Politics

US Politics

• https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/pyipmm/the_future_belongs_to_us_nextgen_america_launches/
• Toxic Nationalism: https://old.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/16abh7z/sign_number_one_powerful_and_continuing/
• Cheney on Trump: https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/16d86lm/and_i_should_know_i_was_the_previous_greatest/
  • "In our nation's 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump" - Former VP Dick Cheney
• Trump Fan Recants (Danny Collins): https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/16f1oh6/danny_collins_former_trump_supporter_made_news/
• Hillary: Primary Victims of War: https://old.reddit.com/r/meme/comments/16e3pgt/title_is_finding_victim/
  • "The experience that you have gone through is in many ways comparable to what happens with domestic violence. Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children. Women are again the victims in crime and domestic violence as well. Throughout our hemisphere we have an epidemic of violence against women, even though there is no longer any organized warfare that puts women in the direct line of combat. But domestic violence is now recognized as being the most pervasive human rights violation in the world. Here in El Salvador, according to the statistics gathered by your government, 1 in 6 women have been sexually assaulted and the number of domestic abuse complaints at just one agency topped 10,000 last year. Between 25 and 50 percent of women throughout Latin America have reportedly been victims of domestic violence." - HRC, post civil war in El Salvador, 1998

Jan 6 and The Declaration

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/15j9i61/john_eastman_comes_clean_hell_yes_we_were_trying/

"Our Founders lay this case out,” says Eastman. “There’s actually a provision in the Declaration of Independence that a people will suffer abuses while they remain sufferable, tolerable while they remain tolerable. At some point, abuses become so intolerable that it becomes not only their right but their duty to alter or abolish the existing government.”

Perhaps, Mr. Eastman, but you're missing a critical piece. You have to win.

You can't just do it for a few hours then decide it's hard and go home. That is not "altering or abolishing." Doing it for one afternoon, then going home because it's hard, is "suffering abuses while they remain sufferable."

Because you're not oppressed by Biden and the majority of you know it, deep down. When they actually stopped and thought, "Would it be easier to really fight for what I believe is right, or to go home and accept this thing I'm angry about? Is this really worth it?", they chose to go home after 6 hours.

Compare that to BLM, which lasted for weeks, through much more violent suppression. That's closer to what "alter or abolish" looks like. Running along with a rioting crowd for one afternoon is not "alter or abolish".

AZ Politics

Kyrsten Sinema

• https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/pyhkap/draft_ruben_gallego_effort_launches_as/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/pxt5gt/activists_who_helped_elect_kyrsten_sinema_launch/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/pvhlpd/arizona_dems_promise_to_disavow_kyrsten_sinema_if/

Religious Right

School Food

How is not feeding children at public schools part of the religious party's platform? I'm guessing school lunches are one of the first things missions do when they start building up the infrastructure in a third world village. How can we not have everyone chip in to do it here?

Can you imagine Jesus on a picket line with a megaphone demanding that we stop paying for school lunches?

Talking Head: I'm here talking to folks who have turned out to oppose the city council's vote on paying for school lunches throughout the city's 9 school districts. Mr. Christ is the son of a local carpenter and taxpayer, and is concerned that his dad's money is being poorly allocated. Mr. Christ?

J. Christ: It's not that we couldn't afford this, either personally or as a society. It's that the implementation is problematic. Not all of the children need free food, and we don't want kids just eating for free because they can. We need to show these kids from the beginning that eating is a privilege for those who can afford it. If they can't afford it, we have solutions, but they have to prove they're poor and recognize that it's charity that they haven't earned.

Quotes

• "I'm not getting in the car, Tim. I trust you, Tim, but you're not driving the car. If I get in that vehicle, you guys are taking off. I'm not getting in the car." - Vice President Mike Pence, Jan 6 2021, to the Secret Service regarding a car being driven by the Secret Service
• "I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not." - Ronald Reagan, regarding Iran-Contra