Colbert: Biden Honors WWII Vets | Trump Warns Kids About Drugs And Cigarettes | Egyptian Meat Controversy
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re: #244 IngisKahn
Man, this place is full of boomers. :p My dad wasn’t born yet. (Gen X checking in)
Hey now - I’m Generation Jones.
*sticks tongue out at the Boomers* - hope I haven’t started another intergenerational pissing match
re: #1 dat_said
Hey now - I’m Generation Jones.
*sticks tongue out at the Boomers* - hope I haven’t started another intergenerational pissing match
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“They’re asking us to do our job. To protect freedom in our time, to defend democracy, to stand up to aggression abroad and at home. To be part of something bigger than ourselves.”
WATCH: President gives speech on defending democracy at D-Day site in France. pic.twitter.com/n8qkxQlVES— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 7, 2024
The Central Station Concert last night was quite an event. It definitely showcased the diversity, depth, and breadth of music out of the great state of Michigan. Eminem closed out the evening with a 4 song set (below):
SET LIST:
0:40 HOUDINI
3:35 SING FOR THE MOMENT
5:43 WELCOME 2 DETROIT
8:57 NOT AFRAID
Eating 250 steaks a year seems like one of those situations where the bribery is punishing itself.
re: #5 sizzzzlerz
was bob segar there?
No. But,
Actor and Michigan native Taylor Lautner, along with two of the more than 3,000 people involved in renovating the Station, then introduced the Seger tribute which saw Etheridge knock “Mainstreet” out of the park. Fantasia then delivered a heck of a performance of “Shakedown” before Jelly Roll did his thing with “Turn the Page.” If that wasn’t enough Seger, the three performed “Old Time Rock and Roll” together
Melissa Etheridge’s Les Paul was freakn’ gorgeous.
From: mlive.com
re: #6 jaunte
Eating 250 steaks a year seems like one of those situations where the bribery is punishing itself.
I’m certain he balances out each steak with one sprig of broccoli
Egyptian Meat Controversy sounds like it should be the name of a one-hit wonder band from the 70s.
The only judges in America allowed to accept gifts, trips and presents from the public are Supreme Court justices. How is that insanity allowed? Another colossal oversight by the framers and a failure of every Chief Justice not to envision someone as corrupt as Clarence Thomas.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 7, 2024
PSA…….
Don’t Lie. We don’t care.
PSA from anER doc! You never know who may need to hear this! pic.twitter.com/WEr5jNAfeC
— TX_SeoulGal 🇺🇸 🩵 (@Texas_SeoulGal) June 7, 2024
The Hill went for it—how the favorable jobs report is bad for Biden:
Strong jobs report presents conundrum for Biden
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re: #4 Dr. Matt
The Central Station Concert last night was quite an event. It definitely showcased the diversity, depth, and breadth of music out of the great state of Michigan. Eminem closed out the evening with a 4 song set (below):
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I picked the wrong time to move out of Michigan.
re: #14 Vicious Babushka
Florida has both kinds of music.
re: #6 jaunte
Eating 250 steaks a year seems like one of those situations where the bribery is punishing itself.
That’s not even one a day. That’s hardly any steak at all.
Ugh.
BREAKING:Two unbearable grifters about to melt together into a huge blob pic.twitter.com/3YRz7YJfM9
— Nioh Berg ♛ ✡︎ אסתר (@NiohBerg) June 7, 2024
Old Boomer here. My dad didn’t serve (flat feet and he worked on a dairy farm) but his brother was in the Army Air Corps. No combat missions, but did a lot of test flights in the Pacific to assess night vision gear etc.
He was on a flight from Phoenix to Long Beach, testing out an aircraft, when the plane crashed into the Pallet Mountain in California in a snowstorm, killing all four aboard.
