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I guess I should come out of the closet, or at least the telephone booth. (Sorry, Superman.)

I've been living a monastic life since Friday the 13th of March 2020 when the man who raped and still raps America, T-Rump, pushed the nation into COVID-19 recession.

If Kamalita prevails after T-Rump's treasonous militia stops shooting, perhaps someone will ask her why she sat shiva about Czar Donaldov's biggest weakness.

At least Seth Myers last Monday night finally hit the Orange Crusher for ignoring and lying about the plague, needlessly killing between 200,000 and perhaps half a million Americans. Myers joined a precious few band of brothers, namely Barack Obama and me.

Although I've been holed up save for medical appointments, I've still gotten in a few hits like playing with boiler room telephone pollsters, especially Trumpistas.

I'm evidently on every Democratic and Republican mailing list in the western world. Several laughably pegged me as a (huh?) major donor, especially the MAGA Moonhowlers.

I have learned to lie like a true Trumpistadore. Doing so, I glean from pollster questions how I may place useful information.

To many, I am a 35-ish Republican Latino man (and occasionally woman) with a high school education who lives in a union household. (Hey, some of it's true. Italians invented Latin, right?) S/he voted for T-Rump in 2016 and 2020, but definitely not this time. Take that, you psycho!

During all those calls, I have been extremely sensitive to the fact that I represented tens of thousands of Nevadans and/or millions of Americans.

I hope I was polled by the fake news New York Times in their last pre-election sweep showing Harris/Walz up by three points in Nevada over Putin's blonde groupie. That's almost as good as her lead in (drum roll, please) Iowa, fergawdsakes. Mama mia.

I'm a pretty good voice actor and have been able to convince pollsters that I am indeed female when they call and ask things like "Is this Sarah?"

My greatest performance thus came last Sunday while I was langorously lounging in bed watching a boring football game. The phone rang, the caller asked for Sarah.
Immediately going into grandma mode, I replied "that's me, how are you, sweetie?"

The young Latina said she was "in Nevada" calling on behalf of President Trump. I confirmed that I was indeed a Republican planning to vote in person on Tuesday.

For Kamala Harris. Zounds.

"Yes, I'm for Kamala. Us girls have to stick together, don't we? I'm a trans-sexual, dearie. I had it cut off over a year ago. You must come over and I'll show you all my cute scars!"

Silence. Then the line went dead.

TRANNY TRANSITION. That call made my day. I've been chuckling ever since. Which brings me to failing US Senate candidate Sam Brown.

I thought the Donkeykongs had lousy campaign managers this year but at the last minute, Mr. Brown won the booby prize. He ran saturation TV blaming Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen for "EIGHT YEARS" of disastrous government. Hmm...just who was president for the first half, Sam?

He also turned a UNR womens' volleyball team rally into a campaign photo op as they celebrated their boycott of San Jose State because of an alleged trans-sexual on the Spartan team. A perfect match. The wolfpackians proved as bigoted as the candidate.

He used video posing with them, promising to "protect" them. (Whether they want it or not, perhaps?)

He trashed Sen. Rosen for (gasp!) letting boys into girls locker rooms. Hmm...who was that blonde buffoon who walked unannounced into the dressing room of the Miss Universe Pageant? And stayed awhile. He was prominently featured on the new spot with Sam.

Because the team appeared in UNR uniforms, I inquired of UNR President Brian Sandoval if the university had approved use of its athletes' names, images and likenesses.

PAST DEADLINE UPDATE, INCLUDED IN PRINT EDITION: "No, the political advertisement with an image of our students was used without the University's knowledge or permission," according to UNR Communications Director Scott Walquist.

Nevada has gone back to its Mississippi West roots with this overt bigotry cloaked in womens' rights drag.

The UNR ladies have turned the concept of the rights of minorities on its head. Trans individuals are the oppressed minority, not the long tall white chicks engorged with an overdose of Fox Noise. (Barbwire Oct. 23)

You could replace "trans-sexual" with "negro" in all the press coverage and not miss a beat. Back to the future.

Alas, all contracted T-Rump's disease whereby every accusation is an admission.

NEVADA PUBIC RELATIONS COUP NO. 1: Last week, USA Today published a column about the UNR boycott. That's more than 200 newspapers plus affiliated multi-media.

PUBLIC RELATIONS COUP, PART DEUX. On Monday, the fake news New York Times devoted a half-page to the volleyball without balls brouhaha.

