No Quarter
Quarter-Millenial
By Lorraine Evanoff
This is the worst possible 4th of July imaginable. Barraged with news of Republican high crimes and treason literally pillaging our country, destroying our monuments and natural resources, and defiling our reputation, Americans are in no mood to celebrate. 💔 🤍 💙
However, there is something to be proud of. Democrats have won 90% of elections since November 2024, and blue states and the courts have kept Project 2025 somewhat in check. We are not just standing by as the Right dismantles our democracy.
On Juneteenth I celebrated freedom from oppression. Yesterday, I celebrated my husband’s birthday. He is the first person who pointed out that July 2nd is our real Declaration of Independence Day.
On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed a “Resolution for Independence” declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”
Today, a Canadian friend pointed out that he and his wife don’t celebrate Canada Day, because “The founding father of Confederation, Sir John A MacDonald was a genocidal freak.” Heidi Seigmund Cuda echoed that perspective about our own “terrible things.”
Last year I was up in Aryan Nation Hayden, Idaho, over the 4th of July when the GOP psychos passed their Big Bullshit Bill, ruining the holiday. Today, I’m up here again, more bitter than ever. Yesterday I took these photos during our annual outing to Green Bluff, WA. As you can see, MAGA are still everywhere, loud, proud, and blissfully ludicrous.
This charming can opener in the shape of an AR15 semi-automatic rifle was at one of our favorite pick-your-own peaches and cherries farm in Washington, a state that is more Blue than Red. It was all I could do to not be a Karen and give them a piece of my mind for leaving that on the counter with little children and kittens running around. Yes, adorable kids and kittens everywhere.
It’s difficult to stay positive right now. But I know the real Americans will not let the Republican traitors finish the coup d’état they started. From our quarter millennial anniversary to November 3rd, to every swearing-in date, to the November 7, 2028 elections, we will show them no quarter and reclaim our Democracy.
Only then will I celebrate.
VOTE BLUE. 🌊💪🏻🌊💪🏻🌊💪🏻🌊💪🏻🌊💪🏻🌊💪🏻🌊💪🏻🌊💪🏻🌊💪🏻🌊💪🏻
TIMELINE CLEANSE
Floofles indeed understands the assignment while I’m away, coming to the feeder every day. Meowing to me in the camera. I can’t wait to get home to see her.
Namaste 🙏🏻
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Love for a country often reveals itself through concern for its future.
Whatever our convictions, I hope we never lose the ability to listen, reflect, and seek what preserves both freedom and our common humanity.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
The Trump travesty will end when the billionaires see he’s costing them more than giving them. But it may be a few rungs below the billionaires down to millionaires who will begin to notice thatTrump’s capture of the SEC decides to end market transparency and change corporate quarterly reporting and go to semi-annual reporting leaving shareholders in the dark. This follows his destruction of fiduciary duty requiring faithfully serving clients’ interest above their own in the realm of retirement accounts. Now it’s ok to steer the client into vehicles generating higher fees for brokers. He will likely pressure the Fed Governors’ to lower rates creating higher inflation while AI creates job losses that in turn create stagflation (see the 1970s for background info on what that looked like).
Maybe Floofles decides soon to come in from the cold for good?