US Politics Thread, 2.0

[Keckers]

Is this a constitutional crisis or has this scenario been accounted for?

[depili]

Is this a constitutional crisis or has this scenario been accounted for?

The voting will continue until either an official is elected or the term runs out. Murica fuck yeah!

Last time this happened it took few months and over 100 votes to resolve IIRC.

[Lallante]

love seeing GOP obstructionism turn on itself

[Nordstern]

[Joe Appleby]

Not sure if we have a South American thread, so here it goes:

https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-bolsona...ess/a-64320440

Bolsonaro’s followers have stormed the Brazilian national congress building and the Supreme Court. The congress is in recess until February 2nd, so no politicians were in danger. Bolsonaro himself is in Florida on vacation or some such, he was seen eating at KFC etc.

[Nordstern]

Not sure if we have a South American thread, so here it goes:

https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-bolsona...ess/a-64320440

Bolsonaro’s followers have stormed the Brazilian national congress building and the Supreme Court. The congress is in recess until February 2nd, so no politicians were in danger. Bolsonaro himself is in Florida on vacation or some such, he was seen eating at KFC etc.

It would be a trivial matter to arrest him if someone in Brazil asked us to.

[Dorvil Barranis]

Not sure if we have a South American thread, so here it goes:

https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-bolsona...ess/a-64320440

Bolsonaro’s followers have stormed the Brazilian national congress building and the Supreme Court. The congress is in recess until February 2nd, so no politicians were in danger. Bolsonaro himself is in Florida on vacation or some such, he was seen eating at KFC etc.

It would be a trivial matter to arrest him if someone in Brazil asked us to.

Just anyone? Seems like a pretty rough extradition policy, but sure, he is brown from south of the border, I guess that is reason enough.

[Nordstern]

[Melichor]

I really don't see anything of substance happening for the next couple of years in the house as the only GOP method of governing is doing...nothing at all of importance

[Spartan Dax]

I really don't see anything of substance happening for the next couple of years in the house as the only GOP method of governing is doing...nothing at all of importance

Thus proving the government is corrupt and not working for the people. Check Mate libs

[Nordstern]

Diners caught off guard as a GOP group aired footage relating to Breonna Taylor's death at a Kentucky restaurant: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...rant-rcna66748

Diners at a Greek restaurant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Tuesday night were subjected to police body camera footage from the night Breonna Taylor was shot and killed in her Louisville apartment in 2020, according to the local NAACP and restaurant patrons.

The Republican Women’s Club of South Central Kentucky scrambled to find a new venue for an event featuring former-Louisville-police-officer-turned-conservative-author-and-pundit John Mattingly after the initial location for its dinner, the Bowling Green Country Club, said it would no longer host the group. Additionally, gubernatorial candidate and Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles backed out of the event because of the mounting controversy around Mattingly’s attendance, according to Spectrum News in Louisville.

Mattingly was one of the three police officers who raided Taylor's home and fired shots while searching her apartment for her ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover. He was not in the apartment at the time. Glover was handed a five-year probation sentence in 2021 after he accepted a plea deal from prosecutors for charges related to narcotics.

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Prior to the event, the Republican Women’s Club said in a statement that it invited Mattingly to speak at the event “to obtain a firsthand account” of the raid that resulted in Taylor’s death.

“These events may be controversial, however, we believe Sgt. Mattingly has the right to share his experience,” the group said in a statement to Spectrum News in Louisville earlier this week. “Other individuals with firsthand experience relating to this case are welcome to request an opportunity to speak to our organization as well.”

Stacy Webb, the president of the women’s club, has not responded to a request for comment. The group’s Facebook page has since been deleted.

[Lallante]

Talk about saying the quiet part out loud. I mean, I knew they were the party in favour of murdering black people but you'd think they wouldn't be so obvious about it

[Ruri]

you'd think

found your problem

[Nordstern]

Talk about saying the quiet part out loud. I mean, I knew they were the party in favour of murdering black people but you'd think they wouldn't be so obvious about it

MAGA was fed up with being quiet about it. Saying the quiet part out loud = "telling it like it is".

