From today's Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Dateline Lake Arrowhead, California.
If you think I overwork that phrase "stochastic terrorism" think again.
Think of the "libs of tic-toc" psychos and everybody who has encourage hatred and distrust of the LGBTQ community like Ron DeSantis.
Friday night an as yet unidentified assailant went to fashion designer Laurie Carlton's Clothing Store in Southern California, ripped down the Pride Flag she had hanging outside and when she confronted him about it he shot her to death. She was the mother of nine. The murderer fled was confronted by police and killed.
This is a hate crime, it is hate encouraged by and often directed stochastically by the Republican Party. The sooner we start recognizing this the sooner we can do things to remove the threat that party and its cult represent, represent just to letting everybody not get killed.
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Amen.
This is something that should be hung around the neck of every single Republican. I'd say from Susan Collins to Roger Stone but I don't really believe there is any difference between Susan Collins and Roger Stone, not now that she's probably never going to have to depend on duping the eminently dupable voters of Maine. The skank voted against impeaching Trump EVEN AFTER JANUARY 6TH, even though that would have permanently removed him from ever, again, holding public office. That is absolute proof that she is all-in with whatever the Republican-fascists do, a broken weather vane that always points whichever point to the right that she figures is as far right as she can go and still dupe Maine voters . Those of use who were never duped by her should never let anyone who was forget it. Every in-the-closet gay Republican-fascist, Lady G aka Lindsey Graham, every one of those whose names we don't all know should now and forever be outted and we should insist that the media not shield them as it has Lindsey Graham like forever. No LGBTQ+ person who votes Republican should ever not be called on it in public.
The use of Black People, Latinos, other members of minority groups and Women as targets for violent hatred, scapegoating and objects of fear by Republican-fascists before and during the Trump cult has always been stochastic terrorism just as it always has been, only it hasn't been this overt since the mid to late 1960s. There was a reason white supremacists left the traditional Southern Democratic party for the Republican-fascist party and it was because the majority of the Democratic Party and its national and many of its state and local candidates rejected that kind of thing. That is the reason that the Democratic Party is a truly diverse party while the Republican fascists are not.
The use of violence by and on behalf of Republicans is only going to get worse, it is already much worse than idiots in the media used to make believe it would never be. I always remember one of the smarmy NPR hosts on All Things Considered mouthed the cliche "The first person to say "fasist" loses." Such idiotic rules still rule such venues of the media, I doubt those who believe the New York Times, as I think of them, "NYT wits" will see much of it, probably not even as the fascists take control of the nuclear weapons. They are all in on it as certainly as Susan Collins always was in the absolute zero of her heart of cold hearts. I despise Susan Collins
I think it's time for us to consider preparing for the violence they will unleash. I'm considering doing things I never thought I would, like learning to shoot a gun. I remember reading Ida Wells Barnett talking about how in the face of lynch law she decided to
"I had bought a pistol, the first thing after Tom Moss was lynched, because I expected some cowardly retaliation from the lynchers. I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked."
and I am well past beginning to think that LGBTQ+ People should consider that as a realistic responsibility, now. Only they should practice regularly, probably together. If the cowards thought we might shoot back better than them, they'd cower or go after those they figured wouldn't fight back.
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