Right wing nuts thread (8 Viewers)

[DaveXA]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but we need a thread for the wing nuts. Lauren Boebert.

 

[Optimus Prime]

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell accused of stiffing vendor out of nearly $600,000

Exclusive : “I’ve got bigger things going on,” a distracted Lindell told The Independent, insisting he had never heard of the company trying to get him to pay up.

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell accused of stiffing vendor out of nearly $600,000

Exclusive : “I’ve got bigger things going on,” a distracted Lindell told The Independent, insisting he had never heard of the company trying to get him to pay up.

www.independent.co.uk

birds of a feather and all..

 

[Optimus Prime]

When I think about joy I think about Moms of Liberty
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Apparently, there is not enough joy to go around, and some “joyful warriors” are upset about, among other things, what they see as their nickname being ripped off.

Joy has become a theme of the Democratic ticket—Vice President Kamala Harris proclaimed herself and running mate Tim Walz “joyful warriors” against their Republican opponents.

The conservative parent group Moms for Liberty made a point of attacking the Democrats’ use of the phrase during its four-day annual summit over Labor Day weekend in Washington, D.C.

“I want to remind people who are the OG joyful warriors,” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich said Friday evening, ahead of an appearance by Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump.

As a whole, the summit sent dual messages. One cast Moms for Liberty and the broader Republican Party as working to appeal across party lines. The other unleashed strikingly vitriolic language about supposed dangers of the Harris-Walz ticket—especially to parents.

Leaders made one particular issue—transgender students—the focus of their messaging. Staple concerns of past years, including social-emotional learning, DEI initiatives, and “inappropriate” books, took a backseat. There was little talk of academics or learning.

Instead, co-founder Tiffany Justice painted schools as predatory, seeking to infect children with ideas about gender that lead them to declare they are nonbinary. And Walz, whose policies as governor of Minnesota are considered LGBTQ+-friendly, was a special target of attack...........

MSN

 

[bird]

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell accused of stiffing vendor out of nearly $600,000

Exclusive : “I’ve got bigger things going on,” a distracted Lindell told The Independent, insisting he had never heard of the company trying to get him to pay up.

www.independent.co.uk

He’s got bigger things going on? Yeah, he lost his coke dealer’s cell phone number.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Ha!

 

[Optimus Prime]

Could have gone in the racist thread too
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Neo-Nazi groups and the online far right are latching on to the anti-immigration rhetoric coming from Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House in an effort to recruit new supporters and spread their extremism to broader audiences.

After the Republican national convention in July, where supporters waved “MASS DEPORTATION NOW!” placards, it became clear that Trump’s xenophobia has become part of the Republican establishment. Upon his return to X, formerly known as Twitter, Trump released a stream of images targeting Vice-President Kamala Harris’s stance on the border and immigration.

Among them were memes implying the Democrats will bring rapists into the country and a 2012 photo of men in Karachi, Pakistan, burning an American flag with the caption: “Meet your neighbors [...] IF KAMALA WINS.”


In tandem with the Trump campaign’s sloganeering, known figures on the far right and their online denizens are seizing on the open hatred of immigrants from the top Republican and going even more public with their brand of activism.

“At this point, demonizing and lying about immigrants is part and parcel of the far-right scene and a major part of its anti-immigrant messaging,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE), an extremism watchdog organization. “Non-white immigrants and refugees are enemy number one for the far-right.”

Beirich warned the current climate is even more dangerous as she’s seeing ideologies, once the sole domain of fringe neo-Nazis, being “mainstreamed by political figures”.

For example, two separate hate groups recently descended on Springfield, Ohio, rallying with masks and uniforms and threatening the approximately 20,000 Haitian immigrants that have arrived in the town since the pandemic. In 2023, tensions among local residents flared up after a bus crash involving a Haitian driver helped make the Rust-belt town a flashpoint in anti-immigration debates.

