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[…] has completely deranged the Republican party and their pack of running dogs. There have been calls for summary execution of the ill and scorched earth assaults on some of the world’s poorest; […]
Hildebrand
Time to tie this guy to every Republican running for office. Make every one of them have to answer a question about whether they agree with this guy’s ‘plans.’
shelley
There’s simply no response to insane drivel like that, then head-in-hands despair.
Charlie Pierce calls NC the ‘newly-insane state,’ but I guess SC is trying to catch up.
If this shit-head had been around in the early ’80’s, he’d have been calling for the execution of people diagnosed with HIV, or the very least locking them away in quarantined camps. All the while championing the unborn, of course.
Howard Beale IV
Kincannon’s a real piece of Work. Wonkette has been following him for a while. His first Twitter account was a hoot.
Linnaeus
@Hildebrand:
They’ll dodge by saying he’s the former SC GOP executive director.
Hildebrand
@Linnaeus: Yep, but they will still have to answer the question. Anything that knocks them off their stride is a good thing.
Davis X. Machina
@Linnaeus: I would like to see a snap poll on the topic. I want to see if the number 27% comes up.
Jay C
When I looked at the URL for John’s link, I saw “ex-gop director” “execute” and “ebola”, and just KNEW it would be Todd Kincannon – apparently now the official national Designated Source for The Vilest Internet/Social Media Commentary. And that’s beating out a lot of competition!
@Hildebrand:
Good luck with that: or even getting ANY “mainstream” disavowal of Kincannon’s disgusting BS.
jl
One of his twits indicates he thinks Ebola is spread by cannibalism. Maybe he is thinking of transmissable spongiform encephalopathy. And I think that is (or was?) a Papua/New Guinea thing.Not sure no time to look it up. And, learning calculus will not help with that kind of ignorance. It is a good thing that Kincannon is twitting his tweets as a former something or other.
Amir Khalid
Summarily executing everyone who had been in contact with an Ebola patient would mean taking out, among others, quite a few whole families (mostly people of colour) as well as a good number of medical professionals. Torching their possessions and whereabouts, too, to be safe. And what about the people the contacts themselves have been in contact with? And their families and possessions and places, as well? I wonder where it will all end …
Bill in Section 147
I do not think this guy is extreme enough for today’s Republican Party. He is not sputtering enough and he didn’t specify that the solution was more guns. The ‘napalming from the air’ sounds like it might come back to haunt him when the first case turns up in Charleston. Lindsey Graham is pretty sure patient zero is already pooping directly into the mouths of white children there so, scramble the jets.
Suffern ACE
Jeebus. Do all vaginas scare him that much?
jl
Does the person weigh more than a duck? That is the scientific approach. If they do, drown ’em. I think I saw that in an educational film once.
Suffern ACE
@Amir Khalid: with the people who are killing all of the people killing themselves in the name of safety?
Hungry Joe
Does this fall short of, tie, or surpass the “Hang women who have abortions, and their doctors, too” suggestion? Tough call.
So much for the Peak Wingnut theory. It’s like when somebody — about 100 or so years ago — suggested closing the Patent Office because pretty much everything had been invented.
jl
@Amir Khalid: Kincannon’s gift to the wisdom of the scientific method: Donner party epidemiology and infection control.
Looks like pants pissing Ebola panic is spreading more easily than Ebola, since I think more than one Sunday news talky covered it.
MattF
@shelley: No, SC is the ‘oldly-insane’ state.
dmsilev
@shelley:
No, SC has been crazy for a long long time. The statement “South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum” dates from 1860.
MattF
@Amir Khalid: Six degrees of separation, and you’ve executed everybody.
low-tech cyclist
Boy howdy, did this guy ever fail the “are you a human being?” test.
Pierce calls NC the ‘newly insane state,’ because it doesn’t have a history of being batshit crazy. SC does. As James Petigru said 150 years ago, it’s too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.
The things I’d like to see all GOP candidates asked about are the personhood bills/amendments and the minimum wage. But the key thing is HOW they’re asked.
