HILARIOUS!

OR maybe not hilarious, but something else, YOU decide.

 Watch the following video, particularly from the 4:15 minute mark on.

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Violence is acceptable tactics: White neo-fascists threaten death to police officers

The kerfuffle up in Coeur d’Alene, ID has led to neo-fascist death threats to the local police. As discussed here two days ago, 31 neo-fascists were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to riot at a gay pride event there. NBC News writes:

Idaho police said they've received death threats since arresting 31 men affiliated with white nationalist group Patriot Front near an annual LGBTQ+ event over the weekend.

Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White spoke to reporters Monday, saying that his department has fielded about 149 calls in the aftermath of the arrests. He said about 50 percent of the calls have been praise from the community, who offer their names and express pride in the department.

“And the other 50 percent — who are completely anonymous, who want nothing more than to scream and yell at us and use some really choice words — offer death threats against myself and other members of the police department merely for doing our jobs,” White said. “Those people obviously remain anonymous.”

Officers have also received threats of doxxing, a practice in which someone publishes personal information such as phone numbers or addresses online, White said. The majority of the threats being made appear to be from outside the Coeur d’Alene community, according to the chief.

Coeur d’Alene police with arrested neo-fascists

This is yet more evidence of the acceptability of violence to America's radical right and the Republican Party generally. As the 1/6 Committee hearings have pointed out, the ex-president said that he believed the people in the coup attempt who called for Pence to be hanged had the right idea. No wonder the GOP embraces violence and death threats when they don't like the way things go for them. 

From the Republican Party point of view, those 31 White supremacists were merely engaging in legitimate political discourse, not conspiring to break any laws or to riot or to kill anyone. As the RNC nicely put it about violence on their own side, the 1/6 coup attempt was just some innocent patriots engaging in harmless “legitimate political discourse.”[1]

Footnote: 

1. Washington Post on Feb. 8, 2022:

When the Republican Party voted to censure two of its own members of Congress last week at its winter meeting in Salt Lake City, it justified the move in part by declaring that efforts to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection amounted to the persecution of individuals engaging in “legitimate political discourse.”

John Oliver talks about tech monopolies

In this 26:49 video, John Oliver talks about monopolies and how they fight hard and dirty top protect their profits and markets from competition. He starts with some brief comments about the breakup of Standard Oil and AT&T, then moves on to Apple, Google and Amazon.

Although the video is long, it is well worth the time. It's about as funny as a serious talk about the power and poison of monopolies can be. There's some pretty funny commentary here, including a brief but great digression into the intelligent evil and malice of dolphins.

Given the power of monopoly money to subvert and corrupt our broken congress, two narrow bills pending in congress intended to partly defang the tech giants probably won't pass. They are the Open App Markets Act and the American Choice and Innovation Online Act. As usual, conflicts of interest and ethical sleaze are all over the place with congress. Schumer's daughters work for Amazon. That says it all. Those two bills are probably dead, probably leaving us screwed.

The ex-president's big grift rip off: It still rips people off today

The hearings this morning were interesting. But only interesting to open minds. 

Closed minds either didn't listen to it, or reject it as lies. Closed minds do not change. For the most part, evidence is irrelevant. Tribe and cult loyalty is everything, inconvenient facts and truth are lies.

The only point this post makes is that T**** used his position of public trust and power as a gigantic grift to cash in on at least $250 million. He was and still is interested in paying off his debts, not anything else.

The power and credibility of the American radical right Republican Party and its current leader T**** are built on demagoguery, lies, deceit, slanders, fraud, Christian fundamentalism, corrupt vicious capitalism and endless sleaze.

Most of the Republican Party and American conservatism is demagogic, neo-fascist, corrupt, mendacious and especially staunchly anti-inconvenient truth and anti-democratic. The Republican Party and American conservatism is the enemy of what is good, freedom-loving and honest.

 

Qs & commentary: Is that mostly false and therefore over the top? If so, my bad, but I don't think I am wrong, so, I'm not bad. Or, is that reasoning flawed? If so, exactly and precisely how is it flawed?