I just brung mah own moonshine, hope that’s okay.

Hey now— Luther Strange almost ruined the kiddies’ Christmas party that one time.

That’s a good start.

Aaaand I’m pretty sure he didn’t see the same pictures anyone else saw who wasn’t already a nazi.

Donald Trump has done lost his goddamned mind. This is NOT how you racist; even racists know that. Dollars to donuts, today is the day he found out his ass is going to the pokey for laundering dirty Russian money. He is deflecting so damn hard.

“Let me tell you, that glass was coming from many sides, many sides.”

Right, just like that driver in Charlottesville; he had a black friend, so . . .

I’m glad they keep backup panes, but the wisdom and necessity of that is just . . . depressing as hell.

Ooo, I can answer this, being from Mississippi and hearing this “it’s our h’urrrrtage” bullshit 24/7. The ones who actually believe this choose (how convenient!) not to think of it not as treason; they recognize the losing part, but their fundamental mistake is in confusing the confederacy with the concept of the…

Mississippi person here. Couldn’t agree more.

Mississippi has a similar statute. Hell, any other state that has one probably modeled the thing on Mississippi’s. It’s not specific to “confederate” memorials, but that’s the purpose of the statute. It refers broadly to “historical markers” and statuary, etc.

I am totally on board with this. And maybe move the few mementos to a fucking cemetery.

If you want to be more amazed (translation: Horrified) come here to Mississippi. When I was coming along in school, the “education” part about folks like Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee was pretty light on them being all that heroic, and more just in the vein of being defensive as hell about them. Stuff like…

Yes, probably not, inasmuch as it’s Mississippi. Ironically enough, when those guys hung a noose and confederate flag on the statue of James Meredith at Ole Miss several years ago, it was an old-school GA state flag which had the confederate flag incorporated. Which was, among other things, just WHAT THE HELL? the…

Totally agree. I’m on the edge of the baby boom so I am old as dirt, and you see it happening all around. I felt like something inside me curled up and gave up the ghost many years ago, the day I saw Dennis Hopper shilling retirement plans and investments. I get it, people get older, they want to relax and calm…

Same formula worked all through Jim Crow, the Civil Rights era, and still gets plenty of play to this day, now even nationally: scapegoating and othering so that all their economic and social woes are attributed to some vague amorphous “THEM.” In Mississippi, the “THEM” was traditionally always African-Americans (or…

There are a few of them “out there” you see here and there flying from peoples’ houses. But there are so many old MS flags from the territory days and pre-Civil War days that there’s no “agreed upon” version of what a different (new/old) state flag should be. *Disclaimer: I don’t go into these “Flag” stores because…

I like your optimism. I had it pegged at around 650 years.

Thank you! Here in Mississippi, we have confederate memorials/statues in towns that DIDN’T EVEN EXIST during the Civil War. We have the stupid fucking confederate battle flag on our state flag, to our eternal and well-deserved shame. I can only hope that this over-playing the “hurr’tage” hand will somehow lead to…

Lot of torn rotator cuffs and dislocated shoulders trying to reach for a positive out of this whole shitty weekend news cycle. I saw a FB shout-out to all the responsible gun owners who brought guns to their peaceful confederate nazi protest and didn’t spray the town with bullets. Yes, responsible gun-owners— that’s…