12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat

Spring has sprung

That's (not) what she said

Where were those??

Did it? Was pretty bad already!

Weren't you a journalist, once?

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

Lot of ya'll doing the work to prove Churchill correct.

Imagining commanders performing naked voodoo ceremonies is also unsettling

I believe the doctrinal term from that blog post is "bullshit"

I could imagine Henry the V himself rising from the grave to give a rousing speech to the entire US Army.

I wouldn't believe it actually happened based on one anonymous source provided by a known hyperbolist.

Fair and correct

Sorry. Read it like you were using it as an example.

I don't think what you said is wrong at all, but to use a sketchy blog post that claims 40+unit commanders across 30 bases said that to their troops is insane.

There's near zero credibility in that blog post

It references one totally anonymized complaint via one person - Mikey Weinstein - who allegedly received the report.

Is the considerable detail in the room with us?

It references one totally anonymized complaint via one person - Mikey Weinstein of the advocacy group MRFF that supposedly received the complaint.

a black and white photo of a monkey in a brick tub ALT: a black and white photo of a monkey in a brick tub

Always catching me on the Ring cam

2? 2 would be nice

You must be busy

A U.S. veteran adopted an orphan from Iran. Decades later, ICE is trying to deport her The woman has no criminal record and is unsure what prompted the threat of removal. She fears being deported to Iran given her father's military service and her Christian faith.

The woman has no criminal record and is unsure what prompted the threat of removal. She fears being deported to Iran given her father's military service and her Christian faith. n.pr/4rB8gap

Unfortunately, in the rest of real America at that time, despite a rally at Madison Square Gardens that drew 22,000 white people, less than 3 years later it was Japanese people we threw into camps.

American Nazi supporters salute Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, the "Fuehrer of German Americans" during a pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939. The photo is a still of the documentary "A Night at the Garden," by Marshall Curry and Field of Vision, which includes archival footage of the event.

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Today in history, 1939: The German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization, puts on a “Pro American Rally” at Madison Square Garden. Isadore Greenbaum, a Jewish plumber’s helper, cab driver, hotel worker and waiter from Brooklyn, defied thousands of American Nazis at the rally. /1

Why Everyone's Talking About Stephen Colbert, CBS, The FCC And James Talarico YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Colbert has truly had a great relationship with CBS, even after he was told his contract wasn’t going to be renewed. So let me say: It’s stunning to me that, as he explains here, nobody at CBS told Colbert about the statement today.

This is a must-watch: youtu.be/OQIljje2B_Q?...

What army/police force does "the world" have to do anything about it?

We've tapped out my level of ignorance on this topic

I think the religion was deeply embedded enough Israel was always going to be in play

Well they don't have Nazis living on land they want to settle. Maybe we could get the Palestinians to move to Idaho and send some of our Nazis

Inspired, even

And Jim Crowe