I get that the White Walkers of the Tea Party are upset that their candidate, Chris McDaniel, did not win the run-off election in Mississippi. An election going the other way is always a disappointment to any partisan left, right or extreme right. This time, the salt in their pain of defeat seems to be that Thad Cochran shamelessly appealed to black folks to vote in what should have been (in the Teatard view) a white’s only conservative primary–because beyond the officially sanctioned token minorities (who are known, named and on teevee), all Republicans conservatives are always assumed to be white.
The race betrayal of Cochran must have NBF spinning in his grave. No wonder McDaniel and the Teatards are outraged and pumping up the rhetoric*:
“Let’s make it very clear today,” McDaniel said at July 5 “freedom rally.” “After what we saw the other night, which is clearly the most unethical election in the history of this state…and might…and might…very well be the most illegal election in the history of this state [emphasis added]. We will let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and for alike. The people of this state will do anything to preserve the torch of liberty. We will bear any burden, fight any foe, to make sure that corruption is finally rooted out of the election process in this state.”
This was a ballsy statement. After all we are talking about Mississippi, a place where violent intimidation of voters was born. It was the Mississippi Plan of 1874 that the South used to end Reconstruction and strip Afirican-Americans of their rights for almost another hundred years. White terrorists murdered around 300 citizens as part of the 1874 elections and another 150 as part of the 1876 election. This model of White Terrorism was then exported throughout the South by motivational speakers and guidebooks.
I somehow think the Mississippi elections of 1874 and 1876 were–without question–the most unethical elections in the long and sad history of that perennially always failing state…and quite likely, the most illegal elections in the history of any fucking State.
(For those who like to dig into original source material, this Senate testimony from 1877 as to denial of elective franchise in Mississippi during the elections of 1875 and 1876 might help to underscore the lie to the Teatardick worldview).
And yet, because Negroes were involved, I’m sure the “free” citizens of Teatardickistan will disagree and think me mad.
How about and open thread…
Cheers
*Apologies for the Buzzfeed link. Here is one to the GOS.
Baud
I wonder if he knew he was quoting Kennedy, and if so, why?
NotMax
Because appropriating the phraseology of the Democrat JFK goes over so well in MS.
Baud
“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is…corruption in the election process in this state.”
Dennis G.
@Baud: Well, I’m sure that they thought that bit of their word salad was clever, but then again they are idiots…
Karen in GA
Might be, but we’re not sure, because there’ve been so fucking many.
Still not as depressing as the other thread about the kiddie-pron prosecutors. Seriously, what kind of sick bastard do you have to be for “Let’s give the teenager an injection and then we’ll take pictures” to even occur to you?
Ugh. Here’s something a little happier,* for anyone interested: today’s open thread shameless blogwhore. Iggy remembers snow.
*Well, happier for Iggy, anyway.
Baud
“Fired up. Ready to…root corruption out of the election process in this state.”
Ruckus
What is it that conservatives and especially the teatards always think everyone else is doing the vial shit that they pull? IOW projection. Whenever they complain about anything I can safely assume that is exactly what they are doing. They are assholes and just don’t understand that everyone else is not one.
Guess having a shitty outlook on life comes from having one’s head up one’s ass.
Howard Beale IV
@Baud: Which is ironic, given that MS is right up there in the Top 5 of most corrupt states.
Baud
“My fellow Mississippians, ask not what your state can do for you, ask what you can do to root out corruption in this state.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Tweety blandly repeating the notion that “people” corporations can dictate how their employees use their earned benefits.
Zam
@Baud: Probably just something that was rattling around in his skull that he thought sounded clever and original. That or like many far right loons he probably attributes the quote to one of the mythical founding fathers.
shelley
Jeez, why’d he hold back on the rhetoric? In true Teaparty fashion he should have gone right to the ‘most illegal election in the country….in all of Creation!’
NotMax
Had to check to confirm memory but yes, all of Mississippi’s electors in the 1960 election cast votes in the electoral college for segregationist Harry Byrd in protest against JFK.
