I will never understand the internet. I don't understand what drives clicks and makes one particular story more popular than the other. This story of the brawl in Montgomery, Alabama has captured the imagination of black America in ways that you can't imagine. There are memes, jokes, and articles, which makes the point. As black folks, we have rallied around the folding chair, and we are so damn proud of our people for not sitting back and taking it anymore when we see injustice unfolding (pun intended) before our eyes.
If you have been living in a cave, I will give you a quick synopsis. A black security guard was doing his job and trying to keep a private boat out of the docking area while a commercial ferry was approaching. A bunch of boaters (who all happened to be white) jumped the poor guy and all hell broke loose. He was trying to hold his own but the numbers were just to much for him. Then, out of nowhere, a bunch of black strangers decided to jump in and help him. One guy literally swam across the harbor to help. He is now affectionately being called Alabama Aqua Man in black circles. The fight that followed is all over the internet, and the folding chair has now become a symbol of black resistance.
So let's try to analyze what transpired. I have been trying to figure out if this brawl was purely racial or just some citizens feeling bad for some guy that was getting his ass kicked by a bunch of drunks. But then, I have to ask myself: If the guy getting his ass kicked was white, would all those black strangers have stepped in to help? If there were a bunch of black guys beating a single white security guard, would a bunch of black strangers step in to help the white security guard? Would a bunch of white strangers jump in to help the lone white guy getting his ass kicked? To the latter question I would say no, to the first question, I would say, yes. But I am not so sure, which is what makes this all kind of fascinating to me.
A quick personal story. I went to high school in Jamaica. It was a boarding school, and there were kids there from all over the world. I had a close friend, Franz Newman, who I hung out with all the time. (He is living somewhere in Canada now, and I don't think he would mind me using him for this story.) Franz is Jamaican, and proud of it. But he is from a German settlement in the Southern part of the island, and he had blue eyes and blonde hair. I remember him fighting an African American kid who happened to be from New York, and he (Franz) was getting his ass kicked. Who do you think I jumped in and tried to help? Yep, Franz. Why? Because he was Jamaican, and he was my friend. In that moment, my friendship, and my national and ethnic loyalty, took priority over any racial one that I might have. It's complicated, I know. But that was my experience back then, and I was a product of my environment.
My guess is that because of the times we are living in, black folks have become hypersensitive to these types of interactions. So now, more than ever, we see everything in the context of race. I am also guessing that those white folks who jumped that poor security guard might not have done it if he was a white guy doing his job. So them, too, have become racialists in their every day interactions. It's where we are now as a country. And I suspect, sadly, that we will be seeing a lot more Montgomery, Alabama type racial brawls in the days to come.
Thoughts?
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Waited all week for you to comment and this was it? Good point but I just expected more.
My reaction to the notoriety this incident has gotten in the black community is, I have to admit, one of suspicion.
On the one hand, many people sharing this video may be just enjoying the fact that the riverboat ship's captain was defended by members of his ethnic community and avoided being seriously and unjustly injured. But my frank suspicion is that some of the rubberneckers and jokesters may not have cared whether the group of white folks were actually in the wrong (as they clearly were in this case), and would have jubilantly cheered ANY group of white people getting beat up by black people, under any circumstances. And that is ugly.
Also, you asked how things would be different if the races were reversed, and that made me think about how much black people don't trust the police.
Because if the races of the riverboat captain and the belligerent boaters had been reversed, I don't think this brawl would ever have happened at all. If the riverboat captain had been white, and discovered a bunch of drunken, uncooperative black pleasure boaters parked in his rightful spot, he probably wouldn't have argued with them for 40 minutes, and then tried to forcibly push their boat out of his space, which is what caused the whole fracas to kick off; he'd have just called the cops, who in turn would've promptly evicted the black folks.
The riverboat captain handling things himself instead of calling the cops, and maybe even the crowds of people joining in and defending him with (lol) folding chairs instead of calling the cops, are strong elements in why a viral-video-worthy brawl took place here.
"But my frank suspicion is that some of the rubberneckers and jokesters may not have cared whether the group of white folks were actually in the wrong"
WTF? They jumped the dude. Nobody would have given a fuck if they parked their boat there all day long but you don't gang up and jump somebody for doing their job. THAT'S why this shit happened.
Also Field, dude is Aquamayne LOL!
You can tell that it was the white people that caused the disturbance by the fact that nobody was killed by the cops.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“You can tell that it was the white people that caused the disturbance by the fact that nobody was killed by the cops.”
