13 years ago this week a right-wing anti abortion group called operational rescue, emailed its members encouraging them to participate in the special hollowing contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you could make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy. they even showed you how to burn the effigy once you made it. the whole thing was supposedly a protest about abortion related aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all expense paid trip to d. c. just burn that effigy. i m not showing you this because the contest was particularly impactful in anyway. it wasn t. this was a fringe group in 2009 taking dangerous political rhetoric about political figures like reid and pelosi to a new and discussing extreme. but the fact that there were not mass effigy burning across the country is not the point. the worry is not th
its members encouraging them to participate in a special halloween contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you can make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy, they even showed you how to burn your effigy once you wrote it. it was from aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all-expense paid trip to d.c. just burn the effigy. is this was a fringe group in 2009 takinging dangerous political rhetoric about reid and pelosi to a dangerous new extreme. the worry is not that violent rhetoric and mainstream politics is going to cause level-headed mainstreamer to do something insane and awful. the worry is that violent rhetoric encourages the least stable amongst us to do. a democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi, a month before the halloween contest in 2009. how concerned are you about the tone of the political de
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provide a reprieve. because what s been happening in brazil during bolsonaro s today the postelection silence has been chaotic. truckers and demonstrators blocked roads throughout brazil since sunday. all in support of bolsonaro. some of the truckers protesting have called for a military coup to prevent low level on taking office. today, bolsonaro failed he called his supporters off, instead he welcomes peaceful demonstrations. so the door here is fairly wide open for more of these truck blockades. but at least the paulson arrow administration appears to have begun the transition process. and it was a real concern that this would not actually happen. that no member of the bolsonaro administration would even utter the word transition. that s because of the new york times has got documented, bolsonaro has been saying exactly that for months. he s been telling the world that if he lost, it would only be because the election was stolen. he s literally been casting doubt on legitimacy of br
provide a retrieve because what s been happen nlg brazil has been chaotic. truckers and demonstrators blocked roads through sunday all in support of bolsonaro. some of the truckers protest having called for a military coup to prevent lula from taking office. he welcomed peaceful demonstrations. the door is wide open for more of the truck blockades but at leaves the bolsonaro administration appears to have begun the transition process. there was real concern that this would happen that no member of the administration would utter the word transition. that s because of the new york times document and bolsonaro has been saying that for months. he s been telling the world if he lost it would only be because the election was stolen. he s literally casting doubt on the legitimacy of brazil s elections for years.