Monday, June 10, 2024

Walkabout Thoughts #82

Thoughts & Stream of Consciousness, rough and ready, from an award-winning filmmaker and author you’ve never heard of, while walking off long Covid, and listening to podcasts…walk day Friday June 7, 2024

Not sure I'm walking off long covid anymore now. Cheers!
 
Weather for the day… nice day, starting out, 57° nice sunny day blue sky cool breeze starting out, 73° when I got home at about 11am.

Podcast Pod Save the World ep. World Reacts to Trump’s Guilty Verdict
with Dan Restrepo. You may have heard his name before.

Noticed yesterday my walking shoes had a hole in the tip of my left foot so I tossed them. Then my back up pair also had a hole in the tip (of the right foot) so I tossed them too, so I’m wearing my new casual shoes to see if they work for walking.

A member of our little Port Orchard Washington artist community a few years ago, a woman offered to help me with my social media for an extremely good cost per month. We only did one month, then she moved to Texas. I’ve helped her with some charity events by sending her books of mine to give out. Last week she asked for links to see my films and really liked my documentary “Pvt. Ravel's Bolero “. She just told me yesterday she finally got around to seeing my film noir/horror short, “Gumdrop “, a short horror.

She’s now asked me if I would consider doing a Director viewing party online with her small online horror group. I asked if she had gotten one of my DVDs because I sent them out to a bunch of people. I think she was gone to Texas by then and she said she didn’t get a copy.

I was waiting until the end of the film festival run for both films, for when I had all the awards they would receive, so I could revamp the DVD versions I produced. Plus, with “Gumdrop“ I also did a Director's second audio commentary track. I figured I’ll redo that now, and and send her a copy. She can listen to it and then we can talk about having an online viewing party. I was going to do one for the documentary film too, but it had so many awards, the way I included those laurels on the desk ate up all the spare room. So I have figured out how to share those awards with a much smaller footprint. I should really update the trailers and maybe the beginning of each movie with at least a few of those awards.

I’ve had been trying to put “Gumdrop“ up on Film Hub, a film distributor, but they had problems with the way I designed and edited the production. I get it as regards streaming issues, to eliminate problems, but some of those "issues" I think are just ridiculous concerns.

Kelly Hughes found another film distributor that we're looking at: Pay Hip. Another is Gumroad. As far as I’m concerned, this is not something a Director should be dealing with, but that’s how it goes when you’re funding everything and doing the entire project yourself as a filmmaker.

OK, moving on…

From the podcast… There’s a "iron river" of guns are flowing to Mexico out of America. People like to talk about all the violence in Mexico or all the guns and violence in America, which 2nd amendment advocates love to claim are supposedly just mental health issues. Look. You put any dangerous substance into any group you’re gonna see problems. You restrict those dangerous substances and the problems decrease. I’m not sure how that’s confusing to anyone, but when you make it political, tribal and partisan, there you have today’s Republican Party and Trump MAGA infection talking points.

OK, these shoes are kind of working but one foot has a sock that wants to be an insert under my foot. I’ve been buying "Dr. Scholl's Energizing Comfort Everyday Insoles with Massaging Gel" inserts (about $13) and they’re pretty awesome. I liked them so much I got a pair for my sheepskin slippers. And a pair for my oldest son who is on his feet all day managing a health food store.

I’ve got really flat feet. Which USAF discovered when I was in basic training. But while they aren’t bone spurs, they’re still pretty uncomfortable. Of course, when you didn’t have bone spurs and claimed you did, well that’s another thing entirely. My foot surgeon when I was in 10th grade said I had the flattest feet he'd ever seen even on an operating table. Had some bone growing out in my left arch and he cut it back. I was starting to have the opposite of an arch.

Look, I never had a problem with someone getting out of Vietnam. I was very happy when my older brother had some legal issues that kept him out of Vietnam while some of his friends ended up there. My brother is deep into the MAGA delusional infection. I can't even comprehend what he'd be like had he GONE to Vietnam.

But some people really should’ve gone. Just think how much more bang for the buck America would have gotten out of Donald Trump, had he gone and given all in Vietnam. 

To reiterate, my disparaging of Donald Trump has never been about the stupid conservative fake disorder, "TDS". I'm also not just a “hater “and it's not just a personality conflict about Trump. The man is a horrible human being. 

