I am a 1959 graduate of Sidwell Friends School and I can well remember in ninth grade, Mr. Cox, our history teacher, insisting that the Civil War was not fought over slavery but was fought over economic differences. Even as a naive ninth grader I remember thinking that the Southern system of plantations was only possible because of slavery so this explanation never made any sense to me. Eventually, of course, historians were able to refute that lie, although it took a number of decades to do so. My hope -- and one I have to cling to -- is that the Big Lie will die a painful death in a far shorter period of time.
I was fortunate to attend a public high school that was 80% Jewish. Believe me, we learned about the Holocaust (every one of those Jewish students had lost family members in that), and we learned about slavery as the basic cause of the Civil War. And now, here we are with some white parents in a rage that their kids might be taught "too much" about slavery!
I grew up before the word "Holocaust" even existed. Yes, you were fortunate to hear historical truths. In the 1950s the US brushed aside German atrocities simply because we needed West German support against our arch enemy, the USSR. The decade was one of great subterfuge, alas.
In East Tennessee, I never heard the word "Holocaust" in school, but my mother frequently spoke of it and the horrors. Her memories inspired me to read a number of nonfiction books about the Holocaust throughout a number of years. Likewise, I never heard a word about slavery in K-12. When I began teaching at East Nashville High School the first year the school was integrated (1968), I became obsessed with reading any book I could find about slavery and discrimination and Jim Crow laws. Now, today, I am deeply saddened to watch as so many Americans are still employing viscous discriminatory policies and practices. My vote in Tennessee is worthless.
Wow—not when I was growing up. The family wouldn’t discuss anything when I asked if we had long-lost cousins in Europe. WWII vets didn’t speak of their service in the 60’s, 70’s…
Where was your school, Judith? Mine was in Brooklyn, also majority Jewish, I attended from 1939, K>12; my experience was unlike yours, re learning about those things.
At some point this Trump crusade will end. It is difficult to believe that millions of businesses in the south would tolerate any real threat to their market and access to the world. It is unlikely that the EU, Japan, the UK or China will sit back and allow the US to slide into civil unrest or a low level war. Right now, Trump is a profitable carnival for the media and a few webpages. There's too much at stake, Wall Street must be watching him. Perhaps one fine day in 2023 Mr. Trump will be charged with criminal conspiracy for something, denied bail and put under house arrest? He's not the only political pest, other nations have their own. Once he is eliminated from seeking the republican nomination for 2024, the party will fracture as every ambitious senator or governor tries for the glory. Are we to believe one deluded old man will be permitted to threaten a 35 trillion dollar US economy or a 160 trillion world economy? This is not 1861 when a rag tag rebellion upset the US for four years. The billionaire class is not going to allow financial ruin. The federal government is not going to roll over for this idiot. Even Mitch McConnell understands that the carnival has to eventually leave town. Remember, the republicans cashiered Joe McCarthy in 1954. Gingrich resigned in 1998. Cheney did not run for president in 2008.
If I were the praying kind, 'd be praying to the Great God of Commerce that you are 100% correct! I cannot, however-- much as I'd like to-- believe that t-Rump will ever spend a nanosecond in prison or under house arrest. Remember-- the GOP that rid itself of Joe McCarthy, Newt Gingrich and Dick Cheney is NOT the same party that is currently engaged full-time in licking t-Rump's fat arse.
Those who oppose Trump and Trumpism need to start building firebreaks to make that happen. The voters in Virginia can begin by electing Terry McAuliffe.
Lucian encapsulates the entire Trump phenomena in this one article. I keep thing of the Goebbels quote although it may have originated with Hitler, "“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Yes, I think Trump took his entire playbook from the likes of Goebbels and Hitler. read that one of his maids had said he kept a copy of Mein Kampf in a locked drawer by his bedside. I firmly believe that had he and Bannon and his other inner circle lived in Nazi Germany in the 30'd they would have behaved in the same way. Can you imagine that if Trump had succeeded on Jan 6 and voided legitimate election how he would have acted. It s frightening to think of it. He would have been a virtual dictator and who knows might even have arrested and imprisoned his critics if he thought he could get away wit it.. God help us all if he gets elected again. As it is his party are producing no legislation in spite of their big salaries and benefits, pensions and so on. They are supposed to represent their constituents but instead all they do is block any good the Democrats are trying to do and even being aided by at least two of our own to some degree.
