One of the worst things about all of what is going on is how predictable it all was and was going to be. I stay horrified yet numbed to an extent because none of it is a surprise. It's going just I as felt it would. I'm not calm. I'm not cool and collected fully but I'm not in a panic mode in the way I would have been if this had all been a surprise or shock. I think there is much to panic about I just can't muster the energy but feel my eyes widen as I scroll through the news and watch the broadcasts. The Wall Street channel all nervous yet staying a faux somewhat upbeat 'hey what's going on there with him, kind of out there, but he'll probably calm down, right?' Jimmy Kimmel was making jokes I was watching tonight but it seemed he was just running on empty. Nasty fucking government and nasty fucking people destroying the decent things about this place. It was all so predictable. Why did so many not see that? I'm not getting caught up in the protests, the fuck oligarchs tour, and the special elections because it feels too much to feel that there is some hope you know? Living through the protests in the first term, the Floyd, then the lack of them when Roe was overturned, and then the Free Palestine that didn't move the Democrats (yes I know that wasn't exactly the point the fight for liberation predates any of this) but Trump sure as fuck took the opportunity. I will always hate Biden for this and the Weekend at Biden's team and I dread Harris popping up in 2028. Then the horror and disappointment to say the least of Fetterman. I will say that that was not predictable. I looked through old tweets of others I saved from the midterms wins of 2022 and realized how unique each election cycle is and how stupid it is to believe that one thing will carry through two years from now and to just not get hopes up. We got the worst with Fetterman and even worse now with Oz whom is going to gut/trim/slim/slice and dice Medicare and Medicaid. He's more dangerous now than when he ran and has power! The worst of all worlds. RFK dismantling healthcare and services which was so predictable as well, seems like they are getting ready to try and figure out how to get the undesirables sent off to the wellness camps. 

I stay somewhat sane in this rot somehow. I wish there was something more hopeful on the horizon. Maybe something unpredictable will happen.

Some of the left has to be tougher than to complain about being caught up in the culture war, just a gift giving in to the right's framing. Like some did with "woke" back in the day, yes I remember. I remember thinking 'man some of you are being marks right now complaining that's going to come back to bite.' And some still didn't shut up when Mussolini in Florida had his Stop WOKE act. The culture war is real life! Those are peoples' real lives and are just as equal as the class war. They are interconnected! The right wing is a pursing intense attacks on certain people's existences and livelihoods, and when people try to brush off saying 'that's just the culture wars not real stuff' is not only extremely asinine but dangerous. Fatal to be honest. This is real life. Get some nutrients into your brain things are happening quick and you gotta be smarter than this. The fascists and their various bedfellows and collaborators are enacting a war on us. That the working class are not doing their own version of Jan. 6th in reaction to the richest Nazi in the world dismantling public services, goods, and jobs shows that people are too starstruck by wealth and power. Force fed to you 24/7 by all parts of our culture. Because if you're not dreaming of wealth or live in constant desperation of it every second of your life, are you even a real American? A huge problem I don't know how it's overcome no matter how nourished the mind is. I don't think this 'well people got to feel pain for them to get shaken out of it' waiting around is a good calculation at all however. 

NO OTHER LAND Accepts the Oscar for Documentary Feature Film

Amazing to watch this live because I was convinced it wouldn't happen. I even started crying. I recall back a year ago Glazer's hands shaking reading his speech and thinking his career will be over and the backlash letter calling him out a few days later and very few people supporting him. Wow, how the tides changed. All the people also clapping in the audience. Also calling out that the US is the one blocking the path of peace and people clapping?! My oh my. Another layer of the Zionist wall down. 

Forgive us for lying down and taking what's happening and what's coming.

Don't you feel so much rage and shame that most of us are all just sitting here and letting what is happening happen? That we are no heroes in any book anyone would care to read or any story that people will recall years from now and even those writings of heroic people and deeds will collect dust or disappear unattended, because no one would care to read anyway. The Democrats want to make sure you have amnesia for how they presented themselves in Trump's first term without having any majority branch of government. They want you to feel helpless because you are being punished that you didn't let them win the popular vote in 20 years. They want you to forget millions who voted for them in 2020 stayed home that would have changed the trajectory. 