I just don’t like criminals in public office. That’s really all there is to it. When people rationalize and disinform, as many Republican leaders are doing now, I don’t like that either. Reality and honesty is just better for a nation.

That’s all there is to this. I don’t like talking about Trump. I don’t like feeding a narcissist's fetishes. But if we do what I (we all probably) feel like doing many and ignore him or avoid talking about him because it makes one sick to one's morals, ethics and decency in humanity, then we might as well just hand the election to the autocrats in not voting or voting third-party because of our own petty lazy narcissism.

If you eliminate lies and disinformation and a desire to break, not fix things as they are… Trump and his MAGA would instantly evaporate. The Republican Party itself would simply cease to exist.

I’ve said this a bunch of times and I’ll say it again here. I think our best course of action going forward is not to get angry, but make fun of those like Trump. It would do as well to get rid of the Republican Party and split the Democratic Party in 2 with our most conservative in a new GOP replacement incarnation.

Putin's new show on Fox News after 
his own State TV "RT" turned him down?

Let’s face it, the GOP is that airplane pilot who flies upside down in the clouds, who wants to pull up into the ground, thinking that would take him "up", merely because he can’t face the reality his dashboard instruments are telling him. Or his copilot who in this case (interpreting Trumpisms) the pilot must’ve shot, expecting to be parised for being such a "hero" (AKA conservative “patriot “).

Yes, it's all MAGALoonacy for fun and profit...by some.

A bit about the Arts...

As I said in a previous blog, I’ve been watching film franchise sequels. So yesterday I started watching or re-watching "Game of Thrones - The House of the Dragons", the "Game of Thrones" sequel. Loved that show. The fact that the two creators and showrunners had never done anything like that at the time, then achieved something remarkable… Remarkable. As an author, I can't stop thinking about how hard that series would be for me to write, and so it makes the show that much more appreciated by me.

On my first go round of "The House of the Dragons" in watching it the first time, I didn’t like it so much. Perhaps in being too close to "Game of Thrones" going off the air. Perhaps because I had to wait a week for each next episode. This past week I watched it all in one day. And I liked it a lot more.

Matt Smith, previously “The Doctor “on “Doctor Who “, I never much liked him as The Doctor. He was just too odd-looking for me, if nothing else. But I really like him as the contrarian uncle and brother of the king on this new show. My oldest son recently finished watching all of the first series (or first season) of "Doctor Who" from the 1960s. He has interesting perspectives on the show.

So I thought I would watch the show again within a week or two of the upcoming series two premiere. And now I’m really looking forward to it.

I’m also watching a "making of" series called, "Game of Thrones - The House of the Dragon: The House That Dragons Built", which is an episode by episode behind the scenes documentary show. Oh, I do love those. This one is so fun. SO much work and detail in this series it's staggering. What a show to have worked on!

I liked the making of "The Fall Guy" documentary. Really made me look forward to seeing that flick. I’ve always had mass respect for stunt people. I could’ve been a stunt person and I could’ve enjoyed that. Maybe up until my first broken bone. I’m just too protective of my body. Which, if you said that to any of my friends who knew me decades ago, certainly back in high school and into my 20s, they would laugh and ask, "What? Him?"

Maybe so. But doing extremely dangerous things safely is quite different than doing it on a movie set for a living. Actually doing anything for a living is way different than doing it for fun.

Which is why I never wanted to be a gigolo... or a porn star.

OK 1st mile walked. I can’t take it. I’m gonna go home and get a different sock. It’s only like half a block across from the street route that I walk. And extra steps and that's good.

This is nice, with these newer shoes where my toe tips aren’t hurting because they’re not sinking into a hole in the tip of my shoe.


I started watching "Stax: Soulsville USA" on MAX streaming. So much incredible music came from them. Music I grew up listening to on the radio in the 60s & 70s, and more. I was into pop and rock as a kid, later hard rock, then heavy metal until it started being called that and got a bit weird. But the Black music was some of the most amazing stuff. And without them, no rock n roll. "Soul Music" spawned in 1961 when Gospel music blended with secular lyrics and rhythms. Rhythm & Blues. I do love the Blues. Something my older brother indoctrinated me into when I was in high school. Though I knew about it from hanging onto his records in the late 60s will he tolled around America on his Triumph motorcycle.

Also check this out: 1932, a women demonstrating self-protection on stagea women demonstrating self-protection on stage.

