Just When You Thought
It Couldn’t Get Crazier
A trump-loving, conspiracy-backing, apologist for capitol rioters, anti-American congressman from Arizona, tweeted an anime video showing him appearing to kill Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Joe Biden with swords.
Another Georgia Republican who thinks the answers to the world’s troubles lie in trump and QAnon, posted an image of herself holding a gun alongside photos of Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar D-Minn. and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. The same duly elected nutcase representative from Georgia also tweeted the names and phone numbers of the “traitors” Republican members of Congress who voted for President Biden’s widesweeping infrastructure improvement bill. A day later one GOP turncoat received a telephone death threat.
And then there was the Republican congressman from Louisiana, who has been married four times, fired from law enforcement and was dressed in a black coat, black fedora, wearing sunglasses and looking totally like like a spooky, enemy of the Avengers, when he spoke at a news conference, with his supporters nodding in agreement about “the (Democratic) oppressors” and that “We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees .. Some of us are prepared to carry that fight with every drop of our blood.”
Maybe it’s me but these three lovers of liberty seem to be inciting and supporting right wing violence or maybe they’re just talking in symbolism, but I doubt they are capable of crafting anything with even a scintilla of nuance.
Ocasio-Cortez nailed it when she described her colleague on the evil, other side of the aisle, Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., author of the threatening, anime video, as someone who “knows he couldn’t open a pickle jar or read a whole book by himself.” She easily could have used the same description for Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., he who said he nearly died from COVID-19 but is still an avowed enemy of those who would require people to be vaccinated or Rep. Marjorie Taylor, R-Ga., that statue of ethics and aplomb, who basically invited people to call and verbally assault, and maybe more, those Republicans who supported the infrastructure bill.
Many Democrats decried Gosar, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wants him investigated and among Republicans was the deafening sound of silence.
It would seem appropriate that Gosar’s superior in the House, the minority leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., should have some kind of comment about Gosar’s actions. Did McCarthy take a moment to say something, anything about Gosar? No, instead McCarthy tweeted something about how his Democratic colleague from California, the House Intelligence Committee chair, Rep. Adam Schiff, showed a “total lack of credibility” over a controversial 2016 dossier that was highly critical of trump, who happens to be McCarthy’s main squeeze.
The latest bile-filled, effort to incite and inflame came when Gosar posted a photoshopped anime video to his Twitter and Instagram accounts showing him appearing to kill Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden. The video has had roughly 1.5 million views and after igniting the firestorm, Gosar later tweeted that those offended or alarmed by the video should “relax” because, of course, it was just a “cartoon,” part of the “meme culture” according to a spokesman. Gosar, who attended a white nationalist conference this year, also said he meant no “violence or harm” and that the video actually portrayed Gosar’s holy war against immigration and “the policy monster of open borders.” See, it was just a literary representation by the congressman, who is a former dentist who ought to lay off the laughing gas. Even Gosar’s sister called her extremist brother a “sociopath,” white supremacist who nobody on the right is willing to criticize.
A note of concern was posted by Twitter on Gosar’s tweet that it “violated the Twitter Rules about hateful conduct. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.” Go figure.
Gosar was first elected to Congress in 2010. In February 2020, he attended the America First Political Action Conference, a white nationalist conference, that featured far-right white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who is known for his anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denial.
“This dude is a just a collection of wet toothpicks anyway,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted about Gosar while taking a break at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, where officials from around the world were looking for defeat global climate change.
“White supremacy is for extremely fragile people &sad men like him, whose self concept relies on the myth that he was born superior because deep down he knows he couldn’t open a pickle jar or read a whole book by himself,” said Ocasio-Cortez about Gosar who was busy photoshopping memes.
This is really crazy stuff which could lead to more violence, something that 30 percent of Republicans said may be necessary to “save the United States,” according to a recent poll by the non-partisan Public Religion Research Institute.
One might say that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., the icon of decorum, was calling for violence when she tweeted the names and phone numbers of the Republicans who voted for the infrastructure improvement bill. Greene tweeted that “Those 13 Republican traitors who voted to pass Biden’s Socialist Infrastructure bill agree with Globalist Joe that America must depend on China to drive EV’s (electric vehicles). The unlucky 13 are China-First and America-Last. 13 American job & energy killers.” I saw no mention on Greene’s Facebook or website that after publishing the names of the “traiters,” one of them, Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., received a rather alarming bile-filled, voice mail that said, “I hope you die. I hope everybody in your f**king family dies,” while calling Upton a “f**king piece of sh*t traitor,” which coincidentally is how Greene described Upton and the other infrastructure bill supporters, without the expletives.
Greene must have innocently neglected to mention that trump, her former deity who hopes to return to dictate, got nothing done to improve the nation’s crippled infrastructure in his excruciatingly long four years in office.
That brings me to a video which was reported last weekend in which maskless, Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., who said he nearly died from COVID-19, protested COVID-19-related mandates and those who advocate them.
“Be prepared to defend your position. … We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. … Some of us are prepared to carry that fight with every drop of our blood,” Higgins said.
A trumper to the bone, Higgins became a patrol officer for the Opelousas City Police Department in 2004 but resigned in 2007 after he allegedly used unnecessary force while executing a warrant and then lied about it. His next job with the Port Barre Police Department ended in 2010 after he posted videos with “unprofessional” scripts and went against department policy by misusing his badge and uniform for personal profit and gain.
Oddly, Higgins was named a “Kentucky Colonel” in March 2016 by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin. It is the highest title of honor bestowed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky to individuals with “noteworthy accomplishments, contributions to civil society, remarkable deeds, or outstanding service to the community, state, or a nation.”
Higgins has been married four times and one former spouse, Rosemary “Stormy” Rothkamm-Hambrice, sued her ex for more than $140,000 in unpaid child support. And then, in August 2021, Higgins challenged a critic from Alaska to a physical fight in a ring this year. The challenge was accepted but the rumble is pending.
There must be something good in Kentucky but I’m finding it hard to find, unless you talk about Kentucky sour mash. As evidence, it went totally under my radar, but in 2017, Timothy Lee Nolan, a former chairman of trump’s presidential campaign in Campbell County, Kent., was arrested for human trafficking. In February 2018, Nolan, 71, pleaded guilty to 19 counts of child sex trafficking and human trafficking and was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison.
And on the subject of sex perverts and trump, Ralph Shortey, a former Oklahoma state senator who served as trump’s campaign chair in the state in 2016, plead guilty in 2017 to one count of child sex trafficking on Nov. 30. Shortey, a then, 35-year-old married father of three, resigned from the state Legislature after being charged with engaging in child prostitution, after police found him in a hotel room with a 17-year-old boy.
You can’t make this shit up.