Chicago Blackhawks Pride Night and the Coming Night of the Long Guns

"It's important to show Hockey's for everyone..."  Defenseman Connor Murphy was asked about the Blackhawks decision concerning NHL Pride Night 

 

The NHL came up with a Pride Night and like all major leagues it's kind of plastered onto the sport as a way to sell tickets and merchandise.

Major League Baseball has had a Memorial Day and Mother's Day branding for years.  This mainly been a cynical cash grab via the sale of pink bats, caps, wristbands, and other gear and camo-festooned baseball equipment.

Unfortunately, the Chicago Blackhawks fumbled their Pride Night and it didn't go unnoticed by fans who attended specifically for "Pride Night".  The Hawks scrapped plans to have players wear the Pride sweaters during pre-game skate around citing concern for their Russian players - and their families still in Russia.

In case you were unaware Putin's Russia, when not committing war crimes in Ukraine, has draconian Anti-Homosexuality laws which it's violent state apparatus is more than willing to enforce.  So, the NHL decided to offer teams the ability to opt out entirely as well as allowing Russian born players to decline to wear any Pride gear.

But, the NHL and Blackhawks ham-handed Pride Night foibles took a back page to the mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.  And the violent eliminationist rhetoric which the Right feels absolutely free and comfortable in expressing in the aftermath.

Republicans criminals and Rightwing terrorists over-the-top Kill Them All tweets were so bad even Elon Musk's Twitter had to respond by suspending accounts and taking down tweets from elected Republicans like the Leader of the Republican Party Major Traitor Greene.

Tucker Carlson and other lesser rightwing provocateurs are preparing Normie Society for upcoming Republican Concentration Camp proposals; i.e. the systematic rounding up members of the LGBTQ community and shipping them to camps for "re-education" or "de-lousing".

As we can recall from Umberto Eco's seminal work Ur-Fascism, Trans people are cast as both too powerful and yet too weak, and Republicans have all coalesced around the demonization of the Trans community, including busting out the Bush Era Terrorists! smear. 

Get ready.  Because it's been pointed out that if you ever theorized what you would have done when the Nazis were in power in Germany you'll soon have a real world scenario.  It's coming...  On-line rightwing provaceuters are stoking and prepping their followers to commit mass murder.  Combined with the rapid rush to criminalize Trans people specifically and the entirety of Queer culture, expect the melding of State Power and Rightwing Paramilitary fanaticism, to result in a Night of the Long Guns, as conservatives Make America Great Again by murdering people.

Update:

I speculated that Hale, a former student at The Covenant School, was subjected to molestation.  And via Crooks & Liars, comes the revelation that during the 2007-2012 timeframe a church elder John Perry an ardent friend of Mike Huckabee was molesting at least one 11 year old.

Remember this when those on-line tough guys declare if any man dressing up like a woman goes into their girls' bathroom they will kill them.  It's all false bravado and covering-up the fact that we know whose molesting children and its' not Trans persons but Church Men, but conservatives and QAnon psychos never seem to be able to find those sexual abusers.

Hurt people... hurt people... And that's, most likely, why we haven't seen a scintilla of Hale's so-called Manifesto, it probably implicates multiple people at the Church.

Shall Not Be Infringed 5: If only Republicans treated Guns they way they treat Transgender Persons

"[F]or the good of society… transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely,” - Michael Knowles calls for the Eradication of Transgender Persons to raucous applause at CPAC and he's been ramping up the murderous rhetoric for a while now, because first they came for transgender Americans...

If only, Republicans sought to restrict guns they way they are passing laws to eliminate Transgender and non-conformist persons, we might not be losing 40,000+ Americans to gun violence every year with an additional quarter million or more wounded. 

So, here in Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has been busy cleaning up the damage wrought by Mr. 1% of the 1% Billionaire Bruce Ruiner as well as the deferred maintenance required for a proper functioning State.

