Update no.1232

 Update from the Heartland

No.1232

18.8.25 – 24.8.25

Blog version:  http://heartlandupdate.blogspot.com/

 

To all,

 

The follow-up news items:

-- Just when you think our predicament cannot get any worse, [the person who shall no longer be named, AKA no name, the orange one, et al, oh also occasionally potus] tries to defend his order to remove the Tuskegee Airmen display [1231] from the Smithsonian American History Museum. He declared, he wants the museum to focus on the positive of American history rather than exhibits of the negative aspects, i.e., “how bad slavery was.” Words like outrageous, atrocious, disgusting, revolting, et al, seem woefully inadequate to describe the president’s abhorrent actions and pronouncements. If we do not educate our young, inform our citizens, and keep history alive, we will be destined to repeat our mistakes. Slavery was history. It must be remembered and obviously on display for all to see and learn. Slavery was a terrible blight on American history. Slavery cost us nearly half a million precious American citizens, four plus long years of the Civil War, and more than a century of fighting discrimination in all its virulent forms that we still fight to this very day. It cannot and must not be rendered to the shadows. To me, slavery was the American equivalent of the Nazi Holocaust. I condemn the president’s actions is the strongest possible terms—he is bloody, f**ing wrong! Further, I publicly declare him an overt racist, white supremacist.

 

Comments and contributions from Update no.1231:

Comment to the Blog:

“What happened to the big-deal meeting with Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson? Probably, Putin dictated the time and place of the meeting, which was also an opportunity for him to gather military intelligence about an important base. The Felon planned an ostentatious show of pomp, but Putin didn’t bother with his agenda. My speculation is that Putin has lurid evidence from Epstein’s operation that he showed the Felon and threatened to release. After that, Putin gave the Felon his orders and went home without further ado. I’m not alone in that guess.

“I have college training in Human Resources. The claims used to attack DEI are pure self-pity by the privileged class, used to keep the support of the dimwits.

“Just to be clear, those of us opposed to Netanyahu’s genocide don’t necessarily support Hamas as an entity. We just want the genocide to stop.”

My response to the Blog:

That is a rather cynical view of the Elmendorf summit, but I would have a very hard time arguing against the premise. History is on your side. I still suspect his bias toward other dictators and his affinity for Putin in particular. The optimism within me wants to give him provisional credit; at least, he has gotten them to the early talking stage.

I would agree with your statement. In the ideological traits, conservatism seeks to maintain the status quo and in a few instances regress to the status quo ante when WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) controlled everything from the law on down. Now, no name has reenergized the more extreme factions of the right, including white supremacists and Christian nationalists, among others. He has consistently exhibited racism traits himself; he is religious in convenience, which does not seem to bother the religious right. I do NOT want to return to those days. I want progress, improvement, and advancements of democratic thought, not reversion to any form of autocracy.

I could be wrong, but I do not think Israel has the capacity to administer Gaza in the Western Allies’ model in West Germany and Japan. I am still a long way from genocide, but I will agree the current Israeli employment of the Russian model (destroy everything) is contemptible and unacceptable. With that, I join you and others in demanding a stop to the indiscriminate destruction and the outright abuse of the Gazans. I will also add the support of de factooccupation of the West Bank (by enclave colonization) must also stop and be reverted back to Palestinian control toward a two-state solution. At present, I think the Europeans hold the best approach.

“That’s just my opinion, but I could be wrong.”

 

Another contribution:

“Getting your latest hot-off-press Update out a couple days late. Better late-than-never.

“I will disagree with your assertion that Putin is a dictator. As such, I think to be more objective, that that little guy that usually wears military frontline fatigues, Dictator-Z, is more of a dictator. He just does not happen to be dictator of a large country like Russia with such a rich history. He likely is not gonna be around much longer, so we should likely embrace his presence. He did manage to wear dressier clothes at the big summit in Washington with European leaders on Monday.”

My reply:

Well, now, I suppose if we do not classify Stalin as a dictator, then it would be inappropriate to do so for Putin. There have been far too many window-jumpers, exotic poison victims, aircraft explosions, and such, for me to avoid the classification for Putin.

I must ask, do you classify Hitler as a dictator?

Conversely, I have no clue why you accuse Zelensky of being a dictator. He has not toss anyone out windows. He appears to be far less of a candidate for the dictator label than the current occupant of the Oval Office. Let us remember, the Russians have continued to attack the people, not the Ukrainian military.

“That’s just my opinion, but I could be wrong.”

 

My very best wishes to all.  Take care of yourselves and each other.

Cheers,

Cap                  :-)