• Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    9 hours ago

    I want that too, but maybe not all of those things at the same time. I’d feel really bad for them.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    9 hours ago

    Text:

    I want a dyke for president. I want a person with aids for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of. two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to aids, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down to rest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president with no air conditioning, a president who has stood on line at the clinic, at the dmv, at the welfare office and has been unemployed and layed off and sexually harassed and gaybashed and deported.

    I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a Black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn’t possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown: always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker, always a liar, always a thief and never caught.

    Thematically and stylistically it’s very Ginsburg

  • Wytch@lemmy.zipEnglish
    14·
    8 hours ago

    Strong The New Colossus energy:

    "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, 
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    8 hours ago

    Well, let’s include this, with the following message to whoever originally wrote it: We hope you’ll get in touch with Barbara Burgower at Straight Arrow Books in order that we may properly credit this piece of writing and carry the customary copyright of permissions and acknowledgments in future editions of this book.

    senator mcgovern had hinged his lxxxxcxx whole campaign on oppostion to the vietnam war, xxxxxxxxxxxx hoping to pursuade americans of its immorality and awakenong in them a sense of outrage and shame, he tried to demonstrate that the continuing american presnece in vietnam, the bombing and the xxxxxx suport of what he denounced as a corrupt dictatorship was an indication of xxx a xxxxx moral collapse in the x united states. He did not balme the people but the nixon administration / but the people did not xxxxx respond to his appeals, ironically yesterday morning he voted here in support of a local xxxxx proposition to outlwa the killing of a small bird known as the @mourning dove@ last night, as the nixon landslide gathered momentum that is precisely what heorge mcgovern became—a mourning dove.

    i xxxxx asked him if the worst happened whether he would run again and he said: @emphantically: no i will not. i shall stay in the senate but xxx someone else will have to carry on what I began.@

    frewuently in the last two weeks, senator mcgovern had spoken of a young p black man who xxxxxx predicted that the election was going to break his heart because he was going to g find out that the american people were not as high minded as he thought they were/typically, mr. mcgovern challenged this view, x saying that he believed in the goodness and decency of the people and that they would respond to their own consciences.

    but the election did break his heart after all. he thought he saw xxx faces glowing with hope xx that the country would aim for higher standards, yearing for peace and an edn to the domestic anguish. but the voters turned their backs on him.

    • tpyo@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I’d appreciate that quote more if you could link the original context. It’s very hard to parse

      This is how I see the comments:

      • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        I was intentionally being a little bit cryptic, but it’s from “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72,” from the November chapter. It is one of the absolutely crucial books to read if you want to know about the American political process, at least the 20th century form of it.

  • SanctimoniousApe@piefed.socialEnglish
    36·
    7 hours ago

    I want someone who has… … been sexually harassed…

    DAMN! I just barely missed being a qualified candidate! And they told me I didn’t have to be attractive to get anywhere in life…