I've been reading Franz Neumann's Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism 1933-1944 and the parallels with Trump's lies, Republican chipping away at minority rights, and pervasive white supremacism are horrifying. Nazis stripped Jews of citizenship; Republicans want to end birthright citizenship for children of immigrants. Nazis stole Jewish property legally; racist redlining and mortgage policies keep minorities from building wealth. Nazis developed an entire mythology of Aryan racial superiority; Trump re-writes election history and January 6 to bolster his claim that the election was stolen. We need to get mad and fight back by getting out the vote, running for school board and city council positions, and showing up in support of saving democracy in the US. Maybe the League of Women Voters could become Nasty Women Voters, for a start.
You should check out reports of immigrants detained / imprisoned in corporate-run detention facilities. That stuff you’re reading? It’s already here and We, the Peeps, are nearly in the same boat, at the mercy of the nazified GOP.
THAT is exactly why I am always advocating the death penalty for present-day traitors against the government of the USA. And getting regularly kicked off of Facebook and warned here for mentioning the same thing that George Washington did to traitors. If the US government could put Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for arguably doing FAR less damage to this country than tRump and company, it seems to me the same level of punishment could be given to present-day traitors. But we all know that will never happen.
There's no way of knowing if the death penalty would have an effect on Trumpers, but studies show it has no effect on stopping murders, kidnapping or any crimes. I'm not on FB, but can understand why you'd be banned, along with those screaming for the death penalty for Hilary Clinton, Pelosi, even ready to hang Pence.
Growing up in the’50s and’60s in the Mississippi Delta, I was fed every one of those lies you’re talking about. The White Citizens’ Council was started in my hometown. My father was in it from the beginning, and he carried his membership card until the day he died. I know very well what the country will look like if Trump ever returns to the White House: it will look like the Mississippi of my youth. Btw, the last words my father ever said to me, as he lay in bed in a Greenville, MS, rehab center in August of 2016 were: “Trump’s gonna be President. He’s gonna be President because of how he talks.” He was wrong about many things but not about that.
I maintain that Trump is his father’s son, a racist slumlord; in turn the son of a Bavarian, draft dodging huckster, who mane his fortune in saloons and brothels. Donald (‘like Reagan) has been groomed for this…’and yet…
He is only the bobble head icon on the dashboard of a far more powerful vehicle (‘juggernaut); that has crawled out out of the rubble of the World’s Wars as an ever more powerful technology of weapons and now psychological warfare.
Reagan’s military service during WWII was as a liaison with Hollywood in anti Nazi/ Japanese/Communist propaganda.
Trump’s media profile has obviously been manufactured (as was Reagan’s).
They have a deep bench and when they orchestrate his Martyrdom (‘poor stupid fuck) there is no lack of jackals slathering to step into his tiny little shoes.
Our job is to rip the sheepskin off of everyone of these Bible/Nazis; ‘disempower them and get to work in the Remediation and Terraforming of this Planet into the diverse Biome it is meant to be.
I suspect that even his death from natural causes-- a massive stroke or heart attack in full view of his worshipers at one of his rallies-- would be spun by his flunkies into a conspiracy that he was poisoned by liberals.
Yes but maybe the spell will be broken. We can only hope.
As another commenter pointed out, the internal war to replace him will start then. And I don't see anyone with the crazy, toxic mix of buffoonery, racism, misogyny, and homophobia to supplant him.
I think DeSantis fits the bill, although perhaps not the buffoonery. He is, IMHO, more frightening than Drumpf. He is intelligent. He understands how the system works, and is therefore more likely to accomplish the horrors Drumpf was only able to rant about.
Yes, Desantis is worse in many respects. But he has zero charisma. He will lose swing voters because he's unlikeable and don't forget his horrible management of the pandemic in Florida.
