Republican Acts of Terror: Jacksonville Edition

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“Those who are conducting this travesty and creating this two-tier system of justice, I want to ask them what the heck, do you want us to be in civil war? Because that’s what’s going to happen.  We’re not going to keep putting up with this.” - Sarah Palin told Newsmax on Thursday night.

Look what we made another Republican inspired, rightwing media consuming domestic terrorist do in Jacksonville, Florida.

Aug 26 (Reuters) - A white man armed with a high-powered rifle and a handgun killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday, before shooting himself, in what local law enforcement described as a racially motivated crime.

"This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people," Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters told a press conference.  The suspect, whom Waters described as a white male wearing a tactical vest, was not identified. Waters said all three victims - two men and a woman - were Black.

This murdering Nazi attempted to gain access to the historic black Edward Waters University before doning his tactical vest, ski mask, a swastika festooned firearms to murder random black people at a random Dollar General.  These Republican Acts of Terror will increase until 1 of 2 responses occurs;  1) Joe Brandon and his Weaponized DOJ sic Federal Jackboots down upon poor innocent conservative organizations like the Proud Boys at which point Marge Greene, Gym Jordan, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Sarah Palin demand the immediate Impeachment and violent overthrow of President Biden by any and all means, or 2) people, especially black people, fight back against Republican Terrorists, at which point Marge Greene, Gym Jordan, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Sarah Palin demand the immediate Impeachment and violent overthrow of President Biden by any and all means.

President Barack Obama's two election victories and Donald Trump's 2020 defeat and subsequent arrests broke these people.  White rightwing men and women are untethered from society, angry, bitter, seething and lashing out violently whenever and wherever possible.  This attack in Jacksonville is merely the most recent direct violent action, indirectly the Moms for Hitler group for instance, consistently stoke the flames of rightwing violence and work to effect violence on certain groups of American society; mainly black, brown, liberal, or the LGBTQ community.

Then, in response as has been predicted and directly observed, a lone wolf conservative stochastic terrorist conducts an attack.  Meanwhile all of this rightwing domestic terrorism is pushed, prodded, aided, and abetted along by rightwing media and The Republican Party.  Who in turn, lash out, lie, and threaten violence, when their direct connection to terrorism is highlighted. 

Don't worry though I'm certain Ron DeathSantis will telegram Thoughts & Prayers while he's on his whirlwind tour of America, on the Florida Taxpayer dime.  Of course, DeSantis might have to remove the Jacksonville Sheriff for invoking CRT as a motive in this crime.

Rightwing domestic terrorism is not the most pressing threat, that's the Climate Change Disaster, but it is the most immediate.  Righting domestic terrorism accounts for 90% of deaths in the United States since 9/11.   Fascism and violence from Republicans is here and it's only going to increase in frequency and activity.  2024 is the watershed year for America, if Trump manages to swindle his way back into the White House he'll never leave and with his criminal co-conspirators ensconced into the every corner of the Executive Branch and pliant criminals riddled throughout other branches of the Federal Government, the pogroms, concentration camps, and extermination of millions of Americans will begin.

Pat Tillman was a Hero. Chris Kyle was a Butcher. (Updated with Sarah Palin's threat on Michael Moore's life)

Beyond the gross fetishization of every Servicemember being a Hero and every Servicemember having fought for our Freedoms the truth is that very little the US Military has done during the last 15 years has made America any safer, made Americans freer, or turned the world into a better place.

The Iraq War was a Monumental Failure, which has utterly destablized the region, stolen Trillions of dollars from the US Taxpayer, killed a million Iraqis, wounded a hundred thousand Americans, split the Nation asunder, and will be a black spot against the US for decades if not a century.

In the early stages of Iraq, after disgusting puke George W(orst President Ever) Bush declared the Iraq War over and was telling the Insurgency to bring it on, the Republican Warmongers and their feckless conservative lick-spittles needed a Hero to take heat off; Enter Pat Tillman.

Tillman, as most people know gave up a lucarative NFL career to enlist and served as an Army Ranger before being killed in a friendly fire incident in 2004.

After attempts by the Bush Department of Defense to cover up the facts surrounding Tillman's true cause of death and their use of Tillman's corpse to silence anti-war critics, we learned of Pat Tillman's atheism, utter disdain for George Bush, his disgust at the Iraq War, probable support of John Kerry for President and his admiration of Noam Chomsky.

