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Just in case Megan Kelly still doesn't get it ...
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/_EA3fudWPYuZW9fTHQ7DuA--~A/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/437f1d36830cbbdb1eeb9e5e294ea5a4Photo of Minnesota students wearing KKK hoods and blackface prompts investigation
[Yahoo Lifestyle]
Hope SchreiberWriter
,Yahoo Lifestyle•November 2, 2018
Rochester Public Schools in Minnesota is investigating a photo shared on Snapchat of two students wearing KKK hoods and giving a Nazi salute while one wears blackface. (Photo: Sean Baker via Twitter)
The public school district of Rochester, Minn., is investigating a photo which may have originated on Snapchat that appears to depict two students in KKK hoods and a third student in blackface. The students seem to be performing the Nazi salute.
According to MPR News, parents of children in the school district shared the image on Facebook.
Rochester Public Schools says it is “aware of and investigating” a racially-charged image circulating on social media allegedly involving students from John Marshall High School. #rochmn https://t.co/bbbXA7k5nV pic.twitter.com/EvDc5Cg0z1
— Sean Baker (@SeanBakerMN) November 1, 2018
The report goes on to say that one of the alleged students has since been fired from their job at a grocery store and that a person or persons in the photo will no longer be proceeding with the process to join the U.S. Army as their behavior is “inconsistent with Army values.”
“The Army does not tolerate inappropriate behavior by anyone within our ranks, to include recruits who have signed a contract to join in the future,” said Marlene Bland with the 3rd Recruiting Brigade. “It is important for everyone on our team to live and demonstrate the Army values every day.”
Rochester Public Schools released the following statement: “It is important for our community to know that RPS strives to create a welcoming environment for students of all backgrounds and is committed to providing a learning environment that is free from discrimination. The social media post is not a reflection of what our district students and staff believes and feels. We will use this as an opportunity to talk, educate, and grow as a community as we work to become even stronger and more inclusive to all students.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/photo-minnesota-students-wearing-kkk-hoods-blackface-prompts-investigation-104204839.html
Mike Pence Tells Rally, 'I'm Kind Of A Big Deal'; Twitter Users Are Skeptical
Mike Pence Tells Rally, ‘I’m Kind Of A Big Deal’; Twitter Users Are Skeptical
One snarky tweet read, “But unlike Will and Oprah, @VP hasn’t brought joy to any person’s life at all.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-kind-of-a-big-deal-twitter_us_5bdb4c33e4b04367a87acabc
By David Moye
Being a heartbeat away from the presidency may have gone to Mike Pence’s head ― because he’s comparing himself to Oprah.
During a campaign rally for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, the vice president pointed out that Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams has attracted Oprah Winfrey and Will Ferrell to the state to campaign on her behalf.
“Like, I heard Oprah was in town today. And I heard Will Ferrell was going door to door the other day. Well, I’d like to remind Stacey and Oprah and Will Ferrell — I’m kind of a big deal, too,” Pence told the crowd.
“I heard Oprah was in town today. And I heard Will Ferrell was going door-to-door the other day. Well I’d like to remind Stacey and Oprah and Will Ferrell — I’m kind of a big deal, too,” Vice President Mike Pence said at a campaign event for gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp pic.twitter.com/74AsupqST8
— POLITICO (@politico) November 1, 2018
Although Pence was obviously joking since he was paraphrasing a line said by Ron Burgundy, Ferrell’s character in the “Anchorman” films, many Twitter users decided it would be funnier to take his comments seriously.
They were right.
Never bring a Mike Pence to an Oprah fight
— Mario (@MarioLipkin) November 1, 2018
There is only one man who can pull that off pic.twitter.com/g0mivjWsXb
— Steve Ruffley (@steveruffley) November 1, 2018
But unlike Will and Oprah, @VP hasn’t brought joy to any person’s life at all.
