GOP leader apologizes for tweeting: 'Time for another Kent State' (Rant on!)

[Stonepounder]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/05/gop-leader-apologizes-kent-state/97533372/?fbclid=IwAR2Sqnk532-k3MbYUrF1intLv1lqm78oAIhqgHePtLNsI0dzc6wFygpa4z4

GOP leader apologizes for tweeting: 'Time for another Kent State'

DETROIT — A county Republican leader in Michigan is under fire for seeming to suggest in his social media posts there should be a Kent State type of crackdown on violent protests like the one that erupted at a university in California last week.

But in an interview Sunday with the Detroit Free Press, Dan Adamini, the secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party, said he apologizes, supports peace and was merely trying to prevent further violence and hatred.

Folks, our country is going to be totally screwed if we don't get a handle on this BS soon. There is a slow-moving coup being attempted in Virginia right now. Elizabeth Warren is being crucified for claiming Native American heritage, and at the same time we can put a boozing rapist on SCOTUS, let people like Steve King sit in Congress, have a Senate Majority leader who takes millions from Russian oligarchs.

I was a student at Ohio State University when Kent State occured, about 90 mi away. YOU DON'T GET TO JOKE ABOUT IT! The God Damned National Guard opened fire on protesting students. FOUR young people were KILLED just for being in the wrong place.

If we don't get the GOP out of power soon (and I mean NOW, not 'oh, somewhere down the road') there isn't going to be a United States of America any more, only a country run by Oligarchs, for Oligarchs, and to hell with everyone else. Either that or there are going be the equivalent of pitchforks, torches, and tumbrils. And what that sort of thing happens a LOT of folks, innocent or not get killed.

And I just don't know the answer. And don't tell me to be sure an vote. I haven't missed an election in 50 years, worked on the Hillary campaign, and we have the Orange Shitgibbon in the White House and the GOP seems to have an unbreakable lock on the Senate due to gerrymandering and they are working at a fever pitch to pack the Judiciary with unqualified folk who will side with the Oligarchs and screw what the Constitution says.

I know that Robert Mueller is working as fast as he can. I just don't know if it is going to do much good. 1/3 of the country says 'If Trump says we need to suspend elections, they he must have a good reason and its OK by me'. Then what?

[Hekate]

1. Jesus. I knew a guy who was at Kent State that day...I was thousands of miles away and still ...

...remember it vividly. There are some sick violence-loving SOBs in this country.

[shraby]

2. That person who said that should resign asap.

[brucefan]

4. This story is 2 years old.

and no he didn't resign.

[Takket]

6. I guess calling for the slaughter of civilians isn't as controversial as blackface

[CurtEastPoint]

8. he did resign

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/09/michigan-republican-resigns-protester-tweets/97686534/

[mr_lebowski]

3. Agree with all you said, but one point of fact ... You can't Gerrymander the US Senate

There's other ways to cheat, and an inherent unfairness to it just based on it's structure per the Constitution ... but you can't gerrymander it

[Fuzzpope]

5. I am with you 100%

I don't have a solution either, I just know, I feel it in my bones, that we should be doing something more right now than we are, my intuition screams it.

Yet here the nation sits, ever waiting for someone else to step forward.

The Republicans operate outside the constitution, outside the law, even proving this obvious fact requires years of sprawling investigations with no perceptible outcome or even an end.

If there are a pair of adversaries, and one insists upon limiting it's actions against its opponent, while the other functions with no such visible constraints, it's IMPOSSIBLE to defeat the unshackled adversary.

I'm not suggesting that we do as they do, I'm just pointing out that it seems that they have an insurmountable advantage over us that will always tip things in their favor.

Are we willing to compromise ourselves, and become what we hate in order to defeat them? The future life on this planet for every living thing is bound within this conflict, it's not an easy answer.

"We must join with Sauron.."

I don't know what the solution is.

[CurtEastPoint]

7. Oh, the puerile drivel and shit on this fucker's FB page. What an asshole.

[BSdetect]

9. As long as he was not wearing blackface when he said it .....

[Duppers]

10. Amen!

Thank you.