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Our Uber driver a few nights ago here in Saratoga was born in Nepal, grew up in Tibet, lived in Manhattan, likes Country & Western music and owns a Japanese car.

His favorite food is Italian and he’s glad to be here.

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Yes, immigrants (just like the rest of us) are not the one-dimensional caricatures that the GOP tries to make people believe that they are. Each one of us is complex and enriched by the various experiences we have had throughout our lives. Can you imagine a world where everyone was the same (shudder!)?

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my wife once had a conversation with a woman from Iceland and at the end of the conversation, Rochelle asked the Icelandic woman how she felt about living in Iceland and the woman was less than enthusiastic. "how would you feel," she asked, "if everybody around you looked exactly the same as you?"

so my guess is that such a world would be less than desirable.

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He’s a traitorous psychopath who belongs in prison. It’s that simple 😡‼️

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The conclusion is simple and on target!

The legal processes we use are already grinding away - we don't want to fall into "banana republic" territory ourselves in the course of investigating, empaneling grand juries, presenting the evidence for their consideration, indicting on their approval, allowing for a discovery process for both sides, affording Herr Gropenfuehrer...I mean the seditious insurrection's alleged leader, the twice-impeached scourge of American democratic norms and the rule of law, Donald J. Trump, affording him the "vigorous, zealous defense" he is constitutionally guaranteed, and convicting him in a fair trial, if that's the result, with appeals allowed on allegedly substantive issues the defense can claim taint a conviction. *******

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL8chWFuM-s

The Clash - I Fought the Law (Official Video)

*******

Nota bene! Might want to alert the local cats & dogs if you play this w/o headphones, good plan is play it fairly LOUD through the best headphones you have, or more cautiously if through your speakers, Trump can rot in Federal lockup and still not come close to paying

his debt to society for all the searing damage and carnage he has unleashed - aided and abetted by some of the most preposterously deranged, opportunistic poltroons in American history, in and out of Congress, in the mass media, niche media, and through the sickest cesspools of the very worst on the USA, posing as "patriots," no less!

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Well put! It makes me think of all the positive contribution musicians have made to our culture. Compare that to Oberfuhrer Drumpf who has contributed nothing but destruction and a horrible coarsening of politics. If only we could deport him as the Germans did his grandfather.

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Return to Sender?

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Your words have triggered (another) musical memory in me. A different country undergoing some religious faceted political ruction at that time. https://youtu.be/K-si401aunA

Thank you Richard.

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OverviewLyricsVideosListen

Banana Republic

Septic Isle

Screaming in the Suffering sea

It sounds like crying

Everywhere I go

Everywhere I see

The black and blue uniforms

Police and priests

And I wonder do you wonder

While you're sleeping with your whore

That sharing beds with history

Is like a-licking running sores

Forty shades of green yeah

Sixty shades of red

Heroes going cheap these days

Price; a bullet in the head

Banana Republic

Septic Isle

Suffer in the Screaming sea

It sounds like dying

Everywhere I go

Everywhere I see

The black and blue uniforms

Police and priests

Take your hand and lead you

Up a garden path

Let me stand aside here

And watch you pass

Striking up a soldier's song

I know that tune

It begs too many questions

And answers too

Banana Republic

Septic Isle

Suffer in the Screaming sea

It sounds like dying

Everywhere I go

Everywhere I see

The black and blue uniforms

Police and priests

The purple and the pinstripe

Mutely shake their heads

A silence shrieking volumes

A violence worse than the condemn

Stab you in the back yeah

Laughing in your face

Glad to see the place again

It's a pity nothing's changed

Banana Republic

Septic Isle

Suffer in the Screaming sea

It sounds like dying

Everywhere I go

Everywhere I see

The black and blue uniforms

Police and priests

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"Herr Gropenfuehrer"

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I’d settle for a locked mental ward somewhere out of sight.

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I’m more in favor of Florence, CO. He’d be out of sight there too. Great circular exercise yard!

