XPost: aus.politics   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On 11/21/2021 05:29 PM, Fran wrote:   
   > His nomination and election served it's purpose by getting rid of that   
   > creep Trump.  Everyone knew that Biden would not have been elected at   
   > any other time but given the disgusting nature of Trump, Biden was the   
   > decent choice.  Now it's time to move on and get a competent POTUS next   
   > time (but I'm not holding my breath that will ever happen).   
      
     “To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed,   
   law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at,   
   controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by   
   creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do   
   so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction   
   noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered,   
   assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden,   
   reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility,   
   and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under   
   contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from,   
   squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first   
   word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted   
   down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged,   
   condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all,   
   mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government;   
   that is its justice; that is its morality.”   
      
   ― Pierre-Joseph Proudhon   
      
   It doesn't make a big rat's ass difference.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)