Mar 16, 2019
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Valentina Gomez is that rare breed of annoying where you can hear his voice even with the volume muted. Before AIPAC vs After AIPAC. đź‘€
If yer still doing Santacon, yer just a wanna-be, the bus has left with cooler people than you on it.
Dave Agema Wants To Run For Congress in Michigan's First District
Dave Agema Wants To Run For Congress in Michigan’s First District
Up North Progressive’s reaction when first read the news: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA breathe AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Is he serious? Of course he is. Never mind he lives in Dutch Reformed Mordor District 2, he wants to run for District 1. Why? Because he’s Dave Agema, that’s why. According to a MIRS article published on Thursday, Dave needs money of…
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The Yankee Carpet Bagger
A magazine cartoon from 1872 expresses white Southern hostility to “carpetbagging” politicians from the North. Bettmann/Corbis
The term carpetbagger was a pejorative term referring to the carpet bags (a fashionable form of luggage at the time) which many of these newcomers carried. The term came to be associated with opportunism and exploitation by outsiders. The term is still used today to refer to an outsider perceived as using manipulation or fraud to obtain an objective.
Together with Republicans, carpetbaggers were said to have politically manipulated and controlled former Confederate states for varying periods for their own financial and power gains. In sum, carpetbaggers were seen as insidious Northern outsiders with questionable objectives meddling in local politics, buying up plantations at fire-sale prices and taking advantage of Southerners.
The term carpetbaggers was also used to describe the Republican political appointees who came South, arriving with their travel carpet bags. Southerners considered them ready to loot and plunder the defeated South
