Well, no shit, really:
Former House Speaker John Boehner predicted on Thursday that a full repeal and replace of Obamacare is “not going to happen.”
Boehner, who resigned in 2015 amid unrest among conservatives, said at an Orlando health care conference that the idea that a repeal-and-replace plan would blitz through Congress is just “happy talk.”
Instead, he said changes to former President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement would likely be relatively modest.
***On Thursday, Boehner said the talk in November about lightning-fast passage of a new health care framework was wildly optimistic.
“I started laughing,” he said. “Republicans never ever agree on health care.”
“Most of the framework of the Affordable Care Act … that’s going to be there,” Boehner concluded.
I don’t care if he and I think it isn’t going to happen, it could, and that is what matters. Keep beating them up. Keep showing up at town halls and jeering them. Keep talking to cardboard cutouts when they are too chickenshit to show up to town halls. Keep organizing, keep yelling, keep beating them about the head and neck. They need to pay an even higher political price for trying to take away your health care than the Democrats did trying to help you gain access to health insurance and health care.
Fuck these people. They’re running scared, and instead of letting up, keep the pressure on and keep nipping at their heels as they try to escape. Sherman didn’t say “well, we’re close to Atlanta, that’s good enough. I think they know we’re serious.” He knew the only thing the confederates would understand was brute force. And these descendants of those assholes are the same god damned way. Keep throwing molotov cocktails and burn the shit down. No one ever told me in basic training it was a bad thing to shoot the people who are trying to kill you in the back as they run. Fuck ’em. Let’s take back the House, the Senate, and the statehouses.
Jeffro
Oh hell yes…LET’S RAMP UP!
germy
http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2017/02/22/arizona-senate-crackdown-on-protests/
germy
Villago Delenda Est
Boner is taunting the teabagger “Freedom Caucus” and laughing his orange ass off.
rikyrah
He said in between his morning scotches
TenguPhule
Actually they’re worse. This time,they’ve gone all in and embraced their inner Pol Pots. The republic can’t survive when 42% of the people in it are bugshit insane facists.
Villago Delenda Est
@Jeffro: “War is all hell”, said Sherman. And he proceeded to deliver.
ranchandsyrup
Yeah but Sherman did stop after ATL when he should have frogmarched confeds right into the Atlantic
rikyrah
He burned that shyt TO.THE.GROUND.
One of the best moments of the war.
JMS
Sherman: Well, Grant, we’ve had the devil’s own day, haven’t we?
Grant: Yes. Lick ’em tomorrow though.
Jeffro
@germy:
That’ll never stand up in court…
Plus as a practical matter, protestors would just go to great pains to indicate they’re the peaceful ones, so that police can identify the few violent ones and arrest them. For most large rallies and protests (certainly those in DC, and I’m sure this is the case in other cities as well), the organizers meet with the cops in advance to discuss routes, times, and what to do if there’s trouble (including outside agitators)
If the arrested folks turn out to be paid (or even ‘volunteer’) provocateurs, well, not only would they be the ones charged, but if they were paid or the violence was otherwise organized by an outside party, that party is in BIG trouble.
Repubs can dream about this kind of shit all they want; it won’t pass, it won’t stand, and there are plenty of ways for protestors to work with the police to make sure the actual perpetrators are identified and held accountable.
raven
@ranchandsyrup: Yea, that’s why it’s called “The March to the Sea”.
Mike in DC
@germy:
Pretty sure that courts frown on collective punishment.
Rand Careaga
O/T, but has anyone been able to reach “Lawyers, Guns and Money” this morning? The URL returns a 404.
germy
@Jeffro:
Well, the Arizona senate passed it. I hope somebody strikes it down.
germy
@Rand Careaga: I got the same error message. I know they’ve been hacked before, I wonder if it’s happened again.
hovercraft
The Wa Post afternoon blast of their most read stories, here’s a selection:
‘This is not Trump’s America!’: Passengers rejoice when man accused of racism is kicked off flight
The heated incident unfolded Saturday on a flight bound for Houston.
By Peter Holley
Things got VERY ugly on CNN last night
Asked whether the president is prejudiced against Jews, Anne Frank Center Executive Director Steven Goldstein replied, “You bet.”
By Callum Borchers
A majority of Americans are embarrassed by President Trump
They see him as dishonest, hot-tempered, divisive and lacking leadership skills.
By Philip Bump
President Trump is losing his war with the media
It seems Americans think Trump spews more “fake news” than the media does.
By Aaron Blake
‘Greatest threat to democracy’: Commander of bin Laden raid slams Trump’s anti-media sentiment
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, is the chancellor of the University of Texas System. He made his comment while addressing UT-Austin’s college of communication.
