Backyard and Beyond

This bird is just so majestic I’m going to put up more pictures.
Sounds like the best electoral turnout since 1900, with 66%. So approximately one-third of the nation opposes democracy since they voted for someone who stated, in advance, that he doesn’t want all votes counted if they’re not for him.

And wow, their lunatic fringe freikorps shock-troops, as evidenced yesterday in Detroit, are something else, ain’t they? Hannah Arendt had their number: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi… but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”