I'll be more at peace when this cruise ship that I'm on finishes its sail on the Red Sea (merchant ships being targeted with rockets/drones by Muslim extremists) and in the Gulf of Aden above Somalia (high pirate threat). Because of the Hamas-Israeli conflict, we tried to cancel this trip to the Middle East. However, NCL refused to refund our prepaid fare or replace it with a future cruise. The passenger capacity on this ship is 2,600. However, there are currently about 1,500 passengers on this ship, I guess the 1,100 didn’t want to take the risk and forfeited their full fares. 😀
Another litany of excuses for barbaric uncivilized behaviors.
Interesting how when one hears of advancements in medicine, science, agriculture, engineering, energy, telecommunications, finance, and labor saving devices, one thinks of one group.
And when one hears of carjackings, drive by shootings, looting, low test scores, administrative incompetence, and the inability to compete in a modern society without massive intervention, one thinks of another.
Fair winds Monty, enjoy all the blessings the white man has provided and shared with you.
IMO, most of today's problems stem from fundamental failures/miscalculations of the Civil Rights Movement - i.e., that advancing civil rights and liberties of African Americans would de facto create an economic base. Something Booker T. Washington understood wouldn't work in the 19th century.
The most meaningful critique of the Democrat Party is that it's an exhausted and failed apparatus born of the Civil Rights Era. Infantilization is what you get with endless activism and no real economic power. Just endless whining and crying.
But most crying babies are trying to communicate a real need, they just lack the language to express themselves. Similarly: the monopoly of the CRM has so restricted the flow of information and ideas, that most "activists" lack the language to articulate complex problems beyond a framework of law, rights, liberties, etc.
I'm not trivializing the achievements of the 50's and 60's. But let's not beat around the bush: attacking the Democrat Party is a veiled attack on the Civil Rights Movement, which very few in polite society will seriously discuss.
“Multiracially white” so does that mean Elvis is invited to the cookout as an authentic expression of culture? The cheetah print bed at Graceland is a holy relic for my people.
Is it because you're probably an angry broke white man? Do feel that you're a victim of sketchy black progress in America? Trump supporter? Will authoritarianism/fascism rescue the white race in the world? Low birthrates? Lol!!!!
Arrogance and Condescension stem from pride, which dems have too much of. I like the fact that Erec is libertarian-ish (as I do not know his official status). I believe the ideal human would be part conservative, liberal and Objectivist/Libertarian. What percentage of each category is up for debate. Please, fellow Republicans - observe the state of corruption among Democrats. Such could also become our fate if we give in to extremism in the opposite direction.
I've had many Republicans on the other side at my desks at the prisons I worked at, former businessmen, and child molesters. John White got only 2 years for swindling millions of dollars of life savings from people while John Black got 10 years for robbing someone of 2 dollars. Who did the most damage?
I bet you're married to a white woman. I usually study negro meritorious manumission and Samboism around the world, especially in America. I just visited Jeddah, Saudi Arabia today---very impressed. Very low crime rate and the government (wealthy) takes care of their less fortunate citizens. Prescription drugs are much cheaper here. For $450.00 worth of prescription drugs in the ship's medical, it would cost about $35.00 in a local pharmacy in Jeddah.
Crime in the Kingdom is largely invisible: effectively, at least 14 million people are held in slavery. Women are beaten by husbands; some are killed with no consequences.
Drug pricing by country is incredibly complex. Unless you already have a deep understanding of the drivers and leverds in the industry, I won't take the time to educate you.
The race of my spouse is significant for me. My black spouse and I share a common ancestry and struggle, even though we're high-income earners. If divorce occurs, assets are kept in the pool of black group wealth.
A broke white boy from Texas attempted to marry my stepdaughter who owns a home with two sons without a prenuptial agreement. He wanted to move his father and sister in. Fortunately, she came to her senses after being counseled by her mother and me.
My son is married to a white woman. They have two biracial kids, 9 and 7, which I've never seen. I've never openly expressed to him my disapproval of his relationship with white women. Maintaining a relationship with him was more important. He's in a strange world.
"Crime in the Kingdom is largely invisible." Lol! I wasn't born yesterday. I worked in the prison industrial complex in the United States for 34 years. Black mass incarceration in America is slavery, thanks to Jim Crow Joe Biden's racist 1994 crime bill which over-penalized black drug offenders (crack cocaine) vs white drug offenders (cocaine). States were guaranteed federal funds if they implemented the 3 strikes laws. 100 years of Jim Crow through the 1960s was semi-slavery, ending only 55 years ago.
Many white sexual perverts (including professionals) go to Thailand and the African continent to have sex with underage kids. I didn’t witness slaves in Egypt or Saudi Arabia. I did note that highly educated blacks.
My great paternal great-grandmother was brutally raped by a scumbag Scots-Irishman with impunity. My grandmother and an aunt died because white hospitals refused to provide emergency medical care.
My late father, a WWII vet who served in a shithole in the Pacific theater, along with his brother in the European theater, returned home as second-class citizens. Black soldiers in uniform on their way back home to America were subjected to the high risk of being lynched or murdered by white men in the South.
Drug pricing isn't complex. Capitalism and greed is a major problem in America. I've traveled all the continents. My medical care overseas has been great and much cheaper.
There's nothing you can teach me. I don't give a damn about your absurd conservative economic models. They're based on your politics. Furthermore, conservatism is ant-black as clearly demonstrated by historical facts (i.e., the Southern strategy, lack of support financial support to correct past injustices done to blacks, and anti-civil rights).
