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Commenter: Tamra
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Comment Date: Jun 26, 2015 2:20pm EST/NYC

Department of Defense has no plans to change any bases named after confederates
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1020256651338325&id=114634691900530

--This explains the culture of racism in our military

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Commenter: Tamra
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Comment Date: Jul 3, 2015 7:52pm EST/NYC

Why do people believe myths about the confederacy? www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/01/why-do-people-believe-myths-about-the-confederacy-because-our-textbooks-and-monuments-are-wrong/

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Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site: https://itamra.com
Comment Date: Jul 3, 2015 7:54pm EST/NYC

degenerates-kkk will hold a Labor Day cross burning — and they want supporters to bring their children www.rawstory.com/2015/07/the-kkk-will-hold-a-labor-day-cross-burning-and-they-want-supporters-to-bring-their-children/

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Commenter: Tamra
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Comment Date: Jul 3, 2015 8:14pm EST/NYC

How people convince themselves that the Confederate flag represents freedom, not slavery
Historian John M. Coski examines the fights over the symbol's meaning in "The confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem." www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2015/06/19/how-people-convince-themselves-that-the-confederate-flag-represents-freedom-not-slavery/

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Commenter: Tamra
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Comment Date: Dec 21, 2015 8:47am EST/NYC

Unfortunately, if true and not part of the exact same propaganda distributed by Sons of confederate Vets, Robert E Lee fought for the side that chose slavery as the sole reason for Civil War. (I lowercase "confederates" for many reasons.) And I know many don't want to read much these days, it has to be dumbed-down to choose a side quickly, but that's also part of the "yea, confederates are great men" problem.

All other issues prior to Civil War had been resolved, confederates wouldn't budge on slavery and right to transport their slaves as property across state lines for "travel, rape and torture through bondage services". This isn't hidden information, but well documented in both confederate and non-confederate libraries and museums across the country, but chosen to be ignored and misrepresented (including by K-12 educators) at the offense of many.

Meanwhile, Sons of confederate Vets along w/ kkk, both of which today's GOP shaper, Strom Thurmond was a member of, are trying daily to rewrite history to glorify the losers and their losing cause (slavery), by rewriting their reason for creating Civil War. Their parroted-lie, "loyalty to the states," which is the equivalent of Germany rewriting its Nazi history and Holocaust as simply "loyalty to Germany," then erecting monuments to Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels and Hitler-loyal Nazi SS officers, who represent same exact values as Sons of confederate Vets and kkk (founded by another confederate General, Nathan Bedford Forrest).

Sons of confederate Vets' Strom Thurmond also co-wrote Southern Manifesto (also available in libraries across the country), an outline for racism and discrimination, with Carl Vinson. US Navy chose to honor Vinson with a ship naming (USS Carl Vinson/CVN70). Carl Vinson never served a day in military, but was behind many policies promoting hate and domestic terrorism against non-whites, Jews and women in military.

US is one of the few countries which honors its domestic terrorists, persons who were scheduled to be kicked out of our country, because Lincoln saw their evil hearts personally and knew they couldn't evolve, and would continue to perpetuate racist policies eternally. And Lincoln was right, as immediately after his assassination (funded by confederate Jefferson Davis and carried out by confederates), confederate sympathizer Andrew Johnson (one of worst Presidents in history) reversed all that Union soldiers fought and died for, which gave rise to Nathan Bedford Forrest's kkk, and led to terrorism such as:

• Jim Crow and Jim Crow laws with violence even against whites who refused to hate non-whites and Jews;
  
• Rosewood, Florida massacre;
  
• Native Indian massacres and land thefts;
  
• 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma race riot (largest in history with guns and ammo provided by NRA - https://tulsahistory.org/learn/online-exhibits/the-tulsa-race-riot/ / https://www.thenation.com/article/tulsa-1921/);
  
• Slocum, Texas massacre;
  
• 1963 Birmingham, Alabama church bombing;
  
• murders of Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman;
  
• and many more acts of domestic terrorism from confederate worshipers and sympathizers.
  

