No more Texas governors for president
There is no history of racism in this country that chalked ‘up only to race.’ You can’t really talk about stereotypes of, say, black laziness unless you understand stereotypes of the poor stretching back to 17th century Great Britain. You can’t really talk about the Southern slave society without grappling with the relationship between the demand for arable land and the demand for labor. You can’t understand the racial pogroms at the turn of the century without understanding the increasing mobility of American women.
And this works the other way too. If you’re trying to understand the nature of American patriotism without thinking about anti-black racism, you will miss a lot. If you’re trying to understand the New Deal, without thinking about Southern segregationist senators you will miss a lot. If you’re trying to understand the very nature of American democracy itself, and not grappling with black you, you will miss almost all of it.
They should have added a dog strapped to the roof of a car.
Comic credit Kevin Siers / Charlotte Observer.
- Guns everywhere. Concealed guns everywhere.
- Women: if you get pregnant please stay pregnant because Jesus and God say so.
- Immigrants: get the fuck out of here. Unless you want to do my lawn, then please stay.
- Tax breaks for the rich in perpetuity. Fuck you, poor people, we earned this money….
And it shows.
Mitt Romney being Romney.
The host even asks him to clarify, because a lot of people would say “that sounds very odd.” Romney happily obliges…
(via think-progress)
(via think-progress)
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Very well-stated:
Most of you probably don’t remember the NBC film from 1986 called The Deliberate Stranger starring Mark Harmon of NCIS fame as Ted Bundy…Near the end of the film as the prosecutor is making his closing argument, he brings out a blackboard and a piece of chalk. He then takes the long round edge the piece of chalk and makes a thick straight line across the board. After doing so, he begins to discuss the evidence the state has against Mr. Bundy. With each new article of information he erases a portion of the line until the line disappears completely. The point being that when you stack up all that is known about the case against Mr. Bundy, you can only conclude that there is no reasonable doubt as to whom committed the murders of at least 30 women in the 1970′s.
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[I]f you apply the Ted Bundy Chalkboard Test to the republican party and whose interests they represent, you get a similar result.