— Matthew Gellert (@MatthewGellert) November 1, 2018
With all due respect Mr. Vice President, I am not a Democrat and I voted for you. I pray for you and the President everyday. However I watched Oprah this morning and it was a class act. I feel that even mentioning it just makes you look fearful. Makes Republicans look weak.
— ReallyColette/Mama2G (@TheMama2G) November 1, 2018
But that wasn’t even Oprah’s or Will’s point. They weren’t there because they were a big deal. Playing different games here. Narcissism versus Generosity.
— Cristina Ampil (@CristinaAmpil) November 1, 2018
Yeah, when you have to remind them.....says it all.
— ABF (@progressiveABF) November 1, 2018
In 1927, Donald Trump's father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens
In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens
By Philip Bump
February 29, 2016
(The Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/28/in-1927-donald-trumps-father-was-arrested-after-a-klan-riot-in-queens/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.833edc86f41e
This piece has been updated.
When he was asked on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday whether he would condemn the praise of former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, Donald Trump declined to disavow Duke's comments.
"I don’t know anything about David Duke, okay," Trump said. "I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. I don't know, did he endorse me? Or what's going on. Because I know nothing about David Duke. I know nothing about white supremacists."
In 2000, Trump declined to run for president as a member of the Reform Party because the "Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep." As Trump himself noted on Twitter, he also disavowed Duke in a news conference earlier this week.
But this incident also brings to mind another report, unearthed in September by the technology blog Boing Boing.
On Memorial Day 1927, brawls erupted in New York led by sympathizers of the Italian fascist movement and the Ku Klux Klan. In the fascist brawl, which took place in the Bronx, two Italian men were killed by anti-fascists. In Queens, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested.
One of those arrested was Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Rd. in Jamaica.
This is Donald Trump's father. Trump had a brother named Fred, but he wasn't born until more than a decade later. The Fred Trump at Devonshire Road was the Fred C. Trump who lived there with his mother, according to the 1930 Census.
The predication for the Klan to march, according to a flier passed around Jamaica beforehand, was that "Native-born Protestant Americans" were being "assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City." "Liberty and Democracy have been trampled upon," it continued, "when native-born Protestant Americans dare to organize to protect one flag, the American flag; one school, the public school; and one language, the English language."
It's not clear from the context what role Fred Trump played in the brawl. The news article simply notes that seven men were arrested in the "near-riot of the parade," all of whom were represented by the same lawyers. Update: A contemporaneous article from the Daily Star notes that Trump was detained "on a charge of refusing to disperse from a parade when ordered to do so."
Cautionary Tale 1939: When 20,000 American Nazis Descended Upon New York City
When 20,000 American Nazis Descended Upon New York City
By Marshall Curry
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/542499/marshall-curry-nazi-rally-madison-square-garden-1939/
In 1939, the German American Bund organized a rally of 20,000 Nazi supporters at Madison Square Garden in New York City. When Academy Award-nominated documentarian Marshall Curry stumbled upon footage of the event in historical archives, he was flabbergasted. Together with Field of Vision, he decided to present the footage as a cautionary tale to Americans. The short film, A Night at the Garden, premieres on The Atlantic today.
“The first thing that struck me was that an event like this could happen in the heart of New York City,” Curry told The Atlantic. “Watching it felt like an episode of The Twilight Zone where history has taken a different path. But it wasn’t science fiction – it was real, historical footage. It all felt eerily familiar, given today’s political situation.”
Rather than edit the footage into a standard historical documentary with narration, Curry decided to “keep it pure, cinematic, and unmediated, as if you are there, watching, and wrestling with what you are seeing. I wanted it to be more provocative than didactic – a small history-grenade tossed into the discussion we are having about White Supremacy right now.”
“The footage is so powerful,” continued Curry, “it seems amazing that it isn’t a stock part of every high school history class. This story was likely nudged out of the canon, in part because it’s scary and embarrassing. It tells a story about our country that we’d prefer to forget.”
