The Treason of the Senate Get Rid of the Filibuster

@KevinMKruse
As this thread blows up, I should stress this isn’t remotely an exhaustive list — I did it quickly and I didn’t repeat years in which there were multiple filibusters on different civil rights issues. But it should still give a sense of the “racial history” in the filibuster.

The filibuster is a piratical obstruction of the Senate’s business in the name of white supremacy and nothing else. The Filibuster has been blocking an anti-lynching law for a CENTURY.

In 1918 the Anti-Lynching Bill was introduced in Congress. It still has not passed.

In 1923 the Equal Rights Amendment (#ERAnow) was introduced in Congress to secure full equality for women. It still has not passed.

The Treason of the Senate Get Rid of the Fillibuster

@GOP @GQP #ReligiousRight #BlackLivesMatter #DCStatehood #PRStateHood

Henry Clay tried to get rid of the filibuster in response to Calhoun’s innovation in 1841.

Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1874 
Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1875

The Treason of the Senate was a series of articles in Cosmopolitan magazine by David Graham Phillips, published in 1906.

The Aldrich machine controls the legislature, the election boards, the courts — the entire machinery of the “republican form of government.”

Nelson Aldrich tried to get rid of it to pass an anti-poll tax bill in 1891. 

In the United States, and indeed in France, political power was guaranteed by financial incentives and the appointment of suitable candidates, in other words through bribery and corruption. Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island was chosen by the secret elite to be the voice of “sound economics” in the Senate. A wealthy businessman and father-in-law of J.D. Rockefeller Jr., Aldrich was known as “Morgan’s floor broker in the Senate.” Shameless in his excesses, he used public office to feather his own very large nest.

The Meeting at Jekyll Island November 20, 1910–November 30, 1910
A secret gathering at a secluded island off the coast of Georgia in 1910 laid the foundations for the Federal Reserve System. From the outset they insisted on secrecy, operated in secret and ensured that their influence was airbrushed from history. They believed that white men of Anglo-Saxon descent rightly sat at the top of the racial hierarchy. Ruskin advocated that control of the state should be placed in the hands of a small ruling class. Social order was to be built upon the authority of superiors, imposing upon their inferiors an absolute, unquestioning obedience. He was repelled by the notion of leveling between the classes and by the disintegration of the “rightful” authority of the ruling class.
In November 1910, five bankers representing Morgan, Rockefeller and Kuhn Loeb interests, met in total secrecy with Senator Aldrich and the Assistant Secretary to the U.S. Treasury on Jekyll Island, an exclusive playground of the mega-rich off the coast of Georgia. Of the seven conspirators, five, Senator Aldrich, Henry Davison, Benjamin Strong, Frank Vanderlip and Paul Warburg, were members of The Pilgrims. The proposed “Federal Reserve System” was to be owned entirely by private banks, though its name implied that it was a government institution. Individuals from the American banking dynasties, including Morgan, Warburg, Schiff and Rockefeller, would hold the shares. Political control moved hand in glove with the Money-Power.

WHY WE WANT BITCOIN

It was to be a central bank of issue that would have a monopoly of all the money and credit of the people of the United States. It would control the interest rate and the volume of money in circulation.

The Federal Reserve System constructed on Jekyll Island had powers that King Midas could never have contemplated. The objective was to establish a franchise to create money out of nothing for the purpose of lending, get the taxpayer to pick up any losses, and convince Congress that the aim was to protect the public.

Filibuster against a pension for a black official, 1906
Filibuster against confirmation of a black official, 1909
Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1921 
Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1922 
Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1925 
Filibuster against monument to black WWI veterans, 1926

Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1935 
Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1938

Smith opposed a Federal minimum wage; he filibustered it in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, saying “South Carolinians are willing to work for less than 50 cents/hour.”[12] Senator Ellison D Smith from the great state of South Carolina.

Filibuster against bill targeting racial discrimination in employment, 1945 
Filibuster against Truman's civil rights proposals, 1948
Filibuster against Truman's civil rights proposals, 1949 
Filibuster against Truman's civil rights proposals, 1950 
Filibuster against measures to fight housing discrimination, 1954 Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1957

Eisenhower & Nixon tried to get rid of it to pass a civil rights bill in 1957.

The Southern Democrats became Republicans after LBJ passed the 1965 Civil Rights Act. That’s how racism took over the Republican Party. Reagan and Gingrich reinforced Racism.

Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1960 
Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1962 
Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1963 
Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1964

Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1966 
Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1968 
Filibuster against bill targeting employment discrimination, 1972 
Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1976

Filibuster against extension of Voting Rights Act, 1982 
Filibuster against creation of MLK Day federal holiday, 1983 
Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1984

All This explains why Rethuglicans want the new Jim Crow laws passed in 2021.

14 thoughts on “The Treason of the Senate Get Rid of the Filibuster”

  1. How Racist Are Republicans? Very, A Rats nest of sexists and racists.
    64% Republicans believed “God granted the United States a special role in human history.”
    63 % Republicans agreed American society “has become too soft and feminine,”
    24% Republicans believed when Black Americans spoke up and protested it made the country better.
    57% Republicans believed that whites face “a lot of discrimination,” while just 52% believe that Blacks do.
    https://prospect.org/blogs/tap/how-racist-are-republicans-very/

  2. VOTING RIGHTS
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    Untangle illegal co-ordination at heart of Mercer’s distributed empire & Trump campaign
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    #Mercer revelation in Paradise Papers #ParadisePapers
    https://cyberplayground.org/2019/03/08/mercer-revelation-in-paradise-papers-paradisepapers/

    “They are trying to steal and overturn the next election,” explains @AriBerman
    Goes to show you that voter suppression in Georgia and voter suppression nationally, is now the central organizing principle of the Republican Party.”
    https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1375484016539803650

