Kansas GOP hosts fundraiser where attendees beat up Biden in effigy

[Landslide Lyndon]

Just a normal party of normal people.

https://johnsoncountypost.com/2024/03/10/biden-effigy-gop-fundraiser-228881/

The Biden-bashing antics were part of a Kansas GOP event in Johnson County, where rocker Ted Nugent and disgraced former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline were the main attractions.

A video posted by “MolonLabeTruth” to the far-right social media platform Rumble shows highlights from the event, which also included karate chops to blocks that read “Let’s Go, Brandon,” code for a profane insult of Biden.

Kansas GOP chairman Mike Brown, an election denier who narrowly won the leadership position a year ago, touted the fundraiser event for weeks in official GOP emails — with no mention of the Biden effigy. General admission tickets were listed at $100, with premier seats for $300.

Brown, a former Johnson County commissioner, didn’t respond to an email seeking comment for this story.

https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/1767001978792444396

[T'Chenka]

Encouraging people to be violent towards politicians, even fake not-alive version of politicians, is in the big picture not a good thing and not going to help keep politicians safe long-term.

Republicans know this and don't care.

[GeorgiaModerate]

If this happened with a Trump effigy at a Democratic fundraiser, it would be the lead story on Fox and Newsmax for the next year.

[Sir Mohamed]

Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. Seriously, how old are these people?

[Independents for Nihilism]

The world was a better place when there were flash games where you could beat up any politician or celebrity under the sun, now look at what people are turning to.

[Del Tachi]

If this happened with a Trump effigy at a Democratic fundraiser, it would be the lead story on Fox and Newsmax for the next year.

Trump has been hanged and burned in effigy countless times.  NYC theaters have played Trump-as-Caesar in public Shakespeare in the Park performances (bloody assassination scenes included!)

Clutch your pearls harder.   

[Landslide Lyndon]

If this happened with a Trump effigy at a Democratic fundraiser, it would be the lead story on Fox and Newsmax for the next year.

Trump has been hanged and burned in effigy countless times.  NYC theaters have played Trump-as-Caesar in public Shakespeare in the Park performances (bloody assassination scenes included!)

Clutch your pearls harder.   

Are you really that obtuse? We are talking about the official gathering of one of the two biggest political parties here. Not some rando on the street or a group of artists.

[NerdyBohemian]

If this happened with a Trump effigy at a Democratic fundraiser, it would be the lead story on Fox and Newsmax for the next year.

Trump has been hanged and burned in effigy countless times.  NYC theaters have played Trump-as-Caesar in public Shakespeare in the Park performances (bloody assassination scenes included!)

Clutch your pearls harder.   

You either have the comprehension of a middle schooler or you’re being deliberately obtuse. There is no other option with MAGA apologists.

[7,052,770]

.  NYC theaters have played Trump-as-Caesar in public Shakespeare in the Park performances (bloody assassination scenes included!)

Give me a f***ing break. You took high school English. You know that Julius Caesar is traditionally dressed like whoever the leader is at the time. It's why Julius Caesar was often played by a black actor when Obama was president, or an old actor now. Or an actress in 1980s England.

[Del Tachi]

If this happened with a Trump effigy at a Democratic fundraiser, it would be the lead story on Fox and Newsmax for the next year.

Trump has been hanged and burned in effigy countless times.  NYC theaters have played Trump-as-Caesar in public Shakespeare in the Park performances (bloody assassination scenes included!)

Clutch your pearls harder.   

Are you really that obtuse? We are talking about the official gathering of one of the two biggest political parties here. Not some rando on the street or a group of artists.

(1) This is a county party organization.  Nothing to implicate the national apparatus of the institutional GOP.
(2) No indication that the punching dummy was official.  The event's promotional materials never mentioned it, and (from the video) it looks like it was set up as a possible vendor exhibit.
(3) This is literally a boxing BOB wearing a Biden mask.  There's no blood, gore, or insinuation of actual bodily injury to anybody.  It's cartoon violence at worst.

[Landslide Lyndon]

If this happened with a Trump effigy at a Democratic fundraiser, it would be the lead story on Fox and Newsmax for the next year.

