Pennsylvania state and socialist Chris Rabb, the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District, has joined the growing chorus of Democrats denouncing the founding documents and core institutions in the country on our 250th anniversary. The Democratic socialist is running unopposed for Congress and will almost certainly be a member of Congress after November.
Rabb spoke at an event billed as “America at 250 — Trump Fascism, Historical Erasure, and the Battle Over Truth” at People’s Plaza on Independence Mall in Philadelphia.
He denounced the country as based on “stolen land and stolen labor.” He lashed out at the Declaration of Independence:
“Those screeds that were very lofty but were notoriously catering to a performative aspect of collective genius that purposely erased indigenous and black peoples…It created distance from an empire to help very privileged people continue that privilege and ultimately institutionalize that through the U.S. Constitution many years later. But it certainly did not provide independence to indigenous and black peoples. And we cannot talk about anything today without acknowledging that this is a nation born on stolen land & stolen labor.”
It is entirely appropriate to raise the inherent conflict in the words of the Declaration and the continuation of slavery. In Rage and the Republic, I discuss the inherent hypocrisy of our Declaration in declaring natural rights without denouncing the enslaving of so many in the country:
“The Founders understood that inescapable truth of natural law when they signed a Declaration that ‘all men are created equal.’ Despite this defining line, even some who opposed slavery saw little hope for a revolution that would seek to overthrow both the monarchy and slavery. Jefferson would have to make the concession in striking critical language from his draft. While Jefferson’s legacy would be forever stained by his own maintenance of slaves, he did attempt to condemn the institution of slavery. He was rebuffed by his fellow delegates who were willing to acknowledge the existence of a natural law while ignoring its implications for the enslaved people in the new nation.”
Rabb goes further than raising the inherent conflict with slavery and suggests that our system is inherently fascistic and not worthy of celebration for the ideals that it articulated for a new nation.
He ignores how the Declaration laid the foundation for a more perfect union. Ours was the first major Enlightenment Revolution based on the belief that our rights came not from the government but from God. It embraced the principles that would ultimately prevail in ending this shameful stain on our nation.
“Fascism is not new. These systems of harm are built into the very fabric of this nation,..You cannot kill the beast until you name it. And that is difficult for many people who want to embrace certain tropes, certain narratives, whether it’s the American dream or American exceptionalism or the Protestant work ethic or so many other myths that do us no — they are a disservice.”
Rabb is not the first figure on the far left to denounce the “American dream” and “the Protestant work ethic” as harmful “myths.”
He pledged that he would be “one of the few unapologetic reparationists going to Congress,” joining a growing number of Democrats demanding billions in reparations for black Americans.
Many on the left are using the anniversary to condemn our founding principles or to decline to celebrate our Independence Day. This includes such demonstrations in states such as Massachusetts, which declined to join the celebration on the Mall for the 250th anniversary.
Recently, we discussed how a Massachusetts church ended the long-standing celebration of the Fourth of July to focus on the “on-going process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness.”
John Adams once wrote his wife Abigail to predict that Independence Day would be:
“celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the Day of Deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever more.”
Adams was virulently opposed to slavery as were many of the Founders. Many openly discussed their hope that the new nation would address slavery after it succeeded in establishing its independence. Those lofty values were ultimately realized at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives in the Civil War.
The claim that fascism is a system “built into the very fabric of this nation” is absurd and demagogic. This nation defeated fascism and remains the oldest and most successful republic in history. Indeed, the left is claiming to be fighting fascism while seeking to take over the Supreme Court in a court-packing scheme while limiting such core human rights as free speech.
In “killing the beast,” the far left is threatening to unleash the very forces that destroyed the contemporary revolution in France at the time of our founding. These voices are not new. They have been part of this republic — and other republics — throughout history. They are the voices of mobocracy that we rejected 250 years ago. That is precisely why Benjamin Franklin was right that this is, and will remain, our Republic to keep.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
Thanks be to God, for the insurrectionist party (at long last) admitting who they really are.
