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You know what a burn pit smells like.
If you were there -- if you served in Iraq or Afghanistan -- you already know. That thick, chemical, wrong smell that never fully left the back of your throat. Plastics. Chemicals. Medical waste. Ordnance. Burning. All day. Every day. Right next to where you slept, where you ate, where you ran PT in the morning.
Nobody told you what it would do to your lungs.
His name was Richard Star. Army combat engineer from Ohio -- right near Cleveland. He cleared IED-laden roads so other soldiers could drive on them without dying. Desert Shield. Desert Storm. Iraq. Afghanistan. Kuwait. He went back. He kept raising his hand. He breathed those burn pits for years -- the same smoke, the same chemical air, the same carcinogens that had no business being in a human lung.
In 2018, that smoke caught up with him. Stage 4 metastatic lung cancer. The VA rated it 100% service-connected. His own government certified in writing that the United States of America's burn pits gave Richard Star terminal cancer.
He was medically retired before hitting 20 years. Not because he quit. Because there was nothing left to give.
And then the Army sent him a letter.
The letter showed two numbers. The first number was what Richard Star had EARNED in military retirement -- what the United States government had promised him when he raised his right hand and swore an oath and then spent decades keeping it. The second number -- what he would ACTUALLY receive -- was zero.
Zero dollars. Zero cents.
His 100% VA disability rating for the cancer eating his lungs wiped out his entire retirement check through the concurrent receipt offset. Dollar for dollar. Every single penny of retirement pay he had earned, gone. A man dying of cancer he got in uniform, holding a piece of paper from his own government that said his retirement was worth nothing.
If you have buried someone from burn pit exposure, I need you to sit with that image.
Your brother. Your battle buddy. Your soldier. Sitting at a kitchen table. Oxygen tank next to the chair. Chemo running through his veins. Holding a government letter that says zero.
That is what happened to Richard Star.
His wife Tonya quit her career to become his full-time caregiver. While she sat next to him through every treatment, while their household ran on whatever the VA disability check provided, while the retirement check the Army told him he'd earned sat at zero -- Tonya was also fighting. Calling. Writing. Testifying. Standing in congressional hearing rooms telling her husband's story to the people who had the power to fix it.
Richard never stopped either. He traveled on oxygen tanks to advocate for this bill. He could barely stand. He fought for the 50,000 veterans behind him who were carrying the same injustice, because that is what that kind of man does -- he thinks about the ones behind him even when he is the one dying.
He died February 13, 2021. He was 51 years old.
Tonya kept going. She kept his name alive in every room she could reach, because she loved him and because she refused to let what happened to Richard happen to the next family.
Tonya passed away on August 12, 2024. She was also 51 years old.
Both of them gone at 51. Both of them fighting until they could not.
The bill still not law.
Right now -- today, this month, this year -- there are 50,000 veterans receiving that same letter Richard received. Two numbers. What they earned. What they actually get. And for too many of them, the second number is devastating. Some of them are already sick. Some of them already have the diagnosis. Some of them are sitting at kitchen tables with oxygen tanks next to the chair, opening mail from the government that sent them to those burn pits, wondering if this country is going to keep its promise before they run out of time.
Sgt. Lyle Allen. 14 years. Multiple deployments to Iraq. His vehicle hit an IED. He does not remember much after that -- just the medics' faces above him. The VA certified his TBI as 100% permanently and totally disabling -- it will never improve. The offset wiped out his retirement. He calls himself "retired without retirement." He says the country is "turning their backs" on him.
A Marine. 17 years. Three combat tours. An IED in Afghanistan took both of his legs. THREE YEARS from the 20-year mark. Three years. The government took his legs in the service of this nation and then took his retirement check on top of it because of a calendar.
These are not abstractions. These are the men who were standing next to you downrange. The ones who smelled what you smelled. The ones who drove those roads.
The bill to fix this is the MAJOR RICHARD STAR ACT. Current 119th Congress: H.R. 2102 in the House, sponsored by Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) with Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA), introduced March 14, 2025. S. 1032 in the Senate, sponsored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) with bipartisan co-sponsors including Mike Crapo, Elizabeth Warren, and Rick Scott. Previous Congress: H.R. 1282 in the House and S. 344 in the Senate -- died without a floor vote.
Current co-sponsors: 322 in the House. Nearly 80 in the Senate. The Wounded Warrior Project, MOAA, VFW, IAVA -- virtually every major veterans organization in this country -- stands behind this bill. The votes exist. The will to schedule them does not.
