Author: Juniper Russo Source: Addicting Info

On Monday, Todd Kincannon, a former South Carolina GOP executive, unleashed a series of tweets saying that he'd like to "round up" transgender people and place them into concentration camps.

On Monday, Todd Kincannon tweeted, "There are people who respect transgender rights. And there are people who think you should all be put in a camp. That's me."

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Well it's nice to know that the GOP aren't satisfied that they've shot themselves in the foot enough lately. They had to go a step further. However, I know this sounds cynical but I'll be surprised if a large number of people really care what he said.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/16/gop-politician-wants-concentration-camps-trans-people/





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Oh dear.

It seems someone was feeling starved of attention.

Yeah don't you just love how the Republicans have embraced the crazy far right. And they wonder why Obama won last November they need to kick the Tea Party and their backwoods beliefs to the curve and move the party back too the center. I used too vote Republican but after all the hate they have been spewing the last few years I cannot support them.

Seems like he doesn't have an inkling of a notion of the meaning of Constitutional rights and thinks it's rather selective in it's intent as do most of the politicians on either side of the political aisle in DC.

We have some kooky elements in our main Australian conservative party (ironically their party name is the Liberals, but I believe it was originally a reference to economic not social liberalism), but nothing quite so extreme. Those kind of comments usually get howled down although it still doesn't stop some of them from making them - one senator claimed gay marriage would lead to polygamy and bestiality!

If people can now find it ridiculous that somebody is persecuted for loving somebody of the same sex then I am confident that one day people will look back and find it ridiculous that people were persecuted for changing sex. The GOP don't represent the good people of this world. We'll have our justice one day. But sadly, not today.

I can concentrate just fine. Thank you very much.

Quote from: Dreams2014 on October 17, 2013, 02:04:38 PM
If people can now find it ridiculous that somebody is persecuted for loving somebody of the same sex then I am confident that one day people will look back and find it ridiculous that people were persecuted for changing sex. The GOP don't represent the good people of this world. We'll have our justice one day. But sadly, not today.

The problem with the GOP is they are being run into the ground by a bunch of old white men who refuse to face the reality that the 1950's are long gone and the world is a different place now where being trans or being gay isn't illegal. The really need to take a look at the world around them and notice people are not all the same and we all have a place in this society. If the GOP keeps this up they won't be a party much longer.

Quote from: Heather on October 17, 2013, 02:16:03 PM
The problem with the GOP is they are being run into the ground by a bunch of old white men who refuse to face the reality that the 1950's are long gone and the world is a different place now where being trans or being gay isn't illegal. The really need to take a look at the world around them and notice people are not all the same and we all have a place in this society. If the GOP keeps this up they won't be a party much longer.

In a way, I pity people with outdated views. We can't just expect them to change after everything they'd known was swept from underneath them very quickly. People alive today who lived through the 1950's have had to experience great economic prosperity, followed by the great threat of Nuclear war, plus all the other wars and not only that but massive technological advancement that they struggle to get their heads around. It's a completely different world. So I really do pity them in a way.

That Kincannon is really entertaining. Of course for some of you transpeople it might be triggering. I myself just enjoy messing with people like him. There ought to be a law against bigots running for office.

Quote from: ZootAllures/BlackNapkins! on October 17, 2013, 02:47:26 PM
There ought to be a law against bigots running for office.

A law shouldn't be necessary the voters should be intelligent enough to vote sane people into office. 

Quote from: Heather on October 17, 2013, 02:51:37 PM
A law shouldn't be necessary the voters should be intelligent enough to vote sane people into office.

i shall weep for america.

Quote from: Heather on October 17, 2013, 02:16:03 PM
The problem with the GOP is they are being run into the ground by a bunch of old white men who refuse to face the reality that the 1950's are long gone and the world is a different place now where being trans or being gay isn't illegal. The really need to take a look at the world around them and notice people are not all the same and we all have a place in this society. If the GOP keeps this up they won't be a party much longer.

The times, they are a-changin'

Left to right -
Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida (and family)
Representative Tim Scott of South Carolina
Governor Susana Martinez of New Mexico
Former Governor of Alaska and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin
Former Chairman of the Republican Party Ken Mehlman

Note that African-American Republican congressman Tim Scott comes from the same state is that knucklehead nobody Kincannon.

And let's not forget ...



Purported second type woman Ann Coulter 

Seriously though, no sense bashing an entire group of people for stupid insensitive statements made by one person.  That would be like bashing the Democrats as racists because they kept re-electing Ku Klux Klan member Robert Byrd to lead the Senate.

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Coming from the UK it's extremely difficult to understand how far to the right the GOP is. Our Conservative Party would be considered socialist in the US... not to mention the Norwegian Conservatives. We've had our own nut-cases and bigots from Mosley to Maxwell-Fyfe to Nick Griffin, but it seems that not a day passes without a story like this coming from the GOP!

