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SMITHEREENS: Reflections on Bits & Pieces: Make America Grieve Again

Gar Smith

Tuesday November 12, 2024 - 10:50:00 AM

MoveOn Shares this Dire Warning:g

"We know what we’re up against. Trump and MAGA Republicans have already shown us their playbook. And Project 2025—their “180-day transition playbook”—could destroy the checks and balances of our government and pave the way for Trump’s authoritarian rise to power.

"We still live in a democracy. But Project 2025 wants to change that.

"Project 2025 will further erode abortion access, implement mass deportations, reverse birthright citizenship, roll back LGBTQ+ rights, and dismantle public education. Disturbingly, it seeks to give Trump control over currently independent federal agencies, like the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

"But it gets worse.

"There's a 'fourth pillar' that the architects of Project 2025 have refused to release that could completely overhaul the executive branch of government. We have to be prepared.

"This is a dark chapter in US history. But together, we can make sure it's not the final chapter. Let every Democrat in Congress know their constituents are watching.

"This is not 2016. We know what we're up against. Demand elected leaders show up with political courage to fight back against every policy, every nomination, and every bill that threatens our collective future."

Do Elected Democrats Really Promote Organizing? History Tells a Different Story

In a November 4 Substack posting journalist and Georgetown University professor Arun Gupta writes:

"Under Bush and Cheney there were dozens of protests of more than 100,000 people against the Iraq War. This includes more than half-a-million people in New York City on February 15, 2003, and during the 2004 RNC. Other protests in NYC, Washington, DC, Boston, and San Francisco drew six-figure crowds. The left organized them and liberals turned out.

"In 2006, during the 'Day Without an Immigrant' protests, perhaps the only general strike in US history, Democratic operatives and politicians encouraged the walkouts by millions to protest a GOP anti-immigrant bill.

"But Obama co-opted organizing from the Bush years. Obama presented himself as pro-immigrant, pro-environment, and antiwar candidate. As president he illegally bombed seven countries, carried out mass surveillance, sabotaged climate change accords in Copenhagen, oversaw massive expansion of fracking, fought illegal drone wars, bailed out criminal Wall Street banks, screwed over millions of workers and homeowners, and deported 2 million immigrants. It all happened without a peep from liberals."

Fashion Plates
Personalized license plates spotted around town:
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SALUTT
ADD1CUP
JEDI IAM
ID8MOMS (I Date Moms)
EL4M8D (El Fore-Mated?)
C1TRUZ (See One Trues?)
MZDAMBN (Miz Dambian?)

Bumpersnickers
(All spotted on a single Toyota Prius!)
I Love Sodomy
Department of Sexy
I Love My Gay Dog
Hello, My Name Is Car
This Is the Back of My Car
You Just Got Passed by a Bad Driver
Party Rockers in the House Tonight
My Kid Beat Up Your Honor Student
HaHa Caught You Reading, Nerd
If You Honk at Me I Will Kill Myself
If You Were the Last Man on Earth I'd Say Yes
My Other Car Drove Me Off a Cliff and Now I'm a Ghost
Women Fear Me/ Fish Fear Me/ Men Turn Their Eyes Away from Me/ As I walk/ No Beast Dare/ Make a Sound in My Presence/ I'm Alone on the Barren Earth
I Hate Buperstickers

Committing Biblical Genocide at God's Command

Sachs writes:
"What Netanyahu did not tell his fellow leaders (most of whom had in any event vacated the hall), was that Moses laid out a genocidal path to the Promised Land—in Deuteronomy 31:"
"[The LORD] will destroy these nations before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua is the one who will cross ahead of you, just as the LORD has spoken.
“The LORD will do to them just as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when He destroyed them. The LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.”

Sachs also cites Joshua's destruction of Hebron. (Joshua 10):

"They captured it [Hebronh and struck it and its king and all its cities and all the persons who were in it with the edge of the sword. He left no survivor…. And he utterly destroyed it and every person who was in it."