The Headlines Today

I don’t know if you saw the news this morning but there was a machete on a Jewish rabbi in his home, Jews were attacked on the streets of New York City, and a shooting in a church in Texas all within the last couple of days and buried in the headlines was a murder of a trans women this month.

Trans Woman’s Murder in Washington Makes 2019 Deadliest Year on Record for Transgender Americans
Nikki Kuhnhausen is the 27th trans murder victim after a six-month search determined she had been slain.
NewNowNext
By Kate Sosin
December 18, 2019

Nikki Kuhnhausen won’t be graduating from Hudson’s Bay High School this spring. She won’t even turn 19.

On December 7, the 18-year-old was found dead after a six-month search that ended in a grassy field in her hometown of Vancouver, Washington.

Kuhnhausen will be counted as the 27th transgender homicide victim of 2019 nationally in a year that is now tied for the most deadly on-record for transgender people. 2017 also saw 27 transgender murders, which at the time was an all-time high. With 12 days left on the calendar, this year threatens to overtake that number.

Hate is becoming more rampant across the country.

Attacks by white nationalists are becoming common place and the question is why? It started with the inauguration of President Obama, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported an increase in white supremacists organizations. With the election of Trump the hate organization went from covert to overt and the attacks on minorities have increased.

Maybe this is one of the reasons for the increase.

Trump loyalist who wants to set up 51st state based on far-right Christian values accused of domestic terrorism
Matt Shea dismisses official report as ‘sham investigation’
The Independent
ByAndrew Buncombe
Friday 20 December 2019

A Republican politician and loyal supporter of Donald Trump who wants to establish a 51st state based on far-right, Christian values, has been accused of taking part in domestic terrorism against the US government.

Matt Shea, 45, who represents a district in eastern Washington at the state legislature, was found to have travelled across the state to meet with extremist groups, condoned the intimidation of opponents and promoted training for armed militias, accused of having links to extremists and hate groups.

“Representative Shea, as a leader in the Patriot Movement, planned, engaged in and promoted a total of three armed conflicts of political violence against the United States government in three states outside the state of Washington over a three-year period,” the report said. “In one conflict representative Shea led covert strategic pre-planning in advance of the conflict.”

Yahoo News reported…

But back in his home district, Shea also began attracting the attention of law enforcement for his growing embrace of fringe ideologies and conspiracy theories. He networked with local militia groups, talked about plans to create a 51st state called Liberty and distributed to his closest followers a “Biblical Basis for War” document that calls for the “surrender” of those who favor abortion rights, same-sex marriage, “idolatry” and communism. “If they do not yield — kill all males,” it said.

The Republicans are using hate to divide our country, they have realized that white nationalist vote and make large campaign donations.

As a result the Republican party has because a party of white supremacists, if you vote Republican you are an enabler of this hate.

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Update 4:30 PM

I just found this Washington Post article…

Lindsey Graham and far-right leader Geert Wilders were photographed smiling together
By Paul Kane
September 8, 2019

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) appeared in a photo with Geert Wilders, a controversial Dutch parliamentary leader with anti-Islam and anti-immigrant views, while both attended a European security conference in Italy.

Graham and Wilders, leader of the Party of Freedom in the Netherlands, were seen smiling together Saturday night at the Ambrosetti Forum on Italy’s Lake Como.
[…]
Wilders has drawn criticism for his views toward Islam. He has advocated for a tax on women who wear a hijab, supported a ban on Muslims immigrating to the Netherlands and said he feared a future with “more mosques than churches” in his country.
“I don’t hate Muslims, I hate Islam,” he once said.
[…]
During his presentation Saturday, Wilders predicted that nationalist parties in Europe would make a strong comeback. “I believe there is a lot of support among the people, especially on the issue of immigration,” he said.

He has been labeled by other blogs as a white supremacist and I believe that he is correct in saying that nationalist parties in Europe are making a strong comeback, especially in Poland and Britain.