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Suck is gone mad – touched mad – deleting posts throughout Faceplop, anything that presents ideology that he opposes.
Notice on posts at my Faceplop page that Suck deleted the URL links and posts that reference to my Faceplop page:
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Fear not, Dear Reader. I continue posting current original compositions – I have countless ideas about topics that I have never discussed here or not commented in depth. Posting these recent ‘Memories’ allows me to catch up to what past essays I missed posting here concurrent with Faceplop posts.
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Beginning today, 5 Apr 2024, it appears that Facebook changed how it formats its URL links. The previous format included the user’s Facebook number and the post’s number. The current format seems to be a gobbledygook of letters and numbers that I have yet to decipher. The previous format had been available only on my Old Samsung, the changed format has been with New Samsung and ObamaPhone. My iPad fails to provide any options to extract URL links. I have not yet tried to use my PC laptop to extract a URL link.
Old format URL links that you see on these Facebook items were extracted before today.
Old format URL links were reasonably reliable, regularly leading to the appropriate post. New format URL links may not work properly, may not lead you to the actual post or article, may instead connect to the attachment of the post, may not work on some devices, or may work variously depending upon the version of applications on your device.
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5 Apr 2022
The linked-post below, from a year ago, came up in a lot of memories a couple of days ago and is getting shared some, so I just spent a few minutes re-reading it. I’m never sure about a post when I first write it. But when I go back and “cold read” a post I wrote a year or more ago, I’m actually amazed. 🤣 I’m thinking, WHO wrote this? And who even does this… I mean, the time-investment alone is not like anything else I see on Facebook. Weaving personal experiences with relevant history to tell a story that illuminates current events.
Most of the history in this post I got from historical markers at the house where the Civil War was planned and a house a few blocks away where the first black congressman lived, in Beaufort South Carolina where I was bike riding.
As my former high school principal, Mr. Thomas Upchurch, pointed out in a comment on the post this morning, it will soon be illegal for a teacher here in Georgia to teach this as it could be interpreted as “divisive ideology.” On Friday, the next to the last day of the session for the Georgia legislature, the Georgia Senate approved the bill that had already passed the House.
Governor Kemp will surely sign it as he’s trying to out-Trump Trump, because he’s going to lose the primary to the Trump-backed candidate who we last beat when he ran against Senator Jon Ossoff.
If you have a few leisurely minutes to read this post again, maybe it will remind the ones miffed at me why you used to love me. 😂 There’s been a great falling away in last 40 days when I switched from illuminating to advocating after Putin invaded Ukraine and I felt America should keep its word and defend Ukraine as we promised.
(https://www.facebook.com/753523283/posts/10158166236438284/)
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2 Apr 2021
Hunting Island sits off the South Carolina coast, twenty miles out from Beaufort. It’s covered with a maritime forest so dense it chokes out the sun, so desolate it intermittently engenders fears of being lost on the narrow sandy trails.
The end of the island is restricted but we easily went around the gates with our bicycles. Just around the curve, the reason for the restricted access was obvious — the road was missing. We biked on across the sand and found another section of broken-up blacktop road. Then more sand. Large trees were uprooted everywhere; the cabins that had faced the water were empty and abandoned.
Not the result of a hurricane or an earthquake — the sea is simply reclaiming its territory.
It left me with such an odd feeling.
So much wasted effort.
So much desolation.
Such futility.
Back in town, I had the same feeling when we rode around Succession House on ironically-named Craven Street. That’s where the eighteen-hundred’s equivalent of men like Cruz and Hawley and McConnell and Kemp secretly met to plan South Carolina pulling out of the United States and forming a confederacy with other slave-states.
So much wasted effort.
So much desolation.
Such futility.
Five blocks down Craven Street, left on Carteret Street, right on Prince Street is the Smalls House where Robert Smalls was born into slavery.
In 1862, only a hundred years before I was born, Smalls escaped the bonds of slavery in the middle of the Civil War that had been planned just a few blocks from his home.
A year earlier, the Southern traitors had fired the first shots of the Civil War from cannons mounted just outside Charleston Harbor on Folly Island and Sullivan’s Island, out against the walls of the United States Army’s Fort Sumter located on a barrier island.
The Union Army later laid siege to Charleston Harbor, forming a blockade out in the ocean.
One night Robert Smalls and a crew of slaves were left alone in the harbor on a heavily armed Confederate guard ship while the white officers went into town. Smalls skillfully guided the ship out of the harbor, giving the proper signals as he passed Confederate forts Johnson and Sumter, before lowering the Confederate Flag and replacing it with a white bed-sheet his wife had brought along when he stopped to pick up her and other family members.
