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Rick Plant:
Racists like Lauren Boebert have no business being in Congress. This is a woman who's been arrested several times over her lifetime and is a high school dropout. But as long as she holds up a semi automatic weapon and spouts off racist and anti Democratic rhetoric the racist maga base will always vote for degenerates like this. Boebert spouted off a racist rant at an event against a Democratic member of Congress. Then in a private conversation she doubled down with her racism. Congress needs to censure her as well. These racists have no business representing districts in America.
Rick Plant:
What do you expect from a woman who is a High School dropout? Unfortunately, this type of behavior will never end until the GOP has respectable people in their party and I don't see that happening. The MAGA crowd like Boebert is there to mimic Donald Trump, so they will be hateful, vile, racist, and defend violence as their "message" because it plays well with the base and that's the "message" they accept. That's why Greene, Gosar, etc. act the way they do and others will all behave the same way.
'This has to stop': GOP congressman slams Lauren Boebert's 'high-school level' behavior
On Monday's edition of CNN's "OutFront," Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) fiercely condemned the remarks by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) suggesting that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is a terrorist.
"You know, this really went from ugly to uglier, just when you thought it couldn't get more ridiculous in the House of Representatives," said anchor Kate Bolduan. "I mean, what — what do you think of this?"
"I would agree," said Reed, a former leader of the House Problem Solvers' Caucus who is retiring from Congress. "I mean, first, obviously, I disagree and condemn the kind of comments that were made by my colleague in Congress towards a fellow colleague on the other side of the aisle. But you're absolutely right. This is a pox on all our houses. And I would just tell you, this rhetoric, this type of commentary, has to stop. We need to focus on the American people and solving their problems. That's got to be the mission. But these — these types of rhetoric exchanges are very disappointing."
"I mean, Boebert's a flamethrower and clearly doesn't care," said Bolduan. "But this is — as you are getting at, this is bigger than her. It speaks to kind of a larger, more insidious problem of, if you allow this type of behavior to slide, if you try not to give it oxygen or attention, Congressman, hasn't the last Congress shown that it only gets worse?"
"I would agree, that you have to confront this but you have to look at the bigger picture here, too," said Reed. "Like — like you are articulating. This is the institution of Congress, this is the People's House and we have to respect each other. We can — we can disagree. I am a proud Republican. I know colleagues on the other side who are proud Democrats. But it doesn't mean we go into that chamber not united as Americans first. We are American citizens that should be working together, as opposed to engaging in what could be called antics of a high-school level nature at times."
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FJGwY0EOs
Rick Plant:
These radical right wingers only want to promote racism and hate. We have right wing anti American traitors like Lauren Boebert leading the way fueling this hate movement.
CNN releases shocking new video of Lauren Boebert: ‘We see her for who she is’
Controversial Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has spent days receiving criticism for her bigoted remarks about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
In a video that went viral, Boebert told a story suggesting Omar, who is Muslim, should be considered a potential suicide-bombing terrorist. She said Omar belonged to the "Jihad Squad."
On Tuesday, CNN broadcast new video showing that Boebert told a similar story — with enough differences to draw the credibility of both of her accounts into question.
"More just-see-it-for-yourself evidence today of the hate and bigotry in the Republican ranks," CNN's John King reported. "This new video is from a September Republican fundraiser, Boebert not only tells her elevator story, she also calls Omar and another Muslim of Congress black-hearted and evil."
King described why he found the video to be so powerful, noting that, "our eyes and ears don't lie. We see her for what she is and what she believes."
Watch:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Q-CBhKVUc
Rick Plant:
Republicans love fascism and authoritarian dictators and they are hellbent on ending our democracy and turning our country into another 1940's Germany. They meet with and drool over dictators. White supremacist Tucker Carlson interviewed one this year.
Marco Rubio met with far-right candidate tied to Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) reportedly met with a far-right Chilean presidential candidate who defends military dictator Augusto Pinochet.
"José Antonio Kast is locked in a runoff election against a left-wing challenger and is often referred to as Chile’s Jair Bolsonaro, the would-be dictator in Brazil who regularly speaks warmly of his own nation’s time under a military dictatorship. Rubio, who is Cuban American and a member of the Republican Party, has long had links to the Latin American right," The Intercept reported Wednesday.
The Spanish news site Emol published a photo of the two.
"Kast’s family has deep ties to the dictatorship. His father, Michael Kast, was a lieutenant in the Nazi army before fleeing to Chile and raising sons who shared his far-right politics. One son, Miguel Kast, was appointed by Pinochet to be minister of labor and then president of the central bank," The Intercept reported. "He was one of the so-called Chicago Boys, a collection of young economists trained by Milton Friedman, set loose on Chile to launch a neoliberal experiment that saw social spending slashed and wealth funneled upward to the very rich. Christian Kast, according to journalist Javier Rebolledo’s book A La Sombra De Los Cuervos, was linked to peasant massacres under Pinochet, and José Antonio Kast campaigned against the the plebiscite that rewrote the Chilean Constitution and paved the way for Pinochet’s removal. 'I’m not a pinochetista, but I value everything he did,' Kast has said, adding that the dictatorship 'laid the foundations of modernity.'"
The runoff election is Dec. 19.
https://theintercept.com/2021/12/01/marco-rubio-chile-pinochet-jose-antonio-kast/
Rick Plant:
GOP anti-Biden revolt officially thwarted as Senate passes bill to stop government shutdown
https://www.rawstory.com/government-shutdown/
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