Republicans Pummel, Punch, and Kick Biden Effigy At Kansas City GOP Event
Amanda Yen 3-4 minutes 3/11/2024
The bashing sparked immediate outcry from both sides of the aisle, who denounced it as dangerous, inflammatory, and crude.
Attendees at a Johnson County GOP event in Kansas City were invited to pummel an effigy of President Joe Biden at a fundraiser on Friday, and many of them posted their punches, kicks, and stomps to social media, drawing mass condemnation from both sides of the aisle.
Footage posted to the right-wing social media site Rumble showed multiple attendees gleefully landing blows to a dummy mannequin wearing a Biden mask and a “Let’s Go Brandon” T-shirt.
One woman used a black bat to repeatedly hammer the mannequin’s face, as though she were playing a life-size game of whack-a-mole.
The likeness was featured at a Johnson County Republican Party fundraiser that boasted musician Ted Nugent and former Kansas attorney general Phill Kline as headliners.
Maria Holiday, Johnson County GOP chairwoman, said in an email to The Daily Beast that the incident was “regrettable” and the dummy was “removed,” without specifying when. She said that a “mask depicting President Biden was added to an outside exhibitor interactive self defense display,” without naming whether the outside exhibitor, an attendee, or event organizer had added the mask.
“The mask was regrettable and removed. No one collected or solicited any funds or donations in exchange for hitting the training device.”
The dummy was part of a booth set up by a local martial arts studio intending to promote their self-defense class, the Kansas City Star reported.
The party is now under fire from both Republicans and Democrats, who argue that the Biden-bashing is more than a display of vulgar unprofessionalism—they say it promotes political violence.
“What may seem like a joke for many will be seen by some as an expansion of acceptable behavior with potentially tragic consequences,” Hawkins said in a statement.
Former Kansas Republican Party chair Mike Kuckelman denounced the incident and called on Holiday and the current state party chair Mike Brown to resign.
“This conduct is shameful, and it is WRONG. Brown and Holiday must resign,” Kuckelman said in a statement . He called on other Republicans to demand Brown and Holiday’s resignations over the incident and also invoked the Kathy Griffin incident in comparison. “Please, we must speak equally as loudly in our opposition now,” he urged conservatives.
“I don’t agree with President Biden’s policies, but he is a fellow human being. No one should condone or defend this horrific and shameful conduct,” he said.
“Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs,”
” I think that politically, this upper-middle class is probably more moderate, but that upper-middle class doesn’t exist anymore in America, and thanks to the continued deregulation of Wall Street, thanks to the continued gutting of working- and middle-class people, we need stronger champions.”
When asked by Jorge Ramos about how to pay for “Medicare for All” proposal, “You just pay for it.” People often say, how are you gonna pay for it? And I find the question so puzzling because, how do you pay for something that’s more affordable? How do you pay for cheaper rent? How do you pay for—you just pay for it.”
On climate change,
“So we talk about existential threats, the last time we had a really major existential threat to this country was around World War II, and so we’ve been here before and we have a blueprint of doing this before. What we had was an existential threat in the context of a war. We had a direct existential threat with another nation, this time it was Nazi Germany, and the Axis, who explicitly made the United States as an enemy, as an enemy. And what we did was that we chose to mobilize our entire economy and industrialized our entire economy and we put hundreds if not millions of people to work in defending our shores and defending this country. We have to do the same thing in order to get us to 100 percent renewable energy, and that’s just the truth of it.”
I'm sure there are dumb ass liberals as well, but they don't tend to show up at Biden events and brag about how stupid they are
maga idiot at a trump rally hitting a biden mannequin on the head with a hammer
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Republicans Pummel, Punch, and Kick Biden Effigy At Kansas City GOP Event
Amanda Yen 3-4 minutes 3/11/2024
The bashing sparked immediate outcry from both sides of the aisle, who denounced it as dangerous, inflammatory, and crude.