It's not just a Black thing. Are Palestinians helpless victims of circumstance, or are they autonomous and capable of managing their own country? Is it "I am woman , hear me roar", or alternatively, "I am woman, hold the door"? And don't even get me start on the LGBTQ etc. double mindedness!
Part of it is the tecnology. TV favors hyper-dramatized and oversimplified conflict, facilitating movement across the diagonal of the screen. Think, car chases and NFL football. Jerry Mander wrote a book about this ages ago, "4 arguments for the elimination of television". Maybe it's too bad it didn't happen....
I've said for years that if anyone treated me like progressives treat blacks, I'd kick them where it hurts most. The condescending, superiority attitude of many progressives is disgusting.
My dad was a very hard working-illiterate construction laborer and my mom cleaned the nasty homes of upper-middle-class white people. My wife and I successfully retired 17 years ago after working 34 years in our respective careers. I worked in corrections, including management. My wife, Dr...is a retired School District Superintendent, college professor, and school insurance CEO. Our family members have done exceptionally well-- a Chancellor at a major HBCU, a former city manager, a retired superior court judge, lawyers, physicians, engineers, land owners, commissioned military officers, and business people. My late paternal grandfather owned a successful 400-acre farm which remains with the family in South Virginia. My wife's late parents, an electrician and maid, wisely invested in land in California and passed on millions of dollars to their heirs. My wife gave her share to her 2 daughters who are college graduates, gainfully employed, and married. My wife and I put up with a lot of crap from crazy dysfunctional white folks during our respective careers.
White supremacy and negro meritorious manumission enablers are more disgusting. Blacks need their political party for serious quid pro quo, and perhaps a separate state with harbors. Both parties are two wings on the same trifling bird.
I'm talking about a black state on the American Continent to remedy the past 400 years of white fuckery against black descendants of slavery. America's economic foundation was built off the backs of free African labor. You benefitted. The financial institutions that were involved in black chattel slavery are still present today. My home is here where the corpses of my ancestors lay buried across the country.
Yeah, I thought that's what you meant. Never mind that my white relatives never owned slaves, and fought and died to FREE them. Never mind that it is the democratic party that is responsible for fighting and killing my ancestors, in order to KEEP slavery. Never mind that it is the democratic party that is responsible for the KKK and Jim Crow. Never mind that every black ghetto in America is ruled by democrats. The facts, the truth, don't matter to a bigot. Right?
REPUBLICAN PARTY SOUTHERN STRATEGY. --- "You start out in 1954 by saying, “Ni**er, n**er, ni**er.” By 1968 you can’t say “ni**er”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Ni**er, ni**er.” -- Lee Altwater, GOP STRATEGIST.
😎😎😎DEBUNKING FALSE ASSERTIONS ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE KLAN.
"In a June 10, 2013, PolitiFact Virginia article, Carole Emberton, associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo, noted that the "party lines of the 1860s/1870s are not the party lines of today."
"Although the names stayed the same, the platforms of the two parties reversed each other in the mid-20th century, due in large part to white ‘Dixiecrats’ flight out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964," she said. "By then, the Democratic Party had become the party of ‘reform,’ supporting a variety of ‘liberal’ causes, including civil rights, women’s rights, etc. whereas this had been the banner of the Republican Party in the nineteenth century."
There is a closely guarded secret that has been deliberately buried by mainstream media and historians: After the Civil War (and during the war), millions of freed Black people were funneled into concentration camps in America and killed through forced starvation, and other means.Many of these locations were called “contraband camps”, and they were hastily built internment camps that were generally in proximity to Union army camps. One gruesome camp, in particular, was located in Natchez, Ms. The Devil’s Punchbowl is a place located in Natchez, where during the Civil War, authorities forced tens of thousands of freed slaves to live in these American death camps. Researcher Paula Westbrook said, “The union army did not allow them to remove the bodies from the camp. They just gave ’em shovels and said bury ’em where they drop.” “When the slaves
were released from the plantations during the occupation they overran Natchez. The population went from about 10,000 to 120,000 overnight,” Westbrook said. “So they decided to build an encampment for ’em at Devil’s Punchbowl which they walled off and wouldn’t let ’em out,” Don Estes, former director of the Natchez City Cemetery, said. In Natchez, Mississipi alone, officials estimate that in the time span of just one year, over 20,000 free Black people were killed in the concentration camp called The Devil’s Punchbowl-- SPMG Media
The republicans disqualify themselves with both the black and white workers by there attempts to cut social security and health care for the poor. This is simply a nonstarter. The conversation is over on all the other issues because this is something that is life and death for grandma.
A nonstarter, MD, is when both programs run out of money. The U.S. spends twice what any other country does per capita on health care, with sub-average outcomes. With the GAO finding tens of billions of fraud annually, you don't think there's room for improvement? Medicare will run out of money by 2031, Social Security by 2033. By law, Social Security is not allowed to borrow money - the program MUST be made solvent. Bush W tried to ensure SS solvency in 2004-05 but the Democrats refused to take up the issue. The recent Republican debate shows that none of the candidates has much of an understanding of the Social Security Act, and I'm pretty sure Biden doesn't either. Trump poo-poo'd it as well. The nonstarter is coming, like it or not.