Just as a reminder,
It is a typical pattern by the annonys.
Usually in the morning, there is the insulting annony, calling everyone’s comments stupid, boomer, go take a nap, or the like.
Then there is the TDS annony who says something BS about Trump and then responds to itself in rapid fire agreeing with itself.
Then there is the health deflection annony who makes wild claims about Trump’s health with no evidence and has been wrong about that how many times?
Then there is the annony who claims all other annonys are Estovir. I am guessing somewhere in the past Estovir must of really owned that annony, not that it would be hard.
Then there is this strawman annony. It appears my comment to you to ignore it really got under its skin.
How marvelous!
Of course there is the annony who sounds a lot like X/Gigi/Esquire/etc. with really poorly rewritten AI responses.
Thanks for the reminder of Trump’s poor health, particularly mental health. Taking the cognitive baseline test over and over and over is a very bad sign. Imagine if after a colonoscopy the doctors said, you need to have another one in three weeks. They don’t do that if the first test is perfect.
Thanks for reminding us how many times you have made that claim with no evidence and have been wrong all this time!
How marvelous!
Upstate. Thanks for reminding us that you are a fool.
Thanks for reminding America about your mental health issues , especially your almost total lack of cognitive ability.
Too bad you totally missed the complete lack of awareness in Joey Bid-on-me or the inability of Braaaack OZERO to realize there are other people on planet earth
President Trump is in damned good health , both Physical and Mental . Your Psychiatrist gave you good advice to not mention your name or which mental
institution you live in.
You have a serious mental issue. You think you run this blog. For someone with a low IQ as you, we’re amazed at the low brow, stupid and ignorant comments you dump here.
What is worth noting is that you are a pathological liar, telling people you’re a professional, lawyer, a college prof, a farmer. Which is it then? There is nothing in your comments that reflect any degree of smarts or intelligence, rather the ranting of an old man with no friends and family, wasting 12… 15 hours a day here, 7 days a week.
You’re time on earth is over, you are waste to society.
I’ll second that comment. Upstatefarmer, you add nothing to the comments here.
Oh! No! Poor! Poor, annony! Ever so butt-hurt that I correctly analyzed it! So much so has to make up lies about me!
How marvelous!
I know I I do not run the good professor’s blog. He does. And so does Darren. Anyone with a IQ above 70 knows that.
That is where you fail.
I have never said I was a professional. I said behaved in a professional manner.
That is where you fail.
I have never said I was a lawyer.
That is where you fail.
I have never said I was a college professor.
That is where you fail.
But I get thanks from respectable people here on the good professor’s blog, like OldManFromKS, HullBobby, Lin, James, TiT, Estovir, and many more.
You on the other hand, being an annony, not so much.
Aaahhh! But I have contributed much more to society than you have. Still dependent on your parents for nearly everything as a failure to launch. How sad.
Have a happy 4th of July!
🙂
Anon’s are really really deep in your head. Take a long long break dude.
Deep?
No.
You are so simplistic, so transparent, so childish, it is so obvious as the sky is blue, the grass is green and water is wet.
🙂
Simplistic? I think anon made it so that you can comprehend it.
He’s deep… really deep … so f-ing deep you are too stupid to recognize it.
Reads like you have an ego issue. Time to take a break.
So anons are living rent free in your head. That’s what you’re saying right? Seriously, you need to get off this website and get help.
Man, STFU!
Look at the annony! Having a melt down for me, correctly calling it out!
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Look at the upstatefarmer! Having a melt down for me, correctly calling it out!
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
You just supplied the proof with that response upstate. Just another meltdonw on Turley’s blog.
Timmy strikes again….
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DEPRAVED: Tim Walz just pardoned a child sex abuser who was set to be deported per The New York Times:
“A three-person Minnesota panel including Gov. Tim Walz granted a pardon to an immigrant convicted of sexually abusing a child, drawing accusations that he and other Democrats are impeding federal efforts to expel dangerous foreign criminals eligible for deportation.
