The Long Road Out

Take some hope in the fact that bitcoin is off 40% and still sliding. Trump and his nepo-babies own some of that. I hope it hurts him a lot, though he's now funded by your tax dollars. Great gig if you can steal it. Meanwhile, our peacenik goon president is silent as Putin and Netananyu accelerate their murders. Worst day yet yesterday for the Ukraine—4500 drone attacks in one day all on the power grid. And have you vacationed in Gaza recently? Excellent peace there, Donald. You murderer. NATO realigned against the real threat: US imperialism. All is NOT quiet on the European Western Front. NATO is weak compared to the US threat of violence. Macron is funding it against us, not in support of us. Europe knows which way the wind blows. Why do ICE employees wear masks? Their uniforms are sloppier than a Mogadishu teen militia so I'm thinking it's not military precision. This isn't the Brits during the Boer War. They wear masks because they are ugly. Embarr...

This is a personal note on preparing for the violence and isolation and suffering we are about to experience as a nation. Personally, three years ago I could not have imagined facing the terror of the jackboot without the love of my life. Now she's my ex. I have a new community and I will fight to stand together with them, and admit others in need of protection after government violence. To my ex: I am shocked to find that you are profoundly unwelcome now. We will go through Krystal Nacht separately, and whatever happens I know I will never see you again. Nor, should we pass each other in ICE prison camps, will I recognize you. I never thought I would feel that way about you, Mina. I'm that terrified. I don't even wish you good luck—like me you'll just be another person who suffers in the face of tyranny. Together maybe we meant something, and I would have said Kaddish for you, when no minion exists. I will never be with you now.

Arresting journalists today. Feels like we're only a week or two from a major incident—injuries, arrests, murders? These are banal people who have never had a thought more sophisticated than "root for the home team" or " it's her fault that I hit her." Terrifying to watch. KrystalNacht in two weeks? Borders closed in three?

So now Minneapolis St Paul has 600 cops, 3000 Ice agents, and 2000 National Guard on the streets. All armed against some group of US citizens. Barricades on the streets.  The 2026 version of Les Miserables with a shitty soundtrack. All it appears because Tim Walz  ran for VP?  Anyway it seems unlikely that we won't end up with full militarization, curfews, hundreds of deaths????  Minnesota officials in secret detention camps?? Only one guy can defuse this and as usual he's pouring gasoline on his own creation. 

Have you tried this today, as the government-funded murders continue? Toddlers with guns and masks, hired by a states rights moron, to enforce illegal federal edicts. Each state can regulate abortion, but don't try to protect your neighbors from the gestapo. Each state can ban speech according to what their old white men think about poor people, but don't touch the right of ICE pigs to carry guns. Anyway there are a lot of America love it or leave it stickers. Leftover from 1967. The same folks who thought Viet Nam made sense even as their siblings died of napalm. Noteworthy. Some learning curve. Dumb as fuck. Dumb as ice employees. Guilty as sin. Humans are a failed species if any of us will accept jobs at ICE. Spewing bullets and spittle. Pointing guns at people with loving families, children, pets, jobs, and senses of humor. People who knew happiness before they were beaten and murdered. ICE supporters. Shut up. You have made idiots enough. Do no...

I'm not in Davos.  I'd never go anywhere near that place and I'm amazed that Macron and Carney and the smarter politicos bother.  It's a joke.   I repeat my plea:  if you think you're Davos material, and you don't boycott the fact that a moron like Trump is your peer there, you are NOT Davos material.   Stop pandering to the monster.  Have some self-respect.    Imagine Trump in aviator sunglasses.  He'd look like more of a tool than he does already.  I know.  That's impossible.