I dunno about that. I think it was more likely that the black people involved in the confrontation were fortunate and the cops who eventually arrived were at least somewhat professional.
If a crew of racist cops had shown up, this being Alabama, they wouldn’t have cared who started it. They would have finished it by exercising maximum force against the black folks.
On a sad personal note, today I learned my best man at my 1976 wedding died of covid 2 days ago. First actual human that I knew who died from covid.
sorry bout that Mike.
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/clarence-avant-dead-music-industry-legend-motown-1235391720/
I thought MoTown was all Berry Gordy. Son't recall hearing about this gentleman, but I grew up listening t0o alot of Motown players.
Clarence Avant was a giant in the music industry and helped launch the careers of many luminaries like Bill Withers, along with a mountain of other industry defining work.
So Fergus is witness tampering in the Georgia case (ranting that the Lt. Governor shouldn't testify). Perhaps he should try that in his DC case?
That's one of the few things that could actually land his fat ass in jail.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Trump is about to get indicted. Again.
Chair man's attorney set up Go Fund Me page and has over270k already.(from earlier today)
Fani Willis lawyers have emails tieing drumpf's legal team to efforts to steal election in Georgia.
Since Kushner left WH he has collected over 3 billion bucks for his hedge fund from ARAB SOURCES. Where is the congressional investigations for wrong doing?
“Chair man's attorney set up Go Fund Me page and has over270k already.(from earlier today)”
Chair man’s attorney claims his client was “involuntarily roped into the disorderly conduct initiated by a violent white mob.”
Lol, “involuntarily” forced to walk over to a fight involving complete strangers and start whacking some of them with a chair?
I don’t know what this man’s courtroom defense is going to be, but this might not be the way to frame things.
Fergus indicted again. State level this time, no chance of federal fuckery. Kemp can't even pardon him under Georgia law (not that he probably would) as there is a board of pardons there.
Shit, I finally got around to reading Jack Smith's indictment of the damn fool yesterday, now I have a whole pile of reading to do.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Meadows indicted among the felonious crew.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-election-investigation-grand-jury-willis-d39562cedfc60d64948708de1b011ed3
drumpf will likely seny knowing any co-conspirators or even his own legal team. drumpf's M O.
"drumpf will likely seny knowing any co-conspirators or even his own legal team. drumpf's M O."
THEY'RE JUST 18 COFFEE BOYS!!!
WITCH HUNT!!
IT WAS A PERFECT PHONE CALL!!
FANI WILLIS DATED A GANG MEMBER!!
(et cetera)
drump's alies demand Georgia laws be changed so he can be pardoned.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pardon-in-georgia/
Christie has been saying for a while that he thinks Meadows has flipped. Wouldn't it be ironic if Meadows has flipped for the feds and Fani Willis gets him anyway?
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Meadows deserves his own prison sentence or an old ropeon a new tree.
I invited some members of local school music boosters to raid my old wash house andtake all the refundable cans and bottles. While I was in the shed I oticed a handful of folding chairs I would gladly donate to BLM or other worthy cause to give uppity whitey a sound thrashing. Any takers?
The great 2023 Montgomery Riverboat Brawl will go down in the history books as a pivotal event in American history, as it is both a metaphor and future portent of what awaits White America in general.
As the Proud Girls like to say, F*ck Around and Find Out.
Montgomery Riverfront Brawl: Racist Karens and Kens getting that work LMAO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT6E70m4hi4
Today is the one year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, or as it is known by the sane, the climate bill.
If we manage to live into the next century, this will be the beginning of why.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
The MAGA meltdowns have begun.
Once again, some working-class goober wrecks her life by making insane sacrifices for a con man who wouldn’t piss on her if she were on fire. I will never understand why so many people are unable to see through the scam that is Donald Trump and his political ambitions.
Texas woman charged with threatening to kill judge in Trump election case
Senate shit (Number 2 the whip) Marlboro Barbie (Thune) ignores comletely the fed's economic news and blasts 3% inflation as nothing having been done by Biden and causing prices to rise.
drumpf supporters post names and addresses of grand jury members on line which is likely to end up with some dead ir seriously injured. drumpf is a danger to America and should be delt with appropriately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znnQRco5R_I
“drumpf supporters post names and addresses of grand jury members on line which is likely to end up with some dead ir seriously injured. drumpf is a danger to America and should be delt with appropriately.”
