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Sir Okie Doke's avatar

Today's murderous scum hail from a long line.

April 12, 1864. One of many days that should live in infamy, but does not.

During the Fort Pillow massacre, those whom the ex-slaves called the "secess" (the rebels) slaughtered Whites for serving with and leading the Union troops at Pillow, most of whom were Black.

Of course, the traitors killed the Blacks and robbed their corpses of money and boots, etc.

But to be fair, they killed and then stole from the White corpses, too.

And this is AFTER the fort had surrendered and dropped rifles, etc.

Also, coward that he was, General Nathan Bedford Forrest advanced on the fort, pre-massacre, illegally [more than once] under the "White Flag" of truce. The said flag is the "Ceasefire" signal to halt hostilities so both sides can talk safely.

When the approx. 1500 murderers overran the approx. 567 garrison inside the fort, the traitors waved the Black flag [No Quarter.]

So they slaughtered 200 Blacks and 100 Whites. Luckily, there was a speedy Congressional investigation, and it's well documented. Some Whites were nailed to houses and trees, and then set on fire alive. Some were buried alive.

This is not unlike Jared and Witkoff's negosh w/ Iran, only to bomb 160-some little girls the next day. [If you can't rape them, kill them is the new WH motto] And we speak often of the duplicitous Japanese pre Pearl Harbor.

Nothing has changed with these R-scum. Esp. [the kiddie and other men's wives] rapists Donald and Whiskey Pete.

2024: 77,300,000 mostly White voters (60% of all Whites) broke for President Hairspray. Why?

Daniel Solomon's avatar

Not to mention Nixon's treason when LBJ had negotiated a peace deal in 1968.

Richard Prior's avatar

Not to mention Reagan’s pre-election “deal” in 1979 for Iran to hold onto the hostages till after the election. 😡

William Farrar's avatar

Trump is going to use narco terrorism as his excuse to gain control of the Americas south of the border. The Shield of the Americas, aka Technate of America aka Oceania

Jason A. Reding Quiñones, the U.S. Attorney in South Florida, has ordered an inquiry into Cuban leaders and Communist Party officials for drug, immigration, economic, and violent crimes with a goal of bringing fast indictments, three sources said. Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer, Luke Broadwater, and Michael Crowley report for the New York Times.

Kristi Noem wasn't fired she was promoted to a more important job.

Trump on Saturday signed a proclamation committing to countering cartel criminal activity by using “lethal military force” at the Shield of the Americas inaugural summit. The event also marked the debut of Kristi Noem in her new role as special envoy to the Shield of the Americas. Seventeen countries signed onto the effort through a joint security declaration during a meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week, according to the U.S. Southern Command. Megan Messerly reports for POLITICO; Ken Thomas and Vera Bergengruen report for the Wall Street Journal.

<MAGA is a death cult.

Daniel Solomon's avatar

He's doing it in large part to regain suppoort he lost due to anti DEI....

My theory is that if Cuba is freed, of a current population of 11 million, ten (10) million will want to move here to Baghdad By the Sea.

" As President Donald Trump promises that massive change is coming to Cuba, Florida Democratic Senate candidate Alexander Vindman is already planning how to combat the rippling political implications among voters in South Florida."

“I think there is an opportunity to do something real for the Cuban-American community. What the president is proposing is not that,” Vindman told the Miami Herald during an interview... "

“I think some people want to punish that regime and those who might be the hardcore supporters,” Vindman said. “But by and large, there’s an opportunity to make the case that this president is not actually advancing any of the interests of the Venezuelan-American and the Cuban-American community.”

Vindman argued that Trump is “painting over the regime with a light coat of paint, nothing fundamentally changes it. I don’t think it’s going to be sufficient for him.”

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article314973199.html#storylink=cpy

William Farrar's avatar

My opinion is that the last thing the Caudilliaistas want is a mass migration from Cuba to America. Also those Cubano's that live there won't want to migrate,if the economy impproves, they love their homeland and culture, and probably want nothing to do with America who has been corrupted by MAGA, and is so chauvinistic that it marginalizes the Hispanic culture. A vibrant culture celebreated in Leguizamo Does America is a documentary series where actor John Leguizamo travels across the U.S. to highlight the, culture, history, and contributions of Latino communities

As you know I have a contrary opinion on Cuba. The Florida expats are the spawn of the people who exploited the peasants

There is a scene in Godfathers where Michael Corleone is witnessing the suicide bombing of a politician, and says you can't defeat those who will die for the cause (a great reminder to Trump, Rubio and his whole regime

Cuba was corrupt, there were two classes, those at the top lived high off the hog, on sugar and gambling, the rest were peons that scraped by.

Venezuela the same, in fact that is a description of all Latin American countries.

There is a wide gulf between the haves and have nots.