Shockingly law enforcement and military members participated in domestic terrorism, including against Jews, who were denied military rights and equal treatment. Twisted irony: when someone fights back against confederates and confederate sympathizer's legacy of hatred, violence and inequality, they're the ones called "un-American", "savages", "a drain on society", by confederate sympathizers and those whose family migrated here during Jim Crow, for the whites only-Jim Crow policies and benefits.

Germany chose to honor Claus Von Stauffenberg and members of Operation Valkyrie, who fought against Hitler - persons who were originally wrongly labeled and ostracized by Hitler loyalists immediately after WWII. Germany later, and wisely, chose to outlaw all Nazi propaganda and Nazi loyalists. the end result: progress for its country, instead of a version of the US's 150+ years after Civil War, still dealing with the same racial nonsense, while denying accurate historical teachings. Ignorance has stalled our country 24/7, and leads to boiling points of violence every single decade.

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Commenter: Tamra
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Comment Date: Apr 12, 2016 9:51pm EST/NYC

peep this piece of illiterate garbage who thinks it's "The Blacks" who need a lesson about the confederate flag: https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.lee.1654700. They've since deleted their post, filled with one typo after another, but their bio cover photo confirms they've been indoctrinated with bullshit their entire life. then again, what neo-confederate hasn't been?

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Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site: https://tamra.nyc
Comment Date: May 8, 2017 7:29pm EST/NYC

clearly it's the right decision to remove monuments for confederate treasonists! the persons who support them are JUST as treasonist as the same jackass confederates who fought against THIS country solely for the right to OWN and transport slaves across state lines. these are the SAME persons who disguise that issues as "states rights". Tempers Flare Over Removal of Confederate Statues in New Orleans https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/new-orleans-monuments.html

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Commenter: TamraNYC
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Comment Date: Aug 17, 2017 6:20am EST/NYC

The Monuments Must Go — An open letter from the great, great grandsons of Stonewall Jackson. https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/08/stonewall_jackson_s_grandsons_the_monuments_must_go.html

We are native Richmonders and also the great, great grandsons of Stonewall Jackson. As two of the closest living relatives to Stonewall, we are writing today to ask for the removal of his statue, as well as the removal of all Confederate statues from Monument Avenue. They are overt symbols of racism and white supremacy, and the time is long overdue for them to depart from public display. Overnight, Baltimore has seen fit to take this action. Richmond should, too.

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Commenter: The New Nathan
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Comment Date: May 13, 2018 6:37pm EST/NYC

If you live to be 100, you'll never meet anyone with even 1% of the dignity, honor, loyalty and bravery of General Forrest. He, his men and The Cause stood for something you can never understand. America has descended into filth, chaos and anarchy. It won't be this way forever. Keep mocking a great leader. You mock what you have no way of comprehending.

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Commenter: TamraNYC
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Comment Date: May 14, 2018 11:08pm EST/NYC

Replying To: The New Nathan

LOLLLLLLLLL I don't need to understand the LOSERS of the Civil War. I only need to understand they're the LOSERS of the Civil War, losers who entered war WITH A LOST CAUSE, like yours! Nathan Bedford Forrest was a degenerate loser and klansman just like you. Oh and I'm publishing your information on various places: 69.137.127.140, trepothipo(at)qwfox(dot)com, https://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#whois|type=ipv4&&value=69.137.127.140 – Hodgenville, Kentucky

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Commenter: TamraNYC
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Comment Date: May 14, 2018 11:39pm EST/NYC

Words of a great war general, General William Tecumseh Sherman, ever so true, even to this day:

You people of the South [replace with today's Strom Thurmond GOP] don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!You mistake, too, the people of the North [replace with liberals and non-rwnj's]. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it… Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?The North [replace with GEEKS who are mostly liberal LOL and don't forget LGBTQ who can fly planes/fighter jets, guide ships, missiles, AND speak critical languages for security!!!] can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make [yeah cuz LOUDEST rwnj (Boehner, Paul Ryan, etc.) rejoiced at outsourcing manufacturing jobs and stood by and watched banks, insurance and car companies FAIL miserably!!!].You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be [because GOP & other rwnj's have insulted our allies profusely: (health care reform, socialism, LGBTQ in military)], your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

so, um, basically: OUTNUMBERED.

