The Weekly Dr. Seuss
If you’ve been paying attention, there is an America First movement ongoing in the United States.
The America First people claim to be a “501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan research institute” but if you scan their web pages you’ll quickly learn that using the term “non-partisan” in their mission statement is their most comedic moment.
“America First” is probably the most malignant concept ever to spring from the minds of treachery advocates. A good listen to Rachel Maddow’s “Ultra” podcasts will give you the backstory on these people. They are behind the “Peace Movement” that arose in our country before World War 2: a movement inspired by fascists and American Nazis to keep the United States out of World War Two.
They are reborn today in the extremist MAGA Republican agenda to install fascist-friendly candidates into government office.
Theodore Geisel, before he became Dr. Seuss, a beloved children’s book author of the type that “Brave Books” would never consider publishing, was a political cartoonist. His work to oppose America Firsters in the pre-war years is nearly forgotten.
So like Maddow’s effort to show how the MAGA Movement is nowhere near an original thought (America First was first), we present selections from the Seuss collection.
See if you can pick out the uncanny parallels.
Oh, and if you are looking for more free Sunday Doonesbury cartoons here, this is not the place. This, however, is. It’s just not as free as reading this blog.
Grandma V. had her own piece of action re: pre-war US Nazis when some of them showed up at her door to persuade her to their side. She ripped them a new one! Boy, did they run! They had done their homework and discovered she came from a family that had emigrated from what had once been Prussia. They thought she would be easy pickings for a donation or even a member of one of their groups. Well, you just can’t ever tell with fiesty old ladies!
1I got a call from the RNCC the other day (Republican National Congressional Committee) as ‘one of their biggest supporters’. I cracked up and enjoyed informing her she’d called an officer with the local Democratic Party. So, after a long silence, she began telling me about how to send them money! [You CANNOT fix stupid!]
2Pardon the off topic but magats on scotus just completely upended the rule of law….
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/01/treasonous-acts-liberal-justices-say-scotus-immunity-ruling-a-mockery-of-the-constitution/
drumpf has complete immunity fpr any crimes committed as president.
3Need an up date, know Trump planned & counted on the Supremes cutting him a break, BUT is complete immunity
4really true??
Has the maga strain of “America First” infected the S Court?
RE #3 and #4:
Justice Sotormayor’s dissent: “The President is now a king above the law.”
“Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today. Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.”
“Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune…
5drumpf has immunity for official acts, not personal criminal acts when out of office.
G Foresight sums it up nicely.
6So many pundits weighing in on trumpf’s immunity. Supposedly he doesn’t have immunity in office for non official acts. Even though his attorney stated in court that trying to overturn the election was not an official action, the court basically insured there will be no further trumpf federal prosecution before the election and probably not before he might assume office. Professional can kickers and partisan hacks.
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