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A Small Town’s July 4 Parade Has Been Upended By Right-Wing Culture Warriors
Huffington Post ^ | July 3, 2022 | Nathalie Baptiste

Posted on 07/03/2022 7:54:42 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

When the city of Friendswood, Texas, announced on Facebook that hometown hero Haley Carter would be the grand marshal for the town’s famed Fourth of July parade, the post was peppered with excited comments. Carter, who was in the Marines and is a retired professional soccer player, was just the type of person residents wanted to see lead the parade.

Then the right-wing culture warriors showed up.

Conservative radio host Jesse Kelly tweeted the same day that Friendswood had appointed a “gun-grabber” who is “into drag” and “trans activism” to lead the parade. Kelly is from Ohio, ran a failed congressional campaign in Arizona, and now hosts his radio show from nearby Houston. “Communists are in blood-red areas too,” he wrote.

Soon, excited Facebook comments were accompanied by screenshots of Kelly’s tweets about Carter, some of which included a picture of her young son. She began receiving threats.

On paper, Carter seems like the kind of person conservatives who claim to love the military would support.

She attended the U.S. Naval Academy and served two tours in Iraq after graduating in 2006.....

But Carter is also an outspoken supporter of gun reform in her home state of Texas. She serves as the chair of the Mayor’s Commission Against Gun Violence in Houston, and in the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, she wrote a letter demanding Texas leaders act on gun reform. She also regularly takes her son to drag events and once surprised him with a trip to Las Vegas to meet his favorite drag queen.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: Ohio; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; 4thofjuly; arizona; banglist; demagogicparty; demagogue; drag; dragqueens; facebook; friendswood; genderdysphoria; haleycarter; homosexualagenda; houston; huffingtonpost; huffpo; jessekelly; july4th; mediawingofthednc; nathaliebaptiste; nra; ohio; panicporn; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; secondamendment; texas; transgender; unfitmother; usmc
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Communists at West Point? Not possible...


41 posted on 07/03/2022 9:02:12 AM PDT by moovova
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

SELECTIVE OUTRAGE???? She takes her SON to see DRAG QUEENS!! horrible parent!!


42 posted on 07/03/2022 9:10:45 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

READ THE WHOLE DAMN ARTICLE!!


43 posted on 07/03/2022 9:11:21 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: moovova
Communists at West Point?

They’re everywhere. Say what you will about Joe McCarthy, but he was really on to something.

44 posted on 07/03/2022 9:12:06 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Yeah, yeah yeah....Gun grabber is bad...but...THIS...

retired professional soccer player

....is unacceptable.

Why not adopt the Metric System at the same time? Then we can drink tea and eat cheese and the Europeanization of America will be complete.

45 posted on 07/03/2022 9:12:34 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DoodleDawg

the GRAND Marshall takes her son to see DRAG QUEENS!!


46 posted on 07/03/2022 9:12:38 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Lee Harvey Oswald served in the marines too but I don’t think he’d make a good grand marshal for 4th of July parade


47 posted on 07/03/2022 9:13:41 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: traderrob6

Is THAT the Grand Marshall??? OMG!!!!


48 posted on 07/03/2022 9:14:32 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Independence from tyranny. Dependence on God alone. That’s what this holiday’s about.


49 posted on 07/03/2022 9:15:33 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Cen-Tejas

AMEN!! Thank You, JESSE KELLY!!


50 posted on 07/03/2022 9:15:39 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Ironic, too, because leftists HATE the military until a case like this comes along and they then LOVE the military because they can smear conservatives with it.”

Over the years they infiltrated the military because they were constantly hammered for their “lack of service”.

Look at kinzinger, ducksh*t, lamb, murtha, cleland, kerry, etc, etc who have wrapped themselves up in the flag while doing everything they could to destroy this country.


51 posted on 07/03/2022 9:15:51 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Took her son to Vegas to meet a drag queen?

If you ask me, she[?] is one sick ans twisted person.


52 posted on 07/03/2022 9:17:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Cen-Tejas

“Threats to Carter and/or her son are bullshit and I hope those making them are prosecuted.”

I doubt there are any threats.

This is just another tactic in the leftist playbook to deflect criticism.


53 posted on 07/03/2022 9:20:01 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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To: Tommy Revolts

Yep..... Tats and all.


54 posted on 07/03/2022 9:21:43 AM PDT by deport
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To: bigfootbob

Yep, it’s a sick-ass.


55 posted on 07/03/2022 9:22:54 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: moovova

IIRC, he eventually got kicked out of the military.


56 posted on 07/03/2022 9:25:44 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

She also regularly takes her son to drag events and once surprised him with a trip to Las Vegas to meet his favorite drag queen.

Yeah, that all sounds quite normal. What mom hasn’t surprised her son with a trip to Vegas to meet drag queens.


57 posted on 07/03/2022 9:27:34 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: MortMan
I love how the author believes Houston is “nearby” Arizona!

They’re talking about Friendswood, TX. It’s a Houston suburb, not far from the space center.

58 posted on 07/03/2022 9:28:02 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: windsorknot

People still speak of him as a villain as if the Venona Papers never happened.


59 posted on 07/03/2022 9:28:23 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: traderrob6

That just SCREAMS “dyke, dyke,” doesn’t it? What a disgusting piece of trash.


60 posted on 07/03/2022 9:33:42 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Wanting to make America great isn’t an insult unless you’re trying to make it worse! ULTRAMAGA!!)
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