Attendees at a Johnson County GOP event in Kansas City were invited to pummel an effigy of President Joe Biden at a fundraiser on Friday, and many of them posted their punches, kicks, and stomps to social media, drawing mass condemnation from both sides of the aisle.
Footage posted to the right-wing social media site Rumble showed multiple attendees gleefully landing blows to a dummy mannequin wearing a Biden mask and a “Let’s Go Brandon” T-shirt.
One woman used a black bat to repeatedly hammer the mannequin’s face, as though she were playing a life-size game of whack-a-mole.
The likeness was featured at a Johnson County Republican Party fundraiser that boasted musician Ted Nugent and former Kansas attorney general Phill Kline as headliners.
Maria Holiday, Johnson County GOP chairwoman, said in an email to The Daily Beast that the incident was “regrettable” and the dummy was “removed,” without specifying when. She said that a “mask depicting President Biden was added to an outside exhibitor interactive self defense display,” without naming whether the outside exhibitor, an attendee, or event organizer had added the mask.
“The mask was regrettable and removed. No one collected or solicited any funds or donations in exchange for hitting the training device.”
The dummy was part of a booth set up by a local martial arts studio intending to promote their self-defense class, the Kansas City Star reported.
The party is now under fire from both Republicans and Democrats, who argue that the Biden-bashing is more than a display of vulgar unprofessionalism—they say it promotes political violence.
Kansas’ House Speaker Dan Hawkins compared the event to when Kathy Griffin held up a replica of Donald Trump’s severed head for a photoshoot in 2017.
“What may seem like a joke for many will be seen by some as an expansion of acceptable behavior with potentially tragic consequences,” Hawkins said in a statement.
Former Kansas Republican Party chair Mike Kuckelman denounced the incident and called on Holiday and the current state party chair Mike Brown to resign.
“This conduct is shameful, and it is WRONG. Brown and Holiday must resign,” Kuckelman said in a statement . He called on other Republicans to demand Brown and Holiday’s resignations over the incident and also invoked the Kathy Griffin incident in comparison. “Please, we must speak equally as loudly in our opposition now,” he urged conservatives.
“I don’t agree with President Biden’s policies, but he is a fellow human being. No one should condone or defend this horrific and shameful conduct,” he said.
I bet this guy considers himself a Christian, too
That maga moron was fucking with the guy with the mike.
i doubt it
These people vote.
So do these:
You've got a lot of mileage out of that one picture from eight years ago
Yes, I realize you don’t want to admit that both sides have idiots but they do. This picture simply illustrates that fact.
It’s the Mona Lisa of triggered fools ….
Some things are classics and age well.
Yep, thus my Mona Lisa reference …..
It’s the Battle of the Memes.
AOC against a MAGA moron is not a fair fight
AOC is the Sara Palin on the left:
“Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs,”
” I think that politically, this upper-middle class is probably more moderate, but that upper-middle class doesn’t exist anymore in America, and thanks to the continued deregulation of Wall Street, thanks to the continued gutting of working- and middle-class people, we need stronger champions.”
When asked by Jorge Ramos about how to pay for “Medicare for All” proposal, “You just pay for it.” People often say, how are you gonna pay for it? And I find the question so puzzling because, how do you pay for something that’s more affordable? How do you pay for cheaper rent? How do you pay for—you just pay for it.”
On climate change,
“So we talk about existential threats, the last time we had a really major existential threat to this country was around World War II, and so we’ve been here before and we have a blueprint of doing this before. What we had was an existential threat in the context of a war. We had a direct existential threat with another nation, this time it was Nazi Germany, and the Axis, who explicitly made the United States as an enemy, as an enemy. And what we did was that we chose to mobilize our entire economy and industrialized our entire economy and we put hundreds if not millions of people to work in defending our shores and defending this country. We have to do the same thing in order to get us to 100 percent renewable energy, and that’s just the truth of it.”
Yup! AOC. Would lose every time.
A BU education ain’t what it used to be.