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Melissa Lambert's avatar

So well expressed, as always. These are dark times indeed, for anyone who has any shred of decency left and for anyone who preferred a flawed democracy over a dictatorship drenched in Diet Coke and layered under $60 Trump-branded Bibles. MAGA empowered a giant orange toddler to reshape the United States of America in his own image and now we all get to wallow in the shit they've created. God I wish I could leave this country, the country I used to have so much hope for.

Rest in peace, Kennedy Center. It technically still stands, but make no mistake: it has been murdered by the (tiny) hands of fascism.

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Kristine Henry's avatar

This just broke my heart…I love The Kennedy Center Honors & looked forward to watching. Not now.

I feel so bad for Caroline Kennedy & the rest of the family except RFK.

Do you think trump did this because Caroline Kennedy had the “Audacity” to tell the truth about RFK??? That must have been so hard for her to do…but she did it, the right thing.

RIP Kennedy Center Honors😢😢

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Koen Schoots's avatar

This is further prove of fascism on the rise. Exactly this happened in pre-war Germany when Hitler came to power. It led to the mass exodus of Jewish and/or inconvenient artists. Ironically most of them fled to the USA, this time it could be the other way around.

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Penny's avatar

We are not gonna be able to save everything, but we can save something. Time to revive the underground speakeasy for the sake of all things sacred.

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Tera's avatar

discount version of Stalin- Love this line. But it should read as the Temu version of Stalin lol

Have you read about Missouri’s Attorney General suing Starbucks yet? Apparently because they have an illegal diversity policy, and hire women and people of color, who are considered to be unqualified workers, it is causing slower service and as such Starbucks is being sued. I can’t even with us. Dark days. Authoritarian society because the schoolyard bully, Ronald the Donald, is after the resources of the world and wants to rule everyone

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Madeleine Murray's avatar

Yes so many great lines, you want to rush out and read them to your friends!

Great illustration as well!

But since all the social media is owned by the mediaodiocracy now, they can just suspend or ban all this kind of great stuff. Like the chilling feeling I got when I went to the Facebook fear and loathing on the campaign Trail 2024 site, to see that Facebook has suspended it.

How can we possibly fight back about this?

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Kristine's avatar

This, this is a horrendous repeat of history… I am so damned devastated to read this.

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Ellen Lende's avatar

A golden toilet for the arts. Ooooohhhhh, God.

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Tracy Farley's avatar

So glad I followed you from Facebook!

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Jamie Ward's avatar

Wonder how soon until we get Saparmurat Niyazov style gold statues. Jesse Helms sure would’ve loved this though.

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Leslie R. Schover's avatar

Love your writing! And of course agree with your POV!

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Laura Collins's avatar

I bet it will be renamed The Trump Center before the month is over.

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Joyce P. Uglow's avatar

Oh I sincerely hope you’re wrong. But if you’re right, I know in my heart that it will fail miserably.

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reSearch Light's avatar

Trump is probably going to take the “F” out of ‘The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ and then say it is named after the Senator from Louisiana. Talk about f-ing us.

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Stewart Shirey's avatar

Demolition Man has arrived - f* FOTUS

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