Welcome Back to Pottersville: July 2021

Saturday, July 31, 2021

Pottersville Digest

You go, ladies.

With eye-popping graphics that come screaming right out of the early 90s, right wing rioter creates a video game where Trump shoots his imagined enemies.

I had a feeling the woman who'd bagged him was a fellow liberal. You go, girl!

Trump's putting his money where his big mouth is... because his big mouth isn't doing it, anymore.

Minnesota Man pulls full-blown nutty because Fox won't air his conspiracy theory ads.

A smart article by Susan Glassner.

Well, well, look at the latest welfare queen.

Luther Strange and Roy Moore can tell you all about that.

All we had to do was listen to people of color and we wouildn't be in this mess.

“Just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me.”

Looks as if Gaetz's stunt Thursday's already backfiring.

"The Arizona election audit, a kind of Renaissance fair for deranged conspiracy theorists and Donald Trump dead-enders, has finally wound down its work... which may at last reveal that it was aliens from the planet Xerpdorp, working with George Soros and D.B. Cooper, who stole the state’s election." Paul Waldman.

IOW, The Gang That Couldn't Steal.

Atrios was right all those years ago- The stupid actually does burn. (Tip o' the tinfoil hat to Constant Reader, CC.)

Does this "cabinet" consist of stuffed animals and action figures?

Trailer park trash through and through.

Madison Cawthorn (R-Eagle's Nest), who's been in Congress fewer than seven months, is mocking another Republican as "that guy with the mustache that nobody fucking knows."

Well, THAT could've gone better. On second thought, no it couldn't.

But the craven right wing scum don't have the balls to tell him to stay out of their races.

The umbilical cord must've been tied around this moron's neck with a sailors' knot.

"It’s a monthslong process full of legal questions and procedural challenges, but state Republicans have increasingly promoted the idea of a takeover ahead of the 2022 election to energize conservative supporters."

Bullshit. It's to suppress progressive opponents & voters. And finally...

"Over half of Republicans (55%) supported the possible use of force to preserve the 'traditional American way of life,' compared to 15% of Democrats. When asked if a time will come when 'patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands,' 47% of Republicans agreed, as opposed to just 9% of Democrats."

Because January 6th worked so well, right?

Friday, July 30, 2021

"Worse Than Watergate"?

Yeah, aren't they all?

Why is it with about every other Trump scandal, we're told by the pundit class, "Oh, this is worse than Watergate. This will bring him down."

Number one, many of Trump's crimes are worse than Watergate. We hear the phrase "smoking gun" a lot (or "smocking gun", if you're Trump).

We heard it when we learned about Trump's call to Zelensky on July 25, 2019 (He was impeached for that, as a matter of fact). We heard it when Trump unmistakably called for an overthrow of the government (He was impeached for that, too, as a matter of fact). But here's the difference

Number two, Watergate brought down Nixon. He wasn't impeached only because the sinister-looking rat fuck scuttled out of office because God forbid a Republican should suffer any comeuppance for their crimes.

Nothing brought down Trump except for the American people and the ballot box. And 74,000,000 assholes wanted four more years of this one man crime wave. There but for the grace of 81,000,000 of us, we would've gotten just that.

Now we're hearing it again, that this is worse than Watergate. And it is.

Because the new big scandal, the biggest news item of the day and the weekend (unless Florida police find a dead underage sex worker in Matt Gaetz's bed before Monday) is Katie Benner's bombshell article in today's New York Times.

It gives us a comprehensive overview of yet another notorious call made by Trump, in far right wing circles the most beloved stalker and troll of all time, to then acting Attorney General, Jeffrey Rosen and his Deputy AG, Richard P. Donoghue. Ms. Benner's source material for this was, of course, documents that were handed over by the new Biden DOJ to the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

It was as bad as Watergate in that, like Nixon,.who'd tried to pressure the CIA and FBI to look the other way when it came to his own scandal, Trump also tried to pervert a major government department by pressuring it to throw the election in his favor. No, Lordie didn't provide us with tapes but we have the next-best thing: Donoghue's handwritten notes of the call.

We've seen the holographs of Donoghue's notes, taken in real time. In other words, the man brought the receipts. We'd read days ago that Trump had been essentially stalking and harassing Rosen while his chair was still warm from Barr's fat ass. What we didn't know were the contents of those calls.

Now we do.

