The state of the republican party

America elected a president that said "the jury is still out on evolution"...24 years ago.

 

Selfish Junior high level thinking.

Living in a safe society paid for with our taxes, police, Fire, schools, government, military - yet being so selfish you don't want to contribute.

And saying people just end up poor.....The lack of educational understanding here is mind numbing.

This is just well....STUPID for sure.

DD

 

Totally normal thing to be happening

 

Silk in a militia? Good luck with that.

 

Bone Spurs is going to be that type of guy?

I'll never blame him for avoiding the draft, but don't pretend he's the kind of person who'd shoulder a burden for someone else.

 

I saw a clip of Byron Donald being challenged on what he just said recently about the black family and Jim Crow by Joy Reid, and she brought up a story about a boy named Willie James Howard I had never heard about that had me breathing heavy and almost made me tear up

Over the Christmas holidays of 1943, Willie James Howard, then fifteen years old and in the tenth grade, and had a job as a delivery boy for the Van Priest Five and Dime Store in downtown Live Oak. The store was located in this building photographed in 2006. It has since been changed to a novelty store. It was unusual for a black boy to be working inside a store or making deliveries.

Apparently, Willie James became infatuated with a 17 year old white girl named Cynthia Goff who also worked in the store. Bubbly Willie James sent all of the female employees of the store a Christmas card. When he heard that Cynthia had become upset upon receiving the card he wrote her this letter which is copied here as he wrote it.

Dear friend,

Just a few line to let you hear from me I am well and hope you are the same. This is what I said on that Christmas card. From W.J.H. with L. I hope you will understand what I mean. That is what I said now please don’t get angry with me because you can never tell what may get in somebody I did not put it in there myself God did I can’t help what he does can I. I know you don’t think much of our kind of people but we don’t hate you all we want to be your all friends but you want let us please don’t let anybody see this. I hope I haven’t made you mad if I did tell me about it an I will forget about it. I wish this was a northern state. I guess you call me fresh. Write an tell me what you think of me good or bad.

Sincerely yours, with L from Y.K.W.

To Cynthia Goff

I love your name.

I love your voice.

For a S.H. you are my choice.

Cynthia’s father, Alex P. Goff, a former member of the Florida House of Representatives, got a hold of the letter. It is not clear if the girl gave her father the letter or if he discovered it on his own. In any case, Goff was incensed. He got two of his friends, Reginald H. Scott Sr. and Seldon B. McCullers, and drove to the boy’s home. Willie James had heard at the dime store that the white men were looking for him and he ran home.

According to his aunt, Mamie Perry, “He knew they was going to kill him so he ran home to his Mama. He was trying to tell my sister what had happened when just then the car with the men drove up.” Goff drew a pistol on Lula Howard and demanded that she turn her son over to them. Faced with this dilemma, Lula let the men take the boy. She ran after the car as it drove away. Lula Howard then hurried to the lumberyard where her husband worked.

Goff and the two men had driven to the lumber yard and at gun point had ordered her husband James to get into the car with them. By the time Lula arrived at the lumber yard the men had left with her son and husband. Lula would later report that the wife of the owner of the lumber yard, a white woman, would have testified as to the abduction of her husband but she was never called to do so.

The car was driven out of town to the Suwannee River along a bluff in Sulpher Springs. Goff would later admit to the sheriff that he tied Willie James’ hands and feet.

When they arrived on the high bank of the river, Goff made the boy and his father get out of the car. Acting as jury and judge, Goff asked Willie James if he understood the penalty of his crime. “Yes, sir,” he answered, weeping. Goff then asked James Howard if he had anything to say to his son. Powerless to intervene in his son’s fate, James Howard offered his son some words of comfort in what he now knew were his son’s last moments of life: “Willie, I cannot do anything for you now. I’m glad I have belonged to the Church and prayed for you.” Willie James’ final request of his father was that he take his wallet, which Howard did.

Goff then placed a gun to the boy’s head and told him to jump or take what was in the gun. Willie James jumped into the river and drowned.

The men then drove the father back to his place of employment where, after watching his son murdered, James Howard finished his shift. According to Mamie Perry, “When James Howard went home that night, all that he would tell his wife was that Willie James was not coming home. It was a few days before my sister found out what had happened.”

stories like this are why I have to believe that hell is real

 

Completely normal things happening in America.

 

So MTG is saying we should vote for convicted felons now for President because Jesus was a convicted felon?

Does this just apply to Trump, or any convicted felon left or right, black or white?

 

Donald Trump dissolves congress.

Oh wait, it is the left wing authoritarian who wants to send troops into Ukraine to save yet another dictator who refuses to have elections due to 'war'.

 

I've heard it all today, Jesus was a convicted felon...some entity will have to step in and start regulating social media. We can't keep dismissing it as fringe right propaganda when smooth brained libertarians and dumbass liberals take the same talking points.

 

I mean, in one sense im glad its out in the open. 20 years ago these people were out there, but too scared to give themselves away. Now, at least, in the age of ubiquitous surveilance, we might at least have a paper trail when they set out to murder some minority and claim self-defense.