The C-46A Commando #41-12363 crashed on February 20, 1944 while on a fight from Wickenburg, Arizona to Long Beach, California. Last word heard from the flight is when the pilot reported that they were making an instrument let down during a snow storm. The aircraft’s wreckage was found on February 24, 1944.
Here’s the strange part—the story my parents always told us was that my grandmother never accepted that he died because they never found his body. Except that they found the bodies four days after the crash, and his remains were returned in May. Found the letter about that from his CO while going through a bunch of papers after my parents died. My sister called our cousin to see what story he’d been told and he knew the real story all along.
My sister contacted the author of amazon.com and he told her some addition stuff.
The plane above is from his book.
Families are weird.
Gen X here - my father served in WWII, in the Pacific Theater. He was a Curtiss Helldiver pilot.
re: #23 Dr Lizardo
Gen X here - my father served in WWII, in the Pacific Theater. He was a Curtiss Helldiver pilot.
Late boomer — my dad served (Navy, I think), but was too young for WWII.
re: #244 IngisKahn
Man, this place is full of boomers. :p My dad wasn’t born yet. (Gen X checking in)
I’m a boomer. It was my grandparents who served in WW2. My parents in the Vietnam Era. My sister and me in the Persian Gulf War era.
The people Trump thinks are “suckers and losers,” that’s us.
re: #1 dat_said
Hey now - I’m Generation Jones.
*sticks tongue out at the Boomers* - hope I haven’t started another intergenerational pissing match
I ain’t usin’ that name. /s
The idea is “late-stage baby boomerism” has more in common with Gen X than they do with earlier baby-boomers. Aside from the fact I wasn’t really old enough for things like “The Summer of Love” or anti-Vietnam War protests, I don’t see it. (Those would be my mother, who is of the Silent Generation anyway.)
re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The whole lumping people into generations is much more marketing shorthand than anything based in what people actually have in common.
It’s similar to the lumping “oh, those folks are rural rubes” that someone from west Nebraska has to deal with.
re: #1 dat_said
Hey now - I’m Generation Jones.
*sticks tongue out at the Boomers* - hope I haven’t started another intergenerational pissing match
“Man, this place is full of boomers. :p”
Aka- “the olds”🙄
Looks like Meadows is being treated to another turn over the barrel.
Faux seems to treat this as an entirely random event (“odds eleven billion to one”)
Fwiw, my second wife and our daughter were both valedictorians. My first wife was a pom-pom girl.
Florida family stuns with statistical improbability as all four daughters are crowned valedictorian
re: #35 Patricia Kayden
Please tell me that’s a liquor store.
re: #34 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
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Reminds me of a college roommate I had. He was the youngest of 9 kids - all valedictorians of his modest-sized ND high school except for him. He was salutatorian. Happened to meet up with him and a few of his brothers after college and they gleefully informed me of this fact.
Poor guy.
Over the past month I predicted that Benny Gantz, Head of Israel’s centrist National Unity party, would finally call it quits and take his party out of the Netanyahu “emergency unity” coalition by the middle of June (a week or two past his initial “six-point plan” deadline to the Netanyahu camp to get their sh*t together).
In semi-related news, it seems I should REALLY start playing the lottery… XD
Benny Gantz to deliver statement Saturday evening, widely expected to resign from govt https://t.co/R1JVgMBD1T
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) June 7, 2024
Brexit continues to get funnier https://t.co/c6W1SKeaja
— Michael Stahlke (@MichaelStahlke) June 5, 2024
re: #34 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Faux seems to treat this as an entirely random event (“odds eleven billion to one”)
Fwiw, my second wife and our daughter were both valedictorians. My first wife was a pom-pom girl.Florida family stuns with statistical improbability as all four daughters are crowned valedictorian
1. It’s not completely random.
2. It’s still has a pretty low probability of occurring.
re: #35 Patricia Kayden
A few years ago, a bunch of shooting ranges and gun stores put up signs banning Obama voters. Setting aside how they might know who you voted for, this is completely legal since political belief is not a protected category. Some of the same goobers went a step further though and put up signs banning Muslims. At that point they found themselves in deep shit, since religion is a protected category. Similarly Nazis and their fellow travelers whine that is legal to discriminate against Nazis (especially in employment) but not against blacks and Jews.
