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    marye
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    Since the existing threads along this line are more archival than current, here's a new one for discussing events in the outside world. In a civil and respectful manner please. There's a lot going on out there. Stay safe, look out for each other

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  • fourwindsblow
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    Sittin' in Mangrove valley…

    Sittin' in Mangrove valley chasing light beams
    Everything wanders from baby to Z
    Baby, baby, babe, pretty it all on Tuesday
    Old like a rum drinkin' demon at tea
    Baby, baby, tell me what's the matter?
    What, what tell me what's your why how?
    Tell me why will you never come home?
    Tell me what's your reason if you've got a good one
    Everywhere I go the people all know
    Everyone is doin' that rag
    Everywhere I go the people all know
    Everyone is doin' that rag
    Take my line and go fishin' for a Tuesday
    Maybe take my supper, eat it down by the sea
    Gave my baby twenty or forty good reasons
    Couldn't find any better ones in the mornin' at three
    The rain gonna come but the rain gonna go you know
    Steppin' off sharply from the rank and file
    Awful cold and dark like a dungeon
    Maybe get a little bit dark before the day
    Hipsters, flipsters, real cool chicksters
    Everyone is doin' that rag
    Hipsters, flipsters, real cool chicksters
    Everyone's doin' that rag
    You needn't gild the lily, offer jewels to the sunset
    No one is watchin' or standin' in your shoes
    Wash your lonely feet in the river in the morning
    Everything promised is delivered to you
    Don't neglect to pick up what your share is
    All the winter birds are wingin' home now
    Hey love, go and look around you
    Nothing out there you haven't seen before now
    Wading in the water and you'll never get wet
    If you keep on doin' that rag
    Wading in the water and you'll never get wet
    If you keep on doin' that rag
    One eyed jacks and the deuces are wild
    And the aces are crawlin' up and down your sleeve
    Come back here, baby Louise
    And tell me the name of the game that you play
    Is it all fall down? Is it all go under?

  • proudfoot
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    Is that for real, 1st show?

    Wow.

    I literally just got back to house from seeing WW2 and Vietnam memorials on walk around Salem Oregon

    The guy is beyond belief

  • 1stshow70878
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    Wait, what?

    He tells the Purple Heart veterans that "It wasn't easy for me either".
    Really Corporal Bonespurs? Give me a break.
    Always does this crap to veterans.

  • Sixtus_
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    re: FOURWINDS

    And the politicians throwing stones
    So the kids they dance; they shake their bones
    And its All Too Clear We're On Our Own
    Singing ashes ashes all fall down

    Ashes Ashes
    All
    Fall
    Down

    Sixtus

  • simonrob
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    Austerity

    It's all about cutting as much expenditure as possible in order to fill the coffers. Similarly all the import tariffs are there to raise money - nothing to do with Amerika being ripped off. All the extra money will be used to reduce the interest on the grotesque national debt that is increasing dramatically since the introduction of the great big bullshit bill. Naturally the people of Amerika, or anywhere else for that matter, don't figure in any of this. They just suffer the consequences. When any of this results in bad economic figures, just claim it is a bunch of lies and sack the person responsible.

  • proudfoot
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    Headline in Seattle Times

    "RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in vaccine development funding."

    This administration is pure evil.

    God damn them all.

  • fourwindsblow
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    I told Althea I was really lost lacking in some direction

    Strange that current events has to have it's own thread even though there are a lot of lyrics in the songs that is current ?

  • jjc
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    Vguy

    That is perfect thank you! Will share and use as often as possible. One way or another this darkness got to give.

  • proudfoot
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    You're allowed, GG

    You're allowed

  • gratefulgerd
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    Not sure if I'm allowed to say that

    ...from a distance, but I agree - all.

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Since the existing threads along this line are more archival than current, here's a new one for discussing events in the outside world. In a civil and respectful manner please. There's a lot going on out there. Stay safe, look out for each other
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....has made an appearance on the box set page. Great.
Milk was a groundbreaker in many ways. Gotta hit Pride month on the first day I guess. MAGA online is of course, all for it, because "apparently", he was a pedophile. Dont forget kids, every gay person is apparently a pedo. Keeps it simple to direct hate with minimal barriers being in the way.
Google John Redcorn. Awful stuff.

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The Tin Man wanted a Heart, the Scarecrow wanted a Brain, the Lion wanted Courage, Dorthy & Toto just wanted to go HOME!!!

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The world's richest fascist against the world's most powerful convicted criminal. Rapidly spiralling outta control. Stay tuned, don't touch that dial, etc.

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!!!!!!! Release the Epstein files?? Please Release Me Let Me Go....

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I also read an article about Gray's Harbor County in WA.

A needed flood prevention project was cut by DT administration.

"It's not DT's fault", say the people who still fall for his BS.

Delusion, anyone?

Please, Lord, deliver us from this nightmare.

To declare martial law, next suspend the constitution (including habeas corpus) and then move to turn this democratic experiment into another tin-pot dictatorship.

Beyond pathetic. This is tragic.

""No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." - Buddha

....for not fucking around when it comes to events like this, resisting and taking care of their own.
Of course they would spark the tinder there.
Like fish in a barrel one could say.
Its a huge city and these protests are literally in a span of a couple blocks by the way.

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Some sort of grotesque military parade taking place at the moment. An event such as this is something that the piggy-eyed orange turd has learnt from other authoritarian leaders that he admires, such as Putin or the fat Korean rocket man. Sadly for him, his parade looks like a ramshackle parody of those of his pals.

