tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85310546540190069982024-02-19T08:13:39.373-08:00Franco Aragosta, il pescatore saggioFranco Aragostahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088635482766081825noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531054654019006998.post-55832148439008808272020-08-03T23:31:00.106-07:002020-08-06T00:02:37.082-07:00<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: times; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-kerning: none;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrsxcAa1h3u8niJQxYTgjKg9VqO2gLEenCqbAyPsW7Q8jBpIdoSjiVNUarePlkPFjXjlZEBmyAAozPk480Fkf2OAQ4lnRt0-vml-KpOfPE66lLYUl1y9U9Is71mQjTPio19ycCZ9gVgsg/w400-h263/A.+Const.+Conv.+2.jpeg" width="400" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: times; font-size: xx-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: times; font-size: xx-large;"><b>To a Leftist on Our Need for the </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: times; font-size: xx-large;"><b>ELECTORAL CCOLLEGE</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(78, 40, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #4e2800; font-family: times; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Thank you for at last making an honest ATTEMPT to address the points raised in a simple-but-excellent post illustrating the reasons why the Founders created the Electoral College.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(78, 40, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #4e2800; font-family: times; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 28px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(78, 40, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #4e2800; font-family: times; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The position you have taken, however, indicates you, apparently, are an advocate of DIRECT DEMOCRACY –– a highly flawed concept that could only guarantee the continuous predominance of unfairness –– and inherent <i>barbarism --</i>– in a system that in effect permits "<i>Two Wolves and a Lamb to Decide What's to be Eaten for Dinner." </i></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(78, 40, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #4e2800; font-family: times; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; 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-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #4e2800; font-family: times; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 28px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(78, 40, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #4e2800; font-family: times; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Different geographical regions have particular needs and interests of their own to attend to, and are in fact responsible in many cases for providing us with vital raw materials, desirable produce and unique goods –– to say nothing of vast stretches of exquisite natural scenic beauty and access to aw materials that need to be responsibly attended to.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(78, 40, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #4e2800; font-family: times; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 28px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(78, 40, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #4e2800; font-family: times; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Your advocacy of Direct Democracy would mean that these important areas that comprise roughly NINETY-PERCENT of the sovereign territory of these United States would have have NO meaningful lREPRESENTATION in the federal government, which would, of course ride roughshod over these areas and quickly make "mincemeat" of them, </b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(78, 40, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #4e2800; font-family: times; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 28px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(78, 40, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #4e2800; font-family: times; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>That would mean that ninety percent of the country would soon become BLIGHTED from neglect, increasingly IMPOVERISHED, and DERELICT –– like a Ghost Town or an Abandoned Mine of Western movie fame..</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(78, 40, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #4e2800; font-family: times; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 28px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(78, 40, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #4e2800; font-family: times; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>The BEAUTY –– and the GENIUS –– of FEDERALISM –– as conceived and established by our Founding Fathers –– is the way it made sure that political power would remain DIFFUSE and as LOCAL as possible.</i></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(78, 40, 0); 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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Mrs. Anna’s Soliloquy</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Your servant! Your servant!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Indeed I'm not you servant</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">(Although you give me less than servant's pay)</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I'm a free and independent employe...employee.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Because I'm a woman</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">You think, like ev'ry woman</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I have to be a slave or concubine-</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">You conceited, self-indulgent libertine!...libertine</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">How I wish I called him that! Right to his face! Libertine!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">And while we're on the subject, sire,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">There are certain goings on around this place</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">That I wish to tell you I do not admire:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I do not like polygamy</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Or even moderate bigamy</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">(I realize that in your eyes</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">That clearly makes a prig o' me)</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">But I am from a civilized land called Wales</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Where men like you are locked in county gaols (jails)!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In your pursuit of pleasure, you</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Have mistresses who treasure you</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">(They have no ken of other men</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Beside whom they can measure you)</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">A flock of sheep and you're the only ram-</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">No wonder you're the wonder of Siam!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">[Spoken]</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I'm rather glad I didn't say that... not with the women right</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">there...and the children</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">[Goes back to singing]</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The children, the children,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I'll not forget the children,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">No matter where I go I'll always see</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Those little faces looking up at me...</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">At first, when I started to teach,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">They were shy and remained out of reach,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">But lately I've thought</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">One or two have been caught</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">By a word I have said</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Or a sentence I've read</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">And I've heard an occasional question</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">That implied, at least, a suggestion</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">That the work I've been trying to do</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Was beginning to show with a few...</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">That Prince Chulalongkorn</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Is very like his father.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">He's stubborn-but inquisitive and smart...</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I must leave this place before they break my heart</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I must leave this place before they break my heart!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Goodness! I had no idea it was so late.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Your majesty,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Shall It tell you what I think of you?</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">You're spoiled!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">You're a conscientious worker</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">But your spoiled.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Giving credit where it's due</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">There is much I like in you</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">But it's also very true</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">That your spoiled!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Everybody's always bowing</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">To the King</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Everybody has to grovel</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">To the King.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">By your Buddha you are blessed</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">By your ladies you're caressed,</b></i></span></div>
