Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said conservatives may need to turn to physical violence in order to protect the United States against contemporary liberalism.
The Republican governor put forth the controversial suggestion after speaking of the “degradation of society” during an impassioned, 15-minute speech at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. The provocative comments started to gain national attention at the start of this week.
“America is worth fighting for ideologically. I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don’t have to do it physically. But that may, in fact, be the case,” he told the crowd.
To hammer home his point, he paraphrased a famous quote from Founding Father Thomas Jefferson: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
“Whose blood will be shed? It may be that of those in this room. It might be that of our children and grandchildren. I have nine children,” he said. “It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood that is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away. Don’t let it happen.”
Oh that's a good idea.
Let's tell the angry unhinged masses that if the candidate they do not support wins the election they should arm themselves and take to the streets in retaliation.
In response at least one Kentucky Democrat is suggesting that Bevin should be impeached over these remarks:
A Kentucky Democrat running for Congress called on Tuesday for Gov. Matt Bevin (R) to be removed from office after he suggested that an armed insurrection should take place if Hillary Clinton wins the presidential election.
Rev. Nancy Jo Kemper said during a brief press conference that lawmakers from both parties should impeach Bevin “on the grounds that calling for the taking of innocent lives is a violation of the governor’s binding legal responsibility to uphold the laws of our Commonwealth, which clearly prohibit murder.”
Seems reasonable.
By the way if you are sitting there wondering if this idiot is yet another of Sarah Palin's endorsees, wonder no more. Of course he is.
NINE children. Nine Fing children. Maybe he should get a little more and learn more about the world rather than staying home and you know..
ReplyDeleteObviously he is not a golfer (zoinks BigLebowski ref).. or a believer in climate change.
he's a Kim Davis Lover. 'member her? The reason KY had to change their marriage licenses is Davis's special form of fundie xtian abracadabra. They both hate the gays to death, but divorce, adultery, and from the looks of Davis, gluttony are just fine with their skygod.
DeleteKY is backwards as hell except for pockets of Louisville (college). I lived their for some years and got the hell out. Glad of it.
We're glad of it to. We don't want you here. Go suck a dick somewhere else faggot.
DeleteIf Bevin is so eager for bloodshed why doesn't he go to Alaska and moose hunt with Todd? That should satisfy him and no humans would be harmed.
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If he is of the opinion that there it may be necessary to shed some blood, then I want to see him on the front lines.
DeleteIs there something in the water that breeds people like Bevin?
It is getting harder and harder not to see a civil war coming. What an irresponsible Governor to provoke such (justified in his mind) actions. Not the first Governor to do so, but the wording is now blatant, a call to arms, thanks to Trump and Palin.
ReplyDeleteThe NRA must be thrilled.
The poor tree of liberty (which BTW is what will allow us to freely choose HRH for our president through those good old-fashioned things called...oh, right...elections) is in desperate need of an arborist after being repeatedly pissed and shat on by cry-baby assholes like this.
ReplyDeleteAnd let's make sure that every one of his "9 Fing kids" is on the front line spilling them some blood.
DeleteToo much fertilization kills the tree...
DeleteBest remark ever 6:37am. God, I hate these overzealous breeders.
DeleteLet someone call for the assassination of dRumpf and watch the outrage, yet it's okay if Hillary is targeted. The same went for President Obama.
ReplyDeleteThe only problem is the only traitors will to say anything so horrendous are Trump supporters.
DeleteHis campaign slogan .... "If ballots fail, use bullets"
ReplyDeleteimpeach the ugly rapture turd. and then flush.
ReplyDeleteGun lovers now have a dating website dedicated to them.
ReplyDeletehttps://concealedcarrymatch.com/
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/theres-a-new-dating-site-for-gun-nutters/
Did anyone else notice his eyes are just as insanely gleeful as Bachman's? He's just the sort that should be raptured - just to get his ass off the freaking planet so we can have some real peace.
ReplyDeleteExcuse me?
ReplyDeleteHillary Clinton is a tyrant?
A TYRANT?
Do these people even understand the definition of tyrant?
