Not “Legitimate Political Discourse”

February 05, 2022 By: El Jefe Category: Insurrection, Sedition

Yesterday, even as Mike Pence FINALLY told the truth about Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, the RNC officially censured Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participating in the January 6th Committee that they claimed was “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse”.  Liz Cheney fired back with a Tweet:

TFG is cementing his grip on the RNC for 2024.  With weaklings like Pence finally finding their backbone, though, maybe it won’t be as easy as he thinks it is.

Minnesota State Police Arrest CNN Crew Live on National Televison

May 29, 2020 By: El Jefe Category: Alt-Right Racists

In one of the most remarkable scenes ever on live television, the Minnesota state police arrested a CNN television crew and the reporter as he was covering them closing off a street.  Oh, and did I mention that the reporter is black?  I’m sure it’s a coinkydink.

Do You Agree With This?

August 15, 2017 By: El Jefe Category: Fascism

Any reasonable educated American supports removing Confederate monuments that celebrate one of the darkest chapters in our history.  Only bigots support status quo because…you know, heritage; but in 2015, everything changed when the mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston by a white supremacists shook the nation, and the monuments started coming down.  The riots in Charlottesville Virginia this weekend that resulted in the deaths of one counter-protestor and two state troopers were propagated by the announcement of the removal of the statute of Robert E. Lee in a city park.  You know, that statue was really important to our “heritage” and it’s just natural to just start beating and running over people with cars if someone wants to take it down, right?  Of course.

The backlash of this weekend’s  violence has been swift and loud.  White supremacist demonstrators are being outed by activists and some fired by their employers for being racist assholes.  Trump has once again been humiliated for being, you know, a racist asshole.  Frustrated human rights advocates have taken matters into their own hands, and today toppled a confederate statue in Durham North Carolina:

Among some of my circle of friends, though they would like to see monuments like this gone from our city parks and streets, they disagree that they should be toppled by activists.  I’ll admit I’m torn and wonder what others might think about this issue.  Before you answer, look at these images:

The first image was taken in Berlin after it fell to the allies in WWII.  Today, Berlin has been scrubbed clean of all Nazi monuments and even doing the Nazi salute is illegal.  The second image is the famous photo of Saddam’s statue glorifying himself being destroyed after US troops entered Bagdad. I don’t think anyone would disagree with either of these actions.  Why would destruction of monuments that glorify the oppressors of millions of human beings be treated any differently?

It’s not an easy question, and I have to say there was a certain satisfaction in watching that stature being pulled over on its head today by ordinary Americans.  Do you agree?

Yes?  No?