[Nordstern]

In light of all the anti-trans legislation being introduced in red states:

[Nordstern]

[Nordstern]

Found the real groomers.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34a...omeschool-ohio

Earlier this month, while the rest of the country was celebrating the achievements of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., parents and children in the “Dissident Homeschool” network opened a lesson plan and were greeted with the words: “As Adolf Hitler wrote…”

The contents of the MLK lesson plan would be shocking for almost anyone, but for members of the 2,400-member “Dissident Homeschool” Telegram channel, this was a regular Monday at school.

“It is up to us to ensure our children know him for the deceitful, dishonest, riot-inciting negro he actually was,” the administrator of the network’s Telegram channel wrote, alongside a downloadable lesson plan for elementary school children. ”He is the face of a movement which ethnically cleansed whites out of urban areas and precipitated the anti-white regime that we are now fighting to free ourselves from.”

Since the group began in October 2021 it has openly embraced Nazi ideology and promoted white supremacy, while proudly discouraging parents from letting their white children play with or have any contact with people of any other race. Admins and members use racist, homophobic, and antisemitic slurs without shame, and quote Hitler and other Nazi leaders daily in a channel open to the public.

VICE News joined the group simply by clicking on a link, though the list of members was not publicly visible.

What’s even more disturbing, however, is that the couple who run the channel are not only teaching parents how to indoctrinate their children into this fascist ideology, they’re also encouraging them to meet up in real life and join even more radical groups, which could further reinforce their beliefs and potentially push them toward violent action.

‘Mr. and Mrs. Saxon’

The “Dissident Homeschool” network is run by a husband and wife team who use the aliases “Mr. and Mrs. Saxon.” This week the antifascist research group Anonymous Comrades Collective published a detailed report that unmasked the Saxons as Logan and Katja Lawrence, who live in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, with their four young children.

The researchers were able to identify the Lawrences through biographical details they shared in the Telegram channel’s group chat and on podcast appearances. One of the key clues to identifying them came when they revealed that they owned a German Shepherd called Blondi—the same name as Hitler’s dog.

The researchers found photos that Katja posted on Facebook with her German Shepherd, and were also able to confirm Katja Lawrence’s ownership of this dog through the Wyandot County dog licensing website dog search feature.

The Lawrences did not respond to multiple emails, text messages, social media messages, and phone calls from VICE News to discuss the contents of the report and their neo-Nazi homeschooling group.

Katja Lawrence, who is in her mid-30s, launched the channel in October 2021, because she “was having a rough time finding Nazi-approved school material for [her] homeschool children,” as she told the neo-Nazi podcast “Achtung! Amerikaner” last year.

Later in the same podcast episode, Lawrence expanded on her view on why she wanted to educate her children at home. “We have our children’s best interest at heart and nobody can do a better job than we can because it’s our child. We are so deeply invested into making sure that that child becomes a wonderful Nazi,” she said.

When VICE News asked for comment on the Lawrences and their channel, the host of the podcast, Gordon Kahl, replied: “I think you should kill yourself instead.”

[Jori McKie]

Found the real groomers.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34a...omeschool-ohio

Earlier this month, while the rest of the country was celebrating the achievements of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., parents and children in the “Dissident Homeschool” network opened a lesson plan and were greeted with the words: “As Adolf Hitler wrote…”

The contents of the MLK lesson plan would be shocking for almost anyone, but for members of the 2,400-member “Dissident Homeschool” Telegram channel, this was a regular Monday at school.

“It is up to us to ensure our children know him for the deceitful, dishonest, riot-inciting negro he actually was,” the administrator of the network’s Telegram channel wrote, alongside a downloadable lesson plan for elementary school children. ”He is the face of a movement which ethnically cleansed whites out of urban areas and precipitated the anti-white regime that we are now fighting to free ourselves from.”