FYI - In "It Can't Happen Here", the American version of the Nazis were called Corpos (American Corporate State and Patriotic Party). “The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—Salon

You know what’s sad about this whole immigrant thing? Especially MAGA lunacy professing what a "shit hole country" (Donald Trump quote) America is or what a "banana republic" it is (another of his quotes and of his minions, not noting that refers to an American corporation in another country) because we actually do have a justice system that actually does do something to criminals like Donald Trump. 

If you think America’s as bad as the disinformation about us is, try thinking about why those people are trying to get into America. How bad does their country have to be to make them suffer through their trip here to our border and immigration issues once here and the right's idiocy and toxic conservatives who are out for only their narcissistic leader and his best interests.

I just saw a World War II veteran on TV at almost 102 years of age on Amanpour and Company last night. She was over in Europe for the events there as it’s been 80 years since D-Day. In her conversation with him, he said he wasn’t a hero, they’re all dead, he said. "I like to change that word so that it spells 'here too'. because I was "here too".

If this was an MAGA Trump bootlicker, they would just say "Yes I'm a hero" or knowing that's questionable, state it in such a way they mean that, but doubletalk around it. Sad. That is again that mindset of theirs where they believe "the end justifies the means". "It doesn’t matter if we’re right or wrong if it’s what we want then it’s right."

If that’s not evil, then evil doesn’t exist.

Damn. The new sock I used to swap out the old sock that kept slipping down appears to have been an old sock too and perhaps the companion sock to that sock I just threw out. So it looks like I have to stop at home after this mile, again. And if this is the worst thing that happens to me this week, I’m kind of good with that.

Since 2015, 6 million Venezuelans have left their country. 3 million ended up in Columbia for they seem to successfully at keeping these people close to their own country. If we can’t fix the root cause in these countries or in countries like Haiti and others suffering similar issues, why aren’t we at least helping Columbia with this?

Well? Biden has been. They just haven’t been talking about it very much. Trump hadn’t been and has no plans to help there. He just wants to abuse and once they arrive here it’s a good political fodder for complaining about others. That’s who he is and that’s what MAGA is. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have told congressional [MAGA] Republicans to shoot down any immigration plans Biden has to help the border immigration situation that might make Trump look bad. Why is that even an issue. 

Like Reagan, disallowing jCarer a win with the Iran hostages until Reagan was elected. So that the hostages were released within minutes of Reagan being sworn in as POTUS. Some say that's a conspiracy theory. But the timing is perfect. Not to mention, 

On the Iranian hostage crisis, it oddly ended on January 20, 1981, literally MINUTES after Republican Ronald Reagan's inauguration. So there wasn't a deal so he would win, stealing Carter's hard work for an October surprise before the election? Please. More GOP Dirty Tricks.

But let’s not look at that kind of thing. Let’s just talk about how bad Biden is?

Give me a break. We have to find a way to break the back of disinformation politics. DO understand there is a different between spin, as opinion, and out right lies, where the GOP is today, especially MAGA and Trump.

I don’t have any new episodes of Marc Maron WTF? And that was the tail of Pod Save the World. So I’m switching to the latest episode of Pod Save America.

Oh yeah Steve Bannon is finally going to jail. Lose the key Jailer. If it wasn’t for that clown, his puppet Donald Trump wouldn’t have gotten as far as he did in the first place. Once in office if it wasn’t for Stephen Miller, we wouldn’t have seen a lot of the abuses that happened and that little prick is still out there lying on TV and on toxic conservative social media shows.

Oh yeah. When your party in this case, the Republican Party, is trying to block access to contraception? WTF is that about? One could rationalize their bullshit about abortions. But when you’re gonna force people to have kids? Fuck you guys! This is theocracy at its worst. Actually, they’ll get there. If you’re clueless about what that can look like? Please start watching and binge "The Handmaid’s Tale". Or read the book. It’s like a couple hour read. I read it when it came out and it was frightening then back when I knew that couldn’t happen. Wow, was she prophetic and were we stupid. But then that book came out before Newt Gingrich got on C-SPAN in the 1990s and started applying… I’m gonna say it again...Soviet KGB disinformation tactics for the GOP.

OMG if people cannot as yet see that’s what happened, then we’re truly hopeless.

