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    Quote Originally Posted by Gray Lensman View Post
    Washington's legacy is....complicated. On the plus side, he led the army that held on long enough to win independence (he didn't actually win a whole lot, but he kept the army together and a threat in the field), and his post-military career was instrumental in keeping the new nation a republic rather than setting up a new monarchy.

    On the other hand, he was so brutal to the Iroquois that they named him Conotocaurius (Town Destroyer) after ordering a punitive expedition against all tribes of the nation in retaliation for some of them siding with the British - even attacking the tribes that had sided with the Revolution. Plus, he knew history would turn against slavery but was unwilling to part with his personal ownership of fellow human beings during his lifetime, only freeing them after his death (technically the death of his widow, but she was afraid that those terms would encourage them to hasten her demise so she freed them early).

    My own history teacher at the time didn't spend much on Washington and slavery (a footnote about his freeing them in his will) but spent more on the Indian campaigns he ordered, probably as a result of my school district being right in the middle of what used to be Iroquois land.
    And this goes back to my earlier point: what was Washington fighting for? The continuance of white supremacy and racism. Those were the laws he sought to defend and enshrine. If you’re a Native American or Black American, then you might have an issue with lionizing such a person.

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    I'm curious whether McConnell will allow Trump to replace the US Attorney that was overseeing allegations of criminal activity against Trump.

    Would be a gutsy move in an election year.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gray Lensman View Post
    My own history teacher at the time didn't spend much on Washington and slavery
    Which in many ways is the issue at hand -- the hypocrisy of arguing about "erasing history" when that's what's been done from the start.

    Not just with regards to Washington and the other "founding fathers" but with regards to the histories of those they killed and enslaved as well -- people are so quick to talk about the lack of education in the black community or the lack of "family values" but even quicker to ignore the fact that unlike many other immigrants who came by choice, African families and traditions were both demeaned and destroyed upon arrival while said Africans were beaten and killed for trying to educate themselves and still are forced to endure de facto segregation into blatantly separate and unequal school districts while being under constant threat of abuse and death by a routinely unchecked "police" force that has it's origins in the slave patrols of said past.

    It makes sense many downplay the severity of systemic racism and white supremacy given that they are likewise downplayed in our textbooks.

    Likewise there is little mention of the positive accomplishments of non-whites in America -- just a few topics on token civil rights leaders like MLK and Cesar Chavez, some discussion of Chinese immigration and their work on the railroads and a paragraph or so about George Washington Carver, Langston Hughes or the Windtalkers during WW2 -- while the vast majority of said American history involves a growing "minority" population being taught to respect a vast litany of white men many of whom considered people like myself to be less than human.

    Even when teaching the history of individuals like MLK, the racist backlash against said movement is downplayed and then subsequently echoed in the modent era -- most people don't know that it wasn't the protests that led to actual change but the "riots" that happened after he was killed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_assassination_riots

    It could easily be argued that we keep experiencing the same problems with regards to racism and white supremacy as we did four hundred years ago because many American schools refuse to teach the whole truth about history -- such as the numerous riots over police brutality in the past -- and without these facts students (and future voters) can't make objective judgments about how to best to address said issues moving forward.

    If white voters would actually pay heed to said peaceful protests (such as marching on Washington or taking a knee) then there would be no need for repeated uprisings to press the need for actual social progress. Suppress people's votes and oppress their rights and they will naturally rebel -- that's something people claiming to respect Washington should inherently understand but that message gets lost when even he didn't respect the basic human rights of black people and other "minorities".

    It's understandable that many Americans hold individuals such as Washington and Jefferson in high reverance but it's equally important that we not be taught an incomplete and overtly biased (i.e. white supremacist) version of this nation's history assuming we want to move forward together as a nation.

