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Up jumped the Devil
Mark Steyn questions why young healthy people are dying across the UK
I'm fine with that
well, you have some explaining to do
The only people responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of Americans are Republicans who convinced their followers not to get vaccinated or to take Covid seriously. You can go to your grave with their blood on your hands...
Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame - Updated December 5, 2021
Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden. That's according to a new analysis by NPR that examines how political polarization and misinformation are driving a significant share of the deaths in the pandemic.
NPR looked at deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which vaccinations widely became available. People living in counties that went 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.73 times the death rates of those that went for Biden. Counties with an even higher share of the vote for Trump saw higher COVID-19 mortality rates.
In October, the reddest tenth of the country saw death rates that were six times higher than the bluest tenth, according to Charles Gaba, an independent health care analyst who's been tracking partisanship trends during the pandemic and helped to review NPR's methodology. Those numbers have dropped slightly in recent weeks, Gaba says: "It's back down to around 5.5 times higher."
The trend was robust, even when controlling for age, which is the primary demographic risk of COVID-19 mortality. The data also reveal a major contributing factor to the death rate difference: The higher the vote share for Trump, the lower the vaccination rate.
The analysis only looked at the geographic location of COVID-19 deaths. The exact political views of each person taken by the disease remains unknowable. But the strength of the association, combined with polling information about vaccination, strongly suggests that Republicans are being disproportionately affected.
The U.S. Surgeon General Is Calling COVID-19 Misinformation An 'Urgent Threat'
Recent polling shows that partisanship is now this single strongest identifying predictor of whether someone is vaccinated. Polling also shows that mistrust in official sources of information and exposure to misinformation, about both COVID-19 and the vaccines, run high among Republicans.
"An unvaccinated person is three times as likely to lean Republican as they are to lean Democrat," says Liz Hamel, vice president of public opinion and survey research at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health policy think tank that tracks attitudes toward vaccination. Political affiliation is now the strongest indicator of whether someone is vaccinated, she says: "If I wanted to guess if somebody was vaccinated or not and I could only know one thing about them, I would probably ask what their party affiliation is."
It blows me away how wrong Dr Facui has been and you don't call him out. I hope he rots in Hell - He killed many grandparents and loved ones.
I support having medical decisions made by patients and families in consultation with medical professional and experts, not by politicians.
Oh, you mean like when you can't recognize how fascist your party has become.
You asked for it. Here's why the rest of us know you and your GOP ilk are fascist tyrants...
* You have no qualms about forcing any woman to remain pregnant and have a child, much less a 10 year old rape victim.
* You're happy to see women's rights taken away, and would condemn young men to 18 years of child support for a one night stand.
* You, and the party you support, would curtail all of our reproductive rights by eliminating contraceptives.
* You encourage neighbors to spy on, and rat on, neighbors who assist someone to get an abortion.
* You're party has been waging a war on, and whipping up hate against, trans gender people to court their fundamentalist base.
* You're OK with your party's appeals to racists by suppressing minority voters.
* You support a man who used white nationalist storm troopers to try to overthrow our government and keep him in power, and would reward him for doing so by voting for, and supporting him and his supporters again.
* Multiple xenophobic and antisemitic policies and statements under Trump have inspired a record number of hate crimes in the past several years.
* Your party blindly follows a leader who has committed multiple crimes, cheated dozens of people he's done business with or taken loans from, and has spouted over 30,500 lies during the 4 years he was president.
* You trust him and your party for medical and scientific advice over medical and science professionals.
* You ban words and books and prosecute teachers for saying things, or teaching things, on your forbidden subjects list in classrooms.
* You promote suspicion of news media and government institutions.
* You incite hate against the FBI and CIA and all federal law enforcement agencies that you don't control.
* You have a propaganda channel devoted to electing your candidates and shaping your policies which invents issues such as Critical Race Theory and Antifa to promote divisions.
* It has no problem with touting complete lies like election fraud, and the recent claim that the out of state abortion for a 10 year old rape victim was an invention of the left.
* You follow a man whose been sewing distrust of free elections since he first started running for President and made numerous phony claims of election fraud.
* You make believing Trump's lie, that he won the 2020 election in a landslide, a condition for someone in your party to run for office, and placed scores of these people on the ballot to become state and local election officials.
* You're OK that Trump issued Executive Order 13957 just before he left office to gut the civil service and remove anyone (up to 30,000 people) opposed to him and replace them with political appointees.
