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The Jacksonville shooter was one of 'the chosen people'

Jacksonville gunman who killed 3 Black people is identified: report

John Stoehr

August 30, 2023

Sarah Palin got a lot of attention after Donald Trump’s fourth indictment and arrest. On Newsmax, the former governor of Alaska asked: “Do you want us to be in a civil war? Because that’s what’s going to happen. We’re not going to keep putting up with this. I like that you suggested that we need to get angry. We do need to rise up and take our country back.”

Palin is a has-been, but her remarks indicate that “many, many, many attention-starved MAGA straphangers, in or at the periphery of national politics, are going to have a new mantra,” Ed Kilgore wrote recently. “Having burned through more conventional measures to ‘take our country back’ via normal electoral or legislative activity, Trump’s surrogates are embracing their leader’s increasingly incendiary talk about past, present, and future setbacks that must be avenged or prevented by any means.”

All this talk about civil war has many, many, many people worried, and justifiably so. But I think we should consider the fuller context, to wit: we are already in a sort of civil war. It’s slow-motion, one-sided and covert, to be sure, but it’s plainly visible if you’re willing to see it.Before we fear a civil war in the future, let’s properly assess and appreciate the one in the present. Then, perhaps, we can prevent matters from getting truly worse.

Since the beginning of the year, there have been more than 475 shooting massacres in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit tracking group. In most instances, 10 people or fewer died. By July, according to CNN, the US had “eclipsed the number of mass shootings recorded each year from 2013 through 2018. Should the current pace continue, 2023 will see more mass shootings than in 2019 through 2022.”

I don’t see anyone using adequate words to describe death on this scale. Either it’s “the price that we pay for our freedoms” (often the Republican view) or it’s “senseless” or “crazy” (often the Democratic view). But in any other time and place, in any other part of the world, we’d call this out for what it is: intentional, political, seditious, treasonous. It’s guerilla warfare.

Last weekend’s massacre in Jacksonville, Florida, is a case in point. A 21-year-old white supremacist entered a Dollar Store, armed with a semiautomatic rifle (AR-15) and a semiautomatic pistol (Glock), and shot to pieces three Black people before shooting himself to death. He left behind copious writings explaining why political murder was a legitimate recourse against enemies bent on taking away the “natural birthright” of “his people.”

The shooter, whose name I won’t use, was one of “the chosen.” That’s Thomas Jefferson’s phrase. These are people who are historically considered to be the realestof Americans. According to Jason Opal, parties and presidents have since the founding “flattered and favored the [old] rural majorities. American culture identified farm folk and small towns as the most authentic and virtuous parts of the nation — or, as President Andrew Jackson put it in 1837, ‘the bone and sinew of the country.’”

Everything was going fine for The Chosen. They controlled the country – until the revolutions of the 1960s. Specifically, until the federal government stopped balancing the country, by law, on the backs of Black people. That’s when “the heirs of Jefferson’s ‘chosen people’ lost their status as the most American of Americans,” Opal wrote. Since then, “the new, diverse America enrages tens of millions of people who predominantly live in small towns and in the South and mostly identify as white, straight and Christian.”

Another way of understanding The Chosen is by calling them what they call themselves – “Realamericans.” As I wrote in March: “Realamerica is not the real America. Realamerica, according to its adherents, is a ‘nation’ inside the real nation. It is a confederacy of the mind and spirit, made of pure makebelieve. Realamericans live according to God’s law. They share the goal of ruling, in God’s name, the real America. If Realamericans can’t dominate real Americans lawfully, they must take ‘the law’ into their own hands. With the proliferation over two decades of semiautomatic rifles, they have.”

With these weapons of war, white-power guerillas have prosecuted their insurgency. They “hit soft targets – schools, churches, nightclubs, Walmarts – anything that can’t fight back,” I wrote last year. “They foment anarchy. Spread chaos. Create an air of insanity. Voilà! The status quo is upheld by establishing an atmosphere of dread and fear that’s designed to prevent reformers from using democratic politics to reform the existing order.”

I don’t mean to suggest that all of the more than 475 shooting massacres that the country has seen since the beginning of the year have been committed by white supremacists who identify themselves as Realamericans who are fighting to protect the orders of white power against liberal values and democratic politics. That’s clearly not the case.

However, these Realamericans – and the Republicans who serve them — set the tone for everyone else. Since 2013, after the country produced for a second term for its first Black president, they have deregulated firearms at a breathtaking pace, enabling any man of any color to “solve” his problems with a gun. Moreover, that some shooters are nonwhite in effect hides the fact that more than 475 shooting massacres in under a year, more than the total of the previous four years combined, constitute guerilla warfare.

For which, Republicans like Sarah Palin should be grateful.

However much she and other “attention-starved MAGA straphangers” might pine for actual civil war, that’s not what her party wants. That would mean coming out of the shadows to take on the United States government fully and openly. There’s no chance of winning that fight. It’s better to remain hidden beneath the veil of plausible deniability. As long as the civil war is slow-motioned, one-sided and covert, the Republicans are winning.

Which is why we must see what’s really going on. This isn’t only about “the ideology of hate” coming to the surface to kill people, though it’s obviously about that, too. This is about one faction of the country going to war, literally war, with another faction. It’s a civil war, of sorts. We should say so.

