JUST ANOTHER DEMOCRAT RUN SHITHOLE

 

Now, it all makes sense

 

See, a genius can't fathom that political party loyalty isn't automatic or all encompassing.

Cause it doesn't fit the agenda

 

And this from a trumptard

 

Camp follower shows her stupid.

 

Attaboy

 

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Washington Examiner Presents

Weaponizing the law is nothing new for Democrats
By Elizabeth Stauffer
September 19, 2023 06:00 AM


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In the third volume of his widely acclaimed series The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate, historian Robert Caro chronicled former President Lyndon B. Johnson ’s rapid rise to power in the U.S. Senate during the 1950s. Since no history of Johnson would be complete without a thorough account of the civil rights movement and the Southern Democrats' extraordinary efforts to suppress it, Caro examines those events in painstaking detail.

What emerges is a striking pattern of similarities between the Democrats’ treatment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and members of the movement he founded and the tactics Democrats are using today against former President Donald Trump and members of his MAGA movement.

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Caro focuses on the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott that began in late 1955 and ended with a stunning Supreme Court victory for King’s then-nascent movement in November 1956.

In a unanimous May 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. This ruling spawned the rise of the White Citizens’ Council, a network of white supremacist groups that vehemently opposed the integration of students in public schools.

Caro noted that bus boycotts had been tried many times in southern cities and had always ended in defeat. Democrats naturally assumed this one would fail as well. But times were changing. Coming on the heels of the Emmett Till lynching in August 1955, the national press was starting to pay attention to the despicable treatment of blacks in the South.

Shortly after the boycott began, Montgomery Mayor William Armistead "Tacky" Gayle, Jr., a Democrat, organized a WCC rally in the city’s coliseum. Over 10,000 people showed up to hear Michigan Democratic Sen. James O. Eastland speak at “the largest pro-segregation rally in history.”

According to Caro, Eastland told the group: “In every stage of the bus boycott, we have been oppressed and degraded because of black, slimy, juicy, incredibly stinking n******. African flesh-eaters. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to abolish the Negro race, proper methods should be used. Among these are guns, bows and arrows, slingshots and knives. All whites are created equal with certain rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of dead n******.”

(It should be noted that then-presidential candidate Joe Biden bragged about working with Eastland and other Democratic segregationists in a June 2019 campaign speech.)

It was not unusual to hear vile statements like this from Southern Democrats at that time. Eastman’s disgusting words were representative of the sentiments that many politicians felt were not only perfectly justified but worth fighting for.

Democrats also weaponized the law against King and his followers, just as Democrats in Washington today are weaponizing government agencies against Trump. They urged businessmen to fire black employees who participated in the boycott. Police arrested participants for “loitering” as they waited in carpool parking lots for rides to work. They issued so many traffic tickets to carpool drivers that “the drivers faced the loss of their licenses and insurance.”

Moreover, an all-white grand jury prepared 115 indictments under an obscure anti-boycott ordinance. Before serving the indictments, city officials tried to intimidate one of the boycott’s leaders, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, into giving up the fight. When he rightly refused, the indictments were served.

Caro writes that city officials requested (and received) an “injunction banning the carpool as an unlicensed transportation system.”

King’s enemies even targeted his home during this period. His house was bombed twice, once while his wife and baby were inside. On another occasion, shots were fired at the home.

King was arrested by local law enforcement on bogus charges several times during the boycott. But these arrests, and the mugshots that followed, only served to lift King and the movement he led to national attention. Although it didn’t happen overnight, it was the exposure of the Democrats’ cruel and inhumane treatment of southern blacks that ultimately led to the passage of meaningful civil rights legislation the following decade.

Except for the bombing of King’s home, all of these tactics sound hauntingly familiar to those currently being employed against Trump. Democrats today are convinced that the weaponization of the law against a political opponent and his allies is a reasonable, and even justified, strategy.

But they may have miscalculated. Perhaps if they’d stopped at one indictment, or even two, their plan may have succeeded. But now there are four. And, intoxicated by the thrill of humiliating Trump even further, they opted to take and release a mug shot following his arrest in Fulton County, Georgia. Similar to the release of King’s iconic mugshot from the Birmingham, Alabama, jail, this move instantly catapulted Trump to “legend” status.

