The Kam lost because We The People were sick of having the War Machine and the plutocrats continue to murder and pillage the world in our names, sending us the bill for it, and enforcing the ungodly System by the mechanism of a bought and paid-for Duopoly.

Any slim hope that the offered (nominally populist) alternative would make things even a little better on that central score is now fading fast.

The Trump Administration: From “No War Hawks” to ALL War Hawks

***

I don’t plan to quit resisting, in the ways I do and have.

But I am willing to acknowledge that Resistance may be, if not Futile in every sense, at least hopeless, in the practical one, for the foreseeable future and very probably for the rest of my natural life.

We stare into the abyss of the ultimate Game Over screen.

The will of the citizenry, the example of Christ, World Kindness Day or Ice Cream Month–none of these things is going to change that, nor, alas, get me to celebrate.

I don’t feel it likely that I will reboot that particular game and try once more to win at it, whatever that even means.

I do feel it likely that I will continue to walk multiple miles on most every day.

That one of those days, perhaps, my sanctuary will begin to resemble something that could be called Organized.

That I will begin to understand that Carne Asada just means “Roasted Meat”

and start to understand my self

as a roaster.