With Trump, I believe the buffoonery is part of the appeal. And he got a tremendous boost in Q rating playing the part of a successful CEO on The Apprentice. There is no shortage of proto-fascists to replace him but they are all severely lacking in charisma.
Anyway, my original point was that the world will be better off without him.
Lucian, I became more depressed as I read through your excellent analysis of today's version of the "Lost Cause." Having spent most of my youth in the Deep South, I can honestly reply that everything you wrote is on target. Then, I got to your last sentence: "The only question is, what will the Daughters of the New Confederacy call themselves? The Mistresses of Mar-a-Lago?" And I hooted! Yes! I needed that laugh and the mental image that accompanies it.
I am longing for a full exposure of the sultry and sexy Melania, the FLOTUS remembered for her see-through attire, underwear-less exposures, her compulsive need to destroy anything of beauty and value and importance (the Rose Garden, those hideous blood red Christmas trees, other WH traditions) and of course, a complete account of how she obtained that (fake?) "Einstein" Visa. Statues to celebrate her brazen and probably botoxed facade should be interesting. Will they be clothed or draped as were Greek goddesses and Roman sluts? What do you think? And will they replace Lincoln and other honorable historic leaders? I wonder.
She was widely booed when she tried supporting an anti-drug initiative…there are plenty of articles of the mockery and as for The Don! His concoctions were all over the board, which is why he selected his special, kooky physician …wish I could find an infamous photo of the two of them exiting a NYC club.
Finally found the articles via the above link, along with reports of Melanoma's strenuous efforts to ban them from being published. I've always thought Barron looks like a zombie, or a kid who will grow up to be a serial killer-- never thought of autism. That affliction would not be any kind of disgrace---except to t-Rump, who would never in a million years admit that he sired a child who is anything less than his definition of perfect.
And you recognize the couple they’re with? Epstein & Maxwell—Melania’s “modeling career” until she was too old for Epstein and he passed her on to Trump.
I tried to find the article on-line, but couldn't find any VF article that said Barron is autistic or that Melania is into drugs. Need a precise citation!
We, who are educated at the Truscott School, seem to be “of a certain age!” Those who entertain the thought of renouncing citizenship might be more mobile or flexible than we. However, if a sense of place hasn’t given one comfort, this missive can give one pause to entertain the thought of “gettin’ outta Dodge.”
Trump on that balcony ripping off his mask (Mr. MAN!) was the perfect summation of his entire presidency — no, actually of his entire life. His Mussolini moment.
Trump’s Ex-Wife Says He Kept Hitler’s Book of Speeches by Bedside ("...Donald Trump used to sleep with a book of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s speeches by his bedside, his former wife Ivana Trump had said in an interview with Vanity Fair in 1990.")
Look—whenever I look into a current problem (most recently, privatization of prisons), I always come to the same issue and source: Corporatization of the government. Who owns the world? BLACKROCK. and VANGUARD. Who runs the Republican political landscape? CHARLES KOCH. “Citizens United” has destroyed democracy (thank you Reagan and the KKKoch Bros.) It’s too late.
So when the idiots are stirred up by incendiary misinformation—they are puppets of their own demise. We are in a war with the leaders we elected. All of them.
To tar ALL politicians with the same brush is unfair and imprecise. Dem politicos aren't perfect, but are INFINITELY better than the human garbage the GOP has to offer!
The heads of these companies have politicians in their pockets AND BLACKROCK has their people in “high places.” Citizens United is the euphemism of Charles Koch and his libertarian (another euphemism) politics. Google BLACKROCK. Read Dark Money by Jane Mayer, Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean.
You’ll have to do some SIMPLE research—I can’t tap out a lengthy reference list in this forum.
I said "Vanguard," dummy. It has no person like Koch controlling it. I'm well aware that, as Carlin said, "There's a cliub running this country. And you're not in it." Neither is Vanguard, in the sense he meant.
You haven’t done your reading—and called me a dummy? “Bloomberg calls BLACKROCK “The fourth branch of government “ because it is the only private entity that works closely the central banks.” “It’s CEO, Larry Fink…..and the biggest shareholder is VANGUARD….a private company…we cannot see who it’s shareholders are…”
“…Oxfam and Bloomberg say that 1% of the world, together owns more money than 99%…” THESE are the people that OWN YOUR POLITICIANS and run this country. So next season as the Repugs frog March their new inductees across the street to headquarters to sign a promissory to vote as a block, thank Charles Koch who masterminded and organized what is today’s GOP.