By Kristine Guerra
These types of headlines are giving them agita, lets keep the pressure on.
patroclus
The only thing Republicans ever agreed on with respect to health insurance was a slogan and the desire to kill 20 million people. The likelihood that they’re all going to agree on a positive plan that will cover everyone is practically nil. They will have a bill though; the question is what it will contain, who will be hurt by it and can they jam it through via reconciliation. We can’t stop pressuring them.
Oatler.
@germy: And I moved to Arizona last week. Like living in Bavaria 1940.
Villago Delenda Est
@Oatler.: Without the benefit of drinkable beer?
germy
@Oatler.: I’ve never lived in a place that wasn’t full of RWNJs. Some of them lived right next to me.
hovercraft
@germy:
Can one of our resident lawyers, chime in, how s this constitutional? The right to assemble is my first amendment right, so how can you legislate that I’m responsible for the behavior of someone else exercising their rights? This is just a scare tactic to make people think twice about voicing their opposition to the bullshit republicans are doing. I hope the ACLU is licking their chops over this one.
ruemara
@TenguPhule: 27%. I don’t think we’re fully dealing with 42%. They only think they’re nearly half of the country.
can I say how delighted I am that in the pursuit of all the fucking evil Trump voters said was just talk or believed would somehow pass over them, they’re being affected nearly in line with the populations they decided to hate most this past election? I have tremendous empathy for all those town hall folks who’re showing up to their electeds, who’ve been staunchly R their whole lives and for their family’s lives. Truly, I feel for you. But I have zero sympathy for anyone who isn’t a Dem. What does the Bible say, they laid the snare and stepped in it? Ah, here it is: Psalm 7:15,16 He made a pit, and dig it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made…
Enjoy that pit. You’ll get some help when you stop being the labor for these GOP sociopaths.
@hovercraft: I think these legislators are secretly ACLU and public defender orgs fundraisers. Also, not to cut into their donations, but public defender orgs could use that cash infusion love.
Tom
@JMS: Shiloh quote! Very nice.
geg6
@TenguPhule:
They aren’t 42% of the public. They are 42% of the people who voted in the last election. The election in which at least 40% of the actual public didn’t bother to vote.
geg6
@ranchandsyrup:
He should have burned the entire fucking region down and killed every goddam white person in it.
trollhattan
Trump-China relationship keeps getting weirder. First, he magically is granted the trademark to use of his beautiful, beautiful name there, now his spawn’s brand is being set lose. I’m guessing this goes deeper than him saying, “One China, two Chinas, whatever you guys want.”
AnotherBruce
Hmmm, delicious red meat, I like it raw.
debit
Kill you in the back?
(Sorry)
germy
@geg6: This would be a better country today. They’re the reason we can’t have nice things.
Bill Arnold
Have these anti-healthcare-for-all Representatives gamed out what it would mean to sentence a fair number of their constituents to death in trade for reduced taxes on the wealthy (aka “Freedom” in Republican newspeak)?
Some fraction of those being sentenced to slow death also being gun owners, to be blunt. I really don’t want the US to go there, speaking as a committed non-violence person.
Lurking Canadian
@ranchandsyrup: That’s not how the story is usually told. I mean, he did leave some of them alive, which was probably a mistake, and he left a few houses and farms unburnt, which was definitely a mistake, but he didn’t stop until he was about to run up and stomp Robert E Lee from behind, after marching his men a hell of a long way from Atlanta.
Paula
Yes, yes, yes!
germy
Lurking Canadian
@Bill Arnold: There is no gaming to be done. What are those constituents going to do if they lose their healthcare, after all? Vote for a Democrat?
geg6
@germy:
I agree. I feel for the Dems who live in those hellholes, but I’d be happier if the earth had been salted and made uninhabitable for the foreseeable future and all the white inhabitants killed in battle and those left over then driven into the sea and not let back onto the continent. We are where we are today because we (the North) were too damn easy on them back then.
Oatler.
@Villago Delenda Est: Without benefit of legal pot, which I needed in my old state Oregon to cut my cold. THIS MEANS achoo! WAR
Citizen_X
Yr. friends at the erstwhile Wonkette have an article up about how Rep. Louie Gohmert, of legendary stupidity, is avoiding townhalls, on account of how he doesn’t want to get Gabby Gifforded. Yes, he was actually stupid/venal enough to say that.
trollhattan
Notorious RBG in a rare interview.
