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B.See's Journal'Share this with your Black friends': Experts slam Trump's claim that America was better in the 1700s
'Share this with your Black friends': Experts slam Trump’s claim that America was better in the 1700s - Alternet"I will invoke the alien enemy act of 1798. Think of that. 1798. That's when we had real politicians that said we're not gonna play games."
Walter Kimbrough replied: "Share this with your Black friends who understand history. Heck even share with the ones who forget they’re Black and ask them about 1798…"
Journalist Ahmed Baba commented: This is why We’re Not Going Back is the perfect answer to Make America Great Again. We know what kind of America Trump would like to force us back to. Voters now have an opportunity to definitively decide that we’re moving forward.
Exactly. Should be a newsflash I think, for all my fellow Black folk, who STILL don't know EXACTLY what Trump and MAGA ARE ALL ABOUT.
"Election Protection" - New MAGA Name for Plain Old Jim Crow Styled VOTER SUPPRESSION
Heads Up: If you have a (checks notes) "Hispanic sounding last name" you are a "suspicious voter." A kind of digital STOP AND FRISK, I'd imagine.
Election protection" activist says he plans to flag voters with "Hispanic-sounding" names as "suspicious" - CBS
"If you've got folks that you, that were registered, and they're missing information… and they were registered in the last 90 days before the election, and they've got Hispanic-sounding last names, that probably is, is a suspicious voter," said James Womack, the leader of the effort, who chairs the Republican Party in Lee County, North Carolina. "It doesn't mean they're illegal. It just means they're suspicious."
Womack describes his organization as comprised mostly of retirees working remotely from their computers to analyze public records related to voting. He says the group has a list of multiple factors they are using to flag suspicious voters, a task he believes is necessary because of flaws in how voter information has been collected in recent years.
North Carolina's State Board of Elections maintains that its voter rolls are compliant under federal and state regulations.
Texas Classifies Book On Colonization As Fiction
In the all so typical Bizarro-world "alternate reality" of MAGA, a texas county has classified a historical account of Indigenous colonization as FICTION.
You know, like how slavery was fiction, and like how Lincoln should've let the South keep slaves, according to TRUMP.
Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section - The Guardian Outcry in Montgomery county as Linda Coombs’ book on European colonization of Native American land reclassified
MEANWHILE:
"We have to go back to 1798": Trump proposes taking US back to when slavery was legal - Rawstory
During a Monday rally in Greenville, North Carolina, [trump] talked about his plan to conduct mass deportations if re-elected.
"I will rescue every town across America that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them the hell out of our country back to where they came from," he continued.
The fkr went on to say how he'd invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to accomplish his fascist goals, saying "we have to go back to 1798...."
"By 1798, politicians had made it legal to own slaves and illegal for women to vote in America," American Bridge noted on X (formerly Twitter).
More of the Trump / MAGAt plan to erase (if not deport) minorities, any which way they CAN. And they're not so 'undecided' about doing so.
Trump Made a Sick Joke About a Woman Who Died From Abortion Ban -- Fox News Audience Cheered
Trump Made a Sick Joke About a Woman Who Died From Abortion Ban — Fox News Audience Cheered - The InquisitrMEANWHILE:
JD Vance Reveals Chilling Trump Plan to Gut Planned Parenthood - The New Republic
Donald Trump would completely defund Planned Parenthood if he’s reelected, his running mate says.
Republicans have been trying to end public funding for Planned Parenthood for a long time but have only succeeded in a handful of states, most recently Missouri. It’s something they’ve been trying but failing to do at the federal level.
Over the weekend, Vance finally said in clear terms what Trump intentionally tries to hide.
Jack Smith drops 2,000 pages of evidence that Trump tried to keep sealed until after the election
Jack Smith drops 2,000 pages of evidence that Trump tried to keep sealed until after the election - Salon Despite Republican outcry, ex-Trump lawyer says "the real election interference" would've been delaying its releaseThe heavily redacted filing came in four parts totaling nearly 2,000 pages of evidence. The first section includes interviews the House Select Committee conducted to investigate January 6 with Trump aides. The second focuses on posts made by Trump and his surrogates and statements made by conservative activists like Matt Schlapp, claiming that the election was stolen.
The third section includes court filings from cases filed by the Trump campaign challenging results in Arizona, as well as excerpts from former Vice President Mike Pence’s autobiography “So Help Me God.”
The sections of Pence’s book include accounts of meetings that took place between Trump and his advisors after Trump lost the 2020 election and Trump telling Pence that he planned for Jan. 6 2021 to be a “big day.”
