White supremacist Christmas: Those Boebert and Massie "gun photos" are a direct threat

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White supremacist Christmas: Those Boebert and Massie "gun photos" are a direct threat
Christmas family photos bristling with guns aren't funny — they're a direct appeal to white Christian fascism

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
PUBLISHED DECEMBER 24, 2021 6:00AM



(Salon) Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert, two of the most blatantly fascistic Republican members of Congress, are dreaming of a White Christmas — with the emphasis on "White."

In the spirit of holiday cheer, Massie and Boebert recently shared family Christmas photos on social media — in which every family member is brandishing a gun. There's nothing unique about them. Such a "tradition" is fairly common among a particular subculture of American gun fetishists and "ammosexuals." This is but another symptom of America's unhealthy infatuation with gun violence.

Many responses to Boebert and Massie's Christmas cards from the mainstream media and other public voices have struck typical notes of performative outrage and disgust. There have been complaints that Massie and Boebert's behavior is not that of "good Christians." There was anger at the timing: Both photos were posted on social media within days of a mass shooting in Michigan, in which a 15-year-old boy allegedly killed four of his classmates and injured eight more.

That should not be understood as a coincidence: The Boebert and Massie photos were intentional provocations, demonstrating cruel indifference toward the victims of gun violence, as well as their families and communities. .................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2021/12/24/christmas-those-boebert-and-massie-gun-photos-are-a-direct/

[58Sunliner]

1. Sick people. Boebert's kids look profoundly troubled. Massie's drank the koolaid.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. Demons, best word for these types. Welcome under the new R fascist tent.

[mercuryblues]

3. WWJS

Who would Jesus shoot?

[Rebl2]

4. Disgusting

[JudyM]

5. What passes for cool and patriotic in that crowd.

[oldsoftie]

6. Bohbert's husband must be off showing his dick to some other family

[Evolve Dammit]

7. They think it's cool and intimidating (owning the libs). They have no idea what they wish for.

So anti-Christian and just plain sick.

[llashram]

8. sick, sick human beings

and their families have been made that way also by their sickness.

[czarjak]

9. For the love of Jesus though?