Trump, DeSantis Commemorate Memorial Day With Fascist Vow To Exterminate Their Enemies
It brings a tear to your eye.
Donald Trump has shown his ass on Memorial Day for years now. You'll recall his 2015 message: "I would like to wish everyone, including all haters and losers (of which, sadly, there are many) a truly happy and enjoyable Memorial Day!"
The one-term loser spent Memorial Day weekend 2020, when almost 100,000 Americans had died from COVID-19, tweeting gross sexist bile about Nancy Pelosi and Stacey Abrams. This year, he was his usual, petty unhinged self. He dropped this load on his Truth Social site:
\u201cBiden\u2019s Memorial Day message and Trump\u2019s Memorial Day message.\u201d— Ron Filipkowski (@Ron Filipkowski) 1685363405
"HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL," it begins because Trump fundamentally doesn't understand this holiday. The entire rant's in all-caps, but I'll spare your eyes:
But especially to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for the country they love, and to those in line of a very different, but equally dangerous fire, stopping the threats of the terrorists, misfits and lunatic thugs who are working feverishly from within to overturn and destroy our once great country, which has never been in greater peril than it is right now. We must stop the communists, Marxists and fascist ‘pigs’ at every turn and, Make America Great Again!
This seems far less stable than what Jordan Neely reportedly said that scared passengers on a New York subway. Yet, an overwhelming majority of Republican primary voters are ready to give Trump the nuclear codes ... again.
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Trump isn't the only Republican candidate for president who spent Memorial Day vowing to crush his enemies under his stinky heel. Florida's part-time governor and aspiring despot Ron DeSantis offered a moving message of tyranny during an appearance on "Fox & Friends." He was asked why he couldn’t just wait to run for president until after Trump’s nightmare second term when DeSantis would still be a relatively young 50 who looks 70. Here’s his answer:
Because everyone knows if I'm the nominee, I will beat Biden and I will serve two terms. I will be able to destroy leftism in this country and leave woke ideology on the dust bin of history.
\u201cDesantis says Good Morning: \u201cI will serve two terms, and I will be able to destroy leftism in this country.\u201d\u201d— Ron Filipkowski (@Ron Filipkowski) 1685363242
DeSantis doesn't plan on serving two full terms as governor, so why should we believe he'd serve two full terms as president? He might bail if Vladimir Putin's job opens up.
Before we get to the creepy fascism, let’s take a moment to savor DeSantis recycling the same electability argument as John Kasich: "Yes, I’m losing bad in the primary, but polls show me winning in the general!" This argument is especially absurd because it presumes that Trump wouldn’t deliberately sabotage DeSantis if he did win the nomination. Trump talked tough in the 2016 primary but he was winning. DeSantis is losing and keeps losing.
Now on to DeSantis’s final solution pitch:
At least half the country — if not more — identifies as center left. That's a lot of people for him to "destroy." Republicans haven’t won the popular vote since 2004 for a reason. They can gerrymander themselves into power and install right-wing hack judges thanks to the Electoral College, but that doesn’t mean they’ve won any ideological argument.
The political landscape is bleak in Florida, but DeSantis hasn’t actually ended leftism there, either. He has attempted to marginalize queer people, ethnic minorities, and anyone who thinks differently from him, but he’s only succeeded in inspiring a resistance that has made allies of otherwise disparate groups. We have the numbers. We will eventually prevail. Smarter and even smugger bigots have tried to stomp out freedom in America and they almost always fail.
That’s not to say it’s easy. Fighting fascism is a slog, but Black folks have done it since we were brought to this nation. (We could use some more help, though.)
DeSantis is dangerous, but like most bullies, he's also pathetic. Last week, before he boasted about his top-secret plan to build a wall around "woke," he whined to Mark Levin about how the mean liberal media won’t swoon over his wife, Casey.
“If she were a Democrat, she’d be on every fashion magazine," DeSantis said, truly addressing the issues that are important to normal Americans. "They would be making her out to be the biggest deal. But because we’re conservative, we know that that’s not what happens. In reality, it will be the opposite, where they try to really attack."
DeSantis decries "identity politics" while laughably suggesting that Casey DeSantis is somehow an oppressed minority. It seems more likely that fashion magazines are judging Casey DeSantis based strictly on the content of her character. She willingly married Ron DeSantis, after all, and possibly believes "Thai" food is pronounced "thigh" food. One would think that if your spouse is leading a crusade against queer Americans, you shouldn't expect much affection from the fashion industry. But don't despair, Casey, there's always a potential photo spread in Guns & Ammo.
Here DeSantis reveals the limits of his fascist grip: He can't destroy the Left because we would no longer exist to approve of him, which he desperately wants. He can make us miserable but he can never make us like him.
