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Random Thoughts
Some kids feared the school bully. A few thought he was a joke. Most ignored or avoided him. Nobody respected him.
ICE agents have been permitted to act like criminals, so it's no surprise that criminals impersonate ICE.
Your front doorbell chimes. And just then, the phone rings. At that moment, someone starts pounding on the back door. You see someone peering in your window and tapping on the glass. Your laptop starts dinging because a bunch of emails just came to your inbox. Your neighbor is on the sidewalk, shouting your name. A notification beeps to let you know there are social media messages for you. In the next room, the smoke detector starts beeping due to a low battery. You hear an unidentified crash in the bathroom. You notice water leaking from under the kitchen sink. Just then, the dog barfs on the living room rug.
That is "flooding the zone" and it works because it overwhelms your ability to respond, leaving you confused and unable to prioritize.
Nearly every day - sometimes multiple times per day - donald does or says something that would have been considered scandalous for a real president prior to 2016. Often, his actions would likely have led to impeachment and conviction for pre-2016 presidents. Yet most of these things go by with little public attention, unreported by "major" news organizations. Those who should know better, who should take responsibility for holding public officials accountable, who should - at the very least - inform the public, have blandly accepted a criminal madman as the country's leader.
I visited donald's blog, to fact-check whether some of the posts recently attributed to him are real. It's a mess. Aside from being a stinking swamp of lies and hatred, it is poorly designed, difficult to navigate, unsearchable, and really ugly. In other words, appropriate.
People in government used to believe they were required to act within legal boundaries. The lawbreakers hid what they were doing, because they believed they'd be held accountable if caught. But then they found out that the people who could and should say no to donald (and by extension to his minions) weren't saying no, and that no one was willing/interested to hold them accountable. So they began doing the bad stuff openly, because that was easier than hiding it, and they became more and more confident that no one would stop them, no one would punish them. They have crossed so many lines that they are in new, weird territory, a Bizarro World where NOT being corrupt is seen as a bad thing. Where "making America Great" means destroying everything that is actually great. Where decency is a joke, and cruelty and perversion are role models.
Whatever happened to the "Age of Aquarius"?
Random Thoughts
Someone who really believed in "America First" would want America to be first in education, to have the finest and most prestigious academies and universities and the most well educated population. Wanting America to be "First" would mean wanting excellent public education available to all.
It is horrifying to me to see how often "peace officers" are unable to control their emotions and will start screaming and using threatening body language toward civilians over trivialities or imaginary incidents.
What kind of country turns the military against its own citizens? What kind of government arrests people for asking questions?
Someone who really believed in "America First" would want America to be the healthiest nation. That would mean making great health care accessible to all. It would mean supporting medical research, having excellent hospitals, employing the best professionals, educated here and recruited from abroad.
There were countries I didn't visit, because they were dangerous for tourists. Now I live in one.
Someone who really believed in "America First" would want us to be first in science and technology. This would mean promoting excellent public education, encouraging universities and industries to perform high-quality research, and attracting the best minds both from home and abroad.
Someone who really believed in "America First" would take pride and pleasure in our great national parks and public lands. This would mean embracing the responsibility to care for and preserve our unique natural resources, keeping them safe now and for the future.
Shorts
I got part way into the dress and found myself stuck. My head and arms were trapped. I couldn't get it on, and couldn't get it off. I had to call the saleslady to pull it off me.
I said, "Wow, I've never seen a size 12 that tight."
She looked at the tag and said, "It's a 2."
They aren't healthcare CEOs. They are insurance company CEOs. Their business isn't providing healthcare. Their business is restricting healthcare.
The problem with the never-satisfied, ultra-greedy oligarchs is that they don't just want a lot, they don't just want more, they want EVERYTHING. Anything you have, no matter how small, is something they don't have. They want it. This is why a man with $300 Billion will take away a grandmother's $1200 pension check. If she has it, it's not in his pocket, and he wants it.
I spend too much time trying to fine-tune the thermostat. There is no perfect temperature.
I entertain myself by looking up my symptoms online. Well, that's entertaining in the same way slasher-horror movies are entertaining, which is to say, it's alarming. I follow the links and make sure I'm looking at legitimate medical sites. Apparently, I'm doomed. The good news is, it's never as bad as a thorough web search indicates. Even when I had cancer, my case wasn't as bad as the stuff I found online. Being prepared for the absolute worst has the interesting effect of making me quite calm when I talk to the doctors (I know they can't tell me anything worse than what I'm already expecting. And when the diagnosis and treatment aren't quite that bad, I end up feeling almost cheerful.
Whenever I suggest moving out of a horrible state, people say, oh, but folks can't afford to move. If they're trying to kill you, you can't afford to stay.
Illustration: Mad Fashions, Od Fashions, All Out Fashions; or, The Emblem of These Distracted Times (1642)
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