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Yes...you are so correct!

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A comment not original with me: Four of Trump’s five children are by wives who are immigrants. The last of whom came to the United States on a tourist visa and, reputedly, while on that tourist visa, worked as a female escort until she hooked up with Trump

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And then one of his children converted to Judaism…

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And his mother is an immigrant from Scotland.

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So fun for you to experience America’s melting pot as you were flying. Immigrants contributed and still contribute to our society in so many important ways. The Don has never learned to be nice. He only goes off the deep-end of cruelty. May my immigrant blood poison his ass but good!

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It's not a settled matter, but I like to believe that Granddaddy's name was Friedrich Heinrich Drumpf. Such a perfect onomatopoeic expression of the family’s horrible nature.

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Yes, and I wish some of the late-night comedians would start calling him “Drumpf, “ using the original family name.

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Yeah, like they piled on Gary Hart / Hartpence back in 1984. Man, that looks like some pretty junior high stuff now.

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The only one doing any poisoning is the traitor himself, and those who are carrying his water.

The surest way to stop him is to hold him accountable for his crimes, and vote them all out in 2024. I feel ashamed that he takes up so much of our oxygen when, as you pointed out so well, there are so many wonderful, diverse Americans doing good in this land.

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I’m glad you used the word traitor. He is many execrable things, but foremost he is a TRAITOR, and the label should be repeated loudly and often.

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Arthur, I have sworn to myself never to put his name in print. His moniker will always be orange traitor. He deserves it, he has earned it, and I look forward to him being prosecuted for it.

He is also not eligible to hold any office again in this country...it's about time the Constitution is adhered to.

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I agree, and I use Dump or Dumpo or other terms like Orange-ass. Orange traitor is a good one. He is the most vile, loathsome, toxic human being—maybe even that term is too flattering —that this country has ever produced, bar none. It is hard to comprehend someone like him— lecherous, crude, ignorant, cowardly… a bully, a braggart and a pathological liar… a person who would destroy a country that has been very good to him. The coming year will be the stress test of all time for this country, surpassing even the Civil War, in my opinion. I just hope the courts and our system of laws can bring this toxic traitor down. He should be stoned to death and hung from his heels in a public square, like Mussolini.

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It is clear that you hate that criminal as much as I do. It sickens me that he hides behind the Constitution, yet threatens to destroy it. Worse, if he manages to weasel his way back into our White House with his lies, he will destroy it and the rule of law completely.

I spend much of my time trying to explain to those who don't see it (although I don't know how) that their freedom is on the line, and I'll continue to try to open as many eyes as I can.

In the meantime, I sincerely hope the orange traitor meets his demise before our country suffers for it. That, or the good people of America show up to the polls to tell him he is not wanted.

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If he somehow garners enough electoral votes to win, god forbid, I think and hope the courts and our “system of laws” will be better prepared to challenge his every move. The country was caught with its proverbial pants down, never believing, like the FF in 1787, that someone so vile and toxic and ignorant could ever win the presidency. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

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Well said. The FF also thought the 14th, section 3 would prevent someone like the orange traitor from getting into office. The year ahead will be eye opening, to say the least.

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Superb analysis.

VOTE.

And help get other people out to VOTE.

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Yes. VOTE. Talk to your friends. Talk to your cashier at the market. Talk to your neighbors. Tell them all to VOTE as if our lives depend on it. Because they do.

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Living in a very red area of Michigan, most of my friends are Republicans who refuse to discuss politics or DJT. They will vote for tRump next year because they have and will always vote Republican. I do not encourage them to vote.

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I don't understand how anyone among the liberals present here can possibly remain friends with those who will STILL vote for t-Rump! To me, that one fact about that person outweighs every possible good quality they might have. They're a moral zero in my opinion, people who, by voting for t-Rump, are voting for the destruction of absolutely everything of value in this country.