This provides a good argument for prosecutors to ask that the trial jury members be kept anonymous to protect them from Trump’s unhinged, cultish followers.
After all, Trump and friends are now defending themselves from RICO charges, like a bunch of mobsters. Might as well go ahead and treat this like a mafia trial, because that’s basically what it is.
Oh, there's plenty of irrefutable evidence of fraud, but none of it exonerates your fat ass:
Trump Cancels His ‘Major’ News Conference
August 17, 2023 at 8:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 150 Comments
Donald Trump said on Truth Social that his lawyers would prefer that he didn’t have a Monday new conference to unveil his “irrefutable” evidence of fraud in the 2020 Georgia election.
Instead, he said the lawyers will “put it in formal legal filings.”
-Doug in Sugar Pine
drumpf's lawyers just proposed an April 2026 trial date for his election interference case. 3 fucking years from now!
It must be a joke, Mike. LOL
It seems Elon is now removing the “block” feature on Twitter/X, because it is apparently very unfair and a violation of free speech principles if you aren’t forced to listen to the wisdom/advice of the Nazis he has welcomed back onto the social network.
He must believe that people aren’t abandoning Twitter fast enough and need an additional push.
This also may cause the app to get removed from Apple’s App Store and Google Play, which would be the final nail in Twitter’s coffin.
Marcy Wheeler, of the blog Emptywheel, was wondering what to call Twitter/X when she was writing about it. She settled upon "Xitter" which I assume is pronounced "shitter"...
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Marcy Wheeler, of the blog Emptywheel, was wondering what to call Twitter/X when she was writing about it. She settled upon ‘Xitter’ which I assume is pronounced ‘shitter’...”
Twitter certainly is getting shitter by the day.
It’s a strange era we live in, when wingnuts are deliberately ruining institutions just because they can.
Elon is ruining Twitter.
DeSantis is ruining a Florida university — and, at a slightly slower pace, all of his state’s primary and secondary public schools.
None of this will do them any good, in the end. It will just leave the country a culturally poorer place.
Gambler, I wish I wish it was a joke.....
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/18/good-luck-with-that-legal-twitter-mocks-request-to-push-his-trial-back-to-2026/
Man rips rinbow banner of store and wqhen store owner, whowas not gay, confronted bigot, he shot and killed her.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/storeowner-shot-dead-dispute-lgbtq-pride-flag/
cops later bagged the bigot with gunfire
To me it restores a little bit of faith in humanity. Three or four white guys decide that they can take one black security guard no problem. The adrenaline response kicks in as one after another takes a swing at the poor man. It's interesting that they come in running like they were playing football. As a few more white partiers join in the fracas, even a girl gets very belligerent.
Then some young men on the next dock see an injustice taking place. And instantly the tables are turned. I can imagine what they were saying as they strolled on up. "You look like you could use some help, my brother." The white dewds instantly crumple and slink away. Order is restored.
From the start it wasn't a real fight because no one ended up in the water.
Randy Rainbow strikes again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=596N4aPnjrs
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“From the start it wasn't a real fight because no one ended up in the water.“
One of the women went swimming.
Another “mysterious accident”: The leader of Russia’s Wagner Group of mercenaries, who previously tried to overthrow Putin, appears to have gone down in a plane crash.
Russians who defy Vlad all seem to have such terribly bad luck. Weird, eh? If it’s not drinking radioactive tea, or clumsily falling out of upper-story windows, it’s planes plummeting from the sky. How very convenient for Vlad.
The Onion has some thoughts on the recent developments in Florida’s educational system.
Florida Students Given Lifelike Dolls To Simulate Responsibility Of Owning Slave
Unfortunately, the following one is not a joke.
An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban
Siri, which classic works of literature should be thrown on the bonfire?
Male karen picks a fight with a black woman in grocery store and gets decked.
Phucking Hillary-ous!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b485aHIP-cA
I have to say, I am disappointed with the Trump mug shot. The aesthetics are all wrong. A classic mug shot should be taken under ugly fluorescent lighting, with the subject backed up against a cinder block wall and a number hanging from their neck. Bonus points if they’re actually wearing a jail uniform.
This one isn’t up to my standards. One-star yelp review.
TRUMP 2024!!
Lying liar Fergus self reported his weight as 215:
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Obama should start "The Girther Movement" and make Donald Trump prove he's 215lbs.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
I noticed in a debate pic all the little wannabe drumpfs except the female were wearing drumpf red ties and blue looking suits.
