Who Moved My Cheese?
Has anyone noticed that 1/3 of the country has seceded from the United States?
Oh, they left already. No, they didn’t leave a note.
They just up and broke up with us. That love letter, “The Constitution of the United States of America”- they’re embarrassed by it, really.
It was mere infatuation. Stupid.
So they broke up with us.
I know- they were assholes. We tried to pretend, but it was an abusive relationship the whole time. So it’s over.
The problem is – they’re still here!
It’s like an old relationship, and now we are stuck with a roommate from hell.
They’re devising situations. Passive aggressive shit at borders. Stuff to just work your last nerve.
They’ve got the credit card and they’re maxing it out right now.
-Assholes! (I am truly sorry, Your Grace, Facebook, Meta, but it’s time to speak normally, finally.)
You read a headline everyday and throw down your stupid IPhone in disgust.
Secession. Ending the Union.
This was an idea floated by their bloated deity R Limbaugh, who, just before he croaked, suggested secession was “probably” the only course of action for the Red States. We just don’t have anything common.
Those doofuses down there lapped that shit up.
Yeah, Rush called for secession and then he took the easy way out, collected a medal, dictator-style, and then pffft he was gone.
So the Red States have seceded in all but name and flag, but certainly they’re kicking around new names for the country. And the flag will have no stars or stripes. Because most of those stars are “woke” stars and many of the stripes are Antifa.
But there won’t actually BE a country, as such. It’s going to be a sort of Europe during the Feudal System, except the Knights Errant are driving Teslas. (I have heard you can’t get those repaired.)
The peasants usually have an oversized truck which plays loud ersatz rock music and shines gloriously from idleness.
Other than that, time proceeds along the lines of the same old story: Religious crusade, swimming in the summer. Draft picks. TV.
Fortunately this is not going to work in November or at any other time.
They need us more than we need them.
Yes. It is the unspoken truth that the Red States can’t survive going Full-Amish. Nope.
This is the United States, where we will let you dig a hole as large and deep as you want to, and for you to presently jump or stumble into, because this is the Sweet Land of Liberty.
Damn it they moved my cheese!
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Saving the Country, One Salad at a Time!
Note to self- (A public service announcement to me.)
I can’t save the country but I CAN eat more salad.
I’m worried.
Has the J6 Committee done a diet/exercise survey of the participants, as part of its important work?
To put a finer point on it: How many of us are bonkers most of the time from overconsumption of…everything?
I speak to and for myself.
I know: how can one think about salad when the roof has blown off the political structure of the Western world?
Is there a connection between rampant consumption and, well, the end of the world as we know it?
I’m talking about mental clarity.
I’m talking about romaine lettuce.
I’m talking about an optimal body mass index of your typical Proud Boys person.
-Hey, this is pretty good. Nice leafy green vegetables. Fresh cherry tomato. Why didn’t I think of this before?
I know I’ll backslide. It’s ok. A salad is a huge step for some of us.
Everything is an indicator of other behaviors, which follow naturally.
Salad may indicate mindfulness, and that awareness is perhaps an indicator of other behaviors. Maybe. Of course, I’m new at this. I’ve only been on this health kick for twenty minutes now.
That too is an indicator. One can begin to infer things from these impulses, if that’s what they are.
Like walking. A person that walks somewhere has a different outlook than someone who never walks anywhere at all. The air is sweet. And it’s ancient. All the molecules have been around for eons, and still fresh as a daisy. The air’s been there for millennia. So lucky, to breathe that breath of spring.
(I’m not talking about walking a safari to hunt endangered lions or elephants. I’m talking about a walk in the woods or just around the block; a non-aggressive saunter to nowhere, unarmed.)
I’d like to know from the J6 committee what the diet and exercise and mental health regimen were for the all participants.
It’s a public health crisis- authoritarian insurgency.
Can a person who is healthy in body, mind, and spirit destroy the country?
