Thursday, May 01, 2025

And It Will Be For The Rest Of The Year

A) Pics or it didn’t happen. 
B) Ewwww! 🤮
“Fuck your college degrees! Get a job doing stoop labor on a construction site! The rich factory owners of America need you! To build their factories!!”
MORAN: What does it (the Declaration of Independence) mean to you?

TRUMP: It means exactly what it says; it's a declaration of unity, love and respect and it means a lot. It's something very special to our country.
Not a fucking clue.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Unity? Love? Respect? Arguably, it ends on those themes:
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Trump is incapable of understanding what those words mean.

Late night lagniappe:
Jennings wants the President declaring war “when we are invaded.” We were invaded in the 20th century: December 7, 1941.  Congress declared war on Japan the next day. There is no provision in law or history for allowing the POTUS to declare war, even in response to an invasion. (Jennings wants to call people crossing the southern border an “invasion.” That’s precisely why the Congress alone should declare war. Who would Jennings have us declare war on? Mexico? Venezuela? Central and South America generally? Brown people? Trump and Miller would like that last one.
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3 comments:

  1. Craig11:34 PM

    It's the real reason the USA has never been invited or allowed to join the British Commonwealth. He could revoke it with an Executive Order and we'd be a shoe in.

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  2. jim, some guy in iowa11:05 AM

    My memory- and being 9 at the time, I'll defer to my elders- is that the Bicentennial celebrations of 1976 had a buildup that started years before. When I did the math a few years ago I sortakinda expected something similar for the 250th anniversary, but it never really happened.

    It occurs to me Biden/the Democrats lost an opportunity there- reminding people of the hows and whys of the founding of the US *might* have resulted in them taking Trump's authoritarian/wannabe king schtick more seriously... at the very least it would have been a way to wrap themselves in the flag without declaring war on Iraq again...

    And as we get farther into the Mad King Donald era it becomes more understandable why the Republicans are avoiding the anniversary too- they can't legitimately claim *any* of the founding documents for themselves any more.

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  3. Rmj11:22 AM

    Excellent point. The Bicentennial was indeed preceded by much hoopla and preparation. I'd forgotten that will be 50 years ago next year, which makes me realize now I should have been hearing about it all along. Now I wonder if anybody's gonna notice, especially with Trump wanting a huge military parade in D.C. on his birthday (which I think will go over like the town prostitute attending the Sunday School picnic).

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