It's semi-official. Trump to name a second racist to a top U.S. post.

It's breaking now that President-elect Trump (you think it's hard to type that, how about President Trump?) will nominate Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III as the United States of America's next Attorney General. The office that was held by giants like Robert F. Kennedy and Elliot Richardson (who resigned when ordered to fire Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor) is now in the hands of Jeff Sessions.

Ol' Jeff. In the 1980s, his nomination as a federal district judge couldn't get past the Senate. In America 2016? He's the Attorney General. The top lawman of the nation. As the great Lilly Tomlin said "It's gonna get worse, before it gets worse."

Ugh: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-donald-trump_us_582dfe...

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him with some of the terrible post WW2 AG's because we all need to reflect on how this rotten choice is going to impact the country.

Thanks for the post. I think it comes under the heading of "good information but bad news"

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"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"

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He could have resurrected Strom Thurgood and picked him. Absent the ability to resurrect the dead, I guess he went for second best.

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“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush

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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage

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Would Sessions even be acceptable to Republicans?

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

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Trump has made a clear declaration. As if Steve Bannon wasn't enough, this removes any suggestion that racist beliefs will be a disqualifier in the Trump Administration. Same for xenophobia, homophobia, bellicosity, etc, etc, etc. Thanks Hillary.

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"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey

FDR came from old money. Some considered him to be a class traitor.
Trump does not have to make these choices.
He does not have Clinton's binding political and financial obligations to the elites.

It looks like Trump will make those ties now. He doesn't have to do it- it is his choice.
That's on him, in my opinion.

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Beware the bullshit factories.

When has a Republican ever taken ownership of any catastrophe they cause? Stealing the meme from the post about the Democrats not taking responsibility for their horrible electoral performance in recent years, the Republicans never admit to their actions ever harming ANYONE.

It will be thus with Hair Drumpf.

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The " Shrub" is probably glad that he will no longer be listed as
the worst American President. Trump is on track to win that prize.

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about whether he's worse than Nixon.

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He thinks the worse they are , it's all for the better. His logic is it is easier to condemn policies when they are pushed by horrible people. He says Obama with his cute smile and eloquent speeches has put liberals to sleep, thus he got away with some awful crap and little pushback.

The Show is here. This one is about the Steve Bannon pick, but the logic applies to Sessions.
https://youtu.be/ShJxc6uLpbY

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Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.

Still a great quote. and Meryl Streep !
How could they? n/s

Edit. ok. it is time to move on.

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That may be a good thing if he's AG.

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steeped in the enlightenment intellectual tradition, as:

Edwin "When a person's a suspect, that means they're guilty" Meese
and
Alberto "Torquemada" Gonzales
and
John "Let the Eagle Soar" Ashcroft

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The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

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Or even Eric "Holder Memo" Holder. But RFK and Eliot Richardson were the first 2 recent stalwarts that I could think of who held the office. We're in the shit.

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"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey

a couple of years later, when he was being investigated for shenanigans and crucified in the press, and he said, "Whatever happened to innocent till proven guilty?"

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The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

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I'm sure Bill would have gone for it if offered!

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Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.

I wonder if the Clintons are sorry they encouraged Trump to run?

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make a very bright and lovely bonfire. If we aren't all in FEMA Camps. All this commentary we do on the Nets will of course be read at our trials . Strike that ...read at our judicial hearing before the local uber lord.

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And you're right, it'll be strictly "star chamber" proceedings. I'm sure they'll start the proceedings with the same declaration that Judge Roy Bean made when he started his trials. He looked at the defendant and asked "Have you got anything to say before I find you guilty?"

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"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey

and then recant them. Has no effect on the sentence, of course.

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...before your family gets the bill for the bullet.

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Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.

oh, boy.
and we are all here together.
"no exit" in the large. and a good morning to you.

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With SS and Medicare in danger FEMA camps might be a good alternative to living under a bridge.
They may not put us in FEMA camps , but you can bet net nuetrality will be a thing of the past.
You know that TPTB noticed the support and donations that Sanders garnered from the internet.

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It would be costly to keep so many people in captivity. And to what purpose could we be put to earn our keep? I don't expect to be imprisoned in a FEMA camp should that horror occur. I'm sure that most of us would be "disappeared" as was done in Chile and Argentina.

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is that he's no fan of Hillary.

Bill pressured Sessions to resign and eventually ended up firing him in 1993 - 5 1/2 years into his ten year FBI Director term - making him the only Director so far (cough, Comey, cough) to suffer that fate.

Old Hill better watch her P's & Q's. Old Dixiecrats never forget a grudge, and if there was ever a pitbull tugging at his chain, it's Sessions.

As far as the rest of course, not good. Not good at all.

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

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Bill Clinton "fired" William S. Sessions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Sessions

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

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I'm in heaven. Thanks Hillbilly Dem(exit) and NHK. Those are without a doubt two of the funniest, brightest female comedians ever. There are many but those two are permanently guaranteed to be on the list.

Jeff Sessions is not so funny.

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution. -- Jeff Sessions

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The people, united, will never be defeated.

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I love it! I'll see if I can change my user name to that one.

