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AMERICAN MYTHS THAT NEED TO BE EXPLODED #1 Horatio Alger stories created the most useful mythology for the rich ruling classes to use against the rest of us. If you are worthy you will become wealthy? Time to blow up that deception mightily.

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AUSTRALIA JOINS CANADA IN REPUDIATING THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT! Kudos to the voters down under who resisted the urge to embrace xenophobia and austerity!

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IT'S NOT TRANSPARENT WHEN YOU'VE TINTED THE GLASS. This Administration talks a lot, but constantly avoids answering questions. Verbiage about what one wants the discussion to be is not transparency — answering the unflattering questions is. Filters make the transparency disappear.

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CANADA REPUDIATES THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT! Not only did they not vote for him and becoming the 51st state in the US, but they rejected his Conservative toady as well. Oh, Canada!

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THE BANALITY OF EVIL IS HERE. Capable professional people aren't born supporting concerns that objectify and deny the humanity of others. They have to be given the ideological framework to do so. We must save our own ability to feel the pain of others — empathy is not a weakness but a strength.

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LET'S BUY A BILLIONAIRE! We know the current Administration does not listen to Congress or the Supreme Court (much less lowly taxpaying citizens). But if 10,000,000 of us donated $100 each we could buy our own billionaire and start having a say in government policy again. Are you game?

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#45/47 seems to care less about fixing real concerns (like crumbling infrastructure or income inequality) than providing irrational remedies to imaginary problems (like transgender people's toilet habits or civil servants' work locations). The decline and fall of the American Empire moves forward...

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THIS COUNTRY HAS A HISTORY OF CRUELTY, BUT WE CAN GET PAST IT Daily headlines are showcasing what a return to the cruel times marked by slavery, slaughter, suspension of rights and a variety of extrajudicial transgressions looks like. A true choice is nigh — what will we choose?

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HE JUST MIGHT ACHIEVE WHAT THE PANDEMIC COULDN'T! We forget that there were plenty of predictions of recession in 2020-1, but it never happened. Now we have a more powerful virus spreading economic infection throughout the world, and it just might mean recession "very fast, very soon!"

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MAYBE THE COUNTRY I LOVE IS ACTUALLY LIKE AN ADDICT THAT NEEDS TO HIT BOTTOM TO CHOOSE RECOVERY. It tears me apart to not aspire for American success and exceptionalism, but now I await an inevitable major economic downturn with disturbing enthusiasm. And that thought is making me deeply sad.

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LET THEM EAT GOLF BALLS! While the country burns, the arsonist works on his swing. All hail the 21st Century Nero!

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THESE ARE THE DOGE DAYS! I support nearly everything that was cut out of ideology instead of pragmatism. Reform is needed, not revenge. And ironic that the "agency" responsible is shares a name with a crypto scam.

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Bad faith always cheapens the human experience. Bad faith can never be the basis for good policy. Bad faith destroys norms, principles, ethics, trust — all essential elements of healthy democracy. THE PURVEYORS OF BAD FAITH IN PUBLIC OFFICE SHOULD NEVER BE THE LEADERS WE SEEK.

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The War On Empathy has begun. Whether you want to call it Autocracy or Fascism or Christian Nationalism or all of the above, the MAGA forces are rampaging to make us feel that concern for other people makes us weak and easily manipulated. DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE — IT'S THE SAME OLD HATEFUL TRIPE.

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HE'S LIVING RENT-FREE IN OUR HEADS! Be like him and evict him into the cold nothingness he fears more than anything else.

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All right kids! For today's soon-to-be-censored history lesson, here's a little ditty about another Great American Huckster, though this one had abolitionist tendencies. soundcloud.com/russel-forst...

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Instead of protests we could have probursts of spontaneous recognition for what Civil Servants, Immigrants, LGBTQI People, Women, Black/Brown People, Librarians, Historians, Scientists, Liberals, Journalists and Non-Billionaires do on a daily basis for this wonderfully diverse country

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When the government doesn't work, it's time to figure out workarounds. Our allies in other countries certainly will be doing that in spades!

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Messaging: Talking Constitutional Crisis is all well and good, but how does that really affect most Americans' lives? What effect does that have on the pocketbook and sense of safety? If you can explain that, simply and directly, you will win the next election.

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Never loved that "Deep State" more than I do right now. Want to bang pots and pans while they're coming home from work like we once did for nurses!

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Our government should not be focused on increasing cruelty and hate; it should be focused on alleviating cruelty and hate.

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Firehose of mistruths and lies. Gaslight, gaslight, gaslight. Here's the antidote: thejangled.bandcamp.com/track/gimme-...

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Gaslight, gaslight. Nothing is as it seems when the Morons & Monsters are in charge: thejangled.bandcamp.com/track/morons...

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We're back to ICE, ICE baby, and a whiny song by a US Customs disgruntled Graham Nash takes on a whole new meaning: thejangled.bandcamp.com/track/immigr...

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It's all solutions looking for a problem. Illegal immigration is way down, the economy is in remarkably good shape, the U.S. is an energy exporter. He'll break these things to say he has to fix them. thejangled.bandcamp.com/track/soluti...

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