<div style="font-family: times; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">But the one who loves you best is the King.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">All that bowing and kow-towing</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">To remind you of your royalty,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I find a most disgusting exhibition.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I wouldn't ask a Siamese cat</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">To demonstrate his loyalty</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">By taking this ridiculous position</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">How would you like it if you were a man</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Playing the part of a toad.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Crawling around on your elbows and knees.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Eating the dust of the road!...</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Toads! Toads! All of your people are toads!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Yes, Your Majesty; No, Your Majesty.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Tell us how low to go, Your Majesty;</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Make some more decrees, Your Majesty,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Don't let us up off out knees, Your Majesty.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Give us a kick, if you please Your Majesty</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Give us a kick, if you would, Your Majesty-</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Oh, That was good, Your Majesty!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">~ § ~</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "cherry cream soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;">IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE IN THE INTERESTS OF BASIC DECENCY. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Cream Soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Cream Soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;" /><i style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Cream Soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;">CANCER IS THE COMMON ENEMY OF </i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Cream Soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;">ALL MANKIND.</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "cherry cream soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"> </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Cream Soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Cream Soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "cherry cream soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;">IT RESPECTS NO RACE, RELIGION, AGE, SEX, SOCIAL POSITION, OR DEGREES OF BEAUTY OR UGLINESS, NO POLITICAL PARTY OR IDEOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Cream Soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Cream Soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "cherry cream soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;">EVEN THE WORST OF US SHOULD BE UNITED WITH THE BEST IN FIERCE DETERMINATION TO FIGHT CANCER, AND PRAY </span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #333333; font-family: "cherry cream soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;">FOR ITS ANNIHILATION. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Cream Soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;" /><i style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Cream Soda"; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;">CANCER IS THE ONLY THING I KNOW THAT IS AS BAD AS MARXISM, WHICH, ITSELF, IS A FORM OF MORAL, SPIRITUAL, INTELLECTUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CANCER.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Like baboons showing their rears to zoogoers, the election of President Trump caused the rotting institutions of America to reveal their least attractive features. The press has engaged in nonstop lying without remorse. The premier educational institutions have revealed their Marxist colors and disdain for the sifting and winnowing of ideas that once were their <i>raison</i> <i>d’etre.</i> The FBI, Department of Justice, and the courts have tipped their partisanship, and to their dishonor, the ethical grounding that once made them worthy of respect.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Not for the first time Conrad Black has <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/09/a-nightmare-campaign-of-outright-idiocy/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">accurately summarized</span></a> the “nightmare campaign of outright idiocy” we’ve faced since Trump’s election.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">It’s nice to know that he believes I am not the only one considering the country has gone mad. He says “a very large number of us” share that view. And he goes on to show us why.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Among his targets are the lying press and the violent crime rate in New York City and Chicago as the mayors of those cities reduce police budgets and attack law enforcement. The absurdity of #NeverTrumper Mitt Romney marching with BLM, whose leader threatens to burn down the country if it doesn’t get its way. Black tags Joe Biden “a waxwork dummy hiding in this basement” who considers BLM, which has revealed itself “as a white-hating Marxist urban terrorist organization,” as a “valuable political ally.” The left’s continued effort to prolong the economic shutdown of the country as the fatalities from the Wuhan virus have declined “by nearly 90 percent” and increased testing shows large numbers of those who contracted it had none or minimal symptoms. (A wag online notes it is such a frightful malady most of us never knew we had it until tests showed we did.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">With less than four months before the election, this is the campaign: a constant media carpet-bombing of defamatory lies about the president on behalf of a comatose candidate, propagation of unfounded hysteria over a fading pandemic, self-induced and redundant economic depression, open borders to admit and give free medical care to the unskilled peasantry of the world, and national self-abasement before militant African Americans demanding minority rule and the renunciation and degradation of those who founded the United States and led it to a pinnacle of influence in the world unequaled in all history. And this ludicrous, almost unimaginable, mockery of a quest for the world’s highest office is, in the perversity of these times, apparently leading in the polls.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I know that many of our readers are dispirited by all this insanity, and it does seem never ending. The conduct of people like the mayors of NYC, Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle, add to our growing feeling of national chaos. For a lot of political organizations, the Constitution and its promise of anti-discrimination, protections for property, and liberty seem to have no meaning. To pick just one example of this lunacy -- and there certainly are many -- look at the <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-interrupting-whiteness-training"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">city of Seattle</span></a>:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Last month, the City of Seattle’s Office of Civil Rights sent an email inviting “white City employees” to attend a training session on “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness,” a program designed to help white workers examine their “complicity in the system of white supremacy” and “interrupt racism in ways that are accountable to Black, Indigenous and People of Color.” Hoping to learn more, I submitted a public records request for all documentation related to the training. The results are disturbing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">At the beginning of the session, the trainers explain that white people have internalized a sense of racial superiority, which has made them unable to access their “humanity” and caused “harm and violence” to people of color. The trainers claim that “individualism,” “perfectionism,” “intellectualization,” and “objectivity” are all vestiges of this internalized racial oppression and must be abandoned in favor of social-justice principles. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In conceptual terms, the city frames the discussion around the idea that black Americans are reducible to the essential quality of “blackness” and white Americans are reducible to the essential quality of “whiteness” — that is, the new metaphysics of good and evil.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Adding to our great unease was the report <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/09/where-the-hell-is-john-durham/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">this week on Fox News</span></a>, about the latest “White Knight” prosecutor, John Durham (whom we believed would investigate the sabotage of Trump’s campaign and presidency as to which there is plenty of documented evidence already on the public record). Fox notes news that Durham will punt it until after the election” if he cannot finish his work in the next few weeks.