Hands Off Protest St. Louis April 4th – Pictures

This is a heavily Republican state.  Our particular district is so Republican it makes the rest of the state feel liberal.  I will have to confess I have been feeling hopeless and isolated when all I mainly see around me is a tsunami of red hatted MAGAs.

Señora and I attended one of smaller Hands Off rallies at the next little suburb from us, Ballwin.  It took place on Manchester Road (old Route 66), a heavily trafficked thoroughfare lined by shopping centers, car dealerships, restaurants, etc. Turn out to this event would have been amazing if it had been a warm, sunny day. It was not. Temperature was in the mid 40s. It was raining much more heavily than was comfortable with thunderstorms predicted. Given that, the turn out was phenomenal.  If you are familiar with this street, protestors were lined up on the north side from the 141 overpass to Home Depot, with many more on the south side of the street.

Besides the protesters on foot, many cars were driving by with anti-this-pathetic-excuse for an administration signs in their windows. Many more were honking and waving in support. My unofficial, unscientific survey was that for every car that drove by flipping off the protesters there were 200 or 300 honking and waving in support.

One protest is not going to do it.  We need to protest often and in large groups.  We need to get rid of tArse and his clown alley of Nazis who are hell bent on destroying our nation.

Finally the promised pictures:

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Just as a little side note.  Señora kept her streak alive.  We can hardly go anywhere in the St. Louis area without running into someone she knows. We ran into several at this rally.

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As seen on the back of a Telsa

As I was walking The Wee Dog, aka Prancess Lily,  around da’ hood, I came across a Telsa Model Y —  seems like every third car in our neighborhood is a Telsa — with this bumper sticker.

Obviously a riff on E.T. Phone Home from the mega-popular 1982 movie, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Was it really 43 years ago when this movie came out, wow!

While I have not heard of people’s personal Telsas being vandalized, I know that some dealerships have had problems.  So perhaps this was a self-protective move, but I am going with it as a political statement.  A little glimmer of hope in the current shit storm going on in this country???

When we were in Mexico, a Canadian man we were visiting with told me about a friend of his that was selling his two Telsas as he did not now want to own anything associated with President Muskrat.

I did see another bumper sticker that still has me scratching my head, especially as Google was no help with this one.  The bumper sticker was not red. It was not blue. It was green and read “Make America A Reality Again”.  Are they expressing support for El puto pendejo naranja or opposition?

One day the MAGAs are going to wake up with the worst hangover in history after realizing they have been played so badly.

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Quote of the Day — Turkish Proverb

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.”~~ Turkish Proverb.

A little research revealed that this is not an actual Turkish proverb, but that the proverb has been adopted from a Circassian proverb:

“When an ox moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king, but the palace becomes a barn.”

Either one works for me to describe the current cluster f*** in Washington.

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Google Kowtowing to the Idiocracy

Screw Google and screw those idiots occupying the White House.  This the GULF OF MEXICO.  It is not the Gulf of America.  I am surprised El puto pendejo naranja  did not name it the Gulf of Trump.

I am so embarrassed to be a citizen of this country with such a person occupying the presidency.  I have been wanting to call this administration The Gang That Could Not Shoot Straight, but that would be a compliment for them.

When will this nightmare end?

I complained to Google about this change and it would wonderful if a lot of other folks did too.  However, they do not make it easy to send them feedback.  I hunted around for 10 minutes before I figured out how.  And then there is the fact that they really do not care what I think.

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Somebody Please Explain to Me

Somebody please explain to me why tArse, President Muskrat and the dysfunctional association formerly known as the Republican Party are hell bent on destroying the American economy, the social safety net, our relationship with the rest of the world, the climate, and on and on…

A  new day, and another day of a stock market meltdown.

A  new day, and another day of other countries responding to this unfathomable trade war.

A  new day, and another day of praising dictators and disparaging anyone not genuflecting to his Royal Assness.

Someone please enlightened me.  Try as I might, none of this makes a lick of sense to me that this clown alley of misanthropic, malevolent misfits are attempting to accomplish.

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Quote of the Day — John Lewis

“Don’t give up, don’t give in, don’t give out. Don’t get lost in a sea of despair.” ~~ Rep. John Lewis

Howsomever, that hand with three fingers raised that you can barely see bobbing in the Sea of Despair belongs to yours truly.  Since they have given my country to a con man, I have lost all hope.

It is a nice thought though.

But so it should not go. We are a better people than the cluster f*** that happened last election… or so I used to think.

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MAGA Man (A Neil Young Parody – Canada Ain’t Your 51st State)

71,000,000 of my fellow citizens voted for this horrible waste of protoplasm. And now the whole world is laughing at us… Chaos and destruction to fulfill this psychopath’s delusions of grandeur and the Evangelicals’ End Days delusion.

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Quote of the Day — Robert A. Heinlein

“… I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy . . . censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free.” “ Robert A. Heinlein in Revolt in 2100

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Soy americana, también

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I have been working with a young Ecuadorian lady, Micaela, for years for Spanish conversation practice via Skype. She is interesting, curious, and intelligent. I pay for an hour of her time on iTalki, but we frequently find ourselves still conversing 10, 15 and on occasion 20 minutes after our allotted time, if she does not have a class backed up against mine.  She does have one trait that reminds me of my son.  She frequently plays Devil’s Advocate to whatever I say.  Sometimes I think this is just her personality, but I sometimes think it is her method of keeping the conversation going.  I have mentioned Devil’s Advocate Micaela in previous posts.

Awhile back we were having a conversation of which I do not remember the theme.  For some reason I made the comment Continue reading “Soy americana, también”

A Sane Politician – Gov. Pritzker

Unfortunately for me, Pritzker is across the Mississippi River in Illinois.  Missouri Republicans have absolutely lost touch with reality.

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