| Brenda: Tell me Second in another life were you a member of Custer's regiment. Righteous indignant over slavery is justified to the ninth degree but killing Indians doesn't seem to bother you. You do realize that Custer marched into unarmed villages at the crack of dawn. This was after the men had gone hunting for the day. The villages were filled with women, children, the old and the sick. They had no defense. In the past you would have been one of those who thought the only good Indian was a dead one. And another thing what do you think the reservation system was about. It was about control also at the point of a gun. You took any guns away that we had after that. We were lucky you left us our bows and arrows. |
| THG: The president doesn't read: Why Trump’s illiteracy is a disaster for Americans |
| second: BREAKING NEWS! Trump interrupts a Cabinet meeting dealing with the Iran war and rising prices to talk Sharpies. It was one of several lengthy asides the president made during the meeting that felt especially jarring given how many more important things his top advisers could have been discussing. [go to link] |
| THG: 'But you were in Palm Beach': Reporter fact-checks Trump to his face on mail-in ballot |
| THG: Aluminum Shortages Coming Soon. Thanks Trump; asshole |
| THG: I went to CPAC and found an impotent Trump coalition falling apart at the seams |
| second: BREAKING NEWS! U.S. votes against U.N. resolution calling slavery ‘gravest crime against humanity' (Don’t ask the living to apologize and atone for their past because that makes them angry and they don’t see much wrong with slavery since it is in the Bible and was 100% approved by The God Who Is Eternally Perfect.) [go to link]/ |
| second: BREAKING NEWS! Trump’s Signature to Be Added to U.S. Dollars, a First for a Sitting President!
U.S. dollars will bear the signature of President Trump in an unprecedented change to the nation’s currency that the Treasury Department said is being made in honor of America’s 250th anniversary (and Trump’s 80th birthday) [go to link] |
| second: Brenda wrote: "Oh, Second. Canada did have slavery in the east. Upper and Lower Canada. It was abolished in 1834 . . ." Upper Canada passed the Act Against Slavery in 1793, one of the earliest anti-slavery acts in the world. Did Canada have to kill the slave-owners to make them stop holding slaves? No, but in the US the slave-owners had to be killed and their cotton plantations burned to the ground to get some numbskulls to change their ways. The slave-owners reinstated slavery, without calling it slavery, at the first opportunity. They could do that because they had guns and would kill if interfered with. In the US, there were massacres of Labor Union members by business owners who treat their workers like they were slaves. In the US it's all about guns to take what is not yours. Slavery in Canada: [go to link] |
6ixStringJack: Didn't I hear that Stephen Colbert and his son are going to write the new Lord of the Rings movie?  No thanks, if true. |
| THG: NEW Lord of the Rings Movie Sequel OFFICIALLY Announced! |
| Brenda: Oh, Second. Canada did have slavery in the east. Upper and Lower Canada. It was abolished in 1834 and that was all across the British Empire. Also you think Indians and half breeds weren't killed in Canada. Try reading about Louis Riel and the Battle at Batoche. What do you think happened when settlers were taking our lands. That they or your government just paid us for it. No, they murdered us for it. |
| 6ixStringJack: Which foreign dictator is funding your No Kings riots this weekend, Theodore? |
| THG:
As Fertilizer Falls, Famine Will Follow || Peter Zeihan |
| THG: James Carville: NO KINGS see you there! [go to link] |
| THG: Bruce Springsteen just announced a tour to fight back against Trump |
| second: During the first term, there were capable people who could tell Trump "no," "that's illegal," or outright ignore his more absurd demands. In the first administration, Trump "was disorganized in ways that were structurally alarming for a commander-in-chief." The only way he could absorb or retain information was "through flattery and visual repetition rather than briefings." Gone were the days of Presidential Daily Briefings (PDB) that could go 70 to 90 minutes long. They shortened Trump's to 20 to 30. On Wednesday, it was reported that Trump's briefings have been turned into 2-minute videos that are made up of bombings. Taylor recalls that Homeland Security was told outright to stop sending Trump documents that were longer than a page and, wherever possible, "provide information in pictures instead of words." [go to link] |
| THG: James Carville: NO KINGS see you there!
[go to link] |
| second: Nearly every Republican Senator who tried to block the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, a qualified Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, calling her a "DEI hire," (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) has just voted to confirm Markwayne Mullin, the plumber with an associate degree in construction technology and no national security experience to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Republican Senator Rand Paul was the sole exception. Paul voted against both Jackson and Mullin, citing concerns over Mullin’s easily excitable and unstable temperament and Jackson being a Black Woman. |
| second: To Brenda, who asked "Why didn't a gun culture take hold in Canada like the US?" Because Canada did NOT have slavery. Slaves were kept obedient by killing them. Also, Canada did NOT have the mythology of Cowboys vs Indians. Indians were kept obedient by killing them. Also, Canada didn't have the Republic of Texas and the mythology of killing Mexicans to achieve Texas Independence. Also, Canada did NOT have a Civil War or a Revolutionary War, with the mythology of freedom requiring killing, with guns the preferred method. Also, Canada did NOT have anything remotely like the Spanish-American War, which was all about gunning down people and stealing their land. |