Of course, Tillman was no longer a hero to conservatives. Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter, who had previously gushed and fawned over him, describing Tillman as "virtuous, masculine and pure as only the American Male can be" couldn't believe the man they had lionized would be against the War and read approvingly of works written by leftists.

So, conservatives abandoned the tributes to a fallen Soldier and buried his Hero Legacy with him.

Now, Chris Kyle is different. He massages every sick and twisted conservative pleasure center with his Book of Tall Tales. Blam! He killed so many Iraqis he became the Shaitan of Ar Ramadi... Blam! He gunned down looters in New Orleans during the Post-Katrina debacle... Blam! He punched out Jessie Ventura for bad-mouthing the US of A and President "I'm the Decider" Bush...

Chris Kyle is a hero to conservatives because he killed lots of Iraqis, whom Kyle called "savages". The same Savage Iraqis who attacked Us on 9/11! In reality, did anything Chris Kyle do in Iraq help the Iraqi people or the United States? Nope.

By all accounts he loved killing and thought every problem could be solved by guns. Thus, he lived by the sword and died by the sword... And the world is better off without him.

Update:
Remember when Free Speech Rights were the most important thing in the Universe? Ha, that was sooooo 2 weeks ago.

To Conservatives, "Free Speech" means the freedom for them to insult islam and threaten liberals. Semi-literate, mentally disabled right-wing darling Sarah Palin, not content with getting Congresswoman Gabby Giffords shot (in an attack which killed 6 and wounded 18 people) now is telling her cultists to 'set their sights' on Michael Moore.

Palin, along with MoH recipient Dakota Meyer. What's especially disgusting is the despicable Bush Regime used the natural sense of military brotherhood and camaraderie to stifle anti-war dissent.

Senator Lindsey Graham is correct, Benghazi did embolden Vladimir Putin

Putin knew that Republicans and Conservatives will side with America's Enemies against President Obama everytime. Listening to the 18 months worth of lies, which Republicans continue to spew forth about Benghazi, emboldened Putin. He knew that his actions would be defended by Republicans who would seek to blame Putin's actions on President Obama.

Because siding with America's Enemies is what Republicans and conservatives do.

For right-wingers History began on Jan. 20, 2009. But, even before that date right-wingers choose to aid the enemies of America when Republicans became enamored and beguiled by a godless Communist Soviet Agent Orly Taitz, who was born in the the Moldavian SSR.

Taitz paraded ridiculously childish Kenyan Birth Certificate forgeries, outlandish lawsuits and garnered a staunch following amongst right-wingers whose every legal defeat merely served to strengthen their hatred, harden their resolve and inflame their fanaticism. 

In 2009, when Somali Pirates boarded the Maersk Alabama and captured Captain Richard Phillips conservatives immediately sided with the pirates and tried to undercut President Obama as the Navy SEALs were waiting for the order to free Captain Phillips.

In 2010, when the BP's Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig exploded killing 11 and dumping massive amounts of crud oil into the Gulf, Republicans not only sided with BP against America but apologized to BP and declared President Obama and the US Government responsible for BP's negligence.

"I think the people responsible in the oil spill--the federal government--should take full responsibility for what's happening there," John Boehner.

"I apologize," Republican Joe Barton told Tony Hayward. 

As the so-called Arab Spring revolutions got underway in Egypt and Libya, conservatives suddenly found out their values aligned perfectly with Hosni Murbarak and Muamar Gahdaffi. So they began to pretend those two dictators were staunch American Allies.

As the Syrian Civil War intensified (which it clearly did whether or not Assad used Chemical Weapons) President Obama and John Kerry engaged in a display of masterful global diplomacy, Republicans could not wait to declare President Obama was weak for setting a red line and raved President Obama was leading from the rear by not getting US involved militarily even as Syria dismantled its' chemical weaponry.

Republicans threatened Impeachment for the military aid we provided in Libya which led to Gahdaffi's defeat, capture and killing. Our involvement in Libya would have been near-perfect except for the tip of the spear CIA mission in Benghazi which went awry and cost the lives of 4 Americans.