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I think Julie Kelly speaks for many of us when she says we are enraged by the possibility that this account is accurate:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The president lashed out Thursday in a series of tweets blasting the “totally corrupt” Obama administration and the inept overseers of justice. “This crime was taking place even before my election, everyone knows it, and yet all are frozen stiff with fear,” Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1281250566199541761"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">raged</span></a>. “No Republican Senate Judiciary response, NO ‘JUSTICE,’ NO FBI, NO NOTHING. Major horror show REPORTS on Comey & McCabe, guilty as hell, nothing happens. Catch Obama & Biden cold, nothing.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Hard to argue with that. Ironically, Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) last week expressed the same frustration with Durham’s probe. The former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, now led by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1280159984911896579?s=20"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">whined</span></a> on Twitter that it would be “SAD SAD” if there were no indictments related to the scandal until after the election….</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Trump has every right to be enraged that four years after Barack Obama’s top henchmen concocted and executed the biggest political scandal of all time, not one person has been held criminally responsible while trials against his associates <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/506626-judge-asks-dc-circuit-to-reconsider-decision-ordering-him-to-dismiss"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">drag</span></a> on.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Further, the president been betrayed by the leadership of his own party. It was a matter of nanoseconds after Democrats took control of the House before they leveraged every ounce of their new power to savage Trump and Republicans. Republicans, on the other hand, have sat “frozen stiff” while wielding powerful gavels and making empty promises. (I wrote a partial list of the Senate GOP’s failures <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/02/sheep-in-elephant-costumes/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">here</span></a>.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Something could change in the next week or so but for now, between Trump’s tweets and Fox News reporting on a possible delay until November, it looks more and more like justice for Trump—and the country -- will be denied.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">With Democratic sanctioning of the mayhem in the streets and the latest indication that these saboteurs will not face the music before the election –– or maybe never if Trump loses –– it’s no wonder that people are <a href="https://www.wave3.com/2020/06/11/gun-sales-rising-especially-among-first-time-buyers/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">arming themselves in defense</span></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Oliva told WAVE 3 News <a href="https://www.nssf.org/millions-of-first-time-gun-buyers-during-covid-19/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">NSSF research</span></a> shows about 40 percent of Americans who’ve purchased guns in 2020 were first-time buyers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">“People are seriously taking stock of how they’re going to be able to provide for the safety of their own families," Oliva said. "So they’re buying firearms to make sure they can protect themselves and protect their families.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">“The wholesalers don’t even [begin to] have what I need to get in here to fill the shelves," Anderson said. "That’s what’s scary. And people are still coming in still wanting to buy guns.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Adding to the feeling of madness for those of us watching this collapse of our orderly society is the repeated mantra that Joe Biden is far ahead in the polls. Unless voters are dopier than I believe they actually are, I think this is more wishful thinking on the left. Conrad Black says society will wake up and banish the “arsonists,” and recent evidence is that he’s right. The left has so revealed its true aims that voters are waking up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Democracy Institute’s new poll shows Trump surpassing Basement Joe in the Electoral College 309 to 229, indicating he’s “on course to win the crucial swing states including Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania , and Wisconsin where he outpolls Vice President Biden by 48 percent to 44 percent.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;">This is in line with the prediction of <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/professor-doubles-down-on-prediction-model-showing-trump-having-91-percent-chance-of-winning-election-despite-polls"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238);">Professor Helmut Norpoth of Stony Brook College</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">“The Primary Model gives Trump a 91 percent chance of winning in November,” Norpoth <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-has-91-percent-chance-of-winning-reelection-political-science-professor/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">said</span></a>. "This model gets it right for 25 of the 27 elections since 1912, when primaries were introduced."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">As Mediaite noted, the two elections the model failed to predict were the 1960 election of John F. Kennedy and the 2000 election of George W. Bush.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Norpoth's model examines the results of presidential primaries as the strongest indicator as to the outcome in the general election, not the polls that dominate the political discussion. According to Norpoth, Biden is in a much weaker position than Trump because of his poor showing in the first two primary races.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Before making the stunning comeback in the South Carolina primary and carrying the following races, Biden came in fourth place in Iowa with just 15.8 percent of the vote and came in fifth place in New Hampshire with just 8.4 percent. Norpoth stressed that enthusiasm is key.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">“The terrain of presidential contests is littered with nominees who saw a poll lead in the spring turn to dust in the fall,” Norpoth told Mediaite. “The list is long and discouraging for early frontrunners. Beginning with Thomas Dewey in 1948, it spans such notables as Richard Nixon in 1960, Jimmy Carter in 1980, Michael Dukakis in 1988, George H.W. Bush in 1992, and John Kerry in 2004, to cite just the most spectacular cases.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">When I started to run and I had to hire a pollster, I interviewed a bunch of different folks and I decided to do what we do sometimes at the Pentagon, which is to take a ‘bad cop’ approach to the interview… It was five or six folks that I interviewed, and I said, ‘You got something wrong. You screwed up in 2016. What did you get wrong? And how are you going to fix it?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Only one pollster, Slotkin says, admitted that he got it wrong. That was the person — Al Quinlan of GQR, a large Washington-based firm –– she hired.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">“He told me that they fundamentally undercounted the Trump vote; that the Trump voter is not a voter in every single election, that they come out for Trump, so they’re hard to count,” she explains. “On a survey, if someone says, ‘I’m not sure I’m going to vote,’ you don’t usually continue the conversation. And some of them didn’t have any desire to be on those poll calls; they didn’t have the 20 minutes to talk to somebody. They didn’t want to do it. And so, they were fundamentally undercounted.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Slotkin, ever the intel analyst –– identifying trends, compiling a report, presenting a conclusion –– tells me, <b>with a high degree of confidence, “I believe that same thing is happening right now.” </b>[emphasis in original]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">She’s not the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/opinions/too-soon-to-cheer-trumps-political-demise-wierson-honan/index.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">only Democrat</span></a> to caution about the present polls.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Democrat strategists Ariek Wierson and Bradley Honan also have their doubts about the present polls:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Summertime polls are not predictions of November results.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Polls conducted over the summer can be unreflective of the general election's outcome. Recall that in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/26/us/dukakis-lead-widens-according-to-new-poll.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">July 1988</span></a>, then-Vice President George H. W. Bush was trailing Michael Dukakis by 17 points and went on to win the election by <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1988"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">eight points</span></a> that November.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In early September, President Harry Truman was down about <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1948"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">13 points</span></a> against Thomas Dewey, a race Truman would go on to win.