TO WISH IMPOSSIBLE THINGS
“You say your proud to be
One of the people
Hands on the money
And your feet on the ground
Shouting out loud
From the top of the steeple
Counting the flock while
Collecting their pounds
All you thieving wheeler dealers
In the healing zone
Giving me fever fever fever fever
Down to my bones
I pray
And nothing happens
Jesus
It’s all in my mind
You say
Stop looking for answers
And reasons
They’re all in your mind
All in you mind
Covered in flies
And smothered in lava
I can’t scratch my itches
With these pumice stone hands
I dream of my days
As a desert farmer
Living my life
On the fat of the sand
All you thieving wheeler dealers
In the healing zone
Giving me fever fever fever fever
Down to my bones
I pray
And nothing happens
Jesus
It’s all in my mind
You say
Stop looking for answers
And reasons
They’re all in your mind
All in your mind
Stuck in a world
Losing its way and wonder
I wonder what happened
To the world we knew
Splitting the atom
And feeling its thunder
Could never ever make me
Feel the way you do
You give me fever fever fever fever
Down to my bones
Fever fever fever fever
In the healing zone
I pray
And nothing happens
Jesus
It’s all in my mind
You say
Stop looking for answers
And reasons
They’re all in your mind
All in your mind” (-Echo & The Bunnymen)
“It won’t be long until you do exactly what they want you to…” (-Martin Gore)
“the dream had to end, the wish never came true…” (-Robert Smith)
“I’ve been looking so long at these pictures of you
That I almost believe that they’re real
I’ve been living so long with my pictures of you
That I almost believe that the pictures
Are all I can feel” (-Robert Smith)
“I will always love you, I will always love you…” (-Robert Smith)
My youngest kid turns 15 in a couple of days, he’s almost as big as me. In some ways, he is more innocent than I was, and more dangerous in others. I feel for his struggle in this confused society of late stage capitalist narcissism and power tripping control freakery where people are born into this weird I-Phone bondage, and raised in a hierarchy worshipping surveillancetech propagandaverse, to only care about TikTok fame and merchandise branding, paid for prestige, and dirty hot tub access. You know it’s getting colder, when sourfaced people like me are willingly wearing hoodies and ugly sweaters and shit. I never was a hoodie person, I guess I associate them with Emos, Hot Topics, Pink 182’s. It’s cold out there, so stay properly garbed and vitamin’d up, my brothers and sisters and friends of the revolution. You know the evil Davos profiteers of death and disaster capitalists love it when the poor people keep dropping dead “suddenly”, I’m doing lots of grotty blue collar grunting nowadays so I’m even wearing a second layer of thermal under the jeans and leather. While working at the new place we’re moving to yesterday, I heard somebody yelling and kinda made my way over near the front to watch a split minded old beardo with a dog, he looked to be a traveler maybe, he was screaming obscenities at himself like troubled and mentally unwell people often do, immediately reminding me of this dude named Lester from another town faraway, who used to stalk the boulevards hollering jibberish day and night-one of the only things I liked about my Birkenstock clad Cheech N Chong lookalike, rich, potsmoking, gentrification hipster gropey boss at the booj restaurant I worked at was that’s he’d sometimes feed the geezer a big bowl of these deep fried red potatoes he made. So yeah we are moving to the part of town where the exiles and the outcasts gravitate, which concerns me as a primary protector of wife and child, it’s gonna be a security issue, having this old fence down, so I hope the snobby and pretentious, materialistic landlord keeps their word to help us get a fence up before the real cold hits. Ahh, so much work, moving, just stressful as hell, and realizing all my little routines are even gonna change. All my neighbors over there are super rich with horses and cows, or super poor with pitbulls and goats, but everybody has a fence, to keepout the walking in circles crazies and the walking stick shufflers like me and the old gray geezer who see each other twice a day on our own many restless streetwalking cheetah pacings. I used to think the high metal fences were for uptights, now I’m thinkin’ we’re gonna need one of those, too. Ya see the speed freaks walking down the street flailing their arms about wildly and can’t help but feel a little bit grateful it aint you, even if you’re bored as shit, the speed freaks look whackadoo as all hell. Why does autumn always bring back the memories, the ghosts, and these gripping, dark depressions? I dunno, something to do with school, maybe? Months of Sundays is how it always is, here in the slow moving deadcrawl ghost town, but once the sky goes chalkboard white and your fingers get numb, and every storefront is closed, ya know, it makes it like maximum meloncholy. I’ve been saying my band is now known as the Loneliness, just me and a Panasonic tape recorder right now, sometimes the wife will play a few songs with me. Sometimes, I’ll fuck around with the little Casio. I think it’ll look good on a t shirt: THE LONELINESS. MAXIMUM TORCH & TWANG. Antisiocial glamrachists, burntout recluse, elderly goth, cowpunks seeks guitar, bass, and drums. Dandy Highwaymen. Gypsy caravans, frontporch fiddle, washboard punk, hobo jungle getdown bonfires.
