We Can’t Say It Out Loud, but You Know Which Ones We Mean (National Jazz Month)

June 2021

“Republicans blocked a far-reaching voting rights bill, known as the For the People Act, in the Senate on Tuesday. The Republicans instead supported the ‘For Some of the People — We Can’t Say It Out Loud, but You Know Which Ones We Mean — Act.’” —Stephen Colbert 

“Yes, the Senate’s founding purpose: to do nothing. It’s right there in Article I: ‘All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate, where one wizened, ancient turtle man, with no regard for anything but the self-preservation of his own power, shall, with his pockets stuffed with greasy bags full of money, strangle the hope of all who dare to dream of true democracy, and recognize April as National Jazz Month.’”— Stephen Colbert, on Senator Mitch McConnell’s saying the Senate was fulfilling its “founding purpose”

https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-magisterial-collection.html 

“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night 

of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”