"Senator...you simply don’t understand your own culpability in your demise." commenter
Image, banner of NY Times Editorial, posted Tuesday evening May 3, 2016 for Wed., May 4, 2016 print edition
10/24/17, "“Toodles” – Senator Jeff Flake Concedes: The Peasants are Revolting," tcth, sundance
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| Freedom of Speech, Norman Rockwell |
"More MAGA winning today as another senatorial blockage in the swamp is cleared. Senator Jeff Flake announces he will not seek reelection. Senator Jeff Flake told The Arizona Republic ahead of his announcement that he has become convinced “there may not be a place for a Republican like me in the current Republican climate or the current Republican Party.” Gee, ya think?"
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| 'Freedom of Speech', Norman Rockwell |
Top image: Norman Rockwell, "Freedom of Speech," preliminary study
Above image: Norman Rockwell, "Freedom of Speech," 1943. "A man dressed in work clothes...stands to give his opinion at a New England town meeting."
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Image, banner of NY Times Editorial, posted Tuesday evening May 3, 2016 for Wed., May 4, 2016 print edition
Even the NY Times Editorial Board was honest enough to admit that the 2016 Republican voters' message "is testimony to how thoroughly they reject the Republican politicians who betrayed them."...
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May 3, 2016, By The NY Times Editorial Board:
"Republican leaders have for years failed to think about much of anything beyond winning the next election. Year after year, the party’s candidates promised help for middle-class people who lost their homes, jobs and savings to recession, who lost limbs and well-being to war, and then did next to nothing.
That Mr. Trump was able to enthrall voters by promising simply to “Make America Great Again” — but offering only xenophobic, isolationist or fantastical ideas — is testimony to how thoroughly they reject the politicians who betrayed them."...
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1/3/17, "Trump utterly gutted the GOP in the primaries. That was the real landslide of 2016." CNBC, Jake Novak
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"Coastie Paul says:
My remarks that I just sent to the Flake (pointless but it made me feel good):
“Senator, your diatribe today on the Senate floor and proceeding comments to the media indicate that you simply don’t understand your own culpability in your demise. We (the deplorables, aka US citizens) are tired of being lectured to by people like you who think that they are smarter and know better than us on how to run our lives. You, and the rest of the “establishment” (both Republicans and Democrats), have done nothing but talk. The government has operated for nine years WITHOUT a federal budget. We’ve had CRs and “Crominbus” shoved down our throats, Obamacare, and then the false efforts at repeal, bandied at us, threats of TPP, and myriad other examples of you and your cronies failures. We’re woke and we’re tired of your, and others, BS and we’re not taking it anymore. We Americans have been abandoned by you and the rest of the DC establishment and we’ve decided that we’re just not that into you anymore. Voila’, hello President Trump. You don’t get it. Fine. Now, do something to help out the American citizen ( and not the multi-national money bag corporations that buy you guys off) on your way out of Congress. Quit your whining and do your job. Uphold your oath. I’ve never wanted to be disrespectful to members of Congress but you all have given us no choice. We’re not taking your BS anymore.”
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Comment: I like Norman Rockwell's depictions of every day American life. Unfortunately, some of his illustrations were used to sell World War II. Of course, the US must respond if our own country is attacked. But for 100 years or more, the farming out of Americans to fight and die in foreign wars was sold as a proud and uniquely American custom. Like the 1942 movie, ""Yankee Doodle Dandy," and the WWI song, “Over There,” Rockwell's "renditions were not only vital to the war effort, but have become enshrined in American culture." If Americans are attacked on their own land, of course they must respond. Being the world's military is an entirely different matter. Today Americans want to help other countries whenever we can, but we realize we've neglected our own country. We can't help others if we allow ourselves to become weak. We also know that no single country's taxpayers should be assumed to be global slaves or the global clean-up squad no matter how much its political class wishes it were so.
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