Take your thoughts and prayers and shove it

Another school shooting and more f*cking "thoughts and prayers". Bri and I had just watched a documentary on that scumbag alex jones and his dealings and subsequent lawsuit by the parents he harassed. What a piece of shit he is! AND he is still has not payed up. 

So we had our cry over that documentary then a couple of days later Bri comes in with tears in her eyes to inform me about the 'next' school shooting. I get soooo sick of the the cult talking about how it's the trans, or the people, or the libs or or or ... but never the f*cking automatic weapons. Sick ... is not even the description. Enraged it closer to it. 

And it brought to mind a conversation I use to have with my step mother and father over the phone, many times. When talking about guns and I am sure I would start raging about guns and then they would go off about their right to own guns, and how if they give up 'that' right it is only time until the government would be knocking at your door to 'take over'. And then what would I do if someone broke into my house and how would I defend myself. I am telling you ... I had this conversation ALL the time with them.

My response was:

I don't own a gun.  I don't want a gun in my house. I hardly ever lock my door (back then, years ago) and I have never been afraid of someone coming to my neighborhood to 'take over'. That I did not see evil or threats at every corner of my life.

And my ending argument would be: I don't know what kind of scary world they lived in there in your little Texas community (I knew it was very safe) but I just felt sorry for them for living in such fear and hate.

And I still feel like that today. To live in that kind of fear of 'others' that you feel the need to walk around with a pistol strapped to your thigh, or tucked into your purse or an automatic weapon looped over your shoulder must be a real hell-scape in your head. 

But this is where we are in this f*cked up world. Earth One and Earth Two.

And honestly, the more these crazies talk about a civil war I think, maybe I should purchase a fire arm. But is that really a world I want to live in? Like some post apocalyptic movie where people are holed up in a house with their weapons trying to survive? 

I was reading somewhere about the US splitting up into different countries. I am just hoping the WA state becomes part of Canada. 

Please note: Trump was not included LOL 

 

Kentucky, on Appalachia’s remote border with West Virginia to look into its water problem. Instead, we ended up deep in a holler, miles from any store, hospital, or business. There, we asked locals about jobs, drugs, and life in the holler. 

This was a hard documentary to watch but these are real Americans, trump supporters,  THIS IS TRUMP COUNTRY. Unemployed, living on disability ... thinking that trump's policies are NOT going to affect them? Probably most are alcoholics. It is insane. 

One guy actually said took his three grandchildren to school one day and all came back gay. Yes, he said that. I don't think these people are stupid, I just think they are delusional, ill-informed, drug-addled. 

 

Well, I was going to add some art but I am thinking this post doesn't deserve anything pretty.