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Judith, I can remain friends with them because they are genuinely kind people. They are not “trumpers” or maga republicans. They choose to remain willfully ignorant of anything political so they can continue voting for Republicans without guilt. They know just enough to know they don’t want to know any more. I don’t respect their position, but I do value these very long term friendships.

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What Good Germans!

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I have terminated two longtime friendships because of their support for Trump. One guy I’ve known since kindergarten, the other since 10th grade. They’re classmates. We played hockey together. I’ve always known they were Republicans, and that was fine… we’d need two viable parties. But when they became Trumpies… and I’m still puzzled as to why… we had nothing in common anymore. Sad.

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I understand. I have a number of those friends, even in very blue Washington State. I do not discuss with them. Good point you make not to encourage them to vote! I do have many friends who don't realize the importance of 2024 or just how close to the edge we are. With them, I can safely bring this up. As for "strangers", like the grocery clerk -- I have made a point of choosing her checkout lane for 30 years and consider her a friend. I should have clarified.

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My Republican relatives now want Nikki Haley to win. Is this, as my mother used to say, jumping from the frying pan into the fire?

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I'm so infuriated with that SOB and his 'blood poisoning' slanders of people who he's never met (but he sure has employed before, under the table).

As I wrote somewhere else, it's too bad Frederick Trump wasn't deported back to Germany when the US had the chance-we would never had had the problem because he would have been drafted into the German Army for the first World War and possibly would have been killed in battle.

Then we would not have had this utter monster sliming his way through our country.

Of course many social scientists have had the same 'what if' scenario for the rise of Trump's hero, Adolf Hitler.

If neither of these monsters had existed we would have had a very different world-and probably most of us would not exist now writing in despair of one of them.

But all we can hope for is that the judgement calls for Trump start coming in next year and bring him down into a hole. First, the fraud trial in NYC is over, but the amount he owes is now up for a decision.

Next will be the Supreme Court and their decision on whether to decide he is immune from prosecution, which determines the outcome of all the rest of his criminal cases.

I am hoping they'll be as sick of him as we all are, and that this little snowball will finally become an avalanche and bury him. (and I'm being literal, in case you're wondering).

We can do without a sleazier version of Hitler in a cheap suit.

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"Next will be the Supreme Court and their decision on whether to decide he is immune from prosecution, which determines the outcome of all the rest of his criminal cases."

I'm not sure I understand this. Are you saying that if Jack Smith LOSES at the SC, that means the end of ALL the criminal cases against t-Rump, both state and federal? Do you mean that would be THE END, and a free t-Rump will go on his way rejoicing??? Would Smith have taken such a gamble only if he thinks a ruling in his favor is inevitable?

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Unfortunately, yes it does.

"So whether Trump can be tried over Jan. 6 is in the hands of our highest court. We will know the answer before too long. Once the Supreme Court rules on the immunity and double jeopardy arguments, there will either be no reason for further pre-trial delays — or maybe no case at all."

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4354639-is-a-president-immune-from-prosecution-the-supreme-court-will-decide/

Smith took this gamble, betting that the court will uphold his view that nobody, not ex-presidents or SC justices are immune from prosecution. If they don't rule this way, we might as well throw out the whole goddamn Constitution and revert back to a monarchy because rule of law will no longer exist or will only exist for those rich enough to buy it.

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This concerns me greatly. I trust Jack Smith's judgement and ability, but I don't have anywhere near his evident expectation that the Supreme Court will rule fairly. I have zero confidence in them when it comes to issues this close to Trump. I pray I am wrong.

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trmp is the only person I have been exposed to who has no redeeming social characteristics. Hell even Hitler liked dogs. I am pretty sure even Satan will reject his admission to Hell.

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Yes! I’ve made that same point about dogs (not to rehabilitate Hitler!!). He was also surprisingly tender with the little boys .. young teenagers!… pulled in and sent off to war in Germany’s final desperate months.

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The thing is, Trump has nothing inside him to share. No feelings (except briefly sexual…yuk) for any living thing. Not even for a dog. He is a hollow shell. He has no true friends, just groupies and hangers-on and a fungible, variable list of lawyers and associates. He is about the most isolated and lonely specimen of man I’ve ever seen.