Corpus christie is probably closer to 215 pounds than drumpf is.
America was built on racism. The definition of racism is indoctrinated into our souls a long, long, long time ago. Racism is American, like baseball and apple pie. Centuries after you've taken your final breath on this planet, racism and America will continue to be synonymous with each other.
So, the question begs: Why are racist acts such as what occurred in Montgomery, Alabama still considered to be news? I mean, Alabama is a State within the United States of America, is it not? As a Black mam in America, I believe we'd serve a greater purpose as Blacks if we focused on our own shortcomings (hate crimes and sex crimes against our own skin color) opposed to America's instilled practices toward people of color.
drumpf blasted blasted Jack Smith after nugshot accusing Smith of making drumpf look bad as possible.
I did not know the special counsels job included choreographing prisoner mug shots.
Racist meathead in Florida murders three Black people and then kills himself.
Why he couldn't have started with himself and solved the whole problem without others having to die we don't know.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Best reaction to the Trump mug shot.
RIP David LaFlamme.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Cool story Doug.
Not people getting killed but your need to comment on it.
People getting killed was why I commented on it.
So tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of the march on Washington for jobs and justice, and apparently there were commemorative festivities this weekend, at which MLK's grand daughter said that her generation will become known for the action they take in advancing the cause of equality.
As an old white guy, I can only hope she is right about that.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Sadly, today there is once again a story about "unorthodox policing techniques" by some of America's (not) finest.
A drug dealer in NYC fled a police sting on a scooter. So one of the officers had the brilliant idea to chuck a drinks cooler at him, causing him to lose control of his scooter, crash, and die.
Damn, some cops are just hard-wired for violence. Any guy who would all of a sudden get the idea to use a cooler as a weapon is clearly into violent beatings. He didn't really throw it. He just happened to be standing there as Eric Duprey came flying by. He simply lifts the heavy cooler up and thrusts it in the path of the cyclist, sort of jumping out of the way. He jams it right into his face and chest.
Too fucking much.
Video of the moment of impact. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12449785/Suspended-undercover-NYPD-cop-Erik-Duran-exonerated-cooler-killing-Eric-Duprey-probe-complete-lawyer-says.html
Pigs lawyer probablyhas a signed deall to advertise cop approved koolers that kill.
One of the Foriduh attorneys Rhonda Santis fired says she was just about to file indictments against crooked cops when she was fired.
https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-firing/
Ron De-Klan-tis
Good one, FJ.
Trump’s federal trial on charges he tried to rig the 2020 election is scheduled to start on March 4th, the day before Super Tuesday. So he is officially going to be tried on serious felony charges while (probably) running as the Republican candidate for president, because that party apparently has no acceptable candidates who didn’t try to overthrow the government.
The GOP is a toilet.
Welp, Florida is at it again. Whodathunk people would be shot when anyone can get a gun without training or license.🤷🏾♂️
Rhonduh Santis says if elected he will send special forces into Mexico to attack drug kingpins.
Here’s the next genie that could escape the magic lamp in red, dumbed down states.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/08/prageru-climate-skeptic-science-florida-education/
Quote from Prager, Last month, as E&E News noted, Prager told the conservative group Moms for Liberty, “We bring doctrines to children…But what is the bad of our indoctrination?”
So magat indoctrination is good?
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/28/1196452357/samuel-wurzelbacher-joe-the-plumber-dies-at-49
Apparently his BS emitter plugged up and he died fromm being full of shit.
“Apparently his BS emitter plugged up and he died fromm being full of shit.”
Joe the Dumber, perfect representative of a certain class of conservative.
“Hey, Obama, don’t raise taxes on rich people, because I plan on getting rich, and that will be very unfair and mean.”
Ron Howard voice: “He did not get rich.”
From NPR obit to Joe the Plumber regarding his brief career as a politician.
Republicans had recruited him to run and thought his fame would help bring in enough money to mount a serious challenge. But he drew criticism during the campaign for suggesting that the United States should build a fence at the Mexico border and "start shooting" at immigrants suspected of entering the country illegally.
So less than ten years ago, mainstream republicans thought that the idea of building a fence, or "wall," if you will, along the border was a non-starter.
Are they ever going to recover their sanity? In how many generations?
Screwdy Rudy got liable default judgment by a federal judge in Georgia defamation case and was orderedt o pay 10s of thousands in lawyer fees.