Seriously, start investigating what the USSR KGB was doing in the 70s, 80s and 90s, and onward until now. How Trump took that and ran with it, feeling so comfortable as if he was in his own, but in our public arenas.

You will be shocked what you uncover! Because at some point, the Republican Party starts to blur with the Soviet Union. Once they fell, Russia had Hope in the 90s. But their leadership didn’t like their new path to democracy and the newly grown oligarchs liked their wealth and came to realize that the "end justifies any means" (sound familiar?). And that led to Putin as president in 1999 and the rest... is history.

That’s not my bullshit, that’s not disinformation, that is history. Go look it up.

Though now that I think about it, I've got a warn you. I wonder if everybody goes through this who pays attention? I lived through the Cold War, more aware than most. I have a certificate on my wall from the US government thanking me for my Service in the military during the Cold War. 

Out of high school, I was looking at a career in espionage..I’ve said before I actually got through initial screening for the OSI in the USAF with the highest score that CO said he had ever seen. Before that and from that point on for a decade or two, I kept apprised of what was going on in the Soviet Union and in America, and around the world as related issues of espionage always blend into international relations.

I took civics and then world problems in high school from one of the best teachers one could take it from. I learned a lot and I was inspired by an embedded kernel of interest. I didn’t know existed for decades. But my teacher did. She had been in the middle of international relations about Taiwan when Chang Kai Shek was involved.

So while I was really only interested in espionage issues and intelligence issues from a CIA perspective, or an NSA perspective, it all led you into MI6 and Russian KGB, that again, inevitably led to issues of international relations. Which I avoided at first but eventually just gave up avoiding because you had to know a little of everything to know a lot of some things in that.

Fast forward to the 1990s and suddenly I thought I should start paying attention to American domestic policy which inevitably means international policy. Because I had two kids then. Two young kids. I thought it was high time I was a responsible adult as an American citizen. I grew up with an older brother who was into conspiracies (still reasonable back in the 60s/70s) and was pretty anti-government as many rightly were in the 60s. He didn’t grow up with my nuclear family but lived with his dad and we missed him a lot as kids.

My family, mostly because of my mom, was a Democratic Party/ union family. My stepdad was also a teamster on top of it.

So I grew up with a rather open attitude. In 5th grade I asked my mom one day why she didn’t seem to trust me. She looked at me surprised and said "because you lie all the time". I had stumbled across the teachings of Aristotle at the library, that year and so I told her that I’m never gonna lie again, And I only wanted to tell and learn about the Truth in the world.

Being raised Catholic, I graduated high school trying to avoid the “Jesus Freaks “and searched out religion to try to prove God existed, that the Bible was real, and that Catholicism was correct. That didn't work out so well.

That’s the best way to do it. Prove your case by trying to disprove it and if you can’t then you’re right. You don’t take your opinion and prove that as we see MAGA do all the time.

What I found out updated and altered my beliefs. So when I hit the 1990s and started to notice that things I had studied about the KGB were now coming out from the Republican Party, I fucking paid attention and started looking into that. Trying to disprove it.

What I found was devastating. In telling others what I had found and even offering proof and justification to them, no one believed me. I got lots of looks indicating I was crazy. And why is that?

That's because we are America. We defeated the Nazis and Fascism. So it can't happen here. Right? We relied on that too much, for too long. As some like Rachel Maddow are now showing us, we had Nazism and Fascism in America too. But we defeated it here too. And now we have to do it again, apparently. 

Guess what? Look around today.

Beginning my 3rd mile. 

Today is tough. My allergies have been acting up, which doesn’t help things. But the more you get outside in my view, the better your allergies get. Hiding away from them… You know, doesn't help? "You snooze you lose." "You don’t use it you lose it." That may not be true somewhat of allergies but here’s the thing. As with most problems if you don’t confront them and figure out how to solve them or become functional through them, then uou don’t address them and they won’t get any better.

It’s like the adult told me when I was a kid, one of a few good pieces of advice an adult gave me in the 1960s (outside my grandmother, or sometimes, mother): 

"If you don’t face your fears, you’ll be running from them your entire life."

I’d been picked on as a kid by bullies bigger than me. Size seemed to matter to them. It wasn’t until 10 grade when I lost a few pounds and shot up a few inches and suddenly people didn’t want to screw with me. Which I found humorous. Girls also started paying me attention. It all seemed odd. My life changed a lot and I hadn't done a thing different. 

