I genuinely think a number of people on this board need to "touch grass." If it's not obvious, consult a Tiktoker if you don't know what that means. It would be hard for them to misinform you about that.

This last page has been filled with completely unhinged conspiracy theories that had no basis in reality. The claim that Charlie Kirk's assassin was a groyper is just total nonsense. Actual news outlets, not tribalist hacks, will tell you that. There isn't a single source actually connected to the case making that link. I genuinely can't comprehend the mind required to believe someone who killed a conservative commentator with bullets quoting Antifascist messages was a further conservative. 

At least claim it was a false flag or the shooter intentionally doing misdirection. Claim the FBI are covering up the truth. Give me actual tinfoil hattery. Don't try gaslighting people into believing that "Hey fascist, catch!" and "Bella ciao" (a literal WWII Antifa anthem - no, its inclusion on a groyper Spotify playlist with 200 likes doesn't change that when there's nothing linking that list to the shooter) are the kind of references a right-winger would make. The fact that it turns out the accused is dating a trans woman makes this theory all the more nonsensical. Yes, the guy dating a trans woman, who wrote Antifa messages on his bullets, who called his target "hateful," killed a right-wing commentator because he wasn't right-wing enough. Makes complete sense.

The weather isn't awful yet. Go touch grass, please.

TomTV wrote:

Shorty Wave wrote:

Lexx

Well damn, I didn't think anyone would guess it before I made my post later tonight... a slow clap to Shorty Wave, everyone. X-Files was not dystopic enough, and Starlost was a great guess since I do remember that we often got glimpses of how those isolated societies within the domes would take a wrong turn. But LEXX is the show I was referring to and now I'm going to have explain why...  For those who've not seen the show, this should be a fun discovery if you're into dark twisted sci-fi comedy.

 

 
Well damn, I’m good! Actually, I worked for Salter Street Films in Halifax when they were producing LEXX, it was a co-production with a German company. Salter Street Films had hired me to be their creative director for IFC, The Independent Film Channel, that they launched in 2001. The LEXX cast were often in the office, some interesting characters to say the least!

With all due respect to our hard-working moderator, and to those who complained to him, consider this...

Discussion about tRump is all over most radio and TV stations serving Southern Ontario and Western New York. It's on newscasts, entertainment programs/segments, comedy shows and political discussion programs. It has impacted Canadian travel, winter vacation plans and relationships and is severely damaging a wide variety of Canadian businesses, both large and small.

His presidency is, by far, the worst for Canada of any US Administration in well over 200 years.

And yet, on a forum where what is on Canadian and American media is discussed, we shouldn't talk about the number one topic of interest, by media itself? 🫣

I'll crawl further out on a limb here and postulate that a 'majority' of those complaining to RA may harbour some admiration for tRump, so of course their backs get up when faced with some uncomfortable facts around his actions.

Radioactive, I do appreciate the tight rope that you've been walking to keep both sides happy. To me, restricting the political talk to just this thread has been by far the best compromise and I don't get why after doing that, anyone can still complain because as I noted, every thread is an optional thread to read. I really have lost all interest in radio but am still fascinated by TV and especially TV news media since a) I use it as a source of story ideas for my writing, and b) I am naturally curious to know more about the behind-the-scenes struggles of getting that news to air, not to mention any company politics that affects what makes it to the air or what doesn't.

So I read and will participate in the TV-related threads, I just ignore radio and anything that might be outside my wheelhouse of interest. I think it's just the right-wing contingent that don't like the notion that people are bashing their hero (not just the one woman who admitted to being a Trump supporter) but also those QUIETLY on the farther right end of the spectrum. They agree with the anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-transphobic sentiment pushed by Trump but are aware of how bad it makes them look in public to admit it. As I recall, this was why Trump winning in 2016 was such a shock to the pollsters, there was a large contingent of Americans that knew what Trump stood for was considered wrong but they still quietly agreed with him anyway and while they would never say it aloud, they voted for Trump.

Nobody wants to acknowledge that maybe their POV of the political world is the one that is leading us into disaster... that's simple cognitive dissonance.  My hope with this thread is that if there are any right-wingers reading it, they will hopefully learn something from the left-wing perspective (who most certainly feel targeted by Trump and all of his cronies trying to unravel 20 years of progress).

