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Detroit Free Press: Joe Biden is the anti-toxin America needs
(Detroit Free Press Editorial) Among the myriad lawn signs sprouting in anticipation of November's presidential election, two are noteworthy for their seeming nonpartisanship:
The first sign "ANY FUNCTIONING ADULT 2020" makes light of America's current upheaval, tacitly confessing how little today's disillusioned voters expect of their elected leaders.
The second, beginning with the words "IN THIS HOUSE," advertises the occupants' allegiance to a list of cardinal virtues kindness, respect for learning, compassion for those with disabilities, etc. as timeless and anodyne as the Girl Scout Law.
Neither sign mentions any candidate, political party or elective office. But it is telling that both signs are understood instantly and universally to signal the resident's opposition to Donald Trump's re-election.
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Donald Trumps election was a tragedy whose cost Americans have scarcely begun to reckon. Its most conspicuous casualties are the disproportionate number of American lives extinguished by a pandemic that raged unchecked for months while the president shrugged off, mocked and occasionally obstructed the medical community's urgent efforts to contain it. .............(more)
https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/09/20/detroit-free-press-presidential-endorsement-joe-biden-trump/5796299002/
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Detroit Free Press: Joe Biden is the anti-toxin America needs (Original Post)
marmar
Sep 2020
OP
"... the normalization of behavior Americans once found intolerable
The Velveteen Ocelot
Sep 2020
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(129,730 posts)1. "... the normalization of behavior Americans once found intolerable
even in their children and house pets."
And nobody will put Trump in a time-out or rub his nose in the mistake he made on the carpet (not that you should do that to your dog, but Trump needs to have his nose rubbed in his shit).
The Blue Flower
(6,407 posts)2. Can't recommend this enough
One of the most thorough and powerful condemnations of the orange anus I've read.