In this one, one in a flurry of panicked phone calls between Trump and Secretaries of State (such as Brad Raffensberger on January 3) and DOJ officials, Trump tried to put the arm on top officials at the DOJ to announce the election results were corrupt. When Donoghue told Trump that it "doesn't work that way", Trump said, "Don’t expect you to do that, just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen."

He didn't mention who these corrupt Republican congressmen were to be but elsewhere Trump mentioned the names of Jim Jordan and Scott Perry as well as that of Sen. Ron Johnson. All are running way from this slowly exploding scandal as you can expect politicians to do in times of incriminating crisis.

Now, this doesn't mean Jordan, Perry and Johnson had, indeed, also pressured DOJ officials into doing the same. However, we know Scott Perry was working cheek to jowl with a DOJ official named Jeff Clark to investigate the voter fraud that Perry had been screaming about last winter. He's since walked back from that ledge after he and Clark, like Bill Barr before them, had failed to find any evidence of voter fraud.

Then Trump, ever the carnival barker, tried to cajole and wheedle Rosen and Donoghue into bending to his will by pulling out of his fat, pasty ass stories of "thousands of people" calling US Attorneys to complain about the election results. He tried to insult them by telling them they "probably don't follow the internet" like he does (Because why believe the Department of Justice and Homeland Security when you can listen to the Gateway Pundit and Pam Gellar screaming about ballots made of falafel?).

Finally, in true mob boss fashion, Trump followed up their resistance with threats, to make an adjustment, to use the phrase of the corrupt Sheriff Cobb in Silverado. Quote, "People tell me Jeff Clark is great, I should put him in. People want me to replace D.O.J. leadership.”

Obviously, aside for the voices in his head that may or not be Hitler's and Himmler's, one of those people was the aforementioned Scott Perry, who still insists to this day that Trump won. In fact, Perry had already introduced Clark to Trump. This set the stage for a showdown in the Oval Office that was eerily similar to the pool cue scene in The Dark Knight between the Joker and two gangsters. All over a job that no one would keep for even three weeks.

As Katie Benner said on Nicolle Wallace's show (although I'd immediately made the connection long before this), this December phone call to the DOJ was strikingly similar to Trump's call to Zelensky on July 25, 2019 (over which, again, he was impeached the first time). "I need you to do us a favor, though," he told the new Ukrainian president when the subject of military aid came up.

He wanted Zelensky to announce, on CNN, a Ukrainian government investigation into Hunter Biden. As with the proposed DOJ investigation, he just wanted, well, the fake news to get out there so, again, Trump and his piano wire artists could take over.

No doubt, Jordan, Perry and Johnson would've been the ones gripping the piano wire.

Thursday, July 29, 2021

Send Out the Clowns

(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.)

“I won't miss the circus around here, but I might miss some of the clowns.” -former Congressman Steve Stivers, May, 2021

"I haven't given it any substantive thought at all. I've chuckled, on occasion, but what's going on with this group of people that Nancy Pelosi has put together?" -Mo Brooks (R-Defendant)

They're already here.

And, unless we the people and the "authoritarian" members of Congress don't do something about them, they'll be here to stay. Like the Wicked Witch's flying monkeys, Republicans began blackening the sky as they flew in Luftwaffe-precise formation to defend America, and its patriotic invaders, from truth, justice and the American way.

Of course, they'd taken to the skies and the airways for decades before Nixon was mumbling at the oil portraits of his predecessors. But this breed of Republican party is enough to make one nostalgic for the good old perfectly sane Republicans that got back-flushed into Congress in the Republican Revolution of 1995. You remember that class, right? Those were the rabid pack of upholstered jackals who rallied around a pudgy philanderer and his Contract on America so they could go after another pudgy philanderer over a blow job.

Yet, as if their comments and actions in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election and the deadly hissy fit over the results on January 6th hadn't already clued you in, the current crop of evolutionary dropouts make that Congress of power-drunk assclowns look like models of governance by comparison.

And it's not just the indigenous wildlife of the Cujo Caucus that we have to worry about but also their reliably far right mouthpieces on OAN, Newsmax and the seediest side of the tracks of Fox. There was Tucker Carlson, that perennial warmup act for the 4th Reich, who couldn't handle being called the worst human being in the world, slinging verbal dead cats at Micheal Fanone by saying, “Because actually what happened on January 6, according to video, did not look a lot like Iraq. It’s not Fallujah.”

