Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 7/08/2023 12:24 am | #141 |
Here's another rundown of some of the crazy quasi-religious right-wing incantations. I have taken notice in an uptick in the seemingly casual designation of demons and demonic forces in what would otherwise be a 21st century American society. We've seen this language proliferate during the pandemic, in school board meetings across the country, various social media things. Seemed weird to me. Just the casual presumption that terms like "demon" or "demonic" represents appropriate pubic vocabulary in a somewaht modern technological age. Like when you whiff a funk in your home. Where's it coming from? Whence this seep?
So these are new names to me, this New Apostolic Reformation, this American Dominionism.
But beyond any true believers is a question of how such theo-spiritual language is being utilized and politicized in right-wing media, which is especially interesting in contrast to the steady groan of grievance from this right-wing media about how awfully the more liberal or progressive media is damaging our country and society by trying to, um, demonize conservatives.
Right-wing media gadfly Roger Stone — who observers have noted has increasingly adopted rhetoric around “spiritual war” — claimed on Eric Metaxas’ Salem radio show that “a demonic portal” had been visible above the White House since Biden’s inauguration. Stone suggested that through the “portal,” demons began to “populate the Biden administration,” arguing “you can’t tell whether they are men or women.”
Salem media host Charlie Kirk said that “we’re in the midst of the most consequential spiritual war” in millennia because “there is no other way to explain the campaign of arson and destruction against our country other than diabolical, spiritually dark influences that are fighting for dominion over this nation.” He also argued that “witchcraft and the occult is a real thing, and there are portals to darkness and you have to be vigilant about this.” Kirk also alleged that Satan had created “the woke mind virus” to destroy America and called on religious leaders to “excommunicate … the demons of the woke.”
Conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones warned that the European Council for Nuclear Research had used the Large Hadron Collider for “satanic rituals” which he claimed “definitely has opened up a gate” to hell and let demons into the Earth “like paratroopers.” Jones has also claimed that an “alien offworld force” with demons as its agents is “working against us around the clock because they know we are about to go from our embryonic level to birthing into the next level.” What’s more, in his trial for defamation of the families of the Sandy Hook massacre, Jones attacked the judge and plaintiffs’ lawyers as “committed to occult ideology of the new world order” and implied they were “demonically possessed.”
On Fox, now-former host Tucker Carlson used the Covenant School shooting in Tennessee to falsely claim that “the trans movement is targeting Christians, including with violence,” and denounced the trans community as part of “a deranged and demonic ideology.”
On her prime-time Fox News show, Laura Ingraham referred to gender-affirming care as “a demonic campaign to destroy the natural biological order.”
Daily Wire host Candace Owens called trans people “demons in our society” and smeared “any actor, actress, individual that supports this” as “demonic.” Owens has also argued that surrogacy is “deeply demonic.”
Fox prime-time host Jesse Watters claimed that viewers should be afraid of “demonic teachers” interested in “turning their classroom into a drag show.”
Daily Wire host Michael Knowles said of reports of interactions with aliens: “Aliens are just demons for liberals who don't want to admit metaphysical reality." Knowles — who demanded this year that so-called “transgenderism” be “eradicated from public life entirely” — claimed that trans people are “demonic” and that demons are “always trans.”
These are only among the more mainstream conservative media voices. Elon Musk has echoed the "woke mind virus". This language is not being coincidentally constructed.
Some of the more amusingly crazy stuff:
Doomsday prophet and repeat Trinity Broadcast Network guest Jonathan Cahn recently declared that Biden had put the United States under “demonic possession” at the hands of an ancient goddess of “sexual immorality” by lighting up the White House in the colors of the rainbow for LGBTQ Pride.
Two days after a shooter killed five people in a Colorado Springs LGBTQ club, Infowars host Owen Shroyer ran footage of drag queens and questioned whether “these people are even human,” ranting: “Demon possession is real. Satanic agendas are real. I don’t know how else to describe any of this.”
Disgraced Trump ally-turned-podcast-host Steve Bannon suggested that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is “satanic” because he “exudes … pure evil” and “hangs with Satanic Groomers.”
During his Christian nationalist ReAwaken America Tour, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has frequently asserted that there is a “spiritual war” in America. He has also called former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) a “demon.”
