Special Opinion to the Mirror by Paul Plante
In a thought-provoking post in a recent edition of the venerable Cape Charles Mirror, which is everything the failing Washington Post wishes it could be but isn’t, our fellow American patriot and Cape Charles Mirror regular Chas Cornweller did what he does so well, which in this case was to focus our attention on what is called the “culture gap” here in America, and he mused, as I read his piece, anyway, as to whether that gap could be closed, or whether we were past the tipping point, which it seems to me, an older American, we are.
As to the term “culture gap,” Wikipedia tells us that a culture gap is any systematic difference between two cultures which hinders mutual understanding or relations, and with the recently-concluded Blasey Ford hearing before the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate, we were treated to a view of the immensity of culture gap in America such as we have not been treated to in such detail in my lifetime, anyway, as the Democrats in the Senate shamelessly exploited that poor, emotionally-disturbed woman for partisan political gain.
As Wikipedia tells us, such differences include the values, behavior, education, and customs of the respective cultures.
In the Blasey Ford hearing, we common folks from out in the country with our rural, simple values had the values of our societal betters and cultural superiors literally jammed in our faces as we learned from the various media sources what the lives of the upper crust of America in the Washington, D.C. what the lives of the privileged in America are all about, and for some of us, perhaps many of us, what a shock it really was.
For example, NBC News had an article entitled “Accuser’s schoolmate says she recalls hearing of alleged Kavanaugh incident” by Ken Dilanian and Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Popken on 19 September 2018, where we learned of the values of the uppoer crust in America, as follows:
King’s post described a culture of heavy drinking among the students of the elite male and female private schools of Washington, D.C., including her own Holton-Arms and also Georgetown Preparatory School, which Judge and Kavanaugh attended.
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And that takes us back to Wikipedia, where we are told that a generation gap occurs when the experiences and attitudes of one generation differ significantly from those of another.
Clearly, to me, anyway, who had a quite boring upbringing as a poor person out in the countryside compared to these upscale Holton girls and Georgetown Prep boys which culture produced the emotionally-disturbed Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the generation gap or cultural divide between them and myself is immense, too huge to bridge, perhaps, which takes us back to this from Wikipedia, to wit:
The “Youth culture” of adolescents and teenagers seeking to stake out their own identity and independence from their parents often results in a cultural divide.
Younger generations have experienced different technologies, freedoms and standards of propriety.
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And that thought takes us to a Washigton Post article entitled “Boys will be boys? As Kavanaugh debate rages, teens are saying some adults still don’t get it” by Samantha Schmidt on 21 September 2018, where we learn as follows about the “youth culture” of the Washington, D.C. area, as follows:
Unlike her mother, Brynn has been taught that attempted sexual assault between teens is a crime.
The 16-year-old has learned about affirmative consent in her health class at Walt Whitman High.
But as with many teens coming of age during the #MeToo era, there’s a gap between what she is being taught and her rising awareness, and what still happens around her.
She’s been to parties in the D.C. suburbs.
Parents still turn a blind eye to booze.
The lines still become blurred.
“This is just as much of a problem now as when my mom was in high school,” Brynn said.
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To me, with my boring, mundane childhood, the key sentence in there is “parents still turn a blind eye to booze.”
How can that be, I wonder, but there it is, and if it wasn’t true that it was happening, the Washington Post would not have been able to print it.
That Washington Post article on the culture gap in America between rich and poor continued as follows:
Anjali Berdia, 18, went to the same all-girls high school as Ford, Holton-Arms in Bethesda.
Anjali, who is now studying at the University of Pennsylvania, said she never encountered a situation quite like Ford’s.
“But I do 100 percent think that this type of thing could happen at a party in Montgomery County this Friday,” she said.
The prep school social circle has a pervasive “hookup culture,” she says, “and in many ways I think hookup culture perpetuates rape culture.”
The single-gender nature of many prep schools puts added pressure on parties over the weekends, because it’s the only time guys and girls get to hang out, Anjali said.
“It becomes this mash of hormones, sweat and alcohol in some Montgomery County basement.”
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As to Montgomery County in Maryland, Wikipedia informs us thusly:
Montgomery County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland, located adjacent to Washington, D.C.
As one of the most affluent counties in the United States, Montgomery County also has the highest percentage (29.2%) of residents over 25 years of age who hold post-graduate degrees.
The county has been ranked as the one of the wealthiest in the United States.
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So with these articles which came out as a result of the Blasey Ford Hearing, we country folks are certainly getting a close-up view of how the better half in America lives, and what their values are compared to ours, as we can see from this Washington Post article entitled “‘100 Kegs or Bust’: Kavanaugh friend, Mark Judge, has spent years writing about high school debauchery” by Marc Fisher and Perry Stein on 22 September 2018, as follows:
A review of books, articles and blog posts by Judge — a freelance writer who has shifted among jobs at a record store, substitute teaching, housesitting and most recently at a liquor store — describes an ’80s private-school party scene in which heavy drinking and sexual encounters were standard fare.
He described a party culture of “drinking and smoking and hooking up.”
During senior year, Judge said he and his pals hired a stripper and bought a keg for a bachelor party they threw to honor their school’s music teacher.
“I drank too much and did stupid things,” he said in his memoir.
“Most of the time everyone, including the girls, was drunk,” Judge wrote in “Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk,” a memoir of his alcoholism and recovery.
“If you could breathe and walk at the same time, you could hook up with someone.”
“This did not mean going all the way . . . but after a year spent in school without girls, heavy petting was basically an orgy.”
Judge has written about his Prep years as a time of drunken debauchery.
Beach Week, a summertime excursion with classmates, was a nonstop roller coaster of drinking, sexual encounters with girls from other prep schools, blackouts and more drinking.
“It was impossible to stop until I was completely annihilated,” he wrote.
Such experiences filled weekends during the school year as well, and on Monday mornings during senior year, the boys would tell their Marriage and Sex teacher, Bernie Ward, about their excesses.
“The drinking was unbelievable,” said Ward, who later spent two decades as a radio talk-show host in San Francisco and served six years in federal prison for distributing child pornography.
“It was part of the culture.”
“A parent even bought the keg and threw one of the parties for the kids.”
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I have to say that that is so far outside of my own cultural experiences that we might as well be talking about some people in America being on Venus, while others are on Mars.
Getting back to the culture of our societal betters in Montgomery County, Maryland, the Washington Post tells us further as follows:
Ward, who taught Judge, Kavanaugh and future Supreme Court justice Neil M. Gorsuch in his religion and sexuality courses, said his students “talked plenty about men and women and taking advantage and respect for each other.”
“They took umbrage when I compared their rooting around with girls to dogs in heat.”
“They’d say they were in love, and I’d say, ‘Wait a minute — then how come you have another girlfriend in two weeks?’”
“We’d have heated arguments.”
Judge wrote that he came to view Ward as an example of his school’s fall from Catholic orthodoxy and traditional discipline into a New Age emphasis on feelings and liberal notions about faith and politics.
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Now, to me, a traditional American, that last sentence about a “New Age emphasis on feelings,” and “liberal notions about faith and politics” goes very far to explain the vast gap that exists in America today between those who self-identify as “liberal,” and those of us in America who have more traditional values, which gets us labeled as conservatives, with that term being hurled at us as a pejorative, or in the case of Wellesley College grad Hillary Rodham Clinton, we are nothing more than a “basket of deplorables,” which takes us back to the Washington Post article as follows:
Like Kavanaugh, Judge grew up in a Catholic Washington that formed its own social world, centered in the big old houses of Chevy Chase, Bethesda and Potomac, places today known as home to millionaires but through most of the second half of the 20th century communities where police officers, civil servants and teachers lived alongside lawyers and doctors.
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“Formed its own social world,” a social world so different than that which I knew when young that it might as well have been on another planet, which takes us to another Washington Post article entitled “Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford moved 3,000 miles to reinvent her life. It wasn’t far enough.” by Jessica Contrera, Ian Shapira, Emma Brown, and Steve Hendrix on 22 September 2018, as follows:
In Bethesda, Ford’s life was one of cloistered advantage, with her time spent at a private school for girls, at the Columbia Country Club and at parties where she moved easily among the privileged and popular.
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That life of cloistered advantage that Christine Blasey Ford grew up in, among the privileged and popular at the Columbia Country Club was structured to keep out riff-raff from the country such as myself, riff-raff in their eyes, anyway, white trash and such, is what serves in my mind to make this cultural divide that exists in America today so wide that there is no way to bridge across it.
Getting back to the Washington Post and the culture divide between America‘s upper crust and the rest of us who are lumped together in Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables,” we have as follows:
Growing up, she was just “Chrissy,” and in the way of younger siblings, was often described by her relationship to someone else: sister of Tom and Ralph, daughter of the older Ralph, a golf course regular who would go on to become the president of the exclusive, all-male Burning Tree Club.
Ford’s mother, Paula, was well-liked among the kids at Columbia Country Club because she remembered their names.
“You weren’t just a chaise longue to be walked past to her,” said Stephen Futterer, a Chicago doctor who was on the club’s swim team with Ford.
“There were definitely those families that had a little controversy, like the parent who drinks too much or the son who was caught stealing from the men’s locker room, but that was not the Blasey family.”
“They were just average for the club.”
Like many affluent families in the area, the Blaseys sent their children to single-gender private schools.
For Ford, that meant six years at Holton-Arms, where students wore blue plaid skirts they would try to convince their mothers to hem shorter.
Her classmates included the daughters of the King of Jordan and members of the J.W. Marriott clan.
Coach purses were the it-bag to carry, and at lunch, the girls were allowed to sit outside, tanning their legs and drinking Tab.
Ford’s inner circle was, “How do you say this?”
“The pretty, popular girls,” explained Andrea Evers, a close friend.
“It wasn’t like we were a bunch of vapid preppies, but God, we were preppy then.”
Weekends were spent shopping at the White Flint mall, flashing fake IDs at Georgetown’s Third Edition club — the drinking age was 18 then — or flocking to the house of whoever’s parents were out of town to drink six-packs of Hamm’s or Schaefer.
Every summer, the “Holton girls” would pack into a rented house for Beach Week, an annual bacchanal of high-schoolers from around the region.
The prep schools that formed Ford’s overlapping social circles usually gathered at a Delaware beach town each year.
Like Kavanaugh, Ford was part of that alcohol-fueled culture.
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And the common people in America like myself weren’t, and I think that makes all the difference in the world as to how we view life, responsibility and reality.
Can the cultural divide that now exists in America be bridged?
Or are we in fact past the tipping point?
Any thoughts, America?
Were I to be asked, and quite frankly, in real life, you know, life “out there,” meaning on the other side of the lens of cyberspace, I actually have been, if I could name the one person in this last millennium who to me epitomizes the personification of the “culture gap” or “culture divide” that I now think is unbridgeable, I would not hesitate to name Hillary Rodham Clinton to that honor.
By her very being, as we can see from the New York Times story “Where Has Hillary Clinton Been? Ask the Ultrarich” by Amy Chozick and Jonathan Martin on 3 September 2016, Hillary broadcasts “otherness,” as in “I am, therefore, you are,” as follows:
At a private fund-raiser Tuesday night at a waterfront Hamptons estate, Hillary Clinton danced alongside Jimmy Buffett, Jon Bon Jovi and Paul McCartney, and joined in a singalong finale to Hey Jude.
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As an aside, and here let me say that I am older than Ms. Hillary by over a year, so that she is my junior and I am her elder, back in the day, I too used to sing “Hey, Jude,” it was that kind of song, afterall, so there Hillary is showing America that she is cool and hip, and with it, and therefore can be trusted with the gift from the American people of the Oval Office, because as Hillary just told America and the world in the article in The Hill entitled “Hillary Clinton leaves door open for 2020 run: ‘I’d like to be president'” by Emily Birnbaum on 29 October 2018, she wants to be president, but she doesn’t want to work for it, to wit:
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during an event over the weekend left the door open to a possible 2020 run, saying that even though she doesn’t want to run, “I’d like to be president.”
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Hillary would like to be president by proclamation, because she is Hillary, and the rest of us aren’t.
Getting back to The Hill:
Clinton’s comments come as speculation has increased over whether she will launch another bid after the midterm elections.
“Do you want to run again?” Recode’s Kara Swisher asked during a Friday night Q&A with Clinton.
“No,” Clinton replied quickly, sparking laughter from the audience.
But when Swisher pressed her further, she added: “I’d like to be president.”
Clinton went on to say that “there’s going to be so much work to be done” after a Democrat “hopefully” wins the next presidential election.
“The work would be work that I feel very well prepared for having been in the Senate for eight years, having been a diplomat in the State Department,” she said, listing off the qualifications that she often touted during her previous run.
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Poor Hillary, she so fails to appreciate the fact that she is not president twice now, as she works on becoming a female Harold Stassen, because of her having been in the Senate for eight years, and having been a diplomat in the State Department, but that is a story for a different day.
Getting back to The Hill, we have Hillary being kind of snippy and catty here with respect to the president of the United States of America, to wit:
Clinton in September released a new afterward for her campaign memoir, “What Happened,” criticizing the Trump administration’s policies and expressing concern that the nation’s democracy is “in crisis.”
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And yes, it is – the nation’s democracy is clearly in crisis, and that in some part thanks to these words Hillary Clinton uttered on the record as a United States Senator on Wednesday, January 28, 2004, as is recounted for posterity in the Congressional Record Volume 150 Number 7, as follows:
[Pages S304-S307]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
EXECUTIVE SESSION – NOMINATION OF GARY L. SHARPE TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The junior Senator from New York.
Mrs. CLINTON. Madam President, I rise in very strong support of the nomination of Magistrate Judge Gary Lawrence Sharpe who has been nominated to the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.
I ask all of my colleagues to support this nomination.
I commend my colleague, Senator Schumer, for the important role he has played on the Judiciary Committee.
I second his comment that in New York we have worked together with the administration to nominate and confirm judges who will be a real credit, not only to the bench but to this administration and to our country.
Magistrate Judge Gary Lawrence Sharpe is at the top of that list.
I think he will not only serve with distinction in New York but demonstrate clearly that this is the kind of conservative Republican nominee whom we could be unanimously confirming.
I commend him to the Senate.
I thank the Chair.
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There, people, is the real Hillary Clinton standing up for what it is she really believes in, as least as far as the federal judiciary is concerned, which is Conservative Republican values and policies, which shows us the rank hypocrisy on the part of Hillary, who as I say is my pick for the one person in this last millennium who to me epitomizes the personification of the “culture gap” or “culture divide” that I now think is unbridgeable, in this following from that article in The Hill, to wit:
She has stepped up her presence in the national spotlight, appearing in media interviews with greater frequency to criticize the GOP and President Trump.
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With her endorsement of Conservative Republican Gary Sharpe for district court judge in the federal Northern District of New York as a United States Senator from New York in 2004, Hillary lost her right to criticize the GOP, because by her endorsement of Gary Sharpe, she proved she was one of them, and that brings us back to the New York Times article, as follows:
I stand between you and the apocalypse, a confident Mrs. Clinton declared to laughs, exhibiting a flash of self-awareness and humor to a crowd that included Calvin Klein and Harvey Weinstein and for whom the prospect of a Donald J. Trump presidency is dire.
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Ah, yes, Harvey Weinstein!
Who can forget Harvey Weinstein.
He and Hillary are tight, she’s his BFF, and he is hers, and all is right with the world they inhabit, which might as well be on the other side of the moon from the one I am in.
That is why to me Hillary Clinton is clearly hand’s down my pick for the one person in this last millennium who to me epitomizes the personification of the “culture gap” or “culture divide” that I now think is unbridgeable, which takes us to this article in THE WRAP entitled “Hillary Clinton Tells Stephen Colbert ‘Our Democracy Is in Crisis'” by Jon Levine on 22 September 2018, as follows:
Hillary Clinton issued a warning to the American people on Friday night, telling the “Late Show With Stephen Colbert” that President Trump was putting the U.S. republic in danger.
“I really want people to take it seriously regardless of who you voted for, whether you even voted, and think about why our democracy is in crisis, and I don’t use the word lightly.”
“I really regret using the word because I wish it weren’t the case,” she said.
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Now, tell me, people, who else could say those words and have them mean so much to the American people but Hillary Clinton!
Her sense of drama there is simply superb – I know of no other way of saying it, so there probably isn’t any!
Simply said, when it comes to dramatic delivery, Hillary’s style is peerless!
Getting back to why Hillary was even there on the Steven Colbert show, which appearance I attribute to predestination, myself, the deliverance of a messiah like Hillary at a moment of dire need in a nation’s history, such as we are now in, according to THE WRAP, we have:
Clinton stopped by “The Late Show” to plug the paperback edition of her campaign memoir “What Happened,” which includes a new forward focusing on her concern for the state of the government.
“Degrading the rule of law, delegitimizing our elections, attacking your favorite subject, truth and reason, spreading corruption, undermining our national unity,” she said.
“Each alone is a threat but you put it all together and it really is a crisis to who we are as a nation.”
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To those of us who remember her from her time as United States Senator from New York, those words about “degrading the rule of law” and “spreading corruption” and “undermining our national unity” all apply to Hillary’s 8 years in the United States Senator as a Senator from New York.
Which is why THE WRAP concludes by telling us that President Trump continues to routinely invoke Clinton, who he branded “crooked Hillary” during the campaign.
The unbridgeable culture gap, indeed!
