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Thursday, November 30, 2023
The Killers of the Flower Moon
(I saw this 3 hour and 20 minute film 2 weeks ago. It is based on American history. Go see it.)
This is happening in Trumplandia, where those in charge do NOT want to teach American history, but rather American fantasy and ignore the truth.
When this happens in any part of our country -- when censorship hides the truth from certain segments of its population -- what prevents the authorities from lying about or hiding the truth from anything the government chooses?
History is NOT about protecting weak people's delicate feelings, but rather history means telling what happened.
The state government in Oklahoma has failed its constituents by covering up its own history.
From Jackie Flynn Mogenson's article in Mother Jones:
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Monday, November 27, 2023
I was shocked...
to read this post by an American man who is 95 years old, and who 40% of the American voting public (MAGAs) probably agrees with:
"When I was born in 1928 we had a true democracy.
As I’ve previously mentioned, the erosion of that democracy began when FDR introduced Social Security around 1935 during the Great Depression. Initially it was voluntary and tax deductible, but those gradually disappeared, too.
The final blow was inflicted by LBJ in 1965 with the introduction of Medicare and has gone downhill ever since. Ergo, we no longer are totally free.
Like the woman visiting from Russia seated next to me a a plane around 1990 said: “What Americans don’t understand is not everyone wants freedom.” Her words still ring in my ears."
S.K:
In 1928, even though women had gained the right to vote with the 19th Amendment that was ratified in August of 1920 (which American women had been fighting for since 1878), several states passed laws that prevented or made it extremely difficult for Black American women (and even Black men who won the right to vote with the 14th Amendment) to be able to exercise that newly won right.
As a privileged white male, the man quoted above, has no idea of how this continued to be an anti-democratic scandal in our history until LBJ passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965, so that those states that still practiced discrimination and prevented people of color from voting, could no longer do so.
But for the man who wrote the above quote, ours was a true democracy for HIM -- a white privileged American male. He was able to vote either because of his birthright or because it was bestowed upon him as soon as he became a US citizen. He had the right to representation, unlike the women who worked and paid taxes but were NOT allowed to vote and enjoy representation. Man Born in 1928 had his rights, and the fact that some Americans did not enjoy those same rights matters not a whit to him.
True Democracy?
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Saturday, November 25, 2023
Thursday, November 23, 2023
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Remember Harlan Crow, the Texas billionaire...
MAGA!
MAGAs, and especially a certain blog that does not allow comments by those they disagree with, see nothing wrong with putting Trump back in the White House.
Apparently, they do not read history. Or worse, stubbornly will not see what is in front of their noses:
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
GOOD NEWS THAT ANGERS MAGAs
For Lisa, skudrunner, and all the people who stubbornly refuse to live in the real world:
Monday, November 20, 2023
GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER
I think if Pres Joe wants to have any chance of winning, he's got to get moving on the campaign. Here's how I think he could do that.
First, acknowledge publicly the elephant in the room, his age. He needs to start being real in this. Yeah, he's older than a lot of can but make his age can be made into a virtue. A virtue that comes with years of experience of serving Americans.
All Americans.
Then detail specifically, in specific locations, how his legislation, like the Cares Act, the Infrastructure Build Back Better Bill is helping Main Street Joe.
The go even more public. And it starts, again with the age acknowledgement. He needs to say to his aides, staff and others, who if the media is to be believed, that they can't bring the issue up. That his age IS fair game.
And he needs to get out of speech venues. It's not his strength. It's Trump's, it was Obama's, but it's not Biden's. He feeds off personal contact. Show up Joe. Just sit in neighborhood coffee houses. Watch a football game with some people. Talk to people. Show them personally you're not a fossil, that you've still got it.
And if you're really daring, go with them to see where they work, or their farm, unscripted. Your Secret Service will hate it, but they'll deal. Remember, they work for you!
America has little touch with our presidents anymore. Be the guy who brings that back, even if for one campaign. The power of a president asking the single guy for his vote, in his own small kitchen, can't be underestimated.
And that guy will bring his neighbors to you. Because HE will testify to what he saw in your eyes. You need direct touch, you're good at it, and it's a great way to personally tell people you're not too old for this.
