My thoughts, Stream of consciousness, rough and ready, while walking off long Covid and listening to podcasts… July 23, 2023, Sunday
Weather for the day… 67° starting out, 72° when I got home
Podcast The Whistleblowers: Inside the Trump Administration episode three, “In Justice”
Instagram for the day
Instagram Post from the past. On set at my old house/property as pyrotech for the day.
One wonders if Ukraine shouldn't collect half of their cluster munitions and covertly safely store them in Russia and then manually scatter them around just the right places for pyrotechnic displays. They could even notify people. The point would be, "Yes, we are here, as long as you shouldn't be there."
I need to advertise suffering long Covid in Yakima to send people to their store.
The support of Donald Trump is so frustrating. Because we’re a democracy or a democratic republic if you will and he’s...just an autocrat. I said when he was elected "he is my president" although I voted for someone else and it made me want to vomit. But that changed very quickly because of his actions and orientation supporting my at that time, recent understanding and belief in his being a criminal for decades, and I was no longer able to support with him in his being in our oval office he still believes is his. I no longer accept him as my president His position for those sad four years as POTUS I now see as his being our CAOTUS, or our "Chief Autocrat of the United States". Americans do not elect autocrats as POTUS.
Conspiracy theory types, easily go off the rails because of overthinking and over analyzing, in a standard paranoid fashion, typically without enough information (and because of that, also fearing being seen as less intelligent than they strive to present, and about as intelligent usually as they in reality are), then project and make huge leaps of (il)logic. A mainstay of their mindset is to never to be embarrassed (ibid) or be caught off guard, because they didn’t see how they were being fooled or being made a fool of. When their orientation is one of, a fool. The thought then becomes embedded, so that it’s foremost in one's mind, and one can no longer see having been fully indoctrinated into their mindset and bubble as a conspiracy theorist.
Another element of the conspiracy theorist mind is in seeking alternate realities, or as they might put it, alternate considerations. They see that as simply holding another (more "clear") orientation off of the same facts or elements, which are actually alternative facts or elements and not facts at all which quickly devolves away from reality. If you don’t like the mainstream explanation for something because it doesn’t fit your paradigm, and you instead seek anything that gives you even a semblance of reality and logic, oddly enough, you end up in a fantasy world. These types tend to fall on the right side of the political spectrum.
When I find sought more about the conservative mindset on the right, they are typically based in the considerations of fear of things they don’t understand, and therefore, of a future they apparently cannot know and demand that it is unknowable. Which would make one logically assume it would require becoming ever more proactive, esp., as so many of them are preppers (it's been estimated a few yeas ago that was 2-3% of Americans and in 2022 was closer to 10%). And yet has a political party being proactive, seems to be anathema to them. They deny human responsibility in climate change (which is clear) and deny their authoritarian orientation up until they fully embrace it, once they have a base strong enough to withstand becoming anti-American agents in destroying our democracy.
So a week ago last Thursday I caught something, or long Covid flared up, again. I tried to fight it off as a cold or flu and didn’t see progress until I used some antivirals. Which says a lot about what was going on. I assume long covid again triggered a dormant virus. I thought I was getting over this but it seems like it’s back. I know that it has a capability of hiding away in tiny pockets to be released at some point as some other dormant viruses are. I’ve wondered where? I heard that malaria hides in one's liver and reoccurs, as a report on NPR today said about about the resurgence of malaria in Florida. So I’m wondering if somehow purging the liver might help? How does one do that? Like no medical researchers have thought of that yet? But they did find some help with, I think it was Paxlovid on long Covid, but it only helps for a while then you need it again.
My son said somebody came into his health food store, talking about how Covid is less with smokers and nicotine might be a solution or a path using nicotine patches. I told him the I research I had come across over the past couple years indicated that’s not a path to pursue. I found some new research I sent him specifically saying I was correct. And while the numbers may indicate something on that order, it’s not what it appears to be. It was a French study a few years ago on nicotine and Covid, which is what got the misdirection out to the public on the Internet. One study I found said that the results they found was not statistically relevant to the point that smoking was worse for you than the benefits related to Covid. So often in these kinds of things, and it totally appears to some to be one thing, but then in practice, or via research proves out to not be what it seems. This is the same issue. We see these kinds of things in politics with conspiracy theories, in looking at things anecdotally, or evaluating things in hindsight, when you weren’t there and what happens from the outside looks like something else happened than in reality, did.