* You handle all criticism by calling it fake news and accusing your opponents of everything your guilty of.
* Your appointees to the Supreme Court no longer base their rulings on the Constitution or court precedent but invent new principles, the latest one (Dobbs) backed by a medieval English jurist who prosecuted witches.
Are we feeling the Nazi vibe yet??
Fascist, Paramilitary Groups Seen Aligning With Republican Political Targeting
YEAH!!!
Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
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All profits for the taxpayer funded covid shots should be reclaimed and distributed to people who were fired for not taking the covid shot. And criminal investigations should be opened into the covid shot companies for fraud as well:
All profits for the taxpayer funded covid shots should be reclaimed and distributed to people who were fired for not taking the covid shot. And criminal investigations should be opened into the covid shot companies for fraud as well: pic.twitter.com/BrQp5DWXsz
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 18, 2022
I'm glad we came to the conclusion you support gender mutation for kids. Yes, you're a Monster
so, you're pumping this OTC?
New technologies will soon make lithium batteries as obsolete on cars as side vent windows...
Global Warming Solutions, Inc. Prepares to Launch Marketing Campaign to Increase Exposure as Its Sodium Battery Progresses to Final Stages of Production
Temecula, CA,, Aug. 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Warming Solutions, Inc., (OTC: GWSO), a worldwide developer of green technologies to mitigate global warming, prepares to launch a new marketing campaign to increase company awareness. GWSO plans to unveil its innovative sodium battery next month. As part of a campaign to raise exposure, the company will host necessary events for existing shareholders and new potential partners. Michael Pollastro, president of Global Warming, stated: "Our innovative, American-made sodium battery is expected to be complete in September. Our job now is to raise awareness and ensure that our sodium battery is a household name when electric vehicle batteries are brought up. To increase our exposure, we plan to host press conferences, webinars, and round table discussions showcasing our finished product. Not only do we want to showcase our achievement to the shareholders, but we also want to demonstrate the prominent potential of our technology to potential auto-manufacturing partners. We want to emphasize the benefits that switching to sodium batteries will have not only for auto manufacturers but also for the environment. I am excited for this huge day for our loyal shareholders”.
“Sodium is the most abundant substance in the ocean, after water. Therefore, a sodium-based battery for an electric vehicle will be 10-20 times cheaper than lithium-ion. Laboratory samples from sodium batteries at the end of last year showed that the specific energy content of a sodium battery is several times higher than that of the best battery samples on the market. Now we are working to make the sodium battery easy to manufacture, operate, and maintain. After extensive testing of a full-sized sample of our sodium battery, we will be able to develop a range of batteries for various applications to meet the expectations of a wide variety of customers.” said Artem Madatov, scientific director of the project.
“At AQST, when we consider a new project or program for our clients or our own, we study and analyze them in depth. And when we decide to move forward with a project, it is because we are confident and believe in the project. For this new development of a Hybrid Electrochemical System (HES), better known as a GWSO Hydrogen/Battery, we are confident in our ability and the ability of the GWSO team to build an advanced, transformative, and revolutionary technology that will transform people’s lives. And we are working non-stop and focusing on making it a fully functional prototype and a reality in the coming weeks” stated Raymond Caldas CEO of AQST LLC.
In other news, uniquely positioned GWSO looks to benefit from the new Inflation Reduction Act. Under the new Act, a tax credit of up to $7,500 could be used to defray the cost of an electric vehicle. While most auto industry participants won’t qualify for the tax credit, GWSO has the advantage. The bill requires that an electric vehicle must contain a North American-built battery and use minerals mined or recycled on the continent.
Michael Pollastro
President
Global Warming Solutions Inc.
mpollastro@gwsogroup.com
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AHAHAHhahahahcuntbegonehahaha
BREAKING: Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., voted out of Congress
Good for these folks.. Should have held out for more..
Do you feel bad for misleading people during the vaxxscam?
More than 500 healthcare workers who challenged their Illinois hospital's COVID-19 vaccine mandate will divide $10.3 million in a settlement agreement.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/illinois-hospital-covid/2022/08/15/id/1083107/
Dig Her Up!
The Jewish Ginger Resister
@JewishResister
So you’re telling me that Ivana Trump was buried in a huge casket, with 10 pallbearers, despite being cremated?
Ashes don’t weigh anything or take up any space. Also, cremated remains generally aren’t buried.
