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This lesson sure makes a lot of sense to me!

Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in the front yard, my

neighbors stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their

dog.  During our friendly conversation, I asked their little girl what

she wanted to be when she grew up.

She said she wanted to be President someday.

Both of her parents, Democratic Party members, were standing there so

I asked her, "If you were President what would be the first thing you

would do?"

She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."

Her parents beamed with pride! "Wow...what a worthy goal!" I

said..."But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that!"

"What do you mean?" she replied. So I told her, "You can come over to

my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my hedge, and I'll pay

you $50. Then you can go over to the grocery store where the homeless

guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a

new house."

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight

in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do

the work, and you can just pay him the $50?"

I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."

Her parents aren't speaking to me anymore.

If you know any Republicans that would get a chuckle out of this,

 @AOC calls the statue in the US capitol building of Father Damien, a canonized saint in the Catholic Church, a part of “white supremacist culture.”

Father Damien died of leprosy after spending his life serving others who had the disease.

So the statue AOC objects to as a totem of white supremacy is a statue of a poor, sick immigrant social worker to the poor, whose work was honored by Hawaii’s native queen. The statue was created by an immigrant woman feminist artist of color, and chosen by the people of the least white state of the union.