Posted on 08/01/2021 7:48:56 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
I was not being critical of your chart, it is an excellent start. But I resist blaming Trump for anything at this point.
He has given this nation a great service and received nothing but miserable treatment due to his efforts.\
He is flawed, but a GREAT GREAT Man.
Trump was not even 1% to blame.
What evidence do you have that we lost our republic at that time? Some court case like Berg vs. Obama that historians can look into? Watergate ??— where the evidence was so overwhelming that Nixon resigned? Where do you hang your hat?
Like I said, feel free to post your own blame pie chart.
I agree for the most part but he stepped on his d!ck on Jan 6.
He could have issued a blanket pardon for anyone not accused of insurrection [hint: that’s everyone] and violence.
There is much he coulda done but did’t. He is not free from blame.
The January 6th Capitol Trespassing.
Tourism Without Government Permission
“A member of Brooks’ church prayer text group tipped the FBI off about Brooks’ time at the Capitol on January 6 after he boasted about being in the building, investigators said.”
what is needed is a list of snitches to make others aware of their treachery Snitches get stitches
Make no mistake, those are Trumplicans who are political prisoners here in the USA.
Gulag bump.
5.56mm
OK…..
Let’s see the outraged families.
Anybody can make up names.
He also could've pardoned everyone involved, whether they were charged or not (as Jimmy Carter did with Vietnam draft dodgers).
He didn't do that either.
I hope I’m never on a jury for one of these B.S. cases because I’d vote not guilty without 100 percent guilt provable beyond a shadow of a doubt.
As far as I’m concerned this is just a conspiracy of the Federal Government. Involving the Dept. of Justice, FBI and the Speaker of the house.
No I suppose not. During that time there was no internet, except in some university or military lab.
All the stories would be found only in a library’s microfiche collection in Washington State.
Fishermen were sent to prison for the crime of commercially fishing salmon; fishermen were murdered by agents of the state; Federal warrants were served to every commercial salmon fisherman; no agent of the state was ever punished for wrong doing, rather they were rewarded - many stole fisherman’s catches and sold them for personal gain. The list and litany goes on.
The media would interview some guy or gal, telling them they wished to print a balanced story giving both sides. They never did, it was always only one sided coverage - many an honest reporter’s stories were round filed by their editors.
We were castigated as the “last of the buffalo hunters” / “worse than child molesters” / “the only good commercial fisherman is a dead one” and so on in the Seattle papers, local news TV and radio broadcasts, the national media: ABCNBCCBS & National Geo all told only the Tribal side with many slurs aimed at us.
The worst detractors were the Churches on ‘holier than thou’ crusades to scorch the waters of evil ignorant thieving fishermen; it did not matter that as a profession at the time we held more advanced academic degrees per capita than any other; or that the US Balance of Trade was dependent on commercial fishing catches: airplanes, timber and fish held the top three spots.
There is so much that happened during that time that many books could be written, not only fishing stories, but the laws that grew out of them which set the stage for what we are living through now. I lost everything - 30 years hard work sold for pennies on the dollar, wife, property - gone. I was one of the lucky ones - I lived.
Its your turn now.
Tens of thousands. But every single one was released same day OR.
So,far, five have been charged with carrying firearms.
Did hundreds of people enter the capitol building? It looked like 20-30 to me.
To me, there are some POTO [pointing out the obvious] things to be done such as pardoning anyone not accused of violence. Or even push the envelope and pardon everyone not accused of insurrection [that’s everyone].
It would have been a serious bad-ass moment if he LED the parade similar to leading a procession to that St. John’s Church he had done earlier.
Lets see - the theoretical aboriginal law that turned into tribal sovereignty; the EPA; OSHA.
Not to mention, Nixon played a direct role in sending Judge Boldt from Nixon’s unconstitutional Wage & Price Control Board to the Washington Federal Courts so Boldt, married to an Indian, could take our livelihood away and give it to the Tribes based on their race. There’s a lot more, but I’m not going to go further, except to say that after Nixon, the county had lost many basic freedoms - most of which city dwellers did not miss then and the loss of which they still have not noticed.
Notably in your post you do not bring up racism, which was the original thing I keyed up on. You do not comment on how I characterize it as culturism.
You have a localized approach to this thing. You experienced local fishing-rights stuff and expanded on that to saying something about being born the wrong race.
I’ll give you a similar localized example in my case. Do you remember the Billionaire Boys’ Club? Probably not, even though a movie was made out of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire_Boys_Club
That guy was murdered in the same condo building that my mother owned a condo in. The local Belmont police refused to move further in the investigation because they considered it a politically motivated assassination involving Iranians. They botched it.
Your local thing also has its wikipedia page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_Wars
When I do a search for the word ‘race’ on that page, I get zero hits. Yet you go from zero-hits on da page to making a racist-level statement.
To continue the local-interest aspect, on your fishwar page , the last sentence is
Fish-ins became a gathering place of Native American activists, and many people were trained for the foundation of the Red Power movement, which lead to the founding of the American Indian Movement in 1968 and the occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Alcatraz
I remember watching Alcatraz Island during this time from binoculars on the Golden Gate Bridge, asking questions about this injun thing. I was pretty young. The answers from my libtard parents lacked clarity.
So, when Freepers ask themselves “what was the watershed moment that we became an official oligarchy rather than a republic”, your answer to that question is...
EPA-OSHA-Nixon-Boldt-W&PCB.
Or sumthin.
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