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Our Parents Were Better Than Us at Protesting
The atmosphere was tense. It was May 6, 1970, as the fresh spring dew from the Mitchell Hall lawn began to soak through the shoes of the roughly 3000 protesters gathered on UWM's campus that day. They barely spoke, they didn't need to, the time for their voices to be heard would come later; for the time being their goal is simple—disrupt administrative activities in Mitchell Hall and draw police attention to create an opportunity for a smaller group of about 300 students to occupy and shut down the library and the power plant.
By Jim Varga8 years ago in The Swamp
The Trump Fiasco Is All Richard Nixon's Fault
We really all should have seen the Trump Presidency coming. It has always been there, just underneath the surface of our lives, or really right in front of our faces. For those of us who grew up in the '70s and '80s, you could here it at parties whenever the subject of Watergate came up. There was always that push by many to argue that "President Nixon didn't do anything wrong that any other President didn't do as well. He just got caught." I must have heard that a thousand times. The problem is that he DID do something terribly wrong that no other President had ever done. He fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in what has become known as "The Saturday Night Massacre" and tried to take over the F.B.I. in what would have become the end of our Republic as we knew it. Sound eerily familiar?
By Scott Bowen8 years ago in The Swamp
Canada Needs to Be Redpilled in 2018
2017 was an abomination of a year. Did you know the “most used word” of 2017 was “fake news?” Let me tell you, there is no fake news here. It was one hell of a year of the US legacy media spreading fake news, biased-liberal propaganda or just simply not reporting anything newsworthy. Yes, there was a lot of winning since Trump took office. The results show it throughout his first year. It pissed off the masses of people and the elites. Good! I am a fan of Trump, I like what he is doing, gets to the point and is being reasonable for the most part. However, I remain sceptical and cynical of anyone in that high status of power, especially the US President, always called “The Leader of the Free World.” I say that as an observing individual watching this phenomenon happen like I’m watching a movie to be critiqued afterwards. Last year, we witnessed the array of stupidity being memed and shared on social media, crumbling the sanity of our Western Society. I witnessed people getting redpilled last year and earlier on since the US election of 2016. I hope that this year more people will wake the fuck up and see the truth with how the gov’t is fucking everything up. The term “Redpill” means a lot of things to different people; I mean it as being awakened, enlightened, and seeing the truth. But, everything you will see can’t be unseen. You can’t go back to living in ignorance. You can try, I’d like to see you try, and I bet you will fail. So will I if I attempted to go back. America seems to have finally woken up.
By Liberty Against Tyranny8 years ago in The Swamp
Leo's Flood
Academy Award Winner, Producer and United Nations Messenger of Peace for Climate Change are just a few of the many hats Leonardo DiCaprio wears. From a young age, Leonardo became interested in our world and its inhabitants—human and animal. Today, he serves on the boards of several environmental groups and uses his popularity to help educate the public about the dangerous path our world is traveling.
By Crystal Miller8 years ago in The Swamp
#DeepState: Ellen DeGeneres Just Doesn't Have the Time for It
Sorry, #EricTrump — #EllenDeGeneres just doesn't have time to be part of the #DeepState. Apparently in an effort to illustrate that worries about being betrayed and undermined are a family affair, Eric Trump, President Donald Trump's middle son, suggested via Twitter that the talk show host was part of something called the Deep State. Noting that Twitter suggested he follow Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as well, he hashtagged the tweet #DeepState, and when DeGeneres caught wind of the tweet, she was willing to break her usual rule of not discussing politics to explain that she was not a part of Deep State. In fact, she initially said that she hadn't had an idea as to what it was.
By Christina St-Jean8 years ago in The Swamp
The "True" Narrative, as I See It
It’s time for the poor bastard to be swallowed by a whale. Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” is released today, a week earlier than planned, as a response to the President’s threats of a cease and desist.
By Joel Eisenberg8 years ago in The Swamp
The American Dream Is Immigration
Immigrants are contributing to the economy, workforce, and stimulating growth faster than we are letting them in. Contrary to the misconception that immigrants are taking American jobs, they actually create them. The National Foundation for American Policy found that 44 out of 87 (that's more than half) of private companies valued at more than $1 billion dollars had at least one immigrant founder. Successful companies with immigrant founders include Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. These companies have pushed innovation and made the United States a leader in the technological world as well as employing many Americans and immigrants alike.
By Morgan Thomas8 years ago in The Swamp
America, Uncomfortably Yours
Disclaimer: I might offend a lot of people. Get over it. Hey, hardline conservatives (or as liberals call you: nazis/alt-right/white supremacists) and ultra liberals (or as conservatives call you: communists, snowflakes, dirty hippies), it’s you extreme righty or lefty f*cks who are burning this country down. Those of you who are so opinionated and polarized that you can’t see anything except your own party line. You hear “the other side” saying something and you immediately decide it’s “fake news” or not true.
By Panda Hirabayashi8 years ago in The Swamp
The Fourteen Points of Fascism and Our President
A while back, Dr. Lawrence Britt studied the regimes of the world's most infamous fascist leaders, including Hitler and Mussolini. He managed to narrow down their time of ruling into fourteen clear points that define fascism.
By Mary Caitlyn8 years ago in The Swamp
Gentrification Blues. Top Story - January 2018.
My late father criticized me when I moved out of the neighborhood where he and my late stepmother lived. “That building probably has graffiti on the walls,” Dad grumbled. Yet the rent in the new place was way less expensive than the rent I had been paying. My dad and stepmother could afford to pay the high price of living in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city. They relished rubbing elbows with the well-heeled. I had grown tired of dealing with the area’s elitist climate, and I wanted to live in an area with real people. I found a neighborhood where people leaned out of their windows to wave to their friends. Kids giggled as they ran down the street in packs to get to their next adventure. Mom-and-pop stores were the norm.
By Hillari Hunter8 years ago in The Swamp
2018: A Time for the People of the United States
The arrival of 2018 has the nation at a crucial position in politics as issues from 2017 have yet to be resolved. Additionally, an opportunity has arisen for Americans to flex their power of the vote by turning their eyes towards gubernatorial elections as well as the seats in Congress that are up for re-election in 2018.
By Josh Contreras8 years ago in The Swamp
The Federal Reserve and a Picture of JFK
The Federal Reserve and just some random picture of JFK for the full effect. 😉 Signed into law by Woodrow Wilson in 1913, the Federal Reserve Banking Act gave control of this country's money to a small group of families. After doing so, he wrote:
By Mic Leeway8 years ago in The Swamp