NEED More Hopium!

Sometimes, I just gotta go with what makes me happy. That’s right—I'm having chocolate cake for breakfast.

It's remarkable how quickly a person can get used to an impossible situation. How terror and panic can start to feel familiar, even ordinary.
~ Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

We’re about to enter another four years of Hell. Every day, we’ll hear and see that banjaxed brained, narcissistic, hateful old fraud and his faithful renfields. They broadcast their vile intentions daily. Like B-movie villains, they can’t shut up about all the pain they plan to inflict on their “enemies.” That’s us by the way. We seem to be their enemies. Why?

We can’t afford to ignore these evil fucks. To do so means we’ll be unprepared for their attacks and efforts to stomp all resistance down to ashes and dust. They want us docile. They need us to peacefully hand over all our money, our voices, our rights, our selves.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.
~ Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

Am I without hope? Sort of. Between gerrymandering, Musk buying the election, and the metric fuckton of festering crocodile shit spread daily by fascist “news” outlets brainwashing the citizenry, I’m not so sure there’s any reason to hope.

244,666,890 people in the US are eligible to vote. Almost 90,000,000 stayed home. Did they not care? Did they think that Harris would be as blindingly dangerous and incompetent as that miserable, unhinged mental case? Were they unable or too apathetic to remember the horrors and idiocy of TFG's first administration?

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
~ Albert Camus

I’m not fully devoid of hope. Luigi Mangione gave me a bit. "Wanted" posters with the faces of CEOs have begun appearing on walls in New York. Denying healthcare coverage to people is murder. Somehow, for some strange reason, no one has ever been charged with that particular crime. Gee, I wonder why...

Leon Musk has begun taking one of his 2,003 spawn with him everywhere he goes. He’s using the kid as a meat shield. Musk is unnerved and he should be. As should every other CEO who’s making 185+ times what the average worker makes. We can only be abused so much before we hit back.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
~ Dylan Thomas

The best fighter is never angry.
~ Lao Tzu

Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
~ Aristotle

I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.
~ C.S. Lewis

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