Lockdown Update Day 230

[elisi]

For the Americans:

OH MY GOD! 😍
How did Martin Luther King manage to make every word of a 3-minute speech perfectly applicable to an election 56 years later!?#Election2020 pic.twitter.com/JaE9Opn2cZ

— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) November 2, 2020

ETA: omg this thread:

#BREAKING Polls are set to open in 48 hours across the US as the authoritarian regime of Donald Trump attempts to consolidate its hold over the troubled, oil-rich, nuclear-armed, north American nation. Analysts are sceptical the election will end months of political violence.

— gathara (@gathara) November 1, 2020

(Whole thread here. And unrolled here)

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For the Brits:

Once more unto the bleach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wards up with our English dead.
In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man
As armchair epidemiology:
But when data galore blow in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the ostrich;

1/6 pic.twitter.com/j0jgNpuuUp

— Michael Govern Ready (@mikegove12) November 2, 2020

(Thread: https://twitter.com/mikegove12/status/1323154977574002689)

Comments

[gillo]

The @gathara tweet is fabulous. Exactly how the Beeb would describe it if it were anywhere else! And I RT'd the St Crispin's Day speech. We are all a band of buggered now, I fear.

Stay safe, well and strong.

[elisi]

The @gathara tweet is fabulous. Exactly how the Beeb would describe it if it were anywhere else!
They keep adding to the thread, it's GOLDEN. Especially like the details such as 'armed militias roaming the streets' and talking about 'the Presidential palace (known locally as 'The White House'). It's so on point.

And I RT'd the St Crispin's Day speech. We are all a band of buggered now, I fear.
We really are. :(

Stay safe, well and strong.
You too! At least we have a plethora of fictional heroes to choose from if we need inspiration.