Randolph Bourne

War is the Health of Trump's Estate - In praise of a Trans-National America - Bourne in the USA

[Randolph Bourne @randolph_bourne]

Just plain weird.

[Randolph Bourne @randolph_bourne]

Freud on Trump:

[Anna @AnnaDeMilanese]

Madrid kollabiert. Hunderttausende auf den Straßen für den Papst. Jahrzehntelang hieß es: Der Glaube stirbt. Die Realität ist eine andere. Und der neue Papst – ein Papst, amerikanischer Herkunft – der den Oligarchen die Stirn bietet, der MAGA kritisiert, der für die Armen spricht – er ist zum Gesicht einer Hoffnung geworden. Besonders für die Jugend. Während Kushner Küsten kauft und Trump Ballsäle für Milliardäre baut – steht dieser Papst für das Gegenteil. Er ist kein politischer Akteur. Aber er ist ein moralisches Gegengewicht. In einer Zeit wo Eliten ungestraft plündern – braucht Europa genau das. ���🇺⛪️🇺🇦

[Randolph Bourne @randolph_bourne]

@steadystate2025 @kmiller180 He lashed out because he didn’t want to answer a question about Todd Blanch and Epstein.

[Randolph Bourne @randolph_bourne]

@sandibachom He didn’t want to answer the question about Todd Blanch. That’s why he went off about the elections. He wanted to shut it down before he got to anything about Epstein. Definitely a planned move on his part.

[Randolph Bourne @randolph_bourne]

@GeezusMan @brianstelter @kwelkernbc What is weird is how blind you are to reality and the fact this moron is stealing you every day. How are your gas prices? No new wars? Where’s your no tax on social security? How much has his family stolen? Stop being a Pedo Protector.

[Dr. Dave @drdave1999]

I’ve been telling you for years that Trump has a narcissistic character disorder.

What you witnessed today was called ‘narcissistic injury.’ He was called out and humiliated— at the hands of an intelligent woman, no less— resulting in narcissistic rage.

He’s entirely unfit.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Rosie O’Donnell on Trump: “If you grew up in New York you knew he was an asshole and a liar from day one. He is a con man, he is a narcissist, and he is a psychopath if you ask me”

[Randolph Bourne @randolph_bourne]

@GeezusMan @brianstelter @kwelkernbc Anyone who isn’t a fascist cult member knows that he is lying, has dementia, and is desperate in front of the truth.

[Randolph Bourne @randolph_bourne]

@yk7jc988md @brianstelter @kwelkernbc Cult member speaks.

[Randolph Bourne @randolph_bourne]

@rhainman @brianstelter @kwelkernbc Who was president? Moron. Who ran the FBI?

[Randolph Bourne @randolph_bourne]

@biffmctannen @brianstelter @kwelkernbc Cult much?

[Randolph Bourne @randolph_bourne]

@emoEddi @brianstelter @kwelkernbc You believe that shit?

[Randolph Bourne @randolph_bourne]

@ulryfam5 @brianstelter @kwelkernbc He has evidence of nothing. You’re in a cult.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

"Do you have evidence?" "That's not evidence." "There is no evidence."

@kwelkernbc kept rebutting Trump's lies about January 6 and about election fraud, and he eventually wrapped up the interview, calling her "crooked." Here's the transcript of the astonishing final few minutes:

