Kennedy, Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley would like a word, sir.
He prefers to admire presidents who don’t get assassinated.
If he doesn’t like witch hunts, why did he have a rally in Salem?
Here’s more on his paltry 2024 fundraising. Why anyone would want to give money to someone who brags about how wealthy he is, and who then spends very little if any of his own money on his campaigns, is just one more puzzlement of the Age of Trump.
Espeically since it was such a big deal in 2016. “He can’t be corrupted, since he doesn’t need money.” “He’s self-funding his campaign, won’t owe anyone anything.”
Children, unable to get basic shit together.
Something tells me that “I can’t believe we’re having this debate” will be their most frequently repeated statement over the next couple years.
I was unaware that the House started each day with reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. And now they want to repeat it at committee hearings? What an empty, yet offensive, gesture.
Well it says that one is patriotic without one having to actually demonstrate patriotic ideals. I believe the Republicans call it “virtue signalling” and place a great value on it.
“And I don’t know why we should pledge allegiance twice in the same day to show how patriotic we are.”
As a child in elementary school, I wondered why we’d have to recite it every day. Do pledges expire at the end of the day? If I recited it once at the beginning of the school year, I’d expect it to last at least all year.
It’s called indoctrination.
I know several immigrant kids who were forced by their teachers to recite the Pledge as well. Clearly those teachers got the real point of it - to enforce uniformity and empty public displays of patriotism. The whole ‘allegiance to America’ part of it is just words.
I always say that republicans need to make big patriotic displays to show they love their country because you certainly couldn’t tell any other way.
Its sort of like the rosary. You can fuck your best friend’s wife without being sinful if you say 10 our fathers, and you can subvert Democracy without being unpatriotic if you say 12 pledge of allegiances.
Children, do what I tell you,
How shall I brainwash you?
Well, I’m gonna brainwash you one by one.
One for the Stars and Stripes
That song you don’t understand at all.
Children, do what I tell you.
How shall I brainwash you?
Hey, I’m gonna brainwash you two by two.
Two for the flag and the republic,
One for the national anthem,
That song you don’t understand at all.
Children, do what I tell you.
How shall I brainwash you?
I’m gonna brainwash you three by three.
Three for the branches of government,
Two for the flag and the republic,
One for the national anthem,
That song you don’t understand at all.
Children, do what I tell you.
How shall I brainwash you?
I’m gonna brainwash you four by four.
Four for the cops that beat King.
Three for the branches of government,
Two for the flag and the republic,
One for the national anthem,
That song you don’t understand at all.
Children, do what I tell you.
How shall I brainwash you?
I’m gonna brainwash you five by five.
Five for the Central Park defendants,
Four for the cops that beat King,
Three for the branches of government,
Two for the flag and the republic,
One for the national anthem,
That song you don’t understand at all.
Shouldn’t that be “12 pledges of allegiance”? But that opens up the possibility that there’s more than one pledge. 
Yep.
I hate the Pledge of Allegiance. I hate any sort of repeating of mantras, rites and ceremony. Not that I go to any church, but this is the sort of thing that would drive me away from a lot of them as well as organizations such as the Masons. It is all creepy to me and always has been. Even the playing of the national anthem before a sporting event should get the fuck out.
Guess I shouldn’t run to be a House member.
Good to know, she usually makes me mow the lawn.
The one time I liked it was when I studied Kung Fu. Every day we had to pledge, “I will develop myself in a positive manner, and I will use my Kung Fu only in self-defense and defense of others.” Notice I still remember it word-for-word decades later.
I liked it because it wasn’t an empty ceremony; it was a reminder not to abuse the skills we were taught. And I never broke my vow.
I would have fewer issues with the pledge of allegiance if people focused on the merits of the last part, and not just the first part.
“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Somehow, authoritarians (mostly, but not exclusively republican) spend all their time on the first three words, when I want to remind them about the “liberty and jusitice for all” which they absolutely abhor.
It was also a pledge that you chose to take. Not a pledge you were required to take.
It’s a bit much of you to expect them to have enough attention span to make it all the way to the end.
It’s like 2A types who can only remember the last 4 words of their favorite amendment.