Well, the jury's, literally, out on that one, although one could make a persuasive argument that the difference between Fallujah and DC was about 100 IQ points favoring the Iraqis and that they were legitimately aggrieved by their country being invaded and their people killed. So, while Carlson and Matt Gaetz are bleating like two stuck pigs about name-calling and whistles, guys like Michael Fanone get sneered at by the pretend jocks who'd never worn a badge in their privileged lives for describing before Congress the brutality they'd suffered on January 6th.

Meanwhile, the Dollar General Eva Braun, Laura Ingraham, was hardly any more hinged. Last Tuesday night, Ingraham held the "Angle Awards" on her white nationalist bilefest of a show, giving the four officers who'd testified before the committee earlier that day faux acting awards. "The theatrics were intended to produce an emotional reaction, logic and facts be damned," she sneered in her best bitchy head cheerleader voice. Because why listen to the boots on the ground that day who got pummeled, sprayed and tased when we can just unthinkingly take the word of a fugitive right wing fuck doll declaiming from the remote safety of her Fox sound studio?

Mr. Winston Smith Goes to Washington

Andrew Clyde barricading the House chamber against a peaceful tour group.

It's inconceivable even after nearly seven months after the fact, that mainstream Republicans from Trump on down are still defending the Capitol rioters. They're called "political prisoners" (The right wing 4G network of Gaetz, Greene, Gosar and Gohmert got turned away at the prison the rioters were at, presumably because Matt Gaetz was told he couldn't bail them out with his Venmo account) and patriots.

Andrew Clyde screams in terror at the thought of peaceful guide tourists.

Andrew Clyde, converted gun store owner that his district thought would make a corker of an addition to the shit-smeared halls of Congress, was taken apart by Jamie Raskin at a Rules Committee hearing yesterday. Raskin asked him if he meant what he'd said in describing the rioters as mere "tourists." In typical defiant Nazi at Nuremberg fashion, he said, "I stand by that exact statement as I said it."

Again, it ought to be pointed out this is the position of the mainstream GOP. Over 120 Republicans from the House alone agreed to challenge the electoral college results just hours after their workplace was violently invaded and desecrated. An even greater number of them signed on to Ken Paxton's Hindenburg of a lawsuit against four states outside of Texas because he didn't like the results.

The usually disciplined Republicans, who are renowned for staying on message if nothing else, can't seem to agree on a single narrative. We're hearing the rioters weren't really rioters, they were patriots who'd heard some troubling theories that primarily came from the guy who'd sent them special delivery that day. And if they were rioters, well, then, they were antifa or BLM or even the FBI.

Never before in American history have we had so many government officials simultaneously working at cross purposes with the interests of the fundamentals of our democracy. The rioters were bad enough but they were just the symptom of a more insidious and long-standing disease festering within the body politic and that disease is modern-day conservatism. It's a disease that, since November, has been allowed to infect the minds of tens of millions of Americans.

It's a malady that successfully supplants reason with ill-informed emotion, ascertainable facts with unfocused suspicion and actual, all-inclusive patriotism with screaming racism, hyperpartisanship and white supremacy. Some would argue the latter-day GOP isn't copying chapter and verse from Hitler's book of grievances from 1933 but you could've fooled me. The modern-day conservative movement has been headed in this direction for decades. Yes, it has been decades in the making ever since Prescott Bush that same year had been scheming with fascist industrialists to supplant FDR with a right wing "co-president".

As with the well-coiffed insurrectionists and 5th columnists today posing as lawmakers, Prescott Bush was rewarded by getting elected to the Senate.

Pottersville Digest

(2121, not 2017.)

"(Trump) has been equally scattershot, too, about those choices—a well-established, shoot-first-ask-questions-later decision-maker, more viscerally driven than strategic, focused on vengeance over vetting."

Because what we need in Congress is another Matt Gaetz.

If Donnie Dumbo thought the DOJ was going to protect him and have us foot the bill, he's got another think coming.

OK, suppose Agatha, Arthur and Dash have a bad day in the kiddie pool?

"Mr. Attorney General. the president's on line one."

.oO What the fuck is it this time? Dead voters? Oo.

"Yes sir?"

"Bamboo."

Mo Brooks made a very stupid admission.

I so didn't need to wake up to read this. RIP, Dusty Hill.

