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tenderfoot's JournalLocal veteran's obituary says he wasn't "a sucker or a loser"
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A local man who recently passed away wants to let the President know he wasn’t “a sucker or a loser.”
Posted by Prudden and Kandt Funeral Home, which is based in Lockport, the obituary for Mark Schroeder included a messaged directed at Donald Trump.
The final paragraph reads “Mark Schroeder was a lot of things. He was a father, a hero, a best friend, a teacher, a brother and sometimes, a real son of a b****. But one thing he was not, Mr. Trump, was a sucker or a loser. He was a proud veteran til the day he died.”
This comes after a recent report claimed Trump referred to American war dead at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France as “suckers” and “losers.”
The President has since denied these claims.
According to Schroeder’s obituary, he served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1971, and spent time in Vietnam.
https://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/buffalo/western-new-york/local-veterans-obituary-tells-trump-he-wasnt-a-loser-or-sucker/
Sports Radio has to denounce Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Centers
They're tying this to right wing thought Trump's incessant racial arsonism and Aubrey Huff. Has sports radio discussed this?
The Economist went to a construction site in Ohio, a key swing state - and this is what they found
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/09/10/how-construction-workers-in-ohio-view-the-election (paywall)
Good luck reaching people like that.
He Was the Neo-Nazi Who Inspired 'American History X.' His Nazi Pals Are Now Cops.
In October of 2006, the FBI released an intelligence assessment titled, “White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement.” Though the document—culled from FBI investigations and open sources—was heavily redacted, it reached a number of disturbing conclusions.
The assessment revealed that white supremacists “have historically engaged in strategic efforts to infiltrate and recruit from law enforcement communities”; that many of these white-supremacist infiltrators are known as “ghost skins” who “avoid overt displays of their beliefs to blend in”; and that the KKK have longstanding “ties to local law enforcement.” These firm ties between white supremacists and law enforcement persist to this day. Last year, Reveal published an investigative series exposing the police’s proclivity for Facebook hate groups and racist memes, and in late August, former FBI agent Michael German compiled an exhaustive report detailing the prevalence of “racism, white supremacy, and far-right militancy in law enforcement” and the federal government’s non-existent response to it.
Links between white supremacists and law enforcement have been thrown into sharper relief in recent months following the killing of George Floyd, and numerous instances of curiously chummy behavior between police and far-right militiamen during the ensuing protests for Black lives.
Frank Meeink, once one of the most prominent neo-Nazis in the U.S.—and the inspiration for the character Derek Vinyard, played by Edward Norton in the 1998 film American History X—thinks he knows why.
“I know that there are neo-Nazis who I used to run with who are now cops,” he tells The Daily Beast. “And that’s just in my crew. Imagine how many neo-Nazis and white nationalists have been becoming cops? Three of the people in my crew alone became cops.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-was-the-neo-nazi-who-inspired-american-history-x-his-nazi-pals-are-now-cops?
LAist Reporter Josie Huang Arrested While Covering Protest
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies arrested KPCC/LAist Correspondent Josie Huang Saturday night while she was covering the ambush shooting of two deputies in Compton.
The incident occurred outside St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, where the two deputies were being treated for gunshot wounds. Huang had just finished covering a 10 p.m. news conference by Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
Huang, an award-winning journalist, allegedly obstructed justice. The department initially refused to provide details of what happened, but later, Deputy Juanita Navarro of the Sheriff's Information Bureau confirmed that deputies took Huang into custody on suspicion of obstruction of justice by "interfering with a lawful arrest." Huang says she was trying to document the arrest of a protester.
Navarro also said Huang "didn't have proper credentials," but she was clearly wearing press credentials around her neck.
Video shows at least five deputies pinning Huang to the pavement, handcuffing her, and placing her in a patrol car.
https://laist.com/latest/post/20200913/80222d039da6e2435bed1e10df36e367457cd4af
Trump blabbed to Woodward because thinks of himself as interesting
He reminds me of murderer Robert Spangler, a man who got away with killing his family in Colorado back in 1978. He was later accused of killing two more wives and may have killed his father. The FBI took advantage of his narcissism and got him to confess to his crimes before dying of cancer.
He showed no remorse, saying, "I'm different. I think I am interesting." He said he agreed to confess because he wanted FBI profilers to explain to him why he was so good at killing.
Trump let Woodward interview him because he too thinks he's "interesting" and really good at killing. 190,000 and counting...
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=132630&page=1
Does Trump feel the same way about most of his supporters as he does the military?
Retired Major General Paul Eaton is having none of Trump
https://twitter.com/PaulDEaton52/status/1301694957170749441Kenosha Mayor Does Not Want President Trump To Visit 'At This Point In Time'
President Trump will travel to Kenosha, Wis. on Tuesday to survey the damage from last week's protests in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake. But the city's Democratic mayor, John Antaramian, would rather he didn't.
"Realistically, from our perspective, our preference would have been for him not to be coming at this point in time," Antaramian told NPR's Weekend Edition on Sunday. "All presidents are always welcome and campaign issues are always going on. But it would have been, I think, better had he waited to have for another time to come."
The White House announced late Saturday that Trump will visit Kenosha this week, as he leans into a law and order message that has emerged as a dominant theme of his reelection bid. The president has decried the violence in Kenosha, alluding to it at last week's Republican National Convention to accuse his November rival, Joe Biden, of failing to address "rioters and criminals spreading mayhem in Democrat-run cities."
The president's rhetoric has been denounced by Democrats, including Wisconsin's Democratic lieutenant governor, Mandela Barnes, who told CNN on Sunday the state did not need a visit from the president.
"I don't know how given any of the previous statements that the president made, that he intends to come here to be helpful, and we absolutely don't need that right now," Barnes said.
more: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/30/907600155/mayor-of-kenosha-wisconsin-gives-update-on-citys-unrest
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