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The Pseudo- Conservatives scoured all quarters for support , and the "hoopleheads" proved to be enthusiastic.
"Hoopleheads"
Deadwood defines hoopleheads
"...are what Al calls the greedy, grubby and hairy gimme-gimmes who have come to Deadwood to strike it rich as gold miners or hustlers. To Al, they're all prey and suckers."
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Deadwood-R-I-P-2494542.php
Wonkette , with the rest of the nation, noticed the hoople heads-
"If you go to NPR’s Twitter feed, you’ll actually be disappointed wading through the threads, because it seems a message has gone out in Trump land that they got tricked by life and verifiable facts yet again...
...and have deleted many, if not most, of their tweets hating on the Declaration of Independence.
But Buzzfeed found a few great ones! Of course, Buzzfeed is LIBERAL...
https://wonkette.com/619815/trump-i...ence-as-much-as-they-love-reading-and-hygiene
https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/we-hold-these-alternative-truths-to-be-self-evident
In celebration of the 4th of July, National Public Radio tweeted out the Declaration of Independence in a series of more than 100 tweets on Tuesday.
But...not everyone was so pleased. In fact, several Trump supporters were outraged at what they viewed as a political act by NPR.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017...ion-of-Independence-because-god-emperor-Trump
Triggered
(by the Declaration of Independence)
"So, NPR is calling for revolution.
Interesting way to condone the violence while trying to sound "patriotic".
Your implications are clear."
http://www.salon.com/2017/07/05/npr...nce-tweetstorm-angered-some-trump-supporters/
New York magazine gets snarky-
"Constitution Day is September 17. Just in case you feel like you might get mad if you start seeing tweets about how the House of Representatives has the “sole power of impeachment.”
http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/07/trump-twitter-mad-about-declaration-of-independence-tweets.html
How triggered would the hoopleheads be, if they read the speech of Frederick Douglass ?
July 5, 1852, the larger-than-life figure stood within another hall — Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York — facing an audience, and a nation, very different from those who gather in the Capitol today.
When Douglass was asked to deliver the celebration’s keynote address, about 3.5 million African-Americans were still enslaved — roughly 15 percent of the U.S. population. A slave for the first 21 years of his own life, Douglass had founded The North Star, a leading abolitionist newspaper.
July 4 fell on a Sunday, so most Independence Day ceremonies like Rochester’s were held on July 5, though they too resembled a church service. Only after a local reverend led those assembled in prayer and read from the Declaration of Independence did Douglass take the stage to deliver a speech now known as “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
http://www.ozy.com/flashback/freder...017&variable=009800b40ec8b5e8e59662020fffa5d7
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes that would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation’s ear, I would, to-day, pour forth a stream, a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and the crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
James Earl Jones, reading Frederick Douglass’s famous 1852 Independence Day address in Rochester, New York. It was part of a performance of Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History of the United States.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/7/4/what_to_the_slave_is_4th
Phil Darius Wallace, took on the persona of Frederick Douglass, the master orator, bellowing at the audience, "This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters to the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?"
Douglass delivered these words to abolitionists in the wake of the Compromise of 1850, a package of legislation that, among other things, amended the Fugitive Slave Act. From Douglass' point of view, the Compromise — which obliged citizens, including residents of the Northeast, to return fugitive slaves to their owners — equaled a nationalization of slavery.
Levine said, sitting on a flight of marble stairs in the Archives, "the kind of eruption of racism in the culture, the [legitimization] of racism in the culture is precisely what makes today's speech all the more powerful." He added, "As I was signing books ... an African-American woman said to me, 'Do white people understand black people? Do they understand our relation to July Fourth?' So, if she can ask that question on July 3, 2017, then Douglass' speech from July 5, 1852, is still highly relevant."
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/05/53562...e-fourth-of-july-frederick-douglass-revisited
"Hoopleheads"
Deadwood defines hoopleheads
"...are what Al calls the greedy, grubby and hairy gimme-gimmes who have come to Deadwood to strike it rich as gold miners or hustlers. To Al, they're all prey and suckers."
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Deadwood-R-I-P-2494542.php
Wonkette , with the rest of the nation, noticed the hoople heads-
"If you go to NPR’s Twitter feed, you’ll actually be disappointed wading through the threads, because it seems a message has gone out in Trump land that they got tricked by life and verifiable facts yet again...
...and have deleted many, if not most, of their tweets hating on the Declaration of Independence.
But Buzzfeed found a few great ones! Of course, Buzzfeed is LIBERAL...
https://wonkette.com/619815/trump-i...ence-as-much-as-they-love-reading-and-hygiene
https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/we-hold-these-alternative-truths-to-be-self-evident
In celebration of the 4th of July, National Public Radio tweeted out the Declaration of Independence in a series of more than 100 tweets on Tuesday.
But...not everyone was so pleased. In fact, several Trump supporters were outraged at what they viewed as a political act by NPR.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017...ion-of-Independence-because-god-emperor-Trump
Triggered
(by the Declaration of Independence)
"So, NPR is calling for revolution.
Interesting way to condone the violence while trying to sound "patriotic".
Your implications are clear."
http://www.salon.com/2017/07/05/npr...nce-tweetstorm-angered-some-trump-supporters/
New York magazine gets snarky-
"Constitution Day is September 17. Just in case you feel like you might get mad if you start seeing tweets about how the House of Representatives has the “sole power of impeachment.”
http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/07/trump-twitter-mad-about-declaration-of-independence-tweets.html
How triggered would the hoopleheads be, if they read the speech of Frederick Douglass ?
July 5, 1852, the larger-than-life figure stood within another hall — Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York — facing an audience, and a nation, very different from those who gather in the Capitol today.
When Douglass was asked to deliver the celebration’s keynote address, about 3.5 million African-Americans were still enslaved — roughly 15 percent of the U.S. population. A slave for the first 21 years of his own life, Douglass had founded The North Star, a leading abolitionist newspaper.
July 4 fell on a Sunday, so most Independence Day ceremonies like Rochester’s were held on July 5, though they too resembled a church service. Only after a local reverend led those assembled in prayer and read from the Declaration of Independence did Douglass take the stage to deliver a speech now known as “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
http://www.ozy.com/flashback/freder...017&variable=009800b40ec8b5e8e59662020fffa5d7
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes that would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation’s ear, I would, to-day, pour forth a stream, a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and the crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
James Earl Jones, reading Frederick Douglass’s famous 1852 Independence Day address in Rochester, New York. It was part of a performance of Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History of the United States.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/7/4/what_to_the_slave_is_4th
Phil Darius Wallace, took on the persona of Frederick Douglass, the master orator, bellowing at the audience, "This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters to the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?"
Douglass delivered these words to abolitionists in the wake of the Compromise of 1850, a package of legislation that, among other things, amended the Fugitive Slave Act. From Douglass' point of view, the Compromise — which obliged citizens, including residents of the Northeast, to return fugitive slaves to their owners — equaled a nationalization of slavery.
Levine said, sitting on a flight of marble stairs in the Archives, "the kind of eruption of racism in the culture, the [legitimization] of racism in the culture is precisely what makes today's speech all the more powerful." He added, "As I was signing books ... an African-American woman said to me, 'Do white people understand black people? Do they understand our relation to July Fourth?' So, if she can ask that question on July 3, 2017, then Douglass' speech from July 5, 1852, is still highly relevant."
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/05/53562...e-fourth-of-july-frederick-douglass-revisited
