Lawrence Ferlinghetti (After Khalil Gibran) 2007
Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
Except to praise conquerors
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
By force and by torture
Pity the nation that knows
No other language but its own
And no other culture but its own
Pity the nation whose breath is money
And sleeps the sleep of the too well fed
Pity the nation oh pity the people
who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away
My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!
I don't know whether this nation should be pitied or whether simply recognized for what it has become.
ReplyDeleteA nation's government that lies and cannot be trusted.
A nation's government whose "soul" has turned black.
A nation's government who values little and knows the true value of nothing.
A nation's government that views 60% of the nation's people as evil and the enemy.
A nation both Hitler and Stalin would smile on.
A nation's government that hasn't a clue as to how to successfully govern to create the greatest goid for the greatest numbers.
Without a shred of evidence, Trump has blamed the Left for Kirk's killing. That is inflammatory rhetoric that will only get more people killed.
DeleteThe chorus of MAGA blaming the Left makes me wonder how they're so sure that it was the Left that killed Kirk. What do they know that we don't know?
So the shooter's bullet casings weren't inscribed with trangender and anti-fascist messages?
DeleteThat hasn't been verified by the FBI. But I would caution everyone to beware of false flags and planted evidence with this FBI in charge. Patel, the Director, has already made an amateur blunder by saying the perpetrator was caught when he wasn't.
DeleteAs for you and your pals on the Mother Ship:
Everyone trying to use murder as a pretext to persecute perceived enemies before they know a thing about the killer is actually saying they don't really care about the killer's identity or motivation, which are incidental and immaterial to the goal of advancing their political agenda.
BTW, there was a school shooting at a Colorado school yesterday where two children were injured and the shooter killed himself.
Just two weeks ago two children were killed and 17 other maimed and injured at a Catholic Church service before the beginning of the school year.
Kirk's death is a tragedy, but not any worse than what happened to the children at the Annunciation School in Minneapolis, MN, or the children in Evergreen, Colorado.
They didn't get the attention from the President of the MAGA States that Kirk did, but their lives were just as precious and important.
This is the identity of MAGA Republicans.
DeleteThey are racist white nationalists to the core. "Very fine people", all of them, including Skud and Joe Conservative. Neither of them can denounce the racist fascism of Charlie Kirk, or Trump, or in their own over-active enlarged amygdalas.
https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-warns-haitian-migrants-will-become-your-masters-if-trump-loses-election
Emily, just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night — it's only gonna get worse if — unless Donald Trump wins. A new report from Fox News shows that across the border, 13,000 people convicted of murder, 15,000 people convicted of rape on the non-detained list — meaning they're currently roaming free around our country. So right now, roaming free on the interior of the United States are 13,000 convicted murderers, 15,000 convicted rapists. And they're just — they're having a field day, and they're coming for your daughter next… and pray Trump wins, or else things are gonna get really bad. They're gonna get even worse. There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama, and they will become your masters…and pray Trump wins, or else things are gonna get really bad. They're gonna get even worse. There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama, and they will become your masters.
Who knows? But the one thing I'm pretty sure of given tRump's demonstrated dishonesty is that if it was a right leaning individual every effort will be made to cover it up or lie and continue to say that it was a "libtard."
ReplyDeleteThe US government con no longer be trusted to tell the truth and ANYTHING.
David Rothkopf
ReplyDeleteState Department to ban immigrants speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. VP to fly his body to Arizona on Air Force 2. Trump to award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Journalists getting fired for asking the right questions. We are spiraling into a dystopia beyond our imagining.
Joe, just the bullet left the rifle. Whether the shooter kept or discarded the casing, it is pretty hard to write a long message on a 30-6. When I was working at an Army arsenal, the clever writing was on big artillery shells.
ReplyDeleteBB, I think you have been proven wrong on the writing on the brass.
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🚨 BREAKING: GOP Rep. Bob Onder just stood on the House floor and used Charlie Kirk’s death to paint all Democrats as “evil.”
Not the shooter. Not the crime.
The opposition party.
This is how fascism escalates:
- A man is gunned down
- The Right weaponizes the corpse
- And America gets one step closer to war with itself
Well, delusion, hate, and ignorance runs deep, VERY deep in the minds of the tRumpublican con Christian Nationalists. Which is what Kirk was and Noah Johnson is. As well as a large majority if the reublican/tRumpublican party is.
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