The Department of Defense released a report this morning saying that it had found no evidence of alien life on earth. The Pentagon also absolved itself of “covering up” secret programs that had been alleged to have hidden extraterrestrial technology or “anything else extraterrestrial,” in the words of the report.
Britt responded to the Alabama Supreme Court's 2024 ruling that frozen embryos should be considered living beings by saying, "defending life and ensuring continued access to IVF services for loving parents are not mutually exclusive".[58] She subsequently advocated for state and national bills to protect families' rights to seek IVF services.[58][59]
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She does also support the typical set of wingnut positions:
We need to get God back in our classrooms and return students to saying the Pledge of Allegiance every day while standing for our flag."[62]
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In July 2021, Britt supported a motion from Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to ban the teaching of critical race theory in public schools.[60] *******
Gun rights
Following the passing of the Protecting Our Kids Act in June 2022, Britt told 1819 News that she believes red flag laws are a "gateway to push [a] disarming agenda". She opposes gun laws that she says infringe on the Second Amendment.[66] She has called the Second Amendment "a critical check against the timeless tyranny of government".[67]
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"In April 2022, Britt voiced support for the Alabama Vulnerable Child Protection Act (SB184), which criminalizes gender-affirming surgeries for transgender youth..... "
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Britt identifies herself as pro-life, a stance that was scrutinized during the 2022 U.S. Senate election. Her initial television advertisements emphasized her view on abortion, asserting that life begins at conception and equating late-term abortions to murder.
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And we saw her deploy the despicable and demonstrably false stereotypes about undocumented immigrants last night, following the trend on the far right connected with the murder of Laken Riley near the University of Georgia campus:
Start here - you're online, have a search engine, type in "Does Katie Britt support X, Y & Z?"
and presto chango! Wham!, like cybernetic magic harnessed by your own psychic locus of indefatigable curiosity, the fount of all discoveries and even the sciences of the stars and beyond, there it is!
In fact, just in case the Pentagon really IS hiding alien bodies discovered outside Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 and much more besides, be sure to take this into account, it will expand your consciousness, who knows what it might do, even though as FST claimed, We're all Bozos on this Bus, the sky's the limit!
The interesting thing: she supports IVF but says not a word about the embryos that are still frozen after the procedure (at least I could not find anything on that.....)
GZ, I just took my leisurely time reading ^^^, it's been almost forty years since the 1985-86 Afro-American history courses I took that seemed to routinely circle around repeatedly to focus on logical gaps, or "blind spots," or provable self-contradictory assertions in the ideologies that justified slavery, and some of the same patterns seem to haunt these current discussions, which are also grounded in deep disagreements about where human rights originate, who deserves them and how they should be protected, all of this - I have no idea what Britt believes on this part of the problem, and am not sure she knows, either!
But you might find this blog post from "The Literary Lawyer" worth the time and effort to read it, just as I did.
[Besides, I only have You Tube access to listen to the Hawkeye Women's BB Channel, to follow them poised to head to the Big Ten championship final televised on FOX tomorrow at 11AM Central Time, leading the pesky upset-minded Michigan Wolverines 72-55 as the 3rd Quarter ends, so this kind of article kept me distracted as I waited for the 3:30PM start! Caitlin Clark is a force of nature, she'll be #1 WNBA pick and has already DOUBLED the asking price for Indiana Fever tix before even being selected by them in the draft, it's unheard of in women's sports.]
I know. I was once married to an Alabama girl. She was trying to break free of the powerful Southern Baptist church and her parents’ regressive influence, but in the end she failed. It really is a different country. There are pockets of intelligence/research/industry—Atlanta, the research triangle in NC, etc— but huge parts of the south are really alien (!) to me. No offense, and I have some wonderful southern friends… but …
You may be on to something there: It’s a virus, and since they’re all anti-vaxxers by definition they’re bound to suffer a lifetime of this brain-eating disease.
I think one factor in The South and “the southern mentality,” if there is such a thing, is a liberal dose of nostalgia and myth. One of the stunning contradictions in wartime Germany was their ability to carry out extreme cruelty and yet be deeply moved by nostalgia and sentiment and myth. In both cases it is a yearning for a glorious past that no longer exists, if it ever did. The genteel plantation and southern manners, all supported by mostly unseen Black men and women in servitude, in some ways resembles the myths that Wagner resurrected in his Ring der Nibelung, the oaths and myths and ceremonies that stressed race and blood that so enraptured Hitler.