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....around 11 million. I've attended a couple so far, and let me tell you something.
Its like a Grateful Dead lot, but with less grilled cheese and more signs.
Everyone chill and happy.
Then law enforcement shows up.
Party over. Kinda like a Grateful Dead lot!
Stay strong you real patriots. We see you.
I saw videos of protesters in Tulsa Fucking Oklahoma that outnumbered his stupid parade.

My wife, who reads way more (on Substack, NYT, etc.) than I, indicates some social science researcher(s?) looked globally for historical examples of 'regimes' or 'administrations' that persisted following street protests / demonstrations amounting to 3.5 percent or more of the population - and could not find one.

The 11 million estimate comes pretty damn close to that figure. Re: the number of locations 'in action' yesterday, it only takes 5 to 6,000 per assembly to reach 11 million. Where I was, the percentage vs. the local population was closer to double that! And that does not count any of those who drove by with signs or honked in support.

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The wife went locally to represent us and came back invigorated. Had well over 1000 (local paper said 2500 but...) in little old Montrose (about 20K pop.).
Her favorite poster seen was:

Trump's wives were immigrants
Proof that immigrants will do jobs Americans won't!

Loved that one. Cheers

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Lies, lies, and more damned lies. One party stokes the flames of the mentally ill with their fibs, half-truths, and bald-faced lies, leading to to the assassinations of some very kind people here. Apparently my conservative brother told my father on Election Day Eve, "Vote for the policies, not the people". Deadheads know that those two things are one in the same, and cannot be separated.

Attended a Pride festival with my wife and two children today. It was poorly attended, but I'm guessing that with the assassin still on the loose (at the time), and yesterday's protest, people here were tired. One can beg their neighbors for kindness only so long each day.

....I was partial to the one that said "Don't deport big booty Latinas."
Or the one that said "Am I the only one who thinks an all white nation would kinda suck?"

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The BBC had an article about this - Erica Chenoweth, political scientist of Harvard

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I found that BBC article very interesting. The results of her research surprised me, just like it surprised her.

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I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag -
"Well it's 1, 2, 3 what are we fighting for...."
Peace

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Was this constitutional?
Ryan Holiday (he of the Daily Stoic) has put up a very good video on YT about narcissistic leaders and starts by talking about Nero and then moves on to Trump - worth a watch

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The orange turd doesn't give a shit about the constitution or anything else that could inhibit his ability to do what he wants. Now that he has cemented the Israel-Amerika axis of evil we will all suffer the consequences. Yesterday Pakistan said they would nominate the turd for a Nobel peace prize, something the turd would love to receive. Good luck with that now.
First Putin played the turd for a fool, now he has become Bibi's poodle. How does any of this make America great?

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...some like gold !

Orange Turd Blossom Special !

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...is this century's internment camp.

WTF

This is all so wrong.

Any one of us could end up there depending on which way the wind blows.

RESIST

Sixtus

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Yes it is...

Been trying to tell peoples in my hometown that for years.

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Debt doesn't really matter anyone can see,
debt really doesn't matter too meeeee!!!

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”their pants are down their cover is blown” Words that have never been so prescient!

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It was somewhat harder to appreciate it "in stream" as it was played so frequently 40 years ago ... But it is a strong song/statement that really resonates here, down the line.

(forgive if I misplace a word or two):
Now watch as the ball revolves and the night time falls. And again the hunt begins,
And again the blood-wind calls.
By and by, again, the morning sun will rise.
But, the darkness never goes from some mens' eyes
It strolls the sidewalks and it roams the streets,
Staking turf, dividing up meat ...

What they have done to the people of this country with this bill is pure phucking EVIL.

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anthology from 1989 or so. 115 degrees in Spain yesterday. Yeah, looks like we broke the climate at this point.

Things continue to get ugly and brutal out there.

Peace and Happy 4th y’all! Be safe and kind!

And ICE and National Guard, with personal respect for individual officers, please get out of California and let our people be. We will not be intimidated….

You speak English real good

Said to a person whose country has an official language of English

Sweet phookin cripes. How on Earth did he get back in? W.T.F.

As I write this, GD perform Ship of Fools.

Dear Lord who I have lost faith in, deliver us from this nightmare!

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Did (you know who) just start a war within his own Nut Shack?

Nut Shack! NaNa Nut Shack!!

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the person who prosecuted JEp gets canned
"why are people so fixated on JEp?"
you-know-who all of a sudden decides JEp stuff is nothing, that there's no "list" of people who visited his, uh, place.
he insults his own supporters and enablers who have SOME semblance of conscience and want JEp and his clients investigated. I will bet $100 that DT's name is on the list and went on field trips to JEp's place at least once.
oh, America, you big pile of corruption and lies and hypocrisy

All this crap has to end sometime, hopefully sooner than later.

God help us all.

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Goin' to leave this brokendown palace
On my hands and my knees I will roll, roll, roll
Make myself a bed by the waterside
In my time, in my time, I will roll, roll, roll

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As Dylan so rightly said.

I’ll close my eyes and I wonder
If everything is as hollow as it seems
When you think that you’ve lost everything
You find out you can always lose a little more

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Skewered him!

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.....sure did!

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"Trump repeats claim that Obama has done criminal acts"

this from a CONVICTED FELON.

January 2029 HAS to usher in better times for this nation, once this corrupt creep is finally out of office

but...maybe not.

as you can tell, my cynical outlook is very cynical.

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One reason we're in this mess of trouble ahead??!!