#CSA Hunley

[matlockandthewaffles]

I may be obsessed with my HL Hunley gijinka….

this is especially weird if you consider the fact that I’m an avid Confederate hater and Hunley is a Confederate.

[flashlighttostreetlight]

HL Hunley Memorial, CSA, Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, AL. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War. The Hunley demonstrated the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare. She was the first combat submarine to sink a warship, although the Hunley was not completely submerged and, following her successful attack, was lost along with her crew before she could return to base. The Confederacy lost 21 crewmen in three sinkings of the Hunley during her short career. It is currently housed at Warren Lasch Conservation Center in a 90K gallon fresh water tank awaiting restoration with new technology. 

[nakediconoclast]

CSA submarine Hunley.

Me:  SS347, SS410, SS420 and SS424.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-did-legendary-confederate-submarine-090659902.html

[ramrodd]

Hallie Jackson To Gaetz: ‘Why Do You Think The Rules Do Not Apply To You...

COMMENTARY:

Here's the thing. I'm a League of Nations Wilson from the Emancipation Proclamation side of the family. I went to Vietnam on the basis of the League of Natons and to sustain the effects of LBJ's Civil Rights Bill and MLK's "I have a dream" speach.

I actually went to Vietnam on the spiritual values shared by "Blowing in the Wind", "We Shall Overcome" and "The Ballad of the Green Berets", but that's another story. Growing up as an Army brat embedded in the southern neo-Jim Crow massive resistance culture of Hampton Virginia from 1958 until I escaped to the cultural revolution of the American campuses from 1965 to 1969, I largely avoided hanging out with white boys like Matt Gaetz, most of whom were the white civilian kids in Junior High and High School when southern integretion amounted to maybe 8 black students in my graduating class in 1965 and I was in the most liberal public high school in the state. Of Virginia. It was dominated by Army and Air Force brats and had a community culture distinct from the tribal culture of the two other vival high schools, the Hampton Crabbers and the Newport News Ship Builders and we were the Kecougthan Warriors, a conscious tribute to the Kecoughtan Nation on the Penisula.

The thing is, white civilian kids like Matt Gaetz dominated white southern society everywhere in the Dixie states and their attitude towards the Emancipation Proclamation, as a legacy of the late rebellion, is outrage. Robert E. Lee was absolutely outraged by the proclamation as a born and bred Virginian. If there is any stain on his personal honor, it is this visceral embrace of the original sin of American white supremacy. All us white folks are guilty of this, the difference being that someone like Matt Gaetz believes his rancid bigotry is a reflection of his moral righteousness and gloat at their god-given superiority while I am ashamed of my knee jerk bigotry and do what I can to mitigate the effects of a political philosophy designed to reward the natural born Matt Gaetzs of the world.

And, as a white boy raised in a culture determined to carry out Eisenhower's integration of the services seriously and personally offended by everything associated with the massive resistance of white people in Virginia, I dealt with assholes like Matt Gaetz by avoiding them on several principles, the first that, as a Christian, I could forgive them for being loathsome creatures, like Roy Cohn, but, as a Christian, I had no compunction against regarding them as loathsome creatures in spite of being charming, personally.

And, when a white southern boy like Matt Gaetz wants a guaranteed method for starting a fight with another white boy for whatever reason, calling him a "nigger lover" could end up in a fatal knife fight. And being from the Emancipation Proclamation side of the family, by nature and conscious choice, is grounds for being a "nigger lover" by definition.

See, the thing is with white assholes like Matt Gaetz (or any House Freedom Caucus member and alumni), refusing a challenge like "nigger lover" is to be catagorized as "coward" for refusing a challenge of honor.

But I never bought into West Point's Duty, Honor, Country construct  because of this weasle word, "honor".  And I avoided a lot of fights because there was no honor in his challenge because being a "nigger lover" is a pleasant frame of mine. I mean, it was "niggers" and "nigger lovers" who gave Hillary the victory in the popular vote and that was before anyone knew that the same corrupt Russian Oligarchs who had been business partners with Donny Duckass for the Moscow Miss Universe Pageant would steal the intellectual property of the Clinton campaign he needed to game the Electoral College and would end up in bed with Rudy Giuliani in Vienna with Ukraine corruption all over his face.

Anyway, it's satisfying to be able to connect the dots between white southern assholes like Matt Gaetz and members of the GOP Shadow Agenda like Giuliani and Steve Bannon so that white folks who may not know they are "nigger lovers" in a "pro-immigration" kind of way, image Hillary Clinton calling you a Russian asset morphing into Matt Gaetz saying he is offended that Jackie Spier referring to him as a loathsome creature typical of southern white boys with Confederate Flags and Brett Kavanaugh attitude of white male privilege for the lynch mob he formed to conduct violent insurrection in the name of "No Quid pro Quo".

Newt Gingrich's entire political career has been devoted to creating exactly the social conflict Matt Gaetz adopted to violate the rules he and his colleagues had imposed on the Democrats in 2015 and, thereby, to usurp the US Constitution.

Newt Gingrich's political strategy is based on the inversion of Clauswitz's "warfare is the continuation of political intercourse by the intermixing of means" to "politics is the continuation of warfare". Gingrich's doctrine is a Fascist construct, that is, half a model.  Like the US Constitution, paradox is a core dynamical structure of Clauswitz. Gingrich's politics assumes that Clauswitz is static and fails to make the connection between Clauswitz and the Marshall Plan. It's exactly like comparing a submarine to a whale. Clauswitz is based on the core technology of the whale and Gingrich's version of Clauswitz is based on the hand-cranked CSA Hunley. All of Reaganomics is based on the Hunley. Matt Gaetz was recruited by Newt Gingrich to protect Reaganomics from AOC and the Green New Deal, which is based on the social mechanisms of Clauswitz as the whale.

The difference between Gingrich's version of Clauswitz and AOC's version of Clauswitz is the difference between the Yellow Submarine as a prison ship and the Yellow Submarine as the Starship Enterprise on the way to a Jimmy Buffet Bathing Suit Optional Island Party.

Just for the record, Pocahontas's banking and securities reform will pay for her healthcare model if her healthcare model is designed to work according to Gingrich's version of Clauswitz, but if it is based on AOC's version of Clausewitz, the dynamical aspects of a single payer system will generate sufficient synergies to sustain itself eternally. .

When Matt Gaetz finds himself offended by being identified as a white crypto-Nazi bigot, he needs to ponder the "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" reaction of niggers and nigger lovers  like me when he just walks in the room. Ask yourself: how do you feel when you are cruising along in your ride, all mellow and on a natural high from the mix of your sounds when blue lights show up in your mirror? That's how the "Repulso-meter" of my Pucker Factor kicks in when he walks in the room. There is an emotional continuum that my imagination can establish between my experience and a Jewish worker in Auswitz when a Nazi struts into my barracks.

I mean, Hillary was being charitable when she labled white American male crypto-Nazis like Matt Gaetz "Deplorable".  If she had the same value system as Matt Gaetz, she would have put a bounty on all "Deplorables".