Eat well and get plenty of sleep, madam justice.
low-tech cyclist
Yeah, this is my week to lean on my county government. While I’m in a liberal state (Maryland), I’m in a conservative county (Calvert). And the guy who got elected chair of the Board of County Commissioners is a tax-cuts-uber-alles sort of guy, and he’s got enough of the rest of the council in his corner. We’ve got great schools here (which is why my wife and I moved here nearly 20 years ago), and part of the reason is we used to pay the teachers well, but they haven’t gotten promised pay increases the past few years, and other counties nearby are paying a lot better. We’re losing teachers as a result.
So they want to deny the teachers their promised pay increases yet again, but they want to build a new $34 million county services building, and a new building (not sure of the price tag) with an auditorium big enough for the high school graduations. (We’ve got just 4 high schools in the county, so WTF? Build a building for 4 events a year?!) And of course, being wingnuts, they want to blame the tax increase on the teachers’ union that would be needed to do all of these things, because teachers’ unions are EEEEVIIIIL.
Well, this isn’t some remote combine. This is our county. We know the teachers. We run into them at the grocery store, at the hardware store. And not to mention, we see how they interact with our kids, we see how great a job they do. We don’t want to lose them.
Fortunately, the Board of Ed supports the teachers on this, but it’s the County Commissioners who hold the purse strings. So a bunch of us who were at the Calvert County Dems meeting on Tuesday night (where we had quite a crowd) are going to show up at a joint meeting of the Board of Ed with the County Commissioners tonight. We won’t be able to ask questions and stuff, but apparently we will be allowed to bring signs that say ‘Agree’ and ‘Disagree’ to indicate our feelings. I’ll be there tonight with my signs.
AliceBlue
@TenguPhule:
A gentle reminder:
– A few of us descendants of confederate soldiers are quite liberal.
– I’m willing to bet some of Trump’s voters are descendants of Union army solders.
Trinity
Woo!! A thousand times…THIS.
LAO
@hovercraft: From what I’ve read, the Arizona RICO expansion should not survive judicial review should the Senate bill become a law. However, I haven’t read the text of the legislation so, it’s difficult to say that it is definitely unconstitutional. (And of course — whether you or I think it’s unconstitutional matters little. What matters is whether a Judge agrees us).
JMG
I wonder if Boehner is drinking less now because he doesn’t have to lead House Republicans anymore, or drinking more because why the hell not?
dedc79
I continue to think that the most damage will be done at the administrative level, rather than through legislation.
Chris
@AliceBlue:
Yes, unfortunately, the bad pathologies that are at first associated with the South tend to spread elsewhere. The Ku Klux Klan and the Confederate flag are both examples. Southern and separatist originally, which eventually became generic white nationalist things everywhere in America.
I always want to stop people with Confederate flags and ask them if they could just have at least some basic regional pride. Especially when they’re West Virginian.
randy khan
@germy:
I’ve been there and posted there, including looking at it as recently as 5 minutes ago.
Nashville_fan
@geg6: geg6
says:
“February 23, 2017 at 1:53 pm
@ranchandsyrup:
He should have burned the entire fucking region down and killed every goddam white person in it.”
——–
Um . . . no.
Corner Stone
@AliceBlue: There’s actually no reason to post this as a reminder, gentle or otherwise.
Ridnik Chrome
OT, and apologies if anyone else has already posted this, but apparently CBP is now randomly checking IDs of people on domestic flights.
bemused
@germy:
Some of them are close relatives. Sigh.
trollhattan
@Ridnik Chrome: Uh, what?!?
patroclus
@Tom: Shiloh, when I was young. I used to call your name. When no one else would come. Shiloh you always came.
Mnemosyne
@AliceBlue:
West Virginia broke away from Virginia so they wouldn’t have to join the Confederacy.
Now look at them.
Captain C
Perhaps slightly OT:
Remember that we’re up against people who thought John Kerry shooting an armed VC in the back was a bad thing*, but shooting unarmed black kids in the back is OK.
*Probably the only case of someone shooting a VC fighter that they don’t approve of.
Corner Stone
@Ridnik Chrome: I would, uh, have a problem with this.
AliceBlue
@Corner Stone:
Sorry I offended you.
Betty Cracker
@Chris: If you’re suggesting white supremacy was ever just a Southern thing, I’m gonna have to disagree strenuously. Southern racism has its own awful character and history, but putting white supremacy off on the South is letting America off the hook in a way it definitely does not deserve.
Ridnik Chrome
@trollhattan: Note that the flight was from San Francisco to New York. Both are sanctuary cities. I believe the relevant phrase is “sending a message”.
Roger Moore
@patroclus:
The only thing they agreed about was the need to obstruct. Funny thing, it turns out that designing and creating something new is much harder that trying to prevent somebody else from doing the same.
