Asking My Students - Mis Tertulianos - Which Meme They Think Better For A Poster I'm Making For My Every Saturday's Participation In Hillsborough, NC's "No Kings" Protest

 

Fact-Check: The pertinent Lincoln passage is about a third of the way down. The "fully contextualized section" reads: 

 "It is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler. Now, sir, in the present case, if any gentlemen, whose money is a burden to them, choose to lead off a dance, I am decidedly opposed to the people’s money being used to pay the fiddler. No one can doubt that the examination proposed by this resolution, must cost the State some ten or twelve thousand dollars; and all this to settle a question in which the people have no interest, and about which they care nothing. These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.”

https://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/abraham-lincoln-in-depth/abraham-lincoln-banking-and-the-panic-of-1837-in-illinois/index.html

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The Bonus Round

Updated Compendium Of Pax-Barbaria Posts On The Ravages Of Capitalism: Personal, Interpersonal, Political, Economic and Environmental Ravages - 4/17/2026

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2026/04/updated-compendium-of-pax-barbaria.html