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And the worse he gets, the higher his poll numbers go. It's hard not to be discouraged. We all know what Trump is like but how about the millions of cult members who believe and celebrate his every vile word?

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To me, the most depressing and infuriating part of this whole saga isn't t-Rump himself but rather, his worshipers. It's awful to realize how many Americans are totally worthless human beings who don't deserve to be citizens of this country!

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Yep. Don the Con is a "salesman" and what he's selling is hate, fear and ignorance. The really sad part - he's got a lot of customers.

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Same here. Because Trump will eventually die and/or if he wins, he won't have another term. But what's been uncovered is enormous serious rot in the good old USA.

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Rot, yes, and some serious flaws in our system that need to be changed—- Electoral College, for one; and how SCOTUS justices are selected/nominated and a limit in their terms of service; and safeguards on the official counting of electoral votes.

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The tragic arrival of Trump in the top job in the world has exposed the weakness of our systems across the board when challenged . it would seem nobody ever believed someone as monstrous in every conceivable way would ever attain that level of power in the U.S.

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I agree… the educated, land-owning white males writing a new “operating manual” for the nascent country, which was much smaller and far more homogeneous, surely could not conceive of such a monster. I think they probably believed that a serious rogue like Dump would be snared and brought heel on the way up. They still added the impeachment provision, but in the final analysis the most carefully written laws ultimately depend on their execution by decent human beings. The McConnell senate was far from a collection of decent human beings.

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The founders did not envision TwitterX

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Everybody thought Super Villains only existed in comic books and b horror movies. How can someone do soulless really exist in the real world?

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They’re resentful, in the main, and resentment is a powerful motivator. (Hitler wanted to be an artist and was brimming over with resentment, having been rejected—twice—from the Art Institute [not its correct name] in Vienna. Though that wasn’t the only contributor to his towering resentment.) Drump’s people, at least the ones I know or know of, see things in stark, black-or-white terms. Many exhibit the Clint Eastwood “Make My Day” attitude. “No eastern liberal snowflake is gonna tell ME what to do!”

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They are resentful because of policies initiated by Reagan cowboy Republi-cons.

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Your uplifting description of your recent travel within the U.S. should be a reminder to all of us that we are either immigrants or descended from immigrants no matter how far back. I grew up in NYC (1940s and 50s) in an area called Yorkville (upper east side of Manhattan), a melting pot of European immigrants, that was heavily German/Austrian at its northern end. My parents were Austrian immigrants. But the block we lived in had French, Finnish, Irish, one Cuban family, and I had a friend who was half Asian, mixed into the heavily German/Austrians. I now live on an Island seven miles off the coast of Massachusetts that has a remnant indigenous population, but was settled by 17th century English followed by an influx of Portuguese. Currently, we depend on a large population of Brazilians without whom this place would grind to a screeching halt in about five minutes. The high school here (about 800 students) reports the students speak about 20 different languages, but heavily Brazilian Portuguese. That is America in its current melting pot that *Rump wants to destroy in only the latest outburst of anti-immigrant racist animas that has always been present -The gangplank notion of ‘I was here first, and there’s no room for you now.’ Except fascist *Rump makes it explicitly racist since brown and black people are high on his long list of undesirables. He is poisoning the bloodstream of this country with his toxic rhetoric of racial purity. Unfortunately, his cult will probably love it.

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"Your uplifting description of your recent travel within the U.S. should be a reminder to all of us that we are either immigrants or descended from immigrants no matter how far back."

Not all. This is not meant to offend, is a reminder that although my kind~indigenous~ is invisible to most, we are still here, until we poof.

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Exactly, especially since the reference is to only 1791 founding of the United States, it doesn’t go back any further and certainly not to some controversies about crossings over a then existing land bridge from what is now `Siberia’ over 15,000 years ago or more!

