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Hekate

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56. Was discussing, last night, how widely the infection spreads, how DJT is the tip of the boil...
Sun Feb 2, 2020, 08:20 PM
Feb 2020
"Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.”
SIR TERRY PRATCHETT, Lords & Ladies

Pratchett just tosses these bits of social commentary in as they occur to him -- in this case into a story about an Elf invasion -- and they stick in my mind like a burr.

Eventually Trump will drop dead, probably of natural causes, but our work will go on and on. This is a life-threatening systemic infection in our country -- but the fight will go on.


Trump is not the real problem. [View all] CloudWatcher Feb 2020 OP
Very well written. guillaumeb Feb 2020 #1
Thank you! CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #2
Agreed. guillaumeb Feb 2020 #3
Final defeat? CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #7
By final defeat I mean giving up. guillaumeb Feb 2020 #10
Yes ... CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #12
Trump is the tip of the iceberg... Wounded Bear Feb 2020 #4
I agree Butterflylady Feb 2020 #9
Eisenhower was the last honest Republican. He warned of the "Military-Industrial Complex" OMGWTF Feb 2020 #29
For a long time I saw Тяцмр as just an asshole ... Whiskeytide Feb 2020 #78
Agreed. kag Feb 2020 #5
Behind every demagogue there are billionaires funding them. YOHABLO Feb 2020 #6
Yes, income inequality is absurd. CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #13
Hitler went to the German industrialists... Wounded Bear Feb 2020 #79
All good points that in the... Snackshack Feb 2020 #8
GOP CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #17
Agreed 100%. Snackshack Feb 2020 #34
DUReced and bookmarked. Very powerful writing! Different Drummer Feb 2020 #11
Thank you :) CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #14
To simplify your inclusive statement--- pangaia Feb 2020 #15
Republicans? CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #20
Yes, republicans. And the whole concept of republicans and what they stand for.. pangaia Feb 2020 #22
Putin, Kim Jong-un, Modi, Bolsonaro, Duterte CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #40
world wide is right.. and it is the 'right' pretty much that is the greater danger, in my opinion... pangaia Feb 2020 #41
Yes, all of us must be in survival mode ... all the time! 42bambi Feb 2020 #77
media for sure, esp right wing hate radio and tv NRaleighLiberal Feb 2020 #16
I'm so old ... CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #18
Yep OldBaldy1701E Feb 2020 #71
And consumers have not kept up. CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #72
You grok well! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Feb 2020 #75
You have to get past the symptoms bucolic_frolic Feb 2020 #19
Lol, you're being a tease. CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #26
Amen colsohlibgal Feb 2020 #21
Hate radio. CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #24
hate radio. the root cause, doomed by artificial intelligence as soon as dems stop ignoring it certainot Feb 2020 #60
Excellent post malaise Feb 2020 #23
Thank you! CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #28
Rupert Murdoch The Most Evil Human In History DanieRains Feb 2020 #25
Murdoch is a problem, yes. But .... CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #31
Good list of the evils in this current system. erronis Feb 2020 #27
Yes, a multi-front war. CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #32
It is not coincidental that religion relies on a lot of these things. Mr.Bill Feb 2020 #30
Religion CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #38
No offense taken. I am also an Atheist. Mr.Bill Feb 2020 #39
Churches can do good! CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #47
Too much time has passed since the world wars. Thomas Hurt Feb 2020 #33
Thank you for your well written post. Brother Mythos Feb 2020 #35
Thank you! CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #42
Wealthy people who wish to maintain the status quo Yeehah Feb 2020 #36
Wealth CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #45
Trump is the Avatar Liberalhammer Feb 2020 #37
You don't need to tell me to be angry and stay that way. BigmanPigman Feb 2020 #43
Yes, I know :) CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #44
Give yourself more credit than that! BigmanPigman Feb 2020 #46
Thank you! CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #50
The real problems have names. We need to name those names. struggle4progress Feb 2020 #48
How do we start? CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #49
Don, Ivanka, Jared, Mitch, William, ... struggle4progress Feb 2020 #52
And we need to fix what has left them in power CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #54
This so reminds me of Steinbeck's words in Grapes of Wrath. ananda Feb 2020 #51
High praise indeed! CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #53
True in some sense. warmfeet Feb 2020 #55
Was discussing, last night, how widely the infection spreads, how DJT is the tip of the boil... Hekate Feb 2020 #56
President Pence? CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #57
It's huge -- the GOP is rotten to the core & the country is deeply split... Hekate Feb 2020 #58
BLAME REPUBLICANS who paved the way for Trump. nt live love laugh Feb 2020 #59
Yes, but ... CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #61
RepubLIEcons created the problems listed live love laugh Feb 2020 #66
The GOP didn't create those problems! CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #67
You are all over the place. live love laugh Feb 2020 #69
One Word: Rider3 Feb 2020 #62
McConnell CloudWatcher Feb 2020 #64
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2020 #63
Knr voteearlyvoteoften Feb 2020 #65
The real problem is as it has always been Republicans in the House, Senate and at cstanleytech Feb 2020 #68
Stop looking for heroes Nature Man Feb 2020 #70
We had all those problems before Trump came to power... kentuck Feb 2020 #73
The thing that gets me most about koolaid drinking Duppers Feb 2020 #74
Excellent! Rorey Feb 2020 #76
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