Caro described Montgomery as a battlefield in the fight for civil rights. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, Washington, D.C., has become a battlefield in the fight for America’s very soul.

The Democrats’ pressure campaign to stop King and his fight for civil rights so many years ago was just as strong as their determination to stop Trump and his MAGA movement is today. But their sledgehammer approach didn't end well for them in the 1950s, and it likely won’t end well for them now.

Trump may very well lose the election. But the movement he began will not end.

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Elizabeth Stauffer is a contributor to the Washington Examiner, Power Line, and AFNN and a fellow at the Heritage Foundation Academy. She is a past contributor to RedState, Newsmax, the Western Journal, and Bongino.com . Her articles have appeared on RealClearPolitics, MSN, the Federalist, and many other sites. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn .

 

Cartoon lampooning New Jersey governor's school agenda draws 'ecstatic' response: Republican county chair
'No Family is Safe from Phil Murphy's Sex Ed Mandates!' a recent political cartoon read.

EXCLUSIVE - A political cartoon targeted at Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy's education agenda has piqued the interest of concerned parents across the state.

The cartoon, commissioned by the Sussex County Republican Committee, depicts Murphy tearing a child away from his parents, while demon-looking aides poke him with needles and present him with a dress. The cartoon is captioned, "No Family is Safe from Phil Murphy's Sex Ed Mandates!" and comes on the heels of the state's controversial guidance that schools do not have to notify parents if students decide to change their gender identity. The Murphy administration said doing so would protect students from being "outed" to their parents.

Sussex County Republican Chairman Joe Labarbera said Thomas Nast, often referred to as "the father of political cartoons," was the inspiration for the cartoon. Nast famously drew satirical cartoons of Tammany Hall's William "Boss" Tweed to expose political corruption in New York City.


Labarbera said the response to the New Jersey artwork has been overwhelming.

"It's been ecstatic," he told FOX News Digital. "My phone has been blowing up nonstop. Emails have been blowing up nonstop. I would say I've had at least 140 to 150 between myself and staff of the Sussex Committee, at least 130 to 140 well-wishes… I've had multiple billboard vendors call me… saying, ‘We would like to do this billboard,’ and we have other party chairs saying, 'We're going to put up a billboard. We're going to do this too.'"

The image, he said, is set to be displayed on billboards "sporadically" throughout the state instead of just doing one billboard for a long period of time. The committee is also planning a social media push.

When three school districts in New Jersey - Manalapan-Englishtown, Marlboro and Middletown - adopted policies that went against state guidance, New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin filed lawsuits.

"‘Outing’ these students against their will poses serious mental health risks; threatens physical harm to students, including risking increased suicides; decreases the likelihood students will seek support; and shirks the District’s obligation to create a safe and supportive learning environment for all," the Marlboro lawsuit read. "Indeed, LGBTQ+ students in New Jersey and elsewhere have died by suicide after being outed."

Sussex County may be very conservative, Labarbera said, but he suggested the "old school, JFK Democrats" in the county have also been upset by the state's school guidelines.

"The line was crossed when they took away the parental rights," Labarbera said. "At this point, I believe that the argument has changed. Before, the argument was about what children are being taught in school. And is it appropriate to teach A, B and C to children in school at certain ages? Is it appropriate to expose kids to this kind of stuff? Is it a distraction? Is it protecting a particular group?… To me now, this is a dramatic revolution in affairs where the state is saying... 'You parents do not have a right.' If you take out the transgender issue, you replace it with any other issue. Parents don't have a right to sway their kids anymore."

Most importantly, the chairman said he hoped the cartoon would reach the state's large number of unaffiliated voters.

"They are largely agnostic politically, and they largely don't pay attention to what's going on at the local politics," he said. "So the point of the cartoon is to create strong enough image to where it gets their attention."

And that, Labarbera said, is just what Nast did in the 1860s and 1870s in his illustrations for Harper's Magazine.

"He used to make outlandish pictures of Boss Tweed, you know, piling up gold in the corner from orphanages, etc.," Labarbera said. "Yeah, I know he wasn't really piling up gold in the corner, but it created the embellishment. It created the artistic license to show something's wrong here. And that's what we're trying to make New Jerseyans understand, because I think most of them who are paying attention understand it already."