re: #34 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Faux seems to treat this as an entirely random event (“odds eleven billion to one”)
Fwiw, my second wife and our daughter were both valedictorians. My first wife was a pom-pom girl.Florida family stuns with statistical improbability as all four daughters are crowned valedictorian
You dumped a pom-pom girl for a mere valedictorian? /s
I don’t know about father’s record in that. My mother graduated from high school when she was fifteen (so no valedictorian). I came in as salutatorian (but my graduating class only had seventeen people so not much of an achievement), and my son was city-wide valedictorian in Jacksonville, Fla.
re: #33 darthstar
Trump aides Mark Meadows, Mike Roman enter “you’re going to have to spend public money proving it” in fake electors case.
re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You dumped a pom-pom girl for a mere valedictorian? /s
I don’t know about father’s record in that. My mother graduated from high school when she was fifteen (so no valedictorian). I came in as salutatorian (but my graduating class only had seventeen people so not much of an achievement), and my son was city-wide valedictorian in Jacksonville, Fla.
The first wife actually dumped me. She had great pom-poms but I eventually decided that I had gotten the better of the bargain.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say this jury ain’t finding Hunter guilty. They’ve got no chain of custody on the gun (got thrown in the trash. Found by some guy who digs through trash for recyclables). No chain of custody on the laptop. Hunter basically just needs to take the stand and state “Hey, I was not using when I bought the gun.” Unless there’s something impeachable there, if I were on the jury I’d just nullify this bullshit.
“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that,” he said. “And sometimes revenge can be justified. Phil, I have to be honest. You know, sometimes it can.”
Interviewers keep giving Trump an off-ramp to his revenge tour. He isn’t taking it
www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/p...
— Lauren Ashley Davis (@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social) 2024-06-07T18:08:11.033Z
Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
Judge Merchan needs to give this pile of shit every last day in the slammer that he can. For the good of the country and the health and well-being of every juror, journalist, DA, and Judge that has gone “against” Trump.
My dad served in the Navy during WW2, on the escort ship USS White Plains. He was an Aerographer’s Mate, monitoring weather conditions for the ship and aircraft in the vicinity.
My grandfathers registered for the draft in WW1 but neither of them served. My dad’s dad died during the Spanish flu pandemic.
The MAGAts will go into a berserk rage if Hunter is acquitted. Of course, they are always in a berserk rage, so it is no cause for concern.
I sure do!
Who else thinks Denver TV news anchor @KyleClark should be the moderator of EVERY Republican debate going forward? ✋🤣pic.twitter.com/nuP90rgqCj
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) June 7, 2024
CNN: Adults are flocking to the toy aisle even more than preschoolers
Adults bought more toys for themselves than for any other age group last quarter for the first time ever, surpassing toys for even the historically-dominant preschooler market.
Apparently CNN doesn’t consider boats toys. Or snowmobiles. Or ATVs. Or explody things. Or *cough* adult toys.
re: #53 dat_said
CNN: Adults are flocking to the toy aisle even more than preschoolers
Apparently CNN doesn’t consider boats toys. Or snowmobiles. Or ATVs. Or explody things. Or *cough* adult toys.
Wait. Does CNN think pre-schoolers buy toys?
re: #51 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
The MAGAts will go into a berserk rage if Hunter is acquitted. Of course, they are always in a berserk rage, so it is no cause for concern.
I was gonna ask how you can tell the difference between their normal, every day rage and a berserk rage
I’m in awe of the heroism of the everyday allied soldier in WW2. No one in my family served in the armed forces then, but several died. Remembrances below:
Moshe G.