By way of review as to why Hillary Clinton is clearly the hand’s down winner in my estimation as the one person in this last millennium who epitomizes the personification of the “culture gap” or “culture divide” in the United States of America that I now think is unbridgeable, as stated above, Wikipedia tells us the term “culture gap” is any systematic difference between two cultures which hinders mutual understanding or relations, and that some differences may include the customs, behaviors and values of each culture; and for a real-world view of those customs, behaviors and values of the Blasey Ford Holton Girls culture we in America have just been exposed to when the Senate Democrats shamelessly exploited this poor, emotionally distraught woman Christine Blasey Ford for partisan political gain, no matter what further psychological damage the exploitation might have done to that poor woman’s fragile psyche, let’s go back to the New York Times story “Where Has Hillary Clinton Been? Ask the Ultrarich” by Amy Chozick and Jonathan Martin on 3 September 2016, where Hillary Clinton, herself a very public symbol of that same culture broadcasts her “otherness,” as in “I am, therefore, you are,” where we have as follows:
Mr. Trump has pointed to Mrs. Clinton’s noticeably scant schedule of campaign events this summer to suggest she has been hiding from the public.
But Mrs. Clinton has been more than accessible to those who reside in some of the country’s most moneyed enclaves and are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to see her.
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And here it should be noted that those moneyed enclaves, which would certainly include the cloistered world Christine Blasey Ford grew up in, exist as places here in the United States of America intended to keep most of us American citizens out, so that if we do not have hundreds of thousands of dollars to toss away to see a political superstar like Hillary Clinton, then we are simply out in the cold!
So how does our dear friend and fellow Cape Charles Mirror political commentator Chas Cornweller expect us common folks to bridge that cultural divide?
Getting back to that cultural divide as it is so eloquently exposed by the New York Times, we have this, to wit:
In the last two weeks of August, Mrs. Clinton raked in roughly $50 million at 22 fund-raising events, averaging around $150,000 an hour, according to a New York Times tally.
And while Mrs. Clinton has faced criticism for her failure to hold a news conference for months, she has fielded hundreds of questions from the ultrarich in places like the Hamptons, Martha’s Vineyard, Beverly Hills and Silicon Valley.
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And that takes us back in time to this nation’s political beginnings, where in FEDERALIST No. 39, “The Conformity of the Plan to Republican Principles,” for the Independent Journal to the People of the State of New York, circa 1788, Virginia’s James Madison stated as follows concerning what our national government was envisioned to be by the founders of this nation back when:
If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behavior.
It is ESSENTIAL to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans, and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.
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Which raises the existential question of is our national government in the United States of America today derived from the great body of our society, as was originally intended by this nation’s founders, or is it now, as it appears to be from that New York Times article, a case of a favored class of it, people who are friends of Hillary Clinton such as the molester Harvey Weinstein, a modern-day tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers to someone like Hillary Clinton?
Let’s go back to the New York Times to see what further information on that score we can glean, to wit:
It’s the old adage, you go to where the money is, said Jay S. Jacobs, a prominent New York Democrat.
Mrs. Clinton raised about $143 million in August, the campaign’s best month yet.
At a single event on Tuesday in Sagaponack, N.Y., 10 people paid at least $250,000 to meet her, raising $2.5 million.
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Talk about an unbridgeable culture gap, alright – there it is staring us right in the face.
Were Jemmy Madison around today, one must wonder what his own thoughts would be as he pondered those words he wrote in Federalist No. 39 versus what we have in the person of Hillary Clinton being politically supported by a rich sexual molester like Harvey Weinstein.
Getting back to the New York Times article, it continues as follows:
It is clear from interviews with more than a dozen attendees of Mrs. Clinton’s finance events this summer and a handful of pictures and videos of her at the closed-press gatherings that Mrs. Clinton, often described as warm and personable in small settings, whoever the audience, can be especially relaxed, candid and even joyous in this company.
Mrs. Clinton’s aides have gone to great lengths to project an image of her as down-to-earth and attuned to the challenges of what she likes to call the struggling and the striving.
Yet some of the closest relationships Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have are with their longstanding contributors.
If she feels most at ease around millionaires, within the gilded bubble, it is in part because they are some of her most intimate friends.
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Ah, yes, the “gilded bubble,” which is intended to keep most of us who are loyal Americans on the outside looking in, second-class citizens here in our own nation, which again brings us back to the New York Times, as follows:
The campaign’s finance team is led by Dennis Cheng, previously the chief fund-raiser for the Clinton Foundation, and it employs a couple dozen staff members.
Mr. Cheng, who attends the events with Mrs. Clinton, offers donors a number of contribution options that provide them and their families varying levels of access to Mrs. Clinton.
John Morgan, a Florida lawyer and donor, described Mr. Cheng as the master concierge.
For a donation of $2,700, the children (under 16) of donors at an event last month at the Sag Harbor, N.Y., estate of the hedge fund magnate Adam Sender could ask Mrs. Clinton a question.
A family photo with Mrs. Clinton cost $10,000, according to attendees.
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God bless the democracy of Hillary Clinton – for only $2700, an American child under the age of 16 whose parents have already given big bucks to Hillary can ask her one question!
And people wonder if we really have a culture gap in this country – go figure.
And with respect to that culture gap, which I think is now too wide to be bridged, the New York Times continues as follows:
Another advantage to choosing private fund-raisers over town halls or other public events is that Mrs. Clinton can bask in an affectionate embrace as hosts try to limit confrontational engagements.
Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a backer of Democrats and a friend of the Clintons, made sure attendees did not grill Mrs. Clinton at the $100,000-per-couple lamb dinner Mrs. Forester de Rothschild hosted under a tent on the lawn of her oceanfront Martha’s Vineyard mansion.
I said, Let’s make it a nice night for her and show her our love, Mrs. Forester de Rothschild said.
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Yes, people, it is about being nice!
We common folks should accept that fact that we have a privileged class over us, and that privileged class does not like to be bothered by the concerns of their social inferiors, which is most of us here in America today, which again takes us back to the New York Times, to wit:
Cash-seeking candidates from both parties often rely on August to reach vacationing donors who open their wallets, and their palatial homes.
But Mr. and Mrs. Clinton have occupied a particular place in the social fabric of the enclave.
Over the past several summers, they have spent the last two weeks of August in a rented 12,000-square-foot home with a heated pool in East Hampton and in a six-bedroom mansion with a private path to the beach in Sagaponack.
This year, the former first couple stayed in the guesthouse of Steven Spielberg’s East Hampton compound built on nine acres overlooking Georgica and Lily Ponds.
The Hamptons is full of powerful, wealthy people who are bored and go to constant social events to see who else got invited and to show your status, said Ken Sunshine, a veteran Democratic activist and public relations executive with a home in Remsenburg, N.Y.
This year, he added, going to a Clinton event is at the very top of the list.
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And there we have it, a candid view of what America’s culture gap looks like in real life.
So, my dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller, how do you propose we common folks close that culture gap?
Any suggestions?
I was going to reply in detail but I just don’t have the time. I grew up in the very affluent and powerful McLean, VA just outside of Washington DC. Many of you in Cape Charles know me to be on The Planning Commission, the Harbor Area Review Board, the Main Street Design Committee that just presented the Strawberry Plaza design, and the Main Street Promotions Committee currently working on Festive Fridays. I also spent several years on the Board of Zoning Appeals before being appointed to the Planning Commission. I’ve lived here for 3 1/2 years. I’ve met a lot of people on the Eastern Shore but I don’t know you. Perhaps you could provide us with your current background and what activities you have been involved in to try and change this world you are so angry with.
Hello, Dianne D’Amico, so nice to meet you and to hear your comments above about all of your accomplishments here in Cape Charles.
The people of Cape Charles should truly feel themselves blessed that you have deigned to come among them to make their world right, as you have so obviously done for them.
People who can accomplish so much is so short a time are rare, for which reason the people of Cape Charles should feel themselves blessed for your presence.
As to your comment that you’ve met a lot of people on the Eastern Shore but you don’t know me, of course you don’t, and that is because we run, as it were, in entirely different social circles, so that you would not even know I exist, nor would you likely care to, which I am totally cool with.
As to your query as to perhaps I could provide you with my current background and what activities I have been involved in to try and change this world, my goodness, I not only could, but have, many times, actually.
As to your statement about me being angry about the word, you are wide of the mark, because I am not angry at all, and why would I be so stupid as to be angry with a world I did not create, and therefore, have absolutely no control over?
Makes no sense, does, it?
And what am I saying, of course a sensible, highly accomplished person such as yourself discerns exactly what it is I am saying.
So again, Dianne D’Amico, so nice to have met you.
And have a great day!
So what I did to make the world a better place today, Dianne D’Amico, was to not **** it up, so it is better as a result.
See how simple that is?
And it is so easy to do.
That’s what I personally like about it as a life strategy.
And by the way, I truly feel very sad and sorry for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who is a true victim of her upbringing.
And if I were to be angry at something, it would be the way Dianne Feinstein and Charley “Chuck” Schumer and the Democrat party shamelessly exploited that poor emotionally-disturbed woman so they could score some cheap political points with angry women before the mid-terms, women who are rightfully angry about how they have been treated by Hillary Clinton’s BFF Harvey Weinstein.
Talk about ironies stacked up three or four high, a subtlety only a highly developed and highly educated mind like yours can grasp and appreciate, and marvel at, because it is so rare, there it is right there staring you in the face!
Personally, I think it is downright despicable what the Democrats did to that poor woman, putting her on public display like that.
Heartless and cruel.
That’s my take on it, anyway.
How about you?
‘I grew up in the very affluent and powerful McLean, VA’
GTFOH!!!!
Powerful??? WTF is wrong with you? It has only the power given by We The People.
Very Affluent???? Really?? Only to ‘groupies’ like you.
WOW! You have truly been indoctrinated, so very well.
Have another sip of Kool Aid. I bet you voted for Hillary and Lil’ Bath House Barry.
Please return…
Yes, I would be with you on that.
No Comment? Does the cat have your tongue?
I think she headed back to powerful McLean for a Liberal elite recharge.
The free thinkers on here are so DRAINING.
Your comment about the “liberal elite” here in the United States of America, which we common folks had a real full view of during these Blasey Ford hearings, puts me in mind of a photo posted in one of the news media reportage of the circus, for circus it truly was, as the Democrats shamelessly exploited that poor, emotionally-disturbed woman Christine Blasey Ford by putting her on public display before the eyes of the world at that Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, objectifying her in the process, by making her out to be a classical case of “damaged goods” caused by her upbringing in the elite society surrounding the pestilential swamp of Washington, D.C., where men and women out in the countryside outside of the very affluent and powerful McLean, VA just outside of Washington DC, which environment produced the Very Honorable Dianne D’Amico, who people in Cape Charles know to be on the Planning Commission, the Harbor Area Review Board, the Main Street Design Committee that just presented the Strawberry Plaza design, and the Main Street Promotions Committee currently working on Festive Fridays, and who also spent several years on the Board of Zoning Appeals before being appointed to the Planning Commission, see all the vices of princely courts: ambition with idleness, baseness with pride, the thirst of riches without labor, flattery, treason, perfidy, but above all the perpetual ridicule of virtue, which photo showed four elite “Holton Girls,” teen-agers all of them, walking down the aisle of the Senate Building in Washington side-by-side with their arms linked, reminding me of the New York City Police clearing Times Square after New Years Eve, so that anyone in their path, read “adult,” would be forced to either step out of their way with their back hugging the wall, in subservience to these very elite and special teenagers, or would on the other hand, have to risk being run down and walked on.
Talk about a picture worth a thousand words, that was it.
If it was a part of a caption contest, the winning caption would be “WE’RE HOLTON GIRLS, WE’RE SPECIAL, OUR **** DOES NOT STINK, WE OWN THE WORLD, SO GET THE **** OUT OF OUR WAY, OR WE’LL RUN YOU DOWN!”
And Chas Cornweller wonders why there is a culture gap in America that is not healing.
Go figure.
Ms. Nuthern Virgina’s comment has provided us with a couple of, let’s call them “running meme’s”
1 – The “Powerful Meclean” meme which illuminates the elitist attitude that ultimately led to the defeat of Hillary Clinton.
2 – The more generic “Angry White Male” meme that Liberals like to hurl at guys like you and me.
I say we run with them here on the Mirror on a regular schedule, if for no other reason than it is fun to hear exploding heads.
Heck I can hear them all the way over here on the south side of Plantation Creek.
It is interesting, but hardly surprising, that Cape Charles has someone as condescending as Dianne D’Amico is on its planning commission.
Her disdain for the non-elite is quite palpable.
As to this more generic “Angry White Male” meme, I have been doing some research to try and pin down who coined it, which I think is Barack Obama.
In any event, and this not surprisingly, Obama, who has done more to divide us than any other president in my living memory is out there peddling the meme to his followers and lickspittles and those who cling to his every word as the voice of their messiah speaking, when all Obama is, is a classic demagogue, albeit a master one, as we see in the Washington Examiner article “Obama harassed by hecklers in Florida” by Pete Kasperowicz on November 02, 2018, as follows:
Former President Barack Obama on Friday was heckled several times in a Florida appearance to help Democrats, and said the heckling shows Republicans are already angry about losing ground in next week’s midterm elections.
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All the heckling really did show, and by the way, I am an independent voter with no allegiance to or faith in the Republican party or any Republican, was that there was a heckler in the audience, unless Obama had some kind of proof that the hecklers were disgruntled Republicans instead of paid shills, but then, Obama doesn’t need the truth or facts, because he is a prime example of something we have not seen since Lyndon Baines Johnson, which is a politician who is just blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly, lying, all the time, as he is doing there, making out people to be angry when he has no proof that they are.
Afterall, as Obama says in the Washington Examiner:
We’re OK, we’re OK,” Obama said after the first heckler interrupted his remarks in Miami.
“This is what I look forward to, is to have a few hecklers to get me back in the mood,” he said to cheers.
“It’s like I enjoy that.”
“You always got to have a few in order to know that you’re on the campaign trail.”
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So they get some shills to act as hecklers for Obama, and the show goes on.
And that is another case of Obama just making stuff up, which is what got him into office in the first place – telling more outrageous lies about what he as going to do as president than Hillary Clinton was, to which I reply, hey, Barack, dude, when words stop meaning anything, when truth doesn’t matter, when people like you can just lie with abandon, democracy can’t work!
Which takes us back to that Washington Examiner article as follows:
“Why is it that the folks that won the last election are so mad all the time?” Obama asked.
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To which I respond, how do you know who is angry in America, Barack, have you taken a poll of each and every one of them?
And if you did, how many told you that they are angry, because of people like you who are out there talking **** with the intent to divide us as a people, which takes us to a Washington Post article “Obama rips hecklers: Why are the people who won the last election ‘so mad all the time?’” by Cleve R. Wootson Jr. on November 3, 2018 at 12:15 PM, where Obama was quoted as follows:
“Why is it that the folks that won the last election are so mad all the time?” Obama asked a crowd of 4,000 as the fifth interrupting protester was escorted out of a Miami rally on Friday.
“It’s an interesting question,” he continued, turning around to address the people behind him.
“I mean . . . when I won the presidency, at least my side felt pretty good.”
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Look at that arrogant horse**** – “my” side felt pretty good.
Do tell, Barack.
That is how Obama sees the world here in America – there are those who are on his side, because he has to have it be about “taking sides,” and the rest are trash – a “BASKET OF DEPLORABLES.”
As Obama says, the “character of our country is on the ballot,” and if we should choose his side, what a sad day for this once-proud nation it will be, at least if one happens to be an old, white male, which takes us to a Marketwatch article entitled “CNN’s Don Lemon slammed for calling white men the ‘biggest terror threat’” by Shawn Langlois published Oct. 31, 2018, where Obama’s surrogate Don lemon from the Cuomo News Network can be seen demonizing white people in this country and calling for violence against them, as follows:
“‘We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them.”
The comments, which initially didn’t make much of a splash across social media, were made by Lemon on CNN Monday night during a conversation he was having with Chris Cuomo about the shooting at the Pittsburgh synagogue, as well as the recent murder of two black men in Kentucky.
“There is no travel ban on them,” Lemon said during the handoff between shows.
“There is no ban on — you know, they had the Muslim ban.”
“There is no ‘white guy ban.’”
“So what do we do about that?”
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Indeed, what do we do about the “white problem” in this country?
Genocide, perhaps?
Or maybe work camps to segregate the whites and get them away from the more decent people in America who watch Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo on CNN.
And that brings us to this post from a board out there called Political Jack http://www.politicaljack.com/threads/dems-need-to-abandon-the-angry-white-man-meme.43946/ where this topic was posted, as follows:
Dems need to abandon the “angry white man” meme
Discussion in ‘Latest Political News and Current Events’ started by BobbyT, Nov 24, 2012.
BobbyT
It’s not that the “angry white man” meme is necessarily untrue – a quick gander at any large Republican gathering will demonstrate that the party primarily comprises white people.
It is, rather, that by continuing to refer to Republicans dismissively as “angry white men,” the Democrats are creating an atmosphere of exclusiveness.
If we, rather, characterize dispirited Republicans as those to whom lies were told, and people who should understandably be upset with mendacious propagandists, then perhaps we could encourage at least some of them to work with us rather than entrenching themselves further.
Let the Republicans be the party that divides people up like football fans; we should be the party that waits with open arms for anyone, of any color – even white, who wants to ensure this country continues to be great.
BobbyT, Nov 24, 2012
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2012 was a long time ago, and obviously, which can be seen from reading that thread, and listening to the voices of Barack Obama and Don Lemon today, the voice of BobbyT was ignored, and the “angry white man” meme lives on.
Welcome to America, 2018 – the land of the divided, into those on the side of Barack Obama who are the righteous among us, and then the rest of us.
And welcome to the New World Order – All Hail Don Lemon is in the room.
So who the **** is Don Lemon, then?
Does anyone know?