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While it is possible the Land Bridge Theory/Explanation is possible, it is far more unlikely. While it might explain some people it ignores geography. Indigenous are found all the way down to the tip of South America and as far east as Greenland.

A walk to the tip of South America (48000 kilometers) as well as to populate it is a stretch. So too is the idea there was a second land bridge to Kalaalit Nunaat aka Greenland either from the Polar North or from what today is Canada. From Alaska to Greenland is a mere 4000 kilometers but one needs wings and gills plus be immune from polar sun/darkness and winters to get there. Then there is Austrailia's aboriginals. Is 12000kilomaters from eastern Africa across the Indian Ocean to Australia. Or 8000km southward across the Indian Ocean from southern India to Australia. At least in the Asia scenario there are series of islands that theoretically could be used as jumping off points. Then there is Hawaii in the east central Pacific. Even if it was (and its not equal distance from Asia, Australia, Alaska and the US west coast, there is no conceivable land bridge and is inconceivable someone made the crossing and returned and said GAWD I've found Paradise, pack your things and take the wimmin and pets cuz I can re-navigate the Pacific for at least 6000kilometers again and again.

Point being, there is no one cradle of life centered in Africa. It's a stoopid theory based upon where western "scientists" looked first and most. Almost monthly and at least yearly older examples of hoomans appear around the Blue Marble. More on point if there is 1 hooman cradle then there MUST be 1 animal cradle. That 1 works with diseases as in Patient0 but doesn't hold with life itself, whether plant or animal. Defies all logic and reason. Life did start and progress on different timelines but not spread like a disease. It had to be self-sustaining in its own unique environment (geography) albeit at different paces.

Also included in Geography is population. Indigenous had for the time mega-cities larger than London at the same time throughout the US as well as in Central America. Most researchers place the indigenous peak population on Turtle Island in the hundreds of millions dwarfing Europe's many times over.

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It's controversial for all those reasons! I don't subscribe to it - besides which all the current land titles would have to be reconciled for reparations in any case, so it's a multiply irrelevant and extremely unlikely theory - maybe THREE MILLION YEARS AGO there were different conditions and punctuated equilibriums so that tribes and clans and bands were running / sailing around, but so what?!?

I actually was naive enough, in the 1970s, to believe that by now (in fact, by the 1990s!) the USA would have been reconciling all the wrongs as far as possible, land thefts, Fort Laramie Treaty violations repaired, damages assessed, tribal membership protocols negotiated so we know who qualifies for restored lands and monetary reparations; it never even occurred to me

that almost NO MOVEMENT towards any of that would even begin, as of 2023! Like I just said: incredibly naive!

The mainstream mass media is filled with nonsense and neglects a huge range of crucially important topics in favor of selling ads, but arguably this entire set of issues is near the top for "most unjustly neglected, and when covered at all, covered sporadically and not that well."

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"I actually was naive enough, in the 1970s, to believe that by now (in fact, by the 1990s!) the USA would have been reconciling all the wrongs as far as possible, land thefts, Fort Laramie Treaty violations repaired, damages assessed, tribal membership protocols negotiated so we know who qualifies for restored lands and monetary reparations; it never even occurred to me that almost NO MOVEMENT towards any of that would even begin, as of 2023! Like I just said: incredibly naive!" ~Respect~

US seems to have an aversion to admitting and righting wrongs in a time frame that makes sense, i.e. when the aggrieved are still alive. Said another way those wrongs are treated the same way mass shootings are, it's always in all ways too soon to talk and do something about them followed by now it's too late. A great Catch-22.