The Union blockade welcomed the surrendering Confederate ship and Congress passed a bill awarding half the value of the ship to Smalls who used the money to purchase his birth home on Prince Street in Beaufort as soon as the war ended on Palm Sunday 1865.
The 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870 giving Black men the right to vote. With the large number of formerly enslaved Black men in his district — Charleston had been the slave capital of America — Smalls was elected to Congress in 1874 and served two terms before a trumped-up scandal (for which he was pardoned) caused him to lose in 1878. He returned in 1880 and served three more terms.
But the sensitive White men in the South were feeling persecuted.
Federal oversight was allowing Black men to gain power.
The presidential election of 1876 was hotly contested. Democrat Samuel Tilden had won the popular vote and had 184 electoral votes of the needed 185. Republican Rutherford B. Hayes only had 165. South Carolina and Florida and Louisiana controlled 19 electors which had not been awarded because both parties were claiming victory in all three states. A single electoral vote from Oregon was also in question as one elector and been removed and replaced.
The parties were switched back then — Republicans were the enlightened liberals; Democrats were the former Confederates who had fought to preserve slavery and would now do anything to keep the formerly-enslaved people from voting.
The Compromise of 1877 ended the dispute — the racist white-supremacist Democrats in congress known as “Redeemer Democrats” would agree to award the 20 outstanding electors to Republican Hayes, giving him the required 185 electors to become president, if he would agree to implement the racist Redeemer platform: remove federal troops from the occupied-South and end the federal oversight of the South known as “Reconstruction.”
As soon as the federal troops were gone, the Redeemer Democrats — who later became Dixiecrats then Reagan Democrats before becoming today’s Republicans — began instituting voter suppression laws to keep Black men from voting. This was their only hope of gaining and retaining power — they couldn’t rely on Democracy because in many places in the South, Black men outnumbered White men.
It’s the same reason for the January Six Insurrection — Trump-worshipping evangelicals eschewed Democracy to achieve power by any means necessary.
These Jim Crow laws passed in the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds enforced segregation, successfully removed most Black men from the voter rolls, and decimated the growing Black middle-class.
They were enforced all the way up until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In the one-hundred years between the ending of the Civil War in 1865 and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, more than 5,000 Black men were murdered by Southern white supremacists.
As a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, former slave-states had to get approval from the Department of Justice before implementing any changes to voter laws.
This worked well until 2013 when the US Supreme Court struck down that provision in the case of Shelby County Alabama vs. Attorney General Eric Holder.
Chief Justice Roberts said the election of President Obama in 2008 proved racism no longer exists in the United States — federal oversight of the voting laws in Southern states was no longer needed.
The racist Redeemer Democrats/Dixiecrats now known as Republicans, went to work immediately passing new laws to make it harder for Black people to vote.
After Trump’s 2020 loss and the Democrats’ gain of two senate seats in Georgia, the emboldened racist Republicans passed the most draconian attack on voting rights since the Jim Crow laws of a hundred years ago.
Republicans point to some provisions that could actually expand voting rights, if implemented.
But those are the fruits of a poison tree and must die along with the tree. As Delta belatedly realized, the good provisions its team was able to get written into the final bill, do not in any way mitigate against the fact that the entire bill was based on the Big Lie that was fomented and spread by Trump and supplicant Republicans.
Kemp and the Republicans knew it was all a lie. When Kemp had the power and authority and opportunity to call the legislature back into session in December and rectify whatever “fraud” had occurred, he did nothing. When Republican Georgia senate leader Mike Dugan had the power and authority and opportunity to sign onto a request asking the governor to call the legislature into session, he did nothing.
They did nothing because they full-well knew there was no fraud. They are no different from the lying lawyers involved in the 60 lawsuits that went nowhere. Lawyers who stood before microphones and lied their asses off to the public, but when they walked into the courtroom, they had to tell the truth because a lie to the court will result in the loss of their license to practice law. They were willing to perpetuate the Big Lie for Trump in public, but not willing to lose their ability to continuing practicing law.
When they would have had to actually show evidence of fraud, Kemp and Dugan choked and refused to call the legislature back into session, completely abandoning Trump. But when the danger of being required to actually present evidence had passed, they resumed the big lie in a contemptuous attempt to justify their draconian voting laws.
If there had been any evidence of fraud, they would have called the legislature back into session.