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"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
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or Loretta Lynch on the tarmac
fit in here?

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

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Lyndon Johnson was a racist. The difference of course was that Lyndon Johnson pushed through the 1964 Civil Rights Act whereas we in our current anti-racist moral superiority tolerate a situation in which school segregation, for instance, is "worse than it was in the '60s." Why? We spend too much time scouring our souls and the souls of others for racist tendencies, and not enough time looking at policy. In this regard we might be better off protesting a racist than we would be if we were to champion nice anti-racists whose policies were lousy.

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"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama

It's a consequence of the brand of identity politics that have given us our current situation. You should write an essay expounding on this topic. Identity and how it relates to our political discourse is important to me (I grew up in impoverished areas where whites were a minority, and it has deeply influenced me to this day), and I would appreciate having other voices highlight these issues as well, so from at least one individual's perspective your time wouldn't be wasted!

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to the insights of Yvette Carnell as reflected on Facebook (yeah I know) and in Breaking Brown...

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"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama

until Donny puts his hand on that Bible. (Wanna bet nothing will be made of him flubbing the oath?)
Once installed does anyone think any position will be held for more than a few months?

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There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.

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"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama

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of being president after about 18 months on the job. I could see him delegating just about everything except the State Of The Union address.

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"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey

Than being a reality TV star.

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Beware the bullshit factories.

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But then you remember George W. Bush and you realize that delegating everything to one's own personal Darth Vader eliminates much of the stress.

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No such accoutrement disguises the ugliness which is Mike Pense.

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Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.

on live TV.

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Beware the bullshit factories.

So far looks like a white nationalist (Bannon), an old dixiecrat(Sessions) and an orthodox Jew (Trump's son in law).

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sounds good to me

What he seems to have carried from a boyhood in a blue-collar, union and Democratic family in Norfolk, Va., and through his tour of the American establishment, is an unreconstructed sense of class awareness, or bitterness — or betrayal. The Democratic Party betrayed its working-man roots, just as Hillary Clinton betrayed the long-time Clinton connection — Bill Clinton’s connection — to the working man. “The Clinton strength,” he says, “was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That’s how you win elections.” And, likewise, the Republican party would come to betray its working-man constituency forged under Reagan. In sum, the working man was betrayed by the establishment, or what he dismisses as the “donor class.”

He absolutely — mockingly — rejects the idea that this is a racial line. “I’m not a white nationalist, I’m a nationalist. I’m an economic nationalist,” he tells me. “The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia. The issue now is about Americans looking to not get f—ed over. If we deliver—” by "we" he means the Trump White House "—we’ll get 60 percent of the white vote, and 40 percent of the black and Hispanic vote and we’ll govern for 50 years. That’s what the Democrats missed, they were talking to these people with companies with a $9 billion market cap employing nine people. It’s not reality. They lost sight of what the world is about.”

In a nascent administration that seems, at best, random in its beliefs, Bannon can seem to be not just a focused voice, but almost a messianic one:

“Like [Andrew] Jackson’s populism, we’re going to build an entirely new political movement,” he says. “It’s everything related to jobs. The conservatives are going to go crazy. I’m the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it’s the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Ship yards, iron works, get them all jacked up. We’re just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks. It will be as exciting as the 1930s, greater than the Reagan revolution — conservatives, plus populists, in an economic nationalist movement.”

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I will be watching closely to see how that turns out.

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

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…no matter how hard the Establishment tries to push it in. I had to listen to his speeches. It's easy to see why the Elite are so threatened by Trump.

Says Bannon, from that same article:

"He gets it; he gets it intuitively," says Bannon, perhaps still surprised he has found such an ideal vessel. "You have probably the greatest orator since William Jennings Bryan, coupled with an economic populist message and two political parties that are so owned by the donors that they don't speak to their audience.

But he speaks in a non-political vernacular, he communicates with these people in a very visceral way. Nobody in the Democratic party listened to his speeches, so they had no idea he was delivering such a compelling and powerful economic message.

He shows up 3.5 hours late in Michigan at 1 in the morning and has 35,000 people waiting in the cold. When they got [Clinton] off the donor circuit she went to Temple University and they drew 300 or 400 kids."

These days it takes more than scaring Americans to death with smears and propaganda to win an election. It might require — god forbid — real economic nuts and bolts and self-investment that enriches "everyman."

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and what a Trump Presidency would most likely entail. It's the most coherent and accurate essay I've read so far.

https://medium.com/@SnoozeInBrief/an-analysis-of-donald-trumps-election-...

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The people, united, will never be defeated.

FUCK!

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Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.

It's what all Nazis would do in his stead.

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don't smoke marijuana. He wants to crack down on it. Sounds like he could be in cahoots with the prison industrial complex.

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Beware the bullshit factories.

If Obama would just grow a pair he could reschedule Cannabis before
the Gopers take over. You can bet the Feds with Trump will attack users
in those states that have passed Marijuana laws. GOPers are all for state's
rights except when they do not agree with a state's laws.

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STILL believing in Hope and Change? How'd that work out for the US?

edited for title typo

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