Birth: c1900
Death: circa 1940 ( holocaust)
Bat Sheva G.
Birth: c1900
Death: circa 1940 ( holocaust)
Rachael G. 10 years old
Birth: 1930
Death: 1940 (9-10) ( holocaust)
Athel G. 8 years old
Birth: circa 1922
Death: circa 1940 (9-26) ( holocaust)
Srulik G. 7 years old
Birth: circa 1923
Death: circa 1940 (8-25) ( holocaust)
Leizer G.
Birth: circa 1920
Death: circa 1940 (8-25) ( holocaust)
Reizel G.
Birth: circa 1920
Death: circa 1940 (8-25) ( holocaust)
Never again.
re: #53 dat_said
I’m planning to do some additional research on this, but it seems to me googling “adult toys” probably won’t get me what I want.
/
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wait. Does CNN think pre-schoolers buy toys?
Survey is about who the toys are being purchased FOR, not who is doing the buying.
re: #57 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m planning to do some additional research on this, but it seems to me googling “adult toys” probably won’t get me what I want.
/
I dunno. You might get pics of Ferraris, Corvettes, 50-ft sailboats, and Sprinter vans. You know. Adult toys.
re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg
Survey is about who the toys are being purchased FOR, not who is doing the buying.
Thanks. That clears it up.
I’ll have to check this “adult toys” category out. /s
It’s dominoes time at the public library, so I’m out for now.
Try to keep the intergenerational war to conventional weapons. /s
re: #12 Dave In Austin
PSA…….
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I was not expecting that. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Anyone know a youtuber named Yascha Mounk? My ex sent me a video by him and before spending the time, I want to know if it’s worth the trouble.
re: #63 William Lewis
If I had an ex, I would never, ever, open anything they sent me—including duct-taped packages.
re: #12 Dave In Austin
Frank Costanza begs to differ.
A truly great band, one of the most creative and original groups of the 90s. Should have been huge but never got there for some reason.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-07T20:00:14.000Z
re: #63 William Lewis
Anyone know a youtuber named Yascha Mounk? My ex sent me a video by him and before spending the time, I want to know if it’s worth the trouble.
Yascha Mounk frequently posts about how “identity politics” is corrosive. which he calls “the identity trap.” (He tends to centrism, in other words, items liberals are concerned about are “identity politics” such as women’s rights, but things right-wingers are concerned about like “guns everywhere” are not identity politics.)
He was interviewed on PBS eight months ago. (26:03, October 6, 2023)
re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg
this isn’t an oversight or failure by the framers. it is a failure of modern politicians to exercise the power of impeachment when it comes to Supreme Court Justices.
Thomas’s actions are no different than Judge Porteous, who was impeached and removed in 2010 despite not being convicted of any crimes.
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yascha Mounk frequently posts about how “identity politics” is corrosive. which he calls “the identity trap.” (He tends to centrism, in other words, items liberals are concerned about are “identity politics” such as women’s rights, but things right-wingers are concerned about like “guns everywhere” are not identity politics.)
He was interviewed on PBS eight months ago. (26:03, October 6, 2023)
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About what I expected. She’s been trending to the right since she started dating a retired Chicago PD cop and my son tells me she’s spouting TERF shit of late too. I’ll simply pass on it saying I’m too busy to watch it.
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re: #68 Charles Johnson
Not a fan.
Also helpful
My father served and went ashore a day later on Utah Beach (if my understanding of the timing is correct). His good friend, in the foxhole with him, was hit, and his blood, etc., splattered on Pop. Decades later he would cry, if you could get him to talk about his experience at all. He had a similar experience to those listed above on Omaha, but Utah didn’t get the PR. Of course, his people had the knowledge of knowing that the landing on Omaha was successful. Pop worshipped Eisenhower.
I saw an incel-camino in the wild today.
If I hadn’t already seen pictures online, I would have thought it was an auto shop project gone wrong or some sort of Halloween costume. It looked like painted cardboard on wheels.