The same type Catch-22 was presented to many ~people~ by US District Courts when their Federal status was remove or not acknowledged. The Judge would say yes, I realize y'all were ordered by the authorities NOT to speak your tongue or else and NOT to hold all your traditional ceremonies or else, and ordered off your ancestral lands or else BUT that doesn't change the fact NOT enough of you speak that tongue, or participate in all the traditional ceremonies, or reside on ancestral land (they're many more). And since you don't meet the criteria, you're POOFED. Have a nice fuckin life. And am sure you recognize the double standard of being American doesn't mean you must speak English, participate in holidays, or even reside in America for a single second. Nor ever be subjected to the blood quantum test of how American someone really is. Or in the case of non-American citizens be granted citizenship for joining the US mil and be granted full citizenship whereas my kind fought for the US before it was recognized as a nation and took until 1924 for that even though the 14th Amendment granted slaves and their seeds citizenship in the late 1860s. Was no mistake. Was debated. At the state level is a worse history with western states arguing ~indigenous~ can't be a citizen since they already belong to a "nation". A word we never had when identifying ourselves. Sadly, it stuck like softened dogchit on a treaded boot sole as did the word "tribe" while 1000s of our words are recorded as being loaned (loaner words) to English language. We don't have the word loaned in any of our tongues. The one western language that has a great number of similarities w/ours is German. They too use what appears to be one long word that means many words or translates to a phrase. Takes a highly developed linguistic mind to do so. The longest one word I know of ~indigenous~ tongue contains 48 letters that translates into a phase and is a geographical understanding between 2 ~people~ aka a common word to 4 or more very different dialects and at least 3different tongues. And a note: I use the number touching the word because in ~indigenous~ tongue there is no abstract plural. For example 2Bear is not 2Bears, 2Moon not 2Moons. I add the s in writing so people don;t think am undereducated savage yet I cringe each time I do. THe English language is all over the place on plurals, to be or not to be an S, that is the question.. Cracks me up. Plus a standard plural is vague not specific. So much for English being precise. Even my holiday cards to non-indies, adds the number in front of the last name. Shows respect for knowing and honors all and each.

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-++++++++++++++++ Upvoted a trillion times, always a terrible thing when native languages are oppressed, you can see it all over the planet and throughout history!

A worse attack on one's identity is difficult to find, but the kidnappings to missionary schools always used the attacks on indigenous language use as fundamental to their brainwashing schemes for a host of reasons, some you just mentioned, Shadow, yet the mass culture learns about this if at all through that sporadic reporting only, unless they seek it out. NPR or maybe a local station's "Community reports" once in a while...

Of course NOTHING like this, and I only know about some of these kinds of publications

due to Minneapolis having the largest Native urban population, living for a time a block off Franklin Avenue and three blocks from the Native American Center, and working at East Side Neighborhood Services, where it was part of my job to help coordinate job placement info at Little Earth* - researching Standing Rock protests specifically led to this site...

https://ictnews.org/

File: 2020 Winter solstice at Hopeton Earthworks in Ohio. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember)

Blackeet offer up Blacktail dance, serviceberries to winter solstice season to public

Other tribes want newbies to learn ceremony from elders over time

By Renata BirkenbuelDec 20, 2023

Headlines

Lakota teacher wins national education award

The Wrap: First Native woman confirmed to federal bench

North Dakota tribal college hosts 'Rock the Thunderdome'

Alaska Native leaders spotlight challenges in federal MMIP report

Senate confirms Sara Hill as a federal judge

GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Honoring Indigenous efforts worldwide

The Wrap: ‘The Wild East’

UW-Madison to cover costs for Native American students

Trial set for North Dakota’s pursuit of pipeline policing costs

Nevada high court upholds sex abuse charges against Nathan Chasing Horse *******

*https://www.littleearth.org/

Little Earth is 9.4 acre, 212-unit Housing and Urban Development (HUD) subsidized housing complex located in the urban industrial core of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Little Earth was founded in 1973 and remains the only indigenous preference project-based Section 8 rental assistance community in the United States.

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Respect

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Why “poof”?

Your posts are often insightful, but this is the first time you’ve identified as indigenous.

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Bottoms up.

-Not the first time. Suspect some here tire of me reminding them including those who are not frequent visitors and come off as chitstirrers to Lucian's Substack that am the thread's resident "merciless savage".

-Any and all insight I have is due to my ancestors passing theirs on to me.