The same people that are screaming about volunteers knocking on their doors to talk about the vaccine apparently have no problem with this.

This moron Tony Roman sounds like a brain damaged mobster.

"The couple had their names removed from the shipment, and placed an order for the animals’ feet to be turned into 'stools,' an 'umbrella stand,' and a “trash can'.”

They left out the handbags.

McCarthy: He's such a moron.

“We all love our Second Amendment rights and we don’t like the federal government coming on our property to tell us what to do."

This is why the press wasn't allowed at her microscopic Trump rally.

Let us call them, the Cujo Caucus.

Looks as if the 4G network just got shut down.

Imagine being such a racist asshat that you have to be shamed into issuing an apology by Ken Paxton, of all people.

There is absolutely no excuse, place or room for this in 2021 America. I don't give a damn if they gave the kid a $1000 bonus check. The damage has been done.

The usual right wing bait & switch. They learn so young, don't they, bless their black little hearts.

How dare you defame my client with her own words? And finally...

"I know what God wants for us and what Jesus wants, and it's what Trump wants, and it's what the patriots want. I would never turn back, no matter how much of my family I lose."

Yes, they, too, have the right to vote.

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Pottersville Digest

(Yeah, I ran out of political memes. Sue me.)

When the peanut gallery takes over a town hall.

And whoever doesn't get the vaccine will be smited with a Jewish space laser controlled by Saul Alinsky! You have been warned, heathens!

Republicans try desperate, last ditch attempt to get professional bomb-thrower Gym Jordan on the Jan. 6 committee.

Well, it's permanent. They just banned the only guy in the fraudit with any election experience.

Seriously? How do you prove a negative?

Just listen.

Headline: "Ex-NYPD cop who gouged Capitol officer's eyes during Jan. 6 riot says he was just doing a defensive 'hockey' move." Narrator: There's no such move in hockey.

Until yesterday, few if any of us realized just how close the January 6 rioters came to turning into a racist lynch mob.

Goebbels would've wept with joy.

Montana Man was right: Fucker Carlson is the worst human being (for want of a better phrase) known to Man.

Terrorist sympathizer banned from Oregon state capitol building. Maybe he can find a Republican to open the door for him.

So much winning!

Crazy old man shakes fist at cloud...

Tax-dodging billionaire scumbag Ken Langone has a senior moment with Sen. Elizabeth Warren. As expected, it didn't end well.

He's still trying to destroy this country but no one cares.

Susan Wright, Trump's girl, lost her election last night yet they still won't quit this bloated gas bag.

"More than 1,400 workers in West Virginia are set to lose their jobs this week when the Viatris pharmaceuticals plant in Morgantown shuts down and moves operations overseas to India and Australia.. "Workers say they've had no response to their urgent requests for help from their Democratic senator, Joe Manchin... Manchin's daughter Heather Bresch, got a $31 million payout..."

Aren't y'all glad you kept that seat out of the hands of the evil lib'rals who are trying to take away your money?

“For the neighbors, I feel like it’s too many Black people."

"Dr. Michelle Fiscus said that, when questions were raised about the reliability of the company's COVID tests, Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey suggested using it 'in a healthier population, like college kids'."

The company, naturally, had GOP ties and was awarded a $26.5 million no-bid contract.

And the right wing circular firing squad commences firing while Trump still risibly claims victory in TX-6.

Thanks again, Kyrsten.

Man, you can actually see the flop sweat flying off Gym Jordan's head when a reporter put his feet to the fire about whether he spoke to Trump on January 6th.

Compassionate conservatism. And finally...

Charlie Pierce says that Trump should testify before the January 6 committee. If he does, it'll be all belligerence, lies, distraction and bluster. His testimony would be valuable in that it would once and for all expose his mendacity and fecklessness.

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Thumbtack Observations on Today's Hearings

Since I don't own a TV, I have to depend on video clips to follow what's going on at Capitol Hill today with the January 6 committee. This is just day one and these hearings could easily stretch into months. Committee members have just startied hearing opening statements and testimony from four of the officers who were brutalized that day.

Later on, I'm sure, names other than Trump's will come out. I don't have any reasonable expectations that the hearings will result in any expulsions but I'm convinced that we'll see a few resignations and they'll all be Republican.

