WE AT COVID COLLISEUM RESPECT YOUR COURAGE https://t.co/ylpPbu441U
— kilgore trout, a ramp with no steps (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 19, 2020
Look at how this consumes Trump. Being worshipped for a couple hours, preferably as police brutalize his critics outside, is all that matters to him right now. Everybody else's health, safety, rights and priorities be damned. His Super Sweet Juneteenth.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) June 19, 2020
Per the Washington Post:
The Oklahoma Supreme Court Friday rejected an appeal of a lawsuit attempting to block President Trump from holding an indoor campaign rally Saturday in Tulsa that many feared could worsen the spread of coronavirus, paving the way for the event to go off as planned.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of local residents, business owners and a community center in the historically black neighborhood of Greenwood earlier this week had demanded that the arena adhere to social distancing guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or that the event be canceled. The Trump campaign has said it will take temperatures of supporters entering the 19,000-seat BOK Center and hand out masks, but face coverings are not required…
The ruling came as thousands of Trump fans and protesters poured into this city in advance of President Trump’s first campaign rally in months. Authorities had imposed a curfew Thursday night over fears of potential violence that was to last through the rally, but on Friday afternoon, Trump tweeted that the curfew would not be in place.
“I just spoke to the highly respected Mayor of Tulsa, G.T. Bynum, who informed me there will be no curfew tonight or tomorrow for our many supporters attending the #MAGA Rally,” Trump said. “Enjoy yourselves – thank you to Mayor Bynum!”…
The president’s decision to hold his first campaign-style rally since the pandemic began in Tulsa on Juneteenth weekend has angered many across the country and in Tulsa, the site of one of the country’s worst race massacres, and it comes as the country is in the midst of a historic reckoning on race after the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis May 25…
I’ll believe that Trump is growing into the presidency when his staff stops talking about him like a toddler. https://t.co/oDqxY4scjr
[ This is the 1482nd tweet in the #ToddlerinChief thread.] pic.twitter.com/NdFN6BtU6s— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) June 19, 2020
Fortunately, THEY HAVE FOUND THE REQUISITE PATSY:
Parscale had never heard of Juneteenth.
When it was raised to him, he didnt see significance, thinking the campaign had held rallies on holidays before.
How a Tulsa rally that was supposed to be abt reopening became another story about Trump and race. https://t.co/5JpWnp52EE
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) June 18, 2020
Brad Parscale, the Trump campaign manager, needed to find a host city for the president’s triumphant return to the campaign trail, and he didn’t have much time.
Reviewing a list of potential locations over the past few weeks, Mr. Parscale quickly settled on Tulsa, Okla., people familiar with the planning said in interviews, mostly because it seemed easy. A deep red state President Trump carried by 36 percentage points four years ago, Oklahoma wasn’t in play for the November election. But it was the furthest along of any state in the country in terms of reopening, and it had seen fewer than 400 Covid-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
A city with a supportive Republican mayor, where the coronavirus was no longer having a deep impact on daily life, seemed like the most effortless way to pack an arena and deliver Mr. Trump the adulatory validation he craved.
But instead of offering Mr. Trump a glide path back into the campaign season, where he could sell a message about a country overcoming daunting challenges, Mr. Trump’s Tulsa rally has become yet another flash point for a candidate who has repeatedly displayed insensitivity about race in America and ignited controversies and divided people with his use of racist language…
Not reassuring! pic.twitter.com/d8UTYybjja
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 19, 2020
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 19, 2020
The thing about the MAGAbomber is that severely isolated, perpetually aggrieved Facebook addicts who've made attending Trump rallies in a decked out Memecamper their entire personality are incredibly common. https://t.co/jiH5iNklqS
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) June 19, 2020
Is Cherry Kool-Aid the official drink of the Tulsa rally? pic.twitter.com/E5B8Rf1FA1
— Kevin (@mcnamee_kevin) June 17, 2020
The president has a Juneteenth message for all those folks who might turn up in Oklahoma but it's obvious they are from "New York, Seattle and Minneapolis", if they know what he means. https://t.co/8wTMTOPiuS
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) June 19, 2020
That his rally in Tulsa will be attended by more than a few of the children and grandchildren of 1921 massacre participants is a certainty.
He's there to tell them that they lived in a better time. When people knew their place. And he openly pines for a police-enforced sequel. https://t.co/dkaTFyV74E
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) June 19, 2020
Baud
Jeffro
All right, I’ll just say it: these people deserve everything that’s coming to them. Including, but not limited to, catching Covid-19.
