Three students at the University of Mississippi posed with rifles at a memorial to Emmett Till, a Black boy who was murdered by vigilantes in 1955.
For a long period of time, open racism was underground. Now, thanks to our president, racism is okay again.
The students were suspended by their fraternity. But not by the university. Not yet.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
This may be the tipping element that put him in office, when it was writhing (strongly, if you will) underneath. Now that it’s out in all of its ugliness, flimsiness, stupidity and glaring inhumanity, it may be the extra thing that takes him out, when added to the whole assortment of crimes and lies and disloyalty to the country.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/25/opinions/2020-voters-on-economy-vs-well-being-ghitis/index.html
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Oh, I hope that you are right, Akademos! https://bobshepherdonline.wordpress.com/2019/05/09/donnie-baby/
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Emmett Till’s death was a barbarous crime. He was guilty of being a visiting teenager in the South and not grasping the social norms between whites and blacks in 1955. It is shameful to view this photo with three young men who are dishonoring this memorial. We are truly living in shameful , sorrowful times.
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Well said, AlwaysLearning!
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The students’ behavior was deemed “unacceptable” by the university. It remains to be seen if the school will take other actions.
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Emmett Till did NOT violate any norms, Southern or otherwise.
Two years ago, the woman who accused Emmett Till of whistling at her admitted that she has made up the accusation.
I tried to link an article from the New York Times to this post, but it was rejected, so I will post this without the link, and then hopefully I can publish the link. Stupid Word Press has been kicking me out a lot lately. I don’t know what I did to deserve this censure.
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Can’t get the New York Times article to link. Sorry. Google, “Emmett Till’s accuser admits she lied.”
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I’ll see if I can get the NYT’s link to work?????
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Woman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims Were False
Carolyn Bryant Donham is quoted in a new book as admitting her long-ago allegations that Emmett grabbed her and was menacing and sexually crude toward her, “is not true.”
For six decades, she has been the silent woman linked to one of the most notorious crimes in the nation’s history, the lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, keeping her thoughts and memories to herself as millions of strangers idealized or vilified her.
But all these years later, a historian says that the woman has broken her silence, and acknowledged that the most incendiary parts of the story she and others told about Emmett — claims that seem tame today but were more than enough to get a black person killed in Jim Crow-era Mississippi — were false.
The woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, spoke to Timothy B. Tyson, a Duke University professor — possibly the only interview she has given to a historian or journalist since shortly after the episode — who has written a book, “The Blood of Emmett Till,” to be published next week.
In it, he wrote that she said of her long-ago allegations that Emmett grabbed her and was menacing and sexually crude toward her, “that part is not true.”…
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Threatened—I dd not say violate norms – I used the word grasp. Emmett’s cousin, Wheeler Parker Jr., who was with him in the store suggest the same. Here is the account from Parker contained in the linked article. “Emmett shouldn’t have been there,” Parker said. “He had no idea about the South. They prepare you to stay alive if you go to Mississippi.” On Aug. 24, 1955, the two teenagers and a third cousin went into a store in Money, Mississippi. After they left, Carolyn Bryant, a 21-year-old white woman, emerged from the store and Till wolf-whistled at her, Parker said.
Not only was that unacceptable in 1955 Mississippi, it was downright dangerous. The cousins ran, pursued by a car, and escaped by cutting through a cotton field, Parker said.
There is no debate that Emmett suffered a tragic, merciless death/
Link:
https://oklahoman.com/article/5583981/history-speaks-cousin-shares-story-impact-of-emmett-tills-death.
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The norms in the South were racist. Emmett was visiting from Chicago. He did not know the brutal vicious norms in Mississippi.
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We fought a war, in the middle of the last century, against two monstrous powers committed to primitive tribalism—Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan—and I had thought that the ideas that motivated those powers—racism and nationalism—had been soundly beaten back, that we were, at least, making progress, but today, half of our citizens belong to the cult of a breathtakingly ignorant, heedless, science-denying racist, nationalist demagogue, Donald J for Jabba the Trump, who trails racist slime daily through the body politic. https://bobshepherdonline.wordpress.com/about/the-end-of-everything/
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Don’t Be a Sucker is a short film produced by the United States Department of War released in 1943, and adapted as a slightly shorter version in 1947. Made to counter white supremacist views like those of the Nazis, the film has anti-racist and anti-fascist themes, and attempted to educate viewers about prejudice and discrimination. It’s worth viewing. How terrible that we are back there, again.
