Anyone remember when Mitt Romney went to France and killed a priest when he was driving a car?
And then him and his crew turned around and said that it was the priest's fault?
Not the fault of the guy who wasn't from France. And probably had no reason to be there except to pretend he was fulfilling the mission of his bullshit church?
Do you have a source forthis? Because I have not read anything indicating Romney was at fault or that a priest was killed (it was the wife of the mission president in the same car who was killed).
‘A dispute had developed in the small Mormon congregation in Pau, in southern France, and Anderson thought he should pay a call. So he took his wife and two missionaries along, and on the way they picked up a French Mormon couple in Bordeaux.
There were six people in a car that would comfortably seat five, but otherwise it was an ordinary drive that happened to turn tragic.
On the way back from Pau, the car was hit head-on and Anderson's wife, Leola, was killed.
Anderson's driver, a 21-year-old missionary named Mitt Romney, is now a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States, with the June 16, 1968, accident one of his rare dark moments’
In that case, the driver of the other car was at fault. I’m of the opinion that the French need Mormonism like they require wine from California, but things happen.
Several years ago we were in a Bay Area (San Francisco) freeway with our three young kids in the backseat. A highway patrol car came up behind us like a bat out if hell, giving us no where to go but the left shoulder covered with rocks. We slid into the guard rail and totaled the car. The cop was on his way to an accident that had happened an hour before. No apology for almost killing us. Since then, I have watched many other cops driving recklessly, well above the speed limit, putting many innocent people at risk.
Just listened to a podcast about a seminal obscenity trial against a gossip magazine in the 1930s. The REAL reason it happened was, movie studios hated having their stars' foibles exposed and considered it bad for business.
The reasons touted in the press and the courtroom? To protect the morals of society and prevent the corruption of Children.
Seriously, it was cut and paste stuff from the book bans. Fascists can't even be original.
Invaders? People like Melania Trump and Elon Musk who jumped the queues are violated their visas and now live illegally in the US? Especially all their anchor babies to make sure they never leave. Donald Trump - son of an immigrant who didn't speak English until she arrived - and grandson of a man expelled from his own nation - must also rank with those 'invaders'. Do you deport him to Germany or Scotland?
JD's mouthpiece even managed to make it worse responding to Clark's plea, spewing out some desperately deflective "oh YEAH?" bs about angel mothers Kamala hasn't called or some such word vomit.
These people truly are so terrified of admitting mistakes they'd full on rather look like bigger assholes instead.
🤬🤬 OMG!OMG!OMG! "The Hill" also reported on the heart-wrenching comments by Aiden's father and then reached out to Vance's office for comment. Did Vance apologize? Are you fucking kidding me?! The response was extremely trumpvancian! Very "I'm rubber, you're glue!" Very childish!
"Kamala Harris should apologize to the angel mothers who testified before Congress yesterday. Will she apologize to Tammy Nobles, Alexis Nungaray, or Anne Fundner? They hold her and her open borders policies accountable for the deaths of their children,” Vance’s spokesperson, Luke Schroeder, said in an emailed statement, following the story’s publication.
“The Clark family is in Senator Vance’s prayers,” Schroder continued.
I can't say I'm surprised but holy fucking shit that is horrible. My heart goes out to that poor family and my middle finger goes out to Justa Douchebag Vance.
It honestly would have been less horrible if he'd just said "no, I'm not apologizing" since he isn't.
My mom had a habit of befriending foreigners she worked with and bringing them home for dinner. One of these was a Haitian lab tech. Daisy let me practice speaking French with her, and she was just a warm, funny, delightful person. I think of Daisy and get extra angry at that useless piece of shit Vance.
Vox: How the GOP became the party of racist memes against Haitian immigrants
"There’s something eerily familiar in Donald Trump’s and JD Vance’s lies about Haitians eating dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. Part of it is that American nativists have a long track record of fearmongering about what immigrants eat.
