I’m not trying to rehab the reputations of old-timey segregationists here, but Ben Fortson was a BAMF.
While everybody was losing their minds that @GaSecofState was meeting minimum standards of his job, I forgot to tell y’all a wild-ass story about a *different* GA Secretary of State, fighting a contested election with a whole other pack of racist honking geese!
BEN FORTSON 🍑🧵
I’m not trying to rehab the reputations of old-timey segregationists here, but Ben Fortson was a BAMF.
Georgia did not always elect a Lt. Gov, but in 1946, the state figured there ought to be a backup.
(Of note, Gov/Lt Gov are still elected independently. Not a ticket race.)
Talmadge was a thoroughbred shit, and I’ll hear no arguments otherwise.
He died in December 1946, before he could take office.
But this is Georgia.
So you know these chicken lip politicians are going to make it difficult difficult, lemon difficult.
•Ellis Arnall, the outgoing Gov, saying the next elected Gov is dead, so he gets to keep the job
•Melvin Thompson, Lt. Gov-elect, ready to step up
•Herman Talmadge, Eugene’s son, saying the governorship should go to him because his dad died
It is the wildest real life political shit I have ever heard, second only to the time Congressman Preston Brooks beat the piss out of Senator Charles Sumner in the US Capitol because Brooks loved slavery and Sumner did not.
Enter our principled hero:
@GaSecofState Brad Raffensperger.
LOLOLOLOL just kidding!
We’re talking about Benjamin Wyatt Fortson, Jr., Georgia’s 21st Secretary of State.
It’s fascinating to see pics of him taken in the same era when FDR was almost never photographed with mobility devices. Here’s Fortson w/ FL Gov LeRoy Collins.
He hid the State Seal.
THEE actual physical Great Seal of the State of Georgia.
He hid it in his wheelchair.
Ben Fortson sat on the actual physical State Seal for TWO WHOLE MONTHS, to preserve the will of the people.
That’s how you Secretary a State, Brad.
Here’s a photo of Fortson shooting fireworks at birds at the State Capitol. I told you Ben Fortson was a BAMF.
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Melvin Thompson, the guy elected to be the governor in case the governor died? He was sworn in as governor.
Herman Talmadge would end up governor later, as well. That’s a different story.
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Funny, before the election I recall lefties muttering the caravan must have been a Trump setup because it made the open borders crowd look so bad. Why would the pro-migrant crowd engineer a crisis that played into Trump's hands? THIS is why. THESE are the "optics" they wanted.
This media manipulation effort was inspired by the success of the "kids in cages" freakout, a 100% Stalinist propaganda drive that required people to forget about Obama putting migrant children in cells. It worked, so now they want pics of Trump "gassing children on the border."
There's a heavy air of Pallywood around the whole thing as well. If the Palestinians can stage huge theatrical performances of victimhood with the willing cooperation of Western media, why shouldn't the migrant caravan organizers expect the same?
It's business as usual for Anarchy, Inc. - the worldwide shredding of national sovereignty to increase the power of transnational organizations and left-wing ideology. Many in the media are true believers. Others just cannot resist the narrative of "change" and "social justice."
The product sold by Anarchy, Inc. is victimhood. It always boils down to the same formula: once the existing order can be painted as oppressors and children as their victims, chaos wins and order loses. Look at the lefties shrieking in unison about "Trump gassing children" today.
Funny there are those who think these migrant caravans were a FANTASTIC idea that's going to take the immigration issue away from you.
— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) November 26, 2018
Like several weeks watching a rampaging horde storm the fences & throw rocks at our border patrol agents & getting gassed = great optics!
This media manipulation effort was inspired by the success of the "kids in cages" freakout, a 100% Stalinist propaganda drive that required people to forget about Obama putting migrant children in cells. It worked, so now they want pics of Trump "gassing children on the border."
There's a heavy air of Pallywood around the whole thing as well. If the Palestinians can stage huge theatrical performances of victimhood with the willing cooperation of Western media, why shouldn't the migrant caravan organizers expect the same?
It's business as usual for Anarchy, Inc. - the worldwide shredding of national sovereignty to increase the power of transnational organizations and left-wing ideology. Many in the media are true believers. Others just cannot resist the narrative of "change" and "social justice."
The product sold by Anarchy, Inc. is victimhood. It always boils down to the same formula: once the existing order can be painted as oppressors and children as their victims, chaos wins and order loses. Look at the lefties shrieking in unison about "Trump gassing children" today.