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The Myth of Black Confederates
The Myth of Black Confederates
And the rise of fake racial tolerance
Benjamin Alpers — January 14, 2018
http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/01/the-myth-of-black-confederates/
This picture of the (Union) Louisiana Native Guard is frequently misrepresented as an image of Black Confederate troops.
One of the latest Confederate monument fights is currently brewing in South Carolina. State Representatives Bill Chumley and Mike Burns have proposed erecting a monument to black Confederate soldiers. The problem, of course, is that there were no black Confederate soldiers. The Confederate government refused to allow blacks to enlist until March 1865, when, desperate for manpower, the Confederate Congress passed a law allowing African Americans to serve in combat roles. Even with the war nearly lost, this move was extremely controversial, as it flew in the face of Confederate racial ideology. “In my opinion, the worst calamity that could befall us would be to gain our independence by the valor of our slaves, instead of own,” wrote Robert Toombs, the first Confederate secretary of state and a general in the Confederate army. “The day that the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.” Two weeks after the law allowing their service was passed and before any black troops could be enlisted, the war was over.
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But in recent years, the myth of the black Confederates has grown. Early “Lost Cause” ideology was often frankly racist. Works like D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915), and the Thomas Dixon novels on which it was based, depicted the Confederacy as explicitly a white man’s cause. While neo-Confederate accounts of the Civil War and Reconstruction often displaced slavery as the cause of the conflict and depicted the South as fighting for “states’ rights” or even a lower tariff, there was at first no attempt to reimagine the Confederacy as a land of racial equality, especially since the vision of the Lost Cause was actively used as a defense of Jim Crow.
But after the rise of the modern civil rights movement, it became convenient to claim that the Confederate fight was an interracial one. On the basis of no evidence whatsoever, the myth grew. “The modern myth of black Confederate soldiers,” notes the Civil War Trust on their webpage devoted to this tale,
"is akin to a conspiracy theory—shoddy analysis has been presented, repeated, amplified, and twisted to such an extent that utterly baseless claims of as many as 80,000 black soldiers fighting for the Confederacy (which would roughly equal the size of Lee’s army at Gettysburg) have even made their way into classroom textbooks. It is right to study, discover, and share facts about the complex lives of nineteenth-century black Americans. It is wrong to exaggerate, obfuscate, and ignore those facts in order to suit twenty-first century opinions.
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The rest of the article is well worth reading.
First time I've ever come close to voting a complete straight ticket ...
The only offices I didn't vote for the Democrat didn't have Democratic candidates. I voted for an unopposed Republican Judge because I know him personally and I'd trust him if anybody I knew had to stand in front of him. He told me he'd never vote for Paxton so I know we got at least one Democratic vote from him. I also know he loathes Cruz and cheetolini.
When I had the choice between a Libertarian or a Republican I left it blank.
I feel a lot calmer now. I missed the last two local elections somehow and was worried somehow my voter registration was expired. This election is the most important election I've ever voted in. 2020 will become the most important but only once we win this one. This rates right up there with the feelings I had enlisting in the Navy in '72 and I signed a waiver of my protections under the Bill of Rights to come under the UCMJ. Different conclusions but but significant events.
Anybody needing a ride to the polls in Burnet county, PM me, have six passenger vehicle, will travel.
Trump Fan Convicted In Anti-Muslim Terror Plot Asks Judge To Consider Trump's Rhetoric
Source: Huffpo
10/29/2018 05:00 pm ET
Trump Fan Convicted In Anti-Muslim Terror Plot Asks Judge To Consider Trump’s Rhetoric
Patrick Stein’s attorneys also said he learned about the Quran “from the internet and conservative talk-show hosts such as Sean Hannity and Michael Savage.”
By Ryan J. Reilly
WASHINGTON ― Attorneys for a President Donald Trump supporter who was convicted in a domestic terrorism plot aimed at slaughtering Muslim refugees asked a federal judge to factor in the “backdrop” of Trump’s campaign rhetoric when deciding their client’s sentence this week.
