I get the red tribe's general frustration! I'm a libertarian who was both sidesing up until Covid. Heck, I had still thought there was a good chance of Trump coming around to actually leading until through like June of 2020.
My comments were not meant to be inflammatory. They are dispassionate technical descriptions. The strength of the words reflects how bad this guy is for our country.
In other words, those exercising the most fundamental of Constitutional rights.
Copy of the Bondi memo at issue: https://substack-post-media.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/post-...
Kamala Harris went so far as to badger a judicial nominee about his membership in a Catholic men’s organization. ( Other Democrats did as well ).
https://www.archbalt.org/knights-leader-takes-umbrage-at-sen...
‘Alt right’ also seems to smell of terroristic accusation, but maybe that’s just my interpretation.
In fact, the KofC has been targeted by the Ku Klux Klan in the past. ( The Klan hates Catholics, as the Blues Brothers movie tells us.)*
Smearing the Knights was a vast overreach.
* If you find your position is in agreement with the KKK, it is a good time to think about it thoroughly.
Or are you merely pointing out that someone somewhere once said something bad, and so BSABSVR?
Per Google:
Those who have called the organization "alt-right" or similar terms include:
Senator Mazie Hirono: During the confirmation process for judicial nominee Brian Buescher, the Democratic senator from Hawaii included written questions that implied the Knights of Columbus was an extremist group, and later doubled down on the sentiment, with some reports stating she framed religious protections as the "alt-right's position".
Senator Kamala Harris: As a senator from California, she was involved in similar questioning of Buescher.
Jill Filipovic: A fellow at the New America Foundation and a CNN contributor, she referred to the Knights of Columbus as a "right-wing extremist" group in a tweet.
Thankfully, the hate speech seems toned down after Harris’ defeat.
Weak sauce.
> Per Google:
Oh, per Google! Well, that's an incorruptible source of truth.
peppersghost93•2mo ago
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text0404•2mo ago
Which groups were labeled domestic terror organizations by the Obama admin? SPLC is a non-profit, not a government agency.
immibis•2mo ago
michaelmrose•2mo ago
msandford•2mo ago
Don't read what I'm saying as an endorsement of what the right is going to the left right now. Nor should you read it as an endorsement of what the left did to the right back then. They're both bad.
text0404•2mo ago
You specifically mentioned Obama. How did the Obama admin do the same? Does it make this a dismissable non-issue?
RickJWagner•2mo ago
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2014/06/24/timeline-of-the-ir...
rhcom2•2mo ago
msandford•2mo ago
That's me in the post you're critizing me for. I'm explicitly saying it's not good. What else do I need to do to make sure that you understand that I don't think it's okay?
mindslight•2mo ago