tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post6610218670543236034..comments2024-03-29T07:31:49.016+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: disturbing behavior from the rightKevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-31486200808207527072019-06-29T20:09:51.563+09:002019-06-29T20:09:51.563+09:00Another thought: rightie and libertarian blogs ar...Another thought: rightie and libertarian blogs aren't talking about this at all, whereas it's all over the left. I would never have known about this were it not for the fact that I'm surrounded by lefties at work, and for a while, this is all they could talk about. I'm bizarrely thankful, despite being surrounded, and I wish a rightie version of Tim Pool might emerge, i.e., a conservative who takes it upon himself to keep fellow conservatives honest, calling them out when they need calling out.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-84722850069059599662019-06-27T16:02:46.860+09:002019-06-27T16:02:46.860+09:00There's a "politics of Oregon" entry...There's a "politics of Oregon" entry on Wikipedia. It makes for some interesting reading. 47% of the population lives in the Portland-Metro area, which does much to explain why the state currently registers as blue overall. The rest of the population is scattered out in the sticks and decidedly right-leaning. Some decades ago, Oregon used to be a thoroughly red state. The Wikipedia page is a good primer for understanding the patterns of kinetic energy we're now seeing.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-11504271618342694362019-06-27T15:59:00.123+09:002019-06-27T15:59:00.123+09:00Charles,
Interestingly, the article you linked to...Charles,<br /><br />Interestingly, the article you linked to mentioned that this isn't the first time there's been a GOP walkout to prevent a quorum.<br /><br />That Boquist sounds like a true believer, though, doesn't he. He's ex-military, so I don't doubt he'd be ready to kill or die for a cause, but I have to wonder about the GOP softies around him. Here's hoping the situation can be defused without violence. Violence would be a horrible capper to what is already a clusterfuck of a situation.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-72338890238288998972019-06-27T11:21:08.816+09:002019-06-27T11:21:08.816+09:00Right-wing militias have indeed said that they wou...Right-wing militias have indeed said that they would defend the GOP senators "at any cost," which seems to pretty clearly imply that they would consider violence. Threats of violence began when one of the GOP senators said in a television interview that he told the superintendent, with regard to possibly sending state troopers after them, to "send bachelors and come heavily armed."<br /><br />(I don't know if this is a source you trust, but here is a link from the Daily Beast: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/06/oregon-republican-senator-issues-threat-to-state-troopers.html)<br /><br />I don't think whataboutism is very helpful here, to be honest. I'm not in favor of circumventing the democratic process, so I can't say I would have supported the 2011 protests in Wisconsin, either. The truth is that this sort of tactic has been used before--but that doesn't make it right. And it doesn't change the fact that what is happening now is happening now, and (unlike 2011) it is being accompanied by public threats of violence.Charleshttp://www.liminality.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-66858158997861619102019-06-27T07:53:01.577+09:002019-06-27T07:53:01.577+09:00Well, I take anything from Slate with a great deal...Well, I take anything from Slate with a great deal of skepticism. Are they saying these so-called militias are using the same tactics as those "heroes" on the left, Antifa? And when Democrat Senators were fleeing from Wisconsin a few years ago to thwart labor reforms they were portrayed as brave fighters for worker's rights.<br /><br />Just sounds like more political hypocrisy to me.John Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614775172062071697noreply@blogger.com