Signaling the beginning of a new ear in the Court, the U.S. Supreme Court found segregation of interstate bus passengers to be illegal.
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May 12, 2026
Drugs coming by sea, by ocean, by water. A lot of people say, What do you mean by sea? Is it see? Like vision? No, it’s sea. SEA.
Donald Trump on the maritime transportation of illegal drugs. Absolutely nobody was confused on this topic, maybe other than Trump.
We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail.
Ummm. . .
We're building a beautiful ballroom. I'm very good at ballrooms.
The ballroom, which will either never be built or will be ripped down, is a Trump obsession.
A new name I came up -- dumbocrat. I think that could be a good one. I've come up with some extraordinary names. But I was talking about Hakeem Jeffries. He's a low IQ person. He's a dumb guy.
Trump has an obsession on intelligence like only a man who isn't intelligent can have.
Without you, we have Somalia. A fine place where we have a congresswoman who brilliantly came over to the country by marrying her brother. That was the first law she broke. She comes from a country where they have nothing but crime, bedlam, filth. Elan Omar.
Ilhan Omar has been married three times, and none of her husbands were her brother.
This accusation taps into the deeply racist nature of a lot of MAGA in particular and the American far right in general. This has laid under the surface following the 1960s for years, but it resurfaced with the rise of Barack Obama which caused this demographic to flip out. Trump tapped into it early with his clams that Obama, who was born in Hawaii, was born in Kenya.
Funny thing here is that Obama and Trump share a common item here in that both of them were born to a couple in which one of them was an immigrant. In Trump's case, however, the immigrant was a white Christian, as opposed to Obama's. This item here really shows something that's deeply ingrained in the MAGA movement. It really doesn't like anyone who isn't white and it really doesn't like anyone who isn't culturally Christian.
Otherwise, it's perfectly okay with people like Trump, who marry foreign women of a certain appearance and then divorce them later on, and whose Christianity is a variant of it that doesn't really require any actual effort or adherence to the Gospel.
The people that did it -- these people did not work for me. They said they work for me. They come from a different part of the country. But they were good. The people that worked for me recommended it and they recommend we do it this way. But I recommended it to them because I'm very good at construction.
Tide D Bowl.
No Republican has ever spoken to me about Cuba, which is a failed country and only heading in one direction - down! Cuba is asking for help, and we are going to talk!!! In the meantime, I’m off to China! President DJT
Donald Trump.
We'll address the super creepy "Trump babies" in another thread.
A note here. Trump's 18 month mark will be July 20, 2026. If I'm right, we're now in the final phases of his administration as he'll be removed by the 25th Amendment by then.
May 13, 2026
Trump, who came to office principally because he promised to deport the 10M to 12M illegal aliens in the US, most of whom are Hispanic, now wants to annex Venezuela, with a population of 31M, and make it a state.
The population of the US is currently 20% Hispanic. Annexation of Venezuela and making its citizens US citizens would convert the country to being a 30% Hispanic country overnight. MAGA has a strongly nativist anti Hispanic bias. It'll amusing how they bend that to supporting this, but they will.
The entire thing is amusing about King Donny. He's so dim that all he ever thinks about is the cash value of something, and Venezuela has oil. He apparently doesn't realize that Venezuela, which is a large country which would probably come in as more than one state if it did, is also a Socialist one. The Republican Party would be effectively dead, and the US would be far more left wing than it currently is.
This won't happen, as it would require the cooperation of Congress. At least I don't think it would. But the fact that MAGA will support this just shows how dim that movement is.
MAGA politicians, including Harriet Hageman and John Sycophant Barrasso, should be quizzed on this, and don't let them weasel out of answering or tell you its a joke. It isn't.
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Farmers and ranches who supported Trump were reading something into him that just isn't there and will regret it.
May 14, 2026
This item raises some really good and interesting points.
Bare minimum, as the wheels come off the Trump administration he's getting increasingly erratic. Richardson proposes some darker motives, but even if there not there, there appears to be a dedicated effort to say things now to distract as things get worse and worse.
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The biggest political mistake the US has ever made was not engage in radical reconstruction after the American Civil War. To have served in an officer, or frankly even as a volunteer, in the Confederate Army should have been regarded as fully treasonous and never forgiven. Those who did should have been tried and given heavy sentences. Men like Robert E. Lee should never have been allowed to walk the streets as free men again.
Slave holders, no matter how small they were, should have had to compensate their former slaves or their decedents heavily. On the principal that the land belongs to he who works it, a means of transferring agricultural land to the former slaves should have been devised.