But there’s something else: the glee with which Republicans are spreading an obviously bigoted lie, the joy in demonizing a vulnerable migrant population.
* * *
It’s not just that the preoccupations of the extreme are making their way into the mainstream. It’s their style, the spreading of memes in ecstatic indifference to truth, that is so distinctively alt-right — yet now so normalized in the Trump movement as to be almost banal.
One X user perceptively compared the Haitians-eating-dogs meme to Jean-Paul Sartre’s analysis of “bad faith” in mid-century antisemitic rhetoric. The philosopher wrote:
'Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.'"
Thing is though that this father is exceptional...There are PLENTY of MAGA parents who would have jumped at the opportunity to allow their dead child's death to be exploited by the fascist right. It would be understandable in one's grief to 'hate' the ethnicity of the person who killed your child EVEN IF it was an accident...Greif will fuck up up and send you into all kinds of irrational places..It took courage and character to do what he did
I'm so afraid that the Clarks will need even more courage now. I fear for them because there will undoubtedly be ugly crazies threatening them on line and, possibly, in person. I'm sure this has already begun for any Haitians or perceived-Haitians in the community. Springfield Strong! ✊
Anyone remember when Mitt Romney went to France and killed a priest when he was driving a car?
And then him and his crew turned around and said that it was the priest's fault?
Not the fault of the guy who wasn't from France. And probably had no reason to be there except to pretend he was fulfilling the mission of his bullshit church?
Do you have a source forthis? Because I have not read anything indicating Romney was at fault or that a priest was killed (it was the wife of the mission president in the same car who was killed).
My bad, it did turn out that way:
‘A dispute had developed in the small Mormon congregation in Pau, in southern France, and Anderson thought he should pay a call. So he took his wife and two missionaries along, and on the way they picked up a French Mormon couple in Bordeaux.
There were six people in a car that would comfortably seat five, but otherwise it was an ordinary drive that happened to turn tragic.
On the way back from Pau, the car was hit head-on and Anderson's wife, Leola, was killed.
Anderson's driver, a 21-year-old missionary named Mitt Romney, is now a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States, with the June 16, 1968, accident one of his rare dark moments’
In that case, the driver of the other car was at fault. I’m of the opinion that the French need Mormonism like they require wine from California, but things happen.
Several years ago we were in a Bay Area (San Francisco) freeway with our three young kids in the backseat. A highway patrol car came up behind us like a bat out if hell, giving us no where to go but the left shoulder covered with rocks. We slid into the guard rail and totaled the car. The cop was on his way to an accident that had happened an hour before. No apology for almost killing us. Since then, I have watched many other cops driving recklessly, well above the speed limit, putting many innocent people at risk.
This is so sad. And so very telling of the asshats on the right.
Ta, Robyn. May his memory always be a blessing.
Just listened to a podcast about a seminal obscenity trial against a gossip magazine in the 1930s. The REAL reason it happened was, movie studios hated having their stars' foibles exposed and considered it bad for business.
The reasons touted in the press and the courtroom? To protect the morals of society and prevent the corruption of Children.
Seriously, it was cut and paste stuff from the book bans. Fascists can't even be original.
What a coward! Deport all the invaders and their liberal sympathizer traitors. If Haiti is so great, you commies should move there 😘
WOODCHIPPER4COMMIES? Did you think that up yourself or did one of the guys you blow out back of the 7/11 suggest it?
Invaders? People like Melania Trump and Elon Musk who jumped the queues are violated their visas and now live illegally in the US? Especially all their anchor babies to make sure they never leave. Donald Trump - son of an immigrant who didn't speak English until she arrived - and grandson of a man expelled from his own nation - must also rank with those 'invaders'. Do you deport him to Germany or Scotland?
oh and don't forget the OG "let's spread REALLY good lies about a particular group of people" their BFFS the Nazis
"These are not murdered children, they are top notch promotional tools for our Culture of Life messaging."
