The fundamentalist Christians and the maga right can not tolerate positive affirming media about LGBTQIA, independent women, or black people because it ruins their narrative. They want to push the idea that women need men to function and be whole, that blacks are lazy and less intelligent, and that the LGBTQIA are evil incarnate that will destroy everything good in the country / world and god hates them, so god will take it out on everyone if they are treated decently. They are desperate to push the 1950s social narrative that white men are good, the Christian god is the right and only god in public, and that cis straight is normal so every thing else is an abhorrent abomination. They are wrong and stuck in a regressive oppressive past, unable to let others enjoy the modern world. They are modern Amish, only they demand that everyone live like them. Without positive reinforcement the lives of LGBTQIA and minority kids are much harder, much more anxiety ridden, much more unpleasant. Kids learn to hate themselves. They learn that others hate them and are free to attack them. So they either keep hidden, missing out on great times straight cis kids are having along with a much higher risk of suicide. Hugs
Category: History
Fascism creeps …
Please read the quote below from the post on Ten Bear’s site. Then think of the things tRump and his supporters claim they plan to do. Hugs. Scottie
White Rose survivor Jürgen Wittenstein described what it was like to live in Hitler’s Germany: “The government – or rather, the party – controlled everything: the news media, arms, police, the armed forces, the judiciary system, communications, travel, all levels of education from kindergarten to universities, all cultural and religious institutions. Political indoctrination started at a very early age, and continued by means of the Hitler Youth with the ultimate goal of complete mind control. Children were exhorted in school to denounce even their own parents for derogatory remarks about Hitler or Nazi ideology.”
Florida Guard Gets Weapons Training To Battle Migrants
Remember state national guards are under the control of both the state and the DOD, and have to observe military rules. Deathsantis created his own militia, totally under the singular control of the governor of Florida. It is the governor’s private army. The republican legislature gave Deathsantis a huge amount of money from the Florida taxpayers for this, and then twice added even more millions. Normally these types of state national guards are there to help with national disasters like floods and hurricanes and are trained for that work. But the governor’s private army is training with weapons, boats, and aircraft to attack people, non-white people. Right now DeathSantis makes it seem Florida is being overrun with migrants and illegal immigrants, but remember when he needed a press stunt to fly immigrants out of state they had to go to Texas to get enough to partially fill the plane. We get most of our undocumented immigrants from Cuba, but because there is a huge republican voting group of Cubans in Florida. While DeathSantis keeps pretending to be a tough man by threatening to “flatten” the Bahamas, which is a place that has never threatened or been a threat to the US, yet he ignores that Cuba once did have Soviet bases they were going to put missiles in, and now has a Chinese spy base designed to hear US military traffic. But that is what happens when you are pretending to be a tough guy instead of being one. Oh, and did I mention you have to pass the ideological screening to be a member, which means you have to be a republican maga white supremacist Christian nationalist bigot who hates the LGBTQIA and wants kids indoctrinated with Christian hate. Oh did I mention that DeathSantis insisted that they be given arrest powers so they can arrest / detain, and remove people including those the governor thinks shouldn’t be voting. Hugs. Scottie
December 21, 2023
The Orlando Sentinel reports:
A select group of volunteers expected to help Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis intercept migrants at sea gathered at a Panhandle combat training facility this fall for lessons on how to use rifles and pistols, treat “massive hemorrhages” and practice “aerial gunnery.”
A $1.2 million purchase order signed in August makes clear the DeSantis administration felt it had an “immediate and emergent need for specially trained personnel” to intercept migrants traveling by boat.
A draft plan of instruction shows the vendor, Stronghold SOF Solutions, offered to recruit, vet and train volunteers at its facility in Defuniak Springs. The contract was executed without a competitive process, made possible after DeSantis declared a state emergency in January related to illegal immigration.
Read the full article. Earlier this year some members of DeSantis’s private army quit during training, saying they didn’t sign up to be part of what they feel is a militia.
Given that handling immigration is clearly a federal issue, why has the DOJ allowed this?
You can’t charge someone with breaking a law until they have broken it. It’s more likely than not, the FBI has underground observers in the ranks. The FBI is unlikely to announce who and what they investigating.
“States have the power to create defense forces separate from the national guard, though not all of them use it. If Florida moves ahead with DeSantis’ plan to reestablish the civilian force, it would become the 23rd active state guard in the country, DeSantis’ office said in a press release, joining California, Texas and New York. These guards are little-known auxiliary forces with origins dating back to the advent of state militias in the 18th century. While states and the Department of Defense share control of the National Guard, state guards are solely in the power of a governor.