She is a terrible actress. You could tell how nervous she was which I suppose is normal. Jindal of Louisiana and that Cuban from Florida flubbed it as well. And, putting her in a kitchen really was bad optics.
A clip of this absurdity has been making the rounds of not Twitter with Sarah McLaughlin, singing the song from the ASPCA commercial, eventually drowning out this Stepford senator. It’s a screamer.
The South, some of them, have been kicking, screaming and organizing lynch mobs and apartheid laws to fight being dragged into a more civilized, just society ever since Appomattox, excellent point Susanna!
Exactly, a huge amount of the anti-democracy projects have been done in public, filmed on video, spurring the largest criminal investigation in U.S. history, and the trials continue, along with the runup to Trump's possible trial.
No one, maybe least of all the supposedly "professional journalists" in our mass media, has any excuse for still treating the GOP and Trump as if they are engaging in normal politics! And Trump is so unhinged, he adds useful evidence for the prosecutors on a regular basis with his self-righteous whining rants!
You have just nailed the thing that both drives me nuts and makes me furious. People who go into journalism tend to be reasonably intelligent and proficient in the use of language. But what comes out under so many of their bylines suggests that they don't get the difference between Biden and Trump (or, in 2016, Clinton and Trump) or between the current Democratic Party and the current Republican Party. I don't understand.
The weirdest thing about it is that, knowingly or not, they're giving equal time that would make their calling obsolete, and quite possibly criminal.
"The South, some of them, have been kicking, screaming and organizing lynch mobs and apartheid laws to fight being dragged into a more civilized, just society ever since 1619." That's how it would read, correct?
That's not supported by what I learned in my Afro-American History courses - taught by Earl Lewis* at the U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 1985 and 1986 - probably because it makes zero sense, do you see now?
You are off by only about a hundred and fifty years at the minimum - (before ANYONE was organized to do the `dragging into' part of the process!), that is, unless you have sources beyond The Atlantic Slave Trade by Phillp Curtin, etc., and other primary or secondary sources directly describing the the fight against "being dragged into a more civilized, just society" in the early 17th Century, I am at a loss to know what you mean. I did research and write a thesis paper on black slave revolts and other forms of resistance before the American Civil War, is that what you mean?
*Earl was one of the best instructors I ever had, and the two black history courses I took from him were enlightening as hell, plus we had folks like local Minneapolis drumming legend** and ex-Black Panther Malik Del Mar in the course for added perspectives as we reached the 1960s-1970s era in part two of the material.
A native of Tidewater, Virginia, Lewis earned an undergraduate degree in history and psychology from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, and a PhD in history from the University of Minnesota. He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008. *******
He is the author and co-editor of seven books, including The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present (with Joe William Trotter and Tera W. Hunter, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); Defending Diversity: Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan (with Jeffrey S. Lehman and Patricia Gurin, University of Michigan Press, 2004); Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White (with Heidi Ardizzone, WW Norton, 2001); the award-winning To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans (with Robin D. G. Kelley, Oxford University Press, 2000); In Their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in 20th Century Norfolk (University of California Press, 1991); as well as the 11-volume The Young Oxford History of African Americans (with Robin D. G. Kelley, Oxford University Press, 1995–97); and the award-winning book series American Crossroads (University of California Press).
" Del Mar began drumming as an African-American youth in San Francisco, where he played on the streets year-round thanks to the good weather. He later moved to Hawaii, a place where he could also perform 365 days a year. He began dating a woman from Minnesota, and the two moved to the Twin Cities.
Street performers, however, were not as well received in Minnesota.
Del Mar was arrested numerous times for playing drums on Nicolet Avenue and in Uptown. Police accused him of panhandling and said he needed a permit to perform in public, Thomasson said. When he went to city hall to purchase a permit, he was told such a permit does not exist.
“They really gave him the runaround,” Thomasson said. “I think racism was involved.”
Del Mar filed a lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis and won. The judge ruled that playing music and putting out a basket for money was not panhandling, an illegal activity.
“He was able to get that legal distinction, which opened the door for other street musicians,” Thomasson said. [That helped me out directly, I was playing guitar and harmonicas just to have an excuse to sing Dylan and a bunch of radical folk songs and get some tips thrown in the guitar case, also meet people, ok, meet women - "I Hate the Capitalist System***" is one that sometimes had the students walking over the Washington Avenue enclosed pedestrian bridge overthe Mississippi between the East and West Bank campuses paying rapt attention - this was under Reagan and during Iran-Contra etc.]