And for any right-wingers who have been kind enough to read my really, really long posts (another big one coming up today), know that I am going to heavily criticize the far-left as well. Ever since 2016, I have felt that they have also gone a bit too far and alienated the center-right, pushing them even more to the right and if there's going to be any peace between the two sides, both parties have to learn what was done wrong for the last 10 years.

 

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And now back to our regularly scheduled program...

One of the more disturbing aspects of the first LEXX TV-movie, is the Protein Bank. The Divine Order uses a social credit system (based on demerits) to evaluate its citizens on their loyalty and conformity and accumulating too many demerits is what can land you a trip to the correction centre where your organs are harvested, bagged and carried away to the Protein Bank.





We quickly learn that the Divine Order uses organ harvesting as its primary form of punishment for its citizens, for both major crimes and even minor infractions. Everyone lives in constant fear, obviously, as each demerit accumulated moves them closer to a visit to the correction centre, where the person is bound to a metal platform and cutting instruments quickly cut out either all or just some of your organs e.g. an eye, a lung, or testicle! For the minor crimes, you are still left with enough working organs to live and continue to serve the Divine Order albeit in a diminished capacity.



Stanley Tweedle, one of our intrepid protagonists, raises the ire of a superior officer while doing his job and soon finds out that he has to report to the correction facility in order to have some of his organs removed as punishment. He is warned by an automated computer system that not showing up before the end of the day will result in the punishment being elevated to death and the complete removal of ALL of his organs. His attempts to evade death lead him to meeting up with Zev, who is also on the run from the Divine Order, which then leads to their eventual escape from The Cluster (the Divine Order's homeworld where both Stanley and Zev reside) onboard the Divine Order's latest massive warship, the LEXX, an impressive vessel that is completely organic technology.



It's then that we come to realize just why the Protein Bank exists in the first place, beyond merely as a house of horrors designed to keep a frightened populace complying to the laws of the Divine Order: the human organs that are harvested are used as food, a source of protein, to feed the LEXX since it is organic and alive, it eats in order to get bigger.

I'm sure from the point of view of the clerics who administer this religious society, it makes perfect sense to feed the heretics and criminals to the "lion" so to speak, leaving the most loyal and pure citizens to live on and serve His Divine Shadow. Maybe even from the point of view of the everyday citizen, those who don't follow the rules or break the law or are incompetent at their jobs, deserve to be organ harvested. This goes along the lines of how people always proclaim "if you're obeying the law and do as you're told, then you have nothing to fear."  Keep in mind that these citizens have no clue that their removed organs are being used as food to create and feed organic battleships that help the rulers keep the population enslaved, it's only our heroes who discover this dark truth about the purpose of the Protein Bank.



This is one of the more subtle aspects of the show that I think gets overlooked: the harvesting of vital parts of your body be it for major crime or even a minor mistake (such as the one made by Stanley while simply doing his job) is totally NORMALIZED in this society! Nobody seems to really bat an eye at how COMPLETELY heinous this type of punishment is!

I was a teenager when I first watched the first LEXX TV movie and I can remember that while the entire idea of using organ harvesting as punishment seemed gross, it didn't trouble me as much as it does now as an adult. Why? Because as a teen, we are still learning the rules about what the rest of society deems "good" or "bad". Often times, we learn what is acceptable from TV or in modern times, from social media and Youtube. TV and its like, are our windows to the world, in the absence of our parents just telling us what is acceptable behavior (in my case, my parents worked 7 days a week to eek out a meager living, they were simply not around to offer that insight, TV thus became an even more vital part about learning about what is NORMAL and what isn't).

In an earlier post, I cited the example of how Red Bull littered the parking lots of night clubs (as well as other sites that their target customer would hang out in) around London so that clubbers and students would be inundated with the sight of empty Red Bull cans giving the fake impression that everyone must be drinking this Red Bull energy drink if there are so many discarded cans just lying around, and this convinced these young people that Red Bull must be popular with others of their age group, so let's start drinking it too.

It was a very clever way of creating social proof, among a group of teens and twenty-somethings about what was acceptable (drinking energy drinks, something which was still a new, tiny business back then).

Just like with me as a teen being willing to accept that organ harvesting was "okay" within the story, simply because in the world of LEXX while we see the citizens are fearful of that punishment, they aren't rioting in the streets over it, so it may be something to fear but still deemed "acceptable" by the rest of society. In other words, the LEXX citizens' attitude was social proof that organ extraction is totally NORMAL!