“Why Can’t We Be Ourselves, Like We Were Yesterday?” (-New Order)
LIVING A LIFE THAT I CAN”T LEAVE BEHIND
I was always into Elvis, the Monkees and the Beatles, Acidhead Dave at the old hippie record store got me into Morrison, Iggy, Bowie. By the time I turned 13 and was about to meet the one that got away, my first big new wave crush, I was discovering all the early MTV shit like U2, the Furs, the Police and the Cure. I guess it was something in that song, “New Year’s Day” that made me really wanna convene an original rock group and yell some protest lyrics from the mountain top. I always thought I was born to make records, but somehow, in the corporate rock, Foo Fighter media-monopoly era, that became a privilege for the ruling class. Now, I walk these sad streets full of wet leaves and mud puddles, I try to figure out a way to do it all myself, I have bad feelings in my mind towards all these people who were captured or programmed by the dominant culture fictions, who judge me so severely cause I ain’t got no inheritance or property or diploma or fancy airbandb with a hot tub and the obligatory mosaic tile and Buddha statue meditation gardens-all the winebox divorcees and power trip gender worshippers complaining about men and money and how some broke male needs to pay for the sins of the patriarchy. “Why isn’t he working? Here is the shovel, tell him to get busy-he can get started in the back.” All those gender studies elites in agreement that the inferior serfs need to get busy laboring, those males need to work harder. “Why aren’t they working? If you have time to lean, you have time to clean. Retail is detail. What do you mean, you are in a monogamous relationship and have to call home to tell some man you are going to be late, so he does not worry about you? I could NEVER be accountable to some…some…MALE!” It’s a badshit world, this winner takes all slavery capitalism. OF COURSE I want to retreat back to the eighties when all us new wave kids could share space, express our hearts freely, smoke and drank wine in the graveyard, singing Cure and Prince and Depeche Mode lyrics back n forth to one another, and did not have to sweat all that bullshit competition college brainwash bullshit programming. One of my old teenage girlfriends married a punk and they live on a houseboat, have pet possums, party with traveler punks and never got old, they stayed outside of society this whole time. I’m happy for them. She was real cool when we were young. She’s in her fifties now and I don’t see her bitching that her husband is not rich enough. I think that’s great that they found each other and never got hung up on ratrace materialism.
I WILL BE WITH YOU AGAIN
It’s gonna be a long day here. My wife’s father is scheduled for a scary surgery tomorrow and my son turns fifteen in two days and is absolutely obsessed with the idea of adopting a pet monkey because he sees all these people making money on youtube from exotic pet ownership and he’s lonely, has sortof given up on finding peers in this no hope town where all the other kids he went to school with are totally capitalist programmed into wanting Guuci and Prada clothing, the boys all want to be drug dealing gang members, Cobra Kai asskickin’, gun wrangling ninja toughguys, and the vaping they/them TIKTOK girls all want to have those online hooker only fans pinup smut pages. He wants to make friends with the animals, and I can sortof get it, even though I’m not much of an animal person myself, at this point. I’m kinda back to one of those phases where I can’t seem to really connect with very many people in real life, at all, and I only seem to find any solace or relief when I drink and listen to old music. Just like ya know when we were thirteen and fourteen and our only imaginary friends were those new wave singers from England-Morrissey, Dave Gahan, Ian Curtis and Robert Smith.
“Time to vote the Dr. Strangeloves out, from both the warmongering parties. And start negotiating with Russia like our lives depend on it. Which they do.” (-Dr. Jill Stein)
“You aren’t resisting anything. You were invited to the White House because you spread propaganda on social media to prop up the blue corporate party.” (-Ryan Knight)
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BLUE NO MATTER WHOS DON’T EVEN DEFEND THEIR OWN VALUES, WHAT SUCKERS THE GENDER WARRIORS ARE. NOT TRUMP IS NOT A PLATFORM.
“Democrats could’ve fought to codify #RoeVWade into federal law at any point over the past half century. They currently hold a majority & could fight RIGHT NOW to codify Roe. But they won’t fight. Instead they will use this SCOTUS decision to fearmonger & fundraise for midterms.” (Ryan Knight)
JAIL THE WAR CRIMINALS! FREE THE WHISTLE BLOWERS!