I assume you know what happens to aristocrats who break their bond with working people. Especially if the workers are armed to the teeth and have a ton 9f ammo. Aristocrats easily be replaced, annd money is just paper. But blood is blood annd we each have only one neck. Furthermore, the blade of a guillotine is a non- stopper.
Interesting comment, MD. I'm not sure what to make of it. I would only add that aristocrats who control their state security apparatus (Putin, the Ayatollah, Xi, Maduro, Ortega to name a few) seem to do quite well in dealing with the rabble. In our own case, the fact that the FBI took sides in politics and intervened illegally moves us a step closer to that storied group.
Like the border, Social Security reform is not rocket science. We just need some bi-partisan political will.
The point is that if the rabble are armed and angry enough, then the elite can no longer rely on their mercenaries. It becomes tempting for the military commander of the regime forces to switch sides, join the rebels, and hang his boss. This has been done over and over in history when an existing empire becomes overextended and decadent. It is monotonous and only can red about it in the Bible or in the vedas or in the Greek literature. . So a Corsican general orders his troops to arrest anyone who can possible oppose him. He hangs all who refuse to submit, and then he simply declaims himself to be dictator for life.
Maybe in another era, but it didn’t happen in any of the examples I gave. And as any military-trained individual will tell you, “redneck” Americans don’t stand a chance against FBI or BAT firepower today. Individuals may be able to use the 2nd amendment to perhaps defend their homes, but they don’t stand a chance if Federal law enforcement decides they don’t like what those citizens say about their patrons, 1st Amendment be damned.
You won’t seem to take my point. The hunta backing the coup would include people high in FBI or CIA and must include leader of a mechanized unit in DC area. Many such will exist if Biden continues to destroy the constitution. The outside support would be mainly funded by Taiwanise, Israeli and Ukrainian intelligence using the very money appropriated to support their war efforts. The key is to put artillery on Arlington heights, to block Key bridge with tanks, and to also put tanks on the mall and at all the big DC traffic circles like DuPont circle. A provocation by some rag tag rebels force of a few thousand infantry could storm and hold the capital and white house and arrest the democrats and all their supporters and hold them hostage. Then the actual coup leader would then activate and “save the day” by staging a dramatic rescue and restore order. Alas, too late, the president and congressional leadership are dead and so martial law must be declared. The leader of the rescue would be a low level officer who was mad at his commander or who was not properly rewarded or promoted. Finding and recruiting the right man is common tradecraft for our cia guys. The only difference is that it is usually done overseas in some third world hellhole or other. No reason It would not go,down the same in the good ol,us of a. Best source for the coup leader would be a Brigadier rank officer leading a brigade in the dc area. Preferably one with tanks and artillery.
I think it really interesting that when you all come for black voters you never ask why. For me it healthcare. The Republican Party does not offer any alternative. It also interesting you never come for white evangelicals who vote at a larger rate. I wonder why. I am sticking with Democratic Party.
Kimberly, health care in the U.S. is a big mess, and neither party has answers so far. Obamacare is a step towards universal healthcare, where we may indeed end up. That's fine, but get ready for rationed care a la Canada and the U.K. Sweden allows its citizens to have an optional private policy.
Let's have a serious discussion. If you smoke or skydive, your life insurance costs more because the risk of a claim is statistically higher. But not with health insurance: people who do drugs, eat themselves to obesity or engage in risky behaviors (e.g. gunfights) suck the vast majority of health care dollars. Every ER has regular repeat customers that the staff know by name. People fly into this country every day on tourist visas and present themselves to emergency rooms for complex and expensive procedures. Free. We'll spend millions treating a single patient for cancer but little on preventative medicine or education. Have you talked to people in Canada or the UK that need anything out of the ordinary? There are a lot of tough issues here, and neither party gives a rat's ass about a solution. Federal employees and Congress have their own health care plan. Unlike yours, it is guaranteed by the U.S. Government.
It's complicated, I agree, but our healthcare options and costs have been much worse since Obamacare was passed. No one talks about all the exemptions he put into place for his cronies like large labor unions. No one talks about the skyrocketing costs of premiums. No one talks about the limits placed on where people can go to get healthcare.
I don't agree that we should get rid of Medicare. I *do* think we should take of "the least of these", but as the parent of an adult disabled child who has just gone on Medicare, I can tell you the system is bloated and broken.
I hope Republicans will listen to new ideas and solutions and not throw the baby out with the bathwater, but from where I sit, using 1/4 of my income on health costs to keep my adult son alive (and I'll likely be working well into my 70's), the Democrats get no high marks from me on healthcare.
Try not having no access to Healthcare after working 30 years and 1 health emergency can change your life. I would rather have access than nothing. In addition, think about hospital bills affect our credit score.
Do you know me.. Healthcare is very important. It can take one accident or one diagnosis that can change your life. Again. you never come for white evangelicals who have a voter rate for GOP. That is because it does not fit the narrative. I am so glad black women vote with Democratic Party at a high rate.
Did you think that healthcare is a "black" issue? We all need healthcare.
Did you think that "free" healthcare is really free? It's coming out of all of our taxes.
I laugh out loud at the people who hope for "Medicare for all." My wife and I are on Medicare. We paid in for our entire adult lives, and got nothing. Now that we are over 65, we get healthcare, and pay $340/month for the two of us, AFTER having paid in for forty years. So, there's your "free" healthcare.