How much of a loser is RFK Junior? So sad. His family speaks out against him because he’s humiliating the Kennedy name. One way we'll know what a serious loser this guy is? If Trump were to take him on as vice president. Should that happen? Well, give me a break. Then these really are not good people.
I live in Washington state, I was born here. But before I was five I had lived in Spain under Franco fascism, and then we moved to Philadelphia with family. I do love Washington. it has about every environment you could wish for within driving distance. I’ve lived in different places around America and I keep coming back here. Although I keep avoiding Tacoma where I was born. But we’re a pretty progressive state, I’m proud to say. And I don’t say that in relation to a progressive centered political party by progressives. As far as human beings are considered, we are also a fucked up State...because we are in America. I noticed Americans have fucked up priorities since I graduated university in 1984. Not all of us, but enough of us to ruin it for everybody. Certainly, at this point in history it’s Republicans and conservatives doing most of the fucked up shit. And yet I’d rather be in Washington then say Texas, or the South...red states seem like their leadership as the worst. So are they self loathing types, in voting so often against heir best interests? Because they have the highest unemployment, the worst medical care and citizens keep voting for things that harm them. Democrats may be bad at selling good ideas but Republicans are horrible yet somehow convince their voters to consistently and constantly vote against themselves to vote for those who seem to forever refuse and abuse them.
Oh. That’s right, Disney bought Fox Studios. So I don’t have to feel bad about watching Fox entertainment media anymore, considering its toxic. anti-American, anti-democracy Fox News network.
It’s sad all this conservative and QAnon nonsense about liberals or Democratic leadership being involved in child sex ring murders when we know that more Republicans and conservatives are charged with crimes like that. We know that strict religious upbringings can warp people as adults in feelings of guilt and fear that run counter to simple human existence. We’ve seen Megachurch leaders go to prison. We’ve seen the staunchest Christians in leadership, be found out and indicted. Jim Caviezel is an actor who I liked his work. A lot. But he’s a strict conservative Catholic and said so much bullshit that while I support his "art", I don’t support his personal beliefs. About the paper from an FBI office that led to charges of the FBI profiling and targeting in the Catholic Church for white supremacists...Director Wray negated the paper that came from that FBI from a field office and dealt appropriately (maybe) with that agent. But here’s the thing, if there IS white supremacists "concerns" in a conservative Catholic church, then you DO go in and look for it. Just to prove it's nothing, if nothing else. We have GOT to be proactive anymore. But here, the FBI’s, once again, being crippled on something that may or may not be true and we won’t know until they're research of the situation is complete, and then hopefully they’ll come up with the right course of action... and execute it. Whatever that reasonable course of action should be.
I was raised Catholic, pretty strict old school Catholic. But I also had a strong sense of right and wrong as a very young child with an unusually analytical mind. I started studying the Bible in the Catholic Church up through my 20s. What I found led me into the teachings of the Buddha and his Buddha dharma. I'm not what most people, or Buddhists would know as being a Buddhist.
Buddhism is not a religion. It’s a mental discipline and an orientation in life structured more in humanism than theocracy. Theocracy is dangerous.
I don’t buy into a lot of what the Buddhas had to say after the original Buddha who seemed like a pretty reasonable guy.
Angel Studios has tried to disentangle itself from the QAnon bullshit related to their film, "Sounds of Freedom", which isn’t mentioned in their film as it was produced pre-QAnon. While many of the right wing MAGA have tried to tie it to that, because it’s about child sex rings. Sadly, the filmmaker has walked the line about that, a bit too close some claim.
Well, I only did 3 miles today but I felt like it was pushing it and it’s getting pretty warm out so after not walking for almost a week, next time hopefully… 5 miles, again.
Cheers! Sláinte!
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