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"Won't someone think of the children?" The subduing of white hips

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Wednesday February 11, 2026 · 4:00 AM PST

2026/02/11 · 04:00

Part One

The Guardians of Pedophiles party wants you to know that it’s really, really, really serious about protecting children. Really.

So they are going to go all out and prosecute anyone and everyone named as rapists, abusers and murders in the Epstein files?

yeah (chuckle) NO

They’re taking on the scourge of public twerking, and crotch SELF grabbing (because that’s more heinous and immoral than a POTUS admitting that he grabs others (women) by the pussy- which if you failed human anatomy, is the crotch).

House Republicans are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance, suggesting the content and lyrics of the Puerto Rican star's show were "illegal." — Axios

Tennessee Republican Representative Andy Ogles ^{(and can I just say for this topic that this is an unfortunate last name)}, is all upset that ^(white)children were exposed to “pure smut” at the Superbowl half time show.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R, Tenn.) posted on X on Monday evening a letter addressed to the House Energy and Commerce Committee in which he called for an immediate inquiry into the National Football League and broadcaster NBCUniversal over their “prior knowledge, review, and approval” of what he alleged to be “a performance dominated by sexually explicit lyrical themes and suggestive choreography.”

In his post, Ogles called the halftime show “pure smut” and claimed that it featured “explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air” and that the singer’s mostly Spanish-language lyrics “openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities.” — Time

You mean like Benson Boone, Adam Lambert, Ted Nugent (at a Trump rally no less), and Justin Bieber?

I didn’t see any “explicit displays of gay sexual acts.” I did see two men dancing with each other in the V of an open truck door. Kos acknowledge that in his post:

Yes, there was a gay couple dancing—for a split second—amid an endless sea of opposite-sex couples dancing, socializing, raising children, and getting married. — Kos

Yes, they were dancing, it’s called GRINDING, and it’s a dance move.

I mean we’ve spent a lot of time liberating and freeing white hips, and you sucking green persimmons assholes want to recage them. ^{(allusion intentional)}

I grew up with dance, partly to cure my pigeon toedness, and partly because I loved it. Ballet, some jazz, and some tap. I spent almost every Saturday morning watching American Bandstand and then SOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUULL Train.

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As a purported grown up I have even spoken to white classmates going to our high school reunions about dancing. They say they (still) can’t dance

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and I’ve suggested to them to think about the hip movements they have during sex to help unlock their hips on the dance floor. Here it really is the motion of the ocean. But this is why, for a long time, as well as not being able to jump, white people couldn’t dance either.

Locked hips. Elvis didn’t get the “shocking” nickname, “Elvis the pelvis” for no reason.

It hampered us even learning ballroom dancing. And while the polka is fast, it doesn’t require much gyrating hip movement. Neither does the walz. Likewise line dances like the Tush Push has a smidge of gyration, but not much.

When the Cuban Rumba came to these shores it had to be sanitized and made less spicy for white people. It also became just the Rumba. A lot of Latin ballroom dances were “cooled” down because of our “sensibilities.”

Hell, my people even banned the rather banal waltz in the 1800s, because of how close people got to each other.

Whatever “wild” dancing we may have done when the western world was almost all Catholic, it was killed with the reformation. While Lutherans and Anglicans (Episcopal) allowed dancing, most other protestant sects did not.

My grandmother (Anabaptist) almost beaned my Dad for going out dancing until he said it was at a church. Even then she didn’t approve, and given what I know, she may have done it any way.

In the church I grew up in (United Methodist) many of the elders were upset that we sang a “new” song at Easter called “Lord of the Dance,” because it said that Jesus DANCED! (one of my first experiences with church ladies’ pearl clutching). You may recognize the tune, because it comes from the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts.” Which is also heard in a section of Aaron Copeland’s Appalachian Spring (If you need some restorative music I recommend this piece. In one recording I have they have bird song playing in the coda along with the musicians).

Pardon me a moment while I push up my nerd glasses.

I don’t know, because I never heard, but I’m sure those self same people melted down before and after our youth group held a New Year’s Eve Dance Party in the church fellowship hall.

