https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:53:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/ivins-molly/77152/ https://wist.info/ivins-molly/77152/#respond Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:04:32 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=77152 What’s really astounding about these brickheads who claim to be in touch with the original intent of the founders is (1) none of them seem to have read what the founders wrote, from Thomas Jefferson’s essays to Jamie Madison’s notes, and (2) you know damn well if they had been alive at the time of the American Revolution, they all would have been Tories.

Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (1987-09-11), “We the People,” Texas Observer

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