Reposted from My Substack
Watching as events unfold I’ve come to the conclusion — as have others — that the entire MAGA project is really just one giant White Power movement.
Back in 2017 during the Unite the Right rally what we saw were fringe actors, and fringe people from literally the KKK and various White Supremacist groups.
It could be argued, as people such as Ramaswamy has stated that these people have only infinitesimal numbers. Although when you have them all gathered in one place, they can and did overpower many of the locals in Charleston.
But we’re past that now, in just a few years we’ve gone from a bunch of Incel misfits shouting “Jews Will Not Replace Us” to regular citings of the “Great Replacement Theory” on mainstream News.
This type of talk is now commonplace. It is exactly the same rhetoric you would hear from Skinheads, KKK and White Nationalists. Now it’s being repeated and believed by a majority (7 out of 10) of GOP voters.
A month before a white gunman killed 10 people and injured three, most of them Black, in Buffalo, New York, a poll found that 7 out of 10 Republicans said they believe in the ideas that constitute the "great replacement" theory.
That conspiracy theory, which was heavily cited in online postings purportedly left by the Buffalo shooter, claims that political forces are intentionally changing the demographics of the country to affect elections.
The poll in April of 1,500 Americans by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tulchin Research found that 45% of young Republican men, and 42% of young male Democrats, said they approve of violence to achieve political change.
Continued.
Today we have Trump openly claiming that immigrants are “Poisoning the Bood of the Nation” and he gets no pushback at all even though the crime rate for immigrants is a fraction of the rate for citizens and we get constant attacks on “Crime in Democrat cities” which are really “Black cities” even though all the evidence shows that crime is decreasing at a historic rate. More importantly, the crime rate in those “Democrat Cities” is actually lower than the crime in Red States,
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The murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump has exceeded the murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden in every year from 2000 to 2020.
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Over this 21-year span, this Red State murder gap has steadily widened from a low of 9% more per capita red state murders in 2003 and 2004 to 44% more per capita red state murders in 2019, before settling back to 43% in 2020.
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Altogether, the per capita Red State murder rate was 23% higher than the Blue State murder rate when all 21 years were combined.
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If Blue State murder rates were as high as Red State murder rates, Biden-voting states would have suffered over 45,000 more murders between 2000 and 2020.
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Even when murders in the largest cities in red states are removed, overall murder rates in Trump-voting states were 12% higher than Biden-voting states across this 21-year period and were higher in 18 of the 21 years observed.
And the gun crime rate in rural areas is higher than in urban areas.
A new study published in Journal of the American Medical Association’s Surgery found that firearm deaths are more likely in small rural towns than in major urban cities, adding to research that contradicts common belief that Democratic blue areas have higher incidences of gun-related deaths than do Republican red districts.
Researchers from Children’s Hospital Philadelphia, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the University of California examined two decades of mortality rates and cause-of-death data from the National Center for Health Statistics’ National Vital Statistics System to compile the study.
A Third Way report found that between 2000 and 2020, Trump-voting states had 12% higher murder rates than did Biden-voting cities.
Data shows that in 2020, eight of the ten states with the highest murder rates voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election in this century.
In the past, Republicans have made crime a major campaign talking point—in October 2022, one quarter of attack ads on Democrats focused on crime, and in the two months leading up to the midterms, Fox aired about 141 crime segments on weekdays, according to the report.
A report published in the New England Journal of Medicine found guns became the leading cause of death for children starting in 2017—motor vehicle-related deaths held the number one spot for 60 years prior.
We see mass murder attacks on Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue, attacks on African-Americans at the Buffalo Supermarket, attacks on Muslims at Christchurch and attacks on Latinos at the El Paso Walmart, where all these attacks are fostered by “Great Replacement.”
On top of this you had Right-Wing thugs in the Proud Boys committing violent acts and the Boogaloo Bois set fire to the police station in Minneapolis at the start of the Floyd protests. And the Boogaloos have been tied to further violence, arson and murder.
Is anyone — besides myself and a few others — arguing openly that the MAGA movement is dangerous and violent? They are.
But on another level, we have the attacks on DEI and CRT which are played as “racist anti-white” policies when they are really policies to curb and repair the impacts of White Supremacy. They feel that just bringing up the subject of racism, or talking about examples of racism is the cause of racism.
