Well, I finally just saw part of 45's little declaration of victory, recorded in the wee hours of this morning, even though there are a tremendous number of votes still to be counted due to the huge turnout this year and the fact that we are in an epic, global pandemic, so many, many, many people voted by mail.
Out of all the sickening things 45 has said in the last four years, this particular little Lie and Incitement Fest was was one of the most sickening, and I had to turn off the video as he was introducing Pence because, having to listen to that complicit Yes Marionette, after just listening to a POTUS trying to up-end the integrity of a US election and incite violence if he loses, would definitely have put me into the hospital. And we don't want that, especially since I have no health insurance at the moment (thanks, country o mine).
45 actually said, we want all vote counting stopped, we don't want them finding ballots at four in the morning. Well: 45, even though you've been enabled your entire life and thus have a very deluded sense of entitlement, that delusion is about to smack up against the reality of the CONSTITUTION. You see, the states decide when their voting deadline is, not your little, teeny tiny self. And, if voters get their ballots in to their state by that state's deadline, THEIR BALLOT IS GOING TO COUNT.
Are you with me so far, because I can slow down if you need me to, 45. Are you following me so far?
All the votes are going to be counted, no matter how many times you say that you've won, and that there is a great fraud being perpetrated. You, non-sir, are the great fraud. You are the great affront on our democracy.
Like I said, your delusions, and those of your Fox-News-brainwashed cult followers, are about to bump up against a not-so-little thing I like to call REALITY. Finally. It took four years, and you have gone around pouring all your followers round after round of the wildest, most psychedelic Kool-Aid I've ever heard of, and they've gone around consuming it and being drunk as skunks on it, but, if you lose this election--and it is looking like you HAVE, and once all the votes are counted we'll see--you and every member of your despicable cult are going to wake up with the most real of hangovers you've ever had.
And you'd better take some B-12 and tomato juice or something when you do wake up and find yourself in that reality hangover, because you need to be focused and sober when they come to take you to jail to await trial for your many and varied crimes, since you are a flight risk.
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Sunday, November 1, 2020
Who will the "very fine people" come for next?
I'm scared.
45's response to the incident reported in the article linked below was to tweet out, in all caps no less, his approval (I don't read his tweets but news reports say that he tweeted "I LOVE TEXAS!" in response).
45 is a schoolyard bully, and his supporters are the kids on the playground who cheer the bully on. I have always found this dynamic terrifying, and now it is writ large. Again: 45 is nothing more than a small, mean little bully, and his followers are those who feel powerful when engaging in a mob mentality. This has been what has fueled 45 from the beginning, when he promised to ban all Muslims from entering our country (which was an unconstitutional proposal, and the RNC could have prevented all of this by disqualifying 45 from their primary field in 2016, due to his promise to violate the constitution if elected, but they chose to look the other way, perhaps not taking his candidacy seriously... they should have taken it seriously, as now he is bringing down their party). 45 and his supporters are just like all bullies, small little people fueled by fear, who, again, feel empowered by a mob mentality. It's all about "us and them". They are xenophobic and want to ban everyone who isn't just like them, and build "big, beautiful walls" to keep them out, and take their babies and throw them into cages.
Who will be next? Who will the "very fine people" come for next?
You? Me?
45's response to the incident reported in the article linked below was to tweet out, in all caps no less, his approval (I don't read his tweets but news reports say that he tweeted "I LOVE TEXAS!" in response).
45 is a schoolyard bully, and his supporters are the kids on the playground who cheer the bully on. I have always found this dynamic terrifying, and now it is writ large. Again: 45 is nothing more than a small, mean little bully, and his followers are those who feel powerful when engaging in a mob mentality. This has been what has fueled 45 from the beginning, when he promised to ban all Muslims from entering our country (which was an unconstitutional proposal, and the RNC could have prevented all of this by disqualifying 45 from their primary field in 2016, due to his promise to violate the constitution if elected, but they chose to look the other way, perhaps not taking his candidacy seriously... they should have taken it seriously, as now he is bringing down their party). 45 and his supporters are just like all bullies, small little people fueled by fear, who, again, feel empowered by a mob mentality. It's all about "us and them". They are xenophobic and want to ban everyone who isn't just like them, and build "big, beautiful walls" to keep them out, and take their babies and throw them into cages.
