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Born May 18, 1953; got saved at Truett Memorial BC in Hayesville, NC 1959. On rigged ballot which I did not rig got Most Intellectual class of 71, Gaffney High School. Furman Grad, Sociology major but it was little tougher than Auburn football players had Had three dates with beautiful women the summer of 1978. Did not marry any of em. Never married anybody cause what was available was undesirable and what was desirable was unaffordable. Unlucky in love as they say and even still it is sometimes heartbreaking. Had a Pakistani Jr. Davis Cupper on the Ropes the summer of 84, City Courts, Rome Georgia I've a baby sitter, watched peoples homes while they were away on Vacation. Freelance writer, local consultant, screenwriter, and the best damn substitute teacher of Floyd County Georgia in mid 80's according to an anonymous kid passed me on main street a few years later when I went back to get a sandwich at Schroeders. Had some good moments in Collinsville as well. Ask Casey Mattox at www.clsnet.org if he will be honest about it. I try my best to make it to Bridges BBQ in Shelby NC at least four times a year.

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Are Jeff Duncan, William Timmons and Ralph Norman Legitimate Americans?

 Maybe I dont understand, comprehend the English Language but I think that is what the panel on Meet the Press Sunday was asking in the last 20 minutes of the show when it came to the question of illiberal democracy in the wake of the first round of the Insurrection committee on National Television except for Tucker and fox news.

     Here is a snippet of that conversation:

            

          On Republicans though, what was really telling is on Wednesday, the day before this hearing, or it might've even been Thursday, Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy was asked over and over again at a press conference if President Biden was legitimately elected. And he refused to say. January 6th, he said, but now he won't. And the reason is, is because this is so politically treacherous for Republican base voters for actually a Republican leader to come out and say that – who knows full well that Biden was legitimately elected – to actually say it.

DAVID FRENCH:

So that's cowardly and it's even more cowardly after the Georgia primaries because the Georgia primaries, you had one-on-one confrontation between the stop the steal candidates and Republican establishment, including Brad Raffensperger, who did probably more than anyone prior to Liz Cheney to directly confront, and Vice President Pence, to directly confront the president. And they won. They beat their MAGA primary challengers. And yet still, still these Republican officeholders in Washington are retreating from that question. They're terrified of that question. And yet, Georgia just demonstrated that there's a chance here to break the Republicans free.

CHUCK TODD:

And that to me is one of the – and Eddie, without pushing you into an answer, I kind of feel like the real measurement of success or failure of these hearings is how strong Donald Trump's grip is on the Republican Party in six months, not today or in a year. You know, I didn't know Tom Rice was going to vote to impeach. I don’t think anybody here – Tom Rice? Everybody had to quickly look up --

LEIGH ANN CALDWELL:

We thought it was a mistake.

CHUCK TODD:

– who's Tom Rice?

LEIGH ANN CALDWELL:

We thought it was a mistake. Yes.

CHUCK TODD:

People thought it was a mistake. There are going to be a few people moved by this who say, "You know what? I'm off the train. This was horrible."

EDDIE GLAUDE JR.:

Right. So I think there are folks who have made their decisions, right? There are folks on the left, and folks on the right. They've made their decisions. But there are these people in between. There are these folks in the middle that we're always talking about, these Independents that we're always talking about, right? What does it mean for the committee to connect the dots? You know, I'm a professor. You know, we tell our students when you're writing your paper, "This is how you organize it. Tell me what you're going to do. Do it, then tell me what you did." What we saw on January 6th, they laid out the blueprint, the general architecture, the road map for what we will hear. So by connecting the dots narratively, they may convince folks. But I want to say this really quickly. We need to stop believing that some of these folks on the Republican side are actually democratic actors.

CHUCK TODD:

Meaning small D?

EDDIE GLAUDE JR.:

They are not democrat – they are illiberal. And when we treat them as typical opponents, we're actually contributing to the problem because some of these folks are using the democratic process to undermine democracy itself.

      It is clear to me Upstate Republican US Congressman in SC are playing that game. They are dancing with the devil on the thin ice of democracy. The continue to embrace the charlatan Trump. Way passed time for folks of influence in the region including the CBF, Westminster Prez in Greenville, the trustees of Furman, Wofford and Clemson to address this matter in language even school board trustees in Greer and Inman and Laurens can understand.

   Embracing Donald Trump is not patriotism, in UnAmerican, and worse molesting the soul of America for generations to come.


 

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