As the predicted authoritarian dictatorship has arrived, author Jared Yates Sexton, explains how Americans can rise to the moment to take back their democracy in the face of an increasingly fascist playbook.
YES - We Choose & Create Our Future!!!
The Onion took out a full-page ad in the New York Times today that looks like a newspaper with the headline:
It read in part:
“Our republic is a birthright, an exceedingly rare treasure passed down from generation to generation of Americans. It was gained through hard years of bloody resistance and can too easily be lost.
Our Founding Fathers in their abundant wisdom, understood that all it would take was men and women of little courage sitting in the corridors of power and taking zero actions as this precious inheritance was stripped away
- and that is where we have finally arrived.”
Congress members will have a copy of the ad in their mailboxes tomorrow when they get back to work on the Republicans’ enormously unpopular budget reconciliation bill.
It started with a bronze replica of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk on the National Mall in Washington, DC – topped with a basketball-sized poop. Now, anti-Trump statues are popping up in more US cities.
A plaque placed on the artwork read: "This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 to loot, urinate and defecate throughout those hallowed halls in order to overturn an election."
A plaque below – titled “In honor of a lifetime of sexual assault” – quotes the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape leaked in 2016, when Trump could be heard discussing sexually assaulting women.
“I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” the plaque reads. “And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”
The new piece of protest art on The Mall is an 8-foot-tall sculpture featuring a reconstruction of the Statue of Liberty's head being crushed by a large gold-colored thumbs-up, along with the wording "DICTATOR APPROVED" and a series of quotes from leaders with various levels of authoritarian, if not autocratic, tendencies praising Trump.
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