    It's exactly that kind of mentality that leads to Americans thinking "white" lives and histories are more important than others.
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    On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of Sheila Butt , a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives who we gave special attention to for responding to the existence of the Council of American-Islamic Relations on Facebook by suggesting that she should start a Council of Christian Relations and a NAAWP (which would presumably be the National Association for the Advancement of White People). What Butt might have wanted to check before she shot her mouth off that there already WAS a NAAWP back in 1953, founded by a White Supremacist in response to the NAACP. It fell apart within two years, but made a comeback in 1979, being run by none other than former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke. Sheila Butt refused to apologize, claimed she was being unfairly targeted by a liberal conspiracy for her remarks, and was offended that anyone would even suggest she was racist because of them. Butt, who is a pastor’s wife, also wrote a book in 2008 that gave advice like to not date outside one’s race to avoid having biracial children, along with other tips like “find a young man who believes he is a breadwinner so his wife could be a stay home mom someday”, that “we did not come from ‘goo’ as the theory of evolution suggests”, and that “being gay is a choice” that is typically made because of “Satan, a bad sexual experience with members of the opposite sex, or a mom who didn’t encourage her son’s masculinity”. As a legislator, Butt has racked up the kind of voting record you might expect from a Tennessee Republican, including trying to nullify federal firearms laws, declare abortion as against the law because there’s nothing in the Constitution regarding it, and to try and name the Bible as the state book. And yes, she’s quite the theocrat, having produced legislation that would ban public schools from mentioning other religions during world history lessons, because she felt Islam was being given too much attention in it., being concerned that acknowledging it exists and played a role in world history could amount to “indoctrination”. Go figure, she also started haranguing Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam to block the admission of Syrian Refugees that might be resettled into the state in November of 2015. She’s also currently on board with Tennessee Republicans’ attempts to prevent the removal of Confederate monuments (but she still insists she’s not racist). But perhaps her lowest moment was when she argued against putting rape and incest exceptions into an abortion bill because they are “not verifiable”, which would be news to a lot of crime labs with rape kits and genetic testing, but it’s still sad to see a woman who believes anyone who seeks an abortion due to rape should be immediately be under suspicion of deception. Oh, and we weren’t the only ones who noticed the phenomenon that is Sheila Butt, as Samantha Bee gave her a special spotlight on Season One of her TBS show, Full Frontal, back in April of 2016, where she mocked Butt not only for her new stance on transgender citizens using public bathrooms (Hint: Butt’s ideas are on the intolerant side of the issue) for all of what we covered, and referred to Butt’s book for advice for girls, “Instead, do all the stuff Sheila Butt suggests, or as she may call it, ‘Butt Stuff.’ This Tennessee state representative wants you to do lots and lots of Butt stuff. Do Butt stuff until it hurts!” And, we have some great news… apparently all the criticism and mockery finally withered away enough on Sheila Butt that she has decided to retire after four terms in office, and did not be running for re-election in 2018.

    On this date in 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, profiled John Fitzgerald, a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives for California’s 11th Congressional District who was going to challenge Democrat Mark DeSaulnier by campaigning on the issues that really matter to GOP voters these days… like denying the existence of the Holocaust. Yes, that’s right… the Republican Party had yet another anti-Semitiic lunatic on the ballot in 2018, and Fitzgerald “campaigned” by going on Neo-Nazi podcasts to talk about his dedication to “exposing the Holocaust as a fabricated lie”. He insisted he wasn’t anti-Semitic and was “just stating facts”, but that’s hard to believe considering he actually ordered robocalls that warned about “Jews taking over the world”, while blaming them for 9/11. Fitzgerald is also such a moron that he paid for the calls to be made outside of the district he was running for office in. And, one would think that Republican voters aren’t just brain dead enough to vote for anything with an “R” next to their name… and yet, Fitzgerald still got 26% of the vote. It seems highly unlikely that this bigot will ever be elected to office in California, though, so we will set aside his profile at this time and take a look at another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 881-45, since this was established in July 2014.)
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    Corey Lewandowski

    Welcome to what is the 881st original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Corey Lewandowski, who most people will remember was one of the multiple Trump 2016 campaign managers unafraid to go on cable news and incessantly lie on Trump’s behalf, but in 2020, Lewandowski also became a candidate for U.S. Senate from New Hampshire, hoping to unseat Senator Jean Shaheen. Back in 1994, he also had a failed campaign for the Massachusetts House of Representatives, so he’s been a loser for about a quarter century now. In 1999, Lewandowski managed to further be an embarrassment while working as an aide on Capitol Hill, and security caught him “accidentally” bringing a gun into the Longworth building in a laundry bag. (He wasn’t even disciplined for this by Congressman Bob Ney’s office, and it was chalked up to being an “accident” and not a crime because white privilege is that bad.)

