Texas GOP balks at proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers
By: MSNBC (MSNBC. com)
I guess there's some right wing voting blocks you just don't want to alienate...
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
For much of the American mainstream, Nick Fuentes' name is probably unfamiliar, and as we've discussed, that's a good thing. He is, after all, a radical who's called for "a homeland" for white people, who's engaged in Holocaust denialism, who's expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler, and whose YouTube page was permanently suspended for promoting hate speech.
Fuentes nevertheless tries to maintain a high public profile — a couple of congressional Republicans have even spoken at some of his right-wing events — and he attended a meeting in Texas in October. That wouldn't have been especially notable were it not for the fact that Matt Rinaldi, chairman of the Texas GOP, was seen going into the same building at the same time.
Rinaldi has insisted that he met with someone else at the time and didn't even know Fuentes was there. But the controversy that followed — Fuentes did meet with others closely tied to Texas Republicans — gave a jolt to party politics in the Lone Star State.
It was against this backdrop that several members of the Texas GOP's executive committee initially called for the party to end its associations with specific local groups known for their white supremacist ties. A proposed resolution on the matter was soon after watered down to bar associations with individuals or groups "known to espouse or tolerate antisemitism, pro-Nazi sympathies or Holocaust denial."
As The Texas Tribune reported, this weakened effort was rejected, too.
Two months after a prominent conservative activist and fundraiser was caught hosting white supremacist Nick Fuentes, leaders of the Republican Party of Texas have voted against barring the party from associating with known Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers. In a 32-29 vote on Saturday, members of the Texas GOP's executive committee stripped a pro-Israel resolution of a clause that would have included the ban.
The Texas Tribune report added, "In a separate move that stunned some members, roughly half of the board also tried to prevent a record of their vote from being kept."
It's one thing to get an issue wrong; it's something else when people know they're getting an issue wrong and want to keep their efforts hidden in the shadows.
Dade Phelan, the state's Republican House speaker, called the vote "despicable," adding that he found it remarkable that members of the Texas GOP's executive committee "can't even bring themselves to denounce neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers."
Dan Patrick, Texas' Republican lieutenant governor, had a similar reaction and described Saturday's vote as "totally unacceptable."
A majority of the state party's executive committee apparently disagreed.
For what it's worth, Texas Republican officials will meet again in February, at which point they'll likely have an another opportunity to consider the issue. Watch this space.
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hopefully those suffering from "democrats are the real racists and antisemites" syndrome don't get whiplash...
They didn't even want their votes published
none of them can afford to offend trump's base if they vote against the nazis.
No wonder the once Grand Old Party of Lincoln is now known merely as "MAGA Insurrectionists"...
A/K/A the gop, lower case. As in, a nasty mess!
Its funny how often the GOP comes up in stories about neo Nazis, and how little Democrats do.
A real headscratcher/s
Texas Republican officials considered a proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers. The measure was not approved.
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS, NAKAM & NAZI HUNTERS … stand bye; a quasi Nuremberg alternative rejection by Texas GOP officials leaves few alternatives.
"NEVER AGAIN" should e taken seriously.
republican admiration of the nazi party is well documented in american history.
A classic Tarantino thriller.
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." --Maya Angelou
Take me back to Lukenbach Tx with Willie and Waylon.
Oh, wait is that Nick Fuentes? That's him all hat and no cattle. Bless his heart.
We're talking "NAZIS" - not some adolescent street gang!
America, DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE GOP GESTAPO comes to your front door for you and your families! There's to be no equivocation; if, when given a clear opportunity to disassociate with its Trump/GOP/Nazi base, it rejects that opportunity, then so be it!
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of LAMENT OVER THOSE GOP NAZIS HAVE ALREADY MURDERED IN SYNAGOGUE BOMBINGS, etc.!
Hey Texas GOP. Below is what you failed to denounce!
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A STICH IN TIME …
Never mess with Apaches or Jews.
That's right.
But wait! There’s more.