This is, I'd note, the second time the country has gone through this Lost Cause crap. The cause of the Southern States during the Civil War ranks right up with that of Nazi Germany as one of the worst causes people have every fought for. The South should have been made to hang its head in shame, as the Germans were after World War Two. And yet, here we go again.
If there's any good thing about any of this is that the rise of the Lost Cause yielded to the Civil Rights Era. Americans thought they'd finally one the promise of the country, although Liberals and Progressives certainly took that claimed victory beyond what it meant and should have mean in other ways. Everyone has been reminded of that, now that the fulfillment of the result of Reagan's Southern Strategy has been afflicted upon the nation in form of the Trump Administration.
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The final adjudication of the cases of Japanese internees who had renounced their citizenship during World War Two concluded, resulting in the closure of Tule Lake War Relocation Center. The litigation reversed their loss of citizenship, but the Justice Department would reverse that. It would take until the 1960s for their citizenship to be restored.
Almost all of those who had renounced their citizenship had recanted, and for that matter not all of the renunciations were genuine.
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December 17, 2025.
WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Gen. Smedley Butler.
American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property. These pillaged assets were then used to fund terrorism and flood our streets with killers, mercenaries and drugs.
Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Advisor.
Stephen Miller, who is Jewish, has somehow managed to become the most White Racist and imperialist member of the Trump Administration, apparently forgetting that the white, Protestant, demographic he's backing, doesn't regard him as white.
Maybe Miller ought to listen to some Nick Fuentes.
Anyhow, the other day Trump said something about Venezuela stealing "our land". It made no sense, but now, with Miller's help, we know what he meant.
Geology created the Venezuelan oil industry. Imperialism created the concept that somebody else's natural resources belongs to us. Neo imperialism will get us bogged down in regional wars Miller won't be going to so that young American men can die for petroleum oil, which we have plenty of here in the US.
Trump is demented. People like Miller have his ear. This is absolutely frightening.
December 19, 2025
Trump’s handpicked buttkissers on the Kennedy Center board voted to renames it the Trump Kennedy Center
It's questionable if it can legally be renamed, and all of these "love me" type of monumental acts are going to go away as soon as Trump's illegitimate interregnum is over. The amazing things that there's such syncophantic asskissers who are willing to do things like this.
December 22, 2025
And while you are, or aren't, worrying about this:
If you are an Apostolic Christian, and aren't worried yet, you ought to be. Or maybe not. Or maybe.
You might want to worry that we have a seemingly unstable would be caudillo in the Oval Office and an administration that violated the deadline provisions of the law concerning release of the Epstein files.
At first the MAGAs were pointing toward the photos of Clinton, but within 24 hours they were pulling stuff back down that referenced Trump. On Sunday they sent a deputy AG around to the Sunday shows to explain that they had to do that, apparently, as women who appeared in the buff in those photos might have been complaining about it. If those women were minors, they shouldn't have released that material, but then they should have had that figured out in the first place. If they were just nude women, well, too bad. You get photographed in the house of a creep, you can't expect that not to get around.
Anyhow, he ran around sounding rather distraught. Now we know that a third oil taker in our sights in the Caribbean, and today we learn that Trump has appointed a "special envoy" to Greenland who has said something about how we should annex that territory to the US. Denmark has called in our ambassador.
Okay, how does that relate to this thread?
Trump appears to be pretty desperate right now. Nothing distracts like a war. Nicolás Maduro shows no signs whatsoever of backing down, and there are no signs whatsoever that his military is going to force him out. Trump can't back down. And what better way to change the topic at Christmas dinner from "so. . . why do you think the administration is protecting the diddler files" than by sending than by sending FA 18s over Venezuela. . . or maybe putting the Marines on the beaches?
Am I saying that is going to happen as a distraction from the embarrassing teenage girl sex story? No, I"m not, but I am saying its not impossible to imagine that.
And at this point, it's clear, Maduro is sitting there ignoring Trump. War with Venezuela, in some form, is inevitable.
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Not really properly before in this category, but administration news nonetheless, the ambassadors to Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Uganda, Fiji, Laos, the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Vietnam, Armenia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Algeria, Egypt, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Guatemala and Suriname are being removed and replaced.
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We need Greenland for national protection. They have a very small population…They say that Denmark was there 300 years ago with a boat. Well, we were there with boats too I’m sure.
Donald Trump.
The United States isn't 300 years old. . .