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Commenter: Tamra
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Comment Date: Jun 10, 2018 11:13am EST/NYC

Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists all the white supremacists/confederate LOSERS' monuments. that must have been some ass whupping!! the LOSERS can't stop sucking jocks of the losers, TOTAL losers in every way, shape and form. SPLC report: More than 1,700 monuments, place names and other symbols honoring the LOSER Confederacy remain in public spaces https://www.splcenter.org/news/2018/06/04/splc-report-more-1700-monuments-place-names-and-other-symbols-honoring-confederacy-remain

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Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site: https://tamra.nyc
Comment Date: Jul 13, 2019 5:18pm EST/NYC

next time you hear GOP members screaming "Dems are the party of kkk", remember that today's Sons of confederate Vets-kkk-Strom Thurmond-GOP spends its time & worshiping LOSER confederates (Andrew Jackson) & kkk: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tennessee-gov-bill-lee-honors-kkk-grand-wizard-proclamation_n_5d28dd44e4b0060b11ec14fb

ROT IN HELL NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST! ENJOY THE PEE ON EVERY MONUMENT AND YOUR GRAVE FROM EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO KNOWS WHAT A POS YOU WILL ALWAYS BE!!

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Commenter: frank wood
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Comment Date: Nov 19, 2020 7:41am EST/NYC

You need a history lesson and a brain......Ill pray for you... [edited to show the comprehension of Frank Wood]--> as soon as I can comprehend religion, confederacy and pick up a brain myself. You know we're not too bright. After all, we fought for a lost cause, and still think we're the majority of Americans in U.S. One day we'll have our all white country, but for now it's a dream, while we piss and moan daily about getting our asses whipped during Civil War. Dang-gammit General Sherman and his brilliant military planning and strategy. Give us another hundred years to figure something out, we just may win the next war, once we get rid of all them education books.

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Commenter: Tamra
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Comment Date: Dec 9, 2020 8:56pm EST/NYC

Replying To: frank wood

LOLLLLL I think what you're trying to say is I need to be a subservient negro and obey the confederate revisionist history bullshit, like Candace Owens and other internalized racists. THAT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. EDUCATE YOURSELF. STOP ROAMING SITES TO DEFEND TRASH LIKE CONFEDERATES, THE LOSERS OF CIVIL WAR, GEESH. https://www.ourwhirl.com/biden-harris-should-remove-and-outlaw-confederate-symbols/

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Commenter: Tamra
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Comment Date: Dec 9, 2020 9:01pm EST/NYC

In case anyone wants to give this Sons of confederate Vets a history lesson: Frank Wood's contact: butternut4662@dixie-net.com. We don't protect, nor abet confederates here. Jack Dorsey does though, he can spin his confederate revisionist history on Twitter, w/o challenge.

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Commenter: Tamra
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Comment Date: Jul 3, 2022 1:29pm EST/NYC

July 3, 1863 LOSER confederates were stomped at the Battle of Gettysburg. Entered war w/a lost cause - to own slaves, because TOO STUPID to do anything else!! https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-gettysburg-ends

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Commenter: Tamra
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Comment Date: Jul 16, 2022 10:37am EST/NYC

The monuments must come down, and today's generation knows this!

This is also why GOP opposes education!

The activists — young, old, often led by people of color but drawing from across the demographic spectrum — have faced ridicule and hostility from political leaders at all levels. Many have risked their lives when armed counterprotesters, some openly affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan and a broad range of hate groups, have fomented violence, beating protesters, torching their vehicles and worse.

