""john" Is what's worng with America. Passionate and ignorant at the same time. A docile doofus who I can do without. I wish he'd move or huff a tailpipe.
Yet another mouthy “”patriot”” that doesn’t understand the concept of service. They don’t do it for thanks and applause, they do it because it’s the morally correct thing (or at least, so we’re told). John can blow it out his ass, criticism for something you love is the strongest act of respect possible.
Amen Cindy! If being American is the only thing these people have to be proud of they’ve had wasted lives. I will never stand or pledge even if I’m the only person in the stadium sitting (as I was at recent college and high school graduations).
In honor of today's Flag Day (or "Big Towel on a Stick" Day) I propose a new flag for our nation.
Zionist Israeli control of US policies and politicians is so pervasive we may as well rename The United States of America to The Zionited States of America. We could keep The Stars And Stripes as our national flag with some slight modifications.
Flag Day Bonus: an excerpt from the Gospel of Vonnegut that in my opinion resonates strongly with Cindy's post:
[NB: I couldn’t reproduce the exact formatting of the text, or Vonnegut’s illustrations of the Stars and Stripes (flag) et al– so I left out the bit where he describes it, and mentions that long ago, US Elected Misrepresentatives actually passed a law that the US Flag may not be “dipped” in salute to express respect to other nations during formal assemblies.]
_______________________________________
Listen:
Trout and Hoover were citizens of the United States of America, a country which was called America for short. This was their national anthem, which was pure balderdash, like so much they were expected to take seriously:
O, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thru the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
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There were one quadrillion nations in the Universe, but the nation Dwayne Hoover and Kilgore Trout belonged to was the only one with a national anthem which was gibberish sprinkled with question marks.
• • •
The motto of Dwayne Hoover’s and Kilgore Trout’s nation was this, which meant in a language nobody spoke anymore, Out of Many, One: “E pluribus unum.”
The undippable flag was a beauty, and the anthem and the vacant motto might not have mattered much, if it weren’t for this: a lot of citizens were so ignored and cheated and insulted that they thought they might be in the wrong country, or even on the wrong planet, that some terrible mistake had been made. It might have comforted them some if their anthem and their motto had mentioned fairness or brotherhood or hope or happiness, had somehow welcomed them to the society and its real estate.
If they studied their paper money for clues as to what their country was all about, they found, among a lot of other baroque trash, a picture of a truncated pyramid with a radiant eye on top of it, like this: [author’s drawing of pyramid/eye appears here]
Not even the President of the United States knew what that was all about. It was as though the country were saying to its citizens, “In nonsense is strength.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday (1973) 👍
No sane person would sacrifice life-and-limb to preserve someone's right to dissent while persecuting them for exercising that right. Which is why it's not the ones doing the actual fighting, but the safe and comfy armchair patriots who always play the "they-sacrifice-to-preserve-your-right-to-criticize-so-you're not allowed-to-criticize" card. Those who play that card are fakeriots who believe that "God bless America" means "God damn everyone else".
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
Yes just another "brainwashed, conditioned "docile doofus" still believing in "USA USA USA" and Empires "Fake Patriotism"... ughhh. makes me cringe, as daughter of Korean War Veteran...
Cindy, just an FYI maybe "docile doofus" might be even happier to see that Dennis Kucinich updated a post about "An Amendment to the NDAA, the US conscription law"-US Military Draft, so that now it's "automatically registered" for the 18-26 year olds. Especially since Biden signed a "10 years Security Pact with Ukraine". This "Amendment" expected to pass in congress next week. So maybe docile doofus can sign up, re-enlist or send his kids or grandkids too to WWIII in Ukraine against Russia... Insert here eyes roll emoji.
It's really the stupidest thing when someone gets on their high horse to lecture anyone about being "American." It's a country, not a religious faith. Mr Flounder is apparently unaware of the principle "freedom of thought."
""john" Is what's worng with America. Passionate and ignorant at the same time. A docile doofus who I can do without. I wish he'd move or huff a tailpipe.
Thanks, bro.
🤠
And we thought the old "love it or leave it" thing was directed exclusively at hippies. As always, your friend for peace.
talk to you soon!
