David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20d This is the most purely anti-American thing I've ever heard a politician say, but the media is too obsessed with 3 DSA candidates winning local elections in NY to pay any attention I guess.
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The press has internalized that it’s fine to talk about “the Muslim question” just like it is to ask about other minorities or Jews in Europe years ago. “Can they assimilate?” “What about their culture isn’t a fit?” Appalling. All garbage and press should be ashamed.
Andy Ogles’ racism and hatred has no place in American society
Not sure what utopia you live in, but this is a conservative “Christian” country now. Republicans have told you this. Which means comments like this are as American as unaffordable healthcare and gun violence.
Great guy. Top quality nazi.
I look forward to tomorrow’s Washington Post op ed on how Melat Kiros is antisemitic, or something.
This one also goes straight to the island.
Bigot who wants you accept that people's worth as human beings should be judged by their ethnicity or religion, rather than the content of their character.
disgusted to say he's my rep and he is utterly vilified in nashville! alas, only 4 years ago, prior to the more recent gerrymandering frenzy, the Rs here chopped up the region and now we're stuck with his sorry, smug, scandalously stupid self.
The right wing billionaires that now own most of the mainstream media don’t want their employees to focus on white leaders saying or doing terrible things; it would counter the narrative they’re constructing for the public
Hmmm, saying "Muslims do not belong" in the US means our hospitals and clinics would no longer function. Many are women doctors who form the backbone of care in my area. Most are 100% independent from corporations.
Maybe it would get more attention if that were said about the Jews. Not that I'm promoting the idea, but imagine the shit-show if any public figure said such a thing. They'd be strung up and run out of town.
Every Republican candidate must be asked if they support or oppose this type of bigotry.
Pluralism is a core tenet of democracy.
I believe he took an oath to uphold the Constitution and I further believe this statement violates that oath.
Thomas Jefferson owned a Kuran. Just sayin'.
Andy Ogles don't belong in American society.
Who wants to live in a lifeless world of identical boring people like him? Blech! Long live diversity and a lifetime of meeting new and interesting people with new and interesting perspectives. LIVE LIFE you loser.
when do we get to have MMA on the white house lawn but it’s just some folks vs these terrible people
I wish some intrepid journalists would ask house members on both sides of the aisle what they think of Ogle's statement. They should be required to go on the record and if they refuse their refusal will also be part of the record. Yes, it will never happen. Intrepid journalists are in short supply
PEOPLE -- STOP. Stop letting MSM control the narrative. LABLES are irrelevant. STOP being manipulated into thinking this is a legitimate intra-party conflict. IT IS NOT. We must ALL VOTE BLUE.
Founding Father Jefferson would like a word …
I think Dem pols/media types/influencers with big megaphones should call MAGA "Radical extremists" and "anti/un-American" on a daily basis.
“Americans couldn’t have built this plane,” by Donald Trump in regards to the 747 he was given by the Qataris has to be a close runner up. It was built by Americans in Everett, WA and modified to become AF1 by Americans in San Antonio, TX.
It’s because most of the media is now propaganda.
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” – Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82
Republicans are increasingly corrosive to society and people need to point it out more.
I think bad things should happen to the few hundred people who aren't bots that liked that post.
That's bc a large portion of voters in TN elected him, and many of them carry the same anti-American sentiments. Once everyone accepts that a lot of people in this country have ALWAYS been fascist (esp when directed towards black people), then we can begin to correct the problem.
Left needs to emphasize that all the things the racists claim will be better if only we could have a whitey country, will still be present if POC were somehow removed from America. It’s a class war disguised as a race issue and they are distracting you.
What state?
This is Horrible!
they have fully bought into the reactionary concept of the "real american" even if they haven;t followed it to the logical conclusion
Have we considered that the media agrees?
They're afraid if they mention it, they will have to finally admit this is the apotheosis of conservatism. This was always where it was going. It undermines their false "both sides" narrative, so it has to go into the memory hole.
Regardless of how the media covers it, he’s saying this because he wants people to hear it and believes it will help him get elected. The voters can remedy this in a few months and if they don’t, the voters are the problem, not him.
All he does is say crazy things
Yet maga Muslims will still vote for him. Imagine being a gay MAGA!? Makes no sense but year they exist... as dumb as it is... they still exist.
How often do you think Republican party figures are asked to comment on posts like these?
Like, we captured and imported Muslims from West Africa hundreds of years ago during slavery.
Whether Rep Ogles believes this to be true or not is beside the point for two reasons. 1) His vocal constituents in rural TN do believe it, and his district is gerrymandered in such a way that he doesn't need to reach past them, and 2) It ingratiates him with The Dear Leader. 1/2
You can be as far right as you want in America. But don’t you dare ask our government to stop funding a genocide.
Democrats should expel Ogles as their first action in January.
Republicans don’t belong in American society.
Ogles doesn’t belong in the human race or planet earth.
Is that asshat facing a tough re-election, or is he just that much of a c*nt?
Andy EyeRape is really something….
I don't know how we get past this asynchronous set of standards between the two parties. It's insane. And the whole "well we criticize the Dems more because they're the grown-ups" is so fucking stupid!
Isn't he also the same dipshit that said the same thing about gay people about a month ago? It ended up deleted and blamed on the infamous "intern", but this shitbag spreads his bigotry everywhere.
IMO media is always chasing the narrative of the moment. The DSA folks are celebrating loud & proud right now; this demands attention while a four-month old horrible tweet from a RWNJ is old news.
not appropriate for an acting legistlator. disqualifying.
Republicans can just be openly Klan now.
You know who didn’t have any concerns about Muslims (Mohametens) being in the US? The actual founders. This was very different from how they felt about my fellow papists, of course.
Neither do these fake Christians spewing hate. They don't know we recognize them as Satan.
55 year-old ignorant Tennessee jackass has "thoughts" on world religions .
Fuck these loudmouth bigots. The worst American has to offer and he somehow made it into Congress
What the right wing says unabashedly in public pales in comparison to what the left wing is hypothetically capable of with no prior indication (the plot of Pink Floyd’s the wall)
Ogles is a Nazi POS #GOPLiesAboutEverything
Andy doesn't belong here ..who the fuck does he think he is? Hopefully he will get cut down to size
Apart from everything else you can say about this heinous stance, it's also historically illiterate and just plain false. Read this thread on Muslim influence and communities around the American Revolution:
Thinking of the fact that one of the reasons the US rebels rebelled, was bc King George didn't allow immigrants to become citizens & said so in the declaration of independence.