Seeing this committee in action is a mixed blessing. We're seeing new videos of the riots that are harrowing, to say the least, and hearing first person accounts of the officers who were the primary victims of the violence. We've heard cops and Congressmen alike choke up today and we've been forced to confront just how ugly half our country is. Watching the testimony is heart-wrenching and it's a grim duty.

Yet, thanks to Speaker Pelosi, it's also heartening to see this master class in Civics, this example of government the way it's supposed to work. It's not a bipartisan committee but a nonpartisan one. There are no bomb throwers, no spin doctors, no terrorist apologists, no political battle lines. There's just a group of Congressmen who want to get to the bottom of what happened on January 6, why and how we can stop this from happening ever again.

Monday, July 26, 2021

Pottersville Digest

(Love me, Dada.)

Kyrsten Sinema's top supporter asked, "So they got to rid of the filibuster, period. Certainly we have to make an exception here for voting rights and craft something with the senator from my state, Sinema. I don't know what her problem is, frankly... If you can't do it to preserve democracy... then why are you even there? Why are you in the Senate?"

It's nice to know the US doesn't quite have the market cornered on crazy. This was happening yesterday in Trafalgar Sq.

John Adams said "facts are stubborn things." Same goes for vote totals.

If there must be Republicans on the Jan. 6 select committee, they might as well be Kinzinger & Liz Cheney.

If we haven't reached peak IDIOCRACY by now, we never will.

Headline: Trump is relentless in election fabrications. My sub headline: No shit, Sherlock.

Another arrogant right wing asshole bites the dust.

Just when you think Republicans can't get anymore childish...

Frankly, I'm surprised this right wing sociopath wasn't at Trafalgar Square yesterday.

People, this is what inevitably happens when you vote in Republican scum (pardon the tautology).

He looks like a regular pillar of the community.

Elect a psychopath, expect an asylum run by them.

Tom Barrack's under federal indictment. Hunter Biden isn't, organ donor.

"Maybe I'll find someone in Washington, D.C." Because malignant little leprechauns like Michal Flynn are EXACTLY the type of people to whom you want to give rifles.

We've all heard of catch and kill schemes in the tabloid journalism game. Now it looks as if the FBI is in the catch and kill business, including a fake tip line during the Kavanaugh hearings.

So, the next time your local eatery pisses and moans about not having enough staff, remember this.

Well, I can think of one racist right wing douchebag who didn't get vaccinated.

honestly don't know what's keeping him out of a lunatic asylum.

A well-educated racist would at least learn the definition of segregation.

This is what I call white privilege inaction.

Gee, and every single one is a Democratic county, too.

Maybe Trump shouldn't have had a falling out with Tom Barrack right before his indictment.

"That’s what happens when one party’s leader is feared by her members and the other fears his members."-Chris Stirewalt.

"Mechanic also explains how the wealthy engage in sociopathic or antisocial behaviors, while suffering few consequences — other than their own rootlessness and unhappiness."

Saturday, July 24, 2021

The Whitewashing of History By the Nonvictors

(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.)

Back in 2015, the proprietor of this blog wrote a historical epic entitled Tatterdemalion. Owing something of its basic premise to Caleb Carr's legendary historical psychological thriller, The Alienist, the story revolves around another team of ad hoc investigators composed of Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Frank Butler, Chief Sitting Bull, Arthur Conan-Doyle, Sigmund Freud and Frederick Abberline trying to bring to ground Jack the Ripper in 1888 Whitechapel.

In the second half of the book, it appears as if Jack is a well-connected member of the powerful Special Branch. When the team quickly realizes that arrest and a very public trial would not be possible and would have, instead, disastrous consequences on the nation and the Crown, the idea is quickly floated to kill this Inspector in Special Branch.

Sitting Bull, in a rare monologue, tells a tale of a massacre of Sioux women and children at the hands of a Major Goodfellow and when news of his atrocity reached the attention of his commanding officer, he was left with a similar dilemma. Either arrest and court martial his own major and risk exposing his atrocities and another Little Big Horn (in which Sitting Bull himself played a big part) or quietly take matters into his own hands.

The Sioux chieftain briefly relates how the general commissioned a special sniper not attached to his unit (or the Union Army) to take out the major from atop a mountain (there's a real-life analog to this). Then Abberline expresses great reservations about assassinating a Chief Inspector and Sitting Bull says in his peroration,

“Then we need be victorious, Inspector,” Sitting Bull concluded. “If we have learned anything since the white man’s appearance upon our land, it is this: The victors always get to write the history, whether or not it is truthful.”

