Every time I see Bill Cosby’s face, followed by an article describing alleged instances of sexual assault, including the recent criminal charges lodged against him, I want to ask him a seemingly outrageous question: How long can you tread imprisonment?
I know this is not a laughing matter, but just once I’d like to see his face confront the irony of his most famous one-liner being used to pillory him, because the joke is no longer funny and the comedian who made it famous is no longer the god of laughter. I’m not amused by Cosby’s fall from grace, because the trail of that fall is littered with the anguish of dozens of sexually assaulted victims, but I am happy that the veil of secrecy under which he operated has been lifted and his actions have been laid bare for everyone to see, including his once adoring fans.
Whatever the outcome of Bill Cosby’s current criminal charges, one thing is crystal clear – the Ark has sailed without him, and successfully treading water is not an option.
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Monday, January 4, 2016
GET OFF MY PROPERTY
The Bundy bandits are at it again, this time in Oregon where a group of militiamen, including Ammon Bundy, the son of outlaw rancher Cliven Bundy, have commandeered a federal building - the park headquarters at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The militiamen initially held a rally in Burns, Oregon to protest the imprisonment of two rancher arsonists who intentionally set fires that scorched federally-owned grazing land, but the protest rally was apparently not sufficient to suit their goal, so they hijacked the park headquarters building at the wildlife refuge to attract more notoriety. The militiamen got the notoriety they were seeking. Now it’s time for federal authorities to clear out the headquarters and toss those militiamen’s butts in jail.
Why? Well, for starters, that land belongs to me…and you…and the three hundred and fifty million other Americans who have delegated to our federal government the responsibility of managing federally-owned lands for the benefit of all our citizenry. The Bundy bandits are attempting an armed takeover of those lands without paying for the right to use them. That makes them trespassers and terrorists, not patriots. Don’t think for one second that those same ranchers wouldn’t use their shotguns and assault rifles if any of us tried to graze our cattle on their private lands, and they’d be the first to claim they were justified in using force to protect their own property rights.
We have property rights to federally-owned lands, too, and our collective right to the fruits of those lands takes precedent over the right of any one or handful of individuals to use the land to the exclusion of others. The Bundy bandits are trespassers who demand, at the end of the barrel of a gun, to graze their cattle on federally-owned land, free of charge, but I’ll be damned if they’re going to force me to hand over my citizenship right to a share of the grazing fees just because a pack of gun-toting cowboys think their rights outweigh mine. The last thing America needs is another Ruby Ridge or Waco fiasco, but the Bundy bandits and their militia followers are just another ISIS-like terrorist group, and they should be treated accordingly.
Why? Well, for starters, that land belongs to me…and you…and the three hundred and fifty million other Americans who have delegated to our federal government the responsibility of managing federally-owned lands for the benefit of all our citizenry. The Bundy bandits are attempting an armed takeover of those lands without paying for the right to use them. That makes them trespassers and terrorists, not patriots. Don’t think for one second that those same ranchers wouldn’t use their shotguns and assault rifles if any of us tried to graze our cattle on their private lands, and they’d be the first to claim they were justified in using force to protect their own property rights.
We have property rights to federally-owned lands, too, and our collective right to the fruits of those lands takes precedent over the right of any one or handful of individuals to use the land to the exclusion of others. The Bundy bandits are trespassers who demand, at the end of the barrel of a gun, to graze their cattle on federally-owned land, free of charge, but I’ll be damned if they’re going to force me to hand over my citizenship right to a share of the grazing fees just because a pack of gun-toting cowboys think their rights outweigh mine. The last thing America needs is another Ruby Ridge or Waco fiasco, but the Bundy bandits and their militia followers are just another ISIS-like terrorist group, and they should be treated accordingly.
Sunday, January 3, 2016
THE WAY TO PEACE IS THROUGH CHARITY
“Overcoming indifference and winning peace…involves a real struggle, a spiritual battle that takes place in our hearts, for the enemy of peace is not only war, but also indifference, that makes us think only of ourselves and creates barriers, suspicions, fears and closure. Let us begin to open our hearts to the needs of our neighbor.” ~ Pope Francis, speaking to thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square on January 1, 2016.
