If all the jobs are moving overseas, why wouldn’t the white working class vote for Trump? What good reason do they have for not doing so? I know why the black and Latino working class won’t–because of the racism of the Trump campaign. But if you have no hope except for being white, why not vote for your racial dominance? That’s what Trump offers.
Secretary of Agriculture: William Daniel Johnson. Mr. Johnson is Chairman of the American Freedom Party. He is a farmer and a white nationalist. This cabinet post is extremely important because it handles food stamps and WIC (women, infant and children) food subsidies. These programs will be powerful tools to achieve repatriation of the 30+ million illegal aliens in America.
Secretary of Labor: Oregon Governor Kate Brown. In keeping with Donald Trump's populist underpinnings, Oregon Governor Kate Brown would be a good choice. She is a proven champion of a living wage.
This is the bold chest-thumping of the Vichy apparatchik. This is the pouter-pigeon flummery of every deputized yahoo in every tinhorn dictatorship. This is the mock-courage of the true subject of an occupying power.- Charlie Pierce, on the pouting reaction of the St. Louis PD to the entrance on-field of members of the Rams last night, holding up their hands in the "hands up, don't shoot me!" position. The SLPD are actually indignant that the community they keep "safe" by arbitrary violence isn't sufficiently grateful.
The state of Texas’s decision not to issue a license plate that incorporates the Confederate battle flag violates the First Amendment, according to a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The majority opinion by Judge Edward Prado concludes that Texas engaged in impermissible viewpoint discrimination by implicitly disfavoring the view that “the Confederate flag is a symbol of sacrifice, independence, and Southern heritage” and crediting the viewpoint that “the Confederate flag is an inflammatory symbol of hate and oppression.”Soon to be followed by this:
Long live the confederacy, at least for some Republicans in Mississippi. A new Public Policy Poll shows that if there was another Civil War between the Union and Confederacy, 37 percent of Republicans who voted in the Mississippi primary runoff between incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) would support the Confederate States of America.Which makes this a good occasion for reviewing a long-held belief here at p3: Although it makes us throw up in the back of our mouth a little bit, we defend the display of the Confederate flag – whether in front of public buildings, or on t-shirts, bumper-stickers, boxer shorts, tramp stamps, or garages in Jackson, Mississippi – on two grounds. The first is explicitly free-speech: It's the ugliest ideas that most need First Amendment protection. The Fifth Circuit Court was right, of course: The Confederate flag is an inflammatory symbol of hate and oppression, but if someone wants to pay $50.75 to put that inflammatory symbol of hate and oppression on the license plate of their pickup truck (provided no other laws were broken in the process), so be it. The second is that it's what you might call a public health service: Confederate flags are like hazmat warning signs: Danger – Toxic Environment Ahead.
Overall, 29 percent of the Mississippi voters polled said they'd support the Confederate side, while 16 percent said they'd support a move to secede from the United States.
The most effective form of voter suppression is to convince people that the franchise is out of their reach.
A bit of standup schtick for years has riffed on this question: Why do people who imagine they have been in touch with their past lives always imagine they were someone cool? A pharaoh, rather than someone who was forced to build the pyramids? One of the kings or queens of France, rather than someone who emptied their chamber pots into the open sewers of Paris until they died of cholera at thirty?
Because, I suppose, he wants marriages to last:
Less than a week after claiming the majority of Alabamians are against interracial marriage, State Representative Alvin Holmes told a radio audience he's for interracial marriage, and then some.So once again, apart from pointing to Rep. Holmes (who's been in the Alabama state legislature for forty years this November) as evidence that the problem isn't just electing more Democrats, it's electing much better ones, we're forced to ask the p3 awkward question:
Speaking on WVAS radio in Montgomery, Rep. Holmes told a radio audience he's not against marriage between a man and a mule, as long as the "man and the mule get along."
A better question would be: Why do conservatives use racism as a political tool, and do they have an alternative?- Yastreblyansky at The Rectification of Names, on the difference between attempting to look into a political operative's soul and observing the big, obvious, structural properties of the national political party they serve.
Because it's not really important whether a given Republican operative—Richard Nixon or Lee Atwater—is a racist or not. What's important is the way they took to mobilizing around racism back in the 1960s, gradually absorbing the old white Democrats of the South and the frightened white proletariat of cities like Los Angeles and Cleveland and Detroit and Newark, or the suburbs to which they had fled, into an intrinsically racist institution, the new Republican party, which took what Corey Robin calls the aggrieved conservative "sense of loss" and focused it into a sense of having been robbed by, specifically, dark-skinned people who take taxpayers' money and throw it away on lobster and lottery tickets.
This seems like an odd plan anyway, since white apartheidists don't really have what you'd call a winning tradition at Gettysburg to begin with.
A planned Ku Klux Klan gathering in Gettysburg, Pa. was canceled due to the government shutdown, Philadelphia's WCAU reported Tuesday.
A Maryland-based KKK group was approved to hold a rally on Saturday at Gettysburg National Military Park, according to WCAU. Park officials told the news station that the rally won't happen because they revoked all permits for special events when the shutdown began Tuesday.
. . . there are not two issues here and, therefore, there is no need to "prioritize" one over the other. There is a single issue, and that issue is that we have become an over-policed society.- Charlie Pierce, denying that we have to choose whether to be more
So the former general and Secretary of State has unburdened himself of his feelings about North Carolina's SCOTUS-approved headlong rush back into the era of Jim Crow:
Moments after Gov. Pat McCrory left the stage, former Secretary of State Colin Powell took aim at North Carolina's new voting law Thursday, saying it hurts the Republican Party, punishes minority voters and makes it more difficult for everyone to vote.