Obviously as we all mature and establish our own moral code of what is right and wrong, we wouldn't be so gullible, but that's the key thing: maturity and having that moral code in place. Otherwise, even as adults we don't know what to accept or reject when it is presented to us.

And in that regard, let's return to 2016 on Earth for a moment, during the first Trump campaign when the voters heard Donald Trump in an audio recording saying this:



Or how about when he mocked a disabled person in front of his supporters during a rally:


There WAS a time when any presidential candidate caught saying or doing these types of things, would have blown all chance of winning the election. There WAS previously a certain minimum expectation that a president should be dignified, mature, humble, positive/optimistic and respectable, regardless of political affiliation. The person that we choose to lead us, should represent the BEST of us, because we are charging them with a duty to protect our society and to grow it in a way so that EVERY person living in it will prosper and be happy (not just the fucking RICH and POWERFUL and the RACISTS).

Instead, now in his second term, we have a president who has NORMALIZED more and more of what was once unacceptable:
- selling merchandise (gold sneakers, "premium "bibles, crypto coins of himself and his wife, etc) to earn millions for himself and close friends
- murdering people with missile strikes on the claim that they are fighting druglords with NO DUE PROCESS given to the victims beforehand
- using the power of his office to intimidate the news media from accurate reporting over his conduct and banning any criticism of the president
- declaring the intention to take over a foreign country (you know, Canada... but also Greenland) and absorb it into his own empire
- demand unswerving loyalty not to the United States of America, but to HIM personally as one might swear loyalty to a King (NOTE: America does not have kings)

This is all within just the first few months of his presidency! If Obama, Biden, Trudeau, etc. had done even ONE of these things, there would be a call to impeach and remove that leader. With anyone else, we know that this behavior is unacceptable and even illegal. Yet for his cult, he has normalized it as perfectly normal practice for HIM and HIM ALONE. They have seen him acting in the worst possible ways and yet he is re-elected, he is getting away with it, and getting rich off it. For young people, Trump is providing social proof that this is normal, even advantageous behavior.

Now, going back to the LEXX universe: the 20,000 planets which win the Great Insect War have emerged victorious and just as with any other real-life war, we have a human population that is weary, emotionally exhausted, and in a state of disarray. There's undoubtedly some crimes and lawlessness just because the common enemy (the Insect Civilization) has now been defeated and things are slowly returning to humans acting up against other humans once more.



A group, the Divine Order, begins to recruit the aimless, the hopeless, those who have no meaning in their lives and are seeking purpose, into their cult. They promise that society will be rebuilt from the ashes of war, where food will be plenty, jobs will be everywhere, as well as ORDER and safety. The lawlessness will end! They promise that.

Then along comes a human figure that will come to be known as His Divine Shadow, the messiah figure that the clerics rally around and use as their selling point to the masses. The clerics know that they need someone charismatic or mysterious that will hypnotize their followers into blind loyalty. Perhaps in the beginning, the clerics even believe that this messiah will simply be their pawn, while they scurry behind the scenes to enact their agenda (kind of like how The Heritage Foundation sees Trump as theirs). But because His Divine Shadow can regularly transfer his "essence" out of his current human body into a new host body, their "pawn" outlives those clerics and becomes the true head of the cult over the next 1000 years.



At the start of their rule, I'm sure that the human followers who live in the League of 20,000 Planets would find a punishment like organ harvesting to be extremely abnormal and disturbing. So perhaps the Divine Order would instead start with a more palatable punishment e.g. you will lose your pinky finger or pinky toe, if you commit a moderate crime. 5 years later, when crime is still not resolved to the satisfaction of the clerics, they announce a revision upwards to that punishment: you will give up your hand if you are caught stealing, your tongue if you are caught lying to the clerics, your testicle if you cheat on your spouse... "Let the punishment now fit the crime!" is what they righteously declare.

Even within just one generation, the Divine Order could gradually ramp up the punishments to where they had always intended them to be without anyone now batting an eye, waiting at each stage for the population to normalize the new and crueler punishment. Moreover, they plan on growing their own massive battlefleet using the organic technology acquired from the Insect Civilization that was defeated and now they need to find enough food to feed these living ships like the LEXX... so they start to slowly make even the most modest crime more harshly punishable and make it easier for a citizen to accumulate demerits.

