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Trump’s most famous campaign quote adjusted for accuracy

As a public service, I have adjusted Donald Trump’s most famous campaign quote for accuracy. Now it makes much more sense:

“When my administration sends its people, we’re not sending our best. We’re not sending you. We’re not sending you. We’re sending people that have lots of problems, and we’re bringing those problems with us. We’re sending money launderers. We’re sending Russian colluders. We’re rapists. And some of us, I assume, are good people.”—Treason Trump

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The Three Amigos

Marty’s photo of the day #2660: The Three Amigos.

(Royal terns, photographed along the Sea of Cortez, in Mexico)

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Brown Pelicans

Marty’s photo of the day #2659: Brown pelicans along he Sea of Cortez (Mexico).

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Republicans fearmonger socialism

One thing amazing about the Republican Cult is how easily they are able to get everyone in line for something to be scared about.

Last election it was brown people, and the result was Treason Trump—“anointed by God.” This election it’s socialism, and they have made Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez their “monster” to be afraid of. With her they get a three-fer: they can continue their fear of brown people and top it off with a fear of uppity women and socialism.

Obviously, Fox News has used their cult wrangling ability to make socialism the bogeyman, and their viewers have responded with a mass letters-to-the-editor campaign. In my local newspaper, one of the many cultists wrote, “They want us to be their workers, so they can take all our earnings, leaving us with nothing. They start by taking your guns, teach socialistic Common Core to your children, change history and dumb everyone down so they are so stupid they can no longer think for themselves and don’t know anything.”

How ironic that the most ill-informed letter-to-the- editor writers are those who claim others are “stupid.”

If Republicans want to demonize socialism, that’s their business. But if they had any ethics at all, they would first give up socialism themselves. Yes, Republicans following the marching orders on fearmongering socialism must immediately stop using the interstate highway system, public schools, the fire department, the police department, and return all their Social Security and Medicare benefits. Then, and only then, can they bitch about socialism with dignity.

 

Ha! A Republican with dignity—that’s a good one.

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Zigzagging around icebergs

Marty’s photo of the day #2658: Zigzagging around icebergs on a dreary Antarctica day.

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Neptune’s revenge

Marty’s photo of the day #2657: I took this photo on Deception Island, which is near Antarctica. You are looking at the remains of the Hektor Whaling Station. This short excerpt from my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, provides more information:

We went ashore instead at the more sheltered Whaler’s Bay. There we were able to see firsthand the devastation caused by the most recent (1967–1970) volcanic eruptions. Black ash and mud had engulfed a British research station, which was active at the time (everyone escaped), as well as the adjacent vacant Norwegian Hektor Whaling Station. Rather than rebuild, the countries left everything in place as an unattended outdoor museum. Included among the partially buried relics were whale-processing equipment, wooden fishing boats, and a rusty tractor.

Visiting Whaler’s Bay was a solemn experience. Not for the ruins, but for the remnants of the butchery that happened from 1911 to 1931 when the Hektor Whaling Station was operational. Perfectly preserved whale bones protruded from the volcanic-sand beach—a testament to a coldhearted industry that, if left unchecked, would have exterminated multiple species of whale. Perhaps the eruptions were Neptune’s way of saying, “Enough!”

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Hang in there East Coast!

Hang in there East Coast! Martyman feels your pain.

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Hooded merganser

Marty’s photo of the day #2656: Hooded merganser (female), photographed in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana.

 

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Chrysalis of gold

Marty’s photo of the day #2655: This chrysalis, seemingly made of gold, will become a clearwing butterfly.

(Photographed in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru.)

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A caiman in the grass

Marty’s photo of the day #2654: A caiman in the grass.


 


(Spectacled caiman, photographed in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru.)

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