What we’re facing boils down to a shouting match. The reason Hillary’s e-mails were so damn important and the Republican Party joining forces with Russia isn’t is because we’re not making enough noise.
I get hassled a lot by communists for using the hammer & sickle like this, and while they do have a point — Putin’s Russia is hardly communist and far from being a worker’s paradise — I always tell them that a couple of trillion of my taxpayer dollars went into making that symbol mean “Russia/Bad” and if the only thing I’m getting out of it is a shorthand on signs, I’m taking it.
Looks good though, doesn’t it?
Driving there I was kind of shocked to see this guy still up. If it looks a bit worn, it’s been there for 8 days and 3 major rainstorms. And that’s after spending two days and one rainstorm on the Santa Monica Fwy. and then being torn up and taped back together.
Here’s how it looked originally — cardboard is miraculous.
Okay, back to the new campaign. I won’t show all of them, but these are the opening salvos.
Again, apologies to all you communists out there, but I should remind you that if you’d actually given the workers control over the means of production we probably wouldn’t be in this mess. In the mean time though, so long as the President and the GOP are going to be in league with our enemies, We The People need to hold them to account.
Here are the signs I put up in November. I’m interspersing them with some clever and theoretically inspirational quotes in case the scrolling gets monotonous.
“Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.” - Christine Quinn
“You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.” —Alan Watts
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” — Sun Tzu
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." ~ Aldous Huxley
“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.” - Doug Stanhope
“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.” - Jordan Peterson
“All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.” - Kurt Vonnegut
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” - Frederick Douglass
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” -Robin Williams
"No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up." - Lily Tomlin
“The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.”
—Dawson Trotman
“Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.” - Vaclav Havel
"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps." - Emo Philips
"There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity." - Shunryu Suzuki
"Don't fight forces, use them." — R. Buckminster Fuller
"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." - John F. Kennedy