I cast my vote over a week ago by mail. Almost everyone I know has voted, even those who don't normally vote. But we're waiting for results coming in starting tomorrow to know-- Will we continue as the imperfect democratic republic that we are? Or will we succumb to lies and hate and become a fascist autocracy or even an oligarchy run by ( Read more... )

For most of the last month and more, I had been feeling very fearful of the future and losing hope that the worst will NOT happen. Biden's senility becoming readily, embarrassingly, and shockingly obvious at that first debate with Trump was a real hope killer. The Dems' bullshit machine went into full swing, but it didn't work and was never going ( Read more... )

Gods. I hate it that so many of these posts are about Cat. She's NOT that prominent a person, yet in my life she has outsized power for obvious reasons. I'm used to dancing a fine tune to my father and ex-husband to try to keep my life "okay"-- but Cat is such a weird mixture of selfish and childish, lacking social sophistication, that I'm not sure ( Read more... )

My first official post of the year can only center around one topic: How electing Trump for president a second time will mean America will become a fascist state and everything we've done for well over two centuries to uphold the constitution will be thrown into the trash bin ( Read more... )

After all the Supreme Court rulings that have come down at the end of their session this year, on top of all the other bullshit in the last few years, I could give a flying fuck about our precious nation...

The reasons Clarence Thomas gave for undoing Roe v. Wade call into question several other granted freedoms to various people that I believe ( Read more... )

Despite trying to stick my head in the sand for the last few... is it years now? I couldn't help but notice how between supply line hick-ups from the pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian war a lot of shit is getting seriously expensive these days ( Read more... )

Wow, I actually feel like writing today! NICE! =^)

Lots going on, and yes, I'll backdate some updates because there's a lot to unpack. (There's updates in the first half of February for those who haven't seen me around in awhile, that were written in the middle of last month.)

Firstly, to my Russian readers-- Russia is invading Ukraine (why else ( Read more... )

One of the subjects (among many) that Robin and I argued about during the Trump-led first year of the pandemic was about how bad crime was getting in 2020.

I had heard that as white collar workers stopped coming into the offices en masse to work from home, the caliber of people left in the downtown areas had... fallen. In addition, police in ( Read more... )

After a few chaotic weeks, the so-called "Trucker Revolt" is over ( Read more... )

Over the next 2 years or so, I'll be posting what I notice that is contributing to my dread of what's coming in the next 3 years. I've decided to call it "Red Menace Watch" as a way to hearken back to the original meaning of the "red menace"-- which used to be communism, ironically enough! Obviously, I'll have to censor my own writing for safety ( Read more... )