Althouse: Sunrise.

April 29, 2026

Sunrise.

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74 comments:

tcrosse said...: Over at The Free Press, Caitlin Flanagan, late of The Atlantic, notes that "The second thing to know about political violence is that it produces romantic heroes faster than MGM in the 1940s.... The photograph of Huey Newton in a peacock chair, flanked by a gun and a spear, still occasionally appears in dorm rooms now, and the 1960 photograph of Che Guevara is as much a part of move-in day as the Starbucks logo. It’s also why even Luigi: The Musical can’t stop an infatuation with Luigi Mangione, the young man who allegedly murdered Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, 17 months ago. All these men represent the romantic ideal of standing up against a seemingly intractable force—respectively, white supremacy, capitalism, and the profiteering of the American healthcare industry—risking their lives at the barricades and accepting whatever happens to them. When I saw a photograph of Cole Tomas Allen and learned that he, like the other three, is handsome, I knew that soon enough he would join their ranks."; 4/29/26, 7:31 PM
boatbuilder said...: Ahem. Sure, it's only a poll, but predictions of a big Dem victory in the midterms may be a bit premature.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5853599-midterm-voter-support-evenly-split/; 4/29/26, 7:57 PM
Narr said...: Lovely blue hues, and lucky ducks.; 4/29/26, 8:03 PM
Aggie said...: I'll be tuning out all of the projections, thank you. I've learned that no other opinions matter except for my own, which I will continue to form all by myself, carefully curated. The projections like these are very much like the polling industry, which I think seeks to craft public opinion rather than measure it. No thanks ! The environment is a toxic one, and I've learned to trust my instincts which on balance seem to be mostly right.

I think people would be better off if they treated their political views with the same care as they treat their personal finances. In this day & age of data mining and intrusive internet monitoring, the integrity of your privacy should be something you protect.; 4/29/26, 8:07 PM
Iman said...: Looks like the sub was preparing to blow the quackers out of the water.; 4/29/26, 8:29 PM
narciso said...: Its a rather calming tableau

Like a wm turner; 4/29/26, 8:30 PM
narciso said...: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-experimental-drug-movement.html; 4/29/26, 8:30 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/PoliticalStacy/status/2049324896023437530; 4/29/26, 8:32 PM
Lazarus said...: Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber, did make the cover of Rolling Stone, and John Wilkes Booth and his associate Lewis Powell were the 19th century equivalent of pin-ups, but romantic heartthrobs are a minority among assassins and terrorists. Even if John Hinckley Jr had been a real dreamboat, something tells me that he still wouldn't have won Jody Foster's heart.; 4/29/26, 8:33 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/greg_price11/status/2049521721234059761; 4/29/26, 8:34 PM
narciso said...: Oh

https://x.com/HansMahncke/status/2049652638313054259; 4/29/26, 8:36 PM
narciso said...: Truth in labeling

https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2049652755539607572; 4/29/26, 8:39 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube Short: The reason why we dream

"If you go blind, the visual cortex at the back of the brain, gets taken over by hearing, by touch and by other things. In fact, our colleges at Harvard did an experiment where they blindfolded normally sighted people, and you could start seeing the takeover happening after 60 minutes, and that's when we realized, WOW. The purpose of dreaming is to defend the visual territory from takeover from the other senses."

There is nothing highfalutin about it?
That can't be right. Can it?
If believing the old romantic version is wrong, I don't want to be right.; 4/29/26, 8:55 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: "D4vd was 'last person to drive' Tesla before body found in trunk: DA"

It must've been unpremeditated because, unless somebody doesn't know about the cameras.
There is a silver lining to all the surveillance. Just saying.; 4/29/26, 9:02 PM
Iman said...: I wonder how Drago is doing? Hope he’s well.; 4/29/26, 9:04 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: Death Valley National Park is experiencing its first major super-bloom in a decade

(Unless this is ai.); 4/29/26, 9:15 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Oil tops $120 as Donald Trump signals extended Hormuz stand-off ~ WSJ

“We’re going to get your energy prices down. We’re going to get your energy prices down by 50%." ~ Some guy

Just a reminder that Congress could stop this at any time but chooses not to.; 4/29/26, 9:19 PM
Hassayamper said...: Sure, it's only a poll, but predictions of a big Dem victory in the midterms may be a bit premature.

