Yes, slavery was THAT BAD

I was taking a news cycle break but now I’m back and (overwhelmed) catching up with all of the terrible things the administration is doing and saying. One of the most harrowing is this obsession with downplaying slavery and trying to erase history at, specifically, the National Museum of African American History and Culture which I still haven’t made it to and with the current militarized occupation of DC, don’t know when I will.

As I have said in this blog before, one of the most glaring roadblocks to progress is American society’s refusal to wholly acknowledge, accept, and rectify the very real and brutal history of this country due mostly to the feelings of discomfort and guilt these conversations stir. There have been apologies issued by federal and local governments for slavery, even some (very) minimal efforts for reparations in some states. However, a concerted effort to teach honestly and fully in classrooms what happened during this dark time along with its heavy impact on political and social structures is still lost. While we are taught aspects of slavery in school, it is watered down immensely and minimized in ways that are damaging and detrimental to critical thought.

Oh Hope, Where Art Thou?

I haven’t been feeling like writing in here for a while because frankly it didn’t seem particularly helpful. I didn’t think it would be beneficial to anyone to read another pile on about this astoundingly atrocious administration, but here we are. I wish I was more hopeful and while I do see resistance continuing to form, nothing seems to be loud or effective enough to stop this group of evil politicians from continuing to bulldoze through people’s lives and make decisions that benefit so few while the rest of us are here wondering how humans can be so cruel and callous to each other.

I won’t go through the plethora of imbecilic posts, outrageous statements, absolutely unhinged messaging that has been coming out of this White House recently because, well, there are far too many things to fit in this single post and we’ve all been subjected to it already- either against our will or not. Every single day there’s something ludicrous happening that makes me all the more exhausted and begging for some semblance of reason or empathy.

Nobody is free until we’re all free

It is unbelievable what’s happening. Yes, I know this administration is unhinged and cruel and chaotic, but so much of their decision making has been disjointed and clunky. There were tariffs, then there were no tariffs. There were deals, then there were no deals. Russian leaders are good. Russia leaders are bad (Russian leaders were always bad??).

This constant back and forth and flip flopping makes statements like “we’re going to "deport all of the ‘illegals’” seem like another exasperated, exaggerated utterance almost laughable considering how discombobulated these Republican leaders seem when it comes down to actually taking action, but I was wrong. Those weren’t just words. It has been months of people being disappeared. It has been months of families being ripped a part. It has been months of fear, terror, and confusion for innocent people who were just born in a different part of the world but wound up here for a better life. For people who are deserving of dignity and due process, but shouldn’t even be swept into these broad strokes of mindless deportations in the first place.

First 100 Days

We have to acknowledge that the political climate in this country is the equivalent to being stranded on an island with an erupting volcano with a bunch of people insisting the eruption is fine, lava isn’t that hot, and if somehow you ignore all the obvious dangers everything will work out in the end. All while watching things burn around you. That is how these first 100 days have felt - like a sinking ship. A stranded space ship. A spiraling submarine. All at the hands of someone who frankly has no idea what he’s doing, who employs soulless advisors who only care about the bottom dollar and of course inflicting as much harm as possible on anyone who doesn’t believe exactly what they believe. This leaves the rest of us in this country trapped in this speeding dumpster fire, careening towards a cliff with no breaks and no way off. It is a MESS.

The Third Month

The infamous “DOGE coin” *eye roll* - it’s a cryptocurrency of course.

One of a few things I want to talk about today is Elon Musk or as he hates to be called, Space Karen. In my previous (deleted) post I mentioned a bunch of things Trump has done in his first few months in office, which legit feels like years at this point. It was all really to get to why I was writing, something I’m still reeling about…. you guessed it— DOGE. The Department of Government Efficiency. An insulting title within and of itself. A meme-ification of an entity that has the ability to devastate the lives of billions. The stupid acronym a proclamation of the group of unserious, unqualified underlings that have infiltrated the government by means of a South African billionaire who undoubtedly has some salacious intel on the president or else he simply wouldn’t be in that position. The whole thing feels like a Marvel plot.