However, Biden may well be our nominee so I am reluctant to pile-on, since the media will surely do so, on steroids.  Biden is slipping (or slipped), while Trump just gets another "beautiful love letter" from the missile launching Kim or trashes Beto at the El Paso hospital while the current Mrs. Trump smiles...and that is just another Trump being Trump. Keep those tax cuts, de-regulations, and young right-wing judges coming.

I'm well known at work for my anti-crime family sentiments. I have a trumpturd on my desk facing the door. I have an ACLU sticker on my office door. I have a "Proud Democrat" sticker on the bulletin board behind my desk. I have a "trump traitor (with sickle and hammer) sticker back there as well. There is a sticker in the back window of my car that reads "If you still support Trump, stay back 500 feet. I don't trust your judgment."

My car sits in a handicap spot right by the door into the building, so you can't miss it. I have a few comments expressing support. No one has complained to management or me personally about my messaging.

When Fred was arrested in May 1942, Kathryn insisted upon accompanying him to Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah and was bodily removed from the train by the authorities because, after all, she was white and not of Japanese ancestry.

(It should also be noted that Kathryn Pearson Korematsu was actually of Italian ancestry, and the U.S. was also at war with Italy in 1942. Just another point underscoring the fact that Executive Order No. 9066 had everything to do with racial animus, and nothing at all to do with any perceived threat to national security.)

Anyway, the pre-war romance between Chester Nakayama (Derek Mio) and his Mexican girlfriend Luz (Cristina Rodlo) in California was certainly conceivable. However, she would never have been allowed to later join him in the internment camp, which happens in this miniseries.

Fascinating

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 Important to remember... Epstein's universe was NOT partisan

Michael Brown's murder forever changed Ferguson and America. His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement. We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.

Not sure it will ever burst.

Just saw that in spite of the carnage in the agriculture industry a survey of farmers says they still support him even with farm bankruptcies up 13% from last year.

Will a few more dead brown people and the odd batshi+ conspiracy burst the dam?

While most modern history books say that these Jewish passengers were trying to escape the Holocaust, that's really not quite accurate since the matter of Jewish extermination was not formally adopted as an official Nazi policy until early 1942. While it is regrettably true that the overwhelming majority of them did not survive the war, their fate was not officially sealed until the Nazis' Jewish policy was amended several years after their return.

Some further explanation is in order here. At the time the St. Louis departed Hamburg in May 1939, the Jewish population in greater Germany -- which included Austria and Czechoslovakia, both of which were absorbed into the Third Reich by March of that year -- was only about 500,000 out of an overall population of 85 million. In May 1939, Germany's policy regarding its Jews was disenfranchisement, relocation and expulsion. That policy is what facilitated the sad voyage of the MS St. Louis and her passengers.

The Nazi hierarchy only first broached more extreme policies in late 1941 after Germany had conquered eastern Europe and most of European Russia, where some 9 million Jews resided and the former German policy of removal and relocation became rather problematic logistically. Accordingly on January 20, 1942, SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler convened a now-infamous meeting at 56-58 Am Großen Wannsee, an SS-owned guesthouse just outside Berlin, to formally consider "The Final Solution to the Jewish Question."

The Wannsee Conference was chaired by SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, who today is considered by most historians to have been the primary architect of the Final Solution. (He was assassinated four months later by Czechoslovak partisans in Prague, and so did not live to see his plan carried out.) Most attendees represented the German Interior Ministry, the Foreign Ministry, and the Justice Ministry, including SS military administrators for the newly-conquered "Eastern Territories."

The ever-devoted German bureaucracy unwittingly preserved the meeting's minutes for posterity, which were first discovered in May 1947 by U.S. and British attorneys who were investigating war crimes in behalf of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Behold, the utter banality of evil, which in obvious hindsight is a truly chilling read, given what subsequently happened as a direct result of the Wannsee Conference.

While Nazi racism was clearly the underlying factor, the actual catalyst for the Holocaust itself was the appallingly nonchalant determination by German bureaucrats that it was more efficient and cost-effective to simply exterminate Jews and other "undesirable" populations, than to continue relocating and / or expelling them from German-occupied territories.

I barely remember The Conversation.  Might have to watch that again.