They don’t want the subject acknowledged, they don’t want the subject discussed as if it won’t happen if no one talks about the subject. Yeah, well it still happens. In fact, it’s likely to happen more often if we remain ignorant of it - if we let it be swept under the rug.
We have attacks on gender-affirming care which is called “child mutilation” even though guidelines are that no one under 18 goes through any surgical procedures for gender reassignment except for in extreme circumstances besides puberty blockers and breast reduction with parental approval.
Transgender and non-binary people typically do not have gender-affirming surgeries before the age of 18. In some rare exceptions, 16 or 17 year-olds have received gender-affirming surgeries in order to reduce the impacts of significant gender dysphoria, including anxiety, depression, and suicidality. However, this is limited to those for whom the surgery is deemed clinically necessary after discussions with both their parents and doctors, and who have been consistent and persistent in their gender identity for years, have been taking gender-affirming hormones for some time, who have undergone informed consent discussions and have approvals from both their parents and doctors, and who otherwise meet standards of care criteria (such as those laid out by WPATH).
We have LGBTQ people and drag queens who are accused of child molestation and pedophilia when most of the time that occurs at the hands of clergy and pastors.
We have criticism of voters from Detroit, Atlanta, Houston and Philadelphia — who are mostly black — being accused of “massive voter fraud”, and of “stealing the election” away from the proper white citizens. We have accusations that things are all being “controlled and manipulated” behind the scenes by the “deep state” and a global cabal — which means “Jews.”
All of this is about race and identity, all of this is about controlling the ethnic makeup of the nation — maintaining the white straight majority, keeping the power and decision-making of the nation in white hetero hands.
All of this is white people feeling victimized and suppressed because Black, Brown, Jewish, Muslim and LGBTQ people deign to continue existing. Their problem is that they have the audacity to still be around, living in the same country, worshipping their own religion, sometimes speaking their own language, loving who they want to love and living life the way they want to live.
Oh. my. god. How can we allow this to go on?
They’re afraid they won’t always have everything cater just to them as they have for the past 260 years in this country. They’re afraid that the 400 years of evil bullshit that they’ve perpetrated on people of color — is of course — leading to one big giant case of payback.
They think that people of color are simply out for revenge. Remember Tommy Tuberfile at the Trump rally in Nevada.
They want crime because they want to take over what you got. They want to control what you have. They want reparations because they think people that do the crime are owed that. Bullshit. They are not owed that.
Yeah, uh, nobody seriously thinks that urban crime is some kind of “forced” reparations. Again, gun crimes and deaths are higher in rural areas, crime in general is higher in Red States. The cities with the highest crime rates are Red Cities.
The top 10 cities with the greatest violent crime are Albuquerque, Memphis, St. Louis, Vancouver, Oakland, Baltimore, San Francisco, Detroit, Baton Rouge and Anchorage.
The top 10 cities with the highest murder rates (# per 100k) are St. Louis (66.07), Baltimore (55.77), Detroit (39.80), New Orleans (39.50), Baton Rogue (38.26), Kansas City (30.93), Cleveland (27.77), Memphis (27.73), Newark (27.14) and Cincinnati (23.40).
We don’t get to Chicago (18.26) until #14. We don’t get to Los Angeles (7.01) until #63. We don’t get to San Francisco (6.35) until #66. We don’t get to Portland (3.70) until #78. Houston We don’t get to New York (3.39) until #81.
Still, you get this argument.
The worst crime infested cities are populated by and run by democrats period
That proves nothing because Democrats run the cities. 36 of the 50 largest cities in the nation are run by Democrats. Only 10 are run by Republicans and the rest by Independents. Saying 'Democrat city' is basically the same as saying a "City city." Even with that, crime and murder is higher in cities that are in RED STATES than in Blue, whether they have Democratic mayors or not.
Republican cities "don't have crime" because they hardly exist - but if you look, their numbers aren't that good either.
The most populace Republican cities are Dallas (#48 for violent crime, #35 for murder), Ft. Worth (#58 for violent crime, #57 for murder), Oklahoma City (#38 for crime, #34 for murder) and Fresno (#59 for crime, #41 for murder) so they are still more violent than the largest Democratic cities like Portland, SF, LA and NYC.
