More like Brown Shirt wannabes. .
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They bring to mind the Minute Men in Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here.
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These morons wear their dicks rifles in the open so we can inventory them for later when we need to act
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The Multnomah GOP should be ashamed and embarrassed at what they’ve become. I wrote to them 10 years ago about what was just ‘beginning’ and they blew me off…they could ‘handle’ it. CLEARLY they didn’t and now the Proud Boys are running the show, trashing Portland and blaming everyone and everybody not ‘them’. The media is lazy and insists it’s ‘both sides’. The ‘old’ PNW Republicans are rolling in their graves.
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One thing to remember is that here in Multnomah County, each faction of the Republican Party has about seven members on a good day. Outside of Portland, the Insurrectionists are more numerous, more dangerous and much better armed.
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Methinks Matt Shuham had way too much fun and enjoyment writing this TPM article.
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Do something with your hair, too. As I’ve observed before: You look too much like Rand Paul for my tastes.
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Nice to see that he is too religious to swear but is okay with the 2A killing stuff.
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pWNeD!
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What is it with REPUBLICANS and this obsession with “POOP” ???
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How dare you, sir! Have your second contact my second to schedule the duel. I have been called many horrific things in my life, but impugning my avatar as to having any kind of resemblance or similarity to AynRandPaul is fightin’ words!
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It’s perfectly normal and healthy development for toddlers to have an interest in their bodily functions.
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Poopy head!
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But Portland, where our story takes place, is ground zero for the “hipster lumberjack”.
In the PNW, a guy in his 20s or 30s with a huge beard is just as likely to be director of digital marketing or a data scientist for some start up as they are to be a barista.
I’m sure the pound boys signal their fascist tendencies via personal grooming and fashion choices, but beards per se aren’t an indication of political leanings in Portland
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Openly associating with these guys is not something the party should be doing, the future of the Republican Party.
FIFY
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It would benefit us all if the Republican party went through its own civil war, because we would end up with a split party, a party that was actually reasonable, or a right wing nut parade. The second would allow the nation to move forward, with conservatives making deals and acting like adults again, while the first and third would cut the power of conservatives down so they wouldn’t be able to do much outside of the pockets they controlled. The third would repel enough Americans that they would lose power completely after a while, and we’d probably naturally grow a conservative party from the Democrats like Manchin.
This would also isolate the shooting war to the conservatives, instead of spreading it across the nation…it would still be ugly but it wouldn’t lead to outright massacres of liberals/Jews/non-whites/LGBTQ that some nutcases want. Let them immolate themselves, their God can sort it out.
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Hmm, hard to say whether this is true or not. In my neck of the woods we’ve been masked up for over a year now.
I trimmed my beard shorter last spring to allow the mask to do its work, and you’d only know I have one by looking closely near the ears.
But pre-Trump plague, I will say that I had the impression that it made me look more intimidating - which was fine by me because it would limit assholery committed in my presence.
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I see Sovereign Nationalists attempting to coopt the GOP. What could possibly go wrong?
ETA: Or should I say “I did NOT ZEE what could go wrong with armed Sovereign Nationalists take over the GOP”
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I was curious about that detail as well. It seems weird to have such an explicitly political event in a church. It’s not quite the same as electioneering from the pulpit (which happens all the time) but still seems like it ought to violate tax exemption regulations
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The only church event I went that had overt security was the wedding of a friend of mine, but that was just because the mother of the bride was opposed and deputized her brothers to kill him…
The part about not telling anyone but their own faction that the meeting was happening at all, that’s pretty much a tell too. I wonder what the state party will do, because there are actual assets (office space, databases, bank accounts) at stake for the grifting.
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