— Rand Paul's Neighbor - maybe its a joke, maybe not (@jbrown11871) July 1, 2023
Woman at Trump rally is asked what Trump should do on day 1 if elected. She says he should put Biden in jail then round up people in the Deep State and "take them to the train station." pic.twitter.com/5p0sIFL84e
— JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx (@MinkoffMinx) July 1, 2023
From the link:
The riot, when it finally happened, was a leisurely one. In the weeks leading up to August 11, 1834, the people of Boston had been openly discussing burning down the Ursuline Convent that stood just outside the city, in what is now Somerville. The convent, many had become convinced, was a den of sexual iniquity, where priests used the confessional as a mixture of blackmail and mind control to exert power over young women and force them into sexual depravity. Further, many in the town had come to believe, infants born of these transgressions were being murdered and buried in the convent's basement. The only solution was to liberate the women and, calmly, burn the whole place to the ground.
The Ursuline convent was targeted because of conspiracy theories that, in many ways, were the 1830s version of the contemporary panic on the right regarding child sexual abuse: Pizzagate—the conspiracy theory that, in a secret basement under a pizza parlor in Washington, D.C., Hillary Clinton and her circle abused children, drank their blood, and harvested their organs; Operation Underground Railroad—a dubious nonprofit group that alleges a vast network of child sex traffickers; and QAnon—the totalizing conspiracy theory that regularly incorporates accusations of child abuse.
Although it is tempting to see these moral panics as something new, they have been part of American culture for nearly two centuries, and they recur at key moments in history for specific, identifiable reasons. Combatting them requires first understanding that they are not only not novel, but in fact rote—almost to the point of banality.
It's a little bit of a long read, but I think you will find it fascinating…so check it out.
"Attention Target customers: As you shop, you will be allowed to look at only 7 pieces of merchandise. Then you will be asked to leave. Unless you paid a fee at the door. Then, you can look at more items before being asked to leave. We got the idea from Twitter. Gonna be great!"
So basically, now that the GOP is unable to assemble a majority, the un-elected High Court functions as the branch that will enact their agenda leaving the elected Republicans to produce nothing but political theater for the entertainment of their shrinking base#democracy?
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