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">And four years ago, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/14/politics/poll-hillary-clinton-leads-donald-trump/index.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">polling in June 2016</span></a> showed Hillary Clinton ahead of Donald Trump by 12 points, a similar lead to what Biden enjoys today.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">So what do we conclude? Polls are nothing more than a snapshot in time –– they are neither a forecast, much less a prediction.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">More than any issue voters choose a president on the state of the economy -– and this is the one place where Trump remains strong. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">According to a <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/313070/trump-economic-ratings-no-longer-best-class.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">Gallup poll</span></a>, about half of the country approves of his handling of the economy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Biden is lackluster. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Democratic pundits love to fill the airwaves with praise for Biden who has been running a campaign that is mostly about letting Trump be Trump and not getting in the way of things like his botched <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/politics/donald-trump-tulsa-protesters/index.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">US Covid-19 response</span></a>, refusal to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/politics/trump-masks-coronavirus/index.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">wear a mask</span></a> in public and his threats against those <a href="https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/george-floyd-protests-05-30-20/h_d7751d837a85c1aafe8753a60c5bee45"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">protesting systemic racism</span></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The other way to read that is that the Biden camp seems to have settled on the 2020 election being a referendum on Trump –– Biden simply doesn't need to promote or advocate for his agenda for change. <a href="https://lincolnproject.us/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">The Lincoln Project</span></a> –– a coalition of Never Trump GOP consultants –– is running a far more effective campaign to sway public opinion against Trump than the Biden camp at this point.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Based on Biden's current performance and how he <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/politics/joe-biden-south-carolina-poll-bernie-sanders/index.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">nearly lost</span></a> the Democratic primary and especially given his <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/20/opinions/las-vegas-debate-todd-graham/index.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">poor</span></a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/26/opinions/south-carolina-debate-grades-opinion-graham/index.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #042eee;">debate performances</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">For Democrats there is a lot at stake these days –– but counting Trump out is a mistake. Democrats need to be ready for the Trump machine to pull out all stops to stay in power. From voter suppression to an October surprise, anything is possible –– and this race is a long way from over.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">My advice for those of us distraught at what is happening is this: Do not be dispirited but do not be overconfident either. With colleges and professional teams cancelling this fall’s season, it might be a good idea to volunteer to work on the Trump campaign if you, as do I, see the Marxist takeover of the Democratic party spearheaded by the man Black describes as a “waxwork dummy” a significant threat to you, your family, and your country.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc1c00; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>I</i></b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>n radiant arms of glowing hues disbursed</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc1c00; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>N</i></b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>atant in the blackness overhead.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc1c00; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>E</i></b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>rupting floridly, yet quite unreal.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc1c00; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>N</i></b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>aumachia was naught compare to this</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc1c00; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>E</i></b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>nraptured like Narcissus we know bliss,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">There are seminal moments in American history that test every fiber of our nation’s soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">We are facing one now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Revolutionary forces are causing every American citizen to question which direction the country is heading. To determine the outcome, we must examine our nation’s history to project ourselves forward into the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Once again, tyranny and treachery are in our midst, and although we feel we’ve descended into a hellish state of existence, we must never forget, <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+16%3A18&version=ESV"><span style="color: #37acd7; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">hell is conquerable</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The idea or notion of a heaven on Earth is the very real sense of being free. Freedom is oxygen. Like the air we breathe that keeps our lungs full and our hearts beating, the celestial feeling of freedom brings a sense of peace to our souls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Freedom must never be taken for granted. Securing our freedom <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-cuts-new-hampshire-rally-short-attend-ceremony-two-fallen-soldiers/"><span style="color: #37acd7; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">demands a high price</span></a> — and that price requires hard work and sacrifice. Both will bind us all by the value they produce, but only if we are willing to seek new opportunities and new ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Those who have sacrificed the most, those who have given the last true measure of devotion that derives from the love of faith, family and the cause of freedom — for all of us to be free, and for the betterment of our republic and the free world — cannot be allowed to have died in vain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Theirs is the <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/23-year-old-airman-made-ultimate-sacrifice-attempt-stop-armed-robbery/"><span style="color: #37acd7; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">ultimate sacrifice</span></a> and heaven is their reward. </span>Instead, God will stand with us, as He always does.</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Hard work and personal sacrifice still very much matter. Being a good person and showing kindness to others still matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If our nation is to survive this <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/600-cops-leaving-nypd-due-violent-george-floyd-riots/"><span style="color: #37acd7; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">crucible moment</span></a>, we need to fall back on the God-given values and ideals that are the very foundation of our constitutional republic. Let us not fear the uncertainty that comes with the unknown, instead accept it and fight through that sense of fear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And we must remember: The power of hell, while strong, is limited. God is the ultimate judge and decision maker. His anointed providence is our country, the United States of America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As long as we <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/kanye-wests-latest-sunday-service-sees-1000-people-accept-jesus-savior/"><span style="color: #37acd7; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">accept God</span></a> in the lifeblood of our nation, we will be OK. If we don’t, we will face a hellish existence.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Many on both ends of the political spectrum are aware of the fact that social justice is simply Marxism, masquerading as a new ideological movement. Like Marxism, social justice's goal is to make the world a more balanced and equitable place.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">As Marx phrased it in <i>Das Kapital</i>, "[i]n order to establish equality, we must first establish inequality" (1). By finding the inequalities of the world, the Marxist can then begin eliminating the obstacles that impede equality. The more of these sources of inequality the Marxist eliminates, the closer we move to an equitable socialist utopia. This is why Marx was so adamant about abolishing certain fixtures of society.