My thoughts, while walking off long Covid and listening to podcasts...a blog designed and meant to be freely associating, on the run, and not perfectly edited:
post and another post from my walkabout in fighting off my now seven month's long, Long CoViD.Today’s podcast is from Pod Save America, “Mitch McConnell, Welcome to the Resistance.” (with John Legend and Senator Warren!)
I will say honestly, that Donald Trump won’t see the (honestly, Necessarily) righteously deserved and earned Capital Punishment he so deserves. I will also say the worst thing that could happen is for someone to assassinate him. Do not do that! Because all y’all do then is to turn a moron wannabe dictator into a MAGA Martyr. What we need is for him to be thoroughly and obviously and admittedly disgraced in the eyes of his proselytes, and his cult.
Let’s face it, Donald Trump has created himself as a film trope. Which could be interchangeable with Vladimir Putin. A cheap man's Putin. Depending on the degree of crimes against humanity we're discussing, obviously. Trump used CoViD=19 to murder 100,000s of Americans. Putin invades other countries, while abusing his own citizens and now, pushing them into a war to die he is losing.
The question is, why who (and what) Donald Trump is (and always has been) is so obvious to me and others, and yet so oblivious to those who wanted to like him, who supported him because he mirrored their really poor judgment, and in how they view the world, regardless if it’s because of how they grew up, or their history, or in they’re just being rat bastards at the heart of it.
Radical extremist Republican MAGA types calling out Democrats for being exactly those things they ARE, is disingenuous to the point of pleasurably slurping down their own political porcine excretions. Calling out others in trying to neutralize their observations and criticisms of Donald Trump as being just, “Trump haters“...is ludicrous. Democrats, liberals, progressives, simply trying to act to be decent and to have decency in their policies and actions, should not cause conservatives, toxic conservatives, to label them in the ways they do. But it does point out how indecent they are. Look, the actual number of people who truly are just "Trump haters", is probably, psychologically and statistically speaking, only in the hundreds. The vast majority of these people are simply disgusted by Trump. Reasonably disgusted. Which his supporters gleefully label as merely being hateful. Even if you “hate the sin and not the sinner“, they're still correct in being disgusted. The problem with narcissists like Donald Trump is the person himself has selected and designed themselves to be disgusting and even hateful… Hateful in their own actions against others. So what SHOULD that evoke from others who are humane, decent Americans? Toxic is the right word, because it indicates a poisoning and a path to death and destruction that is where the Republican Party has been headed now, for decades.
Remember the things Republicans are best at are screaming at Democrats, lying, blaming others, and destroying things, not the least of which is through the regulation. It’s harder to strive to fix things, to better things. Which lays those types open for criticism and even failure. You try. When you try, it's messy, it's hard, and you CAN fail. But you learn, you try again. While Republicans have not had much of a platform for many decades other than selling fear and their own fears they would be removed from power, making them useless, for the most part. Because they thrive on negativities. Which is not how America is or should ever be. We’ve been and should be a shining light across the world. While Republicans keep trying to put that light out because... it’s “too expensive“, or, it's just too hard for them (and might cost them power or wealth). And that money, for that "light" after all, they'd prefer go to Republicans, to their lobbyists, their corporations, and the richest and wealthiest who support those Republicans in a never ending loop and cycle of grifting, conning and as we’ve seen through the last Republican administration, actual criminal activities.
I’m gonna update something I said on my last walkabout, about sucking your gut in while you’re walking, pulling your belly button back to the front of your spine to build your core muscle tone. I had said to hold it for a count of seconds. But I just realize what I’ve been doing wasn’t that at all. Instead, it's easier to just count your steps while trying to hold it. Then the next time, in a few minutes, trying to hold it for one more step. Then maybe don’t even do it for the rest of the day, but keep trying until you can eventually just walk and hold it in and you won’t even think about it. At some point it’ll just feel normal.
I went through something like that when I was a kid. My mom at some point started telling me to, "Stop slouching, stand up straight! Put your shoulders back." She kept at me that one year until I was so sick of hearing it, I did it. Until finally one day she just said, "Hey, you’re not slouching anymore. Good! Keep it up. I'll remind you if you back slide."