I have healthcare and I have worked at my current employer for over 20years. So this Is not about me. If southing happens to me I am fine. 13yrs ago ...My mother had a heart attack on her way to work (30years on her job) and her healthcare kicked in and exhausted after she was no longer able to work. After she was unable to work again we tried to get her healthcare and no healthcare providers wanted to cover her because of precondition - heart attack. My mother died about 2years later... So I vote for people like mother who unable to get healthcare and now can get the Affordable Care Act.
No. She had healthcare at that time she was a full time employee. After the attack. She was unable to return to work which affected her healthcare and long term care. Which resulted in a loss of coverage.
That's the Affordable Care act that my stepson and his wife can't afford to be on. It's a rip off unless of course you're low income, and then they pay for it for you out of middle income families' taxes.
Oh ...middle income families' taxes. So why if taxes were so important.. Why did GOP give tax breaks to the rich that are permanent and people like me taxes go up. Make it make sense. Oh that right Triple Down Economics.. More boats, planes and houses to buy with money from paying no taxes.
White evangelicals supported Trump which was mostly a backlash against Republican establishment. No such backlash exists among black women and DNC. Black men are slowly waking up. Black women, forget it. They're hooked on two fronts: liberal feminism and the emptiness of left race politics. Look at Cardi B or Meghan Thee Stallion and tell me something isn't deeply wrong. Black women are the most important voting demo in the US but the most dehumanized.
It is unfortunate the black women you think of Cardi or Meghan. Although the are taxpayers just like you and me. The are also other accomplished Black Women like VP Kamala Harris, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Keisha Lance Bottoms but like I said I am glad black women vote and large rate.
Those are terrible examples of "successful" Black women. Try real success stories like Oprah, Sheila Johnson, Shonda Rhimes, Cathy Hughes, and don't forget Madame CJ Walker.
No I don't think Cardi or Meghan represent all black women, only a sign of the continued wreckage of Democrat loyalty that undermines social and economic advancement. You seem happy with DNC, it's a free country - have at it.
It is funny the most demographic person who benefits from social and economic advancement is white women. There is lots of data to prove that. Yet in the last two presidential elections cycles the voted in large numbers for the Republican Party.
I'm currently traveling on a cruise ship in the Middle East with some crazy old selfish white folks who are acting like it's the end of days. "Cracker culture" emanating from the old cracker culture in the British Isles?
Seriously, you should closely examine the demise of American whites--- excessive deaths from opioid and meth overdosing, high suicide rate, alcoholism, and low fertility rate. Check out impoverished white areas like Appalachia or where I live in the South. Many can't make a rational distinction between the Affordable Health Care Act and Obamacare because of identity politics. I am sure you want white folks to have easy access to mental health care, particularly in this day and age of the growing self-destructive white cults distributing misinformation and disinformation to the under-educated and vulnerable.
Looking at historical data, whites have killed each other by the multiple millions through endless European wars, including mass genocide of the Jews, Slavs, gypsies, and the permanently disabled. The war in Ukraine is a continuation of massive white-on-white violence. Europeans even committed mass genocide against indigenous people around the world to take away their stuff, including labor (social capital). The horror...the horror...the horror!
White racists created the ghettos in Chicago and inner cities through several years of discriminatory practices against blacks, especially with government redlining and racial covenants. You admit living in Los Angeles where my parents were prevented from purchasing a 1,200-square-foot home in Santa Monica even though my dad received GI benefits from being a WWII veteran. White folks didn’t give a fuck about his sacrifice in Guadalcanal. He returned home as a second-class citizen after serving in a segregated army.
Today, those houses are valued at up to 2 million dollars. My inherited generational wealth? John McWhorter is the exception to the rule. Lol! Needless to say, the white affirmation programs were something else (structural/institutional racism!). Your cognitive dissonance is very bad, even based on documented empirical facts.
[Drive-by shootings] were first invented by white crackers driving into black Chicago neighborhoods and shooting at the homes of blacks who competitively worked at the meat processing centers. Whites were the first rioters and looters (i.e., klan). Read the book, "Cracker Culture: Celtics..."
Furthermore, you have not mentioned the 4,500 lynchings of blacks (including men, women, and children) during Jim Crow with impunity. The castration of black men and rape of black women by so-called Christian white men. Body parts were sold as souvenirs. Your grandpa kept his prized envy secreted in a Mason Jar in the basement before he died. Now, you probably have it to help celebrate your Confederate heritage.
And, poverty is empirically correlated to crime and violence. Europe was a shihole before the transatlantic slave trade and colonization: reeking of extreme poverty/crime, rampant diseases wiping out half its population, lack of natural resources, and debauchery (priests raping children).
Antebellum Southern cracker culture emanated from the old cracker culture in Wales, Ireland Northern England, and Scotland. It had a very negative effect on black slaves in the South. Blacks from the West Indies, not exposed to the Antebellum Southern cracker culture have done better than native American blacks, to say the least, the Nigerian success. However, these groups are more conscious of their blackness after migrating to the United States and being around racist whites.
I'll be more at peace when this cruise ship that I'm on finishes its sail on the Red Sea (merchant ships being targeted with rockets/drones by Muslim extremists) and in the Gulf of Aden above Somalia (high pirate threat). Because of the Hamas-Israeli conflict, we tried to cancel this trip to the Middle East. However, NCL refused to refund our prepaid fare or replace it with a future cruise. The passenger capacity on this ship is 2,600. However, there are currently about 1,500 passengers on this ship, I guess the 1,100 didn’t want to take the risk and forfeited their full fares. 😀
Another litany of excuses for barbaric uncivilized behaviors.
