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crystalis · 3 months

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how is trump even allowed to run for president again i dont really get how you can do that after being impeached twice and also being historically terrible

i didnt know if there were any presidents in the past that ran for rpesident again after already being president once before

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danepopfrippery · 1 year

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The strangling of forced birth shit in the USA is really pissing me off more and more day by day. I think its because unlike civil rights or gay rights its because this was a thing WE HAD THAT WAS WRONGFULLY TAKEN AWAY AND WE’RE SUPPOSED TO JUST GO WITH IT.

Like my fuckhead of a state thinks they can ban abortion websites and cucked walgreens into not carrying the abortion pill here (tho outrageously abortion is technically still legal here, iowa you assholes i hate u). They also keep trying to ban abortion by mail tho they have taken breaks to harass trans kids and adults cuz gotta be fully evil.

Hell before Roe was brutally murdered in bed I had a cousin forced to carry a dead fetus to term, no doctor told her she could get an abortion or how to.

Biden you useless asshole you think we’re gonna vote for u if its trump free just because u piss poorly tried to discharge student debt? U didnt even try to make weed legal, and while uve done useless steps for voting rights and abortion YOU HAVENT ENFORCED DICK?!

Ill believe Biden and co will do real change when half the supreme court is impeached and not just cuz i dont like what theyve done but cuz theres so much evidence its deserved.

Keep poking us, we have very little left to lose…

#abortion #pro abortion #abortion rights

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 3 years

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The testimony of a key witness in Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial is under new scrutiny by the House Intelligence Committee following a report this week that undercuts the veracity of his claim that he was unaware of a Trump effort to pressure Ukraine into mounting a meritless investigation of Joe Biden.

On Monday, CNN reported new details of a July 2019 call between Rudy Giuliani, then–US special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, and Andriy Yermak, a top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. During that call, Giuliani, then Trump’s personal lawyer, aggressively pressed Ukraine to announce investigations into dubious accusations about Biden and about alleged Ukrainian meddling in the 2016 election. Portions of this conversation have previously been reported by BuzzFeed News and Time, but CNN published the full audio of the 40-minute call. The recording of the conversation contradicts Volker’s sworn testimony to Congress that he never witnessed any attempt on the part of Trump and Giuliani to muscle Ukraine into launching an investigation of Biden, Trump’s possible opponent in the upcoming presidential election.

The discrepancy between Volker’s testimony and the recording of the call has drawn the attention of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who tells Mother Jones that Volker’s assertions to Congress amounted to “a disingenuous revision of history.”

A former aide to the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) who was appointed ambassador to NATO by George W. Bush, Volker is a foreign policy establishment figure who retains posts at a prominent DC lobbying firm and a think tank. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson picked Volker as a special representative to Ukraine in 2017, a nominally part-time job that overlapped with the duties of then-US Ambassador Maria Yovanovitch, who Trump later fired.

Volker became a key figure in the Trump administration’s 2019 effort, spearheaded by Giuliani, to push Ukraine to investigate alleged corruption relating to Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company where Hunter Biden had once served as a board member. Giuliani particularly wanted Ukrainian prosecutors to announce a probe into flimsy allegations that Biden as vice president had forced the firing of a top Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, to derail a supposed investigation into Burisma. This pressure campaign culminated in the White House holding up almost $400 million in military aide for Ukraine and led to Trump’s first impeachment in December 2019.

Volker claimed in sworn testimony during Trump’s impeachment proceedings that, even as he helped push Ukraine to look into Burisma and corruption, he did not know that those topics related to Joe Biden—and, consequently, he was unaware that he was assisting in the Giuliani-Trump effort to smear a political rival.

“Vice President Biden was never a topic of discussion,” Volker said in an October 3, 2019 deposition before the House Intelligence Committee. He repeated that claim in televised testimony before the committee the following month: “At no time was I aware of or knowingly took part in an effort to urge Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Biden. As you know from the extensive real-time documentation I have provided, Vice President Biden was not a topic of our discussions.”

CNN’s report on that July 2019 phone call shows that Volker’s account was not true. Giuliani repeatedly urged an investigation targeting Biden during that conversation, which Volker was part of. And Giuliani said that announcing such a probe would help Zelensky improve relations with Trump.