You can't just make the "I'm not Trump" argument from the White House. Give us, many of whom are on the fence, the assurance that you're not too old and can be outside of your perceived advisors "protect Joe" bubble.
Then, get your stand-ins in public out on the campaign trail doing the same, making your case. Flood the airwaves with Cabinet Secs, Senators, Congressmen, not just with talking points, but listening to people. Send them to rural communities and to to campuses, without suits, to talk directly to people.
If you want to win over people, listen to them. Hear them.
Take no vote and no state for granted. California and Michigan are great examples. Don't assume your voters are hard Biden ppl. Ask for their votes.
Because we can't afford to let the GOP win this election. At least not this current iteration of the GOP.
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Friday, November 17, 2023
Thursday, November 16, 2023
MAGA Party Representative faces corruption charges.
BREAKING: House Ethics Committee finds 'substantial evidence' George Santos broke the law -
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
The MAGA CULT
The United States is in a very dark place. Too many people (MAGAs) have been bamboozled:
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Trump sounds more like Hitler every day.
Monday, November 13, 2023
Do we all understand the danger that is Donald Trump?
"When they tell you who they are, believe them." M.A.
Trump promises to put people who opposed him and tried to "take him down" in mental institutions before the end of his term if he is elected in 2024.
Has anyone ever heard any candidate for the presidency utter such maniacal threats like these? Ever?
These are the sorts of utterances vengeful, unhinged, and murderous wannabe dictators tell their followers in order to rouse them into mob violence.
No candidate for the presidency has ever spoken words like this or called their fellow Americans "vermin."
What have we become?
Donald J. Trump is a danger to our country.
Weak-minded MAGAs Follow Their Cult Leader
Trump's cult followers are quick to give their stamp of approval to his hideous "vermin" Truth Social post sent out on Veteran's Day.
If you know nothing about history, this will not frighten you. Those who do know history will be sickened by what Trump has unleashed upon our country.
Dehumanization in Bosnia Definition:
HELLISH MESSAGE ON VETERANS DAY FROM TRUMP
This is the most horrific thing I've ever read on Veteran's Day -- a day we all should honor those who served our country, and be humbled by their sacrifices for we the people.
Instead we have a maniac running for the presidency, who demonizes Americans he disagrees with, while sending a strong message to his cultists, especially the unstable among them, that our fellow Americans -- the Left in particular -- is destroying America, when, in fact, these sort of out-of-control hysterical accusations from him are actually doing that very thing.
I have never heard hateful and dangerous language like this from a presidential candidate in my life, and it is highly disturbing to understand that millions of Americans see anything good in this demagogue who, by his language, seeks to vilify and diabolize Americans.
Trump is sick, and mentally unstable. Read his language to understand he should never be anywhere near any lever of power. He called the Left "thugs" and "vermin!"
Trump has all the markings of what would be a vengeful and murderous dictator. He has said himself that he will be MAGA's retribution.
This is language and promises never before heard in an American politician, and it harkens back to 1930s Germany.
I am not exagerating.
READ. HIS. LANGUAGE!
Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to our country. And it escalates daily.
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Saturday, November 11, 2023
WHO'S SURPRISED?
Thursday, November 9, 2023
WELP. THAT'S A FIRST FOR ME. WHAT ABOUT YOU?
One of the Republican candidates hoping to get the nomination of her party for POTUS, Nikki Haley, called another Republican (V. Ramaswamy) hoping to get the nomination of his party "SCUM!"
I'd say that Donald Trump's influence on the once proud Republican Party is complete.
"...SCUM..."
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
Republicans approved an amendment cutting Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's salary to just $1.
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
KENTUCKY:
"Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear just won re-election, beating his Trump-endorsed opponent in a state that voted for Trump by 26% in 2020.Monday, November 6, 2023
TRUMP HAS LOST HIS MIND!
FILE UNDER "WTF!"
This is the guy that the "law and order" and "Constitutionalist" Republicans want to put back in the WH!
Sunday, November 5, 2023
YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN
Saturday, November 4, 2023
We're the ONLY COUNTRY ON THE PLANET THAT HAS THESE MASSACRES ON A WEEKLY BASIS.
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Well, this is disturbing.
"In a proclamation on February 1, 1933, Hitler stated, 'The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.' "