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[Dude#1279435]

Gotta be pulling my leg LOL...

Republican says far-right group should be able to 'hunt' migrants

'I would deputise the Proud Boys and the January 6 Patriots to bounty hunt illegal immigrants.'

metro.co.uk

>>>Jake Lang, who is hoping to win Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s seat in the Florida Senate elections, made the remarks to Newsweek.

‘I would deputise the Proud Boys and the January 6 Patriots to bounty hunt illegal immigrants,’ he said.

The Proud Boys, founded in 2016 by Gavin McInnes – a co-founder of Vice Media – is a far-right, all-male group which describes itself as ‘Western chauvinists who refuse to apologise for creating the modern world’.

The group takes its name from the song Proud Of Your Boy, which featured in the musical version of Disney’s movie Aladdin.

Their members have to publicly declare they are a Proud Boy and a Trump supporter, with the group’s ideas including ‘glorify the entrepreneur’, ‘close the border’, ‘end welfare’, and ‘give everyone a gun’ as well as redefining traditional gender roles (or as they put it ‘venerate the housewife’).<<<

 

[Dude#1279435]

Clearly by continuing to afirm the principle of one law for them, and a different one for everyone else....

Standard "Banana Rebuplic" procedure.

I find today's admin can say one thing one second and pivot to another a second later. Is hyper-hypocrisy a word?

 

[dlaloum]

Gotta be pulling my leg LOL...

Republican says far-right group should be able to 'hunt' migrants

'I would deputise the Proud Boys and the January 6 Patriots to bounty hunt illegal immigrants.'

metro.co.uk

>>>Jake Lang, who is hoping to win Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s seat in the Florida Senate elections, made the remarks to Newsweek.

‘I would deputise the Proud Boys and the January 6 Patriots to bounty hunt illegal immigrants,’ he said.

The Proud Boys, founded in 2016 by Gavin McInnes – a co-founder of Vice Media – is a far-right, all-male group which describes itself as ‘Western chauvinists who refuse to apologise for creating the modern world’.

The group takes its name from the song Proud Of Your Boy, which featured in the musical version of Disney’s movie Aladdin.

Their members have to publicly declare they are a Proud Boy and a Trump supporter, with the group’s ideas including ‘glorify the entrepreneur’, ‘close the border’, ‘end welfare’, and ‘give everyone a gun’ as well as redefining traditional gender roles (or as they put it ‘venerate the housewife’).<<<

The brown shirts (Germany) and Black shirts (Italy) were given free reign in this manner...

The courts need to rein them in - and if they don't then we have numerous historical precedents of what will happen in the USA. (History Rhymes rather than repeating.... but the similarities are striking)

 

[dlaloum]

I find today's admin can say one thing one second and pivot to another a second later. Is hyper-hypocrisy a word?

If the underlying primary principle is "L'etat c'est moi" (Louis XIV) - I am the state / I am the law (and subscript in todays world "I declare what reality is").

Then there is nothing hypocritical about it... the law can vary from moment to moment according to the whim of the autocrat.

Similarly "truth" and "reality" are whatever the autocrat says they are.... (as per Popes and "declaring reality")

Much like the catholic church in eras gone by, if your statements on "reality" don't align with the declared reality, you can at a minimum be cancelled, and more extreme punishments aren't out of the question. Hence a myriad of experts in the health field at the CDC, are out of work now, alongside many climate scientists, etc...

It isn't hypocritical - it is merely based on reality, and the law, being whatever the autocrat says they are.

In the US system, this can be controlled by either congress or the courts... if neither do that, or they surrender their power to the autocrat, then we have "l'etat c'est moi".

 

[Dude#1279435]

Ask the White House a question they dislike? They’ll reply ‘your mom’

Trump administration ‘driving Democrats crazy’ as it ramps up its trolling efforts, rebutting requests from Left-wing reporters

www.telegraph.co.uk

>>>When James Maddison asked Alexander Hamilton who had made changes to his draft of the Constitution, it’s unlikely that he replied: “Your mom.”

Yet, that is how the White House has chosen to respond to a number of questions it does not like in recent weeks.

On Friday, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, answered: “Your mom did,” in response to a HuffPost reporter asking who had suggested the choice of Budapest as a venue for talks, which have now been cancelled, between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

SV Dáte had pointed out that the choice of the Hungarian capital could offend Ukrainians, given the city hosted Russia in 1994 when it promised not to invade Ukraine if it relinquished its nuclear weapons.

Shortly after Ms Leavitt’s response, Stephen Cheung, the White House communications director, weighed in with another “your mom” response for good measure.<<<

Also....

>>>Days later, Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, employed the tactic when asked about Pete Hegseth’s red, white and blue striped tie by another HuffPost reporter, who noted it looked similar to the Russian flag.

Asked if he was aware of the reaction to Mr Hegseth’s choice of attire for a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, Mr Parnell responded: “Your mom bought it for him — and it’s a patriotic American tie, moron.”<<<

 

[Dude#1279435]

Pretty iffy on the tie.