Much hinges on oil. I don't think it's going to stay above $100 long, but it could, in which case the Republicans are indeed cooked. But if Trump can extricate us from Iran in the next couple of months with someone other than the mullahs and Revolutionary Guard in charge, oil will fall to $40 or lower. Iran is storing up oceans of oil in every bathtub and mop bucket during the blockade. The UAE just left OPEC and is going to pump all the oil it can get out of the ground. The US is drilling, baby, drilling, and has never produced more oil in our history. Venezuela is coming on line, and our sophisticated refineries are the only ones that can take their sour, viscous oil in stride. Gas will be $2.50 per gallon if the Iranians are overthrown, and under $2 if Russia decides to cut its losses in Ukraine and its oil comes back to the legitimate market.; 4/29/26, 9:32 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Republicans going to have fun on the campaign trail this summer. Enjoy.

A double spike day I don't believe in my ~20 years I've ever seen this- $4.79, then updated to $4.99. unprecedented. what's even more wild that the market has completely gone insane is that all 3 markets are the SAME- MI/IN/OH ~https://x.com/GasBuddyGuy; 4/29/26, 9:48 PM
Quayle said...: You must be five years old. Where were you when the Democrat party in Congress and Biden triggered 8 and 9 percent inflation across the board?; 4/29/26, 9:50 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube:
The NYT "Greatest [Living] Songwriters" List is an Absolute Disaster

Is it a WOKE list?; 4/29/26, 10:01 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Better start talking about how old Joe Biden is.; 4/29/26, 10:02 PM
gadfly said...: On January 26, 2024, the jury deliberated for three hours and awarded Carroll $7.3 million in emotional damages, $11 million in reputation-related damages, and $65 million in punitive damages, totaling $83.3 million.

On March 8, 2024, Trump filed an appeal notice and secured a $91.63 million bond (based on the 110% typically required by the district court to cover interest).

With today's denial of his appeal, Jeannie Carroll is due over $100 million with interest.; 4/29/26, 10:10 PM
Jim at said...: With today's denial of his appeal, Jeannie Carroll is due over $100 million with interest.

Which says far more about the system of 'justice' you shitheads corrupted than it does about any of Carroll's primetime fantasies.

Or Trump's innocence.; 4/29/26, 10:18 PM
Aggie said...: Holman Jenkins adds his own layer cake of 'Look at Me !' cynicism to the Legacy Media picture. At the WSJ .; 4/29/26, 10:36 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Meanwhile, crude oil and bonds in after hours are fugly.; 4/29/26, 11:02 PM
Achilles said...: Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

Republicans going to have fun on the campaign trail this summer. Enjoy.

A double spike day I don't believe in my ~20 years I've ever seen this- $4.79, then updated to $4.99. unprecedented. what's even more wild that the market has completely gone insane is that all 3 markets are the SAME- MI/IN/OH ~https://x.com/GasBuddyGuy

All they have to do is point out that it was higher under Biden and that it is only that high because of democrat states like California.

It is under 4$ a gallon in most of the country.

Only democrat retards in democrat states have to pay more.; 4/29/26, 11:16 PM
Achilles said...: gadfly said...

On January 26, 2024, the jury deliberated for three hours and awarded Carroll $7.3 million in emotional damages, $11 million in reputation-related damages, and $65 million in punitive damages, totaling $83.3 million.

On March 8, 2024, Trump filed an appeal notice and secured a $91.63 million bond (based on the 110% typically required by the district court to cover interest).

With today's denial of his appeal, Jeannie Carroll is due over $100 million with interest.

All this says is that Democrats are evil lying pieces of shit.; 4/29/26, 11:17 PM
Big Mike said...: I’ll bet if we waterboarded E. Jean Carroll we’d discover that she made it all up.; 4/29/26, 11:36 PM
Big Mike said...: I see that Al Gore has done a complete 180 and decided that global warming and tieing sea level are not the threat after all. Nope. It’s a new global ice age. What he means is, we’ve been too successful in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and must hurry to produce more. So take the long way around on your next trip to the grocery store and rev thar engine high.

And if you see someone driving a Tesla, that driver wants you to freez to death in the dark.; 4/29/26, 11:49 PM
Jamie said...: And if you see someone driving a Tesla, that driver wants you to freez to death in the dark.

I don't think that person necessarily wants you to freeze to death in the dark.