COUP-DE-GRASS HAT TRICK. Rounding out this grossly embarrassing triple play was the cover story of Sunday's NYTimes Magazine featuring (drum roll, please) the Washoe County Commission.

Senior member Jeanne Herman became titular "Army of Denial" poster child, scoring a full-page color portrait. You remember her, don't you? "One of the few local commission members nationwide to vote against certifying a 2020 Biden win."

Commissioner Clara Andriola got a nice big photo to help tell the story of how she voted against certifying her own primary election win last June.

T-Rump disease, metastasizing soon at a courtroom near you.

And don't forget last summer's Times exposé about T-Rump zombies in Nevada's smallest county (620 registered voters) trying and failing to recall their 20-year Republican county clerk.

Their godhead carried little Esmeralda with 82 percent of the vote in 2020 but they just KNEW she must have cheated because all election officials everywhere are crooks. ("Devouring Their Own," Barbwire June 12)

EATING CROW OR CROWING? I correctly called the 2016 election result in February with 17 candidates in the GOP primary. T-Rump was the expected "minority exception" aberration predicted by the "Cycles of American History." Look it up.

I'm finishing this piece as election day dawns with Ms. Harris surging in Nevada and Iowa, of all places.

I stand by my call of a Kamalita landslide in the fervent hope that soon will come a day when the name of the traitor is no longer spoken and that our deadly flirtation with fascism has faded toward final oblivion.

Get the latest booster jabs, stay safe and continue to pray for Ukraine and almost 100 other currently war-torn lands.

¡Sí se puede!

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)
être bien, élever l'enfer (Pardon my French.) Stammi bene. Scatenare l'inferno. (And Italian.)
_________________________

Andrew Quarantino Barbano is a 56-year Nevadan and editor of NevadaLabor.com, SenJoeNeal.org, DoctorLawyerWatch.com, BallotBoxing.US, ConsumerCoalitionv.org, ChantalCoalition.org, Rentvolution.org, MIssissippiWestNV.org and CesarChavezNevada.com among others. He is a longtime member of the Reno-Sparks NAACP and Sparks-based Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO. As always, his comments are entirely his own. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Sparks Tribune since August 12, 1988.

The Northern Nevada Central Labor Council/AFL-CIO inducted him into the César Chávez Nevada Labor Hall of Fame on April 5, 2024.

 

 

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FASCISM? That's a new face cream, right?
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FASCISM? That's a new face cream, right?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-30-2024 / Updated 10-30 & 11-15-2024 GMT / Expansions in blue /

Cindy Crawford would be proud to sell overpriced goo to Americans who wouldn't know fascism if it bit them in their precious soft-skinned skinny asses.

All the buzz these days as the Apocalypse looms is that the man who raps America, T-Rump, is a fascist.

Uh-huh. Does anybody know what that means? No? Which explains all the laments I see from frustrated, well-educated and enlightened liberals, especially the vaunted Fake News Media.

Well, we have met the enemy and he is us.

I have seen countless comments about fascism, even in pro-T-Rump media. Everybody talks about the depredations of legendary fasciste Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

As the saying goes, if Jake Highton wuz alive, he'd be turnin' over in his grave.

My late Tribune colleague and double hall of famer was a legendarily hardassed University of Nevada-Reno journalism professor. Jake was death on unclear writing. Dozens of reporters who lauded and mourned him when he died all said Jake's toughness made them better writers.

Jake would have flunked just about every reporter I see these days, from the New York Times on down.

Take PBS. Please. When they announced last Friday that they'd talk looming fascism on their venerable "Washington Week" show, my hopes were raised.

Five killer major media journalists talked about T-Rump and fascism. NONE defined it.

Then came the Bible, the Sunday New York Times Magazine with two major pieces. Both worth reading. Both disappointing.

The first was entitled "The MAGA Moguls —- How Elon Musk and a group of Silicon Valley billionaires built a shadow campaign to put Trump back in the White House."

Oh boy, a story about Russian oligarchy American style. Pure fascism, right? Alas and alack, "fascist" appears just once with one of Musk's buds bitching about California's "fascist COVID lockdowns." (Pardon my tangent, but why the hell does Kamala continue to ignore the hundreds of thousands of Americans who died and continue to do so because T-Rump ignored the plague? Dammit!)

I had high hopes for another Times Mag piece featuring the guru of fascist scholarship, esteemed historian and author Robert Paxton. Alas and alack, the great one also shot around the edges, talking about the nasty effects of the disease without defining it.

Jake would have flunked them all.