“All we need from the President [Zelensky] is to say, I’m gonna put an honest prosecutor in charge, he’s gonna investigate and dig up the evidence, that presently exists and is there any other evidence about involvement of the 2016 election, and then the Biden thing has to be run out,” Giuliani said at one point. “Somebody in Ukraine’s gotta take that seriously.”

Giuliani also told Yermak that he was eager for Ukraine to look into an allegation that Shokin “was fired because Vice President Biden threatened [former Ukrainian President Petro] Poroshenko with not getting a [US] loan guarantee that was critical at the time.”

In his October 3 deposition, Volker acknowledged arranging and participating in this call with Giuliani and Yermak, but he insisted it was “just an introductory” conversation. “It was literally, you know, ‘let me introduce, you know, Mr. Giuliani; let me introduce Mr. Yermak. I wanted to put you in touch.'” Volker said. “Blah, blah, blah.”

In fact, the lengthy call—which reportedly shocked Ukrainian officials—included an extensive discussion of what Giuliani and Trump hoped to get out of Ukraine.

Volker’s misleading testimony mattered. Republicans including Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who argued successfully against the Senate convicting Trump, cited the former diplomat’s claims to defend Trump. “Volker, the special envoy, said there was no quid pro quo,” Graham told reporters in November 2019, adding: “I find the whole process to be a sham and I’m not going to legitimize it.”

In a statement to Mother Jones, Schiff, who acted as lead House Manager during Trump’s first Senate impeachment trial, argues that the information that Volker failed to disclose—Giuliani overtly pressured Yermak for a so-called quid pro quo on the July 19 call—is more evidence that Trump should have been removed from office.

“During his deposition, Ambassador Volker suggested that he did not see a connection between requests for an investigation into Burisma and one into the Bidens, except in retrospect,” Schiff says. “These tapes reveal that to be a disingenuous revision of history. At trial, we warned that more of the truth would come out over time—and it has—validating the need for President Trump’s removal and tarnishing the reputations of those who knowingly participated in his scheming.”

Almost as soon as Volker’s deposition became public, questions about its accuracy arose. Just Security wrote in November 2019 that “it appears that Mr. Volker lied to Congress in violation of federal criminal law” during his October deposition. But the new reporting on the July 19 call offers stronger evidence that Volker made false claims in his October deposition and November public testimony.

Volker declined to address questions about his sworn statements. “I have nothing to add to what was already covered in my public testimony,” he said in an email Tuesday.

Schiff did not respond to a question about whether the intelligence committee will ask the Justice Department to consider charging Volker with perjury. But a committee staffer said the panel “will continually review new information that comes to light related to the Ukraine investigation to determine the appropriate response, including whether witnesses were truthful.”

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weirdmageddon · 4 years

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hot take but people who say they wont vote at all if biden gets nominated scare the fuck out of me. yeah he sucks and we could do MUCH better but hes not going to dig his claws into our government to weaken our fundamental checks and balances and fill the supreme court with ppl who will decide on cases regressively for years to come

im going to be 18 in july so i cant vote in the primaries but i will be able to vote in the general election and it will probably the most important election in history. we are NOT fucking repeating 2016. i thought we were over this: to not vote blue is another vote for trump

not voting at all isn’t the rebellious act you think it is. youre giving power to our collective enemy who we have been trying for the past four years to get the FUCK out of the oval office and this the best chance we will have to do that since impeachment didnt work. ‪i’d vote for bernie any day over biden and this isnt an endorsement for biden in the primaries, but if it comes down to it and hes nominated, deciding not to vote at all is fucking selfish and shows how privileged you are for it to not effect you either way‬ and shows that you really dont care about the people around you who are affected by trump’s policies or what happens to them.

things wont turn around immediately, these kinds of things take time. it will take at least a decade to recover from trump’s infection of our government.

#politics #bidens an idiot and has cognitive decline but he isnt an active fucking threat to our constitution or praises dictators and tyrants

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Did Democrats Or Republicans Founded The Kkk

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Did Democrats Or Republicans Founded The Kkk

The Kkk Was Founded By Democrats But Not The Party

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The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by ex-Confederate soldiers Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones and James Crowe in Pulaski, Tennessee. The group was originally a social club but quickly became a violent white supremacist group.

Its first grand wizard was Nathan Bedford Forrest, an ex-Confederate general and prominent slave trader.

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Experts agree the KKK attracted many ex-Confederate soldiers and Southerners who opposed Reconstruction, most of whom were Democrats. Forrest even spoke at the 1868 Democratic National Convention.

