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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[facilitatorn]

Your moral and emotional shriveling is self inflicted, Hammy? Is that better?

[bankshot1]

Actual footage...

Thanks for posting that rare photo knicks.

The Battle of Laguardia is an oft-forgotten turning point in our nation's history.

[LarryBnDC]

My son, Bear, posted this earlier.

He’s a much better man than I and that’s all any dad could hope.


We should all be able to celebrate Independence Day. Who doesn’t love grilled things and revelry. I’m Black, so you know cookouts are my jam.

But, it is damn near impossible to do so knowing that we live in a country with an abusive, racist, megalomaniac as our leader. A country where we are forcing human beings into concentration camps, again. A country where police are still killing indiscriminately. And, a world where climate change is rapidly careening our society toward oblivion, just to name a few.

We look at these macro-indications of our societal health and we despair. We must rail against the injustice of our nation. We rattle swords. We speak truth. We refuse to celebrate a nation so clearly in decline.

When I’ve, personally, done all of that, I’m still left with this hollow feeling: What can I do?

This is the most important question I ask myself every day. What can I do? After donating to campaigns and national organizations to fight these very real issues - What can I do? It is in these moments that I remember that it’s the smaller things, the less sexy, the more localized moments, the ones I can’t promote, where I can make a real difference.

Am I pushing myself to use my privilege to help those with less than me in my every day interactions? Am I respecting the mental health issues of those around me without judgement or stigma? Am I conscious of the types of people I give my time and talent to and am I intentional in those choices? Am I calling out the abuses I witness and amplifying the voices of those who see what I can not? Am I speaking out in my every day life when it would be easier to stay silent?

These are just some of the questions I try to ask myself every moment of every day. My personal fight to make this nation, this world, a better place. It’s not about recognition as an ally. It’s not about visibility within the movement. It’s about pushing myself to do what’s right every day.

I fail, often. This is not a linear path. There are peaks and valleys. But, in the end, if folks can say about me, “he was not a nice person, but a good person,” I will have done my job.

Happy Independence Day. We all have the agency to make a small difference and those differences add up. The collective fight is in the individual moments. Independence does not manifest solely by escaping the tyranny of our oppressors, it manifests through making the hard, personal, everyday decisions that push your corner of the world to be better.

Choose independence.

Anger a family trait, then.

Yes, indeed.

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”


― James Baldwin

[LarryBnDC]

It does seem a legitimate debate question: to what degree can white supremacists usurp the original meaning of the Ross flag, and should we credit that usurping in any way?   I can see both sides of the debate here.   With some symbols, the situation is more clear-cut:  no one frets about what the swastika meant to early Aryan peoples, as a symbol of health, luck, and prosperity.   It was permanently and irrevocably stained when the Nazis co-opted the ancient symbol.   With the Ross flag, it's less clear to me that the stain Kaepernick has perceived is irrevocable.   I don't think ignoring this newer attempt to co-opt a classic  symbol of independence and unity makes someone a racist.
I am really not sure, myself, that I want to let the extremist groups rule our perceptions.

You ever think just once to pay attention when black people say, “Whoa?”

We keep seeing this same movie and we know how it ends....

I've been paying attention to black people saying "whoa" for roughly a half century.   You understand I am asking questions here, and haven't made up my mind where the Ross stands in relation to the other flags you mentioned. 

Still trying to plumb the gray areas.   It's like finding a reasonable point between taking down RE Lee statues (yes) and Jeff Memorial (please, no).  If, when, it's clear that a Ross flag is more about slavery and supremacy than about freedom and unity, then I will be at your door with a can of lighter fluid and whatever libation you favor. 

My slowness to decide things is a feature, not a bug.  At least that's what some folks tell me.

Larry only wants HIS views tolerated, not yours.
"Achtung Larry" doesn't practice what he preaches. It would impact his victim status.

Fuck you and your bullshit.

https://medium.com/@timjwise/silence-is-not-a-virtue-racism-victimhood-and-right-wing-concern-trolling-74094666756

Get a job. Stop living off what the government gives your wife to pretend she's working.