Benghazi is the feather in the cap of the conservative chicken hawks in their effort to undermine the US and aid our enemies now and right-wingers will never stop lying about the events which transpired on Sept 11, 2012.

The bodies of Ambassador J. Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty weren't even cold before a smirking Mitt Romney bounded up to a podium to give a press conference pledging his support and siding with the Libyan Terrorists. Romney gleefully thought he could build the foundation of his Presidency on the bodies of dead Americans.

But, the hundreds of hours devoted to expanding the right-wing lies, dozens of Congressional Hearings, thousands of fact-free articles are all distortions of what actually happened, and all that effort by right-wingers told America's enemies that Republicans will side against the US because of their vicious hatred and desire to recapture the White House in order to use the Awesome Power of Government to crush the Working Class and succor, defend and transfer Trillions to the Plutocracy.

Sarah Palin, one of the leading lights of the Pro-Putin conservatives, last year marched with Senators Mike Lee and Ted Cruz Tea Party Commissar Larry Klayman and 100 Neo-Confederates to raise the Southern Flag in front of the White House. Palin and two sitting US Senators marched on the White House under the banner of the worst arch-traitors in American History.

No matter the issue, conservatives find a way to side with those who hate America and oppose We, the People. Fortunately, conservatives are cowards who they lack the courage of their convictions. 

However, I have no illusions the American people will see how despicable the Republican Party has become and cosign the anti-american traitors to the dustbin of history.

Palins' Papal Pronouncements, David Barton's insanity defense and right-wing religious persecution

Palin declared she's worried Pope Francis sounded kind of liberal, "[H]e's had some statements that to me sounded kind of liberal, has taken me aback, has kind of surprised me."

Of course, she's taken aback. Palin is a Real American and all real americans know that liberal is a dirty word. Why doesn't Il Papa know this?

Sarah Palin is not a Catholic. Yet, as with every issue, the only thing that is important is that the Right-Wing gets to excrete their ignorant bigotry.

No matter the issue, no matter the person, no matter their office, their achievements or accomplishments, if someone doesn't conform to right-wing orthodoxy then they are too be shunned and destroyed.

The Right incorporates a culture of absolute disrespect towards those who stray from their toxic mix of power apologia, pettiness, bigotry and oppression.

It doesn't matter if it's Pope Francis, Pat Tillman, a Postal Employee or President Obama, right-wingers are feces flinging fact-free fanatics, who only show respect for an individual if they espouse the proper right-wing rhetoric.

“I think this administration has a very narrow view of the First Amendment, that first freedom, the freedom of religion,” Family Research Council Tony Perkins explained. “I think they see religious freedom as fine with it as long as it’s in the four walls of a church. But if it comes into workplace, the marketplace, if it comes into the public square, it’s not welcome.”

This is exactly correct. Your weird beliefs are not welcome in the public square or the workplace, Mr. Perkins. You want to praise jesus? You want to adhere to the christian faith? Fine. But, you don't get to enforce your religious precepts onto others.

But, we've seen over and over and over again, that Religious Zealots don't want Freedom of Religion they want the Freedom to impose their religion on everyone else.

"I’m proud we are standing up for religious freedom in our state," Texas Governor and Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Perry said. "Freedom of religion doesn’t mean freedom from religion."

Part of the fight over coverage in the ACA is the fight of fanatics to force their beliefs on other people.

A business owner may be a Christian Scientist who doesn't believe in blood transfusions or antibiotics, but because the ACA provides coverage for those treatments the business owner doesn't get to veto coverage for his employee.

And if you think I'm creating an unfair strawman argument, religious wacko David Barton, truly believes that Veterans suffering from PTSD shouldn't get any medical or psychiatric treatment.

David Barton knows that if the returning Veteran truly believed in christ, he wouldn't have any problems. From Rawstory:

In a Veteran’s Day appearance on Believer’s Voice of Victory, televangelist Kenneth Copeland told "historian" David Barton that Numbers 32 said that soldiers “shall return and be guiltless before the Lord” and that meant that they wouldn’t have PTSD. 

"You don’t take drugs to get rid of it, it doesn’t take psychology; that promise right there will get rid of it,” he said, pointing at the Bible. 

"What we’re talking about, getting rid of the PTSD, guys who have been through battle, they need to understand that soldier’s promise, you come back guiltless before God and the nation," Barton agreed. 