Quote from: Jamie de la Rosa on October 17, 2013, 02:58:58 PM
Seriously though, no sense bashing an entire group of people for stupid insensitive statements made by one person.  That would be like bashing the Democrats as racists because they kept re-electing Ku Klux Klan member Robert Byrd to lead the Senate.

I don't recall saying I was a Democrat you can bash them all you like. But the truth is the Republican party is dying because they can't evolve and change with the times. The stunt of the past few weeks proves that they are out of control they are willing to sink the entire world economy just to make a point. They are dangerous because they are letting fear control them and they are imploding and I'm afraid I'm going to have to pay the price for their fear. 

Quote from: Heather on October 17, 2013, 03:20:01 PM
I don't recall saying I was a Democrat you can bash them all you like. But the truth is the Republican party is dying because they can't evolve and change with the times. The stunt of the past few weeks proves that they are out of control they are willing to sink the entire world economy just to make a point. They are dangerous because they are letting fear control them and they are imploding and I'm afraid I'm going to have to pay the price for their fear. 

Stunt?  Many of those members of the House were elected with a mandate to delay and/or repeal socialistic programs such as Obamacare.  The real stunt was pulled off by Hairy Reid and Barack 0bama for failing to engage in any sort of negotiation.

From January 1955 to January 1995, the Republicans were the minority party in the House of Representatives, and again from January 2007 to January 2011.

Since 1995, the Republicans have been in the majority in the House for 14 out of 18 years.  Doesn't sound like a dying party to me.  And when you consider that roughly 40% of the electorate considers itself "conservative," roughly 40% " moderate," and only 20% "liberal" (Gallup research), the Republican party has fertile ground if they can get past their evangelical faction.

I don't know which is less thought out, this, or Kim Jong Un's attempt to make a luxury ski resort in North Korea.

The way I see it, for every This Guy there's a Democrat talking about drowning Mr. Cruz, or claiming that all Tea Party members want to bring back racism/are secretly the Ku Klux Klan/etc., or trying to make homeschooling illegal.

The difference is, one of those opinions makes the national news (on the vast majority of public channels) on a regular basis. And when the nation is fed a continuous diet of "Oh, those horrible Republicans", they start voting that way to follow it up. And what once was a nation of nearly even political split becomes a nation of the enfranchised Far Left, the enfranchised Center, and the disenfranchised Right.

And so we get to this situation - where the conservative half of America is just supposed to ... What, exactly? Shut up, sit down, and be steered left? Become Democrats? Settle for the political table scraps?

The Republican Party is dying. It's dying because it's too Right for the Left and too Left for the Right. Because it screws up every major event. But the conservative side of America is not. It will come back - maybe in the Libertarian party, maybe in an official Tea Party - and the media will keep lambasting it from the moment it re-emerges. Will this new party be strong and undivided enough to fight through?
Maybe. Who knows? But I certainly hope it does, because multiple opinions are the backbone of this nation, even if we always think the other side is nuts.

Quote from: Dreams2014 on October 17, 2013, 01:34:26 PM
Well it's nice to know that the GOP aren't satisfied that they've shot themselves in the foot enough lately. They had to go a step further. However, I know this sounds cynical but I'll be surprised if a large number of people really care what he said.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/16/gop-politician-wants-concentration-camps-trans-people/

To my knowledge, this Kincannon has never held elective office.  Sounds more like an apparatchik.  You are correct, no one who matters is going to pay him any attention.

Quote from: Jamie de la Rosa on October 17, 2013, 03:31:34 PM
Stunt?  Many of those members of the House were elected with a mandate to delay and/or repeal socialistic programs such as Obamacare.  The real stunt was pulled off by Hairy Reid and Barack 0bama for failing to engage in any sort of negotiation.

From January 1955 to January 1995, the Republicans were the minority party in the House of Representatives, and again from January 2007 to January 2011.

Since 1995, the Republicans have been in the majority in the House for 14 out of 18 years.  Doesn't sound like a dying party to me.  And when you consider that roughly 40% of the electorate considers itself "conservative," roughly 40% " moderate," and only 20% "liberal" (Gallup research), the Republican party has fertile ground if they can get past their evangelical faction.

You do realize the Republicans held both the house and the senate and the presidency from 01-07 and yet in all that time they did not try to push forward their own healthcare overhaul. And the stunt they pulled in the last few weeks was nothing but a temper tantrum by a bunch of over grown children. If they had the mandate we would be talking about president Romney right now. They were put in office to balance out power not to high jack the government because they don't like the president who was elected by a overwhelming majority of the voters and this was after Obamacare.