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H2O Man

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20. Very good!
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 01:21 PM
Yesterday

"WE are the authors of our own history, which is ahead of us and closing in fast."

I was talking with my cousin, who asked what our fathers and grandfathers would tell us that we need to do to save the United States of America. In their era, with WW2, they had to pick up the gun and deliver something akin to the palm-upward blow to our enemies. I think they would say that they fought in a violent war to protect our rights to defend democracy so that we could protect the Constitution by non-violently exercising our rights. Today it is our responsibility to do exactly that.

When issues come up in future times, I want my grandchildren and their children to look back and think of what I did to protect this countryt against its enemies, foreign and Domestic. I want their generations to look back and think that when push came to shove, we stood up to the bullies, kicked their behinds in elections, and re-established the rule of law.

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