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.”
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‘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.
Beto O’Rourke brings THE HOUSE DOWN on ‘The View’ with EPIC speech
Francis EXPOSES Tucker Carlson’s influence on Buffalo Hate Crime
Fox hosts LOSE IT in full meltdown on air
Pete Buttigieg steals the show with VIRAL response to Buffalo tragedy
Dahlia Lithwick and Joyce Vance on the Alito Draft
This is audio only about the recent Alito leaked abortion draft. If you don’t like the opening patter, please skip to the main interview. There is a lot of valuable information and analysis and something I missed was Alito compared same gender sex to prostitution. Shows how he views gays and lesbians. If this ruling stands as he wrote it we are all screwed because he says that if the constitution doesn’t explicitly grant the right, then tradition that his religion supports must be followed. It is weird to hear how he ignores and hand waves away things that have been said are in the constitution and how he bases his reasoning on his religion more than the constitution. I have backed this up a dozen times to rehear parts such as how Alito tries hard to push the idea that a fetus is a person with full rights that he then ignores the woman has. The 14th amendments has always been according to speeches of the time read and by judges to promote the idea that liberty at its core has been to have the right to marry who you love, to have the children be in your home, to not have them taken by others, and basically to refute the entire idea of not just slavery but what it meant to be a person without liberty and control over your own life. Alito’s ruling tries to destroy that entire concept. Hugs
Why we should all be alarmed!
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Hannity Spreads GOP Rep’s “Pallets Of Formula” Lie
This is the part of right wing media that drives me nuts. Outright racist lying to create anger that the base will never bother to check if it is true and they wont accept the truth when you tell them. Hannity, who proudly says he is an opinion host not a journalist, makes a big display and statement and they accept it with no question. When you point out the lie of the entire thing, they attack you and ignore anything you say because they disagree with you. Clearly you get the point. They have been indoctrinated to believe only their cult leaders on Fox backed up by other smaller right wing media. Any other information is fake or false to them and those that tell them are clearly the enemy they must destroy. How do we have a country when this is the stuff going on? Yes the cult is only like 15 to 20% of the population, but they are the most violent and thuggish part, and they are dragging the country further down with them. On top of that there are the ones using them to gain what they want to take the country culturally back a century or more. I don’t have the solution but we better find one quick. I love what the leader of NZ said when asked why they did not have a problem with their covid response, she replied we did not let Murdock set up a fox station here.
CNN reports:
“Look at that,” Sean Hannity said on Fox News Thursday night, pointing to a photo being shown next to him, “pallets and pallets of baby formula for illegal immigrants and their families even as hardworking American” — and now there was another photo — “families, we are now suffering a massive nationwide shortage.”
The photos had been provided to Fox by the office of GOP Rep. Kat Cammack, whose account of someone in the Border Patrol telling her of “pallets” of formula being sent to a border processing center had set off a whole outrage cycle on the right. They were used Friday morning as well on “Fox & Friends” during an extended interview with Cammack.
And they did not show baby formula. The photo Hannity pointed to, and the one that followed it, showed boxes and boxes clearly labeled NIDO. As anyone at Fox could have discovered with about a minute’s worth of fact-checking, NIDO is not baby formula; it is powdered milk. As its maker, Nestlé, specifically notes: “NIDO® products are only intended for children ages 1 year and older.”
Read the full article.
Hey, this shit works for ’em, so they’re going to keep doing it.
another_steve GenXRated • 3 hours ago
“Facts” are irrelevant to their viewers — 74 million of whom voted in November 2020 for a Reality TV mobster with a small, deformed penis.
GenXRated another_steve • 3 hours ago
The genius of Donald Trump is his understanding that the greatest lie you can tell someone is the lie that the person wants more than life itself to believe.
Bob’s Your Uncle – BYU • 3 hours ago
Asking Fox to fact check their reporting is like asking Trump to stop lying. I can find pallets of powdered milk in nearly every grocery chain in America. I just checked Costco’s website. Even they have it.
Bob’s Your Uncle – BYU • 3 hours ago
As anyone at Fox could have discovered with about a minute’s worth of fact-checking, NIDO is not baby formula; it is powdered milk. As its maker, Nestlé, specifically notes: “NIDO® products are only intended for children ages 1 year and older.”
Asking Fox to fact check their reporting is like asking Trump to stop lying. I can find pallets of powdered milk in nearly every grocery chain in America. I just checked Costco’s website. Even they have it.
Fun fact: a whistleblower complained to the FDA. The FDA didn’t shut the plant down until 2 babies died.
Elagabalus • 3 hours ago • edited
If Rupert Murdoch cared about truth, decency, democracy, or anything beyond lining his own already-bulging pockets he would put an end to this nonsense, but he won’t because he doesn’t.
I think the reality is they hate the idea of immigrant children getting baby formula. So should we let them starve? I’d bet most of those “compassionate” Christians would say yes. “Formula is only fer ‘Muricans!”
99sdad • 3 hours ago • edited
I wish that there were laws that protected citizens from such lies. Free speech is one thing, but this shit, while not sparking a full blown panic, is just keeping things simmering. One of my absolute dearest friends (talking to you Angela) hardly speaks with me, I’m guessing because of Facebook posts about the orange one. It’s sad, but as i get older I’ve just decided to stop chasing after friendships. I held Angela when her husband, and then her Mother passed away. She’s never once reached out to me, and 2021 was a helluva year for me. She and her boyfriend watch fox “news” and parrot what they see. You can’t change people, and it’s not worth trying. As you get older, your circle gets smaller. Fox News makes it all the worse.
Even taking them at their premise. Gotta love all these “pro-life” folks upset that.. we’re feeding people we’re keeping in custody? Especially infants that obviously had no choice in the matter?
Huh. Very “pro-life” indeed, since the clear implication is that we.. shouldn’t be feeding those infants we’re keeping in custody.. hmm. I mean, could take this as a reason to not keep them in custody? But that’s silly, I’m sure. Better to suggest that we just shouldn’t feed them.. while they’re in custody.. which.. uhhh.. not so pro life if you ask anyone who knows anything about how digestion works?
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