Now that your attention is on torturing immigtants, murdering Americans, Venezuela, Greenland, White House destruction

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2. Without the blackmail, he loses all his control, most of his revenue, and his billionaire pals are crushed.

Nothing left. Just a racist mob.
And on this day (should be January 15) we honor the overpowering of racist mobs by reason.

In an early post, I quoted Ibram X. Kendi.

https://democraticunderground.com/100216524810

This is from the epilogue of "Stamped From the Beginning", by Ibram X Kendi.

Protesting against racist power and succeeding can never be mistaken for seizing power. Any effective solution to eradicating American racism must involve Americans committed to antiracist policies seizing and maintaining power over institutions, neighborhoods, counties, states, nations—the world. It makes no sense to sit back and put the future in the hands of people committed to racist policies, or people who regularly sail with the wind of self-interest, toward racism today, toward antiracism tomorrow. An antiracist America can only be guaranteed if principled antiracists are in power, and then antiracist policies become the law of the land, and then antiracist ideas become the common sense of the people, and then the antiracist common sense of the people holds those antiracist leaders and policies accountable.

And that day is sure to come. No power lasts forever. There will come a time when Americans will realize that the only thing wrong with Black people is that they think something is wrong with Black people. There will come a time when racist ideas will no longer obstruct us from seeing the complete and utter abnormality of racial disparities. There will come a time when we will love humanity, when we will gain the courage to fight for an equitable society for our beloved humanity, knowing , intelligently, that when we fight for humanity, we are fighting for ourselves. There will come a time. Maybe, just maybe, that time is now.

In a later post, I honored those with the guts to stand up to racism.

Disheartened? These people never gave up when faced with enormous obstacles.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219813493

Crush his money machine, built on sex, blackmail and money laundering, and you have a garden-variety failed mobster.

A schmuck




See, the hardest thing for me was leaving the life. I still love the life...We ran everything. We paid off blackmailed cops. We paid off blackmailed lawyers. We paid off blackmailed judges. Everybody had their hands out. Everything was for the taking.

Even prison guards.



And now it’s all over. And that’s the hardest part. Today, everything is different. There’s no action. I have to wait around like everyone else. Can’t even get decent food. Right after I got here I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I’m an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

An anonymous schnook.