So I’d like to see the question put like this:
“A growing number of Republican officeholders not only believe that the minimum wage shouldn’t be increased, they believe there should be no minimum wage at all. Would you regard your attitude towards such people as one of having an honest difference of opinion, or would you say that this position should be out of bounds in today’s Republican Party?”
For personhood laws, keep the second sentence the same, but change the first sentence to something like:
“A growing number of Republican officeholders have endorsed so-called ‘personhood’ legislation that would give a newly fertilized egg the same legal protections that you and I have, on the grounds that the fertilized egg is just as much a person as you or I, despite its absence of a brain.”
Baud
@MattF:
Wouldn’t the executioners have to be executed?
MattF
@Baud: We clearly need robot executioners.
? Martin
How much would it cost to give someone ebola and sponsor a trip to the Family Values Summit? I think we can do this.
J R in WV
You have to have more than DNA, you have to share a culture as well, and this guy does not share a huiman culture.
Not a human being, no social arts, no personal relationships, not a human being.
Baud
@MattF:
Drones!
SEK
@Baud: I was going to mention that in the article, but decided it was more effective to hand him rope and let him hang himself, rather than refuting him.
Jay C
@MattF:
Probably considered a feature, not a bug…..
Hungry Joe
@Baud: Execute the executioners? Now you’re just being silly. See, we’ll hook the victims with a cable from a helicopter and drop them into the Badarbunga volcano. Done and done.
Next problem, please.
Baud
I think y’all are overreacting. It’s not as if this guy supports raising the minimum wage or anything obscene like that.
dmsilev
@Baud: No, he’s got that part figured out:
Baud
@dmsilev:
To be fair, it is what Jesus would have done if he had access to aeronautical technology.
Lavocat
It’s ebola you fucknut, NOT The Strain.
Shall we just slice their fucking heads off with silver swords, too?
This dude’s channeling Abraham Satrakian a tad too well.
dmsilev
@Baud: I’m slightly surprised he hasn’t proposed taking off and nuking the entire site from orbit; that of course being the only way to be sure.
jibeaux
27% of this country has clinical-grade paranoia that somehow does not extend to caring in the least about climate change. It’s very puzzling.
max
@jl: Looks like pants pissing Ebola panic is spreading more easily than Ebola, since I think more than one Sunday news talky covered it.
@dmsilev: No, SC has been crazy for a long long time. The statement “South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum” dates from 1860.
‘That’s the South for ya.’ Seriously, this is totally not a surprise. Anytime there’s a problem (killer bees, AIDS, crack, crime in general, 9/11), whatever it is, the conservatives start jump immediately to needing to kill people, and then there’s pissing contest to see who came come up with the nastiest solutions. AIDS patients needed to be put in camps, crack dealers needed their fingers cut off, everyone should be in jail (three strikes!), and we should nuke Mecca because Arabs because 9/11. Unless upper-class white people are suffering, of course, in which instance there will be whining and crying and begging. (TARP!)
Scary black people from AFRICA plus any disease is bound to bring out the vilest types. So you should totally expect a further bids on who can be the most drastic and vicious.
max
[‘TV, TV, on the wall, who is the meanest SOB of them all?’]
MattF
@Baud: And he’s pro-life! So to speak.
BD of MN
So he’s calling for Dallas to be napalmed… But the Cowboys are off to a good start this year! Quite a quandary there…
Amir Khalid
@jl:
As I recall, the action decided on in that educational film was, “Burn her!”
Iowa Old Lady
@BD of MN: I know! It’s like Ebola in Dallas is cause for terror, but it would never occur to them to cut off flights to and from Texas.
dmsilev
@low-tech cyclist:
Has anyone asked him the following question:
“You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that? “
currants
@SEK: You were right, of course. Gah.
Eljai
I think “wretched” is too nice a word for Todd Kincannon. But “Craven shithead” and “fetid fuckwit” don’t seem harsh enough either.
Karen in GA
@Hildebrand: I was just going to say exactly that. Hang him around the GOP’s collective neck. Do it with the guy who suggested women who’ve had abortions should be hung, do it with the “Let ’em die” crowd at the Republican debate a couple of years ago, do it with every fucked up sociopathic bastard with a goddamned Twitter account.