-Poof. Yes, the confluence of US CODE which granted itself to be the final arbitrator of what ~people~ aka tribes/nations/clans are recognized by the Federal government and how that status can be removed* or restored* (ponder that) along with far too many ~people~ adopting the yt-ways (political power and riches v, the natural laws) while rejecting the red road (culture).

*Yes, a US Federal Court can declare a ~people~ not to exist even though they've been here for more than 15,000years and survived the American Holocaust.

The best example is the [Mashpee] ~Wampanoags~, Squanto's people. They lost their Federal status as did their cousins on the Vineyard, hence most of the protected land. Spent nearly 40yrs fighting in US Courts to have their ~people~ restored. Most give up due to the cost over decades of litigation. Is one way they bleed us out.

Another is blood quantum. Oddly, the very opposite of the old One Drop Rule applied to Africans. No ~people~ is pure blooded or else we would've bred ourselves into extinction. We view ancestor lineage thru our grandparents and beyond, more specifically the maternal side. Each ~people~ included various other ~people~ long before whites came here. After all we are nomads, hunters, and explorers. And many of us also experienced dispora not exclusive to the Trail of Tears ~people~.

We understood genetics far better than given credit. And after whites came and brought Africans with them our ways did not change. That has worked against many and has been weaponized by some non-traditional ~indigenous~ against their own. That disrespects and dishonors their own ancestors. Shame.

Finally unbeknown to most here 1000s of our wimmin were forcibly taken off of a nearby Rez to become wives of white men who came here w/o a woman. It is another dark stain rarely spoken about. Is the opposite of poof. Men registered a marriage in counties with wimmin who magically rained down from the clouds. So, add that to the boarding schools that existed to wipe out the little ones "redness" inc cutting the hair and forbidding them to speak their tongue and engage in any cultural traditions.

All of the above was done in plain sight and most of it lawfully and legally with USG approval to exterminate the merciless savages. One way or another.

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You said a mouthful, which needs to be digested.

As descendants of “the Wondering Jews”, actually an amalgam of 12 tribes we should be keenly aware of marginalized communities.

Sadly this is not always the case, but we sure make a lot of noise for our dwindling numbers.

Thanks for the animated run-through of indigenous peoples in the so-called United States.

Canada as well has a history of breaking up indigenous families.

I was shocked and disgusted to learn that it wasn’t just churches that busted up families, but a Jewish Social Work Agency that did forced “adoption”. The tv series is called “Little Bird” and it’s heartbreaking!

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"You said a mouthful, which needs to be digested." Due to eating while replying.

My late beloved wife was a Jew, a Sephardic Jew born in Spain. And like me, educated in Bahsten albeit at competing schools. So, can affirm "but we make a lot of noise.." in the pursuit of truth and justice.

Yes, Canada does have a history of mistreatment of its First People. Unlike the US, Canada has long made an effort to try to right some wrongs and most of all acknowledges its First People in a positive way. Am familiar with Little Bird and a host of other storytells (films, teevee, documentaries) that originate in Canada. Seeing some green shoots in the US from ~indigenous~ film makers take hold.

My larger point went to how most Americans have no interest in history. They prefer the sweetened sugar-coated version spoon fed to them. Trump exploits just that and adds demonizing and dehumanizing the "others". That appeal to the darker angels is etched in American history even before it was a nation and continues today.

Trump is no one off. He is the manifestation of hundreds before him and just one man in a larger group of tens of millions. Even though he and his flock are in the minority both have learned by singling out groups smaller in number than them, they become the de facto majority over them.

Nice chat

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It didn't start with Donald.

Trump's racism goes back at least one generation into his family history, as documented by the great Woody Guthrie. From a draft of a song, "Old Man Trump" written about his father, Fred:

I suppose

Old Man Trump knows

Just how much

Racial Hate

He stirred up

In the bloodpot of human hearts

When he drawed

That color line

Here at his Beach Haven family project

Woody lived for a time in Beach Haven. In 1973, Fred and Donald were sued by the Justice Department for violating the Fair Housing Act.

