The Secesh category archive
Don’t Overlook the Obvious 2
Leonard Pitts, Jr., tells of a conversation that took place just a little while ago. Here’s a bit from his article:
“Maybe I could have done that a little better,” he said.
One of his friends wasn’t having it. “They were afraid of you for a couple of reasons,” said Denny Jacobs. “Number one, you were black.”
Obama parried the suggestion, saying what he always says when asked about race and his presidency. “I have no doubt there are people who voted against me because of race . . . or didn’t approve of my agenda because of race. I also suspect there are a bunch of people who are excited or voted for me because of the notion of the first African-American president. . . . Those things cut both ways,” he said.
Jacobs, who is white, was unpersuaded. “That’s what they were afraid of, Mr. President,” he insisted.
Dan Simpson also has something to see on this matter. A nugget:
Image via Job’s Anger.
Comment Rescue, Original Intent Dept. 0
Gerald commented on my Original Intent post earlier today and sums up the last seven years:
(Republians) are attempting to treat POTUS Obama’s presidency as 3/5’s (of a presidency).
“Original Intent” 3
“Original intent” is neither a legitimate interpretation of history nor a coherent legal theory. It is a racist primal scream.
More here.
Comment Rescue, National Theatre Dept. 0
George Smith points out that the Republican Party is no longer the party of Lincoln, but is now the party of John Wilkes Booth.
He’s quite right, you know.
The Republican Party has become a vile and loathsome thing.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
This seems to have Wingnut World and the New Secesh in the uproar of the day.
After all, it’s not as if white folks have anything to feel guilty about . . . .
Cowboy Cosplay 0
And so slowly descends the curtain on the latest iteration of white privilege performance theatre, performed by those who proclaim themselves patriots of the country which they betray.
No self-awareness. No self-awareness whatsoever.
Cowboy Cosplay 0
The costume party continues. From TPM:
The remaining diehards at the Malheur National Wildlife Center have re-dubbed it “Camp Finicum.”
National attention on the standoff has waned since Finicum’s death, but things have continued to get weirder. Franklin Graham, the minister, has gotten involved at some level to try to bring an end to the standoff. Ammon Bundy, the main leader who is now jailed in Portland, reportedly in solitary confinement, has been making regular statements to the public via recorded messages released by his lawyers, and police have tightened the cordon around the refuge even as the handful of militants holed up inside ?have sounded the call for their supporters on the outside to “stand up” in their defense.
More secessionist cosplay at the link.
Gut Out the Vote 0
I’m so old that I can remember when North Carolina was considered the beacon of progress for the “New South.” We have latterly seen since that since 1865 there is not and has never been a “New South,” and there has been damned little progress.
Cowboy Cosplay, It Must Be the Hats Dept. 0
I was living in the Philadelphia area when the MOVE assault took place. Had I happened to look out ny bedroom windows that day, I would have seen the smoke from the fire that eventually wiped out a city block, dispossessing not only MOVE, but also its neighbors.
Instead, while West Philly burned, I sat in my easy chair reading a book while listening to music.
Here’s a nugget from Jone’s piece; follow the link for the full article.
Solomon Jones look back and sees similarities between MOVE and the Bundy Bund, plus one glaring difference:
Let me be clear. That wouldn’t happen if they were anything other than white men in cowboy hats.
(snip)
Compare their story with the tale of MOVE, a black naturalist group whose yearslong conflict with law enforcement in Philadelphia ended in fiery tragedy.
Cowboy Cosplay 0
Performance art is no fun if no one can see the performance.
Cowboy Cosplay, Reprise 0
In the Ashland, Oregon, Daily Tidings, a fine little paper with great writers, Jeffrey Gillespie explains that it’s all about the main chance. A snippet (emphasis added):
The logic of that statement is a microcosm of the rationale of the right-wing libertarian mindset that has pervaded this ill-conceived and badly executed mission, undertaken to draw attention to the apparent violated rights of ranchers and farmers when they elect to unilaterally privatize government property. In the case of Mr. Bundy and company, the actions they took were sparked by a combination of anti-government ideology and private rapacity.
Do read the rest, in which the author points out, though some would claim otherwise, the Bundy Bund is diametrically different from Occupy and #BlackLivesMatter, as the Bundy Bund is ultimately all about personal gain through theft of public (that is, yours, my, and our) property.
Cowboy Cosplay 0
Buried in a larger story about how the court told the members of the Bundy Bund currently in custody, “No, you don’t get to walk away, Rene,” is this bit (emphasis added):
A speaker believed to be David Fry said he asked the FBI whether it was possible to “get out of here without charges,” but “they keep saying that’s not possible.”
Four holdouts continued to occupy the refuge in the snowy high country near Burns, and they posted a YouTube video Friday demanding pardons for everyone involved in the occupation.I think that this expectation–that they are somehow exempt from consequences for theft and terrorism–conveys much about the bubble that these folks have built for themselves.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 1
Cenk sees an historical trend. (Warning: Forceful Language)
How Stuff Works, Bundy Bund Dept. 0
Update, after This Was Drafted*:
It appears that the Feds were using an enforcement technique known as “Give ‘Em Enough Rope . . . .”
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*You didn’t think I do all this in real time, did you?
I write a bunch of stuff, then I go off and do other stuff. Then I write stuff. It’s the Great Cycle of Drivel.
Tales of the Bundy Bund 0
The Bundy allies are rallying in the only way they know.
The occupiers “are threatening the state, they are threatening the refuge, and they are threatening the life of someone we love in a very real way,” Klonoski said.