The Momcat sent me this a couple of nights ago. She found it on one of her favorite hangout sites.
The rest of America 9:25 PM EST WashPost Dec. 27, 2016
“I listened as you called my President a Muslim.
I listened as you called him and his family a pack of monkeys.
I listened as you said he wasn’t born here.
I watched as you blocked every single path to progress that you could.
I saw the pictures you made of him as Hitler.
I watched you shut down the government and hurt the entire nation, twice.
I watched you turn your backs on every opportunity to open a worthwhile dialog.
I watched you say that you would not even listen to any choice for Supreme Court no matter who the nominee was.
I listened as you openly said that you will oppose him at every turn.
I watched as you did just that.
I listened.
I watched.
I paid attention.
Now, I’m being called on to be tolerant. . To move forward.
To denounce protesters.
To “Get over it.”
To accept this…
I will not.
I will do my part to make sure, this great American mistake, becomes the embarrassing footnote of our history that it deserves to be.
I will do this as quickly as possible, every chance I get.
I will do my part to limit the damage that this man can do to my country.
I will watch his every move and point out every single mistake and misdeed in a loud and proud voice.
I will let you know in a loud voice every time this man backs away from a promise he made to you.
The people who voted for him. Yes you, the ones who sold their souls and prayed for him to win.
I will do this so that you never forget.
And you will hear me.
You will see it in my eyes when I look at you.
You will hear it in my voice when I talk to you.
You will know that I know who you are.
You will know that I know what you are.
Do not call for my tolerance. I’ve tolerated all I can.
Now it’s your turn to tolerate the ridicule.
Be aware, make no mistake about it,
every single thing that goes wrong in our country from this day forward is now Trump’s fault just as much as you thought it was Obama’s.
I find it unreasonable for you to expect from me, what you were entirely unwilling to give.”
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The above posts were from a comment by screen name “The rest of America” to Kathleen Parker’s column in the Post today titled “Trump has released a malevolent spirit upon the land. Happy new year!”
I found
Parker’s column in the Washington Post and spent a looong time scrolling through the more than 2400 comments. I didn’t find it, but presumably it’s down there somewhere.
At any rate, “The rest of America” said pretty much everything that needed to be said on the subject. Far, far better than I ever could. I hope it gets passed around enough that it goes viral.
Spreading across the Internet by a resistance movement …
○ Zero Tolerance Policy @dKos
○ Facebook
The original, by Jeremy Mitchell, is different in the first line:
“I listened as they called my president a Muslim (as if it were a bad thing).”
○ Thank you, Jeremy Mitchell!
Let us pray that it is so.
And…that it doesn’t disintegrate into the usual internet-imposed dysfunction and dispersion.
I have found this to be absolutely true on many levels.
Real knowledge becomes diluted to the point of non-functionality when propagated too widely. The internet specializes in this. Someone truly in the know posts something, and by the time umpteen thousands of people have remarked upon whatever the original poster meant it has been torn apart and trivialized to a point where it no longer has any chance of actually functioning as a factor in the lives of other human beings.
Not only can you not teach pigs to fly, but in their anger at the bearer of that knowledge they are quite likely to rip up both the bearer and the knowledge into useless little piggy food.
So it goes…
AG
Flawlessly logical!