The KKK is almost a paramilitary organization thats trying to benefit one party. It syncs up with the Democratic Party, which really was a;racist party openly at the time, Grinspan said. But the KKK isnt the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party isnt the KKK.

Although the KKK did serve the Democratic Partys interests, Grinspan stressed that not all Democrats supported the KKK.

The Anti-Defamation Leagues Center on Extremism senior fellow Mark Pitcavage told the Associated Press that many KKK members were Democrats because the Whig Party had died off and Southerners disliked Republicans after the Civil War. Despite KKK members’ primary political affiliation, Pitcavage said it is wrong to say the Democratic Party started the KKK.

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The Conservative Coalition Vs The New Deal Coalition

Now that we know the basics, the changes in both parties in the 1900s are perhaps best understood by examining;the Conservative Coalition;and the New Deal Coalition.

The Conservative Coalition was a coalition between the anti-Communist Republicans like Nixon and Reagan and conservative Southern Democrats. It arose to oppose FDRs New Deal progressivism, and it blocked a lot of the progressive legislation the New Deal Coalition tried to pass from the 1930s to the 1960s. The socially conservative solid south;was still its own entity. It sometimes voted;with other Democrats, and sometimes broke off into its own factions. See the 1960 election Kennedy v. Nixon v. Harry F. Byrd. The Coalition tellingly dwindled post 64 Civil Rights and ended in the Clinton era as conservative southerners became Republicans and formed;the modern construct of the Red States and the Blue States.

Meanwhile,;the New Deal coalition explains the progressive coalition of Democrats and Republicans the Conservative coalition opposed. Today the two parties largely resemble these coalitions.

A Summary Of The Solid South Switch

To summarize the above claims before we get to the details:

In 1860 the Democratic Party Platforms were about Small Government and States Rights, and the more aristocratic Republican Platform about Federal Power and Collective;Rights, but by;2016, the opposite is;true .

This is because the conservative south and old Republican Progressives can be said to have switched parties in reaction;to events that occurred from the Gilded Age to the Bush and Clinton years. These changes that are well symbolized by the 1968 election, but not explained by that alone.

To understand what changed, we must become familiar with;people like W. J. Bryan, Teddy, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, Henry A. Wallace, Strom Thurmond, FDR, MLK, and Hoover. We must look at the Red Scare, the Dixiecrat States Rights Parties, Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Nixons Southern Strategies, the New Deal Coalition and Conservative Coalition, etc. See;Democrats and Republicans Switched Platforms.

The full story aside, in the early days:

Populist social liberals used to ally with the populist socially conservative solid south .

The social liberal elite like Gouverneur Morris and Alexander Hamilton were in the Federalist party with classical conservative Tory-like figures and factions.

That pairing;of factions is either hopeful or a blight on history, depending on your perspective.

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In The Wake Of Trump’s David Duke Controversy Many Republicans Have Tried To Tie The Kkk To Progressivism

Its not news that Donald Trump appeals to white supremacists and his slowness in rebuking former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Dukes support hardly qualifies as surprising at this point. Whats instructive is how right-wing figures react. Earlier this week, political troglodyte Jeffrey Lord attempted to deflect criticism by calling the Klan a leftist terrorist organization perpetuating violence to further the progressive agenda.

That, of course, is entirely wrong. A short lesson in the basics of 20th;century American political history explains why.

White supremacist Southern Democrats were a key part of President Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal Coalition. They used their large numbers, unity and seniority to exclude as many black people from as much of the New Deal benefits and protections as possible and to stop the federal government from doing anything about lynching. Then the black freedom movement and white allies insisted on civil rights. In reactionary response, those white southern Democrats left the Democratic Party en masse, as evidenced by Strom Thurmonds Dixiecrat presidential campaign in 1948 and Richard Nixons opposition to school busing and play for segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallaces constituency.

White southern Democrats were explicit about their racism, and its no mystery that they left the party when it yielded to civil rights movement pressure, and as blacks began to make up a larger part of its constituency.

Did The American Political Parties Switch Clarifying The Semantics

People often ask,;did the American political parties switch?, but this question is semantically wrong, and thus we should address it before moving on.

Parties can switch general platforms and ideologies .

Voters can switch parties .

However,;the parties themselves only switch when they hang-up their hat to become a new party;.