Abberline mumbled something about Sitting Bull’s story and “the matter at hand not being analogous”, but pledged he’d take Doyle’s suggestion under advisement. And his observation about the victors getting to write history was reinforced with my own, that the victors also get to unwrite history.

The narrative is provided by the young protagonist of this story, Scott Carson, 21 year-old lab rat and pioneering cinematographer of Manhattan's East 69th Street. Carson's trenchant overview of the events taking place before him from his initially worm's eye view is quite telling and especially in this instance when Carson darkly observes that history gets to be rewritten and even unwritten by the victors.

It's a common enough spectacle these days when the far right are getting frantic about the events of centuries ago getting out and riling up the unwashed masses. We've been been seeing this trend for decades but never as in the Glorious Age of Trump in which facts don't matter and emotions mean everything, in which a tiny minority is allowed to push a narrative that has national implications and promises nothing but bloodshed and violence, in which those who use only their reptilian brain function (and, yes, I'm looking right at you, Trump) are seemingly calling the shots.

How to Reason With the Insane

Every once in a while, we'll run into a months-old, well-meaning article archived on Pocket that patiently informs us how to talk to our right wing relatives or friends or tries to impart the magic words guaranteed to stop in their tracks any right winger in the midst of a MAGA or Qanon meltdown.

Narrator: It doesn't exist. Don't waste your time. Renouncing reason, medicine, dead men, and all that.

So now we're hearing how Critical Race Theory is a bad thing, how it's untrue, how it'll make little black kids rise up in hatred of their white oppressors after they grow up. We're hearing stories by those who aren't historians and only play them on Youtube, Instagram and Facebook Live that slavery wasn't so bad, after all, that most slave owners were benevolent tyrants. And they bristle at the very thought of people thinking they're racist because, after all, we all live in a post-racial society, right? After all, we've had one black president out of 46, right?

Scott Carson put his finger on the problem when he said history gets to be unwritten by the winners but he'd be out of step with today's reality. And that reality is that the descendants of those who'd lost the Civil War and the legal right to own slaves are the very ones who are being allowed to not only drive the narrative but to unwrite history, until now once the dubious right of the victors. The embittered losers, in short, are calling the shots.

After all, it was the proposed removal of Robert E. Lee's statue in Charlottesville which was what touched off a racist riot that we've never seen since the Civil Rights era. It was the conflagration of long-smoldering resentment over the losing "war of northern aggression" in the century between the Civil War and civil rights that gave us the fatal Charlottesville riot and, for the first time ever, a presidential seal of approval that would serve as mere prologue for the cover Trump is still giving the even deadlier DC riot of January 6th.

Trump, the loser of the 2020 presidential election, is also trying his best to rewrite the history of what happened less than seven months ago and covered in real time on network and cable news as well as social media. The cops let them in, there was hugging and kissing of the police officers of whom 140 were wounded, with one dying that day and two others committing suicide. I guess that's what they mean by "tough love."

His Republican enablers, who'd also lost big in 2020, little more than a 5th Column at this point, quickly and eagerly joined in with the revisionism, claiming the enraged mob was really just a large tour group, it was really antifa, it was BLM, it was a false flag operation carried out by the FBI.

Republicans as a whole used to be just a bunch of feckless cunts and harmless, nuisances at worst, when out of the White House and in the minority in Congress. Now we're seeing convicted criminals, or those who should be, in that same Congress, as well as the "poorly-educated" that Trump loves so much, including Lauren Boebert, who didn't get her GED until just before her election in the hinterlands of CO-3.

And it's these same evolutionary dropouts who are trying to gaslight us into believing that racism is over, that slavery wssn't so bad, after all, and that Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project are bad for our schoolchildren. But make no mistake about it- The ones who erupt in faux outrage when accused of being racists and give only lip service about slavery's dark stain on our history are the same exact ones restricting voting rights in communities of color. They want to embrace their racism, they want to embrace the concept of slavery. However, we have yet to reach that tipping point where white people using the N word and calling for the return of slavery is once again acceptable and not subject to repercussions. But if current trends hold, if Overton's Window keeps shifting more and more toward Hitler, we'll get there soon enough. In other words, when there are no quiet parts, any more.

And if you want to know what they really think, just ask Cliven Bundy for his thoughts on the subject.