The family history of draft evasion and running brothels also echoes with the way Donald thinks of military service, and of women.

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Great piece. Yes, the bloated bleater admires the "real" Fuhrer, and, superb con artist that the bleater is, takes advantage of a (real) nativist poison that has been in the (white) American bloodstream since the 19th Century. James Phelan, Mayor of San Francisco, writing in 1901:

"The Chinese, by putting a vastly inferior civilization in competition with our own, tend to destroy the population, on whom the perpetuity of free government depends. Without homes and families; patronizing neither school, library, church nor theatre; lawbreakers, addicted to vicious habits; indifferent to sanitary regulations and breeding disease; taking no holidays, respecting no traditional anniversaries, but laboring incessantly, and subsisting on practically nothing for food and clothes, a condition to which they have been inured for centuries, they enter the lists against men who have been brought up by our civilization to family life and civic duty. Our civilization having been itself rescued from barbarism by the patriots, martyrs and benefactors of mankind, the question now is: Shall it be imperilled? [sic] Is not Chinese immigration a harm?"

That same time period produced a description that perfectly portrays the bloated bleater. Progressive Republican Hiram Johnson, at a 1910 campaign rally in Los Angeles, describing L.A. Times owner and publisher Harrison Gray Otis:

"He sits there in his senile dementia with gangrene heart and rotting brain, grimacing at every reform, chattering impotently at all the things that are decent, frothing, fuming, violently gibbering, going down to his grave in snarling infamy."

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You sure that this was written in 1910? It could have been penned yesterday about Donnie the Hun.

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One account of Hiram Johnson's rant against Harrison Gray Otis said that Otis, an admirer and practitioner of incendiary political language, afterward saluted Johnson. As for Donnie, he could never have been a Hun, since almost all of the men were required to serve the tribe, and certainly not their leader. Attila, as described by 5th Century historian Priscus: "He was indeed a lover of war, yet restrained in action, mighty in counsel, gracious to suppliants and lenient to those who were once received into his protection." Mighty in counsel, gracious to supplicants? Don't sound like The Bloated Sexual Predator to me.

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You are so correct. Attila was a far better person than DDD (despicable, disgraceful, disgusting) Donnie. I stand corrected. Thank you!

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Where are all of these"pure" people that Shitler, Orban and the other fascist authoritarians talk about? There ain't no such thing in my book and this"pure" stuff is self-serving bull sh*t. I think what they really mean is white and male.

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And fundamentalist Christian

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And hetero.

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"White, male, right-wing, racist as hell, woman-hating, anti-immigrant, anti-intellectual, despising democratic norms and the rule of law..." And that's the short list, but if you are ONLY white and male, the fascist inquisition means to find out just how disloyal and dangerously subversive you might be, that's been a constant theme within reactionary politics since the Gracchi brothers advocated sweeping reforms in Republican Rome, circa 133 B.C.E.

"The Gracchi exerted a substantial influence on later politics. They were viewed alternately as popular martyrs or dangerous demagogues through the late republic. They were also portrayed as social revolutionaries and proto-socialists during the French Revolution and afterwards; in that vein, they motivated social revolutionaries such as François-Noël "Gracchus" Babeuf and opposition to enclosure in Britain. Scholars today view these socialist comparisons as unapt.[7]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracchi_brothers

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Most assuredly they do mean white and male.

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Yes “ pure” blood = white, hetero male.”Freedom”=Things that only MAGAts believe are worthy which include family values ( that are usually not family inclusive at all) and hatred of others who are non-white and male.

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Glad you brought up the Trump's father and grandfather's "illustrious" history of immigration-

what a bunch of scoundrels and draft-dodgers.

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Four of his five spawn have that poisoned immigrant blood. Mrs. P1135809 numbers 1 and 3 were or are immigrants. Only Mrs. P1135809 number 2 was American-born.

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