August 4, 2023
Thomas Paine’s
famous pamphlet Common Sense was a lynchpin in the machinery of the 1776
American Revolution. You remember the American Revolution – it was in all the
papers. A ragtag file of British colonists bravely masquerading as Native
Americans had a very messy Tea Party in Boston, and the colonists ultimately
divested themselves from the Royal Crown, eventually subsuming their overlords
of yore and running roughshod over any number of countries over the centuries. Like fatherland, like son.
Today, another
ragtag mob of anti-woke weasels, most of whom you can bet never read Paine’s Common
Sense, or probably even heard of Thomas Paine, or at best could not understand
Paine’s meaning, has got it into their perfidy little heads that they are the ones
with modern common sense. As of 2006, Paine’s Common Sense remained the
all-time best-selling American title and is still in print today. Unfortunately,
most of today’s wannabe revolutionaries either cannot or will not read much of
anything that either comes straight from the insanely antic-democratic Donald
Trump, or does not begin with the letter ‘Q’.
Where Paine’s
message was one of egalitarian government, those who besmirch Common Sense and
common sense are fighting against egalitarianism, in favor of an authoritarian
society in which they have perpetual, unquestioned control. You know, fascists.
Common Nonsense
Trump’s MAGAts, who claim to be the rightful heirs to the Founders, the Revolution of 1776, and all that is right and good about America (i.e., White makes right) are immovably bound to a man who makes Benedict Arnold look like George Washington. He not our best people; he’s sniffing drugs, committing crimes and he’s a rapist.*
Seventy percent of these very fine whack jobs continue to insist that Joe Biden is an illegitimate president. We do not have the final numbers on how many of these folks believe the Earth is flat, the Moon is made of green cheese, Jesus rode a dinosaur and God didn’t make little green apples.
A number of these yahoos were screaming “1776”
as they stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 in their deluded attempt to end
democracy in America. Those who are not now doing time for their crime, and
maybe even some who are, continue to exist in the Trumpian haze of perfidy and
free-dumb. They are gearing up for more sedition and the hope of seeing their
cult daddy back in the White House to
To be fair, these mental defectives do have a
good deal in common with many of the Founders. Here are just a few salient
points showing that maybe today’s assholes are in fact not so divorced from
this nation’s Founding Fathers (naturally we have all but obliterated the
contributions of the women of that time):
Today’s faux-founder fan boys are desperate
to return to the old days. They would be happy to keep people of color and
women from voting. They believe that slavery benefitted those who were enslaved.
They have no problem when cops shoot unarmed Black people in the back, or kneel
on their necks for nine minutes.
For his part, Cult Daddy Trump, who is running on a blatantly fascist platform for 2024, is unabashedly threatening dangerous consequences should anyone try to LOCK HIM UP! for all the crimes he is alleged to have allegedly committed.
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* At least according to Judge Lewis Kaplan, who denied Trump’s bid to
throw out the jury’s decision in the E. Jean Carroll case. In the latest
judicial smackdown to Dumb Donald, Judge Kaplan wrote: “The finding that
Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York
Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as
many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’ Indeed, as the evidence at
trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did
exactly that.”
I. Mangrey reacting.
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