{"id":40408,"date":"2020-07-12T10:48:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T17:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40408"},"modified":"2020-07-12T10:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T17:48:35","slug":"republicans-on-parade-7-12-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/12\/republicans-on-parade-7-12-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade&ndash;7\/12\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/RepublicansOnParade6.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the one hundred seventy-ninth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winners are rabid, racist Republican Ammosexuals, Mark and Patricia McCloskey. They are so honored for pointing loaded weapons at peaceful BLM demonstrators, who weren&#8217;t even on their property!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"208\" title=\"0712Mark-and-Patricia-McCloskey-\" align=\"left\" style=\"float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0712Mark-and-Patricia-McCloskey-\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0712Mark-and-Patricia-McCloskey-.jpg\" border=\"0\">Personal-injury attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey entered the national spotlight like the ultimate expression of white privilege, <strong>waving their weapons toward peaceful protesters whose crime was walking down a sidewalk<\/strong>. <strong>Republicans immediately tried to make the pair heroes of the Second Amendment, valiantly defending their home by pointing the weapons in the face of Americans who had the audacity to not be rich and white<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So it will probably come as a relief to everyone that they turn out to be jackasses of the first water. Mark McCloskey isn\u2019t just the kind of raging a-hole who is hated by all of his neighbors, he\u2019s not just a guy who <strong>has sued his own sister and his own father<\/strong>, he\u2019s also a guy who did this: <strong>He destroyed bee hives on a neighbor\u2019s property and left behind a note not only admitting that he did it, but threatening to sue if they didn\u2019t clean up the mess promptly. That neighbor was a Jewish synagogue which had planned to use the honey for Rosh Hashanah.&nbsp; \u201cThe children were crying in school,\u201d <\/strong>said Rabbi Susan Talve. \u201cIt was part of our curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Republicans. These are your new heroes. And they\u2019re perfect.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/metro\/portland-place-couple-who-confronted-protesters-have-a-long-history-of-not-backing-down\/article_281d9989-373e-53c3-abcb-ecd0225dd287.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/a> outlines, the McCloskeys have a \u201clong history of not backing down.\u201d Which in this case means they are unbelievably\u2014unbelievably\u2014awful. <strong>If their moment in the national spotlight made them seem like a postcard advertising the very worst America has to offer, prepare to be amazed. They\u2019re worse than you think<\/strong>\u2026&nbsp; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2020\/07\/st-louis-post-dispatch-report-reveals-gun-toting-white-couple-have-been-litigious-jerks-for-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I bet they would have left the bee hives alone had the honey not been for Jewish children.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2020\/07\/st-louis-post-dispatch-report-reveals-gun-toting-white-couple-have-been-litigious-jerks-for-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click through<\/a> for even more reasons these vile Republicans deserve a parade.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Like all rabid Republican Ammosexuals, they also lie like hell!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2gdN2Xv41gg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Couple aims firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2gdN2Xv41gg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Nothing that racist Republican said was true.&nbsp; Not one of the BLM protestors did anything to threaten him, his wife, or his property in any way.&nbsp; In typical Republican fashion, they acted out of hate, not out of the grievance they falsely claim.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the one hundred seventy-ninth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winners are rabid, racist Republican Ammosexuals, Mark and Patricia McCloskey. They are so honored for pointing loaded weapons at peaceful BLM demonstrators, who weren&#8217;t even on their property! Personal-injury attorneys Mark <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/12\/republicans-on-parade-7-12-2020\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3763,4001,3734,3721,3748,3783,3714],"class_list":["post-40408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-ammosexuals","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-lies","tag-racism","tag-republicans-on-parade","tag-video","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}