” Perhaps you could provide us with your current background and what activities you have been involved in to try and change this world you are so angry with.”
Hmm, I was unaware that one needed to justify, and qualify for one’s right to FREE SPEECH.
Culture gap…..hmm, like one generation knowing and understanding the phrase…” I may not agree with what you have to say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.” and another; from oh so twee McLean, Va home of the MOTU left, not understanding that philosophy?
BTW, mind if I draw a conclusion about your genesis from “Affluent and Powerful McLean” and your fast paced takeover of CC’s boards? Lemme guess, as a denizen of Effluent and FlowerChildFull McLean, you just know you are so much more capable of deciding CC’s future than those poor, smelly ESVA folks who had no power or affluence?
And welcome to the Mirror. We have fun here.
Oh c’mon, Mike.
I had a nice rejoinder set up for Ms. “I know better that you do ‘cuz I’m from Nuthen Virginia” and you took all the major talking points. Ah well, better luck next time, and with elitists there’s always a next time.
The one thing I’d like to point out is that though Paul is long winded, he doesn’t strike me as angry. Seems more likely Ms. “Nuthen Virginia” reads his posts and hears a deplorable, angry, white, male because that’s what the well bred do, don’ cha’ know?
Verbose not vitriolic, that’s our Paul.
Next one-and boy are you ever correct, there is always a next time- it’s all yours, buddy.
By way of review, since Dianne D’Amico, a blessing to the people of Cape Charles, seems to have missed it in her hurry to get on with doing even more great things for the people of Cape Charles, Virginia in her capacity as a member of the Planning Commission, which position has left her without the time to reply in detail to this thread about her life experiences growing up in the very affluent and powerful McLean, VA just outside of Washington DC, this thread starts out by stating in clear and readily comprehensible language that in a thought-provoking post in a recent edition of the venerable Cape Charles Mirror, which is everything the failing Washington Post wishes it could be but isn’t, our fellow American patriot and Cape Charles Mirror regular Chas Cornweller did what he does so well, which in this case was to focus our attention on what is called the “culture gap” here in America, and he mused, as I read his piece, anyway, as to whether that gap could be closed, or whether we were past the tipping point, which it seems to me, an older American, we are.
Where our illustrious Dianne D’Amico, a true blessing to the people of Cape Charles, gets “anger” at the world from out of that quite frankly eludes me, but that aside, those words lead us to this POLITICO article entitled “Speaker Ryan: ‘You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order’” by Caitlin Oprysko and Burgess Everett on 31 October 2018, wherein is stated in relevant part as follows:
Rather than making a policy proposal that could be instituted, Democrats said Trump was trying to divide the country ahead of the midterms and change the subject from recent mass shootings and attempted mail bombings.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who is poised to become House Judiciary Committee chairman if Democrats win the House, called Trump’s plans the “desperate act of a desperate man who is constantly seeking to divide and distract us.”
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Memo to Jerry: Dude, if you bothered to learn American history, and if you made any effort whatsoever to keep up with current events here in America, as opposed to pursuing factionalism as your miserable record clearly shows you to be doing as a member of Congress, you would know that we have been divided as a people in this land since long before there was a United States of America!
What do you think Hillary Clinton was doing in 2016 when she called a majority of loyal Americans a “BASKET OF DEPLORABLES” because they didn’t want a loser like her for president?
So come off your high horse here, Jerry, and stop trying to divide us and distract us with your horsecrap!
If we weren’t already divided, Jerry, then we would not have the culture gap in this country that produced this poor, emotionally-damaged woman Christine Blasey Ford who the Senate Democrats shamelessly exploited in these recent sham hearings in their failed effort to deny Donald Trump a supreme court pick, now would we.
To summarize:
Ms. Nuthen Virginia, come down off your high horse…………………….along with the rest of the deaf elitists.
That about right?
The sad part is she believes that ignorant diatribe she wrote….
Sounds so to me, anyway.
I don’t know about anyone else here in the United States of America, or the candid world for that matter, given that the Cape Charles Mirror has a global audience, but I truly was very disappointed when I read above that Dianne D’Amico, who people in Cape Charles know to be on the Planning Commission, the Harbor Area Review Board, the Main Street Design Committee that just presented the Strawberry Plaza design, and the Main Street Promotions Committee currently working on Festive Fridays, and who also spent several years on the Board of Zoning Appeals before being appointed to the Planning Commission, was going to reply to this thread on the culture gap that exists here in the United States of America today in detail, which prospect I found very intellectually exciting, given that she grew up in the very affluent and powerful McLean, VA just outside of Washington DC, only to have my hopes dashed when in the next breath, she said she was simply too busy, and that was that.
I truly would have liked to see where she was going to take that lede to, and how she was going to develop the story line to flesh out the narrative that sadly, she never delivered.
Talk about anticipation!
I mean, with a lede like that, here in this thread on the culture gap, there were a million different directions at least where she could have taken those opening lines!
For example, it’s quite possible that she grew up dirt poor in very affluent and powerful McLean, VA just outside of Washington DC, and so has that common person’s perspective of it, which I, as someone who grew up in an old farm house on a dirt road far to the north of very affluent and powerful McLean, VA just outside of Washington DC, would certainly be interested in hearing about, especially as we head into the cold weather, where it is nice to have a long story to listen to as we spend more and more time hunkered down around the wood stove in an effort to survive another winter.
Or it’s also possible and indeed feasible, that she grew up wealthy in very affluent and powerful McLean, VA just outside of Washington DC, and so, would be able to speak as an expert witness as to that side of the culture gap.
Sadly, it sounds like we now never will know, and more’s the pity is my thought.
And Stuart Bell, she says she has lived in Cape Charles for 3 1/2 years and she has met a lot of people on the Eastern Shore but she doesn’t know me, which is not surprising, since she is obviously in a different social strata than the one I occupy.
One must wonder if in that 3 1/2 years she has made your acquaintance and sought out your advice on the direction the future of Cape Charles should be heading in.
I Recon So…
Paul,
It’s great that she posted because it shows the elites just can’t help themselves. She made sure up front to point out that she’s from Nuthern Virginia where the POWER is.
Then she jumped right to the old, white, angry male meme based on, well, nothing.
You may be excessively long winded but in the year or so I’ve been here you’ve never once uttered a pejorative of any kind.
Ever.
So all she accomplished is to reaffirm the elitist bubble is real and impermeable to ideas that don’t fit their world view.
We all know this and we know we can’t do a thing about it. There’s no reaching out, no accommodation, no handshakes across the aisle.
All we can do is help Mr. Trump Make America Great Again and beat them at the ballot box.
Oh, and maybe question our local officials on their choice to include such a high handed individual in the decision making processes here on the Shore.
Heck we’ve suffered enough with some of our local high handed individuals. IE. – Reverse angle parking. ( Stupidest decision ever, but that’s for another day)
As to the “culture gap” here in America, which is the topic of this thread, as opposed to all the good things Dianne D’Amico, who people in Cape Charles know to be on the Planning Commission, the Harbor Area Review Board, the Main Street Design Committee that just presented the Strawberry Plaza design, and the Main Street Promotions Committee currently working on Festive Fridays, and who also spent several years on the Board of Zoning Appeals before being appointed to the Planning Commission, has done for the people of Cape Charles, Virginia, a good example of it can be found in an AP News article entitled “Obama rips Trump, GOP in fiery speeches for Midwest Dems” by Ivan Moreno and David Eggert on October 27, 2018, as follows:
DETROIT (AP) — Former President Barack Obama criticized President Donald Trump’s tenure in office Friday in fiery speeches in Milwaukee and Detroit that took aim at him and other Republicans for “making stuff up.”
The speeches were among Obama’s sharpest and most direct takedowns of Trump’s presidency, although the former president was careful to not mention Trump by name.
He said the “character of our country is on the ballot” in the first midterm election since Trump took office.
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The “character of our country?”
Do tell, Barack!
What is the “character” of our country then?
And exactly who gets to determine it?
The Democrats?
The Republicans?
But wait, checking the numbers, both of those factions, and factions they clearly are, represent only a minority each of the American people, so why are we, the people, taking any guidance on what the “character” of our country should be from either of them, since both factions represent everything that is wrong with America today?
And when Barack Hussein Obama comes forward as an American citizen, which is all he is, since we do not bestow titles on former presidents in this country to make them more than we are, and talks about the “character of our country is on the ballot” after endorsing some 80 or more candidates for elective office in OUR country, then the reality is that his character is also on the ballot this year.
And if there is another symbol of the culture gap beyond Hillary Clinton, it has to be the dope-smoking, coke-snorting, master of the art of “getting over,” Barack Hussein Obama!
So thank you, Barack, from this American citizen who is neither a Democrat nor a Republican, for helping us common folks in here flesh this subject of the culture gap that exists between us and the privileged like yourself out to make more clear exactly what it is that is on the ballot this year.
You best be careful or the anger police will come down on you like a ton of bricks, what with your age and skin color already an indictment on your character.
Try to stay just this side of angry for your our sake.
Maybe be:
Aggravated
Annoyed
Exasperated
Fit to be tied
Frustrated
Hot under the collar
Indignant
Perturbed
Pissed off
Rankled
Riled
Smoldering
Sore
Steamed
Ticked off
Oh yeah and succinct is good too.
But for different reasons.
Your welcome.
Actually, Ray Otton, and this shouldn’t surprise someone who enjoys walking along the beach, I am quite calm, and I remain that way through the day, and into the nighttime, as well.
Truly, why be otherwise?
So I am not the meme Dianne D’Amico, who people in Cape Charles know to be on the Planning Commission, the Harbor Area Review Board, the Main Street Design Committee that just presented the Strawberry Plaza design, and the Main Street Promotions Committee currently working on Festive Fridays, and who also spent several years on the Board of Zoning Appeals before being appointed to the Planning Commission, has done for the people of Cape Charles, Virginia, would have me be in the eyes of the candid world, where after telling us how great she is, and all of her accomplishments, and how I am not in her social circle, which I would be the first to admit is true, then she jumped right to the old, white, angry male meme based on, well, as you so eloquently say, nothing.
I have to justify myself to be worthy of being heard by Dianne D’Amico, who people in Cape Charles know to be on the Planning Commission, the Harbor Area Review Board, the Main Street Design Committee that just presented the Strawberry Plaza design, and the Main Street Promotions Committee currently working on Festive Fridays, and who also spent several years on the Board of Zoning Appeals before being appointed to the Planning Commission, has done for the people of Cape Charles, Virginia, and having already been condemned by her because of my skin color, and my age, and low socio-economic status, i.e. the culture gap which exists between us, that justification is an impossibility, precisely because she believes the meme.
Such it is, when it is, Ray Otton, for reasons of its own which it doesn’t discuss beforehand with me.
As to Dianne D’Amico saying, “I was going to reply in detail but I just don’t have the time” and “I grew up in the very affluent and powerful McLean, VA just outside of Washington DC,” I think what happened next after saying “I grew up in the very affluent and powerful McLean, VA just outside of Washington DC,” was that she didn’t know what to say next, and so she went back to the old tried and true dodge of “I just don’t have the time,” and being egalitarian, Ray Otton, I can live with that.
And while we are on the subject of the culture gap here in the United States of America today, and this “angry, old white man” meme Dianne D’Amico, who people in Cape Charles know to be on the Planning Commission, the Harbor Area Review Board, the Main Street Design Committee that just presented the Strawberry Plaza design, and the Main Street Promotions Committee currently working on Festive Fridays, and who also spent several years on the Board of Zoning Appeals before being appointed to the Planning Commission, has brought in to this thread in an apparent effort to use the meme to marginalize us, your comment above of beware of the anger police reminded me of the fact that it is a Democrat party strategy to stoke the anger of Democrats, especially women, to get them to come out and vote, as we can see from this Los Angeles Times article “Calls to impeach Kavanaugh pose awkward challenge for Democrats” by Laura King on 8 October 2018, as follows:
WASHINGTON – Even before the judicial oath was administered and Judge Brett Kavanaugh became Justice Kavanaugh, some on the political left were sounding calls to impeach him.
As both parties move on from the most bruising Supreme Court confirmation battle in a generation, Democrats hope to harness voter anger over the explosive proceedings and the narrow outcome, but not turn the midterm contest into a polarizing referendum on whether the party should try to remove Kavanaugh – an effort that would be unlikely to succeed.
Democrats say the debate over Kavanaugh has increased the anger that many women already felt toward President Donald Trump and the Republicans, and will lead to a larger turnout on their side.
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“Democrats hope to harness voter anger!”
Hmmmmmm – what is up with that, I wonder.
Is the Democrat party then made up of a bunch of angry old white men?
But no, because Democrats say the debate over Kavanaugh has increased the anger that many women already felt toward President Donald Trump and the Republicans, and will lead to a larger turnout on their side.
So stoking anger is in fact a Democrat party political tactic, even if that stoked anger leads to violence, which takes us to a New York Times article entitled “Michelle Obama Wanted Democrats to ‘Go High.’ Now They Aren’t So Sure.” by Matt Flegenheiner on 12 October 2018, as follows:
It is one thing for Mr. Avenatti, the party’s telegenic anti-Trump id, to seize this kind of rhetorical real estate.
But increasingly, much of the Democratic establishment seems to be marching that way, too, channeling the righteous anger of the progressive base.
“You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for,” Hillary Clinton told CNN this week.
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Hillary, of course, can be forgiven by the anger police because she is an angry, old, white woman who is a Democrat, which makes her anger at the world that rejected her as its leader quite righteous, and therefore justified.
Getting back to the New York Times:
“Rage is good.”
“Rage fuels people to step up and pay attention,” said Amanda Litman, a former campaign aide to Mrs. Clinton who now oversees Run for Something, a group dedicated to recruiting first-time candidates.
Ms. Litman said. “I’ve been angry for two years.”
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Personally, as a serene, tranquil, placid old white man, I find that philosophy to be quite disturbing.
I don’t think putting the future of the nation into the hands of a bunch of rage-filled Democrats is at all good for the nation.
But, hey, that is just me!
And lest a positive point that bodes well for the future of not only Cape Charles, Virginia, but the candid world, as well, since it’s the internet age, let’s face, we’re all connected, so nothing is local, anymore, especially here in America where how what used to be our country is run gets to be dictated and determined by foreigners, to make the United States of America more pleasing to them, it is their turn, afterall, us old, white men who were born here having had our turn, which is how democracy a la Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton works, gets lost, the Very Honorable Dianne D’Amico, by virtue of her upbringing in the elite society surrounding the pestilential swamp of Washington, D.C., a place where men and women out in the countryside outside of the very affluent and powerful McLean, VA just outside of Washington DC, see all the vices of princely courts: ambition with idleness, baseness with pride, the thirst of riches without labor, flattery, treason, perfidy, but above all the perpetual ridicule of virtue, has proven to all the candid world by her very impressive professional record in the short time of only 3 1/2 years, where people in Cape Charles know her to be on the Planning Commission, the Harbor Area Review Board, the Main Street Design Committee that just presented the Strawberry Plaza design, and the Main Street Promotions Committee currently working on Festive Fridays, and who also spent several years on the Board of Zoning Appeals before being appointed to the Planning Commission, that there is NO GLASS CEILING in Cape Charles, Virginia where a woman is held back and discriminated against because she is a woman!
Just get here one day, and three-and-a-half years later, to have done all of that!
It’s impressive when you think about it, the trust that the people of Cape Charles put into a newly-arrived woman to do their planning and zoning for them, as if the Very Honorable Dianne D’Amico were a modern-day Solon come to set the Athenians of Cape Charles, Virginia aright!
As someone who values women for their wisdom, I must say I am for that.
So well done, Cape Charles, Virginia!
May you be an example to third-world ****holes out there in the world that still repress women!
And getting back on topic in here, after taking a few moments to acknowledge the admitted greatness of the Very Honorable Dianne D’Amico, who people not only in Cape Charles, but in the world, as well, thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror, know to be on the Planning Commission, the Harbor Area Review Board, the Main Street Design Committee that just presented the Strawberry Plaza design, and the Main Street Promotions Committee currently working on Festive Fridays, and who also spent several years on the Board of Zoning Appeals before being appointed to the Planning Commission, because there is NO GLASS CEILING in Cape Charles, Virginia where a woman is held back and discriminated against because she is a woman as happens in so many other places in America and the world, who is doing her utmost to make Cape Charles great again, which efforts the candid world is very supportive of, Dianne, so keep up the good work, the failing New York Times had an opinion piece on the subject of the culture gap in America entitled “The Retrenchment Election – Nobody is moving, just settling into place.” by David Brooks, Opinion Columnist, on Nov. 1, 2018, wherein he stated as follows on the subject, to wit:
One of the pleasures and challenges of this job is you do a lot of traveling.
I’ve been in 23 states over the last three months.
The general impression I get is that I’m not covering a midterm election campaign.
I’m covering two separate electorates.
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When I read that about two electorates in America, it came to me that he sounds like he has been asleep at the switch for the last 14 years or more, and like Rip Van Winkle, is just now starting to wake up and realize that yes, there indeed are real people who actually live outside of New York City, and so, do not think like people in NYC, or even like the way people in NYC think.
As a conscientious American citizen who likes to know the history of the nation he is a citizen of, I have read all of the Federalist Papers, plus writings from other founders, these circa 1787 and 1788, and from reading these historical documents, which are as readily accessible, one would think, to the New York Times as they are to me, if only they would avail themselves to actually read them, it is quite obvious that right at the beginning, we were at least two different electorates, if not more, but at least two.
So what is David Brooks so surprised about is my first thought.
And there certainly was not agreement at the time of thi8s nation’s beginnings, for if there had been, there would have been no need whatsoever for the Federalist Papers to have been written.
