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And busy it was indeed. March for Science happened. Scientists felt they had to march to protest funding cuts, this is how bad shit is getting. I had to work this morning, then I ran, and run I did<\/a>. I slowed down a lot the last 4 miles, but I was just tired, having serious trouble focusing, and wasn’t feeling motivation. With no big races on the schedule, I spent most of the run wondering what the hell I was doing. I may stop the semi-regular long runs and just taper for the next time I sign up for a marathon or such. I will have to decide in the next few weeks.
\nPolitics is, of course, pissing me off. Chaffetz, the shithead that investigated Benghazi 8 times, 8 fucking times, yet refuses to investigate Russia’s ties to the US election is announcing he will retire. Now, I want to know why he’s retiring, but I will wait to get evidence, I don’t care for conjecture. Some are saying he took $10 million in laundered money from Russia, some are saying he’s sleeping around on his wife and it’s about to come out that he’s just as big a shitbag as so many of these “family values” fucknuts. It will come out, his supporters won’t care. But this is why people need to get out and vote. There should be huge organizing efforts to get everyone registered, with proper whatever they need in their State, while voter-ID laws, and gerrymandering are being fought in court. You can do more than one thing at a time. Il Douchey (see what I did there?), who most likely committed treason to get where he is, is now whining that the media is still being unfair to him and polls are fake. Because he’s coming up on the end of his first 100 days of occupying an office he doesn’t deserve, and he’s done nothing note-worthy. But the shitheads in the Senate rammed through the fucking joke that is Neil Gorsuch, and he made sure Arkansas was able to murder someone last night who never received due process.
\nIt’s fucking disgusting that the United States still views murdering people as an acceptable punishment. Ignoring the utter hypocrisy of the situation, let’s talk about the fact, not the opinion, the fact that human beings make mistakes. There are, there have been, and there will continue to be innocent people in jails. There are, there have been, there will be innocent people convicted of murders. If you take their lives, guess the fuck what? If we are a country which values voting, and which is governed by the peoples themselves, then each time the State murders someone, you are responsible for it. Let’s not even touch on the disgusting racial element to this, in that you see a clearly inequitable distribution of the administering of the Murder Penalty upon people of color. As with all punishments in our criminal punishment\u00a0system. It’s hardly just.
\nThen we should probably mention for four days in a row Russia has violated US Airspace with fucking nuclear capable bombers, and that orange fuckwit has not said a word. So many people need to go fuck themselves at this point. Particularly the guy on the interwebs, on a hardcore band’s website who tried to troll me when I shit on Donnie Pee-Party’s picture of who’s who of who cares, by calling me a “Marxist.” I am in a way, a communist (not a Communist, there’s a difference). But I understand, and have said on many occasions that this world will not be repaired by any of the old ways of thinking, all the old philosophies are necessarily flawed, and will cause undue strife. But let’s just say, for argument’s sake, I was a Marxist, why would I be offended at someone calling me a Marxist? That I know what Marx’s philosophy was, and that I have serious problems with much of it, yet I also understand it’s not inherently evil, or shameful, it’s just horribly flawed because it’s based on “science” and ideas which have been debunked for decades, I still am not shamed, or offended in being called a Marxist. The other possibility, and what this shitbag was going for, was that I was just as uneducated as he was and I didn’t know what Marxism actually is, and just bought all the brainwashing nonsense about it being shameful and evil like “all forms of Communism”. Too bad for him.
\nBut that’s what the “Right” does now. Look at this turd, Alex fucking Jones. This motherfucker has the brass balls to say of his divorce and custody battle, “Respect my family in this time”. Hey, fuckface, you sat on your radio program, and have blasted out on you website about how “Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, a false flag.” Well, it wasn’t. You know how I KNOW this? I am from Connecticut, and (hard to believe) I’m a friendly guy. I know people who had kids in that school. I don’t know anyone who lost a child thankfully, I can only imagine the hell they must be in, seeing the hurt and trouble those who didn’t lose children go through. You have no respect for these people, even if you are “playing a character”. You are profiting off their pain, and you are causing them more pain. Your followers still harass these people, claiming they never had a child, or their child is still alive, all sorts of nonsense. You’re a giant piece of shit. I hope your wife gets EVERYTHING. I hope you NEVER see your children again. I hope you die penniless in a gutter. I always give something to those who need help when I can, but if I saw you on the street, just for this, I would actually spit on you, you disingenuous Nazi shit.
\nThat’s the thing, I don’t care if you’re a true-believer fascist scumbag, or just along for the ride to make a buck. In fact, the ones just out to make a buck like Axle Johnson, Tammy Longreen, or that horrible Alice Cloister are even worse. I really didn’t even understand the real danger until it was too late, and I’m usually pretty good about understanding the dangers in time. \u00a0I had taken it for granted that those really fascist pricks had taken themselves out of the voting pool and would remain there. Can never make that mistake again for sure. But all this needs to end and it needs to end before 2018. So we really have to start putting pressure on Congress to do their jobs, there are 4, maybe 5 ways this shithead has violated his Oath of Office, and Pence is right there with him. Pretty sure Ryan and McConnell are complicit as well. This fight needs to happen and soon.
\nIt all just makes me angry, I’ve been trying to just keep to myself on it and do what I can, but it really has been eating at me recently. Other things were getting to me today too. The fact that I just don’t do the work I need to do to get myself in better shape for running. I should be doing 15-30 minutes a day of some sort of upper body and core exercises. I really hate it that my last two companions (who the fuck am I, Doctor Who?) have not only been “ok” with the mess that is my upper body, but they have actively tried to keep it the way it is. If I say, “I’m not happy with this, because it is negatively affecting my life, because I do not feel healthy and well with it.” I don’t need to hear that you don’t mind or you think it’s cute or whatever. I need to hear that I was heard, and that I will be supported in my efforts to make a positive change that I have expressed I want to make. I don’t want anyone to feel bad about this, but it was really pissing me off. As long as someone is healthy, it’s not about looks, it’s about if they are happy or not. I am not happy with my upper body. I need to really get focused on that.
\nWow, there were lots of bad things in my head today, and I haven’t even touched on all of them. Sometimes you have to let it out though, I think it’s that I have been so intermittent with my long runs, that this stuff has built up inside of me. I truly do hope we can make substantive change before it’s too late, I hope it’s not too late already. But the slower I see things moving the angrier I become. These fucking idiots worrying about their “bottom line” and treating government like a business are just the worst, and are a real danger to our survival. People who deny racism, who deny misogyny, who deny bigotry, those who only concern themselves with profit and domination, these people are the problem. They need to be stopped, and we are definitely running out of time.
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