8/19/2020

the liar

 this:

Jill Biden’s ex-husband has accused the potential first lady of having an affair with Joe Biden and says they lied about how they met in the 1970s, according to a bombshell new report.

Bill Stevenson on Monday accused the presumptive Democratic nominee of being a home-wrecker and says the feel-good story of how Joe and Jill met on a blind date is completely made up, the Daily Mail reported.

“I don’t want to hurt anyone,” said Stevenson, now 72, who is working on a book that includes the lurid claim. “But facts are facts and what happened, happened.”

everything about joe is a lie.  


let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'


 Tuesday, August 18, 2020.  Fake Ass Michelle Obama presided over the fakery sold as a convention.


The job shouldn't have been that hard.  Air a boring convention that reassured those who were starting to weaken on Joe.  No fancy guest stars, no innovative camera work.  Just bore America into believing that Joe could be trusted.  

But they failed.  Epic failure, in fact.

Before we go further, can anyone explain why Michelle Obama was speaking -- in prime time, no less.  What elected office did she hold?  That's right, none.  What other former First Lady gets to speak?  In 2004, it was a fight to get Hillary Clinton on in prime time.  And she was a sitting US senator.  The DNC had a real woman problem but because of the pushback and because Hillary was a senator and was a fundraising star, the Democratic National Committee finally caved.  Michelle's husband isn't running so why is she speaking at all?

Not only did she speak, she spoke for 18  minutes and forty seconds.


18 minutes.

Someone running for office could have used that time -- as was the case in 2004 when her husband was the keynote speaker and was running to become a US senator.  

He gave the keynote speech which, by the way, Michelle did last night.  Last night?  We'll come back to that.  But grasp that a spot that's always used to promote someone running for office was given to someone who held no elected office.  And who had nothing to say.  

She had nothing to say.  

She had nothing to say yet she spoke longer than her husband did in 2004 -- and he had to take periodic breaks for applause and cheers.


Michelle had no audience to cheer her on -- just whores who were paid off.  Stephen Colbert -- looking more like a child molester than ever now that he and others go without make up -- was happy to show what a whore he was:


Stephen Colbert on Michelle Obama's DNC speech: “I’ll be honest with you. My job is to have a joke for every time somebody says anything in public. After watching Michelle Obama’s speech, I have never been more happy to fail at my job.”




Where the wealth's displayed 

Thieves and sycophants parade 

And where it's made, 

The slaves will be taken 

Some are treated well 

In these games of buy and sell 

And some like poor beast 

Are burdened down to breaking

-- "Dog Eat Dog," written by Joni Mitchell, first appears on her album DOG EAT DOG.

Sycophant -- that's Colbert.


No jokes?


How about . . .

Was it past her bedtime?

Were they afraid she'd show up at the podium in granny panties, the way she did in 2008?


There was a lot to mock.  Some wrongly think a cat fight is brewing between Michelle and Senator Kamala Harris.  Why do they think that?  Because Michelle spoke -- and spoke and spoke and spoke and spoke still more -- for nearly 20 minutes and she never once mentioned Kamala.


It's not a cat fight, it's not jealousy.


It's that Kamala was announced as Joe's running mate after -- after -- Michelle recorded the speech that aired last night.  No, she wasn't live.  What's worse?  Her keynote speech -- one of the most important speeches of the convention, of any convention -- was canned.  It was filmed ahead of time.  And not, grasp this, earlier that day.  

Seven days ago, August 11th, Joe announced his pick.  

Michelle's speech was filmed before that.  AP:

In keeping with the virtual nature of the convention because of the coronavirus, Mrs. Obama’s remarks were recorded before Biden’s announcement last Tuesday that he had chosen California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate. 


This isn't a convention, it's an infomercial and it's a really bad one.  But sycophants will tell you differently. 

The garbage and hate Michelle served up included, "Right now, kids in this country are seeing what happens when we stop requiring empathy of one another.  They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages [. . .]"  As Micheala Watkins character used to say on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, "Bitch, please."

POLITIFACT, September 2019:

But Biden mentioned "cages," specifically, and reporting from the time he was vice president described an enclosure for migrant children with that word.

