Friday, June 12, 2020
Trump and his cultists plan rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Juneteenth.
The guy who claims he's done more for African-Americans than any other president in American history has planned a bund rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Juneteenth?
Do any of his staff have any acquaintance with history? Apparently not. Apparently they've never heard of Juneteenth or the Tulsa Massacre.
So the Stable Genius who brags that he's done more for the African-American community than any other president in American history just gave that community a very big FU by planning his bund rally on one of the most important days for the African-American community. And that doesn't even take into account the fact that he's forcing this white supremacist rally on his unfortunate supporters during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Trump's people are now requiring the mobs that will attend his rallies to sign an agreement stating they will not sue the Trump campaign should they come down with Covid-19.
Here's the agreement wording:
“By clicking register below, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. By attending the Rally, you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; BOK Center; ASM Global; or any of their affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors, or volunteers liable for any illness or injury,” the legal notice reads.
So. By signing the agreement Trump cultists are essentially saying that even if they get Covid-19 or become infected and pass it along to their loved ones and friends, it will all be worth it just so they can be in the presence of The Stable Genius who emerged from hiding in his bunker and gassed his own citizens for a fake photo-op holding a Bible which he never reads!
“This isn’t just a wink to white supremacists — he’s throwing them a welcome home party,” --Kamala Harris
Black leaders call Trump’s Juneteenth rally in Tulsa ‘a slap in the face’
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Tulsa has the highest rate of COVID-19 in the state of Oklahoma. I hope people think of that before they jam themselves into Trump's arena. My hope is that no one shows up. That would be Trump's worst nightmare. Since he has a lot of support in Oklahoma, I'm afraid people will risk their lives to see the chief divider.
But this is insane. And it's an example of how crazy Trump, his staff and his supporters are.
Trump - Leadership - 0
Trump - Emotional Intelligence - 0
Trump - Cognitive Ability -0
Trump - Lying Demagogue- 1,000
Someone said to me, well, if his rally draws a really large crowd and many follow his example of never wearing a mask maybe poetic justice will strike and Dotard donnie will contract Covid'19, need a ventilator, and...They trailed off but I knew what they were thinking.
Ray... you're dreaming. People are going to come from all over the country to see Trump at that rally. And there won't be a mask among them.
Shaw... great quote from Harris...
Ray I don't know where you got your information but it is not accurate. Oklahoma county has the highest so your were 106 miles off.
Why the idiot n chief has to hold a rally on juneteenth is beyond me and of all places tulsa, talk about adding fuel to the fire. It is a shame that the country doesn't have a better choice for president than what we are presented with. I just hope the first female president is up to the task but at least she will have the overwhelming assistance of the media to prop her up.
Dear Republicans,
You can't call yourselves "the party of Lincoln" AND wave the Confederate flag.
Love,
History
The Confederate States of America was a foreign country that attacked and invaded the United States of America, and anyone who supports it is a traitor to the United States of America. Period.
The southern confederate aficionados keep dreaming about a return to the social order of the Antebellum South. When men were refered to as Southern Gentlemen and the ladies Southern Belles. And, white folks could own as human chattle, Black folks. Or as the said at the time negroes or niggers.
And THAT folks is what needs to change. Systemic racism is NOT confined to just the south and regardless where it is found it must be rooted out and destroyed for good if this republic is EVER going to TRULY live up to the ideals penned by Jefferson in the Declaration of independence.
Thank you Skud. An acknowledgement from a generally right leaning conservative that President Trump is indeed adding fuel to the fire, rather than as president of the United States, act in the best interests of all of our citizens.
Quite an admission.
You now join a group of US Republican Senators, including Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney and Roy Blunt who are finally, finally speaking out about how DJT is hurting the US.
BTW, if you think Tulsa on Juneteenth will be bad, imagine August 27, when Trump accepts the GOP Nomination in Jacsonville, Florida on the 60th anniversary of another massacre of black people. It was called the Ax Handle massacre and it happened in Jacksonville, FL on 8/27/1960.
And yes, it included police helping beat and kill people.
Dave None. Of those dates and cities Trump chose are accidents. Trump is a racist. Period.
What a disgrace he is to America.
RN you got that right.
Ms Shaw, Looks like he heard you and changed the date. I knew you were influential but now I am really impressed.
RN, Most southern men are gentleman and proud of it. The hatred for the south has been in existence since the beginning of this country so your comments degrading people from the south is not unheard of. Remember it was the democrats in the south that started jim crowe so yes there were and are bad apples as there are in any population. I don't know if you herd but the civil war is over but I guess not for some.
