#GOPRacism & #PowerPlay at its WORST. Republican leaders have no shame bc they've never been held accountable. #TFG simply revealed their depravity: “We strongly believe that the Legislature’s map complies with the Voting Rights Act and the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court,” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement. *Is he counting on Kavanaugh flipping his vote (5-4 SC decision, h/t Mike Saks). #VotingRights https://www.al.com/news/2023/09/alabama-will-appeal-rejection-of-congressional-map-to-us-supreme-court.html

GOP POC presidential candidates are advancing white supremacy: Haley noted: more racial progress is imperative, but insisted: “our kids need to know to love America” & left voters with a directive: “Don’t fall into the narrative that this is a racist country.” Why can’t Haley just decry a horrifying white-supremacist attack & leave it at that? She knows discussion of racism might trigger a defensive response from GOP-leaning voters, leading them to tune it out. #GOPRacism https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/30/nikki-haley-jacksonville-shooting-white-supremacy-gop/

Republicans are still scapegoating migrants at the border, but now they're targeting them for harassment, or worse, bc they'll vote for Democrats. White supremacists have committed violent acts, incl. massacres, based on "Great Replacement." Failing to prove voter fraud, constitutional sheriffs argue an alternative -& equally false -theory: Democrats seek to change the voter landscape by encouraging IMG, esp. from countries in Central & South America. #GOPRacism #GOPLies https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/sheriffs-who-back-the-great-replacement-as-the-new-big-lie/

Mourning Jacksonville needed
a leader, they got #DeathSantis, a white elitist & supremacist: He pressured the Leg. last year to pass a congressional map *for the 1st time in decades, wiped out a Jacksonville dist. that allowed Black voters to elect the candidate of their choice. It was those constituents he faced on Sun, coupled with their pain & outrage over the shooting. New Town +most of the city's maj. Black neighborhoods are now rep. by an R in Nassau Co. #GOPRacism https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/columns/nate-monroe/2023/08/28/nate-monroe-jacksonville-needed-a-leader-instead-it-got-ron-desantis/70700170007/

FL continues to sanitize aspects of slavery & the plight of African Americans throughout history: One lesson: how slavery set back Black people’s ability to build wealth. State reviewers: lesson plan might violate FL rules bc it “supposes that no slaves or their descendants accumulated any wealth." The AP African American Studies show how FL objected to a slavery lesson bc: may lead to a viewpoint of an oppressor vs oppressed based solely on race or ethnicity🚨. #GOPRacism https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article278582149.html

Issues: absent from the Republican performative debate. VR repeatedly disqualified himself, falsely claiming CC solutions have killed more ppl than CC +RD by expressing authoritarian vows of violence by promising to render any drug dealers at the border ‘stone cold dead’. The media is failing as they cover the elections like the #20C instead of explaining what’s happening: Rs’ fascism, dangerous anti-social mvt, calls for violence, dehumanizing others…🚨#GOPRacism #GOPLies https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html

When they talk to each other, that's when the masks slip and the fascist and authoritarian beneath peaks out. So much of the GOP is now the party of fascism, authoritarianism and theocracy. Those multi-syllabic words are more than they can understand but that doesn't stop them in the least. Right-wing oligarchs, Fox News and right-wing talk radio/media, religious zealots, racists and white supremacists and power-hungry goons have been prepping the GOP base for this for years. Anybody with half a brain who values democracy, liberty, freedom, human rights and a healthy society, should never vote Republican and better wake up if they are voting GOP on auto-pilot!

'That's how fascists talk': Matt Gaetz flattened for threat of violence in support of Trump https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-violence/

#GOPFascism
#GOPTheocracy
#GOPAuthoritarianism
#GOPThePartyOfViolence
#GOPRacism

"According to an expert on authoritarianism, comments made by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Saturday while standing with former president Donald Trump should raise flags as he promised to use "force" to create change in Washington, D.C.

Considering the former president was recently indicted for conspiracy related to the Jan. 6 insurrection that led to lawmakers fleeing for their lives, historian and author Ruth Ben-Ghiat called Gaetz comments alarming.

Speaking before a crowd at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday, Gaetz stated, "Mr. President, I cannot stand these people that are destroying our country. They are opening our borders. They are weaponizing our federal law enforcement against patriotic Americans who love this nation as we should," before adding, "But we know that only through force do we make any change in a corrupt town like Washington, D.C. And so to all my friends here in Iowa, when you see them come for this man, know that they are coming for our movement and they are coming for all of us."