Opinion | Chelsea Manning: ‘I’m Still Bound to Secrecy’ – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
“Former defense secretary & CIA director Leon Panetta cites intelligence analysts who believe the probability of nuclear weapons use in Ukraine has risen from 1-5% at the start of the war to 20-25% today.” (-David Sacks)
MODERN ENGLISH
The band that really made the most gorgeous and immortal song of my teenage years are still around and of course I still love ’em like crazy and you probably do, too. Who cares if they’re one hit wonders, they are wonders among one hit wonders.
“U.S.-NATO interference is the primary reason why peace is impossible between Russia and Ukraine, not Putin.” (-Danny Haiphong)
“A literal, Hitler-admiring Nazi founded the NAFO propaganda operation (which is publicly supported by the US government to wage information war on Russia)” (-Ben Norton)
“If you got a favorite writer, artist or musician tell them with your dollars.” (-Dan Denton)
“All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.” – Emma Goldman
“No no you don’t understand, if we weren’t being told constantly by the media that this proxy war needs our full support and censoring the voices who dispute this and using giant troll armies to swarm and silence anyone who questions this, we might fall victim to propaganda.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
“Progressives voting to fund the Ukraine proxy war while staying silent on Biden’s rejection of diplomacy are not just fueling a dangerous crisis. They’re also enabling a Russiagate propaganda campaign that has been used to directly sabotage them, as Bernie learned in 2020.” (-Aaron Mate’)
“None of the “progressive” democrats voted against votes to fund NATO proxy war. It is about time they get called out for the class collaborators that they are.” (-Ajamu Baraka)
“War is big business. And nobody exports more missiles, bombs, & arms than the U.S. Remember this next time you believe U.S. politicians when it comes to matters of war. Empires that make trillions of dollars off war will always make peace seem “radical.”
(-Ryan Knight)
“The Squad & Bernie Sanders have voted in lockstep with GOP and Democratic neocons to funnel billions into the weapons industry and fuel the disastrous Ukraine proxy war — all while Biden openly rejects diplomacy. As we saw this week, anti-war constituents are calling them on it.” (-Aaron Mate’)
“Old-school journalists would do anything to protect a source. New-school journalists will do anything to expose a dissenter. Interestingly, the new ones make the same lofty moral and social claims for their work that the old ones did.” (-Walter Kirn)
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“When Democrats are the warmongering party in chief, what exactly is the point of voting for the “lesser evil”? Time to stop taking marching orders from the DNC & start voting for diplomacy not escalation towards nuclear war. Could be now or never.” (-Dr. Jill Stein)
“Progressives voting to fund the Ukraine proxy war while staying silent on Biden’s rejection of diplomacy are not just fueling a dangerous crisis. They’re also enabling a Russiagate propaganda campaign that has been used to directly sabotage them, as Bernie learned in 2020.” (-Aaron Mate’)
“Congratulations Establishment, After finding multiple ways to steal trillions of dollars from the American people over the past few decades, you suckered us into supporting another war and got another few billions from us. I know that Fauci is a liar and Zelensky is a puppet and say it out loud I guess I’m not very popular here. They still have people fighting over Dems vs GOP, when y’all gonna learn? They first had to spend years convincing us that Putin was some kind of evil cartoon villain and next they had to erase 2014 to 2021 to make us believe that this war started on Feb 24th and was totally unprovoked In other words our Gov’t is playing us for suckers again. If you are considered a US ally, you can not be a democracy, behead people in the streets or run an apartheid State and all is fine. The US is running the same playbook in Ukraine as they plan to use in Taiwan and have already used in several countries around the world They’re sacrificing innocent people in these countries to fight wars that they are not willing to fight themselves to maintain their power. Watching the coverage of this war in the United States is really scary It’s bad enough when both sides of the partisan news spins their own narratives to give their side the coverage they want, but how they come together during a war to propagandize us, is truly frightening. You remember when our Gov’t had people so upset about the women in Afghanistan that they wanted us to stay there How often have you heard about them now that our Gov’t is done using them? Did you know our Gov’t stole Afghanistan’s money and now many of those women are starving?” (-Black In The Empire)
“No no you don’t understand, if we weren’t being told constantly by the media that this proxy war needs our full support and censoring the voices who dispute this and using giant troll armies to swarm and silence anyone who questions this, we might fall victim to propaganda.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
“Anarchism is not, as some may suppose, a theory of the future to be realized through divine inspiration. It is a living force in the affairs of our life, constantly creating new conditions.” Emma Goldman
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I Should Sue Limbaugh’s Estate (substack.com)
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” ― Emma Goldman
The World Can’t Wait! Stop the Crimes of Your Government – World Can’t Wait (worldcantwait.net)
Six Ways That Obama Has Been Worse Than Bush – World Can’t Wait (worldcantwait.net)
How the Military-Industrial Complex Gets Its Power and Harms Workers, in 6 Graphs (jacobin.com)
“Democrats have delivered more military spending, more censorship, no healthcare, no living wages, higher inflation, higher gas prices & they couldn’t have done it without their obedient liberal base who will vote for them no matter how many times they stab the people in the back.” (-Ryan Knight)
I LOVE CODE PINK FOR PEACE, ARIEL GOLD, AND MEDEA BENJAMIN AND YOU SHOULD, TOO!
