Spiritual Responsibility lyrics by @sheltgarner Please give credit if you produce or perform
you don’t know what you’re doing while you’re breaking my heart but I can tell you where to start place your hands on body so we can reach a higher plane spiritual responsibility is where it’s at
have some control when you’re touching a god spiritual responsibility spiritual responsibility
you’re a one of the chosen bring me closer to higher ground I just might touch the sky because of the way you feel when we’re rolling in the clouds it’s all because of
spiritual responsibility is where it’s at have some control when you’re touching a god spiritual responsibility spiritual responsibility
(bridge) out of control when I’m on a roll there’s no way for me express how I feel when you caress
spiritual responsibility is where it’s at have some control when you’re touching a god spiritual responsibility spiritual responsibility
I’ve been feeling rather discouraged the last few days with my novel because of my age. But I think also I haven’t really been feeling discouraged so much as running hot. I needed to kind of cool down so I could look at the novel with fresh eyes.
I do this every once in a while. I kind of just pause for a weekend. Usually when I do this, I reflect on some of the more underdeveloped elements of character and plot so when I do sit down to write again, things go a lot faster.
I just usually have a moment or two whenever I have one of these pauses where all my insecurities come rushing to the forefront of my mind. But I have to accept that even if I stick the landing, I’m probably going to be in my mid-50s before I’m a published author.
And that’s if I’m lucky.
I also have to accept that I need to have a lot more structure in my day as well as I need to read more, watch more and definitely have more than just this one novel as a writing project.
Woke Girl lyrics by @sheltgarner Please give credit if you produce or perform
I’m touching your trigger making sure you sweat my agressions aren’t micro when you’re in between the sheets being a freak for me
woke girl woke girl my pronouns are you and me you and me you and me
let me linger on the point your sexuality is systemic when you’re riding my dick I feel the warmth of your breath when we’re a race to the end it’s no theory is real
woke girl woke girl my pronouns are you and me you and me you and me
(bridge) no need to translate no need for a cure I’m based for your love hoping there’s no cure for this is no plandemic it’s just the rule
woke girl woke girl my pronouns are you and me you and me you and me
As always in the Trumplandia Era, everything now hinges on what ding-dong Trump does next. Which is, of course, what that malignant idiot craves. He always want to be the center of attention.
The issue is — even though I’m beginning to think this week may be historic but ultimately rather uneventful, all Trump has to do is bumrush Twitter with a series of tranasctional tweets and everything will change. If that happened, then an already tense situation would grow into a full blown crisis.
We are already in something of a down low crisis, but it’s still manageable because it doesn’t seem as though my worst case scenario is going to happen. At the worst, Trump just doesn’t show up and he avoids New York State for a while until there’s some sort of agreement.
Of course, there is a greater-than-zero chance that, by definition, Trump getting booked could cause a riot around the courthouse where all of this is taking place. But the fact that it would be happening in New York City makes me feel better because any violence would be very narrow in area. (I hope.)
And we still don’t know for a fact that Trump is actually going to get indicted. Trump does tend to have a way of wiggling out of whatever problem he might be up against.
But let me be clear — history is yet again in Trump’s tiny-tiny hands. If he just lays low for the next few days, then that’s a lot different situation than if he freaks the fuck out and comes back to Twitter to expound upon his fascist and self-preserving fears.
I have long said that the one thing Trump really hasn’t done is gone transactional. He rants a lot, but he doesn’t really tell his followers, specifically what he wants them to do. But that has changed, as witnessed below:
The “it’s time” and the call to protest is rather ominous, with shades of the lead up to January 6th. And, yet, lulz, it could be that January 6th was a very specific set of circumstances and, as such, it’s just not any sort of indication of what will happen whenever Trump might get indicted.
It could be that I’m being hysterical and worse-case-scenario for no reason and while the lead up to him being booked might be tense, the whole thing will be rather mundane, if historic. I mean, this is the same idiot who had everything thinking he was going to do Something Big, only to turn around and come out with a set of MAGA NFTs.
So, I don’t know what to tell you. It could go either way. It could be that having such short notice won’t be enough for Trump to organize anything too crazy. January 6th was gradually organized over the course of a few months, afterall. In this case, Trump would have just a few days to do anything.
And, I still don’t know where he is. If he’s in Bedminster the dynamic of his indictment would be a lot different than if he at Mar-a-Lago. We’re all going to have to wait and see.
It could be that I’m really overthinking things and this event will be rather mundane, if historic, but I am concerned about the logistics of booking Trump. If he is at Mar-a-Lago, Trump could just tell the the state of New York to fuck off and hunker down while there’s a huge fight about actually booking him. That, in turn, would give MAGA time to surround the place and we have a stand off on our hands.
But he has said he’ll come in without any fuss. And, yet, Trump isn’t known for being very truthful AND my real concern is him saying he would peacefully come in to get booked was simply his first reaction. It could be that, upon further reflection, Trump decides to go all OJ meets Hitler on us and uses Mar-a-Lago as his Downfall bunker and we all spend the next few weeks trying to figure out how to get to him.
I hope I’m wrong. I really do. (I’m always wrong.)
For me, the issue we face at the moment is — are Trump’s followers willing to actually do anything, now that Trump is freaking out about being arrested on Tuesday.
