Don’t Look Up

Just like in the movie, we're due for a rocky visitor before Xmas. Okay, in the movie it was a comet and we're getting an asteroid…whatever.

Scientists are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 XN1, scheduled to pass Earth on December 24. The asteroid is around 120 feet in size and travels 4,480,000 miles—16 times the distance between Earth and the Moon. It was traveling at 14,743 kilometers per hour. The scientists describe this incident as a "near miss…” (source)

Gotta admit, I’m on Team Asteroid especially if it would alter its trajectory to make a direct, surgical strike on Mar-A-Lago or wherever Captain Crazypants and the Blunder Boys happen to be. Does our new, wee celestial bestie need a homing device or a GPS? Can NASA drop one in between now and Tuesday?

It seems the Musk/Trump administration is also keen on going to war with Panama AND still doesn’t know how tariffs work. The US is SUCH a joke now. Maybe that's always been the case?

Oh yeah and mommy’s spoiled little nazi rocket boy is pushing the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Germany’s far-right party. Of course he is. I hope the Germans are smarter than Americans and kick this platinum plated plutocrat square in the nads. Honestly, it wouldn't take much to be smarter than the US at this point.

 In other Eat The Rich news, the owner and abuser of Amazon workers is going to marry his plastic blowup doll next weekend in a $600 million ceremony. Jesus Filthy Fat-Cat Christ, 600 mil for a fucking wedding. How much affordable housing, healthcare, and food would that buy for those less fortunate (which, realistically, is the vast majority of us)?

By the by, Amazon drivers are now on strike. Got last minute Xmas prezzies to buy? If you can’t shop at locally owned, independent stores or artisans, buy from Target instead.

Another thought, instead of buying friends and families things they don’t need, will regift or stow in a closet until spring cleaning (when they’ll put it in the ‘donate’ pile), pay a bill or two for them. Get them a gift certificate to their favorite grocery store. If they don’t need a financial assist, donate the price of the gift you’d planned on buying to the ACLU, Doctors Without Borders, Earthjustice, The Nature Conservancy, Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation, World Central Kitchen or…well, you get the idea.

Meantime, I’m rooting for the asteroid to find a tremendously deserving target or three or more.