The "Shithole" Country

 Remember when Donald Trump talked about "$hithole" countries?

Well, America, after Trump, definitely fits the description.  From a crumbling and dangerous infrastructure (unaddressed largely by republicans along with Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema) to a desperately undereducated populace, to the many right wing cults popping up all over the place, we are rapidly deteriorating to warlords and religious sects.  Let's call us the United States of Afghanistan.  It's who we are right now.  

My belief is Trump brought us to this sorry state, via ineptitude and a desire for an autocracy wherein he could name himself king.  He's still desperately trying to overturn an election that labeled him a loser.  Talk about excessive, malignant narcissism.  He can't stand it.  My guess is he punches his mirror every morning and actually sees a large red L on his forehead.

We've got little morons like Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis working their racist butts off to deter  voting by minorities and impose archaic restrictions on women's rights.  Oh yeah - and killing off people with anti-vax rhetoric.   We've got pop up groups like the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers determined to lead us into a civil war.  We've got Baptist pastors claiming Trump is the second coming.  We've got senators whom are not representing their constituents but rather imposing a radical right agenda that will seriously harm the very people whom elected them.  We've got antivaxxers and a pandemic that drags on and on largely due to misinformation.  And to top it all off, we've got Fox (pseudo) News spreading hatred, lies and dissent.  We have insane gun laws that make going to the movies a potentially deadly decision.  We've got high rents, low inventory on EVERYTHING, and people suffering.  

In short, we've got a real crisis in America.  

It didn't use to be this way.  Well, maybe the infrastructure was crumbling, but we didn't have lunatics believing an evil man like Trump was Jesus.  We didn't have mob scenes brought to the capitol doors.  We didn't have religious leaders possessed by whatever demons make a person believe in a person like Trump.  

America, alas, is a $hithole Country - brought to you by the Trump Family and a whole bunch of ignorant Americans too stupid to know when they're shooting themselves in the foot.

The Land of Eight

 Once upon a time, in The Land of Eight, there stood a castle, tall and great, and 8 flags flew in the air, cuz the Kind of Eight had put them there.

In my somewhat rich fantasy life, I am Princess Number Nine in the Land of Eight.  My Eight King Daddy already has eight lovely daughters.  I was obviously an ooops baby, doomed to a life of proving my worth.

Until I made peace with being Number Nine in the Land of Eight.

Making peace with being somewhat of an afterthought, shadowland person is not easy.  Rejection by parents, sane or cray cray, is always a dismal landscape to navigate.  Then of course, comes the scapegoatism that is inherent with being an "embarrassment" person.  Everything that goes wrong from the day you're born to the day you die will somehow be linked to your very existence.  It's six degrees of separation gone horribly wrong.

So I made peace.  I rejected the rejectors, and sought my own place outside the Land of Eight.  Maybe it's not the 9th plane of utopia, but it is a comfortable place, filled with people unaware of my lowly  status.  I sell them short.  Even if they were aware of my lowly status, they wouldn't care.

I have a lovely life, undeterred by those who never wanted anything more than to relegate me to an obscure closet where dreams go to die.

So In the Land of Eight ---- BE A NINE.
  

Bitch Resurrection

 It's time to resurrect this blog.  I've been kicked off Facebook for the last time for merely expressing a leftist opinion of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, i.e., I love her and Mark Zuckerberg does not.

It's unfunny how Facebook can target a person and censor them because of their radical (?) political opinions, which is what they did to me.  I refuse to participate in a platform that is so blatant in the true nature of their foundation, which is right wing, authoritarian and very dangerous.  So Mark Zuckerberg and I have parted ways, which kind of reflects how I've continuously gotten rid of grifters, thieves, liars and conspicuous consumers my entire waking life.   I do not feel bad.  I will have to adjust to new ways to connect with the people I love.  I don't see that as a large obstacle.

So, I'm not going to go off on a tangent about the Zuckerberg's of the world.  They are a necessary evil, although I'm not sure what the necessity is.  I think we will all find out at some point.

Let's talk about this pandemic, that drags on and on, largely due to the 66 million people who refuse vaccination.  Should the rest of us sit idly by, while this group of largely misinformed, uneducated, or conspiracy theorists dictates that the pandemic is here to stay?  I suppose we have no choice.  You can't fix stupid.  You can't convince a conspiracy theorist of anything other than their cult conspiracy.  The cost of education in America is out of reach for most of the lower classes, so you can't teach a Sneetch.  We're just stuck.  Our salvation is the science behind the vaccines, and that those of us who choose to can protect ourselves from the virus.  Those of us who aren't protecting themselves will all, eventually, succumb to the virus and it's deadly variations.  Sad but true.  But I'm waving a very flippant goodbye to the unvaccinated.  I no longer care and you're a waste of my breath and time.

Anyhow, I could never get away with writing any of the above on Facebook, so I have resurrected this blog and I am very grateful for this way to express my distaste and disgust for Mark Zuckerberg and everything he stands for.  Pay your fair share of taxes you monkey.

 Dreamland.  Home Sweet Dreamland.

Perhaps our dreams are more than dreams.  Perhaps our reality is where the nightmares lie.

Perhaps we need to come together and say, let's figure this out.  Let's build a dream.  

As The Dust Settles

 2020 is quickly coming to its long awaited end.

It's been a year of maddeningly horrific occurrences, from the outrageous lies spewed by almost every member of the Republican Party regarding the 2020 election to the inability of many American citizens to smarten up and put on a mask.

We are all happy to see this absolute bitch of a year close in on itself.

