Their diabolical and racist plan, for purely political purposes, to intentionally allow a half-million Americans to die has been largely ignored by the American mainstream media…
I am going to catch hell for this comment, but as uncomfortable as it may be, it is a fact.
There is a reason that Jared, et al thought that COVID would disproportionately affect blacks., and it is cultural. Red lining, economics and cultural affinity has resulted in black neighborhoods, some call them ghettos, but they are not government enforced, meaning by law and police.
Of course some MAGAt true believers also paid the price, but the price, to them, was well worth it.
The people who live in these communities are highly social, even more social than whites, parties get togethers even recognition on the street is of importance, and thus more susceptible to the spread of airborne infectious disease.
And yes the motivation was racist, the motivation is racist today, and it is more incredible that gen x,y, z blacks and Hispanics voted for Trump. The Mark Robinsons, Clarence Thomas', Herschel Walkers, Tim Scotts, Kanye West, Byron Donalds, Candace Owens leave me scratching my head.
The white boys and gals that PUT TRUMP IN OFFICE ought have you scratching both you head and your ass. Further WTF does your racist posterior know about "The people who live in these communities" while you pontificate in Sleepy Hollow on that of which you have zero experience, let alone knowledge?
A very chilling history of what happened. The felon hasn’t a heart or soul, will rot in hell someday. And those of us that are still alive will stomp on his grave and scream.
We must stop the CR as it gives the President new powers to steal legally and to tax citizens in a way that puts the funds under Executive branch unilateral control. Give the purse to a felon? We must stop the CR. It gives the President new powers. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/fraud?r=3m1bs
Whenever I read about the heartlessness and hatefulness of the Trumps and their MAGA faithful, it forces me to notice that America is losing its soul to greed-is-good thinking. Churches, Catholic especially, are abandoned all across America's big cities. Seminary participation is at an all-time low - fewer ministers and priests. Attendance at Sunday services is way down. It is all evidence that America (and most of the world) seems to have tossed their moral compasses in exchange for self-indulgence - including racism and sexism.
We should have closed our borders the week COVID was discovered in China. We did not. Now we understand one of his motivations for such reckless behavior - genocide.
Oddly, post-COVID, Trump is obsessed with closing our borders even to the point of starting tradewars with our adjacent neighbors Mexico and Canada. "Build that wall!" (the opposite of Reaganist Republicanism) and to heck with "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Short of a "Second Coming" or WWIII, it is hard to see what catastrophe will restore a moral world we once took for granted.
Maybe, just maybe Tomonthebeach. Churches are empty, seminaries are emptying because people have realized that religion is not morality, but a power structure, that is a tool of patriarchal control and that professed Christians are in fact hypocrites.
Instead of the Jesus of Matthew, it is the Jesus of Luke and Paul.
The Catholic Church has always been a power structure that validated monarchs and other secular rulers - even Putin. But the church did not disappear when people started democratically choosing temporary leaders - until around the turn of the 20th century. Oddly, the first evangelical conman was Catholic - Fr. Caughlin in Detroit. No Catholic clergy followed him, but it did start the Christian evangelical con that taught belief in "their" Jesus ensured a wealthy, confortable (sic) life - as long as one contributed bigly to the pastor. Why not buy a Trump bible while you're at it?
No, I think it is fundamentally something more insidious that was created by social evolution. Money replaced virtue as a social status indicator. If you are richer than me, then you must be smarter and wiser than me too - the dark side of US capitalism. Over time, people started pursuing money rather than God's blessing. In time, the 10 Commandments seem to be irrelevant to self promotion and the pursuit of wealth/power. As governments ignored violations of the commandments, people seem to have viewed them as an impediment to a happy life - and so did their governments.
I know all about Father Coughlin, in fact I have read his rag, the Sword and the Cross. I do agree with you about values, but it is not new, it has always been, from the first thug who clubbed his competition and claimed leadership.
However I do have problems with the 10 commandments b.s. Moses came down from the Mtn with not ten, but 613, all of them enumerated in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the Christian Churches found 603 of them to be just too inconvenient and settled on 10, The first four of which are commandments to believe in and worship this god made by men, the others are just common sense, formalized treat others as you wish to be treated, necessary condition for social order.
The biblical penalty for violating these commandments is death, and by stoning.
Well not all of them, but enough.
As regards the 10 commandments, well they can be shoved where the sun don't shine Commandments 5 through ten are common sense social laws, if one wants to live safe and security in a civilized society.
