Trumpians are absurd people. Absurd enough to storm the capitol on the whims of trump alluding to it and guilliani using rhetoric and proud boys declaring war
Some Native Americans took issue with pop star Jennifer Lopez performing the song “This Land is Your Land” at Joe Biden’s Inauguration on Wednesday, one saying “I love J.Lo — it wasn’t super disappointing that she sang it, but I was like, ‘Oh, why did that have to be on the list of things to sing?'” said Kristen Herring.
“It’s a nice little sentiment that America is this mixing pot,” said Benny Wayne Sully, according to the Associated Press. “But does anybody believe this land was made for you and me? Or was it made for white folks? People forget this land was made of brown people before it was colonized.”
“This Land is Your Land” was written by Woody Guthrie in the 1951 as a direct rebuke to Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America,” and as a protest against what he saw as Berlin’s “glorification” of America.
“In order to make it work, ‘this land is your land, this land is my land,’ people [need] to understand it doesn’t belong to us,” said Tebo in reaction to Lopez’ performance on Wednesday. “If anything, we belong to it. And when our land is sick, we are sick.”
A lot of people in the workforce eat shit under tyrannical idiot bosses. If we’re lucky, Dr. Birx has good intentions and stuck it out for the opportunity to act on them. If everybody stood up to their shitty bosses, we’d be seeing a lot more good times in the streets with people out of work and a global pandemic killing and causing cabin fever.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of Dr Birx, but it isn’t like anyone else was going to be allowed to do any better under Trump.
On the other hand, she is a prominent MD, she could have literally told Trump to fuck all the way off in public and still gone right back to earning more cash per year than I’ll likely amass in a lifetime.
Is it because of the arrest of Putin’s main political rival? That’s what happens when you attempt to run unopposed for so many years and squash any attempt of breaking that regime…