Who will be next? Who will the "very fine people" come for next?
You? Me?
Monday, October 5, 2020
Do not be afraid to speak up against 45.
I have been shouting about what a despicable sociopath 45 is since some time in 2015. However, after his little photo-op last night, in which he absolutely needlessly endangered the lives of the secret service agents and driver in the hermetically sealed car he decided to ride around the grounds of the Bethesda Naval Hospital (a.k.a., Walter Reed) waving at his supporters from, and now this latest thing I'm about to rant--or, actually, I'm already mid-rant--about, it bears saying yet again: 45 is a despicable sociopath!
He just tweeted out that we should not be afraid of COVID-19.
We can't all get monoclonal antibodies, 45. In fact, none of us can.
We can't all get airlifted to the finest hospital on earth, at the drop of a hat, 45. We don't even all have health insurance, 45, and, if we do, most Americans have huge deductibles and co-pays. COVID-19 has, to date, killed over 210 thousand Americans, 45. Over 210 thousand lives. Over 210 thousand families devastated. And many more Americans, who have survived COVID-19, are experiencing ongoing symptoms and physical challenges.
So it is offensive, disrespectful and oblivious for you to say, don't be afraid of a little COVID-19. Being afraid of COVID-19 is the only healthy response to it. Being afraid enough of it, and being in reality enough about it, to don a mask when we are indoors, and in any crowded situation, and to physically distance ourselves from each other, are the only tools we have to protect ourselves. Nature gave us fear as a functional emotion in certain situations, just as nature gave us feeling pain if we touch a hot stove: so that we will yank our hand up immediately from it, before we get burned. If you were God, 45--and, by the way, this apparently may come as news to you, but you are not--you would tell people: don't be afraid to touch a hot stove, and to leave your hand there.
I'm glad you're not God, 45, and it is only too bad that your supporters believe every single word you say, including that they should not fear this lethal, highly contagious virus.
45, we're going to vote you out. Some of us have already cast our votes. Don't be afraid to leave peacefully.
He just tweeted out that we should not be afraid of COVID-19.
We can't all get monoclonal antibodies, 45. In fact, none of us can.
We can't all get airlifted to the finest hospital on earth, at the drop of a hat, 45. We don't even all have health insurance, 45, and, if we do, most Americans have huge deductibles and co-pays. COVID-19 has, to date, killed over 210 thousand Americans, 45. Over 210 thousand lives. Over 210 thousand families devastated. And many more Americans, who have survived COVID-19, are experiencing ongoing symptoms and physical challenges.
So it is offensive, disrespectful and oblivious for you to say, don't be afraid of a little COVID-19. Being afraid of COVID-19 is the only healthy response to it. Being afraid enough of it, and being in reality enough about it, to don a mask when we are indoors, and in any crowded situation, and to physically distance ourselves from each other, are the only tools we have to protect ourselves. Nature gave us fear as a functional emotion in certain situations, just as nature gave us feeling pain if we touch a hot stove: so that we will yank our hand up immediately from it, before we get burned. If you were God, 45--and, by the way, this apparently may come as news to you, but you are not--you would tell people: don't be afraid to touch a hot stove, and to leave your hand there.
I'm glad you're not God, 45, and it is only too bad that your supporters believe every single word you say, including that they should not fear this lethal, highly contagious virus.
45, we're going to vote you out. Some of us have already cast our votes. Don't be afraid to leave peacefully.
Saturday, September 19, 2020
Cosmic Purr
BREAKING: I can hear my darling cat, Kioko, purring in the cardboard box lid with a towel in it, all the way across the room from me. It's amazing that, no matter how stressed I am, the sound of a cat purring always makes me feel better.
My two favorite sounds in this world are: ocean waves breaking on the shore, and cats purring. You just can't beat the latter. There's something about it ("What is the frequency, Kenneth?") that taps into a frequency perfectly in tune with the cosmos and, when a human hears it, helps tune us in to that, too.
Thank you, Kioko. I needed to hear your purr right now.
My two favorite sounds in this world are: ocean waves breaking on the shore, and cats purring. You just can't beat the latter. There's something about it ("What is the frequency, Kenneth?") that taps into a frequency perfectly in tune with the cosmos and, when a human hears it, helps tune us in to that, too.
Thank you, Kioko. I needed to hear your purr right now.
Saturday, August 15, 2020
There is no one but us to form a human barrier between our cherished country and 45's fascist takeover of it.
All: we need to circle the wagons around our Postal Service, period.
I've already called my elected representatives (congressional switchboard phone number: 202-224-3121) and strongly urged them to stand up for our Postal Service, and against 45's fascist ruination attempt of it. And, I swear here in writing, if somehow I am near the stand-alone mailbox nearest to my home, and anyone tries to take it away, as was done in other states but, thanks to a hue and cry, that has been stopped--for the moment--I will physically place my body between all comers and that box and they will have to take me with the box to wherever they are taking the box, while I am videoing them with my phone and simultaneously figuring out how to livestream.
We are living in the midst of a fascist takeover attempt. We've already had babies in cages in for-profit concentration camps, kidnapped from their parents illegally, tortured and traumatized, in actual violation of international, let alone national, law. We've already had the complicit Republican Senate turn a blind eye to abuse of power and treason by 45 and rule that he is above the law/constitution. We've already had so much more that I could list but you know. You know. And now we have the same POTUS responsible for all that actively trying to ruin the United States Postal Service, which--if he is successful--will hurt all American citizens and our country, and he is openly stating that he is doing it to SUBVERT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION--to suppress the vote, to stop American citizens from voting: he has stated this. This is treason. This is abuse of power. Call your Senators and Congressional Representatives now and demand that they stand up to it/to 45. Tragically and sickeningly, the majority party will not. They are complicit traitors. Therefore it is up to us (but CALL THEM anyway and demand that they do something, even though most of the Republicans will not):
If they won't impeach, convict and remove this treasonous traitor, we have to remove him ourselves: request a mail-in ballot if you have not done so yet, so that you can safely vote in the upcoming November election. When you get the mail-in ballot, VOTE, vote, VOTE like you've never voted before! I'm talking VOTE. Then either mail your ballot in immediately, same day you get it and vote it, or take your ballot to a secure drop-off location.
Don't stop there. Continue to call, write and show up at your elected representatives' offices and town halls--demand that they protect our Postal Service and fully FUND it. DEMAND that the sorting machines that 45 has had removed in his bid for fascism be put back immediately. Volunteer as a poll worker if you are healthy and have no pre-existing conditions, as many poll volunteers are seniors and may not feel safe volunteering this year. Offer to help your friends, neighbors and co-workers--everyone you know--to register to vote, request mail-in ballots if they want to vote by mail (and we all really should be this year, given the pandemic), or to give them a ride to the polls by if they want/need that.
We may need to form human circles around mailboxes in the near future. This is no joke. This is a President of the United States attempting to move us from the transition to fascism which, I have news for you all, we are deep in the midst of, thanks to him, to being a fully fascist country.
There is no one but us to stop this man, and his complicit band of traitors. There is no one but we, the people, to do it. We have to rise to this occasion. We are enough, if we choose to be. We can, and must, do this. The constitution and our laws are powerful but only if we continuously fight for them. We are their fuel. The most powerful and well-designed car on earth cannot run without fuel.
When 45 comes for mailboxes, you know he is closing in on crossing the finish line to fascism. We have to form a human barrier of we, the people, between him and said line. NOW.