I think you are correct though, that the last thing the Caudilloistas want in Florida, is a mass migration. For the same reason that there was a huge Hispanic support for Trump, as they thought that he would deport just the criminals, drug dealers and rapists, which gave the community a bad name.

The support that Trump has from them in Florida, is romanticized, the voters were raised on romantic legends and myths, from parents who enjoyed privilege.

I can't speak to the children of the Marie noatlif, when Castro emptied his prisons and sent them to Florida. I am sure that some continued their fathers legacy, but others did what the British prisoners sent to Australia did.

PS I couldn't view the link, because I have to turn off my ad blocker.

Daniel Solomon's avatar

Sez a guy who knows NO Cubans.

William Farrar's avatar

Do you know any Cubans, and I by Cubans I mean real Cubans, not Cuban Americans the denizens of Miami, who have never set foot in Cuba, or their parents who were Caudillistas?

You might want to get Free Speech TV, Chan 269, Dish and watch the Belly of the Beast, Cuba from the inside, very interesting and heart warming program, to meet the real Cubans, not the rich and fat ex pats.

Daniel Solomon's avatar

Actually I do. Lots of recent emigrants. I happen to be in discussion groups with many, and with other groups of Hispanics. the Sea. Meet them up close and personal daily. Some of them have had their visas revoked.

William Farrar's avatar

If you are in discussion groups with a lot of recent Cuban immigrants then you are fluent in Spanish. Are you. Or the recent immigrants of whom you speak are wealthy and well to do Cubans that learned to be fluent in English

Eadie Sharron's avatar

Timothy Snyder has already mapped out tRump's plans. In short, the war in Iraq will see a reprisal in the US. It has already been reported that sleeper cells have been found in the US. tRump doesn't give a hoot about Iran. His back is up against the wall. He plans another 911 to take the pressure off him.

Daniel Solomon's avatar

So far, we haven't experienced suicide bombers......

Eadie Sharron's avatar

Not yet. Are the states prepared for such an event? Are they on red alert?

alis's avatar

Our population doubled....

So did the number of psychopaths. So here we are, now one has the ultimate office and the "license" to kill. He's chosen a cadre that he knows are psychos and sickos as well.

We let Bush, Cheney and Rice off. We lost the plot. We cannot do that again. This is a last chance to TRY to do the right thing.

Check out Last Week Tonight from yesterday. Oliver explains the death toll and exposes the list of psychos responsible for the demise of USAID. Stay loud. Stay brave. Thank you Thom and Company. See you in the streets.

Sarah Buie's avatar

Thom, Can you please speak to the question of military compliance in these illegal actions? Why are they not refusing to obey? Will they ever rise up?

I say this as the daughter of a highly decorated career USAF officer who served in WWIi and Vietnam.

chev_chelios's avatar

"Bombed boats, dead fishermen, starving children, and broken families reveal the human cost of power without empathy"…

add now starting wars by bombing, killing hundreds of civilians including school children...kidnapping government leaders and stealing that countries oil...not giving a rats ass about the 7 American service members he wholly disrespected, that gave their lives for nothing except for a war of grievance and vanity by this inhuman, unhinged creature that isn't qualified to work the counter of a 7-11 (no disrespect to those that do)....

the governments regimes of the US and Israel need to be dragged to the international court and put on trial for their war crimes against the world....these two criminals, tRUMP and Netanyahu, along with the capitulation of the GOP...(can you say, Lindsey, I'm a POS, Graham) and a couple of handfuls of feckless Dems, have led us to the doorstep of WW III ....!!!

Larry Bushard's avatar

And unless we can find a way to end this sooner, we have 34 months left of the deranged, dementia ridden psychopath and his fellow travelers to endure. Every day he finds a new atrocity to commit! Will we or better yet, will the world survive?

Daniel Solomon's avatar

Need Congressional Republicans.

Pamela Harlan's avatar

When you use AI generated pictures it puts your credibility in question. I don't think journalists should be using AI. The public doesn't spend enough time looking at a picture to critically think about whether it is real or not. Between our government and AI it's becoming more and more difficult to discern what is true or false. Journalist - especially the independent ones - should be holding a harder line to protect truth and accuracy.

William Farrar's avatar

As a retired enlisted and officer. I am dismayed when I see active duty soldiers, and even vets applaud the man who calls them suckers and losers. who sees them as disposable units.

Then again, having been both enlisted and an officer, I look back. Special operators revel in their chance to pump up testosterone. Donald Rumsfeld was damn near worshiped, because he gave them the toys that they wanted,lots of them, and "elevated" them in the WOT.

By and large though, the average grunt. has a marginal education, comes from a rural, poor family, the only access he has to the news is a TV turned to Fox in the Barracks or clubs.

The officers are career seekers and/or Christian nationalists. Christian extremists

Volunteer cannon fodder.