Reacting to Gaetz's proclamations, Ben-Ghiat told MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin, "What he is saying is that they are not going to have change through elections or through legislation or through reform. They are going to have change through violence."

"And that's how fascists talk," she added. "So, even if Trump is out of the picture, these are people who have adopted methods very familiar to me as a historian of fascism, that violence and corruption and lying that's what the party is today.""

Sec Mayorkas: claim that the bulk of fentanyl is carried into the US by migrants crossing covertly from MX is unequivocally false -majority is thought to be smuggled thru ports of entry & tractor-trailer trucks & pas. vehicles -CBP reports show that last year, 84% of the fentanyl seized was found at an official border crossing. Fentanyl kills ~70K Americans a year *leading cause of record drug overdose deaths in the US +primary cause of death for <45. #GOPLies #GOPRacism https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/republicans-fentanyl-biden-asylum-seekers-cynicism

Threat to campus speech isn’t coming from the left. Jay Graham, one of the GOP megadonors added to the TX A&M Board of Regents by GOP Gov Abbott *received $1.7M in campaign donations from him - texted a fellow regent to complain: McElroy seemed too liberal for their schemes for TX A&M to produce conservative thinkers. "I thought the purpose of us starting a journalism program was to get high-quality Aggie journalist[s] with conservative values into the market". #GOPRacism https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/texas-am-journalism-kathleen-mcelroy-college-free-speech-republican-20230808.html

The #GOPDeathCult leaders are resp. Who's next group to💀?: Racism is at the heart of the USG’s failure to tackle the growing threat of deadly heatwaves, acc to the author of a new book on the heating planet🔥🌎. Goodell: POC, incl. millions of migrant workers who're bearing the brunt of record-breaking temps. as farmhands, builders & delivery workers - aren't guaranteed lifesaving measures like water & shade breaks bc they're considered EXPENDABLE🚨. #GOPRacism #GOPSabotage https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/06/jef-goodell-heatwaves-racism-the-heat-will-kill-you-first-book?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Racism isn't a bug, it's a feature, embraced by the #GOPDeathCult. Republicans are whitewashing history & eliminating DEI: Hurd, Scott +other GOP apologists are in denial: Editing racial history, minimizing the impact of slavery, exaggerating White victimhood, venerating the Confederacy & minimizing Black voting power are central to the current GOP’s ID. DeSantis isn't the problem; he’s an example of a party deformed & debased by white nationalism. #GOPRacism #GOPSabotage https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/04/newsletter-republicans-desperation/

NR seems to have a consistent line that Republicans talking about the evil of slavery is bad electorally, & therefore wrong to do. Morally bankrupt, utterly cynical. -Joshua Tait, historian
Re 2 GOP pres candidates: R Lowry on Heard: Shameful opportunism from a 0% candidate whose only role is to please the Cable Gods during any given news cycle.
D McLaughlin on Scott: Really a major unforced error by Scott here that'll him friends only with the people who don't vote in the primaries:
#GOPRacism

NM & the West are more💙: Republicans: shifting➡️R -esp. on IMG & abortion -antagonizing that burgeoning Latino pop. & butting up agst wary Westerners bridling at those telling them how they should live their lives -haven’t done themselves much good attacking cities, opposing diversity & adopting -old-timey message -intimating things were better when the West had fewer people, most of them were white & the economy was ruled by ranching, mining & logging. #GOPLies #GOPRacism https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-23/how-democrats-won-the-west-and-reshaped-presidential-politics-new-mexico

SB meetings: nearly 60 incidents that led to arrests or criminal charges -almost all: in suburban districts -every participant was WHITE. Conservative candidates were able to gain momentum. Parents & protesters have derailed SB meetings *polarized battlegrounds over COVID, LGBTQ+ student rights, “obscene” library books & attempts to teach children re systemic racism. Many of the candidates -endorsed by nat. grps: 1776 Super PAC, Moms for Liberty... #GOPSabotage #GOPRacism https://projects.propublica.org/school-board-meetings-flashpoints-for-anger-chaos/?taid=64b913d21dc5750001ac20f3&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Inexcusable & deplorable, #DeathSantis' Florida: The FL ST Board of EDU approved new rules Wed for how Black history will be taught in public schools that critics are decrying as a “step backward.” The updated standards incl. noting that ENSLAVED PEOPLE DEVELOPED SKILLS THAT "COULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEFIT," & that in teaching about mob violence against Black residents instructors should also note “ACTS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST & BY AFRICAN AMERICANS.” #GOPRacism https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/19/florida-black-history-standards/

