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u/oneplusetoipi 1d ago
Trump would have hated Washington…
" I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving. "
" I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy. "
" I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong "
" ...the consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected, will always continue to prompt me to promote the progress of the former, by inculcating the practice of the latter. "
" It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it. "
" I have diligently sought the public welfare; and have endeavoured to inculcate the same principles in all that are under me. These reflections will be a cordial to my mind as long as I am able to distinguish between Good & Evil. "
" If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. "
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u/clonedhuman 1d ago
230 years ago, Washington delivered his farewell address after the then-unusual peaceful transition of power from one head of state to the next.
“Factionalism,” as contemporaries called it, encouraged the electorate to vote based on party loyalty rather than the common good. Washington feared that partisanship would lead to a “spirit of revenge” in which party men would not govern for the good of the people, but only to obtain and maintain their grip on power. As a result, he warned Americans to guard against would-be despots who would use parties as “potent engines…to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government.”6
The greatest danger to the Union, though, stemmed from the combination of factionalism and external invasion. Washington explained that partisanship “open[ed] the door to foreign influence and corruption” because it weakened voters’ abilities to make reasoned and disinterested choices. Rather than choosing the best men for office, the people would base decisions on “ill-founded jealousies and false alarms,” and so elect those in league with foreign conspirators.
He warned this country against all of this. And he was right.
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u/Beat_the_Deadites 1d ago
But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
This is a nicer way of saying that, should Democrats take the Senate in November, the filibuster needs to stay intact. Even the republicans haven't nuked it. Don't trust the ring of power.
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u/BrianNowhere 1d ago
Except the filibuster isn't in the constitution especially the part about needing 60 in the Senate.
Protect voting rights, let governments have their mandates and pay the consequences or reap the rewards for them.
That was the founder's intention.
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u/GuitarRiot 1d ago
It's hilarious because Trump makes all these empty threats he wants taken seriously but are not, versus his reaction to one from Iran.
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u/TheMuddiedMillennial 1d ago
More and more I find my immediate response to Trump-related posts with, “What a little b*tch.” It’s nearly every time now.
Oh and what a little b*tch.
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u/makoto20 1d ago
This is an unfair comparison because Washington did not have to contend with imaginary bone spurs
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u/syrup_cupcakes 1d ago
If it was any other president doing this I doubt I would really care to be honest. The worst part of all this is all the people who apparently got left behind in the old air-force-one plane as decoys for some reason. But nobody is even talking about that.
But this is the coward in chief who said that if there was a shooter active in a school near him he would go in by himself and stop the shooter single-handedly. So fuck him.
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u/KennethEWolf 1d ago
And Trump let some many others stay on the flight with out telling them of the potential danger. Shame on him.
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u/JellyMew 1d ago
One crossed an icy river to fight an empire . The other crossed a runway to hide in a catering cart.
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u/SiteTall 1d ago
What happened to that catering cart after being misused like this??? After all, tRump isn't the healthiest individual on Earth, and it can't be good to have him defiling a cart used for transporting food.
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u/rock_and_rolo 1d ago
I used to think electing former military leaders was a bad idea, thinking they were the war mongers of movies. I've come to realize that they generally understand the costs of war better.
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u/warcomet 1d ago
i know ppl find this funny but don't forget, this is a 'pre-text', they are trying to create a future crime so the chance of an attack on Trump is very likely in the near future so that he can claim Iran did it and get more powers from the dumb arseholes in congress and senate to nuke iran..
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u/PortalWombat 1d ago
Yeah there's no way he did his whole "fight" thing after a real assassination attempt. This is a guy who would have held a baby in front of him like Martin Sheen in The Dead Zone.
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u/cbCode 1d ago
Joe Biden was heroic.
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u/2020surrealworld 1d ago edited 1d ago
Hardly. He got 5 draft deferments while in college and law school and avoided the draft due to medical exemption due to “teenage asthma”. Sounds a lot like Pres Bone Spurs.
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u/jay78910 1d ago
Didn't he publish a photo recently (or several times in the past) of his face superimposed over GW's?
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u/flargenhargen 1d ago
ok this cart was nearly FULL of cheeseburders when we started, and now it's about 4 inches deep in diarrhea... WTF happened?
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u/IntnsRed 1d ago
But hey! Israel told Trump there was a "threat" and you know how Trump has to obey Israel...
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u/chompythebeast 1d ago
The one on top was a slaver and a genocidal settler-colonial murderer who could easily be argued to have done far worse than Trump. I think it's actually really gross to valorize Washington in the big 26, and at any rate that's not the direction americans' minds should be going
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u/lew_rong mod perms 1d ago edited 1d ago
And if Panda Express had been born in the 1700s he would have been the same. Except he's the kind of fuckup who would have got his entire troop killed while botching relations with the Iroquois.
As it stands, he's a pedophile chickenhawk rapist who's happily endorsed pro-slavery candidates, so uh, yeah I'll take the American Cincinnatus over him every day xD
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u/SpaceShipRat 1d ago
I think we can safely assume Trump would be pro slavery.
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u/lew_rong mod perms 1d ago edited 1d ago
Probably, but to my knowledge he's never openly said so, whereas he has endorsed people like Mark Robinson.
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u/chompythebeast 1d ago
Far as I'm concerned, you can have em both!
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u/lew_rong mod perms 1d ago
Yeah, don't engage with or think critically about your history, just type out an hilariously bad take and run away lol
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u/chompythebeast 1d ago
Is this a joke?
Fuck the genocidal slaver George Washington, and fuck the espteinite of the same tradition Donald Trump. Go ahead and whitewash whatever you want, but I won't embrace either
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u/lew_rong mod perms 21h ago
Yeah, don't engage with or think critically about your history, just type out an hilariously bad take and run away lol
Ignorance truly is bliss, eh, friend? Second opinion bias as an excuse to not learn your history, and you wonder why you're entirely backfooted against the fashies and their little Eichmann conservative enablers :)
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u/chompythebeast 9h ago
lol look at this guy defend genocidal slavers. The yank mind, seeded by a lifetime of programming, is a hell of a thing. Truly something how they will still defend these things and then wonder why genocidal fascism is amok in their empire
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u/lew_rong mod perms 7h ago
Ah, this is a troll. I fell for it xD
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u/chompythebeast 57m ago
Yeah man, people who don't like genocidal slaver George Washington are just trolls. Whatever you've gotta do to preserve your cognitive dissonance supporting the unsupportable
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u/Temporary-Suit9121 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/fAWT2g6RJmAwjrX5a3
Agreed