Interesting how when one hears of advancements in medicine, science, agriculture, engineering, energy, telecommunications, finance, and labor saving devices, one thinks of one group.
And when one hears of carjackings, drive by shootings, looting, low test scores, administrative incompetence, and the inability to compete in a modern society without massive intervention, one thinks of another.
Fair winds Monty, enjoy all the blessings the white man has provided and shared with you.
IMO, most of today's problems stem from fundamental failures/miscalculations of the Civil Rights Movement - i.e., that advancing civil rights and liberties of African Americans would de facto create an economic base. Something Booker T. Washington understood wouldn't work in the 19th century.
The most meaningful critique of the Democrat Party is that it's an exhausted and failed apparatus born of the Civil Rights Era. Infantilization is what you get with endless activism and no real economic power. Just endless whining and crying.
But most crying babies are trying to communicate a real need, they just lack the language to express themselves. Similarly: the monopoly of the CRM has so restricted the flow of information and ideas, that most "activists" lack the language to articulate complex problems beyond a framework of law, rights, liberties, etc.
I'm not trivializing the achievements of the 50's and 60's. But let's not beat around the bush: attacking the Democrat Party is a veiled attack on the Civil Rights Movement, which very few in polite society will seriously discuss.
“Multiracially white” so does that mean Elvis is invited to the cookout as an authentic expression of culture? The cheetah print bed at Graceland is a holy relic for my people.
Infantilize, imprison, condemn to a lifetime of poor outcomes.
What's your net worth? What do you own and control? Lol!
My net worth and all other details of my financial status are none of your business.
Is it because you're probably an angry broke white man? Do feel that you're a victim of sketchy black progress in America? Trump supporter? Will authoritarianism/fascism rescue the white race in the world? Low birthrates? Lol!!!!
Peace, out.
Infantilize, imprison, condemn to a lifetime of poor outcomes.
Arrogance and Condescension stem from pride, which dems have too much of. I like the fact that Erec is libertarian-ish (as I do not know his official status). I believe the ideal human would be part conservative, liberal and Objectivist/Libertarian. What percentage of each category is up for debate. Please, fellow Republicans - observe the state of corruption among Democrats. Such could also become our fate if we give in to extremism in the opposite direction.
I've had many Republicans on the other side at my desks at the prisons I worked at, former businessmen, and child molesters. John White got only 2 years for swindling millions of dollars of life savings from people while John Black got 10 years for robbing someone of 2 dollars. Who did the most damage?
I bet you're married to a white woman. I usually study negro meritorious manumission and Samboism around the world, especially in America. I just visited Jeddah, Saudi Arabia today---very impressed. Very low crime rate and the government (wealthy) takes care of their less fortunate citizens. Prescription drugs are much cheaper here. For $450.00 worth of prescription drugs in the ship's medical, it would cost about $35.00 in a local pharmacy in Jeddah.
What difference does the spouse's race make?
Crime in the Kingdom is largely invisible: effectively, at least 14 million people are held in slavery. Women are beaten by husbands; some are killed with no consequences.
Drug pricing by country is incredibly complex. Unless you already have a deep understanding of the drivers and leverds in the industry, I won't take the time to educate you.
*anti-black
The race of my spouse is significant for me. My black spouse and I share a common ancestry and struggle, even though we're high-income earners. If divorce occurs, assets are kept in the pool of black group wealth.
A broke white boy from Texas attempted to marry my stepdaughter who owns a home with two sons without a prenuptial agreement. He wanted to move his father and sister in. Fortunately, she came to her senses after being counseled by her mother and me.
My son is married to a white woman. They have two biracial kids, 9 and 7, which I've never seen. I've never openly expressed to him my disapproval of his relationship with white women. Maintaining a relationship with him was more important. He's in a strange world.
"Crime in the Kingdom is largely invisible." Lol! I wasn't born yesterday. I worked in the prison industrial complex in the United States for 34 years. Black mass incarceration in America is slavery, thanks to Jim Crow Joe Biden's racist 1994 crime bill which over-penalized black drug offenders (crack cocaine) vs white drug offenders (cocaine). States were guaranteed federal funds if they implemented the 3 strikes laws. 100 years of Jim Crow through the 1960s was semi-slavery, ending only 55 years ago.
Many white sexual perverts (including professionals) go to Thailand and the African continent to have sex with underage kids. I didn’t witness slaves in Egypt or Saudi Arabia. I did note that highly educated blacks.
My great paternal great-grandmother was brutally raped by a scumbag Scots-Irishman with impunity. My grandmother and an aunt died because white hospitals refused to provide emergency medical care.
My late father, a WWII vet who served in a shithole in the Pacific theater, along with his brother in the European theater, returned home as second-class citizens. Black soldiers in uniform on their way back home to America were subjected to the high risk of being lynched or murdered by white men in the South.
Drug pricing isn't complex. Capitalism and greed is a major problem in America. I've traveled all the continents. My medical care overseas has been great and much cheaper.
There's nothing you can teach me. I don't give a damn about your absurd conservative economic models. They're based on your politics. Furthermore, conservatism is ant-black as clearly demonstrated by historical facts (i.e., the Southern strategy, lack of support financial support to correct past injustices done to blacks, and anti-civil rights).
It's not just a Black thing. Are Palestinians helpless victims of circumstance, or are they autonomous and capable of managing their own country? Is it "I am woman , hear me roar", or alternatively, "I am woman, hold the door"? And don't even get me start on the LGBTQ etc. double mindedness!