One of Governor Pritzker and the Democratic Legislatures signature accomplishments was to sign into law restrictions on AR-15 under the Assault Weapons Ban.  But, unfortunately as we have seen numerous times Republicans choose Guns & Death over the lives of Americans.  Thus, with no sense of shame a podunk Republican Judge decided he has the authority to overrule the State Legislature and the Governor,

A judge in Macon County struck down the law, finding that it violates the equal protection and special legislation clauses of the Illinois Constitution.  Governor JB Pritzker responded in a statement Friday night, saying in part, "We expected political grandstanding from those more beholden to the gun lobby than to the safety of their constituents and today's ruling comes as no surprise. It does not apply statewide." 

Fortunately, Governor Pritzker and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Rauol were not caught flat-footed by this bullshit SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED ruling and have prepared to defend the law and work towards its' implementation.

Of course, this highlights the Republican plan of using Judges to thwart the will of the Voters and American people, which has borne it's most bitter fruit with the Unaccountable Supremacist Court and the rogue Sinister Six Supremes.  But, it also demonstrates the continue rightwing predilection to invert every topic they entwine themselves with.  The so-called Pro-Life Republicans are absolutely beholden and wedded to the concept of Unrestricted Gun Violence everywhere and as Jon Stewart correctly observed, "Don't give a flying fuck to stop it".

In the wake, of the revelation rightwing gun nut Bobby Crimo, who shot up Highland Park on July 4th last year, had bomb making materials at his home but, decided not to try and use them because bombs are difficult to build, employ, and use effectively. 

When interviewed about the bombs Crimo allegedly stated, "If everything lined up correctly then I would use it.  But it didn't."

Especially, when compared to the ease of obtaining an Assault Rifle, especially when your rightwing criminal asshole father is more than willing to buy it for you, well it's much easier to be a rightwing domestic terrorist with a gun in America because Guns SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. 

Understand Republicans hate you.  Republicans want you dead.  And they are ferverently working towards that end.  Don't kid yourself that after rounding-up and eliminating Transgender persons that Republican bloodlust will be sated, Republicans will do what they always have done, go after the next group, and after they deal with that group (whomever it is) Republicans will expand their circle of death and violence and get the next group of Non-MAGA.  Rightwingers are yearning to set up death camps and kill millions of Americans.  It's all part of the plan to Make America Great Again; turning the United States into the Charnel House the Republicans have always dreamed it could be.

The Woke Mind Virus

"The only thing that matters, is the individual, clearly..."  Tucker Carlson.  E Pluribus Unum, indeed...

It's always important to understand what a Republican actually means when they say something; when Republicans or rightwingers denounce "Woke", understand they are attacking basic human compassion.  The simple dignity of calling someone what they'd like to be known as becomes the biggest affront to conservatives.  "Woke" is simply the latest rightwing talking point disseminated to every conservative automaton who dutifully absorbs and retransmits en masse the totally original idea of anti-Wokeness.  You see this expressed all over social media where uniformly and ironically every conservative calls liberals "NPCs" or "Sheeple" as they celebrate their individuality by all telling the same damn unfunny joke; My Pronouns are...

"This is what happens when you swim in warm baths of wokeness..."  Ben SShaprio complaining about Twitter.

The real end goal of being "anti-Woke" is the coarsening of American society and weakening the bonds of shared humanity between Americans.  This is not a new effort, we saw it clearly post-911 with the Republican mistreatment of Muslims and we have seen the brutal rightwing Government violence directed at immigrants coming to the Nation.  Previously, gay people were targeted for violence from conservatives and concerted violence from Police across the Nation.  Remember the incident which led to the SCOTUS Lawerence v. Texas (2003) happened 25 years ago.  Rightwingers are hoping to get the chance to dust off criminal charges for "deviance".

