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Some fierce and positive thoughts
I’m thinking we’ve been dragged into a new Civil War — dragged, quite appropriately, by white supremacists, male and female, whose need to express their endless hatred for women and black women got them to Trump. Their cause is as … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Fascism, Government, Journalism, Politics, Propaganda, Racism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting and voting rights, War
Tagged aspiring fascist, Attorney General Leticia James, Ben Wittes, Democratic states AGs, Democratic states governors, DOJ, Jefferson Davis, Josh Shapiro, misogyny, New Civil War, racism, Robert E Lee, The Atlantic, Tom Nichols, Trump, Trump voters, Winston Churchill
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Animal news about one long-dead horse hints at a conservative sense of humor?
From Harper’s Weekly Review: Conservatives complained that a Virginia university had decided to remove two plaques commemorating Robert E. Lee’s horse, Traveller. “Traveler [sic] was originally put down for untreatable tetanus,” posted a professor on the site formerly known as … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, The Facts of Life
Tagged Harper's, Robert E Lee, Traveller
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Trump Trauma Semi-Redux
Election night, I left Steve Kornacki for a French Netflix series — unfortunately, about an election. Fortunately, the underpinnings were so corrupt, so overloaded with weird electoral methodology, I couldn’t draw comparisons to us and develop an associate depression. I … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Fascism, political campaigns, Politics, Racism, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, voting and voting rights
Tagged Brown v Topeka, Civil War, Robert E Lee, Steve Kornacki, the Confederacy, Twitter, Virginia, white academies
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