{"id":32326,"date":"2021-09-03T10:12:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T15:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32326"},"modified":"2021-09-03T10:31:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T15:31:40","slug":"zip-tying-myself-to-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32326","title":{"rendered":"Zip tying myself to French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from watching a video of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/group-attempt-citizens-arrest-principal-covid-quarantine-arizona-1625711\">Trumpian coffee shop owner<\/a> attempting to zip tie an Arizona principal for not letting unmasked children risk infecting all the other children in her school I&#8217;m feeling another surge of exasperation at the forces of darkness sweeping over one third of America.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly my studying French for the past four years has helped distract me and keep me sane. On the hundredth anniversary of my Grandfather&#8217;s war injuries in the trenches of France in 2018 I only had nine months of French under my belt and it was useless to me. This year with four years of study under my belt I have reached the stage where I will be able to speak crappy French fluently wherever I go in the month of October. <\/p>\n<p>In 2018 I bought a couple french language books for future study including my grandson&#8217;s new favorite in the Wimpy Kid series.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51420750447_abfc600188_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can almost read it now and you can see my Grandson&#8217;s book in english beside it. I have several distant goals one of which is to buy the original French version of Alexis de Tocqueville&#8217;s analysis of &#8220;Democracy in America&#8221; based on his year&#8217;s long travels in the America of the 1830&#8217;s. I want to read it in French in the same way the real Christian Scholars we know as the &#8220;Pilgrims&#8221; learned to read Hebrew and Greek and Latin in order to understand the Bible. That is why our first University Harvard was established. Understanding the Bible is something our era&#8217;s instant Bible scholars would never bother with lest it interfere with their collection of tithes from their zip tie prone congregations. <\/p>\n<p>About these Zip tie Republicans&#8230;Note the magnification on the paper back copy of De Tocqueville. I bought back when then Congressional Majority leader, Newt Gingrich, was recommending books on democracy to they Russians of the 1990&#8217;s who were seriously studying law and our constitution in hopes of creating a new Democratic Russia. Gingrich was busy posturing back when he hoped to propel himself into the Presidency with this show of fidelity to Democracy. His show of patriotism wasn&#8217;t worth the US flag pinned to his coat lapel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51421499211_38a8f32606_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news\/gingrich-resigned-house-under-cloud-223645147.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall\">disgraced Republican<\/a> &#8220;Democracy&#8221; promoter Gingrich has exposed his true colors by sucking up to Donald Trump and joining the conspiracy to overthrow the 2021 election. The man is a traitor and not simply an embarrassment to the memory of his party&#8217;s founder. The French have a word for Gingrich&#8217;s kind, &#8220;putain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from watching a video of a Trumpian coffee shop owner attempting to zip tie an Arizona principal for not letting unmasked children risk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,20,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32326"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32332,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326\/revisions\/32332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}