I’m afraid that, as happened last time I tried to revive this blog, I will reach a point of saturation after throwing up my hands and shouting “what the fuck is it now?” about 1100 times in a period of a few months, and give up again.
It was relentless back then. Day after day you’d wake up wondering if there would still be a world outside your window.
Things are a little different this time out. For starters, even though we are definitely dealing with the same conglomeration of thugs we dealt with in years past, almost all of them have been exposed in spite of corporate media’s desperate attempts to ignore the issue. In fact the corporate media itself has been exposed as being complicit. MSNBC is now up for cattle auction by a scheming owner. CNN’s CEO is a MAGAt, as are the owners of major newspapers and other media. But there is now a thriving “5th estate” of what used to be called counter-culture media from which we can get our news. This was not really so in 2016.
Twitter was taken over by a billionaire goon with the help of the Saudis and probably the Russians, and is losing business hand over fist. But BlueSky quickly replaced Twitter and has been pretty effective at shutting out the bots and abusers that plagued non-MAGAts on Twitter for years.
Trump is not who he was, either. He used to be able to bullshit and deflect, but now he apparently has handlers doing it for him because he can’t do anything but drool, babble and shit himself.
More seriously, NATO’s antennae are up this time. They may have been last time, but these days the NATO countries have an existential threat to deal with in the form of increased Russian aggression. And apparently, NATO is getting ready to deal with it in no uncertain terms. We’ll see, but at the moment it appears to have Russia at least somewhat nervous.
So there is cause for optimism this time. All I can say is stay tuned, and I’ll try not to get frustrated and throw up my hands and quit again.
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Civilization Rant 