Anyway, it seems with white washing over vibrant paintings on the walls of medieval Catholic churches (in England) much of the color of life was removed too. No laughing, no frivolity, no fun, no joy and no passion. There were certainly less celebrations and feast days after England dispatched with Catholicism and for a short time, Anglicanism. ^{Damn Puritans}

Is it any wonder that we gravitate toward cultures that have maintained their color? By the way, have you looked at the dank and dreary northern landscapes where winter is 50 shades of gray and a billion months long, that we come from? We’ve even made green, drab.

What is often cultural appropriation could also be an attempt to quench centuries old thirst and hunger for color and passion.

The scene in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” where the colorful Greek Orthodox family meets the dour, sedate, bleached out Presbyterians is true. I watched it happen in real time when one of ours married a Catholic man. It scandalized my grandparents. The tables at the wedding dance and reception had a side of confused and somewhat judgy protestants and the fun side where the Catholics sat.

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Those dour, sad individuals (Menno Simons, John Calvin, John Wesley, etc.) removed it from us ~~for God~~, for control. And that’s what Project 2025 in general and Rep. Andy Ogles specifically wants to do.

Unbridled, unrestrained joy is uncontrollable.

To put it in a simple construct, the religious right wants to control OUR hips again.

To do this they will once again police Brown and Black bodies, under the guise of “protecting the children.” But the hips don’t lie. We all want joy and color in our lives, especially now.

Again children have become not just their human shield, but a weapon too. They claim to care, but if they truly did there are so many other, better things to do that have real positive outcomes. Like bringing pedos, no matter how rich and powerful they are, to justice, getting all the backlogged DNA samples run to help solve more rape cases, fully fund head start, Children's Health Insurance Program(CHIP), free public school breakfast and lunch, etc.

etc. etc. etc.

Bad Bunny does have songs that are sexually explicit, but he didn’t sing them, or speak them in Spanish at the Superbowl. The one questionable word he said in Spanish was bleeped. And how do they know anyway when Trump said no one understood it?

Oh that’s right Trump has bilingual hypocrites on his staff.

We SEE you! You can stop with the performative bullshit!

Part TWO

Has he been to any public high school team sports games?

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Here’s some twerkers mixed up with children …. shock!! See the joy?!

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I suffer from White Girl Misplaced Fat Syndrome(WGMFS). My butt is flat but my stomach is big and round.

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Queen knew it too. It says FAT bottomed girls, not FLAT bottomed girls.

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Ogles strikes me as a wanna be

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And just because they are clutching pearls. (I love many genres)

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h/t to Matt Randolph (a.k.a. Mr. Global)

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bonus, just because

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See also Creepy conservatives are hell-bent on punishing Bad Bunny

Ped0phile says what?

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Monday February 09, 2026 · 4:35 AM PST

2026/02/09 · 04:35

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Trump crashes out over Bad Bunny’s halftime show
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-02-09T02:02:07.654Z

Poor Trumpy, crashes out not realizing or caring, or maybe even hating the fact that this country has a long history of singing songs and enjoying songs, that are not in English. And some of those songs have been so popular they have charted, even hitting number 1 on the Billboard charts. That’s excellence.

Many Americans sang Frère Jacques in preschool/kindergarten in French:

Frère Jacques, Frère Jacques,
Dormez-vous ? Dormez-vous ?
Sonnez les matines ! Sonnez les matines !
Din, din, don. Din, din, don.

Maybe that helped prime us to like songs in other languages. Dean Martin sang Italian in many popular songs like Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu) (1956), and José Feliciano’s Christmas song, Feliz Navidad (1970), non-English songs are part of our national fabric.

In 1958 Ritchie Vallens adapts a Mexican folk song and records “La Bamba” which hit No, 22 on the charts in the US

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When Los Lobos covered it in 1987, it stayed in the number 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 for three consecutive weeks. = excellence

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But wait there’s more!

In 1963 Belgium’s Singing Nun (Jeannine Deckers, better known as Sœur Sourire ("Sister Smile")) recorded “Dominique,” in French. It hit number 1 on Billboard’s Top 100 for 7 weeks.

