Was going to wait to post the grid below after tonight's State of the Shitshow speech which (has the potential to deserve its very own grid of outrage) I will not watch or listen to, have the grid now but not before a self-portrait of me vaguely remembering when I did not feel this ever-present frenzy of anxiety and seething that I will be living in a cardboard box down by the river by the time I'm 70 after my life savings and Social Security are stolen (provided I'm not first beaten to death in prison serving my life sentence for typing *fuck crackers* and especially *fuck christers,* you'd think my adamantly and relentlessly typing I. Hate. Motherfucking. Democrats (upgraded to MOTHERFUCKING DEMOCRATS ARE THE ENEMY in the grid below) would earn me slightly less harsh daily beatings but my jailers will be weird and creepy grievance-filled vengeful and sadistic cracker and christer white men)
Is also my daughter's birthday present to be delivered when we're in Michigan the first week of April should the world still be here then, the above just one of the dozens of layouts the two pieces, both double-sided, can make. She won't see it here, she and my son-in-law established and have maintained a media blackout of Daily Life in the Clusterfuckaboomocene in an attempt to live a semblance of a quasi-normal life in the United States of Assholes so she most definitely no longer reads this shitty blog. At the other place I've stopped listing the ingredients of each hexjeff because fuck Jeff, that guy who keeps typing I am telling you three times we are being reprogrammed, doesn't he know that it's wrong, it makes him anxious
"There’s more outrage and media coverage over Trump shouting at Zelenskyy than Israel deliberately starving Gaza by withholding humanitarian aid"
People totally underestimate how much Trump deliberately and provocatively breaking kayfabe wins him adoration and devotion from Asshole-Americans and, as or more importantly, greases the normalcy of his daily fuckton of outright deliberate lies
"This cri de coeur from Rory Stewart, a fancy part of the Anglo-American establishment, shows how the 80 years of propaganda about America's love for democracy, etc. was less about fooling the plebes than allowing the people at top to live with themselves"
"We need a term for a cultural tendency, above all in drama, where the narrative tension depends almost entirely on the characters being unbelievably, unrealistically thick, obtuse, obdurate and incommunicative. Idiodrama? Thickodrama? Writersarelazyhacksdrama? I hate it"
"Major news organizations are making a conscious choice to frame Israel’s total violation of the ceasefire agreement as Hamas rejecting it. This is a demonstrable lie & has been through the entire duration of Israel’s war against Gaza. Israel is rejecting the deal it signed"
"Trump is definitely a victory for accelerationism. Harris would have dragged out the end of American Empire. So in a sense I'm very grateful to Trump"
"Just so we're clear, announcing that you will starve a civilian population in order to alter the terms of a ceasefire deal is a flagrant war crime of the highest order. You would not know that from U.S. headlines"
"Democrats are really going to get into the streets to prolong an unwinnable war but wouldn't be caught dead at a rally to stop a genocide that has resulted in the deaths of over 200,000, mostly women and children"
"After spending years of talking about how Trump is so corrupt, so monstrous, so misogynistic, to have anyone in our party suggest that Andrew Cuomo has a role to play basically makes our leaders look like cynical do-nothings who have no morals”
"The US MAGA Nazis have declared "open season" on US Republicans not loyal to the Trump regime or Musk. Calls them an invasive species in latest genocidal speech. MAGA is going for internal cleansing to remove any remaining opposition"
"I keep thinking of the hundreds of thousands of hardwood trees downed in hurricane Helene. If we have another hot dry summer, all that timber becomes tinder, & could ignite the largest regional wildfires of the modern era. When people say climate breakdown is a polycrisis, this is what they mean"
"Democrats fractured their voter base just to help a war criminal who actively wanted Trump to win the election. They sacrificed the rights of women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people to facilitate a genocide and uphold apartheid"
"I will note that while Elon appears to be wearing a bulletproof and stabproof vest, the toddler Musk carries around as a human shield is not protected. Which would say a lot about Elon's priorities"
Puts drops in eyes, remembers: I asked my eyedoc at the follow up to the laser surgery (all's good) about weed and glaucoma, is it true weed helps, I asked, Yes, he said, I'm not asking for a medical card, I said, I can walk to three weed stores within fifteen minutes of work, I'm curious you say yes but never offered it as a medical alternative, it would help, he said, in combination with your eyedrops but would turn you into a hollow shell of yourself. Oops, I didn't say
Welcome to your day of sanity! Come in and close the door it will likely lock behind you and you will be home alone waste disposal will take care of your needs : at long last undisturbed phenomena without the heavy metal background of the street will be yours for observation and response : do you have visions? do you think? Your mouth do you open it for more than medication? I should know I know that I should know : we’ve watched centuries erode the fortress drain the moat the poet’s clumsy beast has reached its home and prey we wither in the gridlock of our power only the guns remain and are in use pure accident is beauty to be glimpsed your trembling only further clouds your sight I in my home you in your other place harmonize the fading anthem of an age the cracked bell of our liberty keeps time a penny for the corpse you left behind keep on recycling all that you have heard before call it a double bind much like the dead bolt that locked the door that keeps you safe and sane : ho — hum — harry who? oh that’s just a phrase found in a time capsule capped and sealed and shot up in the air : no I cannot tell you where it fell to earth that page was torn out years ago it’s chance that we have a fragment of that language left : do your archaeology before a mirror the canyons and the barren plains are clear but where to dig for a ruined golden age a fiction we were served with breakfast flakes say have you forgot this day of sanity? No problem the heavy key was thrown away as soon as the door was closed and locked you’re safe : some day the asylum may be torn down to make way for a palace of the mad it does not follow that anything will change : choose your executioner by lot almost everyone is trained and competent there are different schools of course check out degrees fees can become an issue of your choice and some may be in service or abroad as usual nothing’s simple it’s all a part of the grand unraveling that must take place before the new line can be introduced : prepare now don’t be shocked when the music starts the year’s fashions may feature pins and nails.