Part of it is the tecnology. TV favors hyper-dramatized and oversimplified conflict, facilitating movement across the diagonal of the screen. Think, car chases and NFL football. Jerry Mander wrote a book about this ages ago, "4 arguments for the elimination of television". Maybe it's too bad it didn't happen....
Wouldn't it be something if the Palestinians had nukes like Israel and the North Koreans? Lol!
Palestinians couldn't operate a Philips screwdriver without Iran's support.
I've said for years that if anyone treated me like progressives treat blacks, I'd kick them where it hurts most. The condescending, superiority attitude of many progressives is disgusting.
My dad was a very hard working-illiterate construction laborer and my mom cleaned the nasty homes of upper-middle-class white people. My wife and I successfully retired 17 years ago after working 34 years in our respective careers. I worked in corrections, including management. My wife, Dr...is a retired School District Superintendent, college professor, and school insurance CEO. Our family members have done exceptionally well-- a Chancellor at a major HBCU, a former city manager, a retired superior court judge, lawyers, physicians, engineers, land owners, commissioned military officers, and business people. My late paternal grandfather owned a successful 400-acre farm which remains with the family in South Virginia. My wife's late parents, an electrician and maid, wisely invested in land in California and passed on millions of dollars to their heirs. My wife gave her share to her 2 daughters who are college graduates, gainfully employed, and married. My wife and I put up with a lot of crap from crazy dysfunctional white folks during our respective careers.
White supremacy and negro meritorious manumission enablers are more disgusting. Blacks need their political party for serious quid pro quo, and perhaps a separate state with harbors. Both parties are two wings on the same trifling bird.
There's a lot I disagree with in what you say. But I don't trust either party any more than you do, and with good reason.
There are Black states with harbors, just not in the USA.
I'm talking about a black state on the American Continent to remedy the past 400 years of white fuckery against black descendants of slavery. America's economic foundation was built off the backs of free African labor. You benefitted. The financial institutions that were involved in black chattel slavery are still present today. My home is here where the corpses of my ancestors lay buried across the country.
Yeah, I thought that's what you meant. Never mind that my white relatives never owned slaves, and fought and died to FREE them. Never mind that it is the democratic party that is responsible for fighting and killing my ancestors, in order to KEEP slavery. Never mind that it is the democratic party that is responsible for the KKK and Jim Crow. Never mind that every black ghetto in America is ruled by democrats. The facts, the truth, don't matter to a bigot. Right?
REPUBLICAN PARTY SOUTHERN STRATEGY. --- "You start out in 1954 by saying, “Ni**er, n**er, ni**er.” By 1968 you can’t say “ni**er”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Ni**er, ni**er.” -- Lee Altwater, GOP STRATEGIST.
😎😎😎DEBUNKING FALSE ASSERTIONS ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE KLAN.
"In a June 10, 2013, PolitiFact Virginia article, Carole Emberton, associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo, noted that the "party lines of the 1860s/1870s are not the party lines of today."
"Although the names stayed the same, the platforms of the two parties reversed each other in the mid-20th century, due in large part to white ‘Dixiecrats’ flight out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964," she said. "By then, the Democratic Party had become the party of ‘reform,’ supporting a variety of ‘liberal’ causes, including civil rights, women’s rights, etc. whereas this had been the banner of the Republican Party in the nineteenth century."
https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2017/oct/23/dane-county-republican-party/debunking-claim-kkk-was-founded-military-arm-democ/
There is a closely guarded secret that has been deliberately buried by mainstream media and historians: After the Civil War (and during the war), millions of freed Black people were funneled into concentration camps in America and killed through forced starvation, and other means.Many of these locations were called “contraband camps”, and they were hastily built internment camps that were generally in proximity to Union army camps. One gruesome camp, in particular, was located in Natchez, Ms. The Devil’s Punchbowl is a place located in Natchez, where during the Civil War, authorities forced tens of thousands of freed slaves to live in these American death camps. Researcher Paula Westbrook said, “The union army did not allow them to remove the bodies from the camp. They just gave ’em shovels and said bury ’em where they drop.” “When the slaves
were released from the plantations during the occupation they overran Natchez. The population went from about 10,000 to 120,000 overnight,” Westbrook said. “So they decided to build an encampment for ’em at Devil’s Punchbowl which they walled off and wouldn’t let ’em out,” Don Estes, former director of the Natchez City Cemetery, said. In Natchez, Mississipi alone, officials estimate that in the time span of just one year, over 20,000 free Black people were killed in the concentration camp called The Devil’s Punchbowl-- SPMG Media
I've accused you of being racist, and you've proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
The republicans disqualify themselves with both the black and white workers by there attempts to cut social security and health care for the poor. This is simply a nonstarter. The conversation is over on all the other issues because this is something that is life and death for grandma.
A nonstarter, MD, is when both programs run out of money. The U.S. spends twice what any other country does per capita on health care, with sub-average outcomes. With the GAO finding tens of billions of fraud annually, you don't think there's room for improvement? Medicare will run out of money by 2031, Social Security by 2033. By law, Social Security is not allowed to borrow money - the program MUST be made solvent. Bush W tried to ensure SS solvency in 2004-05 but the Democrats refused to take up the issue. The recent Republican debate shows that none of the candidates has much of an understanding of the Social Security Act, and I'm pretty sure Biden doesn't either. Trump poo-poo'd it as well. The nonstarter is coming, like it or not.
