JustAnotherGen
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Hometown: Western NY
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Member since: Sat Aug 25, 2007, 01:21 PM
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Hometown: Western NY
Home country: US
Member since: Sat Aug 25, 2007, 01:21 PM
Number of posts: 30,904
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Joseph DiGenova - Maddow Apr 4th - ties to Erik Prince - Susan Rice
Posted by JustAnotherGen | Wed Apr 5, 2017, 05:16 AM (18 replies)
I've tried not to comment on it
There are so many other things to comment on with Trump - but . . .
This has some serious force behind it. Meet Chandler Smith - the mom of 3 from Ohio who kind of formed the 'Vote Trump Get Dumped' thing. Here she says she, "never considered herself much of a political activist" http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/03/women-trying-to-defeat-donald-trump.html She might not be, but her father is Steven Baer. http://jezebel.com/heres-how-that-wild-lawsuit-accusing-trump-of-raping-a-1782447083 Vote Trump Get Dumped was founded by an Ohio woman named Chandler Smith and her husband Blake. Baer is Chandler Smith’s father. He was once described by the National Review as a conservative mega-donor and “the world’s most successful email harasser,” known for sending “combative and colorful e-mail missives...to a who’s-who list of power brokers in the conservative world.”
I called Baer. In an hour-long phone call, he told me that he was not in “direct contact” with Katie Johnson. That said, he added, “I’ve seen her on video and spoken to her on the phone. Although of course we can always be fooled.” Baer then launched into a passionate diatribe against Donald Trump, whom he saw as the destruction of everything the Party of Lincoln holds dear. He said he and his wife became “Never Trumpers” after the South Carolina primaries. “The way it happened for us is we decided we were opposed to Trump,” he said. “We see him as a very dangerous person for the Republic. We see him as a Mussolini or Hitler type. And we discovered in South Carolina that he’s also a terrible misogynist.” Baer told me he learned of the rape allegations from none other than Al Taylor, who he said showed him an explosive video of Johnson outlining her claims. Check out Steven Baer's 'email list'. He's brutal to elected Republican officials. Just BRUTAL. He believe he is King Shit in the Republican/Conservative movement and has even had a cease and desist from Paul Ryan! 
I think with this a few days away - the shit is going to get real for Trump. This shit is getting real! |
Posted by JustAnotherGen | Tue Sep 6, 2016, 02:44 PM (0 replies)
Actually you have to go back prior to Clinton
The majority of us were red lined into poorer communities due to FHA policies implemented in the 1930's. Add in disparities in mortgage lending for 70 years - it's not Glass Steagall related.
How the banks got away with it - IS G.S. That legislation must be implemented immediately. We cannot afford to help anyone who can't pay us back. Notice I refer to a bank as a person because we have that stupidity (corporate person hood to contend with  ).
Blaming the Bill Clinton for FDR's assery isn't fair. Clinton like everyone else went along with the status quo. The last person to call it out got fired by Nixon - that was George Romney - Mitt's daddy. Blacks were disproportionately impacted because if you only had $500 in wealth and it dropped to $100 - you weren't wealthy in the first place. The homes people bought for 70/74 years were in neighborhoods the Federal Government designed to keep black people in one place. The post WW II infrastructure development aided and abetted white Americans in their flight to the suburbs - and FHA policy was created to trigger their departure. Even if you bought a home in South West Rochester NY in 1950 or South Plainfield NJ in 2003 - you were buying in neighborhoods Fed Gov designed to NOT accumulate wealth in home value. If you were trapped in Newark in 1970 - your children received a sub standard education and your grandchildren are receiving one now. We need to have honesty in when this all started and who started it and WHY. It cannot be corrected or improved if we worship at the altar of FDR and won't acknowledge that in order to win - black people - much like Japanese people - had to lose. The internment camps closed. The FHA policies continued for two more decades. Of note - my granddaddy - Morehouse educated man - paid Eisenhower's top tax rate in the 1950's. His property taxes in Alabama were grabbed for white schools. He bought the black school buses and modernized his children's school behind the backs of the White Citizens Council. Please don't tax us to death when we (including myself) continue that tradition of putting oxygen masks on our own communities first with our disposable resources. We trusted the New Deal and received nothing. Thank God Truman ensured the education benefits of the GI Bill could be used by black vets if a college allowed them in. That was a good thing. But what came before and after was NOT good. Every time you throw Bill away - throw Frank away too. There were only two bright spots for black Americans getting ahead until 2009 and their names were Dwight and Lyndon. |
Posted by JustAnotherGen | Tue Feb 23, 2016, 06:03 AM (11 replies)
