After the election with two races undecided in Georgia, Chuck Schumer sounded more like William Tecumseh Sherman, proclaiming on the streets of New York: “Now we take Georgia, then we change the world. Now we take Georgia, then we change America.” The Senate Minority Leader (and hopeful Senate Majority Leader) was referring to two runoff elections that could hand the Senate to the Democrats with total control of the legislative and executive branches. The last Yankee to promise a scorched earth campaign through Georgia delivered on his promise. Ironically, the Georgia campaign will commence on an ominous anniversary. The infamous “March to the Sea” by Gen. Sherman began on November 15th and ended shortly before Christmas. The march left Georgia in ashes.
The idea of the march through Georgia was to break the spirit and ability of the South to continue to resist. It has been described as “total war” with Sherman’s forces living off the land as Sherman promised to utterly destroy his opponents.
One distinction is that Democrats are predicting that the scorched earth campaign will come after, not during the Georgia campaign. When the news media was still predicting a “Blue wave” taking both houses before the election, senators were openly discussing stripping their colleagues of legislative powers, packing the court, and changing the political system. Even after losing seats in the House and a close presidential election, Schumer was assuring his supporters that Democrats will move forward with their sweeping agenda on a single vote margin in the Senate.
That agenda took on an even more menacing tenor in a tweet from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). She rallied Democrats to win the Georgia races so “we don’t have to negotiate in that way.” She further seemed to promise another scorched Earth campaign against anyone who was not sufficiently opposed to Trump. She tweeted “Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future.”
Other Democratic figures are celebrating Biden as a “healer” while emphasizing that he and his followers remain evil incarnate. Former first lady Michelle Obama denounced “tens of millions of people voted for the status quo, even when it meant supporting lies, hate, chaos, and division.”
The “healing” moment appears to have passed as the nation falls back on what is now our natural default position of contempt and condemnation. There are still scores to be settled and spoils to be claimed. When Biden said that we will now “see each other again,” it appears to have been heard as an invitation for targeting rather than embracing those on the other side. When asked about AOC’s call for a black list, Sanders surrogate Nomiki Konst helpfully noted that the first on the list would be people like the former Republicans in the Lincoln Project. She said that those people like George Conway are the “perfect examples” of people to be cancelled despite their work against Trump. That did not take long. After spending millions in support of Biden, Knost and AOC are calling for all such figures to be listed and held “accountable.”
The promise to identify and cancel anyone deemed as “complicit” is all-too-familiar for many faculty and students across the country. We have been increasing intolerance for dissenting views. What began as compelled silence has become compelled speech where the failure to be sufficiently enthusiastic is deemed evidence of complicity. Indeed, Marymount Manhattan theater arts associate professor Patricia Simon was the subject of a campaign to be fired after appearing to fall asleep briefly during an anti-racist meeting held on Zoom. She was by definition not “woke.”
It appears that lists are being prepared on some campuses. At Harvard, students are calling for the firing of professors who personally hold views deemed unacceptable. Joshua Conde, a Crimson editor pointed to the hiring of two professors Diana Schaub and David Kane who were viewed as critical of the loss of faith and family values in the African-American community. The editorial demanded that Harvard remove any professors who hold “similar unacceptable views” because “The voices of students cannot be ignored any longer.”
I am not sure if I will be one of those found “complicit.” While I have repeatedly criticized Trump, I testified at the impeachment hearing as the only Republican witness. So let me cut to the chase. I am ready for reform. I am frantically assembling my columns criticizing Trump to clutch pathetically to my chest through any public shaming. It is not clear if any of us can still redeem ourselves as cooperative subjects for reeducation but, I am prepared to give up names (starting with my editors). I will immediately embrace everything from Biden’s consideration of unprecedented court packing to Elizabeth Warren’s call for unconstitutional wealth taxes as really good ideas. Just give me a chance. Why cancel when simple coercion will suffice?
In the Union song, “Marching Through Georgia,” Sherman’s forces sang “Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain.” The problem is that even those who joined the “resistance,” like those at the Lincoln Project, are now being set up for cancelling. I have often quoted the statement of French revolutionary Abbe Sieyes, the author of French Revolution’s manifesto of “What Is The Third Estate?” Yet, when asked what he had done during the French Revolution, he simply responded “I survived.”
