The lie of the American dream sells equality drenched in freedom while giving out injustice and the illusion of freedom simultaneously, with a nice bow of capitalistic perks (let them eat cake in nature perhaps?) to disguise the taste of almonds placed on top.
Our current President is in rapid cognitive decline, only seeming lucid when they are able to give him just the right cocktail of drugs. Those days are seeming rarer and rarer.
I feel sorry for paid propaganda mouth, Karine Jean-Pierre, by the way. As much as she sucks at her job she’s still constantly fighting an uphill battle and being forced to cover for weekly gaffs just has to be demoralizing.
Most Americans live check to check and kids are constantly funneled into abusive systems that are sold as solutions to problems largely created by the system itself. A trip to my local store shows that formula shortages are still an issue, too.
Press bias, thanks to corporate corruption, is far more present than many realize, too. Hell, The Hill and their trash bag owners canned their best host (and keep dropping hosts in general) because she dared to say the truth about Israel and their ongoing war crimes.
Political prisoners are a thing here, too. We drive away whistle blowers, condemn those that tell the uncomfortable truths to live life on the run, and let people rot as they become members of the forced slave labor club aka prison life.
Add in the illusion of choice which drips deep into the very cracks of our foundation and you have nothing but lies. Most companies are owned by a far smaller group of companies, for example.
This mixed drink from hell tastes like shit, folks.
And are you ready for WW3? No? Fuck you, it’s happening! A desire to rush Ukraine’s spot into NATO and the US attacks on the pipelines ensures that the military industrial complex is about to get even more powerful right up until the point that we’re all worm food. Remember folks that, in war, heroes are few and far in between and states are almost never worth praise.
Hurricanes tore apart lives and property, once again exposing the threat of the climate crisis as well as the cut-corners American infrastructure that we’re watching collapse all of the time. We’re still supposed to be debating if it’s even real, the climate crisis that is, with dipshits and told that we should be pretending that meaningless promises of going green from those most responsible are worth approval.
How many American towns and cities are lacking clean water right now?
Meanwhile, global stagflation continues to cripple the working class. The Fed will continue to punish and burn us all right to the fucking ground and don’t you dare complain about it.
At least when we’re fucking up Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria etc. our bombs have little rainbow flags on them now. People love to quote a joke of a book about death counts of communism but can not allow themselves to think of how many people’s deaths capitalism, and the US in general, are directly responsible for.
Pride should end the second a community rep is siding with war criminals and is acting like a class traitor, shouldn’t it? But we’ve had a black POTUS and now a black VP so that’s good enough. Maybe Mayor Pete, a politician in the worst way, should be POTUS next like many of those with real power want. I mean LGBTQ+ persons should be proud when it happens, right?
Meanwhile, the Democrats continue to expose themselves as unapologetically inept. If you’re mad at Trump and crew for Roe I get it. Are you also mad at the DNC for an inability to codify the damn thing, opting instead to dangle the carrot as a reason to vote in their favor? How about their choice to continue to target Green Party supporters via vote suppression tactics? Are you mad that they declined to strike against Trump after January 6th when they had the perfect chance to fuck over the cheeto?
Oops, I’m sure I just pissed off blue MAGA. Oh well.
Back to SCOTUS bullshit, as referenced above momentarily, there’s news on the horizon. The clown show is likely to feature a few key cases as they resume their circus act this month.
Consider the Clean Water Act, which is already a bandage on a bullet wound, to be voted most likely to get taken out back and shot in the head in someone’s yearbook somewhere. Race based student initiatives focused on ensuring minorities are getting accepted into higher education are up for discussion, too.
What else?
Well, they’re also likely to add another building brick to the tower toward full fascism when they give state legislators powers to make our elections even more laughable.
Just a taste of the shit sundae we’re dealing with at the moment, ladies, gentlemen, and nonbinaries. That’s enough ranting for now, though. If you’re not pissed, you’re not paying attention. Thanks for saving me a therapy bill and to anyone that reads these words.
Be kind to yourself, to others, and always punch up!
-R. Wood