    The Next Virginia Governor Could Wipe Out New Voting Rights Gains
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    Georgia activists call for Coca-Cola boycott over ‘deafening silence’ on voting rights
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/25/georgia-activists-coca-cola-boycott-voting-rights

    Georgia Lawmaker Charged With Felony For Knocking On Gov. Brian Kemp’s Office Door
    State Rep. Park Cannon, a Black woman, was arrested and accused of obstruction after protesting a bill that makes it harder for Georgians to vote. Multiple videos show Georgia State Patrol officers arresting Cannon, a Democrat, after she knocked on the door of GOP Gov. Brian Kemp’s office. The incident could increase pressure on Biden to wage an all-out defense of voting rights.
    Hard to see why any responsible corporation would make the decision now to do business in Georgia. Hard to see any of them donating to any state Republican party or elected officials who support the new Jim Crowe laws. Maybe the need a reminder from their customers.
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rep-park-cannon-arrested_n_605d2ecfc5b6531eed0366e6

    A Majority of voters in Missouri last year voted to expand the state’s Medicaid program, Republican Bitch legislators in the state have continued blocking funds for the expansion.
    https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article250170945.html

  3. “The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes.”
    Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals

    1. Some legal questions are very complicated. Some are very simple. This is one of those times.
      Yellen should release Trump’s tax returns to Congress.
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  4. Boot Camps For Crushing Democracy
    Records show right-wing groups have used their conferences to teach Republican lawmakers how to gerrymander their states and suppress voting rights.
    https://www.dailyposter.com/p/boot-camps-for-crushing-democracy
    South Dakota boasts stringent voter ID laws and a recent review of its legislative districts show a “persistent Republican advantage” thanks to gerrymandering. The uneven playing field has helped South Dakota garner national headlines for its right wing legislation, such as laws attacking the separation of church and state.
    The state’s Republican lawmakers didn’t come up with these policies by themselves. National organizations have been actively coaching its lawmakers on how to best take advantage of redistricting and deflect claims that voting restrictions are discriminatory, according to documents obtained by The Daily Poster through a public records request.

  6. THANK THE DEMOCRATS
    The American Rescue Plan is the BIGGEST single investment in child care since World War II.

  8. The Senate primary in Ohio is a race to see which Republican can be the Trumpiest
    Trump wants the GOP to be all about him. The campaign to replace Rob Portman indicates he’s getting his way.
    The Ohio Senate GOP primary is shaping up as a race between a QAnon-curious populist, a guy whose Twitter account was suspended for racist tweets, and a third who’s calling for the resignation of her congressman just b/c he supported Trump’s impeachment.
    https://www.vox.com/22344549/ohio-senate-primary-rob-portman-jd-vance-josh-mandel-jane-timken-trump

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  10. The mask is really off. “If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” – David Frum

    Georgia Gov. Kemp signs GOP election bill amid an outcry
    Republicans “voter suppression tactics.” Democratic Rep. Rhonda Burnough said the bill is based on lies told by Republicans after November’s election.
    https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-legislature-bills-state-elections-voting-rights-b2b014cc81894a50fc513168a5f1d0b8

  12. @Will_Bunch
    1. You’ve probably seen this picture of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and his gaggle of white men signing the state’s voter suppression law — the new, new Jim Crow. But there’s a shocking angle to this story that you haven’t heard. Sit down for this one…
    https://twitter.com/Will_Bunch/status/1375434696671256581

    2. Notice the antebellum-style portrait behind Kemp as he signs the suppression law? Thanks to Twitter crowdsourcing and particularly @TheSeaFarmer, I can report the measure to limit Black voting was signed under the image of a notorious slave plantation in Wilkes County, GA

    3. If you scroll about halfway down this PDF link, you can see that the painting is clearly “Brickhouse Road — Callaway PLNT” (PLNT for “Plantation…subtle, right?) by artist Olessia Maximenko from Wilkes County, GA https://gaarts.org/wp-content/upl

    4. Today, the Callaway Plantation is a 56-acre historic site where — as the ExploreGeorgia website cheerily notes — tourists can get “a glimpse into the by-gone era of working plantations in the agricultural South.”
    https://www.exploregeorgia.org/washington/entertainment/tours/callaway-plantation

    5. The promotional sites gloss over the fact that by the time of the Civil War, the Callaway Plantation only thrived because of the back-breaking labor of more than 100 slaves who were held in cruel human bondage

    6. The harsh reality of life for slaves in the era of the Callaway Plantation is captured in this oral-history “slave narrative” of Mariah Callaway, a woman who was born into slavery on the plantation in 1852. In her account, she notes that…

    7. “…[T]here were some slaves who were unruly; so the master built a house off to itself and called it the Willis jail. Here he would keep those whom he had to punish. I have known some slaves to run away on other plantations and the hounds would bite plugs out of their legs.”

    8. Visitors today to the Callaway Plantation say this legacy of inhumanity is downplayed. One wrote on Trip Advisor the slave cabin “is hidden in some trees and mentioned as an afterthought and something you can go to and look at yourself.”

    9. In short, the Callaway Plantation is a monument to Georgia’s history of brutal white supremacy that unfortunately didn’t disappear when Mariah Callaway and the other slaves were emancipated in 1865. By the 1890s, Georgia’s white ruling class…

    10. …enacted a series of harsh Jim Crow laws to segregate all public facilities and block Black people from voting. The state, for all of Atlanta’s “Too Busy To Hate” bluster, was a KKK hotbed in the 1960s’ civil rights era, and in the 1980s…

    and there is much more continue thread https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1375434696671256581.html

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