“God has allowed me to live for one more day, and I’m going to make it your problem”.
—shoe0nHead, the funniest non-comedian evarr

Oh wait. I did that yesterday. Dammit! All I was really saying is this. We got told that we had to vote Blue in order to save the country from Fascism. What’s Fascism? It’s the merger of the state with the corporations. And I am sorry to have to be the one to say it, but … the state/corporate merger and turning democracy into a puppet show is a deal that was done a very long time ago. Somewhere between Dwight David Eisenhower and before Goldman Sachs decided to back Obama, and funded his run. When he won, they hand-picked his cabinet, and even included some of their own on the final short list. It doesn’t get any more merged than that, and the impolite but proper word for merged is: fascist. I’m not wrong, but I am almost sorry, to be noticing now so very late in life.

Last time, their choice was Kamala. But alas. She was so unpopular, even in the black community, that they had to settle for handing her the VP and trying to set her up for ’24. In my humble and way too early opinion, that isn’t going to work out for them this time.

The best that can be said of Biden, Harris, Obama, or any Clinton of your choosing is that they are no more or less fascist than Donald Trump; no more and no less ‘authoritarian’. And of course, he has some icky phrases and gross tics and is ugly as a mud fence besides, but optics and crudeness aside … getting down to the economic realities that matter … it’s a distinction without a meaningful difference, and the People, most especially the better breed of lefterly-leaners, are waking at last and ever so drowsily to that unsavory but unavoidably self-evident reality. I’m just one of them, and I’m here to share the good bad news in the name of our feudal Lord, the one who has allowed me to live and post one more day.

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Today is the last partial fragment of the first four-day chunk I’ve had entirely to myself in months. I did pretty good with it. The house is cleaner than it has ever been since I/we returned and unloaded into it. But cleanliness was only tangential to the real work of organization and life mapping. There is progress to report there too. Of course, the vacation-in-place wasn’t 100% serious. You know I’ve been watching a few old movies too.

Onward and backward to real life.