We can fly that flag only if we get a 1/6 Commission. C’mon Manchin! Stop muckin’ around and use the leverage that you have.
Let the GOPQ know NOW that if there is no commission then everything else that they have been fighting goes forward too. What does it take for you to understand that they have no interest in bipartisanship but only voter suppression?
The Gadsen Purchase back in the 1800’s from Mexico mostly became a portion of Arizona. This cartoon appears to be a reference to the lunacy ranks of the Republicans that feel that the majority of Arizona voters cannot tread on their freedom to do as they please.
I just finished reading a trilogy on which the characters accidentally visit alternate realities through magical “doors”….and when they finally get home, they can’t wait to get back to them. I knew it sounded familiar!
We know that the Seditionist Senators, Cruz and Hawley, were second only behind Traitor Trump in responsibility for the mob of traitors attempting to overthrow our democracy. Thought experiment: how many other Republicans in Congress aided and abetted? I’d have to think at least thirty or so (split between the House and the Senate). Which is why the filibuster, of course.
The Gadsden flag is one of at least three kinds of flags created by independence-minded colonists in the run-up to the Revolutionary War, according to the writer and historian Marc Leepson, the author of “Flag: An American Biography.” Liberty flags featured that word on a variety of backdrops; the Pine Tree flag floated the slogan “An Appeal To Heaven” over a depiction of a pine tree. Neither endured like the design of Christopher Gadsden, a Charleston-born brigadier general in the Continental Army.
After the Stars and Stripes was adopted as the official flag of the United States (with little fanfare or recorded debate, Leepson notes), the Gadsden design remained something of a Revolutionary relic for many years. By the nineteen-seventies, it had some popularity in Libertarian circles, as a symbol of ideological enthusiasm for minimal government and the rights of individuals; there was little mainstream interest in the flag as late as the summer of 2001, when Chris Whitten, who described himself in an e-mail as having “a background in the broader Libertarian movement,” started a Web site dedicated to the history of the flag (and associated merch). Traffic spiked after the September 11th terrorist attacks, Whitten says, and searches (and sales) also climbed as the Tea Party movement emerged. The symbol’s appeal spread through pop culture, as an all-purpose signifier of swaggering defiance. In 2014, Alabama became the seventh state to approve a specialty license plate with a Gadsden design.
Concretionist almost 3 years ago
I don’t get it.
mr_sherman Premium Member almost 3 years ago
The worst snakes are inside that building… on the so-called “right” side.
admiree2 almost 3 years ago
We can fly that flag only if we get a 1/6 Commission. C’mon Manchin! Stop muckin’ around and use the leverage that you have.
Let the GOPQ know NOW that if there is no commission then everything else that they have been fighting goes forward too. What does it take for you to understand that they have no interest in bipartisanship but only voter suppression?
sally222 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Not so slowly, alas.
gmu328 almost 3 years ago
The Gadsen Purchase back in the 1800’s from Mexico mostly became a portion of Arizona. This cartoon appears to be a reference to the lunacy ranks of the Republicans that feel that the majority of Arizona voters cannot tread on their freedom to do as they please.
Valiant1943 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
maybe to say that the Republicans have turned it into a pit of vipers
Michael G. almost 3 years ago
I resent the neo-Nazis presuming that flag was made for them and them only. Tread on me and see what it gets you.
magicwalnut Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I just finished reading a trilogy on which the characters accidentally visit alternate realities through magical “doors”….and when they finally get home, they can’t wait to get back to them. I knew it sounded familiar!
Godfreydaniel almost 3 years ago
We know that the Seditionist Senators, Cruz and Hawley, were second only behind Traitor Trump in responsibility for the mob of traitors attempting to overthrow our democracy. Thought experiment: how many other Republicans in Congress aided and abetted? I’d have to think at least thirty or so (split between the House and the Senate). Which is why the filibuster, of course.
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Jail the big lie right wing sedition lovers.
briangj2 almost 3 years ago
The Gadsden flag is one of at least three kinds of flags created by independence-minded colonists in the run-up to the Revolutionary War, according to the writer and historian Marc Leepson, the author of “Flag: An American Biography.” Liberty flags featured that word on a variety of backdrops; the Pine Tree flag floated the slogan “An Appeal To Heaven” over a depiction of a pine tree. Neither endured like the design of Christopher Gadsden, a Charleston-born brigadier general in the Continental Army.
After the Stars and Stripes was adopted as the official flag of the United States (with little fanfare or recorded debate, Leepson notes), the Gadsden design remained something of a Revolutionary relic for many years. By the nineteen-seventies, it had some popularity in Libertarian circles, as a symbol of ideological enthusiasm for minimal government and the rights of individuals; there was little mainstream interest in the flag as late as the summer of 2001, when Chris Whitten, who described himself in an e-mail as having “a background in the broader Libertarian movement,” started a Web site dedicated to the history of the flag (and associated merch). Traffic spiked after the September 11th terrorist attacks, Whitten says, and searches (and sales) also climbed as the Tea Party movement emerged. The symbol’s appeal spread through pop culture, as an all-purpose signifier of swaggering defiance. In 2014, Alabama became the seventh state to approve a specialty license plate with a Gadsden design.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-shifting-symbolism-of-the-gadsden-flag