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Cake day: July 12th, 2024

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  • If Congress does not agree with how the executive spends money, then it is their responsibility as Congress to refuse to allow it to spend money. It’s their job to control the purse, explicitly designed that way, to do exactly this. It isn’t a broken system that government is shut down, it’s the intended result when Congress and the Executive can’t agree on how to govern the nation. If there is no agreement, there is no governance. It’s working as intended.

    Defund the fascists who intent to destroy American democracy, the Republic, the rule for law and the division of powers. Disempower them by denying them the purse. I don’t know if democrats even grasp how important it is that they hold this line. It is the last line protecting the division of powers and is so much more important than health care.













  • We need people to understand reality, be capable of discerning it and learn from the wisdom of human beings long dead. Reading gives access to that collective wisdom of the thousands of years of investigation and analysis that the smartest human beings, from positions in civilization both rare and unique, past and present, who ever lived. If you can’t read, that’s going to be effectively impossible to learn the wisest lessons humanity knows.

    An illiterate population is an ignorant population and an ignorant population is an easily manipulated one. Thus where we are today.