Stephan: My takeaway from the California recall is that Republicans picked not the man who actually looked like he could be a competent governor, had been a mayor, understood how government worked had, for a Republican, presented a centrist view, Falconer, choosing instead a MAGAt orc, Elder. What this tells me is that as with the Republican anti-vaxxer position, MAGAt world is more interested in supporting White supremacy christofascist authoritarianism, then competent functioning democracy. That is quite scary.
March 4, 2017 // About 700 people gathered at the Minnesota capitol building to show support for Republican President Donald Trump. This was part of “March 4 Trump events around the country. Around 100 people were also there protesting against Donald Trump. // This man was yelling, “TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMMMMMP!” Credit: Fibonacci Blue
I’m sitting in my home office working on the next morning’s Daily Rant when I hear what sounded like a man in my driveway yelling, at the top of his voice, “You f*cking c*nt!” and other female-specific obscenities. Walking to the window, I saw a guy in his 40s, red-faced, giving my wife the finger with both hands and cursing her out as he climbed into his car and squealed out of the driveway.
Louise, it turns out, had invited a local contractor to give us a bid on some repairs and she’d (very nicely) asked him, before letting him into the house, if he was vaccinated. He exploded and marched back to his car screaming curses at her.