“I am not sure if I will be one of those found “complicit.” While I have repeatedly criticized Trump, I testified at the impeachment hearing as the only Republican witness. So let me cut to the chase. I am ready for reform. I am frantically assembling my columns criticizing Trump to clutch pathetically to my chest through any public shaming. It is not clear if any of us can still redeem ourselves as cooperative subjects for reeducation but, I am prepared to give up names (starting with my editors). I will immediately embrace everything from Biden’s consideration of unprecedented court packing to Elizabeth Warren’s call for unconstitutional wealth taxes as really good ideas. Just give me a chance. Why cancel when simple coercion will suffice?“
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The Dims are every bit as vile as I supposed. Luckily, I kept my powder dry and being self-employed, I am relatively immune from their canceling games. The best course is to speak the truth at every opportunity and make them work for their tyranny. Oh and remember there are millions of Americans who see them for what they truly are and will oppose them in myriad ways. I doubt they’ll come for us directly but if they do, all those “lost” guns and ammo will probably be found and used. “You say you want a revolution, well you know ….” See you at the range.
Mespo was last seen predicting – again – a Trump victory. So, as he retreats to go play army with his little friends – take any statements of his about the future with that caveat. BUt hey, if you think you might have suffered whiplash., he may be your guy.
Race isn’t over yet, Gainesville. Oh and when the revolution comes, come on up and introduce yourself.
It’s over mespo and you know it.
I’ll be sure stop by if I get rear ended on I-95.
Gainesville:
I bet you’ve been rear-ended on I95 lots of times.
mespo….GOOD ONE! 🤣
Revolution won’t be fought at the range, Mespo.
Must watch.
Let;s see the proof of all of this. Putting out stories like this, under the banner of “Here’s what we know” is lying. WE don’t “know” anything. All that things like this pile of unsubstantiated claims does is stoke doubt, so the fat one can keep holding on to power he cheated to get in the first place, and maybe stir up the base to cause trouble. He will never stop claiming he was cheated, because his ego won’t allow the possibility of failure. Realistically, could any reasonable human being believe that a Biden/Harris campaign vehicle showed up at a vote counting location with opened ballots coincidentally all marked for them? EVERY polling place and vote counting place in this country had both Democrats and Republicans present when votes were cast, the ballots are placed into some kind of official container, marked with the precinct and sealed, and there is an official chain of custody until they arrive at the tabulation place. Trump had poll watchers on Election Day. Mail ballots required signatures and witnesses in several states, and each one is checked against voter registration records and the signatures are verified. Because of the sheer number of mail ballots this year, thanks to Trump’s incompetent handling of COVID-19, they take longer to process, but there are both Democrats and Republicans present. As was predicted, in-person voting would favor Trump, but mailed ballots would favor Biden, and that explains why Trump was “leading” in early vote counting. Nothing nefarious about this–it was predicted to happen this way. Stories like this are all lies–the desperate attempt to support the massive ego of a very sick man. Well, narcissism isn’t contagious, unless you allow it to be.
Can’t stop singing: “Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe”. Check out Cher’s version of this Ethel Waters song on You Tube.
I think it’s either Wednesday & Thursday of this week the Patriots stop in Atlanta Georgia on their way to DC this weekday to support the USA & Trump.
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Owen shroyer kicks off the legendary stop the steal caravan alongside fellow patriots from the Texas State. Tune into the channel for the coverage as they travel across the country to fight for the election
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Oky1…..thank you for the information!
Do you know which highway they are taking out of Austin?? Thank you!
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Georgia’s GOP Senators Call On GOP Secretary Of State To Resign
Baseless Claims Of Election Fraud
GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue of Georgia on Monday called on Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, to resign over what they described as his failure to deliver “honest and transparent elections.”
The statement from the senators comes days after Raffensperger held a news conference at which he declared that “there is no evidence of widespread fraud” in the state’s 2020 election. Georgia is moving forward with a recount given the narrow margin separating Biden and Trump in the state, but Raffensperger has declined to echo the unfounded claims of fraud made by Trump and others in the wake of the president’s loss.
Loeffler and Perdue are both facing runoff elections Jan. 5 that will determine which party controls the Senate.
“The management of Georgia elections has become an embarrassment for our state. Georgians are outraged, and rightly so,” Loeffler and Perdue said in their statement. “We have been clear from the beginning: every legal vote cast should be counted. Any illegal vote must not. And there must be transparency and uniformity in the counting process.”
The senators maintained that the issue “isn’t partisan. This is American.”
“We believe when there are failures, they need to be called out — even when it’s in your own party,” they said. “There have been too many failures in Georgia elections this year and the most recent election has shined a national light on the problems. … The Secretary of State has failed to deliver honest and transparent elections. He has failed the people of Georgia, and he should step down immediately.”
The two senators did not provide any evidence for the alleged failures, and their statement stood in stark contrast with the words of Georgia’s Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, one of the state’s top Republicans.
