A Modest Proposal
Meet Todd Kincannon, the former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party.
He’s a pro-life protestor and commentator.
He has a solution for ebola.
No, no, it wasn’t a typo.
Napalm Dallas? Really? How would we know the difference? (Houston joke.)
Thanks to Sandy for the heads up.
Um — weren’t the Republicans the ones who were so worried about death panels?
1“Pro-life” and “napalming villages” magically crammed into one cranium must be the new urban definition of coprolite.
2If you haven’t, you need to click on the Wonkette has more link and read other comments by Kincannon.
3I had no idea such people existed, outside of institutions for the criminally insane.
4Remind me not to go to any Republican conventions, esp. if Kincannon is on the program. Not that I would voluntarily anyhow.
5It really seems to help to have a total lack of scientific knowledge to make these outrageous statements. If he had a voice in the 80’s he probably would have made the same recommendation for all diagnosed with AIDS.
6Let’s load up the plague carts and send the crier out with “Bring out your dead.”
Incendiary weapons (napalm, flamethrowers, thermite, white phosphorous, etc.) are not banned, but are banned in their use on or near civilians.
We did use white phosphouous as an offensive weapon in Iraq-that is a no-no,but whitey wingnut doesn’t care because we didn’t sign all these treaties banning weapons.
7@e platypus onion: I have seen with my own eyeballs willy pete deployed against opposition forces. This material is not in my opinion appropriate for combat although the Geneva Convention probably does not ban its use against personnel.
8So goes the “thinking” of a professional pants ***pper!
9Dear God.
Will any republican have the courage to denouce this mad man?
How did the republican party get so ….. diseased?
10You know, I really don’t like it when people compare individuals or cultures to Hitler and Nazis. It’s lazy and cheap.
But when I think about the last person who believed there was a solution that involved mass extermination of an entire group of people indiscriminately…
Maybe, Todd Kincannon thinks he’s not a racist since he doesn’t discriminate, at least not within the villages he wants to napalm.
11Kincannon is epitome of his Christian Nation: “We should put Wendy Davis’ vagina in charge of the Ebola outbreak. It will kill all of them without mercy and go to Nordstrom’s afterwards.”
12Wonder how fast this maggot would change his tune if he somehow contacted the E virus? I’m totally convinced that the Republican party is basically a combination of bed wetters and criminals.
13here’s little background on Todd, from Wiki!
Controversy[edit]
14A number of media outlets detailed a range of inflammatory messages he posted to his Twitter account[11][12] in 2013, which include mocking Florida shooting victim Trayvon Martin[13] and saying that transgendered people should be placed in a concentration-style camp.[2][14][15] 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.”[16] His Twitter account was suspended in late 2013.[11][17] 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.[18][19][20] 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. [21] 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.[22] In September, 2014, Kincannon tweeted that football player Ray Rice was justified in beating his fiancé.[23] 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”
Kincannon has quite a record of “free speech” – much to the dismay of the South Carolina Republican Party which regards him with such dismay that they refuse to even acknowledge his existence, let alone comment on him.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/28/south-carolina-republicans-distance-themselves-from-todd-kincannon.html
Go ahead, Todd, keep talking! While you’re at it, go out right now and endorse one or two of your state’s Republican candidates!
15screecherguy, imagine his horror if one of his own family contracted polio because of his anti-science buddies, or Enterovirus 68 due to cutbacks from the Republican sequestration, or any number of avoidable tragedies on the rise with no thanks to crazy science deniers and stingy “got mine, screw you” Republicans.
Borders and bombs cannot contain viruses, while education and medicine can. Ebola and ISIL do not scare me, while the St00pid could dramatically reduce our quality of life which does cause me concern.
16Any respectable political party would have dropped this jackwagon about thirty outrages ago. I can’t even come up with any good snark because this scumbag’s not worth it.
“Napalm the villages”? I just…. I can’t even respond. And worse than his thinking it is his saying it, as if he thinks other people will hear and approve.
17UmptyDump, the twisting and spinning st00pid really mangle the First Amendment. While they are entitled to their opinions, they take it into a realm of the Twilight Zone never meant by those who wrote the documents. Nowhere in the Federalist Papers, Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution is there a provision for lies, Zombie lies or out and out st00pid presented as “fact.”
