Now there’s a serious leap of faith…
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Oh, he definitely thinks–but only of himself.
Nevermind the fact that Columbus never set foot on the continent of N America
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Just when you thought Trump couldn’t sink any lower, he has. At the end of this video he posted to his Lie Social account it depicts the Obamas as apes.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116021857490657707
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I have finally reached the point where I feel a subconscious need to mute that fucker anytime his orange pinata head spews a sound.
Any responsible parent would withdraw his social media access completely based on a displayed immaturity to occupy a communal space. This seems to confirm the observation that there are no adults left in the room.
I have revised my interpretation of MAGA. It now stands for Make Aphasia Great Again.
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And, of course, what’s once posted on internet remains on internet. But this time with no doubt about the offending material being sent out by the hand of the chief executive of the U.S.
Even the White House Orange spin machine backed off their initial rationalization.
From the X account of my state’s governor.
Illinois has citizens who commonly vote against their best interest but we did ok with this one, IMHO.
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I can’t argue that, but we hold the record for sending 4 Governors to prison. Captain Aphasia pardoned one, actually…only because he was a contestant on the Assprentice trying to raise money for his legal defense fund…
Where’s the American version of V when you need him?
Do we have to wait for the emergence of concentration camps and vicious human experiments authorised by the Oranga Scrotum first?
Actually…now that you mention this…Scrotus is merely the latest incarnation of American mythology proving itself to be little else than self serving propaganda…
The 1830’s saw emigration depots where indigenous peoples were held en masse against their will prior to Jackson’s Trail of Tears march. Forcing indigenous people into “reservations” during the 19th century qualifies, with the Fort Snelling detentions of Dakota and Navajo people likely being the worst example.
Native American boarding schools throughout the 19th century would qualify as well. What else would you call the institutionally sanctioned removal of children from their culture to “assimilate” them into your culture. It took until 2024 for an American President to formally apologize for that one.
We didn’t stop in the 20th century either. WW2, while held up by Americans as their “Greatest Generation” moment, saw the race based internment of Japanese Americans and Aleutians as perfectly acceptable.
In case you missed it…or likely never saw it in an American history book, we’ve done human experimentation, too.
Back to the 19th century you can find the “father of modern gynecology,” J. Marion Sims. As he held the racist opinion that black women did not feel pain in the same way as white women, he performed dozens of nonconsensual surgeries on enslaved black women without anesthesia.
Moving to the 20th century and you trip up on the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments. For 40 years, the U.S. Public Health Service merely monitored the progression of syphilis in nearly 400 black men, just to document the progression of the disease. These men were never told they had syphilis and were ntentionally denied penicillin, even though it was well documented that penicillin was the fast and effective treatment for the disease.
Much of the breakthroughs in cancer research of the mid to late 20th century can be traced back to a black woman named Henrietta Lacks. While she was at Johns Hopkins it was discovered she possessed “immortal” cancer cells. These “HeLa” cells were harvested without her consent and used in research on cancer and were critical in developing a polio vaccine. Pharmaceutical companies made billions from these HeLa cells, but Lacks was never compensated.
The list merely expands into experimentation with dioxins, black prisoner experimentation, forced sterilizations and numerous atrocities…all perfectly justifiable under the banner of eugenics.
Trump is merely the quiet part being said out loud. He is the shadow the roaches run to when a light is shined on them. It seems your question would be better phrased as “Why the fuck is this still alright in America?”
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“Large majorities in six nations express antipathy to Trump’s US and support European self-assertion”
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I have to admit, showing outrage about Trump being a racist is like being shocked to discover that gravity is actually real when falling out of a tree. It’s built into his DNA.
His father Fred was arrested at a Klan rally in 1927 for “refusing to disperse”. The Long Island Daily Press carried a story detailing that the seven men arrested that day were all wearing Klan robes, but other reporting varies, so who knows. He was the only one of the seven to have his charges dismissed. Seems being above the law might run in the family.