Edited From: “Sens Loeffler, Perdue Call On Georgia’s Top Election Official To Resign”
Today’s Washington Post
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There is something more than a little creepy about this development. Two Republican Senators are trying to make their Secretary of State the fall guy for a close election. Never mind that the latter is a fellow Republican. Never mind that no evidence of widespread fraud has surfaced. It’s just a baseless claim to buttress Trump’s narrative that Georgia’s vote counts are tainted. And the fact that ‘both’ senators are facing run-off elections makes their claims even more disturbing. One fears this could be the harbinger of a national power-play by Republicans.
Raffensperger should explain how he knows illegal votes were cast, and how he has determined their total number:
“Raffensperger said the process for reporting results in the state was orderly and followed the law. And he added that while he was “sure” there were illegal votes cast, it was “unlikely” that there [sic] total rose to the “numbers or margin necessary to change the outcome” of the election.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/09/loeffler-perdue-georgia-secretary-state-resign-435484
It looks like it would take about 1 illegal vote out of every otherwise legal 200 Democratic votes cast to cover the current margin in Georgia, or about 5 illegal votes out of every otherwise legal Democratic thousand.
Here’s what he wrote:
https://twitter.com/GaSecofState/status/1325917055611265024
I generally find it best to read the primary source, especially when words are quoted in isolation.
I can only guess what he based his statement on, but here’s my guess: he based it on historic data that there have been a small number of illegal votes in Georgia. For example, there were a small number of illegal votes in the 2020 primaries in GA: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/politics/georgia-official-claims-double-voting-in-primary/index.html
According to the American Immigration Council:
“Georgia has a sizeable immigrant community….400,000 undocumented immigrants comprised 36 percent of the immigrant population and 4 percent of the total state population in 2016.”
So it would take a turnout of 3-5% from this group to flip the state from Trump to Biden in 2020.
But Georgia appears to have measures in place for ruling out illegal votes from undocumented immigrants, and suppression of the legal black vote may be the bigger vote count bias.
Here’s a look back at Georgia in 2018:
“ATLANTA (AP) — The first debate between Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp in the race for Georgia governor was dominated by charges of voter suppression and counterclaims of encouraging illegal voting.”
https://apnews.com/article/501dbc93a83f4fe483981c9fd7e510de
“In an expansive prediction of how Democrats would sweep the country with a “blue wave,” Abrams said the following:”
The thing of it is, is that blue waves aren’t blue. . . . The blue wave is African-American. It’s white, it’s Latino, it’s Asian, Pacific Islander. It is disabled. It is differently abled. It is LGBTQ. It is law enforcement. It is veterans. It is made up of those who have been told they are not worthy of being here. It is comprised of those who are documented and undocumented. It is comprised of those who have been told they’re successful and those who have been left behind.
“Perhaps Abrams was just on automatic pilot, signaling her loyalty to identity politics and expressing solidarity with every possible segment of the electorate. There is nothing unusual about Democrats’ vowing to protect the “undocumented” (an inaccurate euphemism for illegal immigrants when some states give them driver’s licenses). But saying that a blue wave of Democrats will include “documented” and “undocumented” voters, as if those two categories were just two different ethnic groups with equal rights to the ballot, was astounding.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/stacey-abrams-undocumented-voters-blue-wave/
Reuters or AP?
Reuters: “WASHINGTON /- U.S. Attorney General William Barr authorized federal prosecutors on Monday to pursue investigations into “substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities,” while urging them not to chase “fanciful or far-fetched” claims. The letter to prosecutors, which was seen by Reuters, marked the first time Barr addressed President Donald Trump’s repeated and unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud since last week’s election won by Democrat Joe Biden. It came several hours after Barr met with Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who earlier on Monday said Trump was well within his rights to look into charges of “irregularities” in last week’s election.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-barr/u-s-attorney-general-authorizes-prosecutors-to-probe-substantial-allegations-of-vote-irregularities-idUSKBN27Q005
AP: “WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr has authorized federal prosecutors across the U.S. to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities, if they exist, before the 2020 presidential election is certified, despite no evidence of widespread fraud. Barr’s action comes days after Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump and raises the prospect that Trump will use the Justice Department to try to challenge the outcome. It gives prosecutors the ability to go around longstanding Justice Department policy that normally would prohibit such overt actions before the election is certified. Trump has not conceded the election and is instead claiming without evidence that there has been a widespread, multi-state conspiracy by Democrats to skew the vote tally in Biden’s favor.”
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-voting-fraud-and-irregularities-4eeb9e0c97301a23ae8d05b54c3144fd
Katie Benner (NYT): “NEW: Richard Pilger, the official who oversees election crimes has stepped down over Barr’s memo: ‘Having familiarized myself with the new policy and its ramifications… I must regretfully resign from my role as Director of the Election Crimes Branch.’ https://t.co/HS1rByXgSJ
“Pilger is staying at the Justice Department and will return work as a line prosecutor in the Public Integrity section prosecuting corruption cases.”