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'Completely fake church' backing new Sarah Palin cause sued for campaign finance violations

Brandon Gage August 03, 2023

Sarah Palin — a former Alaska governor, rejected 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee, and twice-failed 2022 United States House of Representatives candidate — aligned herself with right-wing groups to end ranked-choice voting in Alaska following her double defeat to Democrat Mary Peltola last year. But according to a report published Thursday by The Daily Beast's Roger Sollenberger, the Alaskans for Honest Elections "church" backing Palin's campaign is being sued for multiple allegations of violating campaign finance laws.

"State filings and a recent campaign finance complaint suggest the ballot committee which features Palin as its national spokesperson, has generated a blizzard of potential violations, including attempts to skirt disclosure laws, obscure its finances, manufacture tax breaks for contributors, and line the pockets of its own officials," wrote Sollenberger, noting that the case that the plaintiff's lawyer Scott Kendall is astounded at the nature of the case.

"You turn over one rock and there's more; turn over another and there's more there too," Scott Kendall told him. "With the kind of simple-mindedness involved here, as an attorney it's almost intoxicating."

READ MORE: Sarah Palin alleges Fox News 'canceled' her but admits she 'didn’t bother asking' for evidence

Sollenberger explained that "the creation of a new 'church' to fund the whole operation—the absurdly named 'Ranked Choice Education Association'" is what makes the lawsuit unique, adding that "Kendall makes no bones about describing as 'completely fake.'"

Sollenberger learned from court filings that "the man behind these groups isright-wing megachurch minister Dr. Art Mathias, who among other things has openly practiced LGBTQ 'conversion therapy' and has claimed that COVID vaccines cause 'spontaneous abortions' in 80 percent of pregnant women. Mathias has so far sent at least $90,000 in personal contributions to the ballot committee through the RCEA."

Sollenberger said that Mathias' operation has gone to "bizarre lengths" when it comes to "shielding its finances."

Meanwhile, Palin "adopted the abolition of ranked-choice voting as a casus belli, and she's teamed up with Alaskans for Honest Elections to make her case. Palin appeared at the group's CPAC conference booth this year—which AHE scored two months after its inception—and railed against RCV in her speech at the event," Sollenberger continued. "But as the allegations about AHE continue to stack up, Palin's own choice appears increasingly misguided."

READ MORE: 'Uh, no': Sarah Palin denies MAGA is a cult

Sollenberger's full report is available at this link (subscription required).

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If you want proof that Donald Trump is not an anomaly, but rather a symptom of the racism and anti-democratic yearning that define the modern Republican Party, look no further than what's going on in Wayne County, Michigan. It's the county that encompasses the majority-Black city of Detroit as well as many of its majority-white suburbs, and the normally staid process of certifying an election there has gone badly off the rails.

This situation starkly illustrates how Trump's long-shot coup attempt — which is more a money-grabbing con job at this point — relies heavily on everyday Republicans being too blinded by their own racism and hatred for democracy to really grasp the ways Trump is using them, as he uses everyone.

To recap what happened for those who didn't get embroiled in the blow-by-blow drama of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers this week: On Tuesday, the board, which certifies local election results before sending them along to the state board, held a public meeting. By any reasonable measure, this should have been a quick vote to certify the results, as usually happens after such a clean and relatively smooth election. Instead, the two Republican members of the board — who are both white — refused to certify the vote count, angering and bewildering the two Democratic members, who are both Black.

Their formal excuse for this refusal to was that the vote count apparently included a few minor mistakes and anomalies, of the sort that occur in any election, in the precinct counting reports. This would, at most, affect a few hundred votes in a county where Joe Biden won by 350,000 votes.

The real reasons, of course, were racism and a desire to steal the election for Trump. The two Republicans, Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, were making a last-ditch attempt to keep the votes of Detroit, a city whose population is nearly 80% Black, out of the final Michigan vote count. It was a temper tantrum based on the longstanding, but usually better-concealed Republican belief that there's something not quite right about letting Black people have the same right to vote as white people.

After being the target of the wrath of the citizens of Wayne County for the next two hours, Palmer and Hartmann cracked and voted to certify the election. But after talking on the phone with Trump himself later on Tuesday night, the two circled around again, demanding a chance to rescind their votes. They are continuing to push baseless conspiracy theories clearly meant to imply that there's something shady about the very concept of treating Detroit's election the same way elections everywhere els are treated.

Sean Hannity, of course, protested on Fox News that it was a set of "truly vile smears" to suggest that racism was to blame for Republicans' singling out Detroit's election results for unnecessary delays. Of course, the racism here is self-evident. During deliberations, Palmer said, "I would be open to a motion to certify communities other than the city of Detroit." In case there's any lingering doubt, journalistDel Quentin Wilber was able to remove it with a cursory Facebook search[twt pix BO racist memes]

trump's efforts to steal this election are, it must be reiterated, a long shot. Democratic strategist Chris Marshall has argued otherwise here at Salon, suggesting that those of us who believe this are being too sanguine about the Republican eagerness to end democracy.

But the belief that Trump will fail is not based on any faith that Republicans will do the right thing. As this Wayne County situation shows, the entire Republican Party is rotten to the core, ready to throw out democracy rather than accept that people of color have equal rights to vote. Rather we are assuming, as has proven correct so far, that Trump and his minions are too disorganized and incompetent to pull off a coup, especially in the making-it-up-as-they-go-along fashion evident in the repeatedly failed lawsuits of the past couple of weeks.

Indeed, the weirdest aspect of Trump's ongoing litigation efforts is that the most immediate victims of his conspiracy are his fellow Republicans: They're the fools who keep responding to Trump's emails begging for cash. But the money Trump's fans donate, believing it may help Trump's electoral Hail Mary, is mostly going toward his "Save America" leadership PAC, not to his legal efforts.