"I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote," said Powell, a Republican, at the CEO Forum in Raleigh.
"It immediately turns off a voting block the Republican Party needs," Powell continued. "These kinds of actions do not build on the base. It just turns people away."
The retired general served as the keynote speaker at the event and made his remarks moments after McCrory finished his remarks. His comments represent the most high-profile criticism of the Republican-crafted law that requires voters to show photo identification at the polls, cuts early voting days and makes it harder for students to vote.
"You can say what you like, but there is no voter fraud," Powell said. "How can it be widespread and undetected?"
I think that's Zimmerman's future -- being a sad man who briefly became a hero to angry people for doing a horrible thing, but who, fortunately, will never fully exploit the situation.Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog, explaining – correctly, I think – why acquitted Crimestopper George Zimmerman will never become the multibrand that many people hope or fear he will be, as the latest darling of the gun lobby/white supremacist/ALEC-libertarian nexus.
Zimmerman Stopped for Speeding – with Gun in Car (Watch the Video)This was somewhere in Texas, the natural home of armed yahoos, although Zimmerman offered no explanation as to what he was doing there. Mark my words: It's simply a matter of time until Zimmerman is arrested in Las Vegas for attempting to steal sports memorabilia from a hotel room. That's how these things go.
And I'm going to be frickin' rich.
This fall, women turned out in droves to defeat the party of candidates like Richard Mourdock and Congressman Todd Akin, whose misogynist comments on rape were repulsive to most Americans.l
Mr. Obama’s victories in Colorado, Nevada and Virginia came in part because Hispanics turned out in droves and voted Democratic.
Since last month’s election I’ve been analyzing the voter shifts on Nov. 6 that carried gay-marriage advocates to victory in four states, after years of defeats. Yesterday the Washington Post “Outlook” section ran a piece in which I documented one of the most noteworthy shifts: Republican voters, especially in suburbs, crossed over in droves to break with their party’s official position.
By the way, before someone asks, to hell with what's in his heart. By his works I shall know him and, by his works, "Bill" Carrico's plan is racist. He should be shunned by decent people. He should be rejected by his party. If the decent people don't shun him, they are complicit in his racism. If his party, local and national, does not reject him, they are complicit in his racism. He should be placed in a time capsule and fired through a wormhole to 1852 where he belongs. Tell me again how the Republicans -- and the conservative movement that drives them -- are changing. Tell me again, I dare you.Charlie Pierce is beautiful when he's angry.
I am hearing a great deal of talk about "appealing to Hispanics" and "appealing to women." But I am not hearing much about endorsing actual policies. What happened last night is not a matter of cosmetics. This is not false consciousness. This a real response to real policies. Mitt Romney actually endorsed Arizona's immigration policies. You can't fix this by flashing more pictures of brown people.- Ta-Nehisi Coates on the inability of white male voters to elect Mitt Romney in 2012.
This is not a "branding problem." This is a "problem problem." Latino voters didn't go crazy. Latino voters went voter.
“… the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.”And we follow that reading with a hymn:
Pierce on Arizona desperately trying to turn itself into Little Casablanca:Consider what has to happen for this nonsense to become law. Someone has to be nutty enough to propose it. Then, there have to be committee hearings. Then, there has to be a committee vote. Then, there has to be debate in both houses of the state legislature — except in Nebraska, which has a unicameral state legislature and, thus, 50 percent less whackadoodlery than the other 49 states. Then people have to think about it and vote for it.
[A]ccording to Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.), "trained professionals" can identify undocumented workers just by looking at their clothes.
Discussing Arizona's pending profiling bill on "Hardball," Chris Matthews challenged Bilbray to cite a "non-ethnic aspect" by which law enforcement agents could identify illegal immigrants. "They will look at the kind of dress you wear, there is different type of attire, there is different type of -- right down to the shoes, right down to the clothes," Bilbray replied.
Of course, law enforcement wouldn't detain people based solely on clothing, Bilbray said. They also know to look out for the ways in which illegal immigrants just act illegal.
"It's mostly behavior, just as the law enforcement people here in Washington, D.C. does it based on certain criminal activity," he told Matthews. "There is behavior things that professionals are trained in across the board, and this group shouldn't be exempt from those observations as much as anybody else [sic throughout]."
"Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else."Sherlock Holmes
"The Red-Headed League"
"Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?"
He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others which represent a strong balance of probability. That the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious on the face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the last three years although he has now fallen upon evil days. He had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, at work upon him. This may also account for the fact that his wife has ceased to love him."Sherlock Holmes
"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"
"You have come in by train this morning, I see."
"You know me then?"
"No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached the station."Sherlock Holmes
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band"
He held it up and tapped on it with his long, thin forefinger, as a presser might who was lecturing on a bone.
"Pipes are occasionally of extraordinary interest," said he. "Nothing has more individuality, save perhaps watches and bootlaces. The indications here, however, are neither very marked nor very important. The owner is pbviously a muscular man, left-handed, with an excellent set of teeth, careless in his habits, and with no need to practise economy."Sherlock Holmes
"The Yellow Face"
"I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he. "When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom."
"Excellent!" I cried.
"Elementary," said he.Sherlock Holmes
"The Crooked Man"
