EnergizedLib
EnergizedLib's JournalDoes every country do it better than we do?
How many countries out there have universal healthcare? How many have mass shootings?
Brazil and South Korea hold those who once held power accountable and put them in prison.
Andrew Windsor gets mentioned in the Epstein Files, he gets his royal titles stripped and gets arrested - while Britain's Labour government might face a reckoning over this.
Obviously, Andrew was born in the wrong country. Here in America, he'd have been rewarded with an election to political office if he had an R next to his name. The people in power look the other way over Americans with ties to Epstein, and Epstein's best friend resides not in a prison, but the White House, while the common folk don't care if he sexually abused kids - in fact, they'll trip over themselves to make excuses and justify such actions.
What is wrong with the values in this country?
This is why Black History Month is needed
Some Civil Rights icons stand the test of time - Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, MLK, Malcolm X - and I'll throw Thurgood Marshall in there as well.
One story and person I never heard of until this morning was the story of Sgt. Isaac Woodard, who came home from the war 80 years ago today, just for the bus he was riding on the back of due to segregation to come to a stop. Sgt. Woodard asked to get off to use the bathroom. Well, the white bus driver took exception to that, and Sgt. Woodard had the audacity to speak up, wanting to be treated with respect and use the bathroom.
The bus driver relented. That stop. But the next stop, he got off, told police Sgt. Woodard was being drunk and disorderly when he wasn't, and officers beat him so bad with their sticks that it blinded him in both eyes.
Seeing such images and him like this broke my heart, knowing he lived until 1992 like this was infuriating, but it doesn't end there.
Woodard's case led President Truman to integrate the military, and disgustingly, but not surprisingly, an all-white jury acquitted those who beat and blinded him. Yet the judge over the case, Julius Waring, was appalled by the verdict, which inspired him to want to preside over other Civil Rights cases, with his dissent in the case Briggs vs. Elliott calling for the end of separate, but equal and overturning of segregation in schools, which succeeded.
No one taught me about Isaac Woodard in school. Nobody taught me about Judge Waring, and it wasn't until last year when I went to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis that I learned the name Bayard Rustin. It wasn't until I was almost 30 that I learned about the Tulsa Massacre.
I think of what the government did this week in removing the Pride flag from Stonewall, which is an attempted erasure of history. I've seen MAGAts defend it by bringing up the Confederate statues being torn down, but I would argue statues are also a celebration of certain of people. Confederates should be acknowledged, they should be taught, but nobody should be celebrating the lives of Nathan Bedford Forrest or Jefferson Davis or any of these other people. Where is the Isaac Woodard statue? His life should be celebrated.
And don't give me this nonsense about heritage - I've got German in mine; doesn't mean I support the dedication of Nazi monuments and celebration of Nazis. In fact, I read an article years ago where Hitler's descendants are refusing to procreate to let the bloodline die out.
It seems many Civil Rights icons like Isaac Woodard aren't taught in schools, and I completed all my schooling before the felon came down the escalator, can only imagine how worse it is now.
What favors are you doing kids by only tooting this country's own horn and never acknowledging its flaws and shortcomings? Isaac Woodard's story inspired a chain of events - the desegregation of our military, a judge upset an injustice to advocate for desegregating schools, one of the most significant court rulings in our country's history, and so on and so forth. Whitewashing history, and not teaching all (the good, bad and ugly) won't inspire kids to avoid repeating America's past mistakes.
And if people are offended or feel divided by Black History Month, then that's their problem. Maybe they're privileged, because as a straight, white man, I've never been discriminated against on any of those accounts. I don't know racial epithets or any hardships I might've had if I looked different or loved somebody different. We had to have Constitutional amendments in the 13th, 14th, 15th and 24th Amendments just to correct some of our country's injustices.
To think, some people want the Civil Rights Act of 1964 repealed, they want to whitewash history and refer to things they don't like as "woke." Well, you can't tell the story of America without telling the story of its many racist and heinous acts towards non-white people, and many people took their mask off since the felon happened to walk into our lives in 2015.
Thank goodness we have Black History Month, because it's a long, complicated history with a lot of ugliness and setbacks, but also certain progress and victories to rejoice in, because some people in this country haven't moved on and would like to erase the mention of all of this and pretend like it never happened. I'm so thankful the NBA has a Pioneers Game now to honor Earl Lloyd, Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton and Chuck Cooper, and now, more will know their stories.
Here are videos on Isaac Woodard's life.
I also agree with one person in the video who said names of bases named for Confederate people that one of them should be renamed for Isaac Woodard. I think it would be most appropriate to have the next Democratic President rename Fort Bragg as Fort Woodard and to give Sgt. Woodard a posthumous Medal of Freedom.
While the felon is rightfully getting dragged over this, don't forget
- Grocery prices are up
- Healthcare costs are up
- Tariffs are putting screws to people
- The debt is higher
- Job cuts and layoffs increased in January
- Immigration enforcement entails detaining citizens, people who came here the right way, killing citizens, lack of due process, lack of judicial warrants, no masks and body cams
- All while the rich get even more richer and another round of trickle down fails
Stay locked in on this other stuff, too. Vote Blue 2026.
