I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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I have to go to work this morning, but will be coming home later and reading your entry Divine. In the meantime -- love all your memes as well. We are so messed up here in the U.S. The only consolation for Trump and it is small, is that most of what took place originated yrs. ago and just built up. I will say though -- he got it to where it is exceedingly quickly. The white supremacists just used him royal. I do hope that Pres. Biden and others can make great head-way. We all just have to be careful of the media who have to "capture" viewership so do not only put things out in the truest fashion. So, maybe some of the Reps. will wise up -- but they are destroying themselves at the moment.
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I live just outside New Braunfels and saw some of the T train that day. Have not heard as much from them lately. Hoping they are cooling off rather than plotting more ridiculous behavior--may be a very false hope.
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Great, great memes!
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I had forgotten, though recall seeing items on the news about Trump Train and the Biden and Harris bus, that the incident was very long and sounding like there was much danger going on. I hope the lawsuit is successful.
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Oh, so do I! It was scary, and I only saw one white pickup wheeling around the shopping center parking lot, just off of I 35.
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I'm sure its true. I think not only the paycheck has lots of attractions but I also think guys like Carlson can get somewhat addicted to the notoriety, perks, and the sensation he knows he creates.
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If they were near as intelligent as they say and think they are, you'd have thought they would already have figured this out.
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He's got a great point. It is hard to dance with yourself. Don't get much for answers when your talking to the wall. Like drinking Cuba Libre w/o the rum.
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Celebration is a kind of food we all need in our lives, and each individual brings a special recipe or offering, so that together we will make a great feast. Celebration is a human need that we must not, and can not, deny. It is richer and fuller when many work and then celebrate together. -Corita Kent and Jan Steward
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving;
make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
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I was shocked learning more details about the events of the Trumpers harassing the Biden Bus in Texas last year. I had no idea it went on for 90 minutes! And then the eff-heads went on social media to brag about it! Plus: no law enforcement intervention!!! It's so completely unconscionable; it seems something like that would only happen in a war-torn third world country! With so many other inflammatory stories covered by the media at the time, I don't think enough people were outraged by this occurrence. It may be that the lawsuit is settled out of court, but I hope it is not one where those being charged do not have to cop to any wrong-doing.
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Here's a couple of excerpts from a CNN analysis article, "Trump's false reality is being exposed on multiple fronts":
.....after details emerged from an excerpt of a new book -- "Betrayal," by ABC's Jon Karl -- that depicts Barr as savaging Trump's claim he was cheated out of power last November, the former President issued an extraordinary statement. The more than 500-word rant not only blasted Barr, despite his repeated impression of tilting the scales of justice to benefit the ex-President.
>>> It also suggested that Trump has traveled even further from reality in his five months out of power as he pointed to "incredible facts" about cheating that were largely recycled and already disproven conspiracies born of conservative media.
>>> It was unhinged rhetoric that gave a strong impression that the former President now exists in a bunker-like mentality, deeply convinced of his own invented version of reality.
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A flurry of exposés from Trump's desperate last days in office is emerging, meanwhile, from a series of forthcoming books. According to Karl, the then-President had "the eyes and mannerism of a madman," in the words of one attendee at a meeting between Trump and Barr after the attorney general said there was no evidence of widespread election fraud.
In another account, by Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender, Trump is depicted as getting into a shouting match with Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after saying he wanted to send the US military into cities that he claimed were in flames amid violence.
Critics often accuse the Washington media of addiction to insider accounts of the crazed behavior inside Trump's West Wing. Yet while these books, and the contributions of officials like Barr, who spoke to Karl on the record, do come across as an attempt at reputation repair, they also perform a valuable service.
The accounts are building a record of malfeasance on the behalf of the former President. They show just how close American democracy came to the brink, thanks to a former commander in chief who tried to use tactics familiar to the autocrats, like China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin, who he so admired.
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Divine
. All quite true. I think some time back it ( which news program who knows at this late date ) was said that time would end up being a big reveal for so much of the Trump presidency that was basically kept under wraps. I'm sure we will continue to find out just how much of a lunatic Trump was and yes -- we did come so close to losing what we have in our democracy and I'll stay worried for a long time yet. 0 -
Derek Chauvin was convicted and sentenced in very large part because a brave and wise young teen decided on the spot to ensure that the whole world was watching. She deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom (which is at the sole discretion of the Executive Branch).
