Robert Foster, a former Mississippi lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate whose Christian faith has always been a large part of his identity, says that anyone who supports transgender rights should be executed via firing squad.
The Republican—though, admit it, you already knew that before I said it—made the remark on Twitter Thursday night:
Some of y’all still want to try and find political compromise with those that want to groom our school aged children and pretend men are women, etc.
I think they need to be lined up against wall before a firing squad to be sent to an early judgment.
When reached for comment by Ashton Pittman of the Mississippi Free Press, Foster doubled down on his faith-based murder fantasies.
“I said what I said,” he wrote, adding to what he had tweeted. “The law should be changed so that anyone trying to sexually groom children and/or advocating to put men pretending to be women in locker rooms and bathrooms with young women should receive the death penalty by firing squad.”
To be clear, supporters of trans people aren’t in favor of grooming children or allowing men in women’s locker rooms and bathrooms. It’s a typical right-wing tactic to equate trans people (and gay people) with pedophiles while turning a blind eye to actual corruption within their ranks. It’s yet another lie conservative Christians tell themselves because they believe tolerance and acceptance are four-letter words. They would rather deny the existence of trans people than come to terms with their own ignorance about who trans people are.
Maybe this kind of rhetoric could simply be ignored if Foster was a random online troll, but he’s not. He served two terms in the Mississippi State House (from 2017 to 2020) and ran for governor in 2019. Even though he placed third in the Republican primary that year, he was able to snag up over 67,000 votes. He may well run again for higher office in the future.
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Workers are being exploited in the US for the profit of the wealthy. Workers struggle to have the basics while the upper class live in luxury.
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Thank you Randy for this cartoon. I feel like this most days.
I barely got 1/4 of the pages done. I have been in bed a lot again today. It is now nearly 6 PM and I am going to bed for the night. I hope to be able to get out a better roundup tomorrow. Best wishes to all.
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While the US government gives price gouging oil companies subsides of 20 billion of taxpayer money it is somehow wrong for the same government to give those same taxpayers some money also to make their lives easier. Wake up people, the wealthy are sucking the country dry and having the easy life while demanding that the people suffer and scrabble for the bare minimums.
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Let’s talk about a question about gender….
Teacher Caught In Embarrassing Moment During Zoom Class
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Profit taking / price gouging is making the wealthy even more wealth while the people suffer more every day.
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Allergies were really bad today, spent most of the day sleeping.
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Republicans think the rules they impose on others do not apply to them.
Republicans are a special interest group for mediocre white men.
Conservatives love these double standards. It has patriarchy and misogyny by design.
When white supremacy becomes your party line.
Investigate Clarence Thomas. Then Brett Kavanaugh
The ‘lock her up’ crowd were the biggest criminals. The projection is an admission.
https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/679813193497968640
‘Not having the conservation’ is peak conservative cowardice.
A legacy of selfish nothingness.
This is Abe. Abe was a schizophrenic who hallucinated commands from the VOICE OF GOD, after which he mutilated his own genitals (plus a lot of other guys’ genitals!) before nearly murdering his own son. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are called “Abrahamic” religions because they all take this same nutty hot mess Abe to be their founding patriarch. Followers of the Abrahamic religions make up around SIXTY PERCENT of the human population worldwide! Well, no wonder the world’s in the shape it’s in. Don’t be like Abe. Dale Scott
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The US has now proven that countries with nuclear weapons are safe from US attack and will only face a financial sanction. That means every single country will try to get nuclear weapons because they know the US can be held hostage by them. Kim launched missiles, but so far those missiles can not reach the US. But the US claims to have missile shields and other way to defend against such launches. Then what is our real fear with North Korea?
What a stupid cartoon. Is that a boy or girl. And that is the point. You can not tell what gender a person is by looking at them, by their clothing, by the way they do their hair. I have a pony tail. What does that make me. See the problem?
They teach math, science, and reading and writing comprehension in kindergarten? boy, times have changed…“I’d like to discuss that, but it’s time for our shooter drill, then Bible indoctrination and shame time for those who opt out, and then abstinence instruction.”