Captain C
@Mnemosyne: Strangely enough, though, WVA is now a Republican-dominated state and Virginia increasingly a Democratic-majority state, just like it would have been in the 1860s.
(Yes, I know that’s because of realignment.)
hovercraft
@Ridnik Chrome:
Nothing to see here, there is no deportation force.
No it’s not possible for the US to become a police state
Americans would never stand for it.
Roger Moore
@germy:
You left out the most ridiculous part:
So they want to arrest people for planning peaceful protests that they suspect might possibly turn into riots. It’s hard to see how that meets 1st Amendment muster.
Jay S
@LAO
The fact that it probably isn’t constitutional doesn’t mean it will have no effect. The litigation involved in proving that it is will be an expensive deterrent. This is Strategic Legislation against Protest.
Corner Stone
@AliceBlue: There’s no offense at all. I just don’t see it as relevant to where we are now. When Indiana or Idaho are white supremacist breeding grounds right now there’s no reason to reach back to white heritage from the Civil War era. Just IMO.
Ridnik Chrome
@Corner Stone: Me, too. Gonna be taking that very flight in another month and a half…
raven
@Lurking Canadian: OK all you self–righteous assholes.
LAO
@Corner Stone: Would you refuse to show your ID? I’ve been thinking about this since reading the story.
raven
@Betty Cracker: This has to get hashed over every couple of weeks.
Ian G.
I like the Sherman analogy. These people’s ancestors, despite Sherman and Sheridan’s best efforts, were never made to realize they had lost, that it was over (the way Germany and Japan did learn their lesson in 1945), and that’s why we still have to deal with them today. Fight back against them, because they will never learn. Somewhere, Thaddeus Stevens will be smiling upon you.
Snarki, child of Loki
“I hope the ACLU is licking their chops over this one.”
The ACLU should ask for asset forfeiture of the entire AZ government in their response.
LAO
@Jay S: I agree with you 100%, as a defense attorney I understand that there is a cost to be arrested — even if the charges are ultimately dismissed. Also, that the flexing of the power of the state — whether reasonable or not — is an effective means of intimidation.
Hal
Wonder what Boner would have said before the election if someone asked him if a health care replacement would blitz through congress?
Captain C
@Villago Delenda Est: Untrue. 4 Peaks Brewery makes excellent beer.
TaMara (HFG)
@ruemara: I could not agree with this comment more. Reap/sow.
LAO
@Roger Moore: How scared are these Republicans? Pretty frightened, it appears.
Aleta
Expose every one of them, defeat every one of them, investigate every one, prosecute everyone prosecutable, diminish every one of them, keep trailing every one, commit every one of them to oblivion.
But they are not stupid, they are not going to give up or change, and they have a lot of power and manipulative wiliness.
Tokyokie
@geg6: Seeing as my great-grandmother was named after a Confederate general (as were her four sisters, but they all had traditional women’s first names and Confederate middle names; my ancestor was merely “Wade Hampton”), I’m glad that didn’t happen. Although that part of my family was in Arkansas, so I guess Sherman would have missed them.
Captain C
@geg6: The War Nerd has a couple excellent articles on why Sherman was right, and who should have been hanged after the war.
AliceBlue
@Corner Stone: @Corner Stone:
Christ on a saltine cracker. All I was doing was replying to a commenter who was of the opinion that all southern whites should have been killed at the end of the Civil War. I simply said that not all southerners are RWNJs.
Ridnik Chrome
@LAO: That’s the way I like to see ’em…
trollhattan
@Ridnik Chrome:
Here’s hoping the rich people and bidnezmen in premiere class send a message via a (well-crafted) boot to the administration’s ass for adding yet another unnecessary annoyance to their flights.
billcoop4
@AliceBlue:
Given the appalling number* of Confederate Battle-flags visible in upstate NY, Vermont, and other parts of Yankeedom, that’s a winning bet.
* While even 1 is appalling in that part of the country, the number is much higher than 1.
WMC
Jay S
@LAO:Not much of a stretch to conspiracy once you criminalize protest.
Corner Stone
@LAO: I don’t know anymore. I have been risk averse for a number of years now for reasons. I have recently been pondering where that ends.
trollhattan
@Ian G.: Reconstruction would have been administered quite differently without the efforts of Mr. Booth. We’ll never know.
LAO
@Ridnik Chrome: But scaredy-cat Republicans make terrible law — some of which actually passes court review. (see PATRIOT ACT).
hovercraft
Remember that the pressure is coming from all fronts.
The travails of being Donald Trump’s Secretary of State
By Steve Benen
Rex Tillerson, Trump’s Secretary of State, is in Mexico today, trying to clean up the mess the president created by antagonizing our neighbor. There’s been a lot of that happening lately, with Tillerson in “perpetual cleanup mode,” trying to reassure countries rattled by the president’s antics.
