Another Bear said:
concordtom said:
Another Bear said:
concordtom said:
Another Bear said:
sycasey said:
IMO, Trump would LIKE to be an authoritarian ruler like Mussolini. He has those leanings. He's just bad at it.
Frankly this country lucked the fcck out that Trump is an incompetent boob. Otherwise we'd be headed to WWIII and him in a bunker at the end.
Don't hold your breath. Polling for 2020 has not begun. Do not doubt what lengths trump would go to in order to save his own skin.
Ever hear the one about how fdr knew the japs were coming and so moved his aircraft carriers out of Pearl Harbor?
Ever hear the one about how 9/11 was an inside job?
I imagine trump and Putin could put together something pretty special, the likes the world has not yet seen. It'll be the best, most fabulous, most unbelievable.
No need to use Japs.
It was the vernacular of the day, so I used it to capture the thought of the time.
As I wrote it, I stopped and wondered if that would get shot down for being politically incorrect.
The stars have spoken. So retracted. Thank you.
Fair enough. I use "Russkie" and I had to look that up. I always figured it was like Pinko. More of a communist baiting thing but I could be wrong.
Thank you.
Hey, what do you know?! Someone on BI gave someone else a pass!
For the record, best guy I ever worked with/for... his great grandfather moved from Japan to be a farmer in Montana in the 1880s. The family eventually moved to LA where my guy grew up. When WW2 broke out, my guy's dad was about 18, with 2 brothers. The family was suddenly told to report for removal to Manzanara, which they did patriotically. Once they got there, conditions were shtt, and they realized the racists BS going on. As time went on, feelings worsened. The boys were asked to answer 2 questions:
Would you renounce your Japanese ancestry?
Would you fight against Japan?
Resenting the situation, the boys answered No and No, thus becoming part of the larger group of No No boys, feared by the US Govt as potential inside agents against the US.
Following the war, his dad gave up on the US and moved to Japan. He met and married there and my buddy was born there. But then when my buddy was about 3, they moved back to LA.
I didn't know all this WW2 history, and Larry told it to me over many drives across the bay bridge.
Larry said his dad got 10 or 20k by Reagan as reparations. Can you imagine?? When the family got back to LA,, another white family was living there. Can you imagine?
Shame!