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Commenter: TamraNYC
Commenter's Site: https://www.tamra.nyc
Comment Date: Apr 3, 2023 7:57pm EST/NYC

About time!! Introducing Fort Cavazos!

https://www.kcbd.com/2023/03/27/fort-hood-be-renamed-after-texas-tech-graduate-richard-cavazos-may/

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Commenter: Tamra Cronin
Commenter's Site: https://www.tamra.nyc
Comment Date: Nov 26, 2022 1:03pm EST/NYC

So now everyone knows: Georgia's Forsyth County area, and almost all but a small section, represented by Marjorie Taylor Greene, IS klan county.

Klan lost its mind after the election of President Barack Obama, and Greene joined team badgradestrump, with confederate pride. AVOID the area. Local non-hatriots should shop outside of the county area, or get items delivered from progressive areas of state and country. Funding the problem will not fix the problem.The area is so vile, there are a lot of blacks, who can, passing for white, and a lot of whites who refuse to get DNA tests, because it will confirm mixed-race heritage in klan county.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-came-of-age-in-this-infamously-racist-georgia-county

The marchers had been marking five years since the 1987 "Walk for Brotherhood" drew international condemnation to all-white Forsyth County. Newspaper accounts describe protesters being pelted with so many "rocks, bottles and mud thrown from a crowd of Ku Klux Klan members and their supporters" that they were forced to abandon the two-and-half mile route. Forsyth County had maintained an unwritten whites-only policy dating to 1912, when white vigilantes lynched a black man and drove out nearly all of the African American residents. The county's reputation as too dangerous for Black folks to even drive through—a courthouse lawn sign in the 1950s and '60s warned "N---er, Don't Let the Sun Set on You" — was well earned. ''I have been in the civil rights movement for 30 years," Hosea Williams, an acolyte of Martin Luther King Jr and organizer of the Forsyth County march, told the New York Times in 1987. "I'm telling you we've got a South Africa in the backyard of Atlanta, Georgia." https://www.thedailybeast.com

Forsyth County today is nearly one-quarter Asian and Hispanic. But only 4 percent of its denizens are Black, in a state where one-third of the people are Black. The county was recently ranked one of the richest counties in Georgia, its grand houses and country clubs obscuring a history of Black bloodshed and standing on sites once occupied by Black churches and homes. That land was long ago stolen from Black folks during a campaign of terror that has been called "the most successful racial cleansing in U.S. history." https://www.thedailybeast.com

Marjorie Taylor Greene's most outlandish quotes—about fire-starting Jewish space lasers and 9/11 fakery—have gotten endless pickup, perhaps because they make her seem like a newfangled breed of far-out crackpot. But Greene's ideas about Black folks aren't innovative or creative, they're just garden-variety, old-school racism. Greene is, of course, a birther who has claimed Barack Obama is a secret Muslim. In a video unearthed this January, she claims that "being in gangs and dealing drugs is what holds" Black and Hispanic men back, concluding "it's not white people." She once stated that there are "white people that are as lazy and sorry and probably worse than Black people," an assessment she probably considers a generous concession. Greene has called Black voters "slaves to the Democratic Party"—racists always love a slavery allusion—and suggested African Americans should be "proud" of monuments to Confederates because they're supposedly a reminder of how far Black folks have come. https://www.thedailybeast.com

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Commenter: TamraNYC
Commenter's Site: https://www.tamra.nyc
Comment Date: Feb 19, 2023 10:15pm EST/NYC

Was I right... or was I right??!!

So um low-life confederates just found out they've been the new money-making slaves for Fox News? I guess this is why Faux New needed internalized racists. They were missing a market share (black voters) & assumed ALL were stupider than Hannity/Fox. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rupert-murdoch-american-citizenship-deport-twitter_n_63f15168e4b0c87f32f1abd2

Fox News has become GOP's political cash cow for ignorance. This explains why today's Strom Thurmond-GOP is against education & equality: they want/need obedience, control, like their fav person, Putin.But what I wanna know: who profited from all the Trump flags, stickers, hats, trinkets, etc., all made in China, by the way? That mofo is sitting somewhere laughing their ass off. Or rushing to space before the 3x losers figure it out.That Southern Manifesto playback gets the #prolife, fake Christian, white supremacist crowd riled up every time. Private jets to Capitol/#J6-riled up, so stupid they believed badgradestrump owned Capitol, all of America, including FBI. https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/sources_document2.html

