The Plague

[Mark Kohut]

About 30 million Americans, it is estimated, have been in the streets in
the last
few weeks.

The Revolution is here.

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 8:49 AM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> How does one choose the US? Elections don't work. Even Sanders was
> and is a democrat and voting for the democrats (Biden and his band of
> corportist war mongering idiots) is not a vote for the US. Or for us,
> if us is "We the People" and we are the working classes in this
> country.
>
> So Revolution. The STREET. We need a movement of the multitude. Maybe
> we have one. Chomskey doesn't think so and is advocating we get out
> the vote for the lesser of two evils.
>
> But maybe the brilliant old goat is wrong. We may have a movement  and
> it will gain force and force more than a few racist statues to the
> junkyard and a holiday, more than a check in the mail and low interest
> rate loans, more than a promise that the police won't shoot you for
> taking a jog, more than we believe She was raped but we don't believe
> Her or Me Too because Joe is a good guy, even Lindsey Graham says so.
> Maybe Capital is in trouble with unemployment set to remain high for a
> long time and lots of young people with pent up demands for change,
> not business as usual, not the democrats or the two evil parties that
> have resembled each other more and more for decades to the point where
> we can't tell Joe Biden from Sanders from Mitch McConnel. No, really
> they are pretty much the same. 45 has strengthened the resolve to get
> rid of 45, but replace him with Joe and maybe a Blacl female with Law
> Enforcement on her resume. No, man. That's not good enough. This is a
> time for big changes and the political structure needs to be taken
> down. There is deep division about how that gets done. The democrat
> supporters are willing to toss everything out to get 45 out, but that
> won't do much. And there is so much to get done and now is the time to
> get it done.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 4:57 AM matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Howdy all,
> >
> > First, I hope you are all well and finding things to celebrate in
> otherwise
> > dark and trying times.
> >
> >  If like me you avoid preaching to the converted and refuse to waste time
> > trying to convert those believers of bad faith, then you may have watched
> > recent events with the feeling that you are on that bus with a mad driver
> > and no way to stop it or get off. But perhaps it's time to be more vocal,
> > not shouting, but something.
> >
> > Let me explain. We all know that Trump is very ignorant. I mean no one
> > really believes that he wrote that Tweet about "when the looting
> > starts...", remember he has his little Goebbles 2.0 behind him. The
> > propaganda and actions are bothering me more and more. It's this
> > authoritarian playbook that they are using. Can you think of a massive
> > protest where state security forces were brought in from other regions to
> > bust local heads? If you thought Tiananmen Square that's understandable
> but
> > Trump and Barr did the same thing by using Texas prison guards to beat
> East
> > coast protesters. Was that not noted in the media?
> >
> > If it were that one incident... but no. Now we also have the Antifa
> > boogeyman being brought out. This is the same thing that was done in the
> > 1920'S and 30'S. The media jumped on board and communists were seen as
> the
> > threat. The reality is that fascists and their bedfellows killed more
> > people than the communists. This is a narrative that must be checked
> before
> > it gets further.
> >
> > And now the inverted red triangle. This is a bridge too far. Trump must
> be
> > called what Robert Paxton saw him for and now Masha Geesen also
> recognises:
> > he is a fascist. Let the facts talk.
> >
> > My fear is that as his situation gets worse and those that have tied
> their
> > fates to his begin to worry, they will grow more desperate. "We will
> either
> > be great victors or great criminals." They will either try to cancel the
> > election or subvert or otherwise try to steal it as in the past.
> >
> > As the Lincoln Project says, it is time to choose the US or Trump. That
> > simple.
> >
> > Signed
> > Concerned Preacher, aka MC Otis
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