In their own words - Politicians, celebrities, scholars

I've heard some interesting ideas and word choices from politicians recently. I fell that I need a place to confirm them, and write them down.

"I am hopeful that when redistricting is done after the 2020 decennial census, stacking and bleaching will not be the primary goals."

U.S. Rep. James E. Clyburn

Read more here: That gerrymandered district you Republicans hate so much? I didn’t draw it.

 

“If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are.”
— Alice Cooper

 

@hot diggity "I am hopeful that when redistricting is done after the 2020 decennial census, stacking and bleaching will not be the primary goals."

Errrr…just what in the hell does this mean? I've no idea...since the ideas that do pop into my mind certainly can't be correct.

 

One of my all time favorites is Representative Hank Johnson's 3/25/2010 remark concerning stationing additional U.S. troops on Guam.

“My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize,"

Hank Johnson: US Congressman claims Guam 'will capsize from military influx'

 

Really? We play games with redistricting around here almost constantly. I'd never heard the terms "stacking and bleaching" either.

 

I remember that about Johnson. That one just blew my mind . It was unbelievable.

 

"You can't invest your food stamp money."

--Sonnie Johnson, Patriot Radio 11/25/2018

 

In the context of Clyburn's comments, it would seem to refer to the Republican's propensity for gerrymandering districts to stack the electorate's voting demographics in their favour, and by ensuring that the the coloured folk (generally Democratic Party voters) are bleached out in a majority of districts by good, loyal, GOP voting white folk.

That the terms are not used or are unfamiliar, doesn't mean that political tactic isn't used....but word coinage starts somewhere, and it looks like Jim Clyburn may be a contender for that expression's origin perhaps. In Australian politics, 'branch stacking' is a well known term and political method of anti democratic skullduggery. Branch stacking - Wikipedia

 

“You can be in favor of the Second Amendment and also understand that there is no reason in a civil society that we have assault weapons around communities that can kill babies and police officers,” Kamala Harris says of guns in America. #HarrisTownHall Live updates: Kamala Harris CNN town hall - CNNPolitics pic.twitter.com/2CYWVdfYOg
— CNN (@CNN) January 29, 2019

That statement will certainly make for interesting presidential debates. Not much past that, but it'd be entertaining.

 

A lot of society isn't that civil.

 

True.

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it happen.”

― Bill Moyers

And when that thin veneer is torn, firearms help even the odds between the weak and strong.

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
-- Robert A. Heinlein

I find it interesting that it's the "assault weapon" that's the problem.... not the killer. If that's the way we want to play it, we'd better start turning in all these deadly cars, turn off the gas, confiscate knives, sticks, and stones, drain every body of water and destroy anything that could cause choking or be used to choke someone. Oh my, do we register hands and feet over a certain size as deadly weapons?

 

"Most shootings are done by people with guns"

One of our reporters, but thankfully it didn't go to air.

 

I'd like to have heard his explanation of the other shootings.

 

“Look, the Second Amendment doesn’t say you can’t restrict the kinds of weapons people can own. You can’t buy a bazooka. You can’t have a flame thrower. The guys who make these arguments are the people who say, ‘The tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots. We need the protection against the government.”

-- Joe Biden



... and tyrants.

All this time supporting and defending the Constitution and he missed that bit about "...shall not be infringed." (and yes Joe, I can buy a bazooka (NFA/DD) and have a flame thrower in any State but California without asking anybody for permission.)

 

Joe doesn't know much ,he's just a puppet.

 

We can have flame throwers here?