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JD Vance

A smart friend writes:

JD Vance defended the "Normalize Indian Hate" guy, when Vance's own wife and kids are of Indian descent.

JD Vance defended Trump's post depicting himself as the pope and suggesting he should be the new pope days after Pope Francis died, and Vance is Catholic.

JD Vance once called Trump the American Hitler.

He won't stand up for his own wife and kids.

He won't stand up for what he professes to believe.

He defends a man he used to call the American Hitler.

What can we call a man like that? Can we even call him a man?

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The first person to discover a link between increased levels of CO2 and #globalwarming was a New Yorker named Eunice Newton Foote. Read her 1856 paper, and how she went unacknowledged for more than a century, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/first-paper-to-link-co2-and-global-warming-by-eunice-foote-1856 #earthday #climatechange

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Dance as an act of rebellion. Dance as an act of joy.

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well duh 🙄

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Tricky Elon & His Thievish Friends. "I'm eliminating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse!"

(base cartoon by Francois Bildstein from the New Orleans "Mascot", 1892)

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Can anybody give these old-ass Democrats protest lessons? They're acting like they're still living in pre-2015 politics when the GOP gave a shit and wasn't deranged.

A member gets up and starts shouting: All get up and shout with him.

Don't walk out: MAKE them carry you all out, not shutting up the entire time. I'm serious, go limp, be dead weight.

Putin's Puppet says a provable lie: Everyone chant "LIE" in unison for a solid minute instead of holding pitiful little signs in front of a man who can't read above a 3rd grade level.

Have someone who knows ASL sitting with you, interpreting everything in full view.

If you're gonna hold signs, make them BIG like you're actually trying to do something. Have them in multiple languages.

Make other signs that say clever or cutting things that will make him rage for days. "DOESN'T OLD TRUMP LOOK TIRED?" or "PUPPET PRESIDENT" or "EVERYONE IS FACT-CHECKING THIS SPEECH TRUMP DIDN'T WRITE" or "THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES" or his current tanking approval rating next to a laughing emoji.

Make a stink every day in congress, throw as many bills as you can on the floor even if they go nowhere, look like you're trying.

Have someone, idk maybe someone you actually want to boost for President in 3 gd years, be your voice of opposition in the media, loudly complaining and telling the facts, every single day. Let the people know you're there!

How hard is this? There's probably better suggestions than mine if they actually hired seasoned protestors or behaviorists/psychologists or even the biggest teenage troll they can find on a messageboard.

The Emperor Has No Clothes. So fucking act like it.

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"What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror, but had understood they had nothing left to lose. and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?...

"The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.”― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago

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Tr*mp has twice in recent days declared himself to be the greatest US President, with George Washington coming in second.

I ran across this 1894 cartoon by Grant E. Hamilton, and realized even someone with minimal photoshop skills such as myself could easily bring it right up to date.

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With the US-Canada tensions, understand that the Canadians are so far still on the "being nice" side of response. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio came for a visit, and the Canadians put out a red carpet for him!

(AFP photo)

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I like the old political cartoons of 100+ years ago - especially when they're dealing with issues that are still relevant, or after long time suddenly relevant again.

Here's one from 1909 by J Udo Keppler about tariffs. Bartender labeled "Congress" plying drunk Uncle Sam from bottle labeled "High Protection". Caption "Quit Nothin'! Why, a little more of the same'll make you feel O.K.!"

Someone who (unlike me) has some photoshop skills could no doubt make such old cartoons right up-to-date.

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“As public opinion has turned decisively against Musk, if not yet Trump, we’ve seen his megalomania grow totally untethered. He now routinely accuses critics of crimes, demands their imprisonment. Yesterday he called Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) a “traitor” for having the temerity to show up in Ukraine while Musk is trying his best to, in his phrase, put that country into the wood chipper. Lots of people mouth off on Twitter, of course. But Musk isn’t anyone. He’s got everyone in the federal government scared of him, running on a short leash and needing to do whatever they can to appease him. He speaks with the power if not the authority of the state. But the issue is not only Elon Musk. It’s a general problem that isn’t going anywhere. It’s the reductio ad absurdum of the economic inequality debate, when levels of super power get concentrated in the hands of a single monomaniacal individual.”

— Elon Musk and the the Threat of the Over-Mighty Subject, Part I - TPM – Talking Points Memo

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"His Master's Voice" - by Dave Brown in The Independent

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"Be a Responsible Citizen".

Kudos to whoever made this signage in New York City.