These "leadership PACs" rose up after the Supreme Court forcibly deregulated campaign finance law in Citizens United vs. FEC, and they are often total scams. The people who run them often treat them like slush funds, using them to pay for personal expenses and luxury vacations, as well as lining the pockets of various consultants. For instance, former Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin started a PAC in 2009, which she promised would be dedicated to funding Republican candidates. Palin raised millions of dollars for her PAC, but only gave 5% to 8% of the money to candidates in any given election cycle. Instead, most of the of the money was spent on travel, media and mailing groups whose job was to promote Palin's brand under the umbrella of "fundraising."

Trump will almost certainly find even more creative ways to pocket the money, probably by having his PAC hold "fundraising" events at Trump properties. His team of lawyers is getting whittled down quickly to Rudy Giuliani, who is trying to wet his own beak by demanding $20,000 a day to waste the court's time with incoherent conspiracy theories.

Who is bankrolling all this chicanery? Ordinary Republican voters, who foolishly open Trump fundraising emails and keep hitting that "donate" button. And their foolishness is driven by bone-deep racism.

Trump and his allies haven't been subtle about their race-baiting, repeatedly attacking Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Atlanta, all cities where white residents are a minority. The lawsuits have targeted cities with large Black populations. These suits are failing in court, but succeeding at the main goal of stirring up racist hysterics in the GOP base and turning those hysterics into cash.

Trump's message to his voters is clear: The votes of people of color are inherently "corrupt" and shouldn't be counted. Sadly, that's a message that's causing GOP wallets across the country to fly open. Republican racism is so strong it trumps the common-sense understanding that it's unwise to hand over money to an obvious con artist like Trump.

It might be funny to watch fools parted from their money like this, except for the fact that the very fabric of our democracy is being torn asunder. Fully half of Republicans reportedly believe that Trump "rightfully" won the election, which is to say, they're embracing conspiracy theories that allow them to believe that white votes are the only legitimate votes. Trump will soon be leaving office and finding creative ways to pocket his PAC money, but the poison he's pumped into the system by telling millions of white Americans that their racism is righteous will linger on for decades.

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'Never Trump’ conservatives like Meghan McCain are trying to whitewash Sarah Palin’s role as the proto-Trump. Don’t let them

Written by David Neiwert / Daily Kos May 26, 2020

Like many of the so-called #NeverTrump crowd, Meghan McCain would like to airbrush history when it comes to explaining how and why Donald Trump came to be the bullying, dominating leader of the Republican Party—to paint Trump as an aberration who seized control of the party from the outside. Recently, she even tried to blame Barack Obama for the Trump phenomenon: “The culture war that I believe is real, and is raging in this country, I believe was ushered in with his administration,” she said, “and then exacerbated in the Trump administration.”

That, of course, is not what happened. The culture wars are a strategy that had its beginning during the Reagan Administration and were cooked into a concrete form by GOP “thinkers” like Patrick Buchanan and Newt Gingrich, but completely consumed the party beginning in 2008, when McCain’s father, John, selected Sarah Palin as his running mate. So I wrote a Twitter thread replying to McCain, laying out this history with video documentation.

Here’s the thread. So far, unfortunately, McCain hasn’t responded. Other “NeverTrumpers”—with similar ties to the 2008 McCain campaign—have in fact contacted me, and I hope to have a fuller report on their responses soon. In the meantime, enjoy the links and the videos.

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1) A thread about Sarah Palin, who in many ways was the key figure in the transformation of the Republican Party into the know-nothing, anti-science, conspiracy-theory-loving, cultishly authoritarian Party of Trump it is today. W/ video.

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2) I've been thinking a lot about Palin in no small part because of the way Trump-hating Republicans like @MeghanMcCain are rewriting history by trying to blame Barack Obama for Trump, because apparently _he_, not the GOP, stoked America's culture wars when he was president.

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3) Let's be clear: the GOP has been stoking these culture wars as a means of winning election since at least the days of Ronald Reagan and his presidency. But they embraced it openly beginning in 1992 with Pat Buchanan's "cultural war" speech.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2olwuAy3_og …

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4) This M.O. never ceased configuring Republican politics in the ensuing years, notably during the Bush years. But unquestionably the person who most made these culture the entire raison d'être of the GOP was John McCain's 2008 running mate, Sarah Palin.https://www.journalism.org/2008/11/20/sarah-palin-and-the-culture-wars/ …

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A distinguishing feature of the coverage of the race was how – with the notable exception of abortion – there was little discussion of the

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5) I became intimately familiar while on assignment in Alaska to examine Palin's connections to the extremist right, mainly the "Patriot"/militia movement, during her time on the Wasilla city council and then as the city's mayor. She had a fondness for the John Birch Society.

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6) Our story ran in early October, but it unfortunately didn't make it onto the radar of the national media. Still, it remained a solid story that revealed a great deal about the political creature McCain and his campaign had unleashed.https://www.salon.com/2008/10/10/palin_chryson/ …

Meet Sarah Palin's radical right-wing pals

Extremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin's political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy. "Her door was open," says Chryson -- and still is.

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7) It emerged later that Palin had watched my appearance on CNN to promote the piece and had gone nuts, creating a huge fight within the campaign that she lost, thereby inspiring her to infamously 'go rogue' for the duration. Guess I did my part.https://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/how-i-helped-drive-sarah-palin-crazy …

How I Helped Drive Sarah Palin Crazy By Digging Into Her Past

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8) However, this extremism had of course already bubbled up during the campaign -- reflected not just in her red-meat speeches but in the effect she had on crowds. This report from Al Jazeera still haunts me.