Commandment one: I am the lord thy god you shall have no other gods before me: Bullshit
Commandment two: You shall not make idols. Money is an idol, so is worship of a leader, a rebbe, a pastor, a priest.
Commandment three: You shall not take the name of your lord god in vain.
Whose god? What god. Another b.s. commandment. so many gods so little time
Commandment four: Remember the sabbath to keep it holy. Whose sabbath, Muslim (Freyes day) Jews (Saturns Day, Christians (Suns day). Why are any of
those days holy, because some dude wrote a book and said so?
Sorry Tom, your ten commandments are not necessary and if an objective look at them were made, then it would be recognized that the first four have been the cause of much human pain, suffering, strife and even war.
There is so much malfeasance by Trump and his cronies that has been "virtually ignored" by the media. The revisionism about Trump and Russia has reached Orwellian proportions. Everyone also continues to ignore the FACT that Trump, as an adjudicated insurrectionist, illegally holds the office of the presidency. The ONLY way to even begin to fix this is to sue Congress for dereliction of their duty to uphold the Constitution to impeach, convict, and remove Trump from office. The FACT is that the Republican Party is now, completely treasonous, and criminally complicit in the crimes of Trump. It's absolutely astonishing the amount of mass amnesia Americans are suffering from.
Of course, any attempt to sue Congress would run into a judiciary that would deny standing to any plaintiffs party to such a lawsuit. The fact is, however, we cannot wait until the mid-terms to correct this because Trump is rapidly turning the executive branch into a pure dictatorship and has now put loyalists into command positions in the military. Trump will soon be able to declare a national emergency, based at least in part on conditions that he has, himself, set in motion. Once he gets to that stage, invocation of the Insurrection Act, followed by martial law and suspension of Posse Comitatus will be the final nail in the coffin of our republic.
I’d like to say that this horrific true story is unbelievable.
Because Trump and his warped bigoted son in law decided to let people of color die at these rates for their political benefit can only be described as disgusting.
How many of these stories and facts about trumps dirty deeds have circulated in these years since. He is a criminal and it seems his family is right there with him.
How could this man have become president ? If one looks at all his remarkably ugly treatment of anyone he can abuse for his own benefit , how can people overlook these things .
Are we as a Society that depraved .
I hope people everywhere , open their eyes long enough to see the filth that is circulating in his world .
Let us not forget how DOGE has been hired to destroy people that they have no care for . The only exceptions to this terrible treatment . … Trump, Elon and the con men they surround themselves with .
There is a 400 year legacy of this slow motion genocide. The irony of which is it (WE as Black People in the "US") is a self inflicted wound to the white supremacist society in which we involuntarily find ourselves. So much so, in fact, that WE have an old adage handed down from generations that goes: "When the white man gets the sniffles, the Black Man gets pneumonia. When the white man gets pneumonia...the Black man dies."
Your article, whether you know it or not, is prima facie evidence of that prevailing, and enduring, reality and it will never, ever change until forced to. No matter iteration, spin or bullshit window dressing it is what it is because it was what it was. Something that I know you are keenly aware of.
NYT listed the 32 probable NFL draft selections -- there were 4 white guys (2 tight ends, 2 offensive linemen). Obviously a Dei problem and should be corrected by DOGE.
I wounder what the next response will be to bird flue. How many unnecessary deaths will be forthcoming? If anybody thinks the response will be different, they have a new thing coming. Kraznov will always find a way to make disaster manifest because he internally is a disaster. Nothing else is naturally possible except if God puts his hand in it. Pray for God's hand. Peace
Why were they in America in the first place? Any Canadian with more than two active brain cells will never cross the US border again. It isnt safe and not even to fly over anymore. I have not crossed the US border since Oct after 9/11. If I want to be treated like dog shit I can go through Canadian Immigration in Toronto. Elbows up.
Been taking about this every day. We have more Canadian taxpayers here than live in some Canadian provinces, many with dual citizenship. They pay Florida real estate taxes, create boucoups American jobs.....
Our economy is based on tourism. 3 mil + Canadian tourists per year. We have Canadian banks, developers..... We have a Canadian consul, a Canadian American Chamber of Commerce....
I worked with lawyers who had dual licenses, many of our physicians are Canadian, a lot of our major developments were Canadian owned, financed, etc.
Many of the kids in our French bacalaueate programs have Canadian ties. In the Hollywood area they voulez vou bilingually the same way we do in Spanglish aqui mismo.