Howard Beale IV
In other news, Jesse Ventura’s defamation trial against the estate of Chris Kyle has gotten underway.
Karen in GA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Ugh. I haven’t watched him in years. My cardiovascular system is better for it.
Dennis G.
@Ruckus:
Well, that describes it as well as anything else I’ve ever seen…
David Koch
@Baud:
/fixed
chopper
Well yes, but this time a *white* guy got boned so it’s clearly the worst thing ever.
WereBear
I was myself unaware that a human being could be so self–unaware.
SiubhanDuinne
I think the protocol demands this formulation:
‘S only polite. And respectful.
NotMax
So when does McDaniel’s magnum opus, Profiles in Whining, come out?
Suffern ACE
I recommend that they show that Thad cochrane who is boss and stay away from the polls in November.
Ruckus
@Dennis G.:
Not sure if it’s better or worse there than up someone else’s ass.
They seem to be capable of both at the same time though.
Just Some Fuckhead
Mississippi is post-racial now. Yay.
Baud
“Ich bin ein teabagger.”
JPL
The President gave a statement on the crisis at the border. He nailed Congress for them turning a blind eye and he really nailed the House of Representatives. Chris Matthews bemoaned the fact that he didn’t visit the border. The President said he wasn’t interested in photo ops and and Chris had a sad face.
Mandalay
Brave words from McDaniel, but a little hollow since his crew tried to get rid of a reporter who was watching them review the poll books:
Supporters of the Chris McDaniel for U.S. Senate Campaign twice unsuccesfully attemped to have a newspaper reporter ejected from a room in the Madison County Courthouse where they were examining poll books on Tuesday.
So much for McDaniel carrying the torch of liberty.
Mandalay
Brave words from McDaniel, but a little hollow since his crew tried (unsuccessfully) to get rid of a reporter who was watching them review the poll books:
So much for McDaniel carrying the torch of liberty.
Wag
@Baud:
Catholics are ok now. Just look at those defenders of the Right on the Supreme Court. All 5 in the majority on HL are Catholics.
The yearing for Pope Benedict is strong on the right.
Baud
Fixed.
Dennis G.
@Suffern ACE: Better yet, they should run as a third party. The Party of Lincoln will always have too many squishes ready to embrace the Negroes to thwart their plans and the white race. Purity can only be achieved through a third party of white folks committed to defending the race…
Violet
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Do not think we should be calling them “benefits”. They are compensation just like the salary. Start pointing out that companies want to dictate how you can use your compensation.
Hal
Chris Matthews let me finish segment tonight was all about the need for dems to win over white male voters. According to him, dems need to do more to reach out to white men, or even if Hillary Clinton runs and wins, she could be a lame duck from day one if all she does is rely on Obama voter coalitions. Start working on those tea tards hrc. White men are the only truly legit voting block after all.
Kropadope
@JPL: This wouldn’t be the first time the Republicans blamed Obama for not fixing a problem they are actively preventing him from fixing.
tybee
@Baud:
ok. i laughed.
Cacti
Be careful badmouthing Nathan Bedford Forrest. He’s known to have defenders on this “progressive” web site.
Another Holocene Human
I remember reading that in the South for decades prior to the VRA only a small minority of Blacks were registered to vote in the Deep South, usually your kind of social and property elite who also had made good with the whites or their families had for a few generations and thus they were allowed this little privilege not offered to their fellows.
There were always a few free Blacks living in slave states but of course fewer and fewer as the slave laws became harsher and one moves the clock closer and closer to the outbreak of civil war.
Their ancestors kept a few token Jewish money lenders around while cursing them behind their backs … like a work visa, these folks may have lived and died in a country without citizenship rights and their order of protection or whatever that let them live there could be revoked at any time, like when the monarch declined to repay his debts…. Or somebody needed to blame a plague or drought on a convenient target….
This shit is old shit. It’s been going on forever.
dmsilev
@Hal: In other words, Tweety thinks people like Tweety are of the utmost importance.
I’m shocked, shocked to learn this.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
How could you tell through all the spittle?
