Tinfoil hat mode.
The DNC lowkey doesn’t want to win, and is like a dog chasing cars at this point.
It’s about the chase.
The DNC has had four glorious years of clear, disney villain levels of bullshit from the GOP to draw on when they do want to win.
However, Trump’s America is a place where moderate Republicans…
Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Jokes!)
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There’s a lot of great discussion / documentary / writing in the last few years that I’ve been digging while working on the unit.
Check out these two, if you want some more recently produced Baldwin History.
1. The Fire is Upon Us
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It’s the quasi-erudite nature that is so dangerous, because while he is anti-elite in the eyes of poor white conservatives who support the GOP, he is also, in their eyes, our elite. He’s their guy on the inside, who can go toe to toe with elite liberals at their own game and win.
If you actually follow and listen to…
That’s fucked up.
See, Buckley would try to distance himself from the message while at the same time arguing tired shit like culture wars without understanding that he is functionally White Supremacist.
Trump’s rhetoric (rhetoric?) owes plenty to Buckley, but when Mitch McConnel opens his mouth the foundation is…
No, I’ve seen them both. Both are important videos. I was just calling on folks to listen through, despite Buckley’s fairly nauseating diction and message.
He’s a foundational writer and rhetorician for the current Conservative Party in the US, and his arguments are worth autopsying to understand the zombie of the GOP…
I absolutely think this speech is timely as hell, but I think we need to hang around for Buckley’s response, too.
Not because it has merit as a logical response (it doesn’t, it’s one of his worst performances as a debator, potentially due to his wife being injured skiing in the days beforehand the whitest of all…
Lol.
It is the ABSOLUTE height of 2020-ness that I can listen to Firing Line episodes while putting together a Baldwin unit for my students and be all, “you know what, I fucking miss William Buckley right now. What. The. Fuck.”
At the end of the episode, there’s a moment where Buckley (at least verbally, and likely…
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Floyd McKissick laid it out to the face of “American Conservativism” pretty plain in ‘66.
At some point, you’re going to need to put the ouija board up and let the spirit of Baldwin go back to doing whatever he was doing before he agreed to you to acting as his ghost writer.
Just wanted to say that this write-up was amazing!
Thanks so much, and can’t wait for next week’s finale!
^This^
The establishment of both parties has benefitted from anti-black sentiment among their majority white voter base.
The Dixie-Crats benefitted from the direct racism in their rallying of KKK and hate-adjacent groups.
The Republican core benefitted from the patronizing racism they now project onto Democrats like…
Drow Ranger of Mielikki, where have I heard that before?
It’s a mystery!
Reject Tyr, Embrace Spiders.
It’s almost like killing Americans is the goal.
Hmmm.
That’s part of what’s crazy.
He has so little to lose, because he’s in such deep debt shit.
It isn’t about him “losing” everything. He “owes” everything to somebody.
It’s about the American People seeing who that somebody is.
It’s about clarifying the oligarchy and getting people pissed off at a class of “Americans”…
Amen.
The King is dead.
Long live the King.
Thanks, likewise!
I think this was actually really interestingly worked through between Leti and Ruby in the episode.
I felt that message in their interchange was, “yes, rage at Emmet Till, mourn him, but do not pay in your own sanity.”
Montrose talks about the rite of passage that Dee “must” experience, but the scene between Leti and…