In August, Blood Tribe, a neo-Nazi group led by ex-US marine Christopher Pohlhaus, marched in Springfield waving swastika flags (with at least two members carrying rifles) and yelling anti-Black and racist epithets at a jazz festival.

Then, in early September, one of its leaders was granted time to speak at a town forum with local politicians.


“I’ve come to bring a word of warning,” said the leader, speaking under a racist pseudonym. He is believed to be the second-in-command of Blood Tribe, after Pohlhaus, and also a former marine. “Stop what you’re doing before it’s too late. Crime and savagery will only increase with every Haitian you bring in.”………

Neo-Nazi and far right groups seize on Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric

Extremist groups are latching on to ex-president’s xenophobic messages to recruit people and spread ideology

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Shades of Jeb Bush

 

[Optimus Prime]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal trial is set to begin Monday over claims that supporters of former President Donald Trump threatened and harassed a Biden-Harris campaign bus in Texas four years ago, disrupting the campaign on the last day of early voting.

The civil trial over the so-called “Trump Train” comes as Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris race into the final two months of their head-to-head fight for the White House in November.

Democrats on the bus said they feared for their lives as Trump supporters in dozens of trucks and cars nearly caused collisions, harassing their convoy for more than 90 minutes, hitting a Biden-Harris campaign staffer’s car and forcing the bus driver to repeatedly swerve for safety.

“For at least 90 minutes, defendants terrorized and menaced the driver and passengers,” the lawsuit alleges. “They played a madcap game of highway ‘chicken’ coming within three to four inches of the bus. They tried to run the bus off the road.”

The highway confrontation prompted an FBI investigation, which led then-President Trump to declare that in his opinion, “these patriots did nothing wrong.”……..

Trial begins over Texas 'Trump Train' highway confrontation

A federal trial has begun in Texas in a lawsuit against six supporters of former President Donald Trump.

apnews.com

 

[Heathen]

Scary stuff. Hope people are monitoring closely and will be prepared
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America’s fraught 2024 election could be hit by far-right violence, warns a high-profile FBI informant who spent years infiltrating the Klu Klux Klan in a new book.

Joe Moore spent a decade tasked with infiltrating KKK chapters in Florida to investigate enduring ties between law enforcement and the white supremacist organization, an assignment that included disrupting a murder plot by a trio of Klansmen who worked as prison guards.

Now the former US army sniper is out with a book, White Robes and Broken Badges, detailing those experiences – and applying the lessons he learned to an approaching election freighted with fears of the impact of far-right and white supremacist groups.


A Reuters/Ipsos poll in May reported that two out of three Americans said they were concerned that political violence could follow the 5 November election.

“Unfortunately, I think it’s relevant to any time in our nation’s history, not just this election,” Moore says. Far-right ideology has two origins, he has come to learn.

“One is geographical, where you are raised up in an area where that ideology is simply a part of a belief system. The second is a generational origin in which it’s handed down.”

And so begins a story of how Moore, living near Gainesville in the 2010s, became involved with white supremacists in Florida, rose to the position of Grand Knighthawk, the klan’s security official, and disrupted a plot by Klansmen, all prison guards, to murder a Black former inmate, and of bringing down two major KKK figures, Grand Dragon Jamie Ward and Exalted Cyclops Charles Newcomb.

“In my first tour inside the KKK – the nation’s first domestic terrorist group, founded more than 150 years ago – I foiled a plot to assassinate then candidate Barack Obama, only to witness the Klan use his election as a rallying cry and recruiting tool that ignited a firestorm within the white nationalist right,” Moore writes in the book…….

Moore says he tried to remain politically neutral, for doing otherwise would mean risking mistakes. But finding the right people to report the corruption he had uncovered was more difficult – Florida officials, he claims, didn’t want to hear his message of KKK infiltration into law enforcement.

“It was far more prevalent and consequential than officials were willing to admit, so much so that state officials came out and said there was no information that the issue was any more broad than the case in front of them. But I had a list of officers that were active members and actively recruiting other people and sending active Klan members into the law enforcement hiring process as well.”


