PhotoQuiz Revisted
Here’s one more chance at the ‘PhotoQuiz’ that appeared in Jackpotpourri’s last posting. This time I include some choices. Pick the correct one.
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____________________ on January 6, 2021.
Pick One caption to fill in the blank under this picture.
a. A group of patriotic tourists, unwilling to wait in line for the next tour of the Capitol building, decided to buck the line, something they considered a Constitutional right . . .
b. Knowing that the Congress would confirm the 2020 electoral college vote, confirming the election of Joe Biden as the 46th president, that election loser’s supporters attempted to prevent them from doing so, as inspired by the loser's ambiguously suggesting that they proceed to the Capitol to do so, and as a result, many were arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced . . .
c. It never happened and this is just a video concocted in Hollywood by some closet commies in the movie business . . .
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_______________________ on January 20, 2025.
Pick One caption to fill in the blank under this picture.
a. The newly elected 47th president, displaying one of his ‘Day One’ Executive Orders, a leatherette-bound copy of which (take your choice from an attractive list of them) would be available shortly for just $79.95 each or two for $199.95 . . .
b. Newly elected President Trump, displaying the Executive Order exonerating about fifteen hundred of the convicted criminals who broke into the Capitol four years earlier to stop the electoral vote count, chasing Senators and Representatives into hiding, threatening the Vice President's life, disregarding the Constitution, causing the serious injury of many law enforcement officers on duty there, one of whom died, and millions of dollars of damage to the Capitol building . . .
c. Newly elected President Trump displaying his Executive Order declaring that Professional Wrestling would replace baseball, or possibly football, as our ‘National Pastime’ . . .
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(‘b’ is the correct answer to both.)
JL
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More on Executive Orders
And speaking of Executive Orders, they included the recission of some of his predecessor’s Executive Orders that included efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions (a scientifically proven source of climate change), protecting federal lands from oil drilling and reducing the cost of prescription medications, particularly to senior citizens.
If you didn’t get the correct answers to the PhotoQuiz, the 47th president also issued a sweeping pardon for nearly everyone convicted of involvement in the January 6, 2020, Capitol rioting.
With this in mind, I refer you to Heather Cox Richardson’s January 21 posting on ‘Letters from an American’ (a link is provided in a few paragraphs further on) where she quotes this horned fellow’s elation posted on ‘X’ celebrating his being exonerated by Trump’s Executive Orders.
"I JUST GOT THE NEWS FROM MY LAWYER… I GOT A PARDON BABY! THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP. ... NOW I AM GONNA BY SOME MOTHA FU*KIN GUNS!!! I LOVE THIS COUNTRY!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA …"’ Please visit the full ‘Letters from an American’ link to learn more about him and others like him.
I suppose convicted felons, in or out of jail, must stick together.
I won’t even go into Trump’s pulling the country out of the Paris Climate accords, the World Health Organization, or allowing Tic Tok, a Chinese government-controlled website that is subtly poisoning the minds of too many young Americans, 75 extra days to get its act (and ownership) straightened out. Using the military against possibly illegal immigrants is another one of his probably unconstitutional misuses of his office.
Oh, there’s more that the *Achilles Heel of our representative democracy allowed to happen, chiefly in the area of revoking government regulations that had been earlier put into effect in the interest of the people.
(*For those of you unfamiliar with the phrase ‘Achilles Heel,’ here is a brief explanation, excerpted from Wikipedia, regarding just one of the several Greek myths about Achilles’ heel, a weakness, despite overall strength, that can lead to one’s downfall. Allegorically, it can apply to political events. This Greek myth explains that Achilles’ mother, Thetis, had dipped the infant Achilles in the river Styx, holding onto him by his heel, and he became invulnerable where the waters touched him, that is, everywhere except the areas of his heel that were covered by her thumb and forefinger. That is where a poisoned Trojan arrow finally struck and killed him.)
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| Antoine Borel painting, many centuries later, of Achilles being dunked in the River Styx making him mostly, but not totally, invulnerable. |
But what is going on now is not all attributable to President Trump, but also due to the wrong-headed 'identity politics' and strategic ineptness of the Democratic Party and of course, the votes of misinformed and gullible Americans who apparently chose to give free rein to President Musk, I mean Trump.
As I predicted, the columnists, pundits, and savants are out in force, reacting to the initial actions of the 47th president. You don’t have to chase them all down, though. Heather Cox Richardson in her daily ‘Letters from an American’ posting dated January 22 chronicles many of them. To find out how the United States government is being crippled and turned into what I conclude to simultaneously be a libertarian's paradise and an authoritarian state, visit https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/ or just CLICK HERE.
(You should consider signing up to receive 'Letters from an American' every day. It looks at what is going on right now through the perspective of history, and It's free.)
But as I have said in recent postings here, ABIDE! Endure but without yielding!
Each day the 47th president builds the nation's case against him and an administration of those who put loyalty to him before their loyalty to the nation and the Constitution. Eventually, he and they will be gotten rid of, hopefully within the parameters of the Constitution. Meanwhile, Abide.
(Note: In 1831, after a brief, bloody, but unsuccessful slave rebellion led by the very religious Nat Turner, who claimed to be acting as instructed by visions of the Deity, he experienced another vision while awaiting execution. In reply to his asking in prayer why God had allowed him to meet such a fate, he claimed God replied to him with two words, 'I Abide.' Turner took that to mean that it was left to him to also ‘abide’ and to ‘endure and not yield.’)
JL
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