Last Call For The Cold Man's War

Republicans threaten people all the time, it's what they do, the question is how and when they make good on those threats, and who suffers - or dies - in the process. But I don't recall a sitting Republican governor threatening an entirely different state if a Democratic governor was elected there before.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday warned of a coming “Cold War” between Florida and Georgia if Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams wins the gubernatorial election in the latter state.

During a press conference in Gulf County, located in northwest Florida, DeSantis referenced the ongoing Masters golf tournament in Georgia, using it as an apparent segue into discussing the state’s elections.

DeSantis said he “really appreciates our Georgians” but that voters would have to “take care” of the 2022 election to prevent Abrams from winning.

“If Stacey Abrams is elected governor of Georgia, I just want to be honest, that will be a cold war between Florida and Georgia,” he said. “I can’t have [former Cuban communist leader Raul] Castro to my south and Abrams to my north, that would be a disaster. So I hope you guys take care of that and we’ll end up in good shape.”

The Hill has reached out to DeSantis’s office for comment.

 

He can't have a Black woman as a neighboring state governor. What's he going to do, cut off orange juice shipments?

 

In all seriousness though, this is just more posturing and trolling because this is what you have to do in order to get ahead in GOP politics: threaten Democrats. Frankly, if both Abrams and DeSantis end up in office, I fully expect things to get much worse on the border than just words.

The GOP's Race To The Bottom, Con't

The difference between simple racism and white supremacy as a power structure in America is Republicans can do racist things like call for the lynching of a Black Secretary of Defense, and white supremacy as a power structure means that racist gets to keep his job.

 

A Republican official in Virginia is refusing to step down after a racist Facebook post he apparently authored last year surfaced recently.

The post attributed to Hampton, Virginia Electoral Board Chair David Dietrich was added to the platform in February 2021 and is just coming into public view for some reason.

The post appeared to be prompted by an effort by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, to expunge White supremacists and other far-right elements in the United States military.

Dietrich specifically mentioned Austin, who is Black, and claimed the measure was in fact a plot “to remove conservative, freedom-loving Americans from the roles.”

He added, “These so-called ‘leaders’ are so vile and racist, there’s no way to describe them other than in terms their own people understand. They are nothing more than dirty, stinking ni***rs.

“We are being forced into a corner by these enemies of the People. If it is a civil war they want, they will get it in spades. Perhaps the best way to pull us back from the brink is a good public lynching.”

In response, the head of the Hampton GOP has called on Dietrich to resign. The group also called on Dietrich to resign in a Facebook post on Thursday, which included a screen shot of the offending remarks.

 

Thing is, Dietrich says he's not going anywhere.  Republican want an excuse to start shooting Black folk in the street. They want a civil war. They want their racist power fantasies to come true in an ocean of blood. And they're doing everything they can to make it happen.

Georgia Republican candidate Kandiss Taylor goes full theocracy explaining her “Jesus, guns, and babies” slogan:

“Don't talk to me about separation of church and state.”

“We are the church and we run the state.”

“[Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists] don't get to silence us.” pic.twitter.com/9nkkn3JRbM

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) April 9, 2022

 

When I say Republicans want a white Christian ethnostate, this is what I mean.

The Road To Gilead, Con't

The first woman arrested in Texas for determining what her own body should be doing now faces felony charges and prison under the state's new Gilead laws, and she will not be the last.

Lizelle Herrera, 26, was arrested on Thursday by the Starr County Sheriff’s Office and charged with murder.

According to a sheriff’s office spokesperson, Herrera was arrested after it was learned she “intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.”

Herrera remains in the custody of the Starr County Sheriff’s Office at this time on a $500 thousand bond.

There aren't more details as of yet, but it could be that Herrera had a medical abortion, and that somebody who knew about it informed the police in order to collect the state's bounty money. If that's actually what happened, it's as vile as it comes.

I would expect Gov. Greg Abbott to gleefully demand that she be made an example of.

 

My biggest fear of course is that by the end of the summer there's going to be hundreds, if not thousands joining her.