When I was a kid in a fairly liberal part of Brooklyn, in an integrated school system (though my elementary school had a test-score-based "track" system for each of the 3 or 4 classes in each grade, which pretty much self-segregated the white kids into the top track), we were all taught (especially in high school American history class, which was not segregated into "tracks," that the Jamestown settlement began in 1609 and that the Pilgrims landed in 1620 to "escape England's religious persecution." (We weren't taught that they were a bunch of spectacularly intolerant zealots, nor that they began persecuting the insufficiently "pious" from nearly the moment they landed--units on the Salem witch trials and reading assignments of The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible notwithstanding). We weren't taught that within a very few years supposedly pious (self-declared) settlers began to own slaves. We weren't taught that the northern colonies had slavery (our curriculum used the innocuous term "indentured servant" and emphasized that those white servants could work to gain their freedom), nor that many indigenous N. American tribes had a caste system and used those at the bottom essentially as slaves. We were taught that the first slaves were "primitive" Africans brought here and "civilized" by whites--the words "captured" and "kidnapped" were never used--and that they were given "amenities" (like clothing, Jesus and wooden buildings) they didn't have in their "jungle & desert village huts." We weren't taught that families were routinely broken up right up through 1965, nor that the earliest enslaved Africans were forcibly converted from Paganism and Islam to Christianity. Even the landmark ABC miniseries based on Alex Haley's Roots was fairly sanitized in its inital account of Kunta Kinte's transatlantic crossing and its presentation of the slave ship captains (as portrayed by Ed Asner) as morally conflicted--none of us had been taught about the Amistad. We weren't taught that Lincoln, until well into his presidency, despite opposing slavery believed Black people were nonetheless inferior to whites. It wasn't until this new millennium that the violence of the kidnapping and the horrors of the conditions in the slave ships were revealed to the general public.
We also weren't taught very much about the Holocaust and pogroms--although nearly all our teachers and most of us in the top "track" were Jewish. Perhaps that was because it was too recent (WWII had been less than 20 years earlier) and painful to discuss. We were taught that it was because of Hitler & the Nazis--but no mention of the centuries of systemic European anti-Semitism (except a brief mention of the Inquisition) that accelerated in Germany after WWI. Nothing about Kristallnacht nor about how popular Hitler became among gentiles in Germany. We pretty much had to learn from our relatives who came here before WWI (pogroms in the Pale of Settlement) or survived the camps and from The Diary of Anne Frank. Even so, I didn't get the whole picture, including the historical development of and changing "justifications" for European anti-Semitism, until I re-visited Yad Vashem in 2019--and I didn't know till then how inhospitable to Jewish refugees prior to the "final solution" that the US, UK, and Canada had been.
But our concept of the founding of the State of Israel came from our clergy, the movie Exodus and the James Michener novel The Source. Even those gave a sanitized and whitewashed account of the dynamic between Jewish, Muslim & Arab Christian natives of the Holy Land and the earliest Ashkenazi diaspora Zionists: the talking point in our Sunday schools, summer camps and YM/YWHAs was that most of the Arabs living there were resentfully violent and unreasonable; and that Zionist settlers "rescued" and "rehabilitated" mostly desolate deserts & swamplands and turned them into farms, forests and towns.
We were also taught that slavery, Southern white resistance against Reconstruction, Jim Crow, segregation and redlining were the sum total of persecution of African-Americans; and that as soon as LBJ was able to get the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts passed, systemic racism became an embarrassing relic of the past. The words "systemic racism" were never uttered, not even in '60s college history classes.
I wish the "1619 Project" were mandatory in our public school history curricula. Kids are bright enough to be able to recognize and acknowledge the existence of racially-discriminatory features in our 20th-century socioeconomic history, and that the white majority had benefited from them; but that "critical race theory" does NOT teach that all white Americans are racists. (And I fervently wish that the social-media-and-FOXNews-addled knee-jerk right-wing morons decrying "critical race theory" had actually READ both the suggested curricula and the NYT's "1619 Project." These are the same idiots who blather about their imaginary "Constitutional" and "God-given freedoms" to not wear masks nor be vaccinated, without actually reading the Constitution or even scouring Scripture for references).
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Another example of Trump's cognitive decline: in his 90-minute OH rally rant (during which hundreds of attendees left in bewildered disgust), he talked about a "favorite son of Ohio" being "sent to a plant." Not till he gave a desperate hint about "going to the moon" and "stars & stripes," and asking the crowd "you know who I'm talking about" did a few finally shout out "Neil Armstrong." Even then, most of the rallygoers didn't realize that Trump had meant to say "...to plant the Stars & Stripes on the moon." Now, a stammer, stutter or mildly malaprop slip of the tongue is one thing--but this major hole in his memory and major inability to express a simple talking point is something else.
I only hope enough of Cult45 gets to hear audio of him dissing them as "low-class" and "trailer-park" clad & tattoed--they've been so indoctrinated by social media's, FOXNews' and talk-radio's echo-chamber that they trust nothing in any book by any mainstream journalist, not even quotes from people on their side of the continuum. But confirmation bias is so strong that they'd insist actual audio or video have been "deep-faked."
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Jill Biden makes cover of Vogue after Melania Trump was snubbed
For almost a century, the Vogue treatment has been a perk of the first ladyship. Michelle Obama was featured on the cover three times. Hillary Clinton was featured once as first lady and another time as a Democratic presidential candidate. Lou Henry Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush and Laura Bush have all graced the magazine's pages.