I am confused. The comments section disappeared from the regular post. I submitted a comment via Substack and don't see it here. Why is there no lawsuit by NAACP or someone else based on these documented and public facts?
I am not an American, but I have always admired your boldness as a people, your fight for independence and your fight to end slavery, I am proud of you for those things. I was born in England, I have lived in NZ, now live in Australia, I consider myself to be very fortunate.
Many terrible acts were committed in the past, slavery which was supported by the English. Exploitation, colonisation and land theft, genocide, invasion by pretty much every nation with wealth and power at that time.
Those histories must not ever be forgotten, and must be taught to our children, honestly, and one would hope that over time we humans would become better, kinder.
The piece that I have just read on Covid regarding trump/ Kushner and co: Is so obscene in the country that I admire that I an struggling to believe that even in the terrible times of the past that I mention above, it could have been condoned, ignored and supported for personal, political gain. What’s to be done?
There is no point in playing nicely by the rules against such self serving cruelty, and people that do not respect the same rule’s, it’s time to not be nice, it’s time to get your country back for its people, it’s their country, not Trumps, or Putins or the sycophants that follow along. Start playing to win, not lose your country by being nice to people who don’t deserve, get them out, you have enough evidence, more than enough.
The President and his son-in-law? Really, and all the others who helped!
I believe that your current president Donald J Trump is a traitor and an agent of a foreign power, bugger the Supreme Court (that’s an oxymoron moron, there is nothing supreme about them), Trump and his followers are guilty and complicit in treason. They should removed from office and prosecuted.
I am going to catch hell for this comment, but as uncomfortable as it may be, it is a fact.
There is a reason that Jared, et al thought that COVID would disproportionately affect blacks., and it is cultural. Red lining, economics and cultural affinity has resulted in black neighborhoods, some call them ghettos, but they are not government enforced, meaning by law and police.
Of course some MAGAt true believers also paid the price, but the price, to them, was well worth it.
The people who live in these communities are highly social, even more social than whites, parties get togethers even recognition on the street is of importance, and thus more susceptible to the spread of airborne infectious disease.
And yes the motivation was racist, the motivation is racist today, and it is more incredible that gen x,y, z blacks and Hispanics voted for Trump. The Mark Robinsons, Clarence Thomas', Herschel Walkers, Tim Scotts, Kanye West, Byron Donalds, Candace Owens leave me scratching my head.
The Grant administration, the Whiskey Ring, and others did the same to decimate the Native American population in the 19th Century.
It was similar during the AIDS epidemic.
To this day, "herd immunity" is still the policy of my state, although more Republicans died than Dems in Florida.
Here is how I feel. Democrats, progressive parents, people who have two neurons to rub together will get vaccinated.
The haters, the idiots won't, and will suffer, it is one way to winnow the gene pool of defectives.
The white boys and gals that PUT TRUMP IN OFFICE ought have you scratching both you head and your ass. Further WTF does your racist posterior know about "The people who live in these communities" while you pontificate in Sleepy Hollow on that of which you have zero experience, let alone knowledge?
Thrill me.
And then Kraznov caught COVID and received the best of care. I think that this was a lost opportunity.
Trump sent him OUR vaccine.
A very chilling history of what happened. The felon hasn’t a heart or soul, will rot in hell someday. And those of us that are still alive will stomp on his grave and scream.
We must stop the CR as it gives the President new powers to steal legally and to tax citizens in a way that puts the funds under Executive branch unilateral control. Give the purse to a felon? We must stop the CR. It gives the President new powers. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/fraud?r=3m1bs
Impeach. Feathers of Hope. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/p/remove-impeach-impeach
Call. https://act.commoncause.org/call_campaigns/tell-congress-stop-the-musk-budget/?source=email-share
Whenever I read about the heartlessness and hatefulness of the Trumps and their MAGA faithful, it forces me to notice that America is losing its soul to greed-is-good thinking. Churches, Catholic especially, are abandoned all across America's big cities. Seminary participation is at an all-time low - fewer ministers and priests. Attendance at Sunday services is way down. It is all evidence that America (and most of the world) seems to have tossed their moral compasses in exchange for self-indulgence - including racism and sexism.
We should have closed our borders the week COVID was discovered in China. We did not. Now we understand one of his motivations for such reckless behavior - genocide.
Oddly, post-COVID, Trump is obsessed with closing our borders even to the point of starting tradewars with our adjacent neighbors Mexico and Canada. "Build that wall!" (the opposite of Reaganist Republicanism) and to heck with "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Short of a "Second Coming" or WWIII, it is hard to see what catastrophe will restore a moral world we once took for granted.
