We’ve had a cold streak here in Minnesota. It reached -19F, “feels like” -35F last night. It’s -16F, “feels like” -16F right now. This is too cold, even for me. It’s brutal. People are urged to stay inside. Frostbite can happen in about five minutes. That’s not much time at all.
Simultaneously, we had an economic blackout date in order to protest ICE. It was called, “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth of Freedom”. Several businesses shut down for the days. Others stayed open and donated a portion or all of their daily profit to charity. Thousands of people braved the cold to protest, which makes me really proud.
We’re made of stern stuff here in Minnesota. To put it bluntly, the federal administration did not know who they were fucking with when they came into Minnesota. People on the coasts like to joke about flyover states, but if they were ever to visit Minnesota, they would see that Minnesotans don’t back down.
I would be remiss if I did not point out that at the airport where they’re protesting airlines that are running deportation flights (to Texas where there is a deportation detainment/internment, the frontline of people kneeling and singing hyms was made up of mostly faith leaders. There have been a call to prayer, as it were, by several prominent faith leaders. They have recognized that what is happening is something they must take a stand on, and many of them have done just that. So I give full props to them for matching their actions to their words.
I’m so tired. Ever y time we think that this administration can’t go any lower, they do. It’s disconcerting to realize that we can’t trust anybody in the federal government right now. Anyone in this administration is inept, incompetent, aa lying asshole, or any combination of all three. I watch clips of them lying right to my face, and it fillls me with incandescent rage.
I hate being lied to. I especially hate it when someone does it ineptly or is doing it without the intent to really convince the listener. That’s just adding insult to injruy, quite frankly.
I hate what those assholes are doing to my state and to this country. I hate what they’re doing to me psychologically.
Whenever I see the head of Border Patrol strutting around, acting all high and mighty or saying indefensible bullshit, I just want to punch him in the face. Same with the VP. He came to Minnesota to give his support to ICe. Whining about whatever the fuck his whiny ass was going to whine about.
In some ways, he angers me more than Trump. I’ve said this a million times. Trump is Trump. He is going to Trump all day long. I don’t like him; I don’t respect him; and I know he’s doing irreparable harm to this country. But I at least know what to expect from him (even if it’s just the unexpected). I also know that for the most part, he’s going to move from topic to topic because he has the attention span of a goldfish. The exception, weirdly, being Greenland (or Iceland. Who knows which one he really meant? He meant Greenland, but could not stop saying Iceland).
He believes whatever he’s saying at that moment.even if it’s a complete 180 from what he said ten seconds ago.
Side note: Trump is easy to manipulate. All you have to do is flatter him, fluff his ego, and then slide your idea into the conversation as if it’s his own. He’ll latch onto it and start parroting it loudly, and then he thinks it’s his own idea. I saw this way before his first term, and it carried through his second.
In fact, I used to lament that Dems didn’t use this tip to trick Trump into doing what they wanted. Again, this was during his first term, and he only got worse in the second term.
But Vance–he’s a whole different kettle of fish. There’s a liberal comedian/commenter who is a self-proclaimed redneck. He said that Vance came to his show many years ago. Vance was anti-Trump at the time, and they commiserated over that. Vance had many negative things to say about Trump, which, wouldn’t you know it, miraculously changed by the time Trump was going to choose a running mate for VP this term.
In other words, Vance has no morals or scruples. He wanted to be VP so badly, he gave up his values in a blink of an eye in order to make it so. In other words, he fucking sold out. That’s how much his values/soul/beliefs were worth.
Now, he’s the biggest bootlicker in the word. Trump says jump, he says, how high? Something happens that might show Trump in a bad light? Vance is right there to frantically try to spin it. That seems to be Vance’s job 24/7.
I was messaging with K, and she told me that ICE was starting to show up her city. Also in her brother’s city. Both are Democratic (with a big D) city, of course. She and I commiserated over it, and the weirdness of living in an occupied state.
I believe we’re at the tipping point. I also believe it’s going to get much worse before it gets better. Do I think it will get better? I’m iffy on that. What I mean is that I’m iffy we’ll have the power to vote in any given amount of time.
I’m just numb. I have more to say, but I’m not up to writing more about it tonight. I’m going to leave it at that and then pick it back upp tomorrow. Maybe. I don’t know how much good I’m doing myself by writing about it. On the one hand, it helps to get it off my chest. On the other hand, it just depresses me to think about how bad things are getting. And how much I want to pop certain people in the face. This amount of agitas is not good for me.
My sleep has been a wreck lately, and I have very little motivation to do anything. That’s where I’ll leave it for now.