Dear Pope Francis…
You are speaking to the choir here, Your Eminence, but I have to warn you that such talk in America is somewhat akin to high treason and sounds suspiciously like calling for wealth redistribution. In this Nation, conservatives have declared such talk sinful and an abomination against God. Now, I realize that in the Catholic faith, you are considered God’s representative here on Earth, but here in America you are going to have to take a backseat to FOX News commentators and our Republican presidential candidates. It’s just the way things are, and don’t even think of trying to outshout Donald Trump. You don’t have a prayer!
Given your background, Your Holiness, I can understand why you’d have an affinity for the poor and the oppressed, as did Christ, and that you’d want to do everything in your power to help them. That’s a laudable objective and I admire you for having it, but I must be frank here. If you continue pushing this “help the poor” agenda that you appear to be fixated on, your polling numbers are going to drop and the Sunday morning collection plate is going to suffer – big time! That’s because Americans hate being told what to do with our money, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s you, God, the government or one of our Democratic presidential candidates doing the telling.
Can I give you a little advice, Your Eminence? Stick to the freebies! No, I’m not talking about coupons or the blue light specials at K-Mart. I’m talking about the kind of issues that don’t cost a dime, like gay-bashing, denouncing abortions and the War on Christmas. Conservatives in America go ape over those issues, because there is no cost to the pocketbook involved. Helping the poor, well, that’s another matter. When you talk about food stamps and housing vouchers and day-care assistance and the mother-of-all do good programs, Obamacare, you’re talking about taxpayer dollars being used to help the poor and that’s worse than just about any mortal sin you could think of. I say “just about,” because some of your Bishops here in America say that voting for Democrats is a mortal sin, too. Personally, I think they’re full of shit, but that’s just my humble opinion.
Do you remember that New Testament passage (Mark 10:17-22) where the guy asked Jesus what he should do to attain eternal life and Jesus responded, “Go, sell whatever you have and give it to the poor?” Well, that’s a misprint! Ted Cruz said so.
An Admirer,
Steve
Dear Pope Francis…
You are speaking to the choir here, Your Eminence, but I have to warn you that such talk in America is somewhat akin to high treason and sounds suspiciously like calling for wealth redistribution. In this Nation, conservatives have declared such talk sinful and an abomination against God. Now, I realize that in the Catholic faith, you are considered God’s representative here on Earth, but here in America you are going to have to take a backseat to FOX News commentators and our Republican presidential candidates. It’s just the way things are, and don’t even think of trying to outshout Donald Trump. You don’t have a prayer!
Given your background, Your Holiness, I can understand why you’d have an affinity for the poor and the oppressed, as did Christ, and that you’d want to do everything in your power to help them. That’s a laudable objective and I admire you for having it, but I must be frank here. If you continue pushing this “help the poor” agenda that you appear to be fixated on, your polling numbers are going to drop and the Sunday morning collection plate is going to suffer – big time! That’s because Americans hate being told what to do with our money, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s you, God, the government or one of our Democratic presidential candidates doing the telling.
Can I give you a little advice, Your Eminence? Stick to the freebies! No, I’m not talking about coupons or the blue light specials at K-Mart. I’m talking about the kind of issues that don’t cost a dime, like gay-bashing, denouncing abortions and the War on Christmas. Conservatives in America go ape over those issues, because there is no cost to the pocketbook involved. Helping the poor, well, that’s another matter. When you talk about food stamps and housing vouchers and day-care assistance and the mother-of-all do good programs, Obamacare, you’re talking about taxpayer dollars being used to help the poor and that’s worse than just about any mortal sin you could think of. I say “just about,” because some of your Bishops here in America say that voting for Democrats is a mortal sin, too. Personally, I think they’re full of shit, but that’s just my humble opinion.
Do you remember that New Testament passage (Mark 10:17-22) where the guy asked Jesus what he should do to attain eternal life and Jesus responded, “Go, sell whatever you have and give it to the poor?” Well, that’s a misprint! Ted Cruz said so.