Right-wing podcast host Benny Johnson attacked the grand jury forewoman investigating Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference in Georgia, calling her “borderline demonic” and “demon-possessed.” He has also claimed that “you can see demonic forces at work" in Schiff's district, claiming that the congressman is “on the side of the demons.” Johnson has previously embraced the rhetoric of spiritual warfare, saying, “This rabbit hole goes down so far into the occult … This is a spiritual battle. This is a battle of possession, and there are stages of demonic possession, and we are in the oppression stage right now.”
On his BlazeTV podcast, Steve Deace called the Democratic Party “a demonic construct, a satanically influenced entity, and a death cult.”
Posted by crumbsroom ![]() 7/08/2023 11:50 pm | #142 |
Calling your political foes demons is always a clear indicator that they are not above using any and all drastic means to eradicate them.
I have little doubt that if Trump, or probably any extreme right wing leader at this point, gets into power, executing political opposition or just any simple undesirable is absolutely on the table. And I doubt any of their true believers will so much as blink.
They are so awful, they've made it impossible to talk about them without it sounding like paranoid hyperbole
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 7/09/2023 9:52 pm | #143 |
crumbsroom wrote:
Calling your political foes demons is always a clear indicator that they are not above using any and all drastic means to eradicate them.
I have little doubt that if Trump, or probably any extreme right wing leader at this point, gets into power, executing political opposition or just any simple undesirable is absolutely on the table. And I doubt any of their true believers will so much as blink.
They are so awful, they've made it impossible to talk about them without it sounding like paranoid hyperbole.
It's very difficult to overstate how alarmingly unusual this language is in context of political discourse. It's downright medieval. You literally have to go back to, like, Cotton Mather or the Salem Witch Trials to find a historical analogy in US history, and even then there's a reason why this is considered the epitome of hysteria. The closest 20th century example might be something like the John Birch Society, which railed against "godless" commies and peddled anti-semitism that veered close to 'blood libel' (although I don't quite remember even them making explicit accusations of consuming baby blood). And, obviously, the JBS was never as mainstream as Qanon has become. Of all of the conspiracy theories, across the spectrum, that have dealt with shady secret societies, I can't think of many which push such a supernatural, or at least paranormal, dimension of evil. And among those (ie, the lizard shape-shifters and such) none have managed to find influence outside of a very small cult fringe. Qanon now counts among them tens of millions of adherents, which is why their beliefs are being reflected in major media apparatus such as the single largest cable news channel (FOX) and the single most 'engaged' news publisher on Facebook (Daily Wire), as well as, of course, major political candidates from one of the establishment parties.
Defenders of such rhetoric (ie, Yarn) will take a "nothing to see here" gaslighting attitude, and many of the younger Zoomers may not have the education to recognize anything abnormal about it, but this is absolutely a frightening domestic development.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 7/15/2023 9:00 pm | #145 |
I was reading a bit more about RFK Jr's novel campaign strategy, which now incudes going on FOX News and praising Trump, because that's exactly what Democratic primary voters want to hear. Junior called Trump as "probably the most successful debater" since Abraham Lincoln, citing the successful Lincoln-Douglas debates where, as we all remember, Lincoln coined the burn "lil' pudgy Steve".
But as if that wasn't enough of an affront against American high school-level education, I saw this enlightening bit from the conservative-leaning The Hill article:
Then-candidate Abraham Lincoln’s presidential debates with Sen. Stephen Douglas (D-Ill.) in 1858 are believed to have delivered Lincoln the presidency and been the first presidential debates.
The Lincoln-Douglas debates certainly raised Lincoln's national profile, establishing his status for a presidential run, but the Lincoln-Douglas debates were not presidential debates. They were debating for the Illinois Senate seat, which may be why the debates were confined to Illinois districts. And even though Douglas would run for the 1860 presidency, there were no presidential debates in that race, and even if there were, Lincoln's main rival was not Douglas but John Breckinridge from Kentucky.
I'm not sure if journalist Nick Robertson wants to send me his paycheck from this week for taking two minutes to do his job for him. Maybe he still has debts to whomever he cheated from on his AP History exams.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 7/15/2023 9:21 pm | #146 |
The freshest bullshit from RFK Junior is that he's taken his Covid conspiracies along with his 'ethnobioweapon' conspiracies and naturally tied them together, because he's a totally serious candidate for the presidency of the nation.
COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese. We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact.
I like the "not saying conspiracy, but it sure rhymes with 'spiracy'" hedge.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 7/15/2023 11:17 pm | #147 |
What's Tucker Carlson been up to? Good question! He recently hosted a sit-down at the 'Family Leadership Summit' where he interviewed several Republican candidates and got the crowd to 'boo' MIke Pence for not doing "the right thing" on Jan. 6. (No nooses, however.)
What caught my ear most though was Carlson asking Pence how he could support Ukraine when they've been responsible for the persecution of Christians.
What's that again? Oh, it's Russian propaganda, and an alarming number of news sites reporting on this exchange have declined to bother fact-checking the broad claim. Carlson's fundamental error is refering to "the Ukrainian Orthodox Church within Ukraine, has persecuted Christians", which is a half-truth. The full truth is that there has been a schism in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church stretching back to the beginning of Russian hostilities in 2014 (simply put there is no single entity called the 'Ukraine Orthodox Church' anymore, but in fact two such entities), and Zelensky has sanctioned those pro-Russian Orthodox elements which have supported Russian separatists. Carlson's statement, a blanket statement describing Christians, ignores the larger congregation of pro-Ukraine Orthodox Christians, as well as smaller Protestant Christian denominations, and the latter omission is especially relevent considering how Russian, and its rebels and seperatists, have been waging a much larger campaign of violence against those Christians, but somehow, Tucker doesn't feel quite as compelled to sympathize with them. The above Snopes article is interesting in pointing out that much of this disinformation about Zelenky's persecution of Christians (writ-large) is at least partly sourced from a 2022 Tucker Carlson quote that he fabricated. It isn't the first time that Carslon has parroted Russian propaganda, and not even the first time he's helped compose it either.
Of all people, FOX News has issued perhaps the most forceful correction to Carlson's claims, quoted in the above Mediaite artlcle:
the Russian military has created untold suffering, specifically among Christians and religious minorities in Ukraine, going out of its way to systematically target Christians and destroy houses of worship....Human rights experts say Russian soldiers have targeted pastors and churches when invading regions in eastern Ukraine. The Russian military has disproportionately sought out evangelical Christians, destroying, damaging and looting nearly 500 religious buildings and sacred sites. The Institute of Religious Freedom (IRF) has documented numerous cases where Russia has seized religious buildings and used them as military outposts to conceal firing positions.
As Jordan Peterson has said, Putin is seen as a "salvic force for Christdom" among far-right fundamental Christians in America, "a bulwark against Western Wokeness". Support for Putin among the far-right religious fundamentalists, and especially among MAGA adherents, has not been terribly fazed by this invasion. It's not unusual that the most ardent calls to defund our Ukraine support is coming from such far-right religious activists, like self-described Christian Nationalist Marjorie Taylor-Greene. Such talk of "Christian persecution" falls in line with Putin's own claims of "de-Satanization" of Ukraine, and of course, talk of demons abound.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 7/19/2023 6:28 am | #148 |
There's been a response to the above by the Orthodox Public Affairs Committee, which represents the collective denominations of the Eastern Orthodox Church:
In a statement to Newsweek, OPAC said it had "deep concern" at how media personalities like Carlson "continue to spout Russian propaganda about so-called persecution of Christians in Ukraine."
"Carlson, who has little or no understanding of the complexities of the religious reality of Ukraine, only foments more division with his nonsensical statements," said the OPAC statement.
The story is still not receiving a tremendous amount of attention, and it seems that generally most media outlets these days are choosing to pay as little attention to Tucker Carlson as possible, which is admirable, but it's still important to point out and identify these strains of disinformation before they begin to take hold, and lies about the predominant hot war of our time are slightly more important than lies Carlson says about a fascist pimp like Andrew Tate.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 7/19/2023 6:32 am | #149 |
I read a new, novel euphemistic definition for the current phase of inflation: "changing the distribution of value in the economy from labor payments to returns on investment". It's not inaccurate, but it'd be easier to simply say that shareholders are fucking over workers.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 7/19/2023 8:44 am | #150 |
I also want to follow up on the Robert Kennedy Jr. thing, his proposed theory of Covid as "ethnically-targeted" and about his previous (unfounded) theories about race-specific bioweapons. (Posts #146 and #138 above) The most significant thing is to keep these two things in proximity as the latter point provides the necessary context to the former which is the context that RFK J is now denying. It's actually quite disappointing to see this lack of context in most (all?) of the mainstream stories covering his fundraising gaffe. On a simple Google search for "Robert Kennedy Jr. full transcript nypost video", the full transcript does not come up, and every single article only quotes the same portion I quoted in post #146, which, in this truncated form, allows RFK the wiggle room to deny that what he was referring to was, in fact, an engineered bioweapon. So I want to transcribe from the actual video in order to make this context crystal clear and to show how RFK is trying to weasel out of it.