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Southernization Urbanization And Big Government Vs Small Government

Today the Republican party doesnt have a notable progressive left-wing and the Democratic Party doesnt have a notable socially conservative right-wing.

Instead both parties have establishment and populist wings and the parties are divided by stances on social issues.

In other words, regional interests and the basic political identities of liberal and conservative didnt change as much as factions changed parties as party platforms changed along with America.

The modern split is expressed well by;the left-right paradigm Big Government Progressivism vs. Small Government Social Conservatism, where;socially conservative and pro-business conservative factions banded together against socially liberal and pro business liberal factions, to push back against an increasingly progressive Democratic Party and America .

This tension largely created the modern parties of our two-party system, resulting in two Big Tents;who disagree on the purposes of government;and social issues. This tension is then magnified by the;current influence of media and lobbyists, and can be understood by examining;what I call;the Sixth Party Strategy and by a tactic called Dog Whistle Politics).

The result is that today the Democratic Party is dominated by liberal Democrats and Progressives.

Meanwhile, most of those who would have been the old;socially conservative Democrats now have a R next to their name.

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Great Depression Shrinks Klan

The Great Depression in the 1930s depleted the Klans membership ranks, and the organization temporarily disbanded in 1944. The civil rights movement of the 1960s saw a surge of local Klan activity across the South, including the bombings, beatings and shootings of Black and white activists. These actions, carried out in secret but apparently the work of local Klansmen, outraged the nation and helped win support for the civil rights cause.;

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In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered a speech publicly condemning the Klan and announcing the arrest of four Klansmen in connection with the murder of a white female civil rights worker in Alabama. The cases of Klan-related violence became more isolated in the decades to come, though fragmented groups became aligned with neo-Nazi or other right-wing extremist organizations from the 1970s onward.;

As of 2016, the Anti-Defamation League estimated Klan membership to be around 3,000, while the Southern Poverty Law Center said there were 6,000 members total.

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Limited Government States Rights And Anti

Had the populist liberals, who agreed with;limited government but did not agree fully on social issues, not aligned, there would have been a Federalist dominance in early America. The;dominant factions would have been northern know-nothing-like nativists, social progressive Roosevelt-like or Hamilton-like elites, and quasi-loyalist Aristocrats like Adams.

The founders were not pro-slavery. However, slavery;was part of the culture and economy of many nations; the South was one such region.

Abolishing slavery meant crippling the Souths votes and industry. This was the;main argument for slavery by the Solid South historically. It;didnt stop the abolitionists like Hamilton from pushing for the abolition of slavery;as;he pushed for a central bank or federal control . However, it did result in many key compromises from the 1770s to mid-1800s.

A Reconstituted Early 20th Century Kkk Attracts Members From Both Sides

The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party

After Reconstruction, and as the Jim Crow period set in during the 1870s, the Klan became obsolete.;Through violence, intimidation and systematic oppression, the KKK had served its purpose to help whites retake Southern governments.

In 1915, Cornell William J. Simmons restarted the KKK. This second KKK was made up of Republicans and Democrats, although Democrats were more widely involved.

The idea that these things overlap in a Venn diagram, the way they did with the first Klan, just isnt as tight with the second Klan, Grinspan said.

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Why It Doesnt Make Sense To Equate Modern Democrats With The Old Southern Democrats

The Democrats, formally the;anti-Federalists,;had an;aversion to aristocracy from the late 1700s to the progressive era.

That truism;led to the southern conservatives of the solid south like;John C. Calhoun and small government liberals like Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren allying;in the same party;for most of U.S. history.

However,;that changed;after Civil Rights under LBJ and the rise of Goldwater States Rights Republicans .

Today the solid south, and figures like Jeff Sessions, are in an alliance in the big tent of the Republican Party . This was as much a response to the growing progressiveness of the Democratic Party as anything.

One simple way to confirm this is to look at the factions of;Lincolns time. There were four. They;were:

The Northern liberal Whig/Republicans,

The;Nativist Know-Nothing; allies of the Whig/Republicans,

The Southern Democrats and their Northern allies , and

The;Free Soil;;allies of the Democrats who;took a libertarian like position.

Todays Democrats are more like socially liberal Whig/Republicans , libertarians are like Free Soilers , Trumpians are like Nativist Know-Nothings , and Southern Democrats are like the modern Southern conservative Republicans.

