It just dawned on me. I didn't hear any fireworks at all yesterday. Not a single one. And where I live is situated right in the middle of three different big firework displays. I mean they must've happened somewhere, but again I didn't hear any.
I saw one fourth of July display that warmed my heart. I was on the highway this morning and drove under an overpass that had a sheet draped over it that read 'fascist GOP traitors' written on it.
"Donald Trump has returned to the White House because 77 million Americans would rather burn American democracy entirely rather than endure a multicultural one."
Nail head, meet hammer. It all boils down to white people's mediocrity, insecurity and consequently, resentment. People like Trump and his voters, who cannot thrive in a society that attempts to level the field.
Fuck it. I’ll do what small part I can to make this country bearable but no way will I celebrate this farce of a republic. We don’t deserve democracy because we had an election and chose fascism. We have less excuse for than than Germany, which had no democratic tradition by that point and was dealing with economic crisis and war humiliation—we just proved how frivolous and pathetic we are.
Sorry, no flag this year. No rooting for America. We are a joke now.
When you watch that gross demented monster loot our country and pack innocent people into jungle camps, just remember—we weren’t tricked. We didn’t get that as an added “bonus.” He ran and won on that. We have to live with what we are.
Thank you. I have been thinking often of the quote in the first clip, "I live in America. I don't have to love it." For decades I have been shocked, shamed, dismayed, and sometimes horrified by things done in our name, and paid for with our taxes. But, until now I have never reached the point of admitting that I hate America. I think I've always hated America. I just wasn't prepared to admit it.
I used to be able to reassure myself that America has always had malignant, evil people who seized power and spread misery. Somehow we were able to make the incremental changes necessary to recover and restore some limited degree of justice. I don't believe that anymore. The rapid, unopposed rise of authoritarian fascism is just unprecedented. Powerless individuals are speaking up and protesting, but so what. It doesn't really matter. America has ended, as Eliot said, "not with a bang, but a whimper".
Yesterday I posted on BlueSky that today would be Independence Day July 4th but July 3rd would be the day that democracy died.
WRT Douglass, Butthair Vance was on some horrible right wing show saying that he was Gay and that’s why he wanted the slaves freed. So I guess he could cruise for men. It was disgraceful and disrespectful. Many things have horrified me with these horrible people but that had to be the lowest of the low.
I weep for this country and especially for our Black citizens who, goddamn it, never get a fucking break.
We are not free until we ALL are. What are we so scared of?
The loss of talented, smart, innovative individuals who can change the direction of advances in medical, technological, educational and social sciences only serves to screw us all.
Today I wish everyone peace and a day to regroup for the next chapter because it’s gonna be hard. Love to all and thank you SER.
thank you, Stephen. seems the president is using the occasion to declare a rebirth of the country in his image. but the defiance of the first Fourth is reborn in millions of us.
It just dawned on me. I didn't hear any fireworks at all yesterday. Not a single one. And where I live is situated right in the middle of three different big firework displays. I mean they must've happened somewhere, but again I didn't hear any.
I saw one fourth of July display that warmed my heart. I was on the highway this morning and drove under an overpass that had a sheet draped over it that read 'fascist GOP traitors' written on it.
"especially on this Fourth of July, when the U.S. government now has people tortured in foreign prisons"
And domestic... first arrivals at the Florida Death Camp yesterday.
"Donald Trump has returned to the White House because 77 million Americans would rather burn American democracy entirely rather than endure a multicultural one."
Nail head, meet hammer. It all boils down to white people's mediocrity, insecurity and consequently, resentment. People like Trump and his voters, who cannot thrive in a society that attempts to level the field.
Fuck it. I’ll do what small part I can to make this country bearable but no way will I celebrate this farce of a republic. We don’t deserve democracy because we had an election and chose fascism. We have less excuse for than than Germany, which had no democratic tradition by that point and was dealing with economic crisis and war humiliation—we just proved how frivolous and pathetic we are.
Sorry, no flag this year. No rooting for America. We are a joke now.
When you watch that gross demented monster loot our country and pack innocent people into jungle camps, just remember—we weren’t tricked. We didn’t get that as an added “bonus.” He ran and won on that. We have to live with what we are.
Thank you for this poignant, defiant message. I needed to read it today.
A great post on what feels like a somber day due to the state-sanctioned torture of innocent people.
Wishing the best to you all.
Thank you. I have been thinking often of the quote in the first clip, "I live in America. I don't have to love it." For decades I have been shocked, shamed, dismayed, and sometimes horrified by things done in our name, and paid for with our taxes. But, until now I have never reached the point of admitting that I hate America. I think I've always hated America. I just wasn't prepared to admit it.
I used to be able to reassure myself that America has always had malignant, evil people who seized power and spread misery. Somehow we were able to make the incremental changes necessary to recover and restore some limited degree of justice. I don't believe that anymore. The rapid, unopposed rise of authoritarian fascism is just unprecedented. Powerless individuals are speaking up and protesting, but so what. It doesn't really matter. America has ended, as Eliot said, "not with a bang, but a whimper".
Though now it's a day of national mourning.
Yesterday I posted on BlueSky that today would be Independence Day July 4th but July 3rd would be the day that democracy died.
WRT Douglass, Butthair Vance was on some horrible right wing show saying that he was Gay and that’s why he wanted the slaves freed. So I guess he could cruise for men. It was disgraceful and disrespectful. Many things have horrified me with these horrible people but that had to be the lowest of the low.
I weep for this country and especially for our Black citizens who, goddamn it, never get a fucking break.
We are not free until we ALL are. What are we so scared of?
The loss of talented, smart, innovative individuals who can change the direction of advances in medical, technological, educational and social sciences only serves to screw us all.
Today I wish everyone peace and a day to regroup for the next chapter because it’s gonna be hard. Love to all and thank you SER.
Very well put. Maybe one day we will get to the place where the hurting stops.
And I remember that "joke." Jizzy is the Nancy Mace of Vice Presidents...he's mean, stupid and fake.
thank you, Stephen. seems the president is using the occasion to declare a rebirth of the country in his image. but the defiance of the first Fourth is reborn in millions of us.
I cannot with that orange 💩 today.