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9) The key here is that after the election, Palin didn't tone down the extremism, but rather stepped it up. She was one of the first figures from the GOP establishment to embrace the "Birther" conspiracy theories.

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10) Of course, we also know who not only followed suit, but launched his entire political career on the back of this fraudulent and racist conspiracy theory.

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11) Palin also played a key role in the increasing radicalization of the GOP, particularly through her connections to the Tea Party, which quickly became a major conduit for "Patriot"-style and Christian nationalist extremism.http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-sarah-palins-speech-to-women-of.html?m=0 …

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12) Palin also did a lot to pave the way for the gobbledygook word-salad rhetorical style that has been Trump's hallmark.

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13) By 2014, though, Palin's political style had deteriorated into maudlin and seemingly intoxicated delivery, and she became a serious embarrassment. Her speech to the Western Conservative Summit that year was a real humdinger.

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14) Who, after all, could forget "God doesn't drive parked cars"?

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15) Palin was the proto-Trump, and the culture wars waged by Republicans he stoked to democracy-threatening levels were already fully inflamed by the time he arrived on the scene, thanks to Palin. John McCain made this happen. It's too late for excuses.https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/sarah-palin-isn-t-invited-to-john-mccain-s-memorial-services …

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is not invited to any of the memorial services for her former running mate, Arizona Sen. John McCain, a source tells CNN.

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16) Palin has become something of a national joke now, dancing in a rainbow bear costume on 'The Masked Singer' to 'Baby Got Back.' But the nightmarish irony hit like lightning that night (March 11) the moment her segment ended: Trump addressed the nation on the coronavirus.

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17) Trump's narcissism dwarfs Palin's, but the politics of authoritarian and cultish faux "patriotism" is the same -- if anything, it's gone on steroids during the COVID-19 pandemic. It's a recipe for disaster and 100,000 dead.

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Sarah Palin is seeking over $75,000 in damages in defamation lawsuit against NY Times

Written by Alex Henderson December 31, 2019

President Donald Trump isn’t the only Republican politician who has been highly critical of the New York Times: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is another long-time critic —and on Monday, the 2008 GOP vice-presidential nominee filed a 52-page amended complaint as part of her defamation lawsuit against the publication. Palin, according to Law & Crime, is seeking more than $75,000 in damages as well as “restitution in the form of the Times’ advertising revenues attributable to the” June 14, 2017 article that inspired the lawsuit.

On June 14, 2017, the Times published an opinion piece by its editorial board and discussed, among other things, Palin’s political activities in the early 2010s — when her political action committee, SarahPAC, released an ad that depicted crosshairs imposed over various Democratic politicians. One of them was Arizona’s Gabby Giffords, who was serving in the U.S. House of Representatives at the time. After the ad aired, Giffords was seriously injured in a January 8, 2011 attack in Tucson by gunman Jared Loughner.

In her lawsuit, Palin asserts that it was unfair for the Times to publish an editorial linking her to Loughner’s attack. The Times’ James Bennet is specifically mentioned in the lawsuit.

The filing on Monday states, “Gov. Palin brings this action to hold James Bennet and the Times accountable for defaming her by falsely asserting what they knew to be false: that Gov. Palin was clearly and directly responsible for inciting a mass shooting at a political event in January 2011. Specifically, on June 14, 2017, the Times published an editorial authored in the name of its editorial board, which represents the “voice” of the Times, that falsely stated as a matter of fact to millions of people that Gov. Palin incited Jared Loughner’s January 8, 2011 mass shooting at a political event in Tucson, Arizona.”

Palin, Colin Kalmbacher explains in Law & Crime, first filed her lawsuit against the Times only two weeks after the June 14, 2017 editorial was published.

The filing on Monday also states, “Gov. Palin brings this action to hold James Bennet and the Times accountable for defaming her by falsely asserting what they knew to be false: that Gov. Palin was clearly and directly responsible for inciting a mass shooting at a political event in January 2011. Specifically, on June 14, 2017, the Times published an editorial authored in the name of its editorial board (which represents the ‘voice’ of the Times) that falsely stated as a matter of fact to millions of people that Gov. Palin incited Jared Loughner’s January 8, 2011, mass shooting at a political event in Tucson, Arizona.”

Palin’s lawsuit also claims that the Times mentioned Loughner’s attack in order to divert attention from violence against Republicans — specifically, the June 14, 2017 attack in which sniper James Hodgkinson in Washington, D.C. seriously injured Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana. Palin’s lawsuit mentions that the Times, in 2017, identified Hodgkinson was a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders — who, it should be noted, wholeheartedly condemned the attack and wished Scalise a speedy recovery.

The Palin filing states, “As early reports about the Hodgkinson shooting sparked speculation about whether his actions were motivated by liberal, anti-Republican political rhetoric, Mr. Bennet was outraged and decided to respond by reviving what he knew to be debunked speculation that Gov. Palin incited Loughner’s shooting. To do so, Mr. Bennet ignored his own knowledge of the facts surrounding the Loughner shooting, the well-known consensus, including within The Atlantic and the Times, that Gov. Palin’s political activities played no role in Loughner’s shooting, readily available information and articles about the Loughner shooting, and the most basic and fundamental tenants of ethical journalism.”

Bennet has stressed that he never said that Palin was directly responsible for Giffords’ shooting but rather, that he was making a point about the political environment in 2011.

