I seriously want to know who the donors were for this. This is just not okay.
I saw some terrible things at the clips of the Turning Point USA conference: Jesse Waters promoting violence against Fauci, Marjorie Taylor Greene referring to Asians as “yellow people,” and Lauren Boebert’s normal racism, and James O’Keefe proving to everyone that he really has lost his mind. (More on that, later.)
But their hero worship of Kyle Rittenhouse, the kid who shot three people, killing two them, was the perfect representation of what the GOP has become: disgusting, violent, and evil. The kid who illegally acquired a gun, traveled across state lines, lied about being a medic, pointed his assault weapon at protesters, and then literally got away with murder, received wild cheers as he was introduced like a rock star. Even if you generously believe that he killed unarmed people with an AK-47 in “self-defense.” why the F would you ever celebrate that?
The bottom clip is how they introduced Rittenhouse. Notice the rap theme song before they asked the crowd to “get loud.”
Yeah! Let’s make some noise for…. a fucking murderer….
It’s almost like those crocodile tears he shed in his trial were fake.
Here’s another angle. The fireworks were a nice touch:
In 1994, Oliver Stone made a film called Natural Born Killers, where two psychotic murderers developed a huge fan base. He predicted it was only a matter of time before it really happened. I got physically ill watching the film, but the GOP has now made it reality.
Before his murder spree, he was known for beating up a girl in a parking lot. The boy has serious issues. His lawyer recommended that he quietly rebuild his life, but he and the GOP have other plans. This is the Republican party’s hero., and don’t think for a second that this wasn’t noticed by scores of basement-dwelling, women-hating, gun fetish white supremacists.
Wow, I get to kill AND become a rightwing celebrity with my own rap song!!? Sign me up!
If that makes you sick, good, it means you are normal. Let me help bring your spirits up a little bit. I wanted to show you the failure that is James O’Keefe. He’s the criminal conspiracy theorist and uber-creepy misogynist who runs a smear outlet called Project Veritas. He’s so bad that he’s even banned from fundraising in freaking Florida due to his criminal activity. James desperately wanted the attention that Rittenhouse got, but his intro was somehow both sad and bizarre…
And then it turned into a messiah/persecution complex on steroids….
I’m pretty sure Coolio wouldn’t be cool that they used his song of oppression to represent a well-funded spoiled pervert.
One more… these guys want fame SO BAD. Ignore Gorka below, it’s just pitiful. Yet I invite you to watch the bottom clip for Benny Johnson. I’m pretty politically plugged in and I don’t even know who Benny Johnson is, but I didn’t bother to look him up. However, just take a look at how pathetic this idiot is. Jump to the 50 second mark to see him come out so you don’t have to sit through his very long intro. Not even a roomful of brainwashed, QAnon failures will cheer for him:
Again, all these guys are just sad, yet Rittenhouse was disgusting. If you openly celebrate a kid who punches girls and slaughters unarmed people in the street, you need to re-evaluate your life.
I’ll end by saying that I wrote earlier this year that the Democratic Party, in it’s many failures, has real heroes that we should be celebrating in stark contrast to the James O’Keefes and Kyle Rittenhouses that the GOP celebrates. Democratic conferences should feature people like Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who single-handedly stood up to Trump during his blackmail of Ukraine, or Ruby Freeman, who dared to count ballots during a pandemic and was then falsely vilified by Sean Hannity and the right-wing media for doing her job. Why not give her a platform to speak? Why not giver her a chance to cash-in for sacrificing so much for democracy?
They would be people worth celebrating, introduce a sharp contrast with the GOP, and also show off OUR Democratic values. As an added bonus, I can safely say that none of them would embarrass us by demanding Wrestle-mania type introductions.