The Gestapo arresting wildcard firefighters infuriated me. I was born and raised in WA and know the area of the Bear Gulch fire very well. It is spectacular country, but steep and hard to access. These firefighters were putting their lives on the line every day and in return some get carted of to a concentration camp.
The Forest Service is already severely understaffed with wildcard firefighters and this will make recruiting and hiring even harder.
It was easy wasn't it? A little outrage here and there over some bullying of people we really didn't notice anyway - you know, the ones who were building our homes and picking our fruit and all. But life goes on for us, right? Pretty much undisturbed. And we're busy. We have jobs and responsibilities. Kids soccer games to get to and pickleball tournaments. And we did our part. We made it to a protest/street fair or two, sang songs, chanted chants, signed a petition over... something we can't quite remember... maybe the firing of weather people? And those people being carted away to tent cities in the most inhospitable locations in the country— well, they weren't even citizens, were they?
But, folks, it won't be long now that the incomprehensible incompetency of this malignant regime comes home to roost for all of us. I mean to EVERY American home. And no, being white Christians ain't going to save us. Unless of course we are the some of the few hundred gazillionaire racist misogynist oligarchs. Then we can build our bunkers and ride it all out. Poke our heads out of the ground once all the undesirables have perished.
But for the rest of us. And I mean us. Not those people we see being sat on by grossly overweight agents of some arm of government enforcement—had to tell which. I mean they all wear face masks and carry no ID. Anyway, for ALL OF US, prices are about to explode. Scarcity of goods is about to become a common entity—I mean empty store shelves with resultant hoarding (get your TP now while you still can). Destabilization of world markets is on the horizon—or so they tell me. I never bothered to understand what that meant. I do understand the fragile stability of world peace though, and that feels like it is teetering on som edge. And if our loyal constitution-respecting troops are blessedly NOT called into action on some foreign soil, they will be free to rough up, perhaps eventually shoot, our fellow citizens in our city streets. If we somehow avoid that, dont forget our usual array of natural disasters. Only these will be natural disasters without federal response to help us survive and recover for them (the money for that is going to more overweight out-of-shape violence-prone agents charged with rounding up those people we don't care all that much about — ironically timed for the anniversary year of Katrina).
But perhaps we can still dodge most of the pain, off in our suburban fortresses. We'll be okay as long as we have cable, right?
Until this intolerably illegitimate regime's left hook lands. Pathogens. Toxins. Poisons. Perhaps from the unregulated/uninspected food on our table. Or the unchecked, unconfined wildfires burning in our forests. Or from our industrial-chemical-dumping-ground water supply (if we can beg borrow or steal a cup from the AI data center cathedrals). And then, for the cherry on top, disease. Of some or many forms. Viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites just itching to get at a virgin populace, now left unguarded by the sentries of public health entities, biomedical researchers, rural hospitals, inner city clinics, and the like—not a medically trained official in sight in any of the great federal healthcare institutions.
The horse is likely out of the barn already. The menacing genie out of the bottle. So abject nihilism, I guess we could go with that. But, folks, it is not much longer that any of us will be able to ignore our national and societal collapse.
Bad news: pretty much everything else. Didn't Steve Bannon say everything had to be destroyed before it could be fixed? Or some such. Well, the first part is coming true. When do they start fixing?
The Independent’s article states that the pumpkinhead king was “disappointed” with the Army’s parade so I guess the flotilla is to lift his spirits. My mental image is a badly parented toddler tossing each new toy aside. As the mother and grandmother of men who are wildland firefighters, I hope each and everyone of these traitors burns eternally.
Trump keeps yanking bricks out of the foundation—gutting the CDC, sidelining health agencies, turning the FBI into a punching bag, weaponizing tariffs, dismantling regulatory scaffolding. Each move might look like a headline stunt or a score-settling vendetta, but together they’re a slow-motion demolition.
We’re walking, eyes half-shut, into disasters that aren’t “if” but “when.” Sooner or later, gravity wins when you keep kicking out the supports...
Your words and those who comment continue to give me hope that there really are folks who are outraged and care. If words are our defense mechanisms then when do they slay the enemies.? When do the words that set the standards from our elected officials and SCOTUS , purely enemies of the state due to appointed life-long court seats of power, come into play? Besides the outrage of Governor Newsom, which I love, and the few Progressives running for office in New York and Maine, the action remains all quiet on every front. The outrage, the mistrust, and the disgust over elected representatives who seem to be sitting in armor and unable to move, is palpable in every city of our country. Trump , aka King, is really a true-life Lord Voldemort , a villain who will forever be known as such. We've had enough! He's had his moment on the stage and I await the Judge, Lawyer, and/or jury who can cause him to exit. That is worthy of your thoughts and prayers.
We are living through a dystopian nightmare with a certifiable madman acting out his grandiose delusional fantasies, enveloped in a protective bubble of sycophants, the Donald in Wonderland alternative reality has been enabled to commence, unimpeded.
As the Movement Conservative plays out its crescendoed choreography of their far right takeover of our liberal democracy through their take over of statehouses, Congress, and SCOTUS, and now unveiling their Project 2025 playbook, their fatal flaw was to entrust their inaugural unitary executive into the hands of Donald Trump.
The “tariff as cudgel” policies, savaged pillaging of our institutions, terrorizing our cities, etc., has exploded a chaos that is unsustainable.
As we careen out of control, the forces of gravity will prevail. We must prepare for the after the crash consequences.
The Gestapo arresting wildcard firefighters infuriated me. I was born and raised in WA and know the area of the Bear Gulch fire very well. It is spectacular country, but steep and hard to access. These firefighters were putting their lives on the line every day and in return some get carted of to a concentration camp.
