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It is incredible that a member of congress suggests a cruel torture, tarring and feathering someone, and no one bats an eye. Yet I know that cruelty and objectification are key tactics in the fascist’s playbook.
I often wonder what would have happened if the South had been allowed to secede from the United States. Spielberg could have made a great movie of a split timeline.
And “states rights”? Even back in the Sixties, it was never about that … despite Republicans loud pooh-poohing about CRT, it’s ALWAYS been about racism and segregation.
Everytime I am appalled at another action taken by the Republicans that they wholeheartedly condemned when we had a president from the opposing party in office, my son rolls his eyes at my naivete and reminds me that Republicans don't stand for anything and have no principles. They embrace today what they rejected yesterday if it furthers their goals.
Tom Cotton, always wrong, always calling for heads to be cracked (well, in Democratic led states or Iran), the guy has a chilling amount of bloodlust. That he's given a massive platform every time he wants to rant this crap out is a huge failure on the part of publications handing it to him. They've seen it before at this point yet willingly participate.
Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver was not, of course, "impeding" any actual legal procedure by ICE. She was THERE when Ras Baraka was admitted with her to the ICE facility and knew there was no "trespass" and no probable cause for Baraka's arrest. We have to remember that 'impeding" ICE does not include impeding them from acting illegally. That, of course, did not stop NY City Comptroller Brad Landon from getting arrested for asking to see an ICE warrant. But it is going to be hard to make charges STICK when what you are trying to impede is an illegal act (or at least trying to determine whether the act threatened is legal).
As for being consistent, Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall."
Both parties do this kind of thing, so for one we should give Republicans a pass. However, this neo-secessionist rhetoric cannot be condoned or winked at. That is a deadly dangerous topic to raise and those who raise it should be sanctioned to the maximum legal extent.
Emerson wrote his passage in 1846 when the run up to the Civil War was just beginning to gather steam and he wrote about philosophical consistency of belief , not moral consistency of actions. The Republicans have exemplified the first and are criminals in the second.
Thanks for collecting this information in one piece.
It is incredible that a member of congress suggests a cruel torture, tarring and feathering someone, and no one bats an eye. Yet I know that cruelty and objectification are key tactics in the fascist’s playbook.
I often wonder what would have happened if the South had been allowed to secede from the United States. Spielberg could have made a great movie of a split timeline.
All the recent Republican terribleness in one post.
Rinse and repeat.
And “states rights”? Even back in the Sixties, it was never about that … despite Republicans loud pooh-poohing about CRT, it’s ALWAYS been about racism and segregation.
Everytime I am appalled at another action taken by the Republicans that they wholeheartedly condemned when we had a president from the opposing party in office, my son rolls his eyes at my naivete and reminds me that Republicans don't stand for anything and have no principles. They embrace today what they rejected yesterday if it furthers their goals.
Tom Cotton, always wrong, always calling for heads to be cracked (well, in Democratic led states or Iran), the guy has a chilling amount of bloodlust. That he's given a massive platform every time he wants to rant this crap out is a huge failure on the part of publications handing it to him. They've seen it before at this point yet willingly participate.
Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver was not, of course, "impeding" any actual legal procedure by ICE. She was THERE when Ras Baraka was admitted with her to the ICE facility and knew there was no "trespass" and no probable cause for Baraka's arrest. We have to remember that 'impeding" ICE does not include impeding them from acting illegally. That, of course, did not stop NY City Comptroller Brad Landon from getting arrested for asking to see an ICE warrant. But it is going to be hard to make charges STICK when what you are trying to impede is an illegal act (or at least trying to determine whether the act threatened is legal).
O patriotic ICE—courageously going house to house to capture brown children and those pesky, invisible antifa AND socialist scum!
Finally, Best & Brightest? No longer—it’s total loyalty AND Pretty & Dumb. Killing DoE doesn’t kill history.
As for being consistent, Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall."
Both parties do this kind of thing, so for one we should give Republicans a pass. However, this neo-secessionist rhetoric cannot be condoned or winked at. That is a deadly dangerous topic to raise and those who raise it should be sanctioned to the maximum legal extent.
Emerson wrote his passage in 1846 when the run up to the Civil War was just beginning to gather steam and he wrote about philosophical consistency of belief , not moral consistency of actions. The Republicans have exemplified the first and are criminals in the second.