Perhaps. The Third Reich was full of health nuts, after all. But like here, the leader was basically on meth. So there’s that. And yes, the former president, lurking at his rallies- is definitely on something. Steroids, is my theory.
The mentality of consumption is the heart of the matter: the nature of its demand, the rage to satisfy, to get things regardless of cost or consequence- that kind of consumption. The kind that overrides good judgement, that steamrolls opposition.
Food. Sugar. Disinformation. Climate. Outer Space. Domination!
-A salad and a tall drink of water. I still don’t feel like overthrowing the government… Maybe this is working for me!
Covid taught some of us to slow down and be aware. To hold to mental health, for our own sake and to serve others. To uphold well-being, and to allay mistrust and misfortune.
And now here we are, preserving democracy for generations to come, from a basis of sanity. A healthy foundation. An appreciation of what I have.
One salad at a time.
We’ll get through this together.
Next.
I can’t clean up the landfill, but I can cool it with the plastic, already. (Just thinking ahead toward the Future.)
4/22
Glide Path (Memorial Day meditation)
I just did a random Wikipedia check to see which prominent Republicans in Congress had real jobs, worked with a diverse population, worked in businesses run by and staffed by women, exposed to stratas of society, and it’s not looking good.
My work life has been all women/ all diversity all the time.
But Cruz Hawley Greene Gaetz?
These people exhibit some pretty clueless behavior. You could say that perhaps they’re not even exposed to society. Not the society I know, of honest working people that are not on the glide path.
The first random Democrat I checked – just testing my theory- was a US senator, Chris Coontz. Just random, first politician that popped into my head.
Here:
“Raised in Hockessin, Delaware, Coons graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He received graduate degrees from Yale Divinity School and Yale Law School. He went to work as a volunteer relief worker in Kenya, where he had taken classes at the University of Nairobi, later returning to the U.S. to work for the Coalition for the Homeless in New York. He spent some time as a legal clerk in New York before returning to Delaware in 1996, where he spent eight years as in-house counsel for a materials manufacturing company. In the interim he worked for several nonprofit organizations.”
So. We have Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley on a glide path to law practice and top tier positions, and then a diverse Democratic Party and they really aren’t the same.
I hear people complain about “corporatist” politics and I really don’t buy it mostly. Of course the country has been conservative in my lifetime. Of course. It’s a corporate culture with very strict guidelines. MAGA doesn’t think so- but they are wrong.
(Maybe they just hate Social Security. That could be it. They think it means we are socialists. Duh.)
This was the nation that rallied to fight Fascism. It is still that country. It’s set in stone. The country you think is Far Left supported the Vietnam War. The country you say is too liberal invaded the Mid East. The country of elite unelected bureaucrats built a nuclear arsenal. The country barely grudgingly consented to give women the vote, and resisted granting them economic opportunity, even into my lifetime.
These are not the behaviors of a libertine society on a freedom binge. No, we are conservative as hell, with tax cuts every decade to prove it.
But the Democrats have a moment to make history again. And they’re doing that. Biden is quietly steamrolling forward and he doesn’t need an ego boost every minute to know how. He knows how huge this moment is. And Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz and the whole MAGA crew have so little to offer, for all that education -and misinformation.
We have to save Social Security. Protect LGBTQ+ fellow Americans. Restore human rights. And yes: correct the errors of the Supreme Court (for judgements that are truly outside the corners of the Constitution, so cannot stand up to the already established working standards of human rights in the year 2023.)
History.
We have this opportunity because of sacrifices of others. It’s Memorial Day. So grateful. So appreciative. Silent observance for a moment.
And then excitement about the country facing deep political challenges. And coming out better than ever before.
postscript-One final difference btw two parties: Joe Biden’s first order that I’m aware of was to his staff: he told his staff, publicly, that anyone he found treating others on his team in a disrespectful manner would be fired. And that is after years of Trump whose speech is completely unacceptable inappropriate and demeaning, and whose manner is parroted across the entire field. This just came to mind the other day. I think you’ll find it’s true. Biden so far has not minced words or wasted opportunities.
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