In what way has Hillary Clinton - or Barack Obama, for that matter - ever shown any tyrannical aspect?
What an irresponsible asshole.
Randall, you are forgetting that his believers don't have - generally - the education to understand the true meaning of the word. He is calling Hillary a name they sense is bad and that's fine with them.
DeleteThey are STILL convinced President Obama is going to come and take their guns, right?
Leland, Trump's true believers don't know the definition of any words. Vocabulary is for sissies, I guess.
DeleteBeaglemom
You're right, Beaglemom, but I figured I would at least TRY to be nice to the poor schmucks. It's my good deed for the day.
Delete“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of morons with guns and a 2nd Amendment chubby.” FIFY
ReplyDeleteGo ahead, make my day.....
It's the everlasting cry of the bullies. If we don't get our way, we'll kill you. In Germany, back in the day, they had contempt for the intellectuals and that was some of the many reasons they went apeshit. Because smart people irritate the hell out of dumbasses. Just watch that movie, The Road. That's where it will all lead to. There will be no children fighting on the frontline unless they are roasting on a spitfire. Think hard before you call the next war. Hate be a strong thing but the reality is it never ends good. There will be no glory if Americans fight each other because this time, people like Putin have their hands in the cookie jar.
ReplyDeleteGovernor Deplorable.
ReplyDeleteThe South will rise again ;-)
ReplyDeleteMost of those Cletus's down there are still fighting the first Civil War (mostly in their heads, but I digress).
Somehow they believe that an 8th grade education, a lack of teeth and an arsenal makes them some sort of superior race.
you forgot the 9 rugrats (usually by 3-4 different baby daddies)
DeleteTo be fair - four of the kids are adopted, While stationed at Fort Polk, Bevin went on a blind date with his future wife, Glenna.[4] The two married in 1996 and had six children.[1][4] In 2003, their oldest child, 17-year-old daughter Brittiney, was killed in a car accident near the family's home.[4][9] In memory of their daughter, the Bevins created Brittiney's Wish, a non-profit organization that funds domestic and international mission trips for high school students, and started an endowment that allowed Louisville's Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to open its Bevin Center for Missions Mobilization in 2012.[1][10][11]
DeleteIn 2011, Bevin took all of his children out of school for a year for a 26,000-mile (42,000 km) tour of the United States, visiting sites of educational or historical interest, including the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated and the Topeka, Kansas, schoolhouse at the center of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.[4][9] After their application to adopt a daughter from Kentucky's foster care system was denied because they already had five children, the Bevins adopted four children – between the ages of 2 and 10 – from Ethiopia in June 2012.[12][13] By 2015, Bevin said all of his children were homeschooled.[14] To avoid disruptions in the children's schooling, the Bevin's opted not to move into the Kentucky Governor's Mansion immediately after Bevin's election as governor in December 2015, instead waiting until after the school year ended in August 2016.[15] The eleven-member Bevin family is the largest to inhabit the mansion since it was constructed in 1914.[15] The family also retains their pre-election home in Louisville.[15]
Needs to adopt a hell of a lot more kids, perhaps get out of politics and into the day care business.
DeleteIf they're homeschooled, how would moving disrupt anything?
DeleteLooks like The Riddler in human form, no wonder Sarah endorsed him. And yes, he needs to be impeached.
ReplyDeleteWhat an ass!
DeleteHe'd look much better with an entrance and exit wound ..
DeleteJesus Christ!
ReplyDeleteSee, this is why many of us feel like we do not belong here anymore in the US.
Did we want the Bushes to serve 12 years? Fuck no. Did we talk about blood shed? No. These people are fucking idiots.
That is why many of us feel our only recourse is to leave and take our healthy teenge sons with us. It will be over my dead body that they go fight a made up religious war or civil war planned by these idiots.
Can't we divide up the country like the Hunger Games districts - without the games and evil leaders...and let the cuckcoo religious zealots live in one dstrict, etc etc the smart educated contributors who are atheists in another....
Whatever. My family has our exit strategy. Ya'll with lots to lose should make a plan, too, whatever works for your personal situation.