At least one House Democrat, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), is planning to vote against the resolution, telling Axios she is “not sure what is honorable” about many of Kirk’s past statements.
Asked about concerns of GOP backlash, Crockett said she lives “under their heinous threats every single day” and suggested Democrats should not be like Republicans who have “abdicated their duties out of fear.”
So far, only one courageous Democrat that will stand against the farce and celebration of white supremacy and bigotry of a person shot by a fellow Republican.
The funny thing is that they could just speak the truth and state that the Kirk fellow was a demagogue who believed in nothing and would shill for any oligarch copytext that would benefit him. They could even make a glib remark that he would shill the idea that “a mayonnaise enema supports freedumz and shit and will allow you to fly” as an example.
I don’t think Kirk was a fascist in the ideological sense and likely knew that what he was pitching was both immoral and factually wrong, but didn’t care as long it materially benefited him.
This is honestly a horrible situation not just for the US, but the democratic world at large. US moving from proto-fascism to full fascism in not a good thing for the global democracy and human rights.
Its Democratic leaderships fault for reacting the way they did in sanitizing his legacy.
They’ve been sleepwalking into this trap for 10 years by continuing to move right however many voters it lost them. They didn’t even want to win if it would require the leftist vote to do so. Now they simply reap what they sow.
“Moskowitz added, ‘We talk about bringing the temperature down, this is one way to do that.’”
This is what frustrates me the most, because all this does is further embolden the right and add fuel to the fire, IMO. Then again, blowing it off will do the same thing. Such is the consequence of tolerating intolerance and entertaining the illogical.
🙄 Just don’t show up for the vote.
Gotta toe the line, guysssss. If we don’t mourn the hateful thought leader with the hateful voting block they might hate us more. Sorry hands are tied 😢
… is not whipping the resolution …
I chuckle every time…
But don’t worry guys, our side* isn’t a rotten shell, designed to keep idiots placated with meaningless virtue signaling.
They actually care about us and not their billions if dollars in investment and positions of power.