Instead, they abandoned Trump to save their own asses.
And now — terrified of being primaried for abandoning Trump — Kemp and Dugan have designed the most Black-suppressing bill possible in order to redeem themselves with the White racist Trump-worshiping evangelicals.
Any good the bill would purport to accomplish is completely nullified by the worst provision in the bill — the process that allows the Georgia legislature to remove a local elections board and replace it with an appointed administrator.
This is racist to its core; it is the point of the bill — it is aimed squarely at predominantly-Black Fulton County, Republicans’ favorite target for race-based claims of “incompetence.”
Delta and Coca-Cola are equally full of shit.
With their teams of lobbyists, Coke pours over every bill; Delta hovers over every word — they were not caught by surprise. Their silence and acquiescence as the bill was being passed, followed by their outcry now, is by design — they are trying to have it both ways. They allowed the bill to pass with not a word of objection, in order to please Republicans; now that it is too late to stop it, they feign outcry, in order to please Democrats.
The John Lewis Voting Rights Act restores federal oversight of voting laws. The For The People Act (HR 1 and SB 1) sets a floor for voting rights and elections security.
As federal law, they will preempt and nullify any contrary state provisions.
Both bills have passed the House and are now awaiting Senate action.
If Delta and Coca-Cola are serious, they and other corporations need to exert every possible ounce of pressure on Manchin and others to reform the filibuster and support passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the For The People Act.
They need to lead with ~actions~ as the MLB is doing; not just words, spoken too late.
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These foundation documents of the Confederacy demonstrate their glory that once was:
– Declaration of Independence of the Confederate States of Amerika
– Cornerstone Document
– Constitution of the Confederate States of Amerika.
Read ’em and weep.
Really!
Cry for the hundreds of thousands, no, millions of lives lost due to the ugliness of Racism and Slavery.
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5 Apr 2022
The linked-post below, from a year ago, came up in a lot of memories a couple of days ago and is getting shared some, so I just spent a few minutes re-reading it. I’m never sure about a post when I first write it. But when I go back and “cold read” a post I wrote a year or more ago, I’m actually amazed. 🤣 I’m thinking, WHO wrote this? And who even does this… I mean, the time-investment alone is not like anything else I see on Facebook. Weaving personal experiences with relevant history to tell a story that illuminates current events.
Most of the history in this post I got from historical markers at the house where the Civil War was planned and a house a few blocks away where the first black congressman lived, in Beaufort South Carolina where I was bike riding.
As my former high school principal, Mr. Thomas Upchurch, pointed out in a comment on the post this morning, it will soon be illegal for a teacher here in Georgia to teach this as it could be interpreted as “divisive ideology.” On Friday, the next to the last day of the session for the Georgia legislature, the Georgia Senate approved the bill that had already passed the House.
Governor Kemp will surely sign it as he’s trying to out-Trump Trump, because he’s going to lose the primary to the Trump-backed candidate who we last beat when he ran against Senator Jon Ossoff.
If you have a few leisurely minutes to read this post again, maybe it will remind the ones miffed at me why you used to love me. 😂 There’s been a great falling away in last 40 days when I switched from illuminating to advocating after Putin invaded Ukraine and I felt America should keep its word and defend Ukraine as we promised.
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2 Apr 2021
Hunting Island sits off the South Carolina coast, twenty miles out from Beaufort. It’s covered with a maritime forest so dense it chokes out the sun, so desolate it intermittently engenders fears of being lost on the narrow sandy trails.
The end of the island is restricted but we easily went around the gates with our bicycles. Just around the curve, the reason for the restricted access was obvious — the road was missing. We biked on across the sand and found another section of broken-up blacktop road. Then more sand. Large trees were uprooted everywhere; the cabins that had faced the water were empty and abandoned.
Not the result of a hurricane or an earthquake — the sea is simply reclaiming its territory.
It left me with such an odd feeling.
So much wasted effort.
So much desolation.
Such futility.
Back in town, I had the same feeling when we rode around Succession House on ironically-named Craven Street. That’s where the eighteen-hundred’s equivalent of men like Cruz and Hawley and McConnell and Kemp secretly met to plan South Carolina pulling out of the United States and forming a confederacy with other slave-states.
So much wasted effort.
So much desolation.
Such futility.
Five blocks down Craven Street, left on Carteret Street, right on Prince Street is the Smalls House where Robert Smalls was born into slavery.
