Red Mosquito

"for refusing a legal order"

My god that is frightening though.

B wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

McParadigm wrote:The Attorney General has been fired.

Quite rightly.

I hadn't paid much attention to this until reading this Washington Post summary earlier.

Her stance made her position completely untenable.

It was unquestionably a noise generation tactic, and she must have known how it would end.

But what a remarkable event. The attorney general of the United States has been fired for opposing the president's executive order.

Yeah, BiH's article suggests that she should have resigned instead.

I'm sure she wanted to provoke the firing, feeling that it was a more powerful statement.

I don't know that it is, but the whole thing is pretty wild. It's another benchmark for how far outside normal politics our footprints are right now.

Strat wrote:"for refusing a legal order"

My god that is frightening though.

People keep referencing Nixon, but even that wasn't about policy. And it was part of the story that destroyed him. And it wasn't day ten.

Ten days in, and he's in danger of having his own chapter in tomorrow's history books. And not one of the ones they ask kids to do dioramas for.

Personally, my problem with the majority of Spenno's posts (and by extension, the actions of white moderates in many places) is that 1) they seem to suggest that Trump is always acting in good faith, and the people opposing him are acting in bad faith and 2) many of the ideas in them are antithetical to not only my work as an educator, but to a democratic society as a whole. When I see someone espousing the ideas that:

--protest is unproductive and almost purely the product of hysteria
--young children shouldn't be aware of their political reality or engage in protest
--language doesn't matter and is superfluous to the creation and execution of laws
--elected leaders shouldn't be poised, or controlled, or professional
--it's acceptable to give one religion preferential treatment in matters of immigration
--Steve Bannon's idea of a "Judeo-Christian Economy" is acceptable

...when I see those types of things being encouraged, I have to be concerned about them. It is fine to have opposing viewpoints, but other people get to criticize them as well. For example, I'm a little curious why the actions of protesters represent hysteria and Trump/Bannon's viewpoint that America is some sort of rusted out post-capitalist hellhole does not. Their rhetoric before and after the election repeatedly presented America as a country on the brink of disaster. How is that not hysteria? Why is the benefit of the doubt being given to the Breitbart news guy in all matters and never to average, normal Americans? It just doesn't sit well with me.

McParadigm wrote:Ten days in, and he's in danger of having his own chapter in tomorrow's history books. And not one of the ones they ask kids to do dioramas for.

I definitely feel as though we're living in what will be historically interesting times in a way I haven't before.

Birds in Hell wrote:

McParadigm wrote:Ten days in, and he's in danger of having his own chapter in tomorrow's history books. And not one of the ones they ask kids to do dioramas for.

I definitely feel as though we're living in what will be historically interesting times in a way I haven't before.

Birds in Hell wrote:

McParadigm wrote:Ten days in, and he's in danger of having his own chapter in tomorrow's history books. And not one of the ones they ask kids to do dioramas for.

I definitely feel as though we're living in what will be historically interesting times in a way I haven't before.

Mr Vedder 10 years too early (specifically at the 5.45 mark*:





*I can't seem to embed with a specific timecode:
https://youtu.be/7PnEouGKumc?t=5m46s

i think it's becoming more clear that an international war is unlikely

but an intranational war seems increasingly likely

at least some pathetic low intensity sporadic version

i can't recall a time where the "left" was so vocal and aggressive in this country. i recall a lot of bitching during GWB but i don't recall it being as openly charged as this. more like openly cynical, perhaps

it seems inevitable that at some point, some folks that cling to their 'guns and religion' will probably dust up with the arugula eaters

and that's not going to be a happy day

and if the prez on top doesn't set a president that the violence is wrong, then we might just back door ourselves into Madmax for a few weeks or a year or something

and at that point,

the ice caps will probably just let it all go and melt away

plunging earth's surface into an ice-cold deluge of glacial water

purifying the land of its parasitic inhabitants

leaving the few survivors to search for new dry land

in a world of sea monsters, where fresh water is scarce

and mutants sail the seven seas

in a world without paper

in a world

made

of







water

S/T is one-half of a great album.

The White House has named Dana Boente, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, as acting attorney general. Boente told The Washington Post that he will agree to enforce the immigration order.

Make S/T great again!!

Set course for tomorrow, warp factor 'hesitant.'

Engage.

McParadigm wrote:Set course for tomorrow, warp factor 'hesitant.'

Engage.

I like that the right side actually seems to hit a black wall a split second before the left has the explosion.

Citizen Dick wrote:Make S/T great again!!

S/T was never great.

Simple Torture wrote:

Citizen Dick wrote:Make S/T great again!!

S/T was never great.

Sounds like the metaphor works.

Edit: White House has now confirmed this was for siding with the attorney general

Strat wrote:The White House has named Dana Boente, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, as acting attorney general. Boente told The Washington Post that he will agree to enforce the immigration order.

Very shocked that Trump picked a man named Dana.

Orpheus wrote:Personally, my problem with the majority of Spenno's posts (and by extension, the actions of white moderates in many places) is that 1) they seem to suggest that Trump is always acting in good faith, and the people opposing him are acting in bad faith and 2) many of the ideas in them are antithetical to not only my work as an educator, but to a democratic society as a whole. When I see someone espousing the ideas that:

--protest is unproductive and almost purely the product of hysteria
--young children shouldn't be aware of their political reality or engage in protest
--language doesn't matter and is superfluous to the creation and execution of laws
--elected leaders shouldn't be poised, or controlled, or professional
--it's acceptable to give one religion preferential treatment in matters of immigration
--Steve Bannon's idea of a "Judeo-Christian Economy" is acceptable

...when I see those types of things being encouraged, I have to be concerned about them. It is fine to have opposing viewpoints, but other people get to criticize them as well. For example, I'm a little curious why the actions of protesters represent hysteria and Trump/Bannon's viewpoint that America is some sort of rusted out post-capitalist hellhole does not. Their rhetoric before and after the election repeatedly presented America as a country on the brink of disaster. How is that not hysteria? Why is the benefit of the doubt being given to the Breitbart news guy in all matters and never to average, normal Americans? It just doesn't sit well with me.