Bill Lee makes me wish that Ray Blanton was still governor.
He’s that bad.
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I’ve been reading the slave narratives from the '30s, when there was a project to take oral histories from former slaves. They’re interesting. They run the gamut from people on plantations where beatings were common and relatives often sold away to slaves who were completely enmeshed in their enslaver’s families and lives. Some who found that life under slavery was better than emancipation because of the widespread exploitation and cheating of illiterate black people after emancipation.
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Speaking of extremist nutjobs…
(Never mind how stupid his premise is…)
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I’m just imagining the right-wing nutbars responding to this. Although it might be worth it for the public shaming. Call for a summit of conservative christian leaders to address the issue of how so many of their followers unfortunately get enmeshed in violent gangs, and ask them to suggest things that could be done to help…
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What the hell is Nicole Lafond on about? Crime pays?
During the two and a half weeks following the Jan. 6 attack, Hawley raised $600,000, according to a person familiar with the totals who spoke to Politico. For comparison’s sake, Hawley last year raised only $43,000 in the first quarter of the election cycle. Compared to $3 million in the same span of time, it’s a substantial uptick for the senator, who’s not up for reelection until 2024.
Fascism is a sickness. It is unfortunate that we have Fascists, even if they are swaddled in Evangelical and Americanist language, in our government. At no time in the past century did fascist movements bring better governance, or even systemic performance, e.g. Mussolini making trains run on time. Modern examples like Erdogan, Orban or Duterte oversee massive governance failures. Hopefully, Missouri can correct its mistake. Here, for example is the view of people who like to walk around in mountain meadows.
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If anything it’s a threat to both.
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I think what you’re suggesting is “put your local terrorist to work.” Probably a good idea. Not the only one.
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Well, it probably would not go over so well if you called it that.
The Supreme Court has embraced “originalism.” Meaning you come up with a novel interpretation and ascribe it to the founding fathers, who being dead are not in a position to contradict you.
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I think we will find that domestic terrorism has its counterpart in right-wing-inspired assassinations of presidents as well. The urge to blame a “lone nut” is one aspect of it.
Pardon me…
I have to agree, he was just low level corruption.
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@castor_troy I am sure the individual soldiers had their muskets, but none of them owned canons, which were probably owned by the states. I personally think that emphasis needs to be placed on “arms”, the word chosen which bends the meaning of ALL the other terms. I for one made a living as a chemist. According to some people, I am entitled to “bear arms” which could be a nerve gas to handle pesky “other” people, or some really big bang explosives. What I am getting down to is “Of course not!”, which then opens the question as to why. Why can you have an assault rifle when I can’t do as I please?
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Well, sure, but at least by backing down Obama was able to show a proper spirit of bipartisanship, and the Republicans reciprocated by…wait…it’ll come to me…
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I totally agree with Jon Stewart’s assessment of Carlson when he was interviewed by him and James Carville many years ago.
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Yeah, pretty sure Operation Mayhem (Fight Club) stopped being a viable plan in the early 1990s.
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Because the “Nerve gas and nuclear weapons for home defense and sporting” lobby isn’t nearly as well funded as the gun lobby?
Well, yeah, certainly the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building by Tim McVeigh was a huge example. But that didn’t get approval from mainstream Republicans (although there were plenty of nutcases on the fringe who constructed “false flag” fantasies). I’m just saying that the current cycle of Republican elected officials basically running interference for right-wing terrorists got its start when Obama was elected.
That was in the wake of the 2008 crash, the beginnings of the Tea Party, and the effort to depict Obama as not a legitimate president. All the ingredients were there.
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Had the Founders made an amendment that you have a right to carry nerve gas, would be different there as well.
I prefer to emphasize the word “bear”. My understanding of the usage in those times and before was that bearing arms was not about ownership, but rather about being armed as part of a force that had been raised for whatever purpose. So it was about who would be allowed to participate in the militia and making sure the federal government couldn’t interfere in that. But I’d have to have NRA-style money and decades of time to make that doctrine.
Biden is fighting rightwing extremism?