"You’re on an elevated platform up here, you’re a hero, you’re put in the faith hall of fame if you take this [Bible],” he added. "We used to in the pulpit understand the difference between a just war and an unjust war. And there’s a biblical difference, and when you do it God’s way, not only are you guiltless for having done that, you’re esteemed.”

For a long, long time the Right has had total dominion over religious voters. But, as the Holy Spirit moves through Pope Francis expect an upswing of catholic bashing routinely witnessed in American history. As Right-Wingers continue to lash out at those who don't conform to the conservative values of bigotry, oppression, hatred and subjugation.

The Reason Conservatives love Corporation like Hostess

Because it allows them to be as racist and criminal as they want to be.

"I believe in free enterprise. I don't think the government should be telling people what you pay and what you don't pay. I think it's about freedom. If someone wants to hire somebody and they agree on a salary, that's fine, however it wants to work. So, the government sticking its nose into all kinds of things has gotten us into huge trouble." - Todd Akin (Loser- MO) stated in a vile comment less well known than his Pro-Rape positions.

Hostess Brands Inc. filed for Bankruptcy (again for they did in 2004 when Conservatives claim Bush was leading an Awesome Economic Boom) citing employees refusal to accept further reductions in pay and further company raiding of their pensions.

If Hostess wanted to use slaves chained to their ding dong machines or have children stuff the gooey nutritious filling into twinkies with their tiny fingers or pay their employees in Company Scrip while the monies set aside for pensions are raided to provide the CEO and Upper Managment with a Golden Parachute I ask you!!! Who is Government to interfere? That's the Free Market!

Certainly, Senator Mike Lee of Utah a Guard Dog of the Plutocracy believes Child Labor Laws are Unconstitutional.

Here is the final offer Hostess made to its' employees before declaring Bankruptcy,

1) 8% hourly pay cut in year 1 with additional cuts totaling 27% over 5 years. Currently, I make $16.12 an hour at TOP rate of pay in the bakery. I would drop to $11.26 in 5 years. 

2) They get to keep our $3+ an hour forever. 

3) Doubling of weekly insurance premium. 

4) Lowering of overall quality of insurance plan. 

5) TOTAL withdrawal from ALL pensions. If you don't have it now then you never will.

Government puts up all these fake rules like "hostile work environment" and "minimum wage" and "taxes" and "discrimination" and "Maternity Leave" and "criminal sexual assault" which hamper the aspirations of conservatives and Private Business.

The Government and the Public Sector enforces rules on behavior. Conservatives are racist and sexist and as natural pig-people are incensed that they can't grab women's asses and yell Barack Obama is a Ni-[Clang] all day long.

This is also why conservatives hate Unions. Unions also help enforce rules of behavior, help employees bargain for better pay, benefits and working conditions and provide workers with avenues to address Corporate malfeasance and Bosses misbehavior.

Corporations want Unions eliminated. This is why Republican Dogs and Conservative Stooges blame Unions for all of Americas problems. 

Mary Matalin, whose never been right about any issue, defended Vulture Capitalist Mitt Romney and blamed Unions and the Minimum Wage,

The greatest impediment to upward mobility for women and minorities are liberal policies such as the teachers unions, which secure teachers jobs, they don't educate our youth, such as African- American youth locked out of entry level jobs because the insistence on minimum wage, such as poverty programs that have dismantled the families.

See... If Companies could pay Black Youths Nothing for their labor then that's Right and Just. Vice President Biden was absolutely correct when he stated Republicans want to "put y'all back in Chains."

But, Wage Slavery is a profitable business model in America.

Chipotle is facing a Class Action lawsuit because it's taken to renaming some employees as "apprentices" and paying them as managerial employees who don't qualify for overtime. Want to know how a Company is using slave labor in America today? Classify an employee as "salaried" then work them 40 hours extra a week and pay them Nothing for the extra work.

The reason Stench Romney wanted to "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" is because Bain Capital would have swooped in, canabalized the remnants, jettisoned the UAW contracts, sold the factories off to China and skimmed the profits from the bones of GM and Chrysler while perched waiting for Ford to go belly up as well.