David Koch
@Howard Beale IV: thanks for the link. seems like an interesting case.
dmsilev
Oh, dear:
JPL
@Kropadope: I stream MSNBC so it was easy to shut him down. Erin Burnett on CNN actually mentioned that the President deported more each year than previous presidents.
Dennis G.
@Cacti: I do not doubt it. The culture of white supremacy has roots in all aspects of American politics and thought: left, right and center…
Suffern ACE
@dmsilev: I, ummm, well. I don’t think that was the “refreshing, tells it like it is, straight shooting from the hip, folksy” speech the press usually fawns over.
Kropadope
@JPL: Well, the deportations I’m not sure are really helping. They were meant to help his negotiating posture, but negotiating partners’ posture is “no negotiations.”
What would really help would be reforming our drug and immigration laws. Congress?
Mandalay
Wow…even Ann Coulter is telling McDaniel’s supporters to STFU and stop being loser crybabies….
What on earth did Team McDaniel do to piss off Coulter?
Violet
@JPL: Chris Matthews is the epitome of the Colbert claim to “feel the news at you”. He’s all about how politicians make him feel–from the “thrill up his leg” over Obama’s speech to the fawning over Bush in his flightsuit and any number of additional examples. Of course he wants Obama to do various things that would give him, Chris Matthews a thrill of some kind. It’s how he relates to the world.
Mnemosyne
@Kropadope:
See also the thread below about the NSA. Only Congress can fix the laws, but Republicans don’t want to change a thing — they want the next Republican president to have all that power for himself.
Howard Beale IV
@David Koch: This goes back a number of years, and Opie and Anthony were involved in the backstory.
First, Ventura walked out of an O & A interview when Jim Norton started to take issue with a number of things Ventura was expounding on.
Then, when Chris Kyle hit the book tour and popped up on O & A’s show, it was revealed by Kyle that Ventura was the guy who Kyle allegedly punched out in a bar where there was some sort of military thing going on.
Ventura’s taking a big risk with this lawsuit; especially since Kyle wasn’t as much in the public limelight as Ventura has been/is currently.
Kropadope
@Mnemosyne: Oh, I saw the NSA thread. My (apparent) nemesis, Corner Stone, showed up to be rude and everything.
JPL
The new Obama is not holding back. What surprised me though, was that I heard what the President said and what the news media focused on, was different. The President going to the border will not fix the House of Representatives.
Howard Beale IV
@Mandalay: Imagine if Coulter and Greenwald (both con lawyers) bred.
Kropadope
@Howard Beale IV: Glennon Coulterwald? Dear God, the lies in service of ideology could reach critical mass, opening a black hole on the surface of the Earth. I know GG is gay, but Ann Coulter is mannish enough. I don’t generally believe in such measures, but this looks like a situation for forced sterilization.
PhilbertDesanex
@Kropadope: In Texas it’s “cut off his legs and call him Shorty” They have been doing this to Obama since he got to town. Quite effectively considering. Man will Fox scream if we do it.
SFAW
@dmsilev:
That can be read two ways, not sure which way he meant: the TeaTard way? Or the James Lincoln Collier way?
He seemed to be intimating – post-conference – that it was the Collier way. Who am I to disagree.
On the other hand, some people think Stiockdale was just a befuddled old man.
Suffern ACE
@Howard Beale IV: wasn’t Kyle the guy who had a funeral procession that stretched 25 miles? There was a limelight for him and it was probably bigger than JV had at the time.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
Fantastic! And while I totally understand why this Obama didn’t come forth much in the past 5-1/2 years, I kinda wish it had. But welcome, welcome.
As I’ve said before, I cannot WAIT to read his Presidential memoirs!*
*(Also Michelle’s)
SFAW
@Mandalay:
Made an injudicious comment about her Adam’s apple?
Mnemosyne
@Kropadope:
The only thing I hear from Corner Stone is that he’s inordinately fond of pie. He just can’t stop talking about it.
SatanicPanic
Why doesn’t this guy just stop being a big baby? What a chump
SFAW
@Howard Beale IV:
Ed Wood died too soon.