There’s times in my life when I find I'm slouching, are leaning forward, or hunched down as I walk. As if I’m beaten down by life, or some situation. Whenever I notice that? I stand the hell up straight and I look right into the future, facing it down. I progressively deal with it.
America isn’t really very progressive or proactive. It’s too often protectionist, and in bad times it’s isolationist. Mostly because of the Republican Party who seems to base itself upon that kind of thing in promoting fear, intimidation, and invoking anger over literally anything they can manufacture.
But nothing survives long by standing still. Or going backwards. Conservatism is for emergencies and short term use. And yet we have a political party devoted to just that, forever and always, Amen.
That’s got to be managed. Except during emergencies. Which toxic conservatives and Republicans seem to think is every minute of every day, no matter what. We're constantly always in an emergency so long as we give them power and money, power and money, power and money…
Why are republican states the most dangerous for gun violence? It's a statistic, look it up. It’s like what I heard on vice news about Japan and pedophilia in manga mags and anime (animations) which they appear to be unable to control. Their politicians comment on it that is there’s no proof that it has a link to child sexual abuse. Same thing is going on in America with guns and Republicans, when they made it illegal to even study, to research guns, or gun violence...for decades. As with what happened with Pres. Richard Nixon who set up a commission to study what’s going on in the 1960s with drugs. They gave him a studied response, and educated action items, such as legalizing drugs or at least, cannabis. But he hated their considered and rational opinion as it went against his ideology and he got so angry that he started the War on Drugs which immediately morphed into a war on American citizens, destroying lives and families for decades. And leading to a mindset that many grew up with who continue (esp., with conservatives) to continue to push his ignorant agenda. Conservatism is just not healthy for flowers and children and any living things. There’s no more proof needed it on that now. Look it up. If you can find a history book Republicans haven’t yet burned, that is.
I love dogs and I love children. I grew up with them after all. I’ve had them myself as an adult. But one thing I don’t like are parents who let their kids obnoxiously run around in public making noise and be bothering others. Or the same thing in some people with their pets. As I'm doing laps along the street, it always is the same two houses, with the same two dogs, who bark constantly until they can’t see me anymore. They always seem to be outside, they always seem to be annoying. They look like nice. sweet dogs, but I’m a stranger to them. Maybe they just leave them outside when they’re gone at work. Well, in my first house, that I bought, living there with my wife and two kids, back in the mid-90s, next-door was a young couple who moved in with a great Dane. A big but sweet dog. But they would all leave it alone all day and go to work. The dog would bark continuously until they returned home. It was hard to believe a dog could literally bark all day long, but it did. You ever heard a great Dane bark? In a house only10 feet away from your house? All day long? It gets on your nerves. We mentioned it and they were nice about it, but said there was nothing they could do. While we could think of a lot of things we could do...we all have our own ways of dealing with stress.
Yes, we do need better and free mental health, so we could have less mass shootings. But we also need mental health for conservatives and Republicans whose ideals and ideology are so far up there backside, it’s strangling the base of their top vertebra.
I'd just like to say, again, COVID-19 sucks. Long Covid sucks more. Considering if you have long Covid then you didn’t die from COVID-19. I got up this morning feeling the virus, as I like to say. I forced myself to get up and go out and try to do my 5 mile walk. And did. Because when I don’t do that, when I’m not exercising. long CoViD is much worse. Before I left home could feel my heart pounding. not fast. just a little too hard and. uncomfortable. I took half a Benadryl. Got ready to leave, thought. OK, taking another half a Benadryl. After my 1st mile I started feeling better. I'm getting close to being done with my book about my personal long CoVid experiences. It's tentatively titled. "Suffering Long CoViD". I just sent a copy to my editor who I worked on my book, "DEATH OF HEAVEN" with, who offered to be a better reader on my current book. So I’m waiting for that to come back while I’m finishing up the editing on it. After I get that submitted, I need to finish my other book, a companion piece to my multi award wining, filmic poem and historical documentary, “Pvt. Ravel‘s Bolero“. Then concurrently, I need to finish the DVD for the film. Which I'd started, then started not feeling well from long CoViD, and stopped working on it. Until finally I felt at least well enough to start this book on long CoViD. Which I now I can’t wait to be done with, to move on. Because it was trying. Reading daily logs about how miserable I had been, how I felt for the first time in my life, even considering all the dangerous things I’ve done, dangerous things that I've done safely and professionally, by the way, but not knowing if I would be alive the next day, or in the next hour. But at least it showed me how far I’ve come and how I may be closer to the end of this now than the beginning. One can truly only hope, as all of this was way long overdue.
