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PortabelloBelle 🇪🇺 🏳️‍⚧️<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> did not take the White House, it was given to him.However you look at it the people of the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> gave the seat of power to an <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/egotist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#egotist</a>, a <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/misogynist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#misogynist</a>, a <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/felon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#felon</a>, and worst of all, an <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/idiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#idiot</a>.Power is not taken, it is given. Actively, or passively.In this case too few Americans voted for freedom.But I wonder, even if enough of you had seen what was coming, would you have done differently?If you get another opportunity to vote for a presidential candidate, and I can't be sure you will, please make sure you do, and with a clear knowledge of just what it is you're voting for.

WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/8973/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from Chamfort</a><blockquote>Education must be based on two things: ethics and prudence; ethics in order to develop your good qualities, prudence to protect you from other people’s bad ones. If you attach too great an importance to goodness, you produce credulous fools; if you’re too prudent, you produce self-serving, scheming rogues.   [L’Éducation doit porter sur deux bases, la morale et la prudence ; la morale, pour appuyer la vertu ; la prudence, pour vous défendre contre les vices d’autrui. En faisant pencher la balance du côté de la morale, vous ne faites que des dupes ou des martyrs; en la faisant pencher de l’autre côté, vous faites des calculateurs égoïstes.]</blockquote>Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch) Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 5, ¶ 321 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 205] Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/8973/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/897…</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=care" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#care</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=credulity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#credulity</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=dupe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dupe</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=egotist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#egotist</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ethics</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fool</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=martyr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#martyr</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#morality</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=prudence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#prudence</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=rogue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rogue</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=scheming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scheming</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=values" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#values</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=vice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vice</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a>

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