Never forget Rightwingers always lie about what they supposedly believe in.  Conservatives don't believe in freedom or liberty or individuality those are just phrases right-wingers intone as shibboleths as Republicans have shown time and time again they are more than willing to use the awesome power of government to harass, harm, and kill individuals whom they have deemed as engaging in unAmerican activities.  One need look no further than the coordinated and murderous effort to eliminate the LGBTQ community.  Chaya Raichik and her Libs of TikTok site produces daily false outrage to goad conservatives into acts of stochastic terrorism and elected Republicans like Attorney General Ken Paxton have used their office to prepare lists of Transpersons.  Why would Ken Paxton want to create a database?  Well... Republican rhetoric towards LGBTQ persons has been eliminationist for a long time, in response the Proud Boys have attacked queer businesses, Matt Walsh fans threaten to blow up Boston-area Hospitals, and a Lauren Boebert inspired gunmen committed mass murder at Club Q in Colorado.

Republicans & Rightwingers have undermined the concept of American society through a steady barrage of propaganda designed to divorce people from unity and community.  Now, several generations shell-shocked by Republican efforts to slash the Social Safety Net and consistently fed agitprop of Makers&Takers 24/7 have turned their backs on The American Melting Pot and adopted the phony Rugged Individualism Republicans were offering. 

Much of this goes back to money and destroying the middle class (a goal of Republicans since the 1960's) It was a brilliant maneuver to slash taxes on the Ultra-Wealthy and Big Businesses thus shifting the bureaucratic burden of the US Government onto the backs of the White Working Class and then following up that legislative coup by incessantly telling White people that they are poor and broke because of lazy you-know-whos, illegal immigrants, drug users, and liberal activism instead of the true causes, namely Republican economic policies.

The overarching arc of Republican propaganda of phony Rugged Individualism is one in which, You, the Real American can only rely on yourself, you should only care about yourself and maybe your immediate family, anything which helps someone else hurts you, there is a limited pie of wealth and benefits and anyone who gets something (say Obamacare) means you don't get it.

The current anti-Woke Mind screeds by Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson, Dennis Praeger, Shapiro, Elon Musk, Tim Pool, or whatever rightwing propagandist you can cite are designed to create the Pavlovian Fear & Anger response in their rightwing drones. Eventually, the goal is to afford the conservative the shorthand of saying "Woke" derisively the same way they say "Socialism".  Then the term can be applied to everything and anything Republicans wish to scuttle or complain about, no matter how inappropriate or paradoxical the claim is.

Of course, the coarsening of American society doesn't just harm the enemies of MAGA.  The targets of the propaganda campaign the White Working Class have absorbed these messages of Fear & Anger and turned it upon themselves as well.  In 2019, Jonathan Metzl called this Dying of Whiteness.  And since these segments of society can not have compassion for others they in turn end up not being able to have compassion for themselves and engage in self-abnegation, self-medication, and suicide.

In defense of Trump, Conservatives are ginning up their courage to round-up and murder millions

Projection: Conservatives always Project their desires onto the Left

Now, faced with his Impeachment Traitor Trump called for the extra-judicial murder of the Whistleblower. Traitor Trump routinely refers to Americans as the enemy of the people. Step-by-step Trump is inching ever closer to the 'Won't someone rid me of these radical Democrats?' It is merely a matter of time before Trump and the Banana Republican Party declare the US to be under MAGA Law and call for the rounding-up and elimination of the Non-#MAGA.

Conservatives have been yearning for years to kill Americans. They've successfully implemented their Stochastic Terrorist campaign of guided rightwing Lone Wolf murder sprees which have killed more Americans than any other group since Sean Hannity's Hero Timothy McVeigh killed 168 in Oklahoma City in 1995.

The Banana Republican Party long ago stopped sly allusions to Eliminationist Rhetoric and fully embraced the "Rope. Tree. Journalist" and "Second Amendment Remedies". Conservatives have a yearning deep down in their shriveled loins to round-up and murder Americans.

We've seen them adopt the boiling frog technique; first with the Dick Cheney Regime abducting "Terrorists" via extraordinary rendition and keeping them in GITMO for decades. Under Trump,  conservatives created Children Concentration Camps and have kept people guilty of no crime in conditions which would constitute War Crimes and human rights abuses, while also violating US Law, International Law, and the Geneva Conventions.

Conservatives have been satisfied with #OwntheLibs thus far but, make no mistake Impeachment is a certainty. So, as Trump's removal moves closer right-wingers are going to commit more and more Acts of Terror and begin explicitly and openly promoting #KilltheLibs. 