MattF
@Eljai: ‘Evil’ works for me. Or, possibly, ‘should be dragged through the gates of Hell and into Satan’s anus’ would also be OK.
burnspbesq
But he’s vehemently pro-life.
Or sumpin.’
SEK
@currants: Please, don’t encourage me.
scav
hmm, given this is ‘merca fuck-yeah beacon of free-market GI-Jebus exceptional health care, can I assume he’s A) patented this sure-fire approach to recoup research costs with protected pay-per-killings for ex number of years before the generic mobs worm their way in, and B) made a touch for grant-money to retroactively fund the same effort?
leeleeFL
@Amir Khalid:a feature not a bug. I think a 21 day quarantine is a good idea, preferably in Africa. I know it would be difficult, but considering the stupid response in Dallas, it would be best, yes?
Davis X. Machina
@Eljai: I concur.
“Wretched” is best reserved for low-grade stuff like this, from Adam Ozimek, about Maria Fernandes, the New Jersey woman who died napping in her car between her three different part-time Dunkin’ Donuts gigs.
Baud
@dmsilev:
Turtle was a Democrat, of course.
Ruckus
@low-tech cyclist:
I think the evidence is that most conservatives lack a brain or at least the ability to use it, so that may explain why the have an affinity for fertilized eggs but not for what happens they grow into humans. They obviously don’t like organisms with brains and the ability to use them.
leeleeFL
@dmsilev: I thought of that line too-where’s Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn when you need them?
Unsympathetic
It’s OK if you’re a Republican.
If you’re a Democrat, you get fired for tweeting that. Salaita’s got nothing in this guy.
Lizzy L
Brain, heart, what’s the difference? They don’t have either. They have mouths. And possibly tentacles.
When I first read this stuff, I was sure it was, as they say, a “joke.” Conservative version of freaking out the straights — you and I being “the straights.” But maybe he means it, all of it. I don’t know.
Jay C
@Hildebrand: @Karen in GA:
Not that your suggestions aren’t worthwhile: but a quick google for Mr. Kincannon reveals that as far as can be determined, he no longer has any official connection with the SC GOP, but is just another lawyer with a Twitter account. I’m sure that there are probably a lot of folks down there (in or out of office/political positions) who will wholeheartedly agree with the vile garbage he posts, but unfortunately, there’s a level of credible deniability over ol’ Todd’s dreck: not that you’ll hear much of it, though…..
Southern Beale
But Republicans aren’t good at math. Everyone knows that.
Amir Khalid
@Jay C:
I’m pretty sure he’s still in the mainstream of Republican thinking.
Ruckus
@Lizzy L:
Tis more the shame but I think they actually mean it. How many staunch conservatives are heavy thinkers? Someone who ponders the reality of life rather than just shouts out stupid, unrealistic crap, just knowing that the most vile way is the best way to solve any problem. Their understanding of life and people is so unrealistic not because they are thinkers but because they are not.
dr. luba
@Lizzy L: No, he doesn’t joke. He’s just an all around ass. Per Wikipedia, where there is a whole section on his page labeled “Controversy”:
A number of media outlets detailed a range of inflammatory messages he posted to his Twitter account in 2013, which include mocking Florida shooting victim Trayvon Martin and saying that transgendered people should be placed in a concentration-style camp. He also posted to his Twitter account that it’s a shame Michael Prysner, an Iraq war veteran turned anti-war organizer, “didn’t come home in a body bag.” His Twitter account was suspended in late 2013. In early 2014, he created a new Twitter account named “Todd__Kincannon”, on which he allegedly made sexist and homophobic statements, many referencing Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis in defamatory ways. The traditionalist conservative author Rod Dreher highlighted tweets in which Kincannon, identifying himself as a Southern Baptist, labeled Dreher (who is Eastern Orthodox) a “papist” and compared infant baptism to Chinese water torture. He also received backlash for boasting to the father of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl that he would attempt to convince the attorney general to pursue capital punishment for his son. In September, 2014, Kincannon tweeted that football player Ray Rice was justified in beating his fiancé. In October of the same year, Kincannon posted a series of tweets advocating summary execution for anyone contracting the Ebola virus, and blaming “the people of Africa” for its spread: “They could stop eating each other and learn calculus at any time”
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
That’s a lovely thought for the day.