I assume you know what happens to aristocrats who break their bond with working people. Especially if the workers are armed to the teeth and have a ton 9f ammo. Aristocrats easily be replaced, annd money is just paper. But blood is blood annd we each have only one neck. Furthermore, the blade of a guillotine is a non- stopper.
Interesting comment, MD. I'm not sure what to make of it. I would only add that aristocrats who control their state security apparatus (Putin, the Ayatollah, Xi, Maduro, Ortega to name a few) seem to do quite well in dealing with the rabble. In our own case, the fact that the FBI took sides in politics and intervened illegally moves us a step closer to that storied group.
Like the border, Social Security reform is not rocket science. We just need some bi-partisan political will.
The point is that if the rabble are armed and angry enough, then the elite can no longer rely on their mercenaries. It becomes tempting for the military commander of the regime forces to switch sides, join the rebels, and hang his boss. This has been done over and over in history when an existing empire becomes overextended and decadent. It is monotonous and only can red about it in the Bible or in the vedas or in the Greek literature. . So a Corsican general orders his troops to arrest anyone who can possible oppose him. He hangs all who refuse to submit, and then he simply declaims himself to be dictator for life.
Maybe in another era, but it didn’t happen in any of the examples I gave. And as any military-trained individual will tell you, “redneck” Americans don’t stand a chance against FBI or BAT firepower today. Individuals may be able to use the 2nd amendment to perhaps defend their homes, but they don’t stand a chance if Federal law enforcement decides they don’t like what those citizens say about their patrons, 1st Amendment be damned.
You won’t seem to take my point. The hunta backing the coup would include people high in FBI or CIA and must include leader of a mechanized unit in DC area. Many such will exist if Biden continues to destroy the constitution. The outside support would be mainly funded by Taiwanise, Israeli and Ukrainian intelligence using the very money appropriated to support their war efforts. The key is to put artillery on Arlington heights, to block Key bridge with tanks, and to also put tanks on the mall and at all the big DC traffic circles like DuPont circle. A provocation by some rag tag rebels force of a few thousand infantry could storm and hold the capital and white house and arrest the democrats and all their supporters and hold them hostage. Then the actual coup leader would then activate and “save the day” by staging a dramatic rescue and restore order. Alas, too late, the president and congressional leadership are dead and so martial law must be declared. The leader of the rescue would be a low level officer who was mad at his commander or who was not properly rewarded or promoted. Finding and recruiting the right man is common tradecraft for our cia guys. The only difference is that it is usually done overseas in some third world hellhole or other. No reason It would not go,down the same in the good ol,us of a. Best source for the coup leader would be a Brigadier rank officer leading a brigade in the dc area. Preferably one with tanks and artillery.
I think it really interesting that when you all come for black voters you never ask why. For me it healthcare. The Republican Party does not offer any alternative. It also interesting you never come for white evangelicals who vote at a larger rate. I wonder why. I am sticking with Democratic Party.
Kimberly, health care in the U.S. is a big mess, and neither party has answers so far. Obamacare is a step towards universal healthcare, where we may indeed end up. That's fine, but get ready for rationed care a la Canada and the U.K. Sweden allows its citizens to have an optional private policy.
Let's have a serious discussion. If you smoke or skydive, your life insurance costs more because the risk of a claim is statistically higher. But not with health insurance: people who do drugs, eat themselves to obesity or engage in risky behaviors (e.g. gunfights) suck the vast majority of health care dollars. Every ER has regular repeat customers that the staff know by name. People fly into this country every day on tourist visas and present themselves to emergency rooms for complex and expensive procedures. Free. We'll spend millions treating a single patient for cancer but little on preventative medicine or education. Have you talked to people in Canada or the UK that need anything out of the ordinary? There are a lot of tough issues here, and neither party gives a rat's ass about a solution. Federal employees and Congress have their own health care plan. Unlike yours, it is guaranteed by the U.S. Government.
It's complicated, I agree, but our healthcare options and costs have been much worse since Obamacare was passed. No one talks about all the exemptions he put into place for his cronies like large labor unions. No one talks about the skyrocketing costs of premiums. No one talks about the limits placed on where people can go to get healthcare.
I don't agree that we should get rid of Medicare. I *do* think we should take of "the least of these", but as the parent of an adult disabled child who has just gone on Medicare, I can tell you the system is bloated and broken.
I hope Republicans will listen to new ideas and solutions and not throw the baby out with the bathwater, but from where I sit, using 1/4 of my income on health costs to keep my adult son alive (and I'll likely be working well into my 70's), the Democrats get no high marks from me on healthcare.
Try not having no access to Healthcare after working 30 years and 1 health emergency can change your life. I would rather have access than nothing. In addition, think about hospital bills affect our credit score.
I do understand; I have been there with my son.
C'mon it's so much bigger than healthcare. It's because Democrats have successfully conflated ethnic/racial and political identities.
Do you know me.. Healthcare is very important. It can take one accident or one diagnosis that can change your life. Again. you never come for white evangelicals who have a voter rate for GOP. That is because it does not fit the narrative. I am so glad black women vote with Democratic Party at a high rate.
Did you think that healthcare is a "black" issue? We all need healthcare.
Did you think that "free" healthcare is really free? It's coming out of all of our taxes.