I had started fighting in karate tournaments in 1965 in fifth grade. One of the biggest events of that kind at that time, in the world. But no one could see that in me, they just saw the short guy. I remember asking a friend about that and he had a good observation. 
To paraphrase him as we stood between classes, in the hall at my locker:

"You have to let people know who you are, they can't see your history by looking at you. If you don't want to hurt them and they're picking on you or egging you on, make it clear to them. Educate them."

Anyway, when that adult told me that about running from fear, I spent the rest of my young life facing all the fears I could find in myself and there were too many, more than I had realized.

If I was afraid of it, I did it. 

I would reflect on that from time to time. Like when I was hanging off of a cliff, up the side of a mountain. Or while falling out of an airplane with a parachute that had malfunctioned. Which I fixed rather than do what you’re taught to do, to breakaway and deploy an emergency chute. 

Something ironically that I got to pack daily in the USAF. Parachutes. Emergency chutes for high-speed egress from a jet. Not civilian emergency chutes. But a parachute that can open, deploy, at 400 miles an hour.

I thought about what that adult told me as I was watching a car wreck happen to me right in front of my face. Oddly, I have never been in a car wreck when I was street racing, or racing on amateur night at a professional dragstrip at Puyallup Dragway.

I thought about it when I was an armed bodyguard to someone. I thought about it when I was backpacking alone off the trail in the Cascade mountains. Or SCUBA diving solo out in Puget Sound.

When friends who took scuba diving with me, would warn me about diving alone because we were harped on about it in class, they asked me why I would do such a thing. And my comment in the 1970s was “Hey Mike Nelson did it all the time."

Referencing the character Lloyd Bridges played in the 1960s TV show, Sea Hunt (where I got to know Jeff and Beau Bridges from). Finally, one day somebody said yeah it wasn’t his character an ex-navy frogman and demolition expert? Yeah I’ll give them that. But it didn’t stop me. And again, I’m still here.

My grandmother had told me as a kid and my mom got it from her I think, to always learn from the best. Always find the best professional you can get your hands on to learn from. Grandma told me to surround yourself whenever possible ith the best experts. Hang with doctors, professors, or lawyers if you can. 

And so I learned you can do dangerous things, but if you learned how to do them professionally, you learned how to do them as safe as possible.

So when I heard people say I had a "death wish" in my earlier years, I didn’t understand that. We'd hear of other people doing the same things I was doing who died and my friends and family would worry. Yet, I’ll be 69 in two months. And I’m still here. So I must have known something, or done something right. Luck only gets you so far. Luck does have something to do with it all, but one has to place oneself where "luck" can see you to do its job.

From the podcast. A new New York Times poll shows that because of Trump’s felony conviction he lost 7% of his voters of 2000 polled swing State voters they had polled previously. Apparently, they didn’t want to reward an unrepentant felony criminal with the highest office in the land. Which as far as I’m concerned, they should’ve seen back in 2016. I told everyone about that. I warned everyone I could. And by the way? 4% of those polled are going to vote for Biden. Which is more important than it sounds.

Those numbers are small but nowadays in politics, important. And it’s relieving to know that things do still matter to people. Granted not enough people, it should BE a lot more. We have far too many people who are allowed to vote who are lost in a fantasy land of manufactured delusion by a toxic conservative, political machine, oddly enough supported by some of our worst international enemies. And some Republicans say they'd prefer to be around a Russian than a Democrat. What is WRONG with you? It's not Russian citizens per see, but the ignorance involved.

What is so difficult to understand about that?

And why have I been having an urge to eat salads again lately? Am I somehow getting healthy again? Well. Cool. I went through several periods of just eating salads over the years in trying to lose weight and it never really worked. And yes, with exercise. No idea...

I was 229 pounds yesterday morning and I would like to get down to under 200 pounds. I mentioned this on blog a while back that I happened to look at my USAF ID card from the 78 when I was in my early to mid-20s and I was 165. And I felt great!

So you'd think the least I can do is get to 200. Wimp.

Apparently, a woman who works with convicted felons and was a Biden voter was going to switch to Trump all because Biden let Roe v Wade be overturned by SCOTUS. Yeah that’s pretty stupid. Conservatively stacked toxic judiciary and it’s Democrats' fault? Well, esoterically it is.