Since the group began in October 2021 it has openly embraced Nazi ideology and promoted white supremacy, while proudly discouraging parents from letting their white children play with or have any contact with people of any other race. Admins and members use racist, homophobic, and antisemitic slurs without shame, and quote Hitler and other Nazi leaders daily in a channel open to the public.

VICE News joined the group simply by clicking on a link, though the list of members was not publicly visible.

What’s even more disturbing, however, is that the couple who run the channel are not only teaching parents how to indoctrinate their children into this fascist ideology, they’re also encouraging them to meet up in real life and join even more radical groups, which could further reinforce their beliefs and potentially push them toward violent action.

‘Mr. and Mrs. Saxon’

The “Dissident Homeschool” network is run by a husband and wife team who use the aliases “Mr. and Mrs. Saxon.” This week the antifascist research group Anonymous Comrades Collective published a detailed report that unmasked the Saxons as Logan and Katja Lawrence, who live in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, with their four young children.

The researchers were able to identify the Lawrences through biographical details they shared in the Telegram channel’s group chat and on podcast appearances. One of the key clues to identifying them came when they revealed that they owned a German Shepherd called Blondi—the same name as Hitler’s dog.

The researchers found photos that Katja posted on Facebook with her German Shepherd, and were also able to confirm Katja Lawrence’s ownership of this dog through the Wyandot County dog licensing website dog search feature.

The Lawrences did not respond to multiple emails, text messages, social media messages, and phone calls from VICE News to discuss the contents of the report and their neo-Nazi homeschooling group.

Katja Lawrence, who is in her mid-30s, launched the channel in October 2021, because she “was having a rough time finding Nazi-approved school material for [her] homeschool children,” as she told the neo-Nazi podcast “Achtung! Amerikaner” last year.

Later in the same podcast episode, Lawrence expanded on her view on why she wanted to educate her children at home. “We have our children’s best interest at heart and nobody can do a better job than we can because it’s our child. We are so deeply invested into making sure that that child becomes a wonderful Nazi,” she said.

When VICE News asked for comment on the Lawrences and their channel, the host of the podcast, Gordon Kahl, replied: “I think you should kill yourself instead.”

WTF, while reading i thought can't be true must be a joke but it's the US. I hope they're under FBI, Homeland, whatever agency surveillance because those kind of groups breads the next idiot shooting/bombing someone/something.

[Jori McKie]

Just read this piece, crazies are invading US politics. It's insane we are back to the middle age and i wouldn't be surprised when someone soon is shouting "burn the witch" again.

In a Thursday speech to a right-wing “patriot” group in nearby Charlotte, Karamo argued that Christianity belonged at the core of American politics, called evolution “one of the biggest frauds ever perpetuated on society,” and asserted the existence of demons.

“When we start talking about the spiritual reality of the demonic forces, it’s like, ‘Oh, my God, this is crazy, we can’t go there,’” Karamo said. “No. It’s like, did you read the Bible? Didn’t Jesus perform exorcisms? … Scriptures are clear. And so if we’re not operating as though the spirit realities of the world exist, we’re going to fail every time.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-karamo-trump/

[Ruri]

Just read this piece, crazies are invading US politics. It's insane we are back to the middle age and i wouldn't be surprised when someone soon is shouting "burn the witch" again.

In a Thursday speech to a right-wing “patriot” group in nearby Charlotte, Karamo argued that Christianity belonged at the core of American politics, called evolution “one of the biggest frauds ever perpetuated on society,” and asserted the existence of demons.

“When we start talking about the spiritual reality of the demonic forces, it’s like, ‘Oh, my God, this is crazy, we can’t go there,’” Karamo said. “No. It’s like, did you read the Bible? Didn’t Jesus perform exorcisms? … Scriptures are clear. And so if we’re not operating as though the spirit realities of the world exist, we’re going to fail every time.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-karamo-trump/

They've always been in US politics, this invasion began in the 1970's and likely hit it's high water mark with W. Bush, but as their numbers decline the spirit of the faithful grows ever more strident. Things are only going to get crazier.