I should also mention long CoVid-wise, when I walked my 5 miles the other day I didn’t feel very good because of it the next day. I couldn’t at first figure out why until I realized it was because I had walked that 5 miles. I know if I keep doing it, that eventually won’t happen unless I were to do 6 miles. But I’m gonna stay with just 5 miles. It took months to get up to 5 miles, from my first 10 minute walk. But I’m there now. The thing about long CoViD is, you’ve gotta know when to push it. And take time to recuperate from it your pushing efforts (that's important). When you do push things take time to rest. That could be a few hours, or a few days, or a week. But don’t wait too long because then you’ll backslide without meaning to. And that really sucks.
John Legend was on the podcast. He mentioned how we are one of the only countries in the world who still has cash bail. I agree, That's really gotta go. And because our Congress is so often useless to move on so many important things, more and more we're seeing local district attorney‘s around the country refusing to use bail. Progress, comes with great effort. Sad as that is. And sad as those who fight so hard against so many good things because they view it as bad. Because their ideology is bad and they can't seem to adjust to reality, or humanity, against their beliefs in rules and antiquated thinking.
Interesting piece regarding Long CoViD.
Maybe we need an Exigent Circumstances (political) Party...
Oh, one last thing. On the core muscle toning and counting your steps while holding your belly to your spine issue... try to count in fives or tens and you’ll get further, faster, and find it’s easier to remember what your last count was, the next time you up the number.
Cheers! Sláinte!
I will say honestly, that Donald Trump won’t see the (honestly, Necessarily) righteously deserved and earned Capital Punishment he so deserves. I will also say the worst thing that could happen is for someone to assassinate him. Do not do that! Because all y’all do then is to turn a moron wannabe dictator into a MAGA Martyr. What we need is for him to be thoroughly and obviously and admittedly disgraced in the eyes of his proselytes, and his cult.
Let’s face it, Donald Trump has created himself as a film trope. Which could be interchangeable with Vladimir Putin. A cheap man's Putin. Depending on the degree of crimes against humanity we're discussing, obviously. Trump used CoViD=19 to murder 100,000s of Americans. Putin invades other countries, while abusing his own citizens and now, pushing them into a war to die he is losing.
The question is, why who (and what) Donald Trump is (and always has been) is so obvious to me and others, and yet so oblivious to those who wanted to like him, who supported him because he mirrored their really poor judgment, and in how they view the world, regardless if it’s because of how they grew up, or their history, or in they’re just being rat bastards at the heart of it.
Radical extremist Republican MAGA types calling out Democrats for being exactly those things they ARE, is disingenuous to the point of pleasurably slurping down their own political porcine excretions. Calling out others in trying to neutralize their observations and criticisms of Donald Trump as being just, “Trump haters“...is ludicrous. Democrats, liberals, progressives, simply trying to act to be decent and to have decency in their policies and actions, should not cause conservatives, toxic conservatives, to label them in the ways they do. But it does point out how indecent they are. Look, the actual number of people who truly are just "Trump haters", is probably, psychologically and statistically speaking, only in the hundreds. The vast majority of these people are simply disgusted by Trump. Reasonably disgusted. Which his supporters gleefully label as merely being hateful. Even if you “hate the sin and not the sinner“, they're still correct in being disgusted. The problem with narcissists like Donald Trump is the person himself has selected and designed themselves to be disgusting and even hateful… Hateful in their own actions against others. So what SHOULD that evoke from others who are humane, decent Americans? Toxic is the right word, because it indicates a poisoning and a path to death and destruction that is where the Republican Party has been headed now, for decades.