Controversial use of ‘cages’ description

The term "cages" has continuously been used by Democrats in attacks against Trump and the detention of immigrants arriving at the border. The Trump administration says that the facilities it uses are not cages.

The description has been used to refer to chain-link enclosures holding immigrants at border processing facilities during both the Obama and Trump administrations. 

Notably, critics of Trump’s "zero-tolerance" policy that resulted in family separations circulated a photo that purportedly showed children face down on the floor behind a chain-link enclosure during Trump’s tenure. However, the photo was from 2014 when Obama was president.

Our fact-check showed the Associated Press photo was taken in 2014 at a Customs and Border Protection facility in Nogales, Ariz. The photo was used in an Arizona Republic article centered on an influx of children arriving at the border unaccompanied by a parent or guardian.

The Arizona Republic article, in part, said: 

"They are undocumented. They entered the country illegally. And when they were apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, they were shipped to Nogales from overwhelmed processing facilities in Texas.

"But they are still children in cages, not gangsters, not delinquents. Just children, 900 of them, in a makeshift border-town processing center that is larger than a football field."

The article adds that the children are "housed behind 18-foot-high chain-link fences topped with razor wire." 


Jane C. Timm (NBC NEWS), "The Obama administration did detain people in cage-like structures, earning criticism from activists. Last year, Democratic activists circulated photos of children inside chain link fenced spaces in an attack on President Donald Trump, only for onlookers to later realize the photos were from 2014."

With her blow out and extremely false eye lashes, you had to wonder if she recorded early so she could work a hotel lobby?

You're a real whore when you get on national television to repeat a lie that's already been endlessly fact checked and determined to be a lie.

And you're a bigger whore for acting outraged about cages while staying silent while your husband put people into them.  Michelle had nothing to say of value because she's just a liar.  That's all she's ever been and that's all she ever will be.  In 2008, the times were still incredibly sexist and she benefited from that.  She gave a disgusting and anti-woman speech and the press lapped it up (we called it out in this community).  Now it's the #MeToo era and she wants to style herself as a feminist -- forget that she and Barack asked Harvey Weinstein to create an internship for their daughter -- so we're all supposed to pretend that she's some sort of feminist.  She's nothing.  She had a lifetime to make some accomplishments.  She did nothing.  

And last night, she spewed lies and preached hate.  

What an accomplishment.

The most amazing thing about 2016 was how hard the Democrats had to work to almost beat Donald Trump in the election.  It's a sign of how pathetic and corrupt they were that they had to work so hard.  They're even more pathetic and corrupt today.

They've got nothing to help the American people -- in the midst of a pandemic, no less -- so they offer attacks on Donald Trump's character.  That didn't work in 2016 so this time around they're going to just lie.

Donald Trump, grasp this, is not disgusting or offensive enough to the Democratic officials, they have to lie to make him worse.

That's because the Democrats in office agree with the Republicans.  That's why we never end wars anymore.  It's why the American people are suffering.  

And Michelle thought she could lie her way through a key note speech?  Shame on her. 


And shame on the DNC for putting Kristin Urquiza on stage.  She lost her father to the coronavirus.  And she was on stage to rip Donald Trump apart for it.

Really?

Because they also featured, among other, Andrew Cuomo.  I love Andrew.  I thought he showed leadership when none was being offered -- national leadership.  RISING has repeatedly noted the problems behind his speeches and how his actions impacted, deaths he's responsible for.  I love Andrew, but we've reposted that coverage here.

When you use someone to attack Donald Trump over coronavirus, you don't then put Andrew on stage.  

When you do that, it makes it clear that it's not about the coronvirus, it's about destroy and trash Trump.  You've taken a national tragedy and you've turned it into a partisan issue.  It's ugly and it's not helpful.

Jamil Smith Tweeted:

The

@DNC

keeps trying to be down with plutocracy rather than turning out its base. Bloomberg, Kasich, and Whitman are speaking at the convention this week. But not Latino Democrats like

@JulianCastro

, whom I spoke with about his party’s issues last year.


