America’s worsening racism, Biden’s cabinet hires, and Louis DeJoy.
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Good morning folks! Hope you all had a solid Labor Day spent at home or at least committing time theft if you had to go to work. No one can prove that you didn’t need to spend half an hour in the bathroom. Never forget that.
It seems like America is getting way more racist: and to prove that point, we want to take a look at two things: the “great replacement” conspiracy theory becoming more prominent in mainstream American politics and the adoption of a lot of ideas that also fueled, well we hate to say the obvious, Nazism.
A lot of people are expecting Biden to have plenty of diversity hires assuming he becomes president: but that’s also drawn worries from some that rejecting Wall Street affiliated hires will limit his ability to do that. That seems untrue and also bad?
The House committee is going to investigate the US postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, over claims that he reimbursed employees that donated to Republicans: it there ends up being substantial evidence of this, holy shit, that’s some good old fashioned corruption right there.
ok uh let’s fuckin do this thing huh
RACISM
America is Getting Seriously Racist as Shit
Racism. Yeah, alright, it’s a heavy topic to start with but whatever: America is getting way more racist. In many ways, that racism looks totally different from the bigotry of yore so it’s important to understand the telltale signs of a racist scumbag. We want to break down two things that worry us.
The Great Replacement Theory
The Great Replacement Theory, a racist conspiracy theory coined by French writer Renaud Camus in his 2012 book Le Grand Remplacement, is a white nationalist belief that non-white people are trying to destroy white people by having more kids than them and slowly phasing them out.
It’s tied to larger “white genocide” ideas and can touch on all kinds of crazy awful shit: anti-immigrant fearmongering, multiculturalism, and that birthrates are falling among white Europeans. Never mind the fact that wealthy people tend to have fewer children and white people tend to hoard all the damn wealth, all of the ideas that substantiate this “theory” are easily debunked.
As Nikkie Ramirez from Media Matters For America writes for Business Insider, “the theory has reared its head in violent outbursts such as the murder of 51 people at the Al Noor mosque and Linwood Islamic Center in Christchurch, New Zealand, the killing of more than 20 mostly HIspanic shoppers in El Paso, Texas, and the screams of angry young men who shouted ‘Jews will not replace us; you will not replace us’ at the August 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where anti-racist demonstrator Heather Heyer was murdered by neo-Nazi James Fields Jr.”
The worry is that this idea is gaining traction in the mainstream. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida recently appeared on Fox News to claim that Black Lives Matter protests were part of “an attempted cultural genocide going on in America right now,” going on to say that “the left wants us to be ashamed of America so that they can replace America.” Sound familiar?
This isn’t the only example of this. Fox News regularly pushes claims that immigrants are replacing Americans at the ballot box to help Democrats. Tucker Carlson has said that “Latin American countries are changing election outcomes here by forcing demographic change on this country.” Jeanine Pirro once said that “it is a plot to remake America, to replace American citizens with illegals who will vote for the Democrats.”
This is all dissimilar enough from outright saying “people of color are becoming more prominent in America and if it keeps up, there won’t be any of us white people left” that they can deny that that’s what they’re saying. Be smart enough to see past that.
The Resurgence of Nazi Ideas
Remember when Richard Spencer got punched in the face and everyone had this whole debate over whether it’s okay to punch a Nazi or not, and further than that, whether Nazis were really an issue in America?
Now we’re beginning to see so many ideas that originated in Nazi circles finding their ways into everyday American life. One of the most prominent examples of this is the conspiracy theory that George Soros is paying Black Lives Matter protestors. Nazis have long accused Soros and his massive amount of wealth of controlling politics, a sentiment Trump seemed to echo recently by saying that people in “dark shadows” were responsible for controlling Biden and creating protest violence.
This, combined with this whole sense of impurity and a nation being dirtied, makes it pretty clear that Nazis exist in America. Not just out and about skinheads, but people in power who are Nazis in every way but name.
Bottom line: well frankly who knows what the fuck we can do about this, it’s probably too late for a lot of people and it’s probably social media’s fault. Just be aware? Uhhh.
ELECTION 2020
Biden and the Pressure For Diversity Hires
People want Biden to hire a diverse group in his cabinet. There’s value in that, no doubt, but what if doing so requires working with fat cats from Wall Street?
Please Stop Hiring the Rich and Awful
Progressive groups like the Justice Democrats and Sunrise Movement have been demanding that Biden pledge zero current or former Wall Street executives or corporate lobbyists to his administration.
However, according to Politico, some Black Democrats are quietly urging Biden to resist that pressure because it may limit his ability to appoint a diverse cabinet and help change the makeup of the executive branch.
Politico goes on to note a study by Georgetown Law Progressor Chris Bummer which found that there have only been 10 Black political appointees in the history of the federal government’s independent financial regulatory agencies such as the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Critics point out that yeah, that’s bad and something the nation needs to work on. But are you seriously telling us there isn’t anyone qualified that is both a person of color and isn’t a morally bankrupt ghoul who hasn’t amassed a ton of wealth and power by fucking over the American people?
Bottom line: seems like another shitty attempt at wielding identity politics as a clutch against progress. Diversity is important but so is making our country just a bit less corrupt.
USPS
The House is Investigating USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy
USPS postmaster general Louis DeJoy is being investigated by the House committee. This guy has really become like, public enemy number one these days, right? He just looks so fucking detestable which is substantiated the more you find out about him!
The Investigation
The House Oversight Committee is going to launch an investigation into DeJoy following reports that he reimbursed employees who donated to Republican candidates.
Former employees of New Breed Logistics, a company run by DeJoy, reportedly felt pressured to donate to candidates but were given bonuses for doing so, according to reporting by The Washington Post.
Not only would this be super illegal in and of itself, that would also mean he lied to Congress under Oath. Damn dude now ya really fucked up
Bottom line: please let this result in something actually happening. This guy intentionally tried to dismantle the USPS so it’s not really surprising that he’s awful in a plethora of other ways. Please someone just make his life worse because of it. A tiny bit of justice.
BREADCRUMBS
Where the News Gets “Fun!”
“Rochester Police Chief Resigns After Accusations of Cover-Up in Prude Case.” The entire police command stepped down too since the state attorney general is having a grand jury look into this case.
“52% of young adults in the US are living with their parents. That’s the highest share since the Great Depression.” Nothing brings families together quite like a devastated economy.
“JPMorgan probing employees’ role in misuse of COVID-relief funds.” Seems a little weird that whenever the government sucks at doing something people get all “DISMANTLE THE GOVERNMENT,” but when banks continually fuck everything they touch up, it’s business as usual!
“The Sunrise Movement, a Growing Electoral Force, Faces ‘Painful Moment.’” The Sunrise movement is kicking some serious ass these days but the world is also kinda on fire.
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