lastlib
lastlib's Journal"Prudence, indeed, will dictate......
...that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present Crime Minister of the United States is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States."
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The rest of the argument.
(my edits in bold italics)
The president and the Crime Minister...... n/t
Been mulling over what to do for my 25,000th post.......
I wanted to do something "worthy" of a milestone post. IDK if this fulfills it, but it says something I think a lot of us here share. FWIW:
Maybe Lightfoot's best and most underrated songs. I truly hope it's NOT too late, but with the upcoming inauguration of the Crime Minister, I rather fear the worst.
And it was a "B" side....... (for "Sundown"..... )
On perhaps a more hopeful note, there is this one:
"No more turning away
from the weak and the weary....."
Peace to you all, my DU friends!
The Paper-Clip resistance starts today, here and now.
On another thread, a DUer (Ocelot2?) mentioned that the Norwegian anti-Nazi Resistance in WWII used a paperclip on their clothing to identify resistance members. So today, I want to propose that we as Democrats/resisters do the same thing until we rid ourselves of these hell-beasts. Wearing a paperclip on our clothing will be a symbol of our opposition to the tRump regime and whatever hell he unleashes upon us.
The Resistance starts now. Wear your paperclip with pride and anger.
Kerry Livgren -- Masque of The Great Deceiver
I know what/who this is actually about, but I can certainly relate it to he-who-shall-not-be-named.
Anti-democratic: Inside the Right-Wing's 50-Year Plot
https://www.c-span.org/video/?537616-1/antidemocratic-inside-rights-50-year-plot-control-american-electionsThis is a must-see! How conservatives since the Powell Manifesto have worked to take over our elections; in particular, chief (In)justice Roberts' efforts to neuter the Voting Rights Act.
I want to believe
I want to believe that Donald tRump von ShitzInPantz will be defeated in November in a historic lanslide of repudiation. I want to believe that he will be convicted in the hush-money trial, in the insurrection case, in the classified-documents case, and in the Georgia election-interference case. I want to believe that he will spend the rest of his ignominious life in one prison or another, and in the prison of his own demented mind, bankrupt and friendless, hated and demonized in history. I want to believe that America will not teeter on the precipice of fascism, and that the re-election of Joe Biden will send the party of fascism into a paroxysm of self-immolation, and usher in a new era of progressive reconstruction of the ideals of liberty, equality, and mutual respect in our communities.
I want to believe. But I can't.
My LTTE to my hometown paper:
Is Joe Biden too old to be president? That's the wrong question.
The RIGHT questions the media--AND the voters--should be asking are these:
Is Donald Trump too INSURRECTIONIST to be president? Is Donald Trump too AUTHORITARIAN to be president? Is Donald Trump too COZY WITH DICTATORS to be president? Is Donald Trump too much of a RAPIST to be president? Is Donald Trump too much of a RACIST to be president? Is Donald Trump too much of a CRIMINAL FRAUDSTER to be president?
These are the questions the media should be asking in this election year. They are the questions that VOTERS should be asking in this election year. And the correct answer to all of them is: YES.
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Short, simple, sweet.
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