I'll leave it to other readers to decide if Vanguard, a mutual fund company whose members own it, who can withdraw their money at any time, which has no dictatorial ideological person at sole control, which doesn't contribute money to any political party, is part of the wealthy and evil group who do, in fact, own and control this country and the world. I am a Vanguard shareholder, Dawna, so you know who one of them is, as are several friends. We have not had the opportunity (yet) to control Blackrock, but will at the next board meeting, in which we, like all Vanguard fund-hoders, sit. We may ask our Vanguard account representatives to order Fink to cut it out.
Uh-huh. Since you can’t be bothered, all anyone has to do FOR STARTERS is google, “Vanguard and Blackrock.” Oh, Great Board Holder, glad I could give you Fink’s name since you didn’t seem to know it earlier.
I am a 1959 graduate of Sidwell Friends School and I can well remember in ninth grade, Mr. Cox, our history teacher, insisting that the Civil War was not fought over slavery but was fought over economic differences. Even as a naive ninth grader I remember thinking that the Southern system of plantations was only possible because of slavery so this explanation never made any sense to me. Eventually, of course, historians were able to refute that lie, although it took a number of decades to do so. My hope -- and one I have to cling to -- is that the Big Lie will die a painful death in a far shorter period of time.
I was fortunate to attend a public high school that was 80% Jewish. Believe me, we learned about the Holocaust (every one of those Jewish students had lost family members in that), and we learned about slavery as the basic cause of the Civil War. And now, here we are with some white parents in a rage that their kids might be taught "too much" about slavery!
I grew up before the word "Holocaust" even existed. Yes, you were fortunate to hear historical truths. In the 1950s the US brushed aside German atrocities simply because we needed West German support against our arch enemy, the USSR. The decade was one of great subterfuge, alas.
In East Tennessee, I never heard the word "Holocaust" in school, but my mother frequently spoke of it and the horrors. Her memories inspired me to read a number of nonfiction books about the Holocaust throughout a number of years. Likewise, I never heard a word about slavery in K-12. When I began teaching at East Nashville High School the first year the school was integrated (1968), I became obsessed with reading any book I could find about slavery and discrimination and Jim Crow laws. Now, today, I am deeply saddened to watch as so many Americans are still employing viscous discriminatory policies and practices. My vote in Tennessee is worthless.
My high school was integrated in Columbus, GA, in 1964.
The government said no more impact funds for schools by military bases that were segregated.
When I graduated in 1964, our high school was not yet integrated. I don’t know exactly when it integrated.
Wow—not when I was growing up. The family wouldn’t discuss anything when I asked if we had long-lost cousins in Europe. WWII vets didn’t speak of their service in the 60’s, 70’s…
Where was your school, Judith? Mine was in Brooklyn, also majority Jewish, I attended from 1939, K>12; my experience was unlike yours, re learning about those things.
Rockville Centre, NY-- on Long Island.
How do we stop the blind, frothing hatred of the indoctrinated?
It's a powerful drug, and our team is burdened by rational thought.
At some point this Trump crusade will end. It is difficult to believe that millions of businesses in the south would tolerate any real threat to their market and access to the world. It is unlikely that the EU, Japan, the UK or China will sit back and allow the US to slide into civil unrest or a low level war. Right now, Trump is a profitable carnival for the media and a few webpages. There's too much at stake, Wall Street must be watching him. Perhaps one fine day in 2023 Mr. Trump will be charged with criminal conspiracy for something, denied bail and put under house arrest? He's not the only political pest, other nations have their own. Once he is eliminated from seeking the republican nomination for 2024, the party will fracture as every ambitious senator or governor tries for the glory. Are we to believe one deluded old man will be permitted to threaten a 35 trillion dollar US economy or a 160 trillion world economy? This is not 1861 when a rag tag rebellion upset the US for four years. The billionaire class is not going to allow financial ruin. The federal government is not going to roll over for this idiot. Even Mitch McConnell understands that the carnival has to eventually leave town. Remember, the republicans cashiered Joe McCarthy in 1954. Gingrich resigned in 1998. Cheney did not run for president in 2008.
