Just because Republiclowns yell something REALLY LOUDLY doesn’t make the thing true
Let’s Remember It Is Not Up To Him
Michael Waldman, President of the Brennan Center of Justice at NYU Law School
(Also trying to deprive people of their learning and joy and laughter and real art – lolno I do not mean Republiclown “actors”, Ted Nugent, or Kid Rock – is wanna-be fascist psy-ops and we’re not having that in here either)
The teens who sued their state because the state-mandated curriculum wasn’t giving them enough education to vote were way ahead of the Republiclown (I can’t even remember who it was; maybe Cornyn) who said “kids must have civic education again now” when he really means “Hitler Youth indoctrination” but that really begs the question of which party it was whose members pocketed the money that was supposed to go into funding public education, so none of the students could learn anything
Whichever “party” it was, it was stuffed full of the same kinds of people who were descendants of the Daughters of Confederacy who harassed & tried to intimidate the schoolbook publishers of the time so that they would paint slaveowners in a positive light
Once again, then, we’re back to Ava’s overarching question of #WhoDecides (which, at the end of the day, is what all this fighting over power in government is ever really about – who gets to decide who gets what, and what means what, for the rest of the public as well as for themselves)
And some people will both steal AND lie in order to do their best to make it happen, so we’re going to try to see if we can get him disbarred for perjury
Hamilton x When We All Vote
I can’t believe they reworked the lyrics to fit the now-classic Broadway melody + beat. I know they’re all geniuses, but it’s just … pretty stunning
Check your registration & get more education here:
WhenWeAllVote.org/Hamilton
My Vote Don’t Count – YelloPain
My Vote WILL Count – YelloPain featuring Sevyn Streeter
Casquette a L’Envers – Sexion d’Assaut
We Work the Black Seam – Sting featuring Branford Marsalis
This place has changed for good
Your economic theory said it would
It’s hard for us to understand
We can’t give up our jobs the way we should
Our blood has stained the coal
We tunneled deep inside the nation’s soul
We matter more than pounds and pence
Your economic theory makes no sense
One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can’t control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
We Work the Black Seam Together
©Sting
Mama – Gashi featuring Sting
Africain – Sexion d’Assaut
Feel Like I Do – Vin Diesel and Kygo
UNTIL WE FALL WE STAND
[This was originally posted on The Salad Bowl 26/9/20]
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