Trump isn’t king. Congresspeople can disparage him without restraint.
I’m disparaging right now.
I’d also say, considering the literal slander and poor conduct of republicans during the obama admin, the republicans have so much fkn gall to complain they ought to be classified as metastatic livers.
Puerto Rico is America.
Mrs. Betty Bowers had a response:
This is the only type of chanting that will ever make America great.
She is a national treasure!
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin
Yeah, but to be fair, in reality, many people were forced to drink the poisoned drink, at gun point. Some were gunned down, and some did escape. Some drank it willingly, because they thought the US government was about to come break up their new utopia and this was the only way out.
The reality is that people WANT to be able to be racist with no repercussions, because they’ve been told for all their lives that their whiteness makes them special. Otherwise, they are nothing. None of this goes away until we fully dismantle our racist systems.
Very true.
The immediate association with cult-like, mindless, mob mentality is the salt in the wound that still is the Jonestown tragedy; not everyone who died was willing and many were victims. You’re right to acknowledge that.
But those who were willing and those who actively helped were definitely brain-washed long before the flavoraid was served up.
I want to stop the decent into evil, before it gets to that point…
(To the Debbie Downers & wannabe ‘banshees’ ~ please don’t bother replying to that last statement; I’m not interested in your defeatism, and I don’t have the time, energy or patience for it.)
Oh god. Me too.