12 Comments on “Sunday Reads”

1. Minkoff Minx says:

   July 21, 2019 at 7:05 am

   Notably this dog isn’t inside of a cage unlike the brown children https://t.co/IbC4VACOWj

   — Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) July 21, 2019

   • NW Luna says:

     July 21, 2019 at 10:13 am

     Cute dog, but I fear for its emotional welfare in that family. It’ll be petted and made much of for a while and then ignored.

     • dakinikat says:

       July 21, 2019 at 12:15 pm

       I have to live with 2 of those dogs atm. They’re a nervous wreck. They called Eskies. They bark at a drop of the hat and aren’t very social except to their owner I wouldn’t keep them around small children because they tend to nip and bite and things that bother them.

   • bostonboomer says:

     July 21, 2019 at 11:19 am

     The blue eyes are weird.

     • quixote says:

       July 21, 2019 at 9:37 pm

       I’m guessing the blue eyes were essential.

       • bostonboomer says:

         July 22, 2019 at 9:10 am

         I thought the same thing.

   • Enheduanna says:

     July 21, 2019 at 1:26 pm

     Of course they got a designer dog. Wonder how much they paid for it.

2. dakinikat says:

   July 21, 2019 at 11:28 am

   A white supremacist saying his boss’s white supremacy is out of love for his country is definitional white supremacy, as is a network providing him with a platform to spout it. https://t.co/ZDO9jNuZQA

   — Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) July 21, 2019

   • quixote says:

     July 21, 2019 at 12:23 pm

     Something about that guy. Central Casting would snap him up as The Ultimate Villain™ in a heartbeat.

     Except this is real life and he really is a walking black hole and in a reasonable society he’d be a night time security guard or gas station attendant or something that keeps him away from almost everybody.

     • dakinikat says:

       July 21, 2019 at 12:48 pm

       My guess is that he’s a bitter INCEL. No self respecting woman would give him a second thought for any kind of company let alone sex.

     • Enheduanna says:

       July 21, 2019 at 1:28 pm

       Psychopath eyes – they’re dead.

3. dakinikat says:

   July 21, 2019 at 12:47 pm

   Republicans Want a White Republic. They’ll Destroy America to Get It

   https://time.com/5628283/trump-tweets-racist-white-america/?fbclid=IwAR14ShASnmNSycPIod2UXmPwQTwuOkSbivv21xH_uRFpC8dpfjhymYBtAJ4

   Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and the author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide and One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy.

   When in a recent tweetstorm Donald Trump suggested that four Congresswomen of color leave the U.S. and “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” social media exploded. Outrage. Even some news outlets finally let go of the euphemisms and called the tweets “racist.” The Republicans, on the other hand, were quiet. As well they would be. The ideological demographics of the party dictated it.

   The GOP’s membership is nearly 90 percent white and can only envision carnage and extinction as it looks upon a rights-based, religious, racial and ideologically diverse America. Or, as Lindsey Graham had noted as early as 2012, “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

   In short, the United States of America is not really their America. They yearn for a white republic. That’s why they are fighting to recreate the days when, as Archie Bunker sang, “Guys like us, we had it made.” That’s why they’ve willingly gone along with and participated in a sustained attack on the country itself, allowing it to grow weaker so that they could feel stronger.

   Already, Trump and the Republicans have severely harmed the institutional heft of checks-and-balances. But they’re not done. America’s international reputation and influence rest on enormous economic and military strength, as well as the intangible but all-important “soft power” brought on by a robust democracy. All three pillars are necessary to sustain America’s nearly global respect and position, yet — and this was the rub — all three are increasingly dependent on more than just whites in the United States to build and sustain. For white America to exist, America must die. And the Republicans have made their choice.