My grandmother was middle-aged when Hart-Celler was passed. I don’t know how old she was when she had her first pizza, but I know she didn’t have pasta until she was an adult. She never made pasta at home but one way: “American chop suey”, which had hamburger and crushed tomatoes. She could make steel-cut oatmeal and Indian pudding from cornmeal, but she didn’t know how to make tomato sauce and I don’t think she ever tried sushi in her life. She grew up during the Depression in a poor country family that made do and she could forage for wild berries and nuts, cook anything the “boys” hunted or fished (and fish a dab hand herself), and LOVED fresh fruit and veggies. She worked three jobs and raised four boys alone after my grandfather died, and any strangers passing through town needing a place to stay got directed to her place- she welcomed everyone. I’m grateful to have known her, and I’m also grateful to have enjoyed the pleasures of foods from all over since I was tiny.
So, uh, we switched from preferences for white people from North & Western Europe to a preference for skilled immigrants and that resulted in more immigrants from South America and Asia. But I thought the right was against quotas and in favor of a meritocracy (and pro-family). Why aren't they happy with the Hart-Celler Act? It can't possibly be that they never meant any of that merit stuff and what they always wanted was white preferences for everything, right? No way.
"Those guys simply throw out racist statement after racist statement so fast that by the time your brain processes one point to push back on, they have thrown out four more points for which there is no rational answer."
I believe that's also called the Gish Gallop, so named after the late creationist Duane Gish. It's particularly nasty because if your opponent can't keep up you can insult their intelligence, but if they do debunk your points you can just claim they're getting hung up on details.
Hamburgers and pizza? Okay, hamburgers were probably first created in the US, but pizza wasn't popular in America until GIs started returning from occupied Italy in the late 40s and 50s. Technically not an occupation force after WWII, but our army never really left.
I had no idea what you meant when you asked me that question about white culture. But, now that one of my associates has given me a good talking to, I have an answer for a completely different question.
My Italian grandfather who came to the US in 1906 used to get beaten up by the German immigrants who got to Pittsburgh before the Italians weekly on his way to or from work.
Shocking! I would opine that the bar is so low at this point that it’s almost not a surprise to put someone up like this. But upon further reflection, I am pretty sure that they took the bar and threw it into the scrap pile. Hopefully someone digs it out again at some point.
BTW, in case anyone might have been wondering about this . . . it's starting to look like Europeans were *not* the ones giving Rubio a standing O . . .
It must be kinda pathetic to know your speech is gonna be so fucking bad, you need to bring your own audience along to cheer it . . .
Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski
Did the Europeans who gave Rubio a standing ovation not know he was about to go to Hungary to openly campaign for Orban and tamper in their election? Will they ever wake up?
6:01 AM · Feb 17, 2026
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Trexx @Trexxl
The Europeans didn't give him a standing ovation. They packed the front of the hall with Americans to give the impression that that his speech was well received, but the reality was quite different.
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Dan Smith @Dan1763
Follow up reporting shows its more complicated, the speech was in Munich, but he brought his own audience, multiple Congressmen and Senators, then State Dept then Defence Dept, then US Arms companies.
He got a standing ovation but how big a % of audience was Europeans??
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and populist vision of a “rainbow coalition” of the poor and forgotten made him the nation’s most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack Obama, died on Tuesday. He was 84.
His death was confirmed by his family in a statement, which said that Mr. Jackson “died peacefully,” but did not give a cause.
Mr. Jackson was hospitalized in November for treatment of a rare and particularly severe neurodegenerative condition, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), according to the advocacy organization he founded, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. In 2017, he announced that he had Parkinson’s disease, which in its early stages can produce similar effects on bodily movements and speech.
Mr. Jackson picked up the mantle of Dr. King after his assassination in 1968 and ran for president twice, long before Mr. Obama’s election in 2008. But he never achieved either the commanding moral stature of Dr. King or the ultimate political triumph attained by Mr. Obama.
My grandmother was middle-aged when Hart-Celler was passed. I don’t know how old she was when she had her first pizza, but I know she didn’t have pasta until she was an adult. She never made pasta at home but one way: “American chop suey”, which had hamburger and crushed tomatoes. She could make steel-cut oatmeal and Indian pudding from cornmeal, but she didn’t know how to make tomato sauce and I don’t think she ever tried sushi in her life. She grew up during the Depression in a poor country family that made do and she could forage for wild berries and nuts, cook anything the “boys” hunted or fished (and fish a dab hand herself), and LOVED fresh fruit and veggies. She worked three jobs and raised four boys alone after my grandfather died, and any strangers passing through town needing a place to stay got directed to her place- she welcomed everyone. I’m grateful to have known her, and I’m also grateful to have enjoyed the pleasures of foods from all over since I was tiny.
