Not all buttons are working yet but it is functional enough to use.

I am able to do the usual magic tricks I am used to doing when I post here. 

I will finish the remaining issues soon, I had to upload what I have.  I have been working on it for days.  All for my article template button which I have not even implemented yet.

Buttons before before and including the quote should all work.  Not so much left but much has been done.  I need a break.  Get me some H₂O and some O₂ and some Kyle.

Seriously no 💩. This is a big deal.  Quite the rabbit hole.

  Images and videos and audio if you have a URL is as easy to use as always.

Quote from: RE on Oct 09, 2025, 02:32 AMSounds suspiciously like Martial Law to me.

It's depressing being right all the time.  You heard it here first.



https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/trump-news-judges-warning-martial-law.html

These Judges Are Warning Us We're on the Fast Track to Martial Law

RE

MAKE AMERIKA WHITE AGAIN!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/06/trump-immigration-whiteness

Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed

RE

Quote from: RETrump wants to recreate a white America that never existed
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I find this topic interesting. If only because I think I have noticed some of the psychological disfunction that folks suffer from in certain areas that lead them to believe there is like this invasion of foreigners.

So, first you grow up in some place where its all poor white folk, with white folks being the Doctor you go to, your teachers (first women through maybe 5th grade) and then mixed men and women. White folk still.

You complete in sports, and except for the occasional black athlete, in football, maybe some sprinters and hurdlers in track, and arrive at college. White folks everywhere, a rare Asian or black person maybe (in my case a cadre of Saudi Arabians sent to the US for engineering, but they were anomalous). And this was the world through the beginning of ones professional career.

I compare that to my kids growing up. The percentage of non-whites throughout public schooling, the white doctors are harder to find, same with dentists, foreign languages and clicks of non-white folks speaking something other than English are common even in the 1st-6th grade environment. Primarily Spanish, but certainly a reasonable number of Asians. Found a white dentist, he sold his practice to some nice Chinese married dentists who aren't him. My general practitioner is mostly white I think, with some Hispanic background of some sort. Really nice. Gay, which doesn't bother me...but wouldn't that be a surprise to folks 40 years ago and make them jumpy?

In a polyglot world, the places that remember the white haired male doctor that took care of the town, what must they think when he is replaced with a gay Asian woman? Same with other professionals, when they hear foreign languages at their local bank...from both customers and employees?

I am just jeakous when I bump into different languages, and wish I was bilingual. But it is just as easy to imagine folks I grew up with being afraid that any two foreigners are speaking in a language they don't understand...and making fun of the white gringo listening in.

I think some of this idea explains why my parents went MAGA in 2016, but the main impetus was the feeling their party had left them behind with their inclusive shenanigans. But they had flinched when they moved to be with grandkids elsewhere for awhile, a culture shock with all the new stuff, languages, attitudes. It lasted 2 years, then they moved back to where they (and I) had lived going back in to the 70's.

But all these things I see, when comparing to yesteryear to now, fits in nicely with the idea that folks want something back they THINK they once had....and it is because they are uncomfortable with the change. They want Mayberry back.

Not that either party will give it to them, but both will play into the charade with words I imagine, slogans, claims. MAGA just got there first, and in the Trumpsters 2nd term are pushing it to the extremes.

While it's certainly true that Amerika in the 1950s had plenty of Black & Hispanic people, the country "felt" much Whiter for several reasons.

First off, communities were much more segregated.  So if you were a White person going to a public school, chances were that you lived in a White neighborhood and all your classmates were white.  That was even true in NYC when I moved back to Flushing in 1967.  The neighborhood was still mainly Italian & Irish, with a few Greeks that had immigrated post-WWII.

After Vietnam in the 1970s-80s however, Asians started moving en masse into Flushing, and by the time my mom sold the house in 1996, the white folks were moving to Long Island and the neighboehood was at least half Asian.  Today, Flushing is the biggest "Chinatown" in the world, and bigger than the original NYC Chinatown in Manhattan.

Far as Muslims go, I don't ever remember seeing a woman wearing a Hijab on the street in those years.  Migration from Africa and MENA didn't really pick up until after the Gulf War in the 1990s.  Immigration from Europe slowed down as their Birthrates dropped, and to keep the numbers up and Cheap Labor flowing in, immigration to the FSoA since the Millenium has been nearly entirely Brown or Asian people which have been dispersing all across the FSoA and into many formerly Lily White communities.

The second major reason is the perception you get from the Media.  Right up through the 1990s, TV shows generally featured All White casts whether they were Sitcoms or Dramas, except for the shows directed priimarily towar a Black audience like The Jeffersons or Sanford & Son.  Today, no shows EVER have an All White cast, they are always nicely WOKE with mixed race couples and a Rainbow of kids including adoptees to make sure a couple with a White Dad and Black Mom has a Korean son and Egyptian daughter too. lol.  Their next door neighbors are Lesbians in a mixed religion Hindu-Jewish combination with a Nicaraguan son who joined a Hare Krishna for Jesus cult. lol.

I didn't really notice how much the general complexion of Amerika had changed until I moved up her in 2007 and did my first 4th of July Parade.  Alaska was one of the last holdout Lily White states.  3 miles of all Caucasian with the occasional Native watching the Parade.


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If I see all white faces I get uncomfortable.  It has happened.