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Wilshire@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

GOP lawmaker claims KKK is ‘the military wing of the Democratic Party’ in closed door meeting ahead of antisemitism hearing

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GOP lawmaker claims KKK is ‘the military wing of the Democratic Party’ in closed door meeting ahead of antisemitism hearing

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Wilshire@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania said in a closed door briefing with lawmakers on Tuesday that the Ku Klux Klan is the “the military wing of the Democratic party” and that migrants coming to the US “have no interest in being Americans,” according to audio of Perry’s comments shared with CNN.
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  • resetbypeer@lemmy.world
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    Almost as true as GOP being the sole defenders of LGBTQ+ rights…

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      Equally true as the GOP being the stalwart supporters of a woman’s right to choose, the champions of sensible gun control, and the sacred guardians of single payer universal healthcare.

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      I must compliment you both on the sick burn and for using a proper ellipses character.

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        iOS autocorrect generates them. I discovered this while attempting to use vim in an embedded terminal emulator.

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          Ah… I type them manually. Opt-; on Mac and hold the dot / period key on iOS.

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          That’s kind of evil. I hate it when I paste source code from a document and I have to fix non-ASCII characters that some overly clever UI inserted.

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    The KKK did NOT endorse Hillary in 2016, nor Biden in 2020. Guess who they endorsed, Mr. Perry? Pro-Tip: He’s running on your side this year and is currently grousing in a courtroom as they determine if he broke the law or not…

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      They don’t care if their claims are true. Lies spread more easily than the truth.

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    So standard projection from the GOP. Nice of them to confirm that they consider the KKK to be their military wing, not that that’s a surprise to anyone.

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      The fucking White Supremacy people are just so fucking progressive right?

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    Every accusation is a confession, as per standard procedure.

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    Sure, if we were still in 1862.

    But then, the current GOP really wishes it were still 1862, don’t they?

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      An easy way to check is to see who gets mad about removing Confederate statues.

      It’s not the Democrats

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      They’d all have to move north and emancipate the slaves though. Something tells me they’d be on the wrong side of that history too.

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    Can…. Can we just give this guy a drug test?

    Full panel, and a full panel tox screen, too.

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      Check his brain for worms too

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        I mean, we should rule these things out.

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    As with anything GOP-related, if they’re projecting it onto Democrats, they’re guilty of it themselves.

    Grooming children? Catholic church, which is largely Republicans in America

    Anti-LGBTQ+? The number of GOP members who have been caught with same sex partners of both underage and adult varieties makes that laughable.

    Pro-life? Several GOP members have secretly paid for abortions.

    Economy crashes or stalls? It’s because of policies that a Republican-led government made before handing the mess off to a Democrat.

    I’ll bet cash money this guy has a clan outfit in his closet.

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      He sleep in it like a pyjama and night bonet

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    Funny, they only seem to ever run as republicans.

    The military wing of the Democratic Party is the navy in my experience, but the military wing of the American left wants to fight the kkk everywhere they see them.

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    He’s saying Democrats are the KKK while promoting replacement theory, a belief of the KKK

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      Last year, there was a pitch by the Florida Legislature to ban any party that “previously advocated for” slavery, which the Democratic Party did more than 150 years ago.

      They dubbed it “The Ultimate Cancel Act”

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        Is this 🫱🦋 cancel culture?

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        Can we cancel any parties that currently advocate for slavery as well?

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          Only if you’ve got a majority in the Florida legislature and a friendly court.

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    [Insert “The What?”] meme here

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    Trying to sort through the projection, is this why they’re so afraid of Antifa? Because the GOP has a military wing with the KKK, they assume the Dems want to create a military group with Antifa or something? Certainly explains how they try to portray Antifa.

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    This chucklefuck can’t even get his story straight.

    According to him, is the DNC pro or anti immigration?

    According to him, is the KKK pro or anti immigration?

    Reactionary asshole.

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      Reactionary asshole.

      Not even that. He’s simply a liar.

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        Porque no los dos

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        I was intending this definition:

        reactionary- (of a person or a set of views) opposing political or social liberalization or reform

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      To be fair, Biden and Eric Adams can’t quite seem to figure out where the fuck they stand on immigration either. Hell, The Obama Administration RAMPED UP deportation during it’s era. Ignorance and irrationality are endemic among both parties

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    That was true when there were Dixiecrats. But they all jumped to the Republican party when Reagan was in office.

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      Conservatives were always the racists / KKK

      Party is irrelevant.

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    Perry then defended replacement theory,

    “I ain’t racist, they’re racist.”

    Immediately proceeds to do a racism

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      Big “I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I?” energy. Brings me right back to grade school…

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        They’ve been doing it for years. Like the “National Socialists are leftists because socialist is in the name” thing. Ignoring that in Europe at the time, everybody was basically calling themselves socialist to chase the votes of the working population.

        They aren’t stupid, it’s intentional, to muddy the waters for people that aren’t very familiar with that history.

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    Then why are they marching and getting cheers at GOP conferences? Are they stupid?

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      Their base is stupid, so at best they’re lying openly because their base doesn’t know any better

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