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1 minute ago, Justlookingfornow said:

Perfect. Now tell me one Republican that subscribes to that.  

I read a wide variety magazines, websites, articles from across US AND hear from some Republicans in my area and on local TV/newspapers espousing these views.    A look outside your area might broaden your horizons.

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1 hour ago, Justlookingfornow said:

Perfect. Now tell me one Republican that subscribes to that. 

Before you go there. 

Wanting safe boarders and restricting immigration is not white supremacy.  Voting against liberals is not white supremacy. There are many non white Republicans that want the same. What are they? 

I have yet to hear any republican say anything against multiculturalism or multiracialism. However I have heard some liberals insulting conservative Supreme Court justices for adopting black babies. And another because he's married to a white woman. 

There is non white people who think the exact same thing as described in your post. What are they? 

And so anyone who votes republican or is a conservative is a white supremacist? 

This is beyond ridiculous.  

You haven't heard about white supremacy connections in the GOP but you have heard some nonsense about liberals disliking Thomas because he's married to a white woman? It sounds too me like you should expand your exposure to include actual issues and news. 

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13 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

You haven't heard about white supremacy connections in the GOP but you have heard some nonsense about liberals disliking Thomas because he's married to a white woman? It sounds too me like you should expand your exposure to include actual issues and news. 

Sounds like you don't have an example of "white supremacy " in the GOP. 

14 hours ago, NRSKarenRN said:

I read a wide variety magazines, websites, articles from across US AND hear from some Republicans in my area and on local TV/newspapers espousing these views.    A look outside your area might broaden your horizons.

Why don't you expand them for me? Considering you are making the accusation? 

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1 hour ago, Justlookingfornow said:

Sounds like you don't have an example of "white supremacy " in the GOP. 

Why don't you expand them for me? Considering you are making the accusation? 

 I will simply refer you to a member of the GOP who believes that there is a connection. 

 https://www.npr.org/2022/05/16/1099127039/liz-cheney-republicans-white-nationalism

Provide a couple slightly different perspectives...

https://www.businessinsider.com/every-republican-senator-block-domestic-terrorism-prevention-act-2022-5

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/04/gop-extremism-473806

And the reminder that these folks don't need me to identify them by name, they identify themselves.  Lots of people support those white supremacists today, at least with their votes and their silence, Greene just won her primary.  

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-leaders-denounce-greene-gosar-speaking-white-nationalist-event-rcna18050

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59 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

 I will simply refer you to a member of the GOP who believes that there is a connection. 

 https://www.npr.org/2022/05/16/1099127039/liz-cheney-republicans-white-nationalism

Provide a slightly different perspectives...

https://www.businessinsider.com/every-republican-senator-block-domestic-terrorism-prevention-act-2022-5

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/04/gop-extremism-473806

And the reminder that these folks don't need me to identify them by name, they identify themselves.  Lots of people support those white supremacists today, at least with their votes and their silence. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-leaders-denounce-greene-gosar-speaking-white-nationalist-event-rcna18050

Yes because Liz Chaney is completly non bias. I mean not at all. Just another person who hates Trump so much she throws out her integrity. 

So you found a person who "believes" there's a connection  but where is the actual evidence? If so abundant in the GOP, should be easy to provide at least one concrete example. 

As for Green who I do not like, I'd have to hear what she says about her involvment in the "America First convention" as well as research the group first. If in fact Green or another Republicans attend and practice any type of hate theology, they should be removed and/or voted out of office. As for a massive problem in the Republican party partaking in white supremacy,  this info ypu provide hardly proves that. 

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PBS:  Republican Senate candidates promote 'replacement' theory

Reuters/Yahoo: U.S. Senate Republicans block bill to battle white supremacy

Vanity Fair: Republicans Are Basically Starting a White Supremacist Caucus

Guardian: Republicans' white supremacist problem is a threat to America

Yahoo: Republicans are “The Party of White Supremacy,” says BU's Ibram X. Kendi

RealClear Politics: White Supremacy Now Controls the Republican Party

Reuters 2/28/22:  re McConnell statement

Top Senate Republican: No place in Republican Party for white supremacists

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WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell spoke out on Monday against two Republican members of Congress who appeared at a white nationalist conference last week, making him the latest prominent Republican to rule out any role for racist politics in the party.

"There's no place in the Republican Party for white supremacists or anti-Semitism," McConnell said in a statement, after being asked by a reporter about appearances by Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar at a meeting of the America First Political Action Conference.

About America First

Launched in May 2020, the Foundation’s mission is to be a civic organization that will educate, promote, and advocate for conservative values based on principles of American Nationalism, Christianity, and Traditionalism.

