Kinzinger Says GOPers Who Join Nativist Caucus Should Be Stripped Of Committees | Talking Points Memo

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) suggested on Friday that members of Congress who join a newly-formed, far-right caucus that has espoused nativist and white supremacist ideas should be stripped of their committees.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1370194

Tighty Whitey Supremacy

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I have a grudging admiration for Kinzinger’s death wish.

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What a RINO. Dude’s going to be cancelled, count on it.

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Let rebrand it for them and call it the Whites-Only Caucus.

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Kinzinger’s been reading his Socrates/Plato, it appears, trying on for size the role of gadfly.

Let’s hope (and I’m being sincere here) his death is only a political one.

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“The Republican Party is the party of Lincoln"

What’s in a name? That which we call a Republican by any other name would be as racist.

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OT, but somewhat related from The Guardian:

Alabama: Yoga can leave you injured, psychotic and a Hindu, Christian groups claim

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Right, like good for his outspokenness! but he’s surely asking for exile from the party, if not worse. These people are insane and fascists will not tolerate this level of dissent within their ranks.

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In reality, shouldn’t a nativist caucus in the USA be solely comprised of First Nation people?

Not white trash, the descendents of steerage class immigrants?

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I struggle but fail to find any positive contributions from this Republican Party to Americans’ life and well-being. They are utterly brain-dead, though a heartbeat continues. I honestly think they have a death wish at this point.

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OT but still related:

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believing that more guns will make our country safer is like believing that a basement full of oily rags will make your house more fireproof

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 17, 2021
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The 2024 GOP platform is just going to be the 14 Words.

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Gosar is Hungarian. The Huns were a mixed Eurasian and West Asian nomadic tribe. He doesn’t qualify for his own caucus.

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“History has shown that societal trust and political unity are threatened when foreign citizens are imported en-masse into a country, particularly without institutional support for assimilation and an expansive welfare state to bail them out should they fail to contribute positively to the country,” the document says, urging for a pause in immigration.

Is this why ICE keeps raiding businesses to catch large numbers of undocumented people?

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There is absolutely no one who pays even half-serious attention to politics in the last 5-10 years who should be surprised by this. The Republican Party has been disinterested in becoming anything but the openly White Supremacist GQP now long before Trump - Obama was simply the last thing to fully unhinge them.

The truly disturbing thing is that if the complacent electorate and/or the relatively disappointed ones sit out 2022, this minority of a minority will first gum up the works and then possibly in 2024 give us our own full realized American Apartheid 21st Century Style.

And after that, even the weak patina of “Woke Megacapitalism” may crumble if not already, because what are the billionaires gonna do, refuse to deal with those who can pull the levers?

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Sorry Adam, now everyone can hear rethug dog whistles.

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If media understood that we're in the midst of an ongoing domestic insurgency, it would understand that the hundreds of GOP bills intended to remove voting rights from Americans are the administrative face of a war on our democracy. I repeat—these bills are part of an insurgency.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) April 17, 2021
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Why is this guy engaging in such a futile endeavor? What’s truly absurd about this is that the real WASPs in this country—country-club bluebloods (who Donald Trump spent his life desperate to join)—must be thrilled to have this gang represent them, right?

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