I know a guy who got in a barfight with an Australian in Singapore. As soon as the fight was over he realized the serious shit he was in, sprinted to his hotel and took a cab to the airport, cutting his business trip short.
Yeaahhhhh… Cincinnati is a locus of KKK activity, with them in an eternal battle with City Hall to be allowed to put up a (surprisingly non-flammable) cross every Christmas.
Lindsay Graham has the look of a man who knows he soul has left his body in this video. And the march to fascism continues.
Honestly I’m almost more angry that none of the Democrats left the room in protest. They all just sat there mumbling “Mr. chairman” into their microphones and meekly doing jack shit to confront what’s happening.
Meanwhile, Liz Cheney is on a real trip herself, accusing Native Americans of trying to destroy the “western way of life” because they wanted to keep grizzly bears on the endangered species list.
They put up a propane-powered flaming cross in Fountain Square when I lived there. Locals tore it down in less than a day. It was strange living in a city where people were matter-of-fact about Klan members in their family or neighborhood, as if it was just one of those ordinary things.
It’s not so strange if you think about it. How many of us do the same thing on some level? “Oh, Joe is a racist and he tolerates me” instead of "Joe? Who’s Joe? Fuck that guy. "
That mindset is how we got to this shitty place in our history.