Frank de WaardFeb 16
Robert Reich
Feb 16 at 4:29pmWeb
Show threadSteve Foerster 🌐Feb 16

@rbreich I'm truly glad you're in the Fediverse, especially since this is the only social media platform that isn't openly in bed with everything you stand against.

To that end, would you consider using a service that lets you post natively to all of the services you use, rather than give us the short shrift of a screenshot with no alt text from a post on a different service that platforms fascists?

Show threadDoodlesFeb 16
@rbreich
We must, by whatever means necessary, end Trump and his Nazi cult.
Show threadGrandpa DonFeb 16

@rbreich This is who President's day honors:

Washington warned against political parties, refused to be a king, refused to run again after two terms. Lincoln strove to keep the country together said government of, by, and for the people must be preserved, banned slavery, albeit unenthusiastically.

This is a day for full throated condemnation of the demented would-be tyrant squatting in and defiling our mansion where real Presidents have resided since the second one, John Adams.

Show threadsu_liamFeb 16
@rbreich What the hell kind of holiday is “President’s Day,” except a hagification of the executive branch. Treating the presidency like it was a parade of fucking heroes is half the reason we’re where we are today.
Show threadsu_liamFeb 16
@rbreich For more than a century, the presidency has grown in power without significant check. We can’t give any credit to the Democrats, who faced with the opportunity/duty to fix things after Nixon, Reagan, Dubya and Trump’s first foray into smearing shit on the Oval Office walls, decided they preferred to keep the powers asserted by their predecessor over reining in the next wannabe tyrant.
Show threadsu_liamFeb 16
@rbreich So, as it turns out, the final steps to absolutist dictatorship are being taken by possibly one of the worst human beings to besmirch the Earth with his existence, which has got to make things easier. But we have spent the last century or so chaining iron balls to our legs, and we have packed Congress with the weakest, most watered-down empty suits in the history of amoral, unprincipled empty suits…/1
Show threadsu_liamFeb 16
@rbreich 2/… more interested in maintaining the return on their own investments than fighting a tyrant. “President’s Day,” fuck President’s Day, and fuck anything that pretends that, “The Big Man,” is some kind of hero for the sole false virtue of being in a position of power. We would be better off as a society if by default we treated the Trumps and Epsteins and their hangers-on as enemies of the people until proven otherwise.
Show threadsu_liamFeb 16

@rbreich Power can and frequently does corrupt. Absolute power and those who seek it are absolutely corrupt. Until we take that lesson to mind and treat power with the suspicion it and its wielders deserve, we will always find a way to ourselves and the innocents around us into slaves.

The only thing to be celebrated isn’t the office, or its first holder, but the decision of Washington and some of his successors NOT to be king.

Show threadsu_liamFeb 16
@rbreich So I will boost this, but I will not like this.
Show threadSteve Foerster 🌐Feb 16
@su_liam @rbreich According to the federal government, the holiday is still officially just "Washington's Birthday". The name "Presidents Day" was made up by people selling stuff on TV, and now it's just what everybody calls it.