I expect, Republicans and conservatives in the media to condemn violence on BothSides, as they have already done when faced with the flood of MAGA Terrorist Attacks, while vociferously defending Republicans who call for violence but, as the attacks increase and Trump unravels completely the Banana Republicans will have to decide who they love more; the American People or the Trump Horde.

Republican Congressman John Sullivan threatened to Kill Senators

Well, it sure didn't take the Republican Party long to go back to threatening to assassinate Democrats and those who disagree with them.

As Congressman John Sullivan of Oklahoma was talking to an Okie Town Hall about how awesome the dreamy Paul Ryan's Deathcare for American Budget was, when he recounted how he "lives with some senators" and continued,

"I yell at them all the time, I grabbed one of them the other day and shook him and I’d love to get them to vote for it. You know but other than me going over there with a gun and holding it to their head and maybe killing a couple of them, I don’t think they’re going to listen unless they get beat.”

Well now, in Sullivan's defense it has been a whole month since Gabby Giffords had to step down after a Tea Party inspired crazy took the Right-Wing eliminationist rhetoric to heart and shot her in the face.

Sullivan is a fine Republican. He's been arrested 4 times, he voted for TARP and Trillions in Welfare to Wall Street but declared the Auto bailout was "rewarding failure", he supported the 2009-2010 Tea Party Rallies and he voted to make the PATRIOT Act permanent. The Right-Wingers in this Nation have been using the threat of violence for years. The Tea Party slogan is We Came Unarmed This Time...

Related:
"Don't Retreat! -Reload!" Remember there is No Tea Party Orthodoxy [Disaffected and It Feels So Good]
Right Wing Terror Alert -Will Washington's Failures Lead to a Second American Revolution [Disaffected and it Feels So Good]

The Tea Party Massacre in Tucson, Arizona

The Tea Party is responsible for the horrific massacre in Arizona. And they know it.

Because of it they are preparing to violently push back (would you expect anything less of Terrorists) blaming the attack on liberals and claiming the murderer is a "liberal lunatic".

"The left is coming and will hit us hard on this. We need to push back harder. The shooter was a liberal lunatic. Emphasis on both words," wrote Judson Phillips founder of Tea Party Nation.

Putting aside the murderer's fear of government, pro-gold currency screeds which fit perfectly in a Glenn Beck monologue or a Keep Your Government Hands off my Medicare Tea Party Rally, The Tea Party and conservatives have spent the last 2 years vociferously creating a climate of anti-government and hatred for Democrats.

They openly and brazenly brought guns to political rallies. As Chekhov noted,

"If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired."

Well, the guns and violence the Tea Partiers have hung upon themselves just went off.

Just recall the hundreds of signs at Tea Party rallies, "We Came Unarmed [This time]", "The Tree of Liberty needs to be refreshed from time to time...", "Let his days be few; and let another take his office." Their every rally was besot with eliminationist wordage, violent imagery, hatred and murderous intent if their political will was thwarted.

"That's because of the Tea Party movement, all these Tim McVeigh wannabes." ~ Sean Hannity

It's a hallmark of Republican and conservative political dissatisfaction. They threaten violence always and immediately when not in power. And the last two years have seen a horrible toll. This most recent event obviously has captured every one's attention, but we've become so inured to the Conservative calls to Violence and Bloodshed a review of this timeline will make sense of the recent Tea Party Massacre. And cast a chilling light on every good American who now has to live in fear of Conservative Terrorism.

Related:
Sarah Palin, who bears a large responsibility for the Tea Party Massacre in Tuscon, has had her aide claim her gunsight targeting of Giffords and 19 other Democrats were "surveyors marks". "Don't retreat, -Reload" those surveyors marks? Of course, the hypocrites of the Right slavishly agree, no Equivocation is too ridiculous for conservatives.

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik lays the blame right where it belongs on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party: "When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government," he said. "The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on this country is getting to be outrageous and unfortunately Arizona has become sort of the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry."