I thank you so very much for releasing the hidden January 6 video footage to Tucker Carlson. My theory is: “If people have nothing to hide, they will hide nothing.”
Dear Tucker Carlson:
God Bless You for airing the hidden January 6 video footage. I love your show and respect your principles.
Dear Nancy Pelosi:
You Sorry Bitch, along with your entire sorry GANG of Political Criminals. When will the members of your Capitol Police be placed into jail? You know, the ones who escorted Jacob Chansley through the capitol? The ones who turned the door knobs for him, on camera video, which you hid from the American public.
When will “RED HAT WEARING” Ray Epps be brought to trial? You know, the one who actually told people to invade the capitol. When will Officer Byrd go to trial for murdering Ashli Babbitt? You know, the UNARMED Ashli Babbitt who was deployed at least eight times, including in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar; as she served in the Air National Guard.
We can all have dreams and wishes, Bitch Nancy. We can toss pennies into The Old Wishing Well. We can blow out candles on cakes. We can stroll the beaches, hoping to find that Bottle Holding The Genie With Three Wishes. I would have no need to waste many pennies, extinguish many candles or rub many bottles. My wish would be so simple. I would wish that Nancy Pelosi would wake in the morning with a CONSCIENCE.
OMG…Nancy, can you just imagine how horrible your payback will be from your new conscience? I cannot quit smiling at the mental image.
After I have eaten my cake and extinguished many candles, here I go to the Wishing Well with my gallon of pennies. Then I will be off to the beach, in search of that Magical Genie to rub that magic bottle….
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller
This quote is attributed to the prominent German pastor Martin Niemöller.
After World War II, Niemöller openly spoke about his own early complicity in Nazism and his eventual change of heart. His powerful words about guilt and responsibility still resonate today.
Niemöller’s Quote at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The quote “First they came for…” has been part of the permanent exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) since its opening in 1993. Initially, Niemöller’s words were part of a text panel within the main exhibit. Today, they are prominently featured at the end of the USHMM’s permanent exhibition. They are the final words read by Museum visitors and serve as an indictment of passivity and indifference during the Holocaust. They are also a powerful reminder about the consequences of individual action and inaction more broadly.
Visitors stand in front of the quotation from Martin Niemoller that is on display in the Permanent Exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Niemöller was a Lutheran minister and early Nazi supporter who was later imprisoned for opposing Hitler’s regime.
Origins of the Quote
In postwar Germany, Martin Niemöller was well-known for his opposition to the Nazi regime and as a former victim of Nazi persecution. In 1946, he traveled on a lecture tour in the western zones of Allied-occupied Germany. Niemöller publicly confessed his inaction and indifference to the fate of many of the Nazis’ victims. He used phrases such as “I did not speak out…” or “we preferred to keep quiet.” He explained that in the first years of the Nazi regime he had remained silent as the Nazis persecuted other Germans. Many of the Nazi regime’s earliest victims were members of leftist political movements, which Niemöller (who was a conservative) vehemently opposed.
But, Nazi persecution quickly expanded to encompass a variety of other people and groups, including Niemöller himself. Most Germans did not object to Nazi actions. Rather, they either supported the regime or ignored the plight of their fellow citizens.
Niemöller believed that after the war many Germans were reluctant to confront their complicity with Nazism. In his lectures, he bemoaned that individual Germans failed to accept responsibility for Nazism, German atrocities in German-occupied countries, and the Holocaust. According to him, individual Germans were passing the blame onto their neighbors, superiors, or Nazi organizations like the Gestapo.
Thus Niemöller considered his fellow Germans as the primary audience for his confession. He wanted his words to serve as a model of how to accept personal responsibility for complicity in the Nazi regime.
New English word: Every once in a while somebody hits it right out of the park…. Not yet found in the Oxford dictionary, but discovered to be a “coined” new word on T-shirts sold on eBay: Read slowly, absorb the facts that are in this definition! I love this word and believe it will become widely recognized. Finally, a brand new English word that describes not only the present but our future.
INEPTOCRACY – Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to lead, are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
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