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, cleaning our hotel rooms, 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 to compete in. And we did our part. We made it to a protest or two, sang songs, chanted chants, even signed a petition about... well.... something... something we can't quite remember... perhaps the firing of weather forecasters? What about 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 before the incomprehensible incompetency of this malignant regime comes home to roost for all of us. I mean to EVERY American. And no, being white Christians ain't going to save us. Unless of course we are 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 the smoke clears and all the undesirables have perished.
But for the rest of us. And I mean us. You know - We the People. Not those poor retches we see being sat on by grossly overweight agents of a heretofore unheard of arm of government law enforcement — hard to know really which one. I mean they all wear face masks, have no uniforms, and carry no ID. Anyway, for ALL OF US, prices are about to explode. Scarcity of goods is about to become a common entity again — you know pandemic-like empty store shelves with resultant hoarding (better get your TP while you still can). And 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 the razor-thin edge of something. After all a mass murdering war criminal buddy of our president is engaged in the largest war in Europe since WWII. 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 a federal response to help us survive and recover for them (the money for that is going to more overweight, out-of-shape, violence-prone government agents charged with rounding up those people we don't care all that much about).
But perhaps we can still dodge most of the pain, huddled 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 chemically-contaminated ground water (if we can beg borrow or steal a cup from the AI data center cathedrals). And then, for the cherry on top, disease. Viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, all just itching to get at a virgin population, raised in an antiseptic environment, now left unguarded by the sentries of public health experts, biomedical researchers, rural hospitals, inner city clinics, and the like — and not a medically trained official in sight at any of the great federal healthcare institutions.
Sorry to say team, but the horse may already be out of the barn already. The menacing genie out of the bottle. Abject nihilism? I guess we could go with that. Whistling past the graveyard? Even better. But, folks, it won't be much longer that any of us will have the luxury of ignoring our national and societal collapse. Like it or not, we are all in this together.
Totally brilliant. Thank you for putting into words not just what Americans feel but the people of the world who are interested in world politics think. A Looney Tunes creature in charge of the largest economy in the world. It defies belief but some few warned this would happen but not so fast and not so furious. Our thoughts are with you and your pain is our pain.
Thanks so much. Unfortunately that Looney Toons character is a decaying malignant narcissist also in charge of the most powerful military in the world as well. Some of us have been screaming from the rooftops for almost a decade and were told over and over again that we were overreacting. I fear that it will be rough sledding for a while but I suspect goodness will eventually prevail. But I am pretty certain the US will be greatly diminished in the end. Oh... and the billionaire oligarchs... eek!! Thanks again!! Cheers
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.
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?
While the walls are falling, this so called president is busy playing tiddlywinks. It has been stated on other platforms that tRump has an IQ of 73, some stating that they thought that number too high. This man-child is clueless and his only interest is filling his and his family’s pockets. Absent of all human emotions. Shameful.
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...
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 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.
The destruction of a functioning US government has always been part of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 agenda. Once everything is in complete shambles, their white knights (the "christian" nationalists) will ride in and tell us that we hand over complete authority to them, they'll get everything ship shape in to two shakes of a lambs tail. No worries.
If this was a fairy tale than Trump would be playing the Saint of Disruption. His purpose is to wake the unwoken, shake the unshook and stir the pot of beans into an undrinkable toxic froth. In that case he is doing a great job!! Now, who are our supporting characters? The villagers that live on the other side of the moat...the bakers and school teachers and mechanics and farmers that have been slowly feeling the squeeze of the big bad wolf for years by steady corruption in the not so democratic take over by big greedy money grubbers...Perhaps Trump is a saint in wolf's clothing accelerating what many of us have been aware of for decades...the loss of connection of the human spirit with that of the whole of life. Through chaos and loss we may discover a deeper meaning than what we are clinging to now.
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.
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, cleaning our hotel rooms, 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 to compete in. And we did our part. We made it to a protest or two, sang songs, chanted chants, even signed a petition about... well.... something... something we can't quite remember... perhaps the firing of weather forecasters? What about 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 before the incomprehensible incompetency of this malignant regime comes home to roost for all of us. I mean to EVERY American. And no, being white Christians ain't going to save us. Unless of course we are 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 the smoke clears and all the undesirables have perished.
But for the rest of us. And I mean us. You know - We the People. Not those poor retches we see being sat on by grossly overweight agents of a heretofore unheard of arm of government law enforcement — hard to know really which one. I mean they all wear face masks, have no uniforms, and carry no ID. Anyway, for ALL OF US, prices are about to explode. Scarcity of goods is about to become a common entity again — you know pandemic-like empty store shelves with resultant hoarding (better get your TP while you still can). And 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 the razor-thin edge of something. After all a mass murdering war criminal buddy of our president is engaged in the largest war in Europe since WWII. 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 a federal response to help us survive and recover for them (the money for that is going to more overweight, out-of-shape, violence-prone government agents charged with rounding up those people we don't care all that much about).
But perhaps we can still dodge most of the pain, huddled 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 chemically-contaminated ground water (if we can beg borrow or steal a cup from the AI data center cathedrals). And then, for the cherry on top, disease. Viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, all just itching to get at a virgin population, raised in an antiseptic environment, now left unguarded by the sentries of public health experts, biomedical researchers, rural hospitals, inner city clinics, and the like — and not a medically trained official in sight at any of the great federal healthcare institutions.
Sorry to say team, but the horse may already be out of the barn already. The menacing genie out of the bottle. Abject nihilism? I guess we could go with that. Whistling past the graveyard? Even better. But, folks, it won't be much longer that any of us will have the luxury of ignoring our national and societal collapse. Like it or not, we are all in this together.
Well said
Thanks so much. Needed editing...
And great stuff, always from you!!
Totally brilliant. Thank you for putting into words not just what Americans feel but the people of the world who are interested in world politics think. A Looney Tunes creature in charge of the largest economy in the world. It defies belief but some few warned this would happen but not so fast and not so furious. Our thoughts are with you and your pain is our pain.
Thanks so much. Unfortunately that Looney Toons character is a decaying malignant narcissist also in charge of the most powerful military in the world as well. Some of us have been screaming from the rooftops for almost a decade and were told over and over again that we were overreacting. I fear that it will be rough sledding for a while but I suspect goodness will eventually prevail. But I am pretty certain the US will be greatly diminished in the end. Oh... and the billionaire oligarchs... eek!! Thanks again!! Cheers
The congress and scotus play a huge role in this rolling disaster. Mike Johnson should be pillioried. John Roberts too.
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.
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.
While the walls are falling, this so called president is busy playing tiddlywinks. It has been stated on other platforms that tRump has an IQ of 73, some stating that they thought that number too high. This man-child is clueless and his only interest is filling his and his family’s pockets. Absent of all human emotions. Shameful.
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...
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.
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.
The destruction of a functioning US government has always been part of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 agenda. Once everything is in complete shambles, their white knights (the "christian" nationalists) will ride in and tell us that we hand over complete authority to them, they'll get everything ship shape in to two shakes of a lambs tail. No worries.
If this was a fairy tale than Trump would be playing the Saint of Disruption. His purpose is to wake the unwoken, shake the unshook and stir the pot of beans into an undrinkable toxic froth. In that case he is doing a great job!! Now, who are our supporting characters? The villagers that live on the other side of the moat...the bakers and school teachers and mechanics and farmers that have been slowly feeling the squeeze of the big bad wolf for years by steady corruption in the not so democratic take over by big greedy money grubbers...Perhaps Trump is a saint in wolf's clothing accelerating what many of us have been aware of for decades...the loss of connection of the human spirit with that of the whole of life. Through chaos and loss we may discover a deeper meaning than what we are clinging to now.