They want you to forget what Biden campaigned on. They want you to think Kamala ran a super woke campaign because they themselves believe because she is a black woman that's what woke actually is, but the Dem consultants and players will never admit that. They want you to forget they supported and armed a genocidal nation for over a year (spoiler: the US themselves are a genocidal nation). They want you to believe Kamala was strong and commanding with her "most lethal fighting force in the world" schtick we got instead of bold concrete plans and visions. Oh and they want you to forget that they refused to let an Uncommitted Palestinian person speak at that same DNC. Also disregard how well Uncommitted did in the primary for such a short amount of time launched. Forget that the Dems snuffed away warnings about the Comstock Act because that was a scary downer. 

There's a lot they want you to forget and the ruling class always are aware they can bet on that being the case. How many Republicans were punished by not giving an extra Covid check? Many large swatches of the population don't care how bad the GOP are, they just don't care to pay attention. And there's no easy work around this depressing fact. Another depressing reality is I see swarms of commentators on Facebook defending the Democrats honor, and it's not only the Democratic Party that have learned nothing in the last almost decade it is some of their most vocal voters as well.

Now while Trump is giving the green light to destroy forests to enrich himself and others, the Democrat consultants recently met and schemed what to do next. Was it about being bold? No. Some bitching about the far left, blaming them when Kamala campaigned on nothing of the sort. They bitched about not wanting to take small donations anymore, obvious big power brokers will take it from here. Go to tailgates and gun shows to campaign, because that worked so well with Kerry, and Kamala letting you know she has a Glock she'll shoot you with. We're being death marched by both party professionals now and told to get in line or else. 

NO. 

 “Children you are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources? Have you seen a strip mine? Have you seen a clear cut in the forest? Have you seen a polluted river? Don't ever let them call you a valuable natural resource! They're going to strip mine your soul. They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!“

Utah Phillips

They are collapsing the government. Seriously you need to know this. Our country is being broken and smashed apart to sell the parts to the highest bidder. People will say this is hyperbole but they are wrong. They will say the Democrats have a plan but they are wrong. The Democrats want people to feel the pain so the voters who betrayed them come running back even though the Democrats will have a thousand excuses why they can't put it back together again. S.K was too conspiratorial for me at times and I don't agree with the same conclusion yet she has been scarily prophetic. I see some people saying this was the fault of Clinton's neoliberal steamrolling agenda and austerity in the 90s yet this is inadequate. This is not about order this is full blown chaos and for the American public to let themselves be prepared to be rolled right over. 

I have my own conspiracy that the elite saw how fearful, disorganized and eager the general public was to comply with 'get back to work peasants' orders during Covid. The "owners" witnessed the "peasants" rush to get back to restaurants, football games, dancing in the streets, Disney World and concerts where people can be suffocated to death while onlookers sway as the ambulance pushes through. Did you think some of us wouldn't notice the desensitization taking place? The elites high fived each other in relief during the early phases of Covid (they still do) 'Wow that was close! They were so close to getting it! No pushback? Fuck yeah!' Now you did have the Floyd protests that took people by surprise but once that influenced Harris getting nominated for VP the people who thought the Dems maybe would take police brutality & the brutality of this system seriously shuffled confidentially back into place. 

The elites have realized they can push things to annihilation it's time to get it over with already because climate catastrophe will change it all and they want to go out on a high note. Some of those on a lower tier complying, which is how it goes for plans to go forward, are nervous yet eager to go along with all of this because they are not certain the true elite will let them into the bunkers or let them bargain to be servants inside the caged sealants if they don't. 

"It was handed to you and you had no other choice but to take it for your own survival."

I don't send food back at restaurants. Even if it's horrible. I was once served a veal piccata that I was pretty sure was rancid. And it was so oversalted that it made the inside of my mouth sting. But I still ate half of it thinking that maybe it would get better or maybe I just didn't know how veal piccata should taste. Then, I finally just gave up and sat there still hungry until the server came over.

"Everything OK?"

"Yeah, it's great. Thank you."

I should have sent it back. I should have said, "No. This is, in fact, the worst thing I've ever tasted. I'm sure it's not your fault, but this is awful."

That's what I should have said.

But, instead, I sat on my hands, paid, and tipped the server generously. I'm just not a "Take a stand" guy.

I think it's like that with liberals. I think, way down deep, many of us have been considered freaks our whole lives because of the way we are or the way we think. We have suffered the consequences of not falling in line so many times that it cows us. And we want people to like us, so many of us tend not to make a fuss.

If this is you, I'd like to talk to you.