They were written because there were then, as now, people with their own “facts,” and the purpose of the Federalist Papers was to challenge those “facts” with other facts.
So I don’t see where anything has really changed in the intervening 230 years, or so.
We were at least two electorates, each with its own set of facts during WWI, and again in WWII, and again during the Korean war, and again in VEET NAM, and so, right on up to today.
The only time we might have been considered one people is during the Era of Good Feelings during the administration of James Monroe, when there were not political parties to divide people and hand them the facts they are to believe in if they want to be good party members, which takes us back to the David Brooks opinion piece, as follows:
The biggest difference is atmospheric.
In urban and suburban America, Donald Trump’s outrage du jour is on everybody’s lips: Did you see what he tweeted now?
Did you see his racist ad?
Where will the Mueller investigation go?
In rural America, by contrast, all that stuff is like a thunderstorm in Inner Mongolia.
It’s something happening very far away with no particular relevance here, and so no one’s paying much attention.
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Here is the culture gap in America well-stated.
I am a poor, old, white man living out in the wilds of rural America, eking out a subsistence living like so many other people are doing in this country, and indeed much of this stuff that is taken so seriously by people is pure bull**** to us.
Winter is coming!
That takes precedence over what Donald’ Trump’s latest TWEET might have been, especially as we rural people aren’t on TWITTER in the first place to even see it.
But my goodness, among the well-to-do subdivision people in the area, for them, with their indignation at pretty much everything, including the existence of old, white men like myself, those TWEETS are a harbinger of the coming of the end of the world, and I suppose they could be, so, oh well, it had to come some time, didn’t it, so why not now?
Getting back to David Brooks:
In urban America people talk about Trump constantly.
In rural America people generally avoid the subject.
Even if 80 percent of the locals support Trump, you never know how somebody will react if you mention his name — they might call you a racist — so it’s not a safe topic of conversation.
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In rural America, people don’t avoid the subject – they really don’t bother to waste time on it, when there is so much else of more immediate importance than what Trump just TWEETED.
We simply don’t have the leisure time to be as concerned about this stuff as do our social betters in suburban America.
And back to David Brooks we go, as follows:
The other big impression I get is that grand canyons now separate different sectors of American society and these canyons are harder and harder to cross.
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How can anyone in America anywhere today doubt, after being exposed to the lifestyles of the rich and famous, people like Hillary Clinton, for example, or the cloistered elite society in the upscale communities such as very affluent and powerful McLean, VA just outside of Washington DC, or Bethesda, Maryland, surrounding the pestilential swamp of Washington, D.C., a place where men and women out in the countryside outside of Washington DC, see all the vices of princely courts: ambition with idleness, baseness with pride, the thirst of riches without labor, flattery, treason, perfidy, but above all the perpetual ridicule of virtue, that there are indeed grand canyons that now separate different sectors of American society and these canyons are harder and harder to cross, to the point of it now being impossible?
Consider the New York Times story above here, “Where Has Hillary Clinton Been? Ask the Ultrarich” by Amy Chozick and Jonathan Martin on 3 September 2016, for example, where we have as follows:
At a private fund-raiser Tuesday night at a waterfront Hamptons estate, Hillary Clinton danced alongside Jimmy Buffett, Jon Bon Jovi and Paul McCartney, and joined in a singalong finale to Hey Jude.
I stand between you and the apocalypse, a confident Mrs. Clinton declared to laughs, exhibiting a flash of self-awareness and humor to a crowd that included Calvin Klein and Harvey Weinstein and for whom the prospect of a Donald J. Trump presidency is dire.
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“I stand between you and the apocalypse,” a confident Mrs. Clinton declared to Harvey Weinstein, who was just the subject of a CNN article entitled “16-year-old added to list of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers” by Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, updated November 1, 2018, where we were told as follows:
Amid a report that the case against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein may be unraveling, lawyers have added a woman to a class-action lawsuit who alleges the producer sexually assaulted her when she was 16.
Weinstein allegedly then went on to harass the woman for the next nine years, promising her movie roles and other opportunities that never materialized after she rebuffed his advances, according to the suit, which was updated Wednesday.
Identified only as Jane Doe, a onetime model and aspiring actor, she joins a class of named women who say they suffered similar treatment during what they thought were professional meetings with Weinstein.
The women allege they were assaulted or that they refused his demands for sexual favors, and afterward, promises for roles or picture deals were never kept, says the lawsuit, which also targets heavy hitters in the entertainment industry who the suit alleges abetted Weinstein’s behavior.
“This claim is preposterous,” Weinstein attorney Ben Brafman said.
“Like so many other women in this case who have already been exposed as liars, this latest completely uncorroborated allegation that is almost 20 years old will also be shown to be patently false.”
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There, people, is the apocalypse, a confident Mrs. Clinton declared she could shield Harvey Weinstein from back in 2016, so how do those of us who really don’t like either Harvey Weinstein or Hillary Clinton bridge that gap, when we are told in a Daily Mail article entitled “Harvey Weinstein may have targeted nearly 1,000 women, says lawyer leading class action suit against the disgraced movie mogul” by Megan Sheets For Dailymail.com updated 3 November 2018, as follows:
• Elizabeth Fegan said 150 women have already come forward with allegations.
• She added that she thinks the actual number of Weinstein victims is much higher.
• Fegan told Sky News: ‘This was every day behavior.”
“He was a bully and he was a predator.”
• He also faces five criminal charges related to rape and predatory assault.
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There is more of the apocalypse a confident Mrs. Clinton declared she could shield Harvey Weinstein from back in 2016, which makes that grand canyon even wider, while at the same time making this recently concluded Blasey Ford circus even more bizarre and surreal, where the Democrats were going after Brett Kavanaugh for conduct they were tolerating in Harvey Weinstein, which is rank hypocrisy on their part.
And it wasn’t just Hillary who was tight with accused sex molester Harvey Weinstein, the Obhamas were as well, as we see from this USA TODAY article “Malia Obama is a video star, makes her debut in indie band’s music video” by Maria Puente on 29 September 2018, as follows:
Malia Obama, the elder daughter of the former president, is supposed to be interested in a Hollywood career once she leaves Harvard, but now she’s made a slight detour: She’s appearing in a music video.
Malia has been entertainment-world oriented for some time, despite attempting to stay out of its spotlight since she left high school.
During her gap year after high school and before Harvard, where both her parents attended law school, she worked as an intern on HBO’s “Girls,” and at movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s film company (now closed, bankrupt and sold in the wake of sex-crime charges against him).
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This is like an American version of that BBC program, “Upstairs, Downstairs,” except this version isn’t fiction made for TV, which takes us back to the take of David Brooks on the cultural divide, as follows:
College-educated suburban women really don’t like Republicans.
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So, okay!
But why then would they like Democrats who have been shielding accused sex offender Harvey Weinstein from the apocalypse?
What sense does that make, I wonder, which takes us back to more revelations from David Brooks, as follows:
The one word that the two electorates have in common is “unraveling.”
Both groups have a sense that America is unraveling.
In rural America basic values like hard work, clear gender roles and the social fabric are dissolving before people’s eyes.
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I would say as a rural person that there, David Brooks is right on the money, which takes us back to his article as follows:
If anything, the blue sense of unraveling is more comprehensive.
Democratic ideology is increasingly dominated by the educated upper-middle class.
As polls show, those Democrats are losing faith in capitalism itself, in the American dream itself.
White liberals describe racism as a bigger problem precluding black advancement than do African-Americans.
As Emma Green noted in The Atlantic, for many, progressivism isn’t just a set of political beliefs; it’s a set of liturgies, rituals and moral doctrines for the secular unchurched.
Politics is no longer mainly about disagreeing on issues.
It’s about being in entirely separate conversations.
The Venn diagram is dead.
There’s no overlapping area.
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And there we have it, people, another view of the cultural gap that now divides America.
And staying with this David Brooks essay from the failing New York Times on the culture gap in America for the moment, as someone who has lived in rural America for most of his life, as opposed to a city boy like David Brooks, who has heard that there is such a thing as rural America, although he would not know himself where to find it, I would like to address this sentence from that essay, to wit:
In rural America basic values like hard work, clear gender roles and the social fabric are dissolving before people’s eyes.
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Having been around strong women all my life who were quite comfortable in their own skins with being women, I am unsure of what he is saying when he says “(I)n rural America basic values like clear gender roles are dissolving before people’s eyes,” and I strongly suspect he too does not have a real clue as to what he is saying there.
What, David Brooks, is a “clear gender role?”
Who determines that?
People in New York City?
We have women up here who are quite accomplished at doing “men stuff,” like operating a back-hoe, for example, so is that a case of a basic value like clear gender roles dissolving before people’s eyes?
Personally, knowing some of those women, who don’t sit around waiting for a man to tell them about what a woman is supposed to be, I think not.
But to a New York City liberal, many of whom are carpet-bagging their way up to here, to buy up rural land for a song to turn it in to multi-million dollar McMansion-villes for other New York City liberals, I suppose they could see a woman working a back-hoe, or driving a tractor as a case of a basic value like clear gender roles dissolving before people’s eyes.
As to his statement that in rural America basic values like hard work and the social fabric are dissolving before people’s eyes, that is right on the money.
Hard work today for the younger, privileged, well-to-do generation that is permeating into rural America, as the subdivisions for the elite keep spreading further and further into what was once rural America is for fools.
If you ask older people up here if they know some young person who likes to work and wants to work, as was the case when I was young, and hard work was a way out of poverty, along with military service, the universal answer is no.
As to the social fabric dissolving, yes, it is, and that thanks to many causes to include poor parenting, especially among the well-to-do, who don’t so much have families as drop litters, no values taught in the schools, an atmosphere of permissiveness and drugs.
Yes, we now have the same drug problems out here in rural America as do the suburbs and the city.
The main road near where I live is known as the Heroin Highway, because it is a supply route for that drug.
So that is a glimpse of life in rural America as I know it to be, anyway.
Would I have it be the way it was when I was young?
Damn right I would.
But that is a pipe dream now, because those days when life in rural America was predictable, safe and revolved around the seasons are now long gone.
The culture gap has swallowed those times up.
The new world order beckons, and from my perspective, it is not pretty.
But that is just me, and so it goes.
Speaking of the culture gap in America that is swirling all about us as I write these words, especially in regard to this recent media circus in the Senate Judiciary Committee, where the Senate Democrats., starting with California’s Dianne Feinstein, made a veritable freak show out of poor Dr. Christine Blasey Ford who suffers some permanent emotional damage as a result of her upbringing in the boozy culture of Montgomery County, Maryland in a vain effort to cause serious damage to the reputation of federal judge Brett Kavanaugh, it is on full display in the Albany, New York Times Union article “Former NY attorney general won’t face abuse charges” by
Michael Balsamo and Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press, updated Friday, November 9, 2018, as follows:
NEW YORK (AP) — The special prosecutor investigating former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Thursday that she couldn’t bring criminal charges over allegations he physically abused women he dated, in part, because current state law doesn’t explicitly outlaw such behavior.
In closing the six-month investigation, Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas implored lawmakers to pass legislation to criminalize slapping, shoving and other violence committed for sexual gratification.
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For the record, for whatever it is worth, Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas is a good card-carrying Democrat, as is disgraced former New York Attorney General Eric T. “Teddy” Schneiderman.
And according to this good card-carrying Democrat, at least in the case of former Democrat political superstar Eric T. “Teddy” Schneiderman, under current New York law, a slap, shove, or kick that doesn’t cause physical injury can be charged as a non-criminal violation, but only if the offender’s intent is to “alarm, harass, or annoy” the victim, and here is the kicker, literally: charges can’t be brought against someone important like Eric T. “Teddy” Schneiderman if the offender’s intent is sexual arousal or gratification, in this case, his own, unless the victim proves the violence caused substantial pain or injuries that go beyond bumps, bruises and cuts.
And not a peep about it from any Democrat, starting with Dianne Feinstein, to protest the injustice of an important and powerful Democrat like Eric T. “Teddy” Schneiderman getting to beat the crap out of women for his sexual gratification, this after them pillorying Brett Kavanaugh for allegedly laying on top of then-Chrissy Blasey when he was 17 and drunk at an unsupervised house party down in that ritzy are where he and Chrissy Blasey lived in cloistered, country club society.
Sauce for the Republican goose, and a separate goose for the Democrat gander.
By way of review, on May 9, 2018, the Albany, New York Times Union had a story on the appointment of this Democrat special prosecutor entitled “Cuomo’s special prosecutor move in Schneiderman probe stirs debate among DAs – State prosecutors mull response to Cuomo’s intervention in former AG’s case” by Brendan J. Lyons, as follows:
ALBANY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s appointment of a special prosecutor to probe allegations of physical abuse of four women by former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman stoked an internal debate Wednesday among the state’s district attorneys about whether to challenge or criticize the governor’s intervention.
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Yes, people, not just one woman here, but four, as we see from this CNN article entitled “New York AG Eric Schneiderman resigns over assault allegations” by Sophie Tatum on May 8, 2018, to wit:
Washington (CNN) New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has resigned, following a report on allegations of assault by multiple women in The New Yorker.
“It’s been my great honor and privilege to serve as Attorney General for the people of the State of New York.”
“In the last several hours, serious allegations, which I strongly contest, have been made against me,” Schneiderman said in a statement.
“While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively prevent me from leading the office’s work at this critical time.”
“I therefore resign my office, effective at the close of business on May 8, 2018.”
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Truth of the matter was that Eric T’ “Teddy” Schneiderman was using his position as state attorney general to protect and defend public corruption in New York state, so it was no honor or privilege for us to have him in that position above us, and we hoped to see him have to do some time for beating up women, but in New York state, if you are an important and powerful Democrat like Eric T. “Teddy” Schneiderman in a Democrat-controlled state, that is just not to be.
Getting back to the CNN article:
Shortly after announcing his resignation, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said they had opened an investigation into the allegations against Schneiderman, a spokesman told CNN.
Schneiderman’s swift resignation, which came just hours after The New Yorker published its report, is a shocking fall from grace for a once rising star in Democratic politics.
Schneiderman had cast himself as a fierce opponent and critic of President Donald Trump.
Schneiderman has also been a vocal proponent of the #MeToo movement, bringing legal action in New York against film producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused of sexually assaulting women.
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And interestingly, as this convoluted story that centers on poor emotionally-disturbed Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh continues to unfold, with a recent FOX News article entitled “Kavanaugh report’s biggest bombshells: Grassley probe reveals details behind mistaken identity claims, more” by Robert Gearty on 5 November 2018 throwing even more doubt on the emotionally-charged testimony of Dr. Ford, where we were informed that a 414-page document authored by the Republican majority and released over the weekend contained a number of key revelations to include a statement from a man who believes he may have been involved in an encounter with Christine Blasey Ford around the time of her claim of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh, as we are told in a TMZ article entitled “Harvey Weinstein: D.A. Suffers New Setback … Over Witness Credibility Concerns” on 11/2/2018, the case against Hillary Clinton BFF Harvey Weinstein is now falling apart, because one of his accusers was apparently caught in a lie, as follows:
The Manhattan D.A. is having more problems with the Harvey Weinstein case … the latest being prosecutors have decided NOT to call a critical witness to prove Weinstein had an M.O. of rape.
Sources connected to the case tell TMZ, prosecutors wanted to call Melissa Thompson to the stand.
She has claimed Weinstein raped her back in 2011 in an NYC hotel room.
Thompson has even filed her own lawsuit claiming she was raped.
We’ve learned the D.A. is now in possession of emails and a text message they believe call Thompson’s credibility into question.
An hour after the alleged rape, Thompson sent an email to Weinstein about a proposed business arrangement.
We’re told the D.A. feels a jury would find the email troublesome.
Then, on November 8, 2011, Thompson sent a text message to Weinstein, pitching herself as an executive producer on a show.
The text message read in part, “Harvey if I do this show can i be an EP?”
“I got 2/3 of the cast.”
We’re told the D.A. also has a writing from Thompson after the alleged rape, bragging about her relationship with Weinstein.
Thompson released this video of an interaction she had with Weinstein hours before the alleged rape.
This is the latest setback in the D.A.’s case against Weinstein.
The lead detective is under investigation for witness tampering and withholding evidence favorable to Weinstein.
The D.A. has dropped the case involving a woman who claims Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex, after she allegedly told a friend the oral sex was consensual and she did it because she was gunning for a movie job.
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Some crazy ****, is it not?
And people wonder if there is a culture gap in this country.
Seems so to me, anyway.
If there was any doubt after that circus sideshow the Senate Democrats shamelessly put on recently, featuring poor Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has the emotional maturity of maybe a three-year old and who those psychopaths were willing to sacrifice on the alter of their enmity towards those Americans who do not cleave to the Democrat party standard, a standard of hate and bigotry, if history is any guide, to score cheap political points in the recently-concluded mid-terms elections, where the visceral emotional anger the Senate Democrats were able to whip up by sacrificing Christine Blasey Ford gained them control of the U.S. House of Representatives, as an emotionally-damaged freak show allegedly as a result of now-Supreme Court Justice being incoherently drunk and laying on top of her when she was at a drunken, unsupervised house party in tony Montgomery County, Maryland when she was fifteen, to the point of where she thought she might be killed, that in a vain effort to derail the Senate confirmation of Brett Kavanugh, that we have a real serious cultural divide in this country, then a recent Washington Examiner article entitled “Barack Obama: ‘Mommy issues’ have hurt progress in the US” by Naomi Lim on 21 November 2018 should serve to put that doubt to rest, as follows:
Former President Barack Obama listed “mommy issues” as one explanation why the U.S. has failed to make progress addressing policy problems ranging from education to the environment.
