Rumpole
Diamond Member
- Mar 20, 2023
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My dear members, ideological opponents on the right and friends on the left, it appears we have a most malignant growth festering in the very heart of our society – a dreadful cancer that threatens to consume the once-proud party of Lincoln. The MAGA movement, I daresay, has set the very foundation of our democracy ablaze, and one cannot deny the incontrovertible evidence of this calamity! I should think the facts of their lunacy is inescapable, indefatigable, immutable, incorrigible, and incontrovertible. But, I know my conservative/nationalist populist friends will disagree, so I invite all of you to feel free to contest these feelings about what I view are facts. And my liberal brethren, I welcome your affirmations and clarifications on any sentiment expressed herein. Yes, make no mistake, this is a rant, one that I can no longer hold within, and for it, I do not apologize.
Our hallowed democratic institutions, alas, possess their own inherent frailties. The esteemed Republicans, having cast their votes for their chosen representatives, willfully bestowed upon us a most conservative court. This court, in a display of unyielding partisanship, unleashed the wretched specter of Citizens United upon the land, thereby corrupting the sanctity of our electoral system via the influence of dark money. The Republicans, emboldened by this newfound power, not earned but seized, now strive to amass even greater influence and power. While they accuse Democrats of same, it is they who are the projectionists extraordinaire.
And while they cry foul, pointing to the transgressions of their Democratic counterparts, we must not forget that these instances of Democratic gerrymandering are but a reactionary measure (and nowhere near comparable in magnitude) to the Republicans' own sweeping and unparalleled machinations. This brazen manipulation extends far beyond the Senate (as if the systemic Republican Senatorial disproportionate representation in their favor wasn't enough) and now casts its dark shadow over the House of Representatives.
Democracy, frail as it may be, allowed this terrible malady to fester, and now, it is our only hope for salvation. America, my friends, is in the grip of a dire illness, the MAGA movement, a motley crew who, during the years of my youth, manifested in the bosom of the John Birch society, i.e., 'Birchers' as they were known, a faction of Republicans verisimilar in nature as today's MAGA movement, but were pushed to the sidelines by Conservative Granddaddy William F Buckley, whose ring all or most serious conservatives had to kiss if they desired success in the party. Alas, Buckley is resting in peace, and now the proverbial inmates have conquered the asylum with no filter like Buckley to stop them) noting that they, who, in Trump, have found their champion, that odious figure, that veritable bellows blowing his hideous hurricane and ill winds across the land, noting that it's peripheral eddies have infected other nations, as well.
One can only hope that the tireless efforts of other prosecutors, armed with a more robust case than that presented by Bragg, will soon bring about a much-needed reckoning. For, indeed, the sands of time are swiftly slipping away, and our beloved country teeters on the brink of ruin.
Alas, and let us pray that God, or......(pick your fave)
23. 'the Force'
...help us all.
Not-so-cheerful today but not-so-humbly tendered,
Rumpole
Our hallowed democratic institutions, alas, possess their own inherent frailties. The esteemed Republicans, having cast their votes for their chosen representatives, willfully bestowed upon us a most conservative court. This court, in a display of unyielding partisanship, unleashed the wretched specter of Citizens United upon the land, thereby corrupting the sanctity of our electoral system via the influence of dark money. The Republicans, emboldened by this newfound power, not earned but seized, now strive to amass even greater influence and power. While they accuse Democrats of same, it is they who are the projectionists extraordinaire.
And while they cry foul, pointing to the transgressions of their Democratic counterparts, we must not forget that these instances of Democratic gerrymandering are but a reactionary measure (and nowhere near comparable in magnitude) to the Republicans' own sweeping and unparalleled machinations. This brazen manipulation extends far beyond the Senate (as if the systemic Republican Senatorial disproportionate representation in their favor wasn't enough) and now casts its dark shadow over the House of Representatives.
Democracy, frail as it may be, allowed this terrible malady to fester, and now, it is our only hope for salvation. America, my friends, is in the grip of a dire illness, the MAGA movement, a motley crew who, during the years of my youth, manifested in the bosom of the John Birch society, i.e., 'Birchers' as they were known, a faction of Republicans verisimilar in nature as today's MAGA movement, but were pushed to the sidelines by Conservative Granddaddy William F Buckley, whose ring all or most serious conservatives had to kiss if they desired success in the party. Alas, Buckley is resting in peace, and now the proverbial inmates have conquered the asylum with no filter like Buckley to stop them) noting that they, who, in Trump, have found their champion, that odious figure, that veritable bellows blowing his hideous hurricane and ill winds across the land, noting that it's peripheral eddies have infected other nations, as well.
One can only hope that the tireless efforts of other prosecutors, armed with a more robust case than that presented by Bragg, will soon bring about a much-needed reckoning. For, indeed, the sands of time are swiftly slipping away, and our beloved country teeters on the brink of ruin.
Alas, and let us pray that God, or......(pick your fave)
- Allah (Islam)
- Yahweh (Judaism)
- Jehovah (Christianity)
- Elohim (Hebrew Bible)
- Brahman (Hinduism)
- Vishnu, Shiva, or Brahma (Hinduism)
- The Tao (Taoism)
- The Great Spirit (Native American spirituality)
- The Creator (various indigenous religions)
- The Absolute (philosophy and mysticism)
- The All (Hermeticism)
- The Divine (general term for a higher power)
- The Supreme Being (Deism)
- The Almighty (general term for an omnipotent deity)
- The Father (Christianity)
- The Holy Trinity (Christianity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)
- The Great Architect (Freemasonry)
- The Cosmos (pantheism)
- The Universe (pantheism)
- The One (Neoplatonism and Gnosticism)
- The Monad (Pythagoreanism and Gnosticism)
- The Demiurge (Gnosticism)
23. 'the Force'
...help us all.
Not-so-cheerful today but not-so-humbly tendered,
Rumpole
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