The current parties are thus:

Social Liberals and Neoliberals vs. Social Conservatives and Neoliberal Conservatives AKA Neocons .

Clearly, the country has never been fully polarized, even at its most polarized.

Military Reconstruction And The Birth Of The Kkk

After the Civil War, during Reconstruction, the northern elite Radical Republican Progressives used the military to force the south to reform. At the time the Deep South used things like apprenticeship laws to extend slavery past the end of the War. The KKK took a;stand in defense of the old Southern way of life in a society divided by murder, military occupation, and;mayhem.

To be clear, Military Reconstruction is a term that;describes;the occupation of the South, and the KKK;formed as a response to it.

From that point on the South becomes Redeemed by Southern BourbonsAKA Northern Oligarchs who help the South;replace slave labor with wage labor.

The above might;be viewed less critically;if it wasnt for a notable speed bump:

Before Reconstruction could end naturally, in 1877, the Republican establishment traded the reformation of a few southern states for the Presidency when Tilden beat the Republican Hayes.

At that point, the Gilded Age began.;Gilded Age Republicans Redeemed the South and liked to be seen as putting aside the issue of race to focus on modernization and becoming a superpower.

The Gilded age gave way to the Progressive era. And in those eras, most of the country again minimized;issues of;race to focus on;other minority rights such as womens rights. Then, after that came the World Wars.

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The Rise Of Modern Social Liberalism And Social Conservatism

Later we get a third way with Bill Clintons New Democrats. This third way is an extension;of the;progressive bourbon liberal wing, but mashed-up with the progressive social liberal wing, and Reagan-era;conservatism. These three social liberal ideologies which Clinton embodied can collectively be referred to as an;American liberalism. These factions, which we can today denote as;progressive, neoliberal, and social liberal, can be used to differentiate types of liberals on the political left from the New Deal Coalition and the modern Democratic party of today.

TIP: As noted above in the introduction, there is no one way to understand Americas political ideologies, but each angle we look at things from helps us to better understand;bits of the historic puzzle.

Outside The United States

Aside from the Ku Klux Klan in Canada, there have been various attempts to organize KKK chapters outside the United States.

In Australia in the late 1990s, former One Nation member Peter Coleman established branches throughout the country, and circa 2012 the KKK has attempted to infiltrate other political parties such as Australia First.

Recruitment activity has also been reported in the United Kingdom.

In Germany, a KKK-related group, Ritter des Feurigen Kreuzes , was established in the 1920s. After the Nazis took over Germany, the group disbanded and its members joined the Nazis. Another German KKK-related group, the European White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, has organized and it gained notoriety in 2012 when the German media reported that two police officers who held membership in the organization would be allowed to keep their jobs.

A Ku Klux Klan group was established in Fiji in the early 1870s by white American settlers, although its operations were quickly put to an end by the British who, although not officially yet established as the major authority of Fiji, had played a leading role in establishing a new constitutional monarchy that was being threatened by the activities of the Fijian Klan.

In São Paulo, Brazil, the website of a group called Imperial Klans of Brazil was shut down in 2003, and the group’s leader was arrested.

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The Rise Of America First Nativism: Anti

During the 1830s to 1850s, as tension builds, third parties spring up like the northern nativist Know-Nothings;. This faction;pushed back against immigration in places like NYC and was more likely to be allied with the Whigs than the Democrats.

The conflict between Catholic immigrants and Know-Nothings is;the subject of the movie Gangs of New York.

These Know-Nothings were like a Northern version of the KKK but were notably;more concerned with immigration than slavery.;The soon-to-be KKK and the earlier;Know-Nothings shared an aversion to Catholics, Jews, non-whites, and non-Protestants in general, but much else was different.

The Know-Nothings were accused of being in bed with;Northern abolitionists,;and;their American party really never;caught on in the south due to them being perceived as more elitist and northern.

Thus, although each region breaks into;different groups, one should note that the slavery south is not;the only faction with socially conservative position, and certainly, they arent the only authoritative group. Remember, they are opposing northern elitists who are perpetuating their brand;of economic and political inequality.

Looking To The Classics And Factions For Proof

One good and not-so-divisive way to explain history is to look at the classics, especially those who focus on state-based political factions over political parties.

Classic works of this sort of political history, like V.O. Keys Southern Politics in State and Nation , make it very clear that the Solid South had historically always voted lock-step for the Democratic Party . Of course, the voting map over time, actual recorded history, and so much else tell this story too, but a well respected book like this is a great secondary source!

