Altered United States?

Musings

There is so much weird stuff going on now that it might be worth getting a lottery ticket as the odds of infinite improbability increase exponentially, or something like that.
You know what I am getting at of course. I have seen this film before and I know how it ends.

Keir Starmer seems to me to be a fairly conservative talking suit that is either not in anyway in charge or simply does not grasp the difference between right and wrong on many issues or perhaps simply does not actually care. And to me particularly in terms of labours relation to LGBTQ issues they lied to get votes. I know a few people that work in advocacy and support groups on the trans side and they basically think that for LGBTQ issues the conservative government was actually more inclined to inclusively. At least if you were a wealthy fecker 😆

The message of support for Charlie Kirk from Keir Starmer was wrong. He should have stayed silent. And we should not be bowing to Trump…

Two quotes from Charlie Kirk:

“I think it’s worth it to have a cost; unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year. So that we can have our Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights.”

― Charlie Kirk

“Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation…What age should you start to see public executions?”

― Charlie Kirk
Hate preaching is now an industry and lucrative it seems.

They take from the bible as they see fit. So they look to the old testament and ignore the new. If your are a christian you can’t just pick and choose the bits that you like but I minded to say this to anyone calling for violence or trying to justify it:

“Vengeance is mine, I will repay” is found in both Romans 12:19 and Deuteronomy 32:35. The verse from Romans instructs believers to avoid taking revenge and instead trust that God will administer justice and also this,

God’s command to love and protect sojourners is a central theme, reflecting His care for the marginalized. The biblical narrative calls for a welcoming attitude toward those who are different or displaced. The theme of the sojourner reminds people of their common humanity and the sacred responsibility to welcome and protect the vulnerable. Not much of this seems to apply to christian nationalist doctrine.

The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag: “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”

‘Liberty and justice for all’ so that is black white Muslim Jew LGBTQ and anyone else you can think of.

Some of us are lying in the gutter but we are not looking at the stars, just necking carlsberg special brew (used to be known as tramp juice). BTW I used to love that stuff..

Another Cunning Plan Possibly

Musings

A few reasonable nights sleep recently, sleeping right through sometimes. That’s not happened for a couple of years. Maybe related to herbal meds helping or not who knows. A little bit weary with the state of things still though. I am a bit anxious about doing stuff generally at the moment though. I am not sure why though, maybe its just the hostile vibe generally.
I am trying to find a better way to record violin as I am not getting the tone I want a lot of the time. Sometimes things just don’t work do they?

Is it possible to ignore the barbarians at the gate as so many seem to?

The Uk it seems is now becoming a place where hate speech is normalised and often promulgated in main stream media. We have politicians pushing exclusionary often xenophobic rhetoric but also openly transphobic speech as well and in not speaking out against hate speech towards other minority groups. 10 years ago much of what we are hearing would have been considered unacceptable in the mainstream or would have been challenging but is now allowed to go unopposed. I can’t understand why these ideas are being pushed and by whom. Who is pushing this ultra nationalist verging on racist ideology. In the last ten years its arrived seemingly out of nowhere?

What possible good does it do?

A lot of the ideas seem to come from the worst aspects of American notions of libertarianism. So who is pulling the strings behind the public figures we see? It feels as if something is often. I would like to believe that I am wrong but every day some new toxic quote floats into the either. Some soundbite built on lies to appease and or inflame the lowest common denominator. It’s really depressing, I used to believe we were better than this, but I feel that a brief Camelot moment is now fading, king Arthur’s turned into King Lear raging at the world whilst his faculty’s decay.

Try and stay safe people, if you can. The world is burning and you are next on the list…


September rain

Musings

It’s been a wet start to this month so far. I have spent too much time staring at screens this past couple of days, drives you mad I think…Having a brief fraying around the edges moment I think. Today I am a bit listless. I can’t commence on the headlight restoration today as its been to wet. Done a lot of music related stuff last few days so I am at a temporary saturation point with all that guff. I might carry on with more video editing I think.

I am too sensitive to perceived criticism and reactive to stuff and often feel threatened and sometimes I get overwhelmed. That’s due to damage I got as a kid growing up. I manage it better in the main than I used to but it never really goes away. It’s a nuisance though. I can just feel it trying to kick off but I have found the off switch on this occasion. It doesn’t always work though.I guess that this my subconscious anxiety trigger at the root of it it. Just a massive insecurity. I think even if I was successful and maybe wealthy I would still have the same demons. Sometimes I can live with them, sometimes they gatecrash and takeover the party. Then you are left with doubt and fear. It doesn’t make sense but there it is.