I'm not sure I'd call him the "KFC Chicken Man". KFC Chicken Hobbit...KFC Chicken Gnome maybe? I definitely agree with your POS characterization.
Posted on 01/19/2021 4:09:21 AM PST by gattaca
Rep. Cohen went so far in his smear of Trump voters that even the Washington Post and CNN pushed back.
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., suggested on Monday that people in the National Guard who have been activated to secure the inauguration on Wednesday of President-elect Joe Biden might be Trump supporters and therefore "might want to do something" to Biden or disrupt the event.
25,000 National Guard troops have been deployed to Washington to secure the event following the Jan. 6 disruption at the U.S. Capitol that resulted in five deaths and the destruction of property while Congress was in session to certify the electors in the presidential election.
The FBI has been involved in vetting deployed members of the Guard to be sure that none of them will pose a threat to the inauguration or to Joe Biden.
"The U.S. Army issued a statement late Sunday obtained by Fox News that said it is working with the Secret Service to determine if any service members on hand need additional background screening. The statement said that all service members are familiar with the Threat Awareness and Reporting Program, which 'requires department personnel to report any information regarding known or suspected extremist behavior that could be a threat to the department or the U.S.'"
But Rep. Cohen took it a step further: "The [National] Guard is 90 some-odd percent male, and only about 20 percent of white males voted for Biden," he said. "You've got to figure that in the Guard, which is predominantly more conservative … they're probably not more than 25 percent of the people there protecting us that voted for Biden. The other 75 percent are in the large class of folks that might want to do something."
The implication from Cohen that being a Trump voter makes one a possible seditionist or a threat to the safety of the President-elect was pushed back on from both CNN and the Washington Post, two news outlets that have themselves been harsh critics of President Trump.
CNN's Jim Sciutto said that being a Trump voter was "far different from being a threat of violence." He asked Cohen if he had any evidence to back up his assertion that these people represented a threat. "Absolutely not," said Cohen. He said "you draw a circle first" around the Trump voters and said that they are people who you should be "suspect of."
Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post fact-checker, also criticized Cohen.
"Hmmm, does a Democratic congressman really want to suggest that if you voted for Trump you might be a seditionist?" Kessler tweeted. "What happened to the idea that military people are professionals and do their jobs regardless of political preferences?"
Cohen is an embarrassment to Tennessee, politicians, men and all humans. Memphis is home to great music, BBQ and is the Socialist capital of the state. He’s just trying to live down to the example set by Harold Ford Jr and his crime family.
So Cohen admitted the fraud?
Glenn Kessler has had some pretty shady dealings in the recent past (Russiagate?) IIRC.
It is Demonicrat Rep. Steve Cohen and his supporters whose loyalty to the United States of America should be seriously doubted.
Saw it. It was good, no doubt about that.
Very easy solution to Cohen’s patties in wad situation. Just announce that all NG personnel that did not vote for Biden are free to return to their regularly scheduled jobs back home.
and if the gangstamint needs to fe a r to hear, is that a bad thing?
hmmm ...
Biden canceled the jobs to so he can be Santa and saint sniffer
I'm not sure I'd call him the "KFC Chicken Man". KFC Chicken Hobbit...KFC Chicken Gnome maybe? I definitely agree with your POS characterization.
Thanks for posting it TM...I will check it out.
Perfect. LOL
Holy Mother of God.
A “Purity Test”? A “Purity Test”?
It would be most illustrative to know two things about that “Purity Test”:
1.) Who suggested and implemented it
2.) What is the actual wording of the test
There is a simple solution. Replace all the national guardsman with POC social workers. What could go wrong?
Less than 700 were involved in the incursion into the Capitol. Trump had 70 million votes. If my math is correct that works out to 1/100,000 voters. To visualize that. The largest NFL hold about 100,000. So 1 voter from a full stadium participated. It would take 700 full stadiums to hold all 70 million voters.
I wonder about the 20% figure--did he just make that up? It might be true for Tennessee but probably not for the country as a whole.
Steve Cohen has dual citizenship. How un American is that?
Rep. Steve Cohen suggests that Trump voters in the National Guard should be viewed as “suspect”
Their fear from the stolen election is eating them.
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