The full sentence is “Having familiarized myself with the new policy and its ramifications, and in accord with the best tradition of the John C. Keeney Award for Exceptional Integrity and Professionalism (my most cherished Departmental recognition), I must regretfully resign.”
A copy of Pilger’s letter:
https://twitter.com/vanitaguptaCR/status/1326001089997631488
Noah Bookbinder (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington): “Richard Pilger is a respected apolitical attorney who has been a federal corruption prosecutor for decades (including when I was one years ago). His resigning in protest makes clear to me that something very wrong indeed is happening here.”
Joyce White Vance (U of AL Law School, former US Attorney): “DOJ folks will appreciate the significance of Richard Pilgar’s resignation as head of election crimes – he invoked Mr. Keeney, whose integrity is legendary at DOJ & said, that Barr’s sea change in policy toward investigating election crimes compelled him to step down.”
Justin Levitt (Loyola Law School, former DOJ attorney): “I had the privilege to work with Richard at DOJ. There isn’t any higher level of integrity. This is his way of saying he doesn’t want any part of frivolous unfounded partisan investigations into nonsense. Just remember that when the investigation press releases come.”
Thanks for the link to Pilger’s letter, and the supporting documentation. Have you seen a full copy of AG Barr’s memo anywhere? November 2020 is unlike any other election of the last forty years.
Here’s a copy:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/barr-memo-elections-fraud/9bf5cac375012c4c/full.pdf
This election is only unlike others because Trump is a pathological liar and a malignant narcissist and all that accompanies those conditions (he cannot deal with losing, he installed an A.G. who acts like Trump’s personal lawyer instead of acting as the nation’s lawyer, etc.).
Four years ago today, Obama met with Trump in the White House:
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1326124611143151617
It was only 2 days after the election, the states hadn’t yet certified their results, and Trump was ahead by less than Biden’s lead today. Clinton had already conceded.
It will be a relief when Trump is out of the White House, but it will take a long time for us to recover from the damage he’s done to the country.
Thanks for the link. This is a good time for the Biden Transition Team to demonstrate that it wants a fair-minded AG at DOJ.
AG Barr is in a difficult position. I’ve read some critical articles about him but not enough on both sides to pass fair judgment. He did not prosecute Hunter Biden before the election. Steve Bannon, on the other hand, is going to trial for fraud in May.
GSA Administrator Emily Murphy is also in a very difficult position:
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/10/933214639/trump-appointee-delays-biden-transition-process-citing-need-for-clear-winner
While I don’t think the GSA Administrator should be in the business of calling an election, I do think the Biden Transition Team has a duty to get to work as if the results were certified. I don’t know how these two competing interests should be reconciled.
“A senior administration official said the agency did not approve the start of a formal transition process in 2000 for five weeks while Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore battled over an election that came down to just hundreds of votes in Florida.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-transition-biden/biden-camp-considers-legal-action-over-agencys-delay-in-recognizing-transition-idUSKBN27Q04I
When asked about State Department cooperation with the Biden Transition Team, Secretary of State Pompeo just said in his 1 PM news conference that the world “can count on a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.”
What a stunning remark!
The 11:24am comment was from me, CommitToHonestDiscussion.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4382875-clean-energy-vs-oil-gas-biggest-lie-of-2020
Democrat tricksters use stolen intelligence tools Hammer and Scorecard to rig vote
https://noqreport.com/2020/11/04/hammer-and-scorecard-lt-gen-mcinerney-explains-the-election-hack-by-democrats/
Saloth Sar
We will live on even if the corporate entity collapses
But when it does, the billionaires? OFF WITH THEIR HEADS
Saloth Sar
socialism? the only question is who will use the power of government, not what it is
we either use it on them, or they’re going to use it on us
-Saloth Sar
According to this source, DOD will have a logistics only role in COVID-19 vaccine distribution:
https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2393298/military-to-play-logistics-only-role-in-covid-19-vaccine-effort/
Senator Marsha Blackburn’s (R-TN) recent tweets may shrewdly anticipate a more direct role for the National Guard:
“Thanks to Operation Warp Speed established by @realDonaldTrump we will be able to mass produce 100M doses and distribute the COVID vaccine once it is approved.”
“The commitment to the well-being of Tennesseans by the @TennesseeGuard exceeds expectations once again. They have administered over 500,000 COVID-19 tests across the state, and will continue to provide free testing to any Tennessean who may need it. Thank you for your service!”
Anything untoward on Trump’s part should be unthinkable, even by Trump’s fiercest critics.
“This is the time to heal in America.” (Joe Biden, aka Caligula’s horse)
Apparently, “to heal” means “to purge.”
