At least 4,000 were lynched – a repost … reminder

https://beaseedforchange.org/2026/04/29/4000-were-lynched/

'Or, perhaps, his character came clear a decade later, during his first run for the Presidency, when he said of John #McCain, who spent more than five years being tortured in a North Vietnamese prison, “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.” This was from a man who avoided the war with four student deferments and a medical deferment for bone spurs in his heel.'

#trump
#robreiner
#robreinerdeath

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/donald-trumps-remarks-on-the-death-of-rob-reiner-are-next-level-degradation

@garbageman @JessTheUnstill Fascism is only one of many ways of being indecent. #McCain suffered from serious PTSD from his years-long captivity as a POW during the Vietnam War. He hated Asians so much that he publicly refused to apologize for having used blatant anti-Asian racial slurs. Having the nuclear-codes "football" in his possession would have frightened me far more than the #Trump #dictatorship does. A confrontation between the #USA and #China with #McCain as President could very easily have escalated to nuclear war.

None of this really mattered as long as he was only a Senator, and his public political positions were indeed more enlightened (relatively speaking) than those of most Republican politicians. But watching him run for President was terrifying. I voted for #Obama in 2008, NOT because I trusted him, but because I wanted to stop #McCain.