On March 3, 2026, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin blocked this bill on the Senate floor. Twice. Once on unanimous consent. Then again when a compromise was offered for a simple recorded roll call. He did not want the bill to pass. He did not want to go on record opposing it either.
His reason: cost.
Richard Star got a letter that said zero. Senator Johnson found that affordable.
I need you to make a phone call. Right now. While this is still in your chest where it belongs.
SENATE SWITCHBOARD: (202) 224-3121.
Tell them: "I am calling to demand my senator support S. 1032, the Major Richard Star Act, and force a floor vote. Combat-wounded veterans are dying while this sits in committee."
HOUSE SWITCHBOARD: (202) 225-3121.
Tell them: "I am calling to ask my representative to co-sponsor H.R. 2102 and demand leadership schedule a floor vote."
Then share this post. Every share puts Richard Star's name in front of someone who has not heard it yet. Every share might reach a veteran who does not know they are owed this money right now. Every share might reach the family member who makes the call that changes the vote.
Richard Star traveled on oxygen tanks to fight for veterans he would never meet.
The least we can do is make a phone call.
@MajorStarAct @StarActEnemies @SenRonJohnson @SenatorWicker
IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to the people who need to read it. SHARE this -- for Richard. For Tonya. For the veteran you know who is sick right now and does not know this fight exists. COMMENT below -- have you called yet? Tell me right here. Hold yourself accountable out loud.
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But what do I know -- I am only a medically retired Army combat medic who breathed that same air, who served alongside men who came home carrying things that would kill them slowly, and who has spent years watching a government that sends people to war find every possible excuse not to keep its promises when they come back broken.
#MAGA #Veterans #Trump #majorstaract
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I hope we can find a reasonable solution. 🙏
I’ve never expected much for myself, but I know many veterans who would benefit tremendously from this, especially those living with catastrophic injuries and a significantly diminished quality of life. Retired early, with just half their earned benefits as it pertains to pay.
All I ask is that the same politicians who sent Americans to war for more than two decades honor their commitment to those who sacrificed so much in service to this country.
Taking care of our wounded veterans shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It’s a matter of keeping faith with those who answered the call. 🇺🇸
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The best definition of racism I’ve ever heard: “Cycling Black Americans through manufactured grief, racial grievance politics, and government dependency while delivering zero school choice, zero family-formation incentives, and zero actual wealth-building opportunity.”
Democrats
@RepPressley -- allow me to help you locate a calendar, you absolute Snollygoster.
TODAY IS JUNE 13TH. Juneteenth is June 19th. SIX days from now. Six. You scheduled an event, wrote an entire post invoking "Black freedom" and "fascism," and could not manage to get the correct DATE of the holiday literally named after its own date. I genuinely did not think a sitting congresswoman could be this much of a weapons-grade Dalcop -- but here I am, proven wrong again.
I may need to add a new unit to my Anatomy curriculum: "The Region of the Brain Responsible for Reading Calendars -- and Why Some Members of Congress Appear to Have Surgically Removed It."
Now. Since you apparently slept through the history portion of the celebration you are using for political theater, allow me to assist. Juneteenth marks the day Union soldiers finally delivered overdue news to Galveston, TEXAS -- ONE state -- on June 19, 1865. Slavery did not end that day. Kentucky and Delaware still held enslaved persons LEGALLY after June 19, 1865. The actual, constitutional, nationwide abolition of slavery came with the 13th Amendment, ratified December 6, 1865.
Which party passed it? REPUBLICANS. Unanimously. Every single one.
Which party opposed it? Built Jim Crow? Wrote the Black Codes? Founded the KKK as their personal paramilitary enforcement arm? And produced Senator Robert Byrd -- a former KKK RECRUITER -- who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for FOURTEEN HOURS straight? YOUR party, @RepPressley. Yours.
And before the "but the parties switched" script gets read -- Byrd never switched. He died a Democrat in 2010, eulogized by a Democratic president with a smile. There was no switch. They just traded plantations for housing projects, chains for welfare checks, and overseers for social workers. Same architecture of control. Different paperwork.
In the 1950s, roughly 80 to 85 percent of Black children were raised in two-parent homes -- the highest rate in America at the time. After the Democrats implemented their Great Society welfare architecture, with its built-in marriage penalties and dependency incentives? Under 30 percent today. That is not systemic racism. That is Quinn's Law Number One operating at full throttle: liberalism always generates the EXACT OPPOSITE of its stated intent.