I think he meant “to heel”……the true do whistle.
sp……..well, he IS a blue heeler 😊
👍 sam
CB: Thank you.
The Blue Purge
Do not intemperates of the Democratic Party see they are no different than the Bolsheviks or the Brown Shirts of the past! Bless their truthfulness.
My husband was born in Atlanta, as was most of his family. A fitting mantra back then:
“Keep Georgia Beautiful. Put a yankee on a bus!”
A couple of points: First, Sherman’s army was practically unopposed during their march to Savannah. The bulk of Confederate forces had been withdrawn for the impending attack on Nashville (that’s another story) and the “enemies” Sherman’s men encountered were civilians. Sherman’s troops raided every smokehouse in the country and took all of the supplies from the farms and plantations they came across (which led to the deaths of thousands of Federal prisoners at Andersonville. Second, those who are in rush to cancel need to be aware that practically every high-powered automatic rifle that’s ever been produced is in the hands of their opponents. By the way, it’s my understanding that, except for Westchester, every New York City suburb went for Trump.
The enemies were civilians. They fed the Confederate army. The options were to either destroy their resistance with the canon or with the fire. “The night they burned old Dixie down”. The Confederate soilder may have been hungry but he wasn’t dead. The war would have lasted much longer with many more dead if Sherman had decided to crush the resistance with the canon. The result would have been even more ressentment from those greiving the loss of their sons. It would have made the reunification much more diffucult if not impossable. Sherman took the path of the lesser of two evils. His tactic ended the war in a march that lasted a month and a half.
Yes Thinkitthrough. Just war theory of Christianity says the just belligerent must discriminate between civilians and combattants. But Sherman, just like the Armed forces that fire bombed the Japanese and Germans killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in wwII, did not worry about Christian doctrine.
I mean isnt that why the Germans and Japanese were bad, because they harmed civilians? And yet the US obviously did too
So, power is the ultimate decider. Power which silences dissent with terminal force, can write any history it wants, however false or hypocritical.
In the end it is power that will keep us alive, or put us under. The billionaires are our enemy and they understand this and use power nakedly to make us all, the other 99.99%, even more politically impotent than we were before. We are fools if we do not name our enemy and we are fools if we do not organize against them.
Three percent of the American population are millionaires. But that is not impressive. A million aint quite what it used to be. It’s a value worth at least 90% less than it was a century ago.
How many billionaires? 705.
705/330,000,000 = .00000214
0.000214 % of the American population calls all the shots.
SOME DEMOCRACY! ITS A JOKE
KING GEORGE NEVER DREAMED OF THE POWER OUR BILLIONAIRES HAVE OVER US~!
–Saloth Sar
Keep up the exceptional commentary, but consider reassuring us you are not a code-talking Confederate flag worshipper. Thats no anything more than a crude ad hominem for those tha tlike to keep history intact
Resolution Of Support
Display Of Battle Flags Of The Confederacy
A resolution in support of the display of the Confederate Battle Flag.
WHEREAS, we the members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, condemn the use of
the confederate battle flag, as well as the flag of the United States, by any and all hate groups, and
WHEREAS, we the members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War support the flying of the confederate battle flag as a historical piece of this nation’s history, and
WHEREAS, we the members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War oppose the removal
of any Confederate monuments or markers to those gallant soldiers in the former Confederate
States, and strongly oppose the removal of ANY reminders of this nation’s bloodiest war on the grounds of it being “politically correct,” and
WHEREAS, we, as the descendants of Union soldiers and sailors who, as members of the Grand Army of the Republic, met in joint reunions with the confederate veterans under both flags in those bonds of Fraternal Friendship, pledge our support and admiration for those gallant soldiers and of their respective flags;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that we the members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War in 119th Annual National Encampment hereby adopt this resolution. Dated in Lansing, Michigan, on this nineteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord Two thousand.
By Order of:
Danny L. Wheeler
Commander-in-Chief
The vast majority of membership of both organizations are US Veterans. Many of us are members of b both organizations amusing referred as SOB’s sons of Both.
Helpful information, Fitzangus.
Two follow-ups:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Union_Veterans_of_the_Civil_War#Relationship_with_the_Sons_of_Confederate_Veterans
https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/new_jersey/for-this-son-of-both-confederate-and-union-soldiers-its-only-history-20170829.html
“They see a white male with a Confederate flag, and they lump you into a category — you’re a white supremacist,” Hann said. “A lot of the sons of the Confederate are outraged by what happened in Charlottesville. We hate Klansmen. We hate neo-Nazis. These idiots who wave the Confederate flag have no idea what it is about.”
