All great empires die from within.
– Terry Bradshaw
I chuckled at my pick of the lead quote to this. Strange, probably, that it may be the only person I shall quote that I have been in the same room with. However, that is an odd tale for another time. I may keep using quotes from the least likely people. It does help not to sound pretentious.
Let me fill future readers in on today’s current events…
OK… I can’t. It all reads ridiculous. The entirety of the current American existence is ridiculous. I hope history will explain things better than I ever could… but at this point, I even doubt history won’t be sabotaged and the truth just left to scatter like dust in a gush of bullshit.
What I can honestly say is that I am so ashamed of my country right now.
I love this country!
I was a child of the 1980s and consumed so much nationalist sugar that I got hooked and hooked hard. Remember the movies of that time? Rocky IV? Red Dawn? It seemed like so much public enthusiasm was in Pro-USA and Anti-Russia. Propaganda? Sure… but the nationalism still seemed on a healthy level, at least to me.
Today, Trump is attacking our closest allies and cozying up to Putin’s Russia in a way that is just so disturbingly bizarre. All while the opposition party, Democrats, are just… WTF? Sitting on their hands and seemingly incapable of taking any action. I don’t want to go into detail but history is recording this crap so anyone is able to see what Feb/March 2025 Democrats are like in response to all that is going on. Unless, of course, history is erased by this administration.
I don’t want my site to be entirely political. These are just my observations at the time that I write them. The more I type political banter, the more I wish I were talking about something else. I hate that this crap is a stamp on this particular time.
Wouldn’t it be better if I could be journaling about landing on Mars? Or if we solved homelessness? Or if we cured cancer? Or if WebDevs became Rockstars instead of chaff for our artificial intelligence overlords?
cue “music to drink bourbon to” playlist