Do you know what does take up space & gets buried? EVIDENCE
One year later: How the Biden Admin, Big Tech, and Pfizer fooled Americans into taking "FDA approved" COVID vaccines that never actually existed.
https://dossier.substack.com/p/one-year-later-how-the-biden-admin?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf
You're a Monster... Progressive Liberals ruin everything.. Kids included..
At Boston Children’s Hospital “we see a variety of young children all the way down to ages 2 and 3.”
Progressive Liberals ruin everything....
In pictures: South America's 'lithium fields' reveal the dark side of our electric future
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/02/01/south-america-s-lithium-fields-reveal-the-dark-side-of-our-electric-future
Always Lurking :)
So what would you fascists recommend for hermaphrodite children. For the more simple minded republicans in our audience, those are babies born with both sex organs. Do they just get banned from sleepovers until they're adults? Can't participate in gym or sports?
The point Rachel Levine was making is that this is a complex subject that, just like abortion, shouldn't be left to politicians and assholes like you, but should be decided by parents, adolescents and their doctors in consultation with medical experts.
This must be an important issue for you to show here. Taking time off from the Orban rally?
He should be 1000% against it you freak
Fact check: Dr Rachel Levine, during hearing, did not confirm or deny support for children having gender reassignment surgery without parental consent
Rachel Levine blasted for call to 'support and empower' youth with transgender treatments: 'Unserious regime'
Rachel Levine is the first openly transgender official confirmed by the U.S. Senate
By Lindsay Kornick | Fox News
Assistant HHS Sec. suggests Florida trans athlete bill contributes to mental health issues
Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine suggested that bills such as Florida's ban on transgender athletes competing on women's sports teams could contribute to mental issues.
U.S. Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine called for laws to "support and empower" youths "to get gender affirmation treatment" on Monday.
Appearing on MSNBC’s "Andrea Mitchell Reports," Levine, who is transgender, discussed an opinion piece that criticized states such as Florida for enacting limits on transgender treatments for youth. Levine emphasized that these laws, along with "significant harassment," are what contribute to mental issues among trans youths.
"Trans youth are vulnerable. They suffer significant harassment and bullying, sometimes in schools or their community. They have more mental health issues, but there’s nothing inherent with being transgender or gender diverse which would predispose youth to depression or anxiety. It’s the harassment and bullying," Levine said. "Now they are suffering politically motivated attacks through state actions against these vulnerable transgender youth. This is not based upon data. These actions are politically motivated."
Levine added, "So we really want to base our treatment and to affirm and to support and empower these youths not to limit their participation in activities in sports and even limit their ability to get gender affirmation treatment in their state."
https://www.foxnews.com/media/rachel-levine-blasted-call-support-empower-youth-transgender-treatments-unserious-regime
Another one of your "If someone said it on twitter it must be true" facts. You people have really got to stop getting your news from a propaganda station...
Fact check: Dr Rachel Levine, during hearing, did not confirm or deny support for children having gender reassignment surgery without parental consent
Social media users have been sharing posts online which claim that Dr Rachel Levine, former Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and now President Joe Biden’s new assistant health secretary, believes children should be allowed to have gender reassignment surgery without parental consent. There is no evidence to support this claim...
...The posts likely refer to an exchange between Senator Rand Paul and Levine during her Senate confirmation hearing on Feb. 25, 2021...
...Paul starts the C-SPAN clip saying “genital mutilation has been condemned by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Population Fund.” Reuters was unable to find WHO or U.N. statements condemning gender reassignment surgery for transgender people, and searches for “genital mutilation” and these agencies result in papers on female genital mutilation, an entirely different practice indeed that has been condemned by both agencies ( here , here , here , www.unfpa.org/born-complete ).
In the exchange, Paul asks Levine whether she supports minors being able to transition, calling the procedure “genital mutilation.”
At 1:33, Paul asks: “Dr. Levine, do you believe that minors are capable of making such a life-changing decision as changing one’s sex?”
Levine responds: “Well, Senator, thank you for your interest in this question. Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care that have been developed and, if I am fortunate enough to be confirmed as the assistant secretary of health, I will look forward to working with you and your office and coming to your office and discussing the particulars of the standards of care for transgender medicine.”
Paul then says: “The specific question was about minors. Let’s be a little more specific, since you evaded the question. Do you support the government intervening to override the parent’s consent to give a child puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or amputation surgery of the breasts and genitalia?”
Paul then describes a story of a young girl who later regretted transitioning. At 3:50, Paul asks again: “Will you make a more firm decision on whether or not minors should be involved in these decisions?”
