Prickly City by Scott Stantis for September 17, 2020

Sorry, Carmen, you hinted at treason to the Lord donald.

Did I see Nixon in the mix, Hon?

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Matthew Chapter5 Verse 9

" We The People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Completed and signed 233 years ago today. Read It.

It isn’t noble to maintain neutrality when armed vigilantes execute protesters.

“During last night’s ABC News town hall, President Trump mistakenly claimed that people would be protected from the coronavirus when they develop a, quote, ‘herd mentality.’ … You mean herd immunity. Herd mentality is what it’s called when you kill 200,000 people and supporters vote for you anyway.” — Seth Meyers

We’re are all trying…

The Right Wing accusations are always a confession….

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One tweet claimed coronavirus numbers were intentionally inflated, adding, “It’s hard to know what to believe.” Another warned, “Don’t trust Dr. Fauci.”

A Facebook comment argued that mail-in ballots “will lead to fraud for this election,” while an Instagram comment amplified the erroneous claim that 28 million ballots went missing in the past four elections.

The messages have been emanating in recent months from the accounts of young people in Arizona seemingly expressing their own views – standing up for President Donald Trump in a battleground state and echoing talking points from his reelection campaign.

Far from representing a genuine social media groundswell, however, the posts are the product of a sprawling yet secretive campaign that experts say evades the guardrails put in place by social media companies to limit online disinformation of the sort used by Russia during the 2016 campaign.

Teenagers, some of them minors, are being paid to pump out the messages at the direction of Turning Point Action, an affiliate of Turning Point USA, a prominent conservative youth organization based in Phoenix, according to four people with independent knowledge of the effort.

Their descriptions were confirmed by detailed notes from relatives of one of the teenagers who recorded conversations with him about the efforts.

The campaign draws on the spam-like behavior of bots and trolls, with the same or similar language posted repeatedly across social media.

But it is carried out, at least in part, by humans paid to use their own accounts, though nowhere disclosing their relationship with Turning Point Action or the digital firm brought in to oversee the day-to-day activity.

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https://www.chron.com/news/article/Pro-Trump-group-pays-teens-to-post-online-15569883.php

“Gosh, why can’t everyone just be nicer?” Carmen wonders as she picks her way over the broken glass the day after Kristallnacht.

“We just need to understand each other better,” Carmen says as she stands among the bombs dropping on Tulsa.

“People are just so unreasonable nowadays,” Carmen says as Emmett Till’s body sinks into the river behind her.

“Can’t we just all get along?” Carmen asks as Latino children huddle beneath foil blankets in chain-link pens.

Unfortunately, Carmen/Scott, “We cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.” – JFK

Many of us are with you, Carmen!

We made a decision in 2016 and have had 4 years to experience the results of that decision. The election this year represents a major turning point for our nation. Do we continue on a path ruled by hate, fear and ignorance, or do we choose a different path and begin the healing process? Perhaps the greatest gift of God is the freedom of choice, yet that gift also includes the freedom to experience the consequences of our choices.

Why are all the angry people white. Biased maybe?

We see your pain, Carmen. Really, we do.

We feel your pain, too.

That’s why we will vote against your party this year.

In hopes that healing can commence for all of us.

Including you, Carmen.

President Harris will bring peace in March.

If it were easy, everyone would be doing it. Peace is not relaxing. It requires continually being outside your “comfort zone” and actively caring about not only your own actions but those of your government.

There are an extra 200,000 at peace, thanks to Trump — and His Disciples.

I’m with you, Carmen.

Awwwwwwwwwww, that’s so sad.