Trump has been hanged and burned in effigy countless times.  NYC theaters have played Trump-as-Caesar in public Shakespeare in the Park performances (bloody assassination scenes included!)

Clutch your pearls harder.   

Are you really that obtuse? We are talking about the official gathering of one of the two biggest political parties here. Not some rando on the street or a group of artists.

(1) This is a county party organization.  Nothing to implicate the national apparatus of the institutional GOP.
(2) No indication that the punching dummy was official.  The event's promotional materials never mentioned it, and (from the video) it looks like it was set up as a possible vendor exhibit.
(3) This is literally a boxing BOB wearing a Biden mask.  There's no blood, gore, or insinuation of actual bodily injury to anybody.  It's cartoon violence at worst.

I guess you just answered my question in the affirmative.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

If this happened with a Trump effigy at a Democratic fundraiser, it would be the lead story on Fox and Newsmax for the next year.

Trump has been hanged and burned in effigy countless times.  NYC theaters have played Trump-as-Caesar in public Shakespeare in the Park performances (bloody assassination scenes included!)

Clutch your pearls harder.   

Are you really that obtuse? We are talking about the official gathering of one of the two biggest political parties here. Not some rando on the street or a group of artists.

(1) This is a county party organization.  Nothing to implicate the national apparatus of the institutional GOP.
(2) No indication that the punching dummy was official.  The event's promotional materials never mentioned it, and (from the video) it looks like it was set up as a possible vendor exhibit.
(3) This is literally a boxing BOB wearing a Biden mask.  There's no blood, gore, or insinuation of actual bodily injury to anybody.  It's cartoon violence at worst.

“Cartoon violence” only exists in, ya know, cartoons. You can kill someone without blood and gore. Genuinely did you think you were doing something with that?

[DrScholl]

If this happened with a Trump effigy at a Democratic fundraiser, it would be the lead story on Fox and Newsmax for the next year.

Trump has been hanged and burned in effigy countless times.  NYC theaters have played Trump-as-Caesar in public Shakespeare in the Park performances (bloody assassination scenes included!)

Clutch your pearls harder.  

Are you really that obtuse? We are talking about the official gathering of one of the two biggest political parties here. Not some rando on the street or a group of artists.

(1) This is a county party organization.  Nothing to implicate the national apparatus of the institutional GOP.
(2) No indication that the punching dummy was official.  The event's promotional materials never mentioned it, and (from the video) it looks like it was set up as a possible vendor exhibit.
(3) This is literally a boxing BOB wearing a Biden mask.  There's no blood, gore, or insinuation of actual bodily injury to anybody.  It's cartoon violence at worst.

We know what you want to happen to Biden and this post just confirms it. When you make excuses it speaks volumes.

[President Johnson]

Hillary was right: These people are deplorable.

I take no pleasure in saying this, but I'm pretty certain they would prefer Putin over Biden.

[Del Tachi]

If this happened with a Trump effigy at a Democratic fundraiser, it would be the lead story on Fox and Newsmax for the next year.

Trump has been hanged and burned in effigy countless times.  NYC theaters have played Trump-as-Caesar in public Shakespeare in the Park performances (bloody assassination scenes included!)

Clutch your pearls harder.   

Are you really that obtuse? We are talking about the official gathering of one of the two biggest political parties here. Not some rando on the street or a group of artists.

(1) This is a county party organization.  Nothing to implicate the national apparatus of the institutional GOP.
(2) No indication that the punching dummy was official.  The event's promotional materials never mentioned it, and (from the video) it looks like it was set up as a possible vendor exhibit.
(3) This is literally a boxing BOB wearing a Biden mask.  There's no blood, gore, or insinuation of actual bodily injury to anybody.  It's cartoon violence at worst.

“Cartoon violence” only exists in, ya know, cartoons. You can kill someone without blood and gore. Genuinely did you think you were doing something with that?

My point is that a boxing dummy wearing a Biden mask is a way less graphic and violent depiction than, say, Kathy Griffin posing with a bloody and decapitated Trump.  The former is quite obviously a joke. 

EDIT:  And they're actually both jokes, but some jokes are in better taste than others.