MattF
It’s not complicated. Give Trump an opportunity for cruelty, and he’ll be happy. He’d prefer to be cruel to his enemies, but he’ll settle for being cruel to his supporters. Cruelty is the point.
Cermet
If only the orange cloud of foul gas, pence and this crowd were to all get COVID and die, the world would not just be a better place but untold thousands that are doomed to die thanks to these morrons will live. A very nice trade. If only.
Immanentize
Let me add a little critical context to the Brad Parscale knowledge fail?
That grifting fuck lived in Austin. May be a native Texan! (Don’t hate enough to check). Texas is where, y’no, Juneteenth happened.
Brachiator
I just want any protestors outside to be safe.
The rally itself will just be another ugly Lost Cause.
geg6
I hate these mother fuckers with the heat of a thousand suns. I really do and I’m never gonna forgive, let alone forget. Ever.
MisterForkbeard
@Immanentize: The fact that they’re blaming this on Parscale is kind of impressive. And because even if you accept this as true (nope) literally anyone else involved in it should have brought it up.
Wait, you mean everyone in the Trump Campaign/Administration is a racist fuckwad? Okay, I can believe that.
The Moar You Know
Bullshit. Don’t stand for these people insulting your fucking intelligence.
The Thin Black Duke
@geg6: Forgive them? Never. The act of forgiveness implies that there is something of value that can be redeemed in the person you’re granting forgiveness to. But these hateful pieces of shit? They were bad from the start and they’ll die bad, having learned nothing. Fuck them. They don’t deserve our forgiveness.
CaseyL
That woman who’s been to 36 rallies in 19 states, I’m sure she’s not the only one. I’d hate to think any MAGAts are former Deadheads, but that’s what they remind me of. Only without the music or general benevolence.
Just think of this woman, and the others like her, taking the virus back to their nests. Infecting one another and their families.
I’ll say it: I hope they all sicken and die.
HeleninEire
Read Adam’s Karen post earlier. I am in the same position as him. I’m now responsible for my 85 year old high blood pressure Dad. I will probably be OK if I get it. I can’t take that chance.
And I actually feel sort of OK right now. NY has fought this disease down. We went from 800+ deaths in April to 14 yesterday.
We just need to be careful.
Baud
@geg6:
@The Thin Black Duke:
They ain’t asking for forgiveness. Moot point.
Mary G
@Immanentize: Yes, my very white Swedish-American mom born and raised in Austin commemorated Juneteenth every year of my childhood. My dad from Kentucky got Derby Day in May, when they drank mint juleps in the backyard, and mom got a picnic every Juneteenth, because it was a happy holiday. I thought everyone knew about it until I went off to college.
Mary G
@MisterForkbeard:
Gin & Tonic
@CaseyL: Deadheads is just what that made me think of.
MomSense
@HeleninEire:
I’m right with you – 82 year old mom in my care.
Kelly
@HeleninEire: Me to. My Mom is 84.
Catherine D.
@geg6:
Come sit 2 meters away from me.
I’m calming myself by listening to Sean Shibe’s Bach lute works arranged for guitar.
taumaturgo
Donald needs to go, that should be step one. Then, what? Will the Democrat leadership continue their unending love for big donors, large corporations, and Wall Street? Bidens not so secret high rollers fundraisers smack of more of the same. Donald has to go, but then what? Will the working class productivity gains continue to flow to plutocrats, health insurance carriers and big pharma, rent-seekers, and nickel and dime corporate opportunists? Any token wage increases will continue to flow upwards. Will killer cops continue their rampage with impunity? Will the “is only a few bad apple cops” taking point prevailed in Washington as it does in most municipalities? Will incrementalism, globalism, and the nefarious neoliberalism that Biden and Democrat leadership embrace instead of decrying, continue to dominate economic policy? Time will tell. Let’s retire Donnie and I will do my utmost to vote him out of office but I will be ecstatic if an old dog could learn new tricks.
Omnes Omnibus
@taumaturgo: Fuck off.
HeleninEire
@MomSense: Good Luck. So funny how the responsibilities have changed.
@Kelly: Take care.
donnah
Also caring for two senior Moms. And they’re bored. But we remind them that this is not over and we just can’t pretend that it is.
Remember this: in a few weeks, people will die because Trump wanted adoration.