But the person who agitates for "no more fossil fuels" might. Because, to that person, one less human is one less unit of burden on the planet, and for some reason the supposed health of the planet (an undefined term) is more important than human thriving.; 4/30/26, 12:58 AM
Eva Marie said...: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWZaGQ8j1Od/?igsh=ZTlhOHQ5YnR3NzY4; 4/30/26, 2:52 AM
wendybar said...: Greg Price
@greg_price11
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16h
Democracy is literally dying in America unless Democrats can draw congressional districts based on race, count illegal aliens in the census, and end requirements to show an ID to vote.
https://x.com/greg_price11/status/2049533681920823760?s=20; 4/30/26, 4:09 AM
wendybar said...: ALPHAWARRIOR
@xAlphaWarriorx
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13h
On January 15th, 2021, the so-called Main Stream Media, now Defenders of “free speech” were nowhere to be found.

That morning, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force stormed my home with a flashbang, an armored vehicle on my front lawn, and a full SWAT team ordering my family outside at gun point. My children watched as their father, a decorated combat Marine and police detective, awarded the Medal of Valor, was placed in handcuffs.

My crime?

A post on Twitter on January 6th.

I wasn’t even there.

No criminal history. A single charge. $250,000 bail. Then thrown into solitary confinement.

What followed was a four-year legal battle that ended on January 13th, 2025…with me winning.

But while the truth took years to surface, the media didn’t wait. They labeled me a traitor. A domestic terrorist. A threat to my own country. They repeated it so often, they hoped it would become reality.

It didn’t.

Meanwhile, James Comey publicly made a threatening statement against the President and yet he faced none of what was done to me. No SWAT raid. No solitary confinement. No $250,000 bail.

Let that sink in.

To this day, the FBI has never contacted me to investigate the fabrications made by its Special Agent and JTTF detective. Over a year later and with a court order to return my firearms and they REFUSE TO RETURN them to me.

Despite that, I was immediately called back as an expert witness in my previous gang cases. Sitting in court, every gang member knew I was back. That put a target on me and my family overnight. I had to purchase new firearms just to protect us, while the government still holds mine.

The same agent who justified the warrant claimed it was based on a confidential informant.

Over a year later, they quietly walked that back.

“There was no CI. It was an error.”

An error?

No informant. No foundation. And still, no dismissal at the time. No accountability. No investigation into how this happened.

So I ask:

Why has no one reached out to examine what was done to me?
Why is there no interest in the truth when the system gets it wrong?

I’m in California.

@HarmeetKDhillon

@AAGDhillon
I would welcome the opportunity to share my full story with you. Please 🙏🏻

Because what I’ve written here?

That’s only the surface.

https://x.com/xAlphaWarriorx/status/2049574874696573317?s=20; 4/30/26, 4:29 AM
Enigma said...: @tcrosse: ..."The second thing to know about political violence is that it produces romantic heroes faster than MGM in the 1940s....

Those woke neo-Catholics need new saints. They demand saints who are fighting the same struggle and who thereby know how to cure them.