If I were the praying kind, 'd be praying to the Great God of Commerce that you are 100% correct! I cannot, however-- much as I'd like to-- believe that t-Rump will ever spend a nanosecond in prison or under house arrest. Remember-- the GOP that rid itself of Joe McCarthy, Newt Gingrich and Dick Cheney is NOT the same party that is currently engaged full-time in licking t-Rump's fat arse.
This scenario has yet to fully manifest. It has been nibbling away for decades, if not centuries.
I hope you are correct! Perhaps this fire will burn itself out?
Those who oppose Trump and Trumpism need to start building firebreaks to make that happen. The voters in Virginia can begin by electing Terry McAuliffe.
Lucian encapsulates the entire Trump phenomena in this one article. I keep thing of the Goebbels quote although it may have originated with Hitler, "“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
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GOEBBELS!!!
Yes, I think Trump took his entire playbook from the likes of Goebbels and Hitler. read that one of his maids had said he kept a copy of Mein Kampf in a locked drawer by his bedside. I firmly believe that had he and Bannon and his other inner circle lived in Nazi Germany in the 30'd they would have behaved in the same way. Can you imagine that if Trump had succeeded on Jan 6 and voided legitimate election how he would have acted. It s frightening to think of it. He would have been a virtual dictator and who knows might even have arrested and imprisoned his critics if he thought he could get away wit it.. God help us all if he gets elected again. As it is his party are producing no legislation in spite of their big salaries and benefits, pensions and so on. They are supposed to represent their constituents but instead all they do is block any good the Democrats are trying to do and even being aided by at least two of our own to some degree.
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I've been reading Franz Neumann's Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism 1933-1944 and the parallels with Trump's lies, Republican chipping away at minority rights, and pervasive white supremacism are horrifying. Nazis stripped Jews of citizenship; Republicans want to end birthright citizenship for children of immigrants. Nazis stole Jewish property legally; racist redlining and mortgage policies keep minorities from building wealth. Nazis developed an entire mythology of Aryan racial superiority; Trump re-writes election history and January 6 to bolster his claim that the election was stolen. We need to get mad and fight back by getting out the vote, running for school board and city council positions, and showing up in support of saving democracy in the US. Maybe the League of Women Voters could become Nasty Women Voters, for a start.
You should check out reports of immigrants detained / imprisoned in corporate-run detention facilities. That stuff you’re reading? It’s already here and We, the Peeps, are nearly in the same boat, at the mercy of the nazified GOP.
No real sanctions or consequences for those responsible for the Civil War…we can’t make that mistake again.
THAT is exactly why I am always advocating the death penalty for present-day traitors against the government of the USA. And getting regularly kicked off of Facebook and warned here for mentioning the same thing that George Washington did to traitors. If the US government could put Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for arguably doing FAR less damage to this country than tRump and company, it seems to me the same level of punishment could be given to present-day traitors. But we all know that will never happen.
We would have to admit that the democratic process elected a traitor.
There's no way of knowing if the death penalty would have an effect on Trumpers, but studies show it has no effect on stopping murders, kidnapping or any crimes. I'm not on FB, but can understand why you'd be banned, along with those screaming for the death penalty for Hilary Clinton, Pelosi, even ready to hang Pence.
Growing up in the’50s and’60s in the Mississippi Delta, I was fed every one of those lies you’re talking about. The White Citizens’ Council was started in my hometown. My father was in it from the beginning, and he carried his membership card until the day he died. I know very well what the country will look like if Trump ever returns to the White House: it will look like the Mississippi of my youth. Btw, the last words my father ever said to me, as he lay in bed in a Greenville, MS, rehab center in August of 2016 were: “Trump’s gonna be President. He’s gonna be President because of how he talks.” He was wrong about many things but not about that.