So word on the street is Briahna Joy Gray got fired from her job after being an apologist for Hamas. No surprise that she would eventually lose her job. That’s why she will continue to go through things like the rest of the folks in her leftist ilk. pic.twitter.com/sURRkpF2Wa
— The Chanteezy Is Real ♉️ (@iamchanteezy) June 7, 2024
Brihana Joy Gray’s disgusting behavior this week was not the first time she mocked Israeli rape victims, it was just the nail in the coffin. pic.twitter.com/NlJKI2b9Dd
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 7, 2024
Briahna Joy Gray has a history. Here she is rolling her eyes at a man talking about Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia. pic.twitter.com/SKR929slWh
— Kim Wexler’s Ponytail 🎗 (@MadisonKittay) June 7, 2024
Good riddance.
re: #73 Vicious Babushka
The Wal-Mart near me has those too. I’m guessing the ones in Michigan did not?
re: #75 DodgerFan1988
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Good riddance.
And the same to everyone on that list. What a rogues gallery of losers.
re: #76 Eclectic Cyborg
The Wal-Mart near me has those too. I’m guessing the ones in Michigan did not?
I never went to Walmart while I lived in Michigan because there were so many other stores more convenient.
There are no Meijer stores here but there are like 11 kosher bodegas instead of only one, Publix & Winn-Dixie are down the block while Walmart is next door. Winn-Dixie is like Kroger, and Publix wants to be Whole Foods. There’s also a Whole Foods nearby, in case I want to buy some 365 products.
I’m slowly finding my way around.
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
(18:16, Christine Amanpour commenting on a “woke religion” person being interviewed by PBS, equating them as religions because you assert racism exists in the same way you might assert Jesus exists.)
PBS still platforming overt racists.
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Did I read that incorrectly, or are you calling John McWhorter a racist?
BREAKING: Fifth Circuit blocks “religious-liberty training” order in Southwest Airlines case. Three Republican appointees — including two Trump appointees — hold that the district court’s order was likely unconstitutional.
lawdork.com
“…U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr, a Trump appointee, had mandated the training last summer in an order issuing sanctions against the airline for its response to a loss at trial in a religious discrimination case brought by a flight attendant, Charlene Carter, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In the order, Starr specified that the airline’s lawyers were to attend eight hours of “religious-liberty training” to come from the far-right Christian legal advocacy group, Alliance Defending Freedom.”
“…Southwest fired Carter in March 2017 for pro-life posts and messages the company said were “highly offensive in nature” and in violation of their social media policy, according to court documents.” thetexan.news
Forced birth advocates experience slight temporary setback in their efforts to take revenge.
re: #77 Eventual Carrion
They have one here at our Walmart also.
None here, nor at the Walmart in the small NM town I used to live in. However, I did learn that the most time consuming chore in the daily duties of that town’s police force was picking up or otherwise dealing with shoplifting suspects at Walmart.
Someone planted that so they could throw out the verdict if he lost.
Oh, look! The jury was rigged!
re: #84 darthstar
I smell a rat
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Find the poster, see if they are related to any juror. Prosecute them for jury tampering if they aren’t.
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
(18:16, Christine Amanpour commenting on a “woke religion” person being interviewed by PBS, equating them as religions because you assert racism exists in the same way you might assert Jesus exists.)
PBS still platforming overt racists.
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I’ve seen people refer to McWhorter (derisively) for a while but this is the first time I saw him actually doing his thing in person.
He says if you think racism “still exists after the 1960s” it’s a religious view that’s impervious to reason.
What reason is this motherfucker talking about? He’s basically saying that racism stopped existing after the 1960s, implying that anyone who KNOWS it still exists is a delusional “woke” idiot. This is the worst kind of crypto-racist bullshit.
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s dominoes time at the public library, so I’m out for now.