Kilgore Trout
@CaseyL: As I quipped on Twitter, one difference between the MAGA tour heads and the Deadheads is that the only drug you’ll be able to score in line in Tulsa is hydroxychloroquine.
different-church-lady
@Omnes Omnibus: Hey, c’mon, at least there was some lip service about Trump being ever-so-slightly worse than the horrible horrible Democrats.
Sure Lurkalot
@HeleninEire: I was so jealous when you were living in Ireland during pre-Covid Trumpville. You’re back where you need to be and I hope you and Pa stay healthy for a long time.
schrodingers_cat
@different-church-lady: Republican, Russian or Rose?
I can’t tell the difference any more.
cmorenc
There were Grateful Dead fanatics who repeatedly trekked around the country to attend their concerts, now there’s the nightmare mirror-image of Death-Eater Donald Trump fans repeatedly trekking around the country – Dead fans were a gathering of the totally cool, Trump fans are a gathering of the totally uncool
schrodingers_cat
@MomSense: Long time no see, how have you been.
dmsilev
Dibs on the band name. I’m thinking a K-pop/country fusion group.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
For anyone who’s interested, there’s a Juneteenth Celebration on ABC at 8 pm EST
rikyrah
I deal with a lot of Seniors. They want to get out and about. I understand, but, no .
I am sad to report that one of their crew went to the opening up of the CASINO AND CAUGHT COVID-19 ????
I feel bad for the lady, I really do. But, she is a cautionary tale for the rest of them.. They aren’t talking about going out anymore.
Mike in NC
Parscale has grifted his boss’s campaign for millions of dollars. He probably has a nice walk-in closet in his Florida condo filled with finely tailored three-piece suits and silk ties.
HeleninEire
@Sure Lurkalot: Thank you. Dad is the reason I came back. I hope he lives for 10 more years…until he is 95. But as soon as he passes I am going right back.
Chief Oshkosh
@taumaturgo:
There’s the “tell.”
Baud
@HeleninEire:
Globalist.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
Nice.
White & Gold Purgatorian
@Kelly: Me three. My mom is 93, in good health and lives (alone) next door. Has a big garden and lots of flowers. She hasn’t been inside a store since mid-March. I do all the shopping and, like Adam, wipe down all her stuff before it goes in her house. My goal for the next however long is to make sure she and my husband stay safe from COVID 19. That is the purpose of my life right now. Once we live through this, I’ll recalibrate, but taking care of the people we love has to take priority. This is something I can do, at a time when many things are outside our control.
I’m in North Alabama and just went to Publix yesterday. More masks than usual, but very few shoppers. I go near opening time, so that helps. Most staff at our Publix are wearing masks and wearing them properly.
Auntie Anne
href=”#comme7745697″>@HeleninEire: @HeleninEire:
85 year old father here with heart disease. I’m in the same boat. I am very thankful I live in a blue state in the Northeast that is taking this seriously.
Bex
@schrodingers_cat: I think Russian. He’s all alone in the boiler room since all his co-workers are dying of “pneumonia” in overcrowded St. Petersburg hospitals.
HumboldtBlue
@Mary G:
You should expand on that kernel, there’s a story there.
HeleninEire
@Baud: ? I love you too.
Ladyraxterinok
Friend reported late this afternoon that the QuikTrip store about 4 miles from the BOK Center has been boarded up—all the glass covered, everything taken off marquee, gas pumps locked and taped, parking area blockaded so no one can drive in. This store is 10 blocks from where we live! She didn’t see any place else around here boarded up.
QT chain was started here in Tulsa
The company has boarded up at least 6 stores in Tulsa
Trump is evil and GOPers are crazy!
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
I am Black and knew about Juneteenth.
We didn’t celebrate it.
My mother, from Mississippi, Jim Crow Mississippi, told me that Black folk from Texas and Oklahoma celebrated it.
glory b
@Omnes Omnibus: Thank you!
glory b
i@Chief Oshkosh: Exactly, that says everything you need to know.
Kineslaw
I’m living with two 76-y-o parents.
My Dad desperately needs a back surgery fewer than twenty surgeons in
Texas even do. It’s currently scheduled-ish for early September and with cases rising I’m worried elective surgeries will be stopped again.
I had surgery on my foot and ankle a couple of weeks ago because I didn’t want to wait until I had to have it and not be able to get it.
