Beers & Books CCIII – Michel Houellebecq

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Michel Houellebecq *26 February 1956

Beers & Books CCII – Victor Hugo

Between the government which does evil
and the people who accept it
- there is a certain shameful solidarity.
*
The great acts of love are done by those
who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

Victor Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885)

Friday is Skyday

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Beers & Books CCI – Anaïs Nin

It takes courage to push yourself
to places you have never been before...
to test your limits... to break through barriers.

Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977)

Monochrome Monday

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Beers & Books CC – Salvatore Niffoi

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Salvatore Niffoi * 19 February 1950

Friday is Skyday

 Sunset while storm begins.

Moving the focus but a tiny bit northwards.

Monochrome Monday

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Saturday Night Music – Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828

Beers & Books CXCVIX – J.M.Coetzee

We must cultivate, all of us,
a certain ignorance, a certain blindness,
or society will not be tolerable.
*
I am not the we of anyone.

J.M. Coetzee * 9 Februar 1940

Beers & Books CXCVIII – Sebastião Salgado

In GENESIS,
my camera allowed nature to speak to me.
And it was my privilege to listen.

Sebastião Salgado *8 February 1944

Beers & Books CXCVII – Kate Chopin

The artist must possess a courageous soul
that dares and defies.

 

Kate Chopin (8 February 1850 – 22 August 1904)

Majority of US-Republicans obviously fascistoid, to put it politely

I do have to learn a vast majority of US Republicans have officially reprimanded two internal "T-critics"- (the very idiots complete name has not and will never be mentioned here) and at the same time appropriated the very idiot's reinterpretation of the events at the so-called Storming of the Capitol.

"Justification": Being the only Republicans on the investigative committee on the so-called storming of the Capitol Cheney and Kinzinger (the very idiot's internal critics) are part of a "Democrat-led persecution [sic] of ordinary citizens [sic] who have engaged in legitimate political discourse [sic]", the resolution says.

In other words: Anyone killing someone in "God's own country" is but engaging in legitimate social discourse.

Conclusion: The majority of those "US-lawmakers" calling themselves republicans are fascists or at least fascistoid, to put it politely.

PS: US-Democrats just happen to look a tiny bit less evil.

PPS: As Hamlet might put it nowadays: "There is something rotten in the US of A."