Try to keep the intergenerational war to conventional weapons. /s
re: #85 darthstar
Someone planted that so they could throw out the verdict if he lost.
Oh, look! The jury was rigged!
THIS
It’s not like a conviction was tough to predict.
re: #83 wrenchwench
None here, nor at the Walmart in the small NM town I used to live in. However, I did learn that the most time consuming chore in the daily duties of that town’s police force was picking up or otherwise dealing with shoplifting suspects at Walmart.
And having a space set aside for them seems foolish anyway since any time I ever saw them there they just park right at the front curb (a fire lane violation, but hey immunity).
re: #94 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Fun fact: Getting fired from a private company does NOT affect your right to be in a public place and say stupid shit.
re: #93 Charles Johnson
I don’t think they’ll be adding that one to the C&W muzak rotation at the local HEB.
Psycho In The House
‘Manic’ House Republican hurled furniture at terrified staffers
A “manic” Republican lawmaker hurled furniture at terrified aides in interactions now the subject of a House Ethics Committee investigation, according to a new report.
Former staffers of Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) made this startling revelation in an exclusive Daily Mail report detailing accusations of abusive treatment at the hands of the Ukrainian-born businesswoman.
“One former staffer described her behavior to dailymail.com as ‘manic’ and ‘verbally abrasive, if not borderline abusive,’” the report notes. “Two former aides said Spartz was known to ‘throw furniture’ at her staff and she was known to blow up at them at both public or private events.”
One source reportedly said, “She was unfazed by whether people were watching.”
One screaming match between Spartz and her 2021 chief of staff sent her staff fleeing, the sources told the Daily Mail. This behavior was the tip of the iceberg, they added.
Not linking to the Daily Fail on this…
re: #97 Vicious Babushka
Great work, I hope she continues to paint!
re: #100 Joe Bacon ✅
Victoria Spartz insisting very fine people participated in Jan. 6, and now thinks they are being terrorized by Merrick Garland “like KGB.”
re: #56 Dizzy
I’m in awe of the heroism of the everyday allied soldier in WW2. No one in my family served in the armed forces then, but several died. Remembrances below:
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Never again.
I don’t think people today realize just how huge the war effort was. I have a poster created to raise money for the effort. The poster has three rows of ten photos of young men who enlisted in the service, including my father. All of these young men were from a single block of single family homes in Chicago. The poster was made in 43 or so because my uncle isn’t in it. Hehadn’t turned 18 yet. He enlisted as soon as he was of age. Apply those numbers to the whole city and you have enough men to form a decent sized army.
Dad was an MP and drove the division commander for a while. He got to see a lot of the big names because of this. His division was assigned to the Canadian first army for a while. So he had a few unusual ribbons.
A couple of years ago I saw a video of troops returning home and there was dad carrying his duffle getting on a train. It was only a few seconds, but pretty cool nonetheless.
re: #73 Vicious Babushka
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The Wal-Mart here in Twin has a couple of these spots as well.
re: #73 Vicious Babushka
The ones here in Rockwall county do. It’s because Walmart uses the police for security rather than hiring employees to do the job.
re: #103 Markm1960
A couple of years ago I saw a video of troops returning home and there was dad carrying his duffle getting on a train. It was only a few seconds, but pretty cool nonetheless.
That must have been emotional for you being able to recognize your father at that time!
re: #87 Charles Johnson
I’ve seen people refer to McWhorter (derisively) for a while but this is the first time I saw him actually doing his thing in person.
He says if you think racism “still exists after the 1960s” it’s a religious view that’s impervious to reason.
What reason is this motherfucker talking about? He’s basically saying that racism stopped existing after the 1960s, implying that anyone who KNOWS it still exists is a delusional “woke” idiot. This is the worst kind of crypto-racist bullshit.
Nonsense. His ideas about racism are so nuanced — since he’s part of the black community and feels free to talk about its flaws — that they won’t fit into a tweet (he’s written two books on the subject), and it’s easy to take him out of context).
