Happy Juneteenth!

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  Homage to Ben Shahn

  Annee Robson

  Scarborough Art Gallery

  
  
  
  

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. - Martin Luther King Jr. 

 

"Next time we may have to kill him." - John McGraw, suckerpuncher extraordinaire, on how to handle political protesters.

"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters. " - Donald Trump.

Cartoon Art by Bill Day. Bill Day is a two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning, and his cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. He is currently the editorial cartoonist for FloridaPolitics.com

I am a cute little old Italian lady. I am a lot cuter than John Suckerpunch McGraw or the Drumpfkopf. No one gives me a second thought, tapping around on my flowery cane.

No reason I cannot walk right up to a Trump supporter wearing a Trump button and smile and stick my tiny little Beltrame stiletto right into its balls or ass or thigh.

Stiletto is so sharp I would be doing someone else by the time it is felt it at all. No one would see it, so tiny and sharp. Designed for quiet assassination. They would not know until they saw the blood. Never mistake voluntarily peaceful for weak in this world.

Italians lived a long time under oppressive religious government and the mafia. We developed certain skills. Once the fascist woundings and killings have begun, all bets are off.

“Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people.” - Machiavelli.

The Fascists chased my Nonno from Italy. Nobody is chasing me away. Want to play that game? Trust me, Italians do it better.

"You must know there are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts; but because the first is frequently not sufficient, it is necessary to have recourse to the second." - Machiavelli

Note to Myself

Trenton Terror

 Ten books everyone should read:

- 'The Dictator's Handbook' By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith - 'Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning' By: Timothy D. Snyder - 'On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century' By: Timothy D. Snyder - 'Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America' By: Stacey Abrams - 'Surviving Autocracy' By: Masha Gessen - 'How Democracies Die' By: Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky - 'Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service' By: Carol D. Leonnig - 'Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right' By: Jane Mayer - '1984' By: George Orwell - 'The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together' By: Heather McGhee

Sign of the Month - Womb Nazis with Music

Womb Nazis prepared for the day's operations with signs, lunch, extra clothing, cheat sheets, etc. Yes, that is a pun and I committed it.

Photograph came from Every Saturday Morning. You can see more signs at the link.

The folks who carry the signs a woman has to walk past just going in for a pap smear, a prescription for contraception, or an abortion.

George Carlin: Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place?