Levine responds with almost the exact same answer, explaining that transgender medicine is complex and that she will discuss it with Paul if she is confirmed.
Levine did not directly answer the question, neither confirming or denying the statement presented in these posts, that minors should be able to have access to government-funded sex reassignment surgery without parental consent.
Levine has written and spoken about supporting transgender children in the past (here, here). On Jan. 24, 2020, she tweeted here a CNN article discussing a study that found puberty blockers to be life-saving drugs for trans teens with mental health problems. Reuters did not find evidence, however, of Levine saying she supports giving these treatments without parental consent.
Paul’s questioning received criticism, as reported here and here .
As reported by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Feb. 2020, a global rise in the number of teenagers seeking to go through gender reassignment has spurred a series of court cases around the age at which young people are able to choose to transition – and who has the final word. Gender reassignment surgery is widely restricted to adults over the age of 18 (here).
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s (WPATH) standards of care here , explain the three categories of physical interventions for adolescents. These consist of fully reversible interventions such as hormone suppression to delay puberty, partially reversible interventions such as hormone therapy, and irreversible interventions such as surgical procedures.
The association advises that “moving from one stage to another should not occur until there has been adequate time for adolescents and their parents to assimilate fully the effects of earlier interventions.” Genital surgery should not happen until the individual reaches the age of majority to give consent in a given country and have lived continuously for at least 12 months in their gender identity, according to the association.
Puberty-suppressing medications are reversible, as explained in a 2016 report by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians and the American Academy of Pediatrics here . The report categorizes hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgeries for “older adolescents” and “adults”, not children.
VERDICT
Missing context. Dr. Rachel Levine did not confirm or deny a question by Rand Paul asking her if she would support overriding parental consent for gender reassignment surgery for minors.
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.
Good grief you people deserve a hot seat in Hell for supporting this madness.
Biden Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine: We need to “empower” KIDS to go on puberty blockers and get sex reassignment surgery..
Biden Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine: We need to “empower” KIDS to go on puberty blockers and get sex reassignment surgery. pic.twitter.com/CRPRaFYtzK
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 5, 2022
Whatever, Zelenskyy has Brandon an his crackhead son bent over a barrel.
JUST IN - Biden admin to announce a $1 billion weapons package for Ukraine, the single largest so far, Reuters reports.
Bad timing for your doom and gloom propaganda...
Economy adds 528,000 jobs in July as hiring surges despite high inflation. US recovers all jobs lost in COVID.
U.S. employers added a booming 528,000 jobs in July as the labor market now has recovered all 22 million jobs lost in the pandemic and continued to defy soaring inflation, rising interest rates and a slowing economy.
The unemployment rate fell from 3.6% to 3.5%, matching a 50-year low, the Labor Department said Friday.
Do you think they will put Britney Griner in a male or female prison?
Well, no one would ever accuse you of complex, deep thoughts anyway.
Again, Republicans think they can make better health care decisions than medical doctors. As usual, they invent issues that really aren't problems. Where are the hordes of people who have been harmed by gender dysphoria treatments who are demanding change? The fact is, sex change involves castration in males and mastectomy in females and most doctors agree that there should be a minimum age for people deciding about their permanent sexual identity. Like abortion, patients and their doctors, not republicans, should be able to decide what happens to their bodies...
Should There Be a Minimum Age for Gender Transition?
Despite scientific evidence and existing clinical practice guidelines, critics also remain in the medical community. According to results of a poll hosted on Sermo, a global social platform for physicians, 94% of physicians think that an age minimum is an appropriate benchmark for patients who wish to transition: more than half (62%) of these respondents said that the minimum age should be 21 years, while nearly a third (32%) said that age 18 years would be an appropriate minimum.
While many countries recognize 16-year-old patients as legally competent to make medical decisions, others believe that abilities such as good risk assessment do not develop until after age 18 years.10 The Endocrine Society guidelines state that gender-affirming treatment in the form of sex hormones may be initiated “after a multidisciplinary team…has confirmed the persistence of [gender dysphoria]/gender incongruence and sufficient mental capacity to give informed consent,” which is typically around age 16 years.10 Some research suggests that there are risks associated with waiting until as late as age 16 years, and more long-term studies are needed to determine the optimal age for treatment.