Remember the things Republicans are best at are screaming at Democrats, lying, blaming others, and destroying things, not the least of which is through the regulation. It’s harder to strive to fix things, to better things. Which lays those types open for criticism and even failure. You try. When you try, it's messy, it's hard, and you CAN fail. But you learn, you try again. While Republicans have not had much of a platform for many decades other than selling fear and their own fears they would be removed from power, making them useless, for the most part. Because they thrive on negativities. Which is not how America is or should ever be. We’ve been and should be a shining light across the world. While Republicans keep trying to put that light out because... it’s “too expensive“, or, it's just too hard for them (and might cost them power or wealth). And that money, for that "light" after all, they'd prefer go to Republicans, to their lobbyists, their corporations, and the richest and wealthiest who support those Republicans in a never ending loop and cycle of grifting, conning and as we’ve seen through the last Republican administration, actual criminal activities.
I’m gonna update something I said on my last walkabout, about sucking your gut in while you’re walking, pulling your belly button back to the front of your spine to build your core muscle tone. I had said to hold it for a count of seconds. But I just realize what I’ve been doing wasn’t that at all. Instead, it's easier to just count your steps while trying to hold it. Then the next time, in a few minutes, trying to hold it for one more step. Then maybe don’t even do it for the rest of the day, but keep trying until you can eventually just walk and hold it in and you won’t even think about it. At some point it’ll just feel normal.
I went through something like that when I was a kid. My mom at some point started telling me to, "Stop slouching, stand up straight! Put your shoulders back." She kept at me that one year until I was so sick of hearing it, I did it. Until finally one day she just said, "Hey, you’re not slouching anymore. Good! Keep it up. I'll remind you if you back slide."
There’s times in my life when I find I'm slouching, are leaning forward, or hunched down as I walk. As if I’m beaten down by life, or some situation. Whenever I notice that? I stand the hell up straight and I look right into the future, facing it down. I progressively deal with it.
America isn’t really very progressive or proactive. It’s too often protectionist, and in bad times it’s isolationist. Mostly because of the Republican Party who seems to base itself upon that kind of thing in promoting fear, intimidation, and invoking anger over literally anything they can manufacture.
But nothing survives long by standing still. Or going backwards. Conservatism is for emergencies and short term use. And yet we have a political party devoted to just that, forever and always, Amen.
That’s got to be managed. Except during emergencies. Which toxic conservatives and Republicans seem to think is every minute of every day, no matter what. We're constantly always in an emergency so long as we give them power and money, power and money, power and money…
Why are republican states the most dangerous for gun violence? It's a statistic, look it up. It’s like what I heard on vice news about Japan and pedophilia in manga mags and anime (animations) which they appear to be unable to control. Their politicians comment on it that is there’s no proof that it has a link to child sexual abuse. Same thing is going on in America with guns and Republicans, when they made it illegal to even study, to research guns, or gun violence...for decades. As with what happened with Pres. Richard Nixon who set up a commission to study what’s going on in the 1960s with drugs. They gave him a studied response, and educated action items, such as legalizing drugs or at least, cannabis. But he hated their considered and rational opinion as it went against his ideology and he got so angry that he started the War on Drugs which immediately morphed into a war on American citizens, destroying lives and families for decades. And leading to a mindset that many grew up with who continue (esp., with conservatives) to continue to push his ignorant agenda. Conservatism is just not healthy for flowers and children and any living things. There’s no more proof needed it on that now. Look it up. If you can find a history book Republicans haven’t yet burned, that is.