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Then there was Sergio Mendes and Brasil ‘66 who in 1966 charted with a song entirely in Brazilian Portuguese, “Mas que Nada.” It hit number 47 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

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In 2006, Mendes again re-recorded the song, this time with American musical group the Black Eyed Peas and additional vocals by Mendes' wife, Gracinha Leporace, for his album Timeless. This version contains a sample of the Black Eyed Peas' 2004 single "Hey Mama" — Wikipedia

It was picked up and used in the 2011 film “Rio.”

A Spanish song also hit number 9 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1966, Guantanamera.

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Growing up in the 60s, my parents played only classical/opera, folk and easy listening in our house. I became quite familiar with “Guantanamera.”

Santana’s first Spanish song to chart was “Oye Como Va.” in 1971. It was written and recorded in 1962 by Tito Puente, but saw immense popularity hitting number 13 on Billboard’s Hot 100 when Santana covered it.

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Nena release “99 Luftballons” in 1983, a song entirely in German. An English version was also released but the only countries that this version out performed the German version were the UK and Canada. The German language version hit number 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100. (The English version didn’t even chart here.)

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I repeat:

In 1983 the German version of the song was more popular than the English version in the United States of America.

Falco’s hit “Rock Me Amadeus” hit number 1 on Billboards Hot 100 in 1986. Most of that song is in German.

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In 1995 the Miami based Bayside Boys remixed a song by Los del Rio, adding a small English section to the Spanish song. It hit number one for 14 weeks on Billboard’s Hot 100. We’ve now lived with this song for 30 years: “Macarena.”

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It was played at the 1986 Democratic National Convention too. There are videos of Hillary Clinton and Al Gore dancing to it.

The South Korean K-pop singer Psy released “Gangnam Style” in 2012. It refers to the lifestyle of the nouveau riche in the Gangnam section of Seoul, South Korea. It went to number 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100.

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“Despacito” was already popular in 2017, when Justin Bieber picked it up and added to the intro in English and I guess sang some of it in Spanish (I can’t tell if it was him my hearing is shot) . Even with Justin Bieber’s contribution the song is mostly in Spanish.

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Justin Bieber addition

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“Despacito” extends its record command on the Digital Song Sales chart to 17 weeks at No. 1, with 80,000 downloads sold (down 3 percent) in the week ending Aug. 24, according to Nielsen Music; both the original version and Bieber remix were sale-priced for 69 cents in the iTunes Store during the tracking week (with the former on sale for 69 cents in the prior week, as well). The single additionally leads the Streaming Songs chart for a record-extending 16th week, with 44.6 million U.S. streams (down 4 percent) in the week ending Aug. 24. On Radio Songs, “Despacito” holds at No. 5 after five prior weeks on top, drawing 105 million in all-format airplay audience (down 11 percent) in the week ending Aug. 27. — Billboard

This is far, far from being an exhaustive list of all the non-English songs that have charted on the US Billboard charts. I tried to hit songs that weren’t in Spanish as well as Spanish going through the years, the highlights, maybe, if you will. But it probably isn’t even that.

The point is, in a country made up of immigrants, who used to and still congregate in enclaves in the cities or become the majority population in small towns (as my Dad’s family did), for safety and community, languages other than English are still spoken.

People who never step foot outside of the enclave or never have to interact with the outside world don’t see the need to learn English. My Dad’s sisters only spoke Low German until entering first grade. Their community moved and congregated together in small towns in Kansas, Pennsylvania and Canada.

You can still find this in all the China Towns, French Towns, Greek Towns, Little Italies, Little Germanies, etc. across the USA. It isn’t surprising that there are towns and enclaves where Spanish is spoken (which was spoken in the American west before English), or Arabic, Hindi, etc. are spoken. People are people.

It makes sense that music in their “home” language would be popular, as well as books, newspapers, radio stations, etc.

Even in communities where the Irish and Scottish congregated for safety and community their words in Gaelic, Irish (which is different than Gaelic) and Scottish (which is also different than Gaelic — even Gaelic between Ireland, Scotland and Wales is different), etc. have entered American English, as well as their music.

Though racists like to forget, and hope that we do, It has always been this way. It is part of America’s strength. Music, after all, is transcendent of language barriers.

