Allegations of a second child sex abuse case surfaced against Robert Morris, founder of Gateway Christian Church. Four others knew of his history of sexual abuse and did nothing to stop it. All four have been removed. Robert Morris was on President-elect Donald's Trump's evangelical advisory board for his campaign in 2016. Gateway Christian Church has over 25,000 people that attend services.
In 2023, the year that followed Florida's initial 15-week abortion ban, the state saw an increase in the number of infants ... who died from lethal congenital anomalies or fatal birth defects before celebrating a first birthday. read more
Elon Musk said Saturday that he would randomly award $1 million a day to registered voters who sign a petition for his pro-Trump political action committee. The petition, posted on the America PAC website, said that to be eligible for payments, signees "must be registered voters of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin." Musk called up John Dreher saying he was one of the petition signers and handed him a giant check for $1,000,000.
Trump appointees at the Bureau of Prisons, a division of the Justice Department, provided an array of gender-affirming treatments, including hormone therapy, for a small group of inmates who requested it during Mr. Trump's four years in office. In a February 2018 budget memo to Congress, bureau officials wrote that under federal law, they were obligated to pay for a prisoner's "surgery" if it was deemed medically necessary. Still, legal wrangling delayed the first such operation until 2022, long after Mr. Trump left office. read more
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You're confusing concentration camps with extermination camps. There's a difference. Small but accurate nonetheless.
Exactly. My post, #30, was an answer to Eberly's Nobody is promising to build an actual concentration camp, little girl. a deportation camp is not the same thing comment.
I'm going to chalk this up to Eberly not understanding the history, the precedents, and the ease in which many - not just Germany - slide futher and further into some very evil places. It wasn't long ago we rounded up 117,000 Japanese-American citizens and put them in US internment camps; Manzanar, Topaz Minidoka ,Gila River, Poston, Heart Mountain, Amache, Rohwer, Jerome, Tule Lake.
internment: the state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons.
I have spent hours here:
Terezin
There is a lot that can be learned from this place.
An interesting side note: The man that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip was imprisoned in Terezin (before it evolved into a concentration camp under the Nazis). People still lay wreathes, flowers and notes on and around his cell.
Anyone that's not afraid and was a critic of Trump is a fool.
We are at the rubicon, waiting to see if we are going to cross it.
We have been promised that retribution is coming. Over and over we've heard it.
We've heard they are going to immediately start rounding up those they targeted with their campaign of hate towards immigrants.
We've heard his statements about ending the Constitution, of going after the Press that he considers an enemy, of those that were doing their job to hold him accountable under the law for his illegal actions. The number of threats Trump has made is long.
I take Trump and his followers at their word.
Flashback:
In the early 1930s, the Nazis campaigned in national, state, and local elections in Germany. Their major breakthrough came in September 1930, when they won 18 percent of the vote in the national parliamentary elections. They also did well in state and local elections that year. This shocked some Germans, especially those who recognized that the Nazis were an extremist, fringe political movement.encyclopedia.ushmm.org
During election campaigns, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis won followers by playing on people's hopes. The Nazis promised to
* fix the economy and put people back to work;
* return Germany to the status of a great European, and even world, power;
* regain territory Germany had lost in World War I;
* and create a strong authoritarian German government.
But the Nazis also played on people's fears and prejudices. They falsely claimed that Jews and Communists were to blame for all of Germany's problems. The Nazis promised to unite Germans along racial and ethnic lines. The Nazis planned to exclude Jews and others from German society.
Adolf Hitler came to power through Germany's legal political process.
"Yikes" is right.
Better than Gaetz from a morals perspective, but she is batshhtcrazy.
Seriously, that elevator does not reach the top floor.