[7,052,770]

Kathy Griffin basically lost her career in liberal Hollywood thanks to that picture. She's barely been in anything since then (I double checked her Wikipedia filmography to make sure I wasn't somehow wrong on that). What a bizarre attempt at an example.

[DaleCooper]

Kathy Griffin basically lost her career in liberal Hollywood thanks to that picture. She's barely been in anything since then (I double checked her Wikipedia filmography to make sure I wasn't somehow wrong on that). What a bizarre attempt at an example.

Not only that but conservatives have gotten over half a decade's worth of mileage out of it. It's kind of like how conservatives are still using images of the same triggered SJW girls from 2013.

[Del Tachi]

Kathy Griffin basically lost her career in liberal Hollywood thanks to that picture. She's barely been in anything since then (I double checked her Wikipedia filmography to make sure I wasn't somehow wrong on that). What a bizarre attempt at an example.

Since her stunt, Kathy Griffin has appeared with Gov. Newsom and given keynote speeches at galas for liberal political orgs like Equality California (whose board members read like a who's who in CA Democrat fundraising.)  She's been rehabbed.

But you missed the entire point of my comparison.  The right doesn't have a monopoly on unfunny, ghoulish depictions of political violence (or actual political violence.)  But you wouldn't know that reading the responses from red/maroon avatars ITT.

[DrScholl]

Official party sanctioned violence is different than random displays of violence. If Democrats want to use this against Republicans they will fully be able to do so because it was sanctioned by a charted GOP organization. Furthermore, wanting to beat up someone like Biden is going to look pretty crazy to most people because he is so inoffensive.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

Kathy Griffin basically lost her career in liberal Hollywood thanks to that picture. She's barely been in anything since then (I double checked her Wikipedia filmography to make sure I wasn't somehow wrong on that). What a bizarre attempt at an example.

Not only that but conservatives have gotten over half a decade's worth of mileage out of it. It's kind of like how conservatives are still using images of the same triggered SJW girls from 2013.

Republicans need democrats to be as bad as they are to justify why they have repeatedly elected domestic terrorists. The issue is that’s just not true and they tie themselves in knots trying to find a crumb of impropriety they can stretch into a scandal.

[Del Tachi]

Official party sanctioned violence is different than random displays of violence. If Democrats want to use this against Republicans they will fully be able to do so because it was sanctioned by a charted GOP organization. Furthermore, wanting to beat up someone like Biden is going to look pretty crazy to most people because he is so inoffensive.

If Democrats want to use this against Republicans then they will look like no-fun ninnies, which they are so I guess they should.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Official party sanctioned violence is different than random displays of violence. If Democrats want to use this against Republicans they will fully be able to do so because it was sanctioned by a charted GOP organization. Furthermore, wanting to beat up someone like Biden is going to look pretty crazy to most people because he is so inoffensive.

If Democrats want to use this against Republicans then they will look like no-fun ninnies, which they are so I guess they should.

Because beating up the president of the US in effigy, your political opponent, is just SO fun, and not at all problematic and distasteful.

[SWE]

DT is 100% right on this, this is some real baby-brained stuff to get mad at. I don't care that people were disrespectful to the president, he shouldn't have become president if he didn't want something like this to happen

[DrScholl]

Official party sanctioned violence is different than random displays of violence. If Democrats want to use this against Republicans they will fully be able to do so because it was sanctioned by a charted GOP organization. Furthermore, wanting to beat up someone like Biden is going to look pretty crazy to most people because he is so inoffensive.

If Democrats want to use this against Republicans then they will look like no-fun ninnies, which they are so I guess they should.

If you need to beat up effigies to have fun then you have a real weird idea of fun. And it's not fun, it's very serious anger and rage that is being manifested. After January 6th violence does not need to be encouraged.

DT is 100% right on this, this is some real baby-brained stuff to get mad at. I don't care that people were disrespectful to the president, he shouldn't have become president if he didn't want something like this to happen

I really doubt that Biden cares and it's not a matter of disrespect, it's about what the motivation is. We know this isn't about fun or a joke, it's about rage.

[DaleCooper]

This isn't like if a bunch McVeigh militia type guys were using AOC pictures for target practice. I'm sure this whole event consisted of out-of-shape Republicans wheezing as they awkwardly throw punches at a poorly-made effigy.