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Bob Shepherd: Thanks for the information. This country is back hating and the racists are now coming out from under their rocks and being seen. Sad that we don’t learn.
Don’t Be a Sucker – 1947
Weirdo Video
Published on Sep 29, 2007
In this anti-fascist film produced by US Military in the wake of WWII, the producers deconstruct the politically motivated social engineering of Germany by the Nazi regime.
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Is anyone here ancient enough to remember a terrific show entitled You are There? Actors portrayed historical events (seriously–not as in Drunk History! But something + to be said for that show, as well; if it interests teens in history, well..why not?)
Anyway, this video reminds me of that.
Could show it today, & it would ring true.
100% agree with your last sentence, Bob. There’s a reason for the forever ongoing “Never again!”
&–for those of you in Chicago–a week from Tuesday, August 6th, at 6:30 PM, there will be a Candlelight Vigil for the re-institution of the Voting Rights Act. (I will post place later–have to look it up.) Just today, in the news, “In a federal court filing, lawyers for election integrity advocates accuse Georgia election officials of intentionally destroying evidence that could show unauthorized access to the state election system & potential manipulation of election results…A spokeswoman for the secretary of state’s office, which oversees the elections, denied the allegations.” But of course. Also, follow Tim Canova in FL (he ran against D.W.S.)–he’s still fighting the election fraud there (send $$$!!).
Russia’s not the only threat to our elections…
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Jimmy Carter, who has served on international committees to monitor election security in various countries now says that our elections are among the worst in the world. Here in Florida, the Repugnicans are adept at figuring out ways to keep brown people from the polls, and I suspect that a lot of ballots simply disappear like the first snowflake of winter or evidence of Teflon Don Trumptiglione’s wrongdoing.
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Bob Shepherd: There is a reason that McConnell will not allow a passing of a bill for election security. All the corruption is benefitting the GOP and all they want is more power to screw the average person. Stupidity of the average voter has no limits. We are all concerned that the Orange Swamp Monster might be re-elected.
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The Senate Will Not Vote on Any Election Security Bills, GOP Senator Says
The Senate will not vote on any legislation to protect US elections from foreign interference, a Republican committee chair said, despite the consensus of the intelligence community that Russia will once again seek to hack election systems and manipulate American voters in 2020.
The reason, said Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Wednesday, is that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has decided not to bring any election security bills to the floor for a vote. Blunt’s remark occurred during a hearing of the Rules and Administration Committee, which has oversight of election administration. When Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) asked Blunt, the chairman, whether he was planning mark-ups of any of the several election security bills pending before the committee, Blunt responded that it would be fruitless to advance legislation that McConnell would not allow to come up for a vote…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/the-senate-will-not-vote-on-any-election-security-bills-gop-senator-says/
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“. . . but today, half of our citizens belong to the cult of. . .”
No, they don’t. The tRump got around 63,000,000 votes. 63M out of 340M citizens is around 19% of the citizens. Even accounting for those citizens who didn’t vote, one still does not come anywhere near “half our citizens.”
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I’m guessing it’s around 1/3 of the total voting-age population, given approval has been around 40% and subtracting off pure greed and desperation and whatever else. But I always thought the lunatic fringe was around 5% or so. 1/3 of the population is itself insane, both the ratio and the people.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/09/26/politics/actual-trump-support/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
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Gallop Trump Approval Rating, Latest job approval rating, July 1-12, 2019: 44 percent
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Bob Shepherd: “Gallop Trump Approval Rating, Latest job approval rating, July 1-12, 2019: 44 percent”
I read comments from Trump’s supporters who say that he has done a lot for this country, including more jobs. I don’t understand this since most of the jobs are service industries that don’t pay decent salaries. Wages have been stagnant for decades.
Is this support for Trump coming on the fixation of Fox that he is the most fantastically capable president ever imagined? [horse hockeys]
Job approval ratings in my mind mean that all of the out of work middle class people in their 50’s can get good paying jobs. It means that corporations are putting money into their workers salaries and not just to CEO’s and investors.
