Ulysses S. Grant, the commander of the Union forces during the Civil War, describes perfectly the circumstances that could lead to a second Civil War in an 1875 speech.
"If we are to have another (Civil War), I predict the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between Patriotism and intelligence on one side and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other."
Grant could not have described the sides more perfect. On one side, intelligent Patriots fighting to save the world's greatest democracy and on the other side ignorant people who believe in superstitions or conspiracy theories following craven power-hungry and ambitious leaders lusting for power!
VOTE BLUE in 2022, U.S. Grant, a real Lincoln Republican, knew it in 1875, and we better well know it today because the entire experiment hangs in the balance.
Is this where we are? Is this how far the United States has fallen? Death threats and inciting violence are still illegal right?
If you or I threatened to kill potential colleagues or co-workers, it would be a wrap for us at work, and by the time you got home, you would probably have some law enforcement agency at your doorstep wanting to chat about your threats.
The rules, once again, only seem to apply to average American citizens and not the crazed lunatics running this country or the ones seeking elected office - like Republican Eric Greitens.
The ad you just witnessed was an internet ad by disgraced former Missouri governor Eric Greitens who is now running to be a member of the United States Senate.
Greitens' ad, which was put on the internet deliberately because that is where the bulk of the MAGA crazies can be found searching for Qanon predictions, suggests that MAGA members should get a RINO hunting license, meaning a license to shoot and kill Republicans in Name Only (RINO).
There are some good people who voted for Trump and this MAGA movement right? They have to see the crazy here, right?
Greitens was the governor of Missouri until he was forced to resign after sexual assault allegations and violating campaign finance law.
Greitens said in the ad that RINO's feed on corruption. Surely, he must be joking right? He is the epitome of corruption. He lasted a little over a year as governor before the pressure of multiple scandals forced the Republican-led Missouri legislature to threaten him with impeachment if he did not resign.
The list of scandals includes:
1. Violation of campaign finance reform
2. Sexual assault and using photos to keep the victim quite about her knowledge of the crime'
3. Physical abuse of his children
4. Sexually assaulting his hairstylist
The real question is why this man has not been arrested for inciting violence? I'm sure it has something to do with law enforcement sympathizing with this MAGA death cult.
This is the most important election in our history, VOTE BLUE in 2022.
I was forced to do something today that I do not even wish on my worst enemies, I had to watch hours of FOX "News" to see how they were indoctrinating the clones.
Predictably, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson were framing this ruling by the Supreme Court today ending 49-years of abortion precedent by overturning Roe v. Wade 6-3 (strictly party lines), as no big deal. All this is going to do, they said, is throw this issue back to the states and the voters will get to decide. Hey Hannity, do not piss on my head and telling me it's raining.
Carlson went on to say that if you have abortion in your state that will not be threatened if that's how you want to live. I call BS on that as well.
Here is the reality, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, the fascists at the head of the Republican/ American Fascist Party, have both indicated that a national abortion ban is possible. Believe them when they say it. It is what they are planning for the start of 2023 if they retake power.
In March, after the draft opinion of the Supreme Court was leaked, Mitch McConnell told USA Today, that "if the leaked opinion became the final opinion, legislative bodies - not only at the state level but at the federal level - certainly could legislate in that area ... and if this were the final decision, that is the point ... so yeah, (a federal ban) is possible."
This part should not be lost, "at the FEDERAL level."
Today McCarthy, flanked by his brownshirts in Congress, held a press conference about this ruling, and how he was already looking into two bills, either banning or limiting severely, abortion with no restrictions at the Federal level. He took a total of three questions, and when the questions started getting tough, he ended the presser by praying for all Americans. Let's hope he didn't forget the 40,000+ who will die as a result of his GOP's lax gun policies. Prolife?
The one resounding theme I heard all night long on the Republican/Fascist news network was Laura Inghram chiming in that all this does it kick it back to the states until it is decided by an election.
So we need to conclude by explaining the history of state's rights in this country. State's rights has always been a vehicle for the wealthy minority to rule the poorer and less-connected majority.
State's rights were used to defend slavery. When abolitionists called for the end of slavery, southern states used state's rights arguments to say they had the right to own slaves.
State's rights were used again as a defense/justification for segregation. Southern states who came up with Jim Crow laws and Segregation policies, said the 10th Amendment made it possible for each state to write its own laws about busing, water fountains, schools, restaurants and other public accommodations because none of that was specified in the Constitution.
