Your tweeter says that started with Obama? My, how soon they forget the same old wheeze they were spouting about Nixon’s “Southern Strategy!” Or has that finally been debunked sufficiently that they have to retcon the “party switch” trope to 2008 instead?
Interesting that as late as 2008 that Democrats viewed themselves as the party of racism. Strange flex but ok.
Happy Easter all,
Interesting that as late as 2008 that Democrats viewed themselves as the party of racism. Strange flex but ok.
Except didn’t say that , it was that the Racist finally figured out that they didn’t have a home in the Democrat party by 2008. Yes the democrat were the home for them since they were the party of the confederates. But I don’t see Confederate battle flag at democrat rallys I do see them at republicans even in northern states.
I wouldn’t call the “southern Strategy” debunked Nixon was throwing out the welcome mat inviting them over and turned the South to Battleground state at least at the National Level. It took time for the old grand children of the Confederacy to die out and the Segregation academies to educate the new immigrants. Who weren’t tied to the Old democratic party.
BTW
Happy Surrender at Appomattox day to those who celebrate
It’s kind of stupid to think that in America racism is defined by the Confederate battle flag. The Democrats remain just as racist as they’ve always been. It just manifests in different ways, like (as just one of many examples) not allowing black kids to be educated by fighting vouchers.
Happy Easter.
I am impressed by the speed with which Democrats are trying to change the subject from “transgender person murdered children” to “abolish parliamentary procedure!”
The French Revolution failed because of an entrenched aristocracy that was unwilling to relinquish power and a populace with too young of a bourgeois to understand how to govern democratically. Coupled with the fact that French society never operated under federalism but Catholicism, it never had the knowledge basis for setting up a Federal Republic as had the United States and as was purportedly admired by the French intellectual elites. And so you ended up after several catastrophic decades until the Napoleonic Empire and the catastrophes that ensued thereafter. Although internally France fared well under Napoleon. At least much better than under the Rein Of Terror.
In the US, what you have going on now is sort of a reverse French Revolution with elites trying to established themselves as an aristocracy. The problem is there is too much decentralization of society for that to have legitimacy. The more the elites press their case the more they lose credibility in the eye of the public. We are fracturing along sub-cultural lines. If the dominant culture fails we will probably get economic disengagement and more marginalization of Federal authority. Travel between States once again can hold you up to risk of prosecution and imprisonment, along with the requirement to exchange currency at the state border, (digital currency makes that fairly easy to do btw) until we get fed up with that like we did in the 1780s.
“Travel between States once again can hold you up to risk of prosecution and imprisonment, …”
If it gets bad enough it could conceivably cause the country to fracture along state lines into multiple independent republics. Say they succeed in railroading/imprisoning Trump on bogus Manhattan DA charges; that event could push things over the edge. The biased judge in this case will likely not dismiss to many of the charges (probably allow the truncating of one charge into 35) or agree to a change of venue. Then after the conviction from a biased Manhattan jury ( a practically foregone conclusion) intimidate the appeals courts into not overturning. If it get to SCOTUS again threaten them with “stacking the courts” unless they leave the conviction alone. Although the dems will likely get around to said stacking of SCOTUS regardless.
Or maybe even before a trial; imagine if (likely) Trump ignores the judges’ “suggestion” about not making any “inflammatory” posts on social media. He (Trump) is already attacking the judge & his families’ political biases (daughter who worked for Biden campaign) What if the judge decided to hold Trump in contempt of court? Well that would violate Trump’s first amendment rights. So maybe instead in response the judge decides that Trumps is a “flight risk” after all and revokes bail? What would stop him; an appeals court(s) heavily intimidated to let it stand? The left would be in ecstasy; the “perp walk” of their dreams.
Florida’s Governor DeSantis, where Trump now resides, has already said he would not honor extradition claims from NY State on this matter. It’s looking more and more like 1786 all the time.
People who are not from the United States or who have not lived here for any length of time do not understand Federalism or how this is possible. They get an inkling when they go to apply for their first Driver’s License, or buy a house.
I will grant dispensation to Germans. They have some knowledge of this, esp. pre-20th Century.
“Florida’s Governor DeSantis, where Trump now resides, has already said he would not honor extradition claims from NY State on this matter.”
What then if NY (Bragg) under those conditions requested US Marshalls to escort Trump involuntarily from Mara largo back to NY? Even without any cooperation from DeSantis they (the Marshalls) could be sent by the Biden Justice department to carry out Bragg’s biding. Of course Trump’s Secret Service detail would have to allow that; could get messy.
Trump is not being charged with a federal crime. The DoJ has no jurisdiction. If Bragg wants that kind of help he will have to expose his “unspecified charge” hand. Which if it’s election interference most experts claim that is not under NY State jurisdiction. You first have to convict on the state charge of falsifying business records (a misdemeanor in NY) as intent to establish the federal charge of election interference (a US felony). Via deception I guess? How is that a workable charge when it was all over the press before the election? If that isn’t charged by the US Attorney for the Southern District of NY I don’t see where NY State has jurisdiction. Hence the novelty of it all…
If the DoJ oversteps its bounds, a Florida based US District judge can simply rule the extradition request invalid and Trump stays in Florida. QED.
“The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020.