Julio Ricardo Varela Tweeted:


 Am still taken aback at how the only Latino presidential candidate in 2020,

@JulianCastro
, is not speaking during any prime time slot at
@DNC
convention this week. It's not like he was a keynote speaker in 2012. Dems are sending a really bad message here. Do they want to win?


No time for Julian, no time for Muslims or Latinos.  The big-tent they're proposing is really just letting some really disgusting Republicans take the stage.


Wally Wests Tweeted:

ohio voters @ the dnc Am I A Joke To You?



What's he talking about?  This DNC Tweet:


FACT: As governor, John Kasich cut $1.8 billion from Ohio public schools' funding.
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10:51 AM · Jul 21, 2015


Republican John Kasich was put on stage.  To speak at length.  AOC will only get sixty seconds.  She's a Democrat.  She's a Latina.  But Republican Kasich, whom the DNC warned about many times, was given the mike and treated like a hero.


That's whoring.  There's no other word for it.  You embrace someone as disgusting as John because you both don't like Donald Trump -- excuse me, because you both hate Trump.  You're ruled by hate and it's why you look so desperate and pathetic.  

And yet, as soon as he's out of office, Michelle will be sharing candy with him and hugging him.  Just like she did with Bully Boy Bush because whores get paid off.  And she certainly did.  A really bad book that went through multiple ghost-writers.  Podcasts no one wants to listen to and NETFLIX 'programming' that's a joke.  She got paid off big time.  


That the DNC has produced garbage TV is no real surprise.  They're a party at war with their base.  They're unable to make even the mildest of concessions.  They want your vote, they just don't want to earn your vote.  So they're going to tell you Donald Trump is worse than they are -- and, to really convince you, they will lie about him like Michelle did.  How corrupt do you have to be to invent lies to make Donald look worse than he already is?  

They have no Muslims this year.  In 2016, they used a family to make Donald look bad.  As though they hadn't been engaged in the witch hunts against Muslims, as though Barack's Drone War hadn't terrorized Muslims.  But they don't really care about Muslims so they ditch them this year.  They use everyone they can.  They'll use anyone, tell any lie.  What they won't do is come up with actual programs and plans that would help the American people.

While you're pretending Joe Biden didn't assault Tara Reade, you can also pretend that the party's working overtime to help the American people.

In 2008, Barack went around the country promising to end the Iraq War with shouts like, "We want to end the war and we want to end it now!"  He had eight years in office and US troops are still in Iraq.  He's a liar and his wife's a liar.  But Colbert found nothing 'funny' about a ridiculous woman wearing cow-eye lashes and a fake weave on national TV in that ugly  dress as she spouted lie after lie and appealed to you not to remember the promises made before -- promises never kept.

The Iraq War continues.  That alone should silence Michelle Obama.  That alone should shame her into silence.  Instead, she shows up with a round of new lies.

The biggest lie -- that a pre-recorded informercial is a live convention.


I forgot to include this yesterday, Kat's "Kat's Korner: Haim and how it took a lifetime to get here" went up Sunday night.  


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8/18/2020

marilyn monroe

as marcia noted in 'Not impressed with Kamala,' she and  i are going to be reviewing a book on marilyn monroe at the end of the week to do our joint-review.

we do 1 every summer.  

why the foot dragging this summer?

what do you mean this summer?

our problem is never finding a book.  our problem is always the 'ugh, we're going to have to note our previous reviews.'  we may or may not.  we hate searching the archives for those.

marilyn monroe is some 1 who was just talented and fascinating so we're both eager to get started on the book.

what's your favorite marilyn monroe film?

for me, it always has to be 'some like it hot.'  that is 1 of the greatest movies of all time, in my opinion.  and marilyn is amazing in it.  it won 3 golden globs - best film in the musical or comedy genre, best actress for marilyn and best actor for jack lemmon.

after that?

i love 'gentlemen prefer blondes.' she and jane russell are a great team.  then probably 'clash by night.'  she's more of a supporting character in it but she and barbra stanwyck play off each other really well.  then 'how to marry a millionaire' which is just laugh-out-loud funny.  