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Among the ills of society perpetuating inequality that need abolition, according to Marx, were history, private property, the family, eternal truths, nations and borders, and religion (2). By destroying these sources of inequality, the Marxist is one step closer to the equitable world the Marxist knows is possible. Marx believed that economic issues are the driving force of conflict in the world (3). Eliminating class structure was the central goal of Marx's <i>Communist Manifesto</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Marx's <i>Manifesto </i>influenced a group of intellectuals known as "The Frankfurt School" (4), who expanded on Marx's foundational premises. They shifted the front from class to cultural struggle. One of these intellectuals, György Lukács, is credited as the first person to advocate for the application of Marx's economic principles to cultural struggles: "he justified culture to the Marxists by showing how to condemn it in Marxist terms. And in doing so ... he provided crucial concepts to ... the thinkers of the Frankfurt School" (5).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The Frankfurt Schoolers elaborated on and furthered Lukács's cultural Marxism. While the foundational tenets of economic Marxism are still present in their cultural Marxist works, there is a tenet that militates more with cultural than economic Marxism. In shifting fronts from class to culture, a different aspect of Marxism mandates emphasis.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">That aspect is Marx's desire to abolish individuality. As Marx himself wrote: "And the abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of individuality and freedom!" (6). The social justice warriors of today are using this tenet of Marxism most frequently and strongly in their quest to create an equitable society.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The modern social justice advocate uses the abolition of individuality as a tool to strip human beings of their individuality and bifurcate society. A bifurcation is a logical fallacy where a person makes things one or another, with no area in between. For example, a bifurcation would be the faulty assumption of saying a person is either a Trump-supporter or a Hillary-supporter. What about those who like Bernie Sanders or Ted Cruz? What about those who like both Trump and Hillary? What about those who like neither?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">For Marx, his bifurcation was the bourgeois versus the proletariat. You were either a rich person or a working stiff. There was no in between. For the social justice warrior, you are either privileged or oppressed. Look at the diagram below for a visual interpretation of the bifurcation the social justice warrior uses (7):</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">This diagram is the axis of privilege versus oppression. You're either privileged or oppressed, with little to no in between. The more demographic characteristics one has from the privilege side, the more unfair advantages he has in life that are unearned (8). These unearned advantages must be taken from the privileged and given to the oppressed (9). This is where the abolition of individuality really comes into the picture.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">One of the many contrasts between traditional justice and cosmic justice is that traditional justice involves the rules under which flesh-and-blood human beings interact, while cosmic justice encompasses not only contemporary individuals and groups, but also group abstractions extending over generations, or even centuries. (11)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Social justice is not just about living individuals involved in the current world; rather, it is about abstractions, generalizations, and the past. Sowell explained that "cosmic justice must be hand-made by holders of power who impose their own decision on how these flesh-and-blood individuals should be categorized into abstraction, and how these abstractions should then be forcibly configured to fit the vision of the power-holders" (12).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The social justice–Marxist strips the individual of individuality and then turns the person into an abstraction. If a human being is an individual, then we can be held accountable only for our own actions; we cannot be held accountable for the actions of another person, let alone the actions of a group of people who lived and died long before our time. If we are not individuals, then we can be turned into abstractions. As abstractions, we can then be blamed for the actions of others who classify as members of these abstractions. Those in power are the ones dictating the terms of these abstractions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">For an example of this, take race relations. If I am an individual, I had nothing to do with slavery, Jim Crow, waging war with the American Indians, or anyone who did anything hundreds of years before I was born. However, if my individuality is abolished, I am not a unique individual with specific characteristics. I can be broken down into an abstraction designated by those in power.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">When the rubber meets the road between theory and practice, it looks something like this: "you're a straight white male, and straight white males have committed crimes against people of color, therefore you have committed crimes against people color." Knowing the Marxist tenet driving this, the implicit basis for stripping white males of privilege and then assigning those privileges to people of color is no longer camouflaged. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Sowell really understood the latent heart of the issue: "It is about putting particular segments of society in the position that they would have been in but for some undeserved misfortune" (13). Sowell astutely recognized that it is not about real justice, but rather about an ideological matrix built to take things away from one segment of the population and give them to another. Sowell concluded this thought by saying, "This conception of fairness requires that third parties must wield the power to control outcomes" (14).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">These third parties are the politicians, academics, movie stars, and athletes. These people are using Marxism, many without even knowing it, to advance certain peoples and ideas, while simultaneously penalizing others for issues they are not responsible for.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">This is possible only by abolishing individuality. In a world with individuals, we are responsible only for our own actions. In a world without individuality, we, as individuals, can be held accountable for the actions of others. It does not matter if these crimes and abuses were committed by the dead against the dead from hundreds of years before either party was born.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The next time you hear someone advocating to rectify injustices committed by the dead against other dead people, pay attention. This is merely the Marxist charade to abolish individuality. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">1. Marx, as quoted by Kirk, 1954, p. 264.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">2. Marx, 1848.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">3. Ibid.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">4. Scruton, 2015; Walsh, 2015; and Kengor, 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">5. Scruton, pp. 117–118.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">6. Marx, 1848.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">7. Haidt, and Lukianoff, 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">8. Macintosh</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">9. Ibid.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">10. Sowell, 1999.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">11. Ibid, p. 31.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">12. Ibid, p. 46.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">13. Ibid, p. 12.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">14. Ibid, p. 12.</span></div>
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Franco Aragostahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088635482766081825noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531054654019006998.post-50212148532393972072020-06-03T23:30:00.000-07:002020-06-04T22:06:02.509-07:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">_____ THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET ______</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">When fond recollection presents them to view!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And every loved spot which my infancy knew;</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The wide-spreading pond, and the mill which stood by it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The bridge, and the rock where the cataract fell;</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The cot of my father, the dairy-house nigh it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And e’en the rude bucket which hung in the well —</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well.<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure;</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">For often, at noon, when returned from the field,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The purest and sweetest that nature can yield.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell;</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Then soon, with the emblem of truth over-flowing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well —</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The moss-covered bucket arose from the well.<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Though filled with the nectar that Jupiter sips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And now, far removed from the loved situation,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The tear of regret will intrusively swell,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As fancy reverts to my father’s plantation,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And sighs for the bucket which hangs in the well —</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The moss-covered bucket which hangs in the well.