Doing some properly-distanced socializing in the backyard has kept them sane, but I’m not sure how long that will last.
different-church-lady
@schrodingers_cat: That’s because there isn’t one.
Wyatt Salamanca
OT
For me, listening to this music on Juneteenth
We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvFzXr-o-8
provides the best solace from the vile filth and garbage spewed by Trump and his enablers
different-church-lady
@rikyrah: Can I put this tactfully, but also tongue-in-cheek: how do you feel about the massive symbolic over-correction we’re having? (While the practical under-correction continues apace, that is.)
Mary Ellen Sandahl
I don’t know how plugged in Parscale is, but I can’t, personally, assume he’s lying about never having heard of Juneteenth, because I had just barely heard the word before this year,and had no idea up til the last couple of weeks of what its meaning is. And I live in a diverse community, and have had Black friends and acquaintances over the years, and am a good ol’ liberal. The holiday had just never crossed my ken. I’m sure there are loads of whites and other ethnic group members who live in less mixed areas who were equally clueless until now.
Now if there was a nice line of greeting cards…
Keith P.
@cmorenc: There’s also those people who drive around the country, eating at every restaurant that Guy Fieri ate at. Not quite as psycho as attending 36 MAGA rallies, though.
different-church-lady
@cmorenc: They did a study, and as it turns out, only about 150 thousand people ever went to a The Grateful Dead concert, but each those people went to 37 concerts on average.
Ladyraxterinok
P C Cast has written a book series with her daughter. The title is House of Night, and it’s set in an alternate universe where Tulsa is inhabited by humans and vampires!!
The series is said to be quite good. I don’t like stories about vampires, so I haven’t read any of the books
low-tech cyclist
Ya beat me to it.
Alternatively, instead of Death Cab for Cutie, it’s Death Arena for MAGAts.
Steeplejack
@HeleninEire:
Good to see your nym again!
A Ghost to Most
@Omnes Omnibus: The mouse that roared.
HumboldtBlue
I see all the ages of the moms and dads above, my brother is now caring for our 88-year-old father along with a granddaughter while momma recovers from some serious medical issues. Caution isn’t the word to describe how careful they are all and how concerned about exposure they all are.
On a lighter note, the latest from the Lincoln Project on #RichMitch
HeleninEire
@Steeplejack: Thanks. I’ve mostly been lurking. Notice that my nym hasn’t changed. And my Facebook “where do you live” hasn’t changed either. My heart is still in Dublin.
geg6
@taumaturgo:
Love the wingnut tell. It’s fucking Democratic when used as an adjective you stupid asshole. And don’t come at me with the Berniebro neoliberal shit either. You can just fuck off and die with the Trumpers for all I care.
White & Gold Purgatorian
@Ladyraxterinok: Stay safe. Trump is evil and evil people flock to his presence, where he then brings out the worst in them.
MisterForkbeard
@Chief Oshkosh: I thought the tell was “neoliberals” but I suppose he can have more than one.
Yutsano
@schrodingers_cat: Poe’s Law needs an update methinks.
Jinchi
Well, his kids forgot to vote for him too, so…..
Baud
Y’all looking for a “tell” when he’s showing you all his cards.
topclimber
@Chief Oshkosh: Good catch. For me, the tell is “globalist.” Sure, let’s not think beyond our boundaries in an age of pandemics and climate change. Not to mention a world wide trend toward growing income disparity that needs to be addressed.
Yeah, I am a cosmopolitan. Got a problem with that MAGAt?
BBA
Glad to see we’re already tearing down statues of Washington and Jefferson, vile slavers that they were.
Now do Lincoln. White savior narratives never sat well with me.
By the time I’m done there won’t be a single statue left in the land.
Amir Khalid
I’m not sure why, exactly, but I had my friend Google Translate do this bit of Latin for me:
Vos, qui estis morituri: si salutant vos.
different-church-lady
@BBA: First they came for the statues, and I said nothing because I needed the bronze for some projects I was working on…
Ken
Nah, considering the average age there’ll be tons of NSAIDs, blood thinners, cholinesterase inhibitors, diuretics, statins, …
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Mary Ellen Sandahl: I knew about the holiday but I thought first, it was celebrated only by black people in Texas and, second, that it was downright rude of white people to celebrate anything that had anything to do with slavery. But now it sounds like it’s becoming a holiday anyone can celebrate, like cinco de mayo.
