⚓Red Women Warriors, Redux The Third / July 2025
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by Leonard Earl Johnson
of Lafayette and New Orleans, Louisiana
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"On time, the old fashioned kind, is not in our vocabulary," she says, pulling down the front bill of her big red hat.
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Just now the train whistles in the near-distance, and the Red Women Warriors grab the green alligator briefcase and run under the clock and up to the loading platform. Amtrak doesn't stop long in Lafayette whether on time or not.
Inside the last coach, the three shove their bags into the boarding deck's storage rack and scramble up the ladders to the top deck. They rush along the aisle past the seated passengers, and dance down the steps of the forward car to the comforting snack, coffee, beer, wine, and whisky bar below.
The train jerks forward, then softly rolls off towards New Orleans, Louisiana's notorious Big Swamp City.
They are traveling to Big Swamp City after viewing America's July 4th fireworks display in Lafayette's Parc International. Now they are going to celebrate July 14th's French National Bastille Day, by gathering in New Orleans with the masses, for free bread on Bastille Day at Café La Madeleine ~ free for those wearing the French tricolors.
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Each Warrior Woman has added a red, white, and blue pompom to her hat.
"If you dine in, they give you real butter and jam," the three tell each other, "and delicious coffee."
At a table set aboard the train under a huge glass canopy they open their green alligator briefcase and extract the clear plastic cube containing the frozen Republican Snow Ball, and fan out on the table a spray of self adhering lapel and bumper stickers.
A
mouthy
Judge
and his quieter Wife ~ on a grand tour from Sydney, Australia ~ pick out two of the Red Warriors proffered campaign stickers.
One reads, Street Guerrillas for Peace, the other, Turn Back Voter Turnout.
"Traveling to the Upper Earth is a dream of most all Australians," the Judge tells the three women. "Isn't that right, Duck," he says to his Wife, who nods agreement.
"We like taking Amtrak across America, after hanging sixteen hours in the air from Sydney to Los Angeles," the Wife says, opening her blue Outback frontier-looking handknitted teardrop handbag, and extracting an airplane boarding pass to prove her point.
The big red hatted Texan holds up the frozen snowball to prove hers.
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The Judge tells The Red Warriors,
"We once took Amtrak's California Zephyr out of San Francisco, to Chicago. In the high Rockies, that run!"
Duck adds, "Unfortunately the train was very late and it was dark during our descent into Denver."
The Aussies say they are "Smitten by America's brazen Chainsaw Republicans." Also, they admit to being connected supporters of Australia's rabid yellow journalism exporter to American politics and press, the old seven-hundred-eighty-seven million dollar elder settler from Down Under, Rupert Murdoch.
"So pivotally important to your Donald Trump," Duck says.
"We have two daughters working for Rupert Murdoch's American Dream. Both live in Chicago."
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"We all know where this is leading," the Jurist also from Down Under says, "Still, here you sit doing nothing."
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"US TOO," his Wife chimes in.
"FOR THE MOMENT."
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"For the moment,"
the Judge smiles.
"Smack in the middle of Hurricane Season, with Republicans reducing healthcare, satellite weather coverage, and FEMA support!"
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| A Hurricane without FEMA is like a day dangling from your rooftop without rescue |
"If left dangling from their rooftops,
House Speaker Piety Mike Johnson
will pray for them in The Donald's private
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