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(07-11-2021, 09:47 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 10-Jul-2021 World View: Shocks of understanding

• One shock occurred during Trump's 2018 State of the Union address,
  when he announced the lowest black unemployment rate in history.
  Everyone in the country was cheering, but not the Congressional Black
  Caucus:
  
  
  • Congressional Black Caucus as everyone else was cheering Trump's announcement of low black unemployment rates
• That's when I realized that the Congressional Black Caucus were just a
  bunch of house slaves that were only allowed to think and say what
  White Master asshole Pelosi ordered them to think and say.

Old stuff, but give credit where it is due: African-Americans themselves! A few years ago I took a side trip from Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Interstate 96 in Oakland and Livingston Counties (Oakland County, including the cesspool Pontiac, is part of the Detroit Metropolitan Area, and Livingston County is the still-rural county on I-96 between the Detroit Metro and Lansing metro areas around 8 am. I expected to see heavy traffic going the opposite direction of me toward Detroit but expected light traffic the other way. Guess what? I saw heavy traffic going in my direction, and lots of black faces in the cars. I figured it unlikely that African-Americans had any special proclivity to work graveyard shifts, and I would not expect them to be headed toward Livingston County, which is still super-majority white (96.7%) returning home for the day, I could only figure that they were headed to work. Lansing and East Lansing? Maybe... but I am guessing that African-Americans in the opportunity-starved parts of Detroit are commuting to work. Fast food, retail, maybe some light manufacturing?

That's one way to get work. Donald Trump had no program to solve unemployment in the Greater Detroit area. Those African-Americans did it the old-fashioned way: going where the jobs are, maybe taking thirty-mile or forty-mile one-way commutes each way.   

Quote:The 2019 Ukraine impeachment hearings were a complete shock to me,
since I previously could not have believed something so horrible could
happen in America.  Led by (PPE*) Adam Schiff, the whole "trial" was
a farce.  Schiff even manufactured a document, a letter from Trump to
Ukraine's president, that showed that Trump was a criminal.  Trump was
able to produce the real letter, but, incredibly, proving that Schiff
had lied made no difference.  Schiff just ignored that and went on to
the next lie.  When I say it was a major shock to me, I'm not
exaggerating, since I never believed that something like that could
happen in America.

President Trump made such necessary. Trump tried to blackmail a foreign leader into doing some partisan dirty work on his behalf. Although hard bargains are part of the Presidential repertoire, such is typically done for some objective of foreign policy. This was far more objectionable than Iran-Contra, which led to some scathing editorials  and Congressional speeches,  but not to any impeachment.  This is no more admirable than soliciting a bribe. 

Quote:The most bizarre shock came because I actually watched the
hearings, something that probably no one else reading this did, so I
know what actually happened.  I actually watched the hearings, working
at my desk with the tv on, and I know that every bit of testimony was
completely refuted by Republican cross-examination.  But then every
single news report lied about it, saying something like "Today,
Ambassador X gave explosive testimony that Trump withheld aid from
Ukraine until Ukraine started investigating Joe and Hunter Biden."  In
fact, all the news reports used the same words, indicating that they
were all reading the same press releases from Adam Schiff and the
Democrats.  But since I had seen every hearing, I knew that this was
simply a lie.  Particularly shocking was that the BBC knowingly
repeated the same lie, because they receive a lot of funding from NPR
and the Democrats.

[*]NPR and the BBC are highly respected for factual  content in news stories. The difference between them and FoX News as purveyors of news, other than ideological stance, is that NPR and the BBC both fact-check. FoX News spins a story to fit an ideological position and agenda. Donald Trump is an inveterate liar whose word is useless unless someone backs it up with objective truth. As rarely as he tells the truth, waiting for him to tell it is about as futile as waiting for an alcoholic to lay off easily-available drink.

Quote:Readers should be aware that the Democrats are using violence
and threats of violence everywhere possible.  As Darryl Cooper points
out, no judge is going to risk his life and the lives of his family
by ruling against the Democrats.  That's why so many judges
just threw up their hands and dismissed the election fraud cases
on a technicality.

Tell me all about the violence and intimidation that Democrats could do. An inordinate number of votes were cast by mail, and post offices are not where one expects political or any other sort of violence. The biggest violence of 2020 was the COVID-19 plague which compelled many state legislatures to make absentee voting easy because there would be violence, in the form of a very nasty virus, lurking at the polls. One might as well let rattlesnakes loose at polling places as compel people to vote only in person, as COVID-19 has a higher death rate than rattler bites.  OK, the rattlers were already in hibernation in the northern US, including the critical states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, but even in that, I had less cause to fear a rattler than someone with COVID-19. Rattlers retreat to avoid my heavy tread, and I retreat to avoid the horrible fangs. 

We democrats did not do our usual canvassing in 2020 out of concerns of safety of partisan activists and of voters, but Donald Trump held his mass rallies, super-spreader events. I do not yet know what the demographics of death from COVID-19 were among African-Americans in Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, but if the death rate was inordinately high, then we can all see why Donald Trump came closer to winning the election than many of us liberals expected. I am not accusing anyone of any malign plot, but... note well that mass inoculations were rare in the autumn of 2020. We shall see statistical evidence by 2022.  You can also count on Democrats taking nothing for granted in 2022. We expect Republicans to operate folksy campaigns while front groups like Club for Growth, FreedomWorks!, the National Right-to-Work Committee, ALEC, etc. demonize anyone who fails to believe that no human suffering can ever be in excess if it allows the unlimited Power, Indulgence, and Greed (PIG -- as in the villainous critters of Orwell's Animal Farm) of American PIGS who walk upright. (A reminder -- pigs are not cute like the cartoon character "Porky". They are documented man-eaters. They are as lethal as dogs, but dogs are at least well-behaved and find us more desirable food sources alive than dead.   