The Minnesota Board of Pardons granted the reprieve on June 10 to Tou Lue Vang, 42, who came to the United States as a child and was set to be deported to Laos imminently. Mr. Vang had submitted a letter to the board expressing regret for the actions that led to his 2005 conviction, and said a pardon could help him stay in the country with his wife and six children.
Nice family values you’ve got Tim (dem-o-rat)
Dustoff strikes again. Got any original content stupid?
DustOff,
Yep. Leave it to the leftists to defend a child sex abuser.
This is the same guy who ignored all the fraud ongoing in his state. IIRC, he also threatened or ignore whistleblowers too.
Do you two clowns have anything original to say, except kiss each other’s parhelic asses?
Vang submitted a letter to the state’s Clemency Review Commission expressing regret for his actions and noting that a pardon would allow him to remain in the country with his wife and six children.
His victim, now an adult, also wrote in support of the pardon.
He had served his sentence. Had he been a US Citizen he would be allowed to remain in the US, free.
I guess the Republicans like their sexual predators to be home grown. They elected one for President after all. It seems like he’s also a faithful husband, not getting divorced, something the Republican supported President was unable to accomplish.
The Republicans also seem to look at every situation and ask “How can we make ever more people suffer?”
Trump Hijacked 250
Some donors who intended to give money to a bipartisan effort to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary were, instead, steered to a White House-backed initiative under false pretenses, House Democrats allege in a report released Thursday morning, citing whistleblower interviews and newly obtained documents.
The donors meant to give money to America250, a congressionally chartered initiative to celebrate the nation’s semiquincentennial, according to Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee. They instead were given routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250, which President Donald Trump established last year to organize anniversary events, the report says.
The report does not identify the donors. In interviews, Democrats said they needed to protect the identity of whistleblowers who worked with the panel. But they said their report — which includes other allegations of Freedom 250 officials and allies explicitly steering money away from America250 and toward projects shaped by Trump — shows how the president transformed a bipartisan celebration of the nation’s anniversary into an initiative that benefited him and his allies.
https://wapo.st/4fe4Whs
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One has to read this article twice to clearly distinguish between America250 and Freedom250. And that’s the exact confusion Trump has taken advantage of. Even corporate executives became confused and unwittingly donated to Trump’s Freedom250.
The WA compost.
Freedom250 Rules, America250 drools.
Had some real work to do today. Arranging repairs to be done on my house, doing others myself with my wife of 50 years. Collecting old machinery, cleaning out the barn of now inert and no longer functioning machines, and taking the metal in for recycling so it may be rebirthed into something new and useful. Cleaning out the toxic cleaners we often accumulate in day to day work and hauling them off to certified disposals. All in all a useful day. Sure was more fruitful than reading a lot of the moronic statements from the pseudo-progressives that cluster here befouling Professors Turley’s enlightened teaching.
Looking forward to a beautiful (but hot) 4th of July with brats, beer, beans and corn on the cob. Happy July 4th.
A happy 4th to you also GEB 🎊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🎆🎇🧨🎉🎈🎉🎁💥🍾🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Same to you GEB
Happy INDEPENDANCE day!
Celebrating the best complaint letter ever and the Original No Kings movement.
When King Charles addressed the joint session of congress. All the no kings dims stood up and gave him a standing ovation. Oh yah right, no kings.
No Kings over America, not no kings anywhere. Besides, King Charles is not the ruler of the UK, of Great Britain, or of England. The British monarchy ceded power to the people of Britain and remained an independent voice whose position depends on the success of their nation.
INDEPENDENCE.
Seriously, who gives a fig about your pathetic existence. You are an anon geriatric, as are the others idiots here, thinking you’re friends. You do not know any one here, they’re all a bunch of lying frauds. Like yourself. Is this really the life you sought? Too late now.
