Posted on 07/17/2019 5:17:34 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Did you catch any of the chaos in the House chambers yesterday as the Dems moved to condemn President Trump’s tweets? Pelosi was banned from speaking for the day for breaking House rules, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver dropped the gavel.
He issued the following statement, which reads in part:
“I want to thank Leader Hoyer for assuming the chair and reading the parliamentarian’s ruling following my abdication. Like the vast majority of Americans, I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with the childish rancor of our public discourse. Our inability to conduct ourselves in a civil and respectable fashion has paralyzed the most powerful government in the history of the world, and for what? A 10-second soundbite on prime time news and a few thousand twitter followers?
Mind you, Rep. Cleaver used to be considered one of the more radical progressive members of the Democratic party. Before the Broad Squad showed up on scene. What a difference a bray makes.
The Dems are moving us dangerously closer to joining the pantheon of countries that routinely break out in parliamentary fisticuffs.
And all because the President put Tweet to the long held sentiment of “America: love it or leave it.”
I guess ‘da Squad insists that his tweet was racist. Of course they also insisted there was collusion with Russia! Russia! Russia! Or obstruction. Or something.
I should point out that “go back to where you came from” could mean “get out of the way,” a phrase President Obama was never shy about using, whether he was talking about the Republicans who “drove the car off the cliff” getting out of the way so he could “clean up the mess,” or the Republican Congress “getting out of his way” so he could shut down Gitmo. “Get out of the way” only sounds racist if you see everything through a racist lens.
Oh, and remember that time when Abraham Lincoln was a racist?
H/T Cripes Suzette – still my favorite of her many awesome photoshops
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
Think about the paralysis there will be when a bunch of these scum make it up onto the DC cherry trees...
Not a good title. Lincoln was an open and avowed Racist. There are numerous explicit public statements he made to that effect.
“Go back to your district and clean up the local politics...”
I mentioned this the other day on another thread here, in regards to the reference to Lincoln, that I recall it being discussed in my US history class in high school that Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery not because of some benevolent interest in helping blacks but to stop them from coming up into the North via the Underground Railroad. And that he also faced pressure and criticism from Northerners who wanted to keep slavery in the South because black people could leave the plantations and come up into New York and elsewhere and compete with whites for the factory jobs.
Who during that period wasn't an open and avowed racist, when measured by today's standards?
Lincoln’s opinion of race was probably consistent with a majority of Americans opinions of race, at that time in our history.
As I mentioned in my post, there were many in the North who sympathized with the Confederacy and actually wanted slavery to be preserved there because whites in places like NY, NJ, MA, and CT with the new factories and industries did not want blacks to come up and take their jobs in those places away. And those sorts of sentiments sparked the violent anti draft riots in New York City in 1863. Learned a lot about this at the Civil War Museum in Richmond at Tredegar.
Your U.S. H\history class should have known that the Underground Railroad didn't end in the North, it ended in Canada. Runaway slaves in the North were still in danger of being caught and sent back under the requirements of the various fugitive slave acts. In Canada they weren't.
Since your history class wasn't aware of that fact then perhaps it's not surprising that their claims about what Lincoln believed in were so far off as well.
Apparently most of it was very one-sided.
The Uberracist Fraud:
“We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.”
Holy Rosa Parks, Batman!!!
That may have been my forgetfulness on the Underground Railroad. You are right, it did end in Canada and actually a number of blacks settled in where my ancestors in Grey County, ON were in about the 1850s. My idea was that, if it is correct, many Northerners did not like blacks escaping the plantations to come up in to their areas and there was the school of thought that had abolishing slavery would put a stop to the escapes up north.
Good. Our founders rebelled against the "most powerful government in the history of the world," and took many deliberate actions in thought, word and deed to ensure the US Government did not become the new, "most powerful government in the history of the world." The most powerful nation, yes...but achieving that end through limited government.
This is at the crux of leftist politics. They equate government with nation...perhaps most clearly expressed when Bill Clinton stated after the OKC bombing, “There’s nothing patriotic about hating your government or pretending you can hate your government but love your country.” Leftists are incapable of separating the two or understanding the difference. Frankly, Clinton's words sound more like the pronouncement of a Khrushchev or Brezhnev than a POTUS.
I believe there were more abolitionists in the South than there were in the North. Also, Lincoln went complete authoritarian with his sacred union argument. More than likely slavery would have been peacefully eradicated without a civil war shortly anyhow like in many other non-muslim parts of the world. A credit to Lincoln was that he wanted the South to be forgiven and brought back into the Union without the punitive and exploitative Reconstruction era where corruption, hatred and resentment really took hold. The Radical Republicans in the North may have played a hand in his assassination for that sentiment. Although bankers in the Eastern establishment and or across the pond in London likely had strong feelings about Lincoln also.
Yes, actually, but I am proud Southron.
Say what?
More than likely slavery would have been peacefully eradicated without a civil war shortly anyhow...
How shortly?
“More than likely slavery would have been peacefully eradicated without a civil war shortly”
If by “shortly” you mean 4 to 5 decades would agree.
BROAD SQUAD - that is super! We must remember to use it...Tho’ I prefer a different kind of “squad” for those females...
Lincoln WAS a devout racist which was typical for the 19th century.
Strange time to start opposing Presentism.
Where have you been for the last 25-30 years when that same standard was applied by PCers to lots of other historical figures?
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