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“EARTH TO PROPAGANDIZED AMERICANS: Sending billions of dollars of weapons to a war-zone does NOT bring “peace or democracy.” It escalates the conflict, prolongs the war & makes the weapons manufacturers richer. If you want peace in the world you have to OPPOSE WAR, not fund it.” (-Ryan Knight)
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“Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty.” -Emma Goldman
“I feel like we don’t talk enough about how the founder of NAFO was posting actual pro-Hitler Nazi propaganda up until very recently and how this Nazi-founded trolling operation has been amplified and celebrated by liberals, think tanks, government agencies and western news media.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
“The top is the place where nobody goes/you just imagine…” (-Robert Smith)
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“When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.” ~Emma Goldman
“All that “propaganda” you hear coming from Russia and China is mostly just facts about the US’s war criminality.” (-Danny Haiphong)
“So-called “anTi-eStAbLisHmEnt” Joe Rogan and Tulsi Gabbard praise neocon Ron DeSantis, who: -tried to make boycotting apartheid Israel illegal in Florida -pushes for war on China & Iran -strongly backed the US coup attempts in Venezuela & Nicaragua -loves the blockade of Cuba.” (-Ben Norton)
“How many LatinX enlisted soldiers from your district could become disabled when the criminal $80 billion proxy war you voted to authorize turns hot?” (-Max Blumenthal calling out AOC’s empty justice tweeting and gender fixating rather than fighting for M4All or saying No Wars.)
“Who would have thought that not funding Nazis in Ukraine was too big of a purity test for you guys?” (-Revolt Politic)
“FYI: This is a proxy war provoked by US & Nato, please stop pushing State Dept. talking points cuz it’s prolonging Ukraine’s suffering.” (-Jimmy Dore)
“AOC I defended you when others on the left were criticizing you before you had been in office a year. But I must say you have not lived up to the confidence some had in you to represent an authentic radical politics.” (-Ajamu Baraka)
“Pelosi is the ring leader of congressional stock trading, and today she’s being celebrated as a hero for knowing how to use cell phone to literally save her own life.” (-Waft Don’t Sniff on twitter)
Alex Knight – #FreeAssange #FraudSquad on Twitter: “@ravelesm https://t.co/yazg74Mvxj” / Twitter
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“Thinking “anti-establishment Republicans” are the alternative to “establishment Democrats” is nuts. We need alternatives to both war parties – that’s people-powered parties/candidates that don’t take corporate money.” (-Dr. Jill Stein)
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PROHIBITION ERA TEMPERANCE LEAGUE SPINSTERS
I started getting hassled about my weirdness or outsider otherness in the fourth grade when my mom married a sicko creep and put me in an abusive football school in Ohio. When ranaway to NYC and discovered Gibby Haynes and the Pyramid Club dragqueens and the Fleshtones and the Deadboys and later on took my Lower east Side bohemian, eighties new wave punknroll sensibilities and let me entetain you all night hootennany and drunken soul booze review back to Ohio in my mid twenties, I was again targeted incessantly by the status quo forces of conformity and all those bitter clock punching wallflowers who thought my leopard print pajama clad cowboy, and face tattooed anarchist friends had too much fun and needed to be exiled for the sake of decency and racist sports bar continuity or some shit. I’ll never live like the other half. I was not put here to be a screw or squarehead. “They said I was a freak….I AM a freak…” (-Jesus & Mary Chain) Now, I am almost 53 and would you believe it-gentrification landlord Karens and uncool shitlib airbandb owners are once again wanting to make some bad hoopla about my appearance and class and work ethic and bad habits and means of livelihood. That is madness to me. Fuck off, ratfinks. On a day like today, I just wanna go somewhere and not be hassled if I wanna drink and listen to music. Should not be so hard.