OT
“…and subject to the [unqualified full] jurisdiciton thereof….”
Under a strict, literal reading of the text that defines “jurisdiction” as requiring full, undivided political allegiance, this conclusion follows a direct logical path.
This breaks down into the following key points:
Dual Jurisdiction Conflict: Because undocumented immigrants retain the citizenship of their home countries, they remain legally tied to those foreign sovereigns. Under a definition of jurisdiction that requires exclusive or complete allegiance, they cannot be fully subject to the United States.
The Status of the Fetus: Since a fetus exists within the pregnant individual, its legal status and allegiance are viewed as identical to that of the parent. Therefore, the fetus is also subject to the jurisdiction of the country of origin, not the United States.
Territorial vs. Political Jurisdiction: This separates mere physical presence (being subject to local police power and territorial laws) from the constitutional requirement of the Fourteenth Amendment, which demands full political subjection. Because territorial presence is partial, it fails the unqualified text of the clause.
The Fourteenth Amendment was never intended to grant citizenship to the children of foreign nationals unlawfully present in the country.
An oxymoron is a word or phrase that includes contradictory parts, e.g. “dry water”. The most important oxymoron of our day is “Democratic Socialist”. Socialism means government control of the entire economy and the ability of the rulers to wield that economic power over the governed throughout their lives. Democracy means the “rule of the governed.” If the rulers govern our lives in duration or in quality, we will not be a fit electorate to challenge them, and, if we occasionally show some resistance, the rulers will manipulate democratic institutions to prevent a successful challenge. Any enduring democracy is a middle-class democracy. If the middle class is destroyed, as is happening, there will be nothing left but rich rulers and poor citizens.
The most important oxymoron(ic) person of our day is edwardmahl.
NOPE, that would be you fool.
edwardmahl,
Notice how some of those crying for socialism are also wealthy?
Bernie Sanders
Mamdani
Walz
Ilhan Omar
Hasan Piker
And then there is the even more appropriate oxymoron: liberal intelligentsia.
OT, Tim Walz just pardoned a convicted child rapist so he won’t be deported.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/dhs-attacks-minnesota-gov-tim-walz-over-criminal-sexual-conduct-pardon/
OldManFromKS,
That is some really sick stuff.
As a Native American, ie born in the USA, I look forward to reparations giving me back the land that is rightfully mine by birthright. Would prefer Rodeo Drive in LA, Wall Street in New York, or Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC.
Fabious is Estovir with a false flag post to scare us with regards to the ‘communist menace’. We’re supposed to think, “Thank God Trump is in the White House to hold back this menace”.
^ The moron who thinks everyone else is named Estovir ^
The only moron here is you. Who thinks everyone is Estovir
Indians are native to Asia; America didn’t exist until 1789, and Americans were deathly enemies of Indians, whom they hated viscerally. Indians had no surveys, no real property, no bills of sale, no deeds, no recorder’s office, no court for litigation, no legislature, no nothing. Not to worry, Americans gave them reservations, the acceptance of which constituted conclusive legal resolution. Next case!
*. Someone please post B.B. King’s, The Thrill is Gone.
Would love to know what it will take for sane people to stop voting blue altogether when this is literally their messaging now. Are they cowards? Brainwashed? False hope? What is it?
If Republicans had sane candidates, then they would be the sane alternative. But with a convicted felon in the White House, who’s completely untethered from reality, Republicans can’t possibly be a sane alternative. What’s more this blog has a creepy Trumper who keeps posting under endless names. And that gives this blog an insane kind of feel.
MY NAME IS : Greg Hernandez , And I say to the World , YOU are the insane example of the ignorance , stupidity and FILTH of todays leftists FREAKS of the demonrat party .