Not everybody wants to be a greeter at Walmart even if they can collect food stamps and MIGHT be able to get on Medicaid.
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Job approval has gone as low as around 35% and as high as almost 50%. I think the really unshakable base is around 1/3 of voting-age pop.
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I can agree with that.
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I love it when we quibble about semantic categorizations that try to obscure reality. The fact is that the most important mechanisms of government and the Senate are being controlled by neo-fascists and rich profiteers. The fact is that efforts to govern in the House are being stymied by neo-fascists and servants of the rich profiteers while being abetted by DCCC/DSCC types who seem to be getting their playbook from Vichy France. The fact is that the “19%” are playing by the skewed rules of today’s politics while the chattering liberal class are still enamored by the rules of a rose-colored bygone history that never existed. Go ahead and delete yourself with “63M out of 340M” nonsense. I hope it comforts you as neo-fascists and profiteers consolidate their grip on power over the coming years. Heres a good look of our future: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49125045
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delude, not delete
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carolmalaysia…..And the stock market is soaring is what they also say. What goes up, must come down and it will come down big, unfortunately for a lot of decent folks. Most Trumpsters aren’t capable of critical thinking skills since the only thing they care about is instant gratification for ones self or their ilk.
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Here, a partial recounting of Trump on race: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump
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Thanks for the link. This is an incredibly comprehensive look at Trump’s overt and longstanding racist actions and the whimpy responses and denials from Republicans.
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Trump just told Elijah Cummings to go back to fix his district rather than complain about border issues.
He totally trashes Baltimore and calls Cummings a ‘bully’. Meanwhile, he still has much love for Rocketman. This bigoted, hypocritical, incompetent, un-American, reckless, seething bully.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/administration/454995-trump-slams-cummings-as-a-brutal-bully-claims-baltimore-district-far%3famp
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/videos/politics/2019/07/27/trump-attacks-minority-leaders-victor-blackwell-ndwknd-sot-vpx.cnn
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Another of the countless examples of “when you think he/they can’t go any lower.” Every Republican member of Cummings’ committee should be forced to go on the record responding to this. Not that it will matter to their constituents, but should be done nonetheless.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cnn-anchor-victor-blackwell-chokes-up-reporting-on-trumps-racist-rant-864355/amp/
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Another take on Victor Blackwell’s comments:
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GregB: Trump’s tiny brain is a dangerous and unhealthy rat-infested place. He spreads hatred and fear of anyone who isn’t white male. Disgusting man.
One has to wonder about all the ‘Christians’ who support Trump as if he was a God. Christianity doesn’t follow the teachings of Jesus who wanted healing, love and caring for others to be a top priority. He didn’t say, I’ll heal only those who don’t live in rat infested places or only the wealthy who can afford my services. [Rat infested meaning places where brown and black live.]
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Thanks, Greg.
That should go viral. But it still won’t affect the base.
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Greg, Akademos. All this reminds me of Haig Bosmajian’s analysis, in The Language of Oppression, of the rhetoric of the Nazis and of other groups that carried out genocide. Typical: description of a group of people as vermin. Trump, in typical dog whistle fashion, builds a little plausible deniability into such characterizations, allowing himself to be able, wink, wink, to say that he was talking about actual vermin in those places. But his neo-Nazi supporters know precisely what he is saying.
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The ironic thing about this is the places where I’ve seen the most rats in my life are in the parks that surround the Senate office buildings on Capitol Hill on evenings when there is little foot traffic and the service alleys in midtown Manhattan, especially the closer you get to Individual-1 Tower on 5th Ave.
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Yeah, Bob, I don’t think the whole vermin/infestation thing is incidental. The president is a neo-nazi sympathizer, among so many other things.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8
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“”Guajardo said that while the university considered the picture “offensive,” the image did not present a violation of the university’s code of conduct.”
This incident is sickening. I do not understand the mindset of people who support Trump. He spreads hatred and fear towards anyone who isn’t white male. This country is becoming lower than I’d ever think possible.
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Some code of conduct, huh?
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Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family’s grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement.
