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mickeyrat · June 2020

other significant wrinkle as it relates to Jacksonville: One reason that the RNC gravitated toward the city is because Mayor Lenny Curry is the former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida and has been eager to host the national convention. Early Tuesday morning, responding to protesters and calls from players for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Curry ordered the removal of the bronze statue of a Confederate soldier that since 1898 has been the centerpiece of Hemming Park. Speaking to a crowd of Black Lives Matter activists later that day, where the “Ax Handle Saturday” commemoration is scheduled for August, the GOP mayor pledged that that he will remove all remaining Confederate monuments throughout the city, according to The Florida Times-Union.

Curry’s move presents quite the contrast with Trump, who pledged on Wednesday to block any effort to rename 10 U.S. Army bases that honor Confederate generals. “These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage, and a history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom,” Trump wrote on Twitter, naming installations in North Carolina, Texas and Georgia. “Therefore, my Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations.”

Trump has chosen again to use Confederate names and iconography as a wedge issue to gin up his base. He did the same amid the fallout after he declared that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the racial violence three summers ago in Charlottesville, where a counterprotester was killed by an avowed neo-Nazi who rammed his car into a crowd.

Trump’s own defense secretary, Mark Esper, said earlier this week that he would consider proposals for renaming bases. Several of the country’s most prominent former military figures, including retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, have said doing so is long overdue. The Marine Corps announced a ban last week on Confederate symbols in public spaces at its facilities, and Navy said earlier this week that it is moving to do the same. Just moments after Trump’s tweetstorms defending the Confederate base names, NASCAR announced that it will ban the display of the Confederate flag from all of its events and properties. Separately, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called on Wednesday for the removal of Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol.

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mickeyrat · June 2020

Around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, protesters in Richmond toppled an iconic statue of Jefferson Davis, who was president of the Confederacy, about a half-mile down Monument Avenue from a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that Gov. Ralph Northam (D) is fighting in court to remove.

Back in Jacksonville, Hurst has watched the protests unfold since Floyd’s killing and wondered whether this might be the turning point that he’s been waiting for all his life. The year before “Ax Handle Saturday,” in 1959, the city opened Nathan Bedford Forrest High School to honor the Confederate general who had become the first grand wizard of the KKK. A few years back, they got the name changed. Now it’s Westside High School. And he was happy to see the Confederate statue go down in his hometown this week. “You can give some props to the mayor,” said Hurst, who previously served eight years as a Democratic member of the Jacksonville City council and wrote a book in 2018 about his experiences in the civil rights movement called “It was Never about a Hot Dog and a Coke.”

But he lamented what has not changed since that terrible day 60 years ago, and he said “the jury is still out” on whether this moment will permanently shift the public consciousness. “Jacksonville is separated by a manmade boundary – Interstate 95 – and a natural boundary – the St. Johns River,” he said. “Blacks live north and west of the river, and whites live east and south. There have been a few efforts here and there to change that, but none of any particular consequence. I would never use the word ‘progressive’ and Jacksonville in the same sentence. Jacksonville’s movement toward dealing with the uncomfortable subject of race in the community has been very slow. Painfully slow.”

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ikiT · June 2020

nicknyr15 said:

ikiT said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Bentleyspop said:

I thought the virus was a Democrat hoax?

Why the need to sign a Covid-19 waver to attend an Agent Orange rally?
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1271826940853399558?s=19

Will there be masks, gloves, hand sanitizer and charging stations available? How about a list and a line for rail?

NO LISTS. NO SHARPIES.
NONE OF THAT SHIT.
You wanna get up close? Camp out. Breathe in the #TULSATENT air for two days and rainy nights along with all the other Doctors and Lawyers and champions of industry who NEED to ride the rail.

They're all gonna get sick. Idiots.

In all fairness how can you say they’re all gonna get sick , idiots and not feel the same way about the protests? I understand you hate one and agree with the other but that seems illogical.

YO I'm not out there either. I'm in a demographic that's bad for virus catching, 54 years old in July. The kids got this one.

The government paid me to stay home. I'm HOUSIN'

mickeyrat · June 2020

nicknyr15 said:

ikiT said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Bentleyspop said:

I thought the virus was a Democrat hoax?

Why the need to sign a Covid-19 waver to attend an Agent Orange rally?
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1271826940853399558?s=19

Will there be masks, gloves, hand sanitizer and charging stations available? How about a list and a line for rail?