Making matters worse, the Washington Post reports that the State Department itself has been sidelined by the White House.
The Trump administration in its first month has largely benched the State Department from its long-standing role as the preeminent voice of U.S. foreign policy, curtailing public engagement and official travel and relegating Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to a mostly offstage role.
Decisions on hiring, policy and scheduling are being driven by a White House often wary of the foreign policy establishment and struggling to set priorities and write policy on the fly.
For weeks, it seems the president has largely ignored Tillerson, not bothering to even alert him to developments that would affect his duties. When the White House unveiled its Muslim ban, for example, no one provided Tillerson with any details about the policy in advance, and Tillerson was forced to tell West Wing officials “that he was baffled over not being consulted.”
When Trump balked at a two-state solution in the Middle East, the Secretary of State learned about it by watching the comments live on television, and no one from the State Department was welcome at the meeting between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. When the White House put Iran “on notice” a week earlier, no one checked in with State about this, either.
There are 116 positions at the State Department that require Senate approval, and as of this morning, 111 don’t yet have nominees. By some accounts, these slots are vacant because of a standoff between Tillerson and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus over who would take the lead in choosing personnel.
Tillerson, you’ll recall, wanted Elliott Abrams as his deputy – a choice Trump vetoed because of Abrams’ pre-election criticism of his candidacy.
Politico reports today, meanwhile, that Tillerson is struggling with the perception that he’s “out of the loop on major foreign policy decisions,” and “just three weeks after Tillerson took office, it’s clear that his tenure is already in trouble.”
I’d love to know what Trump told Tillerson before he was offered the job, and whether the former ExxonMobil CEO had any idea what he was getting himself into.
SAD ! So SAD !
MCA1
@AliceBlue: There’d be a lot less of the revanchist in our body politic if we’d not allowed the klan to rise and Jim Crow to replace formal slavery and the glorious South mythology to gain acceptance, and we’d instead made the confederate states grovel and admit to their sins and hanged a lot more of them. I totally get Grant’s decisionmaking process as President, and I understand Lincoln calling off the dogs and not having Sherman just bust the hell out of the whole South. I revere those guys and their morality is a shining star. But strategically, over the long haul, it probably would have been the better move to just completely decimate the South, as showing it mercy did not exactly bring about contrition. Maybe that wouldn’t have eliminated racism in America, but it would have set back institutionalized racism so far society would be able to outrun it, and we wouldn’t be where we are now, where the entire southeastern corner of the country is run on anti-intellectualism and proud ignorance, resentment and sophomoric stick-in-the-eye guerilla warfare, all tinged with bigotry and cultural backwardness. Regardless whether some liberals live in Chapel Hill and Charlottesville.
LAO
@Jay S: especially under RICO statutes (I understand that Arizona’s does not require a “overt act” — ie that a personal actually does something to contribute to the conspiracy)
LAO
@Corner Stone: you’re not alone on that.
Tokyokie
@LAO: Prior restraints of free speech are usually barred by the courts, so this legislation is of dubious legality, but as others have pointed out, somebody has to have the standing and finances to challenge the law.
hovercraft
Suspect In Kansas Triple Shooting Allegedly Yelled ‘Get Out Of My Country’
A suspect arrested on Thursday in connection with a triple shooting in Olathe, Kansas, allegedly shouted “get out of my country” before opening fire and later told a bartender that he had killed two Middle Eastern men, according to a report by the Kansas City Star.
The Olathe Police Department responded to reports of shots fired at Austin’s Bar and Grill in Olathe on Wednesday night. Three men with gunshot wounds were transported to area hospitals, where one victim later died.
According to a Wednesday report by the Kansas City Star, the suspect fled on foot. The suspect was arrested at approximately 12:40 a.m. and the case remains under investigation, according to police.
Adam Purinton, a 51-year-old resident of Olathe identified by the Kansas City Star as the suspect arrested early Thursday morning, reportedly told a bartender at an Applebee’s in Clinton that he had killed two Middle Eastern men and needed somewhere to hide.
Garmin officials identified two of the victims, who worked at the company’s Aviation Systems Engineering team in Olathe, as Alok Madasani and Srinivas Kuchibhotla. In an email to employees, officials wrote that Kuchibhotla was the deceased victim, according to the Kansas City Star’s report on Thursday.
The Kansas City Star identified the third victim as Ian Grillot.
Both Madasani and Kuchibhotla have Indian universities listed on their Linkedin pages.
The Henry County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to TPM that Purinton is being held at the county jail but did not immediately confirm whether he has been charged.