Beyond being a way to keep black folks in check, it has also been used to keep women in their appropriate station in society. State's rights were used as a defense when it came to disenfranchise women at the ballot box. The first state to give women the vote was Wyoming in 1890, but it would be 30 years before women would be given full enfranchisement in 1920.
As long as voting rights for women was a state's rights issue, they would be given voting rights, but not in Presidential elections because that was a federal election. So as other states after Wyoming gave women the vote, it was limited to only certain elections.
State's rights were used as the reason for Southern states to secede from the Union in 1861, starting the bloodiest conflict in American history.
State's rights have always been, and will always be, like the filibuster and the Senate at large, a means for giving the wealthy minority the power over the majority of the country.
Facts:
93 percent of the country believes abortion should be legal when the life of the mother is at risk
70 percent of the country believes Roe v. Wade should not have been overturned
67 percent of the country believes abortion should be legal in cases of rape or incest
Again, state's rights is being used as a means for 1/3 of the country to tell the other 2/3 what bans they have to live by. Where is the democracy in that?
These theocratic fascists will keep imposing their will on you until you remove them from every office in the land. Make no mistake, if they regain power in 2022, abortion will be banned nationally and the other rights will fall like dominos
A. Contraception
B. Gay Marriage
C. Interracial Marriage
Mark my words, no precedent is safe as long as these fascists remain in control!
The Fascist religious right in this country has stepped over the final line, and anyone currently living in the United States on June 24, 2022 is living in a right-wing fascist theocracy, meaning a government run by religion and unscrupulous "religious" leaders.
The United States Supreme Court, infused by three justices rammed onto the court by the second worst world leader in recent world history, Donald Trump, overturned a 49-year precedent today, which stripped away the rights of half the population in the United States because, in the justice's opinions, women are not really citizens and can't be trusted to make decisions related to their own bodies.
This fascist right-wing theocratic court, formerly known as the Supreme Court of the United States, voted 6-3 (along party lines) to overturn the rights guaranteed to women in the 1973 ruling, Roe v. Wade.
Apparently, while SCOTUS was eager to make us all into religious citizens of a theocracy, they forgot that the separation of church and state is also guaranteed to all of us who live in this country. This ruling is a ruling that will force the entire country to live by the court's Christain religious views.
Jews, Muslims, Agnostics, Atheists, Hindus, etc., in this country should be very afraid, because this fascist theocratic mob is coming for you! Same-sex marriage rights are in peril, the right of interracial couples to marry is again in doubt, the right to contraception is in peril, as well as due process. They might as well have poured gasoline on the United States Constitution and lit it on fire.
Justice Samuel Alito, one of the head fascists on the court, in his written opinion basically pissed on the 14th Amendment of the Constitution by saying that because abortion wasn't specified in the original text of the constitution, then it is not a right. Well keep this in mind, in the original text of the Constitution, black folks were considered property or 3/5th's of a person.
It is insane to say or believe that if something was not specifically delineated in a 200-plus-year-old document, then it can't be a right. The founders could not have anticipated our modern society in their wildest of imaginations, so how can we read the Constitution strictly as it was written in the late 1700s.
If you have diluted yourselves into believing that other rights besides abortion are not on the chopping block, then you have not been watching this fascist, theocratic court operate. They can ban any law in any state, overturn any right, and rewrite rules for themselves, thus eliminating the powers of the other two branches of government.
Forget about prolife and prochoice. This decision has nothing to do with that. This has everything to do with the SCOTUS using its authority to rule the country with an iron fist!!!!
But in case you still believe that this is about abortion. Here are the facts:
People who claim to be prolife are actually just pro birth. They do not care at all what happens to these children after they come out of the womb. Need proof? Fine, the same so-called pro-lifers are against food stamps for poor children, they recently opposed extending the child tax credit so children do not starve or have a place to live. They oppose child care assistance provided by the government, which would help parents go to work to provide for these children. They are against health care for all children because they support only health care for children whose parents can "afford" it, which is almost no one. EVERY time one of these things comes before Congress, the right wing theocrats in this country oppose it. So they do not care about children. That is the biggest load of dung ever perpetrated on the American public.
The same fascist death cult that is "pro" life also believes that we should have as many guns for killing others as possible on the streets and they are ardent supporters of the death penalty, which when applied incorrectly, can not be undone. PRO BIRTHERS are full of SHIT!
This is why voting is so important because when you vote in people like Mitch McConnell, and brain-dead idiots like Trump, who just go along with what the McConnell and other fascist theocrats like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee want, you get this gross version of what used to be the highest court in the land.
