Carr’s abhorrent statements on Biden can’t be undone
Brookfield First Selectwoman Tara Carr condemned readers of her social media posts last week in an angry and incoherent statement. The first-term Republican’s perpetual alarm was on display in a series of Twitter posts that included an incendiary response to praise of President Joe Biden by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Carr commented on a Republican National Committee clip of Harris praising Biden, by allegedly posting, “He’s aiding & abetting the enemy. Ready. Aim. Fire. One shot, one kill. That simple…” Carr claims she was referring to the Chinese balloon that was floating over the United States at the time. Her first two posts on Saturday, Feb. 4, referring to the balloon, were: “Aiding & abetting the enemy. Ready. Aim. Fire. One shot, one kill. That simple…”
Carr’s vile third post that day was not in response to the balloon. There was no reference to it. This time, warming to her theme, Carr edited her previous wording to add “He”, a clear reference to Biden, who she was accusing of the serious offense of “aiding & abetting the enemy,”
China. Carr on Tuesday accused critics of “fabricating their own truths.” Carr herself was immune to any reasonable explanation of why the Biden administration waited until the balloon was over the Atlantic Ocean to destroy it.
Defense analysts suggested that as the balloon’s altitude rose, it allowed U.S. military and intelligence services to gather significant information on its capabilities and purpose before destroying it when it reached the Atlantic Ocean. That sounds more plausible than Carr’s loaded claim that Biden was helping China. As one analyst suggested, we likely learned more about
Chinese capabilities and intentions from the balloon than China did about us.
Anyone reading Carr’s response to Harris’ praise would have seen no reference to the balloon, just her call to violence, “One shot, one kill. That simple…” I was alerted to Carr’s online spewing last weekend by Alphonse Robinson, a progressive blogger. Robinson had seen and criticized the tweets on Feb. 18. Carr’s tweets were still on her personal Twitter account the next day, though she appeared to have tried to remove them. I wrote about them on my website, DailyRuctions.com. Not long after, Twitter suspended Carr’s account.
Carr ranted in her Tuesday screed that critics of her tweets reside “on the fringe of the political spectrum….These individuals,” she continued, “are more intent on twisting the meaning of my words, simply to foment hatred and discord against political opponents during an election year.” Reading what Carr wrote about Biden did not foment hatred and discord, but that appears to have been her intent in writing them.
Only the day before issuing her “One shot, one kill” message, Carr used Twitter to scold U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat, for his tweet criticizing House Republicans for putting U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on a “committee that oversees school safety.” Murphy wrote that Greene has said the Sandy Hook and Parkland school shootings were staged. Carr replied Murphy’s staff should “do better” in running his social media. “These statements can’t be your own.”
Carr’s inexhaustible anger was on display at the end of January, when she highlighted her apocalyptic view of Biden and our times. “He is a pathetic excuse of a ‘Commander in Chief,’ ” she wrote on Twitter. “He is eroding the fabric of our nation. Once it’s gone there is nothing worth fighting for. And once there is nothing worth fighting for, there goes the United States of America.”
Carr claimed Tuesday that her political opponents will not succeed in “smearing their political opponents and engaging in ‘smoke and mirror’ tactics directed at any town official.” The meaning of
Carr’s words were clear. The “smoke and mirrors” come from her scramble to save herself. The people of Brookfield and many others beyond the town’s borders are alarmed and bewildered by Carr’s poisonous creed.
Carr says her “focus is on the business of Brookfield, that is far more important than engaging small-minded individuals….” Maybe now that Twitter has shut her down, but not before. Many of Carr’s tweets had nothing to do with Brookfield. In one, she complained about Murphy obtaining a grant for children in low income families to receive free swimming lessons in Waterbury.
Last week, Carr was mocking Harris for attending the Munich Security Conference, suggesting Biden was too feeble to make the trip. A few days later, Biden made a historic visit to Kyiv to show his commitment to Ukraine’s struggle against Russian invaders.
Biden went to the frontline of the battle between freedom and servitude. His words were unmistakable. So were Carr’s — and no amount of huffing, puffing and blaming others make them less abhorrent.