“The reason we don’t do it is because we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues,” Obama said, specifically using the possibility of decreasing carbon emissions by 30 percent with available technology as an example.
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Now, as a loyal America citizen who is some 15 years older and many years wiser that this poser (“a person who acts in an affected manner in order to impress others” as in “Barack Hussein Obama is such a poser”) Barack Hussein Obama, the con-man’s con-man, when I read those words about “we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues,” my thought, and it is both rational and valid, is that Hussein Obama is talking about himself, and those he spends his time with, and in his privileged case, for what separates Hussein Obama and myself culturally, and thus makes us quite different, is that Hussein lived a privileged life of ease and drugs, like the drunken life of ease of the young, emotionally-immature and now badly damaged thanks to Dianne Feinstein and the Senate Democrats, to include headman Charley “Chuck” Schumer Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, with no personal responsibility, whereas I didn’t.
Hussein, who grew older, but never really grew up, because he was special and privileged, and so never had to, cries out in his lament to the world in the Washington Examiner, his cry for help, that “we are still confused.”
Think about it, people – how many people it is that Hussein Obama is talking about there!
In the case of Barack Hussein Obama, that number of people in America, who like the emotionally-immature Obama are still confused, is on the order of 65,915,795 souls, which is not trivial, considering that those people in America who like Obama are still confused vote in a bloc for the Democrats who are tearing apart America by dividing in to cultural classes and then giving protection to some classes that is denied to others, like the case of Catholics in Maryland after the Protestant Revolution of 1689.
And people who are confused are easily manipulated, and thus, the Democrats can whip their passions up to create them into a howling, shrieking mob, as we saw the Senate Democrats do only recently with their sacrifice of Christine Blasey Ford to feed the frenzy of their mob just before the mid-terms, and that was by design, which takes us back to Hussein Obama, the demagogue’s demagogue, in the Washington Examiner where he says of his supporters, “we are blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues.”
Boy, are they ever, which makes them a real clear and present domestic enemy of the United States Constitution, which thought takes us to these concluding sentences of that Washington Examiner article on Obama’s “mommy issues,” as follows:
Obama made the comments Monday during a conversation with writer Dave Eggers at the second Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago.
Obama’s appearance at Monday’s event follows the 2018 midterm cycle in which he took an active, vocal role in campaigning for Democratic candidates, often making a stark comparison between himself and the White House incumbent.
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We have a culture gap in this country for many reasons, and always have had one, since this nation’s beginning as a nation some 230 years ago.
What we have not had in my lifetime of over 70 years is hack politicians like the polished Alinsky-ite political agitator Hussein Obama using rhetoric so skillfully as he does to divide us as he has done into those who are on his side, and then the rest of us who are in Hillary Clinton’s “BASKET OF DEPLORABLES,” as if Hillary Clinton was the acme of human perfection along with Hussein Obama, which in the case of both of them is pure hog****.
So there is what we are dealing with in America today, people, a real serious political cultural divide created by the Democrats where some 65 million of their followers are blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues, and the rest of us are not, and further, have no desire to be, which makes us different from the Democrats in a very essential way that makes this cultural gap look to wide anymore to bridge across, and until the Democrats can give up being blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues, that cultural gap will remain and only get wider as the Democrats, in their hate-shrouded blindness and anger and racism and mommy issues, became more insular and isolated and hostile to the rest of us in America who are not Democrats and do not wish to be forced to be.
And OMG, people, talk about a culture gap in this country, which there most certainly is, the Cuomo News Network (CNN) just had a story entitled “Hyde-Smith pushed resolution praising Confederate soldier’s effort to ‘defend his homeland'” by Eric Bradner and Andrew Kaczynski on 24 November 2018, where we were told (GASP) that as a state senator in 2007, Hyde-Smith cosponsored a resolution that refers to the Civil War as “The War Between the States.”
HOLY ****, people, what on earth is the world coming to when a state senator from Mississippi openly refers to the “civil war” as “The War Between the States?”
And actually, when I was young up here in the north, it was called “the war between the states,” so I am truly at a loss to figure out what point the Cuomo News Network is trying to make here, other than that they are quite ignorant, given that we had four members of the Confederacy serve on the United States Supreme Court after the “War of Northern Aggression,” another name for the “civil war,” was over.
According to the Wikipedia item on “Names of the American Civil War,” the American Civil War has been known by a number of names since it began in 1861, with those names reflecting the historical, political, and cultural sensitivities and agendas of different groups and regions.
That apparently is what has the panties of the Cuomo News Network in a twist today – the fact that in America, there exist differing historical, political, and cultural sensitivities and agendas of different groups and regions concerning the civil war.
The Cuomo News Network is offended by that, apparently, and thus, feels that it should impose its views on us, by having each one of us call it the “civil war,” because that is what the Cuomo News Network wants it called, out of a concern for political correctness in America.
Getting back to Wikipedia, the most common name in modern American usage is simply “The Civil War”.
Although used rarely during the war, the term “War Between the States” became widespread afterward in the Southern United States.
During and immediately after the war, historians often used the term “War of the Rebellion” or “Great Rebellion”, while the Confederate term was “War for Southern Independence”.
The latter regained some currency in the 20th century, but has again fallen out of use.
Also in the 20th century, the term “War of Northern Aggression” developed under the Lost Cause of the Confederacy movement by Southern history revisionists, with attempts to negatively re-imagine the American Civil War narrative and preserve Confederate legacy.
“Freedom War” is used to celebrate the effect the war had on ending slavery.
In several European languages, the war is called “War of Secession”.
In most East Asian languages, the war is called “Battle between North and South side of the United States” or more commonly as “American (U.S.) North–South War”, depending on the individual language.
So it looks like the Cuomo News Network has its work cut out for it as it tries to impose its views on the world as to how it is we should all view the civil war.
Good luck with that is my thought.
As to Supreme Court Justices who served with the forces of the Confederacy (BOO HISS), there is first of all Edward Douglass White Jr. (November 3, 1845 – May 19, 1921), an American politician and jurist, was a United States Senator and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States.
He served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1894 to 1921.
White fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, and was captured in 1865.
In 1894, President Grover Cleveland appointed White as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
In 1910, President William Howard Taft elevated him to the position of Chief Justice.
The only “hard” evidence of White’s Confederate service consists of an account of his capture on March 12, 1865 in an action in Morganza in Pointe Coupee Parish, which is contained in the Official Records of the American Civil War, and his service records in the National Archives, documenting his subsequent imprisonment in New Orleans and parole in April 1865.
These records confirm his service as a lieutenant in Captain W. B. Barrow’s company of a Louisiana cavalry regiment, for all practical purposes a loosely organized band of irregulars or “scouts” (guerrillas).
One organizing officer of this regiment, which was sometimes called “Barrow’s Regiment” or the “9th Louisiana Cavalry Regiment,” was Major Robert Pruyn.
Pruyn (a postwar mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana) served as courier relaying messages from Port Hudson’s commander, General Franklin Gardner, to General Joseph E. Johnston, crossing the Union siege lines by swimming the Mississippi.
Pruyn escaped from Port Hudson prior to its surrender in the same manner.
According to another account, after White was paroled in April 1865 and following the surrender of the western Confederate forces, he ended his military career by walking (his clothing in rags) to a comrade’s family home in Livonia in Pointe Coupee Parish.
White’s Civil War service was taken as a matter of common knowledge at the time of his initial nomination to the United States Supreme Court, and the Confederate Veteran periodical, published for the United Confederate Veterans, congratulated him upon his confirmation.
White was one of three ex-Confederate soldiers to serve on the Supreme Court.
White was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the aftermath of the death of the Confederacy.
Later, while on the Supreme Court, he approved of the film The Birth of a Nation, which helped reignite the Klan in the 1920s.
In 1877, White served on the Reception Committee of the Knights of Momus in New Orleans, whose widely condemned extreme political satire of Reconstruction and its aftermath earned even the vilification of the Krewe of Rex, according to The New Orleans newspaper The Republican of February 14, 1877.
So the Cuomo News Network, in its zeal to rid this country of any vestiges of the Confederates, should get a campaign going to remove the name of Edward Douglass White Jr. from any and all records of the United States Supreme Court, and if there is a bust of White in the Supreme Court building, or a painting of him, th9ose should be immediately removed to remove the taint of the Confederacy from the Supreme Court building, notwithstanding that at p.173 of The United States Supreme Court – The Pursuit of Justice by Christopher Tomlins, we are told as follows:
By choosing the first chief justice from the Deep South, Taft won praise for bipartisanship and for binding the nation’s sectional wounds.
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For promoting a Confederate to that high office, by God, Taft should have his name removed from our history books, as well.
Make the purge complete, afterall!
As to Horace Harmon Lurton (February 26, 1844 – July 12, 1914), he was an American jurist who served for four years as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
He was a Sergeant Major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, serving in the 5th Tennessee Infantry, 2nd Kentucky Infantry, and 3rd Kentucky Cavalry.
He was twice captured by Union forces, the second time sent as a prisoner of war to Johnson’s Island Prison Camp in Sandusky Bay, Ohio.
So my goodness, what in the hell was he doing serving on the United States Supreme Court?
What on earth could they have been thinking, putting him on there when everyone knows he was a Confederate!
And then there was Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II (September 17, 1825 – January 23, 1893), an American politician, diplomat, and jurist and member of the Democratic Party, who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States after serving as an official in the Confederate States of America.
When Mississippi declared that it had seceded from the U.S. and joined the Confederacy on January 9, 1861, Lamar said: “Thank God, we have a country at last: to live for, to pray for, and if need be, to die for.”
Lamar retired from the House in December 1860 to become a member in the Mississippi Secession Convention.
Lamar drafted the state’s Ordinance of Secession, and he considered a staff appointment to the new government, but abandoned that to co-operate with his former law partner, Christopher H. Mott in raising and supplying a regiment.
Lamar raised, and funded out of his own pocket, the 19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment.
Mott was commissioned colonel, as he had served as an officer in the war with Mexico, and Lamar was commissioned as lieutenant colonel.
Later in 1862, Confederate States President Jefferson Davis appointed Lamar as Confederate minister to Russia and special envoy to the United Kingdom and France.
And finally there is Howell Edmunds Jackson (April 8, 1832 – August 8, 1895), an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court, in the U.S. Senate, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Although opposed to secession, Jackson served the Confederacy during the Civil War in a civil position as a receiver of property confiscated from Unionists.
His brother William Hicks Jackson entered in the Confederate States Army, fought in several actions, and gained the rank of brigadier-general by the end of the war.
So the Cuomo News Network has its work cut out for it, as it continues to revise our history to suit its agenda.
Speaking of the culture gap and the ridiculousness it is spawning in the name of political correctness, which means rigidly enforced thinking, the latest outrage from the politically-correct “holier-than-thous” in America who seem to enjoy access to the main-stream media denied to the rest of us has to do with the term “public hanging” as was used recently by Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Although that used to be a common expression here in the United States of America, where public hangings happened to be a method of execution of criminals up until August 14, 1936, when Rainey Bethea was publicly hanged after his conviction for the rape and murder of a 70-year-old woman, the politically-correct “holier-than-thous” in this country who are trying to literally control our thoughts by limiting the language we are entitled to use to describe our history, are now saying the term “public hanging” is racist because the only thing it can possibly refer to, IN THEIR WARPED MINDS, is the lynching of blacks.
Which is total horse****.
How about Frankie Silver in North Carolina, for example?
Frankie Silver is widely known as the first woman hanged in North Carolina, but the fact of the matter is that Silver wasn’t the first woman hanged in the state, nor was she the first woman hanged in Burke County.
And Frankie Silver was white.
It’s undisputed that Silver killed her husband Charlie with an ax in December 1831, but the moments leading up to his death remain a mystery.
She was convicted and hanged for the slaying, but did she plan the murder in advance or was she protecting herself and their 1-year-old baby?
Several people, convinced she was defending herself, wrote petitions on Silver’s behalf.
Many included signatures from others who were outraged at the injustice.
Gov. Montfort Stokes and his successor Gov. David Lowry Swain rejected those pleas.
Swain gave Silver a two-week respite from her original hanging date of June 28, 1833 so she could prepare herself.
On July 12, 1833, Silver was hanged.
Definitive details of the hanging are hard to come by.
Some accounts claim crowds flocked to Morganton to see a woman hanged.
Others indicate the sheriff erected a board fence so people couldn’t see Silver executed.
It’s also unknown if Silver was hanged from a tree or scaffolding, but it’s widely believed the hanging took place in a yard on what today is Valdese Avenue, near White Street.
Silver’s story persists today with the misinformation that she was the first woman hanged in North Carolina.
Perry Dean Young’s “The Untold Story of Frankie Silver” delves into the claim and finds that one, possibly two, women were hanged in Burke County prior to Silver’s hanging.
And a third woman was hanged in a neighboring county.
Citing Edward Phifer’s papers in the Southern Historical Collection at Chapel Hill, Young found that Elisabeth Wells was hanged with her husband in 1788 for arson.
In 1782, Margaret Smith was indicted for killing her infant, but there is no firm evidence she was convicted and hanged.
Now, that happens to be a part of our shared American history, whether we like it or not, so what is up with these politically correct “holier-than-thous” who are feeding us this bull**** that a public hanging can only be a reference to the lynching of a black.
As to Rainey Bethea, hundreds of reporters and photographers — some from as far away as New York and Chicago — were sent to Owensboro to cover what was then the country’s first hanging conducted by a woman.
At least 20,000 people descended on the town to witness the execution.
Bethea walked toward the gallows shortly after sunrise and was pronounced dead at around 5:45 a.m. that same day.
In 1936, reporters blasted what they called the ‘carnival in Owensboro.’
Many scholars say Bethea’s execution — and the coverage it received — led to a banning of public executions in America.
So what is this horse**** about Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith talking about a “public hanging” really all about?
As for me, I am sick and tired of these politically correct “holier-than-thous” trying to limit the words we can use as American citizens to talk about our history, instead of cowering from it and hiding from it as these mealy-mouth, politically-correct “holier-than-thous” want us to do.
Going to the Mississippi History Now website, to the article “The History of Capital Punishment in Mississippi: An Overview” by Donald A. Cabana, we are told that the first known execution by the State of Mississippi was July 16, 1818,in Adams County with the hanging of George H. Harman, a white male, for “stealing a Negro.”
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That kind of goes against the stereotype being put forth by the politically correct “holier-than-thous” that a public hanging can only refer to the lynching of a black, does it not?
Getting back to the Mississippi site, it tells us that since then, the state of Mississippi has conducted 794 known executions, and of those executed, 639 have been black males, 117 whitemales, 19 black females, 2 Indian males, and 16 individuals not completely identified either by gender or by race.
Hanging, or the gallows, was the method of execution in Mississippi until 1940, when lawmakers replaced it with the electric chair.
As the Mississippi History site tells, and this will like set the politically correct “holier-then-thous” to shrieking and yowling in protest, capital punishment – the state or federal government taking a person’s life in retribution for a crime – has been with us in one form or another since the dawn of time.
The Old Testament of the Bible is rife with accounts of its use.
Virtually every major civilization in history has embraced the use of execution among the legal processes used to control and punish those who commit the most serious of crimes, as well as those not so serious.
As to public hangings, or executions, the Romans made executions a public spectacle so that the masses clearly understood what would happen to those who dared flaunt Roman law.
And so it has been throughout history.
As European settlers migrated to the New World colonies from Jamestown in Virginia to Boston in Massachusetts, they brought the principles of English Common Law, including severe forms of corporal and capital punishments.
Use of devices such as the stocks, the pillory, and the dunking stool could be found in virtually every community in pre-colonial Massachusetts Bay Colony.
As with the ancient Romans, however, it was the public nature of the punishment that became of paramount importance to the colonial town officials.
Though every community kept various forms of corporal punishment devices, few maintained a permanent gallows, a structure from which a rope is suspended with which criminals are executed by hanging.
But gallows could be quickly erected should the need arise, for hanging had become the favored method of execution in the colonies.
It would remain so until the 1880s when New York instituted the use of a new “more humane” invention called the electric chair.
But hanging would retain its ranking as the most favored form of execution in many states for several more decades, including Mississippi.
Mississippi lawmakers supported the notion that public executions were an effective technique for sending a stern warning to other would-be perpetrators.
Thus, public hangings in Mississippi were carried out in the county where the condemned prisoner had committed the crime, although they were not always a public spectacle.
The gallows in Greene and Hinds counties, for example, were constructed on the top floor of the courthouse, adjacent to the jail where the prisoner was being held.
Crowds would gather around the courthouse nevertheless, awaiting word from the sheriff that the condemned person had been dispatched to the infernal regions, which he (or she)so richly deserved.
Hanging was cheap and effective, though not without drawbacks.
Carried out in a slipshod fashion, which was often the case, hanging could become a brutal form of torture rather than a swift punishment.
The January 1932 hanging of Guy Fairley was so badly handled that it created a public outcry against hanging in Mississippi.
Fairley was executed for the murder of a federal prohibition enforcement officer who had reported Fairley as violating the liquor laws.
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So there is a bit of history to counter the bull**** that is being put out by the main-stream media, which one would think would know better, that a public hanging can only refer to the lynching of a black.
As to the lynching of blacks in Mississippi, according to the NAACP, and they would know if anyone did, Mississippi had 581 lynchings from 1882-1968.
So more people were hung legally than were lynched in Mississippi.