Despite the hassle from police and city officials, many people were drawn to Del Mar's energetic performances."
“He was very dynamic and charismatic,” Thomasson said. “He gave 110 percent all the time. There was no difference between practice and performance for him.”
Del Mar was not just a performer, however. He loved teaching others the art of drumming." - Malik and I had some great conversations about music, I think everyone who got to know him was devastated that he passed at such a young age.
*** The whole album is good, this song is outstanding:
Barbara Dane - (Album: I Hate the Capitalist System}
And from the album FTA! Songs of the GI Resistance - Sung by Barbara Dane with active-duty GIs, this classic, still being sung, you likely know it too! WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED -
My point is that Black people have been 'the other' since the import of black slaves and thus subject to despicable treatment, including but not restricted to slavery by white people.
The civil war was not fought over slavery although it was the means by which slavery was finally abolished in the US although Pennsylvania did so in their Constitution in 1780 which was before the US became the USA.
"My point is that Black people have been 'the other' since the import of black slaves and thus subject to despicable treatment, including but not restricted to slavery by white people. "
Yeah no, you're mistaken about that as well Terry - David Brion Davis is what you want, also maybe ditch the lecturing tone with me? The odds are good that from the time my high school AP history teacher, a grad student at Drake U., recommended Eugene Genovese's Roll, Jordan Roll - in the form of his journal article precursors of what became subtitled "The World the Slaves Made" (Marxian Interpretations of the Slave South) on through studying Frantz Fanon and various "black radical" theories during my brief but still useful "Trotskyist phase" at Macalester (thank god is was just that, though!) and on through later academic and life experiences, while I may not have expended as much time and effort as you might have done over the years on these issues, even so... it's just bizarre to encounter dogmatic assertions on this complex set of historical issues (still controversial both among historians and more widely) that seem to presume they are inarguably correct, when they just aren't!
Phenotypical traits like"blackness" have indeed played the "otherness" role, true enough, but it antedated anyone importing black slaves to the Americas (which was going on in the Canary Islands hundreds of years before Jamestown, 1619) by several thousand years.
The bit about the causes and/or "the cause" of the American civil war is controversial as well, "not fought over slavery," is quite an assertion as the Abolitionists and their allies were certainly doing just that, and Vermont predated Pennsylvania's abolition, in 1777. So "it depends" on who exactly was fighting in the war,and why, doesn't it?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54th_Massachusetts_Infantry_Regiment - formed after the Emancipation Proclamation, so not precisely evidence for " the war WAS fought over slavery," that would involve at least bringing in John Brown's Raid, and too much more to cram in here now.
Last night, the GOP decided to ignite their manes in a pyrotechnic spectacle of utter gibberish. It was a scene so bizarre, so teeming with rampant absurdity, that even the most sober of minds would pause and question the fabric of reality.
Enter the stage, Sen. Katie Britt, Alabama’s latest gift to the right’s dismal spectacle, tasked with delivering the GOP's counterpunch to Biden’s discourse. Describing her performance as hogwash is to flirt with understatement; she navigated the realms of breathy melodrama and cringe-worthy discomfort with the grace of a drunken flamingo.
Drowning in this chaotic dance, Britt decided to plunge into deeper waters of melodrama, recounting her encounter with a migrant woman ensnared in the vile webs of sex trafficking by cartels, a victim of repeated sexual assaults. She wielded this tale like a blunt instrument, aiming to shock and awe, suggesting such horrors were out of place in the darkest corners of a third-world abyss, much less the star-spangled banner of the United States.
However, as Shannon Watts keenly observed, the irony was as thick as molasses in January; here was Britt, knee deep in her theatrical spectacle, nudging Americans towards the ballot box to cast their votes for a KNOWN RAPIST.
In the swirling, maddened world of Stephen King, this would be just another Tuesday.
Orson Welles joins me in a tip of the cap and a clink of properly-filled glasses in tribute to your article. Would I be correct in assuming you drove to Grovers Mill, N.J. for research purposes?
Note to non-geezer readers: on October 30, 1938, young actor Orson Welles directed and starred in a CBS radio drama adaption of H.G. "no relation" Welles book, "War of the Worlds." The radio broadcast was done in the style of news reports following the crash of an alien spaceship in Grovers Mill, N.J. (a real-life village near Princeton). Millions of Americans took it seriously, and panicked.