Marxism/Woke = a naive new coat of paint on religion.; 4/30/26, 4:32 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: The phony Carroll case is a great litmus test. Do you agree with creating an exception in state law that extends the statute of limitations for the sole purpose of bringing a case with zero physical evidence against the president of the United States? It says far more about your morality than it does about Trump’s.; 4/30/26, 4:51 AM
Eva Marie said...: The Democratic Party was the institutional engine of American slavery, the Confederacy, the Klan, and Jim Crow. After the Civil War, the morally appropriate response would have been a formal reckoning - an apology, an accounting, or dissolution. Instead, the party simply continued, and over the next century and a half it foisted its sins onto the nation as a whole.
That blame-shifting is what we are still living with today. When America apologizes for slavery, the Democratic Party hides inside the collective apology. When schools teach that “the country” was racist, the specific institution responsible disappears into a generic national guilt. The Republican Party - founded explicitly to end slavery, the party of Lincoln, the Reconstruction Amendments, and the majority votes for the 1964 Civil Rights Act - gets tarred with sins that were not its own.
The party that caused the harm gets to pose as the reformer. The party that opposed the harm gets blamed for it. And the entire country gets saddled with a guilt that belongs, historically and institutionally, to one political organization that never had to answer for it under its own name.
This is the blame shift that began in 1865 and has never ended. We are still paying for it - in distorted history lessons, in misdirected racial grievance, in a national conversation about race that can never reach honesty because the central actor has been written out of the story and replaced with “America” itself.
The Democratic Party’s greatest political achievement was not any policy it passed. It was convincing the country to carry its sins for it.; 4/30/26, 4:54 AM
Eva Marie said...: But the damage did not stop with the history books. A party that successfully evaded accountability for its founding sin learned a lesson it has never unlearned: that lying works. That narrative can be substituted for truth. That the responsible party can always be someone else. What began as blame-shifting about slavery has metastasized into a political culture of outright dishonesty about every aspect of our national life - our elections, our institutions, our economy, our history, our enemies, our own citizens.
This culture of permitted lying has attracted exactly the kind of people you would expect it to attract. Grifters. Operators. Professional obfuscators who understand that in a system where truth is optional, the prize goes to whoever can muddy the water fastest. The honest dialogue a free country requires has been buried under a century and a half of accumulated evasions, each one building on the last, until we have arrived at a political life in which Americans can no longer reach agreement on the most basic facts of their own existence.
This is the inheritance of 1865. The Democratic Party’s refusal to account for itself did not just rewrite the past. It corrupted the conditions under which Americans can speak honestly to one another at all. We are still paying that bill, and it grows larger every year.; 4/30/26, 4:59 AM
Eva Marie said...: The conclusion is unavoidable. The Democratic Party must finally be defeated. Not reformed, not negotiated with, not given another chance to reinvent itself under the same name and continue the pattern. Defeated - so that whatever rises in its place is forced to be a genuinely new institution, accountable from its first day, unable to hide behind a century and a half of laundered history.
I have my own quarrels with the Republican Party, and many of them are serious. But those quarrels are the ordinary disagreements of citizens with a party that can be argued with, pressured, and changed. The Democratic Party is something else: a vehicle for evasion that has outlived every justification for its continued existence. A healthy two-party system cannot be built around an institution whose foundational habit is escaping accountability for what it has done.
Vote Republican in 2026. Not because the Republican Party is everything it should be, but because the Democratic Party must finally end, so that something honest can begin.; 4/30/26, 5:07 AM
Eva Marie said...: The Carroll case is Exhibit 2,854 in how the Democratic Party deals with anyone who stands in its way. Rewrite the law for a single target. Drop the standards of evidence. Skip the statute of limitations. Run the play, collect the headline, move on to the next one.
The Carroll case is not an aberration. It is the method. And the method will not change as long as the party that depends on it continues to exist under the same name. It must be defeated - finally, decisively - so that something honest can take its place.; 4/30/26, 5:20 AM
Eva Marie said...: Vote Republican up and down the ballot 2026; 4/30/26, 5:32 AM
rehajm said...: I’m starting to get the impression lefties may regret poking the redistricting hornet’s nest.; 4/30/26, 6:07 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Alina Hanna was on The View yesterday supporting Comey’s indictment. The large View ladies argued strenuously about free speech and “who knew?” But Habba relayed a story contemporaneous to Comey’s non-indictment last year. When she commented on X Comey replied “86 Habba” immediately. She objected. He called to apologize then deleted his tweet. He knew exactly what he was saying. Both times. While selling his book with the plot line about political figures sending coded messages of violence. Just like he did IRL.; 4/30/26, 6:18 AM
Humperdink said...: Disappointed in the Comey indictment. Why? No handcuffs, no swat team, no mug shot.; 4/30/26, 6:30 AM
rehajm said...: Yah, and it won’t go anywhere. He’ll prolly get to use Hillary!’s word exonerated in his next ‘book’…; 4/30/26, 6:42 AM
Breezy said...: This Comey indictment seems a little lame to me, honestly. However, I expect there’s more in the evidence that will elevate or substantiate the case. There’s no doubt Comey is one of the bad guys wrt generating lawfare, after all, so it wouldn’t surprise me if more skeletons tumble out of his closet.; 4/30/26, 6:46 AM
rehajm said...: …at a minimum its really bad he was repeating anything that could be construed as inciting violence, especially now that people have acted and those actors aren’t dead enders working from the parent’s basement but people with status in their community. Recent events heighten the seriousness of the offense…; 4/30/26, 6:58 AM
Not an oldster. said...: Some people do not think rules apply to them and they have embedded themselves and their children in top spots from the savvy immigrants who cheat our immigration and workplace rules to people stupid enough to bring sick dogs into no dog spaces, they like to see what they can get away with to elevate themselves and their own...
Oten the same people. When they hook up with others who think others following rules are suckers, look out.

It's not a catholic mindset. Others see it but won't speak out...; 4/30/26, 7:06 AM
NKP said...: Back to the pictures -

Ducks on the pond! The Sun WILL come out today...there's new grass on the field. Put me in coach... I'm ready to play!

