The United States of America was founded as a free nation by white people seeking escape from religious persecution in England and across Europe. Sure, they stole the land from Native Americans, and our history of racism and xenophobia is hugely embarrassing, but that’s the stuff we’re supposed to learn from, not repeat.If you remember your Schoolhouse Rock, we are the “Great American melting pot,” enriched by people from all nations bringing their cultures and blending them to create a country that can’t be defined with any singularity.And while we’re reliving our GenX Saturday mornings, let’s all sing the Preamble to the Constitution together as a little reminder of what we’re supposed to be doing with it, because Republicans have fully forgotten.The group of compromised Trumptraitors currently cosplaying as the Republican Party is fully engaged in a scapegoating campaign against Muslim Americans, as yet another manufactured distraction from Donald Trump’s Epstein War in Iran that could see retaliation on U.S. soil.The White House Twitter account is nothing but aggro pro-war Bro Memes, because it’s run by a brain trust of racist MAGA bullies.We’ve already seen the effects of the hate campaign led by MAGA agitator Nick “Baby Teeth” Shirley, with his fake “investigation” into “Muslim fraud” in Minnesota. Renee Good and Alex Pretti would be alive right now if Nick hadn’t manufactured distractions for Trump under the guise of “journalism.” Too many MAGA shills are still out there walking around, free to lie for Trump, but I cling to the hope that they’ll go to prison for him first, perhaps along with now-grounded “Eagle” Ed Martin, the far-right lawyer who’s in his own kind of Trump trouble now.The attack on protestors in front of Gracie Mansion, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s residence, is another example of the consequences of MAGA hatred getting out of control, encouraged by the White House and the MAGA Congress.Trumpublicans are also whining about Democrats refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security, while complaining that Democrats won’t support the SAVE Act, the GOP’s voter suppression bill. The two are connected: Republicans are so anti-American in their policies and bills that Democrats refuse to back them. The MAGA cult never hears about that part, as Trump has made it as hard as possible for the truth to get out.Trump’s enablers have chosen loyalty to him over America, apparently thanks to handy Russian blackmail bad enough to keep them on lockdown for a decade. It’s the grift that keeps on giving to Trump, because put together, the Epstein Files and whatever’s in Putin’s safe are bad enough for Republicans to foment violence at home, or to look the other way when U.S. forces bomb a school in Iran. Other people’s children are expendable to these ghouls, as long as the public never finds out just what members of Trump’s regime might have done to kids trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.Republicans have literally chosen violence. Their fealty to Trump will eventually be the end of all of them but it’s still fascinating to me, on a “slow down and look at the car crash” level, that there’s nothing they won’t ignore or excuse. Gone are the days when they hid racism and other personal biases. It’s all about who can “own the libs” with memes and tweets, while trying to gain favor with a bunch of uneducated bullies.It’s hard to pick the worst MAGA offender but a clear frontrunner, this week at least, is Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), who found a niche in the Muslim Hate space by tweeting xenophobic and racist memes from his congressional account. The First Amendment guarantees our right to free speech, but it doesn’t protect hate speech that’s intended to incite violence. Ogles has gone viral in the worst way for tweeting, “Muslims don’t belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.”
Yes, that tweet is still live, and it’s gotten over 16.5 MILLION views. I’m grateful for that Community Note, and I added my own take to the discussion, but my account is super suppressed. And as for Andy, he’s been tweeting up a real hatestorm and it makes me sick.
That’s just disgustingThen there’s this dumb meme he posted, because he’s really leaning into this “MURICA!” thing.
Um … properly filling out forms is how you get your American citizenship, Ogre. How else do you think people get things like driver’s licenses, passports, and mortgages? Lots and lots of paperwork.Mixed in with the Muslim-hating MAGAbots, there are truth-based progressive responses. (Quick sidebar: I’m thinking about writing a primer to help you all spot the fake accounts so you don’t get sucked into time-wasting as they’re programmed to do.) But Ogles doesn’t care. This is how dumb he is.It makes my brain cry to know that the dumbest and worst people have been able to worm their way into Congress, there to enable Trump’s crimes.We can’t ignore such deliberate targeting from the Republican Party. Democrats don’t have the majority back. But we’re getting closer. Thanks for that expense report, Nancy Mace! Oh, so you might be reconsidering some things, Tony Gonzales? Not loving your chances for re-election as a Republican, Kevin Kiley?See ya, wouldn’t want to be any of ya, once Democrats begin the Nuremberg Trials 2.0. Luckily for us, every tweet is a confession. All social media communications are in the public domain (even though some of us can’t reply because we’re blocked). And amid it all, Trump is trying to TACO his way out of Iran, which is being all, “Hey, you started it!” and rightfully so.Hate never wins.Tara Dublin is a political writer/commentator based in Portland, OR, who has been blocked by Donald Trump on Twitter since August 2015 and can occasionally be heard as a fill-in host on SiriusXM Progress. She is the author of The Sound of Settling, a rock ‘n’ roll love story available at taradublinrocks.com
