Couldn't let the first anniversary go, without pointing the finger at GOP and NRA
Couldn't let the first anniversary go, without pointing the finger at GOP and NRA
Both are soulless and selfish murders in my book
Couldn't let the first anniversary go, without pointing the finger at GOP and NRA
To TAT followers,
As I just sat through the local news here in San Antonio, where I live about an hour from Uvalde in one direction and Southerland Springs in another. I figured that this is a great day to republish a TAT article from a couple of weeks ago or so.
Last year, nineteen elementary children and two of their teachers were gunned down in Uvalde. It was just the latest in the seemingly endless stream of gun violence in Texas. Just like our epidemic of rape, Greg Abbott and his immoral, un-American, violent extremists, continue to expand access to guns, without a hint of responsibility. They are bought and paid for by the same NRA that was busted for being the bagmen for Russian campaign donations to Trump and a large number of GOP candidates.
The reposted article is plenty full of the facts regarding how the GOP, especially here in TX that sell guns for the price of dead children. I’ve seen dead children during combat deployments, mangled by weapons of war. Why these weapons are on the street is the sole responsibility of the MAGA and controlling element of the GOP. Last year, the Uvalde massacre sent me into a serious mental health downslide that took months of therapy to recover from.
Believing that guns make you a patriot is a feature of the fake patriotic identity, sold by FOX News and their ilk for nearly 30 years. as me playing next year for the Cleveland Browns. I wouldn’t wish the PTSD issues that I suffer from on anyone, not even the GOP enabler of evil, running Texas.
Abbott and crew have driven Texas education into the ground. No one else could because despite the whining by Abbott’s crew, they are the only party who has been in charge for nearly thirty years.
Today, there are twenty-one families an hour west of me that will never forget that Greg and the GOP, murdered their children. I know that I won’t either. There is nothing conservative about the obsession to wave guns around. In fact, for anyone who’s read the Second Amendment and supporting arguments, it’s damn clear that the GOP either can’t read or refuse to honor our constitution. I could care less which.
All I care about is making the pain stop. Today for the families and community, bearing the pain and maybe one day, maybe for those of us who give a damn too. Calling this version of the GOP a political party is about as accurate as calling a man-eating tiger, a housecat.
This may be blunt, but I typed part of it, through tears.
RWE, Right-wing-extremists in Dallas, murdering Americans and motivated by Russian, RWE ideology.
I don't honestly know what's worse, a Texas GOP operating on a blend of US and Russian RW ideology or Greg Abbott's witting use of it for his selfish political goals.
MAY 9, 2023
In the Associated Press article at the embedded link, is a well-sourced piece about the motivations of the Dallas, mall shooter last week.
From the article:
“Posts by Garcia on a Russian social networking site expressed a fascination with white supremacy and mass shootings. Photos he posted showed large Nazi tattoos on his arm and torso, including a swastika and the SS lightning bolt logo of Hitler’s paramilitary forces.”
The following links are to excellent reporting on global RWE and Russia’s role in inspiring, supporting and funding such extremism. I could post hundreds of similar links to credible reporting and research, but those below will give readers all they want on this topic. Russia may not be shooting at us directly, but as the Soviets before them, we are under constant attack from the Kremlin.
That the Dallas shooter was caught up in this un-American and most lethal US extremism, is not an exception, US RWE, is indelibly linked to Russian extremist ideology and their efforts to support it globally.
White Nationalism in the United States and Russia: Transnational Ties, Domestic Impact (harvard.edu)
All U.S. extremist mass killings in 2022 linked to far right, report says (axios.com)
New-Generation Warfare and the Fringe Right: How Russian Interference Impacts Right-Wing Extremism in the US, Part III - NYU Jordan Center (jordanrussiacenter.org)
Report: Democracies at Risk From Russian Money, Meddling
(voanews.com)
Russia and Far-Right Americans Find Common Ground With Ukraine War - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
How Are Putin’s Far-Right Fans in the West Reacting to His War? - War on the Rocks
MMP: Mapping the Global Far-Right | FSI (stanford.edu)
The attacks on education, on gender, via white supremacy, anti-government attacks etc. etc. etc., are all overlaid with similar nations and movements globally, that have such a direct tie to Putin. The evidence against today’s GOP regarding collaboration on undermining all Western democracies is well-detailed in intelligence reporting and in respectable, open-source media, since prior to Trump’s infamous escalator escapade. It is ongoing, substantially.
At this point in our history, the MAGA wing of the GOP and controlling element of the party is knee-deep in this ideology. In fact, a close read of the Texas GOP, midterm 2022 platform, is exemplary of the correlations. The excerpts below demonstrate the same issues as the planks of Russian and global, far-right agendas. Of note here, are the unconstitutional undermining tactics that literally, are unconstitutional. There are countless more examples that you will find by following the link to the TX 2022 GOP platform above.
The bottom line to this brief TAT is that we cannot allow one of only two main political parties, to continue operating on ideology designed to undermine democracy with anti-American, fake patriotism. Russian activity not only helped to promote what we now experience in the US from the GOP, but also underlaid everything that occurred on January 6th, 2021.
The most tragic aspect of this issue and based on a couple decades of CT/ counterterrorism experience is that hardcore MAGA types, will never recover from the shame they have imposed on our nation. Once people cross a certain threshold where they are willing to take public action on their extremist ideology, recoveries are few and far between. Shame and peer pressure may push these extremists back from public display of their beliefs, but those parts of their identity are still deeply cut into their identity.
Much of our nation’s recovery from our currently dangerous precipice must be achieved by principled conservatives speaking out and reclaiming control from primary assailants like Greg Abbott here in Texas, DeSantis in Florida or even the US Speaker of the House, who enables the RWE in the House of Representatives.
The ball is in the court of those, allegedly principled Republicans to do their part. The FBI, DHS and several other state and local entities must stop waiting for some magical solution. They must speak up and lead or we all suffer the consequences. Even some of SCOTUS’s recent decisions would leave the father of our Constitution, Pres. James Madison, rolling in his grave. Without adherence to our true national values, the MAGA sycophants will eventually nibble away at true patriotism until American values no longer exist. If you read history, this is precisely how Hitler overturned German government in the runup and throughout, WW II.
As always, thank you kindly for reading TAT,
Paul
p.s. For regular readers… Thursday I get a new cast that will hopefully, allow me more time on the keyboard.
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