The unrest and riots in California have been underwritten by the clods of political planning such as California’s own governor, the useless idiot Gavin Newsom, who blows hard with demands that Donald Trump arrest him. Newsom, of course, wants confrontation for political gains from the glory hallelujah Democratic party. Arm in arm with the girly-screamer Mayor Karen Bass they could both ride some kind of stupid (though effective) juvenile martyrdom into their future mountaintop political summit (senator, president, king, god…who knows with these people?).
Good grief– so what? Intelligent thought went out years ago with the dancing bands blasting out nonsensical blood-band-marches of “Glory, glory hallelujah” and “NATIONAL anthems” replacing Dixie and The Star-Spangled-Banner. What do you expect? Do you believe that it is a Christendom blood-fight of the good vs the bad? The conservatives vs. the liberals (there’s a joke) in battle?
Get a life. Or try not to lose one in this land of gangs and foreign criminals imported mostly by the modern Democrats.
Or even better, get a book or two and a teacher or two. No, not from the bloviating T.V. and radio artistic jackals (hmmm…jackasses, JMO) who claim to be on the right. These for the most part are Republicans who love to blather about the Democrats of the 19th century as slave owners and evil people whom the angels of light (Abraham Lincoln ad nauseum) beat into righteousness. “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord…!”
The modern Democrats know little, if nothing. On the other hand, the modern Republicans know nothing but little.
The Democrats have a political gene pool derived from such timbre as, the above-mentioned Newsom and Bass (plenty more where this ilk came from). But the Republicans have a political gene pool not much better—dare I call it a cesspool?
Hard to resist. However:
The “on the right” bunch are mostly “on the wrong.” There are a host of them; but just as one example (because he was on the radio, 6-11-25, Wilkow, as a guest and I hope to irritate him) there was some apparently uneducated (what else is new?) congressman from Wisconsin. Congressman Derrick Van Orden (R) proudly representing the people of Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District.
Like most of these “on the right” professional clowns of the histrionic histories, he suggested that as Commander in Chief (he said of the country and not of the military as qualified under the Constitution–a little parenthetical digression–sorry)* Donald Trump could send in troops because, as precedent, Lyndon Johnson had sent troops to Selma Alabama, because arch racist George Wallace didn’t want blacks to go to school.
So, there! Trump can send in troops because as CIC, Trump owns the military.
Trump can therefore “fight, fight, fight” –No, you Yahoo, that’s not what Trump meant–but then Kennedy, not Johnson sent in troops to Alabama, and no troops were sent to Selma. And if Van Orden knew anything about Wallace he would know of Wallace’s decency and kindness toward blacks–as once described by the late radio commentator, Paul Harvey.
But then Republicans have had few, if any, good ideas, starting with the weakest and most political, Abe Lincoln. But I digress, once again.
It is difficult to wander through the faults and mistakes of Congressman Van Orden’s remarks, but it gives new meaning to the phrase “Cheese Heads.” As well, the congressmen ought to check on the votes Wallace got in the Democratic presidential primary in 1964 in Wisconsin (Wallace, from Alabama received 1/3 of the vote in Wisconsin).
However, the Republicans and the Democrats both seem to be in some grand fight to save this so-called “nation” for their own “national” purposes.
The Democrats (of this century) seem to want a state run and controlled bureaucracy which they love to call a “democracy” despite the tomfoolery of such a concept having many times been shown to be a monstrous majority state that cannibalizes the minority. The so-called Founders did study Greek history.
The Republicans have no more concept or interest in a republic than did Lincoln (bureaucrat par excellence) or his masters of the 19th century political universe had. They bet on a national state controlled by a national army and a constitution that served democratic elements like (so-called)“a right to vote”; consequently, bureaucratic judges ultimately have become married, indecently, to “one man, one vote.” There are actually United States Senators who will laud this indecency. And they will not have a clue as to its meaning.
Media and modernity’s history; a new Genesis would give us a new Sodom and Gomorra in all things political as well as moral.
Riots? What do you expect?
And if you didn’t like the government, unlike the clear thoughts and beliefs of July 4, 1776, you couldn’t leave. Take that, you Southern trash! Anyway, what have you ever done for the good old U.S. of A? Audie, Alvin, Robert E…what? Besides, if you lie about Thomas Jefferson you will lie about the rest of the same vine.
The very people who swear that “we” (who the hell is we?) had a war to end slavery instead of using laws under a republican constitutional union will swear that slavery was some vison of a cosmos demonic evil that the Southern participants of that union could not give up.
These same participants who have morphed into the modern “two-party” uni-party system praise and heretofore have praised themselves for ending the results of what they have labeled as “the original sin.” Eve is squirming wherever she lies (in New England, most assuredly, where God, of course, “created”).
That Uni-sin of course was etched into northern and European slave ships transporting supplies of human flesh having been provided by African brothers (the vendee enslavers); such flesh coming from their own African brothers (the vendor enslavers).
