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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: moovova

He did get kicked out:

https://sofrep.com/news/update-communist-ranger-and-west-pointer-receives-an-other-than-honorable-discharge/


61 posted on 07/03/2022 9:34:15 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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To: windsorknot

Check


62 posted on 07/03/2022 9:37:58 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Just last week, progressives got a guy fired from his new job when they decided that his complaints about not being able to find a regular grocery store in the Bronx made him a racist.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/01/midwest-bro-slams-nyc-bodegas-twitter-mob-gets-him-fired/


63 posted on 07/03/2022 9:38:50 AM PDT by Catholic and Conservative
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To: 2CAVTrooper
Good.

The scary part...?

"A recently retired CIA officer remarked to SOFREP that right now our counter-intelligence is so bad that we are only catching the dumb ones, the people stupid enough to out themselves on social media or who mail classified documents to news outlets, leading one to wonder how many more are out there that our government is completely unaware of."

64 posted on 07/03/2022 9:40:02 AM PDT by moovova
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
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.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............NO!

65 posted on 07/03/2022 9:48:54 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I suspect that all of “she” titles repeated so deliberately hide a man-to-woman sex trans.


66 posted on 07/03/2022 9:49:14 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

67 posted on 07/03/2022 10:02:54 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Sit on it and rotate, shitlibs.


68 posted on 07/03/2022 10:07:15 AM PDT by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Here’s some more on Haley. Looks like she was big in soccer. Also looka like a man.

https://www.socceramerica.com/publications/article/85249/the-covid-19-impact-on-youth-soccer-haley-carter.html


69 posted on 07/03/2022 10:21:08 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: firebrand

Yep. Present events even vindicate him.


70 posted on 07/03/2022 10:31:29 AM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO )
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To: traderrob6

Who’s that guy?


71 posted on 07/03/2022 10:33:55 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Sodomy is nothing to be proud of.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

good point!


72 posted on 07/03/2022 10:41:15 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: bigfootbob

At one time it was called. “Contributing to the delinquency of a minor.” By having said minor associating with an adult pervert. She should be arrested.


73 posted on 07/03/2022 10:42:54 AM PDT by sport
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To: DoodleBob

Next thing you know they try to make cricket the national sport.


74 posted on 07/03/2022 10:58:58 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

He wasn’t a very good mole.


75 posted on 07/03/2022 11:03:52 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Jesse was correct!


76 posted on 07/03/2022 11:17:16 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“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.”

And the idiot author validates that this is 100% true.


77 posted on 07/03/2022 11:22:22 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Mean old right wing meanies disrupted their celebration of slavery and genocide /smirk


78 posted on 07/03/2022 11:29:15 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Lisbon1940

The writer did not make that the clear, unambiguos interpretation.


79 posted on 07/03/2022 12:17:58 PM PDT by MortMan (You better bring yours, when you come to take mine. - Creed Fisher)
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To: Allegra

After re-reading it a couple of times, I caught that, but the last place mentioned in the text is Arizona, not Friendswood.


80 posted on 07/03/2022 12:19:04 PM PDT by MortMan (You better bring yours, when you come to take mine. - Creed Fisher)
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