Labarbera expects education to play a "huge role" in New Jersey's next elections.

"It's going to play a huge role," he said. "I mean, look what happened in Virginia. Youngkin won in Virginia based on that. New Jersey is a state that has always given gravitas to education. This is a state that has always - used to be, previous towards the current political powers that be - the state used to lead the nation in education, lead the world in education."

He concluded by saying the Democrats are "marginalizing" the issue and that education will "turn the tide for the Republicans this time around."

Murphy's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Feds probing if Dem Sen Menendez or wife accepted gold bars worth hundreds of thousands from felon: report
Investigators are attempting to find out if the New Jersey senator or his wife took the gold bars in exchange for help.

Federal investigators are probing whether Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez or his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold bars from a felon in a trade for help, according to a report.

NBC News 4 reported Monday that the FBI and IRS criminal investigators are attempting to determine if Menendez or his wife had taken up to $400,000 worth of gold bars from Fred Daibes, a New Jersey developer and former bank chairman, or his associates in a swap for Menendez reaching out to the Justice Department to aid the "admitted felon" accused of banking crimes.

Daibes starred down federal bank fraud charges at the time of the alleged handoff that could have netted him up to a decade in prison, the report says.

Witnesses are currently testifying before a Manhattan federal grand jury weighing whether to bring corruption charges against Menendez, the publication reported.


Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez, D-N.J., arrives to meet with fellow Democrats at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, March 8, 2022.

 

Tuberville forces Schumer's hand in military nominee votes: 'He blinked'
Tuberville said Wednesday's victory forced Schumer's hand on stalled nominations
Published September 21, 2023 4:52pm EDT



Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., forced Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s hand Wednesday, resulting in floor votes for military nominations that had been stalled for months after the GOP senator prepared to issue a cloture vote.

Tuberville followed a Senate rule enabling a minority member to bring a cloture vote with 16 signatures. However, once Schumer, D-N.Y., received the petition on Wednesday, he changed course and opted to sidestep Tuberville, proceeding directly to the floor votes.

"And so he blinked — we forced his hand," Tuberville told Fox News Digital in an interview Thursday. "Now the American people can see they can do it, and hopefully he will continue to do it because I'm not changing my mind on the group at one time."

As such, the Senate confirmed Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and will continue voting on two more nominations Thursday. However, Democrats remain unwavering on teeing up votes one-by-one for each member.


From left: Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.; and President Biden. (Getty Images)

But Tuberville said his move showed people that Democrats could have voted on nominations one-by-one all along.

"It’s not the path the vast majority of senators on either side of the aisle want to go down, but Sen. Tuberville is forcing us to confront his obstruction head-on," Schumer said on the floor Wednesday.

The votes come as 300 nominees remained in limbo due to Tuberville’s six-month hold over the Pentagon’s abortion policy, which covers some expenses for military personnel seeking to terminate a pregnancy.

Tuberville recognizes the abortion policy may not ever change now that votes are rolling, but "they're going to hear a lot about it between now and November of next year," he said.

"We're getting ready to get into an election year, and we're going to be pushing that very hard," Tuberville said


Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley addresses the media during a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels on June 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Tuberville, a retired college football coach, said in an August statement that the hold, which began in February, has given him "more time to look more closely into the background of some these nominees," which has prompted "deep concerns."

At the time, Tuberville's office pointed to an op-ed by Col. Ben Jonsson — one of President Biden's nominees — published in the Air Force Times in July 2020 in which Jonsson lists examples of what he terms "white defensiveness" in the wake of George Floyd's death.

"Defensiveness is a predictable response by white people to any discussion of racial injustice. White colonels are no exception," Jonsson wrote.

Tuberville said his six-month blockade has "opened the eyes of a lot of people around here about what kind of generals and admirals we have."

"We have a lot of strong ones, very qualified, that have worked very hard and done a great job for the American people in our country," he said. "But there's some that just have moved up that don't do anything but push diversity, equity and inclusion."

Tuberville added, "Our military is not an equal opportunity employer, it is a military that is here to protect American citizens."