Remember that One Time

Remember that one time Metallica made a song that spoke directly to the horror of war and made ya feel feelings about death that are normally inaccessible to the neurotypical mind?  Remember One?  Some of the lyrics were subpar poetry, the obligatory heaviest part was cringey, but if you were in the right / wrong moment in time, it could move you?

Anyway, good thing they never did that again, or I might learn to cry when people die.  Can’t have that.

Seriously tho, a family member on my husband’s side is unconscious in the hospital with slim odds.  I never really knew him, but randomly thought of this song and felt some kind of way.  The guy is a former skateboarder / guitar mans, of the generation that would be into this.  Maybe that’s why it hit me.  Alcoholism is bad shit, my people.

And as to the actual subject of the song, I’d like to rearrange Hegseth’s brains to spell out the words.  All war fans fucking eat shit and die please.  Leave the rest of us in peace.

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The Genocide Election and the Kshama Calculation

State has top two primary, no party commitment required.  If the top two winners of the open field are from the same political party, that’s who’s slugging it out en noviembre.  My congressional district has several people vying for Adam Smith’s seat, Adam Smith incluye.  So.

Adam Smith: Did a better job of not fucking up gender on the webform to contact his office than either of WA state’s ancient senators, generally nicey and competent.  I would not hate voting for him again in November if I have to… but.  He’s been voting pro military even in these wretched times, when the US is supporting israel in its genocidal war.  The last time he had a primary challenger who campaigned against that element of his record, Melissa Chaudhry, she lost hard.  I do believe my household had voted for her in that primary.

Melissa Chaudhry – was also noncommittal on trans rights when interviewed by a local paper because she doesn’t want to offend the muslim community.  Not my only reason, but even tho she’s back, she’s no kind of contender and I’m not bothering with her this time.

Kshama Sawant:  The famous Seattle commie who got the city to change its minimum wage before the state did.  Also pro-trans rights.  Also committed what some may regard as cardinal sins in her principled radicalism, and likely to get less done in congress where making deals is more important than standing alone.  However, she has replaced Chaudhry as the anti-genocide candidate of choice.

The other fuckos:  Token gop nazi, random fools wasting their money and everybody’s time.

Kshama has good odds of splitting the progressive vote in a way that allows the gop nazi into November, and the area does have enough gop nazi voters that would give him a shot at winning.  However, Smith has won reelection pretty handily for a long time, so probably said nazi would just be advancing that far to lose.  However however, Kshama would be a less certain win against the nazi, so if Smith comes in third in the primary, it’s possible we could end up with a nazi over us after november.  In fact, the nazis are probably banking on this very idea, seeing her as more defeatable.  Wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve given her campaign shadow money.

But still.  This is the time.  Establishment dems who support genocide with their votes, regardless of what they do in their rhetoric, got to face a reckoning.  We’re taking the risk in my household and voting Sawant in the primary, which could have three different results in November:

Smith vs. Nazi.  This is the most likely result and is a no-brainer of a vote.  Would mean my household’s three votes were repping a fringe position and chucked in the dumpster of history.

Sawant vs. Nazi.  Another easy choice, but the added drawback of being a nailbiter.  Sawant has been slandered in national media hard enough that I’ve literally spoken to nazis in the opposite corner of this big-ass country that have opinions about her, even if they can’t say her name.  That slander can have an effect, and I’m sure I will get comments from people who don’t like her.  The question then.  Would you abstain and let a nazi win?  Probably not, but many in my district might.

Sawant vs. Smith.  Hard choice.  Seems likely Sawant will not be good at playing ball in DC, may get absolutely nothing done.  Or not.  After all, she helped get the min wage increased in Seattle, with everybody on the city council hating her commie ways.  Some kind of ball got played there.  Conversely, Smith may feel safe enough in his incumbency to do whatever he feels, and write more blank checks for murdering children in the Middle East.

So my choice now is between playing it safe and giving the dem establishment what it wants, or risking a nailbiter and possible nazi squeaking into congress, while sending a clarion message I’m done with genocide and the status quo.  I may come to regret it, but it’s message time.  What I’m betting is that if she gets in, she can beat a nazi.  This was, after all, one of the bluest blue states in 2024.

I can’t tell you what to do, but if you feel it’s a risk worth taking, vote Kshama Sawant for congress in Washington State’s 9th district.

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doge, gone but – wait, only just now?

long after elno mork ducked from being the public face of it, his pet project within the us gov kept on – only just now coming to an official end.  what have they been doing?  well, these unvetted corporate goons with neo-nazi sympathies could read every single american’s social security number and personal details for well over a year, so what can’t they do now?  i’m waiting for the other foot to drop on that.  on the other hand, so many people’s ssns have already been compromised by data breaches that maybe this footfall will sound like a whisper.

when i heard the head corpo-nazi was stepping down, my first thought was this – what about his employees?  sure enough, the meme agency quietly persisted well after that, with full access to just about every part of the us gov, particularly via the dept of the treasury.  we handed our country to a clown car of thieves and goose-stepping theofascists because shitler spoke to the most reactive bits of our limbic systems bigly.  as we’ve been seeing for a year and a half now, nothing can come from this except clownshit, nazishit, and spray-tan-brazen thievery.

what will be the imelda marcos shoes to make shitlerites finally realize they got burned?  or is there literally nothing that will serve?  nothing at all?  perhaps more importantly, given the numbers, is there anything that can help non-voting moderates connect their inaction with these consequences?  or will they persist in feeling blameless because they didn’t personally give it the thumbs up?

what of the chaos agents around the world who worked day and night to fill social media with propaganda to make this happen?  what would it take for people in those countries to realize they’ve significantly increased their own odds of catching a nuke (still unlikely, #nodoomer) or dying from global warming (much more likely so #nodoomer if ya take care of yourselves my peoples)?  for them to start caring about fucking anything?

like abe (#noshinzo) oceanoxia, i can’t help but see everything connected to everything.  makes it hard to write a sentence without asides.  in light of this news blip, i’m feelin that tonite and not loving it.  still, i’ve got things to do, and i’m still at it…

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No Nukes

If shitler and his “warfighter” get up their dicks enough to nuke somebody, I’d like to just be on the record here as saying whatever reprisal happens to this country will be justified.  I hope first and foremost that the fucking clown posse doesn’t do it, because fuck nukes, but if they do?  I hope the reprisal is a decapitating strike that doesn’t kill any of the civilians of Washington DC, who are mostly descended from the slaves who built the place.  We’ve done enough decapitating strikes lately to more than earn one of our own.

I am obliged by my “no doomerism” policy (please don’t forget it in my comments) to say I sincerely do not believe a full-scale nuclear conflict will result from whatever these horrific fuckups do.  It has been inevitable since the Cold War that at some point somebody is going to use smaller-scale nukes in a war scenario.  The technology exists to make a crater of small country, but restricting the scope of the blast to the size of a city is more “economically” sensible – preserve the value of more of the real estate.

Whoever ends up taking out the trash here, don’t miss newt gingler.  I like the version of him from this video better than reality…

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