Which is why the omission of Melania Trump was so noteworthy.
Mrs. Trump, who had been featured on the cover as part of a feature on her marriage to Donald J. Trump, was informally barred from the magazine by Ms. Wintour, who, when asked about featuring Mrs. Trump in the magazine, said in 2019 "I don't think it's a moment not to take a stand."
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I believe I will have to pick up a copy!
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What a pretty dress.
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What a warm, open and naturally beautiful First Lady!
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Jill Biden really is a natural beauty. Classy, relatable, there is nothing about her not to like.
Sandy, you make great points about what we were taught growing up regarding slavery and racism. I did well in school, but history was always a snooze fest to me. Looking back, I realize it was almost always taught by one of the high school football coaches where were only putting in an appearance in the classroom through the week so they could be on the field on Fridays. None of them seemed to care enough to make the class interesting. It was a lot of memorization--dates, names, events. It could have been subtitled "What the White Guys Did". None of it sounded very interesting to me at the time. It was only as an adult and as I began to travel that my interest in history grew. About a year ago, my sister was raving about a documentary on Frances Perkins, the woman behind FDR's New Deal. Sister was astounded she'd never heard of her before. I briefly explained how the telling of history has always been skewed to present white men as the heroes. This sister was only briefly receptive to how that worked.
I would agree with your comment: "as soon as LBJ was able to get the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts passed, systemic racism became an embarrassing relic of the past. The words "systemic racism" were never uttered." I had no clue until recent years how prevalent systemic racism still is. Some mourn the way news used to be broadcast only in the evenings for half an hour (all white guys as news anchors). The 24 hour coverage can be overwhelming yet has its upsides, too. That, along with social media + the internet means we are all plugged in not only to more of what's going on but we often know instantly.
Former guy's major memory hole: according to Steven Colbert, Trump said the US "sent a brave young man from Ohio to a plant.". He meant "planet", talking about Neil Armstrong. Not surprised the orange buffoon couldn't recall many facts about the first man to walk on the moon since it involved a successful white male that was not him. During the rally, Trump mentioned the outdated line "hydroxychloroquine really works!" To which Colbert commented: "No one cares about that now! We have a vaccine! I can't imagine anything more tired than the Covid drug from 12 months ago." It is just more evidence how out of touch da Donald eez.
Just an aside: I only learned about 10 years ago that the first man to orbit the Earth, John Glenn, grew up in a small town only an hour from where I live. I was astounded to find this out! I don't recall his Ohio roots being celebrated around here. I don't think my history teachers impressed upon us the idea that "small town boy from Ohio, not far from where we are, makes good, and you can too."
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I am a History Nerd so love learning about the real people, warts and all. Also about the lives of the ordinary people who lived during different time periods. Right now I am reading a very interesting (to me) book, Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health by Jeanne E. Abrams . Very interesting look at health care in the 1700s-early 1800s through the eyes and experiences of some of our Founding Fathers & Mothers. Since we have lived through a pandemic ourselves, the efforts to vaccinate people for smallpox was especially interesting to me.
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One of my walking group buddies ordered this dress immediately after the election was called for Joe Biden. She wore it for our Pre-Independence Day walk this morning. She works at the small airport here and will wear it waving in planes on the 4th of July!
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Where did she order it from, do you know?
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May be mentioned in article probably designer.
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Oh, I meant Ruth's friend's dress!
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I texted her and she said she got it from Poshmark (my friend, not Dr. Biden 😄).
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Love is when I am concerned with your relationship with your own life, rather than with your relationship to mine. . . . There must be a commitment to each other's well-being. Most people who say they have a commitment don't; they have an attachment. Commitment means, "I am going to stick with you and support your experience of well-being." Attachment means, "I am stuck without you." -Stewart Emery
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Haven't watched much news today. Nice to take a little time off. I worked most of yesterday and had a number of errands to do today. It does sound like the Trump Org. indictments are taking place. Just heard on the news that the Org. as well as Alan Weisselberg both got tapped. That will be interesting, but I've also heard that this is enough to have creditors ready to start calling in their loans. That would be no matter what Weisselberg does or doesn't do.
If the orange one doesn't feel a super squeeze now he never will. OTOH he was feeling some of it because of who he badmouths which seems lately to be mainly Reps. he felt did not help him this past Jan steal the election when he couldn't win it fair and square. I hate in on the one hand having to re-experience him, but like everyone I knew there was a huge possibility that someone ( turns out to be SDNY/Cyrus Vance ) would put the screws to Trump and he would be back on the news. At least this is far, far better than having to listen to his near daily tantrums and his general nastiness to anything or anyone he didn't like.
I hope the whole bunch end up knee deep in their own sh**.
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Well, just must be our rotten weather. Microsoft has decided it is not able right now to open memes for me. Maybe later I'll have some.
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I find it amazing that we have had the same national conversation for small-pox, Spanish flu, and now COVID; and people still distrust vaccines.
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