    Corey Lewandowski’s rise into national Republican politics came through his being hired by Americans for Prosperity, the 501(c) political group started and run by the Koch brothers, that pushed back against Demcoratic gains in 2006 and 2008 by beginning the Tea Party movement, that, y’know, gave the GOP a case of rabies about a decade ago that it has yet to recover. That was enough to pad his resume to get to work on a presidential campaign…

    For Donald Trump. And his time on the campaign involved him trying to set up back-door channel meetings with UK political analyst company (and date thieves) Cambridge Analytica to get their help in finding people dumb enough to vote for Trump. To this day, Lewandowski denies he did this while working for the Trump campaign, but then again, he denied assaulting a reporter, Michelle Fields, after a Trump press conference even though other reporters filmed it, and has denied sexually assaulting a woman at a party, smacking her on the ass, getting warned, laughing, and then smacking her again.

    After he was let go after the Fields incident, and replaced by Russian colluder Paul Manafort, Lewandowski was bizarrely hired to be a commentator by CNN (while he was still being paid and kept on conference calls with the Trump campaign), the One America News Network, and then Fox News. he was cheating on his wife with Hope Hicks, and leak damaging information about White House staffers who were competition for her romantically about their own domestic abuse cases.

    Among the worst moments of Lewandowski playing defense for Trump, him claiming Trump “had nothing to apologize for” after attacking the Mexican heritage of the judge in the Trump University case is right up there, but his worst was still to come. Lewandowski’s career as a racist conservative Trump-fellating pundit came to a screeching halt, however, during the stretch where the Trump administration began the family separation policy, when on air, he responded to the story of an immigrant girl with Down’s Syndrome being ripped from her family by mockingly making a sad trombone noise and saying, “WOMP, WOMP.”[/URL] He refused to apologize for that, because yes, he’s an unrepentant monster.

    Anyhow, Corey Lewandowski was being pressed by Donald Trump to run for U.S. Senate in 2020 by Donald Trump, because of course he thought a ghoul like Lewandowski would make a great Senator. Hell, Lewandowski just about reveled in the fact that he was going into the race in the middle of his testimony in September of 2019 before the House Judiciary Committee. Alas, he backed off prior to the filing deadline, and announced he would not run on New Year’s Eve 2019, but making the ridiculous boast that if he had ran, “I would have won.

    Sure you would have, douchebag. Sure you would have.

    Anyway, at this point, we’re just hoping Lewandowski f***s out of American politics forever, because his legacy seems to be whatever he touches turns into failure, or success with the caveat of an FBI investigation for criminal activity.
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    George Washington used dentures made with teeth torn from the mouths of slaves.

    I won't be mad if he gets canceled in my lifetime.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulBullion View Post
    George Washington used dentures made with teeth torn from the mouths of slaves.

    I won't be mad if he gets canceled in my lifetime.
    "But he paid for their teeth," says some people on twitter... seriously.

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    https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status...98195648446469

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    Fewer than 200 polling places will be open for voters in Kentucky’s primary Tuesday, down from 3,700 in a typical election year. Amid a huge influx in requests for mail-in ballots, some voters still had not received theirs days before they must be turned in. And turnout is expected to be higher than in past primaries because of a suddenly competitive fight for the Democratic Senate nomination.

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    What's the deal with Kentucky anyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulBullion View Post
    What's the deal with Kentucky anyway.
    Republicans, I'd wager.
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    Quote Originally Posted by aja_christopher View Post
    Which in many ways is the issue at hand -- the hypocrisy of arguing about "erasing history" when that's what's been done from the start.