In 1862, only a hundred years before I was born, Smalls escaped the bonds of slavery in the middle of the Civil War that had been planned just a few blocks from his home.
A year earlier, the Southern traitors had fired the first shots of the Civil War from cannons mounted just outside Charleston Harbor on Folly Island and Sullivan’s Island, out against the walls of the United States Army’s Fort Sumter located on a barrier island.
The Union Army later laid siege to Charleston Harbor, forming a blockade out in the ocean.
One night Robert Smalls and a crew of slaves were left alone in the harbor on a heavily armed Confederate guard ship while the white officers went into town. Smalls skillfully guided the ship out of the harbor, giving the proper signals as he passed Confederate forts Johnson and Sumter, before lowering the Confederate Flag and replacing it with a white bed-sheet his wife had brought along when he stopped to pick up her and other family members.
The Union blockade welcomed the surrendering Confederate ship and Congress passed a bill awarding half the value of the ship to Smalls who used the money to purchase his birth home on Prince Street in Beaufort as soon as the war ended on Palm Sunday 1865.
The 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870 giving Black men the right to vote. With the large number of formerly enslaved Black men in his district — Charleston had been the slave capital of America — Smalls was elected to Congress in 1874 and served two terms before a trumped-up scandal (for which he was pardoned) caused him to lose in 1878. He returned in 1880 and served three more terms.
But the sensitive White men in the South were feeling persecuted.
Federal oversight was allowing Black men to gain power.
The presidential election of 1876 was hotly contested. Democrat Samuel Tilden had won the popular vote and had 184 electoral votes of the needed 185. Republican Rutherford B. Hayes only had 165. South Carolina and Florida and Louisiana controlled 19 electors which had not been awarded because both parties were claiming victory in all three states. A single electoral vote from Oregon was also in question as one elector and been removed and replaced.
The parties were switched back then — Republicans were the enlightened liberals; Democrats were the former Confederates who had fought to preserve slavery and would now do anything to keep the formerly-enslaved people from voting.
The Compromise of 1877 ended the dispute — the racist white-supremacist Democrats in congress known as “Redeemer Democrats” would agree to award the 20 outstanding electors to Republican Hayes, giving him the required 185 electors to become president, if he would agree to implement the racist Redeemer platform: remove federal troops from the occupied-South and end the federal oversight of the South known as “Reconstruction.”
As soon as the federal troops were gone, the Redeemer Democrats — who later became Dixiecrats then Reagan Democrats before becoming today’s Republicans — began instituting voter suppression laws to keep Black men from voting. This was their only hope of gaining and retaining power — they couldn’t rely on Democracy because in many places in the South, Black men outnumbered White men.
It’s the same reason for the January Six Insurrection — Trump-worshipping evangelicals eschewed Democracy to achieve power by any means necessary.
These Jim Crow laws passed in the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds enforced segregation, successfully removed most Black men from the voter rolls, and decimated the growing Black middle-class.
They were enforced all the way up until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In the one-hundred years between the ending of the Civil War in 1865 and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, more than 5,000 Black men were murdered by Southern white supremacists.
As a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, former slave-states had to get approval from the Department of Justice before implementing any changes to voter laws.
This worked well until 2013 when the US Supreme Court struck down that provision in the case of Shelby County Alabama vs. Attorney General Eric Holder.
Chief Justice Roberts said the election of President Obama in 2008 proved racism no longer exists in the United States — federal oversight of the voting laws in Southern states was no longer needed.
The racist Redeemer Democrats/Dixiecrats now known as Republicans, went to work immediately passing new laws to make it harder for Black people to vote.
After Trump’s 2020 loss and the Democrats’ gain of two senate seats in Georgia, the emboldened racist Republicans passed the most draconian attack on voting rights since the Jim Crow laws of a hundred years ago.
Republicans point to some provisions that could actually expand voting rights, if implemented.
But those are the fruits of a poison tree and must die along with the tree. As Delta belatedly realized, the good provisions its team was able to get written into the final bill, do not in any way mitigate against the fact that the entire bill was based on the Big Lie that was fomented and spread by Trump and supplicant Republicans.
Kemp and the Republicans knew it was all a lie. When Kemp had the power and authority and opportunity to call the legislature back into session in December and rectify whatever “fraud” had occurred, he did nothing. When Republican Georgia senate leader Mike Dugan had the power and authority and opportunity to sign onto a request asking the governor to call the legislature into session, he did nothing.