An Admirer,
Steve
Saturday, January 2, 2016
OFFENDING THE OFFENDED
“You did not offend me with your Obama comment. I didn't vote for that lying piece of crap in the white house. I am not a racist. I am just not stupid. He got elected because he got the black vote. Typically in our country blacks are not educated and there is a lot of black on black crime. You can imagine they were jumping out of their skins to have the first black president, so they all came out and voted and that is how Obama got elected. I sure as hell didn't vote for him.”~ anonymous
The above quote was part of an email exchange between two third parties that found its way into my mailbox recently as part of a political chain letter that a Tea Party follower I know sent to everyone on his list serve. The racist content in the email was troubling enough, but it’s also disturbing that such bigotry has found a welcoming home among a large captive audience here in America. Judging by the number of similar emails that get sent to my inbox, a lot of folks think it is okay to distribute such garbage. It’s no wonder that mean and degrading stereotypes regarding people of color flourish in this country, and I want to go on record as saying “Shame on you!” to the writer of the above-referenced email. You are indeed a racist and stupid to boot!
Blacks did not elect President Obama. Women, educated people and a broad coalition of black, Hispanic, Asian and other non-white voters did. In the 2012 presidential election, Barak Obama received 64% of the vote from people who had some form of high school education; Romney received 35% of that vote. Obama received 49% to Romney’s 48% of the vote from people with some form of college education. Among voters with postgraduate education, Obama took 55% of the vote compared to Romney’s 42 percent. While Obama garnered 93% of the African-American vote, he also acquired a majority of votes in other minority groups – Hispanic (71%), Asian (73%) and other non-white voters (58%). Women of all racial categories chose Obama over Romney by a margin of 55 to 44 percent. While the black population’s vote certainly helped Obama win his election, it was women and educated voters that formed largest block of Obama’s winning coalition.
On the issue of black on black crime, let’s not ignore the similarly damning numbers for white on white crime. According to the 2012-2013 National Crime Victimization Survey released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 62.2 percent of violent crimes committed against black victims were committed by black assailants. During that same time period, 56.0 percent of violent crimes committed against white victims were committed by white assailants. If black on black crime numbers casts a shadow on America’s black population as a whole, then the same shadow sullies our white population, too.
Finally, there’s the state of black education in America to consider. The email writer’s claim that blacks in America are typically uneducated ignores the millions of African-Americans who graduate from high school and college every year and enter the workforce as valuable contributors to the betterment of our society. I could point out that America has a black President, a black Supreme Court justice and that close to 200 African-Americans have served in Congress over the years, but I doubt the email writer would see those as evidence of African-American educational accomplishment. No, what the email writer is really suggesting is that blacks are stupid by race, a belief originally perpetuated to justify the slave trade. Sadly, that belief has continued to find fertile ground among racists in America, even today. While it’s true that the achievements of African-Americans students as a whole trail their white counterparts, it’s also equally true that African-American students as a whole lack the same quality of educational opportunity that their white counterparts enjoy. It’s patently unfair to prevent a group of students from moving forward and them blame them when they fail to do so.
Now who’s the lying piece of crap?
The above quote was part of an email exchange between two third parties that found its way into my mailbox recently as part of a political chain letter that a Tea Party follower I know sent to everyone on his list serve. The racist content in the email was troubling enough, but it’s also disturbing that such bigotry has found a welcoming home among a large captive audience here in America. Judging by the number of similar emails that get sent to my inbox, a lot of folks think it is okay to distribute such garbage. It’s no wonder that mean and degrading stereotypes regarding people of color flourish in this country, and I want to go on record as saying “Shame on you!” to the writer of the above-referenced email. You are indeed a racist and stupid to boot!
Blacks did not elect President Obama. Women, educated people and a broad coalition of black, Hispanic, Asian and other non-white voters did. In the 2012 presidential election, Barak Obama received 64% of the vote from people who had some form of high school education; Romney received 35% of that vote. Obama received 49% to Romney’s 48% of the vote from people with some form of college education. Among voters with postgraduate education, Obama took 55% of the vote compared to Romney’s 42 percent. While Obama garnered 93% of the African-American vote, he also acquired a majority of votes in other minority groups – Hispanic (71%), Asian (73%) and other non-white voters (58%). Women of all racial categories chose Obama over Romney by a margin of 55 to 44 percent. While the black population’s vote certainly helped Obama win his election, it was women and educated voters that formed largest block of Obama’s winning coalition.
