Paul Shoffner
@pondwarrior
Curator of quotes, photographer, creative arts, blues musician, defender of democracy; beware clueless knaves and bloviating jackasses
“If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!” - Mehmet Murat ildan
“Christian nationalism – including the tendency of many evangelicals to seek power for themselves (and their version of Christianity) – is a threat to the true liberty of all.” -The Christian Nationalist Alliance
“The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes.” - Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die
“How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?” - Sorin Cerin
“Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?” - Thomas Love Peacock
"If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for." - Adlai Stevenson-
It’s all about service, to our minds, governance, future, species and planet.
"Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life." ~ William Banting
“Men conscious of inferiority are always trying to impose themselves on others, because they know that underneath they are cowards or cretins.” - Helen Simpson
“[There is] no nobler motive for entering public life than the resolution not to be ruled by wicked men." - Cicero “To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.” - Confucius
“Even though the U.S. spends twice as much per person as any other developed country on health care, the U.S. is the only developed country that fails to provide universal coverage for all its citizens.” -Carole Simpson
[Christian Nationalism] includes assumptions of nativism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and heteronormativity along with divine sanction for authoritarian control and militarism. It is as ethnic and political as it is religious.”… -Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry, Taking America Back For God
Who could have ever predicted that our beloved country could/would fall to such an organized monstrous criminal cabal of cretinous greed, perversion, abuse, depravity and degeneracy?
“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood.” - Frantz Fanon
"Humanity has many enemies. The worst of them are ignorance, arrogance, extremism, and violence" - Abbas Kadhim
"What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities." -Hunter S.Thompson "The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class." -Louis Dudek
Which you have most deservedly crafted, from your juvenile fits of incompetent malevolence, stupefying degeneracy and demonic depravity.
Grifting DEATH CULT “presidency”, seamlessly and demonically transactional, at every wicked and smarmy turn.
"As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny." -Otto Hermann Kahn
“A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!” -Mehmet Murat ildan
Which is worse, the perceived stupidity …or the actual gullible variety?
A true patriot, honoring his oath, as almost NO ONE in this depraved government is capable of.
At SCAMMING, grifting, grafting, extorting, stealing and extracting every possible resource available to he and his organized crime family cabal.