Yes. Every time I listen to it I put the family in our Plymouth with canned food in the trunk and my pitchfork next to me, and we try to get the hell out of Roswell.
*It is a viral infection; affecting most (civilised)mono genetic human populations.
It seems to have first appeared among the Aryan people of Central Asia; but quickly spread north into the Caucuses and was carried west into what is now Europe and Scandinavia and East into what has become China.
Its current strain is most pronounced in various Caucasian Populations throughout North and South Ame-Ricas, Australia, South Africa and Europe; Reaching epidemic proportions in Europe and North Ame-Rica as well as Brazil.
It’s most recent outbreak in Central Europe mid 20th century; was felt around the world. There was much death and destruction before it was (seemingly) squelched under the threat of Nuclear Inoculation. However…
It is still being nurtured throughout diverse Caucasian communities.
We’ve learned that it can be controlled with Education and the eventual blending of our Various Cultural Genomes.
Ha! Only the GQP could select a backbench nobody from the state which is last in just about everything not involving football to be their spokesperson.
OK, LKTIV, that was freaking well done! I saw a video clip of someone showing what "fundie baby voice" was. I think THAT's where the aliens got the sound track!
That "fundie baby voice" can also be a sign that a woman was sexually abused as a child. I know at least three middle-aged women who are not fundies, but who speak in whispery child-like voices and they all were molested when they were little girls by their fathers or by someone else in the family. It's very sad.
Hey Christina, I'm probably not the only one who watched Stepford Wives last night. Not the remake with Nicole Kidman. It's not as good as you might think or remember. But it's not that bad as to be unwatchable either. It's streaming on tubi.
The three Republicans who are this day feeling good about Katie Britt's performance (?) are Bobby Jindl, Marco Rubio and Sara Huckabee Sanders. They all just moved down a notch in the absolute worst Republican answers to a Democratic SOTU.
My wife and I watched every one of the excruciating fifteen plus minutes and agreed we would be watching SNL Saturday to see the rerun. And, by that I do mean rerun. Just put on the tape and let the self parody roll.
A nation turns it lonely eyes to you, Tina Fey.
Superb
Very cute!
I agree, although SNL may choose current cast member Chloe Fineman to play the alien.
they faked all you guys out and got a MOVIE STAR! and she KILLED it!
and some of the jokes were FUNNY, which is something they haven't been (IMHO) since 1980 at the latest.
I agree that Scarlet did a fantastic job!
Wait a minute, the man has a point. What about that other weird, smiling RWNJ?
AILEEN
AILEN
ALIEN
There's yer scientific proof right dere!
My #1 thought upon seeing Katie Britt's face was "This has to be Aileen Cannon's body double!"
What optics! In Alabama and the rest of Deep Dread America, even a congresswoman’s place is In the Kitchen!
( and secretly barefoot no doubt)
No worries on the IVF front, either!
EDIT: Mea culpa on this point, Britt has adjusted her views on this specific issue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Britt *******
Britt responded to the Alabama Supreme Court's 2024 ruling that frozen embryos should be considered living beings by saying, "defending life and ensuring continued access to IVF services for loving parents are not mutually exclusive".[58] She subsequently advocated for state and national bills to protect families' rights to seek IVF services.[58][59]
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She does also support the typical set of wingnut positions:
We need to get God back in our classrooms and return students to saying the Pledge of Allegiance every day while standing for our flag."[62]
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In July 2021, Britt supported a motion from Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to ban the teaching of critical race theory in public schools.[60] *******
Gun rights
Following the passing of the Protecting Our Kids Act in June 2022, Britt told 1819 News that she believes red flag laws are a "gateway to push [a] disarming agenda". She opposes gun laws that she says infringe on the Second Amendment.[66] She has called the Second Amendment "a critical check against the timeless tyranny of government".[67]
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"In April 2022, Britt voiced support for the Alabama Vulnerable Child Protection Act (SB184), which criminalizes gender-affirming surgeries for transgender youth..... "
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Britt identifies herself as pro-life, a stance that was scrutinized during the 2022 U.S. Senate election. Her initial television advertisements emphasized her view on abortion, asserting that life begins at conception and equating late-term abortions to murder.
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And we saw her deploy the despicable and demonstrably false stereotypes about undocumented immigrants last night, following the trend on the far right connected with the murder of Laken Riley near the University of Georgia campus:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/01/university-of-georgia-laken-riley-murder-rightwing-reaction
Does she support an (Alabama) Constitutional amendment ?