Skud, the southern Democrats changed to the Dixiecrats, then when Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were passed by LBJ, They became Republicans . But what never changed whether they were Democrats, Dixiecrats, or Republicans, is the fact that they were always Southerners.
I know enough about racism in America to understand that the North didn’t do a much better job. But the North did not codify by law their racism (Jim Crow laws). And 73% of extrajudicial lynchings occurred in the Southern states.
From 1882 to 1968, "nearly 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced in Congress, and three passed the House. Seven presidents between 1890 and 1952 petitioned Congress to pass a federal law."[32] None succeeded in gaining passage, blocked by the Solid South - the delegation of powerful white Southerners in the Senate, which controlled, due to seniority, the powerful committee chairmanships.
During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, black activists were attacked and murdered throughout the South. The 1964 Mississippi Burning murders galvanized public support for passage of Civil Rights legislation that year and the next.”
Just to refresh your mind about who the people were who carried out those racist policies. All they did was change political parties from Democrats to Republican, but they remained the same people who once belonged to the Democratic Party. Southerners.
It was reported Nancy Pelosi was asked if she's embarrassed the KKK were once members of the Democratic Party. "Of course. We're embarrassed Donald Trump was a Democrat for similar reasons." (I saw this on Facebook and have no idea if it is true but hope it is!)
Sorry skud if te TRUTH hurts.
I do hate the South. Wh would I hate a geographical area? Nor do I hate folks from the south. I understand hate is the reason for many human social conditions. So your assumptions are, once agai wrong. However I do despise discrimination, brutality, injustice, denying of human rights, and all that those thing represent. So I suppose you can say I hate the SYSTEM of racial discrimination and injustice codified in the south by Jim Crow. Ya see skud the effects of those social realities still exist TODAY in a solidly red (republican) politica block.
And skud, it is not the north that is still fighting the Civil War. The north WON. Remember? It IS the south that has tried to skirt the results of the Civil War (freeing the slaves) every sinse it LOST.
Shaw, thank you for taking the time to educate (reminding) skud of the facts/truth.
RN. I’m sure you meant you DONT hate the South.
Yes I did. I often use my cell phone and quite often "fat finger syndrome" strikes. The darn key are too small.
Thanks for pointing out my error.
RN I don't "hate" the South either. I had some wonderful experiences visiting Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia. I lived in Florida for a while, as a snowbird, but that really wasn't "the South."
The whole ethos of "respecting" the Confedrate flag has always mystified me. Why would any group of people want to respect a symbol of treason, defeat and surrender? That's what that flag represents.
The South has gotten away with that nonsense for centuries, and finally, America has seen it for the idiocy that it is. No other country in the world would erect monuments to a group of people who were treasonous to their own country.
Skud tried to use the Revolutionary War as a parallel. Man, these people will twist themselves into pretzels to avoid looking at the truth. I guess skud would have disagreed with the sentiments in the Declaration of Independence -- the part where King George's many tyrannies are listed. Rebeling against repression and taxation without representation is not the same as fighting to keep people enslaved. There is a difference, in case skud hadn't noticed.
So tearing down history is the answer. Somehow that seems like a simple solution and we will see what happens next. Biden has a task ahead of him and we just need to hope his female VP is up to the task. Hopefully he will channel obama to guide him through it now that we have obama day, really!!
SKUD: "So tearing down history is the answer."
SK: No. Keep the monuments and put them in a museum about Civil War history. Giving them places of honor in cities and towns makes them heroes. They're not. They fought against their own country. That's called treasonous in every book I've ever read.
Except for one in Stillwater, NY, do you see statues of Benedict Arnold in northern cities? The Boot Monument is an American Revolutionary War memorial located in Saratoga National Historical Park, Stillwater, New York. It commemorates Major General Benedict Arnold's service at the Battles of Saratoga in the Continental Army, but does not name him.
No one is erasing the Confederate generals from history. They will always be remembered as men who betrayed their country. We don't need monuments to them for that.
My fb friend, Lee Arnold, wrote this:
"In a column for the Daily Beast, longtime political observer Michael Tomasky wrote that Donald Trump and Republicans hoping to ride their coded language and veiled racist rhetoric to victory in November are starting to realize it is no longer working on voters and they are “terrified.”
With the public in an uproar over the murder of George Floyd — among others Black Americans — at the hands of police, the columnist suggested that we have possibly entered into a new era where one of the Republicans major talking points come election time are falling on deaf ears as voters increasingly reject racist appeals for their votes."
