World War COVID Guerre mondiale: From WeaponWorld to PeaceWorld; Learner, begin... De la terre en armes au monde paisible ; Apprenti, débute
We live on WeaponWorld. Why not PeaceWorld? How would that work? What should we expect? Has that transition been discussed to your satisfaction, or has that discussion been suppressed? I'm slopping a ladle of PeaceWorld soup on your WeaponWorld zinc food tray. Next!
Nous habitons la terre en armes. Pourquoi pas au monde paisible ? Comment ça marcherait ? Cette transition t'a-t-elle été discutée de façon satisfaisante ou supprimée ? Je te verse une louchée de soupe du monde paisible sur ton zinc de nourriture fourni par la terre en armes. Au suivant !
World War COVID Guerre mondiale: From WeaponWorld to PeaceWorld; Learner, begin... De la terre en armes au monde paisible ; Apprenti, débute
Honor President Joe Biden, Notes before the Second Civil War # 12
WORLD WAR COVID
From WeaponWorld to PeaceWorld
Learner, begin
Honor President Joe Biden, notes before the Second Civil War #12
He was right all along
For four years, I was dismissively wrong about him
He did what had to be done according to his lights
While I threw tomatoes at him from the peanut gallery
From his Captain’s Bridge of Personal Decency and Public Democracy
He kept us before the mast while the ship of state
Lost its sheets to hurricane winds
Him and his cabinet composed of the best
Of rare honesty, intelligence and excellence,
Achieved more progress than that since Roosevelt
They outwitted swarming Repugnants time and time again.
While the rest of us lost hope
He fought and fought and fought for us
A simple Joe welcome in any American café
A worker, the son of workers, true lover of every worker
The first president to walk the picket line
A stiff man, burdened by endless self-sacrifice
Losses sometimes unbearable, nobly endured
Of family, career and other aspirations
Like Roosevelt's wheelchair, it gave him infinite compassion
He even sacrificed his fantasy of ruling wisely beyond old age.
He sacrificed everything his, to maintain the sacred Union.
He presents an ideal as beautiful as the ugliness of Trump, his evil twin
The best democratic hero anyone could hope for
He gave up his presidency at the best possible time
His wife and Kamala will see to the rest (fingers crossed)
Everything went as well as possible, thanks to him
A Democratic tidal wave, the implosion of Repugnancy
The secret to success is to get out when you are furthest ahead
History will place him alongside Washington,
Who stepped down to prove that an American president is not king
Biden proves that a real American president governs wisely or not at all
Then at the elbows of Lincoln and Roosevelt, for their egalitarian political sense
And their poise in the face of adversity
Let's honor him as much as we honor them
A very, very select club.
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