But Loretta Winters, president of the Gloucester County branch of the NAACP, said the Confederate flag and groups associated it with are a painful reminder of slavery for African Americans.
“The Confederate flag, no matter what the group is, to the African American community, is the same as the swastika is to the Jewish community,” Winters said Monday. “I don’t understand the insensitivity to that era.”
Andrew Shankman, an associate history professor at Rutgers-Camden, said most of the country’s Confederate memorials began going up about 25 years after the Civil War “to terrify blacks and augment white power.”
“Everybody knew what the statues meant,” Shankman said.
“Confederate flag and groups associated it with are a painful reminder of slavery for African Americans”
Then ignore it.
Problem solved.
To do anything else is to do the opposite. I.E.- You bring lots of attention to the very thing that you claim is “painful”.
Which of course is what they really want. Because that then brings attention to their victimhood.
I am reserving all of my hate for the billionaire class
If you are busy hating on penniless kluckers or skinheads, then you are hating on the powerless poor. Send the hate where it will do us all some good, on the billionaire caste
–Saloth Sar
Hate the wealthy. Hate the Jew. Hate the black. Hate the white. Hate the despicable. Sounds like a winning formula you got there mister philosopher.
Hate is what they billionaires have for you and mem and all the Americans beneath them, hate and contempt.
But hate cuts two ways. Hate can make the weak, stronger. That’s why they tell us, do not hate! And they want to ban, “hate speech”
Hate is one of the few things that could unite and liberate us from the class-rule of 705 American billionaires who are far more wicked and powerful than King George ever was
Love for each other, means hate for them, for the true enemy, the billionaires
You can shine the lordship’s boots after I spit on them. Maybe they will give you some free software?
-Saloth Sar
Kurtz, you don’t GAF about the “powerless poor”. Here’s the latest from your cult leader:
“New White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is working with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to see how to reduce wage rates for foreign guest workers on American farms, in order to help U.S. farmers struggling during the coronavirus, according to U.S. officials and sources familiar with the plans.
Opponents of the plan argue it will hurt vulnerable workers and depress domestic wages.
The measure is the latest effort being pushed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help U.S farmers who say they are struggling amid disruptions in the agricultural supply chain compounded by the outbreak; the industry was already hurting because of President Trump’s tariff war with China….”
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/832076074/white-house-seeks-to-lower-farmworker-pay-to-help-agriculture-industry
ah, the foreign workers. yes, they are poor., Yes, they are exploited by agribusiness. Oh, the sad agribusiness interests, Trump hurt their sales.
So, are you sucking up to the Koch bros now? they’re foes of Trump too, every bit as much as Bloomberg. Billionaire scum!
I am channeling the ghost of Saloth Sar, and he was a Khmer nationalist. Victory here first, at home
Understand, there is a small space between you and me and those poor farm workers. But there is a massive gulf between us and the billionaires. They’re the evil ones, not you, not me, not the foreign farm workers.
The endless tirades against Trump, have always served our billionaire masters. They focused hate on him, to take it off themselves. Very clever, and you took the bait.
Oh, yes, Soros, another champion of the poor! That’s why he crushed nationalism in 10 different countries the past four decades, before he turned his ire on Trump and dumped hundreds of millions into Democratic party hands this year alone, To help the poor, I suppose?
If kurtz was actually concerned with the poor and knew anything about them – he’s a f…g lawyer- he’d know that low wages for anyone at the bottom, including farm workers, lowers them for others with minimum wage type jobs.
Go shop for tassled loafers you phony.
Before his game against Trump, before his color revolutions in Ukraine, Georgia, there were his nation wrecking games against Malaysia, Thailand, and Korea
Oh, he broke the British pound sterling, too!
Before then, Albania!
Im probably missing some. Soros is a global capitalist, enemy of all the peoples of the earth, enemy of every strong government, it does not matter to him if it is a so-called communist government or a so-called authoritarian one, or even a liberal democratic one. He is the enemy of anything and anyone that poses a danger to him and his billionaire class, anywhere
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-george-soros-broke-the-bank-of-thailand-2016-9
There’s a tool to use against Soros and his ilk. It’s HATE. That’s why the billionaires are making “hate speech” verboten on their social media platforms. It’s a danger, to them.
so here’s the simple formula, I m going to say it now before the whole internet is under lockdown
HATE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS– NEUTRALIZE THEM TO FREE AMERICA!
-Saloth Sar
I’m sure that they were encouraged by the Democratic’s Parties Klu Klux Klan. Plenty of blame to go around. The idea of treat your fellow man as you would treat yourself has changed the nation for the better. We should remember where this idea came from. It did not come from the innate goodness of mankind. The historic tendency has been for those in power to to render retribution on there political enemies. After all, they used the blood of children to make their Matza didn’t they? They used this tactic as an excuse to take the wealth of a people. “Look” these wealthy people are despicable so we can use their skin to make lampshades.
