The Secesh category archive
Cowboy Cosplay 0
Republicans in Congress want to play with their Fanner 50s too, by taking take the “Federals” out of Federal lands.
Is It an Implosion or an Explosion? 2
Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun and ex-Republican, marvels at the trajectory of the party that he once supported as it comes apart at the seams. Here’s a bit:
In its place appeared a mishmash of disparate groups that came together in such a way as to assure the party of Abraham Lincoln . . . would collapse of its own weight.
(snip)
By that I mean that the politics of 2016 have exposed the fault lines among the evangelicals, libertarians, statists, economic conservatives, xenophobes and all kinds of supremacists. The folks who kept the party of Lincoln burning bright for so many decades have all but disappeared or, at least, been marginalized as “the establishment.”
Cowboy Cosplay 0
Balloon Juice has the latest on the Bundy Bund.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Solomon Jones looks at the violence of Trump’s supporters and finds that it’s deju vu all over again. Recalling the man who sucker-punched Rakeem Jones, he writes in part:
“The next time we see him we might have to kill him.”
Such was the price of dissent.
And in Trump’s America, that could very well be the price again.
Read the rest.
The Chicago Riots 0
Chauncey Devega was at the Chicago rally for Donald Trump, the one that was purportedly canceled for “security concerns.” He says it has been grievously misrepresented. An excerpt:
(snip)
At Friday’s rally in Chicago, the members of the “silent majority” that Trump speaks for were made, at least for a few hours, to realize that other Americans actually have a voice too. Of course, this moment will only encourage their right-wing politics of racial resentment, hatred, nativism and revanchism. The Trumpeteers now have a story to tell of black and brown savagery in the evil “Democratically controlled” Chicago. This distorted version of events will resonate throughout the Fox News right-wing disinformation machine. Those Trumpeteers at his planned Chicago rally will spin tales of being imperiled by “Mau Maus” and “Commies.” In reality, they were never in any real danger. And like Trump’s other events, the fights and scuffles that did take place were mostly instigated by his supporters.
Follow the link to read (or listen to–he also made this into a podcast) the full report.
No End in Cite 0
At Above the Law, Elie Mystal mulls over whether Donald Trump can be charged with “incitement to violence” in connection with one of his supporter’s “sucker punching” a protester and concludes “no.” Mystal applies the Hollywood super villain standard to illustrate the reasoning:
He’s not throwing cash in the streets and watching people fight over it, like Jack Nicholson’s Joker. He’s giving middle class people the moral authority to blow up some undesirables, like Heath Ledger’s Joker.
Follow the link for the details.
Kicking It 0
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Petula Dvorak considers the “Trump effect.” A snippet (emphasis added):
It’s like all of those horrible school integration photos of screaming crowds surrounding black students in the 1960s are being reenacted.
She’s quite correct, you know. I was there. It’s the same mobs, the same hate.
In related news, Der Spiegel looks at Trump and is not amused.
“Macho Macho Men” 0
Turns out the cowboy cosplay isn’t fun any more.
The Bundy Bros just want to take their AK-47s and go home.
Verbal Gymnasts 0
Watch the WSJ columnist assert that the “conservative establishment” (whatever that is) did not do what they have done.
Via C&L.
The Cost of Cowboy Cosplay 0
Balloon Juice has a pretty good rundown on the Bundy Bund’s burden on the treasury.
The costs of the upcoming judicial proceedings is not addressed.
Stray Thought, the Devil Made Me Do It Dept. 0
How about we all mail Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters a nice crisp white sheet to wear at his next campaign appearance?
Mirror Imaging 0
Thom Fain looks at how the GOP shot itself in the foot and created Trump. A snippet:
In related news, Shaun Mullen explains that the New York Times doesn’t get it because it’s trapped in the villagers’ narrative, while E. J. Dionne points out that the secesh are still rising again after all these years.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Duking it out (cough! cough!) in Anaheim:
(snip)
One Klansman stabbed a counter-protester with the decorative end of a flag pole, Wyatt said. That stabbing set off a vicious brawl in which Klan members and protesters fought across an entire city block.
I wonder just what might be going on to that has so emboldened the secesh?