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Someone who is not a former President?

 

Will be one day, though. Just not soon enough.

 

BTW, not to in way, shape or form jump on Starman's bandwagon, but it really was strange how he said "She said, 'Dad ...'" and then corrected himself and said, "Actually, she said, 'Daddy ...'" That was just awkward and weird.

 

Someone who pledged $1M of his personal fortune to Hurricane Harvey relief but has yet to write a check?

 

I am sure this has been posted and discussed and that I just missed it, but it's fantastic:

Firsthand reports by white Union soldiers who witnessed actual slavery during the Civil War rendered the “white slavery” argument ridiculous. But its operating premises—white labor as noble archetype, and black labor as something else—lived on. This was a matter of rhetoric, not fact. The noble-white-labor archetype did not give white workers immunity from capitalism. It could not, in itself, break monopolies, alleviate white poverty in Appalachia or the South, or bring a decent wage to immigrant ghettos in the North. But the model for America’s original identity politics was set. Black lives literally did not matter and could be cast aside altogether as the price of even incremental gains for the white masses. It was this juxtaposition that allowed Theodore Bilbo to campaign for the Senate in the 1930s as someone who would “raise the same kind of hell as President Roosevelt” and later endorse lynching black people to keep them from voting.

The First White President, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, for The Atlantic

 

Coates is a one-trick pony.

 

Thanks for posting that. I had not seen it. I made my way through the piece in The Atlantic by listening to the audio version. I'll be reading the text version soon, but there's an understated power and grace to the audio version that I found nourishing.

 

It's a pretty good trick.

 

He's the Rick Stain of letters.

 

‘You’re a f*cking idiot’: InfoWars reporter
stunned after he’s brutally mocked by young girl

And then she gives 'em the finger!

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/yo...nned-after-hes-brutally-mocked-by-young-girl/

 

Saw that a couple of days ago. Just beautiful.