On Sermo, one endocrinology physician shared a belief that children and adolescents do not possess the capacity to make informed decisions about fertility or permanent body alterations. “Affirming a child’s false gender identity, instead of providing exploratory counseling to help resolve the dysphoria, is astonishingly negligent.”
Another physician, specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation, agreed. “Children [do not] know enough about themselves to be trusted to make the correct, irreversible decisions, and generally do not have the maturity to handle it. More kids question their gender now due to it being popular socially, or more in the news and social media. We cannot allow them to be potentially permanently harmed for a potentially temporary condition.”
This is a sentiment with which Dr Klein strongly disagrees.
“Trans people have been around forever,” he said. “This is not an invention of the aughts. People have been [providing] care in trans communities for decades now…and finally there are formalized guidelines…and people are feeling more comfortable expressing their gender truthfully and are feeling comfortable enough to do something about it.”
Although transgender people may now feel safer to publicly express their gender, some lawmakers are creating policies that have the opposite effect. Since taking office, President Donald J. Trump has made efforts to roll back many of the steps undertaken by the Obama administration to bring equality and protection to the transgender community under federal law.
In 2017, this included the removal of protections that allowed transgender students to use bathrooms that corresponded with their gender identity.12 In 2018, it took the form of the Trump administration attempting to narrowly redefine the concept of gender as “a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth,”13 or essentially, as one New York Times article stated, defining the word transgender “out of existence.”
Most recently, the Trump Administration moved to repeal Obama-era protections that banned discrimination against transgender patients in medical settings and as health insurance customers.14
These legislative maneuvers, coupled with the recent statements from Texan legislators about the Younger case, have left some within the medical community concerned. The Pediatric Endocrine Society, for example, has called out the recent “public discourse” as potentially harmful to the wellbeing of both transgender and gender-diverse children and their families — and in opposition to the current standard of care.
“We strongly oppose public discourse that misrepresents and contradicts evidence-based standard of care recommendations and risks the wellbeing of transgender youth and their families,” the statement read in part.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, those risks can range from depression and anxiety to eating disorders, self-harm, and suicide.
“We know that our transgender kids, especially children and adolescents, have a much higher risk for and rate of self-harm and of suicidal thoughts or suicidal attempts, and of depression and anxiety — especially those who are not affirmed within the home or school, ” said Dr Klein. “It is not so much being transgender that causes depression…alcohol and drug abuse, anxiety, or things like that. It is really being unaccepted that does that.”
You need to attribute your thefts. That is an exact quote from Andrea Junker.
Alex Jones’ cell phone is everything Republicans dreamed Hunter Biden’s laptop would be.
finally someone is stepping up to stop the progressive liberal freaks. leave kids alone
#BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis calls for doctors to be sued for providing children suffering from gender dysphoria double mastectomies and castrations
"They wanna castrate these young boys - that's wrong ... I think these doctors need to get sued for what's happening."
#BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis calls for doctors to be sued for providing children suffering from gender dysphoria double mastectomies and castrations
— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) August 3, 2022
"They wanna castrate these young boys - that's wrong ... I think these doctors need to get sued for what's happening." pic.twitter.com/aKwsHIlzXF
you mean the FBI?
that breeds murderous anti-democratic fascist seditionist militias...
Yeah, Michigan voters should reward the party that that breeds murderous anti-democratic fascist seditionist militias...
New motive revealed in militia plot to kidnap, murder Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Since the FBI broke up a heavily armed militia group in 2020, the belief was Governor Gretchen Whitmer had been targeted because of Michigan's strict COVID controls. Key witnesses who were part of the alleged plot now said the target was actually the 2020 presidential election and preventing Joe Biden from taking office.
When the Wolverine Watchmen militiamen amassed an arsenal of assault rifles, explosives and tactical gear in the summer of 2020, they were aiming to kidnap and kill Gov. Whitmer, according to federal prosecutors.
While the four men, now on trial in western Michigan, were furious about the COVID restrictions put in place by Whitmer, co-militiaman and now key government witness, Ty Garbin, said they were actually targeting the presidential election in hopes of causing such social disruption that it would prevent Biden from ever getting into office.
Garbin's testimony confirmed details of the plot that was to spark civil unrest, including blowing up a bridge to the governor's vacation home and then abducting her, while taking no other prisoners.
During Thursday's federal criminal trial, the government's second key witness, Kaleb Franks, said he considered the kidnap and kill plot against Whitmer to be a suicide mission. He said he planned to be killed during the raid and wanted to die. Franks has now cut a deal with prosecutors to testify against his former militia brothers.