Let me begin by saying that I know it may be uncomfortable for you. You see all that's going on and it feels overwhelming, but you don't know what to do. So, instead, you just wait. Or, worse yet, you eat that rancid veal piccata and smile. Something inside you makes you doubt yourself. But I'd like you to know that that's not YOUR doubt. Somebody else put that in you and it's not yours. It was handed to you and you had no other choice but to take it for your own survival. Or at least that's what they told you.

I have never called an official's phone in my life to tell them what I want. What I won't stand for. What I need them to do. But I've been using the 5 calls app just to do that. At first, I was disappointed that it wasn't like Resist Bot where you don't actually have to talk to anyone. Resist Bot does it for you. The 5 Calls app means you have to talk to somebody. They even provide a script if you need one.

My first call to Fetterman's office ended with me being on hold for a half our and when it finally clicked over, they seemed to have hung up on me. I was momentarily relieved, actually. But I stuck it out and called again.

My delivery was clunky.

"My name is Brian Broome and I...uh...I have some things I want to say. And I uhhh... I need John Fetterman to...uh...listen."

I was legitimately rattled.

I went on like that sounding unsure of myself. Like I owed him money and called to tell him that I wasn't going to be able to pay him. That's what I sounded like because that's how they've taught us to think.

But, since then, I have found my voice. I don't need no script. I just need them to know what the fuck they seem to be supporting.

What I need you to know, shy person, is that nobody else is going to do this for you. There is no calvary on the way. And what we're facing now is so dangerous that even I put my insecurities away and made my voice heard.

And I will keep doing so.

If this is you too, I beseech you to swallow hard and make those calls or do something that will make a difference. Be braver than you're used to being or maybe never were.

Your first call will be clunky.

But by the third, fourth, and fifth, you'll realize that all those people who've made you think your voice doesn't matter were dead wrong. Because, again, nobody else can save you right now, but you. If you have children, do it for them. Hell, if you even LIKE children do it for them because this will affect the world they grow up in.

We are in the midst of an authoritarian takeover and no amount of scrolling on your phone is going to help it. And, I get it. You don't know how to make a fuss. But I also remind you that dumb is loud. Dumb is so very fucking loud.

Don't eat what they're trying to serve you.

Send it back.

Writer Brian Boome, Facebook post Feb. 19, 2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1XKVoZfCZu/

I'm not listening to any self appointed King. We live here and we outnumber you. (Not that all those people will come out in numbers mind you). You didn't even get 50% of the voting population that voted in this last election. Even if it were 90% I will never bow to this. Ten years, unbelievable and we learn (or do we? who's the we?), that people don't learn shit and are susceptible to the worst people to exist. Glad the liberal/moderates who are sympathetic to dems and hate Trump independents/progressive/left are more broken in alliance and organization more than ever as we ascend finally smashing into the wrecking ball of both the Republican's dreams and goals for the last 80 years and the fascists. Some of us may hate this place but we get up in the morning too...so some of us survive as all kinds of people in history have in some form (and are currently here and from afar) to come out the other side not torn in half. What an endeavor. I hate it here but I'll find a way to get up in the afternoon.

So if the Army is formally turning against trans people it's about to get worse.  

This road being taken is going down to where it will be illegal to be trans and punishable by institutionalization and if you don't convert back the death penalty will be hanging over because they will be labeled as child sex predators. Trump said he will be doing that (during his campaign, Mussolini in Florida did). Fuck you and your fucking bullshit about children's sports no one gives a shit. There are many incidents of parents physically assaulting other parents over their children's sports team and a man beat to death another parent over an ice hockey game in front of everyone some years back so you people have the problem. Many coaches have been actual sex predators so maybe you should look into that unless that will make some panic with a LGBTQ+ coach you'll target. You fucking assholes. You fucking rubes. There's something wrong inside your hearts and spirits you should seek help in fixing it.  The fucking TERFS I think are the most decrypt and broken, they actually resent women with all their insecurity and need to dominate and want selected women they can target and break. They can't be too racist or classist because they need to be seen as great figurehead feminists so they have to pick women whom are outside the socially scripted norms. 

Oh and a big shout out fuck you to left/progressive media heads who said Project 2025 was a fear mongering nothing burger. Marks.

One of the greatest and most devastating health crisis's of our time is soon to be confirmed. Hell is not hot enough for the people who has let this proceed confirming with 'skepticism'. Trump and Biden did enough damage with Covid malpractice of 'oopsie this is hard to deal with, let's hope it goes away!' 