Today the Solid South is with the Republican Party and today old Socially Progressive Republicans like Teddy arent in the party .

This isnt to say that some of the more progressive Dixies, Bryan followers, and even economically minded Southern;Bourbons arent in the Democratic Party, they obviously are, just look at Carter, Clinton, Gore, and Bernie .

Likewise, the GOP have their constants. The;conservative Federalist pro-business faction, the neocons be they switched Bourbons, Gilded Age post-Reconstruction Republicans, or traditional Federalists, and the Federalist War Hawks are still in the Republican Party, as are the nativists;of the north Know-Nothings.

However, despite what didnt change, a ton did, including the party platforms, key factions, and a large swath of the voter base.

Modern Democrats know this well, they lost the 2016;election and didnt get one state in the Southern Bloc for Hillary .

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A Century Of Jim Crow But Otherwise Lots Of Progress

From 1877 to at least the 1960s, the Solid South KKK-like;Progressively Socially Conservative Democrats remained a formidable faction of the Democratic Party.

This is true even though the party was increasingly dominated by Progressives like William Jennings Bryan. We can see in Wilson that both factions held sway in the party, Wilson was both a progressive liberal and a son of the Confederates.

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TIP: During the late 1800s and early 1900s Eugenics was a popular theory. In this era, we might find;Margaret Sanger, liberal economists and social scientists, Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Ford, a young Hitler, and the KKK all agreeing on aspects of eugenics. There are many sides;of the eugenics argument, and one must study its history in earnest before making a judgment call. Very;radical right-wing propaganda equated birth control with;genocide, but there was a wide range of beliefs. An espousal of;negative eugenics is part of the dark history of the Democratic party.

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zaptap · 3 years

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you know, i get annoyed every single time twitter puts something into my notifications that is anything other than a personal notification that someone interacted with a tweet/followed me/etc

but

on the other hand, getting a notification last night that trump got impeached again was probably the only reason i didnt find out about it through a meme on here. so theres that

still doesnt belong in my notifications though fuck you twitter

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seymour-butz-stuff · 3 years

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Several Democrats have called on Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) to step down after he said he didn’t feel threatened in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — but would have been concerned if the mob had been made up of Black Lives Matter or antifa protesters.

In an interview Thursday on “The Joe Pags Show,” a conservative news radio show, Johnson said he “never felt threatened” by the pro-Trump mob that overran the Capitol on Jan. 6 hoping to overturn the results of the election.

The violent siege left five people dead, including a police officer; two other officers who were on duty that day later died by suicide. More than 100 police officers were injured and at least 40 rioters have been charged with assaulting law enforcement officers, who were shown being harassed, beaten and sprayed with gas substances by members of the mob.

Johnson, however, said he saw only law-abiding citizens.

Funny how all those law abiding citizens are being arrested left and right for breaking the law.

Dumbshit doesn’t think the gallows they erected was going to be for him. Every member of congress was going to be hung from it. They didn’t give two shits what little letter was next to your name.

“I knew those are people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law, so I wasn’t concerned,” Johnson told “The Joe Pags Show,” according to a clip of the interview posted Friday by American Bridge 21st Century, a Democratic group, which blasted Johnson for his “blatant racism.”

In the interview clip, Johnson went on to add that he would have been frightened had Black Lives Matter or antifa protesters stormed the Capitol instead.

“Now, had the tables been turned — now, Joe, this will get me in trouble — had the tables been turned and President Trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters, I might have been a little concerned,” Johnson said.

Johnson’s remarks prompted outrage and calls for him to resign from several Democrats and a handful of anti-Trump Republicans.

“For him to say something as racist as that — it’s ridiculous,” Wisconsin state Sen. LaTonya Johnson told the Associated Press. “It’s a totally racist comment and the insult to injury is he didn’t mind saying it in the position that he holds because for some reason that’s just deemed as acceptable behavior for people who live in and are elected officials in this state.”

Reporting has shown that the rioters on Jan. 6 were predominantly White and drawn to Washington that day by President Donald Trump and their shared grievances over the election.

“We’ve moved from just plain old fringe, extremist rants to fringe extremist and racist rants. This is seriously embarrassing to our state,” Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) tweeted.