Because Trump is NOT a Great Man and is only a very lazy dingus, he can rant all he wants but, to date, January 6th has been the exception to the rule. In general, in the past, he just has not had the mental acuity to do the hard work of actually getting his followers to do what is necessary in the real world to help him.
I have a few concerns.
One is, where is Trump at the moment? Is in New York State or is he in Florida? If he’s in New York State, we may have to worry about a crowd around the court house where he is booked going nuts and there being some sort of shoot out. Meanwhile, if he just hunkers down at Mar-a-Lago then there could be a long, drawn out crisis with no ready endgame.
The other fear I have is what happens if there are spontaneous celebrations in Blue communities which prompt Reds in their area to freak out and do something horrible with all those AR-15s they seem to want to fuck so bad? Then what do we do?
At the moment, at least, I think we’re safe. I don’t think anything TOO bad is going to happen.
I was very pleased with David French’s 2020 book “Divided We Fall” about the prospect of secession in the United States. While he came at the idea from a #NeverTrump point of view, he echoed many of the same things that have been rolling around in my mind for some time now.
Here were the things that stood out from the book:
Fascist Tech Bros It’s a testament to how fast things are moving that things about Silicon Valley that French takes as gospel seem rather dated in 2023. While, in general I suppose “Googlers” still lean progressive, just in the last few years it definitely seems as though there Tech Bros of banked Right recently. See, also, David Sacks. As such, all of his hysterical fears about “woke” Silicon Valley companies going after conservatives in the even of a “National Divorce” are quaint. I’ll admit that there remains a center-Left bias on a system basis within major American corporations, but I suspect that says more about the state of highly trained, well educated people than it does how “woke” they are. In general, knowledge workers are more progressive than their blue collar counterparts. (That is a very broad generalization, of course.) Catastrophe Another think that really stood out to me reading his book was how he really, really did not want to admit what a massive fucking clusterfuck any sort of attempt at a “National Divorce” might be. He bent over backwards to paint the most sanguine scenarios possible, when, in fact, there’s no way a National Divorce would not spark a Second American Civil War that would probably kill millions. America is just too big, too soaked in WMD on military bases across the country for the two sides to not bomb the other into oblivion if it came to that. It’s telling how copacetic his scenarios depicting Calxit and Texit were in real terms. There was little or not violence and, in real terms, we somehow magically had enough leadership that when the country gave up being united we somehow, equally magically, didn’t blow North America up. WWIII Even French’s depiction of WWIII caused by a National Divorce seemed based on unicorns and moonbeams. If the United States was too preoccupied with collapsing to do anything about keeping the post WWII liberal order intact, WWIII will happen and it would be a massive fucking culsterfuck. Potentially nearly a billion people might die as the result of a series of limited nuclear exchanges. As such, the whole thing would definitely be a “Not great, Bob” situation. Soft vs. Hard Power One thing I found interesting about French’s book is how close he comes to talking himself into being MAGA. All the grievance politics of MAGA were there, but somehow he has decided to remain “#NeverTrump.” It will be interesting to see if this stance will change if Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer Ron DeSantis becomes the GQP nominee in 2024. “Federalism” I found French’s arguments for a renewal of American federalism pretty much identical to why there should be a National Divorce. Any attempt at neo-federalism would only add to the centrifugal forces that are tearing the country apart. Rather than prevent a National Divorce, giving the states more wiggle room would only lead states with similar political views to want to join forces to make a more…perfect Union. End of the Woke Era French’s conservative bias definitely comes out when he bitches and complains about “wokeness,” especially on college campuses. He does this to the point that I don’t quite understand why he is a #NeverTrumper. It really seems to bother him. In fact, given his Christianity and pro-Life beliefs, I am at a loss as to why he would destroy his conservative talking head career to be #NeverTrump. It’s very curious. But the issue for me is — the excesses of the woke era are a luxury of a peaceful nation. I suspect should things grow…existential…that people will be too busy dodging fucking bullets to worry about their fucking pronouns.
Overall, “Divided We Fall” is a really thought provoking book. I say this especially as someone who more progressive than French. My biggest complaint is how pollyannaish he is about any form of National Divorce. If states start leaving the Union — be they Red or Blue — it would be the biggest fucking catastrophe since the worst times of the French Revolution. It would not be orderly and it would not be peaceful — millions will die around globe for various reasons as a direct result of it happening.
Trump’s power is he is so mercurial that you just never know which way that malignant ding-dong is going to go. Is he going to freak out if he gets indicted, or is he just going to give up? I just don’t know. It could go either way. So, let’s look at both scenarios.
Trump goes peacefully In this scenario, Trump is indicted, gets process and leaves, maybe giving a speech along the way. No big deal. It’s historic, but something of a dud all things considered. Trump’s mugshot becomes the source of much, much political discussion for decades to come…but, overall, the whole thing is kind of meh.
Trump doesn’t go peacefully The OTHER scenario is Trump freaks the fuck out and gets back on Twitter to incite political violence. This would happen in the context of a lot of Blues literally celebrating in the street. The absolute worst case scenario is Trump rants about being indicted and a lot of Reds have the same idea — use their AR-15s to murder celebrating Blues who are having big public parties.
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