While America advanced through jobs, education, civil rights & access to technology for more non-whites & women, confederates & Jim Crow benefactors sat around & sold hate & memberships to each other, w/ loyalty pledges. Loyalists are now #J6 convicted fools. Even David Duke had to pay up in court after Charlottesville riot. Duke fell for his own Southern Manifesto/Dixiecrat playbook. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/david-duke-charlottesville-rally-trump_n_598f3ca8e4b0909642974a10

And after all his 9/11 bs, badgradestrump & bad grades Kushner "sold" US to Saudis, because their cash cow Putin is losing faster than Fox News fans sent theirs in! Grifters: "Wait 'til you see what Saudis are bringing in..." More guns, anti-civil rights? Or New USA???But, can you imagine the look on Elmer Rhodes' face as he was convicted, LOLLLLLLL and badgradestrump wouldn't even testify on Elmer's behalf, even to say, "I didn't think he was that stupid, he had a Yale law degree. But he should be locked up, someone read me his list of weapons." Rhodes texted/called badgradestrump as he was going commando on Capitol building, while looking like fools for a con artist that countless NY, FL, NJ, NV, CT living/dead victims of trump warned world about, since the 1980s! Either Rhodes is mentally challenged or just that heartless about badgradestrump's victims, so F him!

And it is hard to run for POTUS as an unknown. Fox News first started cashing in on white supremacists w/ unlimited air time to bad-grades-birther. A literal free campaign to White House w/ literal kkk coming out to vote & run too. $$ came-a-flowing. 'Memba Orly Taitz? And 'memba how much Orly had to pay for her endless birther lawsuits? She bought the Faux News birther product!And Terry Lakin? He bought everything Hannity, Tucker, Beck, Limbaugh, Ingraham, Pirro said or sold. Is this why Pirro was driving over 100mph in upstate NY? She couldn't believe the shit she had to read like a well-paid servant, & needed to scream? But Larry Elder, Juan Wms, WTF?Or is it Terry Larkin? That's how non-memorable these "birther hatriots" are, for a man who can't even show his own grades, or answer a subpoena on 1st honest request. But tell me again about black voters being too stupid? A whole ass insurrection was led based upon "The Big Lie," by persons who applaud live murders.badgradestrump & his inferior intellect fans were outraged that humans/children were upset over an ass clown, trained by Bob Kroll (cops4trump), who wouldn't stop taking a knee on a neck (murder).

Bob Kroll's Jim Crow benefactor legacy: https://www.officer.com/command-hq/news/12215638/minneapolis-police-union-head-calls-black-lives-matter-terrorist-group

https://www.startribune.com/high-ranking-black-cops-sue-minneapolis-police-department/12081986

Now internalized racist Candace Owens is selling a book based upon the same product: ignorance. Owens needs white Fox New viewers to buy her latest product. But why? She's now married to "royalty," after her first coins came from screaming "Black Lives Matter."

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/when-brexit-met-blexit-candace-owens-and-george-farmer-the-new-right-wing-power-couple-fjczxp5vb

https://culttture.com/2019/candace-owens-marries-george-farmer-at-a-star-studded-wedding/

And is this why journalists never called out badgradestrump & his loyalists for their white supremacy? That would be insulting to their klan-ish base, while knowing the rest of us would say, "hey mofo, watch that bs, ok!" Fox News KNEW of #J6 before J6! MO' MONEY, MO' MONEY! Even Twitter & Zuckerberg got paid. And the number of solicitations from black persons, who sounded like Jim Jones cult members, who approached w/ that #walkaway, #blaxit shit! I guess they were trying to say, "come get paid to sell hot air. I need you to fool trump & get paid" And I knew personally of 3 badgradestrump frauds and physical harm to others. Persons suffered hardships because of either not being paid/defrauded, raped as a child, & zoned out for his profits. The man had a whole fake university. 3 card Monty like a mofo!