Read this link (to an excellent Facebook post by a US Postal Service worker): We must save our Postal Service
I've already called my elected representatives (congressional switchboard phone number: 202-224-3121) and strongly urged them to stand up for our Postal Service, and against 45's fascist ruination attempt of it. And, I swear here in writing, if somehow I am near the stand-alone mailbox nearest to my home, and anyone tries to take it away, as was done in other states but, thanks to a hue and cry, that has been stopped--for the moment--I will physically place my body between all comers and that box and they will have to take me with the box to wherever they are taking the box, while I am videoing them with my phone and simultaneously figuring out how to livestream.
We are living in the midst of a fascist takeover attempt. We've already had babies in cages in for-profit concentration camps, kidnapped from their parents illegally, tortured and traumatized, in actual violation of international, let alone national, law. We've already had the complicit Republican Senate turn a blind eye to abuse of power and treason by 45 and rule that he is above the law/constitution. We've already had so much more that I could list but you know. You know. And now we have the same POTUS responsible for all that actively trying to ruin the United States Postal Service, which--if he is successful--will hurt all American citizens and our country, and he is openly stating that he is doing it to SUBVERT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION--to suppress the vote, to stop American citizens from voting: he has stated this. This is treason. This is abuse of power. Call your Senators and Congressional Representatives now and demand that they stand up to it/to 45. Tragically and sickeningly, the majority party will not. They are complicit traitors. Therefore it is up to us (but CALL THEM anyway and demand that they do something, even though most of the Republicans will not):
If they won't impeach, convict and remove this treasonous traitor, we have to remove him ourselves: request a mail-in ballot if you have not done so yet, so that you can safely vote in the upcoming November election. When you get the mail-in ballot, VOTE, vote, VOTE like you've never voted before! I'm talking VOTE. Then either mail your ballot in immediately, same day you get it and vote it, or take your ballot to a secure drop-off location.
Don't stop there. Continue to call, write and show up at your elected representatives' offices and town halls--demand that they protect our Postal Service and fully FUND it. DEMAND that the sorting machines that 45 has had removed in his bid for fascism be put back immediately. Volunteer as a poll worker if you are healthy and have no pre-existing conditions, as many poll volunteers are seniors and may not feel safe volunteering this year. Offer to help your friends, neighbors and co-workers--everyone you know--to register to vote, request mail-in ballots if they want to vote by mail (and we all really should be this year, given the pandemic), or to give them a ride to the polls by if they want/need that.
We may need to form human circles around mailboxes in the near future. This is no joke. This is a President of the United States attempting to move us from the transition to fascism which, I have news for you all, we are deep in the midst of, thanks to him, to being a fully fascist country.
There is no one but us to stop this man, and his complicit band of traitors. There is no one but we, the people, to do it. We have to rise to this occasion. We are enough, if we choose to be. We can, and must, do this. The constitution and our laws are powerful but only if we continuously fight for them. We are their fuel. The most powerful and well-designed car on earth cannot run without fuel.
When 45 comes for mailboxes, you know he is closing in on crossing the finish line to fascism. We have to form a human barrier of we, the people, between him and said line. NOW.
Read this link (to an excellent Facebook post by a US Postal Service worker): We must save our Postal Service
Thursday, August 13, 2020
TREASON!
"Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States."
Treason is giving aid and comfort to an enemy of the United States. But what do you call a President of the United States who actually, openly, IS that enemy? He's treasonous and even beyond treason because he not only gives aid and comfort to an enemy foreign power (Russia, if you're listening...), he's also the enemy himself: he's now openly attempting to ruin the United States Postal Service, disrupt the mail, and thereby violate/hurt every American citizen, the functioning of our country, and, oh yeah, also the sanctity and function of the upcoming election, in the middle of a lethal pandemic in which going to the polls in person is deadly.
At what point will the COMPLICIT Republican Senate finally stop turning a blind eye and, to use phrases harking back to Nazi Germany, being "good German citizens", and "just following orders"? At what bleeping point will the entire Senate finally stand up and shout "TREASON!", and impeach, convict and remove this utterly corrupt, power-abusing, constitution-flouting, enemy of the United States of America?
