"I'm still kicking" is such a funny way to say "I'm still alive". Like lol. I'm still thrashing. Flailing. Writhing even. The violence remains.
We don't talk enough about America's permanent ongoing saturation of "Stranger Danger" hysteria. It's like this country's whole social ecosystem teaches full grown adults to perceive an invisible army of rabid bogeymen lurking around every fucking corner. And it's everywhere. Absolutely fucking everywhere, top to bottom, from true crime media and urban legends like the old Poison Halloween Candy thing to our sadistically rage-fueled, revenge-based justice system and immigration policies. The NRA and the war on drugs and post 9/11 airport security and mccarthyism and satanic panic and just E V E R Y T H I N G in America, everything that has defined its history for 100+ years is constantly nothing but this fucking FEAR TERROR FEAR TERROR for positively no reason. None.
I've been waiting for Dick Cheney to beef it for almost 25 years, it's been so long I almost don't even know what to say.
I don't know if people younger than 30 really understand what a monster that man was and how much harm we still feel today.
The man was such cruel bastard that he the 2004 reelection campaign on opposing gay rights to the point of rallying for a federal ban on legal gay relationships while having a gay daughter.
He orchestrated lie after lie after lie to kill millions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The social environment in the mid-00's was honestly even worse than it is today. You had to be hyper-patriotic at all times and couldn't be critical of them or you'd lose everything.
He's one of the main reasons we have the patriot act and drones and militarized police and ICE and DHS and why we lost nearly all of our civil liberties.
All of the bad shit Trump is doing now is because Dick Cheney set the stage for him. None of this was possible without him.
this 'being really tired after work' thing is really getting in the way of this 'pursuing my artistic hopes and dreams' thing has anyone else noticed this