Baud
@dr. luba:
He’s a one-man Westboro Baptist Church.
scav
@Jay C: Buuuuut, there is just possibly a way in, coming up with a non-stock screen-capture version of “Republicans are Tweeters too!”. maybe just maybe?
Debbie
This is a powerful indictment of the South Carolina mathematics curriculum.
Southern Beale
Todd Kincannon, serial Twitter offender.
muddy
@Southern Beale: That’s why they want to use “dynamic scoring” instead of actual math for the CBO.
PIGL
@MattF: oh, they are working on it, just you wait.
PIGL
@? Martin: I’d volunteer. My life is nothing to send such dogs to hell. And so many at once? Bonus, baby.
gogiggs
He’s just following the lesson of the biblical story of Jesus curbstomping the leper.
jl
@gogiggs: Wouldn’t gun-Jesus just shoot the leper?
scav
@jl: Well, I’ve heard tell that Samaritan was an early brand of smart-bombs. Others couldn’t be trusted to go off reliably every day of the week, but Samaritans were good.
Mustang Bobby
This guy makes Adolf Eichmann look like a wuss.
Oh, did I just Godwin? Well, what the hell.
Mike in NC
This maggot could have been a poster boy for Planned Parenthood.
suzanne
I wish I believed in a Hell hot enough for this asshole.
You know what, “asshole” is too kind a word for this guy. My asshole is awesome. I like it a lot.
Mike in NC
The media is engaged in a full-blown meltdown over this Ebola horseshit. Probably wise right now to shoot your kids and pets before slitting your wrists. Assholes indeed.
MomSense
I don’t even recognize the world that people like Kincannon must live in. Is what they experience on a daily basis somehow so dramatically different from the rest of us?
bemused
Joe Scarborough is only a degree or two separated from this Kincannon jerk. Joe talking about ebola as fire from hell on MTP and I had to laugh hard when Axelrod called him Dr. Scarborough. Joe really, really didn’t like that. Thin-skinned and terrified little people. I do wonder if Joe, etc would be peeing their pants this much about ebola, CDC if the president was a Republican.
Cain
The man has a mental issue, and clearly using twitter for this.
satby
@Amir Khalid: He says “humanely put down”. That’s what we do to animals. He assumes most Ebola victims will be people of color and to him, that’s just like putting down an animal… because in his mind they probably are animals. Sickening… and I personally will be holding him against every Repuke apologist I know.
Ruckus
@MomSense:
Well I imagine that trying to walk around with your head up your ass might give you a shitty outlook on life. I would think the question of why would one walk around with one’s head up their ass might come up occasionally but then maybe being in the dark like that messes with one’s reasoning ability.
shelley
I remember, fondly, one conservative’s kindler-gentler approach at the time. Anyone who tests positive for HIV should be tatooed on their abdomen as a warning to anyone they come in contact with.
MomSense
@Ruckus:
Maybe the contents of their brain and asses are the same?
WereBear
Southern White Man Conservative Privilege is so vast and uncountable you basically need only a brain stem to make your way in the world.
hamletta
Does he pray to God with that mouth? Because I think compassion is a pretty big deal to Him.
Also, too, His son was known to hang out with lepers, who were the Ebola pts of their day.
Cpl Cam
Nope, nothing death-panel-ly here, just the simple mathematics of end-of-life decisions. Nice job, republicans!
Anne Laurie
@shelley:
That was William Effing Buckley, founder of the National Review. As a renowned & self-promoting homophobe he actually wanted those HIV+ tattoos to be on the buttocks (“because it would be socially insensitive to put them on the contaminated individuals’ foreheads”).
Buckley was operating in a more self-consciously genteel atmosphere. This Kincannon douchecanoe needs to keep ramping up his act in order to break out from the current GOP slime pond, but it’s still just performance art to “outrage” us “squares”.