I maintain that Trump is his father’s son, a racist slumlord; in turn the son of a Bavarian, draft dodging huckster, who mane his fortune in saloons and brothels. Donald (‘like Reagan) has been groomed for this…’and yet…
He is only the bobble head icon on the dashboard of a far more powerful vehicle (‘juggernaut); that has crawled out out of the rubble of the World’s Wars as an ever more powerful technology of weapons and now psychological warfare.
Reagan’s military service during WWII was as a liaison with Hollywood in anti Nazi/ Japanese/Communist propaganda.
Trump’s media profile has obviously been manufactured (as was Reagan’s).
They have a deep bench and when they orchestrate his Martyrdom (‘poor stupid fuck) there is no lack of jackals slathering to step into his tiny little shoes.
Our job is to rip the sheepskin off of everyone of these Bible/Nazis; ‘disempower them and get to work in the Remediation and Terraforming of this Planet into the diverse Biome it is meant to be.
‘Rock the truth Lucian!
How will we stop him?
I suspect that even his death from natural causes-- a massive stroke or heart attack in full view of his worshipers at one of his rallies-- would be spun by his flunkies into a conspiracy that he was poisoned by liberals.
Yes but maybe the spell will be broken. We can only hope.
As another commenter pointed out, the internal war to replace him will start then. And I don't see anyone with the crazy, toxic mix of buffoonery, racism, misogyny, and homophobia to supplant him.
I think DeSantis fits the bill, although perhaps not the buffoonery. He is, IMHO, more frightening than Drumpf. He is intelligent. He understands how the system works, and is therefore more likely to accomplish the horrors Drumpf was only able to rant about.
Yes, Desantis is worse in many respects. But he has zero charisma. He will lose swing voters because he's unlikeable and don't forget his horrible management of the pandemic in Florida.
I live in DeSantistan...
I'm sorry for you. I would be terrified to live there now.
Maybe not. But he may be replaced by someone who offers an equally toxic mix, minus the crazy buffoonery, and therefore able to appeal to more people.
With Trump, I believe the buffoonery is part of the appeal. And he got a tremendous boost in Q rating playing the part of a successful CEO on The Apprentice. There is no shortage of proto-fascists to replace him but they are all severely lacking in charisma.
Anyway, my original point was that the world will be better off without him.
Lucian, I became more depressed as I read through your excellent analysis of today's version of the "Lost Cause." Having spent most of my youth in the Deep South, I can honestly reply that everything you wrote is on target. Then, I got to your last sentence: "The only question is, what will the Daughters of the New Confederacy call themselves? The Mistresses of Mar-a-Lago?" And I hooted! Yes! I needed that laugh and the mental image that accompanies it.
I am longing for a full exposure of the sultry and sexy Melania, the FLOTUS remembered for her see-through attire, underwear-less exposures, her compulsive need to destroy anything of beauty and value and importance (the Rose Garden, those hideous blood red Christmas trees, other WH traditions) and of course, a complete account of how she obtained that (fake?) "Einstein" Visa. Statues to celebrate her brazen and probably botoxed facade should be interesting. Will they be clothed or draped as were Greek goddesses and Roman sluts? What do you think? And will they replace Lincoln and other honorable historic leaders? I wonder.
Vanity Fair came out with an article—she couldn’t care less about anyone but her autistic son and herself. And she does love drugs…
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=melania+trump+clubbing&t=iphone&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fi.insider.com%2F5d2e26b8bda95f00315fc9c2%3Fwidth%3D600%26format%3Djpeg%26auto%3Dwebp
She was widely booed when she tried supporting an anti-drug initiative…there are plenty of articles of the mockery and as for The Don! His concoctions were all over the board, which is why he selected his special, kooky physician …wish I could find an infamous photo of the two of them exiting a NYC club.
Finally found the articles via the above link, along with reports of Melanoma's strenuous efforts to ban them from being published. I've always thought Barron looks like a zombie, or a kid who will grow up to be a serial killer-- never thought of autism. That affliction would not be any kind of disgrace---except to t-Rump, who would never in a million years admit that he sired a child who is anything less than his definition of perfect.
And you recognize the couple they’re with? Epstein & Maxwell—Melania’s “modeling career” until she was too old for Epstein and he passed her on to Trump.