The events of recent years, including the January 6, 2021, insurrection at our nation’s Capitol, and the alleged plot to kidnap and potentially execute Governor Gretchen Whitmer, have made it more apparent than ever that right-wing extremism is on the rise in Michigan....
...While these groups have a variety of different core ideologies and are made up of members with differing views, common threads you’ll find weaving them all together include: white supremacy and white nationalism, antisemitism and neo-Nazi ideology, anti-LGBTQ views and misogny, enthusiam around firearms, and conspiracy theories and anti-government views.
In recent years there has been a blurring of boundaries between hate groups, militias, and anti-government groups. Cassie Miller, a senior researcher at the SPLC, has said, “the far-right is not simply a collection of groups, but it’s really a widespread movement.” People who are associated with this right-wing extremist movement have given up on accomplishing their goals through our current democratic system and can see violence as a way to remedy what they believe are threats to our country.
The January 6 insurrection is a prime example of multiple right-wing groups, along with those who have become radicalized but may not have joined a particular group, coming together around conspiracy theories and disinformation and being driven to violence.
While there is usually a decrease in membership of these groups during Republican administrations, researchers saw the opposite under former President Trump, who often played up the conspiracy theories and fears that say white men (who make up the majority of these groups) should be taking action. In recent years militias have stepped into the public eye more and more, attending pandemic protests, countering Black Lives Matter rallies, and being part of “Stop the Steal” rallies. Hampton Stall, a senior researcher at the Armed Conflict and Event Location Data Project said this revitalization of militias coincides with how conservatives are embracing “a politics of expressing disaffection.”
It is undeniable that the Republican Party and right-wing political movements have become drivers of right-wing extremism. The SPLC’s recently released The Year in Hate and Extremism 2021 report reveals that “our democracy is now under threat from a hard-right, anti-democratic movement made up of hate and extremist groups, Trump loyalists, the Republican Party, right-wing think tanks, media organizations, and committed activists with institutional power.”
Michigan’s Right-Wing Extremist Groups
As of 2021, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) found 18 separate hate groups that exist in Michigan. It’s becoming more difficult to track participation in the groups as social media makes it easier to become radicalized—and for all intents and purposes a part of the movement—without explicitly joining a specific group. It is also difficult to track participation in militias, as the groups rise and fade, and often split into many groups over differences of personality or ideology.
There are an estimated two to three dozen active militia groups in Michigan, which include some crossover with the SPLC’s 18 hate groups. According to experts, Michigan is a “hotbed” for militias and our militias have “always been the kind to which other states’ militias look up to.” While not all militia groups are considered a threat, militias across the country have been involved in violence over the past several decades. Michigan militias have made the national news before, perhaps most notably, when Lapeer native Terry Nichols worked with Timothy McVeigh on the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City that killed nearly 200 people.
White supremacist propaganda campaigns have greatly increased during the Trump era, and are accompanied by a rise in hate crimes. In Michigan, hate crimes rose 40 percent from 2015 to 2019. A 2021 report from the Anti-Defamation League found a 36 percent increase in incidents of white supremacist propaganda in Michigan as compared to 2019.
The prevalence of conspiracy theories such as QAnon that have spread like wildfire online and gained a cult-like following—including among Republican members of Congress, Michigan Republican lawmakers, and Michigan Republican candidates for office—can be partly credited with the rise in militias. And, of course, we would be remiss not to mention how the right’s continued push of the Big Lie and near-religious reverence for former President Trump have continued to radicalize more and more people into the right-wing extremist movement.
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I'd like to establish a forum where World politics and the Power of wealth can be discussed.
What is the motivation?
What will make it all better?
It's my belief that we have all the answers.
Whether it be to our financial markets or political and social questions.
I'm doing this for my own education and having fun doing it.
My very basic ideas of the mechanics that drive our society:
1) Wealth is power. Political influence is power. Capitolism as a means to betterment in a fair market.
2)The greater good, the idea of sacrifice and an obligation to advance the human well being to make a difference in the human cause should be empowering.
Balancing the two ideals should be our goal.
Can we rise above the need for Kings and accept the responsibility of self rule ?
Democracy requires independance from the crutch of leadership and freedom respects the rights of others. Money is just a tool for trade.
We can rely on the lessons of our parents?
The traditions of our ancestors?
The lessons we have learned and humility to accept others as they can only add meaning to our lives.
Welcome to the board and please express your opinions.
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