And that small population comment is just the sort of thing a New Yorker would say . . .
And then there's this gem. Trump wants a fleet of twenty five battleships built. Battleships have been obsolete for decades.
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It appears the "battleships" will not be battleships.
December 24, 2025
Now this is interesting:
December 25, 2025. Christmas Day
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The idea of turning Greenland into America’s rare-earth factory is science fiction. It’s just completely bonkers. You might as well mine on the moon. In some respects, it’s worse than the moon.
Malte Humpert, founder and senior fellow at The Arctic Institute regarding the avaricious lusting after Greenland's mineral wealth.
January 24, 2026
There are no penguins in Greenland, or anywhere in the Arctic.
The DoD also put an item up based on this theme with the words "Be a warrior, embrace the penguin". Apparently that's a recruiting effort aimed at morons.
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Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: December 6, 1925: I do and I don’t: Texas Attorney Gen. Dan Moody, who is not a fan of the governors Ferguson, seems to kill the idea of a special session to impeach Gov. Miri...
It was announced that Jackie Robinson had signed with the Kansas City Royals, although he was not to play under the arrangement for a full season, going to the Montreal Royals for the 1946 season.
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Robinson was a great man, and is justly celebrated, but there's a fair number of myths regarding his pioneering role in integrated baseball. He was not, for one thing, the first black player in the major leagues. That honor would inaccurately go to Moses Fleetwood Walker, although he had played in the 19th Century, and is inaccurate itself as William Edward White had played a single major league game prior to that. White didn't reveal his race, and therefore is often not credited, but Walker's brother Weldy Walker did, and he also played major league baseball
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A surprising part of the story is that Robinson being picked upset a fair number of players in the Negro Leagues who well knew that their talents were superior to Robinson's. It was Robinson's character, of course, that had lead Ricky to pick him.
If the entire story is pieced together, it makes for an interesting focus on racism in the United States following the Civil War and before the Civil Rights Era. Racism was intense the entire time, but it can be argued it actually got worse towards the end of the 19th Century. The Navy had been integrated going into the Spanish American War but forces were at work to end that, and soon did. Breaking the color barrier was hard for athletes in team sports, but was possible in the 19th Century up until the late 1880s when it became much harder, with it being harder in baseball, where the color barrier was absolute, as opposed to football, where a few men crossed it here and there before the 1946 groundbreaking season.
World War Two had a lot to do with the color barrier fracturing.
Considerations were being made about the post war military, including a proposal to have a single service (something the Canadians in fact did). Also proposed was something akin to the pre war German system, a small professional army with a large conscript reserve.
Of course, in just a couple of years conscription would in fact be revived, and would remain a feature of American life until 1973. Watching current events, however, a good argument can be made for just what Truman had proposed here, a very small professional Army with a conscript reserve. Conscripts are a lot less likely to fire on their friends and neighbors than professionals or volunteers are.
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The Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow Trinidadian-born pianist Hazel Scott to give a concert at Constitution Hall in Washington because of her race.
It's worth remembering that the "good old days" some would return us to, weren't so good.
Chile and the Philippines ratified the United Nations Charter.
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The Hilldale Club from Philadelphia won the second Colored World Series, beating the Kansas City Monarchs to win the 4 of 7 series.
The Pirates tied up the World Series with the Nationals in Game 2.
And Mitchell's troubles were growing.
The Turkish Reform Council for the East issued its report to the Grand National Assembly recommending the relocation of the Kurdish minority to an area east of the Euphrates River.
It also recommended that in the rest of Turkey only Turkish could be spoken and that Kurds should be barred from higher level offices.
Submachine guns were used in crime for the first time during a mob assassination attempt in Chicago. The weapon used was a Thompson Submachine Gun, a type that would become synonymous with gangsters.
The USS S-51 struck the merchant ship City of Rome and sank off of the coast of Rhode Island, killing 33 of its 36 crewmen.
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White students in Gary, Indiana, walked out of their schools to protest racial integration. It was the first such example of this in the United States, and an early effort to desegrated segregated schools.
The Red Chinese won the Battle of Xiangshuikou
Secretary of War Henry Stimson resigned. He'd also held the post from 1911-13 under Taft.
Stimson regarded Taft as the most efficient President he served under, and he served under more administrations than any other person in U.S. history. He said that the best President was "Roosevelt", not making a distinction between the two Roosevelts.
Look was out, with Ingrid Bergman on the covery in her role in The Bells of St. Mary.
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