The Florida State Guard was created in 1941 during World War II as a temporary force to fill the void left behind when the Florida National Guard was deployed to assist in the US combat efforts. It was disbanded after the war ended, but the authority for a governor to establish a state defense force remained.”
Thank you. The creation of the forces are legal, but to use them to ‘combat’ migrants without coordination of DHS seems like it would not be legal.
The ACLU is currently suing Texas for passing laws allow the state to arrest and deport migrants
Well just wait and see what happens when one of these yahoo’s shoots and kills an immigrant on US soil.
The DOJ will also take flack for not intervening sooner, as you and I both feel should happen.
And yet the Cubans who scream about the dangers of Democrats and socialism clap and cheer at a state police force.
What a joke.
Are they stupid, or what? “Jews for Hitler!” “Blacks for Trump!”
Meanwhile, LEGAL migrant farm workers have said they plan to avoid working in Florida due to the hostile and dangerous environment for them there.
I’m sure the farmers and orchard owners will be thrilled.
They’ll just sell to developers for more McMansions.
Maybe they should borrow from Lydia and allow 13 year olds work 8 hours in the fields before school…
p.s.
Just don’t call them “Brownshirts” because then that would be too obvious.
What could possibly go wrong?
The stupidity here is that it’s the migrant farm workers who are picking Florida’s oranges and winter vegetables. Go right ahead and shoot yourself in the foot … morons!
DeSantis could decide to use them against Floridians that won’t obey him. Texas would rapidly follow suit.
So. No crops will be harvested or construction projects finished on schedule. Good job.
Oh they’re going to do away with child labor laws and send the little brats out to do that work. Kids don’t need education–they might get woke and start thinking for themselves and grow up to vote democrat. (sic) And what the hell? 6 year olds with machetes. What could go wrong?
Largely because the Florida Democratic Party couldn’t fight its way out of a paper bag.
What kind of training and munitions would be necessary to confront desperate, dehydrated migrants on rafts and rowboats?! Jesus Christ…
Hosing the darker people with assault rifles, especially the kids. You know that’s the plan.
I hope he stops every speed boat he can find and ruin the entire tourist industry
DeSantis arming his brownshirts.
How tf will they know who to target? Someone who looks like me? We went through all this in Arizona ffs with Sheriff Joe.
I think their message is if you are born brown, you just have to expect this. I’m sick of it.
Brown and Black people in boats. Any boats. Even if they’re a resident and own it.
Anyone they feel isn’t white enough.
The SA FG wants you!
If You Behaved Like God
Wow this short animated video shows how silly / and abusive the Fundamentalist version of the Christian God is! Hugs Scottie.
Let’s talk about Iowa, Tennessee, and a temple….
Why Israel has so many Palestinian prisoners
Israel has over 7,000 Palestinians in prison, most held without charges. The others faced long sentences for gathers of 10 or more for what Israel calls political expression. Palestinians are banned from displaying their flag or political symbols. Again a 10 year prison sentence. 10 years if a Palestinian orally attempts to influence public opinion in a way Israel thinks would harm public peace. Remember, these rules only apply to the Palestinians, not the Israeli settlers in Palestinian territory. Life in prison for any act that Israel determines a disturbance or a danger to the security of the area or threats the security of the IDF (military). That includes kids throwing rocks at the illegal wall Israel built in Palestinian territory. Of course the laws are written very vague so they can be applied to anything a Palestinian does that someone in Israel doesn’t like. Remember that while Israeli media and people held huge events celebrating the return of their family members, the Palestinians were warned they would be all be arrested if there was a similar celebration of returning family members.
Do you not see the Palestinians are kept in an open air prison with every aspect of their lives under the military control of Israeli IDF and at the mercy of any Jewish citizen who harms them. I recently watched a video of an illegal Jewish settler walk up to a Palestinian man who was unarmed and just shoot him. A few feet away was an Israel Soldier who did nothing. On the Palestinian’s land, he was a farmer shot on his own property. The Jewish man was never charged. There is more in the video. Hugs. Scottie
Each one of these Palestinian prisoners has been processed by Israel’s military court system, which exists completely separate from the civilian court system that Jewish Israelis interact with. This system and the military orders that govern it have their origins in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967.
In this video, two experts explain Israel’s military court system, why it’s been a focus of outcry from human rights organizations and why hostage negotiations have historically involved the exchange of Palestinian prisoners.
Let’s talk about a poll spelling trouble for the US and Israel….
Bari Weiss Had No Problem Permanently Cancelling Palestinian Writer And His Family
Daily Wire Host: “I Support Christian Nationalism”
It was founded explicitly as a Christian nation in 1620 by the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock who sailed here on the Mayflower.
