We've Got Bigger Problems Now

I am trying REALLY hard not to dip my toe into politics, but it's so fucking hard - and I still have yet to read a paper, an article or a newscast. 

I couldn't avoid my sister texting President Musk and his SS grandstanding. 

Truth is, I couldn't be less surprised or more despondent over it. 

The image my sister sent was a cropped version of this. I did a Goooooogle image search and sure enough most new organizations had the cropped version. ABC was good enough to show the entire thing. But this asshole did it with the presidential seal right under him. 

I shouldn't be surprised. No really. This is what the US voted for. Exactly this. I'm sure those who voted red are giggling over this as "nothing" or "blown out of proportion", but I'm quite thinking not. It isn't even a test balloon - it's the signal. 

(BTW........as Musk is from South Africa, has anyone traced his and / or his families thought on apartheid? I'm assuming since the Tesla cafeteria has force black people to eat together and other workers there call it "monkey island") that the Musks were (are) pro-apartheid.)

A few days before, whomever is about to head ICE already tweeted that mass deportations are about to start this week - and even singled out Chicago for some reason. But let's be clear - they mean Mexican. They're not expelling Russians, Chinese or Saudis. 

And I get I'm going worst case scenario here, but what keeps Russians in line?  Lack of food mostly. Sure. propaganda and beating down of minority groups and rebels, but the big driver is bread lines. 

Mass deportations = most the people who process our food. Who pick it, who clean it, who ship it. And who cook it.  Control the food, you control the entire population. 

If grocery stores, restaurants and the public aren't aware, then shame on them. Food prices will not be coming down, they'll skyrocket. But most of the crops will rot in the field. We won't even have access to them. Places to eat are going to shutter more than they did during covid. 

This shit is literally what keeps me up at night. 

This is not an exaggeration. Saturday was a 22 hr day; Sunday a 20 hr one. I go to sleep with my heart beating like it's from a Poe story. 

Granted, it probably was not wise for me to read a book about searching for Josef Mengele last week, but I did. 

In this book, his atrocities were described, but not to the extent of the actual horror inflicted. Of course that was upsetting even in this version - but the continual disturbing parts of the book were the people who housed  him in South America - knowing full well who he was. They did so willingly and with zero remorse. 

.....and only one was charged with anything, and nothing ever came of it. Not a trial, not a minute in jail. Nothing.

To me, this is the horror of today. All those pieces are in place, right down to the people who will gladly cover for them all. 

....I'm not sure you even want me to start on how this administration is about to control the media - staring with "saving" TikTok.....and BLOTUS looking into punishing Comcast for something Seth Myers said on his show. 

It's not just beginning........it's here. 

Song by: Dead Kennedys