I know it is only a few months until the election. Still: it's the principle and the reality of the thing: he must be removed. And, since the complicit Republican Senators apparently have NO limit to their blind eye turning, from babies in cages, to being in bed with Putin, to Emoluments Clause violations to now openly trying to bring down the United States Postal Service and thus openly trying to disrupt the upcoming election and currently in process primary season (I just mailed in my local primary ballot this week--I wonder if it will get there), we, the people, must remove this treasonous traitor in November. PERIOD.
Wake up, before we slip surreptitiously into fascism.
Saturday, July 11, 2020
My fellow Americans: we have no President. If we are going to stop COVID-19, *we* have to stop COVID-19.
All: here's what we are faced with, and here's what we need to do:
First, we must realize that we have no President. If we are going to stop the COVID-19 virus, *we* are going to have to stop the COVID-19 virus.
Second, we must realize: we have three tools at our disposal. Those three tools are as follows: practicing extreme physical distancing ideally or at least good physical distancing, washing our hands with hot water and soap, and wearing masks. Let's look briefly at each of these three tools:
1. Practicing physical distancing: stay *at least* 6 feet away from other humans. Easier said than done, but do your level best. For me, as an essential worker who thus has been reporting to work full-time throughout this thing, the hardest part is dealing with the percentage of people who are one or both of two things: actively hostile to this whole thing, and/or utterly ignorant/oblivious about it. Those are the challenging people to keep your distance from, as no matter how gentle and gracious you may be in attempting to distance from them, they can and do get hostile, offended and/or they often come barreling right up to you even as you are FLEEING in the opposite direction. All I can say is: do your best. Do your best and look at it like being a defensive driver: you always want to keep space, a buffer zone, between you/your car and others on the road. Sometimes you have cars driven by road-ragey drivers, sometimes you have cars driven by whatever type(s) of wackadoodles, but you just have to do your best to keep yourself and others safe. Keep that buffer zone, whenever, wherever and however you can.
2. Washing your hands with HOT water and soap. COVID-19 has a thin, easily destroyed lipid (fat) layer on it. Soap makes short work of destroying it, thereby disabling the virus. You want to wash your hands any and every time you think you may possibly have come into contact with COVID-19 with hot water and soap (any kind of soap--I use a cheap, mild coconut shampoo actually as a hand soap at home--it's got the same ingredient as "soap").
3. Wearing a mask. Folks, let me tell you something: I literally can't stand doing this, but I've come to understand that, what with the whole aforementioned no President thing, it's the most powerful tool, along with physical distancing which is my personal fave (but then, I'm an INFJ, so I'm quite possibly biased :) ), that we have. I hasten to add at the outset that I am very aware and sensitive to the fact that there are people out there with physical challenges who really cannot wear a mask. There are burn victims, there are people who just had surgery (next week, I'm getting a mole that came back as abnormal after a biopsy removed and will need stitches on my cheek, and I'm worried that I might have trouble with wearing a mask for a week or two after that, as I am required to at work), and there are people like me with structural ENT issues wherein they can't breathe with a mask on, and there are people with asthma, etc. So most thoughtful, sensible, humane and sane mask ordinances, such as the one that our thoughtful, sensible, humane and sane mayor here in St. Petersburg, Rick Kriseman, implemented, have provisions that make allowances for people who truly would suffer some type(s) of physical distress from wearing a mask. But for the vast majority of us, including myself who *does* have a physical problem due to a severe ENT situation that I won't get into here, but suffice it to say that it is very hard, to impossible at times, for me to breathe with the mask on, need to suck it up, buttercup, and don the damn thing. Why? Because if all of those of us who can wear one, do wear one every time we are in shared indoor spaces (and crowded outdoor spaces), for even just a couple of months, we could knock this virus into submission. Stop it in its tracks.