Meanwhile, here is a Memorial Day message from an emotionally healthy US president:
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GOP Rep. Glenn Grothman Knows Who Biden Oppressing, It Is White Man Judges Who Make Sex To Women
It is probably very rude to just hurl around terms like 'white supremacist,' but hurl we must.
Glenn Grothman, he is one of those white people in Congress. He is a Republican. Those are his primary characteristics. He is from the Sheboygan area of Wisconsin, so when he says white supremacist things, we imagine he says them with cheese on his breath.
He's shown up on Wonkette throughout the years.
When he was a state senator, he pushed a bill to make sure everybody understands how much single parents contribute to child abuse. He once told Alan Colmes that he thought women who said their pregnancies were "unintended" were only saying that because they'd been trained to.
Once he became a US congressman, he raged at the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling, because wasn't the 14th Amendment passed by Christian civil war heroes, to advance the Christian lifestyle?
He was siding with Russia against Ukraine way back in 2019, when today's war was a mere twinkle in Vlad Putin's peenhole. He sides with Putin's peenhole twinkles quite a bit, actually.
He's the dumbass who said DC can't be a state, at least in part, because there's nothing to milk in DC. (Also nothing to mine, manufacture or grow. That's what makes a state, according to the rules Glenn Grothman made up that day.)
He thinks nobody cares about January 6 — the terrorist attack Donald Trump incited against America to overthrow the government and steal the 2020 election — except reporters.
Then there's his racist shit, like when he furiously opined about all these white people shoving Black Kwanzaa down his throat. In March, he was one of just 26 House Republicans who couldn't bring themselves to denounce white supremacy and say that the Great Replacement conspiracy theory — the one that inspires all the white supremacist mass shootings — is bad.
Well breaking news, but Glenn Grothman has said some more racist shit.
He got real pissy on the House floor yesterday because Joe Biden won't even nominate any white man judges who like to put their man wangers inside a woman's no-no. Why won't Biden nominate those? You know, just good old white people, the type who are men, with traditional Christian penises, who like to stick them in traditional Christian vaginas? Why does Joe Biden hate white people?
\u201cWisconsin's finest Glenn Grothman is on the House floor right now complaining that Biden isn't nominating enough straight "white guys" as judges\u201d— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1685040256
Daily Beast, transcribin':
Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) cried oppression on the House floor Thursday when he complained to peers that Joe Biden isn’t appointing enough straight “white guys” to be judges. In the president’s first two years, he appointed 97 federal judges. “I was expecting maybe 25 or 30 were white guys,” Grothman said. “Five of the 97 judges were white guys. Of those, two were gay. So, almost impossible for a white guy who’s not gay, apparently, to get appointed here.”
It is obviously reverse racism if Joe Biden doesn't choose at least 25 or 30 white guys out of 97 judges. Instead it was five. And two of them were gay dudes.
Can gay dudes even call themselves white?
And who's a white guy gotta blow around here to get a judgeship from Joe Biden, you know, besides a whole buncha guys?
You might remember that earlier this year, back when Tucker Carlson was gainfully employed, he went on a real bender about this. (Tucker is also a white supremacist, in case you have forgotten him.) Tucker got his information about Joe Biden's gay satanic critical race groomer crusade against white male judges from a Claremont Institute cuck.
Tucker Has Idea For Biden Judicial Picks, It Is WHAT ABOUT SOME WHITE MEN?
As the Daily Beast notes, it's been a priority for Biden to try to get some more representation from people who aren't straight white guys into the judiciary. They cite statistics from 2022 what say 78 percent of Article III federal judges are white, and 70 percent are dudes. And how many are both of those things at the same time?
This tweet has the answer to that:
\u201cCurrently sitting federal judges: 1,407\n\nWhite men: 779 (55.4%)\n\nBlack women: 63 (4.5%)\n\nStats from FJC: https://t.co/K9WLkBQYRG\u201d— Max Kennerly (@Max Kennerly) 1675743091
So what Tucker was bitching about, and what Glenn Grothman is bitching about, is that Joe Biden won't even give white straight dudes a chance to, um, continue to assert white straight dude supremacy over the judiciary.
Know what we think about that? We'll tell ya what we think about that, you want us to tell ya what we think about that? We'll tell ya what we think about that, you want us to tell ya? OK here we go, we're gonna just say it.
Hey Wisconsin dude, go fuck yourself with some cheese-shaped dicks, why dontcha? How about that, why dontcha?
Ope, we just told ya.
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Cool TN Lady Gonna Fill The Social Studies Standards With Awesome Stuff Like 'Barack Obama Did The Tornados'
Of course we've met her before, your Wonkette's on top of shit!
The Education Wars just never go away, and in today's dispatch from the front lines we'll look at Tennessee, where a rightwing conspiracy theory fan and anti-Muslim bigot has just been appointed to the committee that sets standards for the state's social studies curricula.