They have a Constitution?
Yep, that's the source of most of this rukus. Several other states amended theirs as well to state that life begins at conception..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Britt
Start here - you're online, have a search engine, type in "Does Katie Britt support X, Y & Z?"
and presto chango! Wham!, like cybernetic magic harnessed by your own psychic locus of indefatigable curiosity, the fount of all discoveries and even the sciences of the stars and beyond, there it is!
In fact, just in case the Pentagon really IS hiding alien bodies discovered outside Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 and much more besides, be sure to take this into account, it will expand your consciousness, who knows what it might do, even though as FST claimed, We're all Bozos on this Bus, the sky's the limit!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
Equation
The Drake equation is:[1]
N = R ∗ ⋅ f p ⋅ n e ⋅ f l ⋅ f i ⋅ f c ⋅ L
where
N = the number of civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy with which communication might be possible (i.e. which are on the current past light cone);
and
R∗ = the average rate of star formation in our Galaxy.
fp = the fraction of those stars that have planets.
ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets.
fl = the fraction of planets that could support life that actually develop life at some point.
fi = the fraction of planets with life that go on to develop intelligent life (civilizations).
fc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space.
L = the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space.[6][7]
Why am I not surprised at her beliefs?! Theatre professor BEAMING!
The interesting thing: she supports IVF but says not a word about the embryos that are still frozen after the procedure (at least I could not find anything on that.....)
allenmendenhallblog.com/2011/01/27/outline-and-summary-of-david-brion-daviss-the-problem-of-slavery-in-western-culture/
GZ, I just took my leisurely time reading ^^^, it's been almost forty years since the 1985-86 Afro-American history courses I took that seemed to routinely circle around repeatedly to focus on logical gaps, or "blind spots," or provable self-contradictory assertions in the ideologies that justified slavery, and some of the same patterns seem to haunt these current discussions, which are also grounded in deep disagreements about where human rights originate, who deserves them and how they should be protected, all of this - I have no idea what Britt believes on this part of the problem, and am not sure she knows, either!
But you might find this blog post from "The Literary Lawyer" worth the time and effort to read it, just as I did.
[Besides, I only have You Tube access to listen to the Hawkeye Women's BB Channel, to follow them poised to head to the Big Ten championship final televised on FOX tomorrow at 11AM Central Time, leading the pesky upset-minded Michigan Wolverines 72-55 as the 3rd Quarter ends, so this kind of article kept me distracted as I waited for the 3:30PM start! Caitlin Clark is a force of nature, she'll be #1 WNBA pick and has already DOUBLED the asking price for Indiana Fever tix before even being selected by them in the draft, it's unheard of in women's sports.]
fuck her...big waste of time.
she ain't shit
Surely, we can't be the only ones wondering if she was impregnated and had her footwear removed beforehand, can we?
In so many ways the white folks down there have never evolved.
I know. I was once married to an Alabama girl. She was trying to break free of the powerful Southern Baptist church and her parents’ regressive influence, but in the end she failed. It really is a different country. There are pockets of intelligence/research/industry—Atlanta, the research triangle in NC, etc— but huge parts of the south are really alien (!) to me. No offense, and I have some wonderful southern friends… but …
well… enough said.
It's almost like a virus for which there is no cure (yet). Many (most) don't even know they have it.
You may be on to something there: It’s a virus, and since they’re all anti-vaxxers by definition they’re bound to suffer a lifetime of this brain-eating disease.
I think one factor in The South and “the southern mentality,” if there is such a thing, is a liberal dose of nostalgia and myth. One of the stunning contradictions in wartime Germany was their ability to carry out extreme cruelty and yet be deeply moved by nostalgia and sentiment and myth. In both cases it is a yearning for a glorious past that no longer exists, if it ever did. The genteel plantation and southern manners, all supported by mostly unseen Black men and women in servitude, in some ways resembles the myths that Wagner resurrected in his Ring der Nibelung, the oaths and myths and ceremonies that stressed race and blood that so enraptured Hitler.
Exactly. Yet they are carriers and infect legions. Particularly those to whom they give birth. It is a genetic defect.
🤣🤣🤣 As soon as I saw her in the kitchen, I roared. They skipped the barefoot and pregnant part, but the imagery couldn’t have been clearer.
She is a terrible actress. You could tell how nervous she was which I suppose is normal. Jindal of Louisiana and that Cuban from Florida flubbed it as well. And, putting her in a kitchen really was bad optics.
