And enshrine in law that they get absolutely NO foreign aid from the USA.
So, engaged in honorable work.
Unlike now.
What, no ukuleles???
Isn’t it illegal to secede? I remember reading that it was tried once, with disastrous results
It is illegal to secede unilaterally. If SC passes a resolution of secession, they must submit it for Congressional approval for it to take effect. (As I recall, a JR is not an Act, so the governor could not veto it).
Yes, and the disaster was that we in the North won, and then accepted the Loser South back.
We’d be way better off as a nation if we didn’t have the Confederate states sucking us down. Not even considering political & moral issues, just economics – most of those states get welfare that is paid for with taxes from the north. They take in more Federal money than they pay in taxes.
If they try it again, this time we’d be glad to let them secede. Good riddance!
Or better yet, let us northern & west coast states secede. We’d join up with Canada, and leave the south with the US national debt. And Donald Trump. Serve 'em right.
How do you rank Kentucky? Mostly neutral during the Civil War, but generally considered a part of the South.
Am I gonna have to move?
Over on Twitter, Dinesh D’Souza apparently is having trouble with the idea that settlers *were *immigrants.
And some of the comments are …
Honestly, somedays it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed. I think I’m going to go back to it.
You mean Dinesh “born in Bombay of Indian national parents and spent the first 18 or so years of his life in India before he IMMIGRATED to the USA as an exchange student” D’Souza?
They better watch it. The Prez got a bigger button than they do.
There’s been hateful shitheads on the radio since at least Father Coughlin in the 1920s.
I remember a talk radio station my mother listened to in the '70s. It was tolerable and not dominated by right-wing shitheads. Of course, the RWSHs were a little less vocal in that era.
Also known as Dinesh “Convicted Felon” D’Souza.
And before that, there were the bastards who came up with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Hell, we can probably go back to shortly after the introduction of movable type. And it wouldn’t surprise me if there was hate speech in cuneiform tablets.
Cuneiform was invented by the Babylonians, who were then absorbed by the Semitic Akkadian people. It would not shock me if there were anti-semitic purists in ancient Babylon when those Akkadians started knocking on the door.
That’d be him.
You could cut the irony with a knife, but why do that to a good knife?
True, but it wasn’t ‘talk radio’ in Coughlin’s era–it took a while for most Americans to have a telephone, for one thing.*
But, yes, there have been hatemongers for as long as there have been humans, probably.
*Wikipedia is lousy on the history of the spread of telephone usage over the decades of the 20th century–the writers were too excited about talking about the advent of cell phones to pay any attention to it, I guess. I found a book citation from 1994:
“In 1930 Canadians had 10.1 residential telephones per 100 persons … compared to 10.6 in the United States.”
Ummm, maybe I am missing something, but radio transmissions are not received on telephones.
Talk radio requires people to phone in, doesn’t it?
No.
Ummm, I don’t think so? It is that it is talk, rather than music, that defines the format.
The wiki page on it says “Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live conversations between the host and listeners who “call in” (usually via telephone) to the show.”, but I don’t see that as a necessity, just something that can be included, and often is, in modern times.
Then goes on to say “Expressing and debating political opinions has been a staple of radio since the medium’s infancy. Aimee Semple McPherson began her radio broadcasts in the early 1920s and even purchased her own station, KFSG which went on the air in February 1924; by the mid-1930s, controversial radio priest Father Charles Coughlin’s radio broadcasts were reaching millions per week.”, as well as “Talk radio as a listener-participation format has existed since the 1930s.”
As far as only 10% of people having phones in 1930, that number was going up very rapidly during that time, and that number would have been much higher in cities, where the shows would have been more heavily marketed.