They did nothing because they full-well knew there was no fraud. They are no different from the lying lawyers involved in the 60 lawsuits that went nowhere. Lawyers who stood before microphones and lied their asses off to the public, but when they walked into the courtroom, they had to tell the truth because a lie to the court will result in the loss of their license to practice law. They were willing to perpetuate the Big Lie for Trump in public, but not willing to lose their ability to continuing practicing law.
When they would have had to actually show evidence of fraud, Kemp and Dugan choked and refused to call the legislature back into session, completely abandoning Trump. But when the danger of being required to actually present evidence had passed, they resumed the big lie in a contemptuous attempt to justify their draconian voting laws.
If there had been any evidence of fraud, they would have called the legislature back into session.
Instead, they abandoned Trump to save their own asses.
And now — terrified of being primaried for abandoning Trump — Kemp and Dugan have designed the most Black-suppressing bill possible in order to redeem themselves with the White racist Trump-worshiping evangelicals.
Any good the bill would purport to accomplish is completely nullified by the worst provision in the bill — the process that allows the Georgia legislature to remove a local elections board and replace it with an appointed administrator.
This is racist to its core; it is the point of the bill — it is aimed squarely at predominantly-Black Fulton County, Republicans’ favorite target for race-based claims of “incompetence.”
Delta and Coca-Cola are equally full of shit.
With their teams of lobbyists, Coke pours over every bill; Delta hovers over every word — they were not caught by surprise. Their silence and acquiescence as the bill was being passed, followed by their outcry now, is by design — they are trying to have it both ways. They allowed the bill to pass with not a word of objection, in order to please Republicans; now that it is too late to stop it, they feign outcry, in order to please Democrats.
The John Lewis Voting Rights Act restores federal oversight of voting laws. The For The People Act (HR 1 and SB 1) sets a floor for voting rights and elections security.
As federal law, they will preempt and nullify any contrary state provisions.
Both bills have passed the House and are now awaiting Senate action.
If Delta and Coca-Cola are serious, they and other corporations need to exert every possible ounce of pressure on Manchin and others to reform the filibuster and support passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the For The People Act.
They need to lead with ~actions~ as the MLB is doing; not just words, spoken too late.
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These foundation documents of the Confederacy demonstrate their glory that once was:
– Declaration of Independence of the Confederate States of Amerika
– Cornerstone Document
– Constitution of the Confederate States of Amerika.
Read ’em and weep.
Really!
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Crooked Drumpf skimmed from the ‘9 / 11’ relief fund.
‘Pure Evil’: Report On Trump Administration Draining Fund For FDNY’s 9/11 Responders Draws Outrage
Lisette Voytko
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Senior Entertainment Reporter
Sep 11, 2020, 08:53am EDT
Updated Sep 12, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
TOPLINE A New York Daily News scoop published Thursday revealed that the Trump administration has siphoned around $4 million from the New York City Fire Department’s fund for its September 11 first responders, drawing outrage on the 19th anniversary of the attacks, but the U.S. Treasury says the money was diverted because of “delinquent debt” owed by New York City to the federal government.
Attacks World Trade Center
Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, [+]
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The funds are part of the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, which was established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, a bill passed by Congress that provides healthcare to first responders who have suffered a range of illnesses from exposure to dust and smoke at Ground Zero.
“TRUMP DOESN’T ONLY HATE VETERANS, HE HATES FIRST RESPONDER HEROES,” tweeted actress Debra Messing in reaction to the Daily News report.
Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland school shooting victim Jamie Guttenberg, said he was “F—KING P—-ED” about the report, because his brother died of cancer from 9/11.
“From the administration whose identity is built on claims of honoring first responders,” Julie Cohen, director of the RBG documentary, wrote on Twitter.
“This doesn’t surprise me at all,” Army veteran and advocate Paul Rieckoff wrote on Twitter. “Trump did NOTHING to push for the extension of #Zadroga last year.”
“We are also working with Congressman King and others to examine any potential authorities to provide relief in this case to support our nation’s 9/11 heroes,” the Treasury spokesperson. told Forbes, but could not provide any examples of how they would do it, and did not have a timeline.
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“Here we have sick World Trade Center-exposed firefighters and EMS workers, at a time when the city is having difficult financial circumstances due to COVID-19, and we’re not getting the money we need to be able to treat these heroes,” FDNY Chief Medical Officer David Prezant told the Daily News.
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“Pure evil,” tweeted Dr. Dena Grayson, a medical expert who specializes in ebola and other viruses.
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DNC War Room
1 Sep 2020
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Slim and Me 