She should have been barefoot in a field of daisies…
With mushroom clouds in the background.
And Sarah McLachlan playing over her. And images of kids in cages - oh wait, that’s their policy.
And pregnant, too, if only with a pillow stuffed under the front of her clothing.
How did the producer miss that opportunity?
I like doing it in the kitchen.
😁😁😁😄
On a chair, at the counter on the table. Where great meals are enjoyed.
Omg
Urgnm
:-)
LOL
I'm honestly surprised they didn't have her barefoot and pregnant, as well.
They certainly made her [or she made herself] look like a very submissive woman and that is probably what the GOP wants.
No probably about it. They’re saying it out loud lately.
Indeed. I’m sure she said exactly what she was told to say.
And she’s a senator. 🫢
A clip of this absurdity has been making the rounds of not Twitter with Sarah McLaughlin, singing the song from the ASPCA commercial, eventually drowning out this Stepford senator. It’s a screamer.
Somebody tell Scarlett, the NORTH won the war.
The North may have won the war, but the peace is very much up for grabs.
The South, some of them, have been kicking, screaming and organizing lynch mobs and apartheid laws to fight being dragged into a more civilized, just society ever since Appomattox, excellent point Susanna!
Britt was so creepy and ghoulish, I was reminded of the shape shifters in Captain Marvel, but without their acting skills.
Maybe Stepford Wife-ish?
And then there was 1/6/2021, when they let it all hang out.
Exactly, a huge amount of the anti-democracy projects have been done in public, filmed on video, spurring the largest criminal investigation in U.S. history, and the trials continue, along with the runup to Trump's possible trial.
No one, maybe least of all the supposedly "professional journalists" in our mass media, has any excuse for still treating the GOP and Trump as if they are engaging in normal politics! And Trump is so unhinged, he adds useful evidence for the prosecutors on a regular basis with his self-righteous whining rants!
You have just nailed the thing that both drives me nuts and makes me furious. People who go into journalism tend to be reasonably intelligent and proficient in the use of language. But what comes out under so many of their bylines suggests that they don't get the difference between Biden and Trump (or, in 2016, Clinton and Trump) or between the current Democratic Party and the current Republican Party. I don't understand.
The weirdest thing about it is that, knowingly or not, they're giving equal time that would make their calling obsolete, and quite possibly criminal.
Yup. Your last graf is spot on.
Since 1619
"The South, some of them, have been kicking, screaming and organizing lynch mobs and apartheid laws to fight being dragged into a more civilized, just society ever since 1619." That's how it would read, correct?
That's not supported by what I learned in my Afro-American History courses - taught by Earl Lewis* at the U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 1985 and 1986 - probably because it makes zero sense, do you see now?
You are off by only about a hundred and fifty years at the minimum - (before ANYONE was organized to do the `dragging into' part of the process!), that is, unless you have sources beyond The Atlantic Slave Trade by Phillp Curtin, etc., and other primary or secondary sources directly describing the the fight against "being dragged into a more civilized, just society" in the early 17th Century, I am at a loss to know what you mean. I did research and write a thesis paper on black slave revolts and other forms of resistance before the American Civil War, is that what you mean?
*Earl was one of the best instructors I ever had, and the two black history courses I took from him were enlightening as hell, plus we had folks like local Minneapolis drumming legend** and ex-Black Panther Malik Del Mar in the course for added perspectives as we reached the 1960s-1970s era in part two of the material.
*https://fordschool.umich.edu/faculty/earl-lewis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Lewis *******
A native of Tidewater, Virginia, Lewis earned an undergraduate degree in history and psychology from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, and a PhD in history from the University of Minnesota. He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008. *******
He is the author and co-editor of seven books, including The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present (with Joe William Trotter and Tera W. Hunter, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); Defending Diversity: Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan (with Jeffrey S. Lehman and Patricia Gurin, University of Michigan Press, 2004); Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White (with Heidi Ardizzone, WW Norton, 2001); the award-winning To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans (with Robin D. G. Kelley, Oxford University Press, 2000); In Their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in 20th Century Norfolk (University of California Press, 1991); as well as the 11-volume The Young Oxford History of African Americans (with Robin D. G. Kelley, Oxford University Press, 1995–97); and the award-winning book series American Crossroads (University of California Press).
** No exaggeration, Terry, check this out! -
https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/drum-co-op-adds-rhythm-phillips/
" Del Mar began drumming as an African-American youth in San Francisco, where he played on the streets year-round thanks to the good weather. He later moved to Hawaii, a place where he could also perform 365 days a year. He began dating a woman from Minnesota, and the two moved to the Twin Cities.
