For example, the National Butterfly Center had to close due to repeated threats against this evil organization. The threats are that sex-trafficking is going on amongst the butterflies. False sex-trafficking claims have become a recurring radical right crackpot conspiracy theory. The Washington Post writes:
The National Butterfly Center in South Texas will be closed “for the immediate future” because of baseless attacks stemming from a clash over immigration enforcement at the nearby U.S.-Mexico border, the organization said Wednesday.
The nonprofit center in Mission has endured a firestorm in recent years amid an ongoing lawsuit against the former Trump administration, which sought to build part of a border wall on its property, and the fundraising organization We Build the Wall. Right-wing groups have falsely claimed the butterfly center illegally smuggles people into the United States and facilitates sex trafficking.
The indefinite closure comes shortly after the center shut down for three days last weekend, citing “credible threats” regarding a nearby border security rally. The We Stand America event in McAllen featured Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, and other Trump administration officials.
The butterfly center said it became aware of the rally on Jan. 21, when a congressional candidate from Virginia demanded to access the Rio Grande from the center’s property to “see the rafts with the illegal crossing.” The center alleged that the candidate and her friend knocked down its executive director, Marianna Trevino-Wright, and tried to run her son over with a car.
The center alleged that a former Texas official, whom it did not identify, later advised Trevino-Wright to be armed or leave town during the rally because protesters would probably stop at the preserve during a caravan to the border. Later, the center said, someone tore down a state-erected sign marking the preserve’s location.
At least some participants in the We Stand America rally do appear to have stopped at the butterfly center. Ben Bergquam, of the Stephen K. Bannon-affiliated network Real America’s Voice, recorded himself in front of the preserve’s sign, holding a child’s shoe and a wristband he says belonged to a trafficking victim. Lynz Piper-Loomis, a South Carolina congressional candidate, shared a video of herself and a friend at the center allegingchildren had been trafficked there.
Although Trevino-Wright said police had increased their presence at the center, she said she doubted that those harassing the preserve would stop.
“There’s no consequences for any of them,” she said, “so it’s just going to get worse.”
Obviously, that congressional candidate from Virginia, a standard-issue Republican crackpot no doubt, was threatened by the existence of other people and merely standing her ground when she tried to run over a boy with her car. Alleging child sex-trafficking is quite popular among Republican crackpots these days.
In my humble opinion, Republicans alleging sex-trafficking just cannot help but project their secret repressed desires onto others. They need professional medical treatment.
The butterfly people's problem stem from a 2017 lawsuit the preserve file against the Trump administration in 2017. The lawsuit alleged that federal officials wanted to build a border wall on the center’s property without complying with existing law.
Safety tip, don't sue the Trump administration for anything. Only sex-traffickers do that.
In other maelstrom of malevolence news, the GOP is still enthusiastic about RINO hunting Republican traitors in the party into irrelevance. The GOP is hoping to push Liz Cheney out of congress. The WaPo writes:
SALT LAKE CITY — Republican leaders forged an agreement this week to potentially fund a challenger to Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming, and party members are expected to formally condemn her for her work on the Jan. 6 committee Friday, an unprecedented rebuke of an incumbent member of Congress.
As the party met in Salt Lake City this week, the leaders of the Wyoming GOP privately signed a special letter that would allow the national party to financially support Harriet Hageman, Cheney’s primary challenger. The letter officially recognizes Hageman as the presumptive nominee for the seat.
In response to the party passing the “Rule 11” resolution that could fund Cheney’s challenger, a spokesman for Cheney said: “Wyoming Party Chairman Frank Eathorne and the Republican National Committee are trying to assert their will and take away the voice of the people of Wyoming before a single vote has even been cast.”
Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel also worked behind the scenes with David Bossie, a top Trump ally, to author and push a resolution that attacked Cheney’s work on the committee, called her a “destructive” force in the GOP and vowed the party would no longer support her.
“We’ve had two members engage in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse. This has gone beyond their original intent. They are not sticking up for hard-working Republicans,” McDaniel said in a joint interview with Bossie at a Salt Lake City hotel where the party is holding its winter meeting.
It is worth noting that Cheney really is a destructive force in the GOP. That is because she still stands for democracy and some semblance of truth about the fact that T**** was and still is a mendacious, corrupt anti-democracy tyrant-autocrat. On at least those issues, Cheney stands for the opposite of what the GOP stands for.
Other recent reporting indicates that at present, Republicans who voted in the 2nd impeachment to impeach the corrupt, anti-democracy tyrant-autocrat are doing better in fund raising than the people the enraged GOP and ex-president have endorsed to replace them for their treasonous vote to defend democracy. Whether that will make any difference remains to be seen.
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