Nakam was a paramilitary organisation of about fifty Holocaust survivors who, after 1945, sought revenge for the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust. Led by Abba Kovner, the group sought to kill six million Germans in a form of indiscriminate revenge, "a nation for a nation".
Texas GOP; Not every “Phoenix” is in Arizona”.
Get a history lesson.
A prediction.
GOP NAZI propagandists Bannon & Carlson, in galvanizing white resentment by pushing alleged white “victim” status, inadvertently & naively to their peril, are creating an “underground” that rightly sees itself as the target of actual victimization. If victimization becomes imminent, a new Warsaw Ghetto Uprising will monumentally dwarf its prototype!
Those who have assimilated the mantra “NEVER AGAIN”, WILL DO WHATEVER NECESSARY to make it an OUTCOME and PROPHECY rather than a mere declaration.
No more Martin Niemollers! Sometimes the hunter gets captured by the game.
That is some evil stuff .. it may not be Adolf Hitler being shown admiration these days in American, yet Osama Bin Laden's letter to America is being admired .. but perhaps he is less deplorable?
I know right .. I can feel his frustration I find it remarkable that members of the party of (D) in the United States congress cannot bring themselves to denounce Hamas's brutal rape of women .. individuals at city council meetings claiming that Israel killed their own people .. college campuses have erupted into pro Hamas rallies .. they may not be Holocaust deniers, but they are more than happy to chant 'from the river to the sea Palestine will be free ..' and think it means nothing.
The rise of antisemitism and white supremacy is appalling worldwide .. it is even sadder to see it in the United States .. but something tells me that the neo-nazis may be insignificant in comparison to the voting age pro Hamas 'youth' of America.
There is a sociological phenomenon that, when given impetus and rationale, results in what is known as an ephemeral group.
An ephemeral group is a coalition that comes into existence for just enough time to pursue an opportunity and then dissolves . Ephemeral groups can be formed within a larger organization or from a set of individuals with little previous knowledge of one another.
America faces a threat that has been both declared and defined, namely, Donald Trump's proclamation of a re-election outcome whereby he literally can execute whoever he perceives to be his political enemies, and, which gives him endless power within his dictatorship!
Millions of American who are paying attention to this declaration, ARE FRIGHTENED, having no doubts the Trump will, if given the chance, DO EXACTLY WHAT HE HAS SAID HE WOULD DO.
This COLLECTIVE FEAR, currently experienced by " a set of individuals with little previous knowledge of one another" - IN MY OPINION WILL, DRIVEN BY REAL FEAR, BECOME AN "EPHEMERAL GROUP" - a coalition whose sole purpose is to do whatever is necessary to prevent a GESTAPO-LIKE entity before it comes for any so-called "political enemies".
NOTE: WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING
On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Jewish insurgents inside the ghetto resisted these efforts. This was the largest uprising by Jews during World War II and the first significant urban revolt against German occupation in Europe. By May 16, 1943, the Germans had crushed the uprising and deported surviving ghetto residents to concentration camps and killing centers.
This prototype, should it rise like a phoenix from the ashes of history, IMO, would not be contained in a ghetto where its would-be executioners had containment ability; more likely, an "uprising" would come as did the TENTH PLAGUE over Egypt in the story of the Jewish Holiday, Passover … out of nowhere and out of everywhere … out of the dark of night and the shadows of the day.
In the words of Martin Niemoller, a German theologian and Lutheran pastor during the Holocaust …
“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” _ Winston Churchill.
What Mac posted is a little know part of WWII and post WWII. I would highly recommend the book,
Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) 1st Edition
The author, Dina Porat interviewed the Holocaust survivors of the Nakam as most all were still alive.
It also thought that at the end of WWII, the killing of Jews stopped, this is false, gangs of criminals, ex Nazis et al went on killing Jews for quite some time.
I've seen a documentary about post WWII Jews and their thirst for revenge. Which...I don't blame them. There was a plan to poison a water supply in Berlin? Maybe it was another city