We will have a new president on January 20, 2021.  Well let me rephrase that.  We will have A president on January 20, 2021.  The power drunk orange blob inhabiting the oval office now is NO president.  In fact, I'm quite unsure whether or not he's even human.  From my perspective, he is an animated piece of untreated sewerage excrement and I look forward to celebrating on the day that he dies, much as I did on the day he lost the election.

There are two promising vaccines on the horizon, and let me be blunt here, if Donald Trump had actually won reelection, vaccinating this nation would have turned into the worse clusterf*ck Americans have ever faced.  Thankfully, we don't have to worry about it because Joe Biden has a brain and is able to work within the structure of government.  We may start to get some relief from COVID19 by the middle of next year.

What astounds me as this year comes to a close is that at least half the people I share this country with are disgusting Trump supporters, fascists, racists and downright idiots.  This is not a political viewpoint.  This is the observation I've come away with after watching these motherf*ckers try to destroy democracy for the past four years.  Of course, it's easy to destroy what you never understood in the first place.  That is why these people are morons.  They share a complete failure to understand what democracy means.  I now understand how Germans gassed and burned six million people.  It was their own failure to develop a meaningful moral code and live by it.  These Trump supporting Americans think they have a moral code because they oppose abortion.  But not one of them raised an objection when we destroyed families at the border and now have 545 parents we cannot locate to reunite them with their children.  Morality is not a single issue voter preference.  It's much deeper than that.  But Trump supporters are not deep.  

I believe Donald Trump will be dead soon.  Much like Hitler swallowing his poison capsule in the bunker as Berlin burned, Donald Trump will be unable to convince anyone (important) that he is anything more than a cheap grifter in a made-in-China suit who almost stole the goddamn country right out from under their ignorant noses.  Donald Trump can't stand to be the butt ass of his own joke, but that, my friends, is the unenviable position he finds himself.

So stick your head between your legs and kiss your a$$ goodbye, Donald.  May hell hold a special delight for you.

And note to others ---- If you have the kind of legacy Donald Trump brought to the table and still have the audacity to think you can be president.....think again.  America may be ripe for change, but we will never be so stupid as to let this debacle ever happen again.

After all is said and done, there was never another Hitler in Germany, was there?

Let's All Take a Knee ---- and Tip Our Hats to Colin Kaepernick

When Colin Kaepernick first took a knee at a San Francisco Giants game, I was astounded by the absolute beauty and bravery of that  simple act.  When other players started taking a knee at games, I was convinced that this non-violent act of social awareness was going to actually lead to positive changes.  Then the owners started grumbling and threatening (which didn't stop the true believers in trying to affect the change that needed to happen).  Billionaires don't like politics mixing with their profits, unless, of course, it's to their advantage.  Then came the fan base......die hard Packer fans, to name one group.  These folks would sit through a game at twenty-two degrees below zero, but couldn't tolerate the discomfort of the fact Colin Kaepernick was calling attention to the institutional racism that exists throughout this nation.  Colin Kaepernick was let go by the San Francisco 49'ers.  

But here we are, Black Lives Matter, and all that social injustice awareness that comes with it, and we can all thank Colin Kaepernick.  His kneel seen 'round the world was the same year that some big brute linebacker decided to stomp Aaron Rodgers collar bone and take him out for the season.  Smilingly, I said, shame about Aaron, but now the Packers can hire Colin Kaepernick and possibly salvage the season.  (They didn't).  Gees, what a hopeless moron I am for not recognizing the cold-hearted nature of the NFL.  Colin Kaepernick, and all of his talented potential, was tossed aside by the power elite.  The Packers had a bad year.  So did Colin, I imagine.

Fast forward to today.  We all owe Colin Kaepernick a huge apology and the absolute recognition that automatically is bestowed upon men of honor......because he is an honorable man.  In the remarkable order of the universe, Colin Kaepernick might have been an exemplary, incredible quarterback.  But what he did will shine brightly and forever in the universe and is much much more worthy than a Super Bowl ring.

Kudos to you, Colin Kaepernick.  Your life matters more than you'll ever know.

Lie To Me

 The RNC, with its message of divisiveness, fear and anger, is sad to watch.

From Don, Jr.'s and girlfriend Kimberly's obviously coked up, vehement performances, to the racist, gun pointing couple from Ohio, laughably commenting on Biden's nepotism while slated to speak in between Trump family members, this convention portrays the circus atmosphere that has always been a Trump Trademark.  All it needed was some clown shoes.  The noses were already there.

And let us not forget Melania's memorable speech, memorable only in that she got paid a BIGLY amount of money to stand there and tout her husband's (imaginary) accomplishments.  I suppose if you've prostituted yourself your entire life, it's hard to quit, if the price is right.

Let's talk about the audience in the damaged and devastated rose garden; social distancing not observed, masks not worn.  Nice message to America as the death toll from COVID19 approaches 200,000.  Perhaps the most blatant observation one could take away from the RNC is that these people don't give one damn f*ck about you.  

But America will speak, and the message will be loud and clear.  We don't give one damn f*ck about Donald J. Trump and his money-grubbing spawn, either.  Oh wait, check that.  We do care about them all serving the prison terms they so richly deserve.  

Right now, it would be very foolhardy for Donald J. Trump and his minions to break any more laws.  The Southern District of New York, and Congress is scrutinizing them closely.  But because the Donald J. Trump Crime Family is incapable of NOT breaking any laws......stay tuned.  The Circus of the Crooks continues.