“So less than ten years ago, mainstream republicans thought that the idea of building a fence, or ‘wall,’ if you will, along the border was a non-starter.”>
To be clear, it was probably the “start shooting migrants” part of Joe’s comments that might have been most controversial among Republican leadership, not so much the “building a wall” nonsense. Republicans have actually been awful for a while; Trump merely dialed everything up a few notches.
And even violence toward border-crossers is actually not that taboo in the GOP anymore. The Biden administration is currently suing Texas Gov. Abbott over the floating barrier he has illegally installed in the Rio Grande. This barrier consists of buoys supporting webbing that extends down underwater to make it hard to dive under, and I’m assuming that the buoys will spin and flip you backwards if you try to climb over them. But what if you try to squeeze between the buoys instead? No worries; there are razor sharp blades located between the buoys that will cut you if you try to do that.
So, apparently, Republicans are already pretty much okay with deliberately injuring border-crossers. How long before they promote the idea of simply killing them?
Mitch McConnell had another glitchy-computer moment, mentally shutting down during a press conference.
Rhonduh Santis guv's house struck by large falling tree while wife and kids were home during hurricane. Probablky Biden caused it.
They say that Mitch may be having symptoms from hitting his head a while back, but I feel like it's more likely to be from falling on his ass...
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Here is a classic WTF story, illustrating how our gun laws are not working. Seriously, shouldn’t someone determine that you are not a complete and utter dumbass before you can have unfettered access to guns?
4-Year-Old Fatally Shot By Woman Who Was Teaching Her 'Firearm Safety,' Authorities Say
Here is a video of the circular saw blades that are part of Gov. Abbott’s floating border barrier.
I guess this makes sense to someone that describes people coming into the country to work and raise families, or to escape persecution back home, as an “invasion.”
To everyone else, this is despicable.
Sorry, that link seems not to work. F*cking Elon has totally ruined Twitter.
Here’s another attempt.
I don't know if education about firearms would work for everyone, but I feel confident that after having some myself, I wouldn't leave a round in the chamber and point a gun at anyone I wasn't trying to kill.
-Doug of Sugar Pine
Re: 8:43 PM
Dear God
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/31/politics/thomas-alito-supreme-court-disclosures/index.html
Uncle Clarence and Fuck Face Alito finally got around to amending their freebie disclosures from past years. Only on the less than supreme court is ignorance allowed as an excuse to not follow the laws.
As for McCTurtlefuckface.... my late, ex-FIL had a malignant brain tumor that went undiagnosed until I finally tricked him into getting a CAT scan with the help of hs dentist. He would absolutely space out and not move a muscle or talk for up to an hour in the middle of tasks like starting and operating a grain combine or doing mechanical work on it.
Needless to say, by the time he got diagnosed it was too late for chemo or surgery and he lasted fom Ocrtober until the following February before heading for the cornfields in the sky.
Noted anti-masturbationist Joe Biggs was sentenced to 17 years in prison. He'll have a lot of time to furiously avoid all masturbation while he's in there.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
I may have warned you about this drumpf appointed shithead of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. He and 2 other like minded dumbfucks have taken over the Nuclear agency in charge of storing waste.
https://www.vox.com/2023/8/29/23849054/supreme-court-nuclear-safety-fifth-circuit-james-ho-radioactive-texas-commission
This is the guy dumbing down regs while he auditions for a seat on the Scotus.
21 y/o pregnant mother of 2 (6 & 3) allegedly shoplifted some items from a store and was fatally shot while allegedly trying to drive away. Her unborn fetus died as well.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bodycam-footage-shows-moments-pregnant-womans-fatal-shooting-ohio-poli-rcna102982
Haha. Someone has turned the mugshots of Trump and his co-conspirators into Batman villains.
Pirate Jimmy Buffet now occupies Davy Jone's locker. Gone @ 76.
Enjoy Labor Day time off everyone, except anymoose.
More jail time for more Proud Boys. I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again. You can support Mango Menace all you want but please don’t do two things, don’t send him any money for his defense and don’t go to jail for his ass. You’re not a political prisoner and he won’t GAF about your sacrifice.
Hope you all survived Labor Day weekend, except anymoose, and set your sights for Tuesday's start of Ken Paxton's impeachment trial in Texas. Bring popcorn.