Teachers aren’t focusing on sexuality. Each teacher focuses on the subject they are teaching. Elementary teachers focus on teaching the basic subjects of math, reading, writing and science. There are sex ed classes (sometimes incorporated in health classes) for older students and that’s when they learn how their bodies function. Why some people are so hysterical about that, I don’t know. By the way, having taught English to high school students for many years, while their hormones are raging, they were thinking about sex even though I wasn’t teaching anything about it They could use some guidance from their parents, although many parents avoid the subject. Parents often have scant ability to understand, teach and communicate with their children about sex.
Biden has called Putin a war criminal and also is calling for regime change in Russia. Rather unprecedented.
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The people are struggling to survive in the US with insufficient incomes / resources to have decent lives while the majority of our elected officials get wealthy in office by serving the wealthy donors.
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We need to restore campaign finance laws. Citizens United ruling is malware for democracy.
Republicans have no policy, no consistent beliefs. Their media is not journalism.
They are reduced to abusing the emotions of their unspectacular base.
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The same congress where 8 members voted against aid to Ukraine? The same congress where half the Republicans supported Putin? The right wing hates to admit that President Biden has lead the world in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. They hate that Biden gets credit when their cult leader couldn’t stand up to Putin even to support the US own intel agencies.
Gods the right wing cartoonist are desperate. Russia is not a communist country. They are hoping none of their viewers are smart enough to know it is not 1980 anymore. Bernie never touted communism for the US. Bernie wants the government to work for the public and not just for the wealthy. That is not communism. It is about the taxpayers getting a return on their tax money.
Christians like Payne are adamant in forcing everyone to think and enjoy hatreds like them, especially when it comes to racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia. Conserves are “woke” against “woke”. They don’t want white heterosexual folks to be offended by all those others around them. Some Disney employees participated in a walkout Tuesday to protest Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill The bill, which has not yet been signed into law, would limit discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools PREVIOUS: Disney opposes Florida’s so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, CEO to meet with Gov. DeathSantis. Payne hates gay people apparently.
Isn’t that virtue signaling? I though right wingers considered virtue signaling to be bad. The right didn’t care about Uyghurs during Trump’s term. Now they are pretending to care about an ethnic group they didn’t care about before because they need a reason to paint President Biden as a bad guy over something. So, what do you armchair quarterbacks expect President Biden to do? Trump tried imposing tariffs on China because of their unfair business practices. It didn’t work very well, and Trump had to ask Congress to give farmers money to help them out. America is busy dealing with Putin. A dictator that some right wingers to praise. Trump called him a genius for his invasion of Ukraine. Seems like a bad idea to pick a fight with two countries with nuclear weapons. As for Canada “mistreating” Christians, give me a break.
Anti-vaxxers remind me of the person that got mauled by the tiger at the zoo because they decided to go into the tiger pit. They were warned many times of the danger but decided to overcome the obstacles put in place designed to prevent such a tragedy from happening. Such safeguards are put in place in order to prevent people from dying from COVID. If you decide to have a hissy fit and not do what is expected to stop COVID, then don’t expect me to feel sorry for you if you die. I will only feel sorry for the people that died from COVID because they had a compromised immune system. Taking the analogy farther, they remind me of the person who decided to release the tiger so it could wander the city freely, mauling whomever it wants.
The cartoon over looks the new varient to push one of their favorite villains Dr Fauci and the fear that he will force you to do things you do not want to do. People Dr. Fauci is only an advisor. But it is easier to make him the villain and pretending tRump was not in charge of the things people hate.
tRump is not responsible for the vaccine development nor for their distribution. While tRump was throwing the US treasury to any organization that would promise him anything to save his bacon, the leading vaccine maker did not take the money from the US. All the vaccine manufactures had started working on vaccines before tRump started offering money. tRump offered money to people who claimed their businesses to develop vaccines were in their living rooms. The tRump people had no plan or method to get the shots into peoples arms. For that the credit goes to the Biden administration. But the real reason to not give credit to tRump / Republicans is their catering and fostering an anti-vaccine insanity that is not only prolonging the covid issue but has led to unnecessary death and economic problems. But the right doesn’t care about facts, they want to worship their cult leader tRump and pretend science is not real.
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