Friday, November 18, 2016

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III Was Much More Adorable...


...back when he played a closeted gay inbred Southern Republican twat on "Will and Grace" --  a role which Imaginary Variety Magazine described as "No stretch whatsoever" for this vicious little fraction of a man.

But as the saying goes, a rising fascism lifts all jackboots, and so unless the Republican Senate can dig up the decomposing remains of it's collective soul and heave it into the Lazarus Pit for a fast resurrection, it looks like Mr. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III in on track be elevated from his current job as Junior Elected Embarrassment from the great state of Alabama to a position where he can pose an immediate and existential threaten the civil rights of all Americans and further embarrass us on the world stage.

From Brother Charlie Pierce (who should definitely slip my resume to Stephanie Miller):
This Isn't About Partisan Bickering. This Is About Protecting Civil Rights.
Donald Trump's nomination of Jeff Sessions is a national disgrace.

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But nothing puts the rotting fish atop the cholera sundae quite like the nomination of Sessions, a rank segregationist and career opponent of everything for which the Civil Rights movement stood for, to run the Department of Justice. Sessions is a thoroughgoing horror, and he's also a product of the rather successful attempts by the Reagan administration 30 years ago to pander to the detritus of American apartheid, and to reinstate white supremacy by any covert means necessary, from having Reagan launch his campaign with a states rights speech across town from where murdered Civil Rights workers once were buried in a dam to the nomination in 1985 of William Bradford Reynolds to be assistant attorney general. Reynolds was a protégé of Edwin Meese, that deathless old authoritarian yahoo who's now advising the staff of Camp Runamuck. Reynolds was a determined foe of "quotas," and he wasn't real fond of federal efforts to protect the franchise on behalf of his fellow citizens who happened to be African-American.
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But there's also another sad factor to be considered. The attitude toward, say, voting rights held by Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is almost exactly the same as the attitude demonstrated by the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court when that worthy declared the Day of Jubilee in the Shelby County decision that gutted the VRA. Not to fight someone like Jeff Sessions is to surrender hard-won gains that, quite frankly, were won by people with their blood...

But at least Susan Sarandon got what she wanted.  And in the end, isn't that really the most important thing of all?

9 comments:

trgahan said...

But...but....the election (same number of voting Republicans three elections running) was only about the economic woes of the working class that were just fine until Clinton signed NAFTA and Democrats abandoned them in whatever year I can cite that liberals won't immediately call bullshit on me for....and Trump infrastructure spending renegotiate trade deals Paul Ryan and the rest of congress doesn't exist greatest president since Eisenhower....so we'll all be so wealthy that whatever Sessions does won't matter....right?





Jimbo said...

trgahan, to write that in true Trumpian rhetoric, it should be "so we'll all be so wealthy that we'll be tired of being wealthy..."

Robt said...

Are you tired of winning, yet?

Sure, he never mentioned who would actually be winning, who does the applauding but he has made it clear who all the losers are.


And you notice Bannon's extremism, soften the Mike Flynn nomination that lubes the Jeff Sessions nomination. Which lubes the easy penetration of the David Duke nomination to the position head of over seeing Anti Semitism.

I realize I omitted His sons Osay and Koosay. Too unclear if the president has the ability to appoint a new cabinet position as, "Personal Family TSAR insider trading and general profiteering council to the president" or not.

Belvoir said...

I really love Joy Reid's tweets to Susan Sarandon. You got what you wanted, dear. So will you join the peasants at the barricade, or stay holed up in your penthouse/Malibu mansion?

Reminds me of an old David Sedaris bit: "All the Communists I knew seemed to assume, come the Revolution, they'd be the ones sitting around Party headquarters with clip-boards".

-arundel

Fiddlin Bill said...

Let's not forget that the sly racism of the Republican Party extends back for decades. See, e.g., George Herbert Walker Bush's successful nomination of Clarence Thomas for the "Thurgood Marshall seat" on the Supreme Court. The Bushes were just more subtle racists that Trump. GHWB was "saying," "here, y'all want a nigger on the Court, here's one for ya." The Bushes are still laughing about that one.

Strider said...

Joy Reid's last comment could also be directed at Jon Stewart. What a mook.

Robt said...

Wasn't Buford Pusser available?

Gregg Bush said...

http://static1.tvbuzer.com/images/persons/sources/fa/faafdbeccf1d4e843ee4f6f3bb5ce0cb-27525.jpg

Gregg Bush said...

Any similarities between the actor Henry Gibson's character from The Blues Brothers and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is purely coincidental and substantiated by a cursory examination of the facts.