The KKK may not be the force it once was, but other white nationalist organizations moved in to adopt the messaging and the membership, among them militia groups and movements like the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters…………

FBI informant’s book predicts far-right violence: ‘we should be afraid’

Joe Moore, who for years investigated the Ku Klux Klan, issues a chilling warning for the 2024 election and beyond

www.theguardian.com

I think it’s highly likely we see some form of far right extremism after the election. I’m not sure if it will be widespread or not, but they’ll be spouting the same tired childish nonsense they did last time.

You’d hope this stuff doesn’t happen in America, but history shows that it absolutely can. It’s hard to say if most people are prepared for it, but I would guess not.

 

[Optimus Prime]

.................There’s another small-town Ohio story that got some traction over the weekend, too. In this one, a guy claims that his daughter sought to enroll her kid in preschool, only to learn that she would need to hire a translator since the class would be conducted entirely in Spanish to accommodate the other kids. The claim, elevated by a prominent right-wing account, has been retweeted more than 20,000 times.

It comes from the account “christianprepperr” on TikTok, and, like the claims about the pets, offers no evidence beyond anecdotes a few steps removed from the original source. It does tell a useful political story, though, one that the right is eager to hear.

Unfortunately for christianprepperr, the Springfield story ticked a few more of the boxes that make a rumor popular within that bubble. There’s always next time.............

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/09/rumors-about-an-ohio-town-show-scale-right-wing-bubble/

 

[Optimus Prime]

Sen. Tommy Tuberville has blocked the promotion of an Army general who is a senior aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, people familiar with the matter said, threatening a confrontation between the Republican firebrand and the Pentagon just weeks before the presidential election while reviving a months-old furor over the military chief’s medical secrecy.

Tuberville (Ala.) has frozen the nomination of Lt. Gen. Ronald P. Clark to become the four-star commander of all U.S. Army forces in the Pacific, according to the senator’s spokeswoman, Mallory Jaspers, and two other officials familiar with the emerging standoff.

The maneuver, which has not been previously reported, restricts Clark’s nomination from coming up for a vote in the Senate and could mark the beginning of the end of his 36-year military career……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/09/09/tommy-tuberville-ronald-clark-lloyd-austin/

 

[MT15]

Alabama owes all of us a huge apology. HUGE.

 

[bird]

Sen. Tommy Tuberville has blocked the promotion of an Army general who is a senior aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, people familiar with the matter said, threatening a confrontation between the Republican firebrand and the Pentagon just weeks before the presidential election while reviving a months-old furor over the military chief’s medical secrecy.

Tuberville (Ala.) has frozen the nomination of Lt. Gen. Ronald P. Clark to become the four-star commander of all U.S. Army forces in the Pacific, according to the senator’s spokeswoman, Mallory Jaspers, and two other officials familiar with the emerging standoff.

The maneuver, which has not been previously reported, restricts Clark’s nomination from coming up for a vote in the Senate and could mark the beginning of the end of his 36-year military career……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/09/09/tommy-tuberville-ronald-clark-lloyd-austin/

Here’s hoping that azzhat gets either primaried or beaten by a Dem when his next election is up. (Edited because I can’t type)

 

[cuddlemonkey]

Alabama owes all of us a huge apology. HUGE.

On behalf of us all, I'm sorry.

 

[bird]

On behalf of us all, I'm sorry.

Hey, cuddlemonkey it ain’t your fault there are complete loons in Alabama.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

Here’s hoping that azzhat het either primaried or beaten by a Dem when his next election is up.

Idiots in my state voted for Tubs over a civil rights attorney who prosecuted two of the Birmingham church bombers. This state is screwed.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

Hey, cuddlemonkey it ain’t your fault there are complete loons in Alabama.

Yeah, but someone has to apologize for them because they have no shame. lol

 

[MT15]

Idiots in my state voted for Tubs over a civil rights attorney who prosecuted two of the Birmingham church bombers. This state is screwed.

I know. The choice couldn’t have been more stark. Just so infuriating.