What's going on in Indian Country...

Colonel Oliver North Base at Quantico

Well throw St. Ronnie's Remains on a Roasting Rack. Look what I just found out!

(Wiki)
On August 27, 2025, Fawn Hall married her former boss Oliver North in a private ceremony in Virginia, after the two met following the funeral of North's wife

 

This official document, proclaiming Columbus Day, is bonkers. The prose style is embarrassing, and some of the fake facts are worse.

I suspect this is the first proclamation mentioning “left wing arsonists.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/columbus-day-2025/

Once we’re all done pointing and laughing, again, this is what fascists do.

 

Bad Bunny is more American than this Italian who never set foot in the present-day US.

 

Hey, Puerto Rico is in the present-day US; it must be, Trump brought them paper towels...

 

Indigenous People's Day is coming up.

 

Well yeah, but to MAGA...

 

AKA: "Why are you unpatriotic, you godless lib? Why do you hate Trump?" Day.

 

Trump is too stupid to know that Hebe de Bonafini of Argentina did praise the 9/11 attacks. At least, the bitch is dead now!

 

Not yet it isn’t. Trump hasn’t signed that declaration yet.

And I’ll bet he doesn’t.

 

Wrong thread maybe?

 

Kryptonite mentioned Trump.

 

I know this guy's like a pop cultural historian for community college kids and he stretches some facts. But I do like some of his videos

 

He is proclaiming a day that is already a federal holiday?
He is directing that the US flag be flown on public buildings on that day? What if it is a public building that doesn't normally fly a flag?

 

My point being that I'm sure some people on the left will continue to call it Indigenous Peoples' Day. Naturally, MAGA will go along with their cult leader. When the left doesn't, it's easy enough to see MAGA think of Indigenous Peoples' Day as being unpatriotic or some such.

 

And just like that, MAGA is triggered because people decide to celebrate indigenous people and not a genocidal rapist.

MAGA logic: "OJ Simpson was an all-time great NFL player. When he retired, he starred in some very funny movies. We should honor his accomplishments towards society."

 

Someone needs to start a tagging group:

"White men going 'hi yi yi yi yi' and not seeing what the problem is."

 

As a fan of the Team Formerly Known As The Redakins, how do the Atlanta Braves & FSU get to keep all their Indian-ness?

 

FSU has an agreement with the local tribe. As explained to me in this thread, that "agreement" includes lots of money. I think they also try to use students with native blood in their pagentry with the horse and spear, but I could be wrong.

As far as the Braves, I'm surprised they didn't change their logo to a fire hose in the patriotic shift following 9/11.

The idiotic part: This past spring, during track season, I saw one of those white chalk messages everyone paints on their car windows: "Go (name)! Run like a R*dskin!" Rural parts of red states will probably never understand, but if we can get them to feel like the odd ones out, that's a start.

Miami University is a bit north of Cincinnati. They changed from the racial slur to the RedHawks in the early 90s, IIRC. They still have older fans who do war whoops, but at least they're few and far between. It's not fun to yell "racist!" at them, but they get what they ask for.

 

Well, Florida State paid off the Seminoles for the privilege. Money and scholarships.

And Braves is at least arguably not a racist term, and was originally thought to be a reference to the perpetrators of the Boston Tea Party. Maybe.

Of course the "Redskins" actually was originally a reference to the ownership group's membership in Tammany Hall, so it had more to do with Organized Crime than Racism, but...

 

Because Redskins is a racial slur, while the Braves, Chiefs, and Seminoles are "just" inappropriate appropriation. My wife and I have been playing fantasy football this year and she has Mahomes and Kelce on her team.. As a result, we've been watching a lot of Chiefs games this year.. I am surprised that they are able to get away with a full stadium tomahawk chop in 2025.

 

The baseball Braves were named after the Tammany Hall foot soldiers, known as Braves. One of their owners was a Tammany Hall guy. Before that, they were called the Doves, Nationals and Red Stockings.

The Washington FT was originally in Boston, playing at Braves Field and known as the Braves. The owner felt that he was being charged too much rent, so he moved them over to Fenway, and since they already had maroon uniforms with a First Nations Indigenous People's theme, he changed the name. Besides that name was too long anyway. A year or so later, they moved to Washington and kept the name.

 

I was musing about how Columbus Day is not a big deal in New Orleans, even though we have a huge Italian population. I think it's because they are mostly Sicilian and Columbus was from Genoa (as explained by Furio in the Sopranos). Now St. Joseph's Day, that's a big deal.

 

Besides he was basically a mercenary. He sailed for the Queen of Castile.