NO LISTS. NO SHARPIES.
NONE OF THAT SHIT.
You wanna get up close? Camp out. Breathe in the #TULSATENT air for two days and rainy nights along with all the other Doctors and Lawyers and champions of industry who NEED to ride the rail.

They're all gonna get sick. Idiots.

In all fairness how can you say they’re all gonna get sick , idiots and not feel the same way about the protests? I understand you hate one and agree with the other but that seems illogical.

so many at the protest were wearing masks.

Pres Fuckstick does not and am willing to bet you wont see but a handful at a rally...

ikiT · June 2020

Them kids out there protesting, aren't doing it to get that space cadet Styx or KISS reunion 8k person concert glow. They got principles. Marchin in the streets is not the same as goosesteppin' through the turnstiles. It's HELLA different.
Not like these Trumpito mushroom sniffers. Morons, the lot of them, they cant even sue.

merch merch merch and Play the OLD SCHOOL shit.

ikiT · June 2020

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ikiT · June 2020

YO he buttoned up to cover the boner.

None of this was necessary. None of it.

nicknyr15 · June 2020

ikiT said:

Them kids out there protesting, aren't doing it to get that space cadet Styx or KISS reunion 8k person concert glow. They got principles. Marchin in the streets is not the same as goosesteppin' through the turnstiles. It's HELLA different.
Not like these Trumpito mushroom sniffers. Morons, the lot of them, they cant even sue.

merch merch merch and Play the OLD SCHOOL shit.

I don’t understand any of this. You’re 54?

Hi! · June 2020

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josevolution · June 2020

ikiT said:

Them kids out there protesting, aren't doing it to get that space cadet Styx or KISS reunion 8k person concert glow. They got principles. Marchin in the streets is not the same as goosesteppin' through the turnstiles. It's HELLA different.
Not like these Trumpito mushroom sniffers. Morons, the lot of them, they cant even sue.

merch merch merch and Play the OLD SCHOOL shit.

Word

ikiT · June 2020

nicknyr15 said:

ikiT said:

Them kids out there protesting, aren't doing it to get that space cadet Styx or KISS reunion 8k person concert glow. They got principles. Marchin in the streets is not the same as goosesteppin' through the turnstiles. It's HELLA different.
Not like these Trumpito mushroom sniffers. Morons, the lot of them, they cant even sue.

merch merch merch and Play the OLD SCHOOL shit.

I don’t understand any of this. You’re 54?

ikiT · June 2020

I'll BE 54. Same as the Super Bowl.

mickeyrat · June 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/thousands-join-in-sunday-prayer-and-protest-in-front-of-the-white-house/2020/06/14/734cc766-acdd-11ea-9063-e69bd6520940_story.html

Gern Blansten · June 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/books/mary-trump-book.html

This should be good...

A niece of President Trump will divulge a series of “harrowing and salacious” stories about him in an upcoming book, according to a published report. It would be the first time that the president could be forced to grapple with damaging revelations by a member of his own family.

The niece, Mary Trump, will release the book, “Too Much And Never Enough,” on Aug. 11, less than three weeks before Mr. Trump accepts the Republican nomination for a second term, The Daily Beast reported on Sunday.

The report said that in the book, Ms. Trump, 55, will say she was a primary source for The New York Times’s coverage of Mr. Trump’s finances and provided the newspaper with confidential tax documents. A spokeswoman for The Times declined to comment on Sunday.

Three journalists from The Times received the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting last year for their work providing an unprecedented look at the Trump family’s finances and contradicting Mr. Trump’s image of a self-made billionaire.

josevolution · June 2020

https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1272525823862624258?s=21
No payment just credit for community service lol

Gern Blansten · June 2020

josevolution said:

https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1272525823862624258?s=21
No payment just credit for community service lol

Crazy...but not surprising

Gern Blansten · June 2020

I have wondered if some of the black posters I see on TikTok are paid by tRump's campaign.

ikiT · June 2020

‘We’re thinking landslide’: Beyond D.C., GOP officials see Trump on glide path to reelection

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/15/trump-glide-reelection-republican-officials-316457

seems fucking improbable.

Gern Blansten · June 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a6AhuykK-Q

I hadn't seen the water incident yet....strange

OnWis97 · June 2020

ikiT said:

‘We’re thinking landslide’: Beyond D.C., GOP officials see Trump on glide path to reelection
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/15/trump-glide-reelection-republican-officials-316457

seems fucking improbable.

As it did four years ago. I guess that may not have been a landslide, but we knew in a hurry. This one’s gonna be the same.

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