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Liz Cheney: The Leadership of My Party Enables White Supremacy
Liz Cheney (R?-WY?) or her junior staffer who runs the Twitter account, had this to say this morning.
The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.My question to Liz Cheney or her supporters is… what exactly has the GOP leadership done to enable “white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism?”
Or is this just part of her strategy to save her seat by getting Democrats to vote for her?
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Is there really a “cult of victimhood” on the right, or are middle and working class people speaking out about genuine concerns like uncontrolled immigration, the export of jobs and prosperity to China and other country, public schools failing to teach literacy and math while indoctrinating racialism and socialism, the destruction of entertainment and sport by woke ideology, and all the other bad stuff that’s happening?
I am sure it looks like “a cult of victimhood” to the political class who are above such concerns.
Wow, this is fascinating and obviously true. It applies to most of the gender lunacy as well. Thanks, Drew.
I tried that, just makes it more blurry.
Ewwww.
Just as a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged (and a liberal is a conservative who’s been arrested), a “White Supremacist” is anyone who’s been subjected to a “racial sensitivity” seminar or otherwise refused to accept the tenets of CRT.
What’s really intersting is that the large call to support Ukraine, which includes some actual Nazis, is a moral imperative for those who accuse Republicans, for some reason, of being white supremacists, or at least supportive of white supremacy.
Democrats. Check yourself, and your history. You’re not who you think you are. You’re actually the worst of what you accuse others to be. Here’s an example:
Liz Cheney can’t go away fast enough. She’s literally fanning the flames of extremism, by stating what is not true.
Something I’ve been trying to communicate to family members, with limited success. It’s not hate. It’s not racism. Don’t confuse crazy with rational people. Only crazy people do these things.
Crazy people. If the shooter didn’t latch onto racism, it would have been one of a thousand other things, with violence resulting.
Also, I’d be interested in some consistency of coverage, but as always, breath-holding will not occur.
The shooter identified as an eco fascist. Doesn’t sound very right-wingy to me.
But the media gonna media. And the RINOs gonna accept their narrative without question.
It’s great for revenues. That’s why they do it – the news media. It feeds the narrative, and generates viewers, eager to ingest more.
Note that any actual stats are completely out of the picture. The news tonight (which I never watch, NBC I think, but I’m at Mom’s for a few days) is conflating guns (just the presence of guns in the US), white supremacy, online media, all 3 of those things, and calling it the cause of Buffalo and all the other “white supremacy” out there.
What in the holy *&$& are they talking about?
Oh, that’s right – they’re really talking about themselves, in terms of what they’ll do for money. It’s money. That’s all it is. It’s news presented as a movie, with literal music overtones in the “news” story, to elicit emotion, the correct response, to get the viewer back for more.
Leeches. Leeches in the media, leeches in the permanent elected class, buying votes through a tragedy.
It’s about all of them.
They exist and I’ve run into them on occasion. Not in serious numbers, far from it, and easy to avoid. Nothing like what the slander-clowns occupying the rotting corpse of the Southern Poverty Law Center would try to make you believe on their fund appeals. I grew up rough and ready and don’t always turn my nose up at dining in places Liz Cheney and Jay Nordlinger would never consider visiting. The one place where I’ve seen more than three “white supremacists” gathered was in prison ministry. If Jay Nordlinger says Fuentes is a white supremacist, well, I’ll need to see credible testimony. Jay Nordlinger is a nice guy who grew up on the right side of town and when exposed to anyone raised more rough and ready, he clutches his pearls and faints dead away. The Trump era really brought out his elitism. He was informed and fascinating and then he was a dupe for every slander that supported his prejudices.
Every claim of racism deserves attention and investigation. And everyone should be held liable for their prejudices, regardless of race, creed, or color. And for their slanders.
Lord, have mercy.
He was a mess. But that doesn’t play to the narrative.
Pretty sure the Lincoln Project guys were hoping for someone younger and more . . . boyish .
But the Never-Trumpers go “Ooooohhh!!!”
Haven’t you heard? A “fascist” is always “conservative.” Just ask the Left.
Don’t forget the Cheney dynasty.
Is that like Michael Jackson, rushing to Walmart because they heard boys’ underwear was half off?
And everyone is entitled to their own list of who the nuts and extremists are. And their own criteria for assigning those titles.
@sisysphus I understand that we are free to judge and condemn anyone in our cohort. And some of the nuts are kind of scary.
What concerns me is a voter who thinks government is too big, unnecessary regulation choking off freedom, border needs to be closed, CRT is nuts, woke culture is toxic, but thinks abortion is ok. I don’t want someone who agrees with us 90% to become a one issue voter because we insist on stamping out pro choice as a condition of being a Republican. For example.
The Republican platform should be moral and rational. It will attract people, not all for the same reasons. Pretty sure Pelosi isn’t an actual anarchist, but she’ll take their contributions and votes all day long. Couple of times a day…
And several times, on Election Days.
Indeed. Can she name names? Cite policy papers? Maybe she has audio recordings of strategy meetings between Mitch McConnel and the White Aryan Resistance?
I’m sure Elaine knows all about it….and Ginny Thomas….
As Ben Shapiro pointed out, the Buffalo murderer explicitly said in his manifesto that he was not a conservative and blamed both major parties for the “problem” he perceived.
But of course the left knows he can’t have been serious about THEM, therefore only the right is at fault.
I googled up TEAM ELISE and got nothing that made sense. Can you enlighten me?
White Hispanic.
Doesn’t Cheney consider herself as part of the leadership
With all due respect, it appears that you suffer from NTDS.
With all due respect, it appears that you suffer from NTDS.
Why is that and why is it worth repeating? It just seems like a strange comment coming from someone who has lionized a person who just falsely accused the party’s leadership of enabling white supremacists.
You are having limited success because you are wrong. Some people are evil. It is fundamentally non-conservative to reject the possibility of evil in human behavior.
Nope, Evil. Your formulation presumes such behavior is impossible for sane people. Simply not true.