Originally published at: Republican candidate for California governor wonders why slave owners shouldn't get reparations for their lost property | Boing Boing
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I just knew the day would come that this image would find an apt home.
P.S. This guy is bat shit nuts.
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The only reparations southern slave owners got was the US government not sending General Sherman back over to burn their shit down again.
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Hey Larry - How about 'cos slavery was and is morally wrong?
Edit to add - Asshole!
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Except they did, and Larry already knew that.
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Want to make money, have no morals and only self-promotion? There are lots of options; but one scheme is to stroke the prejudices against your own membership: “You’re right! And I should know”. It’s an old, and particularly vile, hack. -sigh-
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Jesus Christ the process for recalling and replacing the Governor of California is so ridiculous. Even if Gavin Newsom prevails we should expect to see this circus repeated again and again in coming years as Republicans have learned it’s a much easier way to take the office than putting forward a candidate who could prevail in a regular election.
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Yep. And on the national level, they’ll keep trying to weaponize and partisanize (is that a word) impeachment, which started with Clinton.
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So, has he paid the appropriate capital gains taxes on himself?
If not, what are the odds of it being because he hates capital gains taxes rather than because he doesn’t actually think that people can be property?
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He does realize they are all dead right?
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I think you overestimate his grasp on facts.
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Absolutely. Every year the Repub candidates in California seem to get worse.
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“Facts? Never heard of him.”
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Ucle Tom, meet Uncle Ruckus.
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Bojack Horseman even had a whole story arc predicated on how ridiculous the gubernatorial recall process is in California. At one point the no-nonsense dedicated public servant who was the current incumbent had to participate in a madcap downhill ski race against the dopey TV actor who was trying to replace him. Of course they both ended up getting beat by Todd, an even more clueless character who ended up in the middle of the action by accident.
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We are living it [California], it’s bonkers and the end is nowhere in sight.
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And after Haiti rebelled against France, France demanded indemnification for its lost property. Including the human property. And through a mechanism I don’t quite understand, Citibank wound up receiving debt payments on this as recently as 1947.
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This is what a strict adherence to Capitalism eventually does to the brain.
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It’s a ridiculous and anti-democratic process. If citizens don’t like the governor they should vote that replace them with the lieutenant governor. Not this “back door fascist appointment via technicality bullshit” that they are trying right now. California being run by an R governor, especially a Trumpian one, would be a huge disaster and also carries the very real risk of losing a Senate seat to an R.
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