In a wide-ranging, free-flowing speech to a veterans association, the US president, Donald Trump, criticised the media for its reaction to his trade tariffs policy, accusing it of broadcasting "fake news" and saying that people should not believe what they see or what they read. --25 July 2018
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Florida Governor DeSantis's administration tried to sanitize slavery history by suggesting that slavery wasn't all that bad because some slaves learned skills that would be beneficial to them.
Former U.S. Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, who announced last month that he was joining the race for the GOP nomination, blasted the idea that enslaved people were able to use slavery as some kind of training program.
“Slavery wasn’t a jobs program that taught beneficial skills,”
Hurd, the son of a Black father and a White mother, tweeted. “It was literally dehumanizing and subjugated people as property because they lacked any rights or freedoms.”
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As it relates to Trump, how about the numbers from the Federal Election Committee...
Of the 34 million raised last quarter for his reelection effort, the Trump related Save America PAC used 17 million of it, or half for the folks from Rio Lindo, for his legal defense.
I could be wrong, but isn't it wrong to accept funds for a designated cause and then use it for another unrelated cause?
Asking for a friend...
The pattern of fascism has been established. Only a socialist could write "1984"and "Animal farm".
“War is peace.” Party slogan (1984)
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.” George W. Bush.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” – The Party (1984)
“Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening.” - Trump
"A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses." - George Orwell
Another notable socialist shared his insight:
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
-Albert Einstein
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
-Albert Einstein
"Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein" Monthly Review, New York (May 1949)
https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/
Bonus Quote:
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
Hurd is absolutely right.
The DeSantis administration is absolutely lying and is absolutely wrong.
The future is here.
For what reason would one believe humankind has the wisdom or capacity to put its collective ego aside and heed Orwell's advice? Because getting past the egos of most humans (particularly in the west) likely ain't gonna happen any time soon. Certainly not in the present climate of rightwing expansion across the globe.
We are creatures of habit and we prove it over and over. To accomplish what will be needed to reverse current trends would require change of colossal proportions. Not sure we're up to it if how we've handled climate change is an indicator, and i believe it is.
Well, a good Con Man like 45 doesn't have to be Smart, he's just got to be Smarter than those he's Conning.
And Whitewashing American History or Omission of Atrocities committed against various people and cultures here has always happened. My Dad was Native American, in High School our Assignment was to do a Report about "The Holocaust" and everyone except me did one on the very well known one Hitler committed. I did the one the U.S. Government committed against the Indigenous Tribes. And those they could not physically Kill, they Culturally Killed by forcefully taking their Children away from them to "Kill the Indian and Save the Man". Many of those Children were Abused, Neglected and many Died... my Dad lost a Brother in the Indian Schools who Died of malnutrition, and another Brother was never returned and they never knew his Fate. To suggest that anyone oppressed, enslaved, etcetera benefitted from the treatment tries to sanitize the Truth. The only thing my Native American side of the Family Learned, was not to Trust the Govt. or very few people who were not Indigenous. My Dad Married my Mom in Europe, she was Welsh, she was horrified at how the Natives lived in the 1950's... it wasn't any better in the 1970's when I visited relatives on the Rez, nor is it much better now in 2023.
Bohemian, thanks for coming by and commenting.
I've read about how our Native Americans were shamefully treated and all but annihilated through dehumanizing programs carried out by the US government.
I was quite active in Boston's visual arts community, and the first piece of stone sculpture I produced was of a Native American woman. I also did one in bronze as well, which is now in a library in Milan, Italy.
The US government broke every treaty they made with our Indigenous Tribes.
And yet there are people here in this country that don't want any of this taught in our schools for fear of "hurting some students' feelings."
I can't tell whether we're living in Orwell's world, Alice's Wonderland or some combination of both.
Up is down, right is left, an insurrection alternates between a tourist visit and riot, winning is losing and losing is winning.
I had a conversation the other day with a guy who is sure the elections were rigged. He can't prove, and he admits no one can. But for him and millions like him, that doesn't matter. He knows it to be true.
Another friend decided to bring up politics with me. He's a smart guy, a university professor. He asked how i refuted some of the Hunter Biden stuff. I decided to play along and just stated "everything about Hunter could be true. I'll wait for the House commission to file their report and the courts to make their case."