Baud
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady:
I went to one. Don’t I count?
chopper
“we who are about to be infected salute you”
Ken
Let me guess, you saw Blink and haven’t been able to sleep since…
MomSense
@schrodingers_cat:
I don’t even know anymore. I’m working with maskless fools, isolating at home to protect my mom, and empty nesting it. Thank goodness for music and movies.
How are you doing?
danielx
@Gin & Tonic:
with the major difference that Deadheads were/are fun, non discriminatory and generally harmless. These people are aggressive assholes.
HumboldtBlue
@Chacal Charles Calthrop:
From your keystrokes to Kashana’s nightmare.
Baud
Martin
@different-church-lady: Same dynamic as gun owners now. Fewer americans than ever own a gun, but each person owns like 20 guns.
PsiFighter37
@Baud: It’s almost as if the folks at Fox are trying to send a message to their golden cow to not screw things up. They know ginning up outrage at Biden is going to generate less dollars.
CaseyL
Kudos to everyone here taking extraordinary measures to take care of and protect their elderly parents!
My Mom (85 y.o.) lives in Florida and is on her own, what with my being in Seattle and my brother in Norway. Fortunately, she’s still very sharp and independent, able to do her own shopping (masked, of course ; she’s very good about that). She’s also a sedentary soul who doesn’t go out much other than for errands, which right now is a good thing.
Baud
Kelly
I don’t remember when I learned of Juneteenth, which by the way the Chrome spell checker thinks it a misspelling of Nineteenth. Do better Google. I was an adult when I learned of it and while I recognize Juneteenth when I read about it I’ve never thought “Oh Juneteenth is coming up.
HumboldtBlue
Baud
PsiFighter37
@HumboldtBlue: Googled and naturally, the current Kentucky SoS is a Republican. Go figure.
different-church-lady
@HumboldtBlue: Can we give Kentucky back to The Confederacy?
Jinchi
@HumboldtBlue: Kentucky implemented a universal option to vote by mail in April. Is there any word on whether voters have taken up on that option?
danielx
Because I need it.
Edgar Winter’s White Trash:
Keep Playin’ That Rock and Roll
Kelly
Kentucky never really seceded although a Confederate rump government was established and the Confederacy figured that counted.
Abraham Lincoln: “I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky.”
Martin
@Chacal Charles Calthrop: I’ve always viewed it as celebrating a birthday. You celebrate for the happiness of others. That doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy someone else’s birthday, but you do it to increase their happiness more than your own.
So I’ve always wished people a happy Juneteenth. It’s a good day for white people to practice their listening skills and make space for others to tell their stories.
We gotta figure out how to do the same thing for indigenous Americans as well.
danielx
@different-church-lady:
Went with my brother to see a Dead cover band at a hippie hangout bar (fun place!) a couple of years back. He asked me how many people there I thought had ever seen the Grateful Dad live. I took a look around and said “1 in 10, maybe, I don’t think some of these people were born before Jerry Garcia died”.
Note: I saw the Dead five or six times, my brother about twenty. When they weren’t having a good night, they were so-so, aside from watching the crowd. When they were hitting the note, it was like the wildest Saturday night you ever had.
HumboldtBlue
@PsiFighter37:
Straight-up voter suppression.
@different-church-lady:
They were always ours, in a way, so not really.
@Jinchi:
I’m gonna go a-lookin’.
rikyrah
@different-church-lady:
It has been fascinating to watch. I am stunned. Just observing ????
Mike in NC
@chopper: Few people know this but the Trump family can trace its roots back to Commodus.
Zinsky
If someone is uncomfortable wearing a mask, they are really going to hate having a tube down their throat when they are on a ventilator!
trnc
So that’s what they’re doing with the masks confiscated from the governors and hospitals and national stockpile that Jared said belonged to him.
HumboldtBlue
Who knows how it turns out but my fears for the November election are starting to rise.
James E Powell
@BBA:
I’m with you. When do we sandblast Stone Mountain?
Ladyraxterinok
@Ladyraxterinok:
I have, however, read the earlier Vicky Blake Vampire Hunter books and the earlier books in the series that the HBO series True Blood was based on. The only vampire stories that make sense to me are the ones in the Ilna Andrew’s series
Odie Hugh Manatee
@chopper: “we who are about to be infected salute you”
Single finger, right?
Kelly
Perhaps a new US Army artillery range?
