“Civil War”? I call it The War of Southern Traitors.
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Perfectly Goebbels-esque. Orwell also is impressed.
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So the senator would reopen Andersonville?
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Signs of a party that knows its days are numbered.
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“These insurrectionists in the streets of Portland . . "
I’m going to stop you right there, Tommy Boy. They are exercising their 1st amendment rights of free speech and assembly for the purpose of redress of their grievances. They haven’t taken over a fortress or started shelling anyone. And they’re not trying to subjugate (and financially exploit, don’t forget the ever-present money angle with these folks) an entire group of people because of the color of their skin. So put a sock in it.
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Orwell wept.
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A bit OT: saw a lawn sign yesterday - “Make Orwell Fiction Again”
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Maybe he’s thinking of John Brown at Harpers Ferry? Who knows what the constitutionally-challenged jackboot is “thinking”…
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So I may not be up to date on what cities are still experiencing looting but with regards to Chicago it’s the same old shootings that they’ve had before Trump, during Trump, and please God let it finally end.
The same senseless shootings are happening here in St. Louis City. When the City and the County went into lock down/stay at home the shootings stopped/declined. Once the order was lifting they went back to trying to shoot at each other and killing injuring bystanders. And this is just now being noticed by DHS and DoJ?
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Noooooo. I’m actually respecting Liz Cheney.
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Oh, c’mon. That’s a terrible thing to say about trolls.
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Given the FB discussion between childhood friends from Mississippi I recently witnessed, I think this whole “Northern aggression” business is much more alive and well than anyone thinks. One old friend was defending the Mississippi flag – because the Union was mean about Vicksburg.
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Election year.
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He is using the wrong historical precedent…really, the federal “officers” in Portland are the Redcoats, and the protestors are the people upset by a government that doesn’t represent them anymore.
It is as simple as that, an authoritarian government trying to enforce its will onto a population through means that violate the rights of the people. The Declaration of Independence was written because the British government started doing things like we are seeing from the Trump administration. And, shutting down protests through violence is just another page that dictators use to gain power.
It’s also hilarious because out of one side of his mouth Cotton is attacking protestors as if they were part of the Confederacy, and out of the other he lionizes Confederate monuments and flags. He probably doesn’t even realize how intellectually dishonest that is, he’s just trying to portray the protestors as “socialist revolutionaries” or some such…the picture of moms in line in front of the Trump enforcers just shows how stupid that is.
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So those detention camps at the border were only prototypes?
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To be fair, they are no different. Except in every conceivable way. But other than that, no different.
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Except that they don’t want to secede from the Union and they don’t support slavery. Other than that… there is no other than that.
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I get election year, but outside of Portland are protests still going on against federal buildings in other states?
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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.
So…they’re very fine people who are standing up for their rights and heritage against an oppressive federal government, and we should put up statues of their worst leaders?
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He would have to have an intellect to realize he is intellectually dishonest.
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