RFK Jr wrote:
And we need to talk about bioweapons. I know about bioweapons because I've been doing a book for the past two and a half years, and the technology that we now have, we've put hundreds of millions of dollars into ethnically-tergeted microchips. The Chinese have done the same thing. In fact, Covid 19, there's an argument that it is ethnically-targeted. Covid 19 attackes certain races disproportionately. The races that are the most immune to Covid 19 are - because of the structure of the, the genetic structure, the genetic differentials of different races, of the recepters, of the ACE2 recepter, Covid 19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people that are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese. We don't know if they were deliberately targeted or not, but there are papers out there that show the racial and ethnic differential impact of that. We do know that the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons, and we are developing ethnic bioweapons, and that's what all of those labs in the Ukraine are about. They're collecting Russian DNA, they're collecting Chinese DNA so that they can target people by race.
Compare this to post #138, which again is a story which most mainstream media are oddly uncurious about.
RFK Jr wrote:
We know that the Chinese are developing ethnic bio-weapons. Bio-weapons that are designed to attack people of certain racial types. And we’re doing the same thing. We’ve been collecting Chinese DNA. We’ve been collecting Russian DNA specifically for that. [This] arms race is a catastrophe.
And how do we know this? Kennedy cites the Chinese Foreign Minister, who in turn cited a Russia Today article. The Foreign Minister was responding to Secretary of State Blinken's assertion that the Chinese government had a program for mass DNA collection in Tibet, but nowhere in this assertion is was the suggestion that this collection was for the purpose of developing an ethnic bioweapon, but for surveillance. And that's it. That's the extent of what we know about the existence of such bioweapon programs. Kennedy has taken 2 and a half years to come up with that.
Kennedy can parse all he wants about "deliberately targeted". The fact is he segways directly from discussing government bioweapon programs, that are "ethnically-targeted", to talking about Covid 19, which he claims is "ethnically targeted". "Oh, I'm not saying that anyone is deliberately targeting anyone, just pointing out that the government of the country where Covid 19 emerged is collecting DNA to create weapons that would do so in a remarkably similar fashion! Who knows?!?"
If RFK Jr wasn't being propped up by tech billionaires, I'm sure that the mainstream media could have clearly made the case why all of the above is utterly disqualifying. But I guess that just shows how much they hate Joe Biden's tax policies.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 7/28/2023 12:49 pm | #151 |
I've heard the phrase "vaccine lockdowns" used multiple times over the last couple of months. I think there's a bit of confusion there, and it's so bizarre.
Now that people like Bill Maher are taking advantage of our more comfortable position today, post-mass vaccination and dwindling omicron varients - to try and rewrite the pandemic history by pretending that it wasn't such a bad thing after all, that the anti-maskers were right after all, that vaccine hesitancy was reasonable and maybe didn't even matter, etc.
So I think stories like this, a Yale study which found a distinct gap in the "excess death" rates between Democrats and Republicans during the summer and fall of 2021 - the immediate post-vaccine period, serve as an important reminder to anyone inclined to believe Bill's bullshit. In short, the study shows that death rates during the first 15 months of the pandemic (March 2020 - May 2021) were roughly identical across party lines. Only after the vaccine become available, and the anti-vaxxer propaganda flourished predominantly in right-wing media and social networks, the number of Republican deaths began to exceed Democratic deaths by 43%. The spike in Covid deaths during the Delta-Omicron wave was fueled by unvaccinated.patients.
Vaccine hesitancy cost hundreds of thousands of lives in unnecessary deaths, and we should never forget that anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers have blood on their hands.