It was the crooked demorats who put a decrepit freak MILLIONAIRE who NEVER had a job outside of the Gubmint into the White House. Donald Trump and his father were HONEST builders who built some of the finest and reasonably priced homes in NY City. You call Trump untethered from reality but Joey Bid-on-me can’t even find his way off a stage. What gives this blog an insane kind of feel is the ignorant comments you come up with. Go climb back in mommy’s closet and leave the posting to real adults . Good night baby…..
Greg is Estovir. Today he’s just winging it with any dumb thought that comes to him while drinking cheap beer. Hopefully, he’ll be passing-out pretty soon.
^ The imbecile who thinks everyone else is named Estovir ^
Sorry . I guess you remain anonymous because your shrink doesn’t want you making a complete fool of yourself. FYI , I have been sober 28 years , off pot 29 years and off tobacco , 13 years. you have been off THINKING M your whole life…..
Anonymous,
The comments on this blog never cease to amaze me. Sometimes all I can do is SMH.
The only insane feeling comes from the trash you post.
Hush, Estovir
^ The dunce who thinks everyone else is named Estovir ^
Bill Clinton you fool
Oyster Fuhrer is that you?
I’ll tell you who’s untethered from reality, you! Trump is in your head 24/7 rent free and you just can’t take it anymore and it MAKES you post here. That’s right, your compulsion to post here is 100% TDS driven. It’s like scratching poison ivy, it feels so good, but you can’t stop even though you know it’s destroying you. Trump isn’t perfect, that’s how we know we can trust him; he’s a human like the rest of us, not a TDS husk. Please do not judge ‘sane’ as you are just not qualified despite what your manifesto says. Anono v. Anono
“Would love to know what it will take for sane people to stop voting blue altogether”
Universal health care would be a start. Tying pay to productivity would help. Making stock price manipulation via buy-backs, like it used to be, would also help.
Universal health care
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Yeah great idea. Just look at the UK or Canada. Get a grip.
“Tying pay to productivity “, “Life’s unfair!”
sounds like somebody’s in a dead end job and has no one to blame but themselves…
and wants others to pay to fix his boo-boo’s. tsk-tsk, and in the land of opportunity no less.
We’ve known after the world trade center went down that capitalism was going down the drain. Then along came the steed of Islam Barack Hussain Obama to transform capitalism into communism, James.
It went down with a big nothing, not even a whimper.
Have a good day comrade.
It’s happening. All the attention now is on the most sensational and insane but truly, how many rational people do you know?
No one I know is this nuts and is just the opposite; quite patriotic, just not everyone’s political.
The more crazy the dems messaging gets, the more they lose the well-brained, the more desperate they become, the crazier it gets as they attempt to woo every single identity except one. They are down to hoping there’s enough at the far left of the spectrum to fill the void as their old-school voters head out the moderate door.
Fun fact: George Washington had termites in his dentures.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71fupCmTbCL._AC_SX569_.jpg
OT
“I wonder: Is a child born here to parents who have long chosen to make this Nation their permanent home not a citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment solely because his parents’ presence violates statutory law?”
– Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch
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This is a Supreme Court Justice who possesses no concept of international boundaries, law, logic, or patriotism.
Illegal aliens have no constitutional, or otherwise, option to “choose” or to violate the law by illegally crossing the international border. Illegal aliens do not have the power to confer U.S. citizenship on the fetuses in their wombs. Illegal aliens and their fetuses are not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”; they are international criminals who are subject to the jurisdiction of their countries of origin. “Jurisdiction” in the 14th Amendment is unqualified and requires, therefore, full and complete jurisdiction. Territorial jurisdiction applies to illegal aliens for immediate law enforcement.
I wonder: Is a child born here to parents who have long chosen to make this Nation their permanent home without making any effort to become citizens not a citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment solely because his parents’ presence violates statutory law because, you know, they never became citizens?
Fixed it for ya, Neil.
You guys remind me of that episode of All in the Family where Archie Bunker met Sammy Davis Junior.
That was hilarious.
“Cream and sugar in your eye?”
That’s the line I remember the best.