Wow, Paul, your insensitivity to some issues just overwhelms me sometimes. But, as being from the north, I guess I should understand your inability to relate to the issues of race here in the south and especially the deep south. Your comment at that end of your rant, and I quote: “As to the lynching of blacks in Mississippi, according to the NAACP, and they would know if anyone did, Mississippi had 581 lynching’s from 1882-1968. So, more people were hung legally than were lynched in Mississippi?” As if this makes the number of illegal hangings less culpable? What f’ing planet do you live on, sir? And, just out of curiosity, I wonder how many of those legal hangings involved an innocent black victim? Ever read To Kill a Mockingbird? There’s a cultural divide for you to chew on.
According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1882 and 1968 in the United States, including 3,446 African Americans and 1,297 whites. More than 73 percent of lynching in the post-Civil War period occurred in the Southern states. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, 4,084 African-Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950 in the South. So, do you now see the callous insinuation of you calling horse shit on public hangings. And understand something, dear sir, a lynching is not a public hanging, but an act of terrorism. Terrorism enacted on a group of people to instill fear and establish the fact that a supposedly superior race of people had the power and the law and the will to murder (in the most grossly, horrific and lawless manner possible) at random for any perceived slight or injustice or act outside of a court of law. These, sir, are the perceptions ingrained in African Americans for generations and lingers to this day. Political correctness? Hardly, common decency and sensitivity to this nation’s tainted past. A minor understanding of another’s culture, how it was formed, and how that cuts through the American psyche is just another misnomer we dismiss through the various vestiges of “Political Correctness”. With this writing you linger dangerously at the precipice of racism. But, even worst (because racism is taught and spread through a vile ignorance – which I know you do not possess) you show the propensity of just not knowing. Anything. Woefully out of touch. You know, it’s a cultural thing…you wouldn’t understand. Learn, read, get out of your comfort zone. This country runs red with the blood of innocents. You know it, and I know it. Stop leaning on the false premises of political correctness. It’s divisive and inflammatory. And it’s bull sh*t.
Yes, Chas the Democrat party have been the party of slavery, lynching and perversion, now and forever.
And yes, the KKK WAS the terror arm of the Democrats.
Why are leftists such murderous racists, Chas?
Stand in front of a Planned Parenthood facility while you try to tell me I’m wrong.
“This country runs red with the blood of innocents” says the contributor whose party had abortion as a plank in their last two presidential platforms.
You have some work to do yourself when it comes to getting out of your comfort zone.
The hands of the Democrat party in this country run red with the blood of innocents.
How anyone with any integrity can associate themselves with that party eludes me.
Mike, I highly recommend that you take a college level civics course. Everyone knows, and I do mean everyone, but you…knows that the southern strategy of Nixon and the Republicans in the late sixties was to tap into the Wallace/Segregationist platform to woo southern voters into the Republican camp. It has remained in place to this day. I was old enough to know this when this happened and watched it unfold in real time. Yes, I will concur that Democrats of the late nineteenth century (especially in the South) and up until the mid-nineteen sixties were Segregationist and racist. In fact, the party was comprised of a group of southern Senators known as Dixiecrats that fought Johnson (also a Democrat) on Civil Rights and the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. Just as many Republicans of the turn of the century (Theodore Roosevelt for one) were progressives. Many of the monopoly busting of the early nineteenth century was legislated by Republicans along with the development of the FDA and National Parks.
Equating Democrats of the past with Democrats and their party platform today is like comparing horse drawn carriages to Corvettes and Chargers. Grow up, grow a brain and go learn something. Your skewed and incorrect view(s) of history has become tiresome. Besides, how do you even figure to know I am a Democrat? You don’t.
No, You Sir have become tiresome. Your Liberal diarrhea of the mouth is disturbing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10Section2b.t-4.html
I give you the very very conservative biased NEW YORK TIMES rebuttal of the myth of the southern strategy.
Sad that the very existence of Robert Byrd, Grand Kleagle of the KKK and AND 5 DECADE US Senator who started his career in 1947 as a democrat and ended it within the same party rebuts is clear evidence of the falsity of that fantasy but you will never accept reality.
Ooops, myth BUSTED.
BTW, if the shoe fits, ya’ get to wear it regardless. Buddy, you are a leftist.
Chas Cornweller, dude, let me take this opportunity to say that it does not confront me one bit whether you are a Democrat or a card-carrying Commie, either way, what is important for our Republic and its precarious future in the face of this Nancy Pelosi “MAKE AMERICA BLACK, IT HAS BEEN WHITE LONG ENOUGH” campaign is that your voice be heard, for without your voice, the conversation could not be complete.
As to the Democrats, who are the same party they always have been, the party that rejected our Republic back in the 1860s and seceded so they could set up themselves into a confederacy that was a slave-o-cracy.
Chas, your personal heart bleeds copious amounts for the plight of the black slaves of America, and so it should, Chas Cornweller, for if not you, then who?
As to how it was supposed to be for the black slaves, who had been brought here by the British, not by Americans, but for the slave-owning Democrats, Chas Cornweller, and I know you recall this from your own intensive studies of college level civics courses, and hence I can understand your anger at their betrayal in the name of pure greed, is to be found in FEDERALIST No. 42, The Powers Conferred by the Constitution Further Considered, from the New York Packet to the People of the State of New York by “Father of the Constitution” James Madison, so he should know this better than some babbling fool like Nancy Pelosi today, who has so much air inside her head you could float the Hindenburg in there without fear of hitting anything, on Tuesday, January 22, 1788, as follows:
It were doubtless to be wished, that the power of prohibiting the importation of slaves had not been postponed until the year 1808, or rather that it had been suffered to have immediate operation.
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You see what the dude is saying there, Chas Cornweller – but for the greed of the Democrats, the importation of the black folks, who were already slaves in Africa, would have stopped cold in 1808, and how different life in America could have been!
But that would have wrecked the economy of the southern states, and they were not going to let that happen, so that agreement went out the window, and we are still fighting the civil war today, as a result.
Getting back to FEDERALIST No. 42, Chas Cornweller, we have the wish of Americans like me being expressed as follows:
It ought to be considered as a great point gained in favor of humanity, that a period of twenty years may terminate forever, within these States, a traffic which has so long and so loudly upbraided the barbarism of modern policy; that within that period, it will receive a considerable discouragement from the federal government, and may be totally abolished, by a concurrence of the few States which continue the unnatural traffic, in the prohibitory example which has been given by so great a majority of the Union.
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That is what people like me, who you wrongly accuse of being “insensitive,” were for back then, Chas Cornweller – a hope that a period of twenty years would terminate forever, within these States, a traffic which had so long and so loudly upbraided the barbarism of modern policy – and that would have put me squarely against the Democrats back then, just as I am against them now.
But for the Democrats, Chas Cornweller, who were the authors of that barbarism, which casts their own alleged “humanity” into doubt, as it should, twenty years after the founding of this nation by the ratification of the Constitution, slavery should have ended, and we wouldn’t then need to be hearing all these people with weak emotions bleating and yowling about Confederate statues and public hangings, as they try to scrub our American history of anything they find offensive to them, which is what one nation does when it conquers another – it wipes out the history of the conquered nation, which takes us back to FEDERALIST No. 42, as follows:
Happy would it be for the unfortunate Africans, if an equal prospect lay before them of being redeemed from the oppressions of their European brethren!
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And there we have it, Chas Cornweller, the first betrayal of the black folks by the vicious Democrats of America.
No wonder you don’t want any association with them in here.
Who in their right mind would?
WOW and HOLY COW and ZOUNDS, Chas Cornweller, when you go off in one of your classic and might I say trademark fits of righteous indignation, for which you are loved and cherished in an otherwise quite mundane world, in this case over what you are creating into “my insensitivity” by the expedient of simply telling people I am insensitive, and then burying that bull**** claim under a literal torrent of other bull**** as you have done above, so the poor average reader, as you intended, is bludgeoned into insensitivity, you go off like a GIGUNDO Roman Candle riding a Saturn rocket up to the fringes of outer space, itself.
In a word, my dear friend and fellow CCM commentator Chas Cornweller, you are tres (that is French for “very,” we do strive for culture in here, afterall) formidable in that regard.
Let’s take your opening line, which itself has the force of an ocean wave to simply blow people in the jury of public opinion away and to then have them screeching and shrieking and screaming at the top of their lungs that I am a RACIST, because you so skillfully told them that I am, as so:
“Wow, Paul, your insensitivity to some issues just overwhelms me sometimes.”
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Now, in the sake of candor, Chas Cornweller, my in-house panel of experts scored that opening riposte of yours as an almost fatal knock-out blow, and truthfully, several of them are wondering how can I possibly recover from a verbal knock-out blow like that, and you know what, Chas Cornweller, so am I.
I mean, my goodness, Chas Cornweller, in today’s toxic political climate, being accused of being insensitive alone is sufficient to get one ostracized from “decent” society (think Hillary Rodham Clinton who would answer the Nazarene asking who should throw the first stone by being free from sin, Hillary would say, “I am, so give me the G** D**** thing and I’ll throw it,” and she would), and there am I, Chas Cornweller, thanks to you.
Being “insensitive,” will have me in Hillary Clinton’s “BASKET OF DEPLORABLES” for sure, Chas Cornweller, so see just how powerful your opening riposte really was?
But, of course you do, which is why you are known as the Hortensius of Cape Charles!
So, given all of that, and as I am forced to have to admit, it is quite formidable, what will I do to recover my equilibrium and momentum here, then?
And, ah, yes – resort to the truth – which is that if ANYBODY thinks the mention of the words “public hanging” by anybody anywhere in the United States of America, including myself, “conjurs up memories of same dark and sinister past in the state of Misssissippi,” I would say GOOD, Chas Cornweller, because that is exactly what history is supposed to do – remind people of where we could be if enough of us became ******* ignorant, uncivilized, anarchic and violent, as a certain political party in this nation would like us to do.
I would say GOOD, Chas Cornweller, precisely because I am so sensitive, and my goodness, Chas Cornweller, you knew I would say that, because you yourself have commented in the past as to just how sensitive a person I really am.
So thanks for the segue, Chas Cornweller, so I could get that critical point established.
It is appreciated.
People who cannot handle history as it happened, Chas Cornweller, without becoming overpowered by their emotions, have some very serious psychological issues that need to be treated, post haste, and in all seriousness, and this is something you know as well as I, they are a real and present danger to our Republic.
Paul, I will say this about you…no one chastises like you. No one. One of a kind. And you do it in such a way that I actually find it interesting, if not flattering. Funny that, huh? Kind of like the old saying from our boy Winston Churchill who famously said,” Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
Well, I know that you weren’t telling me to visit my friend, the devil, however you were admonishing me on my particular viewpoint on your personality. And perhaps, from my vantage point(s) on history, I am not so sure I correctly assessed you. However, I do agree with you that history in this country has been presented in so many differing lights, that it is nearly impossible to separate the facts from actual truth. But, then again, you know the saying by Plato. Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. But, as you know, I am a student of history. I don’t get the answers by listening to or emulating the politics or politicians of this nation. I have seen where that road takes us. As William Faulkner once said, “The past is not dead, it’s not even past.”
You speak of energy vampires. And I agree, many of these politicians are just that. They feed on the soul of hope and prosperity, sucking the life force out of hard-working, decent people by offering promises of a brighter tomorrow. Only to return to the burrow of to begin the feeding all over again. A vicious cycle of fundraising, campaigning, stumping, speaking of promises and a greater tomorrow for everyone. While up in the dark den of compromises and malice, they conjure bills that work against the people’s best interest and well-being, only to line their personal pockets and cement their hold on power. I’ve seen it time and time again. Even the best and brightest succumb to this practice. They ALL succumb. And why is this? Because the system they created has made it so. Just this past election cycle in the Second Congressional District of Virginia nearly six million dollars was spent between the two candidates in the race for that seat. Six million dollars! Is this the kind of political posturing the founding father’s envisioned? I really don’t think so. Those particular seats (which is the United States House of Representatives, by the way) were originally created to allow differing talents and occupations to partake in the political process. And to give voice to ALL the people. This past campaign had two former Naval personal running. A narrow and myopic representation, albeit appropriate for the area, I suppose. But, I guess it is better than electing another lawyer. Can’t have enough of those in D. C. (sarcasm intended). So, to close this point, I realize who the energy vampires are. They are the politicians and their blind followers. So, yes, I do realize they exist.
And one last aside on the subject of race. I know, as well as you, that the Democrats are playing the divisive race card. But, that crazy Republican leader is giving them plenty of ammunition to do so. I am not saying it’s right or correct. But, it just is. They go for the low hanging fruit. And believe me, the fruit is hanging low with this one. That’s politics. And that is why I don’t follow politicians. I watch, I listen, I learn…but, never do I get in lock step with their values or self-righteous crusades. Like my old friend, Robert Zimmerman, once said,” Don’t follow leaders, watch the parking meters.” And as a young boy, I took that to heart. Have yet to get a parking ticket. (sound of knuckles knocking wood)
So, let me close. Again, you sir, have enlightened me in the ways of the pastoral north. I look forward to your next installment to see which way the wind blows from Upstate. May this note find you in good health, happy and looking forward to that season of hope and good tidings to the less unfortunate and denied. May we possess the strength to embolden the greater angels of our spirits and lessen the trite and insignificant passions of our worldly cares. God bless, my friend. Keep fighting the good fight. I know I will.
Chas Cornweller says: Is this the kind of political posturing the founding father’s envisioned?
I really don’t think so.
Those particular seats (which is the United States House of Representatives, by the way) were originally created to allow differing talents and occupations to partake in the political process.
And to give voice to ALL the people.
This past campaign had two former Naval personal running.
A narrow and myopic representation, albeit appropriate for the area, I suppose.
I REPLY: I think that I have to agree with you, Chas Cornweller, when you say in answer to the question “(I)s this the kind of political posturing the founding father’s envisioned,” I don’t think so.
It is very hard to tell, actually.
Certainly, they know the House of Representative was the biggest danger we would face as a threat to our liberty, but they were thinking that the “genius” of the American people would keep the slimeballs and scum suckers and such out of our national politics, and there is where they went wrong, because genius has long since been bred out of the American people, to be replaced with brain-dead ignorance, and that is in supposedly educated people, and especially lawyers, who are some of the stupidest people I have ever met, although very full of themselves, just the same.
As to the subject of representation, Chas Cornweller, FEDERALIST No. 52, The House of Representatives, from the New York Packet to the People of the State of New York by either Alexander Hamilton or James Madison on Friday, February 8, 1788, tells us this:
A representative of the United States must be of the age of twenty-five years; must have been seven years a citizen of the United States; must, at the time of his election, be an inhabitant of the State he is to represent; and, during the time of his service, must be in no office under the United States.
Under these reasonable limitations, the door of this part of the federal government is open to merit of every description, whether native or adoptive, whether young or old, and without regard to poverty or wealth, or to any particular profession of religious faith.
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You will note, Chas Cornweller, that that open door to that part of the federal government is not closed to someone just because they happen to be a former Navy officer.
“Merit of every description,” where “merit” is defined as “the quality of being particularly good or worthy, especially so as to deserve praise or reward,” with synonyms such as excellence, quality, caliber, worth, worthiness, credit, value, distinction, eminence, is a wide door.
Sadly, and this is part of what has you upset, and rightfully so, is the fact that now, it is money, not merit.
I don’t think the founders saw that level of depraved corruption coming.
Were they naïve, Chas Cornweller?
Or is it that they just lived in simpler times when people had far more integrity than they do today?
And history in this country should not be changed or amended or edited, Chas Cornweller, because there are people in this country whose emotions are too weak to handle history as it happened.
Those people are energy vampires, Chas Cornweller, and we need to protect ourselves and those we care about from them.
For those unfamiliar with the term, PsychCentral tells us this: Energy vampires are emotionally immature individuals who have the sense that the whole world revolves around them.
They are almost incapable of seeing things from another person’s perspective.
They often lack empathy.
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That is all these people who want to change our history because how it actually happened upsets them too much, so instead of making an effort to grow up and gain maturity, they want to pull us all down to their emotionally immature level.
One of the strategies to help you protect yourself from energy vampires, Chas Cornweller, is to first realize they exist, and then find a reality-check friend, and there is where I enter the picture, in that vital role.
And as you well know, Chas Cornweller, this is all a continuation of a political strategy of none other than Democrat Nancy Pelosi which was articulated back in January of 2018 when Nancy said Republicans have a plan to “make America white again,” which is quite a racist and divisive statement for the speaker of the house of representatives to be making.
It’s an incredible statement, in fact, and a dangerous one, as well, as is this ridiculous blather from Nancy in the RealClearPolitics article “Pelosi: Trump Immigration Plan A Campaign To ‘Make America White Again'” posted By Ian Schwartz on January 27, 2018, to wit:
People come here with their hopes and dreams and aspirations and their optimism, their courage to make their future better for their families.
They are honoring the vows of our founders who predicated indicated everything they did that every generation would make the future better for the next and with those same values, these newcomers make America more American.
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That, Chas Cornweller, is pure hog**** of the kind and volume one has come to expect from out the mouth of Nancy Pelosi.
The founders were concerned that immigrants would make America less American, not more American, and the assertion is ridiculous on its face because Nancy is asserting that people who have never been Americans know more about it than people who are American citizens.
What tripe, but that is what one can expect from Nancy Pelosi.
Consider FEDERALIST No. 62, The Senate, for the Independent Journal yo the People of the State of New York by either Hamilton or Madison circa 1788, as follows:
HAVING examined the constitution of the House of Representatives, and answered such of the objections against it as seemed to merit notice, I enter next on the examination of the Senate.
I. The qualifications proposed for senators, as distinguished from those of representatives, consist in a more advanced age and a longer period of citizenship.
A senator must be thirty years of age at least; as a representative must be twenty-five.