    Not just with regards to Washington and the other "founding fathers" but with regards to the histories of those they killed and enslaved as well -- people are so quick to talk about the lack of education in the black community or the lack of "family values" but even quicker to ignore the fact that unlike many other immigrants who came by choice, African families and traditions were both demeaned and destroyed upon arrival while said Africans were beaten and killed for trying to educate themselves and still are forced to endure de facto segregation into blatantly separate and unequal school districts while being under constant threat of abuse and death by a routinely unchecked "police" force that has it's origins in the slave patrols of said past.

    It makes sense many downplay the severity of systemic racism and white supremacy given that they are likewise downplayed in our textbooks.

    Likewise there is little mention of the positive accomplishments of non-whites in America -- just a few topics on token civil rights leaders like MLK and Cesar Chavez, some discussion of Chinese immigration and their work on the railroads and a paragraph or so about George Washington Carver, Langston Hughes or the Windtalkers during WW2 -- while the vast majority of said American history involves a growing "minority" population being taught to respect a vast litany of white men many of whom considered people like myself to be less than human.

    Even when teaching the history of individuals like MLK, the racist backlash against said movement is downplayed and then subsequently echoed in the modent era -- most people don't know that it wasn't the protests that led to actual change but the "riots" that happened after he was killed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_assassination_riots

    It could easily be argued that we keep experiencing the same problems with regards to racism and white supremacy as we did four hundred years ago because many American schools refuse to teach the whole truth about history -- such as the numerous riots over police brutality in the past -- and without these facts students (and future voters) can't make objective judgments about how to best to address said issues moving forward.

    If white voters would actually pay heed to said peaceful protests (such as marching on Washington or taking a knee) then there would be no need for repeated uprisings to press the need for actual social progress. Suppress people's votes and oppress their rights and they will naturally rebel -- that's something people claiming to respect Washington should inherently understand but that message gets lost when even he didn't respect the basic human rights of black people and other "minorities".

    It's understandable that many Americans hold individuals such as Washington and Jefferson in high reverance but it's equally important that we not be taught an incomplete and overtly biased (i.e. white supremacist) version of this nation's history assuming we want to move forward together as a nation.

    It's exactly that kind of mentality that leads to Americans thinking "white" lives and histories are more important than others.
    It wasn't apparent to me at the time, but my 7th grade history teacher was a Lost Causer - he spent a lot of time in the Civil War unit talking about how crazy John Brown was, how destructive General Sherman was - exaggerating both to the extreme (although I didn't realize it at the time since he was pretty much my ONLY source on the subject back then), and later in the civil rights unit showcasing the worst of the Black Panther Party.

    It's odd to think about now, to remember that he showcased how crappy the fledgeling nation was to the people who preceded us here while skimming over what we did to those we brought here against their will and those descended from them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gray Lensman View Post
    It wasn't apparent to me at the time, but my 7th grade history teacher was a Lost Causer - he spent a lot of time in the Civil War unit talking about how crazy John Brown was, how destructive General Sherman was - exaggerating both to the extreme (although I didn't realize it at the time since he was pretty much my ONLY source on the subject back then), and later in the civil rights unit showcasing the worst of the Black Panther Party.

    It's odd to think about now, to remember that he showcased how crappy the fledgeling nation was to the people who preceded us here while skimming over what we did to those we brought here against their will and those descended from them.
    I saw through a lot of it at an early age because it was obvious -- when you experience the contradictions directly the inherent hypocrisy is clear.

    Now that people have access to cameras and the internet however -- and a younger generation that practically lives on it -- those contradictions are being addressed directly and often without the inherently biased lens of sanitized history.

    Instead it has now become a matter of information warfare -- something the Russians understood long ago when dealing with the US.

    Astutely so given the rise of "birther" Trump and America's subsequent rapid fall from grace on the world stage.

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    The Russians, they’re very good at this technology piece, they might not have been so good at being able to target to a precinct level American political turnout. That would mean they might be actually receiving some…information or alliance from some American political expertise to be able to figure out where to focus these efforts.”
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    I'm curious whether McConnell will allow Trump to replace the US Attorney that was overseeing allegations of criminal activity against Trump.