No, stupid, the pilgrims are not the same as the founding fathers
and the Pilgrims of the Plymouth colony were different than the Puritan founders of the Mass Bay Colony who were different than the Roger Williams who was kicked out, and formed Rhode Island, let alone the Quakers of Pennsylvania, the Catholics in Maryland, and the Anglicans of Virginia.
(and of course, assorted early Jewish synagogues.)
The Pilgrims were a Hippie commune compared to the Puritans’ capitalism.
Those are just facts, and we know mythology is much stronger than facts in the US today.
Didn’t some states even ban Catholics? Even the idea of what is “Christianity” is up for debate. Catholics, Protestants, Othodox and even Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses disagree on what a “Christian” is.
And the fact that the 1607 Virginia colony was founded earlier and solely as a commercial venture.
And yes, those Puritans & Separatists who set themselves up in Massachusetts Bay & Plymouth didn’t set up “our country.” They set up a religious dictatorship that executed and exiled other sects, like Quakers and Baptists. And, oh yeah, witches too.
This is what happens when the Internet effectively lowers the barriers of entry to zero and anyone with a microphone can potentially draw millions of listeners – and millions of dollars. Networks of decades past wouldn’t have given this kind of bullshit air and it would have been limited to fringe pamphlets handed out at Bircher rallies.
That’s exactly it. The very democratization of information that was supposed to be the liberating part about the internet has instead opened the floodgates to fascist propaganda and disinformation. Any smooth talker with some inexpensive equipment and decent production sense can become an instant thought leader despite having no discernible expertise or talent.
It’s worth noting that it was the rapid spread of new communication technology that enabled the last rise of fascism too.
The Volksempfänger (“people’s receiver”) was a range of low-cost German radio receivers developed by engineer Otto Griessing at the request of Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda of the Nazi regime.
Its purpose was to make radio reception technology affordable to the general public. Goebbels realized the great propaganda potential of this relatively new medium and thus considered widespread availability of receivers highly important.
1936 Nazi propaganda poster, promoting the use of the Volksempfänger. The text can be translated as, “All of Germany hears the Führer with the People’s Receiver.”
Nazis pioneered broadcast television as well.
Word Salad for breakfast.
Half that lot stayed behind, and the passenger list had to be made up from scraping the streets of London in order to make the trip profitable on that old scow.
The colony was very much a mix of “Saints” and “Strangers”. My ancestor Edward Bumpus, who arrived on the ship Fortune in 1621, was very much of the latter category, and notable as America’s first welfare deadbeat. His origins are uncertain, and one theory is that he was one of the “lusty young men” of the Southwark docks.
As long as we’re sharing lusty progenitors, Ahem:
John Howland arrived as the indentured servent to the Carvers, a childless couple who then very conveniently died the very next Sping. Of course, this broke the indenture, and he somehow inherited the entire lot.
He then proceeded to marry Elizabeth Tilley, another Mayflower passenger, producing ten children, each of whom married in turn, spewing another 8-10 apiece. By the third generation, then, we’re dealing with some 75+ people.
John also brought over his brothers Henry and Arthur, each of whom appeared nearly as busy between the sheets.
The real kicker on the last two is that they turned Quaker by mid-century, and promptly got booted to Dartmouth Township, a tract purchased from the Natives, and extending from Fairhaven to the RI border. The Joke was on the Plymouth Colony when New Bedford became fabulously wealthy from whaling, including Howland descendant Henrietta Howland Greene!
They didn’t land on Plymouth Rock – that’s a myth. Like everything else this guy claims.
No, you idiot. It was “founded,” after a fashion, in 1607, when English settlers built Jamestown, in what is now Virginia. Religion had nothing much to do with that one; they were looking to make a profit. They didn’t, but the settlement held, unlike the earlier effort at Roanoke, in what is now NC. The pilgrims were latecomers in 1620; slavery had already arrived in Virginia, in 1619.
Our Founding Fathers made sure that the country they were creating was NOT Christian. They rejected an established church, did not mention Christianity in any of our founding documents, and made their intentions clear in both letters and treaties. Some individuals, certainly, were ardent Christians, like William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. Others, like Thomas Jefferson, rejected the divinity of Jesus. He removed the supernatural happenings and miracles from the Bible, creating a work he called “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.” Most of the Founding Fathers were Deists, not Christian. We are, thanks to them, a secular nation, Mr. Knowles–welcoming all faiths and none–and we need to stay that way.
Geraldo Defends Palestinians And Schools Fox News On The Crisis … May 19, 2021 Nothing has changed, just gotten far worse
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