Looks like TN Governor Bill Lee and Michael Knowles need to be "eradicated" (Pedophiles get the Rope)

Tennessee Republicans
hung this banner up in
Nashville to thank Lee

It's different for Republican
boys who dress as girls

First off, I want to be clear I'm not calling for violence.  No no! I'm just saying Michael Knowles and Bill Lee need to "eradicated". 

Next, The Day of the Rope is from The Turner Diaries the proto-bible of Rightwing White Supremacists and is referenced every time conservative domestic terrorists gather including during the January 6th Insurrection.

Also, while everyone is having fun showing the rank hypocrisy and shameless lying here, there is no amount of hypocrisy which will dissuade rightwingers from their plans to enshrine fundamentalist religious bigotry and zealotry into secular law and then to use those laws to oppress, harass, and kill non-conformist, weird, and LGBTQ persons. 

Republicans and Rightwingers have figured out a group whom they can paint as evil child abusers (i.e. the catch-all Groomers accusation) in their never-ending quest to turn the United States into a Taliban-inspired White Evangelical State built upon slavery and intolerance.

Rightwingers ability to remain shameless and intolerant will outlast the universe itself.  And Republicans can remain disingenuous far longer than you can remain outraged or engaged.

Dear Michael Knowles, Please Self-Eradicate

When confronted with pictures of himself dressed in women's clothing, Bill Lee who was touting his new and the Republican State Legislatures newest inhumane bill designed to empower conservatives to use the awesome power of the State to eradicate the LGBTQ community, petulantly lashed out, 

“What a ridiculous question that is. Conflating something like that to sexualized entertainment in front of children, which is a very serious question.”

Always remember though, that what Republicans say and what Republicans do are never the same thing.  You can never trust their declarations and must always understand Republicans learned through years of badgering the Corporate Media that what they say will be taken as what they are doing.  And the goal is to a recreation of Jim Crow/Confederate Style Nation with clearly bifurcated class and racial segregation and Republicans and Rightwingers will cheerfully eradicate thousands of Trans persons to accomplish this. 

When Knowles is King
you'll be 1st against the wall

And lest you think I'm being overly dramatic or hyperbolic, outright Nazis feel empowered to assemble and declare they will murder the LGBTQ community.  As Republicans continue to pass these bad faith anti-LGBTQ laws and push the hatred of the community understand if given power every single conservative and every single elected Republican will support the mass arrest and execution of Trans persons. 

                                                                         

Every.

Single.

 

One.

Rightwingers are absolutely yearning, hoping, begging to be given the go ahead by elected Republicans to begin mass murder domestic terrorism campaigns.  Listen to them taunt 'Keep working on defunding the Police so we can go to work...'  As always happens Paramilitary and far right groups yearn to replace Law Enforcement with themselves, ideologically pure and rigid Reactionaries, and begin the murder campaigns.  and all conservatives have to do is declare this group or that group "pedophiles & groomers" so that their circle of enemies can expand, and the death camps can grow and every single elected Republican will unequivocally support them.

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 22: School's Resource Officers are out for Summer

Anti-Copaganda

"You have no idea what it's like to be a coward." (Duet- DS9 1993) 

Cowardice is a very strong charge.  But, I don't know what to make of the Officers inability or lack of understanding at what was going to happen at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.  But, reading this report from parents and on-lookers screaming at the assembling Officers to, "Go in There! Go in There!" leaves a lump in my stomach and makes me want to just walk in and quit tomorrow.

The School Resource Officer (SRO) Program has been a monumental failure.  I'm not just talking about the failure of the Officers involved in the latest mass murder school shooting but, the execution and whole scope of the program itself.

First and foremost, FUCK YOU TED CRUZ schools shouldn't have to be hardened into Super Max Prisons in order for We, the People to have any piece of mind yet as you listen to every proposal by conservatives they refuse to address the reason for school shootings (i.e. the proliferation of easily obtainable firearms and the Republican refusal to enforce any restrictions on the sale or purchase of firearms).  Disgusting fat slimy fuck Ted Cruz went on and on and on about fucking doors as the culprit in the Mass Shooting.  As if rightwingers didn't demonstrate on January 6th that Rightwing Terrorists can easily go through windows too.

The Republican playbook after these shootings remains the same; set up an alternate cause, it used to be mental health or video games, today's excuse is "doors".  Then obfuscate and deflect and run out the clock.  In a week or two, the public will be distracted by the price of gas or baby formula and Republicans can cash their latest check from the Russian Intelligence Services funneled to them through the NRA.

Republicans not only refuse to adopt common sense already proven gun laws to reduce gun violence in America they also refuse to enforce the laws already in existence.  It's part and parcel of the Republican two-step with guns wherein they get to claim gun laws don't work (Look at Chicago, they always scream) while also purposely undermining the those gun laws so they can claim they don't work.

I've read the two Officers exchanged gunfire and then lost contact with Ramos eventually, a Border Patrol Ofc went inside and shot the killer.  Contradicting earlier reporting Ramos wasn't wearing body armor, wasn't confronted and responding officers apparently cowered and dithered outside for 40 minutes as Ramos executed 21 people. Unlike, rightwing fantasies of gunplay when real bullets fly prudence does demand you seek cover but, you can not allow this as a responding Officer you've got to go in IMMEDIATELY.  Now, I'm not as base and vile as Ted Cruz or the other elected Republicans, I understand that going up against Ramos is almost certain death, AR-15 vs. handgun, but why don't rank and file Police understand what their predecessors knew?  I.e. More Guns = More Gun Violence Q.E.D.  