Purinton was booked for first-degree murder but has not officially been charged yet, according to a report by local CBS affiliate KCTV.
A clerk at the Henry County Courthouse did not immediately respond to TPM’s attempt to confirm if Purinton has been charged.
He felt comfortable enough to brag about killing “middle eastern” men and ask for somewhere to hide.
Seriously WTF Kansas.
The Moar You Know
Read Sherman’s autobiography. It is a GREAT book.
FWIW: he thought the South should have been stripped of statehood, redistricted into military districts, never allowed to vote or re-arm in any way, including personal arms. My family’s from there. Think he had it right.
Also, the “burn ’em all” thing was a little more complex than that. You will probably laugh. He made a deal with every town he marched through: you give us no trouble, we leave you alone. ONE of my men gets shot and we steal everything you have that can be taken and burn the rest to the ground.
He ended up burning every town he marched through. Those people just couldn’t help themselves, even at the cost of everything including their lives.
Jay S
@LAO: We are headed towards a “papers please” environment (without the “please”), but I find it hard to see fighting that particular battle as a winner. Public support for refusal is likely to be nil. I assume courts will be very deferential without strong evidence of bad faith.
Chet Murthy
@Ian G.: I don’t disagree with the sentiment. If I thought it was completely safe (as in: “I won’t get beaten up, even here in SF”), I’d wear one of those “Heat a Peach (Sherman Georgia 1864 Tour” shirts). But ….
Martin van Creveld pointed out (learned this from LG&M, then read his book) that no modern conqueror has vanquished an insurgency. Specifically, that no conqueror in modern times has imposed a political settlement on an uncooperative population. Basically, short of genocide, they can and will resist and bleed the conquering army white. The lesson one can draw about the South is, that the failure of Reconstruction (and the re-immiseration of black Americans) was baked into the cake. Not fun to contemplate, but I buy the argument. There was no way Lincoln was going to sign up for genocide of the entire white Southern population, even if it were feasible.
The only way it’ll change, is if we outbreed them. I look to my Latino brothers and sisters to do their part. Down with white supremacy! Up with the Latino birth rate!
LAO
@Jay S: I “hear” you. Doesn’t mean that it’s not a battle worth fighting. My query was meant as a personal question, I’m thinking about it.
Gelfling 545
Yep. Keep showing up. At very least it will annoy them which can only be a good thing. I want them sleepless from worry..
Corner Stone
@AliceBlue: #NotAllWhiteSoutherners
Chet Murthy
@LAO: Something I wonder about (I live in CA, so it doesn’t affect me): how does “asset forfeiture” work? If my assets aren’t in the state of AZ, how can the state go after them? Doe sit come down to “either give ’em up or rot in jail”?
I get that for federal crimes, the USG can go after anything in the US. But this isn’t a federal crime.
Barbara
@Jay S: What papers? The only identification I routinely carry is a driver’s license which does not provide any information about immigration status. Most Americans don’t have passports and do not routinely carry around a birth certificate. Most Americans would have difficulty proving their legal status within this country on the fly. I am not an idiot, I realize that the plan is to single out people who look, dress or talk like “foreigners,” but upon what pretense? In the past a national identity card has been met with something close to hysteria bordering on maniacal panic, as a conspiracy of a one world government to track people — but I don’t see how you can insist on making people prove their identity and/or legal status for an increasing number of reasons without moving to a system that provides people with valid government issued identification at the federal level.
Brachiator
@Chris:
I have no idea why some folk want to pretend that American Apartheid was some special evil of the South that spilled over into other states. The United States was and is, unfortunately, built upon racism and bigotry.
Corner Stone
@The Moar You Know:
I agree that I laugh at the idea he made the offer and then somehow “had” to burn every town he marched through.
Allowing a guerrilla insurgency a place to re-establish supply lines and communications on his flank does not sound like a very smart idea for a brilliant military commander.
In short, he was always going to burn everything down. No fig leaves needed.
Gelfling 545
@Oatler.: My sister’s ex sister in law, whom she rather likes, moved here from AZ where she lived most of her life. She is spending a lot of time deprogramming her. Looks promising now that she’s out of that environment.
Chris
@Betty Cracker:
I’m not suggesting that it was ever a Southern thing. I’m suggesting that expressions of it specific to the South have a tendency to spread to the entire country, precisely because it’s not just a Southern thing.
Gelfling 545
@trollhattan: I remember that he planned to show China who was boss. It appears to be China.
LAO
@Chet Murthy: I’m not sure. If a state obtains a judgment against an individual or his/her property and that property is located in a different state — I assume that the “Full Faith and Credit” Clause would apply, requiring the state where the property is located to enforce the judgment.
