Wrote this as a YouTube comment and I am quite proud of it :

A long series of weak-willed and permissive governments are letting the rich get away with murder because they lack the courage and resolve to stand up for law and order and the good of the average, hardworking voter who just wants to feed their family. They routinely sell you. the person reading this, to their elite rich friends by promising that they can fool you into slitting your own throat so that the rich can sell the blood. For decades, rich people have been stealing your money by buying politicians who will take your tax money and hand it to people who already have an ungodly amount of wealth via tax cuts for the rich. That’s money meant to provide government services to you heisted by the paid political hoodlums of the rich. It’s high time we the common, average, decent people of the world rose up to chase these thieves, murderers, and interlopers out of OUR government and take back OUR society before these jackals drag us all down to Hell. Who’s with me?

Michael John bertand, www.michaeljohnbertrand.com

Not bad, eh? It was inspired by this vid :

That video makes my bitter and cynical heart sing because it contains such a high dose of bullshit smashing truth that I want the whole world to see it and be disinfected by it.

But to add to the sentiments I expressed above : The billionaires versus the people of Earth should be a no-brainer, people;. There are thousands of them and billions of us. It would be trivially easy for us to rise up and take back our governments and take away the wealth they so clearly cannot be trusted with.

Then leave them alone to live humdrum, ordinary lives as people of no particular importance or consequence, just like everyone else.

The alternative is to let us all die on a firebomb of a planet because we were too lazy and self-involved to get together and go after these pricks.

Look what’s happening in Iran after the death of just one woman. Now multiply that by the billions of us – including YOU – who will die from the effects of global warming in the next decade or so.

Because that’s what is going to happen when the crops fail, folks. Billions will starve and they will tear down civilization as they go. Nobody will be spared – not even the fucking billionaires who caused the problem in the first place.

No amount of money can save you from millions of angry, hungry people who are watching their children die and who know exactly whose fault it is.

And let me make this clear : there’s something you can do. You just don’t want to believe there is anything you want to do because then you’d have to do it and that would cut into your precious “me” time.

Right now, they think they have us right where they want us : lazy, distracted., fractious, divided, self-absorbed, and incapable of unified action against them.

But we live in an era of global consensus. Look at how fast we all got on the same page about Covid. Or Ukraine. Hell, look how fast we rid the world of plastic straws!

We’ve done it before and we can do it again. Rise up against the plutocrats who own you and take the planet back before it’s too late.

Now I need to go lay down because I’ve apparently made myself sick.

More after the break.

Such a hassle

Every week, I manage to forget what a hassle it can be to order in.

Had my hungry heart (everyone’s got one) set on good ol’ Subway. Brought them up on good ol DoorDash. Was about to get my usual ol Cold Cut Combo when I noticed a notice that said they had no lettuce.

Um, sez what now?

Well I didn’t want my CCC sans lettuce^[1], so I decided to get Taco Del Mar instead. But my Fruvy sense was tingling.

Sure enough, Taco Del Mar didn’t have lettuce OR tomato, and that’s like half of Mexican cuisine right there, so I decided against them too.

I didn’t want my taco salad to be all taco and no salad!

So then I tried Burger King, but only to confirm my findings with a third trend point. Yup, no lettuce there either.

20 years from now, those of us who survived these trying times will be bolting awake out of a dead sleep soaked in a cold sweat and screaming, “Supply chain issues!”.

So I dithered and worried and wrung my hands for a bit before realizing my salvation : thank Heaven for 7-11.

Then I had the always irritating task of trying to make sure my order came to less than the money left on my PayPower card that I was trying to spend, which was around $25.

A few abortive calculations later and I said fuck it and just ordered a Hungry Man sub.

Pain in the ass to the extreme.

So I ended up spending $20 for a sub. $9 for the sub and the rest in taxes, fees, tip, and so forth and so on.

Fuck it. Whatever. Moving on.

Then it was time to register the new card. I was pretty sure I would not be able to do this alone, and I was right.

It’s them goddamned little numbers. There’s a ten digit number you have to input besides the usual credit card info and I can’t read those goddamned little numbers and usually have to get Julian to help.

I just can’t tell the 6’s and 8’s apart. Dammit.

And he ain’t here. He’s off with Joe visiting Joe’s family, as is the norm for Saturday nights. He’ll be back before too long, though.

After it’s registered, I will be able to use it to order my weekly groceries. Because I will be ordering them so late in the day, there’s a pretty good chance that there will be no delivery times available till Monday.

Luckily, I am not actually out of anything major yet. So it can wait.

So that’s been my (by my standards) stressful evening..

I need a source of more meaningful aggravation.

I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.

[[1]] In retrospect, I could have ordered a different sub, like Steak n’ Cheese, which is a lot less dependent on lettuce. But I was rattled and not thinking straight. [1]]