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Life, politics, and other absurdities
Be an atheist, be a christian, be budhist, be straight, be gay, be cisgender, be transgender, be non-binary, be carnivore, be vegan, be whatever the hell you want to be but don’t be an asshole. Is this so hard to understand ?

(Unattributed)

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President.

(Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States)

“What we witnessed yesterday was not dissent, it was disorder. They weren’t protestors, they were rioters, insurrectionists, and domestic terrorists". .. (quote President-elect Joe Biden) .. (cartoon David Horsey)

Undermining the legitimacy of an election—what Trump is doing now, and in fact has done for months—is how demagogues destroy faith in democracy and move us toward authoritarianism.

(Senator Bernie Sanders)

“Want to keep Christ in Christmas ? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”  .. (quote Steve Maraboli) .. (cartoon Dave Granlund)

“Trump has let the demons loose. We will be fighting them for decades. There is no certainty about what side will win. Should ours lose let there be no lack of certainty about what will be lost. America will be lost and all the assembled generations of Americans watching from heaven will weep.  The light of American liberty will have been extinguished.”.. (quote Steve Schmidt) .. (cartoon Steve Sack)

Can you imagine for a second where we'd be right now if Trump had worked as hard to fight Coronavirus as he's worked to steal an election he lost ?

(David Pakman)

The Republican party today is like a massive religious cult surrounding an organised crime family headed by a deranged narcissist.

(Jamie Raskin)

“Republicans asking the Supreme Court to overturn election results in four states have given up on the democratic process in favor of a Trump dictatorship.” .. (quote Stephen King) .. (cartoon Signe Wilkinson)

When politicians break democracy, as conservatives in Weimar Germany did in the early 1930s, they are wrong to think that they will control what happens next.

(Timothy Sneider)

“The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.” .. (quote Ben Okri) .. (cartoon Nick Anderson)

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

(Audre Lorde)

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” .. (quote Martin Luther King, Jr. ) .. (cartoon Dave Whamond)

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