Maybe, just maybe Tomonthebeach. Churches are empty, seminaries are emptying because people have realized that religion is not morality, but a power structure, that is a tool of patriarchal control and that professed Christians are in fact hypocrites.
Instead of the Jesus of Matthew, it is the Jesus of Luke and Paul.
The Catholic Church has always been a power structure that validated monarchs and other secular rulers - even Putin. But the church did not disappear when people started democratically choosing temporary leaders - until around the turn of the 20th century. Oddly, the first evangelical conman was Catholic - Fr. Caughlin in Detroit. No Catholic clergy followed him, but it did start the Christian evangelical con that taught belief in "their" Jesus ensured a wealthy, confortable (sic) life - as long as one contributed bigly to the pastor. Why not buy a Trump bible while you're at it?
No, I think it is fundamentally something more insidious that was created by social evolution. Money replaced virtue as a social status indicator. If you are richer than me, then you must be smarter and wiser than me too - the dark side of US capitalism. Over time, people started pursuing money rather than God's blessing. In time, the 10 Commandments seem to be irrelevant to self promotion and the pursuit of wealth/power. As governments ignored violations of the commandments, people seem to have viewed them as an impediment to a happy life - and so did their governments.
I know all about Father Coughlin, in fact I have read his rag, the Sword and the Cross. I do agree with you about values, but it is not new, it has always been, from the first thug who clubbed his competition and claimed leadership.
However I do have problems with the 10 commandments b.s. Moses came down from the Mtn with not ten, but 613, all of them enumerated in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the Christian Churches found 603 of them to be just too inconvenient and settled on 10, The first four of which are commandments to believe in and worship this god made by men, the others are just common sense, formalized treat others as you wish to be treated, necessary condition for social order.
The biblical penalty for violating these commandments is death, and by stoning.
Well not all of them, but enough.
As regards the 10 commandments, well they can be shoved where the sun don't shine Commandments 5 through ten are common sense social laws, if one wants to live safe and security in a civilized society.
Commandment one: I am the lord thy god you shall have no other gods before me: Bullshit
Commandment two: You shall not make idols. Money is an idol, so is worship of a leader, a rebbe, a pastor, a priest.
Commandment three: You shall not take the name of your lord god in vain.
Whose god? What god. Another b.s. commandment. so many gods so little time
Commandment four: Remember the sabbath to keep it holy. Whose sabbath, Muslim (Freyes day) Jews (Saturns Day, Christians (Suns day). Why are any of
those days holy, because some dude wrote a book and said so?
Sorry Tom, your ten commandments are not necessary and if an objective look at them were made, then it would be recognized that the first four have been the cause of much human pain, suffering, strife and even war.
They have no souls and are not fit to live among decent people
There is so much malfeasance by Trump and his cronies that has been "virtually ignored" by the media. The revisionism about Trump and Russia has reached Orwellian proportions. Everyone also continues to ignore the FACT that Trump, as an adjudicated insurrectionist, illegally holds the office of the presidency. The ONLY way to even begin to fix this is to sue Congress for dereliction of their duty to uphold the Constitution to impeach, convict, and remove Trump from office. The FACT is that the Republican Party is now, completely treasonous, and criminally complicit in the crimes of Trump. It's absolutely astonishing the amount of mass amnesia Americans are suffering from.
Of course, any attempt to sue Congress would run into a judiciary that would deny standing to any plaintiffs party to such a lawsuit. The fact is, however, we cannot wait until the mid-terms to correct this because Trump is rapidly turning the executive branch into a pure dictatorship and has now put loyalists into command positions in the military. Trump will soon be able to declare a national emergency, based at least in part on conditions that he has, himself, set in motion. Once he gets to that stage, invocation of the Insurrection Act, followed by martial law and suspension of Posse Comitatus will be the final nail in the coffin of our republic.
It's despicable but SCOTUS won't hold him to account.
I’d like to say that this horrific true story is unbelievable.
Because Trump and his warped bigoted son in law decided to let people of color die at these rates for their political benefit can only be described as disgusting.
How many of these stories and facts about trumps dirty deeds have circulated in these years since. He is a criminal and it seems his family is right there with him.
How could this man have become president ? If one looks at all his remarkably ugly treatment of anyone he can abuse for his own benefit , how can people overlook these things .
Are we as a Society that depraved .
