{"id":179280,"date":"2025-09-13T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=179280"},"modified":"2025-09-13T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T13:58:09","slug":"altered-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/09\/13\/altered-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered United States?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"906\" data-attachment-id=\"179295\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/09\/13\/altered-united-states\/miniboomers-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/miniboomers-1.png?fit=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"miniboomers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/miniboomers-1.png?fit=604%2C906&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/miniboomers-1-683x1024.png?resize=604%2C906&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/miniboomers-1.png?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/miniboomers-1.png?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/miniboomers-1.png?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/miniboomers-1.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<br>You know what I am getting at of course. I have seen this film before and I know how it ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2169472644&#038;color=%23400e0e&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/seen-this-film-before\" title=\"Seen This Film Before\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Seen This Film Before<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/td4\/1\/16\/1f606.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude06\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">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&#8230;<br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"695\" data-attachment-id=\"179298\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/09\/13\/altered-united-states\/gospel\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gospel.jpg?fit=1000%2C1150&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1150\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gospel\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gospel.jpg?fit=604%2C695&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gospel-890x1024.jpg?resize=604%2C695&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gospel.jpg?resize=890%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 890w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gospel.jpg?resize=261%2C300&amp;ssl=1 261w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gospel.jpg?resize=768%2C883&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gospel.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two quotes from Charlie Kirk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2015 Charlie Kirk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a>\u201cDeath penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation&#8230;What age should you start to see public executions?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2015 Charlie Kirk<br>Hate preaching is now an industry and lucrative it seems.  <br><br>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&#8217;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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Vengeance is mine, I will repay&#8221; 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,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag: &#8220;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&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Liberty and justice for all&#8217; so that is black white Muslim Jew LGBTQ and anyone else you can think of.<br><br><strong><em>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..<\/em><\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Seen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/09\/13\/altered-united-states\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Altered United States?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KDC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":805,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2010\/05\/19\/enjoying-the-sun-in-the-south-of-france-getting-ready-for-some-gigs\/","url_meta":{"origin":179280,"position":0},"title":"Enjoying the sun in the south of france getting ready for some gigs","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delta Ladies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/delta-ladies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Delta lady on Holiday","src":"https:\/\/scontent.flhr3-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/32015_410714011128_529614_n.jpg?oh=025c53e4c5111446dc087d3de6063e38&oe=5AE832BB","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/scontent.flhr3-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/32015_410714011128_529614_n.jpg?oh=025c53e4c5111446dc087d3de6063e38&oe=5AE832BB 1x, https:\/\/scontent.flhr3-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/32015_410714011128_529614_n.jpg?oh=025c53e4c5111446dc087d3de6063e38&oe=5AE832BB 1.5x, https:\/\/scontent.flhr3-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/32015_410714011128_529614_n.jpg?oh=025c53e4c5111446dc087d3de6063e38&oe=5AE832BB 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":32812,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/02\/11\/getting-back-to-more-regular-blog-entrys\/","url_meta":{"origin":179280,"position":1},"title":"Getting back to more regular blog entrys","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I have been writing stuff in other places, but I think its about time i got back into keeping up to date. OK, its not a wildly exciting life that I live I admit but it amuses me to keep a bit of a diary here. I am thinking a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Delta Ladies Poster","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1716\/24825723842_392b78dd07.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":152795,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/12\/03\/getting-out-of-poverty\/","url_meta":{"origin":179280,"position":2},"title":"Getting out of poverty","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The caller told James O'Brien about getting out of poverty - and listeners said it was a must-listen for political parties. John called in to talk about his experience of growing up in poverty. He said that he grew up with stepfather figures who were heroin \"addicts\" and \"dealers\" and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":144938,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/07\/12\/and-it-just-keeps-getting-worse\/","url_meta":{"origin":179280,"position":3},"title":"And it just keeps getting worse","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Police move in as \u2018Tommy Robinson\u2019 supporters attack BBC broadcasters on college green. Chants of \u201cWe want our country back\u201d pic.twitter.com\/CaZszLxqVl \u2014 Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) July 11, 2019","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":70542,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2017\/02\/22\/its-getting-late-time-to-hit-the-road\/","url_meta":{"origin":179280,"position":4},"title":"Its getting late time to hit the road.","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Its quite difficult to try and keep upbeat when so much of what you thought was tried tested and true is striped away. Try and keep hold of something if you can because its all just blowing away in the wind now. Faith hope and charity. \u00a0Don't beat yourself up\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Wine-Dark-Diana-Stone.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":174880,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/03\/27\/its-not-getting-any-easier-yet\/","url_meta":{"origin":179280,"position":5},"title":"Its not getting any easier yet.","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 27, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"This week has seen me mostly getting very, very depressed. I have been trying to keep busy as much as possible but the last few days have seen me grinding to a halt pretty much.\u00a0 And I really really really have had more than enough of this lockdown malarky.\u00a0 \u00a0The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179280"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179305,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179280\/revisions\/179305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}