“This Is A Dangerous Place…”

Man, I don’t know.

If there’s some legal action that can be done to stop the shit show currently going on in this country I wish they’d pull that rabbit out of their hat and do it. How long do we need to wait before something is done? I’m not a fan of conspiracy theories, but I’m almost to the point where I’m thinking Dems are going to let this one ride out. There are federal judges pushing back at DOGE and King Clown Trump, but it doesn’t really seem to be doing anything to stop it. Now he’s calling a Senator “Palestinian” as a derogatory term(the Senator is in fact, Jewish.)

I’ve always said that nothing was going to change until the hurt starts affecting Trump voters, and it’s now starting to. The town halls across the country are heartening, with local people taking their state legislatures to task. I think that’s where things will truly start to change, at small town meetings and campaign stops where the Trump boot-licking Republicans are stopping for their victory laps. The primaries can’t come soon enough.

You know, I said to myself I was going to just stay out of politics after November of 2024. I stopped hitting news sights and reading or watching it. It helped my mental health, for sure. I wasn’t so pissed digesting all that stuff on the daily. I stuck to reading books, audiobooks, listening to music and watching movies, and working on art(making drawings, paintings, and music.) The constant flow of garbage was stopped and my mind and body could tell a difference.

But then I started clicking on articles that made the alarms go off in my head, here and there. The engagement got more involved, and things started getting my ire up. I began to get concerned and pretty soon I was back in. And you know what? I started feeling like crap. My head was spinning pretty much on the regular, and I’m thinking why is this clown and his little sycophantic brain dead army getting away with destroying this country I’ve grown up in and have been proud to have been from(most of the time.)?

Listen, I know we’ve made mistakes. And we’ve engaged in some pretty nefarious activities over our nearly 250 years as a nation. And in my lifetime we’ve had at least three pretty terrible administrations. Nixon and his break-in buddies, Carter and his term of spinning wheels and oil embargos, and Bush Jr and that whole illegal war in Iraq based on bold face lies. I’d say Bush was the lowest point, given what we did to Iraq and how our actions pretty much created ISIS out of scorned Iraqis. Bush was a puppet for war dogs Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Nixon was pretty much insane, while Jimmy Carter failed as a president. He did, however, excel as a human and humanitarian.

So I’m not saying this country was the bee’s knees for over 200 years, but I’ve never felt like we were the pariah of the world like we are right now. This administration is actively tearing down all of the bridges we’ve built since the 1800s with the rest of the world. And in doing so under the guise of making America great again they’re putting thousands of people out of work. They’re shutting off federal funds to things like pediatric cancer research, museum grants, and library funding. FAA, EPA, FDIC,….all created to protect Americans from financial fraud, poisoned ground water, and fucking plane crashes. And just last week they were pedaling Tesla cars on the White House lawn.

I’m hoping we pull out of this nose dive. I have three kids that are all in their early 20s with a whole lifetime left to live. I don’t want some dystopian future for them. That’s why I guess I keep going back to staying in touch with what is happening, for them. If there’s a vote to be cast or a protest to be attended, then I will do it for my kids. At the very least, my kids and kids like them. Sticking my head in the sand won’t solve anything, and neither will be getting a bleeding ulcer or hypertension from the constant flow of garbage on my phone. So I’ll stay engaged…to a point.

I’m off after today until Monday. I will be staying away from the shit storm on those days. I’ll be working on music, watching movies, and doing some painting. I’m going vinyl hunting tomorrow with a work mate. Those are the only things I’ll be dipping my toes in.

My Canadian and European friends and readers, we’re not all on board with what’s happening. At least 75 million of us aren’t. I have a feeling even some of the 77 million that voted for the delusional asshole are having buyer’s remorse, as these town halls across the country are proving. And of the other 100 million registered voters that didn’t vote, I hope to God they’re seeing what they could have helped us avoid and will get off their indifferent asses and do something about it at primary time. I hope they’re not that detached from reality that they still don’t think none of this whole democracy thing matters. Because it does.