Rep. Paul Gosar said that the “homosexual-promoting” general “would be hung” in a better society.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) called for the execution of General Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a homophobic tirade this weekend.

In his newsletter this weekend – published to his Congressional website – Gosar accused Milley of being a “homosexual-promoting-BLM-activist” who delayed the military’s response to the January 6 riot. An election denier, Gosar has in the past claimed that he “started the revolution,” referring to the insurrection.

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    If all the quotes in the article, both from Gosar and Trump, are correct, that’s pretty outrageous. I didn’t fact-check them.

    In any case, I heard Milley interviewed by Fareed Zakaria about a week ago. You can tell that he is completely bemused by all these crazy Republicans accusing him of being “woke”. He is an old, white, grizzled, buzz-cut, 45-year army general. He is the epitome of The Establishment. In any previous decade, he would have been a staunch conservative. But the Republicans have gone crazy and alienated all of the sane conservatives.

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      We need more than 2 political parties to fix this shit show now, I don’t believe what we’ve got now is sustainable, especially on the right.

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        We almost had it when the Tea Party was spinning off into their own party. However, in a grab for relevancy the GOP agreed to drink their crazy KoolAid to maintain the bodies in the GOP.

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        I like the Australian system better. It ain’t perfect, but it is better imo. Regardless, dragging the conservatives kicking and screaming into modernity, much less the future, has thus far proven to be a mixed bag at best. The fact that they’re currently backsliding is hard as they possibly can isn’t helping.

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          MMP is the “better” system.

          No system is perfect. NZ went from First past the post (what the USA uses) to MMP.

          The aus system is pretty good too, but still dominated by two parties.

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            It’s really three parties though, the Liberals have needed the Nationals quite often in order to gain the house. Plus last election we saw a surge in support for independents, who are actually being extremely effective in both Parliament and Senate. Lastly, year-on-year the Greens poach more from both sides as climate change becomes topical.

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        One party is relatively conservative and the other is batshit insane and fascist. We need a party that represents the progressive majority in this country.

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        FYI: There is the Forward party that is trying to get started. https://www.forwardparty.com/. They are focusing their efforts on 12 states local elections to start with. They are intentionally not trying to only compete at the federal level to start locally.

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      Don’t take issue with your point, but he’s 65. I doubt there are many, if any, 45 year old 4 star generals.

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    The guy running against Gosar having all of Gosar’s immediate family in an ad saying Gosar sucks will always be one of my favorite campaign ads.

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    I would like, if I may, to ask the distinguished gentleman from Arizona, exactly what better society he is referring to here? I can only think of nations like Russia or Saudi Arabia who would do such a thing so I would like the gentleman to clarify which nation he thinks is better than the United States of America.

    I would also like to inform the gentleman, that to be hung, one would need to be a portrait or a porn star. A criminal would be, in fact, hanged.

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    Neither Gosar nor Trump have served in the military.

    That pretty much goes without saying, but bears repeating anyway.

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      Didn’t he vote against an anti-sex trafficking bill, along with Gaetz the Groomer and other Republicans?

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    So … Milley is a “BLM activist” (etc.) … who delayed the miltary’s response to Jan 6? That doesn’t even make any sense.

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    would be hung

    This is the the Free speech the right so desperately fights to say in the internet discourse. Either thinly veiled threats or dogwhistles.

    Unfortunately for them such speech has consequences for them outside of their small bubbles.

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    delayed the military’s response to the January 6 riot

    I thought it was just a tourist visit? Or is it only bad when it’s convenient for them?

    Also, isn’t Gosar the one who’s siblings all appeared in an ad for the guy that was running against him?

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      Yes. That says a lot. Who else knows you better that your own family.

      My brother would have to be super duper evil for me to make a commercial campaigning against him.

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      Also, isn’t Gosar the one who’s siblings all appeared in an ad for the guy that was running against him?

      He is, I spend a lot of time in his district and saw the ad on TV.

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    who delayed the military’s response to the January 6 riot.

    So Jan 6th was a riot now? And those were in fact insurrectionists?

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      It was a riot caused by anitfa pretending to be good upstanding Trump supporters on a tour of Congress.

      I believe that covers all the bullshit excuses these fuckle heads have come up.