Street performers, however, were not as well received in Minnesota.
Del Mar was arrested numerous times for playing drums on Nicolet Avenue and in Uptown. Police accused him of panhandling and said he needed a permit to perform in public, Thomasson said. When he went to city hall to purchase a permit, he was told such a permit does not exist.
“They really gave him the runaround,” Thomasson said. “I think racism was involved.”
Del Mar filed a lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis and won. The judge ruled that playing music and putting out a basket for money was not panhandling, an illegal activity.
“He was able to get that legal distinction, which opened the door for other street musicians,” Thomasson said. [That helped me out directly, I was playing guitar and harmonicas just to have an excuse to sing Dylan and a bunch of radical folk songs and get some tips thrown in the guitar case, also meet people, ok, meet women - "I Hate the Capitalist System***" is one that sometimes had the students walking over the Washington Avenue enclosed pedestrian bridge overthe Mississippi between the East and West Bank campuses paying rapt attention - this was under Reagan and during Iran-Contra etc.]
Despite the hassle from police and city officials, many people were drawn to Del Mar's energetic performances."
“He was very dynamic and charismatic,” Thomasson said. “He gave 110 percent all the time. There was no difference between practice and performance for him.”
Del Mar was not just a performer, however. He loved teaching others the art of drumming." - Malik and I had some great conversations about music, I think everyone who got to know him was devastated that he passed at such a young age.
*** The whole album is good, this song is outstanding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVL_Ex0LfnM
Barbara Dane - (Album: I Hate the Capitalist System}
And from the album FTA! Songs of the GI Resistance - Sung by Barbara Dane with active-duty GIs, this classic, still being sung, you likely know it too! WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrRQH_xSQCI
My point is that Black people have been 'the other' since the import of black slaves and thus subject to despicable treatment, including but not restricted to slavery by white people.
The civil war was not fought over slavery although it was the means by which slavery was finally abolished in the US although Pennsylvania did so in their Constitution in 1780 which was before the US became the USA.
"My point is that Black people have been 'the other' since the import of black slaves and thus subject to despicable treatment, including but not restricted to slavery by white people. "
Yeah no, you're mistaken about that as well Terry - David Brion Davis is what you want, also maybe ditch the lecturing tone with me? The odds are good that from the time my high school AP history teacher, a grad student at Drake U., recommended Eugene Genovese's Roll, Jordan Roll - in the form of his journal article precursors of what became subtitled "The World the Slaves Made" (Marxian Interpretations of the Slave South) on through studying Frantz Fanon and various "black radical" theories during my brief but still useful "Trotskyist phase" at Macalester (thank god is was just that, though!) and on through later academic and life experiences, while I may not have expended as much time and effort as you might have done over the years on these issues, even so... it's just bizarre to encounter dogmatic assertions on this complex set of historical issues (still controversial both among historians and more widely) that seem to presume they are inarguably correct, when they just aren't!
www.commentary.org/articles/david-donald/roll-jordan-roll-by-eugene-d-genovese/
Phenotypical traits like"blackness" have indeed played the "otherness" role, true enough, but it antedated anyone importing black slaves to the Americas (which was going on in the Canary Islands hundreds of years before Jamestown, 1619) by several thousand years.
allenmendenhallblog.com/2011/01/27/outline-and-summary-of-david-brion-daviss-the-problem-of-slavery-in-western-culture/ <<< THIS! is what you want, in lieu of reading the book, anyway.
The bit about the causes and/or "the cause" of the American civil war is controversial as well, "not fought over slavery," is quite an assertion as the Abolitionists and their allies were certainly doing just that, and Vermont predated Pennsylvania's abolition, in 1777. So "it depends" on who exactly was fighting in the war,and why, doesn't it?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54th_Massachusetts_Infantry_Regiment - formed after the Emancipation Proclamation, so not precisely evidence for " the war WAS fought over slavery," that would involve at least bringing in John Brown's Raid, and too much more to cram in here now.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_raid_on_Harpers_Ferry
Please try much harder in future, Terry. How's that for a lecturing tone? I'll bet you don't appreciate it any more than I do!
Perfect comment, Susanna. And they’re still fighting that “lost cause.”
The BEST!