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Trump's "14 Words" Speech Raises Concerns About White Supremacy

BY LISA DUNN

JULY 7 2017

In the past, President Trump and his ilk have been accused of "dog whistle politics" -- using coded language to communicate specific (usually white supremacist) messages while addressing a general audience.

His frequent mentions of Islamic extremism and the explicit statements that the travel ban is targeted at majority Muslim countries do nothing to combat that notion.

And with the speech President Trump gave in Poland on July 6, accusations of dog whistling have come roaring back to the national conversation.

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Waiting for when Trump says some variation on "We must secure the existence of our people..." and these folks act like it's no big deal.

As The Atlantic wrote yesterday, Trump's frequent references to "our society," "the west," and "shared enemies" is coded white nationalist language. (Presidential adviser Steve Bannon, per The Atlantic, once mentioned in a 2014 speech "the long history of the Judeo-Christian West struggle against Islam.")

While some may say that these are just words, context matters. In the speech, Trump mentions "the Polish experience" in regard to defending the west. Right now, the European Union is taking legal action against Poland (along with the Czech Republic and Hungary) for their refusal to let in refugees, many of whom are Muslim. This goes hand-in-hand, thematically speaking, with Trump's travel ban, which is officially the Executive Order for "Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States." The Washington Post reported that the law upon which the order is based was originally intended to "protect" the U.S. from communists and Jews.

Several have mentioned that when he talked about protecting the west, Trump meant democracy. But as The Atlantic points out,

Trump mentioned [democracy] once. And for good reason. Ideologically, what links the current American and Polish governments is not their commitment to democracy—both are increasingly authoritarian. It is their hostility to Muslim immigration.

And, again, while the similarities may just be an unfortunate coincidence, that raises the question: How many coincidences have to happen before we realize there is a deliberate, manufactured pattern here?

And the pattern continues with Trump's surrogates. Earlier today,Sarah Palin tweeted a link to a post by Young Conservatives, an alt-right blog, that mentioned a loaded phrase -- "14 words" -- which has people wondering if the dog whistles are transitioning into overt speech.

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The 14 words are, per the Anti-Defamation League, a reference to a popular white supremacist slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."

Others noticed the suspicious language in Palin's tweet:

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Wondering whether Trump's call for the triumph of "Western" civilization was a reference to white supremacy? Palin counts it out for you.

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I'm willing to believe that Sarah Palin doesn't know what "14 words" means, because I'm willing to believe she doesn't know anything at all. https://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/883271897605185536 …

@SarahPalinUSA

Trump Gives Speech to the People of Poland, Says 14 Words That Leave Americans Stunned http://fb.me/vfjqQSAg

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But there is no explicit mention of "14" or "fourteen" in the article Palin linked. So, to what 14 words is she referring?

Of the pull quotes Young Conservatives includes, the following are 14-word sentences (or 14-word complete thoughts):

Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Our freedom and our civilization depend on these bonds of history, culture, and memory Let us all fight like the Poles. For family, freedom, for country, for God. We must stand united against these shared enemies to rip them of their territory.

All of these phrases have coded white nationalist undertones: our "values," our "civilization," united against these shared enemies. They are all conceptually related to the 14 words in that they refer to securing the west's future from certain enemies. (Trump also questioned, in his speech, whether the west has "the will to survive," which is ideologically similar to securing existence for white people.)

One Twitter user (and, later, The Daily Beast) questioned whether or not Palin was dog whistling by pointing out that Palin's tweet was an auto-post from Facebook:

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And if you look at the original social title of the post (still up on her Facebook), you see that the Young Conservatives social title of the same post we link to above also mentions "14 words" -- so she herself didn't choose the phrase "14 words."

But the post has, at the time of publication, been up for almost 12 hours. Palin has not commented or offered clarification, which implies tacit support -- or, at the very least, indifference. (And indifference to white supremacy is, itself, alarming.)

Why, you may ask, does something Sarah Palin says or does have anything to do with Trump? He can't control her.

True. But given that Palin is a vocal Trump supporter who stumped for him, and she even visited the Trump White House as a guest (along with Ted Nugent, who has posted virulently Islamophobic and antisemitic screeds in the past), it's not farfetched to assume that the often marble-mouthed former vice presidential candidate is still speaking for Trump.

At the same time, whether or not Palin speaks for Trump is almost beside the point. The fact of the matter is that his rhetoric ignites something in white supremacists and has led to a spike in reported hate activity and racially motivated bullying. Words matter. The words of someone who is supposed to be the most powerful person in the world definitely matter.

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Fourteen Words, 14, or 14/88, is a reference to the fourteen-word slogan "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children," or the less commonly used "Because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth."

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14 Words. The slogan was coined by David Lane, a member of the white supremacist terrorist group known as The Order (Lane died in prison in 2007). The term reflects the primary white supremacist worldview in the late 20th and early 21st centuries: that unless immediate action is taken, the white race is doomed to extinction by an alleged "rising tide...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/:{2014/06/29/:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:sarah-palin-nancy-pelosi-cares-more-about-illegals-than-unborn-in-america/

BB BS

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin suggested that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) cares more about illegal immigrant children than the unborn in the United States after Pelosi went to the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday and said America should view the border crisis as a “humanitarian opportunity.”

Palin said her sister sent her the Breitbart TV report about Pelosi’s comments over the weekend. According to Palin, Pelosi was “either speaking such gibberish, considering her track record, or confessing one heck of a great conversion.”