The experts apparently can't see the forest fire because of all the trees. They assume everybody knows what the F-word means.

The late great Travus T. Hipp, another Tribune double hall of famer, defined fascism for his Nevada radio listeners decades ago.

Fascism is a form of government where the means of production remain in private hands under an oppressive, dictatorial ruler with the two factions promoting and protecting each other.

Perfect. Succinct. An A-plus performance.

Travus went on to contrast fascism with Communism [1], wherein the means of production are taken over by a single dictatorial government. Another gold star, right Jake?

Russia today is fascist, not communist. T-Rump's buddy Vlad the Impaler and his fellow oligarchs control the means of production for their personal profit. This has made Czar Putin the richest man in the world. (Sorry, Elon.)

The now mis-labeled Communist Party which controls China is basically a fascist state, but the most pure and ghastly example of the perversion rightly termed Leninism is madcap Kim Jong Un's North Korea.

His population is much shorter than South Korea's because he feeds his military rather than his people.

Three decades ago, Travus decried the rise of "softshoe fascism" in America — burgeoning dictatorship as the rich got richer and increasingly controlled the government.

All that was missing was Hitlerian brownshirts and jackboots.

T-Rump's militias, who previewed their preparation in Charlottesville, Virginia, represent the final step.

They are organized and lie in wait as their buds patrol the polls in places like North Carolina. When T-Rump loses again, he will call them into action.

The evil which could not be named is here.

DIVING INTO EVIL MINDS. Why do all these rich guys (and a few rich gals) jump into follytix? Other than it's great for their businesses, screwing with people's lives is a kick.

When you've made more money than your heirs can ever spend in a century, the only thing left is to rule.

Which is why T-Rump in particular and "businessmen" in general make lousy civic leaders. They are used to treating their underlings with "my way or the highway."

You can't fire a recalcitrant U.S. Senator or the Chancellor of Germany.

Kamala is running uphill. I have quipped for years about the dilemma of women in politics. Americans want daddy to tuck them in at night knowing daddy will protect them.

They especially want papa in three areas of public life:

1. Network news anchor (The retiring Norah O'Donnell is just the latest who lost to the guys on other networks.)

2. Governor, not senator or mayor or just about anything else. We are comfy with daddy. Retro Nevada has never had a female guv.

3. President of the United States. The Bible tells the story of how Saul was named king of the Hebrews by acclamation. Why?

     "Saul stood head and shoulders over any other man." Daddy the tribe's protector again.

Which is why T-Rump boldly lies when he says he will "protect" women. Ask those who've died for lack of medical care because of him and "my justices."

THE EPISTLES OF JAMES AND ANDREW. Great minds think alike.

The Cajun Guru James Carville has announced that he is "certain Kamala Harris will win."

Correct.

I have predicted that Harris will prevail and approach landslide proportions close to 60 percent. Why?

"The arc of justice is bending toward the Harris-Walz ticket," I wrote on Oct. 2. I place complete faith where hope always resides: With the women of America.

Bet on it, Nevada.

Get the latest booster jabs, stay safe and continue to pray for Ukraine and almost 100 other currently war-torn lands.

¡Sí se puede!

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)
être bien, élever l'enfer (Pardon my French.) Stammi bene. Scatenare l'inferno. (And Italian.)
_________________________

Andrew Quarantino Barbano is a 56-year Nevadan and editor of NevadaLabor.com, SenJoeNeal.org, DoctorLawyerWatch.com, BallotBoxing.US, ConsumerCoalitionv.org, ChantalCoalition.org, Rentvolution.org, MIssissippiWestNV.org and CesarChavezNevada.com among others. He is a longtime member of the Reno-Sparks NAACP and Sparks-based Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO. As always, his comments are entirely his own. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Sparks Tribune since August 12, 1988.

The Northern Nevada Central Labor Council/AFL-CIO inducted him into the César Chávez Nevada Labor Hall of Fame on April 5, 2024.

[1] Technically, what today we term Communism is actually Leninism. True communism is a commune where everyone does equal work for equal pay and all share in the benefits.

The utopian communities of the early 19th Century United States were the closest we've come. Versions may be found in many places in the U.S. to this very day. See Wikipedia.

My old football coach was a pretty good civics teacher.

"If you've ever read the book or seen the movie 'The Lost Horizon,' that's communism," he said.

The fictional Valley of the Blue Moon was secluded from the world high in the Himalayas, a place also called Shangri-La. Everyone worked to the best of his or her ability and all shared equally.Many of the youthful-appearing residents were well over 100 years old. It was a true fictional paradise dedicated to preserving the complete legacy of humanity WHEN the rest of the world destroyed itself.