There WILL be those citizens among the League that notice this slow creep upwards, those are the vigilant ones. They may even try to bring attention to it among the rest of the population. The problem will be that not enough people will care because again, who cares how much harsher these punishments are? "if you're obeying the law and do as you're told, then you have nothing to fear."  Without the large numbers needed to openly resist these changes, eventually the movement dies out and is impotent and the clerics continue to just raise the punishments even higher, now confident that they can do so without much resistance.



Those who applaud the changes are happy to see the criminals get what they deserve, and assume that none of this will EVER affect them... until we get to episode 4...
 

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This brief interruption to our regularly scheduled programming is brought to you by Canadian Content...


 

RadioActive wrote:

Have you ever considered a Substack site? That may attract a lot more eyeballs to a subject you obviously feel passionate about. And you might even be able to monetize it. 

Oh no, I wouldn't want to go onto Substack. I personally think that's more for people that are already well-known and established from other media e.g. Wendy Mesley and Maureen Holloway are on substack, as are a few of well-known comic book writers.

Seriously I'm a nobody and hope to remain so. I haven't got any interest in becoming the Charlie Kirk of the left-wing, for any amount of money, since once you start advocating for things like socialism, compassion, empathy, etc. but you're generating an income from that talk, there's a real danger that it gradually turns into a business rather than just an authentic, impassioned plea.  The message is what matters, especially right now.

The books that I'm writing are about those same issues and from those I don't mind making millions and millions and trillions of dollars (ha!) and if that were to happen, my plans are to eventually put the money into a trust and have it donate a portion of the investment returns to Toronto's Covenant House every year, long after I'm dead. I have no kids (that I know of at least ) so I want any money to go to a cause that I strongly believe in.  While I think that eventually we will find cures for cancer, for heart disease, infertility, etc. I'm pessimistic about whether we will end human suffering and homelessness and drug addiction, hence why Covenant House sounds like something that will still be needed even 100 years from now.




 

What is even more alarming to me is the number of Canadians who still haven't clued in to where this is going.

Would they be alarmed if the recently-sold house, next to their own home, was suddenly occupied by drug-dealing pimps with a bevy of ladies of the evening? Cars, noise and 'clients', coming and going into the early hours of the morning. Drugs openly consumed on the front lawn. The police make almost daily visits, without calming the situation.

I guess the local homeowners could sell and move, but who's buying into that neighbourhood now?

And, how long before you awaken to find passed-out drug users or ladies of the evening doing their thing on your own lawn?

The more you complain to the police, the more irate the new 'neighbours' get at you, and now the threats to your sovereignty get vocal and violence is implied.

Now substitute the crackhouse that is Amerikkka for your new 'neighbours' and ask yourself how long until tRump's threats against Canada's sovereignty become more than verbal?

Perhaps we'll simply sleep-walk into servitude.

Our new Politburo.

We now return to our regularly scheduled programming:



Once we get to the fourth LEXX TV movie (episode 4 of season 1), "GigaShadow", we get what could've been the finale for the entire LEXX saga (if it hadn't been later given the go-ahead as an ongoing TV show). This one wraps up the conflict between our heroes and the Divine Order (actually there was no real conflict - our heroes made a run for it at the end of the first TV movie and got as far away from the evil religious dictatorship as they could... which is what any sane person would actually do as opposed to sticking around and trying to fight a clearly superior enemy with just one warship, albeit a powerful one).

After a series of adventures together onboard their ship, the LEXX, Kai begins to show signs of deterioration. After he was originally killed by His Divine Shadow in episode 1, Kai had been brought back to (simulated) life by something called proto-blood. After 2000 years though, that proto-blood is finally losing its efficacy and it means Kai has little time left before he reverts back to being dead once more. This forces the trio to make a return trip to the very planet they escaped from in episode 1, The Cluster, capital homeworld of the Divine Order and the League of 20,000 planets.



Stanley is strongly opposed to the idea, because he knows that even with the LEXX on their side, returning to the Cluster is suicide: they are outnumbered and outgunned but he eventually relents because of pressure from Zev.

What they don't know is that the odds are not as bad as they might think. Back on the Cluster home planet, the Divine Order has reached a pivotal moment in the cult's existence: a massive organic lifeform that the clerics have been slowly growing under the planet's crust for thousands of years, known as the GigaShadow is almost completely grown and ready to emerge.  This means that the long-awaited "Divine Rebirth" is upon them, marking the culmination of everything that their religious order has been working towards since the beginning AND kept secret from the billions of humans under their rule within the League of 20,000 Planets.