The Forest Service is already severely understaffed with wildcard firefighters and this will make recruiting and hiring even harder.
And if they aren't native-born, I don't know who is.
The congress and scotus play a huge role in this rolling disaster. Mike Johnson should be pillioried. John Roberts too.
It was easy wasn't it? A little outrage here and there over some bullying of people we really didn't notice anyway - you know, the ones who were building our homes and picking our fruit and all. But life goes on for us, right? Pretty much undisturbed. And we're busy. We have jobs and responsibilities. Kids soccer games to get to and pickleball tournaments. And we did our part. We made it to a protest/street fair or two, sang songs, chanted chants, signed a petition over... something we can't quite remember... maybe the firing of weather people? And those people being carted away to tent cities in the most inhospitable locations in the country— well, they weren't even citizens, were they?
But, folks, it won't be long now that the incomprehensible incompetency of this malignant regime comes home to roost for all of us. I mean to EVERY American home. And no, being white Christians ain't going to save us. Unless of course we are the some of the few hundred gazillionaire racist misogynist oligarchs. Then we can build our bunkers and ride it all out. Poke our heads out of the ground once all the undesirables have perished.
But for the rest of us. And I mean us. Not those people we see being sat on by grossly overweight agents of some arm of government enforcement—had to tell which. I mean they all wear face masks and carry no ID. Anyway, for ALL OF US, prices are about to explode. Scarcity of goods is about to become a common entity—I mean empty store shelves with resultant hoarding (get your TP now while you still can). Destabilization of world markets is on the horizon—or so they tell me. I never bothered to understand what that meant. I do understand the fragile stability of world peace though, and that feels like it is teetering on som edge. And if our loyal constitution-respecting troops are blessedly NOT called into action on some foreign soil, they will be free to rough up, perhaps eventually shoot, our fellow citizens in our city streets. If we somehow avoid that, dont forget our usual array of natural disasters. Only these will be natural disasters without federal response to help us survive and recover for them (the money for that is going to more overweight out-of-shape violence-prone agents charged with rounding up those people we don't care all that much about — ironically timed for the anniversary year of Katrina).
But perhaps we can still dodge most of the pain, off in our suburban fortresses. We'll be okay as long as we have cable, right?
Until this intolerably illegitimate regime's left hook lands. Pathogens. Toxins. Poisons. Perhaps from the unregulated/uninspected food on our table. Or the unchecked, unconfined wildfires burning in our forests. Or from our industrial-chemical-dumping-ground water supply (if we can beg borrow or steal a cup from the AI data center cathedrals). And then, for the cherry on top, disease. Of some or many forms. Viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites just itching to get at a virgin populace, now left unguarded by the sentries of public health entities, biomedical researchers, rural hospitals, inner city clinics, and the like—not a medically trained official in sight in any of the great federal healthcare institutions.
The horse is likely out of the barn already. The menacing genie out of the bottle. So abject nihilism, I guess we could go with that. But, folks, it is not much longer that any of us will be able to ignore our national and societal collapse.
Well said
Wildland, not wildcard. Fucking autocorrect
Good news: yay, Marz!
Bad news: pretty much everything else. Didn't Steve Bannon say everything had to be destroyed before it could be fixed? Or some such. Well, the first part is coming true. When do they start fixing?
And per usual, I nicked it.
I hadn't even heard about the flotilla parade. Must have missed that one in all the chaos.
I hadn't heard about the flotilla (I want to pronounce it flotiya), but I'm not surprised.
The Independent’s article states that the pumpkinhead king was “disappointed” with the Army’s parade so I guess the flotilla is to lift his spirits. My mental image is a badly parented toddler tossing each new toy aside. As the mother and grandmother of men who are wildland firefighters, I hope each and everyone of these traitors burns eternally.
Trump keeps yanking bricks out of the foundation—gutting the CDC, sidelining health agencies, turning the FBI into a punching bag, weaponizing tariffs, dismantling regulatory scaffolding. Each move might look like a headline stunt or a score-settling vendetta, but together they’re a slow-motion demolition.
We’re walking, eyes half-shut, into disasters that aren’t “if” but “when.” Sooner or later, gravity wins when you keep kicking out the supports...
Your words and those who comment continue to give me hope that there really are folks who are outraged and care. If words are our defense mechanisms then when do they slay the enemies.? When do the words that set the standards from our elected officials and SCOTUS , purely enemies of the state due to appointed life-long court seats of power, come into play? Besides the outrage of Governor Newsom, which I love, and the few Progressives running for office in New York and Maine, the action remains all quiet on every front. The outrage, the mistrust, and the disgust over elected representatives who seem to be sitting in armor and unable to move, is palpable in every city of our country. Trump , aka King, is really a true-life Lord Voldemort , a villain who will forever be known as such. We've had enough! He's had his moment on the stage and I await the Judge, Lawyer, and/or jury who can cause him to exit. That is worthy of your thoughts and prayers.
We are living through a dystopian nightmare with a certifiable madman acting out his grandiose delusional fantasies, enveloped in a protective bubble of sycophants, the Donald in Wonderland alternative reality has been enabled to commence, unimpeded.
As the Movement Conservative plays out its crescendoed choreography of their far right takeover of our liberal democracy through their take over of statehouses, Congress, and SCOTUS, and now unveiling their Project 2025 playbook, their fatal flaw was to entrust their inaugural unitary executive into the hands of Donald Trump.
The “tariff as cudgel” policies, savaged pillaging of our institutions, terrorizing our cities, etc., has exploded a chaos that is unsustainable.
As we careen out of control, the forces of gravity will prevail. We must prepare for the after the crash consequences.