James Hilton's book came out in 1933, the classic film in 1937, directed by the legendary Frank Capra. World War II came shortly thereafter. All those readers and moviegoers apparently learned little.

"It would never work in the real world," Coach Jon Peterson told my civics class. "People are too greedy."

Lost horizons remain visible all over the world today.

 

 

 

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UNR Follyball in Mississippi West
Bigotry cloaked in womens' rights drag
The UNR ladies have turned the concept of the rights of minorities on its head. Trans individuals are the oppressed minority, not the long tall white chicks engorged with an overdose of Fox Noise.
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-23-2024 / Updated 10-22 & 10-27-2024 GMT / Expansions in blue /

SHAMEFUL NEWS ITEM: The University of Nevada-Reno ladies volleyball team refuses to play its October 26 game against San Jose State because one of Lord Rupert Murdoch's hate news disseminators asserted that a member of the Spartans team is transgender.

This modern-day hangover of Mississippi West is best explained and torpedoed by an excellent editorial by Bob Conrad and Kristen Hackbarth at ThisIsReno.com/ Read it.

The SJSU team will still suit up in Reno whether or not the Chicken Pack shows. UNR should show some chops like UNLV. Despite the Fox-News-in-the-Henhouse brouhaha, the Lady Rebels went to San Jose and beat the Spartans 3-1.

The UNR girls have disgraced the memory of a more courageous time back in apartheid Nevada. My very visceral emotions about this are best expressed in the Barbwire of Nov. 6, 2011. Herewith, "Heroes are made, not born."

My name is Andrew Barbano and I am a recovering racist, so schooled by my elders.

Jack Kelley taught me otherwise. The Fresno State football star and retired police detective died in the city of my birth on Oct. 25, 2011.

In 1946, Fresno State and the University of Nevada were confronted by America's apartheid. Jack Kelley was in the middle of it.

Jack's teams were 1-1 against the Wolf Pack, winning 33-0 in 1942 (against a Nevada team featuring future NFL Hall of Famer Marion Motley), and losing 7-4 in 1945. But the game changed forever in 1946 when they played against racism.

Nevada won.

Both schools were scheduled against all-white teams in the Jim Crow south. Fresno had to play powerful Oklahoma City University. The Wolf Pack from the fabled Mississippi West faced Mississippi State.

The Fresno Bulldogs were coached by the legendary James "Rabbit" Bradshaw, who had become Nevada football's first All-American in 1921.

Fresno's citizenry and student body became enraged when informed that OCU granted permission for "the colored players to play," but warned that it would not be responsible for what might happen. Bradshaw decided to suit up his star running back, Kelley, and first-string right tackle Millard Mitchell, but not play them. Fresno lost 46-7.

Students and some faculty voted to forfeit the game and a crowd of almost 2,000, many of them war veterans, demonstrated. Fresno citizens even raised $5,000 to pay the cancellation penalty the college faced. All of this happened six months before Jackie Robinson broke major league baseball's color barrier.

Nevada chose not to go rather than dishonor black players Bill Bass and Horace Gillom.

“It is not the custom in the South for members of the Negro race to compete in athletics with or against members of the white race in athletic contests,” a letter from Mississippi State officials informed the Wolf Pack.

"An unfortunate commotion would ensue if colored stars were allowed on the Starkville Field," they warned.

(In 2011) local sportswriter Joe Santoro noted that "the Wolf Pack not only didn’t understand it, they refused to play without Bass and Gillom."

Keith Kelley, a Fresno businessman and Millard Mitchell's godson, told the Fresno Bee that his father was never the same after the Oklahoma City game.

"I think it took a little bit out of Dad," Keith Kelley said. "This was a long time before Martin Luther King."

Detective Jack Kelley was a regular at the Barbano family diner in west Fresno. Like the neighborhood, the clientele was a racial and ethnic melting pot.

Then, as now, I talked a lot. One day, the teenaged me engaged the impeccably dressed Officer Kelley in a conversation about racial intermarriage. Jack's response astounded me.

"I don't know that I'd want my daughter to marry a white man," he stated in an offhand manner between bites of his sandwich.

I was shocked. Why wouldn't a black woman want to move up in class and marry white?

Jack had cleverly gotten me looking through the other end of the telescope. It was the beginning of my shedding the racism I had been carefully taught.