Kropadope
@Mnemosyne: So, I can get him off my back by baking? Interesting, but I’m more of a soup/stew/sauce kinda cook.
Howard Beale IV
@Kropadope:
Ya mean ‘cuz sh’e got an adam’s apple that any male would be envious of?
I wouldn’t fuck Ann Coulter with John Cole’s dick, even though she deserves a proper fucking.
Howard Beale IV
@SFAW: Ya beat me to it.
raven
Mnemosyne
@Kropadope:
Cleek’s Pie Filter.
Though I’ve edited it a bit so I can also hear about cupcakes. I like cupcakes.
Anoniminous
Misquoted.
There. Fixed.
Howard Beale IV
@Suffern ACE: Got me on that one. Kyle’s death came from out of nowhere, the story is he was trying to help a fellow vet with PTSD, but due to circumstances, lost his life.
Too bad it was Kyle, when it should have been Rumsfeld or Cheney the heart transplant patient
Kropadope
@Mnemosyne: Don’t you read Andrew Sullvian? Cupcake stocks are way down. Frozen yogurt is the dessert of the future.
SFAW
@SiubhanDuinne:
Actually, some of it has already gone to video.
Suffern ACE
@SiubhanDuinne: honestly, I hope his first post presidency book is a novel about an American President, loosely based on his presidency, but with fact as collected in the right wing press and national enquirer.
“It was the afternoon of my 50th birthday and I was in bed with my catamite when Malory Carrot announced that one W. Hairs had come to see me.”
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
Ah fuck.
I am horrified at my own almost shrugging response to this news – “Another mass shooting? Meh, so what else is new?” I hate the part of me that has pretty much decided to go numb in the face of appalling news.
SFAW
@Howard Beale IV:
I’d say something about “great minds” etc. etc., but that wouldn’t explain me thinking of it.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: My wife was getting ready to leave for a conference when the regulation and extra time soccer ended. I said “It’s another shootout” and she said “damn”. She didn’t think I was talking about soccer.
Howard Beale IV
@SFAW: If I had to do her, I’d need some serious psychotropics. But she does have the New York coke whore look down pat, tho….
Mnemosyne
@Kropadope:
Sully’s way behind the times. It’s all about macarons. At least two speciality stores have opened near us and all of the local bakeries are making them.
SiubhanDuinne
@SFAW:
LOL, I hope Luther ghostwrites the books!
Suffern ACE
@Mnemosyne: agree. Frozen yogurt is a bubble about to burst. There are four different chains competing for customers in my mall alone. Macaroons is a good bet. But I’m thinking the next big thing is rice pudding or biscuits.
Kropadope
@Mnemosyne: Those look like something I can find in the ten-year-old candy section of the flea market next to the candy cigarettes. For baked goods, nothing beats the key lime pie or it’s little cousin, the fruit tart.
@Suffern ACE: You got me, I’m telling my broker to go all in on rice pudding stock.
SFAW
@Howard Beale IV:
I’ll take your word for it.
Is that like “She’s not bad, for a skank.”?
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
I feel her. I have never managed to get over January 8, 2011, when I checked in with BJ during the first intermission of the Met Opera’s “La Fanciulla del West” and read about Gaby Giffords — including the (thankfully erroneous) report that she had died of her gunshot wounds. I’m with your wife, I don’t even like the term “shootout” as sports terminology.
SFAW
@SiubhanDuinne:
From your “lips” to FSM’s noodley earlike appendages.
Mnemosyne
@Kropadope:
Fresh-baked macarons are awesome. Even the frozen Trader Joe’s ones are really good. Don’t be fooled by the ones your grandma used to find stashed at the back of her cupboard.
Roger Moore
@SFAW:
I think the standard response in that case is “soft minds run together”.
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne:
And I’m so far behind the times I thought artisanal ice cream was still the big thing in desserts.
SatanicPanic
Is there a whinier group of people than white conservative males? In history?
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Possibly confusing macarons with macaroons?