<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">~ Samuel Woodworth (1784-1842)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><i>by </i><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/clarice_feldman/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: black;"><i>Clarice Feldman</i></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">I don’t know how many people today still read Eric Hoffer’s <i><i>The True Believer</i></i>, but if you are puzzled by the breakout this week of rioting and mayhem (at last count in 17 cities) you’d do well to make yourself familiar with this incredibly well-reasoned text on mass movements. Why are the streets regularly filled with mostly pasty -faced stoners pelting stones and bricks, destroying businesses in the poorest urban areas and of even attacking law enforcement on thinnest of pretexts? Partly, I suppose it’s because the shutdown kept them isolated for so long, bored and out of work, but Hoffer’s observation seems to me to best fit: “The permanent misfits can find salvation only in a complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Much of the looting –– as far as I could tell from the online videos shot in Minneapolis –– has been from neighborhood black thugs, but <a href="https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2020/05/highlights-of-news_30.html%23"><span style="color: #042eee; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">not all of it</span></a> by any means: The riots that accompanied the looting there and elsewhere significantly involve white men and women with a decided stoner look about them. Reports are that many of these rioters are, in fact, being bussed in from elsewhere. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The mayor of St. Paul said every person arrested was from out of town. The President tweeted that 80% of all the rioters in Minnesota were outsiders and reminded readers that federal law made crossing state lines to engage in violence a federal offense that would be prosecuted and punished. The attorney general was clear that it would be.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The outrage of our national community about what happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis is real and legitimate. Accountability for his death must be addressed, and is being addressed, through the regular process of our criminal justice system, both at the state and at the federal level. That system is working and moving at exceptional speed. Already initial charges have been filed. That process continues to move forward. Justice will be served.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Unfortunately, with the rioting that is occurring in many of our cities around the country, the voices of peaceful protest are being hijacked by violent radical elements</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate and violent agenda.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized, and driven by anarchists and far left extremists, using Antifa-like tactics, many of whom travel from out of state to promote the violence. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">We must have law and order on our streets and in our communities, and it is the responsibility of the local and state leadership, in the first instance, to halt this violence. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The Department of Justice (including the FBI, Marshals, ATF, and DEA), and all of our 93 U.S. Attorneys across the country, will support these local efforts and take all action necessary to enforce federal law.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke;">I</span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">n that regard, it is a federal crime to cross state lines or to use interstate facilities to incite or participate in violent rioting. We will enforce these laws.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The purported theme of this outburst is the death in custody of George Floyd. Videos can be deceiving. The impression of most who saw it was that officer Derek Chauvin's kneeing his neck had asphyxiated him. (The preliminary autopsy report, however, concluded this was not the case, and while further examination may tell us more about his pre-existing health conditions and possible intoxication which the examiner observed, at first glance Chauvin’s conduct seems excessive and negligent. He has been arrested and charged.) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">We have seen similar protests in the Brown and Garner cases. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">We did not see any protests, however, when another Minneapolis cop shot point blank and killed for no reason Justine Damond, a white woman. That murder elicited outrage, of course, but civilized people know that courtrooms are the place to provide outcomes, not looting, burning, and attacking other innocent fellow citizens.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Hoffer also said, “<i>Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">And this unfortunately is the case with the civil rights movement, which began as a just claim to equal rights and has devolved into rent-seeking and demands for superior rights of favored groups, often by pampered white kids. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Sure, black lives matter. So do all lives. Like so many once-valued institutions and causes, it has been corrupted and is now a part of the very obvious effort to sow misery and discord throughout the land in the belief that when people become impoverished and distraught enough ,the left will win.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Why now, just as Americans are leaving the dispiriting and costly lockdowns? These riots, per observers on the ground, seem to have been well planned in advance, the organizers waiting for any spark to whistleblow the misfits into action. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Organizers were directing the crowd where to go</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">They had pallets of 100 bricks ready for rioters</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">They were yelling to the crowd “go left, there are 100 bricks on the corner over there”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">This wasn’t random chaos</i></span></div>
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Masked militants ransacking the Justice Center in downtown Portland. Many came prepared with chemicals to start fires and weapons to break windows. #antifa #BlackLivesMatter </i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The press, on the other hand, often shows us these gangs in dramatic poses, set to mimic the brave students in Tiananmen Square or partisans fighting Nazis, at times even reprising<i> Battleship Potemkin</i>, the famous Soviet propaganda film, the TV footage rolls on. They are not giving us a very accurate picture of who and what is behind all this. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In some cases, it’s rather obvious that the journalists who cover these riots are cheering them on, <a href="https://quillette.com/2019/05/29/its-not-your-imagination-the-journalists-writing-about-antifa-are-often-their-cheerleaders/"><span style="color: #0682c1; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">reports Eoin Lenihan</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Antifa often receives media neutral or even favorable coverage, with its members’ violence either being ignored or vaguely explained away by reporters as a product of right-wing provocation. What’s more, anecdotal evidence has suggested that many of the mainstream reporters who are most active in covering Antifa also tend to amplify Antifa’s claims enthusiastically on social media.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In October 2018, my research partner and I decided to investigate the truth of this impression by using a mix of network mapping and linguistic analysis to see which prominent journalists who covered Antifa also were closely connected to leading Antifa figures on social media. We then inspected the Antifa-related stories these journalists had written. …</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">That correlation turned out to be quite pronounced: Of all 15 verified national-level journalists in our subset, we couldn’t find a single article, by any of them, that was markedly critical of Antifa in any way. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In all cases, their work in this area consisted primarily of downplaying Antifa violence while advancing Antifa talking points, and in some cases quoting Antifa extremists as if they were impartial experts. …</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Like other prominent writers whose names appear among the 15 journalists most closely engaged with Antifa, they seem to function not at professional arm’s length from their sources, but rather as cogs in an activist enterprise that churns out both pro-Antifa propaganda and doxing information about real or imagined ideological enemies. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Their allies in this mission include trolls such as AntiFashGordon, the pseudonym of a Twitter user who declares that “I expose fascists, get them fired, de-homed, kicked out of school etc,” and brags that he passes “dossiers” of doxes to national-level journalists, whom he refers to as “our contacts.” His entire online mission is to ruin other people’s lives, and it is a mission being supported by “contacts” like Mathias and Wilson. In providing such support, they are discrediting their publications and misinforming their readers.