“Yesterday, Ms. Pelosi spoke highly of illegal immigrants storming our U.S. border, including the children being used and abused in this crisis, and said America needs to look at this as an ‘opportunity,’ not a crisis,” Palin said in a Facebook post on Sunday. “She proclaimed, ‘every child, every person, has a spark of divinity in them and is therefore worthy of respect’ because we are ‘all God’s children.'”

Palin wondered, “How sincere is this politician’s concern?”

“Never seen as a pro-child/pro-life advocate with respect for that sacred ‘spark of divinity’ in every innocent human life in the womb, Ms. Pelosi often touts her Catholic faith but overlooks this doctrine her Church has preached for 2000 years,” Palin continued. “Hopefully she’s changed her tune on the issue of life – in which case, I’m sure she’ll invite those who understand the impact a culture of life can have on America to use her new, refreshing advocacy statement.”

Palin said Pelosi’s words Saturday at the borderabout everyone being “God’s children” are “the foundational pro-life message that can educate those in her party who constantly claim to be ‘for the children’ in one breath, but in their next breath advocate snuffing out the life of innocent children soon-to-be-born.”

“Cynics (or those of us living in reality) recognize typical liberal hypocrisy here, but then again we can hope this is revelation of a profound Pelosi political conversion!” Palin said. “Though I won’t hold my breath.”

Palin has called out the Obama administration for exploiting illegal immigrant children at the border for its political agenda.

Big Government Nancy Pelosi Sarah Palin

“All of us cherish our ideals. We do have our differences — and they are real. But I hope that we will each be humble enough to accept the good faith of others.

“I hope too that we will find wisdom from the Scriptures where it says, ‘To minister to the needs of God’s creation — humanity and nature — is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.’

“In that spirit, in order to meet the needs of the American people, House Democrats pledge to seek common ground wherever we can: To forge a bipartisan path forward on job-creating infrastructure, to make taxes and foreign trade fair to American workers, to help Americans balance work and family life, and to ‘drain the swamp’ of big money from our campaigns, all of these provisions, President-elect Trump has pledged.

“We will seek common ground. But we will stand our ground wherever in good conscience we must.

“If there is an attempt to destroy the guarantee of Medicare, harm [Medicaid], Social Security, or the Affordable Care Act, Democrats will stand our ground.

“If there is an assault on clean air and clean water; on civil rights, women’s rights, or LGBT rights; if DREAMers and their immigrant families face the nightmare of deportation, Democrats will stand our ground.

“And if there is an attempt to silence our voices for common sense gun violence prevention, with Gabby Giffords here in the chamber as our witness — Democrats will stand our ground.

“Many of us just celebrated Christmas, the birth of Christ. In sharing in our humanity, God enabled us to participate in His divinity. This spark of divinityis acknowledged in every faith tradition. In recognizing the spark in others, we reaffirm it in ourselves.

“Honoring it, honoring that spark of divinity — we are commanded to respect the dignity and worth of all of God’s children, and to work together for the common good.

“In that spirit, I offer my congratulations to the Speaker of this new Congress, a proud son of Wisconsin, Paul Ryan. He is a leader of principle, immersed in ideas, and gifted with experience.

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/guess-who-breitbart-and-sarah-palin-are-blaming-california-wildfires

collection of right-wing websites teamed up with half-term nitwit Sarah Palin to spread a fake news story that appeared to pin the Northern California wildfires that have tragically killed at least 40 people onto an immigrant man who was arrested at a park in Sonoma, California. Jesus Fabian Gonzales—who “often sleeps in the park and is well-known to law enforcement”—was arrested Sunday after starting a small fire that he says he lit to stay warm, and one that “was so small a responding sheriff’s deputy was able to mostly put it out before firefighters arrived.” Gonzales was taken into custody without incident for one count of arson, but by Tuesday, Breitbart, InfoWars, and other sites were blaring sensationalist headlines, including one that stated that the “homeless arsonist behind Calif. wildfire that killed 40 people is an illegal alien”:

Breitbart News and InfoWars offered no evidence to link the man’s arrest to the fires and their accounts of the man’s arrest were disputed the same day by Sonoma County Sheriff Rob Giordano.

“There’s a story out there he’s the arsonist for these fires. That is not the case. There is no indication he is related to these fires at all,” Giordano said in a news conference also broadcast on the department’s Facebook page and area TV stations. “I just did want to kill that speculation right now so we didn’t have things running too far out of control.”

Speculation from, say, Palin, who tweeted that “bet you not a single mainstream news organization is going to cover this story. Not PC or something.” No, it’s just fake, dumbass. In fact, *USA Today*notes that Sonoma County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Crum said that “the only questions Breitbart News and InfoWars asked were about Gonzales's ethnicity and whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement had placed a detainer on him, which would hold him for an additional 48 hours at the jail.” It’s almost like they have an agenda here!

And one of the fake news websites that ran with the story also appeared to think California was being hit by one giant fire, rather than the at least one dozen major fires that firefighters are courageously battling, and some hours away from where Gonzales was arrested. But when your goal is to blame immigrants for just about anything, who cares about the facts?

joins team bannon? of just wacko sharia bs?

Roy Moore, the insurgent conservative who rose to national fame over his hardline stances on social and cultural issues, knocked off Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) in the Alabama GOP Senate runoff election on Tuesday.

With the victory, Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, becomes the Republican nominee for the seat formerly held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and will face off against Democratic candidate Doug Jones in the general election in December. Moore pulled in nearly 55 percent of the vote, defeating Strange in all but four counties in the state.