Till was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. During summer vacation in August 1955, he was visiting relatives near Money, in the Mississippi Delta region. He spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the white married proprietor of a small grocery store there. Although what happened at the store is a matter of dispute, Till was accused of flirting with or whistling at Bryant. In 1955, Bryant had testified that Till made physical and verbal advances. The jury did not hear Bryant’s testimony, due to the judge ruling it inadmissible. Decades later, Bryant disclosed that she had fabricated part of the testimony regarding her interaction with Till, specifically the portion where she accused Till of grabbing her waist and uttering obscenities; “that part’s not true,” Bryant stated in a 2008 interview with historian Timothy Tyson. Till’s interaction with Bryant, perhaps unwittingly, violated the strictures of conduct for an African-American male interacting with a white woman in the Jim Crow-era South. Several nights after the incident in the store, Bryant’s husband Roy and his half-brother J.W. Milam were armed when they went to Till’s great-uncle’s house and abducted the boy. They took him away and beat and mutilated him before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Three days later, Till’s body was discovered and retrieved from the river.
Till’s body was returned to Chicago where his mother insisted on a public funeral service with an open casket. “The open-coffin funeral held by Mamie Till Bradley exposed the world to more than her son Emmett Till’s bloated, mutilated body. Her decision focused attention not only on U.S. racism and the barbarism of lynching but also on the limitations and vulnerabilities of American democracy”.
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And the woman who accused him of the “molestation” admitted two years ago that she made the whole thing up.
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Let’s hope the school makes them pay for a semester of courses in African American Studies. If they attend and pass, they can stay in the school.
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Sad and sick incident. The students certainly lack a certain understanding of the historical meaning of the memorial. But to suspend the students over their lack of understanding seems antithetical to the mission of a university. I like NYteacher’s suggestion of having them take a course in, perhaps the Civil Rights movement or something similar.
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Perfect suggestion. That & community service doing work for a civil rights organization (e.g.,the Southern Poverty Law Center)–real learning through actual experience, working shoulder-to-shoulder w/people who have seen it & live it, thus making it real.
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This seems to me to rise to a higher level than simply “lack of understanding.” These students understood what they were doing: they purposefully targeted a memorial to one of the martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement, and that of an innocent, to show how very, very hardcore they (the students) were.
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It used to be that the Klan wore masks and conducted their business in the dark of night. They knew that their opinions and doings were repugnant to many. They had a “code”, their own form of “ethics”, yet everyone knew who was in the Klan… even with all the secrecy. Now, they just don’t care. They have thrown off the hood, do their deeds anytime of the day or night and smile for the camera while doing it. It’s brazen! I don’t know if it’s worse being on open display or if it was better with “the code”?
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Did Mueller Conclude Trump Committed ‘No Obstruction’ in the 2016 Election Probe?…Snopes
DAN EVON
PUBLISHED 26 JULY 2019
…Did Mueller conclude that an underlying crime was required for an obstruction charge? No.
On occasions when Trump has elaborated on his claim that Mueller’s report found “no obstruction,” one of his repeated talking points has been that obstruction is impossible because there was no underlying crime. In May 2019, for instance, Trump asked in a tweet, “how do you Obstruct when there is no crime?”
While some high-ranking officials have also made this argument, including Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Guiliani and Attorney General William Barr, this article is concerned with the contents of the special counsel’s report. In that report, Mueller specifically stated that “obstruction statutes do not require proof of such a crime.”
Did Mueller conclude that Trump obstructed justice? No.
Mueller detailed 11 issues related to the topic of obstruction of justice, but he did not make a traditional prosecutorial decision in regards to the matter. Instead, he collected evidence while “memories were fresh and documentary materials were available” and detailed those findings in this report.
While we can’t say if Trump obstructed justice (that determination is up to Congress, and, largely, the American public), we can say this: The special counsel’s report did not state that Trump committed “no obstruction.”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mueller-report-no-obstruction/
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Opinion | We are African Americans, we are patriots, and we refuse to sit idly
By Clarence J. Fluker ,
C. Kinder ,
Jesse Moore and
Khalilah M. Harris
July 26 at 6:09 PM
This op-ed is co-signed by 148 African Americans who served in the Obama administration.
We’ve heard this before. Go back where you came from. Go back to Africa. And now, “send her back.” Black and brown people in America don’t hear these chants in a vacuum; for many of us, we’ve felt their full force being shouted in our faces, whispered behind our backs, scrawled across lockers, or hurled at us online. They are part of a pattern in our country designed to denigrate us as well as keep us separate and afraid.