We need to metaphorically batter them with the true: “yes, you are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to create fact from fiction.”
With apologies to Canada, where the Bible is recognized as hate literature, I redirect the right wingers: Benghazi, Squirrel, Canada.™
18Another stupid, ignorant, vicious, selfish, arrogant nutjob.
What would he think if we said the only way to get rid of such people is to napalm their houses? They’d be terrified and furious.
I’m furious, but not terrified, by this person.
19Two bits says he never served a day in uniform and has only heard the word Napalm in a movie.
20Rhea, the rapid decline of the Republican party began post Eisenhower. Then Bob Dole ran a lackluster campaign against Bill Clinton; look what the pouting rethugs did in the Clinton years.
Then, the GOP really blew up, when Dubya was anointed over McCain, subsequently Jeb Bush Florida and Scrotus oozed the idiot into office. But they promised Johnny his turn, some day. Then proceeded to torpedo his turn with the Wasilla Whack-O-Bird.
They lost to President Obama. Rinse, repeat and double down on their obstructionist destruction. Clinton got the kid gloves compared to the torpedoing Obama has received from the Party of St00pid.
Bush2 tanked the economy, cost $trillions in self-destructive wars and made mega billions for the Kochs and other greedy planet destroyers.
Damn that Obummer for not only not totally fixing their messes, but for not returning a profit to the .01% greater than 90%.
Iran, Iraq, … yeah, the Republicans are hell bent on delivering that final 10% to their paymasters.
21Talk about dumb stupid ignorant fear mongers….this one takes the gold medal for all.
22Don A in Pennsyltucky, as slime dwelling science deniers go, the idiot deserves a full blown smack in the snout from reality and real scientists.
Gold medal? Nah. We need to ‘reward’ these idiots with the Coprolite Award. Fossilized feces from thousands of years before their Palin dinosaur roaming days, views from her porch and other complete nonsense.
Maybe a “Koch Award” for the silliest Republican of the day.
23So, does he suggest starting with Dallas? Or is his solution reserved for areas with no white skin showing?
24What is this, crazy white Republican week? Yeah, this week and EVERY week.
25LynnN, JJ included this joke: “Napalm Dallas? Really? How would we know the difference? (Houston joke.)”
While the right wing, fright whites, are not joking. Name the subject, they are cool with any war of attrition that favors them 10:1, if their skin isn’t in the game.
Time we give them a twofer. No more wars on women, minorities, or innocents in other countries, until they pay for the 2 Bush wars, reimburse their war profits, and return all their off shore money. Next war pre-funded and led by them, their children or grandchildren. Universal draft; no exceptions, except for those who were excluded from the Wall Street criminal boom; special numbers 0-2. Ascending draft number exemptions at whatever the GOP declares the poverty level.
26Edward Starsmith, you must be living in a closet. These people not only exist, they’re in the majority in east Texas. I listen to them every day at work. This crap isn’t the exception, it’s the norm.
27Mice-would that have been in Iraq? I remember several soldiers that returned claiming wp was used on people,though the government claimed it was only used to illuminate the battlefield at night.
28This guy obviously thinks if he kills enough people he’ll survive just fine in his first-world conclave.
And I say he’ll be one of the first to be killed if things do come unglued because he’s so unlikeable and he won’t have enough ammunition to kill everyone who wants him dead.
29As I remember it, in 1976 during the great Ebola outbreak in Zaire, WHO workers contained it finally because they forcibly removed all well people from sites where the virus was found (quarantined them until it was clear they were not infected). No one was allowed to take anything at all with them. Whole villages and settlements were burned to the ground. Dead bodies were cremated. Those removed were not allowed to return to their village/settlement sites. They were relocated to areas not yet infected. This took a LOT of work and in an area where the WHO workers were considered suspect by the population.
I wonder if it occurred to pro-life Kincannon that the whole point of fighting disease is to save lives not to waste them.
30e platypus onion, unlike fireworks and guns fired into the air falling back to the ground causing death and injuries, white phosphorus and depleted uranium munitions go beyond the initial horrific.
While we are waiting for the full impact of munitions on the Middle East, maybe we can extrapolate from the known effects in Germany 70 years later from unexploded ordinance.
