In which, case, I'm sure that his only connection to blacks has been:
1. House servants2. Senate cleaners3. Baseball players4. Singers5. That girl who looks a lot like Halle Berry that he meets at the Happy Hours Motel "for the whole hour."
The South was about the right to shove other people around in an extreme manner (more extreme than forms of slavery that existed almost anywhere else). The North was about mutual obligations which the South was willing to tear up in the name of continuing to abuse other people.
I know legally, setting a cop car on fire is a crime. But I'd hardly consider it a serious crime, especially when it's in retaliation for lives lost to them.
There is one thing that I predicted in 2016 that I need the media to acknowledge Trump's fascism before it can come true, and that is that the same media that dismissed all warnings about exactly this during 2016 would say, now, that those warnings are still incorrect because at the time they were made no one could have seen what was coming.
If only there was a real hell, so that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch and Tom Cotton and all these dreadful fascist bastards would face some kind of reckoning.
Meanwhile, ABC News, courtesy of Rick Klein, has already rushed to assure us of Donald's serious new tone, as Donald recognizes the gravity of the situation, and takes on a new, presidential kind of dignity. Just in case anybody wondered what the press would do without Mark Halperin in 2020.
"These insurrectionists in the streets of Portland are little different from the insurrectionists who seceded from the union in 1861 in South Carolina, and tried to take over Fort Sumter."
Yeah, because unarmed protestors are exactly the same as the armed and organized state troops that surrounded Ft. Sumter and shelled it into submission. God, I don't know what's worse about Cotton, his general fuckheadedness or the utter contempt he has for the intelligence of his constituency. He's probably right on the latter, though. The mouth-breathers who watch the Sofa of Stupid will probably eat this shit up.
ETA: I see SER kinda-sorta covered that point himself, which should teach me to comment before I finish reading the post but probably won't. But I'll expand on another point that SER made. Lincoln wasn't just content to leave the southern states be prior to the seccession crisis, he was also willing to let them alone afterwards. But he was determined to hold and protect Federal installations that still remained in seceeded states. It would be up to the South to fire the first shots. They did so even after being informed by Major Anderson, the commander at Sumter, that he would be forced to evacuate the fort in a few days due to lack of provisions. They could have had Ft. Sumter for free. They chose to start a war instead.
In which, case, I'm sure that his only connection to blacks has been:
1. House servants2. Senate cleaners3. Baseball players4. Singers5. That girl who looks a lot like Halle Berry that he meets at the Happy Hours Motel "for the whole hour."
Republicans have a lot of hate.
??? No actually this one was rather unique.
The South was about the right to shove other people around in an extreme manner (more extreme than forms of slavery that existed almost anywhere else). The North was about mutual obligations which the South was willing to tear up in the name of continuing to abuse other people.
I know legally, setting a cop car on fire is a crime. But I'd hardly consider it a serious crime, especially when it's in retaliation for lives lost to them.
I guess they take it into extra innings.
There is one thing that I predicted in 2016 that I need the media to acknowledge Trump's fascism before it can come true, and that is that the same media that dismissed all warnings about exactly this during 2016 would say, now, that those warnings are still incorrect because at the time they were made no one could have seen what was coming.
As I always say when the subject of Senator Neidermeyer comes up:
Don't blame me; I voted for his Democratic opponent.
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She was just visiting.
Same for Chicagoans. Like, good fucking luck, dude.
Thank you again Stephen, keep the spotlight on this vermin and the rest of them.
If only there was a real hell, so that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch and Tom Cotton and all these dreadful fascist bastards would face some kind of reckoning.
Meanwhile, ABC News, courtesy of Rick Klein, has already rushed to assure us of Donald's serious new tone, as Donald recognizes the gravity of the situation, and takes on a new, presidential kind of dignity. Just in case anybody wondered what the press would do without Mark Halperin in 2020.
I hope this comes as a relief to one and all.
The rest of the world is probably wondering how we went from Obama to Trump.
"Spoiler Alert" - Hey!
"These insurrectionists in the streets of Portland are little different from the insurrectionists who seceded from the union in 1861 in South Carolina, and tried to take over Fort Sumter."
Yeah, because unarmed protestors are exactly the same as the armed and organized state troops that surrounded Ft. Sumter and shelled it into submission. God, I don't know what's worse about Cotton, his general fuckheadedness or the utter contempt he has for the intelligence of his constituency. He's probably right on the latter, though. The mouth-breathers who watch the Sofa of Stupid will probably eat this shit up.
ETA: I see SER kinda-sorta covered that point himself, which should teach me to comment before I finish reading the post but probably won't. But I'll expand on another point that SER made. Lincoln wasn't just content to leave the southern states be prior to the seccession crisis, he was also willing to let them alone afterwards. But he was determined to hold and protect Federal installations that still remained in seceeded states. It would be up to the South to fire the first shots. They did so even after being informed by Major Anderson, the commander at Sumter, that he would be forced to evacuate the fort in a few days due to lack of provisions. They could have had Ft. Sumter for free. They chose to start a war instead.