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Sometimes the propagandizing is even less hidden. An MSNBC reporter intoned on camera, “<i>I want to be clear on how I characterize this. This is mostly a protest. It is not generally speaking unruly</i>.” In the background we could see a burning building, and elsewhere videos of a Target store stripped clean of everything but school supplies, and as one wag noted, Father’s Day cards.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Perhaps the FBI, now free from political spying and covering up their misdeeds, might investigate this nationwide network of professional rioters, their funders and enablers, and round them up. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Lenihan started tracing the journalist-Antifa nexus on Twitter, and while we are on the subject, Twitter itself, not just some of those who post there, seems to have a partisan objective of promoting disunity, violence and -- not least of all –– interfering with free speech. Its conduct, long a subject of criticism, finally induced the President to sign an Executive Order designed to rein in the big social media platforms’ practice of censoring views and writers with which they disagree.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">First, Twitter targeted a presidential tweet on fraud in mail-in voting, and when that raised hackles, it targeted a perfectly presidential tweet on the criminal acts in Minneapolis as promoting violence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Trump signed the Executive Order Thursday aimed at those social media giants he says have been operating as biased publishers rather than platforms for free speech. Trump tweeted, “THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The National Guard was sent to assist local authorities in containing the rioting. Earlier the president criticized the city’s mayor, who ordered the evacuation of the precinct saying, “the very weak radical left mayor Jacob Frey” if he didn’t bring the city under control.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In response, Twitter flagged the President’s tweet and attached a notice saying “we have placed a public interest notice on this Tweet from @realDonaldTrump.” The tweet is actually hidden from public view but can be viewed if the reader so chooses to click on it.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Do you see any incitement to violence in this? I don’t. Instead, the characterization appears to be just another manifestation of the views of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (<a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-blind-leading-the-blind/pwGQmihrf3O0Lg?hl=en&ms=%7B%22x%22%3A0.5%2C%22y%22%3A0.5%2C%22B%22%3A9.537753365755648%2C%22z%22%3A9.537753365755648%2C%22size%22%3A%7B%22width%22%3A1.8083935546875%2C%22height%22%3A1.5822435082178%7D%7D"><span style="color: #0682c1; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">this week pictured</span></a> in garb, including a black felt head covering, which made him look like something out of a Brueghel painting of the blind leading the blind).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Twitter (not unlike some other online platforms) have stifled, not promoted free speech, targeting viewpoints with which they disagree and posters who do not share their left-wing views with tactics like flagging, deplatforming, banning, shadow banning (hiding the tweets without knowledge of the poster) and such. Indeed, as others have noted, Twitter regularly permits actual calls to violence on its site if the target is the president or conservatives. See just one example out of many: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Twitter is targeting the President of the United States 24/7, while turning their heads from protest organizers who are planning, plotting, and communicating their next moves daily on this very platform.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Indeed, Yoel Roth, Twitter’s (ludicrous) head of site integrity himself has tweeted that Trump was a “racist tangerine” and complained of “actual Nazis in the White House.” To my knowledge he’s still in that position and his tweets still are neither flagged nor removed. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Any reasonable person would have expected Twitter to shift gears, but not Jack Dorsey: <a href="https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2020/05/highlights-of-news_29.html#more"><span style="color: #0682c1; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Don Surber found</span></a> this pretense of fact-editing laughably lacking in self-awareness: </span></div>
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ITEM 18: Sohrab Ahmari reported, "This week, for the first time, Twitter fact-checked one of President Trump’s opinions and redirected users to coverage from that paragon of fairness and objectivity, CNN (don’t laugh).<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Victoria Taft <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2020/05/29/since-twitter-is-fact-checking-here-are-some-tweets-wed-like-them-to-take-a-look-at-n439844"><span style="color: #0682c1; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">adds to Surber’s example</span></a> tweets by liars like Avenatti and loonies like Jennifer Rubin which were demonstrably untrue but never removed or even flagged. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In any event, it is unclear how much longer this glorification of the left, intolerance toward those who decry it, and support for the weak Democratic politicians who condone if not promote lawlessness, can continue.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The President’s executive order is designed to ensure true diversity of opinion, and I <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/"><span style="color: #0682c1; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">urge you to read it</span></a>, but here are some highlights behind the order which have not been well-publicized. It attacks selective censorship, refers to tens of thousands of complaints for things as “flagging content as inappropriate, even though it does not violate any stated terms of service; making unannounced and unexplained changes to company policies that have the effect of disfavoring certain viewpoints; and deleting content and entire accounts with no warning, no rationale, and no recourse.” Worse, the order notes “several online platforms are profiting from and promoting the aggression and disinformation spread by foreign governments like China.” Their agency for China also includes working with the Chinese Communist Party to blacklist Chinese searches from for “human rights,” hiding data unfavorable to the Party, and tracking users determined by the CCP to warrant surveillance. They’ve provided “direct benefits to the Chinese military” and run CCP ads enabling human rights abuse there. “They have also amplified China’s propaganda abroad, including, by allowing Chinese government officials to use their platforms to spread misinformation regarding the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to undermine pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Lord Haw-haw and Tokyo Rose never had such wonderful tools as high-tech as these at their disposal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The brilliant Daniel Greenfield explains why we cannot continue to treat the big tech operations which control speech as platforms free from the same laws that publishers are -- <a href="https://cms.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/05/its-not-big-tech-decide-whats-true-daniel-greenfield"><span style="color: #0682c1; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">things like libel law</span></a>, for example:</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Platforms which start censoring political speech based on a partisan 'fact checking' agenda are acting as publishers. All the pearl clutching about protecting standards comes down to platforms acting as publishers. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Ya gotta filter them germs away</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Carry your hand spray, to make cops happy</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Disinfect and avoid Death today</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Time is a wastin,’ so make it snappy</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Doc Fauci's eager to take your hand</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Lead you to Exile where life feels crappy</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>He wants to keep you from the Promised Land</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>We're headin' 'cross the River</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Killing Covid on the ride</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>You can't have Wuflu</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>On the Other Side.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>So don your facemark, and make it snappy</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Ya gotta filter them germs away</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Carry your hand spray, to make cops happy</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Disinfect and avoid Death today</i></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>~ </b></span><span style="color: #6b2185; font-family: "mistral"; font-size: 42px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Harold Arlen </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">(brutally adapted)</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Have a costume party.</b></span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Put on a fashion show. </b></span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Learn a TikTok dance.</b></span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Learn calligraphy or cursive writing.</b></span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Teach your pet a new trick (with adult supervision).</b></span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Customize your toys with model paint.</b></span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Call or video chat friends and family.</b></span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Cover the fridge with art.</b></span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Make your own ice cream.</b></span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Learn how to do a cartwheel or handstand.</b></span></li>