That’s all I’m going to say about the matter, and his work is readily available, but be sure you’re looking at the genuine article, since people on both sides of the issues he’s dealing with hate him.
re: #103 Markm1960
I don’t think people today realize just how huge the war effort was. I have a poster created to raise money for the effort. The poster has three rows of ten photos of young men who enlisted in the service, including my father. All of these young men were from a single block of single family homes in Chicago.
At the height of the war, we had 15,000,000 troops in uniform on battlefields. That’s 10% of the entire nation’s population.
Women worked at defense plants, one of which was producing a B-52 every 90 minutes. And of course there was federally funded childcare, all three shifts, so Rosie the Riveter could put in her 60 hours a week while her husband and brothers were away.
People too old for military service or factory work turned their lawns into “victory gardens” where they grew vegetables. People too young for military service or factory work scrounged for recyclables. All the movie stars did the Hollywood Canteen thing, where soldiers could come dance with them and kiss them (there’s movies about it). John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens did frontline work directing our propaganda movies.
Our factories and farms, trying to up production by 100% for the duration, were so strapped for sufficient labor we recruited trainloads of Mexicans to come work here. (10 years later, those Mexicans had put down roots, married, had children, bought homes, they did not want to leave. Thus, Operation Wetback.)
re: #104 Joe Bacon ✅
Hmmmmmmm…
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🎶Too legit to acquit 🎶
— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) June 7, 2024
re: #103 Markm1960
I don’t think people today realize just how huge the war effort was. I have a poster created to raise money for the effort. The poster has three rows of ten photos of young men who enlisted in the service, including my father. All of these young men were from a single block of single family homes in Chicago. The poster was made in 43 or so because my uncle isn’t in it. Hehadn’t turned 18 yet. He enlisted as soon as he was of age. Apply those numbers to the whole city and you have enough men to form a decent sized army.
Dad was an MP and drove the division commander for a while. He got to see a lot of the big names because of this. His division was assigned to the Canadian first army for a while. So he had a few unusual ribbons.
A couple of years ago I saw a video of troops returning home and there was dad carrying his duffle getting on a train. It was only a few seconds, but pretty cool nonetheless.
Interesting! Because Pop also became an MP, and drove higher ups around. He was part of the army that pushed on continuously from Normandy until they reached Berlin. We couldn’t get him to talk to us about that, until right before he died. We got out books and maps and he would point to places, and tell stories about it. After the war was over, he got to visit Igls, Austria. He adored that scenery. You could see the relaxation after 50 years of holding it all in.
re: #107 Dizzy
That must have been emotional for you being able to recognize your father at that time!
Still is, kids never met their grand father, so we have another short video of him.
re: #49 jaunte
Coach Finstock
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And once one judge actually throws the book at Trump I expect an outcry and then… nothing from the MAGATs. Which might well embolden the other jurisdictions to treat Trump as a standard defendant and stop bending over backwards trying to appease him and the braying conservative media heads.
re: #79 Vicious Babushka
I never went to Walmart while I lived in Michigan because there were so many other stores more convenient.
There are no Meijer stores here but there are like 11 kosher bodegas instead of only one, Publix & Winn-Dixie are down the block while Walmart is next door. Winn-Dixie is like Kroger, and Publix wants to be Whole Foods. There’s also a Whole Foods nearby, in case I want to buy some 365 products.
I’m slowly finding my way around.
News item in my feed from various stations about how either Publix and/or Wegmans are about to enter the grocery market competition in the Pittsburgh region. Appears some retail development north of Pittsburgh (and relatively close to me) might land a Wegmans. Wegmans spokesperson refused to confirm or deny since there apparently is no actual agreement in place yet.
I assume Giant Eagle corporate is/should be worried. They have not faced any serious competition from another chain in a couple of decades.
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