Posted by Rock ![]() 7/28/2023 1:00 pm | #152 |
Yeah, I sometimes feel like I’m talking crazy pills when I see this kind of revisionism taking hold. Yeah, being under lockdowns wasn’t fun, but it’s not like there wasn’t a very good reason for it. Like, did everybody forget how many people died? Sorry it cramped your vibe or whatever.
Posted by Rock ![]() 7/28/2023 1:02 pm | #153 |
I should add that I’m still trying to keep up with my boosters and mask in most public places, which I suspect is grounds for some to write off my opinion on the above. I’m probably being extra cautious at this point but I also don’t like getting sick, so whatever.
Posted by crumbsroom ![]() 7/28/2023 1:03 pm | #154 |
I watched the John Waters club random, and was good...mostly because, even though Waters appears to be mostly friendly with Maher, you get the distinct impression he sort of knows he's dumb as shit.
I can't remember who he was talking to when he said it, but there was one clip of him from a few months ago saying ALL of the measures that took place during the pandemic were in unnecessary. So saying we should have done basically nothing, but thumb our freedom at a fucking virus.
What makes this the province of the dumbest of shits is that it clearly doesn't take into any account the possibility that maybe some of these things are what prevented the whole thing from being the kind of catastrophe that would have risen to the level even they'd acknowledge.
Of course Maher has been pushed to consider these sorts of things, from people who aren't as brain fucked as he is, but like any willful moron, he just waves those things away as being of no consequence. Or, in other words, he doesnt know how to argue against stats that he doesn't cherry pick.
Plus, its never been more clear to me, ever since being invited into his basement (er, sorry, nightclub), that he is a painfully uncool guy. He's legit dork territory, which makes it extra hilarious when he thinks he's some kind of suave Sinatraesque swinger.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 7/28/2023 1:39 pm | #155 |
Rock wrote:
I should add that I’m still trying to keep up with my boosters and mask in most public places, which I suspect is grounds for some to write off my opinion on the above. I’m probably being extra cautious at this point but I also don’t like getting sick, so whatever.
I admit that I ditched the mask after my first round of vaccinations in 2021. Not that I minded too much wearing it, and never understood the allergy to them. I'm on my own with any future booster, since in America we now have to pay for them out of pocket, and I've seen that the fall boosters will be going for something like $160 unless the government steps in to subsidize them (and with a Republican House, that's doubtful). So I'm hedging my bets on my anti-bodies at this point, both from the three previous shots, my one known breakthrough infection, and whatever else. Luckily, the various Omicron subvariants are each increasingly less severe than the last, so hopefully we're seeing a spiral into something manageable, at least for the time being.
Posted by Rock ![]() 7/28/2023 1:57 pm | #156 |
Yeah, I think at this point if you’re gonna get an infection it’s unlikely to be severe (barring any pre-existing health problems). I have to go into the office regularly and take public transit to do so, plus boosters are still free here, so these are pretty low effort steps on my part. I guess I’m just annoyed at how onerous people have made these things sound, although the anti-mask / anti-vaxx culture here isn’t as strong.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 7/28/2023 2:14 pm | #157 |
crumbsroom wrote:
I watched the John Waters club random, and was good...mostly because, even though Waters appears to be mostly friendly with Maher, you get the distinct impression he sort of knows he's dumb as shit.
I thought it was very entertaining. I like how Bill starts off by trying to rib Waters about gay stuff and keeps embarrassing himself. Waters is at first amused, "Oh, isn't this cute" look on this face, but got increasingly annoyed when Maher turned to butt stuff. Apparently Waters is more of an oral guy. "There's lots of holes, Bill." "But what about butt plugs?" Gee, what about butt plugs, Bill? Waters just brushed it off, "That's a straight guy thing", which astonished Maher. After that Waters seemed to recognize that if he kept talking fast enough, Maher couldn't catch up to interupt and he could keep it on whatever topics he preferred, which is largely what he did.
I also eventually had to watch the Jordan Peterson one, which thankfully wasn't quite as bad as I feared. Peterson wasn't as crabby and apocalyptic as he has been recently - he didn't even cry once. But of course the predictable things about covid and climate change "compliance" (this was one of the places where I heard "vaccine lockdowns", which, again, is nonsensical if you think about it).
crumbsroom wrote:
I can't remember who he was talking to when he said it, but there was one clip of him from a few months ago saying ALL of the measures that took place during the pandemic were in unnecessary. So saying we should have done basically nothing, but thumb our freedom at a fucking virus.