And the former must have been a citizen nine years; as seven years are required for the latter.
The propriety of these distinctions is explained by the nature of the senatorial trust, which, requiring greater extent of information and stability of character, requires at the same time that the senator should have reached a period of life most likely to supply these advantages; and which, participating immediately in transactions with foreign nations, ought to be exercised by none who are not thoroughly weaned from the prepossessions and habits incident to foreign birth and education.
The term of nine years appears to be a prudent mediocrity between a total exclusion of adopted citizens, whose merits and talents may claim a share in the public confidence, and an indiscriminate and hasty admission of them, which might create a channel for foreign influence on the national councils.
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On other words, the founders did not want immigrants selling out our country to foreign interests, as Nancy Pelosi seems to be advocating for here, with her specious premise that immigrants know more about being American than I do.
May I say, dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller, that you present us with some strange ideas concerning your perception of what happened when the United States Constitution was ratified, and here, I refer to your above statement the Virginia seats in the United States House of Representatives, were originally created to allow differing talents and occupations to partake in the political process, and to give voice to ALL the people.
Where do you come up with these ideas from, Chas Cornweller?
The House of Representatives was not created to give voice to all the people.
And that takes us to your statement above that “(H)owever, I do agree with you that history in this country has been presented in so many differing lights, that it is nearly impossible to separate the facts from actual truth.”
While that is generally so, Chas Cornweller, in the case of the Constitution, it is not true at all.
Consider the Africans you are so concerned about, Chas Cornweller.
Here is some actual history on that subject from FEDERALIST No. 54, The Apportionment of Members Among the States, from the New York Packet to the People of the State of New York by Alexander Hamilton or James Monroe on Tuesday, February 12, 1788, as follows:
We subscribe to the doctrine, might one of our Southern brethren observe, that representation relates more immediately to persons, and taxation more immediately to property, and we join in the application of this distinction to the case of our slaves.
But we must deny the fact, that slaves are considered merely as property, and in no respect whatever as persons.
The true state of the case is, that they partake of both these qualities: being considered by our laws, in some respects, as persons, and in other respects as property.
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Were you aware of that, Chas Cornweller?
Were you aware that the black slaves in America, who incidentally had been sold into slavery by their black brethren in Africa, had protection of law, despite the fact that they were slaves?
I bet not, precisely because as you say, history in this country has been presented in so many differing lights, that it is nearly impossible to separate the facts from actual truth.
Getting back to FEDERALIST No. 54, and the actual history we should be emotionally mature enough to handle as rational, thinking adults in this country, although many now, maybe even a majority, are not, we have:
In being compelled to labor, not for himself, but for a master; in being vendible by one master to another master; and in being subject at all times to be restrained in his liberty and chastised in his body, by the capricious will of another, the slave may appear to be degraded from the human rank, and classed with those irrational animals which fall under the legal denomination of property.
In being protected, on the other hand, in his life and in his limbs, against the violence of all others, even the master of his labor and his liberty; and in being punishable himself for all violence committed against others, the slave is no less evidently regarded by the law as a member of the society, not as a part of the irrational creation; as a moral person, not as a mere article of property.
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Did you know that, Chas Cornweller, that the slave in America was regarded by the law as a member of the society, not as a part of the irrational creation; as a moral person, not as a mere article of property?
Did you know that?
Or were you told something entirely different?
Now, while it is true that you and many others loathe and deplore that society the slaves were part of, the fact of the matter is that that society once existed here in the United States of America, and that history should not be buried or suppressed because there are many emotionally-immature people in this country who can’t handle the truth.
And that is what you are seeing in here, Chas Cornweller – adults are coming to take back the room from the screeching children who have taken it over, and who are trying to impose their emotional immaturity on the rest of us in this country who are sick and tired of them.
And do you realize, Chas Cornweller, that when the Constitution was ratified, we were not one people, as is obvious from the three-fifths compromise, even though living on the same landmass, so this culture gap has existed since before there was a United States of America?
And do you realize how close we came to their not being a United States of America?
Are you aware of that?
Speaking of the culture gap, which Nancy Pelosi is trying to widen with her “MAKE AMERICA BLACK, IT HAS BEEN WHITE LONG ENOUGH” campaign, are you aware, Chas Cornweller, that during the American Revolution, there was actually at the same time a civil war going on in this country?
Was that subject covered in any of the civics course you have taken, I wonder?
Or was that covered up because the people who taught you or wrote those civics books lacked the emotional maturity to deal with that subject?
Here is where we once were, Chas Cornweller, to wit:
FEDERALIST No. 30, Concerning the General Power of Taxation, from the New York Packet to the People of the State of New York by Alexander Hamilton on Friday, December 28, 1787:
In the Ottoman or Turkish empire, the sovereign, though in other respects absolute master of the lives and fortunes of his subjects, has no right to impose a new tax.
The consequence is that he permits the bashaws or governors of provinces to pillage the people without mercy; and, in turn, squeezes out of them the sums of which he stands in need, to satisfy his own exigencies and those of the state.
In America, from a like cause, the government of the Union has gradually dwindled into a state of decay, approaching nearly to annihilation.
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Were you aware that we had sunk so low, Chas Cornweller?
Or do you believe in a different version of history where that didn’t really happen?
Speaking of the culture gap which exists in this country today, and is getting wider, as we press for more and more diversity in this country in the name of diversity, as if pushing for diversity, which drives us apart, could somehow instead serve to bring us together as a people, and the statement above of our dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller that history in this country has been presented in so many differing lights that it is nearly impossible to separate the facts from actual truth, I would like to drop back in time here in fractured and mentally ill America, where the life span is decreasing as we clearly see from the VOX.com article “Suicides are at the highest rate in decades, CDC report shows” by Julissa Treviño on Nov 29, 2018, where we are told the suicide rate in the LAND OF ETERNAL AND PERPETUAL DREAMS is the highest it’s been in decades, the latest warning sign of a worsening public health issue in America that needs far more attention, to 1866, at the close of the second American civil war, the first having been in 1776, and a political essay entitled “THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: ITS CONSTITUTION, TENDENCIES, AND DESTINY” by Oreste. A. Brownson, where we have some of the roots of this culture gap exposed as follows by one who was there when it was happening, to wit:
There is no doubt that the question of Slavery had much to do with the rebellion, but it was not its sole cause.
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Now, I am sure that that statement by one who was actually there will have these self-professed and self-identified “liberals” squealing and yowling, since their premise is that slavery was the sole cause of the 2d civil war, but pardon me if I say who really gives a damn what they think, when what they think is inconsistent with reality.
Getting back to Brownson, who was there:
The real cause must be sought in the progress that had been made, especially in the States themselves, in forming and administering their respective governments, as well as the General government, in accordance with political theories borrowed from European speculators on government, the so-called Liberals and Revolutionists, which have and can have no legitimate application in the United States.
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There, of course, he is talking about the French and their bloody revolution which America’s Jacobin Tom Jefferson was a fan of, as are people in America today, actually.
Getting back to Brownson:
The tendency of American politics, for the last thirty or forty years, has been, within the several States themselves, in the direction of centralized democracy, as if the American people had for their mission only the reproduction of ancient Athens.
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BINGO, people.
And that tendency of American politics in the Democrat party of Schumer and Clinton and Obama and Biden and Pelosi and Young Andy Cuomo in the direction of centralized democracy continues strongly today, as if the Democrat party in America had for their mission only the reproduction of ancient Athens, with them in charge of the treasury, of course.
However, and here we are back to the culture gap, Brownson tells us as follows:
The American system is not that of any of the simple forms of government, nor any combination of them.
The attempt to bring it under any of the simple or mixed forms of government recognized by political writers, is an attempt to clothe the future in the cast-off garments of the past.
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And there, people is exactly what the Democrats of today in America are trying to do – to clothe our future as a nation and as a people in the cast-off garments of the past, which is democracy, which takes us back to Brownson as follows:
The American system, wherever practicable, is better than monarchy, better than aristocracy, better than simple democracy, better than any possible combination of these several forms, because it accords more nearly with the principles of things, the real order of the universe.
But American statesmen have studied the constitutions of other states more than that of their own, and have succeeded in obscuring the American system in the minds of the people, and giving them in its place pure and simple democracy, which is its false development or corruption.
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As true as that was in 1866, it is just as true today, and just as pernicious (having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way as in “the pernicious influences of the mass media”).
Getting back to Brownson, we have:
All the changes made in the bosom of the States themselves have consisted in removing all obstacles to the irresponsible will of the majority, leaving minorities and individuals at their mercy.
This tendency to a centralized democracy had more to do with provoking secession and rebellion than the anti-slavery sentiments of the Northern, Central, and Western States.
In spite of all that had been done by theorists, radicals, and revolutionists, no-government men, non-resistants, humanitarians, and sickly sentimentalists to corrupt the American people in mind, heart, and body, the native vigor of their national constitution has enabled them to come forth triumphant from the trial.
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Just because the civil war was over, however, and this we know today due to the presence of such demagogues on the national stage as Hussein Obama the Marxist Master of the Art of Getting Over and Skating, and Hillary Clinton and Charley “Chuck” Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the theorists, radicals, and revolutionists, no-government men, non-resistants, humanitarians, and sickly sentimentalists who hope to thoroughly corrupt the American people in mind, heart, and body are very much still with us, and actually, always will be, which is what the culture gap is really all about, which again takes us back to Brownson, as follows:
What is now wanted is, that the people, whose instincts are right, should understand the American constitution as it is, and so understand it as to render it impossible for political theorists, no matter of what school or party, to deceive them again as to its real import, or induce them to depart from it in their political action.
A work written with temper, without passion or sectional prejudice, in a philosophical spirit, explaining to the American people their own national constitution, and the mutual relations of the General government and the State governments, cannot, at this important crisis in our affairs, be inopportune, and, if properly executed, can hardly fail to be of real service.
The author is not a monarchist, an aristocrat, a democrat, a feudalist, nor an advocate of what are called mixed governments like the English, at least for his own country; but is simply an American, devoted to the real, living, and energizing constitution of the American republic as it is, not as some may fancy it might be, or are striving to make it.
He does this because he believes, whether rightly or not, that while the American people have received from Providence a most truly profound and admirable system of government, they are more or less infected with the false theories of government which have been broached during the last two centuries.
In attempting to realize these theories, they have already provoked or rendered practicable a rebellion which has seriously threatened the national existence, and come very near putting an end to the American order of civilization itself.
These theories have received already a shock in the minds of all serious and thinking men; but the men who think are in every nation a small minority, and it is necessary to give these theories a public refutation, and bring back those who do not think, as well as those who do, from the world of dreams to the world of reality.
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And here we are today, and once again, the thanks of a grateful nation must go out to our own Chas Cornweller for bringing this subject of the culture gap in America today to our attention so this discussion could take place in the same spirit that Oreste Brownson wrote his political essay in 1866 – to bring back those who do not think from the world of dreams to the world of reality.
And thank you as well to the Cape Charles Mirror for providing a venue where that can happen.
And here I would like to take a moment to thank our dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller @ November 29, 2018 at 11:55 am for having the courage to put before us modern American political myths to be debunked, as follows:
Equating Democrats of the past with Democrats and their party platform today is like comparing horse drawn carriages to Corvettes and Chargers.
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To probe that statement for truthfulness (no, I do not think Chas Cornweller intentionally lies to us; rather, he provokes us to have to think), we need to take a good look at who the Democrats of today are, and what better place to start than a Washington Post article entitled “Judge orders Justice, State departments to reopen narrow inquiry into handling of Clinton email records lawsuit” by Spencer Hsu on 7 December 2018, where we learn about the modern-day Democrats as follows:
A U.S. judge ordered the Justice and State departments Thursday to reopen an inquiry into whether Hillary Clinton used a private email server while secretary of state to deliberately evade public records laws and to answer whether the agencies acted in bad faith by not telling a court for months that they had asked in mid-2014 for missing emails to be returned.
The order risks reopening partisan wounds that have barely healed since Clinton’s unsuccessful 2016 presidential bid, but in issuing the order Thursday, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth said the spirit of the Freedom of Information Act required it.
In a narrow but sharply worded 10-page opinion, Lamberth wrote that despite the government’s claimed presumption of transparency, “faced with one of the gravest modern offenses to government openness, [the Obama administration’s] State and Justice departments fell far short” of the law’s requirements in a lawsuit for documents.
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Now, really, people, is that contempt for us and our laws by the modern-day Democrats any different from the contempt for us and our laws that have been the hallmark of the Democrats since there have been Democrats in this country?
Getting back to the Washington Post, we have:
Lamberth wrote he took no pleasure in “questioning the intentions of the nation’s most august” Cabinet departments but said it was necessary when their response “smacks of outrageous misconduct.”
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And again, people, is this truly anything new, as our dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller would have us believe?
Is this really the first time in the history of the Democrat party in this country that their actions smack of outrageous misconduct?
Or is it bidness as usual for the Democrats to engage in outrageous misconduct?
Going back to the Washington Post article, we have:
Conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch filed its FOIA lawsuit in July 2014 seeking State Department talking points issued after the September 2012 attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that left a U.S. ambassador dead.
The suit came months before news broke in March 2015 that Clinton exclusively used a private email account as secretary from 2009 to 2013.
Between July 2014 and March 2015, the State Department said in court filings that its document searches were adequate and did not mention unsearched records as it proposed to settle the case.
The agencies later acknowledged that additional searches would be needed, without disclosing that it had received 30,000 emails returned by Clinton.
At best, Lamberth said the government’s actions reflect “negligence born of incompetence,” adding, “At worst, career employees in the State and Justice departments colluded to scuttle public scrutiny of Clinton, skirt FOIA, and hoodwink this court.”
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Ah, yes, people, “negligence born of incompetence!”
Is that a new trait for the Democrats, does anyone think?
And what about career employees in the State and Justice departments colluding to scuttle public scrutiny of Clinton, skirt FOIA, and hoodwink the court?
Does our dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller honestly expect us to believe that this is the first time the Democrats have ever done that – collude to skirt the law and hoodwink the courts?
So, to conclude, is equating Democrats of the past with Democrats and their party platform today like comparing horse drawn carriages to Corvettes and Chargers?
Or are they really the same as they always have been?
A question for our times today if there ever was one!
This thread on the serious culture gap now existing and widening in America began on October 28, 2018 by stating that in a thought-provoking post in a recent edition of the venerable Cape Charles Mirror, which is everything the failing Washington Post wishes it could be but isn’t, our fellow American patriot and Cape Charles Mirror regular Chas Cornweller did what he does so well, which in this case was to focus our attention on what is called the “culture gap” here in America, and he mused, as I read his piece, anyway, as to whether that gap could be closed, or whether we were past the tipping point, which it seems to me, an older American, we are.
A little over two months later, with respect to that widening of the cultural gap, we read in an Associated Press entitled “Pelosi sees ‘new dawn’ as diverse 116th Congress begins” by LISA MASCARO, AP Congressional Correspondent, on 3 January 2019, as follows:
It’s a time of stark national political division that some analysts say is on par with the Civil War era.
Battle lines are drawn not just between Democrats and Republicans but within the parties themselves, splintered by their left and right flanks.
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Now, people, that is not me saying that – it is the main -stream media, and everybody in America knows that if it is said in the main-stream media, especially the Washington Post, it has to be true, or else they could not print it.
So there we have it, people, what Democrat Tribal Chieftain Nancy is calling a “NEW DAWN” in America is really a return to the 1850s in America.
Her Democrat “NEW DAWN” is a time of stark national political division that some analysts say is on par with the Civil War era, and that is really saying something, people, although truly, you would have to be comatose or brain-dead to be unaware of the serious divisions in this nation which have been created over these last ten years or so in this country, which takes us back to this sentence in that Associated Press article as follows:
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., opened the House prayer asking at “a time fraught with tribalism at home and turbulence abroad” that lawmakers “become the architects of a kindlier nation.”
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A time in America fraught with tribalism at home, this as we read about a Muslim Somali-American Democrat Congressperson having the former House of Representatives prohibition of the wearing of headgear on the House floor so that she can wear a head scarf when Congress is in session, and we also hear a Palestinian-American Democrat named Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), calling the president of the United States of America a “motherf—–,” which is also a term I hear Democrats up here where I am using when they address their children as “hey, you little motherf—–, I’m talking to you,”
So there is the rampant tribalism of Nancy Pelosi’s Democrat “NEW DAWN” for America staring us right in the face there, people!
As to “tribalism” as it is epitomized by the Democrats, it is defined as “tribal consciousness and loyalty especially : exaltation of the tribe above other groups,” i.e., exaltation of the Democrat tribe of Nancy Pelosi above all other groups of people in the United States of America, and especially white men, and “strong in-group loyalty,” which is to say that it is tribalism which is the glue which holds the Democrats of Nancy Pelosi’s “NEW DAWN” together today.
The Democrats against the world all over again, just as was the case back in the Civil War days when they en mass rejected our Republican frame of government in this country and rebelled and seceded so they could continue to hold black people in bondage as slaves.
So does anyone think the culture gap is going to end any time soon?
Will the rabid, foul-mouthed, insurrectionist Democrats forsake their tribalism, and climb down from their high horses to join with the rest of the people of America who are not in their tribe, and don’t want anything to do with it, as fellow citizens?
Or are they going to do as they did before and push the nation into a full-scale civil war?
They did it once, people, so never doubt their ability and propensity to do it again!
HEAR! HEAR!!
Slide, dude, what it is, and the best of the new year to you.
And these are truly some incredible times we are entering into here in 2019, with Nancy Pelosi and her pack of Democrats seeking to impose a tyranny on the people of America through their control of the United States House of Representatives.
