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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

December to December

Today Holidailies asks: How is this December different from last year?

Last year I was recovering from a massive heart attack. Yet somehow, I managed to do almost everything I usually like to do—see the state Christmas trees, have brunches with friends. I even put up a tree for the first time in 10 years. The only thing I didn’t do was go out on New Year’s Eve. This year I’m seeing John Oliver at the Kennedy Center, so I’m looking forward to that.

Things are a little more hectic this year, though. Or at least they feel that way. It’s probably because this time last year I wasn’t commuting to the office twice a week. I didn’t have to do that until April, after my cardiac rehab was over. I also have a freelance project this December, whereas last December it was all I could do to get through 40 hours a week at my day job.

Last December felt different, too. Work wasn’t going so well (if you know, you know), and now it’s going well. Last year there were conflicts around the world, but this year there is even more conflict and civil unrest, and now we have Apricot Pol Pot returning to the White House in January. About the only thing I’m looking forward to about that is the inevitable clash he’s going to have with Shut-Me-Up Elmo Muskrat (who I wrote about almost to the day last year). The honeymoon is only going to last so long with those two. Not even D.C., which is loaded to the gills with big egos, has enough room for both of theirs. The falling out will be epic, no doubt, and I’ll be there for it.

Might have to put some Old Bay on my popcorn, as neither of those ghouls are locals. I put a dash of Old Bay on a lot of things. It’s super good on popcorn.

And now I’ll leave you with this little gem:

An "elf on the shelf" pooping a chocolate kiss on a picture of Donald Trump.