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For when you need validations for your anger

You are angry and anxious because you never agreed

to live in a burning house, while the people who should

care pretend the fire doesn't exit.

Distress is a valid emotional response to injustice.

-Nikita Gill

We're crazy when threatened with reality we don’t like. We magnify small changes as existential threat, while ignoring obvious warnings of real impeding disasters.

So how do we respond to a burning house? Not with passive preaching while holding hands and singing Kumbaya (whatever the hell that means). No, a cultural wide shift has to occur to get our attention. Something big to move us, something shocking.

It's happened before, at the end of the ice age with the Biblical flood. The end of the Bronze age—caused by a combination of geo-political and environmental factors. World War One saw the end of monarchies and so on down the line.

There have been massive changes in the environment in the last 50,000 years that humanity has witnessed and still we survive. Empires have come and gone. Society remakes itself with each upheaval. It looks like we are headed to another change of scenery if history and current events are any indicators.

But fear not gentle reader, not all is doom and gloom. We will prevail. We survived the invention of atomic weapons, now used as geo political bargaining chips instead of lobbing them at each other. We survived the protests of the civil/women/gay rights movement to a more inclusive society. We survived disco, shag carpeting and the internet-- ok we’re still working on that.

My point is, we are a tough lot, communities band together when shit gets real. Compassion is practiced when direct experience requires it.

Now is not the time to think, why bother, there’s nothing I can do and give up in frustration. Go to town hall meetings and tell truth to power, make your voice heard, stand up to the injustice done to the least of us. It seems straightforward but being proactive is empowering because the future is decided by those who show up.

Rise Up People

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How to Piss off a Dictator and Restore Order

 

    You know I used to view politics as something abstract. Something that happens over there and doesn’t have too much affect on our daily lives. Those days are over. I generally don’t like to discuss politics because there is no chance of convincing someone and it only leads to higher blood pressure. Those days are over too. It’s time for communities to step up and say “enough” not just to government but to the prevailing attitude that this doesn’t affect any of us, it’s those people who will feel the wrath of American supremacy. Democracy is being replaced by old and familiar clanism.     

    Us vs them, except the enemy is us as Pogo said. Fear causes people to close ranks and drive away anything or person seen as a threat. So extremism replaces common sense. We must employ new tactics to reverse the trend.

    The current POTUS acts like a dictator and that has a lot of people very angry. The one thing dicks hate is being ridiculed or ignored. Here are a couple ideas to piss off 45.

    Years ago Dan Savage got revenge on Rick Santorum for saying very mean and stupid things about gays. He and his fans came up with a definition for Santorum that is is really filthy. The result raised the joke on Google’s algorithm ( look it up, you’ll see).

    Well, you can bet ole 45 likes to see his name mentioned a lot on search engines. Instead refer to him as 45, his number in the first term, not 47 like he thinks he is now. Also he is nicknamed TACO by Wall Street investors. It stands for T**** Always Chickens Out. He lashed out recently when called on it. Mention this as much a possible. TACO man, TACO 45.

    It’s not just him, his lackeys are also targets for ridicule. I heard one commentator refer to Hegseth as Hogsbreath. His Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller is the modern version of Himmler, who was charge of the final solution during WW2. Surely someone can find a scathing moniker for this evil piece of shit and his purge of decent folks for no reason.

    Then there is Sen. Joni Ernst from Iowa who when asked at a town hall meeting about people being cut from medicare and SNAP dying responded with “Well we’re all going to die.” and smiled.

    This is the attitude of someone who believes she will not lose her seat because there will not be another election as promised by the TACO man.

    These are the kind of people currently in power. The next time Sen. Ernst goes to a restaurant or business she should be denied service to see how it feels to be treated as a nothing. It should happen to any member of Congress who votes against the population. There are many guerilla style tactics that ordinary people can take to undermine the chaos.

    You do not play nice with bullies and tyrants. It’s time to stop trying to sweet talk these fascists. If they want to play dirty so can we.

    Target losing business after supporting 45 and ditching DEI. This is what happens when you follow ideology and not the consumer market. Avelo Air – avoid at all cost, they are flying the illegally deported to God knows where for money.

    The names and faces of ICE officers should be discovered and revealed. Most likely they are members of the “proud boys” who were at the Jan. 6 insurrection.

    TACO Don is trying to shut down NPR and take over Library of Congress. I’m guessing it’s because they have solid information on the election interference. Their motives are transparent because they think they won’t get caught. Look out where else his gang is trying to take control.

    I’m no expert but Optor- a student led movement is and it’s been effective at stopping dictators. Believe it or not non-violence is the best way to go according to them. Most important is organize, organize, organize. This is a cause that affects everyone so as many people as possible should be involved.

    When any one of our rights is threatened all of us are damaged. It's time to stop the ramapage.