July 4, 2025
Maybe it’s because I was wired for turbulence by adults who made sure to rip the floor out from under me any time I reached a modicum of stability, but I am oddly calm about the dickhead president and his billionaire henches—or maybe he’s their hench—either way…them getting the big bulbous ballsacks bill passed feels bad, and disappointing, but right. Because OF COURSE they did.
For better or worse, I feel most anchored in myself when people in positions of authority behave in such ridiculous and illogical ways that it feels divinely ordered. I want to be clear I don’t mean that in a “they’re doing the Lord’s work” sense. Divinity for me is the world here and now, existence and sentience. That we get to be here at all to bear witness to these shenanigans and feel and be and do anything is miraculous. Divinity is life and the world and it’s will to survive and thrive.
This world has a will to survive. More and more, it feels like for this world to survive, amerICKa in its current form cannot.
The work Dump and the Billionaire Boys are doing is doing SO MUCH to ensure that the country will be too hobbled to do much harm in the coming decades. Their absolute disregard for personal and global interdependency having been the foundation of our power is already gutting access to the resources that are necessary to continue to be the lead exporter of war that we have been for the last century.
They have done more to cripple our global standing and capacity to do war over the long term than any leftist could ever dream of. They are an army of undoers and their intent is to do harm in the service of those they feel have earned the right to own people and the world. They think they own life. The hubris!
But life has its own agenda. As scary and disheartening as these times are, I am also excited by what will be possible for those who live to see the other side of this.
The ballsacks bill rips off the duct tape that has been holding this clunker of a war machine together. If we are savvy and work together and form alliances of protection, we might get through this. Our efforts should be focused NOT on trying to preserve whatever we thought this country was, but on protecting as many people and as much of the world as possible from the damage this clunker can do when it derails.
If you’re still in my circle it’s because you’re someone I trust I can count on to do this work with me and it’s your existence more than anything that gives me hope that there are more possibilities than things to fear. Thank you so fkn much for being in my life.