Last night, the GOP decided to ignite their manes in a pyrotechnic spectacle of utter gibberish. It was a scene so bizarre, so teeming with rampant absurdity, that even the most sober of minds would pause and question the fabric of reality.
Enter the stage, Sen. Katie Britt, Alabama’s latest gift to the right’s dismal spectacle, tasked with delivering the GOP's counterpunch to Biden’s discourse. Describing her performance as hogwash is to flirt with understatement; she navigated the realms of breathy melodrama and cringe-worthy discomfort with the grace of a drunken flamingo.
Drowning in this chaotic dance, Britt decided to plunge into deeper waters of melodrama, recounting her encounter with a migrant woman ensnared in the vile webs of sex trafficking by cartels, a victim of repeated sexual assaults. She wielded this tale like a blunt instrument, aiming to shock and awe, suggesting such horrors were out of place in the darkest corners of a third-world abyss, much less the star-spangled banner of the United States.
However, as Shannon Watts keenly observed, the irony was as thick as molasses in January; here was Britt, knee deep in her theatrical spectacle, nudging Americans towards the ballot box to cast their votes for a KNOWN RAPIST.
In the swirling, maddened world of Stephen King, this would be just another Tuesday.
~poetry~
Well said.
Orson Welles joins me in a tip of the cap and a clink of properly-filled glasses in tribute to your article. Would I be correct in assuming you drove to Grovers Mill, N.J. for research purposes?
Note to non-geezer readers: on October 30, 1938, young actor Orson Welles directed and starred in a CBS radio drama adaption of H.G. "no relation" Welles book, "War of the Worlds." The radio broadcast was done in the style of news reports following the crash of an alien spaceship in Grovers Mill, N.J. (a real-life village near Princeton). Millions of Americans took it seriously, and panicked.
They have the whole recording on youtube.
Yes. Every time I listen to it I put the family in our Plymouth with canned food in the trunk and my pitchfork next to me, and we try to get the hell out of Roswell.
Frickin aliens!!
I move that LKTlV does the cold open on SNL. Second?
Second through the millionth.
*It is a viral infection; affecting most (civilised)mono genetic human populations.
It seems to have first appeared among the Aryan people of Central Asia; but quickly spread north into the Caucuses and was carried west into what is now Europe and Scandinavia and East into what has become China.
Its current strain is most pronounced in various Caucasian Populations throughout North and South Ame-Ricas, Australia, South Africa and Europe; Reaching epidemic proportions in Europe and North Ame-Rica as well as Brazil.
It’s most recent outbreak in Central Europe mid 20th century; was felt around the world. There was much death and destruction before it was (seemingly) squelched under the threat of Nuclear Inoculation. However…
It is still being nurtured throughout diverse Caucasian communities.
We’ve learned that it can be controlled with Education and the eventual blending of our Various Cultural Genomes.
Ha! Only the GQP could select a backbench nobody from the state which is last in just about everything not involving football to be their spokesperson.
OK, LKTIV, that was freaking well done! I saw a video clip of someone showing what "fundie baby voice" was. I think THAT's where the aliens got the sound track!
That "fundie baby voice" can also be a sign that a woman was sexually abused as a child. I know at least three middle-aged women who are not fundies, but who speak in whispery child-like voices and they all were molested when they were little girls by their fathers or by someone else in the family. It's very sad.
Could she be a Stepford wife deactivated & stored away in 1975, discovered and put to use by MAGA last night? Just asking the question.....
Spot on. The children’s names were the dead give away…Bennet and Ridgely? So Stepford.
Hey Christina, I'm probably not the only one who watched Stepford Wives last night. Not the remake with Nicole Kidman. It's not as good as you might think or remember. But it's not that bad as to be unwatchable either. It's streaming on tubi.
Thanks. I will “hold that thought” until I’m further away from the the Katie Britt performance. I’m still a little raw!
There is no way even SNL can do justice to this woman's truly otherworldly performance. I guess the RNC figured it was time to send in the clowns.
That’s as may be, Bob. I’d still like to see/hear McKinnon take a crack at it, for my own entertainment.
MAGA Barbie?
The three Republicans who are this day feeling good about Katie Britt's performance (?) are Bobby Jindl, Marco Rubio and Sara Huckabee Sanders. They all just moved down a notch in the absolute worst Republican answers to a Democratic SOTU.
My wife and I watched every one of the excruciating fifteen plus minutes and agreed we would be watching SNL Saturday to see the rerun. And, by that I do mean rerun. Just put on the tape and let the self parody roll.