'the prince and the showgirl' and 'bus stop' would be tied for next place.  marilyn's amazing in both - and steals the 1st film from laurence olivier.  'bus stop' is a film i liked more and more over the years.

i also love 'all about eve' and 'love happy' but she's less than a supporting character in both of those. 



let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'


 Monday, August 17, 2020.  Does Iraq matter in the US, does a virtual political convention matter, an activist is assassinated in Iraq, and much more.


Is Tony Blair a War Criminal?  PARLA poses the question as the Democratic War Party kicks off their convention online and as the US press tries to play what's-Iraq-never-heard-of-it?

The war continues, no matter how hard US outlets try to ignore it.  What will they do August 20th?  That's when Iraq's prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi is due to visit the White House.

In anticipation of that visit, or perhaps to get a few laughs or just to flaunt their stupidity, Aykan Erdemir and Philip Kowalski (NATIONAL INTEREST) offer "Joe Biden Will Be America's Most Pro-Kuridsh President."


First, "Would Be" is the wording they're looking for unless THE NATIONAL INTEREST no longer wants to be seen as objective journalism and instead wants to model themselves after Sibyl The Soothsayer in the film NETWORK.  The election will take place in November.  

The laughs never end, though.  Joe Biden the most pro-Kurdish?

Joe Biden gave lip service to the Kurds as a US senator.  As vice-president, when he was tasked with Iraq by Barack, he did nothing to assist the Kurds.  He repeatedly ignored their interests and their concerns.  

B-b-b-but he had to do what Barack told him!!!!!  

Did he?  Even after he was no longer vice president?  From the September 26, 2017 snapshot:

Yesterday, a historic referendum was held in northern Iraq.  Results above from RUDAW, the official results will be released later-- some day two to three days but Susannah George (AP) reports the results are expected this evening.  .


RUDAW explained the referendum as follows:
More than five million people are eligible to vote when the people of Kurdistan head to the polls on Monday, September 25, to decide whether they want to leave or stay with Iraq.

With an estimated global population of between 30 and 40 million, the Kurds are one of the largest ethnic groups without a state. Under the post-WWI Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, Kurdish lands were divided between Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria.

Kurds in all four parts of what is known as Greater Kurdistan have faced persecution, discrimination, and genocide, and have fought at times for greater rights, autonomy, and independence.

In Iraq, Kurds make up 17 to 20 percent of the total population. In the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, Kurds have had a semi-autonomous government since a no-fly zone was established over their lands in 1991 after the first Gulf War.

The new Iraqi constitution that came into effect in 2005, after the US-led invasion of 2003, recognized the Kurdistan Region as a federal region with its own legislature and armed forces, the Peshmerga. Both Erbil and Baghdad have accused the other of violating the constitution.

The September 25 referendum will take place in Kurdistan of Iraq only, not neighbouring countries.


It's worth noting that this vote was put together in about three months.  It's also worth noting that provincial elections were supposed to have taken place throughout Iraq earlier this year, then pushed back to September, then pushed back to next year.

Read the snapshot.  Two members of the US Congress bucked the Trump White House and issued statements supporting the Kurds.  Where was Joe Biden?


And isn't that kind of the cry throughout his long, long public servant career: Where was Joe Biden?


For those who've forgotten the entire US national security establishment trashed and shamed the Kurds -- that's the US State Dept, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORK TIMES, all the official and unofficial elements.  

And for what?

A long, overdue non-binding referendum on Kurdish independence.

They rushed to trash the Kurds.  They rushed to shame the Kurds.  They rushed to hector the Kurds.  Where was 'friend' Joe Biden?

The Kurds knew Joe checked out long ago.  He lied to them repeatedly.  Jalal Talabani looked like the biggest idiot in the world as he held on to the belief that Joe was going to come through on one of his promises -- at least one.  He never did. 