Or, I can do my simple minded best from my military experience. Hug and feed a child, or murder their family members in front of their innocent young eyes.
Aid, education, food, housing, medicine and other avenues to hands of friendship. What would work in Ferguson will also work in Fallujah.
31Is there no limit to the crazy?
What about Rick Perry coming out and saying that Texas was one of the 13 states that could deal with ebola, and look at all the mistakes made at the hospital, my guess is that he did not have health insurance and that is why they sent him home.
Ricky should have Obamacare for Texas.
On the bright side, Wendy seems to climbing in the polls and we all (the sane ones) HAVE OUR FINGERS CROSSED FOR HER.
32@e platypus onion: Viet Nam. Army 81mm mortar. M29 I think.
33Willy Pete is like an STD. The gift that keeps giving forever. WP persists in soil sediments for years. Years. So it isnt just suffocating all the guys in a tunnel because ignited WP sucks up all the oxygen for hundreds of meters. It isnt just the crispy bodies left after a direct hit. No. Disturbing the soil ignites the material again and again until it is all consumed. And it has been bought by every major military since the 1930s. I dont know specific instance of Nazi or IJA employing WP. They each owned some. I have read numbers as high as 20% of Allied mortar rounds fired on Normandy were WP. And BTW using WP to clear bunkers and tunnels didnt come along to US forces until Viet Nam. Best I can tell US forces used flamethrowers to clear bunkers and tunnels in Europe and in the Pacific. Yes. American males can be turned into hellish little spuds.
Todd Kincannon is targeting the wrong people. Our world and humanity would best be served if we could rid ourselves of people like Todd Kincannon – preferably in the very near future.
34And if I think Todd Kincannon and those who think like him are a much greater danger to the civilization than Ebola…which I do, actually…then should I “woman up” and blow him away? Certainly I don’t see that he’s contributing anything to society, civilization, or this nation with his constant attacks on feminism, Wendy Davis, people of “other cultures.” Seems pretty useless-in fact, a distinctly damaging person to have shooting off his mouth from the POV of a white American. Makes us look really bad.
Still…not being Todd Kincannon…I don’t advocate blowing people away just because they are nasty, arrogant, selfish, over-entitled disgusting bags of toxic filth like Mr. Kincannon. I think showing them to be what they really are is sufficient. Then we find out who’s like them (they cheer him on) and who’s decent (they’re horrified by him) and should he ever move on from words to actions…well, it’ll be time enough to worry about that if the wuss ever actually acts.
35Aaah…. speechless.
The article title in this link contains a NSFW word. Not sure one can discuss Kincannon without those coming up, but trying.
http://tiny.cc/hz2anx
36I knew there had to be a reason that I never completed that “Twitter” registration thing.
Looks like it’s just one more forum for the crazies.
They just have to get their stupidity out there in less words.
37I believe that many people of conscience have a thoughtful, valid objection to abortion but this guy, with his “pro-life” views is another good example that the for the screamers it has always been about slut shaming. And remember, just like Steve King, Palin, Bachman and Stockman, actual voters believed he was the best person to represent them. WASF
38Because Jesus did not heal the leper, he napalmed him.
39Marge, if you DO go to a republican convention, don’t cough.
40Mr. Kincannon doesn’t have any position of authority right now, but still, the Republican Party needs to remove him from their membership.
41http://www.digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/oh-they-have-message-alright.html
Here is Kincannon on Muslims(tweets are at the bottom)
42JJ… I don’t like posting more than once on your site. You have a lot of qualified people to say what they think.
However….. I’ve read on other websites that our Governor has appointed a “task force” to review and improve upon the federal government recommendations, and suggestions for dealing with ebola.
Now… since most of us know that Rick Perry needs help tying his shoelaces…. it scare the heck out of me to think he knows more about ebola than the CDC, the NIH, and the WHO.
Governor Perry’s Texas has the largest number of uninsured, as far as health care is concerned of any state in this country… Add to that… this same Governor turned down Medicaid expansion funds….and this is the Governor who is going to second guess the federal government scientists, and physicians….. on ebola.
Sorry Momma… this scares the hell out of me.
43Elizabeth, I applaud your eloquence:
“nasty, arrogant, selfish, over-entitled disgusting bags of toxic filth like Mr. Kincannon.”
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