As 148 African Americans who served in the last administration, we witnessed firsthand the relentless attacks on the legitimacy of President Barack Obama and his family from our front-row seats to America’s first black presidency. Witnessing racism surge in our country, both during and after Obama’s service and ours, has been a shattering reality, to say the least. But it has also provided jet-fuel for our activism, especially in moments such as these.
We stand with congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, as well as all those currently under attack by President Trump, along with his supporters and his enablers, who feel deputized to decide who belongs here — and who does not. There is truly nothing more un-American than calling on fellow citizens to leave our country — by citing their immigrant roots, or ancestry, or their unwillingness to sit in quiet obedience while democracy is being undermined…
https://wapo.st/2ZfMStU?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.c16d5d4fc0f0
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I just got around to reading is post. Coincidentally, it came on the anniversary of the 1919 Chicago riots that were described on an NPR story yesterday. The story pointed out that the Chicago incident was one of many riots that shook the nation that year I the wake of the end of the First World War. The NPR story did not describe the tension generally abundant in the country then due to letter bombs sent to prominent figures, lingering disgruntled citizens who opposed the war only to be silenced, sometimes viciously, and anti-immigrant feelings that spurred the re-growth of the KKK in the era that actually gave us the modern Klan in its pseudo-Christian, anti-Semitic, and nativist form.
The perverse forms of hostility that occasionally seem to pass through human culture seem as wildly diverse as the surrealists rendering of them. We’re I an artist, one capable of rendering what I imagined, I could not have painted a more jeremianic charicature than these you idiots created of themselves.
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With Trump polling at 44 percent, the Post stresses he has a “real” path toward re-election. But eight years ago when Obama’s approval dipped and he was polling around 44 percent, news outlets often stressed how that was very bad news for his re-election chances.
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Trump doubles down on Cummings.
Axelrod says this is how he could lose in 2020.
Exactly.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/media/455010-david-axelrod-slams-trump-attacks-on-cummings-baltimore-if-he-loses-in-2020%3famp
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The Orange Buffoon can’t take criticism. He acts like a bully in grade school. Only he can do everything. Trump is the one ‘playing the race card’. Central Americans and Mexicans are rapists, criminals and drug dealers. Trump’s small mind can’t comprehend the difficulties of living in poverty and being afraid of how to continue existing. He is an ignorant, biased disgrace to humanity.
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Trump doubles down on attacks against Cummings and Baltimore district
…”So sad that Elijah Cummings has been able to do so little for the people of Baltimore,” Trump said in a tweet late Saturday, before claiming that “statistically, Baltimore ranks last in almost every major category. Cummings has done nothing but milk Baltimore dry, but the public is getting wise to the bad job that he is doing!”
Trump did not expand on what statistics he was referring to. He defended his position again early Sunday, saying there is “nothing wrong” with pointing out that Cummings has done a “very poor job.”
“The Democrats always play the Race Card, when in fact they have done so little for our Nation’s great African American people… Elijah Cummings has failed badly,” Trump said…
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/455034-trump-doubles-down-on-attacks-against-cummings-and-baltimore-area
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According to the Washington Post, he has decided to run on racism. The Great Divider.
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$23 million. That’s an approximation of how much owners of buses, taxis and motorcycle taxis in Honduras pay in a “war tax” to gangs annually. If they don’t pay, they risk being “shot, strangled, cuffed to the steering wheel and burned alive while their buses are torched.”
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McConnell is profiting from voting machines and doesn’t want money for security precautions. Corruption is in the turtle. Should we be surprised?
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Mitch McConnell Received Donations from Voting Machine Lobbyists Before Blocking Election Security Bills
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell squashed two bills intended to ensure voting security on Thursday, just one day after former special counsel Robert Mueller warned that Russians were attempting to sabotage the 2020 presidential elections “as we sit here.”
…McConnell said he wouldn’t allow a vote on the bills because they were “so partisan,” but, as previously reported, earlier this year McConnell received a slew of donations from four of the top voting machine lobbyists in the country.
