Venn

He is the height of imbecility, the most infantile, and unevolved man ever to have existed and it’s not even close. 

“To be honest with you, my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran, but some stupid people back in the US say: ‘Why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people,” Trump told the British newspaper. (source) 

How many people will die because this hamster brained child rapist wants tosteal and control another country’s oil? EVOLVE YOU FECAL HEADED MOTHERFUCKER, JUST FUCKING EVOLVE!!!

I really need to take a day off from the news. I want to be aware of what’s happening. I don’t want to bury my head in the sand or hide in a blanket fort reading comic books all day … wait. No. I’m lying. YES, I DO want to ostrich out. I DO want to make a blanket fort. I want to spend a week or more in there, reading escapist mysteries, science fiction novels, ghost stories, and fairy tales. Cake can come in for pats and naps. Ten will stop by to see if I need more cookies. 

Does this not sound ideal to you? It sure as fuck sounds dandy to me.

Compounding my news anxiety is the fact that I’ve a bunch of doc appointments over the next two weeks. Today’s is just a bone density exam – no biggy. Later in this week there’s physical therapy and a followup with my PCP about some curious symptoms I’ve been having. It may just be more unhappy aging crapoli OR it could be another serious and disturbing chapter in the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. We’ll see.

Next week I have dental surgery and I’m definitely agitata about this. WHY do I have to be awake for dental surgery? Hmmmmm?! Also, this Claustrophobia Queen has three, count ‘em THREE MRIs scheduled. Whoopee!!!

I NEED to find a way to lower my dread levels

Possibly this Guardian report could lift my spirits?

JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs
As the war in Iran continues, petrol and grocery prices soar and chaos continues at US airports as a partial government shutdown endures, Vance appeared on the conservative Benny Show podcast, released Saturday, to promise that he would spend time looking into what he called his “obsession” with UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors. (source)

He says that he considers aliens to be “demons.” Eh, you know what? I really don’t need to read this. The man has clearly lost the plot… he's utterly banjaxed in the brain box. Veep Many Names might have a functioning mind of some sort but this is not someone with any understanding of, ya know, actual thinking, functioning people.

Here’s something funny – seems Killer Kegseth, the bloodthirsty, let’s-create-Armageddon-NOW, christian nationalist Sec. of Defense, has a new nickname amongst Pentagon staffers. They’re referring to him as “Dumb McNamara.” OUCH! You remember old Bobby McNamara don’t ‘cha?

He was the Defense Secretary who played a BIG FAT role in expanding US involvement in the Vietnam war. Remember Vietnam? It was the big failed, awful, obscene, unnecessary war before Grenada, Panama, the Gulf War, Balkan interventions, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

The former defense secretary pushed so hard for further U.S. involvement in Vietnam that some dubbed it ‘“McNamara’s War.” The nickname is meant to take a jab at Hegseth’s hardline military approach, comparing it to a chapter in U.S. history that’s widely seen as a major strategic failure. (source) 

I now, naturally, have Paul Simon’s song A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission) in my head. Not bad. Not bad at all.