle farmer often seen campaigning in a cowboy hat and bushy beard, posted a photo Friday on his campaign’s Twitter account. It shows him standing in front of a banner for a local of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers.
Behind him, a man holds a sign reading “NO JAB NO JOB” — presumably a statement in opposition to employers requiring vaccination as a term of employment. That sign shows the swastika-syringes image.
Blystone’s campaign did not respond to questions about why Blystone is distributing a photo of himself in front of Nazi imagery. The local and national offices of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers did not respond to inquiries.
“I’m not anti-vax. I’m not anti-mask. I’m pro-choice,” Blystone said in a March interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer. “If you want to wear a mask, wear a mask. If you want to get a vax, get a vax. It shouldn’t be our government pushing you one way or another.”
Both Blystone and challenger Jim Renacci are seeking to oust incumbent Gov. Mike DeWine in the Republican primary. Election Day is Tuesday, May 3. The Republican victor will take on one of two candidates running for the Democratic ticket.
The photo follows a pattern of Nazi imagery and rhetoric popping up in conservative political demonstrations against coronavirus restrictions and vaccine mandates.
A man carrying an anti-Semitic sign joined a protest outside the Bexley home of then-Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton. Other protesters brought guns. Photo courtesy of Katie Forbes.
In April 2020, Ohio Senator Andrew Brenner pledged not to allow Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton to turn the state into Nazi Germany. Rep. Kris Jordan connected masks, vaccines, and vaccination records to the Holocaust. U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel made similar comments. Rep. Nino Vitale called Acton, who is Jewish, a “globalist health director.” The term “globalist” is used as an anti-Semitic slur. Earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Warren Davidson compared a requirement to show proof of vaccination for bars and restaurants in Washington D.C. to Nazi officials demanding identification from Jewish citizens.
“Medical procedures designed to save lives are not comparable to the Holocaust, in which six million Jews and millions of others were murdered,” said Sara Scheinbach, a senior associate regional director of the Cleveland region of the Anti-Defamation League, which advocates against anti-Semitism.
“All leaders, especially politicians, should call out these obscene comparisons, rather than celebrate them.”
Nazi officials implemented rules forcing Jewish people to wear identifying badges between 1939 and 1945, according to the U.S. Holocaust Museum. It was part of a campaign to stigmatize and dehumanize Jews and segregate and control them before deporting them to concentration camps.
The museum spoke out against a national leader of the anti-vaccination movement who said at a rally that things are worse today than they were for Anne Frank, a teenaged girl who died along with most her family during the Holocaust.
“Making reckless comparisons to the Holocaust, the murder of six million Jews, for a political agenda is outrageous and deeply offensive,” the museum said in a statement. “Those who carelessly invoke Anne Frank, the star badge, and the Nuremberg Trials exploit history and the consequences of hate.”
BlazeTV host Steve Deace complained Monday on Twitter that something he posted on TRUTH Social was immediately censored. Deace claimed to have posted a Truth — the platform’s term for users’ posts — only for it to be slapped with a “sensitive content” warning.
Mediaite viewed the Truth Deace had posted. It reads: “Transgenderism is a mental illness and/or a demonic deception, pass it on.” The apparent case of censorship on the platform is noteworthy, given that Trump was similarly censored on Twitter before he was banned in January of 2021.
Deace first appeared on JMG in 2011 when he denounced then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry for hiring a “practicing homosexual” as a presidential campaign strategist.
In 2015 we heard from him again when he attacked Sen. Lindsey Graham’s presidential bid, saying “voters aren’t ready for a transgendered candidate.”
Deace last appeared on JMG in 2018 when he stormed off the CNN set when another guest pointed out that “Christian sharia” is also a thing.
Man who wants teachers fired for mentioning transgenderism shrieks when he is “censored” for mentioning transgenderism someplace where a kid might see it.
“Transgenderism is a mental illness and/or a demonic deception, pass it on.”
Religion is not an excuse to practice medicine without a license. ‘Black magic’ is a fictional excuse that Christians used to murder pagan and/or non-pagan women at the Salem Witch Trials, a dark and ugly time in American Christianity’s history.
Christian media company Good Fight Ministries has released the first installment of its seven-part Marvel and DC’s War on God series.
Entitled The Anti-Christ Agenda and narrated by Pastor Joe Schimmel, the company says the 150-minute film “documents how popular comics and the movies that they have spawned are riddled with anti-Christ themes that glorify gratuitous violence, sexual perversion, blasphemy, and the occult.”
“Many leading comic book writers have admitted that they are using seduction, manipulation, the occult, and even the Bible to influence children to view the God of the Bible from a twisted slant,” Pastor Schimmel says.
Satan is after your children, and he’s cleverly using comic book movies to deceive them. Marvel & DC’s War on God will show you exactly how they’re targeted and open your eyes to the war on Christianity.
New installments in the Marvel and DC’s War on God series are expected to be released every three months and will be available on Vimeo on Demand for $3.99 to rent and $8.99 to buy. DVDs will also be made available.
The press release goes on to boast that Schimmel’s previous series exposed Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin, U2, Britney Spears, and other pop stars as Satanists.
The right wing haters are going after Disney for supporting the LGBTQ community. This election isn’t about what the Republicans have to offer, it’s about hatred, bigotry and racism. And the Democrats needs to get up off their asses and vote-especially the LGBTQ community.
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I never got to see these as a kid, for most of my childhood TV was banned for me. But after becoming an adult on my own I fell in love with shows like this one and other sci-fi shows like Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica, those shows that now look so hooky. As a young adult on my own I joined one of those video clubs and bought all the shows I could. I love the shape shifting idea in this one. These shows helped me form an idea of good people trying hard to do go and not giving in to anger, to doing the right thing when it was not to your advantage because it was the right thing, and to championing being different at being OK. I hope you enjoy this.
An example of how the media and the right wing especially change a story. Dr. Fauci said the “we are out of the pandemic phase …” then that got turned into we are out of the pandemic and then summarized as “The pandemic is over”.
A more complete quote was “We are out of the full blown explosive pandemic phase”. Do you understand now why I investigate sources and look to see the original quotes especially when used by the right wing? Enjoy the video.
The U.S. Justice Department is making sanctions evasion and export control a priority in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Justine Walker, head of Global Sanctions and Risk at ACAMS, joins CBS News anchors Michelle Miller and Mola Lenghi to discuss the impact on businesses trying to comply with U.S. laws.
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