Subject: Re: I expected a pogrom

Well, "We're all going to die." - the wisdom of Senator Joni Ernst.


Right wing lobbyist and influencer Matt Schlapp:

CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa”

“We know that if the U.S. and Israel had not attacked a country that poses no serious threat to them—Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons, America has thousands—that those girls would be alive,” Beinart said. Schlapp immediately jumped in.

“They’d be alive in a burqa,” Schlapp said, adding “this is … a barbaric society,”

“It’s hypocritical to say that these attacks harmed women and children when those women and children, the young girls that you reference, would be … live a life in a barbaric, unequal society behind a burqa, with no ability to make career choices,” Schlapp said, outraging left-wing commentator Cenk Uygur.

https://newrepublic.com/post/2...

Seems we have regressed to the 1950s, replacing "better dead than red", with "better dead than Muslim".

Steve...watching Shinyland edge closer to theocracy