WELKER: Do you think anyone who attacked police officers on January 6th should get taxpayer money?
TRUMP: I wouldn't be inclined to say so, but I have to see it. I can tell you this: 97% of those people, you look at them, the FBI or whoever it was, cause you had a lot of crooked cops, you had dirty cops. Comey was a dirty cop.
WELKER: Well, there is no evidence to –
TRUMP: A guy like Bolton was a dirty cop –
WELKER: But there is no evidence that-- but there's no evidence that people who –
TRUMP: Wait a minute, wait a minute. Oh, you think Comey was a straight cop?
WELKER: We had 170 people who pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers.
TRUMP: Comey was a dirty cop.
WELKER: No, no, but the people who assaulted police officers.
TRUMP: They had FBI – listen to me. They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI "Go into the building." Those people are walking around, they're looking, "Oh, isn't this nice?" They weren't in-- they were being ushered into the building.
WELKER: There's no evidence of that, sir. There's no evidence of that.
TRUMP: You had a bunch of dirty cops, and frankly, what they did was weaponization of our government.
WELKER: But sir, there-- there's no evidence of that. More than a thousand people pleaded guilty to crimes –
TRUMP: No, well, yeah, no, there's none. You know what they do?
WELKER: Would you –
TRUMP: Try looking at the tapes one time.
WELKER: Would you take it off the table?
TRUMP: Look at the tapes one time.
WELKER: Okay, but 172 people did plead guilty to assaulting police officers.
TRUMP: You know why they pled guilty?
WELKER: Should they be exempt –
TRUMP: Because they told they were going to jail for 15 years –
WELKER: – from receiving funds?
TRUMP: – if they didn't.
WELKER: Should they –
TRUMP: They pled guilty because they were frightened. They went down. They were ushered into a building. Many of them were arrested without even going into the building.
WELKER: You'd be okay with them receiving taxpayer dollars?
TRUMP: The people were destroyed by dirty cops and by weaponization. Many of those people should be compensated. Now, with that being said, the, as I understand it, the weaponization fund was going to set up a group of people, people that could be picked by anybody, fair people, smart people, and they will go on an individual case basis.
WELKER: Okay.
TRUMP: Now, I don't know what's going to happen with the weaponization fund. I love the idea, because people like you, the fake dirty press, the crooked press, people like stupid Biden, he's not smart enough to know what's going on, but people that surrounded him, surrounded his beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, what they did to the lives of people, they destroyed people. They sent people to jail who did nothing wrong.
WELKER: All right, this is, just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying, but let me ask about Todd Blanche.
TRUMP: There's a lot of evidence.
WELKER: Let me ask about Todd Blanche.
TRUMP: Listen – listen to me – listen to me.
WELKER: Let's talk about Todd Blanche.
TRUMP: There's tremendous evidence. There's nothing but evidence.
WELKER: Well, it’s not been presented in a court of a law.
TRUMP: The election was rigged. It was a dirty election.
WELKER: Mr. President –
TRUMP: And it's happening again right now in California.
WELKER:  – you've never presented evidence –
TRUMP: It’s happening right now in California
WELKER: – that the 2020 election was rigged.
TRUMP: Right now, it's look at what's happening in California.
WELKER: Where's the evidence to that?
TRUMP: It's four days –
WELKER: The Republicans are doing well in California.
TRUMP: In California, it's, no they're not. They're dropping fast because it's a rigged election. Let me tell you, it's four days and they aren't even close to coming up with the –
WELKER: That's how they count the votes in California.
TRUMP: Do you know why they're doing that? Because they're cheating on the election.
WELKER: There's – What? Do you have evidence to support that?
TRUMP: It's-- all I have to do is look. All I have to do is look.
WELKER: But that's not evidence.
TRUMP: And I listen. And I listen to people. And let's see what happens.
WELKER: But sir, that's not evidence, and that's how they count the votes in California--
TRUMP: Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election and five days later, they're nowhere close to picking a winner?
WELKER: State and local officials acknowledge they are slow. They're urging–
TRUMP: No, they're crooked.
WELKER: – they're urging the votes to be counted quickly. That's how they vote in California.
TRUMP: They're crooked just like you're crooked, your press is crooked. And Meet the Press is crooked.
WELKER: To be fair, I'm not crooked. But let's continue.
TRUMP: Really? Well, you play right into their hands then.
WELKER: Let's continue.
TRUMP: You're either crooked or you're stupid.
WELKER: Let's continue.
TRUMP: You play right into their hands with this stuff. You know that these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they're rigged. Do you know that I won an election in a landslide and I got 94% bad press.
WELKER: But Mr. President –
TRUMP: You know why I got that?
WELKER: – you've never presented –
TRUMP: Because you have no credibility.
WELKER: -evidence. But you've never presented evidence it was rigged. Let's keep talking about, I want to talk about Todd Blanche.
TRUMP: You have more evidence, there's more evidence than ever presented.
WELKER: Let's talk about--
TRUMP: Your elections in this country –
WELKER: – you went to court.
TRUMP: We're like a third world country.
WELKER: But sir –
TRUMP: Your elections are crooked and you're crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked.
WELKER: But Mr. President–
TRUMP: And so is ABC and CBS and CNN.
WELKER: But Mr. President--
TRUMP: You're a one-sided crooked network. Sorry. Let's call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.
WELKER: Mr. President, let's – please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin.
TRUMP: I've sat in the rain with you--
WELKER: I traveled all –  I know. I traveled all the way--
TRUMP: I sat in the rain with you for an hour.
WELKER: --to Wisconsin.
TRUMP: On and off in the rain, and I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press, because you know what?
WELKER: Mr. President--
TRUMP: A country can never be great with a dishonest press.
WELKER: – we traveled all – listen. We traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview.

