TLDR; we might not get along all the time, but y’all stuck with me. Even though we may only see eye-to-eye on 70% of shit, the other side is COMPLETELY BLIND.

Long emo version; If you had made a $1,400 bet with me 14 months ago, that I would not only vote for Trump, but identify with his trials and tribulations this past year, I would be down one stimulus check.

I came up listening to punk, hating the Man, and identifying as an anarchist since 17. Not just an angry Hot Topic kid, but I could tell you the difference between Tolstoy and Kropotkin.

90% of my friends range from registered Democrat to radical smash-the-state leftists. Some just want a camp to belong to, but some are incredibly smart and analytical, distrustful of government and learned in history.

And yet...

As of 2020 90% are scared little sheep or worse, patsy bullhorns of the state. Triple masking as they line up for the double dose in the arm... celebrating $1,400 as we pass more $1.4 Trillion dolla bills.

Friends who questioned 9/11, Afghanistan, WMD, housing and bank bail outs, even Epstein now exclaimed “But Faucci and the CDC said!”...

In 2019 I was starting my 8th year as a teacher in in an Urban Education setting. I have a checkered past and tend to float thru life. However, If I REALLY choose to do something, I dive in the deep end. I taught in the poorest zip code of Philadelphia. In 2019, my former school replaced 7 out of 8 admin, and they were Ivy League Justice Warriors to a T. A bunch of out-of-touch non-binary white people telling a black community how to be. Wanted 2 gender Neutral bathrooms in a damn elementary school. I pushed back on politics and policy. Needless to say I was fired last summer even though my student perception scores beat the charter average (25 schools). They lied through semantics, mis representing me in evaluations, and called me underperforming. I was fired during a pandemic by fools.

I pulled the lever for Trump mainly for 2A reasons, and because he WASNT the other guy.

Then I watched the cheat unfold. I could identify with that. Felt familiar. I literally didn’t know what the term “gaslight” meant before that year but knew I had been cheated and what it looked like.

After the election was blatantly stolen I looked up Trumps war statistics vs Obama. Then I learned about him helping HBCUs and advocating for blacks and Jews at Mara Lago in the 90s. If the media lies about that then what else could they be lying about!?!

Then the 6th.

And my punk and liberal and anarchist friends swallowed the whole lie. “INSURRECTION! He’s a Fascist! Handshakes and the coof can kill u! Roll up your sleeve and take Gates’ drugz!”

So here I am.

I don’t say Jogger. I don’t call people faggot. I will still read Noam Chomsky along with watching Salty Cracker.

And yet I am here. I might not be a based pede, but I’m no fucking bootlicking backbiting Commie.

For the past year I was a ship without a port... from this point on I might always be. But aside from some ideological differences, this site has felt as close to that for me.

If you got this far I owe ya a Corona Beer. Cheers.