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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, January 28, 2025

January 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

clay jones roll call
From Clay Jones: “Donald Trump and Republicans have been framing undocumented immigrants as villains for years. Trump has called them “vermin” poisoning the “blood of our country,” or he was talking about his syphilis that turned his tiny penis green. Trump will point out a crime an immigrant has committed as though it’s a trend rather than an exception because most undocumented immigrants don’t commit crimes and those numbers are going down. When white nationalist terrorists attack our nation, they get pardons and they may be put on federal payrolls. But when an immigrant murders a young lady, Trump will say she was beautiful, as though it would have been acceptable if the immigrant had murdered an ugly person. What will Trump say if an undocumented immigrant murders a Trans climate activist? […]. [T]hese deportations are a large part of Trump’s hate agenda and they don’t help the country. If anything, they will hurt this nation. It will hurt the economy, especially the agricultural economy. Egg prices will not come down if you have to pay more for people who process the eggs. Let’s hope Trump doesn’t start deporting undocumented chickens. Plus, who’ll restock the toilet paper next to his gold toilet where he conducts his 2 a.m. poop tweets?” Read more at Substack.
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Today at a Glance:

The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 9 a.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.

The Flagler County School Board meets at 1 p.m. in an information workshop. The board meets in the training room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here.

The Flagler County School Board meets at 6 p.m. in Board Chambers on the first floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here. The meeting is open to the public and includes public speaking segments.

The NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership Meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the African American Cultural Society, 4422 North U.S. Highway 1, Palm Coast (just north of Whiteview Parkway). The meeting is open to the public, including non-members. To become a member, go here.

Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club at the Flagler Beach Public Library meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.

‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. $25. Book here. The three MaGrath sisters are back together in their hometown of Hazelhurst for the first time in a decade. Under the scorching heat of the Mississippi sun, past resentments bubble to the surface and each sister must come to terms with the consequences of her own “crimes of the heart.”

Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.

Palm Coast Open at the Southern Recreation Center, 1290 Belle Terre Parkway, Palm Coast:
Starting at 10:00 a.m.:
(2) Arvid NORDQUIST (SWE) vs. Matthew SEGURA (USA)
(3) Lucas RENARD (SWE) vs. (9) Spencer GRAY (USA)
(6) Raphael PEROT (FRA) vs. (14) Dylan LONG (USA)
(5) Aleksa CIRIC (SRB) vs. Sami BEN ABDENNIBI (MAR)
Henry LIEBERMAN (USA) vs. (16) Alex JONES (USA)
(7) Joao Vitor GONCALVES CEOLIN (BRA) vs. (12) Ryan HAVILAND (USA)
Oren VASSER (USA) vs. (13) Sebastian Grundtvig JORGENSEN (DEN)
(1) Justin BOULAIS (CAN) vs. (15) Facundo BERMEJO (ARG)
Not before noon
Victor LILOV (USA) vs. (2) Garrett JOHNS (USA)
Tyler STICE (USA) vs. Miles JONES (USA)
Matija PECOTIC (CRO) vs. (8) Louis TESSA (FRA)
Ronald HOHMANN (USA) vs. Matthew THOMSON (USA)

Not before 1:30pm
Lucca ACIOLY (BRA) / Joao Vitor GONCALVES CEOLIN (BRA) vs. Maxwell BENSON (USA) / Jonas
Pelle HARTENSTEIN (GER)
Aidan BOROSKO (USA) / Patrick DACIEK (USA) vs. Sathi Reddy CHIRALA (IND) / Matias Franco
DESCOTTE (ARG)
Drew VAN ORDERLAIN (USA) / Leonardo VEGA (USA) vs. Raphael PEROT (FRA) / Fabien SALLE
(FRA)
Louis VAN HERCK (LUX) / Marlon VANKAN (GER) vs. (4) Henry BARRETT (USA) / Louis WESSELS
(GER)