End of the road. No turning back. Final. What a forbidding scene. The place where peole go to blow their brains out.

I don't know what the Lensmeister saw but them are some great pictures.; 4/30/26, 7:25 AM
Iman said...: It will be left to the American people to end this, Eva Marie. The Democrats have become compulsive, pathological liars who believe their own fabulist nonsense. They apparently canNOT help themselves, let alone save their own souls.

They are dangerous, malevolent wackadoodles.; 4/30/26, 7:27 AM
Iman said...: The corksoaker Comey should’ve received the flashbang treatment.; 4/30/26, 7:28 AM
William50 said...: Francesca Hong who is running to be the Democrat candidate for Wisconsin governor has stated if elected she would institute measures to reduce green house gases in Wisconsin 50% by 2030. This is insane.; 4/30/26, 7:32 AM
narciso said...: Caracas on the lakefront; 4/30/26, 7:34 AM
Humperdink said...: “This Comey indictment seems a little lame to me, honestly”

Of course it is, that’s not the point. The DOJ is giving Comey a small taste of the Michael Flynn Flynn treatment, something Pam Blondie would never do.; 4/30/26, 7:34 AM
Saint Croix said...: Disappointed in the Comey indictment. Why? No handcuffs, no swat team, no mug shot.

They are cos-playing Democrat horseshit, but they don't have their heart in it. No hatred.

It's a cooler, calmer version of Democrat horseshit. Without the optics and the media amplification.

Even their legal shenanigans are Lite beer compared to what Biden did.; 4/30/26, 7:41 AM
Saint Croix said...: Why would the Biden DOJ be your model for anything? I am not impressed.; 4/30/26, 7:42 AM
Saint Croix said...: When she commented on X Comey replied “86 Habba” immediately. She objected. He called to apologize then deleted his tweet. He knew exactly what he was saying. Both times.

To me that's evidence that he had no idea it was a death threat.

"Take the lobster off the menu" does not mean "kill the lobster."; 4/30/26, 7:57 AM
narciso said...: The statute of limitation has lapsed on most of these chatges like classified info transmission; 4/30/26, 7:58 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: If a broadcast network runs a segment decrying those who commit rape and pedophilia, then by law they must give equal time to President Trump. ~ Brendan Carr /s; 4/30/26, 8:04 AM
boatbuilder said...: That NYT list has no Van Morrison, John Fogarty, John Hiatt, Neal Diamond or James Taylor. And it has Mariah Carey and Bad Bunny. And Jagger and Richard are still with us. Really?; 4/30/26, 8:06 AM
RJW said...: Eva Marie, for one who just woke up from a 100 year nap, has no historical knowledge whatsoever, and/or glues themselves to mesmerizing right wing propagandists, your assessment might hold a kernel of truth. But for those who see beyond the scales, your argument has been debunked time and again.

The 19th-century Democratic Party included many defenders of slavery and later segregation. Many leaders of the Confederacy, KKK, and Jim Crow laws were Democrats of that era.

That part is real history.

What’s missing (and this is the key) is that the argument breaks down because it freezes political parties in time, as if they never changed.

You’re leaving out the party’s realignment from the late 1800s to the 1960s. After the Civil War and especially into the 20th century when the two parties gradually shifted coalitions and ideologies. There were decisive turning points such as the civil rights era, Johnson (Democrat) signed the, Civil Rights Act of 1964 and The Voting Rights Act of 1965.

It didn’t set well with many southern Democrats and they began moving into the Republican Party over time. Meanwhile, African American voters—who had largely supported Republicans since Abraham Lincoln—shifted strongly toward Democrats.

Historians call this the party realignment. After this period, the ideological identities of the parties look much closer to what we see today.

This is why, again, to those who are not glazed over Trump loyalists, the “single-party guilt” argument of assigning moral responsibility across centuries to a single party label doesn’t hold.

Political parties are coalitions that evolve, not fixed institutions with continuous ideology. The Democratic Party of 1850 and the Democratic Party of 2026 are not the same coalition, just as the Republican Party of Lincoln is not identical to today’s GOP.

Your “Republicans ended slavery” claim is partly true—but again incomplete. Republicans in the 1860s did lead the effort to abolish slavery (e.g., 13th Amendment) but political coalitions shifted dramatically afterward. By the mid-20th century, civil rights legislation passed with bipartisan votes, but with strong regional divides (Southern opposition in both parties). So using 1860s party identity to judge modern politics is historically shaky.