The actual Covid conspiracy 'get back to work peasants!' Glad the left didn't waste any time or energy and made sure to message and hammer this unpleasant but honest reality into people's heads...oh....oh well, great job...

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What is all this hand wringing from so called leftists on how woke has lost, and it's over? How can being socially conscious be suddenly over? OMG it's canceled because the right said so!? Get a grip and stop acting like infants who have no concept of history. You have to have more resilience and better critical thinking skills than surrendering yourself to the narrative of the day. Social consciousness can not be killed off and it will never die no matter temporary battles lost in electoral politics. On top of that by a Democratic candidate who ran the most "unwoke" and conservative campaign by a Democrat in years. Social awareness does not end. Apologies to the irony poisoned and doomers.

Don't let anyone tell you are being alarmist or overreacting. Or the manipulative 'It's always been this way, you were just only now paying attention. You need to sit and make space for your privilege.' What about the non white people chunk Trump bit off, do they get the same prescription that is just a form of neo-liberal white washing and not actual radical left critique? Of course there are the horrors that certain groups existed in that has familiar features right now and yet no one has lived with this particular collision of events before because we live in the 21st century. A very different world than much of the past actually. Why is this so hard to grapple with? Technology, communication, infrastructure, social relations, culture, politics, etc. have transformed greatly. People have to stop being so naive. Or other bad insights and making excuses like 'He will do and say crazy things that's what he does! He'll back off...' yeah back us off all a cliff. Anyway...This is another coup, Part 2 of the first one he didn't get to finish. Also the one the Republicans and their backers have been planning for over forty years. I didn't think the Democratic Party would have much resistance to Trump if he got in, that they would just do a bullshit 'wait and see until the pain sets in' approach because they are the so called adults in the room. However these smart, proper, and good Democrats don't seem to realize that when people feel pain people don't suddenly make rational decisions. The opposite is always at risk of occurring. They could say 'fuck it' and hightail it out of political participation or be so frazzled, scared, they actually double down. Even if Trump will cause much pain, it's' not a guarantee people are going to magically snap out of the spell and rush for the Democrats to remedy their misery in the midterms. When people are in pain they are not their best critical thinking selves they are upset, angry, vulnerable and lash out. Hello have you seen the last few years? How do you think Trump got back in? Man if only the opposing party was an actual opposition one. At least people who I thought were wrongly worrying themselves in believing that Trump would be able to transform himself politically into some triumphant popular figure have nothing to worry about now.

Our national anthem is dear God do not let the blows leave a permanence on America she's already have had to have multiple surgeries

So the 'we are all going to get what's coming' is happening swiftly. Smash and grab administration for Christina Nationalism to fill the hole. Glad the Democratic Party, it's supporters, people who are generally alarmed at this, progressives groups and the left are all acting accordingly for this ten tier fire and have had multiple strategies laid out since the past year Trump and the GOP have loudly exclaimed what the plans were. Happy no one called it fear mongering and dismissed it as hiding behind "both sides." I'm glad we are in such good hands otherwise it would be a once in a generation catastrophe and tragedy. 

Trump is finally getting to do what everyone was worried about in his first term. Almost a decade to prepare. It doesn't matter how well you can analyze, dissect, write, and speak out about it, what is an actual plan, what are you going to do? Throwing money at the ACLU and Planned Parenthood? Making memes and postcards? Getting angry at people who didn't want to back a candidate who did not seem committed to stopping the genocide in Gaza? Do you realize what the Democrats have done, their own version of George W Bush? The other side of the coin, those spending days of their lives scolding liberal and the Democratic Party online, dog piling leftists who don't want to label liberal/Dem voters fascists also? The smugness. Bitches you better be more humble you can't even mask and assimilated yourself in denial of the ongoing pandemic. But what am I doing? I'm scared, you got me, I'm stuck too.

The most frightening reaction backlash are those laughing about Trump supporters who are Latino and now dealing with massive fall out with deportation concerns in their communities. And the women waiting for the 'told you so' at other women. A haunting thing I saw after the unfortunate election results was a woman on TikTok who has done work in helping people get reproductive care who believed she decided to take stand and be brave. Now being a white woman of course this meant this could veer easily into self interest, 'I'm better than that! That's not me, that was never me! I don't know them! Those are the BAD people!' territory. However she did not fail to fail overcoming this fatal flaw. She openly threatened to out all right wing women who are in states where abortion is banned who dare to ask her for abortion help because they made their beds. She then made another video doubling down and laughing. The comments celebrated her as well as some corners of twitter who are stuck on FAFO. Like hello we are in the burning house along with these people too who maybe regretting their voting choices or non choices. The smoke is overcoming you also as you say you're going to sit back and laugh. So you have made your own beds also ironically. 