Patrick Stein was one of three right-wing militiamen found guilty in April of a conspiracy to kill Muslim refugees living in rural Kansas. Ahead of the 2016 election, Stein and two others plotted with an FBI informant and an undercover agent to bomb an apartment complex that housed Muslims in Garden City. Stein went by the handle “Orkin Man” and referred to Muslims as “cockroaches” he wanted exterminated.
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“Trump’s brand of rough-and-tumble verbal pummeling heightened the rhetorical stakes for people of all political persuasions,” they added. “A personal normally at a 3 on a scale of political talk might have found themselves at a 7 during the election. A person, like Patrick, who would often be at a 7 during a normal day, might ‘go to 11.’ That climate should be taken into account when evaluating the rhetoric that formed the basis of the government’s case.”
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Stein’s attorneys said their client got caught up in the anti-Muslim information he was devouring online. His knowledge of the Quran, his attorneys wrote, “came directly from the internet and conservative talk-show hosts such as Sean Hannity and Michael Savage. Patrick himself had never read the Quran, nor had he participated in a comparative study of any religion.”
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Ryan Reilly is HuffPost’s senior justice reporter covering the Justice Department, federal law enforcement, criminal justice and legal affairs. Have a tip? Reach him at ryan.reilly@huffpost.com or on Signal at 202-527-9261.
Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kansas-terror-plot-trump-anti-muslim_us_5bd742ebe4b055bc948ef751
A large collection of hate literature these guys used and passed around are at the link. Dismal crap. They shouldn't get any breaks and cheetolini needs to be held culpable.
A tip of the hat to Don Viejo.
Trump Fan Convicted In Anti-Muslim Terror Plot Asks Judge To Consider Trump's Rhetoric
Trump Fan Convicted In Anti-Muslim Terror Plot Asks Judge To Consider Trump’s Rhetoric
Patrick Stein’s attorneys also said he learned about the Quran “from the internet and conservative talk-show hosts such as Sean Hannity and Michael Savage.”
By Ryan J. Reilly
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kansas-terror-plot-trump-anti-muslim_us_5bd742ebe4b055bc948ef751
WASHINGTON ― Attorneys for a President Donald Trump supporter who was convicted in a domestic terrorism plot aimed at slaughtering Muslim refugees asked a federal judge to factor in the “backdrop” of Trump’s campaign rhetoric when deciding their client’s sentence this week.
Patrick Stein was one of three right-wing militiamen found guilty in April of a conspiracy to kill Muslim refugees living in rural Kansas. Ahead of the 2016 election, Stein and two others plotted with an FBI informant and an undercover agent to bomb an apartment complex that housed Muslims in Garden City. Stein went by the handle “Orkin Man” and referred to Muslims as “cockroaches” he wanted exterminated.
At trial, defense attorneys referred to the defendants as “knuckleheads” who were engaged in “locker room talk,” and Stein’s attorney argued his client was a victim of a “chaos news” environment that had him thinking a civil war was coming.
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A jury convicted Stein and his co-defendants, Curtis Allen and Gavin Wright, on weapons of mass destruction and conspiracy against civil rights charges. They are scheduled to be sentenced Friday, a week after another Trump supporter was arrested for mailing bombs to the president’s critics and a right-wing extremist killed 11 Jewish Americans inside of a Pittsburgh synagogue.
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“2016 was ‘lit.’ The court cannot ignore the circumstances of one of the most rhetorically mold-breaking, violent, awful, hateful and contentious presidential elections in modern history, driven in large measure by the rhetorical China shop bull who is now our president,” they wrote.
“Trump’s brand of rough-and-tumble verbal pummeling heightened the rhetorical stakes for people of all political persuasions,” they added. “A personal normally at a 3 on a scale of political talk might have found themselves at a 7 during the election. A person, like Patrick, who would often be at a 7 during a normal day, might ‘go to 11.’ That climate should be taken into account when evaluating the rhetoric that formed the basis of the government’s case.”