Sadly, I've become desensitized to the felon's nonsense
The video of the Obamas, while disgusting, while awful, is not shocking to come from you know who. It would be more shocking if the felon actually denounced the video of the Obamas than if he never posted it.
And this continues on and on and on and on because not enough people have the fortitude to say the word, No.
This is also why I paid little-to-no attention to the cult leaders legal problems during the Biden years and didnt get emotionally invested into it. Why? Because I knew somehow, some way, the cretin would get away with it.
And here we are now.
According to Grok on Liam Ramos and Family
- The family came here legally in December 2024, seeking asylum and entered through a port of entry
- There is no order of deportation at the time of detention
- There are no documented crimes committed by the father
Yet, seven members of our own party voted to give ICE-Is *more* money yesterday.
You want immigration enforcement? You want people to enforce the law and deport people here illegally? Do it with trained, qualified personnel who know the law and are accountable without masks and wearing body cameras. Demilitarization must happen.
Those goons and the White House need to be in prison.
Tax dollars for you? For states in need? Nah
The felon would rather squander that tax money in getting laughed out of court:
https://deadline.com/2026/01/trump-new-york-times-poll-lawsuit-1236693150/
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Donald Trump raged at the latest New York Times/Siena Poll, which shows him with low approval after a year in office, and said that hell add what he called the fake results to his defamation claim against the Gray Lady.
Trumps Truth Social post on Thursday is only the latest threat to target pollsters with legal action. He sued pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register over a 2024 pre-election poll showing him behind in Iowa, yet he went on to win the state.
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Also is suing JP Morgan:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-jpmorgan-debanking-jamie-dimon-a976813384a942e5152f17659fdebd16
Remember, Republicans wouldnt override a veto they unanimously voted to because the felon didnt want tax money to fund projects for states in need, but has zero qualms on spending tax money just to get laughed out of court.
Im not sure America has ever been perfect, but I long for the days that this was a serious country or even tried to look like one.
If the Jenius wanted the Peace Prize so badly
Couldn't the felon have, I don't know, taken steps and led in a way that would've commanded the attention and praise of the committee? Not that that's an ideal way to lead and to govern in hopes of attaining a Peace Prize but look with whom we've been dealing with.
Instead, this creature is now threatening an action that is the antithesis of peace, further erasing what little chance there ever was of winning the prize and forever making FIFA a joke for creating its own peace prize to pacify this thing.
I'm only telling you things even a grade schooler would know, by the way.
What is and isn't up for debate
Debatable:
Putting the felonious vomit in the White House once, let alone twice, may or may not be the worst thing America's ever done (Unfortunately, the options are more than I'd like them to be given different injustices carried out by this country in the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries).
Not Debatable:
Putting the felonious vomit in the White House twice (especially after everything we knew in 2024) is undoubtedly the dumbest thing this country has ever done.
I would laugh if it wasn't an innocent kid
Trump to child from Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania is great, we won Pennsylvania, actually three times. We won it a landslide.
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-12-24T21:57:25.353Z
Trump to child from Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania is great, we won Pennsylvania, actually three times. We won it a landslide.
No one wants to hear election lies, especially not a child, or you making things about yourself and your election denial. Its somewhat humorous in a pathetic way, just that I feel bad wondering what that poor child did to deserve that.
Id rather Santa put coal in my stocking.
They are thousands of feet off the cliff
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/megyn-kelly-says-shes-prayed-145035965.htmlSnip
Megyn Kelly said there are times when she still looks to the late right-wing activist Charlie Kirk for advice following his death in September.
Speaking to far-right activist Jack Posobiec at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest in Phoenix on Friday, Dec. 19, Kelly, 55, mentioned Erika Kirk's recent sit-down with conservative podcaster Candace Owens, claiming that Erika had called her to ask if she wanted to moderate the conversation.
Erika, 37, and Owens, 36, met on Monday, Dec. 15, and ended up having a 4 1/2-hour-long discussion, the latter shared on X at the time. In recent months, Owens has been sharing multiple conspiracy theories about who was responsible for Charlie's death, which has allegedly caused a rift between the two, per CNN.
Kelly spoke about the supposed "feud" between Erika and Owens during her SiriusXM show last week, insisting, "It's been going on now for a while," before giving her take on the whole thing.
She then said during Friday's TPUSA event, I've prayed so many times to Charlie, and to God, to give me the right guidance on how to handle this whole thing..." mentioning that there has been a "fracture" within the conservative party amid the tensions.
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She doesnt pray for Erika, she doesnt pray for her kids, she doesnt pray *for* Charlie, she prays *to* Charlie.
When do we take microphones away from all these psychos and put them in padded rooms? Is that why shes gotten more deranged, more hateful and more sociopathic because shes praying to and channeling a literal hate monger?
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