Roger Moore
@MCA1:
That assumes there was any stomach to do that in the North. The plain and brutal truth is that the North was never unified in the decision to fight the war in the first place, and even supporters had very different ideas about how the South should be treated after the war. There were a lot of people who were willing to fight only to preserve the Union and who didn’t care about slavery, and many of the people who wanted abolition didn’t give a damn about blacks as human beings.
Brachiator
@Barbara:
Yep. Well said. Half the time, I don’t even carry a driver’s license or other state ID with me. I have my smartphone, but I don’t think anything in it constitutes a legal ID (yet).
Yes! In the past, these dopes would claim that the Social Security Card was the first step toward an evil form of mandatory federal ID. Now, these simpletons are eager to give government power over them, even though they think they can stop anything once Mexicans and Muslims are taken care of.
Mnemosyne
@LAO:
I’m going to be traveling domestically in a few weeks, and meeting my two nieces (11 and 16) on the other end. Sadly, I would feel forced to show my ID because I can’t leave two kids stranded in a strange city.
All bets are off on the return flight, though.
Chris
@Brachiator:
See above @ 105. “The bad pathologies” referred specifically to things like the flag or the Klan rather than the entire phenomenon of white supremacism, though I can see that was terribly phrased on my part. Mea culpa.
Jay S
@Barbara: Real ID was supposed to be the cure. The federal government is slowly ratcheting down on non conforming states.
Chris
@Roger Moore:
Yeah. I can think of a lot of things that could’ve been done better. They all run into the problem that the people of the North in general didn’t care enough about black people to put the necessary energy into rebuilding the South as a more democratic and egalitarian society; and that the robber-baron elites that were taking over the country at that time were very much not interested in seeing the South (or any part of the country) becoming more democratic and egalitarian.
LAO
@Mnemosyne: I used to joke that as a middle aged Jewish woman in Manhattan, I was in a demographic that was invisible to the police — I would have to literally be on fire, in the middle of the street, to attract the attention of the NYPD. But now I’m thinking — I may finally get the opportunity to get myself arrested.
tybee
@AliceBlue:
’tis indeed amusing to see the “pure” amongst us advocating genocide, no?
Miss Bianca
@germy: Nothing. There’s nothing to stop them from trying it. Just like routine violation of the 4th Amendment over drug busts and seizures. if a corrupt authority wants to take your stuff away, they will try it.
ETA: Note, the accent should be on the “try”. Whether they succeed is another matter. But anything that makes Liberal Jesus cry is reason enough for Jesus Cleeks to try it.
Corner Stone
@Chris:
Man, talk about a genius of understatement. I thought you were French, not British?
Corner Stone
@tybee: You have no idea where you are right now, do you?
Brachiator
@Chris:
OK. I see your point.
Hurling Dervish
Sherman was a family cousin and used to spend the summer with our family after the war. When my gr gr uncles were boys, they saw Sherman coming up the walk and ran and hid under the table clothed table. There, they saw shiny boots clack across the floor and stop at the table.
“You come out from there,” he bellowed. “Or I’ll send the big gums in and blow you out!”
And out they came and stood at attention.
Suzanne
@germy:
That’s because they’re all crazy and/or evil and/or stupid. (My state senator, the most excellent Sean Bowie, excepted). Did you see the fresh hell they wrought today about using all medical skill to keep dying fetuses alive?
I’m with John. Keep the pressure on. Kick ass, and chew bubblegum.
tybee
@Corner Stone:
you’re just another loudmouth from tex-ass.
perhaps you and yours should have been exterminated as well.
Roger Moore
@Barbara:
I think you’re missing the point. The goal is to require people to be able to prove their citizenship but not provide them the means. That makes it easy to harass or deport anyone who looks suspiciously foreign, i.e. not white.
laura
@LAO: I would politely ask to see the warrant.
Absent a warrant, I would decline, and make a strong effort to not suggest they go fuck themselves.
Corner Stone
@tybee: Get some help, old timer.
Jim Parene
@geg6: Amen!
Lurking Canadian
@Roger Moore: I have heard (though I didn’t read the source material) that the new instructions provided to ICE this week give agents the power to deport people they “suspect” of being illegal aliens. There’s no way that’s legal, but Trump doesn’t worry about technicalities like that.
ruemara
s.@The Moar You Know: lol, whether decended from those fools or not, they are certainly their children.
The Dudeist
@Jeffro: If I go to a protest and I had peaceful intentions but some nuts decide to loot the Starbucks, how am I or any peaceful protestor responsible for nutjobs? If a friend of mine is a murderer and he is arrested do I get convicted by being a friend when it’s clear I had no idea he was evil? Guilty by association is not going to hold up legally.
