Peter Joseph Swanson

The song is based on an anti-war fantasy in the Bible in Isaiah:

They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war anymore.

"Because of its pacifistic imagery, "Down by the Riverside" has also been used as an anti-war protest song, especially during the Vietnam War.[1] The song is also included in collections of socialist and labor songs."

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When Republicans stand up to Trump then we know congress is no longer afraid of the cult--that MAGA has turned on Trump. Until then they are all afraid of going the way of Liz Cheney ...

Newsflash. He doesn’t.

YouTube video by ajack2boys Sweet honey in the rock - Down By the Riverside

"Study War No More"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_tt...

I just know that war always makes entirely new piles of problems and disasters that then need to play out for decades ...

Obama put together international coalitions for everything. Trump goes it alone--ignores USA law, even.

One is better then the other...

"Minab is located near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a high-security area where military infrastructure is often densely integrated with civilian areas."

"Based on recent reports from February and March 2026, the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab was located adjacent to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval base."

The New York Times

If the USA wants to go to war to protect Israel and Saudi Arabia from Iran then the USA president needs to take that argument to congress. Not only does Trump not follow USA law, he loudly campaigned on "No War with Iran" !!!

(And it could have been USA bombs)

From what I read it sits next to a military base that was bombed...

A billionaire isn't going to come and save us ...

War also always opens new boxes of horrible tragic surprises that we haven't even imagined yet. ...

The USA has no self-defense excuse for warring with Iran ...

Trump bombed their nuke sites last year so he can't even cry "NUKES" anymore ...

Self-defense still splashes innocent blood all over and makes you look horrible ... because all war is urban war, nowadays ...

You can never control that kind of cooking. War is always uncanny in the way it creates entirely new disasters nobody had ever expected before.

If only.

War is always uncanny in the way it creates entirely new disasters nobody had ever expected before.

The Right needs to decide that it will never trickle down no matter how bigoted the USA is, and vote Democrat !!!

The Democrat vote is easily ruined every election cycle so they never win enough to have any power. And then they can be scorned for not having the power to do anything and that helps ruin the Democrat vote for the next time too ...

I like hearing Ilhan Omar talk anyway ...

Obama couldn't tax the rich more because Mitch McConnell filibustered everything. So the rich got richer...

People need to stop voting Republican congresses if they want Democrat presidents to do more ...

What does the West want that the East doesn't? And what does the East want that the West doesn't?

YouTube video by Madonna Madonna - American Life - Director's Cut (Official Video) [4K]

This aged well ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZAM...

And then a later Democrat president can't fix the foreign civil wars from the power vacuum fast and complete enough and is called a flop, and so "both sides are the same" ...

...And were there also "Bush caused civil wars" and Arab Spring civil wars" that always seemed to put Obama between a rock and hard place ...

And was ISIS just to be ignored?

Then what we need to really figure out is if there was really a "War on Terror", and if it wasn't really a thing then what was it? Obama had a huge international coalition helping him do something ...