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In reply to the discussion: Enough with the "Lindsey was a good person" stuff! [View all]PatrickforB
(15,576 posts)direction the wind blew. And yet, his body knew what he was doing was wrong - it experienced constant stress and high blood pressure that in the end caused his heart event.
What was it Shakespeare said,
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
The epitaph of a political wind sock.
When Trump is out of the picture, we will not be able to go back to business as usual. We need real, and I mean REAL reforms - an amendment overturning Citizens United, impeachment for at least two of the 'justices' on the Supreme Court, complete release of the UNREDACTED Epstein files so we can go after these modern billionaire robber barons, a change in the rules of corporate governance that puts worker interests, consumer interests and the welfare of the earth itself EQUAL in weight of fiduciary responsibility to shareholder profits. What we have now (MI Supreme Court, 1919, Dodge Brothers v Ford) holds shareholder profits above human life and the habitability of the planet itself. This is why our system encourages and rewards sociopathic behavior.
This is only part of it, of course, but lest you say, well, this is a laundry list - it is not. It is a checklist to taking back our republic and making our government once again a government of, by and for the people.
See, I paid over $18K in taxes last year to the federal government, and am literally getting nickel and dimed to death in turn - high healthcare costs, high energy costs, high water costs, high grocery costs, my Social Security in danger. Not to mention that everything the GOP has done has been to steal money from the treasury to line the pockets of Epstein class billionaires.
This country is getting to be a powder keg, and I'm seeing lots of repostings of the Declaration of Independence, 1789 and guillotine memes, so when Roberts (CEO of Heritage Foundation) told us in 2024 that the coup will be bloodless if the left lets it be, he wasn't thinking of John Q Public. He was thinking of Congress, the Judicial System and the Executive branch all being focused on enriching more of the Epstein class jokers and keeping up huge profits for defense companies, prison companies and the corporate media.
People are sick of it.