They all died for the profits of the oligarchs that own the military industrial complex, not a flag nor your "freedom" to starve. 😐
Yet another mouthy “”patriot”” that doesn’t understand the concept of service. They don’t do it for thanks and applause, they do it because it’s the morally correct thing (or at least, so we’re told). John can blow it out his ass, criticism for something you love is the strongest act of respect possible.
Amen Cindy! If being American is the only thing these people have to be proud of they’ve had wasted lives. I will never stand or pledge even if I’m the only person in the stadium sitting (as I was at recent college and high school graduations).
In honor of today's Flag Day (or "Big Towel on a Stick" Day) I propose a new flag for our nation.
Zionist Israeli control of US policies and politicians is so pervasive we may as well rename The United States of America to The Zionited States of America. We could keep The Stars And Stripes as our national flag with some slight modifications.
Design proposal here: https://nedb.substack.com/p/the-zionited-states-of-america
"Anti-American" is no longer a slur. Neither is "Anti-Semitic" these days....
https://youtu.be/TLst_aheeDk?si=aDJeapuWLc3UgGeF
...Smedley Butler inspires resistance to the oligarchs and gangsters of capitalism...
...this RED LINE in DC inspires all of us!!!
Flag Day Bonus: an excerpt from the Gospel of Vonnegut that in my opinion resonates strongly with Cindy's post:
[NB: I couldn’t reproduce the exact formatting of the text, or Vonnegut’s illustrations of the Stars and Stripes (flag) et al– so I left out the bit where he describes it, and mentions that long ago, US Elected Misrepresentatives actually passed a law that the US Flag may not be “dipped” in salute to express respect to other nations during formal assemblies.]
_______________________________________
Listen:
Trout and Hoover were citizens of the United States of America, a country which was called America for short. This was their national anthem, which was pure balderdash, like so much they were expected to take seriously:
O, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thru the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
_______________________________________
There were one quadrillion nations in the Universe, but the nation Dwayne Hoover and Kilgore Trout belonged to was the only one with a national anthem which was gibberish sprinkled with question marks.
• • •
The motto of Dwayne Hoover’s and Kilgore Trout’s nation was this, which meant in a language nobody spoke anymore, Out of Many, One: “E pluribus unum.”
The undippable flag was a beauty, and the anthem and the vacant motto might not have mattered much, if it weren’t for this: a lot of citizens were so ignored and cheated and insulted that they thought they might be in the wrong country, or even on the wrong planet, that some terrible mistake had been made. It might have comforted them some if their anthem and their motto had mentioned fairness or brotherhood or hope or happiness, had somehow welcomed them to the society and its real estate.
If they studied their paper money for clues as to what their country was all about, they found, among a lot of other baroque trash, a picture of a truncated pyramid with a radiant eye on top of it, like this: [author’s drawing of pyramid/eye appears here]
Not even the President of the United States knew what that was all about. It was as though the country were saying to its citizens, “In nonsense is strength.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday (1973) 👍
No sane person would sacrifice life-and-limb to preserve someone's right to dissent while persecuting them for exercising that right. Which is why it's not the ones doing the actual fighting, but the safe and comfy armchair patriots who always play the "they-sacrifice-to-preserve-your-right-to-criticize-so-you're not allowed-to-criticize" card. Those who play that card are fakeriots who believe that "God bless America" means "God damn everyone else".
that SO sounds like a refrain from a very old playbook...one I've heard so many times before...
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
-The Judge-
Too many are so ignorant. Sad.
Great response!
Yes just another "brainwashed, conditioned "docile doofus" still believing in "USA USA USA" and Empires "Fake Patriotism"... ughhh. makes me cringe, as daughter of Korean War Veteran...
Cindy, just an FYI maybe "docile doofus" might be even happier to see that Dennis Kucinich updated a post about "An Amendment to the NDAA, the US conscription law"-US Military Draft, so that now it's "automatically registered" for the 18-26 year olds. Especially since Biden signed a "10 years Security Pact with Ukraine". This "Amendment" expected to pass in congress next week. So maybe docile doofus can sign up, re-enlist or send his kids or grandkids too to WWIII in Ukraine against Russia... Insert here eyes roll emoji.
It's really the stupidest thing when someone gets on their high horse to lecture anyone about being "American." It's a country, not a religious faith. Mr Flounder is apparently unaware of the principle "freedom of thought."