Both Father and son lost two US DOJ civil lawsuits for violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968 in the 70’s.
In 1989 he dumped over 80K into The New York Times, The Daily News, The New York Post, and New York Newsday for full page adds stating: “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!” regarding the defendants in the Central Park Five trial. They were finally exonerated in 2002, but Orangzilla never retracted or apologized for a thing.
Remember this one from his candidacy announcement in 2015?:
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best… They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
What should be truly alarming is how many American voters think this type of shit is just fine. What is terrifying is how many politicians are more than willing to pander to these people just to retain power.
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The Save America Act that republicans are trying to ram through as I write this, is the biggest piece of legislation designed to eliminate democracy. Preventing the passage of this bill is a five alarm fire!
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First off, requiring some form of ID or verification of identity for voting is in itself not a bad idea, in my opinion, provided that it in sum makes up for a system that encourages voting and that the election is fair. After all, you only want people eligible to vote to do the voting. The problem is how you verify eligibility. And eligibility can only be verified by checking identity up against some form of citizenship database. But it all boils down to compromises, which databases you look at, how you want to collate them, how you want to use the result, and whether you want people to vote or not. Of course, there can be good or bad implementations of such a system. As seen from the outside, the U.S. systems seems somewhat…dysfunctional. Especially your system with active voter registration and all the bureaucratic hoops you have to jump through for obtaining an approved ID, and how seemingly easy it is to lose your right to vote.
In contrast, here we have a system that takes the right to vote very seriously. The system also makes it extremely easy to vote, with automatic generation of databases of people eligible to vote(*). All voters are given advance notice about the election, with information about when/where/how to vote. Following these (simple) instructions, you just show up at your local designated voting place (or any other voting place, really), show an approved photo ID (which is in practice not much stress to obtain), and after verification with the database, you can drop your vote into the ballot box. Also prison inmates can vote, they are offered to cast an advance vote in their place of incarceration. The only ones barred from voting are the king and his closest family, as they’re supposed to be apolitical. There is no requirement to vote, but IMHO we should have that in some form, as they do in Australia.
(*) Somewhat simplified, official databases are queried for age (18+ or turn 18 in the election year), citizenship (or residency status for local elections), and registered address (which determines which circuit you vote in).
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Yeah the BS concept here is that your name on your ID (driver’s license or passport) must match your birth certificate, which it won’t for the vast majority of women. Takes out half the voters right there. And probably the half that leans further left.
Of course there are ways to document the name change(s) involved in your marriage(s) but they are not the kinds of paperwork most people have had any need to lay hands on beyond the initial transition period after the name change, and probably have lost them & need to request them from county clerks or whatever appropriate authority and then THOSE can be questioned by the conspiracy theorists who are perpetually convinced that there MUST be voter “fraud”. They will demand notarized originals, etc.
It makes voting complicated, fraught and difficult – which is also the point.
Of course whether female or not, if you weren’t even born in the US then you have another whole layer of bullshit problems to overcome.
If you’re voting in a primary election we have other obstacles depending on the jurisdiction. Some states have “closed primaries” where you must register as a Republican, Democrat or whatever in advance of the election and then can only vote for that parties candidates. This registration often must happen fairly far in advance of the election. There is a push for “open primaries” and in some areas those have gotten approved and the registration process has been put online and made easier where primaries are still closed but this is part of the reason that participation is even lower than usual in primary elections.
We also have very long campaigns at fixed intervals and cannot even imagine the national elections many of you enjoy – called due to a vote of no confidence or whatever on a whim and executed within a couple of months instead of dragging out for two years.
Then there is “gerrymandering” and so forth. The recent revocation of the voter rights enacted after the fall of Jim Crow, etc. The stupid Electoral College system.
We have basically allowed the process to erode for so long that it can be said that we haven’t had truly fair and free elections for some time, and it’s really just coming home to roost now.