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
Amir –
Normally, I agree with you, but I believe you’re wrong this time.
He’s more of a “thought [sic] leader,” than a “mainstream” Rethug. I say this primarily because there are no “respectable” Rethugs [sic again] who are currently advocating mini-genocides.
But that’s this week. Who knows what next week will bring?
Ronnie Pudding
“No, I don’t agree with his plans.”
And that’s the end of that/
Central Planning
@Suffern ACE:
I’m not sure how vaginas scare anybody. I’m a big fan.
Mike in NC
Can we just go ahead now and call him “future-Governor Kincannon (R-SC)”?
PaulW
fear-mongering taken to its’ lethal extreme: Kill The Other. In this case it’s Kill the Infected (which is the same thing we hear from the wingnuts regarding HIV/AIDS).
For all the infectiousness of Ebola, nothing can top the infectiousness of FEAR.
danielx
@Suffern ACE:
Considering the way Republican legislators in Wisconsin reacted to mere mention of the word ‘vagina’, I shouldn’t be a bit surprised. The inside of some people’s heads must be a strange and terrifying place.
As for Br’er Kincannon, this can only be regarded as addditional confirmation, if any were needed, of his status as a world class doucherocket.
Aaron
Better just nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
You say the outbreak is in Texas, and not Florida? Maybe next time.
We could call it the ‘small government solution to the problem’
/I’m obviously joking here
Cpl Cam
“Compassion is a killer.”
Can someone refresh my memory which gospel Jesus says this in. I thinks it’s either Peter or Paul but I can’t quite remember, lol. Christian: someone who believes every word of the Bible is meant to be read literally except Jesus’ actual teachings, those are metaphor and unobtainable utopianisms.
Ruckus
@MomSense:
Plenty of evidence of that!
Bill E Pilgrim
@Anne Laurie: Buckley’s self-conscious gentility was, to put it charitably, a thin veneer. To put it uncharitably, it was a bullshit act that he dropped instantly when provoked:
And that was live on national television; imagine the kinds of things he must have said in private.
SFAW
@Cpl Cam:
Fixed to reflect reichtard thought more accurately.
Villago Delenda Est
Kincannon should be put down. With no effort at all to make said dispatching humane.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mustang Bobby: Adolf Eichmann was a wuss.
Now, Reinhard Heydrich, he’s your serious cold blooded Nazi. He’s the guy who convened the Wansee Conference.
Kincannon would fit in on Heydrich’s staff really well.
SFAW
In other wretched politician news: allegedly-non-wingnut Senator Kelly Ayotte does her best to strut her wingnut cred.
The sick-mofo part of me almost hopes that Masshole carpetbagger Scott Brown wins Jeanne Shaheen’s seat, so that NH can be as fucked up as Texas and the rest of the super-red states.
The rational part of me wants Brown to get his ass kicked, however. Unfortunately, too many New Hamsters think that “Live Free or Die” means “Let’s Fuck Over Everyone We Don’t Like, Especially Liberals” (in other word’s, Cleek’s Law as state charter), so Brown will get a lot of votes. The lying motherfucker.
SFAW
@Villago Delenda Est:
Kincannon doesn’t strike me as being Jewish – closet or otherwise.
ETA: But, yeah, the whole eliminationist rhetoric is big with him. One would hope that someone from Liberia – infected or not – pays him a visit. Soon.
Ruckus
@Bill E Pilgrim:
Yeah, he was a real sweetheart. I’ve often wondered why people think the current conservative bullshit started with st ron. The man from Wisconsin, Sen. Joe and Buckley were there before him and they didn’t start it. Brought it to a whole different level but even they weren’t first. Buckley had the big words and delivery that made it sound like something other than pure hate. It wasn’t of course.
JGabriel
Todd Kincannon via Raw Story:
{Gapes incredulously}
There are just so many things wrong with that tweet, I don’t even know where to begin mocking it.
My gob, ’tis smacked.
JGabriel
@SFAW:
I don’t really care where the visitor comes from, but infected is the better route. Let’s see how quick Kincannon is to recommend execution when he is the one with Ebola.