So, uh, we switched from preferences for white people from North & Western Europe to a preference for skilled immigrants and that resulted in more immigrants from South America and Asia. But I thought the right was against quotas and in favor of a meritocracy (and pro-family). Why aren't they happy with the Hart-Celler Act? It can't possibly be that they never meant any of that merit stuff and what they always wanted was white preferences for everything, right? No way.
"Those guys simply throw out racist statement after racist statement so fast that by the time your brain processes one point to push back on, they have thrown out four more points for which there is no rational answer."
I believe that's also called the Gish Gallop, so named after the late creationist Duane Gish. It's particularly nasty because if your opponent can't keep up you can insult their intelligence, but if they do debunk your points you can just claim they're getting hung up on details.
Hamburgers and pizza? Okay, hamburgers were probably first created in the US, but pizza wasn't popular in America until GIs started returning from occupied Italy in the late 40s and 50s. Technically not an occupation force after WWII, but our army never really left.
Has anyone else ever noticed how so many of these racists are also STUPID?
There's another racist representative.... Randy Fine. Here's one for you Randy....
If they force us to choose, Christians or the Lion, the choice is not a difficult one.
my money is on the Lion.
Why do all Trump appointees look like that co-worker who is always a royal pain in the ass/
Dear Senator Murphy.
I had no idea what you meant when you asked me that question about white culture. But, now that one of my associates has given me a good talking to, I have an answer for a completely different question.
Thank you.
My Italian grandfather who came to the US in 1906 used to get beaten up by the German immigrants who got to Pittsburgh before the Italians weekly on his way to or from work.
Evergreen.
Them Germans... They're forever wanting to beat up on someone and take their shit. After a few beers, they start goose stepping all over the place,
Hey. Years later the Italians were beating up the Jews. So, like I said...evergreen.
Fuck Trump.
Wow.
Shocking! I would opine that the bar is so low at this point that it’s almost not a surprise to put someone up like this. But upon further reflection, I am pretty sure that they took the bar and threw it into the scrap pile. Hopefully someone digs it out again at some point.
Canada v USA hockey gold? Please, kick our ass.
BTW, in case anyone might have been wondering about this . . . it's starting to look like Europeans were *not* the ones giving Rubio a standing O . . .
It must be kinda pathetic to know your speech is gonna be so fucking bad, you need to bring your own audience along to cheer it . . .
Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski
Did the Europeans who gave Rubio a standing ovation not know he was about to go to Hungary to openly campaign for Orban and tamper in their election? Will they ever wake up?
6:01 AM · Feb 17, 2026
·
Trexx @Trexxl
The Europeans didn't give him a standing ovation. They packed the front of the hall with Americans to give the impression that that his speech was well received, but the reality was quite different.
.
Dan Smith @Dan1763
Follow up reporting shows its more complicated, the speech was in Munich, but he brought his own audience, multiple Congressmen and Senators, then State Dept then Defence Dept, then US Arms companies.
He got a standing ovation but how big a % of audience was Europeans??
https://xcancel.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2023714510704673009
Were not just losing our recipes, were losing our heroes.
I want my Rainbow Coalition back!!!!!!!!!!
One of us?
https://featureassets.gocomics.com/assets/f67cfc70e50d013ebadd005056a9545d
That would be a "No Class" action suit.
𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲, 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝟖𝟒
𝐴𝑛 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟, ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑎 “𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑏𝑜𝑤 𝑐𝑜𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔-𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒. 𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑤𝑎𝑠 “𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎.”
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and populist vision of a “rainbow coalition” of the poor and forgotten made him the nation’s most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack Obama, died on Tuesday. He was 84.
His death was confirmed by his family in a statement, which said that Mr. Jackson “died peacefully,” but did not give a cause.
Mr. Jackson was hospitalized in November for treatment of a rare and particularly severe neurodegenerative condition, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), according to the advocacy organization he founded, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. In 2017, he announced that he had Parkinson’s disease, which in its early stages can produce similar effects on bodily movements and speech.
Mr. Jackson picked up the mantle of Dr. King after his assassination in 1968 and ran for president twice, long before Mr. Obama’s election in 2008. But he never achieved either the commanding moral stature of Dr. King or the ultimate political triumph attained by Mr. Obama.
New York Times: https://archive.ph/xglkN
That last paragraph could have been left off. He didn't do what King or Obama but he was equally as influencial.
That's the Vichy Times being its usual white supremacist fascist self.
And there's no reason to bring freaking Stanley Crouch into things.
Ain't nobody wanna hear Stanley run his mouth about anything.
Lousy obituary, one of the worst I've read in the TIMES-I guess he really shook them up in the '80's.
Sad, because one of the few things they still manage to do fairly well is obits.
Usually.
Good photos though-I'll post a couple later on.
I hated his voice, and sometimes his logic, but he really made a difference in the world..
RIP..
I wore this campaign button:
https://substack.com/profile/157455618-wobbly/note/c-215696620?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2lqtj6