The race was an unusual one, as it pitted President Trump, who backed Strange, against the same anti-establishment voices who propelled him to the White House. Former chief strategist Stephen Bannon and his far-right website Breitbart, ex-adviser Sebastian Gorka, and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin all supported Moore and vigorously campaigned for him. Meanwhile, the Senate Leadership Fund, a group aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), poured millions of dollars into supporting Strange, giving Moore the opportunity to paint his opponent as the establishment’s choice.

Before the results were even official, the Senate Leadership Fund conceded to Moore, writing in a statement: “While we were honored to have fought hard for Big Luther, Judge Roy Moore won this nomination fair and square and he has our support, as it is vital that we keep this seat in Republican hands.” Trump congratulated Moore in a tweet and said Strange “ran a good race.”

Trump’s involvement in the race can best be described as a Hail Mary pass. The run-off result seems to have confirmed Republicans’ greatest fears about the president wading into this race in particular. Privately, Republicans in Washington were worried that Trump’s attempts to choose sides in a Republican primary in a deep-red state could backfire politically at a time when he is still in search of a legislative victory. Trump himself admitted, “the last thing I want to do is be involved in a primary,” but has cited Strange’s loyalty as a reason to go all-in for the incumbent.

In Alabama, Trump’s core base of supporters excused his backing of Strange over Moore, saying he needed to throw his support behind the GOP establishment’s preferred candidate in order to win back some much-needed political capital. Many of those voters feel that too many congressional Republicans are working against the president rather than with him.

Trump enjoys immense popularity in Alabama, a state he won last year by 30 points, and in a normal race his star power would have almost certainly been enough to push his preferred candidate over the finish line. But with Moore ahead of Strange by double digits in some polls leading up to Election Day, it was a risky gamble for Trump from the beginning.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/sarah-palin-posts-nonsensical-rant-support-trumps-rigged-election-claims

Palin is still supporting her boy Donald Trump, even if he didn't invite her to his convention all those months ago, and even if he did essentially threaten the rule of law during Wednesday night's debate.

Shortly after the debate, during which Trump refused to commit to accepting the results of the election, Palin took to Facebook to come down firmly on the side of his dangerous "I'll keep you in suspense" assertion. "Trump's answer was right!" she exclaimed in her post. "What reasonable person would preemptively accept any and all hypothetical questions and conditions of any hypothetical election?"

Okay, just all candidates for office ever, just saying. And we don't know if they count as reasonable, but both Mike Pence and Ivanka Trump have said they will accept the will of the people.

But Palin's hero is, of course, right about everything! More of her post:

When Trump is pressed on this, it harkens back to all the GOP primary candidates who screamed at Trump to support the Republican nominee - no matter what - and Trump initially responded that he could, depending on fair treatment. That is WISE and INSIGHTFUL! Trump got screwed in that deal when he eventually pledged to support the nominee and then some of his fellow candidates turned tail and refused to reciprocate when Trump won.

Trump learned - why give opponents permission and incentive to act unfairly and cheat? It's shortsighted to commit to accepting the outcome of a race REGARDLESS of unscrupulous cheaters. How totally unfair that would be to the American voter!

Trump gave potential cheaters fair warning that we'll not give them any quarter. We'll hold them accountable. They'd better be on their toes. Cheaters will not win.

Of course Trump will accept the legitimate outcome of a legitimate election! What the heck is so hard to understand about that?

H/t: RawStory

death panel lie mccaughy --> fred t --> bachmann --> palin

http://www.amazon.com/Lies-Incorporated-World-Post-Truth-Politics/dp/0307279596

9/15

incoherent at neck cruz trump iran deal rally

Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee, appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” (at the 2:25 mark). Host Jake Tapper asked if she takes climate change seriously and Palin responded:

Sept. 6: “I take changes in the weather, the cyclical changes that the globe has undergone for—since the beginning of time, I take it seriously, but I’m not going to blame these changes in the weather on man’s footprint. Obama was up here looking at, say, the glaciers and pointing out a glacier that was receding. Well, there are other glaciers, though, that are growing up here. And he didn’t highlight that, but he used glaciers as an example.”

Palin may not blame climate change on humans, but science does; we have covered before how scientists say it’s extremely likely that most of the observed temperature rise has been caused by human emissions. Her claim that some glaciers are growing in Alaska is true, but this isn’t a reason to question human-caused climate change. Regional variations in precipitation patterns may cause some glaciers to grow, but most glaciers around the world are losing ice as the climate warms.

President Obama did indeed point out a receding glacier during his trip to Alaska from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2. He visited theExit Glacier and called it “as good of a signpost as any when it comes to the impacts of climate change.” That glacier has retreated about 1.25 miles over 200 years,according to the National Park Service. Though a single receding glacier also does not provide any proof of climate change, the president talked about the wider trend. During his speech to the GLACIER conference in Anchorage, Obama said that a recent study found Alaska’s glaciers are losing 75 billion tons of ice every year. That’s accurate.

The study in question was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in July. Researchers from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington in Seattle measured the “mass balance” of 116 glaciers in Alaska—of616 named and many thousands of unnamed glaciers, representing 41 percent of the total glacial area—and extrapolated the results to the rest of the state. They found that Alaska’s glaciers are losing 75 gigatons of ice every year. A gigaton is equal to a billion tons of ice; one scientist has explained a gigaton this way: “If you took the whole National Mall and covered it up with ice, to a height about four times as high as the [Washington] monument. … All the way down from the Capitol steps to the Lincoln Memorial.”

Reporting from New York — It's almost impossible to watch the first few minutes of a new documentary about Sarah Palin and not flinch a little at the bile unleashed on an elected official who was a virtual unknown until Sen. John McCain plucked her from obscurity in 2008.