[𝕋o𝕄y 𝕃e 𝕄a𝕘n𝕚f𝕚q𝕦e @MagnifiqueTomy]

Amira Ibrahim Al-Zaanin. Quatre ans. Une petite fille dont l'existence tenait dans un prénom, un âge, et la lumière qu'elle dégageait.

Je ne l'ai pas connue. Personne ici ne l'a connue. Mais un de ses proches, sur un canal Telegram, a raconté, après sa mort, comment elle était. Une pipelette, disait-il. Une gamine solaire, capable de parler des heures, d'inventer des histoires, de réchauffer les cœurs les plus gelés. Il l'a dit avec des mots simples, ceux de la douleur, et ça m'a déchiré.

Imaginez : si vous l'aviez croisée, vous auriez voulu lui offrir un bonbon, une poupée, n'importe quoi pour qu'elle continue à vous parler. Mais c'est une chance, en réalité, de ne pas l'avoir rencontrée. Parce qu'aujourd'hui, vous seriez anéanti.

Le 8 octobre 2023, un bombardement israélien a rasé sa maison. Amira est morte. Ses frères et sœurs aussi. Les parents, eux, respirent encore – si l'on peut appeler ça respirer. Ils errent, fantômes d'eux-mêmes, hantés par le silence des enfants.

Pendant ce temps, ceux qui ont tué cette fillette parlent de « droit à la défense », de « guerre juste », de « valeurs démocratiques ». Les mêmes mots, encore et toujours, pour couvrir le même sang.

Amira aurait pu grandir, rire, devenir cette adolescente rebelle ou cette femme discrète. Elle n'aura même pas eu le temps d'être une enfant.

Alors je partage son histoire. Non pour faire pleurer, mais pour qu'on se souvienne. Qu'on n'oublie jamais son visage, ni celui de ses assassins.

[Randolph Bourne @randolph_bourne]

@Khojo_HazardCR7 @YahooSports Republicans believe in violence. Other people, non cult members, don’t. You just watch too much bullshit propaganda news. Get a brain.

[Randolph Bourne @randolph_bourne]

@brian_darby @TedLogan1010 @HunterBiden You sound like a ten year old.

[Randolph Bourne @randolph_bourne]

@brian_darby @TedLogan1010 @HunterBiden You are getting to be really pathetic. You should stop because you are embarrassing yourself.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

When the President of France visited the United States in April 1960, he asked the FBI to help him find a man.
The man he was looking for was an American citizen. He was sixty-four years old. He had been awarded fifteen French military decorations and — six months earlier, in a ceremony in Paris — had been made a Knight of the Légion d'honneur, the highest civilian honor France can give. The medal had been pinned to his chest by the President himself, who had publicly called him un véritable héros français. A true French hero.
The FBI located the man within a few days.
He was operating an elevator at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
The elevator operator's name was Eugene Bullard. He had been born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895, the son of a man whose own father had been a slave.