The Kurds have been betrayed repeatedly by the White House going back to the days of Richard Nixon -- as The Pike Report revealed.  This was not by accident, this was by design.   For those late to the party, February 16, 1976, The Village Voice published Aaron Latham's "Introduction to the Pike Papers."  Latham explained:



In 1972, Dr. Henry Kissinger met with the Shah of Iran, who asked the U.S. to aid the Kurds in their rebellion against Iraq, an enemy of the Shah.  Kissinger later presented the proposal to President Nixon who approved what would become a $16 million program.  Then John B. Connally, the former Nixon Treasury Secretary, was dispatched to Iran to inform the Shah, one oil man to another.
The committee report charges that: "The President, Dr. Kissinger and the foreign head of state [the Shah] hoped our clients would not prevail.  They preferred instead that the insurgents simply continue a level of hostilities sufficient to sap the resources of our ally's neighboring country [Iraq].  The policy was not imparted to our clients, who were encouraged to continue fighting.  Even in the context of covert action, ours was a cynical enterprise."
During the Arab-Israeli war, when the Kurds might have been able to strike at a distracted Iraqi government, Kissinger, according to the report, "personally restrained the insurgents from an all-out offensive on the one occasion when such an attack might have been successful."
Then, when Iran resolved its border dispute with Iraq, the U.S. summarily dropped the Kurds.  And Iraq, knowing aid would be cut off, launched a search-and-destroy campaign the day after the border agreement was signed.
A high U.S. official later explained to the Pike committee staff: "Covert action should not be confused with missionary work."


That last sentence?  THE NATIONAL INTEREST doesn't comprehend it.  It leaves their thick head confused.  

There's also the fact that Joe Biden became Vice President in January of 2009.  What are the KDP and PUK, by the way?


They're political parties in the KRG.  The Talabani family controls the PUK and the Barzani family controls the KDP.  

While Joe Biden was vice president, these two political parties were also another thing?  


Any guesses?

Terrorist organization -- according to the US government.  Joe Biden, friend of the Kurds, was just fine with that. It wasn't until February 2015 that these designations were finally removed.  Grasp that.  Joe's friend Jalal Talabani was the president of Iraq from 2005 through 2014 and, that whole time, the US government considered him the head of a terrorist organization.


What a friend they have in Joe.

Blue no matter who?  Not for US presidential candidate Joseph Kishore (Socialist Equality Party) who writes:

Whatever reservations they may have over the right-wing character of the Democratic Party and its candidates, the argument goes, this is the only way to get rid of Trump. Everything else must be subordinated to this electoral outcome.

This is hardly the first election in which such “lesser evil” arguments were advanced. In 1988, it was a matter of voting for Dukakis, the right-wing governor from Massachusetts, to finally put an end to the Reagan years. After Dukakis lost to George H.W. Bush, the following election in 1992 became a matter of putting an end to the Bush years by electing Bill Clinton, whose right-wing policies cleared the path for Bush II in 2000. In 2008, the argument became the need to elect Obama, the “candidate of hope and change,” in order to end the disaster produced by Bush II, above all, the war in Iraq.

Obama continued the most right-wing policies of George W. Bush (with whom, by the way, he has established a close personal friendship), including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the overseeing of the Wall Street bailout following the 2008 financial collapse. It was the right-wing policies of Obama and the nomination of Hillary Clinton on the basis of a prowar program, glossed over with identity politics, that created the conditions for the election of Trump in 2016.

This act, in other words, has been played out before, and each time the result is a further shift to the right of the entire political establishment.

In this case, amidst all the hoopla over the “historic” character of the Biden-Harris ticket, attributed entirely to the race and gender of Harris, the nominees have been selected through the machinations of the Democratic Party against the candidacy of Bernie Sanders and even Elizabeth Warren.

That is, the Democratic Party’s campaign is founded on a repudiation of any suggestion that it will carry out a policy of social reform. The Democrats are not even making the pretense of providing a program to address the catastrophe unfolding in the United States.


Bill Glauber (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINAL) tries to create interest in the online DNC convention by noting the following will be performing: Billie Eilish, John Legend, Common, The Chicks, Leon Bridges, Jennifer Hudson, Billy Porter, Maggie Rogers, Prince Royce and Stephen Stills.