The seat currently filled by Neil Gorsuch was stolen by McConnell. He refused to seat President Barack Obama's pick in 1000-percent violation of the United States Constitution. Remember, he said he was not going to appoint Obama's pick because we were in an election year. Then when Ruth Bader Ginsburg died a month before the election in 2020, all of the sudden, that hypocrite forced pastor Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court to insure this outcome.
SCOTUS, along with our democracy, was highjacked by these craven power-hungry fascists and this is just the tip of the iceberg. If you do not vote blue in 2022, we will never have a free and fair election again, as this court will allow your voting rights, especially the voting rights of blacks to be stripped from them. You can expect the rights of millions more Americans will be stripped away unceremoniously as they continue to urinate on the Constitution and tear it to shreds. I have never been more convinced of anything in my life.
Louie Gohmert, one of the sorriest excuses for a U.S. House of Representatives member from Texas, went on a rant during a recent hearing on gun reform, claiming that he was outraged by the fact that some Democrats said Republicans are siding with the gunmen in these all-to-common shootings.
Gohmert asked his follow members of the committee: Do you think we have no hearts? Let me answer for them. NOOO! He was upset because some Democrats said that "(Republicans) put our right to kill over other's right to live." Let me answer that one also: Absolutely True. And then he goes on about some non-sensical talking point about how cities are the most dangerous places and that they are all run by Democrats: I call BS on that on both counts (evidence below).
Mr. Gohmert. It would be easier to believe that you are not complicit in murder if you passed some common-sense gun reforms, and let's be real, you have never done that. Spare me your thoughts and prayers, because they are even less genuine than you. I welcome prayers for the families when they are genuine, but at this point it is a Republican punchline that I'm sure is shared at NRA conventions.
If you said, maybe we could raise the age to 21 for someone to buy a weapon of mass murder. That would be better. Maybe if you supported a background check that was standard across the country for anyone selling a gun, that would be better. Maybe if you put a ban on assault rifles, maybe than I could believe you, but you support none of those things. So, I am inclined to believe that you are here to make sure the gunmen can get a deadly war weapon the day he turns 18 and shoot up a school, church, nightclub, movie theatre, workplace, concert, supermarket, Walmart, synagogue. Is that enough or should I continue?
Then he says that all cities are controlled by Democrats. Lie. Numerous cities with high murder rates are being run by Republican mayors. Other ones that are being run by Democrats, just like their Republican mayorial counterparts, have little control over the inflow of guns into their states because although the gun laws are extremely strict in a place like Illinois, they are incredibly lax in all the surrounding states which allows criminals and gangs to send gunrunners into neighboring states to purchase all the illegal weapons that drug money can buy and bring it back to Illinois. I'm using Illinois because Chicago is in Mr. Gohmert's talking points. I saw him reading it off the screen in front of him.
Here are the facts related to gun violence, of the top 15 states in America with the highest per-capita murder rate as a result of a gun, the top 13 are red states (Republican states) run by Republican governors and Republican legislatures.
Want some more Mr. Gohmert, or are you ready to cry uncle? Although, they blame gun violence on the pandemic, in 2017, nearly 40,000 Americans died as a result of gun violence - a 50-year high. That is a gun death every 13 minutes. Do the math. I believe government in 2017 was completely controlled by Republican authoritarians (President, Senate and House). True Statement.
I included the list for Mr. Gohmert to view when he has a free second from being a blowhard bullshit artist. And anyone else can take a look as well. The states with the highest number of gun deaths, are, surprise, surprise, the states with the most guns. Shocking!
So now all the lawmakers are doing a jig because they have a tentative framework on some gun reforms, that should drop that number from 40,000 per year, down to 39,500. Maybe they should pass something that means something or be voted out.
Here are the highlights of this so called "gun" reform bill.
I will start with the one thing in it that means something. Including people who have domestic violence arrests and restraining orders on the national background check. This will help keep some people alive, especially domestic violence victims.
They are going to make an 18-year-old wait a couple of days before he can buy his AR-15's now. Meaningless. Ban them or raise the age.
Financial incentives to get states to pass red flag laws. Red states will not do that. Meaningless.
More money for mental health. Could be beneficial if used right, and Abott in Texas actually applies it to mental health. He cut hundreds of millions of dollars from mental health last year. Another BS artist.
If you are waiting for the rest, then you will be waiting a long time because that is basically it.
