by NoahIt's easy to say that Republicans have no sense of irony. They reveal that practically every time they speak. But, irony is a thing that doesn't mix well with being a politician of any kind. Politicians say the darndest things. They'll say anything. More importantly, they're liable to do anything and do it with no conscience or consciousness of of how it meets up with the persona they've cultivated though their past words, actions, or image mongering. Politicians live in the moment. What they said they stood for means nothing the next day, or even hour. It's all about expediency and agenda.This week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a man who built his persona of Alabama racism and his career on a facade of "States Rights" designed to prevent the feds from interfering with with the Jim Crow lifestyle of the old confederacy, suddenly decided that the concept of "States Rights" was just not applicable if it was going to, this time, get in the way of his lifelong racist attitudes when it comes to certain immigrants.To "States Rights" advocates, when it comes to governing, the actions of the individual states take precedent over federal law. Living fossils like Jeff Sessions have hidden behind their "States Rights" mantra at least since the pre-Civil War days when the southern states were fighting the inevitable end of slavery. The issue of "States Rights" vs. federal law lies at the core of our history as a country, aka The United States, united, individual, states. "States Rights" is a concept used by individual state legislatures even now. It's used to limit the rights of potential groups of voters, women, marijuana use, the LGBTQ community, and, immigrants. Any time you have heard a conservative politician of any party use the term "States Rights", chances are very good that they were speaking code in the service of limiting some group's rights or exhorting and encouraging the abuse of some target of the day. People like Jeff Sessions built their careers on such aims. They got elected and appointed because of their adherence to "States Rights" as such a code.So, when Trump's Attorney General suddenly decided this week to sue California (the 6th largest economy in the world) because it chooses, as an individual state, to fight federal immigration laws and policies by devising local and state laws and policies that make the implementation of federal laws more difficult when it comes to deportations... well, let's just look at Jeff Sessions and say, "The irony is strong with this one." Fuck you, Jeff Sessions! States Rights, baby!
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