Then I asked him about Jared and the 2 billion his investment fund got from the Saudis. He responded by asking where I heard that. What were my sources because he had never heard that.
But in the end, it did not trouble him because any of my news sources, were compromised, just as us lefties say about FOX. And as such, it was probably not a real story.
In this world, where even a candidate running for president asks for funds for the campaign and then uses those funds for legal fees related to criminal activity, another violation of the law, nothing is as it is to many. Because they just don't care.
We're all riding along the Gaslight Express through the looking glass to a place mired in Orwellian doublespeak.
Dave M.
And this, which I just came across on Twitter:
"Desantis's African-American History task force appointee, Kim Daniels, (a Black woman) saying “the Jews own everything” and “thank God for slavery.”
"Jews own everything?" and "Thank God for slavery?"
She's a DeSantis appointee. This explains the idiotic assertion that slaves benefitted from slavery. She's obviously off her rocker, as the saying goes.
Also, this is interesting, and I'm sure will be ignored by the Captain of the Mother Ship and her fellow sailors:
"Russell Moore, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, said in an interview with Semafor recently that many evangelical Christians are secretly sick and tired of expending so much energy defending former President Donald Trump.
Moore said that, at its heart, this weariness comes from trying to reconcile the Bible's instructions for how to behave with the former president's allegedly criminal activities, not to mention his long history of alleged sexual harassment and infidelity.
"I’m hearing every day from evangelical Christians who are exhausted and almost in despair over the state of American Christianity," he told the publication. "They know something has gone terribly wrong but they are losing hope that anything could be different."
Moore went on to add that he believes "Trump to be a unique threat, both to American institutions and to the church’s witness.
Moore is also publishing a new book called "Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America" that examines Trump's role in reshaping evangelical morality, which he believes has been detrimental to the faith.
"While the witness of the church before a watching world is diminished beyond recognition, congregations are torn apart over Donald Trump, Christian nationalism, racial injustice, sexual predation, disgraced leaders, and covered-up scandals," reads the book's description. "Left behind are millions of believers who counted on the church to be a place of belonging and hope." -Raw Story
When one forgets... all they thought they knew it's the seeds of wisdom sprouting.
Shaw... I saw similar comments from Moore in his article in The Atlantic. He's a good example of a man of faith, in this case, Christianity, who leans mostly conservative, but just couldn't stomach Trump or the damage he's caused to the church through his followers.
That kind of conservative we can talk with, argue with and respect. Even when we disagree on policy.
Why the great majority of Republicans consider Moore a RINO, I'll never know. There is not a single policy position he holds would be considered outside of the mainstream of the GOP.
Not. A. One.
Here's another brick for the Biden Blue Wall...
Morgan Stanley Investments have said they were wrong about Biden and his economic policies. The fact is they have said the economy is in much better shape than they ever imagined it to be.
Here's the money, no pun intended, quote...
"We were wrong. 2023 has been a story of higher valuations than we expected amid falling inflation and cost cutting...”
So to all the sailors on the HMS MotherShip of Denial and folks like Skud and others who lament the weak economy... you're wrong. The evidence and data do not support your views and the economy is and has been growing under President Biden.
Period.
So no gaslighting, lying, moaning about how bad the economy is... none of it.
Because the great majority of what they believe, without evidence, is just not true.
From an email I received:
"People need to remember that Adolf Hitler was influenced by the way African Americans were enslaved and treated in this country; he took from the playbook of slave owners and used family separation, forced labor, ra pe, torture, child abuse, medical experiments... etc on Jewish people. People went through horrific experiences against their will in order to "learn" these skills that they boast about being "beneficial". These skills are the result of human suffering in which the trauma exists to this day by being passed down generationally. Hell, my last name and the last name of black Americans is the name of the family that owned our ancestors because we were stripped of our culture and identity. We always need to remember what happened in humanity because the parallels are real. If we don't learn from our history, we are doomed to repeat it."
Reification of old habits and age old beliefs die hard. Very hard.
With the preponderance of historical fact available to anyone that is interested
In knowing the truth it seems pretty clear they simply and willfully choose to remain deluded and ignorant rather than to seek kniwledge and grow.
The hope rests in the young. Those in the 18 to 34 year old age bracket and those following them. Hope, as it has been said, springs eternal.
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