Hurrah for old Eli and brother Brown! A couple of polished “Bubbas” sans irony.
The seeds of these same monsters then apparently repealed their own vision of the 13th amendment with the 16th amendment. My god, you have to love that national government by the Potomac: From the frying pan to the fire!
A war against slavery, eh?
Damn your Jabberwocky! Your legalistic double-talk!
Riots? Of course.
On any given day, given the outlets of radio, T.V. podcast, etc. there will be the clarion calls from those non-schooled and non-skilled in American history, a history born of a Southern soul; such creatures as Levin, Hanson, Gingrich, O’Reilly, et al of the pseudo academic class (those aforementioned “on the right” people), and those with no history credentials of any discipline, to praise a faux “nation” no longer of union, for its fidelity to truth, justice and the so-called American Way.
By the way–which way is that? Union or Empire? Republic or Democracy.
So, what are you “historians” going to do about those damn riots?
Glory, glory, Hallelujah! The Uni-Party’s truth keeps marching on!
Because, once upon a time, that political jackal of Illinois came marching in and beat the ploughshares into spears?
Of course there are riots!
What did you think would happen?
*The president is commander in chief of the military under certain qualified conditions as described in Article 2 of the Constitution. He is NOT the CIC of the country as so many are careless to say. Guys like Stalin, Hitler, Mao, et al were CIC of their country.
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I don’t use the term “states’ rights” in discussing the War for Southern Independence any longer. It’s accurate and concise but it’s become a cliche. I just focus on sovereignty.
I was engaged online with a guy who insisted on the usual shibboleths concerning the causes of the War. I could tell. I asked him, “Apropos of nothing, what do you think of Donald Trump’s actions with the riots in Los Angeles?” He answered, “I will always be on the side of the people… over a game show host who wants to destroy American democracy.
My response: Federal laws are being violated. Since 1865 state sovereignty is subordinate to the will of the federal executive….
!!! STATE SOVEREIGNTY IS WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS IT IS !!!
I haven’t heard back.
Sorry, but do I detect situational ethics here? It sounds like you are saying: state sovereignty is important when THEY hold Federal power and it is unimportant when WE hold Federal power.
Part of the genius of the American political experiment is the realization that an effective division of power makes democracy possible and makes tyranny extremely hard to achieve.
The next three years are going to be very illuminating on precisely this point.
“…makes democracy possible and makes tyranny extremely hard to achieve.”
If you accept “democracy” you open the door to tyranny.
To paraphrase Thomas Carlyle, from his “Latter-day Pamphlets IV – The New Downing Street,” to look to majority rule and universal suffrage for civic wisdom and virtue, one will only find “the carcass of a drowned ass floating nowhither upon the mud-deluge.”
And as Edmund Ruffin said, “Now that we have universal suffrage, the post of honor is in private station.”
Folks, we are forgetting something. No document or history or intentions (good and bad) are responsible for where we are in this country (and the world) at any given time. The major element here is the people. I am 84. I remember a time when we were (at least somewhat) civilized. I was told to always be polite to adults, to be obedient to my parents and those “in charge” in the society. To be “good” and to believe in God and though my family was not “religious” per se, I received my First Communion and my Confirmation. The entertainment was wholesome. Yes, there were “bad things” and “bad people” but the culture was generally positive. Nothing of the kinds openly taking place in this “culture” today would have been tolerated by ANYBODY in the years of my youth.
Remember, the people don’t reflect the culture, the culture reflects the people. Evil things went on in the past, but the vast majority of “decent people” did not applaud them nor did they tolerate (at least openly) those in power who were corrupt. Such was always there but it has gone from a minority situation to that of the accepted culture today. And we have brought this on ourselves when we chose, as Milton put it, “bondage with ease rather than strenuous liberty.”
Marxism is a virus looking for a host. It found and infected US.
Mr. Yarbrough, you have unexpectedly disappointed here. This is not an intelligent contribution but an angry screech. Repeated name-calling is not a substitute for rational thought. (Abraham Lincoln was a dictator, but he was not a ‘jackal’. And you cannot be a ‘clod’ or ‘useless idiot’ and follow Reagan and Schwarzenegger and become Governor of the most populous state in the Union, which is also, by itself, the fifth largest economy in the world.)
Then there are such clever, but inane statements as: ‘The modern Democrats know little, if nothing. On the other hand, the modern Republicans know nothing but little.’. Have you not seen, for example, clips of US Senators of either party who, while grilling Cabinet nominees, clearly know more about the respective departments than the nominated department heads do?
Finally, calling down a pox on both the Republican and the Democrat houses hardly brings us closer to solutions.
Sorry, Sir. We know you love the South, but that doesn’t excuse this screech. You can certainly give us better.
amen.
It was intended as an angry screech.
Back fires are often the most effective tool against bush fires and forest fires.
Good job, Mr. Yarbrough! It’s clear to me that federalism is dead.
Thank you.