And there's a good reason why the clerics haven't told the population of The Cluster about their secret project... the final stage before the rebirth is called "The Cleansing" and it involves rounding up EVERY single human living on the planet, whether they are an adult, a senior, or a baby, and forcing every one of them into the Correction Centres to have their skin, muscles, organs, etc. cut off from their bones and sent into the Protein Bank!





It no longer matters if you are a criminal or a law-abiding citizen, if you have 900 demerits or 0 demerits, the Divine Order's robots hunt down every single last human no matter where they might be hiding, stun them, and strap them to the metal table where moving saws cut away flesh and then toss out the skeletal remnants. Millions upon millions of people are turned into gruel for the GigaShadow, even the clerics themselves are not safe either, they also suffer the same grisly fate.




By the time the planet-wide massacre is complete, there are only 8 senior clerics left and His Divine Shadow (in brain form only). As their final duty to the cult, these clerics are to position the brain within the GigaShadow (at which point, the essence of His Divine Shadow will transfer out of the brain and into the enormous brain of the GigaShadow, possessing it for his new body). The clerics are then to commit suicide... which would finish the cleansing of the planet, leaving no humans alive.



The dialogue in this scene from the senior cleric makes it very clear that even he doesn't really understand why all of this has happened or was necessary. He tells his fellow clerics, "Ours is not to question... ours is not to understand... ours is to feed Order. We worship his Divine Shadow."



But among the 8 surviving clerics, there's some sanity: after witnessing the slaughter of the entire planet, half of the clerics are finally realizing that maybe they should've used some critical thinking skills before this madness all happened and asked just why they have been told to do this, blindly. They turn against the other four loyalists and a very bloody and violent fight ensues, leading to all of their deaths and stalling the Rebirth from happening.



If you want to watch the grisly Cleansing and the subsequent cleric mutiny, the entire TV movie is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFOrcQohX9Q

When I watched the Cleansing as a teenager, I knew it was going to be something I would never forget. Not because it was so violent (for a TV-movie) and disturbing to see the weak and elderly being hunted down and turned into a meaty goo dispensed out of a nozzle, but it was a paradigm shift in how I thought about government and society.



It's easy to forget now that we're adults, that back when we were young we were still trying to understand the norms and the rules of the society that we lived in. We're told that if you obey the law, obey the rules, and do what you're told, everything will be fine. Punishment is only for the rule-breakers and the disobedient.

But in this fourth episode, I just saw hundreds of millions of citizens, all of whom were law-abiding and doing their jobs as expected, and yet they were still rounded up like cattle and brought to slaughter by the very government that they allowed to rule over them!  All along, it was never a question of IF they might be taken to a correction centre to be harvested, but simply WHEN they were going to be taken. They were always going to die horribly at some point (except those who of course died naturally of old age or illness before the Cleansing happened). Prior to this, the only other wholesale genocide I'd seen onscreen was the Death Star blowing up Alderaan and killing off its entire population, but that genocide was fast, you never saw the people screaming or suffering, and very sanitized.



Now even as a teen, this didn't mean I suddenly was worried that me and my parents were going to be dog chow someday, but it did create the realization that the TYPE of government that WE the people, choose to live under, matters greatly to our happiness and even our survival.

In my previous LEXX post, I speculated that the citizens that inhabited the League of 20,000 Planets chose to elect the Divine Order to govern them, because after a long devastating war with the insects and a return to lawlessness and humans-vs-humans again, the people wanted ORDER not chaos.
 They were fine with the slow creep of harsher and harsher punishments for minor crimes committed until finally it evolved into organ harvesting as a normalized and acceptable punishment.


Divine Order: WE are the party of law and order! Anyone violating the law shall lose their eyeballs!
Voters:  Great! We'll take it!

The majority of the people assumed that they would never face any repercussions from selecting a government that was cruel and unjust. Again, this is the "if you're obeying the law and do as you're told, then you have nothing to fear." attitude that they THOUGHT was going to keep them safe (just like those Arkansas farmers that voted for Trump, thinking that somehow being MAGA would protect them from the effects of Trump's tariffs.)