I love dogs and I love children. I grew up with them after all. I’ve had them myself as an adult. But one thing I don’t like are parents who let their kids obnoxiously run around in public making noise and be bothering others. Or the same thing in some people with their pets. As I'm doing laps along the street, it always is the same two houses, with the same two dogs, who bark constantly until they can’t see me anymore. They always seem to be outside, they always seem to be annoying. They look like nice. sweet dogs, but I’m a stranger to them. Maybe they just leave them outside when they’re gone at work. Well, in my first house, that I bought, living there with my wife and two kids, back in the mid-90s, next-door was a young couple who moved in with a great Dane. A big but sweet dog. But they would all leave it alone all day and go to work. The dog would bark continuously until they returned home. It was hard to believe a dog could literally bark all day long, but it did. You ever heard a great Dane bark? In a house only10 feet away from your house? All day long? It gets on your nerves. We mentioned it and they were nice about it, but said there was nothing they could do. While we could think of a lot of things we could do...we all have our own ways of dealing with stress.
Yes, we do need better and free mental health, so we could have less mass shootings. But we also need mental health for conservatives and Republicans whose ideals and ideology are so far up there backside, it’s strangling the base of their top vertebra.
I'd just like to say, again, COVID-19 sucks. Long Covid sucks more. Considering if you have long Covid then you didn’t die from COVID-19. I got up this morning feeling the virus, as I like to say. I forced myself to get up and go out and try to do my 5 mile walk. And did. Because when I don’t do that, when I’m not exercising. long CoViD is much worse. Before I left home could feel my heart pounding. not fast. just a little too hard and. uncomfortable. I took half a Benadryl. Got ready to leave, thought. OK, taking another half a Benadryl. After my 1st mile I started feeling better. I'm getting close to being done with my book about my personal long CoVid experiences. It's tentatively titled. "Suffering Long CoViD". I just sent a copy to my editor who I worked on my book, "DEATH OF HEAVEN" with, who offered to be a better reader on my current book. So I’m waiting for that to come back while I’m finishing up the editing on it. After I get that submitted, I need to finish my other book, a companion piece to my multi award wining, filmic poem and historical documentary, “Pvt. Ravel‘s Bolero“. Then concurrently, I need to finish the DVD for the film. Which I'd started, then started not feeling well from long CoViD, and stopped working on it. Until finally I felt at least well enough to start this book on long CoViD. Which I now I can’t wait to be done with, to move on. Because it was trying. Reading daily logs about how miserable I had been, how I felt for the first time in my life, even considering all the dangerous things I’ve done, dangerous things that I've done safely and professionally, by the way, but not knowing if I would be alive the next day, or in the next hour. But at least it showed me how far I’ve come and how I may be closer to the end of this now than the beginning. One can truly only hope, as all of this was way long overdue.
I should also mention long CoVid-wise, when I walked my 5 miles the other day I didn’t feel very good because of it the next day. I couldn’t at first figure out why until I realized it was because I had walked that 5 miles. I know if I keep doing it, that eventually won’t happen unless I were to do 6 miles. But I’m gonna stay with just 5 miles. It took months to get up to 5 miles, from my first 10 minute walk. But I’m there now. The thing about long CoViD is, you’ve gotta know when to push it. And take time to recuperate from it your pushing efforts (that's important). When you do push things take time to rest. That could be a few hours, or a few days, or a week. But don’t wait too long because then you’ll backslide without meaning to. And that really sucks.
John Legend was on the podcast. He mentioned how we are one of the only countries in the world who still has cash bail. I agree, That's really gotta go. And because our Congress is so often useless to move on so many important things, more and more we're seeing local district attorney‘s around the country refusing to use bail. Progress, comes with great effort. Sad as that is. And sad as those who fight so hard against so many good things because they view it as bad. Because their ideology is bad and they can't seem to adjust to reality, or humanity, against their beliefs in rules and antiquated thinking.
Interesting piece regarding Long CoViD.
Maybe we need an Exigent Circumstances (political) Party...
Oh, one last thing. On the core muscle toning and counting your steps while holding your belly to your spine issue... try to count in fives or tens and you’ll get further, faster, and find it’s easier to remember what your last count was, the next time you up the number.
Cheers! Sláinte!
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