And Quinn's Law Number Six? Facts are the enemy of liberalism. Which probably explains why no one on your team noticed the date was wrong.
Speaking of facts -- on January 10, 1963, Congressman Albert Herlong read into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a list of 45 Communist Goals for America. Goal Number 40: discredit the family as an institution; encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. ACHIEVED -- and achieved most thoroughly in the very communities your party claims to protect. Goal Number 28: eliminate prayer in schools. Achieved in 1962, one year BEFORE the list was even read aloud. I am not saying your party planned all of this, @RepPressley. I am saying the OUTCOMES are identical to what a deliberate plan would have produced. And your party is still running the play.
You want to discuss "authoritarianism and fascism"? Examine your own party's 200-year record before pointing fingers. Because what you are doing -- cycling Black Americans through manufactured grief, racial grievance politics, and government dependency while delivering zero school choice, zero family-formation incentives, and zero actual wealth-building opportunity -- THAT is racist. Not the kind you perform for cameras. The quiet, institutional, vote-farming kind. The kind that shows up six days early to a Juneteenth event and calls it advocacy.
A Jobbernowl running interference for a system that has kept the same population subjugated for two centuries, just with updated branding. That is what true satirical mockery in action looks like -- except the joke is not funny for the 40 million Americans your party claims to champion while delivering nothing but dependence.
IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this -- every share counts. COMMENT: Which came first -- the history lesson or the calendar? Tell me.
JOIN Bski's Classroom on X or YouTube for more of this.
@JoJoFromJerz @catturd2 @GuntherEagleman
#MAGA #Veterans
But what do I know -- I am only an Anatomy and Physics teacher who can identify June 19th on a standard wall calendar, which apparently places me several intellectual rungs above at least one sitting member of the United States Congress.
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The VA cannot cut your tinnitus and sleep apnea ratings. Not legally. Not after Loper Bright killed Chevron in 2024. Only Congress can. And Section 108 is Congress quietly volunteering to do it. Thread 👇
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The VA cannot cut your tinnitus and sleep apnea ratings. Not legally. Not after Loper Bright killed Chevron in 2024. Only Congress can. And Section 108 is Congress quietly volunteering to do it. Thread 👇
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Some VSOs are telling you these VA cuts are "happening anyway, so let's at least keep the money." That message is wrong, and it is handing the VA the one weapon a court just took away. Let me show you. Thread 👇
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The VA cannot cut your tinnitus and sleep apnea ratings. Not legally. Not after Loper Bright killed Chevron in 2024. Only Congress can. And Section 108 is Congress quietly volunteering to do it. Thread 👇
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#MajorRichardStarAct #MajorStarAct #MajStarAct #54KVeterans #EndTheWoundedVeteranTax @54KVeterans @Chrisujwo3 @davidmedic81 @TeeeRoy1 @DavidWarrenVet @Jeremy_Profitt @rg81416 @SeabeeBonner @smith8024 @kniftarqr9y @restore_GI_Bill @passmajstaract @SgtJoebishop
@restore_GI_Bill @DavidSt59726197
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Here! Here!
@DanielBledsoe76 @endwarriortax Brothers, I am the guy whose video post started this, so let me step in. Not to pick a side, but because I think you two are arguing toward the same finish line and have not noticed yet.
Daniel, thank you for the defense, and your point is the sharpest one in this whole thread. There is a world of difference between a change made by regulation and a change written into STATUTE. A rule can be challenged, reversed, or rewritten through the rulemaking process. Once Congress codifies something into law, undoing it takes another act of Congress or a federal lawsuit. You are right to treat that as a one-way door.
And here is what makes your point even better. When the Supreme Court decided Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo in 2024 and overturned Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., courts STOPPED rubber-stamping an agency's reading of an ambiguous statute. Judges now decide the meaning themselves. That actually hands veterans MORE power to fight a bad VA regulation in court than we have had in forty years. But the second Congress writes these changes into statute, that brand-new leverage evaporates, because there is no agency interpretation left to challenge. The statute IS the law. We would be bolting the cell door shut right after someone finally slid us the key. FANTASTIC point, and a genuinely dangerous one.