The other half of this is that this story makes it clear that the senior cleric, despite knowing that the instructions that he was given to carry out by His Divine Shadow, meant every single human including himself, would ultimately die horribly... just went ahead and did it anyway. Not once does he QUESTION how the genocide of his entire race (well, at least those on the Cluster) was somehow supposed to bring the promised "order" (just like the Arkansas farmers really didn't think too hard about WHO was going to be paying the tariffs, they took it on faith that Trump's promise that the other countries would pay, was true. What is it that Karoline Leavitt is always saying?  "Trust in TRUMP!" a very catchy slogan. Right-wingers love slogans.).

So the two things that I learned:
1) CHOOSE your government wisely; if you choose a government that believes in cruelty and harsh punishment for others, don't be surprised when it also comes your way too.

2) CRITICAL THINKING is a vital part of making that choice. Don't let someone else i.e. the politican who wants your vote or a newspaper editorial, do your thinking for you. Ask OTHER people what they think of that politician, ask experts, ask your work colleagues. Ask someone you consider to be WISE, with a lot of lived experience. Be wary of cyncism though.

You may argue "Come on buddy, this was a work of fiction and was clearly taken to the extremes for satirical reasons... this isn't an example of real life."  

Sure... it would never happen in real life...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields

You might then say, "Come on dude, that happened in the 1970s, we've gotten a lot more civilized since then, that could never happen today!"

You sure about that?  Next time: chatting about LEXX continues and then we talk a bit about Russia and how the invasion of Ukraine connects to this particular "GigaShadow" story.
 

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Sadly, I believe that the great experiment, launched by the American Revolution, is over. It didn't quite make it to 250 years. It was sooooo close.

The Electoral College, gerrymandering, red-state backwards education, the 'South-will-rise-again' refusal to mature and evolve, the American Exceptionalism mantra; it all contributed to the dumbing down of a once-great nation and resulted in the election of a truly despicable conman. Now, America and the World pays the price.

Remember how most of us felt, watching and waiting for so long, to see this speech on the late evening of November 4, 2008? America had finally thrown off the shackles of its difficult history. The future looked bright. But, the right-wing refused to join in the evolution. Compare how you felt on that evening with how you probably feel now. Listen to where America was almost 17 years ago. Think about where it is now...



 

RadioActive wrote:

Not sure why, but your images did not come out. Try this site if that one continues to be an issue:

https://postimages.org/

 

That's strange, it worked initially, I'll re-up.

EDIT: fixed. I think the other image host may have detected some of the disturbing imagery in the uploads and blocked the entire gallery.  I'll check back in a few hours to see if postimages does the same.

 

Last edited by TomTV (September 19, 2025 7:59 pm)

Dale Patterson wrote:

Normally I'd expect SNL to have a field day with this, but now I wonder.

 
I was wondering about this as well what a crappy state of affairs, I can hardly believe that this is happening in my lifetime, Big Brother wasn’t fictional it turns out.

Back in March of this year, the news reported that the Trump administration was ordering the removal of anything that was connected to DEI. It meant literally tens of thousands of historical images would be removed from every government agency website and physical display:

https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074

The database, which was confirmed by U.S. officials and published by AP, includes more than 26,000 images that have been flagged for removal across every military branch. But the eventual total could be much higher.

One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details that have not been made public, said the purge could delete as many as 100,000 images or posts in total, when considering social media pages and other websites that are also being culled for DEI content. The official said it’s not clear if the database has been finalized.

[...]

The vast majority of the Pentagon purge targets women and minorities, including notable milestones made in the military. And it also removes a large number of posts that mention various commemorative months — such as those for Black and Hispanic people and women.

Now when you remove the HISTORICAL accomplishments of non-white people and women in the US military or government, that to me has nothing to do with being anti-DEI. These people made their contributions a very long time ago before the DEI movement began, and they were not some kind of "DEI hire" as the Republicans like to label everything good that wasn't done by a white person. As an example of what has now been hidden away or even thrown out:


















Let's go back to my last post about the Dept of Education being dismantled, which coincidentally also began in March too:





One reason why they'd want each state to do their own thing is because the Republicans like their voters dumb, poorly educated, and lacking in critical thinking skills, as George Carlin pointed out:



It sure makes it easier to manipulate your voters to re-elect you again, sure, but then if you combine this with the DEI removal order, AND the fact that Trump has been using ICE to deport only non-white people out of the US.... and this tidbit from July 4th:




It makes sense that if the long-term goal is to "remigrate" all non-white people out of the USA, leaving only pure white folks (and ideally Christians only but Stephen Miller is Jewish... maybe he plans on converting?), if every brown person and probably the asians right after that, will be shipped away on a boat somewhere else then who needs DEI or any historical acknowledgement of their contributions?  Why would the Republicans want future generations of American children to learn about non-whites who no longer matter?  