Here’s the rhetorical leap and a big jump:

Because of historical wrongdoing, the modern Democratic Party is uniquely dishonest and must be “defeated.”

I wouldn’t call that a historical argument but more of a political conclusion built on selective framing using a common persuasion tactic: start with something true, omit key context, expand it into a sweeping moral indictment, and then end with a call to action.

So because of the moral decision of the Democratic Party, many flipped to the other side, which is why the south is now controlled by Republicans. They just now wear a red baseball cap instead of a white pointed hat.; 4/30/26, 8:08 AM
Kai Akker said...: Stock futures up nicely this morning. Last call, America.; 4/30/26, 8:10 AM
Saint Croix said...: the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force stormed my home with a flashbang, an armored vehicle on my front lawn, and a full SWAT team ordering my family outside at gun point. My children watched as their father, a decorated combat Marine and police detective, awarded the Medal of Valor, was placed in handcuffs.

My crime?

A post on Twitter on January 6th.

I wasn’t even there.

The Biden DOJ was the absolute worst DOJ of my entire life.

So if we are peforming "tit for tat."

That would mean the DOJ raids the house of random Democrats for saying shit on the internet.; 4/30/26, 8:10 AM
Iman said...: Democrats are the party of racism:

Slavery — Democrats
KKK — Democrats
Jim Crow — Democrats
Internment Camps — Democrats
Affirmative Action — Democrats
DEI — Democrats; 4/30/26, 8:12 AM
john mosby said...: Why does RJW have the same tone as ChatGPT? Especially the tone it takes on when it is trying to convince you one of its hallucinations is real? CC, JSM; 4/30/26, 8:19 AM
john mosby said...: Should be easy for Comey to call lots of coworkers to the stand to testify that he frequently used 86 in staff meetings to mean nonlethal cancellation - “Hey that Schmedlap investigation has gone on long enough - either indict or 86 it;” or “Jenkins is not doing well as an assistant director - let’s find him a nice retirement job and 86 him.”

I kind of think those witnesses don’t exist because otherwise his lawyers would have told the USAO they were prepared to do exactly that. CC, JSM; 4/30/26, 8:23 AM
Saint Croix said...: RJW,

The Democrat party has always been the racist party, dividing Americans into races and using fear to get people to vote. Black men were the primary victims of this, for decades. And now your party just wants to switch the victim to white men. And if you had the numbers, this racism would be even more odious and more obvious.; 4/30/26, 8:26 AM
narciso said...: No hes a fmr head of the fbi think of the villain in monte cristo; 4/30/26, 8:37 AM
RJW said...: JSM & Saint (Biden legitimately won) Croix, I’m reasonably sure the Dixiecrats was an actual game changer, Lee Atwater’s Southern Strategy was real and has evolved, and Stephen Miller isn’t hiding his desires to purge non-whites.

What happened to the racist Democratic Party of the civil war era? They became today’s Republican Party.; 4/30/26, 8:40 AM
Saint Croix said...: RJW

Our racists embarrass the fuck out of us.

Your party takes pride in its racist ideology, and you spend millions trying to indoctrinate the kids.; 4/30/26, 8:53 AM
boatbuilder said...: Re: the NYT songwriters list. My bad. Scratch the Brits. Never mind! Add Bob Seger, Jackson Browne, Steve Earle--and Smokey Robinson is still with us.; 4/30/26, 9:07 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: “ Your party takes pride in its racist ideology, and you spend millions trying to indoctrinate the kids.”

Thanks for that response St. C. It does a couple of things. You make a broad statement that you can’t factually back up and then pull out the woke card that the Outrage Machine has groomed you to use when you’ve got nothing.

I guess that’s more therapeutic than ‘the dog ate my homework”?; 4/30/26, 10:03 AM
RJW said...: “Your party takes pride in its racist ideology, and you spend millions trying to indoctrinate the kids.“

I thought we were talking history and how the parties have evolved but thanks for that response as it exposes a couple of things.

You make a broad accusation that you cannot factually back up and then you resort to playing the woke card which the outrage machine has groomed you to use when you have nothing.

I suspect that’s more therapeutic than “the dog ate my homework”?; 4/30/26, 10:07 AM
Iman said...: Kira Davis spotlights Dims penchant for violence and assassination…

https://x.com/Kiradavis/status/2049609045003391227?s=20; 4/30/26, 10:11 AM