Their demons aren’t they? The problem is that the AOCs of the nation don’t connect their thinking to the lessons of history. Limiting the expressing of thought of your political enemies is just another form of retribution and control. Just another step down the path. Taking control of the press is part of the formula. This is not a hide your head in the sand moment.
Wake up. Politics means power. Holding political power in limbo, is exercising power. And that’s what they do.
Donald Trump offended them in one big way. he cancelled their trade rackets with China, or at least, limited them,.
For this audacity, he had to be punished, and replaced.
They rigged the vote to do it, just to make sure, in case the people dared vote for him again. Oh, MORE voted for him this time, but, not enough it seems
Because, “democracy” is inept and powerless before the billionaires who control it via mass media, social media, ngos, nfps, universities, and the endless swath of bureaucracies who serve their interests.
So when all other tools fail, look to the ones not yet used
Hate is one of the few tools left in the box that American people have not tried. Because of propaganda, because of conditioning,
because of our own fear of facing the falseness of our own cherished idols, perhaps?
Like he Christian churches. For centuries they had doctrines that held the rich in check, promoted justice inside “Christendom”
but what now? Craven moneygrubbers, one and all!
and also, we are reluctant to use the tool of hate, because we fear billionaires, we fear what they can do to us, and we want to avoid the lash
well, there’s one thing that can cancel out fear, and that’s hate. love for what is good? yes, and a natural person who loves the good, will hate the evil
the evils of our system, are complicated, and you can’t really hate a complicated system.
but one can hate 705 evil billionaires who rule us like so many mice. I hate them, and you should too.
The only exceptions I would make are Ross Perot, who is dead, and Trump, who is apparently, seemingly, finished as Potus. And they say he was no billionaire anyways
So who are the richest men?
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and a Frenchman
Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/there-are-now-a-record-five-centibillionaires-after-stock-surge
Forget the Frenchman, he’s irrelevant to our politics. And maybe give Musk a pass–for now– at least he makes useful things, like an industrialist of old.
Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg– hate them! Hate the three richest men, who rule us all and spy on our every move with their ubiquitous software like the eye of Sauron
Quit sucking up to these kings! Our “votes” are powerless against them. But hate can find a way!
That’s my “hate speech” of the day. Maybe I will have some gas left in the tank later.
–Saloth Sar
Kurtz, you ran out of gas on 11/3. Pretty obvious you’ve been sniffing glue ever since.
WHY IS TURLEY USING ‘SCORCHED EARTH’ AS A REFERENCE HERE??
From the column: “The last Yankee to promise a scorched earth campaign”.
I see no quotes in this column where any Democrat is promising a ‘scorched earth’ campaign. So ‘where’ is Turley getting that term in reference to Democratic hopes for Georgia? It’s like he just shoe-horned that term into the discussion.
Do Republicans think Georgia ‘belongs to them’, and Democrats have no right to make a play for this state?
The term ‘scorched earth’ more appropriately applies to Trump’s desperate attempt to litigate another Electoral-College-Only ‘victory’. As of this morning, Joe Biden leads the Popular Vote by 4.4 million. That’s roughly the population of an average size state. Yet we’re supposed to think Trump’s lawyers can somehow invalidate enough votes to make up for this deficit? ..Talk about ‘scorched earth’..!
With this column Turley reveals himself as the Trump defender we always knew he was.
You have an inordinate fear of the facts and the truth.
The 2020 discrepancies are numerous.
America must recount the legal votes of eligible, registered American citizens which were submitted before the polls closed, and reject the illegal votes.
Deleting and destroying registration and vote data is criminal destruction of records and evidence.
Recount? Some of these states like PA need a revote – just like the one Democrats demanded in 2018 in North Carolina. Only what went on in Pennsylvania is far, far worse that NC in 2018.
Turley just keeps it up. First, stop accusing media of make up polling numbers. They report the numbers provided by pollsters. Fox News did the same.
Secondly, how come the only politicians that Turley finds fault with are women, especially AOC? Trump and most Republicans constantly display her as the face of the Democratic party. She’s one congressional representative, from one district, and she is not the voice of the Democratic party, which is far more moderate than she is. Turley knows that. This is a Fox News talking point, which Republicans deployed, very successfully in some states and it needs to stop.
