What is this, Spain in the Thirties?

AZDuck

Like seriously, is this really happening?

https://twitter.com/jjimenezgalvez/status/914569332520308736

Also, 81% voted sí, so you know this will end well

http://www.euronews.com/2017/10/01/high-tension-as-catalonia-referendum-day-begins

GrundleStiltzkin

I'm hearing Franco is still dead.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

Time to get the Basques and Catalans in line.

AZDuck

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

Time to get the Basques and Catalans in line.

YellowSnow

The Bell tolls for thee Duck...











In November.

YellowSnow

https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2017/10/02/bells-barcelona-toll-europe/

UWhuskytskeet

They've handled it about as shitty as possible. Should have helped with the vote, pray it's rejected, and if not, politely tell them to fuck off. Sending goons out to literally block voters was the worst thing they could have done.

doogie

well when you get your own country, you can manage your secession movement any way you want.

PurpleThrobber

UWhuskytskeet said:

They've handled it about as shitty as possible. Should have helped with the vote, pray it's rejected, and if not, politely tell them to fuck off. Sending goons out to literally block voters was the worst thing they could have done.

Apparently, you've never been to Butte, MT.

The Catalans are pussies compared to the Basques. Wait until they get their own goons in there. 2018 will be special.

RaceBannon

Anyway we can pin this on Trump?

Sledog

I love the video of 8 or 9 Spanish cops playing whack a loon when the ANTIFA idiots try and push them out of their way.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

According to Youtubers, the Catalans carry the rest of Spain, i.e. northern Italians carry everyone else in italy. So they don't like being taxed to carry the rest of the country.

AZDuck

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-politics-catalonia/catalonia-warns-of-civil-disobedience-as-madrid-readies-direct-rule-idUSKBN1CS17K

Catalonia said on Monday it was confident all officials including police would defy attempts by Madrid to enforce direct rule on the region in a dispute that is raising fears of unrest among Spain’s European allies.

The Spanish government has invoked special constitutional powers to fire the regional government and force elections to counter an independence drive. A vote in the national Senate to implement direct rule is due on Friday.

But leaders of the secessionist campaign said a referendum on Oct. 1, in which 43 percent of the electorate voted, gave them a mandate to claim independence from the rest of Spain.

“It’s not that we will refuse (orders). It is not a personal decision. It is a seven million-person decision,” Catalonia’s foreign affairs chief Raul Romeva told BBC radio.

doogie

Kal-i-forniaaaaaaaaa... Kal-i-fornia girls.

oregonblitzkrieg

This is what happens when socialists are allowed in government

AZDuck

oregonblitzkrieg said:

This is what happens when socialists are allowed in government

Socialists on both sides here. Who do you want to exterminate?

Sledog

AZDuck said:

oregonblitzkrieg said:

This is what happens when socialists are allowed in government

Socialists on both sides here. Who do you want to exterminate?

Socialists of course.

oregonblitzkrieg

AZDuck said:

oregonblitzkrieg said:

This is what happens when socialists are allowed in government

Socialists on both sides here. Who do you want to exterminate?

No need to exteminate anyone, just send them to the gulag

AZDuck

oregonblitzkrieg said:

AZDuck said:

oregonblitzkrieg said:

This is what happens when socialists are allowed in government

Socialists on both sides here. Who do you want to exterminate?

No need to exteminate anyone, just send them to the gulag

Upon seizing full control of Spain, in 1939, Franco imposed a policy of limpieza, or cleansing, that centered on eliminating any trace of republican Spain. The use of the word “cleansing” was not a mere euphemism; rather it reflected the Franco regime’s belief that Spain’s body politic had been contaminated by a foreign virus that needed to be exterminated. This entailed executing hundreds of political dissidents in the wake of the Civil War in concentration camps, including socialists, anarchists, and regional nationalists, and stealing an untold number of newborn babies from their “red” mothers to give to conservative families to adopt. Franco also canceled the autonomy charters that the republic had granted to the Catalans and the Basques and banned all regional languages and symbols (including the Catalan language, its flag, and national holiday, the Diada).

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/05/the-ghost-of-franco-still-haunts-catalonia/

Again, Spain. The thirties.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.

oregonblitzkrieg

The far right rises when the far left fucks up so badly there is really no other option but to stomp them out. Stop fucking up so much and these guys would go away permanently. You don't like Trump. Well he came to power because your side swung the pendulum so far to the left it became a threat to the country. Misdemeanor for knowingly infecting people with AIDS, and jailing people just for SPEAKING. Do you fucking get it now? The American people have guns, and will rise up and kill, if necessary, those who try to install anti-democratic regimes here. We aren't fucking Canada.

PurpleThrobber

Generalissimo Francisco Franco - still dead, right?