It’s cold as fuck here all of sudden-another weird part of desert life is how it goes from crazy knock ya down high winds, to shook up soda pop monsoons, to insanely hot blistering lays you down heat, to need to double sock and wear ugly wool swaeters fucking willingly, like overnight! Was woke early by needy fucking animals, I’m told I’m obliged to do a lotta bullshit labor and heavy lifting all day today but in the middle of a move, my old lady has to stop the world and go complete a mosaic tile art project for her employer and I’m annoyed by the presence of brown recluse spiders nesting and making babies in our outdoor furniture. Everything kinda sucks right now. I’ve realized the space in the new place I was promised has been cancelled. Everybody I know is being magnetically drawn to some varying faroff quarters. I keep receiving these fuckyou reminders of how nothing is forever, nothing lasts, your loved ones are all going away, there’s no one to call who understands. Everything down here on this planet is a backstab ratrace and then you fucking die alone and some mean bitch says you had it comin’ and they throw your shit in the dump and go on winebox vacations. My wife works for one of those airbandb owning idle heiress garden tub gardening mosaic tile Artistes who do not like males except when they need a man in a tool belt to get on the roof or push a wheel barrel around, as pack mules, worker slaves. I’ve known the rich remodeling heiress types before so I get a bit triggered by them to use a phrase from their trendy gender new age lexicon. I got a teenager watching “Breaking Bad” fantasizing about being a tough guy on the corner, that’s worriesome, he’s been known to put his hands on people. My old lady’s consorting with meanspirited spinster divorcee women who have this idea of “adulthood” being some ownership society plantation serfhood shit where your indentured servants are moving cement blocks in circles while you wear scarves and think about the moon. I’m looking at this back corner of a fucked up packed to the ceiling garage filled with chemicals and home improvement shop tools and a jack hammered cement floor that’s supposed to be my space, and understanding, oh wow, man, this is bleak, some slave quarters shit. This little corner really looks like Julian Assange’s cell at Belmarsh. Spiderwebs, paint thinner cans upon paint thinner cans, pallets stacked six foot high of floor tiles. Big crack in the floor. Your aging menopausal women folks like to talk about how stupid males are for wanting to party or smoke and drink, listen to loud music or drive old cars, “mid-life crisis” they call it, but I don’t believe for one minute there’s anything more sophisticated about wanting to have winebox sewing circles where one complains about the shoddy service of these incompetent servants, how it’s so hard to get good help these days, moaning about having to wake up at four o clock in the afternoon to get some fucking Amazon packages, or devoting all their time and energy to perpetually advising women in couples to break up with their man, so they can play front porch witchy woman on the steps with the tapestries and wicker chairs and overfed cats. Talk about how male should make more money working and not drink alcohol…for wokeness and gender science!
I just wanna fly back to another time, when the music was beautiful and egalitarian, merciful and united us.
“Nothing will come of this cuz she’s lying at the behest of Big Pharma— which is always welcome. The truth gets censored & punished not pro-establishment lies told by willing corporate tools. The vaccines never stopped transmission which is why mandates were immoral.” (-Jimmy Dore)
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Gabbard works for psy-op army unit in propaganda but when Hillary Clinton called her a commie traitor and slandered her as a Putin collaborating socialist or whatever it’s just the usual DNC mudslinging. Also the great Dr. Jill Stein. Maddow, CNN, DNC are the New McCaryites.
“As far as I know (there are most likely a few exceptions), in all cases where a mass school shooting has happened, and it was possible to know the medical history of the shooter, the shooter was taking a psychiatric medication that was known for causing these behavioral changes.”
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“Once again, Biden is proving more Trumpian than Trump.” (-Dr. Jill Stein)
“BREAKING NEWS: Ukrainian President Zelensky demands that food is immediately snatched from the mouths of hungry US and EU children and given to swastika tattooed Azov troops. US Democrats, led by the squad, vote unanimously to grant his request.” (-Garland Nixon)
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“Despite Russia’s clear RED lines, the West has been blaming Russia & painting Putin as the villain, saying his intervention was “unprovoked.” But recently NATO admitted that it DID have plans to expand along the eastern flank YEARS ago longer before 2022.” (-Fiorella Isabel)
Top Fed Official Says Corporate Price Hikes Are Fueling Inflation (commondreams.org)
12-Year-Old Succumbs to Injuries as Israeli Forces Kill Four Palestinian Teens (commondreams.org)
Opinion | The Puppets and the Puppet Masters | Chris Hedges (commondreams.org)
Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets (mintpressnews.com)