On the issue of black on black crime, let’s not ignore the similarly damning numbers for white on white crime. According to the 2012-2013 National Crime Victimization Survey released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 62.2 percent of violent crimes committed against black victims were committed by black assailants. During that same time period, 56.0 percent of violent crimes committed against white victims were committed by white assailants. If black on black crime numbers casts a shadow on America’s black population as a whole, then the same shadow sullies our white population, too.
Finally, there’s the state of black education in America to consider. The email writer’s claim that blacks in America are typically uneducated ignores the millions of African-Americans who graduate from high school and college every year and enter the workforce as valuable contributors to the betterment of our society. I could point out that America has a black President, a black Supreme Court justice and that close to 200 African-Americans have served in Congress over the years, but I doubt the email writer would see those as evidence of African-American educational accomplishment. No, what the email writer is really suggesting is that blacks are stupid by race, a belief originally perpetuated to justify the slave trade. Sadly, that belief has continued to find fertile ground among racists in America, even today. While it’s true that the achievements of African-Americans students as a whole trail their white counterparts, it’s also equally true that African-American students as a whole lack the same quality of educational opportunity that their white counterparts enjoy. It’s patently unfair to prevent a group of students from moving forward and them blame them when they fail to do so.
Now who’s the lying piece of crap?
Friday, January 1, 2016
HAPPY NEW YEAR - 2016
Welcome to 2016, the year of the politically ignorant, the racially bigoted, the religiously zealous and the militarily ravenous hungry for blood. We are embarking on a 366 day (leap year) journey to January 1, 2017, though sadly we do so with weary eyes, heavy hearts and our hope for mankind’s redemption sorely in doubt.
Many of us are normally optimistic folks, but it seems as if the number of people who want to tear this world apart, for one reason or another, far outnumber those who want to build it up. Can the mayhem that was 2015 somehow be reversed? We shall see!
Many of us are normally optimistic folks, but it seems as if the number of people who want to tear this world apart, for one reason or another, far outnumber those who want to build it up. Can the mayhem that was 2015 somehow be reversed? We shall see!
Thursday, November 19, 2015
ATTACKING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
It’s unfortunate that GOP presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz have failed to appear on the front steps of the Word of Life Christian Church in New Hartford, New York to rally the troops in defense of religious liberty, because nothing sparks a boost in the polls like playing the Christian martyr card and Huckabee and Cruz are maestri of that particular symphony. Plus, they could use the votes. Look at all the praise and adoration (and political capital) they garnered by showing up when Kim Davis was released from jail.
You’ll recall that Ms. Davis, the Clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples on religious grounds. When a federal judge found her in contempt of court, Ms. Davis spent five days in jail for her defiance of the federal court’s order. Then, upon her release from prison, Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz were on hand to welcome her, with Huckabee hoisting Davis’ arms into the air as a hero in the fight for religious freedom and Cruz shoved aside by Huckabee’s aides who didn’t want Cruz to grab the spotlight. Surely, you must have seen the pictures. It was front-page news.
When Davis was originally hauled off to jail Ted Cruz lamented loudly on the campaign trail, “Today, for the first time ever, the government arrested a Christian woman for living according to her faith. This is wrong! This is not America.” After her release, Mike Huckabee noted of Ms. Davis’s situation, “Her being in jail brought attention to something that many of us have warned about: the criminalization of Christianity.”
Huckabee and Cruz weren’t the only GOP presidential candidates to speak their mind on the subject. Senator Rand Paul, R-KY told CNN, “I think it’s absurd to put someone in jail for exercising their religious liberty.” Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. added, “As Americans, our Constitution guarantees religious freedom which means we should be able to live out our faith in our daily lives.” Former Pennsylvania Senator, Rick Santorum heaped praise on Kim Davis saying, “…I’m very proud of the fact that she stood up for those convictions…”
With all the campaign rhetoric about Kim Davis’ virtuous stance and the need to defend religious liberty from persecution, you’d think that every Republican candidate for president would be rushing to the steps of the Word of Life Christian Church to show their support for church members and religious liberty, but you’d be wrong. In fact, none of the candidates have dropped by or even mentioned that church in their stump speeches.