Republican gun policies have ensured Officers are going to be outgunned initially and letting the Firearm Industry flood the Nation with high-powered, easily obtainable weapons is not freedom.  It is not liberty.  It is not Lawful.  It is a Murder-Suicide Pact.  Police Departments, by their very nature tend to be conservative, but, why have Officers by and large moved into the Reactionary framework of the MAGA mindset?

For one, Use of Force training for Police has completely warped their minds.  Villainous psycho Dave Grossman has taught a whole slew of Officers to be trigger happy and expect an ambush at a moment's notice leading to too many Officers acting as though their daily routine patrol is a convoy in fucking Fallujah.  This heightened danger mode and constant fight or flight response is a stress that the human body can not tolerate. 

SROs are nothing more than a way to introduce state violence onto juveniles, especially and overwhelmingly on minorities, at an early age.  Additionally, as rightwing anti-tax bullshit continues to put a squeeze onto communities, Departments and municipalities have increasingly turned to School Officers to extract money from families and overwhelmingly Police target minorities.  Often because white parents always, always, always put a stink if their child is to be ticketed.

Juveniles shouldn't be subjected or treated to police enforcement in this manner.  Fortunately, last July my Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois legislature outlawed lying to juvenile suspects during interviews and interrogations especially the classic tactic of claiming you have evidence when you do not.  A time worn tactic to elicit a confession.  This was illustrated in The Wire when Bunk and the Detective Lieutenant fool the black juvenile suspect with a copy machine pretending it's a lie detector and the Cops wondering "How many years you figure we been doin' this same shit?" Another replies, "20 at least".  

Of course, perhaps even worse than the use of Police against Juveniles the image that made the rounds on Twitter was of all the schools in which a School Resource Officer failed to stop the shooter.  I don't know if it's wholly accurate but, it does reflect reality of unrestricted gun violence in America.  Police Officers are seen routinely killing unarmed black people on video and seemingly never stopping mass shooters. 

"But you’re not black,” the Cobb County Lt. Greg Abbott interrupted. “Remember, we only kill black people. Yeah, we only kill black people, right? All the videos you’ve seen, have you seen any white people get killed?”

They Don't Care Republicans Cruz forward with medical plan to kill millions of Americans Update: Republican Senate fails

If you were Wealthy, You'd be Healthy

Since you're Poor, there's the Funeral Door

The Banana Republican Party latest plan to kill thousands and bankrupt millions of Americans is moving forward in fits and starts.  As the Party of Treason and Subversion of the United States the Respublikanskaya Partiya hates the American People and wishes to curtail the gains Americans made in the 20th century.

The Repeal and Replacement of Obamacare with They Don't Care is a case in point.  Republicans rallied against the ACA for 7 years!  They gnashed their teeth, they tore their hair, they beat their breasts, if only that Dastardly Obama would get out of the way they, the Republicans, would pass a Healthcare Insurance Law which would stand for all time.

Now, since the 2016 elections, the Republicans hold the entire Federal Government.  Yet, all they've mananged to propose are plans so cobbled together, so inane, and so monstorously evil even their duped and battered right-wing drones don't support it and the Insurance Industry has declared the latest version which includes the Ted Cruz Amendment "unworkable".  Ah, but there is one group which supports it, the Republicans Masters' the 1%.

Trump's campaign gave conservatives everything they wanted. Outright bigotry, violent racist language, implied calls for violence and explicit consent to harm the American People.

But Trump's election gave Republicans a chance to get everything they and the 1% have wanted; an End to American Dream and the elimination of the Social Safety Net.  Republicans serve the Plutocracy and the Plutocracy has no use for the American Dream. Republicans view American's value only in terms of the amount of work each American can do and the amount of excess labor value the Vulture Capitalist class can extract from each them.

The Progressive gains of the 20th century marked an actual rise for Americans which the Founding of the Nation and the Glided Age of the 19th century kept confined to the owners of the Nation.  And those Owners, the 1%, hate those progressive gains.  Because when the working class is no longer held in the shackles of corporate bondage and wage slavery they go on and create a pluralistic society with broad based protections for workers, the elderly, the afllicted with a chance for future generations to rise above the preceeding.

The Republicans HATE that.  The Republicans want a return to the days when a railway worker losing an arm on the job was kicked off at the next stop and left to fend for himself.  The Republicans want a return to the days when elderly coal miners were glad not to have been killed in an unsafe mine explosion or cave-in so they can instead whither away of black lung disease and die in a pauper's hovel.  The Republicans want a return to the days when medical care, education, pensions, and the prosepct of living and enjoying your golden years was reserved for the Rich.

The Republicans Don't Care and that is the Healthcare law they are passing.

Update:
The Republican Don't Care bill has apparently failed.  While it's fortunate the Republicans are as flaccid and incompetent as they are anti-American but, until the Republicans are removed from Congress they won't stop in their efforts to kill the poor and impoverish the working class.