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numb3r_5ev3n) wrote2020-06-18 10:31 am
numb3r_5ev3n) wrote2020-06-18 10:31 am
I hate this horrible limbo.
This refers both to the pandemic, and the horrible socio-political situation we're in.
We need to be having these conversions about race and racial inequality and social injustice and police malfeasance. It's past time. It's also past time that Trump was removed. John Bolton's book - which I don't plan on spending money on, but I'll probably be reading, if you catch my drift - is another nail in the coffin, but there have been so many nails at this point that one could build an entire coffin of nails.
I remember naively thinking in 2017 that Trump wouldn't last long. That impeachment proceedings might even start over Memorial Day weekend (while I and my friends were away camping) over the incident where Trump fired former FBI director James Comey.
The fact that he has been shielded from all consequences of his behavior is a testament to the Republican Party's complicity and corruption more than anything else.
Which puts me in mind of Howard Dean's tweet from yesterday:
There's a refrain I heard a lot at the beginning of Obama's Presidency, regarding George W. Bush's outgoing administration - "We have to let bygones be bygones and move forward for the good of the country! We shouldn't hold grudges or engage in vendettas!" against the outgoing regime who'd ratfucked us into an illegal war after ratfucking their way into office.
It was the same after Nixon resigned. "we have to move forward. We shouldn't hold grudges. We shouldn't pursue a vendetta against the Republican party."
You know what?
Bygones should not be bygones. We should not move forward. We should absolutely be holding grudges. We need to pursue this vendetta until all responsible are in jail this time, and/or barred from holding public office for the rest of their lives. No more mulligans or second chances.
This time we need to make sure the ratfuckers can never ratfuck us ever again. This time, we need to bust the whole Republican party down to its foundations. This time, We make sure there is no coming back from this for any treasonous rafucking Republican currently in office, and we sow the ground with salt.
Same with the police, if we can manage it. I've been pointing people to this video for years. Now I'm directing them to this article as well. I know there are individual cops who are good cops, but they've had next to no impact on the corrupt institution of policing at large.
I'm seeing a lot of "what happens if they become Boogaloos?" Well, a lot of them have already been Boogaloos. They were Boogaloos before it was called that. So, time to clean house and scrap the whole American institution of policing, and start over from scratch.
If 2020 has shown us anything, it is that so many of our institutions just need to be reformed, or scrapped completely and redone from scratch. I mean, most of us have known this for a while, but it's more apparent and unavoidable than ever before.
I'm having increasing complications from my fibroids, so I've been working crazy overtime trying to squirrel away a month or two's expenses in order to finally get the surgery done. I have decent insurance, but this is going to be like a 6-9 week convalescence on 60% of my normal take home pay during a medical leave of absence. So yeah.
But for the most part, I just hate this limbo. I hate the way this whole pandemic has been mismanaged. I hate the way it has been prolonged because fascist idiots who think it's perfectly fine for cops to shoot people with impunity keep crying that wearing a mask is the *real* fascism. I want to be able to do things outside the house again without having to worry about catching the virus. Or getting caught up in a shooting.
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We need to be having these conversions about race and racial inequality and social injustice and police malfeasance. It's past time. It's also past time that Trump was removed. John Bolton's book - which I don't plan on spending money on, but I'll probably be reading, if you catch my drift - is another nail in the coffin, but there have been so many nails at this point that one could build an entire coffin of nails.
I remember naively thinking in 2017 that Trump wouldn't last long. That impeachment proceedings might even start over Memorial Day weekend (while I and my friends were away camping) over the incident where Trump fired former FBI director James Comey.
The fact that he has been shielded from all consequences of his behavior is a testament to the Republican Party's complicity and corruption more than anything else.
Which puts me in mind of Howard Dean's tweet from yesterday:
There's a refrain I heard a lot at the beginning of Obama's Presidency, regarding George W. Bush's outgoing administration - "We have to let bygones be bygones and move forward for the good of the country! We shouldn't hold grudges or engage in vendettas!" against the outgoing regime who'd ratfucked us into an illegal war after ratfucking their way into office.
It was the same after Nixon resigned. "we have to move forward. We shouldn't hold grudges. We shouldn't pursue a vendetta against the Republican party."
You know what?
Bygones should not be bygones. We should not move forward. We should absolutely be holding grudges. We need to pursue this vendetta until all responsible are in jail this time, and/or barred from holding public office for the rest of their lives. No more mulligans or second chances.
This time we need to make sure the ratfuckers can never ratfuck us ever again. This time, we need to bust the whole Republican party down to its foundations. This time, We make sure there is no coming back from this for any treasonous rafucking Republican currently in office, and we sow the ground with salt.
Same with the police, if we can manage it. I've been pointing people to this video for years. Now I'm directing them to this article as well. I know there are individual cops who are good cops, but they've had next to no impact on the corrupt institution of policing at large.
I'm seeing a lot of "what happens if they become Boogaloos?" Well, a lot of them have already been Boogaloos. They were Boogaloos before it was called that. So, time to clean house and scrap the whole American institution of policing, and start over from scratch.
If 2020 has shown us anything, it is that so many of our institutions just need to be reformed, or scrapped completely and redone from scratch. I mean, most of us have known this for a while, but it's more apparent and unavoidable than ever before.
I'm having increasing complications from my fibroids, so I've been working crazy overtime trying to squirrel away a month or two's expenses in order to finally get the surgery done. I have decent insurance, but this is going to be like a 6-9 week convalescence on 60% of my normal take home pay during a medical leave of absence. So yeah.
But for the most part, I just hate this limbo. I hate the way this whole pandemic has been mismanaged. I hate the way it has been prolonged because fascist idiots who think it's perfectly fine for cops to shoot people with impunity keep crying that wearing a mask is the *real* fascism. I want to be able to do things outside the house again without having to worry about catching the virus. Or getting caught up in a shooting.
Current Mood: