This week on Radical Reports: Project Blitz, the state legislative playbook of the Christian Right, has once again been revealed.The Proud Boys, the self-described “Western chauvinists” extremist right-wing gang, has been highly active in recent weeks; Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, on Monday pleaded guilty to burning a Black Lives Matter banner stolen from a historic African American church in Washington, D.C.
Joshua Citarella reports about how the far-right is using the “slow red-pill” strategy,” a process of building an audience of mainstream conservative followers in order to progressively post more and more extreme-right and racist content. The true objective of this strategy was that by “building up that following, they would have successfully moved a large portion of their audience significantly further to the right.” [Guardian]
Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi white supremacist Daily Stormer, “operates hundreds of different Bitcoin addresses that collectively transferred and received at least 1 million U.S. dollars’ worth of value, some to an apparent Russian darknet site that traffics in illegal activity,” according to reporting by Michael Edison HaydenandMegan Squire. [SPLC]
Ali Breland writes that conspiracy theories revolving around claims of secret rings of occultist pedophiles or alleged satanic cabals committing sex crimes against children are often a manifestation of reactionary politics and social anxieties, and “pedophile conspiracies act as a sort of propaganda of the counterrevolution, a fun-house reflection of the real threats to the social order.” [Mother Jones]
Public libraries in communities throughout the United States are facing “draconian cutbacks or a right-wing takeover,” as conservative candidates are taking over library oversight boards behind opposition to critical race theory and LGBTQ inclusive policies. As Eleanor J. Bader reports, “while most of these opposition groups purport to be homegrown and grassroots, all have access to the support and resources (including model legislation) of numerous national right-wing organizations.” [TruthOut]
“no heterosexual brother of the Fraternity shall masturbate more than one time in any calendar month”.
(But Why?!)
Overview
Ideology: Primarily alt lite: Misogynistic, Islamophobic, transphobic and anti-immigration. Some members espouse white supremacist and anti-Semitic ideologies and/or engage with white supremacist groups.
Membership: Unknown, likely several hundred.
Notable characteristics: Members frequently wear black and yellow Fred Perry polo shirts.
Global footprint: Proud Boys have chapters in most states and several international chapters in Britain, Norway and Australia.
Membership: Controlled by local chapter leadership and subject to initiation rituals.
Tactics: Public rallies and protests. Members have been known to engage in violent tactics; several members have been convicted of violent crimes.
This cartoon has five panels. The first four panels are narrow, and show a tight close-up of a woman’s head and shoulders as she talks on a cell phone. The final panel is a long shot, showing a sidewalk scene.
Panel 1
A woman with blonde hair, and glasses pushed up on top of her head, talks on a cell phone. She looks frightened.
WOMAN: If you don’t live in Portland, you can’t imagine what it’s like. It’s a friggin’ war zone here!
Panel 2
She continues speaking into her cell phone, now looking a bit angry.
WOMAN: Every day we’re dodging tear gas and concrete milkshakes! Proud boys and antifa are everywhere!
Panel 3
She holds up one hand to cup by her mouth, as if whispering.
WOMAN: Don’t print my name…. I don’t want to become their next target.
Panel 4
She looks wide-eyed and panicked as she presses the button to hang up the phone.
WOMAN: Even talking to you like this– oh no! Someone’s coming! No, NO! Please, don’t hurt me! AAARGH!
PHONE: Click.
Panel 5
The “camera” has backed very far back, and we can now see that the woman is sitting with a friend at an outdoor table on the sidewalk in front of a restaurant or cafe. The friend is wide-eyed with shock; the woman is sipping her coffee and smiling as if she’s very pleased with herself.
We can also see almost a full block of the sidewalk they’re sitting on, and some of the street. It’s a peaceful street scene; diners sit at tables with striped umbrellas; a mom pushes a baby carriage; a parent bikes by with a toddler seated between the parent and the handle bars; two children play catch; further back, a woman in a black dress bikes, her black hair blowing behind her. The red brick building has green paint accents, and in the distance, trees and a mountain can be seen behind the city buildings.
I hope all is well and everyone and their families have remained untouched from COVID-19. With that out the way, I’ve been dugged up out of my “Pandemic Grave” because I wanted to discuss the topic of the Covid vaccines/getting vaccinated. My question is: What is it that actually makes you think the government is trying to poison you? What possess you think that this vaccine is some sort of biological chemical warfare? What gives you the audacity to “TRY” and control a woman’s uterus but we can’t even ask you ungrateful bastards to wear a mask, wash your hands, and get vaccinated without hearing about some unwritten constitutional rights being trampled upon. This human population control theory and rhetoric has begun to get old and stale quick. I understood being hesitant in the beginning, I was hesitant in the beginning as well, so I let the first round go first, and they’re still here. However, 700,000+ Americans aren’t here because COVID KILLED THEM. COVID KILLED THEM! Not the vaccine. COVID has successfully exterminated more people than ALL 3 COVID vaccines combined! Now,I understand everyone hoping on the bandwagon of some celebrity calling it a hoax, I get it, I do, because we regular folks think that they some how have the upper hand, some New World Order organization is sliding them information that we don’t know about. NEWS FLASH: Beyonce and Ellen or whom you mf’ers look up to is not sitting around a table with the elite plotting on our demise. The FUCKING Rockafellars aren’t sitting plotting our demise.
Y’all so damn smart you’re dumb. One, it was much better ways to take out billions of people much faster than this. Just think about it. Analyze it, and ask yourself if it makes sense. Secondly, YOU, YES YOU are paying the top 1% their money. You work for them, why would they intentionally eliminate basically they’re slaves? Why? A cease in their everyday Net Income gone make everybody think twice. Lastly, they need you patriotic Americans to fight in wars that only benefits them.
Another thing, I don’t give af if you’re democrat or republican, black/white/green, gay or straight, atheist or Christian we ALL bleed RED blood. Our genotypes may differ in certain DNA sequences but we ALL bleed RED blood. CORONA, however, don’t care about any of that, all Corona thinking about is attaching to a warm-blooded homosapien-sapien and thriving until it leaves you in an ICU bed, with machines alarming every minute, your family can’t be there, and you’re gasping for air. That feeling is real! THIS SHIT IS REAL! This shit way above Donald Trump and Joe Biden. It’s way above black/white/Asian/Hispanic. COVID is killing all of us. You know damn well politicians are using it for political gain and y'all falling for the okey doke, easily. Use your common sense, Pick up a book on Virology and learn a thing or five. Use your brain, you don’t go to a politician when you’re sick, you go to the doctor, right? So, why in the hell are you getting health recommendations from fucking Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke, why? Lastly, what gives you the authority to feel as if your right to autonomy trumps my right to live. We all deserve the common decency to wear a mask in public; unlike you healthy individuals out there who lacks the knowledge of how it really is to be ill, I, as an immunocompromised black woman, my 80 year old grandmother, your 80 year old mother, your dad with diabetes, your 6 month old cousin, and children under the age of 5 do; we have the same the rights under the Constitution of these United States that says and I quote:
“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Loosely translated to:
“If you can monopolize off of my pussy to win an election, I can damn sure tell your ass to get vaccinated.”
