pecosbob
pecosbob's JournalSigns of Fascism march in Tulsa by Indivisible...two minute video.
Stop Worshipping the Founding Fathers--They Designed the American System to Screw You
Resistance History with Tad Stoermer
The founders explicitly hated democracy. They called it mob rule. And when they said "the mob," they meant everyone who didn't walk, talk, and look like them. They designed a republic to keep power away from ordinary people and lock it in the hands of a white, Protestant, property-owning elite. They said this plainly. Repeatedly. In writing.
Just watched a Texas State Trooper aggressively body check two South Carolina football players at a game.
Steam just dropped some pretty awesome new gaming hardware.
New SteamOS mini-PC, VR headset and multiple controllers. Here's your chance to ditch Bill Gates and Microsoft's spyware-filled
Windows 11.
A structural problem playing out in real time. Tad Stoermer from The Resistance.
I'm certain this post will sink like a stone, but here goes...
Conservative nationalism and Liberal Nationalism share the same goal: protecting the establishment. The difference is just aesthetic.
Actual American resistance history—Samuel Adams, Ona Judge, the Underground Railroad, the Radical Republicans—looks nothing like this surrender culture. They understood the law is designed for stability, not justice, and they acted outside the channels political culture called legitimate.
Why the 39th Congress was the most powerful in American history and why we have a multi-racial democracy today.
On December 4, 1865, the Radical Republicans faced a similar situation — a reckless president working with traitors to undo everything the Civil War had accomplished. The 13th Amendment abolishing slavery had passed by a margin so thin you could see through it. And now a dozen ex-Confederates were flooding back into Congress to take their seats and reverse it all, with dozens more on the way.
So what did the anti-slavery resistance do?
They made those people invisible.
House Clerk Edward McPherson, working with Thaddeus Stevens, simply refused to call the names of representatives from traitor states during the roll call. When they protested, Stevens shut them down with parliamentary procedure. No vote. No debate. Just power, used completely, to bar the door long enough to pass the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
The 39th Congress became the most powerful Congress in American history because they understood something contemporary politicians pretend not to know: when you have power, use it. All of it. Because the other side never hesitates.
IMO this precisely what the next Congress should do.
James Carville thinks the GOP better lawyer up and a Dem President will call for reform of the Supreme Court in 2028.
Bullet points...
1. Do not worry about being out-funded by GOP donors...no Dem candidate has lost an election this century for lack of money.
2. Dem lobbyists' income will triple this year and GOP congress-critters better lawyer up if they were involved in any irregularities.
3. Guardrails would not have helped to restrain Trump.
4. Democratic trifecta in 2028...the Dem President will announce a commission to reform the Supreme Court.
5. GOP has a big anti-semitism problem and it's going to get worse.
6. Louisiana governor Jeff Landry is a disgrace and is destroying his alma mater LSU.
Judge indicates she'll intervene in fight over SNAP food assistance money
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/politics/boston-judge-intervene-snap-payments
Judge indicates she'll intervene in fight over SNAP food assistance money
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/politics/boston-judge-intervene-snap-payments
Random thoughts...Walmart takes in 25 billion dollars a year from SNAP recipients.
I wonder who their board of directors will blame when the money stops rolling in on Nov. 1?
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