So, when a conservative tells you how awesome the Free Market is he's telling you he's a racist corporatist who wants to grind up on the ass of that hot secretary without the fear of some bogus "harassment" complaint, while he and upper management scheme on how to swindle the average worker out of his pension and repeal laws which keep Corporations from scooping up children from the playgrounds and shoving them down into MSHA free death-trap mines.

It's all part of the Rapacious Vulture Capitalist Model which has taken control of the Nation.

Move "Forward" with the President not backward with Totalitarian Republican Oppressors

The Right-Wing is made up of Oppressors who strive to do nothing other than to chain Americans with the shackles of Right-Wing oppression and wage slavery.

President Obama's election team unveiled their new campaign slogan, "Forward". Immediately the Right-Wing imbeciles jumped up and declared Forward means Maoism or Leninism! But after realizing most of their conservative myna bird-brains didn't grasp Maoism, The Washington Times simplified for the duped conservative drone, New Obama Slogan has long ties to Marxism, Socialism.

Now, while Forward also happens to be the State Motto of Wisconsin and the domain name "Forward.com" is the website of The Jewish Daily Forward, a publication begun in 1897 with strong socialist roots, it would be fantastic if Barack Obama was a Socialist, but his voting record clearly shows President Obama is a fiscally moderate/conservative. Which is why the U.S. hasn't emerged from the Republican Recession.

30+ years of Conservative economic policy is precisely why we have massive Income Inequality and why CEOs "earn" almost 400 times what the average worker makes. The 1% have been pissing down the backs of all Americans and telling them it's trickle down prosperity for 3 decades

But, remember no matter what the 1% and their Republican lackeys and Right-Wing lapdogs tell you it's not Socialism when Billions in Tax Payer Dollars are funneled to their tax dodging Corporations or Plutocrats off-shore bank accounts. No that's helping "Job-Creators", it's only Socialism when it comes to Medicaid to the indigent or Social Security to the disabled.

However, even though conservatives are oppressors there is a hierarchy amongst the Oppressor Class. Normally it directly correlates to money or power but, anyone willing to denigrate and divide the people can be accepted into the bosom of the Totalitarian Right-Wing fold. For example, Sarah Palin.

Today Palin has money, not Koch Money, mind you, but some. However, her rise from obscurity to her 18 month dominance of the right-wing world occurred precisely because she was willing to go on word salad tirades against the oppressed and in favor of keeping the oppressed down.

But, the weak and stupid amongst the Oppressors only know the Oppressor/Oppressed Dichotomy and having grown up in a misogynistic, Patriarchal, homophobic, repressive rich-deifiying society see no other recourse but to Oppress those whomever they can, which is how we have poor conservatives who use medicare and social security siding with the Hedge Fund Vultures who make money off of firing American workers and starving children to death in Africa and who are pushing their Republican Lackeys to eliminate the programs which aid Millions of Americans.

Oppressed Conservatives side with their Oppressors, the 1%, because they don't know anything better than to try and knock down the oppressed, as well.

This was clearly illuminated, in the Pedology of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire,

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or "sub-oppressors." The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them, to be men is to be oppressors.

So, the attacks on Socialism are not because of the conservative catch-phrase, 'Eventually you run out of other peoples money', the Plutocrats Theft of Billions of US Tax Payer Dollars proves that. No it is because that while there is a hierarchy amongst the Oppressors, even the lowliest conservative is an Oppressor and knows no other way.

So, it's going to be another 6 long months of frothingly insane rants against Socialism, violent Ted Nugent rhetoric, and the occasional Tea Party Extremist Domestic Terrorist Murder Spree as the Totalitarian Right-Wingers fear their ability to oppress and control the 99%.

And just as with JT Ready and all the other Conservative Domestic Terrorist attacks [See My Post: Another Anti-Government Domestic Terror Attack (Conservative Terrorism)] their language is going to be sickeningly evil. The Republican Party and their Right-Wing lapdog bloggers are going to vilify #Occupy and OWS and Women and African-Americans and the poor and the sick and the elderly and all of the Oppressed.

Again from the Pedology of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire,

For the oppressors, however, it is always the oppressed (whom they obviously never call "the oppressed" but -- depending on whether they are fellow countrymen or not --"those people" or "the blind and envious masses" or "savages" or "natives" or "subversives") who are disaffected, who are "violent," "barbaric," "wicked," or "ferocious" when they react to the violence of the oppressors.