MCA1
@Roger Moore: All fair points. There were also family ties. And, we didn’t have the benefit of having seen the divergent responses by Germany in regards to their treatment after the two separate world wars they started, which colors our view today (structural dynamic, political and economic circumstance differences noted, of course, but I think there’s some consensus that they weren’t made to “own” WWI enough, and that Germany’s been a model world citizen post-1945).
I nonetheless regret the dog’s nose not being more thoroughly rubbed in the dump they left on the living room carpet in the immediate post-bellum South. Even if it didn’t revolve around renouncing racism (obviously, the North was not in some enlightened enough place on the matter to ask for that), a broader recognition of the treason involved, and forced apologies for inflicting the unnecessary costs of that war on everyone, not limited to just dead Union soldiers, would likely have helped. And probably would have been supported by a broad majority of Northern constituencies. [As an aside, I think it also would probably have been helpful if the North hadn’t eventually mythologized its own role in the Civil War as though every last Unioner at the time was an unblemished abolitionist true believer from Boston or something. My personal opinion is that while claims the war wasn’t primarily about the preservation of chattel slavery for the South is a lie that should never go unchallenged, it’s also a bit of a lie to say it follows that it was mostly about slavery for the North, too. It’s probably more true to say we’ve got it backwards: the war actually was in large part about states’ rights, only for the North, in support of crushing said rights.]
I submit that we’d have had a different dynamic than one where the lies about states’ rights and Northern aggression started spreading almost immediately, and Gone with The Wind wasn’t laughed at as self-serving apologia, and millions of crackers today honestly don’t see what the big deal with the Confederate battle flag is, and Lee’s primary place in history is as a brilliant tactician and not someone for whom (in the absolute friendliest interpretation) state meant more than country, and athletic teams at the flagship university of the state of Mississippi unapologetically carry the name of secessionists and no one bats an eye. I find it difficult to believe that allowing the mythologization (word?) of the Civil War in the South hasn’t led to some of the “f you you can’t tell me what to do you condescending big city asshole global warming’s a hoax take back our country!” attitude that informs a lot of Republicanism in the South, and by extension elsewhere, today (and, yes, Democratic attitudes, mostly in the South, before LBJ willingly cut the Dixiecrats loose). They’re still rebelling, and the Civil War never ended, in part because they weren’t sufficiently shamed and forced to admit defeat publicly enough.
Woulda helped if the northern robber barons hadn’t shown up and plucked everything they could off the carcass, of course, too. But that may not have happened the way it did if there’d been enough reconciliation immediately post-war to allow the North to take pity and actually rebuild the South instead of pretend to do so begrudgingly.
Seanly
@Ridnik Chrome:
I would tell a muthafugger off. How does that not violate the 4th Amendment? I am aware there is a border exception, but applying that to domesticate flights terminating at an international airport seems a willful violation.
Back on topic, JC calls it right. Total & complete war with these jerks. We can’t just take back a few House seats in 2018. We need to win at the states and national level.
sunny raines
“he said changes to former President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement would likely be relatively modest.”
and yet beohner was the republican leader during much of his party’s travesty of lies and dissembling against ACA. One of these days someone is going to discover the truth of how today’s republicans live with themselves.
TenguPhule
@AliceBlue: Apologies to the exceptions to the rule.
J R in WV
@germy:
LG&M just now came up for me OK using a saved link. Individual stories/threads too.
tybee
@Corner Stone:
did you ever figure out which of your parents was the whore?
you seemed to be confused about which one was.
you’re the one advocating genocide. you should seek help but loud mouth tex-ass folks like you are incapable of realizing what a sick sack of shit you are and won’t figure out that you REALLY need help.
you should really work on your parental issues. you’ll never be free until you decide which one was….
J R in WV
@Chris:
This!! We here in WVa seceded from Virginia to remain loyal members of the Union, in opposition to the Confederacy, which seceded from the Union in order to keep human beings in bondage slavery forever. They talk about state’s rights, but the only sentence different in the two constitutions was to enshrine slavery forever, the only state’s right of interest to the Confederacy was slavery.
Just as now, Republicans bray about state’s rights when they approve of that right, like abortion restrictions, and cut off talk of state’s rights when it is a right they disapprove of, like legalized marijuana. Lot of money in illegal drugs, wonder who’s paying for those state’s rights?
Anyway, how exactly did WV, which was never a Jim Crow state, wind up a redneck confederate flag flying bunch of bigots? Mysterious to me.
mohagan
@JMS: My two favorite Civil War generals (after the first day of the battle of Shiloh). One of my favorite quotes, along with “Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other always”.