Trump 101: How not to President (TrumpThread #101)

[TheNorthWestPawsage]

Two images. Same day.
161 days to November 3rd.

Thanks to BruceAnd Nosh for thread title.

Previous thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3877401-Trump-100-Thread-and-Were-Way-Down-the-Rabbit-Hole?pg=1

www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/steve-schmidt-calls-trump-the-second-president-of-the-confederacy-84836933503?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

Remember Jon Ossoff? He’s just won the Georgia Primary

AP Politics @AP_Politics 16 min

BREAKING: Jon Ossoff wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Georgia primary election. #APracecall at 8:24 p.m. EDT. #Election2020 #GAprimary

edition.cnn.com/2020/06/10/politics/michael-flynn-prosecutor-filing/index.html

So Tulsa it is.

Trump to hold first post-coronavirus rally in Oklahoma
thehill.com/homenews/administration/502143-trump-to-hold-first-post-coronavirus-rally-in-oklahoma

Trump's rally in Tulsa will take place on Juneteenth, the annual holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Tulsa was the site of one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the country's history in 1921.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth

NorthWest that WaPo piece is absolute class. I am obviously the founder of Antifa being guilty of all !

How on earth are they going to distance themselves at one of his cult Rallies ? Or aren't they?

Poor old Tulsa

(with apologies to Burt Bacharach)

Dearest Voters, I had to Tweet to say I won’t be POTUS no more
Cos something happened …to me
while I was on the Stage
And I’m not the same anymore
Oh I only …spent twenty hours in Tulsa
Only shook hands with a million or two
I rallied up the Far Right, dissed Joe with all of my might…

And that is when it…got me..
Inhaled the virus breathing the air of a pestilent mass
It knocked me sideways…coughing
Rendered me breathless, couldn’t stand up… sat down on my ass.
Oh I only …spent twenty hours in Tulsa
Only shook hands with a million or two
I hate to leave you with Pence,
He’ll never build you a Fence
He’s got..
No sense
And I can never
Ever
Ever
Cock up anymore

That's splendid, BruceAndNosh!

Interesting signalling.

I wonder if there will be tweets about it.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/10/nascar-confederate-flag-banned

I think it might cause certain people to turn up with flags so that the drama of removal can be broadcast nationwide.

Christopher Columbus lost his head.

boston.cbslocal.com/2020/06/10/christopher-columbus-statue-beheaded-boston-massachusetts/

As did the President (but we've known that for a long, long time).

www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/06/trump-wants-army-to-keep-confederate-name-military-bases?utm_brand=vf&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&mbid=social_twitter

I understand about Fort Bragg and so on, but why Columbus in particular? He was a loathsome type (like almost anyone in any position of power in the fifteenth century), but he doesn't seem to have been it in mainland America all that much.

I mean, he was dead before any slave trade via St Augustine really got started -- the place wasn't founded until 1565, and Columbus died in 1506. And the actual legalities of slavery in any of the British colonies on the mainland didn't get enacted until after 1650. (He may have had black Africans in his crew when he (re)discovered America, but they were free men.)

It's OTT, but it's expected that some will lose their perspective.
The Founding Fathers kept slaves, didn't they?
Fighting to keep slavery, although it wasn't only about it, is quite different.

About defunding the police

Surely Columbus was the leader of a monstrous caravan of Hispanics come to steal everything the locals own.

Anyways, were seeing Trumpy's Plan B. He's going to declare himself the duly elected President of the Confederacy.

I think Columbus is a 'symbol' for the entire colonization/manifest destiny/genocide of Native Peoples of the continental US. There were in reality so many countries and people actually involved it that we'd have a hard time keeping track!

As a child I was taught (wrongly) that Columbus 'discovered America in 1492', meaning the US, not sure what children are taught today. Heck, we still have Columbus Day, although it's not a holiday for most people and it's not treated as a big deal .

We should have been taught that Columbus landed somewhere in the Bahamas and he didn't 'discover' it because people where already living there. And if we're going to 'celebrate' anything it might be more 'appropriate' to celebrate Leif Eriksson Day, although I guess he landed in Canada and didn't get further south than Newfoundland.

As far as 'honoring' Confederate military personnel by naming military installations after them, if they rendered some significant service to the US Military AFTER the Civil War, fine. But otherwise, change the name. It may be seen as a purely symbolic gesture, but even symbolic gestures can have meaning. And we have plenty of pre- and post- Civil War military personnel who deserve to be commemorated.

He tweeted "These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage, and a... ....history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom". Yeah, well those Generals lost the War and sent tens of thousands of Rebel soldiers to their deaths to defend the very opposite of freedom, namely slavery. So, he wants to keep the bases named after LOSERS? How very un-Trumpian. Nah, he wants to keep those names to appeal to the redneck trash that is his base. Hell, they can't take their Rebel flags to NASCAR anymore. At least let them have Scrotus and their Generals, poor babies.

And what the fuck is with his need of adjectives? Everything is 'very powerful, monumental', great, huge, biggest' etc. He must have the tiniest dick in the history of mankind. One that is only 'surpassed in reverse' by the size of his brain.

Hey ho

You do have to wonder whether they will suspend trading.

Why I like this thread... Across your posts inform me so much.

even on the fact he has the tiniest mushroom known to man

cozie am I missing something? Suspend trading? Who?

Is it known who took Columbus head?

Here people have been shocked with a recent petition to destroy two loved historical marks.
But a quick search suggests that one of our own far-right parties was probably the one who started it, as they are the only ones disseminating it.

I've seen too many underhand tactics like this and wouldn't be surprised if anti-antifa were actually doing much of the OTT actions.

Meanwhile, not looking so profitable for Tucker "what racism looks like" Carlson.

www.businessinsider.com/companies-halt-ads-tucker-carlson-over-black-lives-matter-comments-2020-6

I like the idea of Columbus 'discovering' the Americas.

This must have come as a shock to the people living there.

Totally Mockers!

I remember thinking as a wee child that Columbus 'landed' (literally) on Plymouth Rock and Pocahontas was there. A child's mind can be a strange repository of 'facts'.

If anyone is interested in the Native genocide, I recommend 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee' by Dee Brown and 'The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee' by David Treuer.

I haven't read the
Treuer ta

For a fuller perspective on the whole misbegotten project, try A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

There's a reason people usually don't abbreviate Secret Service. Particularly in certain circumstances.

www.businessinsider.com/trump-praises-ss-in-tweet-dc-national-guard-protests-2020-6