One of the most preposterous and ridiculous events occurred yesterday, on the centennial anniversary of the ratification of women suffrage, the 19th Amendment.
President Donald Trump, the all time misogynist in a very public manner, “pardoned” suffragette Susan B. Anthony for her conviction in 1873, for having “illegally” voted in the Presidential election of 1872, since women were not given the suffrage until 1920.
Anthony “broke” the law in protest the fact that the 15th Amendment, added to the Constitution in 1870, gave African American men the right to vote but not women, although the right for African American men would be taken away over time in the “Jim Crow” South, until restored by the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Anthony refused to pay the fine of $100, about $2600 in modern times, and the judge did not take any action, and she never was in prison for the so called ‘violation”.
So to “pardon” her over a conviction where she did not pay the fine or go to jail is a total mockery of the idea of pardons, but Trump is infamous for that kind of ridiculous behavior!
One wonders if Trump thinks Susan B. Anthony is still alive, since he seemed to think abolitionist Frederick Douglass was “alive”, when both passed away in 1906 and 1895 respectively! But Donald Trump has no knowledge or sense of history, plus a multitude of many other areas of learning!
One can be sure neither Anthony nor Douglass would give Trump the time of day, so to speak, and would be furious with his racism and misogyny! Anthony made clear in her lifetime that she did not want a pardon, as she felt she had done nothing wrong, so this idea of a posthumous pardon is a pure joke, and historians have already deplored it as a stunt by Trump that is totally out of line!
So this attempt by Trump to try to gain African American or women in large numbers voting for him is totally delusional!
Well, Doc; it could have been much worse. H could have pardoned Snowden, Assange, and Manning, among others.
What this nation needs is a Firestorm of Snowdens to totally rip the iron veil of secrecy, deception, and mis-, dis-, and mal-information that is hides this government’s lies, scams, hoaxes, and shams.
i’ll just ask one question and then leave You in peace: Do You put Snowden in the same category as Daniel Ellsberg or as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
Jeffrey, you love conspiracy theories, and I guess love the QAnon belief that Donald Trump is saving us from a group of Democrats and progressives who are pedophiles and cannibals!
You also see the world as one of lies, scams, hoaxes, and shams, but I do not see things that way. But Trump does promote all of this, and is a very dangerous man!
I guess you believe 9/11 was a set up, as well as Pearl Harbor, and that JFK survived the assassination, and that men did not land on the moon, and other crazy lunatic ideas!
Trump’s use of the pardon power is an abuse and a mockery, and he will pardon any criminal who has helped him abuse power, and anybody who says he or she likes him!
I do not see Snowden, Assange, or Manning as in the same category as Daniel Ellsberg!
The evidence now shows that the Rosenbergs were spies, but they should not have been executed, and instead served life in prison without parole, and their lone status in being executed as spies was clearly an act of antisemitism!
Republicans Have Politicized Almost Every Aspect of American Life
That helps explain why we’ve become so polarized.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/08/20/republicans-have-politicized-almost-every-aspect-of-american-life/
Steve Bannon has been arrested for fraud.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/bannon-build-the-wall-indictment/index.html
Guarantee you Trump will try and pardon him, as he could spill a lot of dirt about Trump.
RF: “Jeffrey, you love conspiracy theories, and I guess love the QAnon belief that Donald Trump is saving us from a group of Democrats and progressives who are pedophiles and cannibals!”
No, Ronald; i do not “love conspiracy theories.” How do You arrive at these bizarro conclusions?
Given the definition of a conspiracy: “An illegal act planned, perpetrated, and, hopefully, successfully covered up by two or more people”; and,
Given the amount of illegal [to say nothing of immoral] actions by humans ~ particularly by leaders of governments and their owners and operators ~ that have been exposed as criminal conspiracies; then
Let’s just say that i have a great deal of respect for what some conspiracy theorists and their theories have and have had to say as to possible explanations for why things are so screwed up on this Planet, and have been for quite some time now.
As regards QAnon, i already explained exactly what i believe, think, think i know, and understand about QAnon in a comment to Your recent post on those folks. My thoughts about those folks haven’t changed, other than to entertain the possibility that QAnon and the whole “anti-Fa” [and possibly even the BLM] thing are simply ult-Deep Agents of that “Deep State” that QAnon, etc, are claiming to be out to get Trump. You then stated:
“You also see the world as one of lies, scams, hoaxes, and shams, but I do not see things that way. But Trump does promote all of this, and is a very dangerous man!”
i do not see “the world” that way at all, Professor. i see The State ~ and its handmaidens of Government, and particularly Politics [electoral or inflicted] and, in our age, of course, The Media ~ as the ultimate source of virtually every Lie, Scam, Hoax, and Sham and their attendant losses of Blood and Treasure that Humans have suffered since Civilization began.
