Fuckful Friday

Fuck a duck, are we shit outta luck?

This was a hard week, for no particular reason, just a general sense of dread at all the things we will have to do to survive the next few years. There’s also a healthy dose of rage over the fact that I’m subjugated under a nation ruled by decaying, soulless relics that deserve exactly what they dish out to the rest of us.

I would looove for every member of Congress to live on SNAP and Medicaid, and have to go through the renewal process on their own without any help. Let elected officials live as the least among us and get a little taste of reality. That’s my idea of justice. Well, and the human catapult into the sun, but that is for very specific corruption.

Across the US, 14% of our population receive food benefits and 23% receive Medicaid health coverage (which is still unavailable across most of the Deep South.) Millions of poor and sick have been erroneously removed and kicked off of benefits they are entitled to receive in the past five or so years, meaning the percentage of Americans who need SNAP is closer to 30%, and the number of people who need Medicaid is closer to 40% of our population.

We, the people of the United States, are suffering.

Our officials couldn’t care less. These sorry ass excuses for leaders wouldn’t survive a week living like a typical person. They could never. More importantly, they don’t have to live like us, because we keep them living comfortably in bubbled opulence at the expense of our lives.

My beliefs about survival are focused on creative and communal activities because I know they work, and because not all of us are going to survive the next few years. It’s not something many people want to discuss, but it is a reality we will have to face, along with the grief and anger that’ll accompany these future losses. If we can create and share together during the times ahead, more of us will survive.

This system wants us baffled by bullshit, isolated from a sense of community, and controllably passive. We don’t have to keep playing into this twisted game, one that only benefits a very small minority of the worst fucking people on the planet. The people in charge really want us to lose our minds, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to lose mine. I still have fucks to give. You still have to fucks to give.

Fuck a duck, fascists suck.