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Reese Bull | Ben Cline: The barbarian behind the scenes in Congress
Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline says protesters who disagree with him are “socialist barbarians.”
Ben Cline is not an independent thinker. He simply repeats scripts given to him by his MAGA masters.
Lacking plans to address real issues, Republicans have resorted to the fourth-grade playground tactic of name-calling. They have exhumed the tired old boogeyman of “creeping socialism” that has haunted them for more than 50 years.
The “socialist barbarians” label apparently originated with House Speaker Johnson in July. He made multiple false, distorted, and misleading comments about the opposition’s agenda. He deliberately conflated the Democratic Party with the Democratic Socialists of America.
Yahoo! News published accounts of Johnson’s remarks and the DSA platform.
The real barbarians in contemporary American politics are the criminals who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The thugs who threatened to hang the vice president and left excrement on the House Speaker’s desk. The rioters who tried to overthrow a lawful election.
They followed orders from Donald Trump, Barbarian-in-Chief.
Cline did not assault police, and did not damage property. He was a barbarian behind the scenes. He voted against certifying the lawful 2020 presidential election results of Arizona and Pennsylvania. Cline was also party to a Supreme Court lawsuit that unsuccessfully tried to nullify the election outcomes of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Ben Cline was present, aiding and abetting the January 6th rioters. He is also blameworthy.
Eight games into a lost season, UVA Football fans, understandably, are overreacting, because that’s what college football fanbases do when things go sour.
NC State, which lost to league doormat Stanford last night on the Left Coast, has fired head coach Dave Doeren, finally moving on from a guy who led the Pack to four nine-win seasons, but never could get the program to an ACC title game.
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