Trump overcharged Secret Service 300% for staying at his D.C. hotel: report
This is OLD news. VERY old. Why are they talking about it now like it's some revelation???
Trump overcharged Secret Service 300% for staying at his D.C. hotel: report - Rawstory
The first part of the report detailed the way foreign countries used the hotel to curry favor with the then-president. The committee ultimately uncovered at least $7.8 million from foreign entities Trump's private businesses received while he was in office.
Part two, released on Friday, says that the Trump Corporation increased the price of hotel rooms on the property by as much as 300% if they were booked by Secret Service agents.
"The report points specifically to Nov. 28, 2017, when the Secret Service paid $600 apiece for several rooms for agents guarding Trump’s son Eric and his wife, Lara," NBC reported. "On the same night, records show, more than 80 rooms were rented out at the Trump hotel at less than $600 a night."
Congrats on waking up and smelling the coffee, NBC. And not a moment too soon I might add.
NO, Biden Didn't Stop Domestic Drilling For Oil Causing Gasoline Prices to Go Higher
Yknow once upon a time I posted in a forum that was 'liberal' in name yet anything but. I guess I began to catch on when an administrator spoke of placing gay people in front of firing squads, called Black people "jungle apes" and joked about throwing us in front of trains. That and their overwhelming membership of racists, anti-Semites, and self proclaimed Nazis was also kind of a clue, I guess.
Still, I had a go at trying to challenging them by engaging in meaningful discussion of the issues bereft of their usual response by way of name calling, racial epithets, and personal attacks.
But, as expected, very few of them were able to meet that challenge or even feign it, without resorting to the usual when they couldn't prevail in a discussion. They'd respond to facts with spin and lies, which I'd, in turn, refute with documented evidence (aka - links) which they'd in turn dismiss as unreliable or fake news.
It'd even gotten to the point where having gotten overwhelmed with uncomfortable facts I (and the few other liberals there) were blocked from posting links altogether. So it didn't take long for most of us to leave that particular hellhole.
I say all of that because I've had opportunity of late to catch glimpses of a few attempted right wing talking points and drive by s-postings herein, which thankfully, weren't allowed to linger for long. One in particular being the notion that Biden had stopped domestic drilling for oil and it was because of this that gas prices had risen.
Which of course is absolute bullshit. Here are the FACTS, as explained in the links below:
PolitiFact | Did Biden stop domestic oil drilling, as Herschel Walker said? Hardly - Politifact.
This is wrong on many levels. Biden never sought to bar all domestic drilling. He did try to pause future leasing on federal lands, but this was blocked in court. And even if it had been allowed to proceed, Biden’s plan wouldn’t have affected drilling on private lands, nor would it have impacted the use of existing leases on federal lands, of which there are some 9,000 that companies are sitting on without initiating drilling.
In fact, oil production has risen under Biden, both on federal lands and on U.S. lands overall.
We rate the statement False.]
The article also explains how much drilling has GROWN under President Biden, with graphs.
And for further edification here are several articles that explain the MANY factors that affect the price of gasoline, with hardly a mention of Biden:
Why Gas Prices Are Rising in 2024, Where Prices Are Going Up - Money
Gas prices have climbed nearly 14% this year. Here's why. - ABC News
Gas prices are on the rise again. Here's where experts say they are going next. - CBS News
On the Economy, MAGA Ignorance is Bliss... that is
until the shit hits the fan. But HEY, what do experts and Nobel Prize-winning economists know??
Over 400 economists, former White House advisors endorse Harris - CNBC "The choice in this election is clear," the letter read. "It is a choice between inequity, economic injustice, and uncertainty with Donald Trump or prosperity, opportunity, and stability with Kamala Harris.
Trump's economic plans would worsen inflation, experts say - ABC News
16 Nobel Prize-winning economists warn that Trump's economic plans could reignite inflation - CBS News
Economists have blasted Trump’s jobs and tax plans as dangerous - The Independent
Trump Rejects Tariff Criticism as Economists Warn About His Plans
Trump is falsely blaming Harris for high prices. His plans will cause huge inflation - The Guardian
Nobel Economists Warn Reelecting Trump Will Cost the U.S.—Literally
Trump’s Promised Tariffs Would Push Up Costs for American Households - Bloomberg A recent report from the Peterson Institute for International Economics pegged the annual cost for the average middle-income family at $1,700, likening it to a sales tax.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cortez the Killer
I posted a different version of this awhile back (there are a few)... absolutely epic:
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