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Douglas A. Blackmon Profile picture
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Jun 22, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
@realdonaldtrump is the “Any Excuse Will Do” President—if it gets him off the hook for his play-acting at foreign policy.
Kim Jong-un: Nooo, I didn’t know we were killing Warmbier. Saudi prince: I *swear* I didn’t order my aides to butcher Khashoggi. 1/2 nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/…
Putin *promised* me Russia didn’t meddle in our elections—or murder that defector in England. North Korea: We’re not making more missiles. Read the “beautiful” letter Kim wrote. Erdogan: Go ahead and pull out. We won’t massacre the Kurds. Iran: It was some rogue commander. 2/2
Mr. President: The worst tyrants on the globe are all laughing at your gullibility, while our allies are terrified by your recklessness. Your foreign policy is an unguided missile.

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Douglas A. Blackmon Profile picture
Mar 12, 2022
⁦@ajc⁩ says Herschel Walker’s partner in debt-plagued “Zoners” pizza is one “Brandon Scrushy.”
Appears to be son of infamous felon Richard Scrushy, founder of fraud-riddled HealthSouth Corp, which Walker helped promote in 1990s. ⁦@bluestein⁩ ajc.com/news/investiga…
@HerschelWalker served w/other well known sports figures on a sports “council” that promoted Healthsouth to athletes at every level. But the company turned out to be a $2.8 billion fraud. CEO Scrushy ended up in prison for years, and ordered to pay investors for their losses.
@HerschelWalker’s involvement in 1990s with excon Richard Scrushy and his mega-fraud HealthSouth Corp deserves a lot more scrutiny—especially if he has continued doing business with the family even after Scrushy went to prison on bribery & mail fraud convictions. @ajc @bluestein
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Dec 12, 2021
So when Texas & Mississippi decide to re-establish segregated schools for Black kids, all they need is a law allowing any citizen to sue any teacher or principal for, say, explaining “Critical Race Theory.”
Trump Sup Court will say “Sure. Not our case.” washingtonpost.com/politics/court…
The lawyers down in Hell who defended racial segregation before the US Supreme Court in the 1950s & 60s, arguing openly that separate schools were needed to protect racial purity, are screaming with joy about the Supreme Court’s new embrace of ‘States’ Rights’ and nullification.
Just imagine how helpful the Trump SupCourt view would have been to John C. Satterfield, the most famous legal defender of racial segregation before the Supreme Court, and his white supremacist backers.
He would have sued every teacher in America to cripple public schools.
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Jul 20, 2021
Back in the 1990s I started publicly asking how anyone couldn’t see the malignant absurdity of requiring African-Americans to do govt business, or expect fair treatment from judges, in courthouses with monuments to enslavement outside the front doors. 1/4
roanoke.com/news/local/roa…
Yesterday a North Carolina judge used exactly that logic to order the removal of the statue (or the courthouse) in his county.
“This monument’s message, in its present location, is offensive to the appearance of judicial fairness and neutrality, without a hint of prejudice.” 2/4
Exactly—such a dramatic change from 30 years ago, when most white people scoffed at the idea that monuments to a treasonous rebellion to preserve slavery could bother anybody. The Sons of Confederate Veterans types threatened violence over the tiniest effort to discuss it. 3/4
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Jul 9, 2021
It’s ugly, but we’ve overcome so much worse. Hardcore deluded/hoaxer/TeaParty/GOP/1-6/TrumpCultists are still stuck at 30-35%.
They’re LOSING.

& remember how bad US attitudes have been…
Like (1942) when 1 in 6 of “Greatest Gen” said Hitler was “doing the right thing” to Jews.
I know you know all this, Kevin, but worth reminding:

1939: 70+% of whites said Black Americans were less intelligent…

1942: 70% of US said black & white kids shouldn’t attend same schools…65% believed in racially separate housing…

In 1958, 96% opposed mixed race marriage.
Conservative extremist bigots/coup-plotters today are nauseating…

But in 1950, 59% in US said schools should stay segregated.

In 1961, >60% said racial integration should occur only VERRRRRY SLOOOOWLY…

7% still said “Never”
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Jun 11, 2021
Remember back when people talking about magic spells being cast all around you were either characters in a sitcom or about to take their meds?

Now it’s just regular old #Qanon #Trumpcultists, checking in with pals during a @foxandfriends commercial break…
I truly wish one of the polls that keep re-proving most Republicans believe the stolen-election myth would also ask:

Do you believe there are black magic spells are routinely used to help the Democrats?

Answer would be 80% yes.

@ReutersPolitics
google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…
Another poll question for #Trumpcultists:

“Harry Potter” is a made up story, but could it be possible that a hidden school for wizards really exists, & Pelosi & other Dems learned evil spells there?
Response among Trump Republicans?
At least 60% yes.

@politico
@MorningConsult
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May 30, 2021
Actually no surprise that the architect of @UNC’s deplorable treatment of @nhannahjones is Arkansas newspaper magnate Walter Hussman.
But PREPOSTEROUS to call him an advocate for balanced/non-political news. He’s been a mini-Rupert Murdoch for 40 yrs.
1/5
 quirky-cray-af5aca.netlify.app/long-form/niko…
I didn’t know him personally, but I worked for Hussman almost 35 years ago at the Arkansas Democrat. He was burning millions from his family’s cable-company fortune to destroy the Arkansas Gazette—one of the greatest southern newspapers & the few that supported Civil Rights.
2/5
Hussman’s family bought the dying Arkansas Democrat in the 70s & installed him as boy-publisher, still in his 20s. He hired extremist conservative editors who made war on the truth, and in the 80s begin spinning bogus “Whitewater”conspiracy tales about Bill & Hillary Clinton. 3/5
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