At their state convention, Minnesota Republicans held a moment of silence for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Like many other GOP state chapters, the Minnesota Republican Party has been unabashed about flaunting its extremism in recent years.
One of the clearest examples of this has been in the party’s promotion of far-right figures like Royce White, who rode the Minnesota GOP’s endorsement in his 2024 Senate race to a shellacking in the general election.
But even so, a moment of silence the party held for Derek Chauvin over the weekend — that is, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd — underscores a uniquely sadistic strain of racial bigotry within the state Republican Party.
130 years ago after the haymarket affair, where workers fought for the 8 hour day, they erected a monument not to the workers who fought and died in the struggle, but to the police killing civilians in order to keep up the system.
same system, same people, same victims, same pigs
Thanks for the history
Wonder how they’d feel about a minute of silence for Mangione or the guy that off’ed kirk…
Maybe instead of a moment of silence for Mangione they should play Feels So Good
I had to reread that headline, I guess that was too unthinkable for me to parse correctly on the first try
The GOP can’t resist the urge to intentionally go out of its way to do the wrong thing
Anyone they perceive to be hated by “the other side” is an instant saint. Look what they did with Charlie Kirk.
It is vice signalling. Which seems to be a thing Christians(!) in the US do.
Yeah and centrists want us to reach across the aisle to these pieces of shit
Even Dr. King had disparaging words for people like that.
These guys pardon and protect pedophiles so what’s surprising about this?
I do think it’s amusing that dude is not worthy of anything more to his masters than a moment of silence. They’ll move mountains to protect their own, ain’t doing shit for their servants.
I’m glad I wasn’t there to witness this, I might have succumbed to a moment of inglorious bastard violence.
I think about carving a swastika in these neo nazis heads at LEAST once a week
I just want to take them out back and shoot them in the back of the head like an old dog. It’s clear they can’t stand to live in this world with the rest of us, so they should just be put out of their misery.
While doing that they should’ve knelt down on each other’s necks to show solidarity
But call them racists and they give you shocked picachu looks
Hell is
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