Suffern ACE
@Kropadope: oh just try it. You’ll like it.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Noticed in this week’s supermarket flyer that Breyer’s is marketing gelato.
Sign that the fad has peaked?
Kropadope
@Suffern ACE: Are you kidding? I love rice pudding.
OMFG, I’m saving that link for when I have money.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
Meh. Gelato was a big thing a few years ago, but more American-style artisanal ice cream seems to be bigger now. There’s also the whole “freeze it with liquid nitrogen while you wait and watch” thing, which I expect to continue growing in popularity until it displaces Cold Stone Creamery.
ranchandsyrup
Open thread? my wife’s post on contraception, choices, and role models
Another Holocene Human
@dmsilev: upps, when the Waukesha GOP taught him the super sekrit Chamber of Sekrits I mean Commerce handshake they forgot to tell him you only use the n-word inside the Freedom Sanctum of Small Business Eagle Patriots with other Patriots and not outside….
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
Technically, in English they’re both called “macaroons,” but people are starting to use the French spelling to try and avoid confusion.
Why there had to be two different spellings in the first place, I have no idea, but we’re the language that insists that the city of Milano is really called “Milan,” so who knows?
Another Holocene Human
@Mandalay: He’s a loser and she hates loser stink. Never gets out of your clothes.
Mnemosyne
@Roger Moore:
You can make an appointment in DTLA at Peddler’s Creamery and churn your own — by bicycle!
Kropadope
@Another Holocene Human: It sounds like he was blaming Congress, not the N person.
SFAW
@Roger Moore:
OK. But that’s kinda insulting to Howard, ain’t it?
Me? Even having a mind, soft or otherwise, is a step up. So it’s all good.
Another Holocene Human
@SFAW: Ugh, gross. When is this going to stop? Way to insult gross Muslim-baiter Ann Coulter, be grosser than Ann Coulter. #winning #bqhtevwr
ETA: well, whaddya u noe, it seems like a normally sane commenter outgrossed you on this thread, I feel bad singling you out now: @Howard Beale IV: #SHAME
Skerry
@SiubhanDuinne: KHOU has reported a 6th person has died in Houston.
Karen in GA
@ranchandsyrup: A good read.
@SiubhanDuinne: You too? I’m almost surprised to go a whole day without hearing about another multiple shooting.
Mike in NC
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Fat fucker Tweety needs to be run over by a bus.
p.a.
@efgoldman: like calling an Italian restaurant a trattoria, which in Italy is a modest family run enterprise (‘above’ an osteria but ‘below’ a ristorante) and having a $$$ menu instead of $ or $$.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Me too.
But am 99% certain that pet rocks, mood rings and pogs are no longer “in.”
:)
SFAW
@Another Holocene Human:
Yeah, yeah, whatever.
Interesting that using a descriptive-albeit-impolite/tacky word is “grosser” than the vile shit that Coulter has spewed for the last 15-odd years. I guess my values are all fucked up, right?
ETA: Although I guess I should be grateful that I wasn’t characterized as insane. Yet.
SFAW
@NotMax:
WHAT???
shit
(sound of me typing “craigslist dot org”)
rikyrah
Voting Totals Reveal Crucial Boost From Blacks in Thad Cochran’s Victory
JULY 9, 2014
The precinct level returns in Hinds County bolster the theory that a surge in black, Democratic turnout allowed Senator Thad Cochran to defeat Chris McDaniel, a Tea Party-backed state senator, in last month’s Republican primary runoff in Mississippi.
Mr. Cochran won by 7,667 votes. Nearly half — a net 3,532 votes — came from the most Democratic precincts in Jackson’s Hinds County, where President Obama won a combined 97.8 percent of the vote in 2012, according to figures released Tuesday night by the Mississippi secretary of state.
The surge in turnout was clearest in overwhelmingly black precincts; turnout sometimes increased by more than 3,000 percent over the initial Republican primary.