Jealous, huh?

Keep your nose to the grindstone, buppy.
Who knows? Maybe one day you’ll share your assertion the DDay Invasion would never have happened if not for the 1862 Battle of Memphis and receive the recognition you deserve.

Keep compounding your ignorance, 'Bama.

First of all, you keep using a word you think is a slur so I know you don’t know what it means considering I’m from NY, am erudite and have been known for my sartorial stylings...

Second, if I’m so ignorant on the subject why don’t you enlighten everyone in this space?

[LarryBnDC]

The new Me I can National Guard will be deploying 2000 troops to the Guatemala border in order to appease Trump and avoid the imposition of tariffs... maybe.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexican-police-revolt-against-plans-to-join-national-guard/2019/07/03/49cd355a-9df3-11e9-83e3-45fded8e8d2e_story.html

[barton]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/revolutionarywarairports-meme-twitter-trump-speech-gaffe.html

Amusing twitters inspired by 45's "teleprompter" problems yesterday.

[REDSTATEWARD]

For what it's worth I wouldn't display a Ross flag.   Would I assume someone else is doing so to express WN sentiment, and object to the display?   Probably not.   I need to hear more context.  Just the fact that patriot twits are wrapping themselves in flags of various provenances isn't enough; twits have been doing that for millennia.   To me patriotism is loving and caring for your land, and seeing that it nurtures life, liberty, and the PoH for everyone you share it with.   Flag waving is for the simple-minded.

Nike accomplished what could not have been accomplished by any of the nazis, supremacists, et al.  It turned a Betsy Ross Flag into a racist symbol.
The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism has a database with more than 150 “hate symbols.” The Betsy Ross flag isn’t among them.If the ADL didn't know of some fringe association no one would expect Nike to be any different.
What's next, a pictures of white supremacists wearing Nikes or  a Swoosh Tee shirt serving as " proof" that Nike is racist?
Absurd, although  Nike deserves the absurd.

[HamiltonIII]

Comments
Please comment respectfully.

Dear Lillie,


I pray this letter finds you well in these difficult times. We have been delayed at Jockey Hollow Airport for nearly all winter. No Colonial Airplanes have been able to take off for the last 30 days.
General Washington says he is suffering along with us, and that he deeply misses Aircraft One. We have only our meager rations from the overhead bins, peanuts and some very old diet sodas. I did receive your care package of the Revolutionary Oreo Hardtack, but unfortunately, when they arrived some kind of worm had imbedded itself in the creamy filling. Still, I managed to trade them to another soldier for some warmer rags to wrap around my bare feet.
We hope to ram some ramparts as soon as the winter weather breaks and we are cleared for flight to Valley Forge. We have heard that the runways there are under much snow, too. We have also heard of a nearby Bedminster, where some of the men have said they've heard General Washington playing a game of which I am not familiar. Goff? Gulf? Golf?

Well, I must go. We are getting a lesson on something called seat-belts. Baton Von Steuben says everyone in the Luftwaffe wears them.

Your loving husband,

Jonathan

[LarryBnDC]

For what it's worth I wouldn't display a Ross flag.   Would I assume someone else is doing so to express WN sentiment, and object to the display?   Probably not.   I need to hear more context.  Just the fact that patriot twits are wrapping themselves in flags of various provenances isn't enough; twits have been doing that for millennia.   To me patriotism is loving and caring for your land, and seeing that it nurtures life, liberty, and the PoH for everyone you share it with.   Flag waving is for the simple-minded.

Nike accomplished what could not have been accomplished by any of the nazis, supremacists, et al.  It turned a Betsy Ross Flag into a racist symbol.
The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism has a database with more than 150 “hate symbols.” The Betsy Ross flag isn’t among them.If the ADL didn't know of some fringe association no one would expect Nike to be any different.
What's next, a pictures of white supremacists wearing Nikes or  a Swoosh Tee shirt serving as " proof" that Nike is racist?
Absurd, although  Nike deserves the absurd.

Yeah.

