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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 2h

Fair enough.

Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 17h

merciless savages. His attitude toward Native Americans in treaties and letters with them called them his "friends and his children". He too was flawed. It remains to be seen if this woman deserves this award. What I know, is Trump and the GOP are not flawed they are treasonous.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 17h

I look at it this way. She is flawed. This was the first time I ever really heard of her. I like the fact that Norway did not give in to the politics of Netanyahu and Trump. When Thomas Jefferson eliminated any discussion about slavery in the Declaration of independence he did call Native Americans

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 18h

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. Even Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi. They all have Abraham Lincoln in common. Those born before Lincoln inspired him to think of the Constitution as an extraordinary framework of self-government. The rest were inspired to follow his lead.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 18h

To rediscover the beauty and integrity of what is self-government. Part of that focus has been on looking for and to "voices of reason". From Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. To include John Adams, George Washington, James Madison, Franklin Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy,

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 18h

Abraham Lincoln defines self-government as an all-inclusive form of government to be regarded as legitimate: “…Allow all the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and only that is self-government…”.
My research has been about trying to find a catalyst to bring people together.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 18h

that is self-government, but when he governs himself, and also governs another man, that is more than self-government---that is despotism…Allow all the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and only that is self-government”.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 18h

If he is not a man, why in that case, he who should be a man may, as a matter of self-government, do just as he pleases with him. But if a negro is a man, is it not [to] that extent, a total destruction of self-government, to say he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 18h

or class of men, but rather to strictly confine myself to the naked truth merits of the question…I trust I understand, and truly estimate the right of self-government…but it has no just application, as here attempted…such just application depends on whether a negro is not or is a man.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 18h

Lincoln 1854 in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act: “The repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the propriety of its restoration, constitute the subject of what I am about to say…I wish further to say, that I do not propose to question the patriotism, or to assail the motives of any man,

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 18h

Nobody understood the moments leading into the Civil War the way Lincoln did. Nobody could have held the Union together as Lincoln did. Nobody has tried to pretend that they operate as the Party of Lincoln as America's GOP does. States rights and popular sovereignty operate today as they did then.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 18h

With Recommended Constitutional Amendments,
Especially, the Need to Define Constitutional Interpretation.
I would like to see the Nobel Prize Committee add a new category for the Nobel Peace Price for posthumous persons prior to the establishment of the award itself. I call Lincoln such a candidate.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 18h

I use to think I understood Abraham Lincoln. I am reading Gore Vidal's book about Lincoln's speeches and writings. It comes about through the research I am doing for my book. An Addendum to the Declaration of Independence:
Following Decades of Deliberate and Well-Funded Chaos,

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 18h

What the billionaire class and their millionaire minions fear is any woman capable of thinking for themselves.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 19h

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 19h

Max right on!🤨

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 19h

Fox News response to the current moment is to show video of Katie Porter being blunt. They should show video of Trump on January 6th, 2021, throwing the plate that had ketchup on it. It speaks to just how shameless and pathetic these people are. It speaks to how stupid they think Americans are.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 20h

to come to her senses and lead the world to "a more perfect union", a more perfect world.🌎☮️ That the Nobel Peace Prize is about a world at peace with itself.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 20h

because the baby won't stop crying. I've never heard of María Corina Machado before today, but this is someone who clearly has the humility and compassion to have earned the Nobel Peace Price. It gives me hope that there is a rational world out there who is paying attention and looking for America

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 20h

The next thought that comes to mind was that last two part episode of MASH. Where Hawkeye has finally cracked up and is facing the demon that cause him to lose it. Sitting in the bus in terror that the enemy is about to descend upon them and a mother smothers her baby to death,

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 20h

Every morning, the first thing I do is listen to the theme from Billy Jack "One Tin Soldier". I sense the emotion in this man's voice and the first thing that came to mind was this moment when Rachel saw the first notice of Trump's deliberate separation of children from their parents.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 1d

Trump pardoned everybody. McConnell abused his authority to avoid one SCOTUS nominee and pushed through another. Johnson is doing what he has been trained to do. Cheat, lie, abuse his authority and avoid the constitutional crisis he and his ilk are pursuing to destroy our Democracy.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 1d

This needs to be looked at from where it started. Ford abused his authority under the Constitution to pardon Nixon. The US Congress allowed Nixon to resign to avoid an impeachment. Records were destroyed under Reagan to protect him from impeachment and indictment. Bush pardoned Weinberger.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 2d

The indifference she displayed yesterday speaks to her indifference to her duty in 2013 not to abuse her authority for personal gain. The question is what exactly is her relationship to Trump over the years, and does that relationship include Epstein and/or Maxwell?

Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 2d

Another question that demands an answer goes back to 2013. Bondi convinced the Governor of Florida (current) Senator Rick Scott to reschedule the execution of Marshall Lee Gore, so she could attend her own fundraiser.

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