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(51,445 posts)ret5hd
(20,491 posts)the white knights. For sure.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)BobbyBoring
(1,965 posts)Certifiable opinion~
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Hey, who needs a stinkin Certification? It's just your eyes, right?
unblock
(52,196 posts)it would appear that the aide understood this to be racist even if paul does not, or at least pretends, to not.
BlueManFan
(256 posts)remember Papa Paul's racist screeds that he wrote but didn't, charged for, but didn't, and defended, but didn't. Ron and Rand together aren't worth a shit.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)to be a racist.
Initech
(100,063 posts)The stupid, it burns...
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,833 posts)truthisalie
(4 posts)real talk.
piece of shit has an important voice in his Party. Amerikkkans who voted for him, same thing he is.
MADem
(135,425 posts)but wait...there's MORE (no subtitles..)
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)just curious.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)calimary
(81,220 posts)I'm as white as can be, but I find that symbol incredibly offensive!!! I find that whole statement incredibly bewildering and disgusting. When you're WEARING that incendiary crap ACROSS YOUR FREAKIN' FACE, I'm sorry but you deserve what you get. You're just trying to inflame people and stir things up. And when you do, don't be surprised and don't whine if you're "unfairly" treated by the media. You sure look like a racist to me!
I find myself losing patience with people who just try to stir things up for the sake of stirring things up. There seems to be no other reason for him doing this. BORING!!!! TIRESOME as hell! And um, yes. RACIST. If the mask fits, pal, wear it.
And this guy's pal/apologist, the Kentucky Pipsqueak, is the same guy to whom Medea Benjamin wants to hand-deliver valentines????????????
JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)I have an old family album of tintypes. One of the pictures is of my Uncle Henry Canfield who fought for the Ohio Militia during the Civil War, and his side won. I'm sure he didn't fight in that conflict to see their flag used today like the war is still ongoing.
They say it's about "heritage", but for a hundred years before that war I believe they governed under the same banner as the North. It was only "heritage" for four short years. I wouldn't like to hear that crap from deluded neoNazis either, and I fail to see much difference.
I have a friend up here who's into Nascar. We were debating an issue last year where some team wanted to race a car with the "General Lee" paint job, complete with the flag on the roof. My buddy didn't see the big deal, so I asked him how it would work out if local driver Dave Blaney campaigned an Ohio based car adorned with the Union flag.
He said that would probably be all right, so I continued that the car could be called "The General Sherman" and sport flames painted down the sides. The theme could be "Burning up the tracks from Ohio to Atlanta". He finally agreed that the only thing that would get that car banned from Nascar faster would be a Hillary bumper sticker.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Just because I'm so tired of people not knowing....
This is the "stars & Bars"
This is the battle flag
Neither of them are this
Which is a made up flag.... made up by white supremacists after the war.
Now to those who say I'm getting picky.... before walk-talkies, flags were how you could tell who was who and therefore the exact shape, color and emblems are very important. It also points out that when SC says it flies this 3rd one because of "heritage"... they are lying. Unless of course they mean their KKK heritage.
calimary
(81,220 posts)Either one of the last two is just nothing but a big and thoroughly insulting "Brand X."
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)It started out as this:
But if it wasn't flying, it sometimes looked like a white surrender flag! Oops! So they stuck a red band on the end of it: (look! a real one!)
But eventually they just pared it down to the square one.
There's also a CSA Navy Jack.... but you'll notice the blue is not the same as the fake Confederate flag.
Besides, the CSA had no navy to speak of anyway.
Well, as Oscar Wilde said: "The truth is rarely plain, and never simple."
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)RW White Power types in Canada (yes, they exist; look up Paul Fromm) have co-opted the original Canadian Flag (pre-1965), the "Red Ensign," still beloved by a lot of Canadians (especially veterans; one's as likely to find it flying in Royal Canadian Legion halls as the Maple Leaf flag) and turned it into a symbol of their stupid (bowel ) movement:
tclambert
(11,085 posts)I thought they liked 13.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Hmmmmm.... good question.
The Stars and Bars kept adding stars as states seceded. The other flags probably did too. But since the 3rd one is fake....who knows?
There are 11 states that seceded, but flags would eventually have 13 stars, 2 representing KY and MO which the CSA considered theirs.
AZ also considered itself part of the confederacy, but it wasn't a state yet. Also MD and DE were slave states, but did not secede.
I'm no scolar. I looked this up.... Wikipedia is your friend!
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Thanks much for the research! Didn't know a lot of this.
I did not know that.
JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)...and through the eyes of Rand Paul, he's freakin' Abraham Lincoln.
Maybe Paul thinks people don't cross the line into racism until they actually lynch someone.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,833 posts)Heather MC
(8,084 posts)David Duke 2013
I can't wait to see Rand Paul ripped to shreads during the primaries if he makes it that far
stonecutter357
(12,695 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)"of the white people, by the white people, for the white people"
tclambert
(11,085 posts)Lincoln, bah! He was a RINO (Republican In Name Only). Why, he was a liberal yankee who sympathized with darkies. How could anyone call him a Republican?
Whoopdedoo
(60 posts)Would understand why he would defend Jack Hunter. The Southern Avengerrrrrrr. The secessionist at large blow hard is still loved by Paul.
So many 2010 idiots getting into power and just so many wishes to make them one termers.
classykaren
(769 posts)This would make a great commercial.
Rain Mcloud
(812 posts)to a racist.
I think it is quite obvious what Rand Paul is,just wait he will dig deeper in 3.....2......1...........
shenmue
(38,506 posts)nolabear
(41,959 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)who are 99.9% likely to be racist themselves, cannot define what is or is not racist.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Instead he says in effect "a non-white majority America would simply cease to be America" is not racist.
I'd back off of that if i was running for President of non-white majority America.
Cha
(297,154 posts)good in the way that .. he's such a sleazy libertarian that it's good he's exposing himself for what he is.
thanks EarlG
smallcat88
(426 posts)predicted that GOP will run Rand Paul as their candidate in next presidential election. Guess that means we can get ready for another democratic administration! The good thing about the crazy shit that comes out of his mouth is that he's guaranteed to lose a nationwide general election. You'd think they'd have learned that by now . . . but of course that would require brains.
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)...no more so than wearing a black SS uniform would be in Germany.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)their world salad as justification of their blatant bigotry, is no justification
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)I don't care if consumers want Spanish-Speaking programs, and I don't care if there are businesses looking to provide them. I want big government to shut them down and force them to consume only what I want them to consume.
allan01
(1,950 posts)the civil war is over !!! .Get over it!! the south lost . how plainer can i state it!!!! enough already.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)A terrible expression used in England, but I'm fast running out of ways to express my astonishment at the deeply ingrained bias and racism (Yup. I'm saying it) of this particular, libertarian politician.
So, is this guy Paul the AquaBuddha or an AquaCracker?
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)So don't practice things that appear to be racist!