I hope people everywhere , open their eyes long enough to see the filth that is circulating in his world .
Let us not forget how DOGE has been hired to destroy people that they have no care for . The only exceptions to this terrible treatment . … Trump, Elon and the con men they surround themselves with .
Patricia you asked: "How could this man have become president ?"
The answer is simple, 49% of the people see in him their avatar, believed him, or felt it was more important to give the Democrats the bird..
The remaining who didn't vote, don't give a shit.
There is a 400 year legacy of this slow motion genocide. The irony of which is it (WE as Black People in the "US") is a self inflicted wound to the white supremacist society in which we involuntarily find ourselves. So much so, in fact, that WE have an old adage handed down from generations that goes: "When the white man gets the sniffles, the Black Man gets pneumonia. When the white man gets pneumonia...the Black man dies."
Your article, whether you know it or not, is prima facie evidence of that prevailing, and enduring, reality and it will never, ever change until forced to. No matter iteration, spin or bullshit window dressing it is what it is because it was what it was. Something that I know you are keenly aware of.
NYT listed the 32 probable NFL draft selections -- there were 4 white guys (2 tight ends, 2 offensive linemen). Obviously a Dei problem and should be corrected by DOGE.
The best DEI Hire of all time? -- Jackie Robinson
DEI hires made America great. Killing DEI will make America a shit hole country.
I wounder what the next response will be to bird flue. How many unnecessary deaths will be forthcoming? If anybody thinks the response will be different, they have a new thing coming. Kraznov will always find a way to make disaster manifest because he internally is a disaster. Nothing else is naturally possible except if God puts his hand in it. Pray for God's hand. Peace
Good Canadian friends in a Florida parking lot today were told by man who saw their license plate that they aren’t welcome here — go home. So the are.
Why were they in America in the first place? Any Canadian with more than two active brain cells will never cross the US border again. It isnt safe and not even to fly over anymore. I have not crossed the US border since Oct after 9/11. If I want to be treated like dog shit I can go through Canadian Immigration in Toronto. Elbows up.
Been taking about this every day. We have more Canadian taxpayers here than live in some Canadian provinces, many with dual citizenship. They pay Florida real estate taxes, create boucoups American jobs.....
Our economy is based on tourism. 3 mil + Canadian tourists per year. We have Canadian banks, developers..... We have a Canadian consul, a Canadian American Chamber of Commerce....
I worked with lawyers who had dual licenses, many of our physicians are Canadian, a lot of our major developments were Canadian owned, financed, etc.
Many of the kids in our French bacalaueate programs have Canadian ties. In the Hollywood area they voulez vou bilingually the same way we do in Spanglish aqui mismo.
I am confused. The comments section disappeared from the regular post. I submitted a comment via Substack and don't see it here. Why is there no lawsuit by NAACP or someone else based on these documented and public facts?
I agree.
On the flip side there are many antivax suis, some brought by right wing attorneys' general from red states. Bobby Jr. is a walking lawsuit. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5271582/rfk-hpv-vaccine-merck
In my state the legislature immunized employers against worklers' comp claims by employees who alleged they got COVID at work.
I am not an American, but I have always admired your boldness as a people, your fight for independence and your fight to end slavery, I am proud of you for those things. I was born in England, I have lived in NZ, now live in Australia, I consider myself to be very fortunate.
Many terrible acts were committed in the past, slavery which was supported by the English. Exploitation, colonisation and land theft, genocide, invasion by pretty much every nation with wealth and power at that time.
Those histories must not ever be forgotten, and must be taught to our children, honestly, and one would hope that over time we humans would become better, kinder.
The piece that I have just read on Covid regarding trump/ Kushner and co: Is so obscene in the country that I admire that I an struggling to believe that even in the terrible times of the past that I mention above, it could have been condoned, ignored and supported for personal, political gain. What’s to be done?
There is no point in playing nicely by the rules against such self serving cruelty, and people that do not respect the same rule’s, it’s time to not be nice, it’s time to get your country back for its people, it’s their country, not Trumps, or Putins or the sycophants that follow along. Start playing to win, not lose your country by being nice to people who don’t deserve, get them out, you have enough evidence, more than enough.
The President and his son-in-law? Really, and all the others who helped!
I believe that your current president Donald J Trump is a traitor and an agent of a foreign power, bugger the Supreme Court (that’s an oxymoron moron, there is nothing supreme about them), Trump and his followers are guilty and complicit in treason. They should removed from office and prosecuted.