    Would be a gutsy move in an election year.
    I’m not sure Moscow Mitch cares what’s happening with Trump. McConnell knows the clock is counting down on his tenure in politics, so he’s going to concentrate on getting as many unqualified right wing judges into courts as he can before he’s voted out.
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    There is absolutely no reason why the public shouldn't have access to this information.

    But we don't because Republicans are blocking the truth from the public.

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    "The Justice Department on Friday released a new, less redacted version of the former special counsel Robert Mueller's report on his investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 US election.

    The document was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit from BuzzFeed News and CNN.

    The department originally redacted significant portions of the Mueller report that relate to Roger Stone, the longtime former Republican strategist who was an informal adviser to the Trump campaign in 2016. Stone was convicted last year of seven felony counts of obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and false statements.

    The DOJ said it redacted information pertaining to Stone to protect the criminal proceedings surrounding his prosecution. But when the department still didn't release a less redacted version of the Mueller report even after Stone's sentencing in February, which effectively closed his case, BuzzFeed News filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to compel the DOJ to release the information.

    Here are the most explosive new details from the less redacted report:

    Multiple top Trump campaign aides told investigators that Trump himself, then the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, knew WikiLeaks had damaging information on the Clinton campaign.

    Former chairman Paul Manafort, former deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates, and former personal attorney Michael Cohen told investigators that Stone told Trump and several advisers in July 2016 that he had spoken with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and that the website would begin dumping documents in just a few days.

    Mueller's team "established that the Trump Campaign displayed interest in the WikiLeaks releases, and that former Campaign member Roger Stone was in contact with the Campaign about those releases, claiming advance knowledge of more to come," the report said.

    Mueller concluded that Trump may have lied to investigators in his written answers to questions in the investigation.

    "Cohen recalled a conversation in which Roger Stone told Trump that WikiLeaks planned to release information soon, and Manafort recalled that Trump had asked him to stay in touch with Stone about WikiLeaks," the report said.

    "It is possible that, by the time the President submitted his written answers two years after the relevant events had occurred, he no longer had clear recollections of his discussions with Stone or his knowledge of Stone's asserted communications with WikiLeaks," the report said. "But the President's conduct could also be viewed as reflecting his awareness that Stone could provide evidence that would run counter to the President's denials and would link the President to Stone's efforts to reach out to WikiLeaks."

    Stone "indicated he had knowledge" of Trump's written answers to Mueller.

    Mueller's report noted that Stone went on Fox News on the evening of January 25, 2019, the day he made his first court appearance after being indicted.

    "That evening, Stone appeared on Fox News and indicated he had knowledge of the President's answers to this Office's written questions," the report said. "When asked if he had spoken to the President about the allegation that he had lied to Congress, Stone said, 'I have not' and added, 'When the President answered the written interrogatories, he correctly and honestly said, 'Roger Stone and I never discussed this and we never did.'"

    Multiple top Trump campaign aides told investigators that Trump himself, then the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, knew WikiLeaks had information that would hurt the Clinton campaign, the report said.

    Mueller also believed that Trump may have lied to him in his written answers to questions from investigators.

    Prosecutors also suspected that Trump may have discussed his answers with Roger Stone, the longtime former Republican strategist who was convicted on seven felony counts of obstruction, false statements, and witness tampering."

    https://www.businessinsider.com/new-...kileaks-2020-6

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    "In Foundations of Geopolitics, [Aleksandr] Dugin calls for the United States and Atlanticism to lose their influence in Eurasia and for Russia to rebuild its influence through annexations and alliances.

    The book declares that "the battle for the world rule of Russians" has not ended and Russia remains "the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution". The Eurasian Empire will be constructed "on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us."

    Military operations play relatively little role. The textbook advocates a sophisticated program of subversion, destabilization, and disinformation spearheaded by the Russian special services. The operations should be assisted by a tough, hard-headed utilization of Russia's gas, oil, and natural resources to bully and pressure other countries...

    Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S.

    It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".

    The book emphasizes that Russia must spread anti-Americanism everywhere: "the main 'scapegoat' will be precisely the U.S."


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