Charles, I hear you too, and you are not wrong either. The savings exist whether we like it or not, and whether that money goes to veterans, caregivers, and survivors or back to the Treasury is a real question. And you said something important that I want everyone to catch: "there should be markups and changes."
That right there is the whole game. You two already agree.
Daniel is saying do not let a flawed thing get locked into law. Charles is saying the bill needs markups and changes. Those are the SAME position. The answer to a one-way door is simple: you get it right BEFORE you walk through it.
So here is what I am asking all of us to do together, instead of arguing support versus oppose. Demand the markups. Demand the amendments. Fix what gets codified while we still can, because Daniel is exactly right that once it is law, our only recourse is the courts, and that is a brutal road.
And add this one to the list, because it is mine and nobody else is raising it: Section 101 is so ambiguous that a combat-wounded reservist holding a 20-year letter cannot tell whether he collects his retirement NOW or at AGE 60. Major Star himself was a reservist. He died at 51. That needs a markup too.
We do not have to choose between "pass it" and "kill it." We push for the fixes, together, before the door closes behind us.
#MajorRichardStarAct #Veterans
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#MajorRichardStarAct #MajorStarAct #MajStarAct #54KVeterans #EndTheWoundedVeteranTax @54KVeterans @Chrisujwo3 @davidmedic81 @TeeeRoy1 @DavidWarrenVet @Jeremy_Profitt @rg81416 @SeabeeBonner @smith8024 @kniftarqr9y @restore_GI_Bill @passmajstaract @SgtJoebishop
@restore_GI_Bill @DavidSt59726197
@DanielBledsoe76 @endwarriortax Brothers, I am the guy whose video post started this, so let me step in. Not to pick a side, but because I think you two are arguing toward the same finish line and have not noticed yet.
Daniel, thank you for the defense, and your point is the sharpest one in this whole thread. There is a world of difference between a change made by regulation and a change written into STATUTE. A rule can be challenged, reversed, or rewritten through the rulemaking process. Once Congress codifies something into law, undoing it takes another act of Congress or a federal lawsuit. You are right to treat that as a one-way door.
And here is what makes your point even better. When the Supreme Court decided Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo in 2024 and overturned Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., courts STOPPED rubber-stamping an agency's reading of an ambiguous statute. Judges now decide the meaning themselves. That actually hands veterans MORE power to fight a bad VA regulation in court than we have had in forty years. But the second Congress writes these changes into statute, that brand-new leverage evaporates, because there is no agency interpretation left to challenge. The statute IS the law. We would be bolting the cell door shut right after someone finally slid us the key. FANTASTIC point, and a genuinely dangerous one.
Charles, I hear you too, and you are not wrong either. The savings exist whether we like it or not, and whether that money goes to veterans, caregivers, and survivors or back to the Treasury is a real question. And you said something important that I want everyone to catch: "there should be markups and changes."
That right there is the whole game. You two already agree.
Daniel is saying do not let a flawed thing get locked into law. Charles is saying the bill needs markups and changes. Those are the SAME position. The answer to a one-way door is simple: you get it right BEFORE you walk through it.
So here is what I am asking all of us to do together, instead of arguing support versus oppose. Demand the markups. Demand the amendments. Fix what gets codified while we still can, because Daniel is exactly right that once it is law, our only recourse is the courts, and that is a brutal road.
And add this one to the list, because it is mine and nobody else is raising it: Section 101 is so ambiguous that a combat-wounded reservist holding a 20-year letter cannot tell whether he collects his retirement NOW or at AGE 60. Major Star himself was a reservist. He died at 51. That needs a markup too.
We do not have to choose between "pass it" and "kill it." We push for the fixes, together, before the door closes behind us.
#MajorRichardStarAct #Veterans
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@DanielBledsoe76 @endwarriortax Brothers, I am the guy whose video post started this, so let me step in. Not to pick a side, but because I think you two are arguing toward the same finish line and have not noticed yet.
Daniel, thank you for the defense, and your point is the sharpest one in this whole thread. There is a world of difference between a change made by regulation and a change written into STATUTE. A rule can be challenged, reversed, or rewritten through the rulemaking process. Once Congress codifies something into law, undoing it takes another act of Congress or a federal lawsuit. You are right to treat that as a one-way door.