Shorter Nathan Clark: "You fascists keep my son's name out of your shit mouths."
I sure am using that phrase a lot this week. There must be something in the air.
I love this Dad & my heart breaks for his loss & the ongoing horror of losing a child, only to be used as pawn by RW weirdos & haters.
I suppose if J Divans had any sense of shame he wouldn't be the CF's VP pick.
JD's mouthpiece even managed to make it worse responding to Clark's plea, spewing out some desperately deflective "oh YEAH?" bs about angel mothers Kamala hasn't called or some such word vomit.
These people truly are so terrified of admitting mistakes they'd full on rather look like bigger assholes instead.
🤬🤬 OMG!OMG!OMG! "The Hill" also reported on the heart-wrenching comments by Aiden's father and then reached out to Vance's office for comment. Did Vance apologize? Are you fucking kidding me?! The response was extremely trumpvancian! Very "I'm rubber, you're glue!" Very childish!
"Kamala Harris should apologize to the angel mothers who testified before Congress yesterday. Will she apologize to Tammy Nobles, Alexis Nungaray, or Anne Fundner? They hold her and her open borders policies accountable for the deaths of their children,” Vance’s spokesperson, Luke Schroeder, said in an emailed statement, following the story’s publication.
“The Clark family is in Senator Vance’s prayers,” Schroder continued.
🤬🤬 Those prayers are as worthless as JD Vance! 🤬🤬
I can't say I'm surprised but holy fucking shit that is horrible. My heart goes out to that poor family and my middle finger goes out to Justa Douchebag Vance.
It honestly would have been less horrible if he'd just said "no, I'm not apologizing" since he isn't.
Heart wrenching 💯
My mom had a habit of befriending foreigners she worked with and bringing them home for dinner. One of these was a Haitian lab tech. Daisy let me practice speaking French with her, and she was just a warm, funny, delightful person. I think of Daisy and get extra angry at that useless piece of shit Vance.
Political Tools using children as political tools . . .
🎯💯🤑
Vox: How the GOP became the party of racist memes against Haitian immigrants
"There’s something eerily familiar in Donald Trump’s and JD Vance’s lies about Haitians eating dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. Part of it is that American nativists have a long track record of fearmongering about what immigrants eat.
But there’s something else: the glee with which Republicans are spreading an obviously bigoted lie, the joy in demonizing a vulnerable migrant population.
* * *
It’s not just that the preoccupations of the extreme are making their way into the mainstream. It’s their style, the spreading of memes in ecstatic indifference to truth, that is so distinctively alt-right — yet now so normalized in the Trump movement as to be almost banal.
One X user perceptively compared the Haitians-eating-dogs meme to Jean-Paul Sartre’s analysis of “bad faith” in mid-century antisemitic rhetoric. The philosopher wrote:
'Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.'"
https://www.vox.com/politics/371466/trump-haitians-dogs-cats-pets-springfield-alt-right
Haters certainly do suck.
The quote from Sartre is depressingly spot on, all of these years later.
Thing is though that this father is exceptional...There are PLENTY of MAGA parents who would have jumped at the opportunity to allow their dead child's death to be exploited by the fascist right. It would be understandable in one's grief to 'hate' the ethnicity of the person who killed your child EVEN IF it was an accident...Greif will fuck up up and send you into all kinds of irrational places..It took courage and character to do what he did
:(
I'm so afraid that the Clarks will need even more courage now. I fear for them because there will undoubtedly be ugly crazies threatening them on line and, possibly, in person. I'm sure this has already begun for any Haitians or perceived-Haitians in the community. Springfield Strong! ✊
I get the distinct feeling that they have NO MORE fucks to give...I would NOT want to be anyone who tried any shit...
rage yam's Arlington cemetery friends come to mind immediately.
oh I read that as "rape yam" and I think that is also good.
good catch...exactly...