I haven’t been around much since 2017. Actually, I only made one comment from 2017 to 2023.
I went back to school, graduated with a degree in history, I was (and I guess still am) looking forward to working on a graduate degree. I was adversely affected by Covid. Not that I got, it but the closing of hospitals for nothing but emergency surgeries two days after I arrived back home from Denver has left me with 4 years of incredible pain and almost constant bedrest, trying to heal physical wounds that won’t heal. (Yes I’m seeing wound care, but an allergy to silver limits what can be done).
I even have cataracts in both eyes.
I now have handicap placards, a rollator (walker), wheelchair and scooter. I’m in the 60+ crowd.
yippee /dry sarcasm
What I have been able to do between passing out from pain meds is read and watch Youtube, etc.
I support and echo cosmo666
”We look like a bunch of weak, petty assholes right now to the rest of the country. The world probably thinks we are deranged— and rightly so. ”
Today I am more than a little angry, and while this diary may be a little more than venting, it may hold some truths to it too.
I supported Joe Biden, so much so that the signature line in my emails contained a growing list of all of his accomplishments to try and counter the silence from corporate media.
There were somethings I didn’t like that he did, but that didn’t diminish my support for him as a whole against the true orange satan, Agenda 47 and Project 2025 (which it’s nice to see the media FINALLY give air time too)
I wanted Biden to fight through. I don’t want a repeat of 1968. I don’t want a brokered / contestedconvention. And I definitely don’t want the violence that happened, which you can bet Trumpilcans are now planning to try to replicate, if they weren’t before.
Trump and his Truminons have been banging the “blues are violent” “Black Lives Matter” burning down the cities.”“Immigrants murdering and burning down cities” etc. for a while now.
If they get that violence it will diminish support from low information independents. Especially those of us who were still children and remember seeing that on the 5/6 o’clock news. Some of us may not know what makes the DNC Convention of 1968 stand out. Some of us may just remember the violence.
But I am angry. I fully believe in “dancing with thems that brought ya.” Joe Biden brought us.
All of you that wanted this, wanted Biden to step aside, it’s now time for you to step up.
You are paradoxically depending on those of us who supported Biden to throw our support to Kamala or whomever the convention brings us.
Paradoxically that’s the same kind of support you wouldn’t give to Biden.
You are depending on us to vote for whomever is chosen to stop Trump and Agenda 47, and Project 2025. But you made sure we feared that you were ready to burn the country down because you weren’t getting what you wanted.
You might think we will not use the same tactic, because many of us lived in the before times. Where there were “white only” and “colored only” signs, where we or our mothers couldn’t get a bank account, or have safe abortions, even contraception. When there was no such thing as spousal rape. And where spousal violence was whispered about and made a laugh line on a popular sitcom.
But we just might.
We’re still here.
You’d better hope we are not as petty as you look to us. You’d better hope we aren’t so angry about this that we in 4 months say fuck it and stay home. Sure it hurts us, but you already made it clear you didn’t care about that to get what you wanted.
We were your poker chips. Just like the rest of the world doesn’t forget when the US uses them as poker chips, don’t bet on collective amnesia.
“But honey I knew he’d blink”
You might have, but as the ones whose lives were freely, without consent, gambled, that’s not forgotten or forgiven easily. No matter what your cock sure selves think.
You might write us off as the past, but more than a few of us will be gone in a few years and you’ll still be here. We could just stay home and leave you with the mess that in our eyes, you created.
We are still a great part of your potential future. You had better hope we give your candidate, or the candidate elected at the convention, the support you wouldn’t give to Biden.
You want unity, you deal with us too.
And if you want unity in the party now the first few minutes of this sure as shit isn’t going get:
REMEMBER US