And, speaking of "groomers," which site or source(s) (TV, print) "groomed" Buffalo Tops store shooter? His parents sure are quiet AF! Were they Fox News fans, while also living in an historic abolitionist area, including w/ John Jay & family. Jay's slapped confederates w/ education coming & going!! The #FAFO Lemmon case was hysterical: so you come into my courtroom, arguing for your slave property, w/ insurance receipt for loss of your, what, "property"?! The persons you are referencing 'loss of,' are in FREE, I HELPED THEM live THEIR best life! fck off, next!"

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Commenter: TamraNYC
Commenter's Site: https://www.tamra.nyc
Comment Date: Feb 24, 2023 9:08pm EST/NYC

Omg Donald badgradestrump Jr. is pushing rhetoric almost 24/7. What is going on in his life? Is he keeping up the brand, to milk hatriots, for living expenses, given company's tax fraud conviction? & what does the Gug-something girl do, while he rants bigotry? Applaud? Because I can't see Don Jr. going out and applying for a job. Or does the #TrumpCrimeFamily move to their last banking source: Saudi Arabia, esp. if China, their other banking source, helps Russia. This is what happens when you grift/are owned, rather than own.

Right now, black rappers & artists, who respect badgradestrump, have actually put in more work THAN Trump & his kids, & 2 of his wives. They actually earned their mogul-hood status, while Trump is a fraud & racist. Ain't that some shit?

badgradestrump was literally filing bankruptcies during The Apprentice tapings, while selling his "racism got me started" name as a brand. Even #nyc got hustled byTrump, left holding his debt. The confederate-Vanderbilt bldg grift! #TrumpCrimeFamilyThen casinos, boxing, still badgradestrump was "broke." Because he had no money of his own to start with. You give an actual smart & successful person , an entire generational franchise is created. Trump was trash before, during & after POTUS, but found a cash cow: GOP.And knowing 3-card Monty hustler badgradestrump like #NYC does, Trump, bc he's dishonest, didn't trust GOP, so he sold US to Saudis on his way out, while keeping his fingers crossed for Putin. Now, GOP is promoting national gun, AR-15, while pushing for ONE conservative, fake-christian, regressive culture.

Through Sons of confederate Vets-Strom Thurmond-GOP, bin Laden won!

And then there's Bad Grades Kushner! Can you imagine, Chris Christie having to play nice w/ the son of Charles Kushner? Polly-ticks makes strange bedfellows, in this case, literally!

1. https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/rich-people-can-buy-their-kids-access-to-elite-colleges-and-it-looks-like-jared-kushners-father-did-just-that/
2. https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/18/jared-kushner-harvard-donald-trump-son-in-law
3. https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/charles-kushner
4. https://heavy.com/news/2016/07/charles-kushner-jared-dad-ivanka-father-in-law-donald-trump-jail/
5. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nj-scandal-sex-money-politics/
6. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-papers-of-lee-atwater-who-invented-the-scurrilous-tactics-that-trump-normalized

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Commenter: TamraNYC
Commenter's Site: https://www.tamra.nyc
Comment Date: Jun 6, 2023 9:10pm EST/NYC

listening to a white family member right now, as if they're Forrest Gump, b/c this piece of history really happened in front of them:"I was six (1965), there were all these angry white men outside yelling and screaming w/ tiki torches, bats and more. My father told us to stay down, don't go outside, don't pay them fools no mind."They were yelling "n*gg*rs must be stopped."

So I'm like, what happened in 1965? It should have hit me like a brick given 1964 Civil Rights Act: "now I gotta let them in my school, stores and neighborhood?" <— European migrants who moved here DURING Jim Crow/whites only. Then 1965 Voting Rights Act: "now they're gonna elect black leaders, my family didn't migrate here during equivalent of Auschwitz to be around all these...."