For those of you unfamiliar with the New Hartford Word of Life Christian Church, it’s the Connecticut church where several of its members were recently jailed by the government over their religious practice of imposing corporal punishment on a 19 year-old sinful member who refused to show adequate remorse and repentance for his sins. Of course, that young sinner died during the church ceremony as a result of the beating he received, and that got the local police up in arms, but the point here is that a group of Christians were exercising their religious beliefs and now the long arm of the law is bringing down its hammer upon them.
Where’s the justice in that? Where’s Mike Huckabee railing against the criminalization of Christianity? Where’s Ted Cruz lambasting the police for arresting Christians living according to their faith? Where’s Kim Davis raising her triumphant fist while claiming that God’s law trumps human law? Where’s Rand Paul pontificating that it’s absurd to put someone in jail for exercising their religious beliefs? Tell me, why haven’t any of the GOP presidential contenders come to the defense of a New Hartford group of devout Christians who interpret their Scripture as calling for conduct deemed contrary to man-made laws?
You can argue that comparing murder to denying marriage licenses to gay couples is like comparing apples to oranges, but when it comes to religious beliefs, you’ll find that one person’s abomination is another person’s sacred duty. Where do we as a society draw the line?
Remember Zacarias Moussaoui? He’s the Islamic terrorist convicted of criminal conspiracy for his role in the 9/11 airline attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. Moussaoui, who's currently serving a life sentence in a government prison in Colorado, followed an ultra-conservative interpretation of Islamic Scripture which, according to his particular religious belief, called for violent jihad against non-believing infidels. Why didn’t anybody of political consequence in this country come to the defense of this devout Islamic terrorist who interpreted his Scripture as calling for conduct deemed contrary to our man-made laws against murder?
The answer is simple: religious liberty in America was never meant to be a weapon to trample on the lives and rights of others. Freedom of religion does not afford individuals a license to act however they please so long as their acts or omissions are based upon a professed religious belief. The next time a politician says it does, tell them they’re full of shit.
You’ll recall that Ms. Davis, the Clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples on religious grounds. When a federal judge found her in contempt of court, Ms. Davis spent five days in jail for her defiance of the federal court’s order. Then, upon her release from prison, Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz were on hand to welcome her, with Huckabee hoisting Davis’ arms into the air as a hero in the fight for religious freedom and Cruz shoved aside by Huckabee’s aides who didn’t want Cruz to grab the spotlight. Surely, you must have seen the pictures. It was front-page news.
When Davis was originally hauled off to jail Ted Cruz lamented loudly on the campaign trail, “Today, for the first time ever, the government arrested a Christian woman for living according to her faith. This is wrong! This is not America.” After her release, Mike Huckabee noted of Ms. Davis’s situation, “Her being in jail brought attention to something that many of us have warned about: the criminalization of Christianity.”
Huckabee and Cruz weren’t the only GOP presidential candidates to speak their mind on the subject. Senator Rand Paul, R-KY told CNN, “I think it’s absurd to put someone in jail for exercising their religious liberty.” Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. added, “As Americans, our Constitution guarantees religious freedom which means we should be able to live out our faith in our daily lives.” Former Pennsylvania Senator, Rick Santorum heaped praise on Kim Davis saying, “…I’m very proud of the fact that she stood up for those convictions…”
With all the campaign rhetoric about Kim Davis’ virtuous stance and the need to defend religious liberty from persecution, you’d think that every Republican candidate for president would be rushing to the steps of the Word of Life Christian Church to show their support for church members and religious liberty, but you’d be wrong. In fact, none of the candidates have dropped by or even mentioned that church in their stump speeches.
For those of you unfamiliar with the New Hartford Word of Life Christian Church, it’s the Connecticut church where several of its members were recently jailed by the government over their religious practice of imposing corporal punishment on a 19 year-old sinful member who refused to show adequate remorse and repentance for his sins. Of course, that young sinner died during the church ceremony as a result of the beating he received, and that got the local police up in arms, but the point here is that a group of Christians were exercising their religious beliefs and now the long arm of the law is bringing down its hammer upon them.
Where’s the justice in that? Where’s Mike Huckabee railing against the criminalization of Christianity? Where’s Ted Cruz lambasting the police for arresting Christians living according to their faith? Where’s Kim Davis raising her triumphant fist while claiming that God’s law trumps human law? Where’s Rand Paul pontificating that it’s absurd to put someone in jail for exercising their religious beliefs? Tell me, why haven’t any of the GOP presidential contenders come to the defense of a New Hartford group of devout Christians who interpret their Scripture as calling for conduct deemed contrary to man-made laws?