 

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Politico:  Trump’s bid to control election offices hits first battleground

2020 was an election theft dry run for Republicans. Next time, they could succeed

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...Brownstein reports on a study released last week—commissioned by the groups States United Democracy Center, Protect Democracy, and Law Forward—which determined that 13 states have already approved laws to make sure there will be partisan control over election administration, laws to intimidate election administrators, and laws requiring audits of the 2020 election, as if that is a thing. That’s beyond the orgy they’ve been having for the past decade with voter suppression laws, which hasn’t ended either. Thirty-three states have another 229 bills related to denying the results of the last election, and to limiting the electorate and predetermining the outcome of future elections.

“Taken separately, each of these bills would chip away at the system of free and fair elections that Americans have sustained, and worked to improve, for generations,” the groups concluded. “Taken together, they could lead to an election in which the voters’ choices are disregarded and the election sabotaged.”

 

Above concerns are what several AN members concerned about.

In my home state:

Far-right election denier Mastriano wins GOP race for governor in Pennsylvania
 

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Mastriano's winning campaign message wove together Christian nationalism, election denialism and a rejection of Covid mitigation policies. A number of Republicans have expressed concern that he is too extreme to beat Shapiro in November, with some state GOP leaders working behind the scenes in the past week to consolidate a large field around another candidate in hope of uniting the non-Mastriano vote.

In a speech at his election night rally, Mastriano said his campaign "has no place for hate, bigotry and intolerance," adding that his movement is "under siege" from opponents and members of the media who don't "like groups of us who believe certain things, and they paint us in these awful descriptives."

 

  View his plans:

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RESTORE FREEDOM: RETURN TO NORMALCY

  • Reject unconstitutional edicts by Biden Administration and the CDC
  • Elimination of all pandemic executive orders and edicts from the Wolf Administration
  • Immediate ban on government and school mask mandates
  • Immediate ban on all COVID-19 vaccine mandates
  • Expansion of access to off-label early treatment drugs for COVID
  • Immediate review of all hospital polices related to in-patient COVID treatment

RESTORE CONFIDENCE: ELECTION INTEGRITY

  • Immediately end all contracts with compromised voting machine companies
  • Appoint a Secretary of State with experience in securing elections from fraud
  • Ban the use of private funds (like Zuckerbucks) to influence elections

Work with the General Assembly to:

  • Eliminate “No-Excuse” Mail-in voting and Ballot Drop boxes
  • Enact Universal Voter ID for voting
  • Increase and protect poll watchers

 

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6 hours ago, Justlookingfornow said:

Yes because Liz Chaney is completly non bias. I mean not at all. Just another person who hates Trump so much she throws out her integrity. 

So you found a person who "believes" there's a connection  but where is the actual evidence? If so abundant in the GOP, should be easy to provide at least one concrete example. 

As for Green who I do not like, I'd have to hear what she says about her involvment in the "America First convention" as well as research the group first. If in fact Green or another Republicans attend and practice any type of hate theology, they should be removed and/or voted out of office. As for a massive problem in the Republican party partaking in white supremacy,  this info ypu provide hardly proves that. 

Yet what you've provided is your opinion with no supporting evidence.  Maybe you just don't know...

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-chris-wray-testify-capitol-riot-9a5539af34b15338bb5c4923907eeb67

https://www.cfr.org/event/homeland-security-emerging-threats-domestic-terrorism-and-white-supremacy

 

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Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) tweeted that the gunman was “...a transsexual leftist illegal alien named Salvatore Ramos.” That rumor was then shared by Young Conservatives of Southern Indiana on its facebook page, which has more than 4,000 followers. Alex Jones and conservative personality Candace Owens joined in, falsely blaming a transgender woman who doesn’t even live in Texas. Glenn Beck went so far as to blame the massacre in Uvalde on “bathrooms that anybody can use.”

You just can't make this stuff up.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2022/05/30/marjorie-taylor-greene-is-latest-republican-spreading-lie-uvalde-massacre-gunman-was-transgender/?sh=1e1d7ce355ed

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This was interesting. 

 

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5 hours ago, Tweety said:

You just can't make this stuff up.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2022/05/30/marjorie-taylor-greene-is-latest-republican-spreading-lie-uvalde-massacre-gunman-was-transgender/?sh=1e1d7ce355ed

A "transsexual illegal alien"? OMG, how stupid . I couldn't help but laugh at this. I picture a traditional green alien with big eyes wearing blue eye shadow and red lip stick with antennas wearing a dress! Oh dear. I hate my visual brain. 

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3 hours ago, Justlookingfornow said:

A "transsexual illegal alien"? OMG, how stupid . I couldn't help but laugh at this. I picture a traditional green alien with big eyes wearing blue eye shadow and red lip stick with antennas wearing a dress! Oh dear. I hate my visual brain. 

I pictured something along the line of the movie "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"

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