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CLAY HIGGINS (R-LA) MAY BE MORE DANGEROUS THAN DONALD TRUMP
There are some similarities between the two politicians. Yes, Higgins is a down home Southern boy and Trump is an East Coast elitist. But they are both salesmen who love the spotlight and would-be hard asses who get off on threatening others. Neither man seems to have much respect for the “sanctity” of marriage; Trump has been married three times and Higgins four times. It goes without saying that both of them spout the Republican “party lines”. They are anti-everything – except guns. Everyone knows about Trump, but maybe it’s time to look into Clay Higgins.
Symbolism: redneck general shot macho promo at Dollar General
The Louisiana GOPer is the Representative of the state’s 3rd Congressional District. He has some college experience, but no degree. Before being elected to Congress in 2016, Higgins had been in the MP force of the National Guard, an automobile salesman, and had a checkered career as a police officer in three different jurisdictions. In his first cop job, he resigned before disciplinary action could be taken against him for police brutality and lying on incident reports. He went on to become a TV spokesman for another police force, where he often strayed from the script to identify and threaten “persons of interest” during broadcasts. He took advantage of his local fame to appear in ads for a security service while in uniform and using taxpayer-funded department equipment to run his own LLC selling shot glasses and T-shirts with his image. He has been sued for unpaid child support and may have hidden certain income from the IRS, though that has yet to be proven. Now that he is in Congress, however, the danger he poses as a violent authoritarian is becoming more evident.
Is the beard a disguise to avoid child support collectors?
When asked what he would do about Black armed protestors, he bragged that he would “drop 10 of them where they stood”. He did assault and physically move one protestor in another incident. As a devoted goose-stepper for the Radical Right segment of Congress, Higgins is a member of the Republican Study Committee and the Freedom Caucus. Consequently, he has been given seats on the prestigious Armed Services and Oversight Committees. As a former lawman, he has shown scant support for the Capitol Police who were assaulted and injured by the Trump-supporting thugs on Jan 6. He actually called for a lenient sentence for one of the rioters who attacked the LEOs with bear spray and shouted on video that they were bringing the violence and that this was “not a peaceful protest!” Higgins has spoken at events sponsored by the Oath Keepers and the Three percenters, even claiming to be one of the latter.
During a hearing, Clay Higgins was questioning FBI director Christopher Wray about some bizarre conspiracy theory concerning “ghost buses” bringing in FBI informants and undercover agents to provoke and promote the Jan 6 insurrection. Not getting the responses he wanted, Higgins threatened the director “Your day is coming”. More recently, he has sent the message to Special Counsel Jack Smith that his “days are numbered” when it comes to his investigation into Donald Trump’s criminality. At the moment Clay Higgins has no more power than any other Congressperson. But if he ever moved into a higher position, say as Speaker or Vice-President, he would be in line for the Presidency itself. Unlike Trump who is all bark, Higgins has proven that he is willing to bite. This is not a man that we want with his finger on any button but his TV remote.
I’ll tell you who is not dangerous and that’s Rashida Taliban. She promotes Jewish genocide that translates to real violence against my fellow Semites. She is encouraged and coddled by the rest of the squad that spew their vitriol.
Jan 6th lasted one day and the left should be celebrating! Of the 5 people that died that day, 4 were Trump supporters (capitol policeman death was undetermined).
Concerning the 2020 riots, lefties attacked our cities for months, killing a few dozen and even annexed part of a city.
We have a media like China has a media which is to say we have no media.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach might consider charging you a fee for using his words in paragraph 1
Paragraph 2 is ridiculous on its face.
No matter what happened in 2020, nothing justifies or excuses January 6.
Your last paragraph comes closest to having value since freedom of speech and press have both become freedom to lie, leaving people trying to keep up with things in the position of having to figure out what might be true. Meantime, the legitimate mainstream press, if it attempts to be objective, including newspapers is dying from lack of advertising and readership because straight up news is often less entertaining that lies.
For reasons I can’t really discern, anti-Semitism is clearly on the rise and was before the current war in Gaza. I don’t blame you for being mad about that, but this blog or, for that matter, social media, per se, is not the place to fight that battle unless you are a terrorist.
Pardon the typos in my hasty post, sil vous plait.
Only readers of a certain age would even notice incorrect grammar or spelling, unfortunately. The discipline of writing the English language correctly contributes to an orderly arrangement of thought and a clear argument. I know of no studies on the matter but I’d be willing to bet there’s a link between the typical social media post and the susceptibility to misinformation.
He is a disgrace for Louisiana. How he is still in politics for 7 years in Washington is upsetting!
He resigned TWICE to avoid disciplinary action, because of using excessive force while a deputy sheriff.
Very good analysis. If his constituents do not know these things they are ill-informed. Regardless, they elected him so they believe whatever they do about him and, apparently they like what they believe they know about him – a circular equation that keeps him in office and them in a vacuum that admits no alternate information. Hence, they and he deserve one another.
It’s one thing to have an opinion based on real world events that is unpopular with others. But it’s another thing entirely to have an opinion based on made-up events that never happened or manufactured narratives void of fact and logic. Therein lies the difference between Democrats and “Republicans.” Democrats have opinions unpopular with “Republicans.” But “Republicans” have opinions that have no basis in reality such as election fraud which stole the presidency from them and ghost buses full of undercover FBI agents who staged a riot and blamed it on innocent Trump supporters. Opinions from Democrats versus opinions from “Republicans” are not comparable. They are not mirror images, two sides of the same coin. One is legit if unpopular with their counterparts and the other is simply false. A lie. Fake news. An alternate reality. Higgins and his ilk are living in an alternate reality. There is nothing legitimate about them.
Yes, as in the words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan: “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”
Higgins has fat arms. Thanks. ron thompson