Alex Lasry, a Democrat and Milwaukee Bucks executive who is running for Johnson’s Senate seat in 2022, called Johnson “unfit to serve the people of Wisconsin.”

“There is no missing context here,” Lasry tweeted. “He knew what he was saying, he knew he shouldn’t say it, but this is who he is.”

Johnson’s office did not respond to requests for comment Saturday.

On social media. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), an impeachment manager in Trump’s second impeachment trial, told Johnson that the Jan. 6 mob “would have hurt you if they got their hands on you. That’s why Senators hid that day. Remember?”

“He’s not even pretending this isn’t racist,” said Fred Wellman, an executive director of the Lincoln Project, a political group of anti-Trump former Republicans.

“This is ugly. This is wrong. This is racist. Ron Johnson needs to be defeated,” said Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman from Illinois who announced a primary challenge to Trump in 2019.

Most Republicans, however, have stayed silent so far on Johnson’s comments.

Johnson, a Trump loyalist, has for weeks tried to downplay the Capitol riot and sow doubt as to who was responsible for instigating it. At one Capitol Hill hearing about the response to the riot, Johnson read from a piece in the Federalist that had suggested without real evidence that “antifa or other leftist agitators” had been among the riot crowd. Johnson’s interview Thursday on “The Joe Pags Show” indicated that the lack of evidence must not have been a concern for him.

Johnson also has recently waffled on a previous promise that he would only serve two terms in the Senate, when he told reporters last week that he has not decided yet whether he will run for a third term.

Johnson said keeping his pledge to limit himself to two terms was “probably my preference now,” but left open the possibility of running again, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

“I think that pledge was based on the assumption we wouldn’t have Democrats in total control of government and we’re seeing what I would consider the devastating and harmful effects of Democrats’ total control just ramming things through,” Johnson said.

In one of his attempts to delay President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill from Senate passage, Johnson forced clerks to stay up all night to read the 628-page bill in its entirety, which took nearly 11 hours.

#qop #gop #republican #trumplican #stupid fucking morons #q #qanon #wwg1wga #trump #maga #trump derangement syndrome

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pbandjesse · 3 years

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I feel and look exhausted but I had a really nice day. I am having some weird feelings but like. It was still nice.

I actually slept last night!! I didnt realize the new melatonin I got was twice as strong as what Ive been taking. So I was really asleep. And getting up wasnt as miserable. It was still a little hard, but that was mostly because I was cozy. I laid with James for a bit, but soon enough he was getting up and we both had things to do.

I had a commission to work on. And I wanted to finish my quilt project. Just wanted a good art day. James headed out for a bike ride and I had breakfast. And did a little bit of cleaning.

I was excited because when he got back I had a package! It was the new tablet!! Its great! I wouldnt know that for a few hours because it needed to charge, but its a full inch bigger on all sides but still about the same weight. Its really nice! And moving everything over was super easy and I barely had to do anything except putting in passwords and changing the background. Im really really pleased. Ive been playing with it a lot today getting sued to it, but its very similar in operations to my old tablet so its not a crazy learning curve. It does have a stylus pen though and I am super excited about that!! Im going to try drawing with it. Well see how that goes.

James started work on some laundry while I kept working on art. I tried and failed a few different ways to finish up the quilt once I got it cut down. I was going to do like. a gold edge? But I couldnt figure that out so I decided to make it a wall hanging and I think it came out so cute. Its hanging on the back of our door now. Im very pleased.

James came backupstairs with like, christmas day level of packages from the mail table. It was so exciting! I sat on our bed and we opened everything together. I got new socks! Very exciting. I also got mini squishes from Jess. The christmas tree one was a big want this year so that was exciting. I also got a christmas toad winter hat. Not really seasonally appropriate now but for next christmas. I also got my knee pads, my skate tool, and my new, more expensive, skates! I was floored because they are just so beautiful. Today was basically christmas and I had such a good time opening things but I also just, loved everything I got so it was even better then christmas.

I was super pumped to try on the skates. They are very stiff so its going to take a little while to get them broken in enough to tie them as tight as I want them to be. But going a size down made a huge difference. These are also slightly taller on my ankle and give me a little more support, and having them fit my foot better allows me to break a little better. So still practicing stopping but I think this will help. I skated around the living room a little and just felt so cute and good. The tongue of these skates is a cloud?? Its great. I cant wait to get better at this.

James had lunch in the other room. I hung out on the couch. And soon he was off to work.