Even this past week, Trump has made it far more expensive to bring in foreigners to do any vital work for American companies, by changing the rules about  the H-1B sponsorships.







Needless to say, Elon Musk isn't happy since it's well known that his two companies rely on cheap but intelligent foreign labor e.g. computer programmers, engineers, technicians, etc.  to keep his costs down. This may be why Elon was seen cozying up with Donald at the Charlie Kirk memorial today, shaking hands and smiling with the same guy he outed as being a pedophile. Elon knows the Trump admin can make an exception to any rule it sets up, Trump now has Elon on his knees begging for one of those exceptions.

But let's return again to the future of the US education system:
- a USA with no colored people at all

- all US institutions, including schools, no longer showing any non-white people making contributions to America's legacy, no longer being victimized by things like slavery or racism

It fits in with their desire to brainwash every upcoming generation of children into being far-right Christian nationalists. You want a generation of kids who do not have empathy for anyone other than white people. As Stephen Miller said, these kids will be taught to love America, so even foreigners (like Canadians) who are white won't be considered immune from what comes next (more on that in a sec). As these white kids grow up without interacting with any kids who are black, latino, asian, whatever, etc. there's nothing to counter any white supremacist propaganda taught to them in schools. They could deny slavery ever happened and no black person will be around to say "Hey waitaminute..."  

Because Trump's tariffs and whatever asset bubbles his government creates, will crash the US economy, there won't be many jobs around, at least not well-paying jobs like ICE:



That $50,000US signing bonus, no education required, and the chance to walk around armed and wearing cool sunglasses, would be enticing to young men who only have one other option to them: back-breaking farm work in the hot sun at minimum wage, because now that all the immigrants are gone, someone's got to do it. It can't be just the kids, after all:



Or they can go right into the US military, probably into a special new branch created by Trump and Stephen Miller for the most "loyal" of America's new generation of youth, who have no ties to non-white people, raised on fake Christian values, and white supremacist propaganda. Trump could never invade Canada with the military force that he has TODAY: too many of the soldiers either have been to Canada, have friends or family in Canada, or at least remember Canada as an ally and best friend to the US. If you want to take all of that rare earth mineral, or seize the Great Lakes for the water, or just add the entire territory to your empire as a 51st state, then you need soldiers who have no positive associations to the neighbour up north, and who have never met a Canadian either (it's convenient that Trump alienated Canada so much that we stopped going there to see the sights and be friendly with Americans). These soldiers aren't going to care if they have to shoot a few Canucks in the head if it means more real estate for the president to develop into golf courses or resorts.

Oh, here's Stephen Miller at today's Charlie Kirk memorial, talking like Hitler:



 

Trump promised he would take revenge on those who tried to prosecute him:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-department-charges-james-comey-lying-congress-rcna233581

Former FBI Director James Comey indicted following pressure from Trump

The president recently suggested the attorney general should prosecute Comey and other prominent critics. Comey was charged with making a false statement and obstruction.

Trump celebrated the indictment.“JUSTICE IN AMERICA! One of the worst human beings this Country has ever been exposed to is James Comey,” Trump said in a social Truth Social post Thursday night.

Comey denied the charges against him in a video posted on Instagram.

"My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn't either," Comey said.

"My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system. I'm innocent, so let's have a trial and keep the faith," he added.

His arraignment is set for Oct. 9 before U.S. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff, an appointee of former President Joe Biden.Trump has reversed reforms enacted after the Watergate scandal to prevent presidents from ordering the Justice Department to prosecute their political rivals.

For the last 50 years, Republican and Democratic presidents have allowed Justice Department officials to decide whether a prosecution is merited.Since starting his second term, Trump has appointed lawyers who served as his personal defense attorneys to top DOJ positions, pardoned over 1,000 people charged in the Jan. 6 attack and publicly pressuredAttorney General Pam Bondi to investigate his foes.

Last edited by TomTV (September 25, 2025 9:30 pm)