Notably: Richard Nixon was the wiliest of presidents since Lincoln, but with more sinister ends. Lincoln’s wiles were in service to the Union. Nixon’s were to his own power. Blacks and the counterculture had nearly kept this 43 percent president from winning in 1968. He would not let that happen again in 1972. He could not declare Blacks and hippies the enemies within. We were not yet at the point where a president, treasonous though he was, could explicitly judge treasonous swaths of the country, at least not outside of Oval Office conversations. Nixon hit on an end run worthy of John Marshall sophistry. (I am thinking of the John Marshall of Marbury v. Madison, which did to American constitutional law what Ayatollah Khomeini did to Shiitism: it invented a jurisprudence out of thin air. Nothing in Islam calls for an “Islamic Revolution” or an “Islamic Republic,” as the writer Amin Maalouf points out, making Khomeini closer to Mao than to Muhammad or any of his descendants, and Iranian Shi’ism a wholly new morphing of the old religion. John Marshall was no Mao, except to his cousin Thomas Jefferson, who thought the Constitution should be interpreted by the legislature, not the Supreme Court. Thankfully, Jefferson, usually more right than Marshall, did not prevail. But nowhere in the Constitution will you find the concept of judicial review. Marshall invented it.) Nixon declared without believing it that drug abusers were “public enemy number one.” With that, he’d criminalized two bothersome demographics while appealing to his mass of silent and supposed majoritarians itching to put Blacks and hippies in their place. The war on drugs was initially a war on Blacks and the counterculture. As for an addict, drugs were Nixon’s means to an end. We have not stopped suffering the consequences, intended and unintended, in this war that has claimed more lives than all of America’s actual wars combined. 

—P.T.

 

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Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way

Flagler School District Bus Depot
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Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach
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SunBros Cafe Celebrates the Life of Travis Sundell

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Al-Anon Family Groups

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American streets felt like harrowing places. A moral panic was afoot that spring concerning the drug PCP. The Washington Post said it could “turn a person into a rampaging semblance of a cornered wild animal,” and blamed it for a nonexistent local schizophrenia epidemic. Actually, the drug delivered only a slightly more intense high than marijuana. Studies proved it usually had no more lasting harm. The stories about peaceful youth become feral beasts at their first taste of the stuff were myths. Which did nothing to abate all the breathless TV news segments about “angel dust” users plucking out their own eyes and bashing in car windows.

–From Rick Perlstein’s Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980 (2020).

 

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Comments

  1. Ed P says

    January 28, 2025 at 6:29 am

    Most gang members join between the ages of 12-15.
    40% of MS gang members are under 17.
    It’s referred to as hiding in plain sight…school students

    If a U.S. citizen who is a minor, committed a crime, any sworn police officer can enter a school and make the arrest. Should illegal aliens who have committed a crime be excluded and given more protection than our own children?

    With all the above, Ice would not be going to elementary school and rounding up 6 year olds. The current effort to purge our streets of undocumented, unvetted criminals if far from a military police state. Nothing about todays cartoon is based in reality.

  2. Endless dark money says

    January 28, 2025 at 11:42 am

    First they came for the immigrants, inspector generals, transgender people, scientists, dei, women, poor people and intellectuals.

    And it’s only been a week!

    These gop terrorist are nasty sub human life forms. Time to start over.

    4
  3. Pogo says

    January 28, 2025 at 1:53 pm

    @A breath of poison gas

    …from trump’s new work wife and AI eva braun clone (aka melania’s relief catcher)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoline_Leavitt

    Eat up. It’s all there is…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVGsI6SuC1g

    MakeAmericaGrotesqueAgain 💩

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  4. Sherry says

    January 28, 2025 at 4:47 pm

    How incredibly hypocritical that the same people who absolutely insist on “forced birth” no matter what, are the same ones who have no problem at all with the extreme trauma of ice agents rounding up children at school to possibly be deported to a place that they may have never lived before. Oh wait, that’s right. . . they are not white so they are not children at all, just anchor babies for those “illegals”!

    2
  5. FlaPharmTech says

    January 28, 2025 at 7:36 pm

    Dear Denmark,
    I, a US citizen of German, Hungarian and honorary Danish descent, am horrified and embarrassed by Trump’s threats to you regarding Greenland. Keep up the good fight! Many, many Americans DO NOT support trump and WE RESIST.
    In peace, I am the granddaughter of Johannes Borsch Jensen, a very, very good man. I’m thankful he’s not alive to witness the trumpcatastrophe.

    2
  6. Pogo says

    January 28, 2025 at 8:19 pm

    @Update on Frau Leavitt

    Full remarks, 01/28/2025

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq5pgeMhXno

    4 years of this shit.

    2
  7. Laurel says

    January 30, 2025 at 3:37 pm

    Sherry: I’m surprised you missed the MAGA point! Once you’re born, you are on your own. Right to life is only in utero, where the women is under government control

    1
  8. Sherry says

    January 31, 2025 at 11:46 am

    Right On Laurel!

    1

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