I laugh out loud at the people who hope for "Medicare for all." My wife and I are on Medicare. We paid in for our entire adult lives, and got nothing. Now that we are over 65, we get healthcare, and pay $340/month for the two of us, AFTER having paid in for forty years. So, there's your "free" healthcare.
I have healthcare and I have worked at my current employer for over 20years. So this Is not about me. If southing happens to me I am fine. 13yrs ago ...My mother had a heart attack on her way to work (30years on her job) and her healthcare kicked in and exhausted after she was no longer able to work. After she was unable to work again we tried to get her healthcare and no healthcare providers wanted to cover her because of precondition - heart attack. My mother died about 2years later... So I vote for people like mother who unable to get healthcare and now can get the Affordable Care Act.
So when your mother presented to the ER they turned her away?
No. She had healthcare at that time she was a full time employee. After the attack. She was unable to return to work which affected her healthcare and long term care. Which resulted in a loss of coverage.
That's the Affordable Care act that my stepson and his wife can't afford to be on. It's a rip off unless of course you're low income, and then they pay for it for you out of middle income families' taxes.
Oh ...middle income families' taxes. So why if taxes were so important.. Why did GOP give tax breaks to the rich that are permanent and people like me taxes go up. Make it make sense. Oh that right Triple Down Economics.. More boats, planes and houses to buy with money from paying no taxes.
White evangelicals supported Trump which was mostly a backlash against Republican establishment. No such backlash exists among black women and DNC. Black men are slowly waking up. Black women, forget it. They're hooked on two fronts: liberal feminism and the emptiness of left race politics. Look at Cardi B or Meghan Thee Stallion and tell me something isn't deeply wrong. Black women are the most important voting demo in the US but the most dehumanized.
You've made some good comments, Greg.
It is unfortunate the black women you think of Cardi or Meghan. Although the are taxpayers just like you and me. The are also other accomplished Black Women like VP Kamala Harris, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Keisha Lance Bottoms but like I said I am glad black women vote and large rate.
Those are terrible examples of "successful" Black women. Try real success stories like Oprah, Sheila Johnson, Shonda Rhimes, Cathy Hughes, and don't forget Madame CJ Walker.
No I don't think Cardi or Meghan represent all black women, only a sign of the continued wreckage of Democrat loyalty that undermines social and economic advancement. You seem happy with DNC, it's a free country - have at it.
It is funny the most demographic person who benefits from social and economic advancement is white women. There is lots of data to prove that. Yet in the last two presidential elections cycles the voted in large numbers for the Republican Party.
The majority of black voters like it that way.
Good luck.
I'm currently traveling on a cruise ship in the Middle East with some crazy old selfish white folks who are acting like it's the end of days. "Cracker culture" emanating from the old cracker culture in the British Isles?
Could be worse.
You could be in Chicago.
597 killed
2371 wounded
The Mayor believes white supremacy is to blame. ✌🏼
Seriously, you should closely examine the demise of American whites--- excessive deaths from opioid and meth overdosing, high suicide rate, alcoholism, and low fertility rate. Check out impoverished white areas like Appalachia or where I live in the South. Many can't make a rational distinction between the Affordable Health Care Act and Obamacare because of identity politics. I am sure you want white folks to have easy access to mental health care, particularly in this day and age of the growing self-destructive white cults distributing misinformation and disinformation to the under-educated and vulnerable.
Looking at historical data, whites have killed each other by the multiple millions through endless European wars, including mass genocide of the Jews, Slavs, gypsies, and the permanently disabled. The war in Ukraine is a continuation of massive white-on-white violence. Europeans even committed mass genocide against indigenous people around the world to take away their stuff, including labor (social capital). The horror...the horror...the horror!
White racists created the ghettos in Chicago and inner cities through several years of discriminatory practices against blacks, especially with government redlining and racial covenants. You admit living in Los Angeles where my parents were prevented from purchasing a 1,200-square-foot home in Santa Monica even though my dad received GI benefits from being a WWII veteran. White folks didn’t give a fuck about his sacrifice in Guadalcanal. He returned home as a second-class citizen after serving in a segregated army.
Today, those houses are valued at up to 2 million dollars. My inherited generational wealth? John McWhorter is the exception to the rule. Lol! Needless to say, the white affirmation programs were something else (structural/institutional racism!). Your cognitive dissonance is very bad, even based on documented empirical facts.
[Drive-by shootings] were first invented by white crackers driving into black Chicago neighborhoods and shooting at the homes of blacks who competitively worked at the meat processing centers. Whites were the first rioters and looters (i.e., klan). Read the book, "Cracker Culture: Celtics..."
Furthermore, you have not mentioned the 4,500 lynchings of blacks (including men, women, and children) during Jim Crow with impunity. The castration of black men and rape of black women by so-called Christian white men. Body parts were sold as souvenirs. Your grandpa kept his prized envy secreted in a Mason Jar in the basement before he died. Now, you probably have it to help celebrate your Confederate heritage.
And, poverty is empirically correlated to crime and violence. Europe was a shihole before the transatlantic slave trade and colonization: reeking of extreme poverty/crime, rampant diseases wiping out half its population, lack of natural resources, and debauchery (priests raping children).
Antebellum Southern cracker culture emanated from the old cracker culture in Wales, Ireland Northern England, and Scotland. It had a very negative effect on black slaves in the South. Blacks from the West Indies, not exposed to the Antebellum Southern cracker culture have done better than native American blacks, to say the least, the Nigerian success. However, these groups are more conscious of their blackness after migrating to the United States and being around racist whites.