A Fly in the Ointment, by T.L. Davis

Sometimes you have to fight. Now is one of those times. From T.L. Davis at tldavis.substack.com:

If you want any semblance of the life you now live, however humble it might be, you’re going to have to fight for it. You are going to have to question everything and everyone and become, as John McClane in Die Hard put it, you’re going to have to be “the fly in the ointment, the monkey in the wrench.” You may never live the comfortable life you do now, but fighting back is the only alternative to being used, abused and discarded after they’ve mined your body for reusable parts.

We are being abused right now. There is no Commander in Chief, there just isn’t, unless a president can grow six inches overnight or change the shape of his face and ears, the color of his eyes, from what historical evidence exists. It’s not all that important, when it comes down to it, because the lesson learned is that the whole of congress, Democrats and Republicans, the whole Executive branch is willing to go along with the ruse, because they have no respect or sense of duty to the people. Where that is true, there is no limit to the degradation and defilement they are willing to heap on the masses. We mean less to them than a group of ants on the periphery of one’s lawn, but should that group of ants begin to invade the picnic, there’s no hesitation to dump a load of gasoline on the anthill and incinerate them all.

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