“Clearly this request is not a serious effort to make a law. Clearly something so partisan that it only received one single solitary Republican vote in the House is not going to travel through the Senate by unanimous consent,” said McConnell on the Senate floor.
The plans would likely burden the two largest electronic voting machine vendors in the United States, Election Systems & Software and Dominion Voting Systems, with new regulations and financial burdens. Together, the companies make up about 80 percent of all voting machines used in the country and both have far-reaching lobbying arms in Washington D.C. Many of those lobbyists have contributed to the McConnell campaign, reported Sludge last month, an investigative outlet that focuses on money in politics…
http://a.msn.com/01/en-us/AAEUGcx?ocid=se
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Why does this country pick the wrong person to be president? Mondale has a sense of compassion and this country has lost that. We ended up with St. Raygun who knew that government was the problem.
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Opinion | Walter Mondale: We are once again in a humanitarian refugee crisis. We must stem this misery.
July 23, 2019
…As a result of our government’s leadership in 1979, countries in Southeast Asia made provisions to offer temporary asylum to refugees. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) introduced the Orderly Departure Program, an attempt to improve the safety of departure and travel to other countries for resettlement. Western countries agreed to boost resettlement, welcoming hundreds of thousands of refugees. Following the Geneva conference, the U.S. Refugee Act of 1980 was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter after first passing with full bipartisan support in the Senate. The act nearly tripled the number of refugees the United States would admit, and, perhaps most important, amended the definition of refugee to include someone with “well-founded fear of persecution.”
In short, hundreds of thousands of lives were saved.
By contrast, President Trump has twisted the perception of refugees and asylum seekers into an unrecognizable lie. But here are the facts: Asylum seekers and refugees leave their countries because they have no choice — for many, if they stay, they will be persecuted, subjected to traumatic events such as torture, or killed. In fact, the Center for Victims of Torture estimates that as many as 44 percent of refugees, asylees and asylum seekers already in the United States are survivors of torture. All people have the legal right to seek protection from persecution — and, just as important, the human right, as noted in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. According to the UNHCR, there are 70.8 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, 25.9 million of whom are refugees and 3.5 million of whom are asylum seekers. And yet, the Trump administration has admitted only 21,260 refugees so far this fiscal year.
Make no mistake, I firmly believe in and support nations’ prerogatives to control their borders. But it is imperative that the United States does this in a manner consistent with both U.S. and international law and that reflects America’s founding principle of welcoming those most in need…
https://wapo.st/2ZbL2KI?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.43c8aa342a0f
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Besides the racism, the idea that no one can speak out for the mistreatment children and people in distress unless all is right with their district, city, state and country of ancestral or ethnic origin is just so absurd. Meanwhile, Rocketman Kim is mysteriously absolved of torturing and killing people, including Americans, and threatening all of South Korea.
This whole mob code that Trump follows is so sick. And the enablers and allies are so complicit. They are not simply following orders, they are participants in a stupid and disgusting angry mob, organized or not.
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Moral urgency!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/house/455084-wave-of-washington-lawmakers-call-for-impeachment-proceedings-against-trump%3famp
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Looks very much like the inquiry has begun.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1852090001
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Was about to ask about conditions in a republican districts. Newsweek beat me to it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/trump-critics-post-photos-poverty-homelessness-republican-districts-across-us-1451472%3famp=1
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And of course Kushner the slumlord is profiting from poorly managed complexes in Baltimore.
Even the false-diversion excuses are themselves a sham in their own right.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/jared-kushner-owns-lots-of-apartments-in-the-baltimore-area-some-infested-with-mice/2019/07/28/0d3cb754-b13b-11e9-8f6c-7828e68cb15f_story.html%3foutputType=amp
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There has to be a special place for people who can take money from poor people, knowing full well that these apartments are filthy and unfit for habitation.
Jared, Ivanka and Trump are all the same. Jared and Ivanka are slum lords and Trump stiffs contractors. No wonder they get along so well. Money is all that counts in a tiny, warped mind.
I could never live with myself if I knew that I lived in extreme luxury and that that money came from abusing and hurting hundreds [thousands?] of people.
Trump had to attack Cummings and that attack caused the media to focus on his rotten son-in-law. Now we all know they all are worthless.
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Aaaaaaand Trump is STILL at it, attacking Cummings, Monday, 9:45 PM!