But this woman now wants to know how Trump can be convicted of 34 felonies (with another 54 in the queue) but her guy she’s trying to help has ONE and can’t get a job while Trump supposedly can go on to live his life and become president again?

WTF is that about she wonders?

Also, Donald Trump says he’s never made a mistake. He’s just a victim. Wow. 

Uh huh… Interested in buying a Brooklyn Bridge?

I agree with the podcast. How stupid do you have to be as a rich, white guy and still get convicted within 24 hours of the jury deliberating on 34 felonies? Of course, if Trump hadn't tried to screw with his representation, to leave his lawyers to it, he'd probably not have been convicted of all of those. Or maybe he just was going to be anyway because he's such a lowlife and that was apparent in court, clearly, to the jury, and the judge. An obviously even handed judge with the patience of a saint.

One former Trump supporter in that pole in the New York Times article said they want a president who could effectively cover up $134,000 hush money bribe to a porn star because if he can’t do that, he’s not gonna hand him the nuclear codes. I get the feeling behind that, but he's saying he wants a criminal as POTUS. Sheesh.

Did you know that some group sent out real people to interview for jobs like at Walmart  and shopping malls and other places where normal people would apply for a job and used Trump's conviction history instead of their own? Think about that. Why are people even thinking about giving him a break when not one of us could get anywhere with even 100th of what Trump has been convicted for?

Damn this walk is kicking my ass today for some reason. I feel swollen or maybe dehydrated. I’m sipping some water and I was gonna take half a Benadryl but then I discovered I don’t have one on me and I always carry one on me.

Regardless, what you think about Trump or his politics? Why are so many convicted felons associated with him and his political aspirations? Remember when not allowing criminals into government was a thing? Seems odd nowadays, doesn’t it? Nostalgic. Melencholy. 

Just think of that lowlife, motherfucker, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Remember when Trump brought him on stage kissed him? That was just the other day. Kissed him! Trump said, “I don’t kiss men, but I’m kissing Joe Arpaio.“ WTF? And Trump said he loved Kim Jong Un. Are ANY of you not getting this? 

Sheriff Joe had said that his prisons were “concentration camps.“ Someone Trump loves. Trump loves Putin and Xi. Come on people… Joe denied food and medical care to prisoners. That’s against the Constitution. That’s "cruel and unusual punishment" which is pointed out in our Constitution. 

When you take away someone’s freedom and civil rights, they don’t lose their civil rights, dumbass. You are responsible, we are, for everything literally everything about them. Which is why I’ve objected our prison system for decades because I see them as cruel and unusual punishment. Kind of 18th century revenge paradigm human storage. Rather than educating and training them toward returning to our public streets as a better person and a more qualified worker. We’re doing what? Locking them up like animals? 

You don’t lock someone up and just leave them there. Solitary confinement around the world os considered torture. As I think it was, Michael Cohen who said, "Solitary confinement is torture because you don’t want to be locked up with only your mind." 

Well his detractors would make fun of that. It’s a valid point though. For anyone. I have a degree in psychology and I’m telling you solitary confinement is bad. Timeouts for an hour or a few hours is different. Give someone a chance to reset their metabolism and their mental state. But after that it's solitary confinement and torture. if you have to remove dammit someone from GenPop in prison that doesn’t need to be in solitary confinement. Outside of physical contact of others does not have to be solitary confinement.

Joe A. also locked people up because they only spoke Spanish. You know how many American citizens don’t speak English?

Fuck you failed exSheriff Joe A[sshole].

Here’s the problem I see with too many in police, jurisprudence and government. Who seem to be conservatives. Because things are hard and difficult and not easily, if not fixed, made better. It’s too difficult? So we go "Old Testament" on people. Which is proven to be dysfunctional, which is adding problems to problems. So you don't hear things from conservatives like government agencies are there to protect us and our environment. But you do hear them want to break or eliminate parts of our government. Get rid of the IRS and Medicare and stop Social Security and taxes. I have taxes, but we do need to pay enough to have a safe country. Yes?

Those conservatives are Americans, on a path of America's enemies.

We need a Trump dictionary of how to say something without saying anything because you don’t know what you’re talking about, just make it sound like you said something. This is aside from politicians who say nothing. Because politicians a lot of times, we know they know about a subject, but they don’t want to talk about it because of political reasons. Or their electorate. But that’s different than not having a fucking clue what is being talked about. Which is Trump... 99% of the time.