I saw those perfectly ugly troll photos of the rich white new right youth partying. The photographer is either undercover or in denial how he captures them. A photographic equivalent of the comic artist Eli Valley. 

So many monsters shedding out in the open like lizard skin. Creepy and weird.

 

Can we be reborn?

If the old world of what was once a new order is dying but there is a vacuum despite almost a decade of advance warning, is there any possibility from the wreckage? Has the extent of wreckage been overblown with a less than 50% popular vote? Is it ashes? Is everything to be forgotten, and if we forget then how do we not make the same mistakes again? Is America just a repeating loop of mistakes that we are trying to fight against that fate? What if all this is, is what is? American voters and non voters mostly failing because their politicians can offer so little yet no imagination is awakened in a tenable and workable way. If Bernie can get easily side stepped then it must look to its own weaknesses but no one wants to hear that. 'If only we could have been saved.' One man cannot have saved all our troubles though one man has exacerbated and made it all a hundred times worse ironically. It's thousand times easier to smash than repair. We are also trapped with an idle population who care very little about midterms and special elections accept Republicans. The politicians care bare minimum if you could even refer to it as care and it's people obedient that yeah they don't care either. Mirroring the apathy and bringing home that unhappiness and dysfunction to their own lives. This malaise the population are all drowning in and we can't offer the answer to 'well what can get better really?' cause who can when the people in power don't care enough just send out distress signals tweets. What is to be reborn in the recent years if we have never truly begun in the last few decades of my lifetime?

Somehow we survive

We are in a new age, for now. We are all going to get what's coming. Masses rescinding in advance. I feel a violent whiplash from Jan. 6th 4 yrs ago to now. This is all on Biden, Weekend at Biden's team and the Democrats but I'd like to take a moment to curse out the Dem primary voters of 2020 who saw Biden on display for over a year and said 'this is the man who can save us, we want to go back to sleep' and look what has been wrought. If he had never been VP Biden would have never even broke 5% in the primaries.  

What keeps me up is not what Trump and the GOP have planned, because that has been on my mind the past few years since 2021 (yes seriously), but the lack of mainstream resistance and on the ground in comparison to years prior. It's like an abandoned mine town. Now one could claim the mainstream resistance wasn't built on a solid foundation other than American institutions and exceptionalism is great "America is already great!" which isn't wrong but I'd prefer it to this. A new grotesqueness is the pop culture acceptance of him. To Carrie Underwood and Snoop Dogg and Jeff Bezos and Oscar DeLa Renta and Dior, etc rolling their tongues out and wagging. And sure we shouldn't be looking to figures like this for guidance and I don't but this acceptance that was unthinkable eight years ago is chilling. Like the 1930s, as they say history doesn't repeat but it often rhymes. I guess the Hays Code is coming back with Gibson, Stallone, and Voight leading the charge. Back to reactionary white hetro American masculine classics of The Golden Age of Hollywood. The GOP ghouls in Indiana are putting up a bill to make divorce harder and states are trying to get abortion as a death penalty punishment. These other groups and orgs who weren't mainstream resistance libs where are they? They have been hollowed out the past few years and many people have seem to have exited.

Trump is the luckiest motherfucker that ever lived and Biden is the biggest loser on earth. 

What an unspeakable tragedy we are being strapped in and lowered into, a new reverse Operation Warp Speed.

Though I do want to pause outside of myself and I am thankful even if it's temporary for the relief of the ceasefire for the Palestinians. 

Free them all.

I think of this poem "Somehow We Survive" by Dennis Brutus a survivor of South African apartheid often since I came across it around 7 years ago. We will need these words to move through what comes.

Somehow we survive
More terrible than any beast
that can be tamed or bribed
the iron monster of the world ingests me in its grinding maw:

agile as ballet-dancer
fragile as butterfly
I eggdance with nimble wariness
-stave off my fated splintering

Somehow we survive
and tenderness, frustrated, does not wither
investigating searchlights rake
our naked unprotected contours;
over our heads the monolithic decalogue

of fascist prohibition glowers
and teeters for the catastrophic fall;
boots club the peeling door.
But somehow we survive severance,
deprivation, loss.

