Republicans: continued

[Tero]

Disbarred Giuliani keeps sending Hunter Biden photos:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/images ... s-with-son

[L'Emmerdeur]

It's not the America we know and love if we don't whitewash its history. They're trying to tear down the USA, I tell you. Well, we'll do our best to shut them up.

So much for the party that supposedly is better on the free speech thing.

'Authors say museum canceled book event examining slavery’s role in Alamo after Texas GOP leaders complained'

A promotional event for a book examining the role slavery played leading up to the Battle of the Alamo that was scheduled at the Bullock Texas State History Museum on Thursday evening was canceled three-and-a-half hours before it was scheduled to begin.

Authors of the book, titled “Forget the Alamo,” and the publisher, Penguin Random House, say the cancellation of the event, which had 300 RSVPs, amounts to censorship from Republican elected leaders and an overreaction to the book’s examination of racism in state history.

“The Bullock was receiving increased pressure on social media about hosting the event, as well as to the museum’s board of directors (Gov. Abbott being one of them) and decided to pull out as a co-host all together,” Penguin Random House said in a statement.

Gov. Greg Abbott and the museum have not responded to the Texas Tribune’s requests for comment. But Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick confirmed he called for the event to be canceled. Abbott, Patrick and other GOP leaders are board members of the State Preservation Board, which oversees the Bullock museum.

“As a member of the Preservation Board, I told staff to cancel this event as soon as I found out about it,” Patrick wrote on Twitter. “This fact-free rewriting of TX history has no place @BullockMuseum.”

Chris Tomlinson, one of the book’s three authors, responded on Twitter.

“Lt. Gov, Dan Patrick takes credit for oppressing free speech and policing thought in Texas,” he wrote. “@BullockMuseum proves it is a propaganda outlet. As for his fact-free comment, well, a dozen people professional historians disagree.”

[Brian Peacock]

They obviously didn't like the book's title. Good publicity for it though.

[Hermit]

They obviously didn't like the book's title. Good publicity for it though.

More specifically, the battle at the Alamo has been portrayed as the fight against the tyrannical President of Mexico, Santa Anna. The authors of the book argue that it was motivated by the desire to keep slaves. From the book's introduction: "Men like Bowie and Travis traded slaves, and that the “father of Texas,” Stephen F. Austin, spent years fighting to preserve slavery from the attacks of Mexican abolitionists..."

Amazon makes substantial parts of the book available here

[Tero]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Cawthorn

[Sean Hayden]

weird

[Tero]

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[Tero]

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the cut off photo is just a guy holding tar sands lumps

[L'Emmerdeur]

It's the Real Americans versus the degenerate socialist traitors who hate America, and don't you forget it.

'The Paradox of Trumpist Patriotism'

How is it that we hear the loudest jingoistic yelps from dismal patriots who cannot stand the state of the nation and half the people in it? Traditionally, the conservative right has prided itself on its heightened patriotism in contrast to the “cosmopolitan” left. As one pro-Trump writer put it, “in this age of doubt and guilt, Trump has the one absolutely essential thing: an unabashed, unapologetic love of his own country.”

But an influential set of Trumpist intellectuals shows such disdain for progressives and “elites,” and the country they supposedly corrupted, that their grandiose professions of love for country ring hollow. Examining the writings of these paradoxical patriots-without-a-patria can help us better understand the broader conservative dilemma.

In a shift from earlier conservatives, key writers and publications from the pro-Trump and self-professedly post-conservative right have begun to see the United States not just at a critical point in its history, but in many ways as past the point of no return. They envisage America as under assault by disciplined and united leftists. According to one essayist in the American Mind, the “ruling class” has divided Americans “over a novel coronavirus and fabricated racial animus”—all of which was just a diversion from how that ruling class has been destroying Americans’ “humanity, freedom, and security in pursuit of their unending lust for power and control.” David Azerrad, an assistant professor at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C. campus, gives American decline a historical context, pointing to two phases: first, the rise in the 1960s and ’70s of Black Power and women’s and queer liberation movements critical of white, Christian, mainstream America; and second, the moment, some years later, when the targets of that criticism, “members of the so-called oppressor class, for reasons that have yet to be explained, accepted the critique and came to think of themselves and their country through this lens, giving rise to the self-flagellation.”

Trumpist writers have worked themselves into such a state that they have stretched their critique to include literally half of the American population. As Michael Anton, a former Trump aide who is now a Claremont Institute senior fellow and a Hillsdale lecturer, puts it, “one side loves America, the other hates it—or can tolerate it only for what it might someday become, were the Left’s entire program to be enacted without exception.” Anton, the articulate id of intellectual Trumpism, cuts America in two on religious, linguistic, and even moral grounds, casting the Biden coalition as speaking a babble of languages, worshipping “wokeness” with “Dionysian abandon,” and conceiving of justice solely through the lens of punishment. In a blunt essay, Glenn Ellmers, another Claremont and Hillsdale associate, claims “most people living in the United States today—certainly more than half—are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term.”

[Seabass]

intellectual Trumpism

Trump intellectual

Trumpist intellectuals

[JimC]

...most people living in the United States today—certainly more than half—are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term...

Just a touch of arrogance, here...

[Tero]

Republicans/Q on Twitter freaking out about Capitol Legos.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/robert-mo ... e-fbi-says

[Tero]

Greene visited Auschwitz. There were no Nazis and Jews there! How do we know what happened?
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/m ... off/40057/

[Tero]

Gunboat tours: Ted Cruz and pals
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... rder-tours
But too often, elected officials seeking a quick photo opportunity politicize the border rather than address the needs of its communities. The local joke is that if you’re a Republican a border tour requires a ride up the Rio Grande on a state-owned, armored plated gunboat (federal vessels are much less ominous looking and rarely make the photo-op cut). But if you’re a Democrat, the border tour entails a must-see-and-be-seen visit to a local facility that provides humanitarian services to migrants.

[Tero]

Gunboat tours: Ted Cruz and pals
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... rder-tours
But too often, elected officials seeking a quick photo opportunity politicize the border rather than address the needs of its communities. The local joke is that if you’re a Republican a border tour requires a ride up the Rio Grande on a state-owned, armored plated gunboat (federal vessels are much less ominous looking and rarely make the photo-op cut). But if you’re a Democrat, the border tour entails a must-see-and-be-seen visit to a local facility that provides humanitarian services to migrants.