Enter Obama, and out came birther clown, badgradestrump, whose family led racist attacks against non-whites in Queens, as well as promoted "whites only" for profit.And now, Sons of confederate Vets have PACs with countless white supremacists funding PACs! Watch the violence as military started renaming confederate-named bases!

White people 'bout to riot, they don't like being told what to do (bans, segregation, who they can and cannot associate with - same as Jim Crow laws, designed for white male patriarchy first/only). Whites are now segregated and denied, with less rights. But they can buy all the guns wanted! Fort Hood and Fort Bragg already renamed! Two vile confederates, and Fort Lee is next up! https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna83503

And Ft. Hood named after Mexican American too. Low-life confederates still playing chess, while people are literally playing checkers, while paying into white supremacists "family values" PACs - see "blacks for badgradestrump, "walkaway," "blaxit," internalize racist Tim Scott, or whatever they're calling themselves.Y'all be safe: because Jim Crow benefactors are buying guns like crazy around here. One 65-year-old Jim Crow benefactor here in NYC was just arrested w/a stockpile, https://abc7ny.com/queens-shooting-kew-gardens-man-charged-charles-foehner/13332122/, but called hero for shooting non-white at 2 am!! I won't be surprised if he solicited the younger person, or said something offensive, "feeling white man empowered" while armed! When your neighbors, fellow citizens are armed to a tee AND support #J6 insurrectionists, while silent about Con DeSantis as trans kids are under attack, things will only get worse. When they are that open w/ hate and violence... what does anyone think will happen next??!!

But, if they were that crazy in 1965 to protest nationally, no surprise at what hatriots just did to Capitol on #J6! https://youtu.be/3qlylxu7wvc 0:56 mark same words today, while Jim Crow benefactors are banning all that they don't like!But in my family's DNA: fighting confederates, and racism, plus family from Ireland where they were under UK rule, so they know the deal with being complacent with fascism and racism.

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Commenter: TamraNYC
Commenter's Site: https://www.tamra.nyc
Comment Date: 2023-03-16 00:11:54Mar 16, 2023 12:11am EST/NYC

Venture capitalists AND their funders are still at it!

It's Silicon Valley Bank this time, same pattern as before, with epic fraud and waste bailed out in 2008, after warning after warning sent to SEC AND Capitol Hill lawmakers. And no one gave a shit then, including while bailing out toxic companies. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-what-you-need-know-2023-03-15/

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Comment Date: Oct 1, 2023 5:55am EST/NYC

Anyone noticed that https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart ↔ the federal minimum wage stopped increasing RIGHT AFTER the epic 2008 bailout of folks who squandered billions, at taxpayers and FDIC banks' expense?

Asking, for the "woke" folks.

In 1980s, I had my own apartment at 18, while making minimum wage. And so many of us were working before 18 to survive, and also working while in school. If our parents could afford college, our first apartment would have been a dorm room, and we still had to save or work for meals and books.

We were the latchkey kids who had to learn how to come home to/from school, alone, cook breakfast - on a stove, do homework, keep house clean, be home by x-time, and appreciate the things we had, because we saw how tired and defeated our parents were at times. Our parents didn't have many job options, while facing at-will termination at any given moment.

And many of us came home to abuse or silence, because of parents' unresolved issues, or the untimely death of a parent (overworked with no healthcare, war, and/OR injustices and other violence), or sheer exhaustion from being forced to work longer hours than others (mental health). All while putting up with on-the-job-racists, who sat around and complained about Affirmative Action.

And now, we just want to see kids SAFE, happy, happy with themselves, with respect for one another. But that's a problem, because that would require all to feel safe and compensated. 🤔 Is it too soon to bring up that bailed out, #TaxCutsAndJobsAct-benefactor Dan Grossman failed up from Venrock to Amazon, while Amazon workers are complaining about pay, working conditions, benefits and more?

Sh*t, life is hard, but shockingly easy for some, who complain, with lobbyists in tow, about wages, healthcare (for workers), earned benefits, and racial history, equality and civil rights.