Hey, Jeff Sessions! Over Here!
I want to say something. As someone who is eligible for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution …
… please tell the Daughters of the Confederacy that they can kiss my butt.
Bitches, don’t talk to me about patriotism.
So then I see that Jeff Sessions wants to know about me and you being in the Resistance. He wants to intimidate us into following blindly after Trump.
Sessions, come on over here, you little sawed off, quivering, lily livered, pathetic excuse for a man and I will tell you a great deal about what I am doing.
Look. Here’s the deal: if we are knocking down confederate monuments, why is Jeff Sessions still standing? That’s all the man is – a Confederate monument.
(I told y’all I need some rest. Oh dear Lord, I’m having a fit.)
“And the winner by knock out at fifteen seconds of the first round is the defending champion…!”
1As someone who can trace his roots back 300 years, I am ready to take my country back from the Johnny Rebs come lately that think they can come in and decide that this is a whites only country. They are traitors and criminals. Aren’t we supposed to be deporting them?
2Afternoon JJ. Please breathe regular. We need you for the long haul. Has anybody seen what the justification was for the search warrant to begin with?
3The silver lining…
Trump as POTUS has seen a definite uptick of working across the aisles in congress.
The Charlottesville riot has caused many waffling about the monuments to act now on taking them down–like Baltimore.
In many ways, these awful ideological agendas are just the poke needed to unite people that haven’t been able to work together or efficiently in a long while. Learning about how most of these monuments were made specifically not to honor history, but promote a reprehensible message, I’m all for moving them–not necessarily destroying them, but moving to the confederate graveyards or museums seems reasonable.
4Priorities.
5Racist, dictatorial priorities.
S’ OK, JJ–it’s quite a reasonable fit.
I’d be eligible for both the DAR and the Daughters of the Confederacy, if we could just clear up that bit about when my great-grandmother married my great-grandfather: she already had the family name, since she had married his brother, first; but her second marriage is on slightly shaky ground. I don’t really care enough to do the research.
Jeff Sessions is engaged in massive over-reach, invasion of privacy, and unConstitutionality, and should have to defend it in court, which I can’t imagine that he could.
Good for cities like Baltimore, which wasn’t in the Confederacy, no matter what its state song says. Take the statues down.
I’m of two minds about Confederate statues, though. I don’t think they should be in public parks, particularly in Border States: I’d like to see those moved to museums, graveyards, battlegrounds where the subject of the statue fought, or maybe their hometowns. Confederate monuments of the sort found in lots of Southern towns, which list the soldiers who lived there and died fighting in the war, I have no problem with, and hope they’re left alone. Honoring the Confederate dead is fine with me; honoring Confederate “heroes,” not so much–particularly those whose statues were erected in the 20th Century, as symbols of the oppression of black people.
6I know just where this is going – to SCOTUS – and won’t they be just pleased as punch. Hell, they don’t have enough to do. When they are “over papered” they tend to issue testy judgements. This would provoke the testiest yet!!!
7Here’s what irks me about those Confederate “memorials”. I now live less than 1/4 mile from the W&OD bike trail in Fairfax County VA. Along the way there are displays explaining the history of the trail — once was a rail line now a trail. I get more information about this trail than I ever got about the history of the Civil War from one of those “memorials”. They are one-view propaganda, plain and simple. Take ’em down, melt ’em down.
8Well said! My family goes way way back, too. Part of my history on my dad’s side was owning a plantation in Virginia that did have slaves. Part of my personal history is raising a fabulous black son, now a college professor and business owner. Life.
9Hey, does DOJ have the names of everyone who visits neo nazi, kkk and white supremacist web sites? Do we have their names and addresses?
10I am pretty sure I could join the DAR, I know I could join the UDC. There is no way in hell, I would do either.
My focus is Planned Parenthood, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU.
11Baltimore’s four Confederate monuments were taken down overnight, including the one to “Dred Scott” Taney, and the Taney statue on the State House grounds in Annapolis will be taken out by a 3-1 vote of the Maryland State House Trust.
Maryland was technically a northern state, but still had plenty of slaves (including Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman), and Lincoln had to be hustled through Baltimore at night before his inauguration because of plots to kill him while he was changing trains.
Meanwhile… “In the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall Collection [two per state] there are three times as many statues of Confederate soldiers and politicians as there are statues of black people in the entire Capitol complex, according to records maintained by the Architect of the Capitol.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/16/the-u-s-capitol-has-at-least-three-times-as-many-statues-of-confederate-figures-as-it-does-of-black-people/
12I too have documentation to prove I am entitled to be in DAR, but I have no desire to be part of such a bigoted organization. So when they come to kiss your butt, send them my way too.
13I went for an overnight visit to a friend’s house.
14I did not bring my tablet so I was news less for a day and a half.
I found myself reaching for my phone.
But I did not.
I slept well.
Bonus points for the “Why is Jeff Sessions still standing?” zinger. Love it.
15First they wanted our voter information and now they want lists of Americans protesting Trump and fascism. Next come the gold stars and concentration camps. No wonder Trump/Spence stand up for the nazis.
16My family didn’t emigrate here until I think the 1880’s. By that time the whole mishegas was over. I’m glad that I have no familial ties with it.
17Daughters of the Confederacy, tracing their ancestry for 156 years.
Daughters of the Revolution, tracing their ancestry for 241 years.
Society of Mayflower Descendants, tracing their ancestry for 397 years.
As my Inupiak friends would say, “Let us know when you get to 5000.”
18You are way to soft on Mr. sessions. I have some very descriptive pronouns you can borrow.
19slipstream –
LOL – that really puts it in perspective.
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