Probably the only time I can remember Jeannie not having something to say. Incredible.

Not if you do it like Massachusetts did.

Just take the W

It’s a good idea to create incentives for people to say not-ridiculous things. One counter-incentive is “demanding people justify the incongruence of their non-ridiculous statements and past ridiculous statements.” Isn’t it better to say 10 wrong things and 1 right thing, than 11 wrong things?

Worth keeping in mind that in 1925 the Klan was killing local law enforcement in Herrin.

===This was no push poll. ===

Someone wants to clear the way through local government approvals, or zoning variances, or other neat tricks to throw public money at building a data center right now should expect to have their public career ended.

Data centers are incredibly unpopular and wind up owned and built by people that are not likeable and create very few jobs. It is a lot easier to ignore the factory that is poisoning the town when the whole town works at the factory.

===ILGOP wouldn’t have such a hard time raising money.===

Darren Bailey isn’t the kind of guy that rich folks feel comfortable handing a check to. He doesn’t seem like he’d be pleasant company on the golf course, at a brunch, or a dinner party. He seems like the kind of guy who keeps making inappropriate jokes that aren’t funny and causes the party to end earlier than anyone meant for it to end just so the hostess no longer has to bear his company.

This reads like: ‘Oh no! Won’t someone please think of the rich people?”

Also I thought the “worst” parts of class warfare were the parts where people were struggling for a living wage and got bombed and shot by the government for even trying, but apparently the “worst” thing has been a luxury tax all along.

Oh the horror!

Shout out to Ora Thomas who took out the head of the Illinois-KKK the year before:

===Union-busting, Klan-leading, serial killer Glen Young meets his mortal enemy, union miner Ora Thomas on the streets of Herrin. Both die. Young, a sadist responsible for up to 30 murders of unionists, miners, immigrants, and personal enemies–also an agent with the U.S. Bureau of Investigation–was seen by Ora Thomas, U.M.W.A. miner, anti-klan former sheriff and Flaming Circle member, on January 24, 1925 at a local cigar store in Herrin. Eyes met, guns were drawn, and in seconds Thomas had laid Young and his two bodyguards in a deserved grave. Thomas, fatally wounded in the exchange, died on the floor of the cigar stand next to his mortal enemies. After the 1922 ‘Herrin Massacre’ where UMWA miners decisively defended their strike from scabs and hired Klan gunmen killing dozens of strike-breakers and thugs, a reign of terror descended on the Southern Illinois coal fields. The Klan took over whole towns, deposing elected bodies, and made a concerted effort to infiltrate and smash the UWMA. Militant mining communities revolted, and a complicated class war raged in the coal fields for decades, with the bloodiest years in the mid-1920s. Other factors came into play; the John L. Lewis and Farrington bureaucracy, anti-Communist union leaders making common cause with the Klan, Democratic and Republican political machines, the ‘Knights of the Flaming Circle’ anti-klan defenders, prohibition and racketeering, politically divided progressive miners, and a helluva lot of violence. However, the militant miners never surrender to the Klan.===

https://revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/03/09/glenn-young-klan-raider-meets-death-from-the-daily-worker-vol-2-no-13-january-27-1925/