(03-03-2022 06:44 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(03-03-2022 05:36 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  Meanwhile we just have more GOP politicians (including a congresswoman! ) delivering speeches to a white nationalist audience. Ho-hum.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cpac-afpa...74d72d36d1

The breathlessness of the Huffpost piece tends to overshadow any reporting value it has.

Example:

Meanwhile on the CPAC main stage attendees could see speakers like Pizzagater Jack Posobiec, QAnon congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and COVID denialist Alex Berenson.

Scott Presler, an anti-Muslim activist who played a big role in organizing 2020’s “Stop The Steal” rallies, talked to his fans in the hallway. Mark and Patricia McCloskey — the wealthy St. Louis couple who gained right-wing fame for pointing guns at Black Lives Matter protesters — were in the hallway too, passing out photos commemorating their viral moment to promote Mark’s senate campaign.

pizzagater, QAnon, Covid denialist, anti-muslim, Stop the Steal, pointing guns at BLM protesters, all in the space of two sentences. Kind of a scattergun approach to condemnation.

But in any case, I am wondering what is the message you want us to get from this posting of yours - GOP evil? White Supremacists/Covid deniers/gun owners should not be allowed freedom of speech and/or freedom of assembly? What? Real questions, 93. Feel free not to answer.

Do you not question the fact that a congresswoman is legitimizing this type of organization by showing up at their gathering, complimenting them, giving them a speech? I guess the message is that white supremacists seem to be on the rise and there is a current of it within the GOP just as there is a current of communist tendencies in the Democratic Party. You guys are forever up in arms about that current in the Democratic Party. Are you concerned about this type of thing in your own party?