200 whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority

Where do we begin?

How about here, with a really difficult concept to wrap our heads around.

If you've been following me for a while, or especially if you've talked to me in person in the past three years, you will have heard me say something like, "This is all a mediated experience. We don't really know what is happening."

And the usual response is, "But I can see with my own two eyes what a bullying yammerhead he is."

And it's true. Dear leader plays the part of villain so well, and he has clearly gone off script. But it's just that, the obvious villain part, that made me write this in a poem three years ago:


This doesn't mean that I'm going to vote for the guy, or that I'm immune to the fear tactics the Democrats have used to manipulate me into voting for way-more-conservative-than-i-would-like-candidates the past two (3? 4? 5?) election cycles, it means, when you feel bile and hatred coming from your own mouth, recognize YOU ARE BEING PLAYED.

This is not us vs. them, red vs. blue, left vs. right, or any versus at all. 

This is simply a distraction to keep us, we the people, from taking any real power.

Images from a garden party last Saturday, otherwise known as the Supreme Spreader Event.

And images from this Saturday.

Personally, I believe he has it. 

I just watched somebody die of Covid-19. It was not fun, on all sides. 

At first, it was just a cough. As it got worse, fear and anger took over for denial.

Outside of a four minute edited video where he says he is feeling much better (it's a roller coaster ride) and Spylania is "a bit younger" this bit of EMPATHY??? was the only message to appear from his fat little fingers yesterday.

But with the senate shut down again, and Senator Turtle solely focused on doing exactly what he said couldn't be done in 2016, we start to get a clearer picture of just who exactly is in charge of things.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the virus seems to have other ideas.

On the plus side, goats!

Towers!

Smog!

Good morning!

Be safe, and join me today in attempting to come at life from a place of love.

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