And here is what makes your point even better. When the Supreme Court decided Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo in 2024 and overturned Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., courts STOPPED rubber-stamping an agency's reading of an ambiguous statute. Judges now decide the meaning themselves. That actually hands veterans MORE power to fight a bad VA regulation in court than we have had in forty years. But the second Congress writes these changes into statute, that brand-new leverage evaporates, because there is no agency interpretation left to challenge. The statute IS the law. We would be bolting the cell door shut right after someone finally slid us the key. FANTASTIC point, and a genuinely dangerous one.
Charles, I hear you too, and you are not wrong either. The savings exist whether we like it or not, and whether that money goes to veterans, caregivers, and survivors or back to the Treasury is a real question. And you said something important that I want everyone to catch: "there should be markups and changes."
That right there is the whole game. You two already agree.
Daniel is saying do not let a flawed thing get locked into law. Charles is saying the bill needs markups and changes. Those are the SAME position. The answer to a one-way door is simple: you get it right BEFORE you walk through it.
So here is what I am asking all of us to do together, instead of arguing support versus oppose. Demand the markups. Demand the amendments. Fix what gets codified while we still can, because Daniel is exactly right that once it is law, our only recourse is the courts, and that is a brutal road.
And add this one to the list, because it is mine and nobody else is raising it: Section 101 is so ambiguous that a combat-wounded reservist holding a 20-year letter cannot tell whether he collects his retirement NOW or at AGE 60. Major Star himself was a reservist. He died at 51. That needs a markup too.
We do not have to choose between "pass it" and "kill it." We push for the fixes, together, before the door closes behind us.
#MajorRichardStarAct #Veterans
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Fantastic. Thank you for this. And I would suspect the reason that the 13% figure is even that high is because of states like CA, NY, etc. Otherwise the hot burglary rate would be more like 5%.
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More 🔥from Mike!
@RepPressley -- allow me to help you locate a calendar, you absolute Snollygoster.
TODAY IS JUNE 13TH. Juneteenth is June 19th. SIX days from now. Six. You scheduled an event, wrote an entire post invoking "Black freedom" and "fascism," and could not manage to get the correct DATE of the holiday literally named after its own date. I genuinely did not think a sitting congresswoman could be this much of a weapons-grade Dalcop -- but here I am, proven wrong again.
I may need to add a new unit to my Anatomy curriculum: "The Region of the Brain Responsible for Reading Calendars -- and Why Some Members of Congress Appear to Have Surgically Removed It."
Now. Since you apparently slept through the history portion of the celebration you are using for political theater, allow me to assist. Juneteenth marks the day Union soldiers finally delivered overdue news to Galveston, TEXAS -- ONE state -- on June 19, 1865. Slavery did not end that day. Kentucky and Delaware still held enslaved persons LEGALLY after June 19, 1865. The actual, constitutional, nationwide abolition of slavery came with the 13th Amendment, ratified December 6, 1865.
Which party passed it? REPUBLICANS. Unanimously. Every single one.
Which party opposed it? Built Jim Crow? Wrote the Black Codes? Founded the KKK as their personal paramilitary enforcement arm? And produced Senator Robert Byrd -- a former KKK RECRUITER -- who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for FOURTEEN HOURS straight? YOUR party, @RepPressley. Yours.
And before the "but the parties switched" script gets read -- Byrd never switched. He died a Democrat in 2010, eulogized by a Democratic president with a smile. There was no switch. They just traded plantations for housing projects, chains for welfare checks, and overseers for social workers. Same architecture of control. Different paperwork.
In the 1950s, roughly 80 to 85 percent of Black children were raised in two-parent homes -- the highest rate in America at the time. After the Democrats implemented their Great Society welfare architecture, with its built-in marriage penalties and dependency incentives? Under 30 percent today. That is not systemic racism. That is Quinn's Law Number One operating at full throttle: liberalism always generates the EXACT OPPOSITE of its stated intent.
And Quinn's Law Number Six? Facts are the enemy of liberalism. Which probably explains why no one on your team noticed the date was wrong.
Speaking of facts -- on January 10, 1963, Congressman Albert Herlong read into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a list of 45 Communist Goals for America. Goal Number 40: discredit the family as an institution; encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. ACHIEVED -- and achieved most thoroughly in the very communities your party claims to protect. Goal Number 28: eliminate prayer in schools. Achieved in 1962, one year BEFORE the list was even read aloud. I am not saying your party planned all of this, @RepPressley. I am saying the OUTCOMES are identical to what a deliberate plan would have produced. And your party is still running the play.