This premise is false.
Democratic cities are not dens of all crime. Black people and immigrants are not the cause of all crime.
Why would someone want to perpetuate the lie that immigrants cause crime, when they don’t? Or that black people cause crime when proportionally, they don’t? And that they do it because they feel “entitled” to it due to Slavery, Jim Crow, Segregation, Voter Suppression, a grossly biased criminal Justice System and ongoing discrimination in Housing, Lending, Jobs and education - which frankly doesn’t make sense because usually the people being victimized by black criminals are also black? How is that “payback” for anything?
How does it make sense to try and get your “reparations” from another person who is frankly also probably owed reparations? Basically, nobody is thinking it through that way, the criminals are mostly just selfish bastards — who might be suffering from generational trauma — who are inherently self-destructive and going after the people nearest to them. That’s all.
But then what’s the excuse for all the white criminals (who are usually ignored or given a second chance and a pass by the justice system)? Are they just born bad or what?
Here’s another factor, black men are 7% of the nation but 40% of the people in our jails — however the clearance rate (when police identify the suspect) for the murder of a black person is only 45% while it’s 62% for a white murder victim. And in cities like Chicago, the clearance rate can barely be half that.
In 2021, there were 800 homicides counted. The clearance rate by prosecution was 21.7% in predominately Black neighborhoods, yet 45.6% in predominantly White neighborhoods. The study also found that since 2001, the rate of unsolved homicides for Black women is at 35% compared to 23% for White women.
Artinese Myrick, the lead Chicago organizer with Live Free Chicago, points to both a lack of trust between communities and law enforcement and a lack of care given to Black communities from law enforcement when dealing with homicides.
“Families impacted by gun violence — especially in the Black community — are at the intersection of being overpoliced and underprotected,” Myrick said.
So 800 people were killed but they only solved 173 of those cases. 626 murders went unsolved. 626 killers weren’t identified or brought to justice. Can you imagine what that would do to a neighborhood as these cases go unsolved for year after year, decade after decade?
Even without solving these cases, somehow the police manage to fill the jails with black people even though they generally don't solve black murders. Those people are there for minor offenses or nonviolent drug offenses where they’re getting the maximum amount of time, and the average white guy in that same situation would get a warning, or a plea deal.
Have you ever watched the TV show “The First 48” or “Forensic Files?” How often is the murder victim on those shows black? Not very often because we have an inherent sympathy drummed into us for dead innocent white women — not so much for black men or women. And yet somehow, most of the murderes shown on First 48 are usually black even though white people commit an equal number of murders.
The First 48 shares its voyeurism and bloodlust with other reality shows, but differs from them in that it has destroyed, and even ended, the lives of people who never agreed to be involved. Another distinct feature of the show is that almost all of the suspects in it are black. Portrayals of non-black criminals are so rare that it's become something of a social media joke. One user (who has since deleted it) tweeted:
My liver is so black it just claimed self-defense on the First 48.
This portrayal is not representative of American crime statistics. Although homicide arrests are disproportionately high among African Americans, about the same total number of white people are arrested in homicide cases as black people. The First 48's overemphasis on black crime is symptomatic of a larger disrespect for African American communities, which many Americans deem inherently suspicious.
And yet black people are not supposed to have a problem with any of this. White people are angry that people are talking about it. White people are angry that anyone might want to do something about it. Trump is threatening to go after Prosecutors who treat black criminals the way white people get treated, with diversion and alternatives to jail time. Meanwhile, White people are afraid that if the justice system was anywhere near fair — they would be the ones behind bars for those same minor offenses, because they actually commit plenty of the crimes.
In a report released Thursday titled Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-2015, the DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics found that a majority of most violent crimes are committed by people who are the same race as their victims. Indeed, the rate of white-on-white violent crime, it found, is about four times the rate of black-on-white crime.
White supremacists frequently like to manipulate crime statistics in order to claim that nonwhite minorities, particularly African-Americans, are far more crime-prone and the source of most violent crime against whites. Indeed, it is a core belief that this is the case, and many white nationalist ideologues — including politician and pundit Patrick Buchanan, Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, and the Council of Conservative Citizens — all have made considerable hay out of proffering “studies” laden with risibly bad statistics and other evidence to make their case.