And hence, i see The State as the ultimate root source cause of very much, if not most of the Human Pain and Suffering experienced thruout history. Its closest competitor on that score is Organized Religion.
Trump is only doing out in the open what everybody in DC has always done and does behind closed doors now. And that is what makes him dangerous: He is exposing exactly how that system works, has always worked, and will continue to work until it is replaced.
Not, note, until HE is replaced; but until the System that makes him even possible, and that whole SwamLand scene exactly what it is, is replaced. You then lost it:
I guess you believe 9/11 was a set up, as well as Pearl Harbor, and that JFK survived the assassination, and that men did not land on the moon, and other crazy lunatic ideas!
It’s interesting that You put “no Moon landing” and” JFK’s non-death” in the same category as Pearl Harbor and 9/11. As noted above: How DO You arrive at these conclusions?
re Pearl Harbor: Can You answer these questions?
1. When did the White House break the Japanese code, and know that an attack on Pear Harbor was imminent?
2. When did the Department of War notify the Army and Navy Commanders of Pearl Harbor that an attack was imminent, and that appropriate preparatory actions should be taken?
re America’s “New Pearl Harbor”: What i ~ again ~ believe, think, think i know, and understand about 9/11 is as follows.
1. That the American People do not know the whole, real, actual, and complete Truth about 9/11: About What actually, really happened; about How it really, actually happened; about Who made it happen and/or, by their total failures, let it happen. And most importantly, about Who ordered, authorized, resourced, and executed it.
2. That the American People will never know that whole, real, actual, and complete Truth about 9/11 until “The 9/11 Dossier” ~ Everything that the US government and its allies and agents Know and Knew about 9/11, before, while, and after it happened ~ is completely and totally de-classified and released to the public with zero redaction.
[Incidentally, the same goes for the JFK Assassination: WHY is ANYTHING about that Event still classified? Care to hazard a guess?]
3. That the American People, in all likelihood, do not Want to know that whole, real, actual, and complete Truth about that day. For, as Rudy Giuliani, New York’s Mayor that day regarding possible casualties at the WTC put it: “It may be a truth too terrible to bear.”
4. And, above all, that 9/11 is the Achilles Heel of The American Empire: and that the Collapse of WTC-7 is the Achilles Heel of 9/11. When 9/11 falls apart, that’s when the wings will begin falling off.
5. Here are some very leading and perhaps painful questions:
a. Did the Us government tell the American People and the World the Truth about a couple of incidents in the northern Gulf of Tonkin back in early August, 1964; which led to what the Vietnamese Peoples term “The American War”?
b. Did the US government and its media tell the American People and the World the Truth about “The Kuwaiti Incubator Babies,” that Saddam’s marauding troops were throwing on the floor back in the late Summer of 1990; which sold the American People on “Operation Desert Storm,” and the establishment of a full-time, fully combat-ready American presence in the Middle East [something it had been trying to do since at least the end of WW II, if not WW I]?
c. Did the US government and, particularly, it media tell the American People and the World the Truth about Saddam’s so-called WMDs; which led to “Operation Iraq Liberation” [or “OIL”; later modified by the PR-folks at the Pentagon to “Operation Iraq Freedom, or “OIF”], and the goat-rope that is the entire Middle East ~ and not just Iraq ~ today?
d. Given that history, on what possible grounds do You ~ or any other American or any Human, regardless of nationality ~ believe what that same US government told and still tells You about the reason we had to launch, expand, perpetrate, and perpetuate “The Forever War”: The Terror Event of September 11, 2001?
Let me ask You a point-blank, bullet-hits-the-bone question: Do YOU think that YOU know the whole, real, actual, and complete Truth about 9/11? If not, do You think that it is Your Right ~ as a Citizen and Taxpayer ~ to know that Truth? And if not, Why not?
To my “Do You put Snowden in the same category as Daniel Ellsberg or as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?”, You responded:
“I do not see Snowden, Assange, or Manning as in the same category as Daniel Ellsberg!”
May i ask You to explain Why? What’s the difference between them? And does that mean that You put them in the same category as the Rosenbergs? Or are those not appropriate questions?
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