Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Kid Berwyn

Kid Berwyn's Journal
Kid Berwyn's Journal
June 18, 2020

Hey, America! Why is a traitor still pResident?

Do you know what he’s doing to us?



Bolton: Trump asked Xi for China’s “help” in 2020 reelection.

He also has asked for Russia’s help, along with extorted Ukraine’s help and probably a whole lot more help.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53086042

June 18, 2020

They want us to die.

Eerily similar? Examining fates of the rich and poor during COVID-19 and 14th century Black Death pandemics

Kathryn McKinley | June 18, 2020

The coronavirus can infect anyone, but recent reporting has shown your socioeconomic status can play a big role, with a combination of job security, access to health care and mobility widening the gap in infection and mortality rates between rich and poor.

The wealthy work remotely and flee to resorts or pastoral second homes, while the urban poor are packed into small apartments and compelled to keep showing up to work.

As a medievalist, I’ve seen a version of this story before.

Following the 1348 Black Death in Italy, the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio wrote a collection of 100 novellas titled, “The Decameron.” These stories, though fictional, give us a window into medieval life during the Black Death – and how some of the same fissures opened up between the rich and the poor. Cultural historians today see “The Decameron” as an invaluable source of information on everyday life in 14th-century Italy.

Continues...

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/06/18/eerily-similar-examining-fates-of-the-rich-and-poor-during-covid-19-and-14th-century-black-death-pandemics/
June 17, 2020

Detroiters salute Boaters for Dotard

A flotilla of the have-mores motored down the Detroit River to send happy turdday to Demented Donnie.



From the banks, a city expressed their very best wishes...



One sign summed up the day’s sentiments...



Another shared a pet name for The Donald...



More at Metro Times: https://photos.metrotimes.com/beautfulboaters/?slide=7&102964090_249377723024004_6024898058174046379_n

June 15, 2020

Bill Barr: "Racist. Bully. Fascist."

From someone who’s known the AG since high school...



Victim of Bill Barr’s bullying slams ‘sociopathic’ attorney general as ‘lifelong racist and fascist’

by Brad Reed
Raw Story, June 15, 2020

Excerpt...

After Barr was nominated by George H.W. Bush to be attorney general in 1991, Lohman said he felt a jolt of post-traumatic stress.

“Could it be,” he wondered, “that the sociopath from my childhood is really about to become the highest legal official in the land?”

Lohman compiled his evidence of Barr’s violent harassment, which he said escalated at Columbia, for a column published for the tiny Florida Flambeau — and that decades-old piece goes viral periodically whenever he flashes “fascist” tendencies as President Donald Trump’s attorney general.

“The amazing thing about the 1991 column – and the reason it has garnered so much attention and interest – is that long before Barr’s current era of dastardliness,” Lohman wrote, “I totally nailed him for what he is today, although he’s taken it to extremes far beyond my wildest imagination: a racist, a bully, and a fascist.”

Snip...

“Barr has emerged as one of the truly evil figures of our day,” Lohman wrote. “I have hesitated even to air my childhood grievances with him because they are so trivial and petty compared to the destruction he has wreaked on the vital institutions that sustain our democratic way of life. It started Day One on the job when he squelched the evidence that would bring down a criminal and lawless president. And it peaked last week when he saw fit to sic the might of the American military on a peaceful citizenry whose only offense was to demand an end to racism.”

Continues...

https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/victim-of-bill-barrs-bullying-slams-sociopathic-attorney-general-as-lifelong-racist-and-fascist/



Gee, maybe Jeff Epstein could have answered how two people with educations turn out so differently?
June 7, 2020

Please go there.



Rupert Murdoch, who has a long history of paying $millions to cover-up the sexual abuse and harassment of women at Fox News, is pictured with Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell below which points to them possibly being friends. But what is more interesting is that Jeffrey Epstein had Rupert Murdoch’s private contact details in his black book which was revealed in 2015 court proceedings.

https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2019/08/13/was-rupert-murdoch-involved-in-the-jeffrey-epstein-paedophile-scandal-given-his-details-were-in-epsteins-black-book/
June 7, 2020

Make D-Day June 6 World Anti-Fascist Day

Keeps History Fresh for Everyone, Forever.



And I do mean for ever.

“The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”

~quoted in the New York Times, April 9, 1944
― Henry A. Wallace

And I do mean for everyone.

June 6, 2020

Arsonist of Democracy

AKA Heinous Anus.

June 4, 2020

AG William Barr's dad hired Epstein the dropout to teach high school.

It’s a small world...

The ‘Epstein-Barr’ Problem of New York City’s Dalton School

JERRY LAMBE
July 13th, 2019, 10:50 am

Excerpt...

Epstein, who was charged last week by federal authorities in the Southern District of New York with sex trafficking with sex-trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex-trafficking, was a 20 year old college drop-out when he was hired to teach at Dalton by the school’s headmaster Donald Barr in the mid 1970’s. Donald Barr was the father of current United States Attorney General William Barr, who is currently overseeing Epstein’s prosecution.

According to at least one former student, Dalton alums have long joked about Barr’s hiring of Epstein..

“The joke has been [that] this is the Epstein-Barr problem at Dalton, said Harry Segal, a 1974 graduate who is now a senior lecturer at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College, in an interview with the Huffington Post. Epstein-Barr is a type of herpes virus best known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis.

Scott Spizer, who graduated in 1976, said that Epstein was most remembered for his “persistent attention” on teenage girls in the hallways, recalled a night when the young educator showed up at a party where Dalton students were drinking.

“I can remember thinking at the time, ‘This is wrong,’” Spizer said in an interview with the New York Times.

Continues...

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-epstein-barr-problem-of-new-york-citys-dalton-school/



Profile Information

Member since: Mon May 6, 2019, 08:01 PM
Number of posts: 14,904

About Kid Berwyn

I am the DUer who once posted as Octafish. Ask me about the BFEE.
Latest Discussions»Kid Berwyn's Journal