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JUST SAYING: Trump: School’s in Session; Santa Barbara Beach is now Closed — Period; Police Reform Overnight; Thousands of Mexican Americans Fought in the Civil War on Both Sides

Posted on June 19, 2020
JUST SAYING
BY RAUL HERNANDEZ
CJNOTEBOOK.COM
HEY KIDS, THE SCHOOL BUS IS HERE
This pathetic evil sociopath let people know who he was through his words and deeds before he got elected.
The book by Mary Trump gives the details of why this guy’s brain got broke decades ago and how it happened.
People still voted for him, millions of them. Thousands still show up at his political rallies.
But what is more sad is that the cable news pundits were trying to analyze “President Trump” when he first took office as though he was an Egyptian enigma written in hieroglyphics.
“What do you think the president is signaling now?” I recall one moron saying. What do you think?
These imbecile TV pundits and analysts needed lights from watchtowers to guide them through the obviously deranged highway inside Trump’s skull.
Now that it is safe to leap off the Trump Titanic, most of these “pundits” are critical of Trump.
Long before Trump took office, he had a track record. This includes: Mocking the disabled and Gold Star parents. He went through several bankruptcies and cheated people who did business with him. He scammed hardworking people through Trump University. More than two dozen women accused him of being a pervert. He stole from charities.
According to Mary Trump’s book, he ripped off his relatives out of hundreds of millions of dollars by hiding money from them.
Trump remains silent as his pal, Putin, issues contract hits on American military service members.
And today, the lunatic sends two of his rubber stamps — Pence and Betsy Voss — unashamedly out on stage to convince sane parents that it is safe to send their children back to schools.
Ignore medical experts and professionals’ advice because Uncle Donald needs to thump his chest and hang a “Mission Accomplished ” banner at the Republican National Convention.
Yeah, right.
The Beach is Closed

The media is doing a good job of posting the facts and stats about the Coronavirus.

But they haven’t emphasized what can happen if a hurricane hits the country or earthquake, massive fires or a commercial airline crashes, and there aren’t enough hospital beds or ventilators because of the pandemic.

It is a strong argument for the use of face masks and social-distancing for those who don’t believe they can get the virus.

In Santa Barbara County, all the beaches were closed today.

This week, however, the Santa Barbara City Council Mayor Cathy Murillo and council members Friedman and Jordon voted to keep the city beaches open.

Surrounding counties, Los Angeles, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo beaches were closed.

So guess what was going to happen? Thousands were heading to SB’s city beaches.

Today, this all changed, all beaches were ordered closed by the County Public Health Department due to the anticipated “high volume of people” at our beaches during the July 4th weekend.

Thank God reasonable heads prevailed and not local politics.

Santa Barbara has been through fires, earthquakes, and a tragic flood in neighboring Montecito, where 23 people were killed in the mudslide on Jan. 9, 2018.

Santa Barbara is a community of about 100,000 residents.

Like other similar or smaller communities, a major disaster, airline crash, massive shooting or traffic accident will be a medical nightmare when all ICU beds and ventilators in a community aren’t available.

POLICE REFORM

 

A lot of police reform can happen almost overnight in America.

Here is how it can happen:

First of all, fire thugs with guns and badges and get rid of racists. If they commit crimes, arrest, and jail

cops.  If found guilty, send them to prison. 

This is what happens to civilians who commit crimes.

Monitor what some of these thugs and racists with badges are doing on the streets. One way this can be done through random and periodic checks of the police cams that they wear on patrol.

If some cops repeatedly turn the body cams off, fire them.

The Wilmington Police Department did this monitoring, and it found three vile racists within the ranks:

Stop the political pandering of police unions. Vote against politicians who get a lot of cash from police unions. 

Restart federal investigations of out-of-control police departments by the DOJ. Several police departments, including Chicago and Albuquerque, were investigated by the feds, and reports were published.

These investigations were stopped by Trump’s former lapdog Jeff Sessions.

Washington Post reported on June 15, 2017: “Sessions has said he aims to put the Justice Department on a more pro-police footing.

“Last month, he reversed an Obama administration move to restrict shipments of military surplus gear to police departments, saying in a speech that “the previous administration was more concerned about the image of law enforcement being too ‘militarized’ than they were about our safety.”

Good, honest cops are worth their weight in gold. They need to be paid well and given great medical and health benefits for the jobs they do, including mental health services.

Cops have very tough jobs. They have high rates of divorce, suicides, and alcoholism.

To do serious and meaningful police reform, voters need to first eradicate Republican cancer in Washington D.C.

Vote.

MEXICAN-AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN CIVIL WAR
The arguments, pro, and con, about taking down statues of Confederate soldiers continue.
Why should America allow the statues and monuments to the losers and traitors of the Civil War?
That war was started because people wanted to be able to own other human beings and have the right to treat them like animals.
Hundreds of thousands of people died in that war.
 
” At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000. The number that is most often quoted is 620,000. At any rate, these casualties exceed the nation’s loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam,” according to Civil War Home. 
Having said that, let me throw a monkey wrench in all this, and what is not taught in American history:
 
According to History.com, thousands of Mexican-Americans fought in the Civil War:
 
Jerry D. Thompson, a history professor at Texas A&M International University, estimates that a few thousand Mexican Americans joined the Confederate troops and over 10,000 joined the Union Army and Militia.
Though there was some overlap, most Mexican Americans who joined the Union lived in the U.S. territory of New Mexico or the state of California, while most who joined the Confederacy lived in Texas, one of the states that seceded. At least 2,500 Tejanos joined the Confederate Army, according to History.com
 
“In March 1862, Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Chávez led Union troops in an attack on a Confederate supply train at the Battle of Glorieta Pass. The Union victory helped push the Confederacy out of New Mexico for good, later earning Glorieta a nickname: the “Gettysburg of the West.” Today, the battlefield is part of Pecos National Historical Park, and a marker of Mexican Americans’ contributions to the U.S. military, according to History.com
 
According to the Texas State Historical Association, At least 2,500 Mexican Texans joined the Confederate Army.
 
The most famous was Santos Benavides, who rose to command the Thirty-third Texas Cavalry as a colonel and thus became the highest-ranking Tejano to serve the Confederacy. Though it was ill-equipped, frequently without food, and forced to march across vast expanses of South Texas and northern Mexico, the Thirty-third was never defeated in battle.
“Mexico had banned slavery in 1829, several years after it won its independence from Spain, and some Mexican-Americans may have joined the Union because they opposed U.S. slavery, according to History.com
“There is some evidence that there was a mini underground railroad here in south Texas that was largely fueled by tejanos, usually poor tejanos, who would help runaway slaves escape into Mexico,” says Thompson. “We know there were thousands of runaway slaves in Mexico.”

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