So that's where we are: we have no President, or worse, actually, we have a treasonous sociopath for a President--so it's way worse than if we had no one at the helm, and when it comes to COVID-19, he's basically abdicated all responsibility as a leader, become the Denier in Chief, and also decided to take on the role of Super Spreader Events Planner. That leaves us to do the three things--use the three tools--discussed above to stop COVID-19. Are we up for it? Or will it take another 136,000 Americans to die, the equivalent of more than two entire Vietnam Wars, in terms of American casualties?
It's up to us.
First, we must realize that we have no President. If we are going to stop the COVID-19 virus, *we* are going to have to stop the COVID-19 virus.
Second, we must realize: we have three tools at our disposal. Those three tools are as follows: practicing extreme physical distancing ideally or at least good physical distancing, washing our hands with hot water and soap, and wearing masks. Let's look briefly at each of these three tools:
1. Practicing physical distancing: stay *at least* 6 feet away from other humans. Easier said than done, but do your level best. For me, as an essential worker who thus has been reporting to work full-time throughout this thing, the hardest part is dealing with the percentage of people who are one or both of two things: actively hostile to this whole thing, and/or utterly ignorant/oblivious about it. Those are the challenging people to keep your distance from, as no matter how gentle and gracious you may be in attempting to distance from them, they can and do get hostile, offended and/or they often come barreling right up to you even as you are FLEEING in the opposite direction. All I can say is: do your best. Do your best and look at it like being a defensive driver: you always want to keep space, a buffer zone, between you/your car and others on the road. Sometimes you have cars driven by road-ragey drivers, sometimes you have cars driven by whatever type(s) of wackadoodles, but you just have to do your best to keep yourself and others safe. Keep that buffer zone, whenever, wherever and however you can.
2. Washing your hands with HOT water and soap. COVID-19 has a thin, easily destroyed lipid (fat) layer on it. Soap makes short work of destroying it, thereby disabling the virus. You want to wash your hands any and every time you think you may possibly have come into contact with COVID-19 with hot water and soap (any kind of soap--I use a cheap, mild coconut shampoo actually as a hand soap at home--it's got the same ingredient as "soap").
3. Wearing a mask. Folks, let me tell you something: I literally can't stand doing this, but I've come to understand that, what with the whole aforementioned no President thing, it's the most powerful tool, along with physical distancing which is my personal fave (but then, I'm an INFJ, so I'm quite possibly biased :) ), that we have. I hasten to add at the outset that I am very aware and sensitive to the fact that there are people out there with physical challenges who really cannot wear a mask. There are burn victims, there are people who just had surgery (next week, I'm getting a mole that came back as abnormal after a biopsy removed and will need stitches on my cheek, and I'm worried that I might have trouble with wearing a mask for a week or two after that, as I am required to at work), and there are people like me with structural ENT issues wherein they can't breathe with a mask on, and there are people with asthma, etc. So most thoughtful, sensible, humane and sane mask ordinances, such as the one that our thoughtful, sensible, humane and sane mayor here in St. Petersburg, Rick Kriseman, implemented, have provisions that make allowances for people who truly would suffer some type(s) of physical distress from wearing a mask. But for the vast majority of us, including myself who *does* have a physical problem due to a severe ENT situation that I won't get into here, but suffice it to say that it is very hard, to impossible at times, for me to breathe with the mask on, need to suck it up, buttercup, and don the damn thing. Why? Because if all of those of us who can wear one, do wear one every time we are in shared indoor spaces (and crowded outdoor spaces), for even just a couple of months, we could knock this virus into submission. Stop it in its tracks.
So that's where we are: we have no President, or worse, actually, we have a treasonous sociopath for a President--so it's way worse than if we had no one at the helm, and when it comes to COVID-19, he's basically abdicated all responsibility as a leader, become the Denier in Chief, and also decided to take on the role of Super Spreader Events Planner. That leaves us to do the three things--use the three tools--discussed above to stop COVID-19. Are we up for it? Or will it take another 136,000 Americans to die, the equivalent of more than two entire Vietnam Wars, in terms of American casualties?
It's up to us.
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