Thankfully, Bachmann no longer serves, but she echoes many MOC & GOP leaders: 7/4 on the Christian program Flashpoint, Bachmann was asked how America's youth viewed the country's inception -she called the 1619 Project's efforts to document the effects of slavery "evil" -thinks when evil comes into the world & when falsehoods come into US, people react to that, 1619 Project is a rewriting of American history -a false view of it +a lot of people were appalled-. #GOPRacism https://www.rawstory.com/michele-bachmann-slavery/

It's simple. DeSantis is a racist, courting racists. Like so many others in this same boat, Abbott et al, he wants to remove all mention of racism as a bad thing.

They don't want to be reminded how repugnant it is and they certainly don't want their children to learn that racism is bad and that their parents are unevolved idiots who espouse Christian values yet can't stop hating blacks and other minorities and clinging to the "privileges" a racist society has afforded them.

Rather than working to overcome their racism like so many people have, they want to ignore it, be allowed to practice it freely and want any mention of how reprehensible they are silenced. What could be more unevolved than that?!

DeSantis: Honor Confederates, Not Black History https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/ron-desantis-fort-bragg-confederacy-black-history-massacre-poll-tax.html

#GOPRacism
#DeSantisIsRacist
#Deplorables

"Last week, Florida governor Ron DeSantis promised to rename Fort Liberty after Confederate general Braxton Bragg, a slave owner who fought against the United States whose name previously adorned the base.

On Thursday, DeSantis vetoed spending for a Black History Month celebration in Orlando and cut $200,000 for a festival celebrating Florida’s Black Music Legacy. Last year, DeSantis vetoed a $1 million appropriation for Valencia College to create a film about the 1920 Ocoee Election Day massacre, in which a white mob murdered dozens of Black Floridians.

There does seem to be a pattern here.

DeSantis likes to feature these issues. The message he prefers to emphasize is his fight with the radical left over critical race theory and other abstruse left-wing academic concepts. “We believe in teaching kids facts and how to think, but we don’t believe they should have an agenda imposed on them,” he said earlier this year. “When you try to use Black history to shoehorn in queer theory, you are clearly trying to use that for political purposes.”

His supporters like to pretend this is the whole of DeSantis’s agenda on racism and American history. “This fight isn’t about blocking history or erasing the country’s sins but drawing a line between hifalutin political advocacy and thorough, truthful instruction in the American past,” insisted National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry earlier this year.

Fighting left-wing academic fads is certainly a part of DeSantis’s agenda. But it is not the whole of it. The operational end of DeSantis’s approach to racism has always contained large doses of old-fashioned blunt-force attacks on Black political power. He signed a poll tax to disenfranchise ex-felons, whose voting rights had been restored by a state referendum. He pushed through a redistricting plan that reduced Black representation, in the face of opposition from not only all the state’s Democrats but even many Republicans, who deemed it far too aggressive.

DeSantis is assembling a coalition that contains all the right-wing elements that were drawn to Donald Trump. That means merely fighting the far left isn’t enough. He needs to court voters who believe in honoring the Confederacy and get offended by recognition for important milestones in Black history. The rise of the new left has given him a convenient foil, but beneath the surface, his racial agenda is an old-fashioned nostalgia for a time when open racism prevailed."

If only Republicans wouldn’t block immigration reform, & they have for over 2 decades. They use immigrants as scapegoats, punching bags. a distraction from their misdeeds & crimes…: #RepublicanLies #GOPHypocrites #GOPRacism. Title 42 Is Gone, But What Are Asylum Seekers Supposed to Do Now? | The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/title-42-is-gone-but-what-are-asylum-seekers-supposed-to-do-now

#RepublicanLies #GOPFraud #GOPRacism Numerous Republicans have responded to the failure of the migrant surge to materialize by simply pretending it actually did happen. I've collected some examples of this pattern here. The clowning is quite impressive -Greg Sargent: Rep Greene: Hundreds of thousands would “rush the border,” she proclaimed, warning of an “Imminent Invasion!” -the spike hasn’t materialized-: Opinion -Greene’s impeachment stunt wrecks a big MAGA myth🚨-: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/19/marjorie-taylor-greene-impeachment-biden-immigration/

Tennessee Legislature just expelled a Democrat from the Legislature creating a pathway for a high dollar lawsuit, racial discrimination, and annihilating the Voice and Vote of the People. #DontLookAway #GOPRacism #Fascism