Thursday, November 18, 2021

The Christian Right, Hating

I WANTED TO FIND OUT a thing or two about Arizona Republican idiot Representative Paul Gozar, so I typed in the phrase "idiot republican congressman Kosar who killed Biden in a cartoon" into google. Even with my misspelling, msinformation, and awkward sentence structure, it was good enough to get me to where I wanted to go, thanks to the miracle of Artificial intelligence. Seeing his picture was enough. I wanted to get an idea of how old he is. He looks far older than I expected. He looks to be either about my age (66), or not much younger or older than I. You might expect, or half expect some young punk in his early or mid thirties to do what he did, or maybe a poorly behaved junior high school student, but certainly not somebody in his sixties. My goodness, what an idiot. A couple of things stand out. Most obviously, he wanted the cartoon to be seen by many people, hence he posted it on twitter, expecting it to be seen mainly by suporters of his, people who sould undoubtedly agree with him politically, and would enjoy seeing an animated version of himself killing AOC and pointing a sword at Biden. He probably thought he would receive warm approval. He evidently didn't give a moment's thought about what might happen when people who like Biden and AOC, or Democrats, or people who have at least some modicum of class, taste, and values might think and say who saw the same cartoon. Or, if he did, didn't worry about any possible consequences, or "pushback" as we like to say these days. His scorn for progressive Democrats is complete. Wasn't the reaction,in and out of Congress, predictable? Also meaningful is the fact that the bastard deliberately and conspicuously refused to apologize to either AOC, Biden, or the American people. That may come later. He may be forced to do the right thing. Obviously, he cannot without "external motivation". Evidently, after he deleted the cartoon amid the uproar in congress, he put it back up, in a apparent act of defiance of authority and decency. For how long is unknown. His comments to the House of Representatives made it quite clear that Gozar does not think he did anything wrong, never has nor does now wish or intend violence against anyone, and believes too much is being made of the whole incident, that those outraged the most are using the incident for political gain. In other words, Paul Gozar is acting like, and therefore must be considered to be, an "A hole", through and through. A complete jerk, without decent values. I'm just guessing that this moron is a devout evangelical Christian with far right political beliefs, a Trump supporter. People who support Trump tend to fit that demographic; the far right evangelical thug. These heinous attacks do not occur equally across the political spectrum. The far right has taken it to an entirely new level, the hatred, the racism, the violence. "The Squad", four young female left wing Congresspeople of color, one of whom is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) are a favorite target of right wing white evangelical Christian Trump gangsters. Nancy Pelosi is another, of course, as well as Biden and Pete Buttijieg, for obvious reasons. The far Christian right, especially since Trump's election defeat, is angry. House minority leader Kevin McCArthy, another of this vile breed, attacked the Democrats for having the audacity to complain about the violent depiction, trying to turn it into a political issue by claiming that the Democrats are trying to turn it into a political issue, as if objecting to vile, obscene content is being "political". Then again, why should we expect the people who support Donald Trump to be either morally decent, or reasonably mature and intelligent?

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