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Stein’s attorneys said their client got caught up in the anti-Muslim information he was devouring online. His knowledge of the Quran, his attorneys wrote, “came directly from the internet and conservative talk-show hosts such as Sean Hannity and Michael Savage. Patrick himself had never read the Quran, nor had he participated in a comparative study of any religion.”
Stein, his attorneys wrote, was “the perfect, vulnerable target” for the FBI, and had relapsed into alcoholism and “had used methamphetamine regularly,” including after he met FBI informant Dan Day. They said that Stein’s crimes “demonstrated an extreme level of hatred and fear, but they also demonstrated an utter lack of sophistication.”
They argued that 15 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release would “adequately reflect the seriousness of the offense, promote respect for the law and provide just punishment.”
Ryan Reilly is HuffPost’s senior justice reporter covering the Justice Department, federal law enforcement, criminal justice and legal affairs. Have a tip? Reach him at ryan.reilly@huffpost.com or on Signal at 202-527-9261.
A large collection of hate literature these guys used and passed around are at the link. Dismal crap.
Campbell Soup Jettisons Exec Who Peddled Soros Conspiracy Theory About Caravan
Campbell Soup Jettisons Exec Who Peddled Soros Conspiracy Theory About Caravan
“We expect our leaders to present facts, to deal with objective truths,” said company CEO after Kelly Johnston was shown the door.
By Mary Papenfuss
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/campbells-soup-exec-jettisoned-after-posting-soros-caravan-conspiracy-theory_us_5bd64bede4b055bc948d56df
A Campbell Soup executive was quickly shown the door after spreading a right-wing conspiracy theory that liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros is bankrolling a caravan of immigrants heading to the U.S. border.
Campbell vice president of government affairs Kelly Johnston, a former secretary of the U.S. Senate, tweeted Monday that Soros’ Open Society Foundation was providing aid to the caravan. There’s no evidence for a such a statement.
Johnston claimed that Soros’ organization was the puppet master behind “troop carriers” and “rail cars” moving the migrants. Johnston’s account is no longer active.
Vice President of Government Affairs for @CampbellSoupCo @johnston_kelly (a former Secretary of the US Senate under Bob Dole) spreading conspiracy theory about @GeorgeSoros‘ @OpenSociety planning & executing migrant caravan “including where they defecate.” https://t.co/vDQvw4mUwh pic.twitter.com/NdLnpGQ9uE
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) October 23, 2018
Johnston had been scheduled to leave the company in early November. But in the “last few days, the company and Mr. Johnston agreed that under the current circumstances it would be best to accelerate the timing of his departure,” a company representative said in a statement to Gizmodo. His last day was Thursday.
Campbell interim CEO Keith McLoughlin had earlier sent a letter to Soros’ Open Society following a complaint from the organization, saying that Johnston’s remarks were “inconsistent with how Campbell approaches public debate.”
Campbell “believes in truth and transparency. We expect our leaders to present facts, to deal with objective truths,” McLoughlin said in the letter. “Mr. Johnston’s remarks do not represent the position of Campbell.”
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Soros’ Open Society Foundation said in a tweet that “neither Mr. Soros nor Open Society is funding” the migrant caravan. It added that the foundation does, however, “support the historic U.S. commitment to welcoming people fleeing oppression and violence in their homelands.”
Mr. Johnston, neither Mr. Soros nor Open Society is funding this effort. We are surprised to see a @CampbellSoupCo executive spreading false stories. We do support the historic U.S. commitment to welcoming people fleeing oppression and violence in their homelands.
— Open Society (@OpenSociety) October 23, 2018
Trump recently claimed that people protesting Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court were paid “by Soros and others,” without any substantiation. Johnston also posted tweets indicating that Soros was funding anti-Kavanaugh protests, and referred to Soros as a “terrorist.”
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