Category: D.C.

Use Your Words, Use Your Feet

Went to the protest yesterday in D.C. There was one in every state capital. My friends thought the turnout was okay. I thought it was anemic, myself.

Maybe the Make America Healthy Again Commission will stir people action. Here’s something that I am wagering will put a lot of people, especially parents, on alert.

“Seventy-seven percent of young adults do not qualify for the military based in large part on their health scores.”

Okay, so that’s the reason. Forget all the other crap surrounding it. They want to build a war machine with other people’s kids, because it damn sure isn’t going to be Barron Trump out there in the frontlines.

And here’s where they come for the mental health and obesity meds, section 5, item iii:

“…assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs”

Wormhead RFK, Jr. has already put forth the preposterous notion of creating “camps” where people can go to “work off” their substance and alcohol use disorder. Yeah, no. I will lay money he’s on Suboxone and lying through his teeth about his own treatment, but beyond that, while the very notion of any kind of “camp” coming out of this regime (and let’s call it what it is, a regime, not an adiministration) is terrifying, doing that for substance and alcohol use disorder is absolutely absurd from a medical point of view.

Folks, I’m going to say this bluntly: If you’re complacent, you’re complicit. Sitting back and letting other people do the hard work of trying to preserve some semblance of democracy in this country isn’t going to fly. Nag your elected officials. Bombard the White House with correspondence. Post on your socials. SHOW UP.

Your next chance to take action is the Nationwide Economic Blackout on Friday, February 28. No Amazon, WalMart, or BestBuy. In fact, I wouldn’t buy anything that day unless it was from a small, independent business, preferably Black- or woman-owned.

Your next chance to stand up and say something is Stand Up for Science, which will likely be on Friday, March 7. Take the day off and show up.

Nah, I’m not couching this like “do what you can.” I’m couching this like “do what you should.” Most of us have not had to see a draft. Most of us have not engaged in combat. Most of us have sacrificed absolutely NOTHING to preserve our own rights and freedoms. So there’s no excuse not to get off your ass and do something simple like write to your elected officials and walk around for a few hours at a protest. That is minimal effort.

They’re coming for you. They’re coming for your kids and grandkids to use them as pawns in expansionist wars.

DO SOMETHING.

Still Alive

How are you doing?

Things are hell in the U.S. Capital, thanks.

I could say so much about who needs to watch out for their rights being eroded. As in, married women who have taken their husband’s last name and don’t have a passport are the latest target, with the re-introduction of a Bill for the SAVE Act. Their birth certificates would no longer be a valid way of proving their eligibility to register to vote because it has their maiden, and not current, last name on it. If that’s you, either get a passport or change your name back to your maiden name legally. Same for if you’re divorced or widowed. You know, assuming we even have another election.

But there are so many people who are at risk that honestly? Going forward I think it’s up to each person individually to figure out their risks and how to protect themselves. It sounds cold, but freedom isn’t free. If ya want it, yer gonna have to work for it and be vigilant in protecting it. Get on your non-Facebook socials, preferably Threads, and start reading. I recommend Guy Fawkes News, who is also on BlueSky. Why? Because with the possible exception of the Associated Press, the mainstream media is not reporting everything, like, say, the protest in front of USAID where people were screaming “Shut down the Senate!” or the various activities of Anonymous, which as the kids say, has entered the chat. Anonymous has come out in opposition to the regime and have already doxxed the Phony Stark minions at DOGE who got into the government systems. As I understand it, Anonymous is having a hard time finding Phony Stark’s Social Security Number, which could very well mean that the SOB is not even an American citizen—which, by the way, would make the Fanta Führer guilty of treason by way of giving state secrets to foreign entities. See also, did you know USAID was instrumental in breaking Apartheid, and that the Inspector General for USAID was investigating Starlink’s business dealings with Ukraine right before Phony Stark shut the agency down? Make no mistake, the Fanta Führer isn’t running the country. Phony Stark is.

Anyway, the media is getting shut out and isn’t even going down swinging, so you’re going to have to rely on socials and that’s a you thing. Definitely get to BlueSky because if ZuckerBorg gets a wild hair up his arse, Meta products will become problematic, even Threads. If you don’t make the effort to inform yourself in nontraditional channels, you’re going to be an easy target and it’ll be your own fault so don’t come bitchin’ because you’ve been told—just like all the #leavingMAGA people were told all along that they wouldn’t be spared because of their whiteness.

And speaking of those people, yeah, no. No sympathy. Some on the left—usually men, because men have not been suffering since the Dobbs decision—have been talking about how we need to welcome the leavingMAGA people into the tent. Nah, this is the “find out” part of “fuck around and find out.” The leavingMAGA people are extra odious because they didn’t care about human rights and voting rights and deportation and government purges and cuts to social programs and so on until it affected them personally. Nah, it’s time for tough love, buppies, so…

Just remember, no matter how low you think the regime can go, it will go lower, because decent people just can’t imagine that kind of evil.

P.S. Dear Canada: We don’t want Wayne Gretzky, either. And it’s okay for you to turn off the lights. Don’t let Fanta Führer fool you. You’re going to have to treat him, and the USA, like a recalcitrant five-year-old who is waiting with boundless patience for half a chance to put his hand in the cookie jar when no one is looking. So keep watching, and boycott us. And that goes for the rest of the world, too. Boycott us until the Fourth Reich’s balls fall off.

Until next time, which is I don’t know when.

Subversively yours,

Zen

Lightning Strikes

The Empire State Building, One World Trade Center, the U.S. Capitol, and the Washington Monument were all struck by lightning last night. The best line I’ve seen on the socials so far: “Jimmy Carter told God what’s going on down here.”

Others are saying it’s the Tower card in tarot come to life. If you’re not familiar with tarot, here’s the Tower card:

The Tower card in tarot.
Image: Wikimedia

The Tower means sudden, world-rocking change. It’s disruption of the highest order, often accompanied by crisis and danger. WHEEEEEE!

Then this morning a Tesla Cybertruck exploded and burst into flames in front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas, killing one person inside the vehicle and injuring several others who were standing nearby. According to NBC, the blast is being investigated as a possible terrorist attack.

Yeah, ya know, those things have a tendency to do that. They’re notorious for catching fire, not unlike Apartheid Clyde himself blowing up and melting down time and again. Excuse me, Kekius Maximus.

Really, someone needs to do a welfare check on that guy. Where’s his family? He’s been having a very public breakdown on his social platform since Christmas Eve. I really would not be surprised if at some point he barricades himself in and starts screaming about aliens and liberals and Laura Loomer coming to get him. If he didn’t have such an army of mush-brained worshippers hanging on his every word, I’d almost feel bad for the guy. It’s clear his doctors are failing him, and my prediction for him is that he’s going to end up either having a psychotic break, which the media will call “exhaustion,” or shedding his mortal coil like Matthew Perry, who died of a ketamine overdose in October 2023.

And through all of this, not a peep from Mark Zuckerberg. I’m no fan of billionaires, I don’t care for his business practices with how Meta handles personal data, and I hate that he’s in with Tiberius Tinyhands, but I have to admit the man is smart. He knows how to keep his mouth shut, his thumbs still, and his profile low. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep an eye on him—it’s often the quiet ones who wreak the most havoc—but he’s not making a braying ass out of himself the way so many in TrumpCo and the GOP are these days.

At any rate, if the last 24 hours are any indication of what’s in store for the U.S. this year, I’m going to need to stock up on popcorn. I like the lime-flavored stuff.