How could you grow up racist in a neighborhood filled with blacks, Mexicans, Jews, Armenians, Slavs, Chinese, Italians, Russians, Japanese and Portuguese? Our favorite hangouts were a black music store and a hobby shop run by Japanese Americans. Not even watching hateful World War II era movies could make us kids dislike the Maruko family.

Alas, the prejudices of some of my elder relatives had become mine. It took a long time to shed them.

Jack played pro ball for the New York Yankees, a predecessor to the New York Giants, before joining the Fresno Police Department in 1949.

He became Fresno PD's first African-American sergeant and founded the city's African American Historical and Cultural Museum. He is one of only two officers honored with department statues. The other, Sal Mosqueda, died in the line of duty.

Jack Kelley, 91, was laid to rest on Saturday. (Nov. 5, 2011)

He became a father to many, and that includes me.

Thanks, Jack.

BACK TO THE FUTURE. The UNR of today has not only forgotten, but shamed the memory of a courageous legacy.

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE 10/22: CHICKENS KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE AND SAVE TRAVEL BUDGET: UNR MOVES GAME TO BAY AREA. At least local bigoted Nevada Moonhowler Republicans won't get to grandstand again. UPDATE PART DEUX: HOW WRONG I WAS. READ ON. —>

ALABASTER JIM CROW
UNR volleyball players chicken out and boycott game with alleged transgender player on other team
Worried about showering accommodations, perhaps?
By Jim Krajewski / Reno Gazette-Journal 10-26-2024

ONE MORE TIME. I never had a bucket list until this month. With both the NY Yankees and LA Dodgers dripping with millionaire superstars, I wished for another rematch before I die. Rivals going back to the 19th Century, they hadn't met in the Fall Classic since 1981 when rookie pitcher Fernando Valenzuela led the Angelenos to victory.

This Friday, the classic clash of the titans happens again.

Thank you, God. Or St. Babe Ruth, or whichever one of you anointed this.

CZAR DONALDOV'S GROUND GAME. Be thee not confused, my precious snowflakes. Local Trumpistas are hitting Republican households reminding them to vote. Some of my neighbors got door knob hangers from a GOP PAC.

ABOARD WITH CAPTAIN KIDD. If no presidential candidate scores an electoral college majority, the election goes to the NEW House and Senate elected Nov. 5. Finally, a reason to vote for newcomer non-partisan Gregg Kidd for Congress.

GREEN FRIDAY. Environmentalist legend Bill McKibben and Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar host a get-out-the-vote rally Oct. 25, 6-7:30p.m. 780 Del Monte Lane, Reno 89511. Info: ThirdAct.org/Nevada/ (775) 530-9463.

Get the latest booster jabs, stay safe and continue to pray for Ukraine and almost 100 other currently war-torn lands.

¡Sí se puede!

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)
être bien, élever l'enfer (Pardon my French.) Stammi bene. Scatenare l'inferno. (And Italian.)
_________________________

Andrew Quarantino Barbano is a 55-year Nevadan and editor of NevadaLabor.com, SenJoeNeal.org, DoctorLawyerWatch.com, BallotBoxing.US, ConsumerCoalitionv.org, ChantalCoalition.org, Rentvolution.org, MIssissippiWestNV.org and CesarChavezNevada.com among others. He is a longtime member of the Reno-Sparks NAACP and Sparks-based Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO. As always, his comments are entirely his own. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Sparks Tribune since August 12, 1988.

The Northern Nevada Central Labor Council/AFL-CIO inducted him into the César Chávez Nevada Labor Hall of Fame on April 5, 2024.

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Betty J. Barbano
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Larry Barbano, Frater Mei
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To Die For
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The "shirtwaist kings" immigrated from Russia and made a fortune manufacturing "Gibson Girl"-style blouses. (Photo, "The American Experience"/PBS)
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Andrew Barbano is a 55-year Nevadan, editor of NevadaLabor.com and SenJoeNeal.org; and former chair of the City of Reno's Citizens Cable Compliance Committee. He was the longtime executive producer of Nevada's annual César Chávez Day celebration and has been a quarter-century member and 10-year officer of the Reno-Sparks NAACP. As always, his opinions are strictly his own. E-mail barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us.

The Northern Nevada Central Labor Council/AFL-CIO inducted him into César Chávez Nevada Labor Hall of Fame on April 5, 2024.

Barbwire by Barbano moved to Nevada's Daily Sparks Tribune on Aug. 12, 1988, and has originated in them parts ever since.
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