Life After All : Favorite Memes of 2021 & Doing my Bit

A picture says a thousand words. A meme gives a message in as few words as possible. It's like folk art. Words and text with a message from the heart.

Another year comes to an end, and lots of great meme's tell the story of how it went. Issues captured in one little message that carries a lot of meaning.

For fellow Democrats, a meme actually makes our ranting less noisy, . In a few words it can save a thousand words.

No gun shops in Sylvania

Used this one a lot. Historian
Chris Browning on the "gravedigger
of democracy."

There are lots of memes on the other side, sure, on the dark side, lots of propaganda in my view, in support of sedition, lies, gaslighting. But I spot the ones that mean the most to the millions who voted for Biden and want to save our democracy in these unhinged, twisted time.

What the memes on the progressive side of the political spectrum tell us is that the resistance to tyranny, betrayal of rule of law, dereliction of duty, and sedition is alive and well.

Toledo's Resist Portman Indivisible group meets on Zoom
on Tuesdays. The R Senator, who voted tRUmp all the way, every time,
is not running. Hope to turn his seat Blue with Rep.Tim Ryan (OH,D).

The Sisters of St. Francis
hold BLM protests every
week. I'm happy to join.
them.

Thanks to Indivisibles across the land, local and state action groups, progressive media organizations, and voter rights advocates everywhere who have been on the front lines since the Women's March on Washington in January 2017. It's been over 6+ years. We've been marching and protesting ever since. I've done my bit, and whenever I'm on the streets with my signs, I feel better. I'm considered an old warrior, which is fine by me.

Thanks also to the Southern Poverty Law Center, CREW and like-minded organizations for exposing corruption and going after the dark $ unleashed by Citizens United against our politics and our culture. I was with the resistance 100%, and did my bit for saving our democracy.

Here are some of my favorite memes that tell a larger story in a few words and images.

We know the state of our Judiciary branch from SCOTUS on down is precarious. With millions of dollars from Koch networks and dark money funders, the Judiciary branch has been loaded with far-right wing zealots from top to bottom. SCOTUS stands on the precipice of irrelevance. We have lost confidence in the highest court in the land. Chief Justice Roberts has joined Justice Sonia Sotomayer in sounding the alarm.

"Gravedigger" of democracy

Mitch McConnell has played a major role in corrupting the Judicial branch, cramming over 260 far-right, unqualified, unapproved by the Bar, without judicial experience on the courts. It is rank dereliction of duty to obstruct Senate legislative activity, deliberately rig Senate "juries" to vote against impeachments, to pack the courts. Liar Kavanaugh? Dancing on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's grave? Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is on it. I'd like to assume the FBI is on it too. A real investigation this time around.

Voting Rights protest with
friend Janice. .

While I'm on McConnell, it is still a question how one person, plus one (Manchin) since 2020, can get away with obstructing action on the VOTING RIGHTS BILLS that have been passed by the House. How is it that Mr. Filibuster McConnell gets away with no action on bills piling up his desk? Doesn't the Senate have a constitutional duty to act on them? Isn't it dereliction of duty?

And what about accountability for all those involved in the insurrection against the US government and all those Republicans who voted the Big Lie on the presidential election, with tRUmp watching it on TV with glee? Extreme dereliction of duty again, and again, since the former guy lied about crowd size and committed over 92,000 lies thereafter.

If the January 6 committee keeps working full steam ahead, as it is doing now, I predict that there might very well be some 100 Republican seats open in 2022 and 2024. Public hearings are planned, evidence is piling up, cases are being made. It looks like tons of information will be revealed. Liz Cheney has made that clear. A sea change could be upon us. "The times they are a changing," as Dylan sang. Liz Cheney might very well get the GOP back on track, and maybe run for president too.

It would help a lot if we could get money out of politics by legislating transparency and safeguards, putting limits on corporate lobbying, making it illegal for Congress members to own stock, ending Citizens United. Senator Elizabeth Warren has drafted some excellent legislation to address these issues. Lots of good memes advocate for change. Get money and greed out of politics.

And while we're getting money out of politics, we need to tax the rich, too. Robert Reich, public economist #1, is on these issues. His memes are the best. Reich can pack a message better than just about anyone! He kept them coming in 2021.

This is what Reich preaches. Wisdom
from a great President. When will this
message sink in to all voters?

I also like the progressive memes on getting Putin out of Ukraine. Ukraine has been in the center of the Cabal's corruption at least since Paul Manafort became head of the fool's campaign. Putin is threatening again, amassing some 90,000 troops on the border, saber-rattling. He gets off on it. But it's exactly where I served, in Starobilsk, Lugansk oblast, far-eastern Ukraine close to the Russian border. It's complicated, but my friends are in harm's way, and I care what happens.

Other issues that matter include Voting Rights, gun violence, and Black Lives Matter (BLM ). There are tons of them but these remind us that White Supremacy is alive and well, and poisoning our social fabric the same way it's done since the beginning of time. I've never been so aware of White privilege.

And finally there's a lot of unfinished business on the 2022 political agenda. These memes point the way.

America awaits real action on climate change, addressing the ongoing Covid 19 pandemic to reduce incidents and deaths, and bringing final accountability for those who planned, organized, and funded a coup to overturn a presidential election in gross violation of Rule of Law, the worst case of treason and dereliction of duty this country has ever seen. .

"There’s is no Law and Order without Justice. There is no Justice without accountability."

Lots of unfinished business. This is tip
of the iceburg in the foreign relations department.
There's Ukraine, Iran, Saudi Arabia, what Kushner did in
Israel, secret deals with Russia, North Korea, enemies of the US. the role of transnational networks, and extreme dereliction of duty to protect and preserve the USA.