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Why here? Why now?

01 Sunday Jul 2018

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We just love this photo. Apparently a lot of other people do, too.

The badass on the right. #resist

Over the past ten days or so we’ve covered a variety of events. A town hall on gun violence in Kansas City, Kansas which included students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida, and several demonstrations against Donald Trump’s (r) policy of separating immigrant children from their parents and placing them in concentration camps – in downtown Overland Park, Kansas; downtown and on the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri; and in Columbia, Missouri. In the meantime the right wingnut controlled U.S. Supreme Court upheld the latest iteration of Donald Trump’s (r) Muslim travel ban.

On Friday evening we covered a demonstration near the entrance of the Plaza in Kansas City organized by a coalition of Muslim community groups and allies. About 150 people showed up – modest, yet still effective by Kansas City standards. There was the usual Kansas City Police presence.

About an hour into the demonstration a lone Trump supporter, by his flag, showed up. And then later still, a half dozen or so other right wingnuts showed up in matching t-shirts, bearing matching flags and signs, who strutted past the Muslim demonstration.

Checking it out.

A minister engages.

Walking through.

It’s quite simple, really, if you single out a religious minority you’re a bigot. That’s it.

His editor would cut the first line and the fourth line, then call it truth in advertising.

Uh, about that lack of civility…

Diversity fail.

They have Congress, the have the executive branch, and they have the Supreme Court. What makes them so aggrieved that they’d show up to a modest and harmless demonstration like this? That they’re so insecure that they demand absolute fealty to their supreme leader?

Fist bump.

That’s just like Barack and Michelle Obama! Oh, wait….

Sartorial splendor.

Wait, is that guy wearing American flag underpants out in public? Go figure.

Why here? Why now? Why this demonstration and not the others? What was the difference?

Oh, wait…

Previously:

No, we cannot (June 29, 2018)

Children understand (June 29, 2018)

As we are all (June 29, 2018)

Be the badass on the right (June 29, 2018)

KC Rally for Muslims, Immigrants, & Refugees – Kansas City – June 29, 2018 (June 30, 2018)

It’s hard out there

13 Tuesday Mar 2018

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Yesterday a group from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas picketed in Warrensburg on a corner next to the campus of the University of Central Missouri.

It’s not like the good old days when thousands would gather in opposition.

So, there they stood for around thirty minutes under the watchful eyes of University of Central Missouri and Warrensburg Police. And a handful of counter protesters, curious passersby, and some more forward performance artists. It’s not like the good old days.

It has been said that today in America one third of the population would gladly kill another third of the population while still another third would stand by and do nothing.

The problem for old school bigots is that now they get lost in the noise. Professionals have taken over in America and they’ve been left behind.

It must gall them to no end.

All that experience and refined sign making skills. The lessons learned in dressing for the weather, the practice and dexterity involved in holding up four signs. All for naught.

Previously:

A hate group, the First Amendment, and a funeral in a small town (November 23, 2010)

At noon today in Warrensburg (March 12, 2018)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): let them not eat cake

05 Tuesday Dec 2017

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Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

Today, from Representative Vicky Hartzler (r), via Twitter:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler‏ @RepHartzler
It was an honor to speak on behalf of religious freedom and Masterpiece Cake Shop’s Jack Phillips this morning at the #SCOTUS #JusticeforJack rally.
[….]
8:39 AM – 5 Dec 2017

Nice touch there, using an image of Martin Luther King, Jr. to promote bigotry.

And, of course, some of the responses do not disappoint:

I love her thoughtful, heartfelt canned auto replys…makes me feel so special & I know my voice is being heard! #sarcasm

You’re the worst Vicky Hartzler.

In which Rep Hartzler spends more time trying to legalize discrimination than she does having face-to-face meetings with her constituents.

You are a comically terrible representative for Missouri.

It would be great if you spent half as much time championing the Missourians you theoretically work for as you do a baker in Colorado.

How sad that you feel honored to defend hate! Your hate is not based on the teachings of Jesus. Sad.

You must not be a biblical scholar. It’s all there in the book of Republicanonican

I am. However, I thought this hate is found in the book of Midas. You know the one that says “blessed are the rich for they are rich and job givers and have paid their way into heaven.”

omg they’re using mlk to support discrimination i am screaming

Are you kidding me???

Yeah, we noticed that, too.

Don’t you dare use MLK’s photo in this bullshit.

A bigot surrounded by bigots. This is unamerican.

You’re Free to practice your religion but NOT to impose your religion on society [….]

1) your constituents are in MO-4
2) why do you support bigotry?

We get it, you’re a bigot.

Your bio says ‘serve the hardworking Missourians’. But just the straight ones, right?

It was an honor to be a bigot? Because that’s exactly what you are.

Vile woman.

I’ve got a new campaign slogan for you– Homophobic Hater Hartzler from Harrisonville! Why don’t you spend your time helping fellow Missourians instead of a gay hater in Colorado? I really resent you spending my tax dollars this way. You truly sicken me!!! NO Vicky in 2018

And Jesus wept! Do you support all religious freedoms or only those of Christianity? America is not just a Christian nation. Freedom of Religion is for all religions or those that choose not to believe.

Bigot!

It would be even better if you learned how to give a shit about America being destroyed from within by a Kremlin Puppet. But nooooo, gotta keep those fake Christian values front & center.

My other question is why are you out there with a homophobe when you should be at your job trying to help fix the tax bill?

Good question, but you didn’t really need to ask to get an answer.

“I’ll take ‘I’m running for state senate in a district that doesn’t like to vote for bigots’ for $500,000.00, Alex.”

27 Wednesday Apr 2016

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There’s some explaining to do today for some republicans in the Missouri General Assembly:

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Jason Rosenbaum‏@jrosenbaum
. @calebrowden on why he voted against #SJR39:

Rep. Rowden Issues Statement on SJR 39

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – “I have spent most of my adult life in ministry; first as a full time Christian recording artist and second as the Worship Pastor at my church in Columbia. I did not believe SJR 39 was the right way to move our state forward at a time when people in Missouri are looking for leadership on how to fix our roads, grow our economy, and keep our families safe.”

4:18 PM – 27 Apr 2016

Gee, if only the same philosophy applied to Medicaid expansion.

And to think, Stephen Webber (D) is running for the same seat. Go figure.

Previously:

Ed Emery might go on the attack to defend SJR39 – but only if brave Torry revolutionaries get his back (April 13, 2016)