What makes this the province of the dumbest of shits is that it clearly doesn't take into any account the possibility that maybe some of these things are what prevented the whole thing from being the kind of catastrophe that would have risen to the level even they'd acknowledge.
Of course Maher has been pushed to consider these sorts of things, from people who aren't as brain fucked as he is, but like any willful moron, he just waves those things away as being of no consequence. Or, in other words, he doesnt know how to argue against stats that he doesn't cherry pick.
I know I'm preaching to the choir, but it isn't difficult to find the stats on estimated lives saved by either masks, lockdowns and the vaccines themselves that really speak for themselves. And what's always been the irony is that the lockdowns would not have been so necessary, so severe, if universal mask-wearing was adopted. Trump's own surgeon general said this plainly. So it really is idiotic how many people complained about both masks and the lockdowns, unable to comprehend how one affects the other.
Another big pet peeve that directly relates to both Bill Maher and Joe Rogan was the line they used after surviving covid, with apparently little to no major symptoms or complications, was to come out say something along the line of "See! That wasn't so bad! I'm Fine!!!" You're rich! And in Joe's case, in excellent physical condition. And we still don't understand why it is that covid affects some people more catastrophically than the estimated 1/3rd who are close to asymptomatic. It's not that they're so stupid as to be incapable of reading the daily death rates. They know that people are suffering. This selfishness, almost Darwinistic gloating, adds so much salt to the raw cruelty.
Posted by crumbsroom ![]() 7/28/2023 3:14 pm | #158 |
It's great that the numbers are there, but it's almost like he doesn't even understand the notion of considering even the possibility it would have been worse.
I think it ties directly into how it personally affected him. And because it didn't, he simply doesn't care. Because it turns out he could risk getting it, fuck you, open up the strip clubs so daddy can make love to Charity.
As for Rogan, I just think he's too fucking stupid to understand anything. His latest equivocation between Aldeans stupid song and how 'wild' rap lyrics are, once again another bon mot from his context free existence.
Posted by Jinnistan ![]() 7/28/2023 4:24 pm | #159 |
crumbsroom wrote:
fuck you, open up the strip clubs so daddy can make love to Charity.
Haha. That reminds me of one of his more embarrassing lines back in the day, where he claimed that he couldn't be a racist because he's dated black women. One of the more prominent of his girlfriends was Karrine Steffans, a "video vixen" and exotic dancer who had earned the nickname "Superhead". Then, Thomas Jefferson jumped up out of the grave and yelled, "Yeah, me neither!"
crumbsroom wrote:
As for Rogan, I just think he's too fucking stupid to understand anything. His latest equivocation between Aldeans stupid song and how 'wild' rap lyrics are, once again another bon mot from his context free existence.
I got thoughts on this, because this is kinda my neck of the woods. Columbia, TN is about 50 miles south of Nashville, in the middle of Klan country. There's a cluster of adjacent counties in south-central Tennessee - Lewis, Maury, Marshall, Bedford, Coffee, Giles - that were well known areas of racist violence. Giles County was the birthplace for the KKK. As recently as 2017, white supremacists tried to form a White Lives Matters march from Bedford to Nashville, but was shut down in Murfreesboro just south of Nashville.
Columbia is in Maury County, and you may have read that its courthouse (specifically) was the site of the lynching of a black man, Henry Choate, in 1927. There was also the lynching of Cordie Cheek in 1933 and the Columbia Race Riot of 1946.
So the question remains - Jason Aldean is from Macon, Georgia, not Tennessee, even if he may currently live in Nashville - out of all of the random small town courthouses in the area, why he would just happen to choose one whose courthouse played a prominent role in both a lynching and a race riot, with which to backdrop his anti-BLM protest message? You're telling me that's a coincidence, Joe?
Posted by Rock ![]() 7/28/2023 4:46 pm | #160 |
I've definitely seen the "didn't affect me" or "I got a case and it wasn't too bad so therefore we didn't need any of the mandates/restrictions" play out with acquaintances. Gee, you think maybe the reason your case wasn't so bad was that you were vaccinated? Surely that couldn't be it.