It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues.”
Try 2008.
Maybe earlier – when they tried to steal the 2000 election
Down the memory hole with you!
Yep checks out
Your tweeter says that started with Obama? My, how soon they forget the same old wheeze they were spouting about Nixon’s “Southern Strategy!” Or has that finally been debunked sufficiently that they have to retcon the “party switch” trope to 2008 instead?
Interesting that as late as 2008 that Democrats viewed themselves as the party of racism. Strange flex but ok.
Happy Easter all,
Except didn’t say that , it was that the Racist finally figured out that they didn’t have a home in the Democrat party by 2008. Yes the democrat were the home for them since they were the party of the confederates. But I don’t see Confederate battle flag at democrat rallys I do see them at republicans even in northern states.
I wouldn’t call the “southern Strategy” debunked Nixon was throwing out the welcome mat inviting them over and turned the South to Battleground state at least at the National Level. It took time for the old grand children of the Confederacy to die out and the Segregation academies to educate the new immigrants. Who weren’t tied to the Old democratic party.
BTW
Happy Surrender at Appomattox day to those who celebrate
It’s kind of stupid to think that in America racism is defined by the Confederate battle flag. The Democrats remain just as racist as they’ve always been. It just manifests in different ways, like (as just one of many examples) not allowing black kids to be educated by fighting vouchers.
Happy Easter.
I am impressed by the speed with which Democrats are trying to change the subject from “transgender person murdered children” to “abolish parliamentary procedure!”
The French Revolution failed because of an entrenched aristocracy that was unwilling to relinquish power and a populace with too young of a bourgeois to understand how to govern democratically. Coupled with the fact that French society never operated under federalism but Catholicism, it never had the knowledge basis for setting up a Federal Republic as had the United States and as was purportedly admired by the French intellectual elites. And so you ended up after several catastrophic decades until the Napoleonic Empire and the catastrophes that ensued thereafter. Although internally France fared well under Napoleon. At least much better than under the Rein Of Terror.
In the US, what you have going on now is sort of a reverse French Revolution with elites trying to established themselves as an aristocracy. The problem is there is too much decentralization of society for that to have legitimacy. The more the elites press their case the more they lose credibility in the eye of the public. We are fracturing along sub-cultural lines. If the dominant culture fails we will probably get economic disengagement and more marginalization of Federal authority. Travel between States once again can hold you up to risk of prosecution and imprisonment, along with the requirement to exchange currency at the state border, (digital currency makes that fairly easy to do btw) until we get fed up with that like we did in the 1780s.
“Travel between States once again can hold you up to risk of prosecution and imprisonment, …”
If it gets bad enough it could conceivably cause the country to fracture along state lines into multiple independent republics. Say they succeed in railroading/imprisoning Trump on bogus Manhattan DA charges; that event could push things over the edge. The biased judge in this case will likely not dismiss to many of the charges (probably allow the truncating of one charge into 35) or agree to a change of venue. Then after the conviction from a biased Manhattan jury ( a practically foregone conclusion) intimidate the appeals courts into not overturning. If it get to SCOTUS again threaten them with “stacking the courts” unless they leave the conviction alone. Although the dems will likely get around to said stacking of SCOTUS regardless.
Or maybe even before a trial; imagine if (likely) Trump ignores the judges’ “suggestion” about not making any “inflammatory” posts on social media. He (Trump) is already attacking the judge & his families’ political biases (daughter who worked for Biden campaign) What if the judge decided to hold Trump in contempt of court? Well that would violate Trump’s first amendment rights. So maybe instead in response the judge decides that Trumps is a “flight risk” after all and revokes bail? What would stop him; an appeals court(s) heavily intimidated to let it stand? The left would be in ecstasy; the “perp walk” of their dreams.
Florida’s Governor DeSantis, where Trump now resides, has already said he would not honor extradition claims from NY State on this matter. It’s looking more and more like 1786 all the time.
People who are not from the United States or who have not lived here for any length of time do not understand Federalism or how this is possible. They get an inkling when they go to apply for their first Driver’s License, or buy a house.
I will grant dispensation to Germans. They have some knowledge of this, esp. pre-20th Century.
“Florida’s Governor DeSantis, where Trump now resides, has already said he would not honor extradition claims from NY State on this matter.”
What then if NY (Bragg) under those conditions requested US Marshalls to escort Trump involuntarily from Mara largo back to NY? Even without any cooperation from DeSantis they (the Marshalls) could be sent by the Biden Justice department to carry out Bragg’s biding. Of course Trump’s Secret Service detail would have to allow that; could get messy.
Trump is not being charged with a federal crime. The DoJ has no jurisdiction. If Bragg wants that kind of help he will have to expose his “unspecified charge” hand. Which if it’s election interference most experts claim that is not under NY State jurisdiction. You first have to convict on the state charge of falsifying business records (a misdemeanor in NY) as intent to establish the federal charge of election interference (a US felony). Via deception I guess? How is that a workable charge when it was all over the press before the election? If that isn’t charged by the US Attorney for the Southern District of NY I don’t see where NY State has jurisdiction. Hence the novelty of it all…
If the DoJ oversteps its bounds, a Florida based US District judge can simply rule the extradition request invalid and Trump stays in Florida. QED.