The BJS study demonstrates plainly that this is simply not the case. Some 57 percent of crimes involving white victims were committed by white perpetrators, while only 15 percent were committed by blacks, and 11 percent by Hispanics. Black crime victims fell along similar racial lines, with 63 percent of the crimes committed by black perpetrators, while 11 percent were committed by whites, and 6.6 percent by Hispanics.
They just don’t get arrested or prosecuted for it.
In 2018, based on data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, black people were overrepresented among persons arrested for nonfatal violent crimes (33%) and for serious nonfatal violent crimes (36%) relative to their representation in the U.S. population (13%) (table 1).1 White people were underrepresented. White people accounted for 60% of U.S. residents but 46% of all persons arrested for rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and other assault, and 39% of all arrestees for nonfatal violent crimes excluding other assault. Hispanics, regardless of their race, were overrepresented among arrestees for nonfatal violent crimes excluding other assault (21%) relative to their representation in the U.S. population (18%).
This is exactly why they’re losing their minds over the J6 Insurrectionist actually getting the jail time they deserve. Trump wants them pardoned. This is what’s making them so angry, the idea that they are being treated - the same way the black people are treated. And they can’t have that, No Sir.
A MAGA rioter who has been convicted of attacking law enforcement officials with a baseball bat at the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021 is enthusiastic about the potential of being pardoned if former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 election.
In an interview with NPR, Jan. 6 convict Jacob Lang encouraged Trump to deliver a blanket pardon to all people convicted for taking part in the riots, including people like himself who assaulted police.
"It's a beautiful pledge," Lang said of Trump's pardon promise. "No Jan. 6-er left behind. Bring us all home, 47, Donald Trump. Bring us all home."
As the NPR report notes, Lang not only assaulted police on January 6th, but also vowed to become even more violent in the future after the assault on the Capitol failed to block the certification of President Joe Biden's election.
Specifically, Lang said after the riots that the next time he and his fellow Trump supporters would use "guns" on the grounds that "the First Amendment didn't work, we pull out the Second."
That’s White Privilege right there. That’s some serious fucking entitlement.
This guy thinks that the “corrupt and partisan FBI” who are “letting black criminals off the hook” following the Floyd Riots are going to be straightened out by Trump, and finally give them some “Justice.” Even though most of these fuckers are guilty, and they pleaded guilty too.
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About 632 people have pleaded guilty to federal charges, including many who could face incarceration at sentencing.
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Of the nearly 1,000 individuals charged with entering or remaining in a restricted federal building or grounds, 104 have been charged with "entering a restricted area with a dangerous or deadly weapon," per the U.S. Attorney's office for D.C.
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About 140 police officers were assaulted during the Capitol riot.
And he’s far from alone as you also have Rep. Elise Stefanik calling for the release of violent J6 Insurrectionists.
"Do you still think it was a tragic day?" Welker wondered. "Do you think that the people who stormed the Capitol should be held responsible to the full extent of the law?"
"I have concerns about the treatment of January 6 hostages," Stefanik replied. "I have concerns. We have a role in Congress of oversight over our treatments of prisoners."
"And I believe that we're seeing the weaponization of the federal government against not just President Trump, but we're seeing it against conservatives, we're seeing it against Catholics," she added. "And that's one of the reasons why I'm so proud to serve on the select committee on the weaponization of the government."
The Republican lawmaker said the "real threat to our democracy is these baseless witch hunt investigations and lawsuits against President Trump."
"The Justice Department has indicted a number of top named Democrats as well, including the President's son twice," Welker pointed out. "So I mean, a lot of critics would argue that undercuts your argument."
"I want to answer that — if you want to, if you want to make that case, the American people are very smart," Stefanik shot back. "They know that they tried to give Hunter Biden a sweetheart deal."
"Joe Biden and the Department of Justice have, have been withheld from going after the Biden crime family, which Joe Biden sits atop of," she added.
"Other top Democrats have been indicted as well," Welker observed.
Yeah, they have been. These people ignore that Jack Smith prosecuted John Edwards for campaign finance violations. But he’s a “political hitman.”
These false narratives have taken hold, they are deeply believed “truths” by most of the MAGA electorate.
And they are a direct threat to the rest of the nation.