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/455254-trump-goes-after-cummings-again-he-should-investigate-himself
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Clearly, Elijah Cummings has rattled Trump.
Trump attacks those he fears.
Go, Mr. Cummings!
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And Sharpton handles him well.
What Trump really does is exploit. He exploits weakness, disadvantage, lies and facts, differences, association, everything. He is so heart-and-mind wrenchingly un-American in terms of our ideals, yet so very American in terms of exploitation, us at our worst, our collective id throughout our history. We must condemn that side. It would destroy us. It is an enemy.
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Hate fake news is reaching out to destroy people. I got this message from my brother. I replied with the article from Politifact. [Donald Trump doesn’t make any clever moves.]
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John Kerry heading to jail!? (NO ONE will see this coming!) – John Kerry could soon find himself behind bars — thanks to Donald Trump’s clever move on Monday! Here’s the story that even Washington insiders won’t see coming!
Shared from https://thehornnews.com/john-kerry-heading-to-jail-no-one-will-see-this-coming/
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No, John Kerry is not headed to prison – politifact.com
“Just in: John Kerry facing prison,” said the May 21 headline on Conservative Stories, a website that supports President Donald Trump. The website copied the story about Kerry from the Any Politics website.
“SHARE this story if you think John Kerry should be LOCKED UP!” the story said.
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Republican operatives have claimed that Kerry met secretly with Iranian officials in Paris just days after Trump announced the United States’ withdrawal from the international accord. Trump had promised during the campaign to renegotiate the deal.
As their supposed proof, operatives have pointed to a May 12 tweet of a photo by a lobbyist with the firm Turnberry Solutions that appeared to show Kerry walking near the trendy L’Avenue restaurant in the French capital’s Champs-Elysées neighborhood.
“So John Kerry just left a meeting @ L’Avenue in Paris w/3 Iranians. A friend was sitting next to their table and heard JK blasting @realDonaldTrump. The Iranians had a 5 person security detail and left in diplomatic vehicles. Is he FARA registered?” Jason Osborne tweeted, referring to the Foreign Agents Registration Act that requires Americans to disclose activities taken on behalf of foreign governments.
No Iranians were in the photo. But people produced other photos of Iranians, reportedly in Paris. An Iranian dissident named M. Hanif Jazayeri identified the photographed Iranians as former Foreign Affairs Minister Kamal Kharazi and Iran’s Ambassador to France Abolghassem Delfi. To be clear, none of the photos showed Kerry and the Iranians together…
https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/may/24/conservative-stories/there-no-evidence-john-kerry-headed-prison/
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When the right thing is just so darn risky!
https://prospect.org/article/real-reason-impeachment
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And HOW MANY clearly impeachable offenses are we up to?!
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-racism-impeachable-offense-precedent-andrew-johnson-proves-it-ncna1035951
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And why isn’t the media getting back to conditions at the border, not just Baltimore, where all of this started? Why play into Trump’s hand? WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!
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Trump is pure evil.
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More Than 900 Migrant Children Have Been Separated From Their Families Over Past Year
Separations of migrant families are continuing in substantial numbers, often for reasons as simple as a parent with a traffic ticket, the American Civil Liberties Union reported.
LOS ANGELES — More than a year after President Trump officially ended migrant family separations at the southern border, immigration authorities continue to routinely separate families for reasons as minor as a parent not changing a baby’s diaper or having a traffic citation for driving without a license, according to new documents filed Tuesday in federal court.
More than 900 children have been removed from an adult — usually a parent — with whom they arrived at the southern border since June of 2018, according to tallies provided by the Department of Justice to the American Civil Liberties Union, which is challenging the separations.
“The administration is still doing family separation under the guise that they are protecting children from their own parents even though the criminal history they are citing is either wrong or shockingly minor,” said Lee Gelernt, with the A.C.L.U.’s Immigrants Rights Project. “This is just circumventing the court’s order.”
The new numbers were filed with Judge Dana M. Sabraw in San Diego as part of the court’s continuing supervision of the family separation issue. In its motion on Tuesday, the civil rights group asked the judge to clarify a set of standards for such separations that would ensure that children are taken from their parents only when there is evidence that the parent is a genuine danger to the child, or is unfit to provide care…
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