Unlike mugshots in federal cases, which have been ruled to be in the public domain, some legal scholars have speculated that state and local jurisdictions are the owner of the mugshots taken there, and thus the copyright owner.
This calls into question the money Fergus had grifted off hawking his mugshot to his idiot hordes.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Elon Musk now says that he is going to sue the Anti-Defamation League for, er, defamation.
This is because the ADL has correctly pointed out that Elon let all the racists back onto Twitter and it sucks now. They’re hardly the only ones to express this view, though. Pretty much all honest people would say the same. Anyway, as a result of Twitter sucking now, most of the advertisers have fled and Twitter is hemorrhaging cash.
Elon is just grasping at straws at this point. He pissed away a huge amount of money buying the social media platform, and is now steadily destroying it because he has no idea what he’s doing. No amount of frivolous litigation is going to rescue Twitter. It is circling the drain.
Shorter version:
Go anti-woke, go broke, Elon.
Yeah, Elmo, that whole "not letting anyone not signed into an account view anyone's feed" thing isn't the advertising problem, it must be someone else's behavior causing the problem, like everything else in your life right?
What a maroon.
So the head anti-masturbationist got 22 years. Maybe they can get together in prison and not masturbate together.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Yeah, Elmo, that whole ‘not letting anyone not signed into an account view anyone's feed’ thing isn't the advertising problem, it must be someone else's behavior causing the problem, like everything else in your life right?”
To get around this, type “nitter.net/” followed by the name of the account you want to view (no “@”).
This will let you view the profile without having to be signed into Twitter, and will also undo all the dumb formatting changes that Elon made. I can’t guarantee that using Nitter will always work, as Elon is constantly screwing around with the Twitter platform, and access to third-party apps may disappear again, but it’s currently working.
Maybe they don't read real good:
Alabama Congressional Map Struck Down
September 5, 2023 at 10:16 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 188 Comments
“A panel of three federal judges on Tuesday rejected Alabama’s latest version of its congressional district map, saying the Republican-led legislature did not follow a court order to comply with the Voting Rights Act when it redrew districts in July,” the Washington Post reports.
The judges said in the order that they are “deeply troubled that the State enacted a map that the State readily admits does not provide the remedy we said federal law requires.”
“The U.S. Supreme Court had issued a decision in June upholding a lower court’s ruling, which found that the Alabama legislature drew congressional districts that unlawfully diluted the political power of its Black residents.”
Rick Hasen: “I expect Alabama will seek emergency relief at the Supreme Court and it will lose. The only real argument Alabama would have following the earlier Supreme Court decision is a constitutional one, and it was barely developed on remand. I expect if Justice Kavanaugh is to eventually entertain it, it would be in a case where the issue was much more fully briefed and developed.”
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Thank you for nitter. Now I have to find three hours to catch up on the feeds I haven't been able to read for months.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Maybe they don't read real good”
It’s been a while since a Southern state said “You’re not the boss of me” and flipped their middle finger in the general direction of the federal government. They tried this in 1860. Didn’t work out well for them.
Wasn't long ago when a certain wasicu bitch courthouse employee in Kaintck refused to dole out same sex marriage licenses as per court order. Didnt work out well for her, either. Dhe's the one with the hillbilly looking hubby.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-disclosure-filing-harlan-crow-real-estate-travel-scotus
Has still not disclosed yacht trips and vacations on financial disclosure forms.
By Conover Kennard — September 6, 2023
A federal judge handed Donald Trump a significant loss in court, saying the twice-impeached four times indicted President is liable for defamatory statements he made about writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when she went public with claims he raped her decades earlier.
This is a partial victory for Carroll, with the judge ruling a trial is needed only to determine how much Trump must pay her in damages. That's unusual since a jury usually determines at trial whether a defendant is liable for civil damages claimed by a plaintiff.
The de-Trumpification of the US government continues.
Biden blocks oil drilling on 10M acres in Alaska, including leases Trump sold
Mexico’s supreme court has decriminalized abortion.
Meanwhile, America’s supreme court has gone in a different direction.
Short and to the point:
Trump Loses Attempt to Delay Fraud Trial
September 6, 2023 at 1:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 53 Comments
A New York judge denied Donald Trump’s attempt to delay his fraud trial with just nine handwritten words: “Decline to sign; Defendants’ arguments are completely without merit.”
-Doug in Sugar Pine
TRUMP 2024!!
I saw this on the internet in South Africa, I just saw it as a typical brawl...
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