E. Jean Carroll started it: the Paper Clip Mutiny.
You’ll remember her as the woman who successfully sued Trump twice for sexual assault and defamation and recovered $88.3 million in damages.
“Beauteous Reader! Democracy eCLIPSes the president! It’s happening! It’s working! It’s spreading! It’s catching! We’re clipping in!” Carroll wrote.
“Norwegian teachers and students wore paper clips to signal their opposition to Nazi occupation. They attached them to their lapels and wore them as jewelry, a symbol of solidarity binding them together as paper clips did with papers. It was a quiet act of defiance, expressing that Norwegians remained united against Nazi rule.”
“You probably have a paper clip in your desk or junk drawer that you can put on straight away. You can be a subtle signal of support for people who need that right now. You can be a conservation starter.
“And…..Why the paper clip?” Carroll posed.
- The president can’t sue the paper clip.
- Can’t ban it.
- Can’t deport it.
- Can’t impose tariffs on it.
- Can’t arrest it.
- Can’t defund it.
- Can’t appoint new members to the paper clip’s board.
- Can’t blame the paper clip on Epstein.
- Can’t assault it.
- Can’t outlaw it.
- Can’t freeze it.
- Can’t bribe it.
- Can’t cancel it.
- Can’t replace the paper clip with the DOJ.…..
….I mean, he could, but then he’d look ridiculous.”
“The more the president turns up the flames of hatred, the more we’ll clip in! The more we clip in, the more we’ll see we’re not alone. The more we see we’re not alone, the more each of us will be confident to take consequential action.”
“Because, Riotous Reader, the paper clip is not the action. It’s the spark. It’s the signal that says “We’re ready!” That says, “Let’s go!” That says, “We love our country.”
“Small efforts can bear fruit when we’re all in on them. I’m going to find a paper clip before I head out to the farmers’ market. We’re in this together.”
Are you clipped in?
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