Quote:The whole Democrat censorship regime was also a complete shock
to me.  The Ukraine hearings proved that the mainstream media
would say whatever shithead Schiff told them to say.  When Trump
and other Republicans were blocked from social media, it was
clear that something really evil was going on.  The real tipping
point came when Amazon, with a flip of a switch, was able
to shut down parler.com, an online social media service with
millions of members, but they did.  Overnight.  With no serious
explanation.  That's when I wrote

** 12-Jan-21 World View -- America and the standard Genocide Playbook
http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e210112


where I wrote, "I never never thought I'd see the Genocide Playbook
being used in America.  This is the darkest time for America in my
memory."

Parler is back in operation, but now with some constraints. If you wonder why it was shut down, then look at this:

Quote:Parler (/ˈpɑːrlər/) is an American microblogging and social networking service. It has a significant user base of Donald Trump supporters, conservatives, conspiracy theorists, and far-right extremists.[9][10][11][12] Posts on the service often contain far-right content,[17] antisemitism,[24] and conspiracy theories such as QAnon.[28] Journalists have described Parler as an alt-tech alternative to Twitter, and users include those banned from mainstream social networks or who oppose their moderation policies.[9][12][29]

Launched in August 2018, Parler markets itself as a free speech-focused and unbiased alternative to mainstream social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Journalists have criticized this as being a cover for its far-right userbase.[11][12][23] Journalists and users have also criticized the service for content policies that are more restrictive than the company portrays and sometimes more restrictive than those of its competitors.[30][31][32][33] Some left-wing and liberal users have been banned from Parler for challenging the prevailing viewpoints on the site, criticizing Parler, or creating parody accounts.[34][35][36]

Founder and CEO John Matze was Parler's chief executive officer until January 29, 2021, at which point he said he had been fired by the company's board, which he asserted was controlled by co-founder and investor Rebekah Mercer.[37] Former Tea Party activist Mark Meckler served as interim CEO from February to May 2021, when the Brexit Party donor and former candidate George Farmer was named CEO.[38][39]

After reports that Parler was used to coordinate the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol, several companies denied it their services.[40] Apple and Google removed Parler's mobile app from their app stores, and Parler went offline on January 10, 2021, when Amazon Web Services canceled its hosting services.[41][42][43] Before it went offline in January 2021, according to Parler, the service had about 15 million total users.[44] It resumed service on February 15, 2021, having found alternative hosting arrangements, and a version of the app with added content filters was released on the Apple App Store on May 17.[7][8][45]

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

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[*]Ahem! Coordinating the Storming of the Winter Palace... Beer-Hall Putsch... January 6 takeover of the Capitol? It should have been shut down. Websites of criminal entities such as Silk Road have been shut down.  By the way: explain, please, why Federico Klein, a Trump appointee, pled guilty in a plea bargain for his obvious, documented role in the Putsch.   

Quote:The darkness in America has only gotten worse since then.  There
have been many new "shocks," but they aren't really shocks anymore
since we've gotten used to the bad news.  There is increasing evidence
that the January 6 "insurrection" was staged by the Democrats.  The
only person killed was an innocent Trump supporter, Ashli Babbit.  Her
murder by a member of the Capitol police is being massively covered up
by the Democrats.  Beyond that, the Democrats are holding dozens of
innocent protesters in jail, in solitary confinement, for months, with
no charges or trials.  This is what happens in China, and it's clear
that the Democrats are increasingly emulating the Chinese Communists
in many ways.

Donny Devious instigated the attack.  

Quote:I recently wrote about a BBC podcast, an investigation into
the Democrats' horrific treatment of children at the southern border.

*** 04-Jul-2021 World View: BBC Investigation into horrific treatment of children at southern border
*** [url=http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62349#p62349]http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62349#p62349

Podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09mm9nn

Listening to this podcast is sickening.  She talks about hundreds of
girls being forcibly packed together and locked up in a tent because
they all have lice.  That's just the start.  Sexual assault is common,
and covid is widespread.

I would like to say that this was shocking, but nothing about the
Democrats is shocking anymore.  The Democrats are recreating the KKK
by other means, by adopting policies that result in the murders of
thousands of blacks on the streets of Chicago and other Democrat-run
cities.  The Democrats were freely lynching blacks a century ago, and
now they're doing it in a different way.  And the George Soros-funded
Democrats have also adopted policies to do everything possible to
destroy the US Constitutional form of Federal government, just as they
tried to do during the American Civil War.  The Democrats are still
extremely pissed off that they lost the Civil War and the slaves were
freed by Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans, and destroying the
United States government is their way of getting revenge for the Civil
War.

There is no excuse for the Democrats.  Everything they do is
sickening, but nothing they do is shocking or surprising any more.
They are as vicious and evil as the Nazis, the Soviets, the Chinese
Communists, and any other horrific regime you can think of.

If you want to fault Democratic political leaders in the giant cities for inadequate suppression of violent crime, then go ahead, but contemplate also why Republicans  win few elections in those cities. Maybe the Republican Party has taken over the racist component of the American electorate that the Democratic Party. Nature abhors a vacuum, and so does partisan politics. 

More significantly, the Republican Party is heavily enmeshed in the (white) part of the Religious Right. African-Americans are still much more religious on the average than white people, and traditionally African-American churches insulated themselves well from the Religious Right. The Religious Right, mostly non-denominational and loosely-affiliated Southern Baptist churches, was able to decimate mainline Protestant denominations in the Mountain and Deep South.

...Donald Trump is a useful idiot of Vladimir Putin. Now President Putin must deal honestly with Joe Biden. Should Putin get better in honest dealings, then that is how good negotiations work.    

*Pointless Profanity Expunged.