Ladyraxterinok
@White & Gold Purgatorian:
We’re working on it.
My friend will be 62 tomorrow and is the errand-runner. She has a daughter with several health problems. I’m 80, with son in IA who just had his 51st birtday.
My friend and I live in the same apartments complex (a very nice one), and look out for each other.
Jackie
@Jinchi: I read “somewhere today,” that several voters who requested mail in ballots hadn’t received theirs as of yet. This starting to sound familiar.?
@Jinchi:
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@James E Powell: No, no, no! Artillery is the best option here. Think of the Independence Day racket it’ll make!
LongHairedWeirdo
@The Moar You Know: I think the sentence was meant to be a reference to how it was always a dog whistle… nah, never mind, lousy joke. (But, see, people can’t *hear* dog whistles, and he said he never… right, you understood, you were still screaming for me to leave. Fine! I know where I’m not wanted!)
Ladyraxterinok
@White & Gold Purgatorian:
We’re working on it.
My friend will be 62 tomorrow and is the errand-runner. She has a daughter with several health problems. I’m 80, with son in IA who just had his 51st birtday.
My friend and I live in the same apartments complex (a very nice one), and look out for each other.
@Martin:
@Ladyraxterinok:
Ilona Andrew’s
Steeplejack
I first heard of Juneteenth when Ralph Ellison’s novel of that name was published posthumously in 1999. Not a great novel, but interesting as an artifact.
LongHairedWeirdo
@CaseyL: I realized there was something different about the Dead when I heard that the city was upset at the mess camping Deadheads left behind, and when the band warned “we can’t have that happen, or we can’t come back to Philadelphia,” the place was cleared up the next day.
I confess, I can’t imagine Trumpfolks doing anything like that.
geg6
@danielx:
OMG, the one and only Dead show I ever went to was the worst concert experience of my life. And I have been to at least a hundred concerts in my day. The stench of unwashed for weeks people, people so fucked up they could barely stand up and often didn’t and a band that was the most boring, self-absorbed music I ever heard. Never much liked the band to start with and left after an interminable hour. It went on for some time after I left. I’ll never, ever understand why anyone would want to see them once, let alone numerous times. But then, I’m sure some of the stuff I like might be your worst nightmare.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Pretty amazing that someone who is a leader of the most powerful country on earth has the emotional need for the illusion of power that a rally gives.
schrodingers_cat
@MomSense: Hanging in there. The heat and the allergies are killing me.
zzyzx
As someone who saw the Dead 81 times and Phish 364 (sigh, my “year of Phish” show was to be in 3 weeks), even I think these guys are insane.
We’ve been making the same jokes though. “Maybe he’ll do the Caravan rant! He hasn’t done that in years! I’ve been chasing it!”
rikyrah
@HumboldtBlue:
Because, of course ??
Sm*t Cl*de
@Jinchi:
Is that her full title now?
Sm*t Cl*de
@Mike in NC:
Ah yes, Emperor Aurum Pluviae.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike in NC: Are you sure it’s not all the way to Biggus Dickus?
Parscale is lying. And you can bet your last dollar that Reinhardt Heydrich wannabe Stephen Miller knows the significance of the date. Donald may be an ignoramus (Britain isn’t a nuclear power? No one knew that!) but Parscale and Miller damn sure know about Juneteenth.
Nelle
@Villago Delenda Est: more critically, Putin knows about all the buttons to push for his Trumpbot to move in whatever direction Putin wants.
Brian
@Ladyraxterinok: I used to read the Chelsea Quinn Yarbro historical fiction novels featuring the vampire Count Saint-Germain. I remember them as being good, but it’s been about 20 years since I read one. The history part was always pretty well researched.
mrmoshpotato
Holy hell! What is that gibberish horseshit in Aaron Rupar’s screenshot? Can anyone translate to Adult English? (My apologies to actual toddlers.)
Steeplejack
@Villago Delenda Est:
I agree about Miller, but I could see Parscale not knowing about Juneteenth. He is basically a website developer who hit the seven-figure lottery.
Uncle Cosmo
@rikyrah: This sounds on point. I’m not Black, but I reside in a Baltimore rowhouse neighborhood that’s been 85-90% AA since the day in November 1987 when I moved in. I’ve never seen any hint of Juneteenth celebrations here. Nor anywhere else in this majority-AA city before the last few years. Seems like a regional holiday that’s only recently gone national – not that there’s anything wrong with that.