Wow. Seems like the entire family is into drugs. I must read that article!
I tried to find the article on-line, but couldn't find any VF article that said Barron is autistic or that Melania is into drugs. Need a precise citation!
See link above. Or write Barron Trump autism into Google.
I usually catch the VF political articles, but missed this one-- please give volume/date when that article appeared.
We, who are educated at the Truscott School, seem to be “of a certain age!” Those who entertain the thought of renouncing citizenship might be more mobile or flexible than we. However, if a sense of place hasn’t given one comfort, this missive can give one pause to entertain the thought of “gettin’ outta Dodge.”
‘And who in their right mind would have us?
Not Canada. I tried.
Trump on that balcony ripping off his mask (Mr. MAN!) was the perfect summation of his entire presidency — no, actually of his entire life. His Mussolini moment.
Trump’s Ex-Wife Says He Kept Hitler’s Book of Speeches by Bedside ("...Donald Trump used to sleep with a book of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s speeches by his bedside, his former wife Ivana Trump had said in an interview with Vanity Fair in 1990.")
He can read?
Are you depressed yet?
Look—whenever I look into a current problem (most recently, privatization of prisons), I always come to the same issue and source: Corporatization of the government. Who owns the world? BLACKROCK. and VANGUARD. Who runs the Republican political landscape? CHARLES KOCH. “Citizens United” has destroyed democracy (thank you Reagan and the KKKoch Bros.) It’s too late.
So when the idiots are stirred up by incendiary misinformation—they are puppets of their own demise. We are in a war with the leaders we elected. All of them.
To tar ALL politicians with the same brush is unfair and imprecise. Dem politicos aren't perfect, but are INFINITELY better than the human garbage the GOP has to offer!
"Vanguard"? The mutual fund? It owns nothing, the people who own its funds do. How do you equate it with Koch, et al?
My god, you are naive…
The heads of these companies have politicians in their pockets AND BLACKROCK has their people in “high places.” Citizens United is the euphemism of Charles Koch and his libertarian (another euphemism) politics. Google BLACKROCK. Read Dark Money by Jane Mayer, Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean.
You’ll have to do some SIMPLE research—I can’t tap out a lengthy reference list in this forum.
I said "Vanguard," dummy. It has no person like Koch controlling it. I'm well aware that, as Carlin said, "There's a cliub running this country. And you're not in it." Neither is Vanguard, in the sense he meant.
You haven’t done your reading—and called me a dummy? “Bloomberg calls BLACKROCK “The fourth branch of government “ because it is the only private entity that works closely the central banks.” “It’s CEO, Larry Fink…..and the biggest shareholder is VANGUARD….a private company…we cannot see who it’s shareholders are…”
“…Oxfam and Bloomberg say that 1% of the world, together owns more money than 99%…” THESE are the people that OWN YOUR POLITICIANS and run this country. So next season as the Repugs frog March their new inductees across the street to headquarters to sign a promissory to vote as a block, thank Charles Koch who masterminded and organized what is today’s GOP.
Do your own f#cling reading, DUMMY
I'll leave it to other readers to decide if Vanguard, a mutual fund company whose members own it, who can withdraw their money at any time, which has no dictatorial ideological person at sole control, which doesn't contribute money to any political party, is part of the wealthy and evil group who do, in fact, own and control this country and the world. I am a Vanguard shareholder, Dawna, so you know who one of them is, as are several friends. We have not had the opportunity (yet) to control Blackrock, but will at the next board meeting, in which we, like all Vanguard fund-hoders, sit. We may ask our Vanguard account representatives to order Fink to cut it out.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/23/how-blackrock-is-on-track-to-infiltrate-a-biden-administration/
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-to-know-about-blackrock-larry-fink-biden-cabinet-facts-2020-12
Do your own homework; I’m not your dummy.
Uh-huh. Since you can’t be bothered, all anyone has to do FOR STARTERS is google, “Vanguard and Blackrock.” Oh, Great Board Holder, glad I could give you Fink’s name since you didn’t seem to know it earlier.
VANGUARD???
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