“I’ve never seen anything like this, but I hope it never happens again,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn told BuzzFeed News on Thursday.I have an inkling that this is just the beginning.
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." — William Congreve
As a matter of fact, it is an extension of the ongoing culture and race wars that are turning into a civil war, soft so far. Civil wars are so uncivil.
And a battle between the sexes is the worst of all worlds. Turning ugly. You really don't want angry women coming after you. Whatever you do, you look bad.
And a battle between the sexes is the worst of all worlds. Turning ugly. You really don't want angry women coming after you. Whatever you do, you look bad.
Several years ago, a Russian strategist predicted that the US would come apart. It seemed far-fetched at the time but is beginning to look prescient now.
This reality show is really getting gripping. Make some more popcorn.
Buzz Feed
There Have Always Been Protests On Capitol Hill. This Is Different.
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The president can't resist fueling the fire.
Reuters
Trump '100 percent' certain Kavanaugh accuser named wrong person
Buzz Feed
There Have Always Been Protests On Capitol Hill. This Is Different.
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The president can't resist fueling the fire.
Reuters
Trump '100 percent' certain Kavanaugh accuser named wrong person
Martine Cizmar
CNN
Washington Post: Trump warns that Murkowski 'will never recover' for opposing Kavanaugh
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Trump mocks Christine Blasey Ford's testimony, tells people to 'think of your son'
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Washington Post: Trump warns that Murkowski 'will never recover' for opposing Kavanaugh
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Trump mocks Christine Blasey Ford's testimony, tells people to 'think of your son'
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And Mitch McConnell can't resist gloating.
This is comparable to Hillary's "deplorables" as a politicalgaffe — make that blunder.
Moreover, he is repeating in it over and over, turning it into a meme.
Against democracy as "mob rule" much?
The Hill
McConnell: Senate GOP 'refused to be intimidated by the mob'
And Mitch McConnell can't resist gloating.
This is comparable to Hillary's "deplorables" as a political
Moreover, he is repeating in it over and over, turning it into a meme.
Against democracy as "mob rule" much?
The Hill
McConnell: Senate GOP 'refused to be intimidated by the mob'
Jourdain Carney
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I don't recall seeing this level of rage at the machine since the Vietnam War protests.
Crooks and Liars
Protesters Storm Supreme Court Building, Pound On Door
Karoli Kuns
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America has already split into two countries. Can there be reconciliation? How? Where? Why?
The values that traditionalists and liberals hold are inherently contradictory and mutually exclusive. so where to go from here?
It' is difficult to see how this can be reconciled democratically since the differences in values dictate differences in laws. The result of trying to maintain a consistency of law federally will result in a constant political struggle between parties to change the law and remove the losing side from government positions. The conservative solution would be to let states decide, but then the laws would not be consistent within the country. For example, abortion would be permitted in liberal states and would be treated as murder in red states. Thinking that would work is a pipe dream.
Did Lincoln make a great mistake in choosing to preserve the Union rather than let the Confederacy go its way?
The challenge was less then that it is now, since the opposing states were contiguous. However, now the red states and the blue states are widely separated geographically.
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I don't recall seeing this level of rage at the machine since the Vietnam War protests.
Protesters are angry, they're vocal, and they're sure as hell not there to support Brett Kavanaugh, no matter what President Pussygrabber says. After storming the Capitol building earlier, they went to the Supreme Court building about the time Kavanaugh arrived for his swearing-in ceremony. Angry and inflamed, they ascended the stairs en masse, according to reports, and pounded on the large wooden courthouse doors....If this is anything like a Vietnam era repeat, which was not only about the war, but also involved civil rights and other issues of elite overreach, this is just the warmup.
Crooks and Liars
Protesters Storm Supreme Court Building, Pound On Door
Karoli Kuns
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America has already split into two countries. Can there be reconciliation? How? Where? Why?
The values have broken down the seams like a tectonic plate during a massive earthquake.
The victorious tribe has no desire for compromise whatsoever because they are “right” and the others are “wrong”. The losing tribe has no intention of sitting at the same table with those to which they share NO value and break NO bread. There is nothing to discuss....Of course, this is not just a matter of the Kavanaugh affair. It's a whole range of issues that divide traditionalists (American conservatives) and liberals (American liberals).
The values that traditionalists and liberals hold are inherently contradictory and mutually exclusive. so where to go from here?
It' is difficult to see how this can be reconciled democratically since the differences in values dictate differences in laws. The result of trying to maintain a consistency of law federally will result in a constant political struggle between parties to change the law and remove the losing side from government positions. The conservative solution would be to let states decide, but then the laws would not be consistent within the country. For example, abortion would be permitted in liberal states and would be treated as murder in red states. Thinking that would work is a pipe dream.
Did Lincoln make a great mistake in choosing to preserve the Union rather than let the Confederacy go its way?
The challenge was less then that it is now, since the opposing states were contiguous. However, now the red states and the blue states are widely separated geographically.
1 comment:
“Did Lincoln make a great mistake in choosing to preserve the Union rather than let the Confederacy go its way?”
According to some people, the Civil War war was all about slavery. Yes, some northern states had slaves, and yes Lincoln said in writing (several times) that his only concern was preserving the Union. And yes Lincoln wrote that if preventing Southern secession meant continued slavery, then Lincoln favored slavery.
But for some idiots, facts are irrelevant. The Civil War was all about slavery. All northerners righteously opposed slavery. Right? That’s why they had to be forcibly conscripted.
I myself despise slavery. (Indeed I believe that blacks should be paid reparations.) But I’m not a fan of self-righteous nonsense either.
Should Lincoln have let the Confederacy secede? I don’t see a right or wrong here. The South lost, just as England lost when the colonists wanted to secede. Was England right to lose?
Incidentally, the colonists won their independence because most of the British forces were in the Caribbean, and in the corridor between the Caribbean region and England, protecting their rum concession from the French. Why? MONEY. Mountains of money. The rum concession meant a fortune in those days. The British said to themselves, “We’ll try to keep the colonies if we can, but if it comes down to a choice between keeping the colonies and keeping the concession, we’ll defend the concession.”
If there had been no rum concession, and no competition from France, then the USA and Canada today would be England.
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