You can argue that comparing murder to denying marriage licenses to gay couples is like comparing apples to oranges, but when it comes to religious beliefs, you’ll find that one person’s abomination is another person’s sacred duty. Where do we as a society draw the line?
Remember Zacarias Moussaoui? He’s the Islamic terrorist convicted of criminal conspiracy for his role in the 9/11 airline attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. Moussaoui, who's currently serving a life sentence in a government prison in Colorado, followed an ultra-conservative interpretation of Islamic Scripture which, according to his particular religious belief, called for violent jihad against non-believing infidels. Why didn’t anybody of political consequence in this country come to the defense of this devout Islamic terrorist who interpreted his Scripture as calling for conduct deemed contrary to our man-made laws against murder?
The answer is simple: religious liberty in America was never meant to be a weapon to trample on the lives and rights of others. Freedom of religion does not afford individuals a license to act however they please so long as their acts or omissions are based upon a professed religious belief. The next time a politician says it does, tell them they’re full of shit.
Friday, May 29, 2015
A HATE-FILLED MESSAGE IN THE DESERT HEAT
Tonight in Phoenix, Arizona, a group of religious racists are holding a “Muhammad Drawing Cartoon Contest” outside the Phoenix Islamic Community Center, a mosque that was once attended by Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, the two men who attacked a similar event in Garland, Texas earlier this month. Organizers of tonight’s event claim they’re merely exercising their First Amendment rights, but the planned blasphemous cartoon-drawing contest is really no different from the hate-filled protests members of the Westboro Baptist Church regularly hold at military funerals around the country.
Yes, both groups have a constitutional right to voice the ideas they are attempting to spread, but make no mistake, the ideas they are peddling have no redeeming social value. There is no virtue in purposely offending the sensibilities of another human being simply because you can. There is nothing admirable about the denigration and desecration of another individual’s religious beliefs. There is no value in perpetrating hatred beyond the recruitment of additional hating souls.
Why, then, do men flock to hatred like vultures to a carrion feast? Hate doesn’t create; it tears down. Hate doesn’t achieve; it destroys. Hate doesn’t seek the greater angels in a man’s soul; it seeks the lowest demons in the darkest corners of a man’s heart.
I wonder how tonight’s Phoenix cartoonists (and I use that term loosely – no offense to real cartoonists) would feel about a pissing on the American flag contest to see who could urinate on the American flag the longest (biggest bladder wins)? How about holding a dog defecation contest using a statute of Jesus, or a cross, as a contest prop? Both of those suggestions would be the equivalent of this evening’s planned event, and I have a hard time imagining the folks in Arizona would approve of those types of hate-filled messages.
Let’s hope nobody turns out tonight at the Phoenix event and that no violence occurs. I was going to use the word “pray,” but I don’t want to get shot.
Yes, both groups have a constitutional right to voice the ideas they are attempting to spread, but make no mistake, the ideas they are peddling have no redeeming social value. There is no virtue in purposely offending the sensibilities of another human being simply because you can. There is nothing admirable about the denigration and desecration of another individual’s religious beliefs. There is no value in perpetrating hatred beyond the recruitment of additional hating souls.
Why, then, do men flock to hatred like vultures to a carrion feast? Hate doesn’t create; it tears down. Hate doesn’t achieve; it destroys. Hate doesn’t seek the greater angels in a man’s soul; it seeks the lowest demons in the darkest corners of a man’s heart.
I wonder how tonight’s Phoenix cartoonists (and I use that term loosely – no offense to real cartoonists) would feel about a pissing on the American flag contest to see who could urinate on the American flag the longest (biggest bladder wins)? How about holding a dog defecation contest using a statute of Jesus, or a cross, as a contest prop? Both of those suggestions would be the equivalent of this evening’s planned event, and I have a hard time imagining the folks in Arizona would approve of those types of hate-filled messages.
Let’s hope nobody turns out tonight at the Phoenix event and that no violence occurs. I was going to use the word “pray,” but I don’t want to get shot.
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