I fixed his sneakers that broke. I made some outfits. I did some cleaning. I made more art. I made more videos. Its been a nice day. Trump got impeached for a second time. What a world.

I have been hanging out for a while now. I just feel really sleepy. I just had dinner and I think Im going to take a shower and get in bed. I really hope last night is the start of a trend and I can keep sleeping good. Wish me luck. Goodnight everyone!

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mari-itami · 3 years

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realized too many folks follow me to be silent about dc here, so im going to be posting about it on this blog as well. if you don’t like it then kiss my ass.

i see lots of folks on twitter saying that now, child or adult, is not the time to be saying “i need a distraction.” they’re right. i didn’t have the option to just switch off the television and relax when donald trump spouted constant racism about mexican people, i didnt have get to distract myself when my fellow students without warning targeted me for my ethnicity, i didnt get a fucking out when i was screamed at by racist peers, i didnt get a fucking out then and i STILL DONT now. its so much worse for my black and brown siblings.

please, im begging you all. do your part. use your platform to SPEAK, no matter how small. US RESIDENTS: CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. DEMAND THAT TRUMP BE IMPEACHED. USE YOUR VOICE. there are truly no excuses for being silent this time.

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liketaylorswift · 3 years

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I honestly didnt think Trump would get impeached two times but here we are! this is wild LMAO

here 👏 we 👏 fucking 👏 are👏

apparently the vote was backed by all of the democrats plus 10 repubs which i think is funny

#asks #anon

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sanisclepius · 3 years

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This is supposed to be National TV? This is nothing but propaganda, consipiracy and lies. This guy has a gut feeling? Well nice job appealing to parental instincts, but news should be based on something else but a reporters gut feeling. A reporter should also know official names that are not propaganda names- its actually the Corona-Virus and not China-Virus. Its named by its look. If it was named by where the biggest outbreak was it would be named USA-Virus. Did this guy even watch the debates- Trump probably never attended a debate club in his life and it was was very obvious, let alone the first one that he turned into a complete shit show. In the end, it was the uncontrolled pandemic caused by a nightmare Trump show that scared people into voting by mail, not the Democratic party. Even the FBI says there was no issue with the election. By the way, how can you compare an impeachment which is a legal process to voter fraud which is illegal? The two have nothing to do with each other. Even a boot licking governor like DeWine who didnt enforce masks until Trump allowed it, said its time to move on and accept the voters choice. The difference between Trump and Biden/Clinton is that Trump never won the popular vote and has no professional or character skills that make him fit to be any kind of politician. As unfit Trump is to be president as unfit is this guy to be a reporter. He is more of a story teller- dusty, dirty, cigarette smoking, flimsy chest? He is as serious as a lawyer going wild. Do your home work- democratic and republican observers were present. Who werent allowed were Trump activists and intimidaters. And Hillary conceded over the phone to Trump when the results came out that same night. You are just frustrated that Biden has no skeletons in his closet and that your voter suppresion and propaganda efforts didnt work. Your play book is as old as the “red scare” tactic you pulled out again. It must be frustrating that if voter turn out is high and easy, Democrats win. Also, if I was to cheat in an election, I would try to get an A and not just a B therefore not allowing Republicans to otherwise have a good evening. What the results tell you is that the USA are still a conservative, paranoid, entitled and self-defeating country, but that Trump was even too much for a country like that...

#corona virus #trump #conspiracy fairytales

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robin-hood-for-freedom · 4 years

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Now that the impeachment is officially over and Trump has been acquitted. I want to remind people of a few things:

This was not about ‘the rule of law’ or ‘Trump broke the law’ if it were, every president since Wilson would have been removed.

This was not about ‘Orange man bad.’ If it were they would have gone after Trump for war crimes in Yemen. Where you have much stronger evidence of a much more serious crime.

This was not even really about removing Trump from office. Pelosi is a lot of things, but she’s not stupid. She knew the Senate was all but guaranteed to acquit

This was about blocking and drowning out Trumps investigation into the corruption surrounding the 2016 election and the origins of the ‘Russia collusion’ bullshit.

Did you know that the FBI lied on its renewal for its FISA warrens on Carter Page? Saying he was not in contact with any government agencies when the CIA had straight up told them he was? Probably not, considering that bit came out right as impeachment was underway and the story didnt get nearly the attention it should have. The whole thing was misdirection.

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