Patrols uncoil along the asphalt dark
hissing their menace to our lives,
most cruel, all our land is scarred with terror,
rendered unlovely and lovable;
sundered are we and all our passionate surrender
but somehow tenderness survives.

"One day the Sadness Will End"

 

One of the saddest things was Lynch's life was upended by Covid and he talked about how with his condition he had to isolate because he knew it could kill him yet the crisis of all the living world, climate change, and trying to escape it ended up killing him. Though no one with any platform will say this because of the conspiracy rage that has taken over social media also propped up by bots and moved along by the algorithms.

Your life may have ended but all who loved your work will never be the same and that is the beauty and tragedy of it all. Forever altered yet at times psychologically halted and haunted by the knowledge that one day this impermanence will catch up to us also. In your work there is a line asking in fear what if love is not enough, yet we are here and love exists somewhere along with the sadness, beginnings, and endings we will all leave behind one day. Even when it seems hopeless and forever out of bounds, one day in some form, in some place love returns even in the greatest depths of the vortex. I’m sure there was so much sadness but I hope love was enough or that one day it will be. R.I.P

 

 Climate change is the economy stupid. 

Ok I am tired of so many 'we lost, we are lost politically, oh where now do we proceed and bow to, maybe people love the right' takes and people writing twilight pieces and preaching swan songs  This is politics, there is no crying in politics. Get back to work. Destiny is a thousand different choices and possibilities with no guarantees and no one thing a person or group can firmly hold onto and believe in with such certainty of the ways of the political winds. You don't need to reinvent the wheel, get your ass off and work. Do not doom us with Harris as the nominee in the next election please. 

The anniversary of the insurrection that got about 6-8 people connected directly to the day directly killed doesn't matter darkly to most of the public. He's coming back in because in America it doesn't matter a mass casualty event of sacrifice for stupidity, protecting power and celebrity, and revenge. Who doesn't hate it here to some degree? Only fools.

A new and terrible thing politically has come to my attention to infuriate and greatly disturb me. Proving further on how unprepared people are for this moment. There are rumors of Sanders being persuaded possibly to vote for RFK Jr. I believe the rumors are true because a couple weeks ago Bernie made a bill Make America Healthy Again and that has been a RFK Jr. slogan for over a year. I shuddered seeing it and realizing also many progressives didn't know that. 

Thinking it was some cool trolling...😣

Bernie....I will metaphorically launch you into the sun old man if you dare do this, confirming him or even looking like you just were about to. Any long term influence if this happens for Bernie to help the future should be shunned and I'm serious, though I know that won't happen. People will accept the nightmare because they have rescinded to the disaster of public health crisis for the last four years that has taken a toll societally. Not only in form of physical illness and disability, but psychological stress, economic downturn and reactionary politics. And what's interesting and twisted is Bernie has been trying to get through a Long Covid bill, so he honestly has some care and concern about this challenge, even if the rest of left mainstream voices is radio silence. Yet if you do believe the challenge of Covid how could you not recognize the danger of RFK? 

Bernie says he hates the brain worm's anti vax views but you are pandering and making the brain worm sex pest palpable. Why would you confirm the public health menace anti vax freak, who said Covid precautions were like surviving the Holocaust? What is going on with everyone who is usually reasonable losing their minds? He'll be hanging around anyway confirmed or not but at least you won't disgrace your legacy.

I'm a never lonely substance

Oh great now with the shit show rising already in the new year, Trump has been given a humungous gift. An opportunity for pseudo martial law (it will not be declared that). The men who killed themselves for whatever point they were making, whatever meaningless political screed thanks for the fucking timing. 

Ironically the bird flu looming over us that Biden's Weekend at Biden's team ignored to maintain power left for Trump also to fuck up. Biden as a possible stop gap, as someone who had no idea how to handle the dark ascending was so predictable. Remember the Republicans having a magical epiphany he would claim in his run? The worse was maybe his 'This is America, I'm more optimistic than ever, there is nothing we can't do' schtick though he seemed to believe in that. What a waste of a legacy and power. But that's the run and ruin of empires. The cruel and/or neglectful selfish men and rulers they breed. The eventual wasteland they leave. The price we didn't even get to try and fairly bargain our lives and well-being for.