In another episode, Archie asks Edith, “Do you believe in capital punishment.”
Edith responds, “As long as it ain’t too severe.”
If you ignore me, then you will be ignorant. You don’t want to be ignorant, do you?
Was it unconstitutional to have a black president?
The Founders duly legislated who could pursue citizenship in their country.
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, 1802
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof….
If that black president failed to meet the statutory requirements for citizenship, yes. It appears to me that Obama most likely failed to meet those requirements.
Obie is half-white.
He was only half black, which is to say, equally white as black.
If you’re half right, you’re half wrong; if you’re half wrong, you’re all wrong.
You seem dismayed that someone whose politics you dislike might become a member of Congress, in accordance to the Constitution.
Here, you seem to have missed this part:
“The claim that fascism is a system “built into the very fabric of this nation” is absurd and demagogic. This nation defeated fascism and remains the oldest and most successful republic in history. Indeed, the left is claiming to be fighting fascism while seeking to take over the Supreme Court in a court-packing scheme while limiting such core human rights as free speech.”
I do not at all believe that fascism is built into our “national fabric” or legacy. However, your argument seems to assume that one fascist nation would be incapable of ever going to war against another fascist nation. If so, that assumption is absurd in itself.
Americans were so free that they could have JFK’s military stormtroopers force integration at colleges of free people in Mississippi and Alabama, communist courts order “forced busing” in public union-dominated schools, government-imposed unfair “fair housing” laws and restrictions on the freedom to choose, distinguish, differentiate, and discriminate through dictatorial “non-discrimination” laws.
The Declaration of Independence is the greatest complaint letter of all time.
The one about poor quality copper is better. Short, to the point, and still stands thousands of years later.
There’s something about a man wearing Red Frame Eye Glasses that just makes them hard to distinguish from one another.
Christopher M. Rabb – Pennsylvania House District 200
Photo: https://www.palegis.us/resources/images/members/300/1760.jpg
and This Guy
This is meant to be a blog about rights and freedoms, is it not?
This blog says what it’s about. Look at the list of subjects at the top:
Constitutional Law
Criminal law
Bizarre
Academia
Politics
Media
Free Speech
Science
Torts
Does Constitutional Law involve the Constitution?
Does the Constitution involve rights and freedoms?
OldManFromKS,
Ignore the annony. It is just making strawman comments when it knows full well no one said anything about denying anyone rights or freedoms.
Got it. Anony’s follow-up smacks of sea-lioning.
It is a typical pattern by the annonys.
Usually in the morning, there is the insulting annony, calling everyone’s comments stupid, boomer, go take a nap, or the like.
Then there is the TDS annony who says something BS about Trump and then responds to itself in rapid fire agreeing with itself.
Then there is the health deflection annony who makes wild claims about Trump’s health with no evidence and has been wrong about that how many times?
Then there is the annony who claims all other annonys are Estovir. I am guessing somewhere in the past Estovir must of really owned that annony, not that it would be hard.
Then there is this strawman annony. It appears my comment to you to ignore it really got under its skin.
How marvelous!
Of course there is the annony who sounds a lot like X/Gigi/Esquire/etc. with really poorly rewritten AI responses.
Yeah, liberal trolls goal is to ruin the site and drive people away from the truth. They lie all the time calling Turely Trump’s puppet even though Turely is a Democrat. He is just an unusual Democrat as understands and respects the Constitution. The liberal trolls hate Turely for that fact. Yet because Turely believes in the Constitution and Bill of Rights he lets the trolls spread their hate against him on his own site.
Liberals are like mold, they ruin everything. Mr. Turely expresses the tolerance liberals talk about but will never have. The liberal is the most intolerant person on Earth.
The only time one should respond to the annony, is to point it out how wrong it is or to ridicule it.
Get a grip.
The 4th is coming and some folks are enjoying the day ahead.
It’s a blog about nothing. There are no rights and freedoms.
So why are you here?