Starting mile five and last mile. Boy, I’ll be glad when this is over today. I headed out early today cause it’s gonna get warm today. It’s now 10:42 AM.

Trump on climate change. Before... he would say "we lose coastline it’ll just add more beachfront property." Those who had beachfront property would have property that is literally under the ocean. Now he just says, "It’s just weather." the man isn't very smart, but you don't have to be when those who support you accept crap like that and move on to vote for you.

I’ll give you nightmares real quick:
Donald Trump re-elected. Steve Bannon in the WH.
Stephen Miller becomes his chief of staff. 
You’re welcome.

I swear to God within 50 years, maybe 10, there will be movies about sending people back through time machines to kill Donald Trump as a baby. He gets re-elected, maybe sooner. Maybe not made in America.

You know the problem with MAGA mindset, is the way to counter-Weaponize against it. Disinformation is to do it back at them. And then we have the end of democracy. They dare you to do that because they know it’s hard to counter them. How do you prove a false negative? How do you constantly be disproving thousands of lies so you’re not doing anything important? It's why we never before allowed us going down this path.

This is a good Pod Save America podcast episode because they’re talking about if Trump gets elected. Can he do the revenge on his enemies that he’s claiming he will do? Short answer is, yes. He will have the energy and capability. And won't fool around with putting people into positions that aren't like him.

OK, mile 4.5. This is pushing my limits today for some reason. But that’s OK. What's interesting about this is if I were in the middle of long Covid, certainly the middle to worse form I had, this could put me in the hospital or at least have a paramedic visit. But while I am beat right now, it feels pretty good. I'm feeling very exercised as well as not fearful of a hospital stay.

MAGA conservatives like Ron DeSantis in Florida who are members of the Republican Party, who are the party of, as they claim, “business “, most of us would argue of “big business“ and against all the rest of us… literally are killing off small businesses run by gay people. Especially if they’re selling gay merchandise 

And I don’t mean questionable merchandise or sex-related stuff but just gay merchandise. What’s wrong with taking pride in who you are, in America? Just because you don’t believe in what they believe in or you don’t like who they are, and have no saying in who they are, any more than they do you and who you are… I mean if suddenly gays took over and they expected you to change your clothes, or gender or sexuality, because after all, it’s just a choice? Right? Yeah, that.

Let’s try that again. 
There’s a bunch of conservatives who want to force people into acting heterosexual: "We don’t want to see who you are, just be who we are, so we feel comfortable." I get that in a way. But turn that around. Gay people are in charge and they want you to dress very gay all the time and act gay? 

Again. Yeah, that.

I guess that some gay people are over the top. But really there’s not that many of them. They’re just “loud and proud. “If you don’t like it, change your channel, or look the other way, or move on. If you don’t like your kids, seeing it, try talking to them about it. Or if it’s in the wrong area, don’t go there. But so are some misogynistic tech-bro types. And other obnoxious, toxic, masculine types. Etc.

You know what I find more offensive than anything I have ever seen in gay people, or trans people, or toxic masculine types? Having Donald Trump as our POTUS.

Almost done walking today. And I didn’t need a Benadryl. I think it was just dehydration. Drank some water, felt better. My feet are killing me though. I’ve always aired on the side of not taking drugs or medicine. That’s why I never got addicted to opiates. Well that I don’t think I have an addictive personality. And I do think that some people just do. And like bipolar people who are really fun and then, just a nightmare. Kind of.

Kinda like electing an autocrat. It’s all fun games until he starts to not like you or your group, or gets paranoid that you're part of his problem. And now you’re in the concentration camp with the rest of us who you don’t like. 

Welcome! Because now WE'RE in charge in here. And oddly enough because of your actions, the actual inmates are running the asylum out there. And no, we’re not safe in here. Because the inmates out there have the keys to in here.

And that’s all on you.

Welcome…

I’ll just leave you with this for today… 
Please do not have sex with our American flag. 
Love it or leave it but don’t populate with it. 
We already have one fat white dumb authoritarian nutcase guy doing that on stage and in public. 
We don’t need any more doing it in public or in private.

On that note, I’ll bid you adieu…

And leave you with that. 
It’s noon and time for lunch.

Cheers! Sláinte!

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