Too bad. Meanwhile Nike’s enhanced its brand with the consumers who count.
Ted Cruz tweeted he’d never buy Nike again.
Nike’s response was “Good!”

[josh]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/revolutionarywarairports-meme-twitter-trump-speech-gaffe.html

Amusing twitters inspired by 45's "teleprompter" problems yesterday.

Great! Thanks.

[luee]

---Nancy Pelosi <[email protected]>
To:
[email protected]

Jun 30 at 9:47 PM

 normally when I reach out late on deadline day it’s to tell you we’re so close to hitting our goal.
 
Unfortunately this is not one of those messages -- which is why I’m desperately reaching out to you again for your help and $1.
 
I’m deeply concerned I’m going to have to deliver awful news to my Majority first thing tomorrow morning.
 
I don’t want to have to tell them we can’t defend them from Republican attacks because we failed to hit our goal.
 
But if we can’t get 2,O39 more grassroots Democrats to step up in the next 3 hours, I’m going to have to start making some very difficult decisions.
 
Please,I wouldn’t be coming to you right now if I didn’t think it were still possible to pull ahead.
 
Can you rush in $1?
 
In order to prevent making some painful decisions with my team, I’ll be sure to triple match every gift we get in the door in the next 3 hours.
 
Triple match your $1 >>

Triple match your $35 >>

Triple match your $50 >>

Triple match your $100 >>

Triple match your $250 >>

Or triple match another amount >>

Thank you,

Nancy---

Please nancee under your watch The dem party has become pure reactionary and out of tune with middle America. Time to hang up the gavel and go back to making some sweet tasting wines. The greatest upset in American political history and you are still pitching liberal elitist garbage. Didn't you learn anything? Stop begging and get real. This is not the way FDR or JFK  or
 even big Bill would have wanted it.

Thank you.

[josh]

[josh]

Nancy---

Please nancee under your watch The dem party has become pure reactionary and out of tune with middle America. Time to hang up the gavel and go back to making some sweet tasting wines. The greatest upset in American political history and you are still pitching liberal elitist garbage. Didn't you learn anything? Stop begging and get real. This is not the way FDR or JFK  or
 even big Bill would have wanted it.

Thank you.

Dear Nancy,

Luy wants you to ignore (a) 2018 and (b) what's good for the country and the world.

Ignore him.

[josh]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/film/racist-disney-fans-mocked-claiming-17477684?fbclid=IwAR1YEyc0ZQH66Ps45hKx5S6789EZL7VCeYecup9gUGXAT0EbhWNeeOmBP7Q

[LarryBnDC]

---Nancy Pelosi <[email protected]>
To:
[email protected]

Jun 30 at 9:47 PM

 normally when I reach out late on deadline day it’s to tell you we’re so close to hitting our goal.
 
Unfortunately this is not one of those messages -- which is why I’m desperately reaching out to you again for your help and $1.
 
I’m deeply concerned I’m going to have to deliver awful news to my Majority first thing tomorrow morning.
 
I don’t want to have to tell them we can’t defend them from Republican attacks because we failed to hit our goal.
 
But if we can’t get 2,O39 more grassroots Democrats to step up in the next 3 hours, I’m going to have to start making some very difficult decisions.
 
Please,I wouldn’t be coming to you right now if I didn’t think it were still possible to pull ahead.
 
Can you rush in $1?
 
In order to prevent making some painful decisions with my team, I’ll be sure to triple match every gift we get in the door in the next 3 hours.
 
Triple match your $1 >>

Triple match your $35 >>

Triple match your $50 >>

Triple match your $100 >>

Triple match your $250 >>

Or triple match another amount >>

Thank you,

Nancy---

Please nancee under your watch The dem party has become pure reactionary and out of tune with middle America. Time to hang up the gavel and go back to making some sweet tasting wines. The greatest upset in American political history and you are still pitching liberal elitist garbage. Didn't you learn anything? Stop begging and get real. This is not the way FDR or JFK  or
 even big Bill would have wanted it.

Thank you.

Rip Van Luee slept right through the 2018 midterm elections...