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Really want to promote this earlier post on "If All Else Fails" podcast (Stefanik, constitutional sheriffs, etc.)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218598371This is about upstate NY and the cancer that is Stefanik, but also about all the RW zealots who are trying to destroy the US.
Totally recommend this podcast. It just posted today, with 7 episodes. Two reporters from NCPR have investigated and interviewed people in the North Country of NYS about far right ideology and the rise of extremist groups/militias.
As we all know, Elise Stefanik repeats far right talking points such as "replacement theory".
There are clips of the Lewis Co. sheriff, Mike Carpinelli, who is a constitutional sheriff and member of Oath Keepers. He refused to speak with the reporters, but there are clips of him at meetings threatening to go into schools and arrest teachers if they are caught talking about such things as gender identity.
Fulton Co. sheriff Rich Giardino is a member of Protect America Now, a far right sheriffs group. I used to ride for the FultonCo. Sheriffs K9 fundraiser. I won't do it anymore since Rich is getting more and more radicalized. At the last event, he pointed to his puppy and said "She's a girl now but the government says she can choose what she wants to be". How was that necessary and what did it have to do with anything? My uncle hangs out with Rich and I have noticed a change in him. I can't be around him because he espouses conspiracy theories and even made a comment about civil war.
As we all know, Elise Stefanik repeats far right talking points such as "replacement theory".
There are clips of the Lewis Co. sheriff, Mike Carpinelli, who is a constitutional sheriff and member of Oath Keepers. He refused to speak with the reporters, but there are clips of him at meetings threatening to go into schools and arrest teachers if they are caught talking about such things as gender identity.
Fulton Co. sheriff Rich Giardino is a member of Protect America Now, a far right sheriffs group. I used to ride for the FultonCo. Sheriffs K9 fundraiser. I won't do it anymore since Rich is getting more and more radicalized. At the last event, he pointed to his puppy and said "She's a girl now but the government says she can choose what she wants to be". How was that necessary and what did it have to do with anything? My uncle hangs out with Rich and I have noticed a change in him. I can't be around him because he espouses conspiracy theories and even made a comment about civil war.