Third, Turley keeps complaining about intolerance for opposing views. When it comes to Trump, pointing out that he is constantly lying is not an “opposing view”, and neither is refusing to broadcast his ranting and raving. Why haven’t we “turned the corner” on COVID, instead of setting new daily records for infections? That’s just one example. How about making up nonexistent claims of fraud, stealing the identities of dead people, and all of the other baseless lies to avoid admitting that Biden/Harris won? Media rightfully point out how graciously other losing politicians conceded defeat, even in bitterly contested elections, if for no other reason, to be good role models of patriotic American behavior. Why is expecting this from Trump unreasonable? He lost by too many votes in too many states for there to be any chance that the election results will be overturned. He has the right to demand recounts and to complain if there were irregularities, but realistically, the American people have spoken. He was predicted to lose and never got a 50% approval rating, so it would be highly questionable if he won. Instead of encouraging him to fight on, without any weapons, the Republican Party needs to tell him to get on his big boy pants and act presidential for a change.
“Happiness is a Thing Called Joe”–sung by Ethel Waters, from the film “Cabin in the Sky”.
Buttercup…..you ever remember the time when the Media (Journalists, Reporters, the Press…..) investigated stories, researched data, and even asked hard, penetrating, challenging questions of both Political Parties and Elected Officials?
Turley is a Man of Principle….just because you disagree with his views and opinions does not make you “right” or in any way an expert except in your own mind.
I shall stick with Turley.
Ralph is also known as Rhodes, Estovir, James, Em, Princess Trohar, MoFo, Thinkthrough and many, many others.
Anonymous is known as Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, and many other ChiCom trolls.
Peter Shill / Svelaz / Enoch Poor / Princess Leia / Legally Blonde / Anonymous multi-color et al, is likely a Knight of Ni who lost his way from “Monty Python & the Holy Grail” comedy film, landed in West Hollywood and cant seem to find his/her/shim way back to King Arthur’s court. Peter seems to believe in the power of yelling “Ni” to terrify opposing comments.
“investigated stories”? What stories? There is no proof of any of the pathetic claims by Trump, who predicted cheating because he was losing in the polls. A federal judge demanded proof that dead people had voted. He asked for names, and Trump’s lawyers had no names, which is why the lawsuit was dismissed.
This was the most keenly monitored election in US history. Trump was predicted to lose, so he demanded poll watchers and began accusing Democrats of cheating before voting even began. There were both Democrats and Republicans at all polling locations for in-person voting, and where mail ballots were received. No one had any realistic opportunity to destroy or add ballots. And, why is it that Trump only complains about “voting irregularities” in states he lost? How about states where he won?
It stinks and it’s becoming sadder by the day. Encouraging Trump’s fantasy of being cheated is beneath someone of Turley’s education and status. Trump has been the most-unpopular POTUS in US history, never capturing even a 50% approval rating. He was predicted to lose, and he did. It would indeed be something to investigate if he hadn’t lost.
“but realistically, the American people have spoken”
Natacha, you should start looking for a new country to live in.
Trump’s current behavior only increase the Democrats chances in GA.
It’s another indication in case we needed one that the intramural culture of the Democratic Party is so degenerate they’re determined to make themselves impossible to live with. Street-level Democrats are on a spectrum – some are on board with this attitude and some are just feckless. This will not end well.
Poor tRump humper snowflake – Moscow Mitch has been packing the courts for 6 years and tRump’s standard position has been scorched earth – wake up JT and look around – – and also what about the RNC and allies election fraud?? The long voting lines in Democratic areas, voter purges for voting while black, and the list of dirty tricks goes on – the RNC in a conference call a few days ago asking people to lie about voting problems – – so why no coverage of those problems JT? guess you are just a tRump humper – what a waste of a fine education
Wow. You packed a lot of history into this post, Mr. Turley. It’s another brilliant analogy, one I interpret as a caution from Union forces to Union forces, though some may misconstrue it as a racist dog whistle. Keep up the exceptional commentary, but consider reassuring us you are not a code-talking Confederate flag worshipper.
“There needs to be some recognition and tolerance for historical images and particularly academic work. What do you think?”
https://jonathanturley.org/2015/07/20/this-flag-never-goes-down-amazon-takes-down-historical-book-on-confederate-flag-due-to-confederate-flag-on-cover/
Yes to historical and academic work, no to racist code-talking.
“I will immediately embrace everything from Biden’s consideration of unprecedented court packing to Elizabeth Warren’s call for unconstitutional wealth taxes as really good ideas.”
I hope Biden asks you to sit on his Court Reform commission, so that you can make a Constitutional case for gradual expansion without term limits, if that is still your view.
On the other hand, I hope you are wrong about the Constitutionality of EW’s wealth tax, but someone has to argue the case and do it well. As you write:
“…there are good-faith arguments on both sides of this issue and the outcome is likely to be a close vote.”
https://jonathanturley.org/2019/02/20/reductio-ad-absurdum-a-response-to-professor-bruce-ackerman/