Everything is #rigged. Of course, he's never done anything wrong, and the nearly 100 #felonyIndictments against him are just evidence of what a poor, persecuted victim he is. It's all just one obscenely enormous #witchHunt involving thousands of public servants led by #JoeBiden (from his basement coma suite). This is the abject bullshit #Trump is hoping you believe, which is why he repeats it everytime a camera is nearby. Persuasion through repetition.
At some point we have to talk about how Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for far less than what Trump and his Republicans did and are still actively doing.
Today in Labor History February 10, 1898: Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht was born. Brecht was a doctor, poet and playwright. He fled the Nazis only to be persecuted in the U.S. by HUAC during the Cold War. He is most well-known for his play, “The Three Penny Opera.” He also wrote “Mother Courage and Her Children” and “The Days of the Commune,” about the Paris Commune. Additionally, he wrote poetry and composed the lyrics to many of the songs performed in his plays, like “Mack the Knife” and “Alabama Song” (AKA Whiskey Bar).
With #Trump once again howling #WitchHunt!”, your semi-regular reminder that being convicted through direct testimony of overt harm is the opposite of witchhunting.
Today in Labor History October 24, 1947: Walt Disney testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming many of his own employees as communists, including Herbert Sorrell, David Hilberman and William Pomerance, because of their activism as union organizers. In 1993, the New York Times wrote that Disney had been passing secrets to the FBI from 1940 until his death in 1966. In return, J. Edgar Hoover let Disney film in FBI headquarters in Washington and made Disney a "full Special Agent in Charge Contact."
Today in Labor History October 20, 1947: HUAC launched its anti-Communist witch hunt of Hollywood stars, resulting in a blacklist that barred many from working in the industry for years. The list included Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, James Cagney, Charlie Chaplin, Lena Horne, Pete Seeger and Orson Welles. Fascist Gerald LK Smith assailed them as “alien minded Russian Jews.” Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney were also key accusers. The blacklist lasted until 1960, when Dalton Trumbo, a Communist Party member from 1943 to 1948, was credited as the screenwriter of the films Exodus and Spartacus (both 1960).
Today in Labor History October 14, 1949: 11 leaders of the US Communist party were convicted of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the US government. 10 of the defendants were sentenced to 5 years in prison. The 11th was sentenced to 3 years. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions in June of 1951. The trials were part of the Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders accused of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government. However, the defendants argued that they advocated a peaceful transition to socialism, and that the First Amendment guaranteed their freedom of speech and of association protected their membership in a political party. While the trial was under way, the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear weapon, and communists won the Chinese Civil War. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) had also begun its investigations of writers and producers during this period. Public opinion was strongly against the defendants. The judge also sentenced all five defense attorneys to imprisonment for contempt of court. Two of the attorneys were subsequently disbarred.
Every morning, the first thing I do is read through all my news alerts (and share some with you here, as you know).
And every damn morning (and noon, and night) I see almost every alert about Pres. Biden telling me what dire straits he’s in for this or that, for 2024, his age, ad nauseam. Whatever he’s done right is apparently wrong, according to corporate news orgs.
i/: Yes, absolutely. And I think the analysis of who owns or funds (through) ads these papers would really be interesting.
I know someone who'd (and in this case, probably rightly so) call it a #WitchHunt. /i
/s: But karma is a bitch, a+ the other contender 4 the presidency is, in my opinion, in worse shape healthwise.../ s
We will see how this pans out. In this respect, the end of 2024 is still quite a long time off.
Maybe, the GQP contender 4 the presidency will be RDS...
🟢Texas Tech University has cancelled a course on Witchcraft this fall after low enrollment🟢The National Secular Society sends press release with concerns over public charity promoting a "witch-hunting" sermon in April🟢
Plus more Pagan events, announcements, and more, including our Tarot of the Week and Positively Noteworthy item -- Wrinkle the Duck is back!
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Not that I've heard yet since our mainstream media is still gaslighting his investigation as having been anything other than a political #WitchHunt regrettably.
According to court documents, Hunter Biden (son of the president) has agreed to plead guilty on three federal tax and firearm charges in a deal with the DoJ.
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Finally getting closer to some closure on that. Democrats are in the rule-of-law political party so we're glad even though we know it was a political #WitchHunt that just happened to find some crimes.
Today in Labor History June 15, 1648: Margaret Jones was hanged in Boston for witchcraft. She was the first woman executed for witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The witch hunt lasted from 1648 to 1693. During that time, they accused over 80 people of witchcraft and executed 13 women and 2 men. Jones was a midwife and practiced medicine. They accused her because of these occupations.
You are not even allowed to talk to someone now. Not if the Labour Party decides that person is forbidden, that they’re an outsider, that they’re tainted. And the only tainted are on the left - the people #Labour is supposed to represent. That’s where we are now and we need to think about how sinister and authoritarian that is
GOP Senator Admits Republicans Don’t Care if Accusations Against Joe Biden Are “Accurate”
Republicans have totally lost the plot with their investigation into Joe Biden.