Blest writes: "While it may seem at first glance that making a list of your enemies in an Excel spreadsheet and including a tally of their religious and ethnic backgrounds is a completely normal and levelheaded thing to do, I can assure you that it is not."
Republican candidate for Congress Paul Nehlen. (photo: AP)
GOP Congressional Candidate Makes List of Jews
01 February 18
aul Nehlen is a Republican candidate for Congress who�s running in the First Congressional District of Wisconsin, also known as the seat currently held by House Speaker Paul Ryan. Over the past few months, he�s gone full fascist, courting support from the alt-right both in Twitter DMs and in public.
Because of this, he�s been engaged in an ongoing battle with conservative Republicans like New York Post columnist John Podhoretz; in December, Nehlen told Podhoretz to �eat a bullet.� Later that same month, he was deemed too racist even for Breitbart, which said it had �cut all ties� and �removed his contributor page from the website� after a �series of anti-Semitic and pro-white supremacist comments.�
14/ I�ve compiled a list of "verified" Twitter users who have attacked me *in just the last month alone* for my #AmericaFirst positions. Of those 81 people, 74 are Jews, while only 7 are non-Jews. Here is the list: pic.twitter.com/2pQlEp0RjU
— Paul Nehlen (@pnehlen) January 30, 2018
While it may seem at first glance that making a list of your enemies in an Excel spreadsheet and including a tally of their religious and ethnic backgrounds is a completely normal and levelheaded thing to do, I can assure you that it is not.
This isn�t Nehlen�s first race. He ran against Ryan for the first time using Trump-like rhetoric in 2016, at one point wondering out loud while on a radio show, �Why do we have Muslims in this country?� Even in an anti-establishment year, however, Nehlen lost by 70 points.
There�s reason to take Nehlen more seriously this time, however. According to a Politico profile of Ryan in December, the current Speaker is considering retiring, having finally accomplished his lifelong goal of writing hatred of the poor into the United States tax code. If Ryan does retire, it�ll be a wide open race in a district that has been held by Republicans since 1994, and Nehlen would have a much better shot at winning the primary without a ten-term incumbent to worry about.
The Democratic frontrunner in that race, union ironworker Randy Bryce, will be at the State of the Union tonight.
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Very few politicians have any principles. Our electoral systems selects for the most unscrupulous and competitive people.
But I think Trump and the Republicans will pay a heavy price for taking healthcare backwards and costing the lives of many thousands of people. They will have a hard time winning national elections after all this.
Not when they run the elections in the vast majority (enough for an Electoral College win, as we saw) of states and counties in our country, and thus can rig those elections through strip-and-flip, poll-taxing, under-boothing, losing Dem registrations, all the usual tactics of selective disenfranchisem ent. That the GOP is pushing a bill with
This brat is just trying to make sure that you never do on his watch, the better to make crawling servants of the corrupt status quo of you.
You sure as Hell are reaping the whirlwind in not electing Bernie Sanders, the ONLY populist politician who ran in the last cycle.
This isn't called the United States of Amnesia for nothing.
As for Trump and the GOP's "replacement" for "Obamacare" ~ let's call it what it is: The Yuge Tax Cut / Insurance Executives' Protection Act. What it IS / will be In FACT and In EFFECT:
"Depraved Heart Murder ~ the form of murder that establishes that the willful doing of a dangerous and reckless act with wanton indifference to the consequences and perils involved, is just as blameworthy, and just as worthy of punishment, when the harmful result ensues, as is the express intent to kill itself."
Singlepayer is gaining support, despite the idiot CA DEM who ended its impetus most recently.
Lissen up, folks, ya gotta write, call, march, and support www.DraftBernie.
I called my toe-the-line horrible Rethuglican SC Senators:LGraha m&Tim Scott & gave them a piece of my mind for their sleazy support of McConnell's DeathPanel legislation. Will call AGAIN TOMORROW becoz of highway robbery BigPharma price on an Rx I had to buy yesterday. Outrageous price on drug that's been on the market for several years w/no generic yet.
Ugh, Lindsey Graham. We've got Pat Toomey.
Fight the good fight, everybody! This is the time!
The American people increasingly want single payer, while Trump wants to be the single player. ;-)