What an unimpressive line up.  Removed Jennifer Hudson and Common and what's the point?  Billie is not a live performer (so the virtual convention may actually benefit her).  The Chicks?  Their career is over.  And should be, I say that as a friend of Adrian Pasdar.  'B-b-b-but their new album debuted at number three!'  A few weeks later, where's that album?  At number 54.  No one's buying it, no one gives a damn.  It's seen as the desperation move it is, Natalie's solo career flopped so she decided to try to reform the Dixie Chicks -- now called the Chicks, though they're too long in the tooth to be considered to be considered baby chicks.  


The group did 'bravery' in 2003.  A weak and ad libbed remark from Natalie on a British stage which was quickly followed by trashing themselves and begging for mercy.  Only after it was clear that wasn't going to work did they find enough spine to stand up for themselves.  And Natalie never talked Iraq again?  The Iraqi people have never been a concern of hers, have they?


They suffer but she didn't give a damn, did she?  All the years after, 'political' Natalie has had nothing to say in defense of the people of Iraq.


 

Save The Iraqi people posted the above video on Saturday and noted:


Iraq, BASRAH 15/Aug/2020 Tahseen Osama is a civil rights activist, Father of 4, was assassinated on 14/Aug/2020 with more than 20 Bullets from an Iranian Backed militias members‼️ By the orders of albasrah Governor Asa'ad Alaidani; the Aidani has many crimes files against him: Killing of the ex-governor (Mohammed Al-waieli), Killing The demonstrators in albasrah in 2018, records of him giving direct orders of Killing the demonstrators in 2019, and many other crimes of killing, kidnapping, corruption, theft of money & lands, and more.. 🔴THIS IS THE LAST POST OF THE VICTIM (TAHSEEN OSAMA) AS HE WAS ASKING FOR A TRIAL & JUDGMENT OF ASA'AD ALAIDANI: https://youtu.be/jccD-eZ46ns


Karwan Faidhi Dri (RUDAW) reported:

Tahseen Oussama was shot 20 times at his internet service company in the city's al-Junaina neighbourhood by "militia" gunmen, according to local media outlet Basra Today. The identity and affiliation of the perpetrators has not been confirmed.

Oussama had taken part in anti-establishment and anti-corruption protests in Basra that had spread from Baghdad across the country in October of last year. He was a vocal critic of both the government and of militias accused of killing protesters with impunity.

On July 6, the day of Iraqi security analyst Husham al-Hashimi's assassination  – largely suspected to have been conducted by Shiite militants – Oussama took to Facebook to warn “we will all be slaughtered in the Islamic way one day,” sharing a photo of a gun and its silencer.

Iraqi activists have been warning of an increasingly threatening environment for those who speak out against the country's current political order. Data provided to Rudaw English from the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) last month put the number of protesters and aligned activists killed between October 1, 2019 and March 17, 2020 at 22.


Let's note some reactions to the assassinations.  Kazthoomy Tweets:

Tahseen Oussama, an activist and a father of 3, was shot 20 times in his hometown of Basra today. His daughter warned him "don’t go out I’m scared they might kill you", he replied "we have to bring down those who steal and kill your dreams". His name won't be said.
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Hossain Tweets:

+40 days after the assassination of
@hushamalhashimi
, yet the government of
@MAKadhimi
is not willing to bring the ones who did it to justice. Today, we've lost another good and brave man, Tahseen Oussama, who was assassinated in Basra. #تحسين_اسامة_شهيد #اربعون_يوم_وقاتلك_حر
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H Tweets:

Tahseen Oussama posted on his Facebook: I was speaking to my daughter she was saying don’t go out I’m scared if they kill you, I told her we have to bring down those who steal and kill your dreams, she was saying (Alawi, Mastofi, Rathawi and I) will grow up and bring them down +
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12:35 PM · Aug 14, 2020


Khaled Sulaiman Tweets:


An Iraqi activist called #Tahseen_Oussama, was #assassinated by Iraqi militias in #Basra. The victim wrote On July 6th 2020: One day we'll all be slaughtered in an Islamic method. And he wrote 4 days ago: Political parties & militias control Basra city and no one can deter them
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Journalist Steven Nabil Tweeted:

Iraqi activist Tahseen Oussama was shot 20 times today in Basra, a horrendous crime. Tahseen is a civil rights figure and an important thinker among the protest movement.
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5:15 PM · Aug 14, 2020






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