Soon to Leave This Hellscape

Protect Thyself: Laugh!
Cancer survivor-3 primary tumours. Still alive & kicking.
‘We are but a moment’s sunlight/ fading in the grass’

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@ConklinDes41508 @Crimsonkiller21 @JustinTrudeau Are the imaginary illegals & fentanyl from Canada in the room with you right now? How about your country cracking down on all the illegal firearms pouring into our country?

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@Crimsonkiller21 @JustinTrudeau Definitely Trump needed an off ramp. What a 🤡🤡🤡

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@JustinTrudeau Trump got his off ramp. Throw in some golf clubs to 'seal the deal'. 🤡🤡🤡

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@PierrePoilievre ‘Hey Pollyanna, or whatever your name is, I also want a nice set of golf clubs with my name engraved on them. Make sure they’re good ones, okay?’

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@RobertJMolnar @StevenCheung This also explains Trump’s plastic grin in a lot of recent pics. When did this guy ever smile before? Sounds like you may have sussed him out pretty good. How about posting this on BlueSky?

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.

The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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https://t.co/bsnKnag51p

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump
(Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@JosephONeillx Then there’s the ineffectiveness of the Justice Dept to hold Trump accountable for Jan 6 in a reasonable amount of time. Any other democratic country would have arrested & put to trial immediately anyone who attempted a coup like him…

[Joseph O'Neill @JosephONeillx]

I'm seeing way too much defeatism here. Yes--defeatism is a real thing. Here are some potentially corrective thoughts: https://t.co/KVQHeUCTer

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@ashleighlondon @cwebbonline Another thing, inflation was being felt around the world not just the US. Just recently watched the Filipino news on the wife’s set top box & prices have skyrocketed there as well. Trump would have been powerless to stop it.

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@ruthbenghiat That’s karma for you: don’t take care of something right away it will come back to bite you in the ass…

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@WajahatAli I did a double take when I looked at the date of her thread-that’s karma for you: don’t take care of something like this right away, it comes back to bite you in the end…

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@PalmerReport It is worrisome for us in Canada as well-how can a significant slice of the American electorate still vote for a person who triggered an insurrection?

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@RodKahx If Jan 6 wasn’t a red line in the sand…

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@acoyne Who is the reactionary wanker who wrote this column? On what planet is the Globe & Mail considered part of the ‘liberal establishment’?

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@David_Moscrop Higgs- not even a seat to shit on…

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@Lee_in_Iowa @VABVOX ‘Stepford Dad’…

[Soon to Leave This Hellscape @PerfectionPeace]

@danielmaycock Very underrated film by Altman protege Alan Rudolph.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Kris Kristofferson died yesterday at 88.

A surprising number of folks don't know that as a young man, he was an Army officer, a helicopter pilot, and a graduate of Ranger School.

He understood patriotism and service, which is why it pissed him off when fake patriots co-opted the flag to push their rightwing bullshit.

The actor Ethan Hawke once wrote a profile on him, which included witnessing this incident firsthand:

STANDING BACKSTAGE AT THE BEACON Theatre in New York, leaning against a crumbling brick wall in the dark, I could barely see Kris Kristofferson standing to my left. Willie Nelson was in the shadows to my right. Ray Charles was standing beside Willie, idly shifting his weight back and forth. A bit farther along the wall were Elvis Costello, Wyclef Jean, Norah Jones, Shelby Lynne, Paul Simon and respective managers, friends and family. Everybody was nervous and tight. We were there for Willie Nelson’s 70th birthday concert in 2003.

Up from the basement came one of country music’s brightest stars (who shall remain nameless). At that moment in time, the Star had a monster radio hit about bombing America’s enemies back into the Stone Age.

“Happy birthday,” the Star said to Willie, breezing by us. As he passed Kristofferson in one long, confident stride, out of the corner of his mouth came “None of that lefty shit out there tonight, Kris.”

“What the luck did you just say to me?” Kris growled, stepping forward.

“Oh, no,” groaned Willie under his breath. “Don’t get Kris all riled up.”

“You heard me,” the Star said, walking away in the darkness.

“Don’t turn your back to me boy,” Kristofferson shouted, not giving a shit that basically the entire music industry seemed to be flanking him.

The Star turned around: “I don’t want any problems, Kris – I just want you to tone it down.”

“You ever worn your country’s uniform?” Kris asked rhetorically.

“What?”

“Don’t ‘What?’ me, boy! You heard the question. You just don’t like the answer.” He paused just long enough to get a full chest of air. “I asked, ‘Have you ever served your country?’ The answer is, no, you have not. Have you ever killed another man? Huh? Have you ever taken another man’s life and then cashed the check your country gave you for doing it? No, you have not. So shut the fuck up!” I could feel his body pulsing with anger next to me. “You don’t know what the hell you are talking about!”

“Whatever,” the young Star muttered.

Ray Charles stood motionless. Willie Nelson looked at me and shrugged mischievously like a kid in the back of the classroom.

Kristofferson took a deep inhale and leaned against the wall, still vibrating with adrenaline. He looked over at Willie as if to say, “Don’t say a word.” Then his eyes found me.

“You know what Waylon Jennings said about guys like him?” he whispered.

I shook my head.

“They’re doin’ to country music what pantyhose did to finger-fuckin’.”

/end text/

Full essay here: https://t.co/PUdrXat98z