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<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Find a new podcast.</b></span></li>
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<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Learn latte art.</b></span></li>
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<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Clean out your inbox.</b></span></li>
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<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Play charades.</b></span></li>
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<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Learn a foreign language.</b></span></li>
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<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Binge-watch a movie series.</b></span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Turn a meal into DIY charcuterie boards or a picnic.</b></span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Create a scavenger hunt.</b></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">TRUMP HELPED US TO ESCAPE</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;"><br />AND DOESN'T THIS SUM IT UP </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">BRILLIANTLY?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;">_____ </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">AMERICA</span><span style="color: #351c75;"> _____</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>My country, 'tis of thee,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Sweet land of liberty,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Of thee I sing;</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Land where my fathers died,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Land of the pilgrims' pride,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>From ev'ry mountainside</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Let freedom ring!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Land of the noble free,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Thy name I love;</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Thy woods and templed hills.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Like that above.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Let music swell the breeze</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>And ring from all the trees</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Sweet freedom's song;</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Let mortal tongues awake;</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Let all that breathe partake;</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Let rocks their silence break,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>The sound prolong.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Our fathers' God, to thee,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Author of liberty,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>To thee we sing;</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Long may our land be bright</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>With freedom's holy light.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Protect us by thy might,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;">~ </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">§</span><span style="color: #351c75;"> ~</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-kerning: none;">Text: Samuel F. Smith, 1808-1895</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-kerning: none;"><i>[known in England as “God Bless Our Native Land</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-kerning: none;"><i> and in the United States as “America”]</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>It looms overhead like a low, dark cloud. It drowns out our church bells and voices and mocks us. Everything bears its witness: empty halls and dark storefronts and absent grandparents and sterile shields where smiles used to be. Streets are too silent and thoughts are too loud. One, two, 800, 100,000 gone — the toll rise.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Friends and paychecks disappear, leaving only vices. Morale sinks low as screen time skyrockets. Another hour lost, another drink consumed. Goodbye to gyms, hello to binging.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>One girl looks longingly at the cap and tassel she’ll never wear. A young man says goodbye to his father, so recently in remission. New parents weep quietly, separated from their little one in the NICU. A bride puts away her gown, and with it a lifelong dream. Only uncertainty is certain now. Only death seems to grant rest from the unrest.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Look for the light at the end of the tunnel — the conventional wisdom. But these are unconventional days. The tunnel extends on and on, growing darker with each lay-off, each citation, each cough, each headline. Where is the light?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Today, church gathering places are vacant. This holy day, light filters through stained glass and falls on empty pews, while brothers and sisters around the world are kept apart. Communion and fellowship are <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/10/indiana-governor-to-churches-worship-as-i-say-or-be-shut-down/"><span style="color: #ea370b; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">condemned</span></a>. We know that love regards the health of others, but what about spiritual health? What about souls? We succumb to more darkness and more death.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>But darkness has swallowed up the light before, when 2,000 years ago the Savior we celebrate was crucified. Sin and death prevailed that day. The<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+27&version=ESV"><span style="color: #ea370b; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> earth shook, and the rocks split</span></a>, and the grave swallowed the King. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>What weight and what dread that a longed-for Messiah would come only to die a gruesome death. So much for hope. So much for deliverance. The light at the end of the tunnel was snuffed out when the Light of the World was crucified.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The grave could not defeat life. Darkness could not overcome Light. A beam pierced the black tomb as the stone was rolled away, revealing only grave clothes in the dust. “He is not here, for <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+28&version=ESV"><span style="color: #ea370b; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">he is risen, as he said</span></a>.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>He is risen indeed, sitting in glory next to the Father. The same power that raised him now <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+8&version=ESV"><span style="color: #ea370b; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">lives</span></a> in those who place their trust in him and yield to his will, longing for his imminent return. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The Light of the World crushed sin and darkness, robbing their power and bringing new life to dead sinners without hope — and not only life, but life abundant and eternal.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Oh, death, <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+corinthians+15&version=ESV"><span style="color: #ea370b; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">where is your sting</span></a>? Oh, hell, where is your victory?</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: 27px; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;">H</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">idden there with broken hands and feet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Ruthless powers crushed His flesh and bone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">It looked to be the ultimate defeat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Trudged toward the tomb wherein </span><span style="font-size: 26px; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;">H</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">e lay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Instead of death, an angel helped them see,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Startled, that the stone was rolled away!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A risen Jesus stood! </span><span style="font-size: 26px; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;">H</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">e still drew breath!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Radiance around Him warmed the air. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">In banks of lilies sweet we now see death</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Stripped of terror. Life, eternal, fair,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Enjoins us all to claim </span><span style="font-size: 26px; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;">H</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">is victory.</span></span></div>
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