From Cameron Hilditch, The National Review:
"My view is that the lingering affection for Confederate iconography — the flags, the monuments, etc. — among certain groups of Americans stems from a subtle elision of the differences between the American revolutionaries and their secessionist descendants. Even if their cause was evil, the story goes, the valor of the Confederates still places them within the heroic tradition of American resistance to centralized power. In spite of their treachery they are still held to be, at some fundamental level, American in character and in principle by their defenders. The homepage of the website for the Sons of Confederate Veterans claims that “the citizen-soldiers who fought for the Confederacy personified the best qualities of America” and that “the preservation of liberty and freedom was the motivating factor in the South’s decision to fight the Second American Revolution.” This attempt to establish some sense of continuity between the causes of 1776 and 1861 comes across forcefully in the “Confederate Catechism” published on the same website, presumably for the purpose of indoctrinating children. President Lincoln is frequently compared to George III, and the response to question eight, “What did the South fight for?” is also the only one given in all-caps: “IT FOUGHT TO REPEL INVASION AND FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT, JUST AS THE FATHERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION HAD DONE.”
As if shouting the answer would make it true."
(cont.)
"The fact is that there is vanishingly little in the historical record to suggest any similarity between the cause of the Founders and the cause of the Confederates. The secessionists themselves said this loudly and often. Confederate vice president Alexander Stephens’s Cornerstone Speech, delivered in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861, served as a de facto manifesto for the rebels. In it, he explicitly denounced the racial attitudes of the Founders and the subsequent inadequacy of the Constitution they framed. “The prevailing ideas of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution,” Stephens proclaimed, “were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away.” He went on to assert that “those ideas . . . were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the ‘storm came and the wind blew.’”
(cont.)
"According to a U.S. Army official, Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper are said to be open to holding a “bipartisan conversation” about renaming nearly a dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders. There is no reason why this renaming should not take place. American history is replete with men and women who gave their last full measure of devotion for the values that the Union flag has proclaimed at home and abroad for nearly a quarter-millennium. Those who led a bloody rebellion against that flag to preserve an economy of human subjugation were traitors to the nation our military serves; they don’t deserve to be honored."
(cont.)
"But what about the common Confederate soldiers?” you might object. “Many of them owned no slaves, and fought for the wrong side on account of sheer accidence of birth.”
This, of course, is true. These men should be remembered and honored by their descendants . . . but not as Confederate soldiers. Let them be fondly recalled as fathers and loved ones, in family anecdotes, and in treasured photo albums just as the beloved departed are in every American family. Let their legacies extend beyond an infernal cause they didn’t care for and a conflict they didn’t choose. Was the life of your great-grandfather, O Son of Confederate Veterans, not worth more than the bitter excretions of Alexander Stephens? Did he not raise a family, or worship God, or once help a friend in dire need? Insofar as he did, he was as American as Betsy Ross, but insofar as the thrust of his bayonet was driven by the desire to hold the image of God in bondage, he has no place in the annals of American valor.
Take the battle flags down from wherever they fly, rename the bases, and let’s enjoy the rest of the NASCAR season."
Truth and Facts are stubborn things skud. No matter the spin and twist some southerners and their politicians continually argue it DOES NOT CHANGE THE TRUTH or THE FACTS. It never has and it never will.
RN You always leave such inspirational and well thought out posts that really never say anything, a talent to be admired.
Ms Shaw, If you read your history you would have learned the South seceded from the union so therefore they were not treasonous against the union they were enemies. I do agree with you that Florida is not considered in the South.
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There is no sense arguing or presenting facts with some folks. Ya just can't fix stupid.
Shaw: Of those dates and cities Trump chose are accidents. Trump is a racist. Period.
Actually, it's just a coincidence. The "on purpose" claim is the "nefarious musings of sick-minded liberals".
Dave Miller is correct. "People are going to come from all over the country to see Trump at that rally". And they will sign the waiver that says Dotard can't be held responsible when they get covid. I've heard it could be a super-spreader event. But it almost certainly will be called "fake news" if an explosion in new cases is traced back to the Dotard rally.
Well, I assume these would be rally goers are adults, responsible for themselves. So, if they are foolish enough to listen to a know nothing presnit and know nothing veep then I guess they will deserve what may come their way.
That is not to say Dotard donnie and veep Pence doesn't bear responsibility for providing the venue for gross spread. But neither have a conscience and neither accept responsibility so it won't bother them in the least.
RN, it is true that the rally goers are adults responsible for themselves, but these people could very well go on to infect others. No doubt magaturds will be attending from out of state. And then, after they get the virus, they'll bring it back to whatever states they came from.
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