Known Bernie Sanders Supporter Takes Pot Shots at the GOP
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Bigoted Homophobe Steve Scalise's Life Was Saved by a Queer Black Woman
Bigoted Homophobe Steve Scalise's Life Was Saved by a Queer Black Woman
Anne Branigin
fusion.kinja.com
6-15-17
Image via The Frederick News-Post
Steve Scalise, the House Majority Whip who was shot by a gunman who attacked a congressional baseball practice on Wednesday, has kept company with racists. He was forced to apologize for speaking at an international conference of white supremacists, and reportedly referred to himself as “David Duke without the baggage.” Following Scalise’s shooting, Duke praised him for “defending white civil rights.”
Scalise has also been described as one of the most anti-LGBTQ politicians in Washington. He’s voted against LBGTQ rights over and over again. He also authored Louisiana’s ban on same-sex marriage. Like many of his ilk, he said he was only trying to protect “traditional” marriage.
So it is a point of especially delicious irony that Scalise, who survived the attack (and is reportedly in critical condition), may owe his life to a queer black woman.
Crystal Griner, a Capitol Police officer, was one of two special agents on Scalise’s security detail yesterday who helped take down shooter John Hodgkinson. People at the scene said that the two officers prevented an all-out “massacre” on the field that day, engaging in a firefight with Hodgkinson before killing him.
Griner sustained wounds in the fight, and she, like Scalise, was in a hospital recovering last night. By her side was her wife, Tiffany.
According to The Daily Beast, Griner, a graduate of Hood College in Maryland, was a basketball star and a “major force on campus”:
“She was a woman to be reckoned with at Hood: an amazing athlete and a lively presence,” the classmate wrote on Facebook. “It does not surprise me at all that she would think so quickly and act so courageously. You’re not on Facebook, Crystal, but I’m honored to know you. Wishing you a speedy recovery and the knowledge that you have the gratitude of the nation behind you!”
We’re willing to bet that Scalise is grateful too.Leave a comment:
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Nope. She left RT a couple of years back... after that other right wing anorexic chick there made a big stink about Pooty & the Ukraine coverage.Leave a comment:
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Too old to remove himself from his beliefs of being involved in the context of far-right warmongers and predatory capitalists that constitute the rest of the US political class. Sanders begins to look like the tepid centrist he really is; he serves to grant a pseudo-leftist aura to a Dem party that is actually very right-wing and shit-fer-brains slave FORD blindly buys into it and wants you to blindly buy into it, too. Sanders is no different from "Hillcunt" in that they both have friends in the banks and the Pentagon. Sanders has been at his game a long time and he preys upon suckers like you.Leave a comment:
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Right... because Hillary's Mini-Me on the Big Tobacco payroll is the true socialist who will break the chains of the working classLeave a comment:
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You want to be a slave like fuckface FORD here?. I know that's hard to take, but you're getting played for a dupe and it's face down your illusions. Sanders is relegating himself to the historical garbage pile with all the other pro-capitalist and pro-war pseudo-left movements. Sanders is out to fuck over the working class has been badly served by legions of centrists and opportunists seeking to pad their own pocketbooks by railroading the workers behind their schemes upon which Sanders plays his part. Do not support Bernie. You will find nothing there to support.Leave a comment:
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