DISGUSTING!

Had Trump, been POTUS when my father and mother applied for their citizenship, they would have been stopped by his administration because they were immigrants from Sicily. People from Sicily and other southern Italian regions were perceived as an "undesirable" population.

"Italians encountered widespread discrimination rooted in nativist prejudices, racial stereotypes, and economic anxieties. Perceived as culturally and racially inferior, Italian immigrants faced exclusion, violence, and systemic marginalization. 

Southern Italians looked unlike any other European group to arrive to the Americas before: Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, and so on. All Norther European. However, Mediterranean Italians are generally darker, and easier to stand out in a crowd—so they were easy targets to begin with.

Sensationalized media coverage, including newspaper illustrations, reinforced the association of Italians with organized crime, violence, and laziness. These stereotypes ignored the diversity of the immigrant population, 99% of whom were laborers seeking honest work."

The Trump administration is engaging in the same type of discrimination against an entire population because of a few "bad apples" and Trump's and his administration's racism.

Here is a partial list of Italians Trump's goons would have kept from achieving their American citizenship had he been POTUS when southern Italians and Italians from other regions were considered undesirable immigrants.

Frank Sinatra's parents

Enrico Fermi

Fiorello LaGuardia's father

Dean Martin's father

Joe Dimaggio's parents

Joe Montana's parents

Lee Iacocca's parents

Anthony Fauci's parents

Jill Biden's grandparents

My father came to America through Ellis Island and eventually landed in Boston where he worked as a barber in Scollay Square.

We lived in Boston and eventually moved to a Boston suburb where, through hard work and savings, he eventually built our family home, bought the building in which his barbershop was located, and sent his children to college. All this was achieved by a Sicilian immigrant, and this story was duplicated by millions of others from southern Italy.

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Abrupt Cancellations: Immigrants across the U.S. reported arriving at their scheduled ceremonies, only to be "plucked out of line" by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers who asked their country of origin. 

 Affected Countries: The policy impacts nationals from countries including Afghanistan, Haiti, Iran, Venezuela, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, and others. 

 Reasoning: The administration cited the need for a "thorough re-review process" to assess national security and public safety threats, following a recent incident involving an Afghan national. 

Impact: This pause has put thousands of individuals, some of whom had held green cards for many years, in limbo, despite having completed all prior steps for citizenship.

Immigration lawyers have confirmed these incidents and expressed serious concerns about the abrupt nature of the cancellations, which occurred just as applicants were set to take their final oath.

The irony of this disgusting story is that Trump, who is denying citizenship to targeted immigrant groups, would be denied US citizenship BECAUSE TRUMP IS A CONVICTED FELON AND ADJUDICATED SEXUAL ASSAULTER/RAPIST WHOSE HISTORY INCLUDES PARTYING FOR YEARS WITH CONVICTED CHILD SEX TRAFFICKERS AND RAPISTS, EPSTEIN AND MAXWELL.

Any country that cares about the quality of immigrants becoming a naturalized citizen would NEVER allow a low-life criminal like Trump into its borders.  

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC

 

TRUMP RECEIVES THE FIRST (AND ONLY) FIFA "PEACE PRIZE."

 

Imagine being mocked by the biggest (and most corrupt) sport franchise on the planet and being completely unaware that you're the mark:

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

IT APPEARS TRUMP'S SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, PETE HEGSETH, COMMITTED A WAR CRIME -- OR MURDER.

  MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The WSJ confirms that in the leadup to Pete Hegseth's serial war crimes in the Caribbean, he made clear to commanders that our military code *was not to be followed*—no questions were to be asked of any orders. It led to the resignation of the top commander in the Caribbean.

Graphic depictions of two survivors being killed by a second US military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug ferrying boat have provoked outrage where previously there was none – or at least relatively little.

 A firestorm of controversy has greeted a recent Washington Post report which suggested that a deadly attack on a vessel carrying 11 people in the Caribbean was followed with a second assault after the initial strike failed to kill everybody onboard.

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"The rationale has been widely rejected by most legal experts, who have pointed out that the US is not in conflict with an armed group involved in attacking its territory or its assets abroad." 

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 “Even if we buy into their framing that the individuals on these vessels are combatants, it would still be unlawful to kill them if they are hors de combat, which means they’re incapacitated,” said Rebecca Ingber, a professor at Cardozo law school and a former legal adviser to the state department. 

 “It is manifestly unlawful to kill someone who’s been shipwrecked. This is such a longstanding textbook principle of the law of armed conflict. 

 The prohibition is made explicit in the Pentagon’s own Law of War manual." 

 'Members of the armed forces and other persons … who are wounded, sick, or shipwrecked, shall be respected and protected in all circumstances,' it says. 'Such persons are among the categories of persons placed hors de combat; making them the object of attack is strictly prohibited.'

 Significantly – given the allegation that the second strike was conducted in accordance with Hegseth’s order to kill everyone onboard – the manual also addresses the question of illegal orders."

GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER

 

Not enough people are talking about…

 

Venezuelan airspace being closed... Yes, somehow the Trump Administration has determined the US has a right to unilaterally close any sovereign nation’s airspace we want. Under what authority? Why? No news yet, but stay tuned, I’m sure President Trump will let us know.

 

Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case… Somehow as drug trafficking has become so important we need to bomb single boats in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and close the airspace over Venezuela, it’s okay to pardon a drug trafficking felonious Ex-President who worked alongside Chapo Guzman of Mexico to supply cocaine to Latin American and the US.

 

Sec Def/War Pete Hegseth orders survivors of US air strike bombed again to make sure they are dead… If this is being reported correctly, Hegseth is guilty of war crimes. The Geneva Conventions clearly state that survivors are to be captured and treated humanely. And the US has signed on to and agreed to this. This is one of the major safe guards in place to protect US military personnel abroad.

 

Some Trump voters are struggling to square compassion, Trump’s words and reality… Here’s a story of a conservative Trump supporting mom who is working to care for peaceful immigrants in her town, while the Trump Admin lies about their criminality and works to deport them.

 

President Trump is continuing to cut tariffs… The big question is why is the Trump Admin cutting tariffs? They continue to insist prices are not up. So why sacrifice the income for the US? They continue to say tariffs do not raise prices, so what effect on the US economy can cutting prices possibly have?

 

Regarding the Afghani shooter… Fox News is reporting that National Guard shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal was an elite CIA operative, vetted multiple times across two US Administrations and was legally in the US because the Trump Administration approved him for residency. Many conservatives, including apparently President Trump, are unaware of these facts, as evidenced by him calling a reporter who questioned him about the apparent conflict of his words with reality, stupid.

 

Vinyl Records… Vinyl records, known for years as LPs, are in a bit of a resurgence. In a change of pace, check out the great story I linked above on vinyl recordings of all types. It may be just the tonic you need to forget about politics for a few moments.

 

6 - 7… Are you aware of this? In the last two weeks after returning to the US, I’ve spent some time around middle schoolers and all they talk and dream about is 6-7. Check it out in this crazy clip.

 

Finally… who knew the great John Williams of Star Wars fame, wrote the original theme music for Gilligan’s Island? It’s true and here it is.

I’m sure some here will quibble with these stories, or the sources. You cherry picked them, they’ll say, and it shows your bias. Maybe so, but each and every story I’ve highlighted here can be found on traditional news sites, conservative sites, progressive sites and independent sites.

 

Except maybe 6 - 7, but who knows.

 

Enjoy, on to the comments.