Madonna, onstage at Madison Square Garden, describes Palin with an epithet. Pamela Anderson, on a red carpet, says, "I can't stand her," and follows up with a vulgarity. A group of men wear T-shirts describing Palin with a vile four-letter word.

The vituperation is similar to what Hillary Rodham Clinton experienced when she sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, and earlier. But sexism is not the topic, only the entry point, of "The Undefeated."

It is a two-hour encomium to Palin, a zero-warts version of her trajectory from Wasilla mayor to Alaska governor. It will be screened this summer at large conservative gatherings, and is to open theatrically July 15 in small and medium markets such as Denver, Phoenix and Orlando, Fla. The filmmaker, Stephen K. Bannon of Laguna Beach, hopes it will also appeal to moderates — and perhaps even liberals — curious about the rise of one of the country's most polarizing political figures....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/30/AR2008083001538_pf.html

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anti-muslim http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/01/1296186/-CNN-Sarah-Palin-s-Militant-Christianity

Republican Governor (AK); 2008 nominee for Vice President
Click here for 16 full quotes by Sarah Palin OR click here for Sarah Palin on other issues. 1996: initial mayoral issue: Bike paths in Wasilla. (Sep 2011) Exxon Valdez spill was environmental & economic disaster. (Nov 2009) 20 years to recover Exxon Valdez damages for people of AK. (Nov 2009) FactCheck: Praised $500M for Valdez victims; but wanted $2B. (Nov 2009) Opposed protections for salmon from mining contamination. (Aug 2008) Sue US government to stop listing polar bear as endangered. (Aug 2008) We must encourage timber, mining, drilling, & fishing. (Jan 2008) Wolf predator control is important for subsistence hunters. (Sep 2007) Feds shouldn�t list beluga whales as endangered. (Aug 2007) Provide stability in regulations for developers. (Jan 2007) Convince the rest of the nation to open ANWR. (Jan 2007) Fish platform: �Resource First� philosophy. (Nov 2006) Rail provides critical link for business development. (Nov 2006) Supports �Roads to Resources�: subsidized access to mines. (Oct 2006) Don�t duplicate effort in monitoring cruise ship emissions. (Oct 2006) Don�t amend AK constitution for rural subsistence fishing. (Oct 2006)

Republican Governor (AK); 2008 nominee for Vice President

Click here for 16 full quotes by Sarah Palin OR click here for Sarah Palin on other issues.

1996: initial mayoral issue: Bike paths in Wasilla. (Sep 2011)
Exxon Valdez spill was environmental & economic disaster. (Nov 2009)
20 years to recover Exxon Valdez damages for people of AK. (Nov 2009)
FactCheck: Praised $500M for Valdez victims; but wanted $2B. (Nov 2009)
Opposed protections for salmon from mining contamination. (Aug 2008)
Sue US government to stop listing polar bear as endangered. (Aug 2008)
We must encourage timber, mining, drilling, & fishing. (Jan 2008)
Wolf predator control is important for subsistence hunters. (Sep 2007)
Feds shouldn�t list beluga whales as endangered. (Aug 2007)
Provide stability in regulations for developers. (Jan 2007)
Convince the rest of the nation to open ANWR. (Jan 2007)
Fish platform: �Resource First� philosophy. (Nov 2006)
Rail provides critical link for business development. (Nov 2006)
Supports �Roads to Resources�: subsidized access to mines. (Oct 2006)
Don�t duplicate effort in monitoring cruise ship emissions. (Oct 2006)
Don�t amend AK constitution for rural subsistence fishing. (Oct 2006)

TUCSON:

In her statement, she also blasts "journalists and pundits" for "manufacturing a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn." She adds, "That is reprehensible."

Palin has been criticized for placing Democrats -- including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords -- under crosshairs during the 2010 election. A Palin aide denied that the crosshairs had anything to do with violence or guns, even though the former Alaska governor referred to the "bullseye" list on at least one occasion. Scroll down for a video as well as the full text of her remarks.

UPDATE:

A number of Jewish leaders have responded to Sarah Palin's statement, particularly taking issue with her use of the expression "blood libel," a religiously-charged phrase traditionally used to falsely accuse Jewish people of using the blood of babies to perform religious rituals.

Jeremy Ben-Ami, leader of Jewish advocacy group J Street, released the following statement about Palin's address:

TP:

proto was health care hecklers organized to shout down http://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/12266

mojo dutch rightwinger adviser; Not surprisingly, Livestro's views skew to the right. He helped to found the Edmund Burke Foundation, a right-wing Dutch think tank created to push back against progressive politics in the Netherlands. In one manifesto, citing the number of Muslims in the Netherlands, the foundation warned of ethnic conflict and said the country's borders should be closed. In the Dutch magazine Vrij Nederland, Livestro once wrote that the gruesome photos depicting detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib resembled little more than an out-of-control frat party; he complained that Abu Ghraib critics were "cry-babies" exaggerating the episode's signficiance. On his blog, Livestro similarly quipped that the CIA's torture techniques—with the exception of waterboarding—were milder than the hazing methods of fraternities. On the issue of climate change, Livestro falls into the denier camp: Last year, he wrote that the Climategate e-mail scandal showed there was no need for tackling a global climate treaty.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/11/sarah-palin-pac-joshua-livestro

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advisor Andrew davis (no pix on www he asures us) dep camp mgr bush-c 04 ans oppos res for rnc

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palin a jrnlism mjr and former sportscaster

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