Chelsea Manning or anyone who did what she did should not be eligible for office in the federal government. I'm entirely sympathetic to her and her story but what she did was get duped by Wikileaks, a Putin crime front who she gave more documents than she could have known the implications of. If she'd released it to a reputable and responsible news operation it would still have been irresponsible but it wouldn't have been stupid and reckless.
Just because I think she should have been pardoned, that doesn't mean that her judgement doesn't disqualify her for any position of public trust again. She should be a free citizen of the country, not a Senator. People who were convicted of what she did shouldn't be eligible to hold public office. That the law doesn't disqualify someone like her only shows that our Constitution and laws have left us at the mercy of modern crime methods.
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ReplyDeletementioning the disgusting, violently misogynistic dance apache ("les
apaches" being the name racistly given by late 19th century journalists
to the most violent gangs in paris) to see if the most famous French
feminist who lived during what I kind of thought was its hey-day, Simone
de Beauvoir, had ever condemned it."
Ah yes, the Apache Dance -- the Shame of the Cities. I look forward to your courageous crusade against such other pressing contemporary problems as Al Jolson in THE JAZZ SINGER.
Contemporary? Stupy, I know you have got a lot of trouble with the time thing but Simone de Beauvoir died 31 years ago and the period I wrote about was more than 40 years before that.
DeleteThe Jazz Singer sucked.
Why am I not surprised that you're OK with blackface and the brutalization of lower class women as entertainment for the more affluent. That's not really a question.
As I said, how courageous of you to go after these pressing contemporary outrages.
ReplyDeleteStupy, do you know how hilarious it is for someone who writes mostly about pop music which was dead before de Beauvior was to try to slam someone for writing about something that happened during her life, which as an icon of French feminism she should have condemned but for which I've yet to find any comment on?
DeleteHell, John Lennon was dead years before de Beauvoir was and you're still grooving to his worst crap.
And the Jazz Singer really sucked. It really, really sucked. I expect you loved to groove to the Neil Diamond remake, the only reason anyone with taste would have watched the Danny Thomas one was because Peggy Lee was in it.
DeleteBTW, nobody has regarded the Apache Dance as anything other than hilarious low grade camp in decades. Assuming anybody even remembers it.
ReplyDeleteOh, Simps, you shouldn't attribute your early onset inability to remember things to anybody else. Though I suspect it's been a constant feature to go along with your attention deficit.
DeleteSimone de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex in 1949, the house party she and her boyfriend attended and played in Picasso's "play" was, if I recall correctly, 1943. I didn't say anything about the danse apache except today except to note that it had made enough of an impression for it to serve as an emblem of French popular culture even into this century. Apparently, Simps, plenty of people remember it because, as I noted, it's still being done for audiences and has appeared in a number of movies.
I, unlike you, have no trouble navigating the concept of chronology and things like past, present and future. Not to mention different points in the past. You on the other hand are stuck in the 1960s like a slipping record or like Trump retelling the same story over and over and over and over again.
All three versions of the Jazz Singer -- especially the Neil Diamond thing -- haven't been considered anything but hilarious low grade camp in decades.
ReplyDeleteBut keep stuffing that strawman....
Admit it, Simps, you cried when you saw the Neil Diamond remake.
DeleteAre you so mentally defective THAT YOU DON'T REMEMBER IT WAS YOU WHO BROUGHT IT UP LIKE THE INTELLECTUAL REGURGITATOR YOU ARE?
"You on the other hand are stuck in the 1960s"
ReplyDeleteHey, you're the one who brought up the Apache Dance
I mentioned the danse apache in a specific context to comment on de Beauvoir, I suppose you figure I should have used 90s pop music to do so.
DeleteI look at the past, you live in the past. There's a huge difference. Anyone who has read my blog would know I'm over the 60s, as I am the 50s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and everything up to and including the Obama administration. You, on the other hand, are stuck in the same ideas that failed the test of time by 1968.
Maybe I should dig out the mop head pictures.
The only thing you should be over is yourself.
ReplyDeleteA long time ago, Sparkles.
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You know, Simps, there is one thing really puzzling about you, now someone who is such a complete egomaniac could have failed so completely on that old "know thyself" routine. Or it would have been puzzling before getting a load of Trump doing the same thing with slight variation. Slight because there's nothing more than slight about either of you.
DeleteSays the guy who says self-deprecating humor proves you're an egomaniac.
ReplyDeleteSo you don't know what "self-deprecating" means either. I think the word you're looking for is "self-aggrandizing". At least that would be the one that would make sense since you're alluding to what you do.
DeleteI will stipulate that you are a prick.
And I will stipulate that you couldn't make a decent joke, self-deprecating or otherwise, if somebody held a gun to your empty noggin.
ReplyDeleteSleep well, asshat.
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Well, when someone at Eschaton asked why Chris Matthews was called "Tweety" I suggested that when was trying to figure out how he could break into journalism he said to himself, "I thought I'd slob a plutocrat".
DeleteI'm also the one who said, "You can't call William F. Buckley a "fascist" because he successfully sued someone for calling him a fascist and Liberace successfully sued someone for saying he was gay."
I'll leave the self-deprecation to people like you who need to make the really easy jokes that everyone will get due to blinding obviousness.
MORE HILARIOUS ZINGERS FROM THE SPARK-MEISTER!!!
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If you understood them you'd steal them. You're the Three Stooges of Baby Blue.
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