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Stephan: I have been saying it for years: It is not possible to be an ethical person and a Republican. Here is yet another example showing why I say this.
Earlier this month, Representative Adam Kinzinger told his constituents that he is worried by the excessive number of conspiracy theories he has seen circulating lately on social-media sites.
“As leaders, we have a choice,” he told his constituents in a video message posted to Facebook. “There’s far too many who will simply reflect back that paranoia, to feed fuel to that fire, if it’ll help their reelection … We need to push back against these attempts to divide and destroy us.”
Days later, President Donald Trump disseminated a conspiracy theory for the ages. In the midst of an ongoing pandemic that has killed 100,000 Americans, he attacked a cable-television host, former Representative Joe Scarborough, with a thinly veiled murder allegation. “A lot of interest in this story about Psycho Joe Scarborough,” Trump wrote. “So a young marathon runner just happened to faint in his office, hit her head on his desk, & die? I would think there is a lot more to this story than that? An affair? What about the so-called investigator?”
Stephan: To anyone who has spent time within the military culture this letter is as rare as a unicorn horn. Senior military officers never come out into the public to say such things about a President. Personally, I agree with every word.
General James Mattis, USMC (Ret.)and former Secretary of Defense
James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. But he has now broken his silence, writing an extraordinary broadside in which he denounces the president for dividing the nation, and accuses him of ordering the U.S. military to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens. — Atlantic Editors
“I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled,” Mattis writes. “The words ‘Equal Justice Under Law’ are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation.” He goes on, “We […]
Stephan: Senator Tom Cotton a senator from Arkansas, and a Republican, speaks for the christofascist members of the Senate, it seems. None have come out to condemn him. Using the American military in American streets to control Americans exercising their Constitutional rights to assemble and exercise free speech. Is anything else required to make it clear where the Magas stand?
Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said on Monday that President Trump should use the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty U.S. troops to cities impacted by protests and riots in the wake of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed while in the custody of Minneapolis police.
Cotton, during an interview with Fox News, said that “if necessary the president should use the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty military forces to these cities to support our local law enforcement and ensure that this violence ends tonight, not one more night.”
“What the president can do is say that justice will be done in accordance with law for George Floyd and we will always respect the right of peaceful protests … but the rioting, the anarchy and the looting ends tonight. If local law enforcement is overwhelmed … lets see how these anarchists respond when the 101st Airborne is on the other side of the street,” Cotton added.
Protests have swept the country in response to Floyd’s death. At least 40 cities have imposed curfews and the National Guard has been activated […]
Stephan: Here we can see on display the cowardice and lack of morality of the Republican senators. I think it is disgusting, and I hope everyone of these Senators up for election is defeated. We need a better caliber of person making our laws.
Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee
NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Kasie Hunt asked 17 top GOP Senators what they thought of President Donald Trump’s Monday evening photo op, where he had Lafayette Park and St. John’s Church cleared of protestors by teargassing them.
Usually reporters might use one or two of the responses in a news story, but Hunt, who is also the host of MSNBC’s “Kasie DC,” decided to tweet out their responses.
Among the Senators she asked – not all answered – are the only African-American Republican, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
Two offered up “late for lunch” responses, four refused to offer any answer, and one blamed the protestors for an “abuse of power.”
Stephan: Trump cannot tell the truth. Every statement is calculated to make him seem like a hero or, at a minimum, blame free. He threatens with lies, gaslights what people can see with their own eyes. I find it fascinating that the Magas just uncritically lap it up.
FBI Headquarters Credit: Getty
The FBI found no intelligence “indicating Antifa involvement” in violence surrounding Sunday’s protest near the White House despite President Donald Trump’s attempts to cast blame on radical leftists, according to an FBI situation report obtained by The Nation.
An FBI source told the outlet that other situation reports, produced daily by the FBI since the weekend, have similarly shown no evidence of Antifa involvement.
“Based on CHS [Confidential Human Source] canvassing, open source/social media partner engagement and liaison, FBI WFO has no intelligence indicating Antifa involvement/presence,” the report reads.
That portion of the report followed a list of violent acts committed during the protest, including people who threw bricks at police and a backpack found to contain explosives.Ken Klippenstein✔@kenklippenstein
FBI found “no intelligence indicating Antifa involvement” in May 31 violence, per FBI report leaked to me.
In Wednesday’s edition I published a photo of Trump and Hitler both holding Bibles. It was up for less than seven hours before I learned that the photo was not authentic. We immediately took it down, and I apologize to my readers for this mistake. It is very important to me that SR maintain the highest standards of accuracy, and you may rely that whenever we discover a mistake it will be corrected the moment we find that out, and a notice of correction will be posted.
Stephan: As I watched the police and troops spew tear gas, throw flash grenades, and fire rubber bullets into peaceful demonstrators at Layfayette Park, so that Trump accompanied by his Igors, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in combat fatigues walk over to St John's Church for the Bible holding stunt, I was reminded of Hitler walking with his Igors across Paris after the Nazis had occupied it.
In my view, the entire Bible Photo-op business which just seemed weird to most Americans was a dogwhistle by Trump to his White Supremacy Evangelical and neo-Nazis base. For them, it was very meaningful.
MAGA “life coach” and proudlyamoral right-wing broadcaster Brenden Dilley said during his livestream program today that he and millions of other gun-loving Americans are just waiting until President Donald Trump “gives us the green light” to take to the streets and start gunning down activists who have been protesting all over the country following the police killing of George Floyd.
“Someone should politely explain to antifa [that] the most violent Americans, the most violent and willing Americans, haven’t even left the couch yet,” Dilley said. “The most violent and ready to go, the most tactically trained, haven’t even got off the couch yet. So you better pray to God, and I mean this literally—or whoever the fuck it is you pray to—that Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, and Attorney General Barr clean this up lawfully.”
“If for any reason the president of the United States feels that it’s not getting done the way it should and decides to put out the tweet that says, ‘My fellow Americans, my fellow 2A-loving Americans, it’s time to take up arms against these assholes,’ you […]
Stephan: I think it is gradually becoming clear to some in the media, and hopefully, some in law enforcement that the civil right demonstrations are being infiltrated by Magas, who work on behalf of Trump, and anarchists who just want to create chaos.
That's the trouble with social media; you don't ever really know who is posting what. Yet millions are influenced by such posts. It is warping our entire political process.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — A Twitter account that tweeted a call to violence and claimed to be representing the position of “Antifa” was in fact created by a known white supremacist group, Twitter said Monday. The company removed the account. Before it emerged the account was run by white supremacists, Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s son, pointed his 2.8 million Instagram followers to the account as an example of how dangerous Antifa is. “This account violated our platform manipulation and spam policy, specifically the creation of fake accounts,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. “We took action after the account sent a Tweet inciting violence and broke the Twitter Rules.”Although the account only had a few hundred followers, it is an example of white supremacists seeking to inflame tensions in the United States by posing as left-wing activists online.
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