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"American First Caucus" aka white nationalism caucus

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  1. SamFisher

    SamFisher Contributing Member

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    On the side of the Axis?

    Germany
    Ben Shapiro
    Italy (when not getting it's ass whipped by Ethiopia)
    @basso and his kith
    Paul Gosar DDS.
    Proud Boys
    The bad guy from the last season of Peaky Blinders

    Screw you all.

    Love,

    Tom Hanks
     
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    Bowling Green or Nagasaki.
     
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  3. DonatelloLimestone

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    the real story is not that, as conservatives talk about big government and over reach, its hard to understand them supporting the fiscally irresponsible trump, but the main story of federal buildings was the fbi was set to move out of the city center for an expansive campus with upgrades, this would allow to them to commercially open bidding for a hotel space in the current building just like how trump got a lease across the street for his hotel in the former postal building, he stepped in his appointed budget general changed the plan, nothing said and they decided to upgrade the building in place, thus wiping out any potential competition for his very own hotel, which has served for the disgraceful likes of Saudi Arabia among many lonbbyist etc to buy hundreds of thousands of rooms and events in paying trump organization without paying trump. Ivanka and his kids have been Implicated from the inauguration of overcharging for private and celebrations to the committee which is funded by donors and govt significantly even being warned by her own staff at the time that people will see it .

    goes further as we hear he’s bragged, on video about how much he likes Saudi bc they pay 40-50 and more millions for toys from him in cash, i was hopeful when he demanded Hilary return saudis donations for a women’s funds due to the obvious hypocrisy, but nah they gave as much for ivankas women’s iniative too. And somehow trump forgot america first and bold removal from foreign wars as he actually sent more troops to assist saudis war,c claiming “they paid for it” and refusal to look into not just kashogi but when a Saudi National being trained by our boys took out a gun on American soil.

    sadly the tribalism will only point to the otherside, not when both of em take part in acts that are f*cked and self serving, and the responses will be but what about pointing a each other and that’s modern politics bring in the most ignorant, yet confident...success is guaranteed... Mark Twain
     
  4. NewRoxFan

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    Column: When idiots in Congress decide to corner the Anglo-Saxon market
    By JONAH GOLDBERG

    Marjorie Taylor Greene was readying her assault, like that legendary Anglo-Saxon warrior Canute the Great at Assandun. The QAnon-friendly first-term Georgia congresswoman, who was banned from any committee assignments shortly after she was sworn in, was poised to launch her “America First Caucus” with Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist so odious that his siblings cut an ad in 2018 endorsing his opponent.

    They were going to be legends. But they turned out to be “cucks,” an insult that crowd loves to use.

    Punchbowl News got ahold of the “America First Caucus Policy Platform,” a seven-page document detailing what these modern-day knights of the roundtable would fight for. Contrary to a lot of the hysteria, it doesn’t read like “Mein Kampf” or “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” It reads more like what Greene said it was — a “staff-level draft proposal” based on some Trumpian boilerplate.

    Most press accounts focused on two passages as proof the American First Caucus was soaked in white supremacy. First, America should have an immigration policy consistent with “common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” Second, our infrastructure should reflect “the architectural, engineering and aesthetic value that befits the progeny of European architecture.”

    That was enough for most Republicans, as well as the press and the Democrats, to rain fire on the whole project. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy insisted the GOP is not the party of “nativist dog whistles.” This point might strike some observers of the last four years as a bit of a surprise.

    “Racism, nativism, and anti-Semitism are evil,” tweeted Rep. Liz Cheney, the valiant leader of what might be called pre-Trump conservatism in the House. “History teaches we all have an obligation to confront & reject such malicious hate.”

    The remarkable thing about this whole project isn’t just the racism or nativism, but its stupidity.

    The most enduring Anglo-Saxon political institution was monarchy. Though that was hardly unique to them. The institution that was unusual was the Witan, a meeting of “wise men” or nobles whom the king would call upon for advice on important political questions. Many historians see the roots of parliamentary democracy in the Witan.

    “It does indeed look as if the history of constitutional liberty has important beginnings in Anglo-Saxon England,” James Campbell, an Oxford professor of medieval history, has written.

    Of course, Greene, who famously thought that Rothschilds and space lasers might have caused California’s wildfires, almost certainly does not know this — and probably none of her supporters do either.

    And, normally, they wouldn’t need to know it. Outside of a few Whiggish historians, nobody really cares because our institutions aren’t “Anglo-Saxon,” they’re Anglo-American. And, besides, our Anglo-American inheritance owes far more to France (James Madison cribbed a lot of our Constitution’s structure from Montesquieu), the great commercial Republic of Holland, and the ancient Greeks and Romans than to King Canute or Alfred the Great.

    My point isn’t that these professional trolls deserve the benefit of the doubt or that their critics are wrong to assume “Anglo-Saxon” is a racist dog whistle. Any project Gosar (who is of Slovenian and Basque descent) is part of deserves no benefit of the doubt. My point is that these people are idiots.

    Perhaps the staff-level poltroons who wrote this platform meant to say “Anglo-American.” Or maybe they spent too much time in Internet chat rooms where “Anglo-Saxon” is flung about like so much poo at the monkey house.

    And they’re not just idiots. They’re also cowards. The whole schtick of this recrudescent nativist crowd is its alleged willingness to fight. Fight whom? Everyone: the establishment, the media, the deep state, the socialists, and George Soros.

    In the fevered minds of Greene & Co., people they think accommodate the architects of demographic “replacement theory” are akin to spineless “cucks.”

    Of course, it was Greene who backed down, whining that “the scum and liars in the media are calling me a racist by taking something out of context.” She has since announced that she wouldn’t be launching her America First Caucus after all.

    Ignorance is often the author of cowardice. If Greene and her fellow travelers seriously believed in anything, they’d know how to defend their claims. But when confronted with criticism from McCarthy, Cheney and the media, they surrender like meek peasants before a feudal lord, unable to defend anything that can’t be reduced to a hashtag or an applause line delivered to a crowd of people who don’t know anything, either.

    @JonahDispatch

    https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-04-20/marjorie-taylor-greene-anglo-saxon-traditions
     
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  5. Amiga

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    Using gov policy to protect his hotels - wouldn't surprise me a bit.

    Gov over-reach, socialism.. blah blah blah.. yea right.

    Trump gave billions to midwest farmers, who was on the path of being destroyed with Trumps awesome trade wars. Of course, much of that money went to big farmers and not the smaller ones.

    The right fear of socialism... gov over-reach.. went pfff. It's never was about socialism; it's about protecting my turf and socialism for me.
     
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  6. dachuda86

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    All racial caucuses need to be dismantled. We need to move past racial politicking.
     

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