Their new slogan and soundbite is “With hate in their hearts, the Democrat usher in a NEW DAWN in America,” and an age of abject ignorance it will be as was proven to us just the other day by Palestinian-American Democrat named Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), calling the president of the United States of America a “motherf—–.”
And there is the ultimate weakness of democracy as a stable form of government, which it is not – ultimately, and this happened in Rome long ago, the most ignorant members of society, as embodied by people like Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) gain political power that they know nothing about using on behalf of all the nation, as opposed in the case of Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) to their own little tribal segment of society which we read about in the Washington Post article “Rep. Rashida Tlaib profanely promised to impeach Trump. She’s not sorry.” by Amy Wang on 4 January 2019 as follows:
At a reception Thursday night for the progressive group MoveOn.org, Tlaib vowed that the new Democrat-controlled House would be focusing on ousting President Trump from office.
“And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t,’ because we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherf—–.”
The crowd inside the State Room bar, near the Capitol, had responded to Tlaib’s remarks with applause, cheers and shouts of approval, according to a widely shared video taken by immigration activist Nestor Ruiz.
Several of Tlaib’s new Democratic colleagues, called upon to respond to the comments, cautioned against talking about impeachment before there was evidence to support it.
“Well, passions are running high.”
“Let’s just leave it at that, okay?” Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) said on CNN, before echoing Pelosi in saying they needed to wait for Mueller to finish his investigation.
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) was careful to emphasize Tlaib was but one member of a large caucus.
“The House of Representatives is representative of the people of the United States of America.”
“[Tlaib] represents a group of people that have strong feelings.”
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Actually, Tlaib represents a group of emotionally distraught, immature people who hate the fact that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but is not their president, as they wanted things to be, and they hate Trump because he won, and they will do anything to get Trump out of office, even if it means so perverting and distorting our laws and Constitutional history that it will no longer be recognizable, which is the goal of the Democrat NEW DAWN for America.
Start history anew in 2019 with the ascension of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House, and jettison everything that came before.
Speaking of Nancy Pelosi, who may well be senile, which, by the way, is not a disqualification to serve in the United States House of Representatives, nor is being totally ignorant of reality, or being totally lost in space, in an Associated Press article entitled “Pelosi sees ‘new dawn’ as diverse 116th Congress begins” by LISA MASCARO, AP Congressional Correspondent, on 3 January 2019 germane to this discussion of this widening cultural gap in this country that has the Democrat tribe of tribal chieftain Nancy Pelosi treating all citizens of America who are not in her tribe as their tribal enemies, people like you and I, Slide, we read as follows:
WASHINGTON — The 116th Congress gaveled into session Thursday, swathed in history as lawmakers returned Nancy Pelosi to the House speaker’s office and ushered in a diverse class of Democratic freshmen ready to confront President Donald Trump in a new era of divided government.
Pelosi, elected speaker 220-192, took the gavel saying voters opted for a “new dawn” in the November election and are looking to “the beauty of our Constitution” to provide checks and balances on power.
“This House will be for the people,” Pelosi said.
She promised to “restore integrity to government” and outlined an agenda “to lower health costs and prescription drugs prices, and protect people with pre-existing conditions; to increase paychecks by rebuilding America with green and modern infrastructure — from sea to shining sea.”
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Now, Slide, you would have to be a complete clueless moron to believe that Nancy Pelosi is going to “restore integrity to government,” first off because she has none herself, unless you count “integrity” as assiduously using her position as speaker of the house to like her campaign warchest, and secondly, because that is not the duty of the Speaker of the House, and nancy Pelosi doesn’t get to make that up as she goes, which is her propensity, as if everyone in this nation were a witless fool like those who believe a single word she says, about anything.
Afterall, this is the exact same Nancy Pelosi who we were reading about in a Tribune Washington Bureau article entitled “Embattled Pelosi’s big survival weapon: money” by Anshu Siripurapu on 6/22/2017, as follows:
WASHINGTON — Here’s a huge reason Nancy Pelosi maintains her iron grip on House Democrats, even after another bruising — and in many party circles embarrassing — election loss: her ability to raise lots and lots of money.
The House Democratic leader has few current peers when it comes to pumping money into colleagues’ campaigns.
No other potential up-and-coming Democratic challenger to her leadership comes close.
Since 1990, she’s raised more than $9.2 million for party candidates, including $739,000 in the 2016 election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks contributions from candidate committees and affiliated PACs.
Pelosi’s office claims even loftier triumphs, saying she’s raised more than $500 million for Democrats since entering the party leadership in the early 2000s, including $141.5 million in the 2015-2016 cycle.
The totals, her office says, include money raised for the party not directly controlled by her committees.
Big donors to the party’s congressional campaign committee were also available to Pelosi through her “Speaker’s Cabinet” program, which gave them special access to the Democratic leader.
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And we are supposed to be stupid and brain-dead enough to believe Nancy Pelosi today when she says “This House will be for the people.”
Yeah, right, Nancy as long as the “people” have the geetus to pay the freight to get access to your office!
Money talks, **** walks!
As to the position of Speaker of the House that Democrat tribal chieftain Nancy Pelosi now again holds, because she had the money to buy that position with, which is itself a gross perversion of our Constitutional Republican frame of government, Clause 5, Speaker and other officers, of Article 1 of the United States Constitution which establishes the legislative branch of the federal government, the United States Congress as a bicameral legislature consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, provides as follows:
The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
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Now, today, we are being fed a large dose of unadulterated horse**** by Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats that the Office of Speaker of the House has to be filled by a Democrat, because that tribe has more members in Congress than any other tribe, but that is not true.
According to our true history, which is being ****-canned as a part of the Democrat NEW DAWN, the Speaker is the parliamentary leader of the House of Representatives, and is simultaneously the House’s presiding officer, and the institution’s administrative head.
More importantly, the Constitution does not require the Speaker to be an elected member of the House of Representatives, so it sure as hell does not require a Democrat to be Speaker of the House just because the Democrats in their unreasoned passion want it to be that way.
The House of Representatives elects the Speaker of the House on the first day of every new Congress and the Clerk of the House of Representatives is supposed to request nominations, although I don’t think that happen ed this time around.
In any event, in choosing a new Speaker of the House, Representatives are not restricted to voting for one of the nominated candidates and may vote for any person, even for someone who is not a member of the House at all, and a few individuals have cast protest votes for non-members since 1997.
As to the political power of the Office of Speaker of the House, which Nancy Pelosi makes good coin off of, selling access to the highest bidders, a review of the history of that office tells us that the speakership reached its apogee of power during the term of Republican Joseph Gurney Cannon (1903–1911).
Cannon exercised extraordinary control over the legislative process. just as Nancy Pelosi is again trying to do today.
Cannon determined the agenda of the House, appointed the members of all committees, chose committee chairmen, headed the Rules Committee, and determined which committee heard each bill.
He vigorously used his powers to ensure that Republican proposals were passed by the House.
In 1910, however, Democrats and several dissatisfied Republicans joined together to strip Cannon of many of his powers, including the ability to name committee members and his chairmanship of the Rules Committee.
And now, in 2019, the Democrats are giving those powers plus some extras, like being able to indict Trump, to Nancy Pelosi.
See the new boss, looks like the old boss to me, and the Democrat NEW DAWN looks to me to be the twilight of civilized society in the United States of America as we once knew it.
And here I need to make a necessary correction to my post above where I referred to the foul-mouthed, ignorant Palestinian-American Congressperson Rashida Tlaib, who called the president of the United States of America a “motherf—–,” as a Democrat.
That is incorrect, as my further research into exactly who the foul-mouthed, ignorant Palestinian-American Congressperson Rashida Tlaib, who called the president of the United States of America a “motherf—–” actually is, besides someone with hate in her heart and scant brains in her head.
According to her bio, she is actually a member of the a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and was a strong, early supporter of the movement to abolish the Immigration Customs Enforcement agency.
And reading the op-ed she posted in the Detroit Free Press on 3 January 2019 entitled “Now is the time to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump,” where she claimed that “President Donald Trump is a direct and serious threat to our country,” and “(O)n an almost daily basis, he attacks our Constitution, our democracy, the rule of law and the people who are in this country,” and “(H)is conduct has created a constitutional crisis that we must confront now,” accusing him therein of violating the emoluments clause of our Constitution, it is quite apparent that her knowledge of America and our history and our Constitution is quite thin, to the point of being non-existent.
For those unfamiliar with the emoluments clause, a BRITANNICA.com entitled “What Is the Emoluments Clause?” written by Brian Duignan provides as follows:
The emoluments clause, also called the foreign emoluments clause, is a provision of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 8) that generally prohibits federal officeholders from receiving any gift, payment, or other thing of value from a foreign state or its rulers, officers, or representatives.
The clause provides that: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
The plain purpose of the foreign emoluments clause was to ensure that the country’s leaders would not be improperly influenced, even unconsciously, through gift giving, then a common and generally corrupt practice among European rulers and diplomats.
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How exactly Trump is supposed to have violated that clause is left unsaid, probably because in her abject ignorance the Democratic Socialist Congressperson Rashida Tlaib, who called the president of the United States of America a “motherf—–,” doesn’t have a clue.
She probably figures that since nobody in America is likely to even know what the emoluments clause is, or care, that that is as good a charge to hurl at Trump as is anything, and so she did, along with the kitchen sink, even going so far as to accuse Trump of “conspiring to illegally influence the 2016 election through a series of hush money payments.”
As to the emoluments clause, let’s go back a bit in time to 2013 to an ARABIAN BUSINESS article entitled “Saudi gives lavish gifts to Clinton, Obama – Kingdom gave most expensive gifts to former secretary of state, President in 2012, registry reveals” on 01 Sep 2013, where we learn as follows, to wit:
Gold jewellery worth $500,000 from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah helped see former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton receive more lavish gifts from foreign leaders than US President Barack Obama in 2012, a new list from the State Department shows.
The King’s present included a necklace, bracelet, ring and earrings made of white gold and adorned with teardrop rubies and diamonds, the department said.
Saudi Arabia also accounted for Obama’s most expensive gift, a $16,500 gold-plated clock from Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, the Saudi defence minister.
Other standout gifts included gold, sapphire and diamond jewellery worth $58,000 given to Clinton from Brunei’s queen.
She also received a cashmere scarf by J Saunders worth $480 from UK’s first lady Samantha Cameron and $560 worth of cognac from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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HUH?
Wait a minute – scroll back there a moment – Putin of Russia gave Hillary Clinton $560 worth of cognac in 2012?
WTF, people?
What on earth is up with that?
I thought Putin hated Hillary’s guts, so that he put the full and massive power of Russia behind defeating Hillary so the he could have his pet lackey Trump on the throne, instead.
So if he really hated Hillary, why didn’t he just give her the finger instead of giving her $560 worth of cognac?
Was he looking for Hillary to do him some kind of favor?
Or was it a pay-off for services already rendered?
And pray tell, Democratic Socialist Rashida Tlaib, how is that not a violation of the emoluments clause?
The candid world would truly like to know.
And with this revelation in an ARABIAN BUSINESS article entitled “Saudi gives lavish gifts to Clinton, Obama – Kingdom gave most expensive gifts to former secretary of state, President in 2012, registry reveals” on 01 Sep 2013 that gold jewellery worth $500,000 from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah helped see former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton receive more lavish gifts from foreign leaders than US President Barack Obama in 2012, that at the same time we are reading in an article in the British publication The Guardian entitled “Saudi woman fleeing family temporarily admitted to Thailand – Reprieve for Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, who wants to claim asylum in Australia” by Jamie Fullerton in Kuala Lumpur and Helen Davidson on 7 Jan 2019 about how an 18-year-old Saudi woman seeking passage to asylum in Australia after fleeing her family in Saudi Arabia and renouncing Islam will be temporarily admitted to Thailand after barricading herself inside a transit zone hotel room in Bangkok airport to prevent immigration officials putting her on a flight to Kuwait after she was denied entry to Thailand while en route to Australia, out of a real fear that she would be killed if she was returned to Saudi Arabia, here we come to the heart of this thread on the widening culture gap here in the United States of America where real American values are on the line in the face of an assault on our American values by such Democratic Socialists of America as the foul-mouthed, ignorant Palestinian-American Muslim Congressperson Rashida Tlaib, who recently called the president of the United States of America a “motherf—–” in front of a group of people including her own children.
In the Washington Post article “Rep. Rashida Tlaib profanely promised to impeach Trump. She’s not sorry.” by Amy Wang on 4 January 2019, the foul-mouthed, ignorant Palestinian-American Muslim Democratic Socialist Congressperson Rashida Tlaib, who recently called the president of the United States of America a “motherf—–” in front of a group of people including her own children, was quoted as follows, to wit:
“Don’t you ever, ever, let anybody take away your roots, your culture, who you are.”
“Ever,” Tlaib told the crowd in the packed space.
“Because when you [hang onto those things], people love you and you win.”
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Well, as a non-hyphenated American citizen, that is exactly what I am doing in here – I am not going to let the the foul-mouthed, ignorant Palestinian-American Muslim Democratic Socialist Congressperson Rashida Tlaib, who recently called the president of the United States of America a “motherf—–” in front of a group of people including her own children, take away my roots as a natural born American citizen, along with my culture, and who I am.
I refuse to have her Palestinean Muslim values forced on me, plain and simple.
As we see from the Guardian article above here, the religion of the foul-mouthed, ignorant Palestinian-American Muslim Democratic Socialist Congressperson Rashida Tlaib is quite oppressive with respect to women’s human rights, to wit:
Her case has brought international attention to the obstacles women face in Saudi Arabia.
It also comes as the kingdom faces intense scrutiny over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which has renewed criticism of its human rights record.
Qunun, who has a three-month tourist visa for Australia, said in a video posted on social media from inside the airport that she was trying to escape from her family because they subjected her to physical and psychological abuse.
“I am seeking asylum,” said Qunun, who fled Kuwait while her family was visiting the Gulf country.
“My family is strict and locked me in a room for six months just for cutting my hair,” she said, adding that she was certain she would be imprisoned if sent back.
“I’m sure, 100%, they will kill me as soon as I get out of the Saudi jail,” she said.
A 20-year-old friend of Qunun, whom the Guardian has chosen not to name and who recently moved from Saudi Arabia to Australia, said the threats to her were real.
“She’s ex-Muslim and has a very strict family.”
“They’re using violence with her and she faced sexual harassment,” she said.
“She received a threat from her cousin – he said he wants to see her blood, he wants to kill her.”
“If they didn’t kill her they couldn’t go [around in] public after this [Qunun renouncing the Muslim faith], so they have to do it,” the friend said.
“It’s like: If you’re a man you should prove it.”
“If they don’t kill her they can’t go outside and see other men.”
Phil Robertson, Human Rights Watch’s Asia deputy director, said there was no doubt Qunun needed refugee protection.
“She’s desperately fearful of her family, including her father who is a senior government official, and given Saudi Arabia’s long track record of looking the other way in so-called honour violence incidents, her worry that she could be killed if returned cannot be discounted,” Robertson told the Guardian.
Saudi culture and guardianship policy requires women to have permission from a male relative to work, travel, marry, and even get some medical treatment.
Her plight mirrors that of other Saudi women who in recent years have turned to social media to amplify their calls for help while trying to flee abusive families.
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Honor killings, people!
That is what Hillary Clinton, the pure-as-the-driven-snow Queen of the Democrats in this country, turned her back on when she took that gold jewellery worth $500,000 from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah back in 2012 when she was Hussein Obama’s secretary of state.
Hillary the HYPOCRITE – the champion of women’s human rights across the world!
And as we see from the juxtaposition of these two stories, what a full crock of crap that all is.
The only thing Hillary Clinton is a champion of is Hillary Clinton’s pocket – what is in it for Hillary!
When she was secretary of state, Hillary Clinton could have stood up for the human rights of women in repressive Saudi Arabia, but she chose to take gold jewellery worth $500,000 from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah and keep her fat, running mouth shut instead.
And why is my voice the only one being raised in outage here?
Where is Nancy Pelosi?
Surely, Nancy cannot be ignorant of what is going on with the young Saudi woman in fear of her life trying to escape the repression of women in her country that no real American in this country would tolerate.
So why her silence?
Why is she not screaming injustice at the top of her lungs?
Is it because she does not want to cross the Muslim women in her caucus by speaking out in public about their repressive, foreign religion?
And let me say here that yes. I have bothered to read the Koran word for word from beginning to end, and I have also engaged in an extensive study of Islam, to include the Shia and the Sunnis, in an effort to understand why they spend so much time killing each other, and yes, I do find it quite foreign to my values as an American citizen, even though today it is quite politically incorrect i this country to actually say that in public.
Instead, we are supposed to keep silence like the hypocrite Hillary Clinton while young Muslim women like the one in the Guardian article live in virtual fear of their lives, to which I say, like hell.
As to honor killings, which dear Hillary, the women’s human rights champion stays silent about, preferring the gold jewelry, instead, Wikipedia provides as follows:
An honor killing or shame killing is the murder of a member of a family, due to the perpetrators’ belief that the victim has brought shame or dishonor upon the family, or has violated the principles of a community or a religion, usually for reasons such as divorcing or separating from their spouse, refusing to enter an arranged marriage, being in a relationship that is disapproved by their family, having sex outside marriage, becoming the victim of rape, dressing in ways which are deemed inappropriate, engaging in non-heterosexual relations or renouncing a faith.
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In 2008, a woman was killed in Saudi Arabia by her father for “chatting” with a man on Facebook.
The killing became public only when a Saudi cleric referred to the case, to criticize Facebook for the strife it caused.
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So yes, people, a culture gap!
Which side are you going to be on?