The Barbarian Hordes
Risking their lives and others on a theory!
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Ybor City - Immigrants Town
Ybor City was founded in the 1880s by
Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and was populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy.
For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor City's cigar factories rolled hundreds of millions
of cigars annually.
Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and was populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy.
For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor City's cigar factories rolled hundreds of millions
of cigars annually.
Ybor City was unique in the American South as a successful town almost entirely populated
and owned by immigrants.
By historian Ybor Roger and Wikipedia
and owned by immigrants.
Monday, July 6, 2020
Tampa’s Castor: A Distrusted, Unrepentant Racist
of solidarity.” Chris Cano
to his death.
Jim Bleyer
Florida's Right Wing Infestation: KW Miller
KW Miller is running for a seat in the 18th Congressional District in Florida. In a series of bizarre tweets posted over the weekend, Miller said that Beyonce wasn’t "even" Black and much more.
On Saturday night, he sent the first tweet linking Beyoncé to QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory that claims the "deep state" is conspiring against Trump, saying that she was part of the “Soros
Deep State agenda”. HERE
Hot Jacksonville, Florida
FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn, who was appointed to the post by Trump, said it’s “too early to tell” if Jacksonville will be safe to hold the convention on the planned Aug. 24-27 dates.
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Jacksonville is now one of the hotspots for coronavirus transmission in the U.S.
Stogie Recommends
Beautiful film-making. Great cast, especially
Hillery Swank. Directed by Tommy Lee Jones.
81% on Rotten Tomatoes
81% on Rotten Tomatoes
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Local Trump Deplorable And Facebook Serial Jailbird Gordon Brown
Found a post we did on him in 2016 and shared it on his page HERE
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Mr. Brown you must be a popular guy, that post has been trending and is currently at #1. Thanks for all the traffic.
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Tour of the Samuel L. Davis Cigar Factory - Ybor City
Samuel L. Davis was a native New Yorker who learned the cigar trade at a young age in his hometown. After being a salesman for Julius Ellinger Co., he founded the Samuel L. Davis Co. in 1886 at the age of 24 to produce El Sidelo, Gen. Good, Charle Carroll, Segundo and Harvester brands.
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Samuel L. Davis first occupied the old Joyce Cigar Co. factory building between Ybor City and Tampa before constructing a new facility
in 1904.
in 1904.
Floridians Reminiscing
Now that we finally got around to treason and are in a patriotic mood. Let's recap shell we. On this date this man could of put a stop to this madness
and he didn't. HERE
This Dem wants his job!
HELP HIM HERE
So does
Theodore Murray NPA
and he didn't. HERE
HELP HIM HERE
So does
Theodore Murray NPA
Florida Trump Voters Lash Out
Longtime Florida Republicans who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 admitted they have no intention of helping him stay in office when they vote in November.
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With polls showing the Trump trailing in the all-important Sunshine State.
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According to retired banker John Dudley, 77, he voted for Trump last election and the president promptly “blew it.”
Saturday, July 4, 2020
Florida GOP Bullshit
Florida Dems called on GOP Ron DeSantis to require the use of face coverings in public statewide to curb the state’s surging pace of coronavirus infections.
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DeSantis has said repeatedly, and recently reiterated, that he will not mandate mask use, leaving it to local governments and individuals to decide for themselves.
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Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Orange County, Leon County, Hillsborough County and St. Augustine have adopted mask mandates.
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Meanwhile, state Rep. Anthony Sabatini, a Lake County Republican, is filing lawsuits against local governments that impose
face-mask ordinances.
face-mask ordinances.
Happy Birthday Andrew Joseph III
"There’s not a day that passes by that I don’t think of you and Remember that I still have a son and I named him Andrew Joseph, III ... he is forever 14 years old. Today and Always. I love you son and miss you so damn much." Deanna Hardy-Joseph
Florida Dems Beware
Trump is scheming to retain power in the event of an electoral loss in November, according to a former Senator from Colorado.
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Trump will attempt to retain power through voter suppression. The Senator alleges there is a strategy to suppress voter turnout by purging voters - especially inner-city voters - from registration rolls and to suppress mail-in voting. He also believes physical polling locations will be limited, especially in urban areas, in an effort to create long lines on Election Day and discourage voting. HERE
The Right-Wing Cuban Diaspora in Miami
The fury over French director Olivier Assayas’s new film “Wasp Network,” inspired by the real story of a Cuban spy ring operating in the U.S. in the 1990s.
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The feature film has reignited ideological passions across the Florida Straits. The vociferous right-wing Cuban diaspora in Miami has led a petition drive #RemoveWaspNetwork (18,000 signatures as of July 2) for Netflix to take down the film. HERE
Friday, July 3, 2020
Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba’s Children
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