At the outset of Putin's war on Ukraine, the Russians were mostly the same, with the more astute and wise evading the draft by running to one of the Stans, but now Putin has to draft and bribe boys and men to join.

There is talk of the draft again, and this time including females, normally a draft would be counter productive, but considering that MAGAts are over represented by rural, poor and southern states. I am not so sure

Larry Bushard's avatar

A draft may be counter productive as you say because it will have to include some more educated people who won’t want to watch Faux Noise all day and may open the eyes of other cannon fodder.

Daniel Solomon's avatar

Me, too. Where were YOU when we tried to tell them that the past 10 years. You ridiculed us.

Support Dem vet candidates like Fred Wellman. https://www.wellmanformo.com/meet-fred

Diantha R Weilepp's avatar

Yeah. November is too far away. The horrors they will perpetrate before then could include nuclear war.

Jeffrey Hobbs's avatar

What we are seeing in Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, et. al. is a cold, vicious indifference to humanity outside of their own diminishing circle of oligarchs. The net result of allowing free rein to capital accumulation is to empower sociopaths, the worst possible people to be holding power, because they see no purpose in being responsible to others.

James W's avatar

Trump is right…the economy is booming…for $Billionaire corporations and individuals, and for the whole military armaments world! For the rest of us…we get $5 per gallon gas and $15 bags of Starbucks coffee! Gee thanks Donald!

Robert B. Elliott's avatar

Let's not forget about the dehumanization and brutality misogynists Trump and Epstein engaged in which is being covered up or how all this relates to the Christian crusades and the religious justification for war, killing, and mayhem based on fanatic and extremist interpretations of prophecy and the Bible. How many Americans live in a fantasy world where nothing matters except life after death?

David's avatar

Robert,you watching the strength of the "white christian nationalists" .They do not believe in Demcracy,they believe in a christian all white country.

Daniel Solomon's avatar

Bombed boats, dead fishermen, starving children, and broken families reveal the human cost of power without empathy…for MAGATs. Military deaths seem to have little or no effect on them.

But today oil passed $100 per barrel and the markets are down again. Woe to they who prioritize gold....gold is down, too!. Dropped more than 5% since we attacked Iran.All our markets are down.

But IMHO Epstein remains Trump's Achilles Heel. Over the weekend even more revelations.

3 million pages, 180,000 images, and 2,000 videos—have reignited global scrutiny of Jeffrey Epstein’s network... Five Republicans joined Democrats to support the Bondi subpoena proposed by GOP Rep. Nancy Mace in a sign of continued frustration among conservatives with the department's review and release of a tranche of documents related to the disgraced financier. The move amounted to a sharp rebuke of Bondi by Republicans who have been clamoring for information about Epstein's abuse of young girls and his interactions with rich and powerful people. PBS.

More to follow. New Mexico lawmakers have formed a four-member "truth commission" to investigate activities at Zorro Ranch following the Epstein files ... Apparently the Virgin Island is renewing its investigation.

David's avatar

Daniel,let's hope they move this along. Would be nice to see the " nazi" squirm,take that fucking disgusting smile off his face.

Richard Prior's avatar

The Roberts Court will be remembered for its treachery over rule of law and common sense, past the time we’re all gone and have turned into whatever comes after dust: The opening move to dismantle the Voting Rights Act, Citizens United and granting full immunity to Dear Leader. That’s a loathsome six-pack on the Court now.

Feldman's avatar

The Great Satan rises again with his psychominions salivating to do his work.

Yet thousands and hundreds of thousands have lost their jobs and homes and maybe families. And yet what exactly is it that they are DOING to rein in this terror in real time and recover what they've lost - get another job and then downsize? Every paragraph written by Thom is a reminder of those people, yes, the THEY, the OTHER Americans who want all of this happening. This is The Great Satan speaking aloud.

I read that Epstein is now in the back seat to war. So is that the plan - rape the children then kill them so they can't say anything? But do it big and loud. And the MAGAts want and vote for this. Let's not fool ourselves - it's not all mega millionaire billionaires going gang-ho. It's your average Joe red-hat MAGAteer cheering on this parade. Our fellow Americans.

ANTONIO B LUCERO's avatar

Wow! So powerful! And the accompanying song transcends words; it resonates with my heart!

Empathy, empathy, empathy! The monsters in power have none!

We should use the legacy left by our former presidents FDR, JFK, and Carter as models to achieve a goal of restoring empathy in our agenda to oppose the current practices of the government and to plan for a new government dedicated to the common good.

David's avatar

Antonio,I think the phrase is " No empathy,no sympathy,no integrity,no morality.Nothing but hate,vengence,does it begin to remind you of a certain German in1941,Adolf Hitler.?

James Cregan's avatar

This is NOT my Dad’s Eisenhower-loving Republican Party !!!