Yr Wonkette already introduced you last year to Laurie Cardoza-Moore, the nutball Tennessee bigot lady, when she was a member of the state textbook commission that was tasked with making sure only "age appropriate" materials were in them. You may recall that Tennessee was considering a measure that would have required state approval of every last item in the collections of school libraries; the bill's sponsor charmingly said that any materials not approved by the commission should be burned. Ultimately, the Lege settled for a different plan that gave the textbook commission the power to hear appeals of book challenges brought by parents, so the state could ban library books even after a local school board had gone through a challenge process and approved them. Hooray for compromise.
We guess that Ms. Cardoza-Moore must have either done a bang-up job on that commission, or at the very least that she has powerful friends in Tennessee, because clearly it's the latter thing. She was chosen for the Tennessee Standards Recommendation Committee by Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R), the slimebooger we came to know and loathe during the kangaroo court proceedings that expelled Democratic state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson in April. Sexton also appointed her to the textbook commission in 2021, which is quite the coincidence.
In her new job, Cardoza-Moore will have a say in setting state standards for social studies classes, although we suspect she'll just photocopy the course offerings at Hillsdale College and say "Done!" As Judd Legum points out in his Popular Information newsletter, Cardoza-Moore doesn't actually believe in public schools; she's homeschooled her own five kids, and she's simply horrified that US history texts teach historical facts that make America look bad, such as the fact that the Constitution provided a framework for oppression of African Americans. In a 2020 Fox News interview, she blamed Common Core, because why not? She claimed, falsely, that schools no longer teach about the founding of the US, but instead skip ahead to the Civil War and Reconstruction so they can harp on all the slavery, those monsters.
"This is an outrage," Cardoza-Moore exclaimed. "It poses the greatest national security threat to our constitutional republic."
So yeah, she's a real peach. She somehow also took issue with a textbook's factual statement that the Republican Party was originally founded to fight the spread of slavery beyond the states where it was already allowed, complaining that it was "disinformation" because Lincoln was anti-slavery, which, yeah, that's what the book said. She was mostly upset the book didn't say that Democrats were pro-slavery and KKK, and also what about that Klansman Robert Byrd, huh?
Cardoza-Moore initially made her name in Tennessee politics by fearmongering about Islam, back when that was the thing the Right was certain would destroy America, because Barack Obama was president. She led some of the most paranoid opposition to a mosque being built in Murfreesboro, claiming that fully 30 percent of Muslims are terrorists and that the mosque would be a base for "radical Islamic extremists" bent on destroying Nashville's Christian music industry.
During her 2021 confirmation hearing for her seat on the textbook commission, she explained that bad school textbooks are directly responsible for wrecking America and of course the riots that burned all cities in America to the ground in 2020, several of them more than once.
While America slept, the hearts, minds and souls of our students were being influenced by disinformation. Tragically we have seen the result over the past few months; our streets have been filled with rioting destructive American young people who have not been taught the values entrusted to us by our nation's founders ... nor have they been taught our nation's history — history which many seem intent to destroy
See, if only kids been made to memorize more facts about how George Washington was a Christian and God wrote the Constitution, there might be a few more cities still standing in our great land.
As Legum details, Cardoza-Moore doesn't seem to have met a conspiracy theory she didn't glom on to. She's said that 9/11 was an "inside job," that Donald Trump was the true winner of the 2020 election, and that January 6 was a false flag attack by "Antifa." I'm just disappointed that she doesn't appear to have said anything about chemtrails. But she came kind of close in 2011, as Legum explains, when she
claimed that former President Barack Obama was causing "horrific tornadoes" because he made a speech that discussed the plight of Palestinians. Asked if she still held these views, Cardoza-Moore did not respond.
She also runs her very own "Christian Zionist" nonprofit called "Proclaiming Justice to the Nations," which recently ran a press release on her appointment to the social studies standards job. In it, we learn that she has previously helped the Florida Department of Education screen textbooks, "a successful review effort that 'caught and corrected dozens of books to prevent political indoctrination of Florida’s children,' a spokesperson for Governor Ron DeSantis noted."
In the press release, Cardoza-Moore reflected on the important task ahead of her, because
"The materials we will be reviewing can only accomplish the mission of educating good American citizens if our Tennessee textbooks are devoid of left-aligned historic revisionism and the toxic material found in the antisemitic Critical Race Theory; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Social-Emotional Learning and Ethnic Studies.”
Impressive how she got all the rightwing shibboleths in there!
The statement also emphasized that Muslim groups opposed her appointment to the textbook commission, presumably because if she has the right enemies, that just shows what a great job she'll do for Tennessee students.
We can hardly wait to see what happens to Tennessee social studies standards. Haha, we kid, of course, because we read the history standards that Donald Trump's "1776 Commission" came up with, so we have a pretty good idea. Good luck, kids!
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