You want to discuss "authoritarianism and fascism"? Examine your own party's 200-year record before pointing fingers. Because what you are doing -- cycling Black Americans through manufactured grief, racial grievance politics, and government dependency while delivering zero school choice, zero family-formation incentives, and zero actual wealth-building opportunity -- THAT is racist. Not the kind you perform for cameras. The quiet, institutional, vote-farming kind. The kind that shows up six days early to a Juneteenth event and calls it advocacy.
A Jobbernowl running interference for a system that has kept the same population subjugated for two centuries, just with updated branding. That is what true satirical mockery in action looks like -- except the joke is not funny for the 40 million Americans your party claims to champion while delivering nothing but dependence.
IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this -- every share counts. COMMENT: Which came first -- the history lesson or the calendar? Tell me.
JOIN Bski's Classroom on X or YouTube for more of this.
@JoJoFromJerz @catturd2 @GuntherEagleman
#MAGA #Veterans
But what do I know -- I am only an Anatomy and Physics teacher who can identify June 19th on a standard wall calendar, which apparently places me several intellectual rungs above at least one sitting member of the United States Congress.
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Liberalism obliterated
@RepPressley -- allow me to help you locate a calendar, you absolute Snollygoster.
TODAY IS JUNE 13TH. Juneteenth is June 19th. SIX days from now. Six. You scheduled an event, wrote an entire post invoking "Black freedom" and "fascism," and could not manage to get the correct DATE of the holiday literally named after its own date. I genuinely did not think a sitting congresswoman could be this much of a weapons-grade Dalcop -- but here I am, proven wrong again.
I may need to add a new unit to my Anatomy curriculum: "The Region of the Brain Responsible for Reading Calendars -- and Why Some Members of Congress Appear to Have Surgically Removed It."
Now. Since you apparently slept through the history portion of the celebration you are using for political theater, allow me to assist. Juneteenth marks the day Union soldiers finally delivered overdue news to Galveston, TEXAS -- ONE state -- on June 19, 1865. Slavery did not end that day. Kentucky and Delaware still held enslaved persons LEGALLY after June 19, 1865. The actual, constitutional, nationwide abolition of slavery came with the 13th Amendment, ratified December 6, 1865.
Which party passed it? REPUBLICANS. Unanimously. Every single one.
Which party opposed it? Built Jim Crow? Wrote the Black Codes? Founded the KKK as their personal paramilitary enforcement arm? And produced Senator Robert Byrd -- a former KKK RECRUITER -- who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for FOURTEEN HOURS straight? YOUR party, @RepPressley. Yours.
And before the "but the parties switched" script gets read -- Byrd never switched. He died a Democrat in 2010, eulogized by a Democratic president with a smile. There was no switch. They just traded plantations for housing projects, chains for welfare checks, and overseers for social workers. Same architecture of control. Different paperwork.
In the 1950s, roughly 80 to 85 percent of Black children were raised in two-parent homes -- the highest rate in America at the time. After the Democrats implemented their Great Society welfare architecture, with its built-in marriage penalties and dependency incentives? Under 30 percent today. That is not systemic racism. That is Quinn's Law Number One operating at full throttle: liberalism always generates the EXACT OPPOSITE of its stated intent.
And Quinn's Law Number Six? Facts are the enemy of liberalism. Which probably explains why no one on your team noticed the date was wrong.
Speaking of facts -- on January 10, 1963, Congressman Albert Herlong read into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a list of 45 Communist Goals for America. Goal Number 40: discredit the family as an institution; encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. ACHIEVED -- and achieved most thoroughly in the very communities your party claims to protect. Goal Number 28: eliminate prayer in schools. Achieved in 1962, one year BEFORE the list was even read aloud. I am not saying your party planned all of this, @RepPressley. I am saying the OUTCOMES are identical to what a deliberate plan would have produced. And your party is still running the play.
You want to discuss "authoritarianism and fascism"? Examine your own party's 200-year record before pointing fingers. Because what you are doing -- cycling Black Americans through manufactured grief, racial grievance politics, and government dependency while delivering zero school choice, zero family-formation incentives, and zero actual wealth-building opportunity -- THAT is racist. Not the kind you perform for cameras. The quiet, institutional, vote-farming kind. The kind that shows up six days early to a Juneteenth event and calls it advocacy.
A Jobbernowl running interference for a system that has kept the same population subjugated for two centuries, just with updated branding. That is what true satirical mockery in action looks like -- except the joke is not funny for the 40 million Americans your party claims to champion while delivering nothing but dependence.
IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this -- every share counts. COMMENT: Which came first -- the history lesson or the calendar? Tell me.
JOIN Bski's Classroom on X or YouTube for more of this.
@JoJoFromJerz @catturd2 @GuntherEagleman
#MAGA #Veterans
But what do I know -- I am only an Anatomy and Physics teacher who can identify June 19th on a standard wall calendar, which apparently places me several intellectual rungs above at least one sitting member of the United States Congress.
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@BskiMike22802 This word defines them all. Well done. You are a total winner.
Damn!
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Facts matter. However they seem to escape the intellectually challenged who repeat lies for years. @RepPressley is too stupid to read the post & discern fact from her fictional basic lies. Basic. It’s what Pressley is. She’ll understand that word.
@RepPressley -- allow me to help you locate a calendar, you absolute Snollygoster.
TODAY IS JUNE 13TH. Juneteenth is June 19th. SIX days from now. Six. You scheduled an event, wrote an entire post invoking "Black freedom" and "fascism," and could not manage to get the correct DATE of the holiday literally named after its own date. I genuinely did not think a sitting congresswoman could be this much of a weapons-grade Dalcop -- but here I am, proven wrong again.
I may need to add a new unit to my Anatomy curriculum: "The Region of the Brain Responsible for Reading Calendars -- and Why Some Members of Congress Appear to Have Surgically Removed It."
Now. Since you apparently slept through the history portion of the celebration you are using for political theater, allow me to assist. Juneteenth marks the day Union soldiers finally delivered overdue news to Galveston, TEXAS -- ONE state -- on June 19, 1865. Slavery did not end that day. Kentucky and Delaware still held enslaved persons LEGALLY after June 19, 1865. The actual, constitutional, nationwide abolition of slavery came with the 13th Amendment, ratified December 6, 1865.
Which party passed it? REPUBLICANS. Unanimously. Every single one.
Which party opposed it? Built Jim Crow? Wrote the Black Codes? Founded the KKK as their personal paramilitary enforcement arm? And produced Senator Robert Byrd -- a former KKK RECRUITER -- who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for FOURTEEN HOURS straight? YOUR party, @RepPressley. Yours.
And before the "but the parties switched" script gets read -- Byrd never switched. He died a Democrat in 2010, eulogized by a Democratic president with a smile. There was no switch. They just traded plantations for housing projects, chains for welfare checks, and overseers for social workers. Same architecture of control. Different paperwork.
In the 1950s, roughly 80 to 85 percent of Black children were raised in two-parent homes -- the highest rate in America at the time. After the Democrats implemented their Great Society welfare architecture, with its built-in marriage penalties and dependency incentives? Under 30 percent today. That is not systemic racism. That is Quinn's Law Number One operating at full throttle: liberalism always generates the EXACT OPPOSITE of its stated intent.
And Quinn's Law Number Six? Facts are the enemy of liberalism. Which probably explains why no one on your team noticed the date was wrong.
Speaking of facts -- on January 10, 1963, Congressman Albert Herlong read into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a list of 45 Communist Goals for America. Goal Number 40: discredit the family as an institution; encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. ACHIEVED -- and achieved most thoroughly in the very communities your party claims to protect. Goal Number 28: eliminate prayer in schools. Achieved in 1962, one year BEFORE the list was even read aloud. I am not saying your party planned all of this, @RepPressley. I am saying the OUTCOMES are identical to what a deliberate plan would have produced. And your party is still running the play.
You want to discuss "authoritarianism and fascism"? Examine your own party's 200-year record before pointing fingers. Because what you are doing -- cycling Black Americans through manufactured grief, racial grievance politics, and government dependency while delivering zero school choice, zero family-formation incentives, and zero actual wealth-building opportunity -- THAT is racist. Not the kind you perform for cameras. The quiet, institutional, vote-farming kind. The kind that shows up six days early to a Juneteenth event and calls it advocacy.
A Jobbernowl running interference for a system that has kept the same population subjugated for two centuries, just with updated branding. That is what true satirical mockery in action looks like -- except the joke is not funny for the 40 million Americans your party claims to champion while delivering nothing but dependence.
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But what do I know -- I am only an Anatomy and Physics teacher who can identify June 19th on a standard wall calendar, which apparently places me several intellectual rungs above at least one sitting member of the United States Congress.
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