In Hinds County’s 25 most heavily Democratic precincts, where Mr. Obama won a combined 99.3 percent of the vote, Mr. Cochran picked up a net 1,414 votes, representing about a fifth of Mr. Cochran’s statewide margin of victory and dwarfing the 121 votes won by Mitt Romney in the same precincts in 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/upshot/voting-totals-reveal-crucial-boost-from-blacks-in-cochrans-victory.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1
SFAW
@efgoldman:
Is this in Rho Dilun? Or in the more civilized climes to the north? (Always looking for good places, even if I’m not supposed to eat pizza.)
karen
Isn’t this a dress rehearsal for when they lose any seats in November or even when they lose the Presidential Election in 2016? If they can force another recount or disqualify every black vote or even force another election in Mississippi, game over people. Elections no longer matter and the 1% who controls the Teahadis have finally gotten tired of working behind the scenes and bribing the Supreme Court and have decided just to buy the country. What good is a Constitution if it’s only arbitrarally enforced and only against one party?
SFAW
@efgoldman:
Sister-in-law used to live in Warwick, but moved to MA last year. If she still lived there, I’d try to make a detour, but Lincoln is an hour for me.
But thanks for the tip, in case I decide I want to annoy Al Gore.
A Humble Lurker
@Howard Beale IV:
One, come on with that. Two, she doesn’t.
Glocksman
@SFAW:
Rubik’s Cubes are the new ‘in’ thing these days.
I think some commie in Czechoslovakia* invented it.
And there’s all those cool things from Sharper Image like Mall Walker shoes.
Though on a serious note the main thing I remember about Sharper Image is that they were frequently the butt of jokes in Bloom County.
*I know Rubik was from Hungary and that ‘Czechoslovakia’ doesn’t exist as a nation any more for the sarcasm impaired.
SFAW
@Glocksman:
A little TOO much inside baseball on that one. (Rubik being Hungarian and all.) And the Czecho thing is a little bit out there, too.
But thanks for the tips, I’ll head to Sharper Image, posthaste.
ETA: And, just to be anal-retentive, I realize that being from Hungary and being Hungarian are not necessarily the same thing.
Glocksman
@SFAW:
What can I say?
Back in the early 80’s, the Rubik’s Cube was one of my favorite nondigital* (I owned a Timex Sinclair 1000 as my first computer) toys.
I wasted many an hour trying to solve it.
*Though given the mathematics involved it can be argued that it was digital as well.
Mandalay
@Glocksman:
Could you please let John McCain know? He’s a little confused about that.
Glocksman
@Mandalay:
I’m somewhat surprised that McCain didn’t call it ‘The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’.
After all, Reinhard Heydrich seems to be the type of ‘leader’ that McCain admires.
Fred
With all the comments about Tweety in this thread I am inspired to throw my log on the bon-fire.
When I listen to Hard Ball I find I shout through gritted teeth, “Shut the fuck up, Chris Mathews!” from 6-12 times over the course of the show. It is because he NEVER lets anybody finish a statement. Even when I agree with him he is such an ass hole I just want to scream.
And lately he’s really getting obnoxious. When that kid got released by the Taliban, Mathews had the guy tried and convicted of treason before the first guest had a chance to say “peep” about the story. Anybody who dared mention that the man deserved his day in court or innocent until… was cut off with a scornful bark of Mathews jabber.
Now he’s pimping for Mitt and trying to cut down Clinton.
I think he’s trying to bate a fight ’cause it’s good for his business.
It is really getting disgusting and I’m betting it is going to get worse. I don’t much watch it anymore.
SFAW
@Fred:
Amateur.
I do that during the course of a single Boehner (or Perry or Cantor [HA!] or McCain or take-your-pick Rethug imbecile [forgive the redundancy]) sound bite on NPR. In fact, it’s sometimes a contest to see how many different curses I can come up with within the 15 to 30 seconds that those lying, evil motherfuckers are speaking.
If I were to try to do that for Tweety’s entire show, I’d have to add in other languages, because I’d run out of English curses. Fortunately, I’m not limited in that regard.
Jose Arcadia Buendia
@David Koch:
This.
Yoda Dog
Officially the best title to a post ever.
Cheers.