He had run away from Columbus at the age of eleven, after watching a white mob nearly lynch his father.
He spent the next several years drifting through the American South. At sixteen, he stowed away on a German freighter at Norfolk, Virginia. He landed in Aberdeen, Scotland. From there he made his way to London, where he learned to box. By 1913, at eighteen, he was prizefighting in Paris.
When Germany invaded France in August 1914, Bullard was nineteen years old. He had no legal obligation to fight. He had no French citizenship.
He went to the recruiting office on October 19, 1914, and signed up for the French Foreign Legion.
He spent the next eighteen months as an infantryman in some of the worst fighting of the war — at the Somme, at Champagne, at Verdun. He was wounded three times. The third wound, on March 5, 1916, tore open his thigh and left him with permanent damage to his leg.
He was twenty years old. The doctors told him he would not return to the infantry.
He decided he wanted to fly.

In a Paris café in the spring of 1916, while he was recovering, Bullard mentioned to three white American friends that he was thinking of joining the French air service. A Mississippian named Jeff Dickson laughed.
Gene, Dickson said, you know damn well there aren't any Negroes in aviation.
Bullard answered: Sure do. That's why I want to get into it. There has to be a first to everything, and I'm going to be the first.
Dickson bet him two thousand dollars he would not make it.
Bullard took the bet. He earned his pilot's license on May 5, 1917. He won the bet.
He reported to the front in August 1917 and flew approximately twenty combat missions over the next three months in a SPAD VII. The fuselage was painted with a bleeding heart pierced by a knife and the French phrase Tout le Sang qui Coule est Rouge — All Blood that Flows is Red.
He carried, on every combat flight, a small capuchin monkey named Jimmy in the front of his flight jacket.
The French press began calling him L'Hirondelle Noire — the Black Swallow.

When the United States entered the war in 1917, Bullard immediately applied to transfer to the U.S. Army Air Service.
His application was rejected.
The U.S. Army Air Service had a policy, in 1917, of not accepting Black pilots. The other American pilots flying for France in his unit, all of them white, were transferred to the U.S. Air Service.
He was the only one who was not.

For the next twenty years, he was one of the most familiar faces in the Montmartre nightlife of Paris between the wars. He owned a nightclub called L'Escadrille. He spoke fluent French, English, and German. Hemingway drank there. Fitzgerald drank there. Langston Hughes drank there. Josephine Baker performed there. Louis Armstrong was a personal friend.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Bullard was forty-four. His fluent German and his ownership of a nightclub frequented by German officers made him useful to the French Resistance. He became an intelligence agent — eavesdropping in his own bar on conversations between German officers who did not know he understood every word.
When France fell in June 1940, friends in the Resistance smuggled him across the Spanish border before the Gestapo could arrest him.
He came back to the United States for the first time in twenty-eight years.
He arrived in New York with thirty dollars in his pocket and a permanent limp.

He did not return to a hero's welcome. He returned to a country that had no idea who he was.
He worked at a perfume counter. He worked as a security guard. He worked at the Staten Island shipyards. By the late 1940s, he had taken the job that he would hold for most of the rest of his life.
He operated the elevator at Rockefeller Center.
He was wearing the elevator uniform on the day a producer from NBC came down from the studios upstairs to ask if he was the man Charles de Gaulle had been looking for.
A few weeks later, NBC sent a film crew to interview him in the lobby. The studios where NBC produced The Today Show were on the floors above. He had operated the elevator that took the network executives up to those studios every morning for nearly ten years. He had not been recognized as he did it.
He went back to operating the elevator the following Monday.

He died of stomach cancer on October 12, 1961, three days after his sixty-sixth birthday.
He was buried in the French War Veterans' section of Flushing Cemetery, in Queens, in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion. The casket was draped with the French flag.
In 1994 — thirty-three years after his death — the United States Air Force formally commissioned Eugene Jacques Bullard as a Second Lieutenant, posthumously.
It was the first commission the U.S. military had ever offered him.
He had been the first Black combat pilot in American history.
The French had been calling him a hero since 1917.
The Americans got around to it in 1994.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

Iraqi footballer Aymen Hussein issued a statement after being detained and questioned for seven hours upon entering the United States:

“If America is so hostile towards foreign nationals, why is it hosting the #2026WorldCup?”

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

Rosie O’Donnell on Donald Trump: “If you grew up in New York you knew he was an asshole and a liar from day one. He is a con man, he is a narcissist, and he is a psychopath if you ask me”