Bad Bunny and his music are quintessentially American.

There are plenty of American’s who understood Bad Bunny just fine. There are plenty of Americans who speak more than one language, even as our country continues to stunt our children’s growth and intelligence by only requiring one language. These Americans; of all colors, understood and vibed with the half time show. Those like me who only have a smattering of understanding of several languages, and didn’t fully understand Bad Bunny, enjoyed the half time show.

I actually thought it was too short. I wanted more.

And for a man who the Epstein files says digitally penetrated prepubescent girls to call the dancing obscene sounds more like the racists of the 50s and 60s complaining that rock music was immoral black music that caused white children to dance like monkeys and lose their minds, I will offer a heart felt

FUCK YOU!

We’ve seen some of this before. What we haven’t seen before is something more obscene, disgusting, disturbing and morally compromised, than the dancing. What it is, is that a pedo occupies the white house.

Oh and Bad Bunny more than earned his spot on the Super Bowl half time show according to Billboard charting.

To watch his half time show again you can go here to watch it on YouTube.

(By the way, that wedding was real)

As the jumbotron said:

The only thing more powerful than hate is LOVE!

Even Elmo approves

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Elmo has spoken. No other opinions need to be submitted, and the voting is now closed.
— TrumpsTaxes (@trumpstaxes.com) 2026-02-09T01:53:32.711Z

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Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”
— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-02-09T01:50:58.223Z

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White privilege observation

Trump to Black farmers: You're DEI and we aren't going to help you. . .

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Friday February 06, 2026 · 4:02 AM PST

2026/02/06 · 04:02

tall grass meadow at Stewart Farm on Harsens Island

tall grass meadow at Stewart Farm on Harsens Island

. . . and no help for the small family farm either. Unless . . .

Black farmers are experiencing the same tough environment white farmers are experiencing due to Trump’s tariff and trade policies.

Except Trump’s terrorist mob cabal, trying to act as a legitimate government, is only going to help white farmers.

(AURN News) — “They said they were moving away from the Black farmer issue. They were moving away from DEI and the small farmer issue, and they were focusing on low-scale white farmers and corporate farmers because they produced the most food, is what this administration said. And they told me they may come back in a couple of years and revisit the farmers of color issue, but right now they were moving away from it. And where’s the accountability? I’m a farmer just like anybody else.”

That was John Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association, speaking on MSNBC with Katy Tur and expressing concern that Black farmers are being excluded from federal agricultural decision-making. — AURN News

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If you are wondering what the difference is between a low-scale farmer and a small family farm, there is none. Zip, zilch, nada. It’s the same damn thing. But some how seeds and animals know the difference between a white farmer and a farmer of color and won’t produce as much for the latter.

Fucking bollocks!

The Grio once posited the idea the Trump’s betrayal of white farmers could produce opportunities for Black farmers. But the Trump regime will grind the Black and POC farmers and ranchers into dust before these racist mother fuckers put them on equal footing with the white farmer.

Plus they seem to have admitted their game. We already knew what the intended outcome was: to increase corporate farming. They’re just openly admitting it now.

The American Farm Bureau Federation set these three key points about farmers’ negative margins:

Farm financial stress is severe and persistent. Margins are below breakeven for many crops, working capital has been eroded, Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies are on the rise and according to a recent survey of commercial lenders, profits will remain elusive going into 2026.

Trade losses have compounded economic pressures. Farmers have experienced multi-billion-dollar export declines in some of our largest trading markets, including China. Trade frameworks have been announced, but increased export volumes have yet to materialize and cash prices remain at or below levels seen in early 2025.

Without action, long-term viability is at risk. Additional financial support is critical to offset trade losses and provide a bridge until farm bill enhancements from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act go into effect. This will stabilize the farm economy, sustain rural economies and maintain affordable food prices.

Except it seems only white farmers, and corporate farms need apply for those enhancements. And the billions of relief Trump already promised seems not to have reached ANY farmer yet.

Thanks to Trump and let’s be real, Steven Miller, as he is the éminence grise (power behind the throne) while Trump plays with his blocks, your food now includes color bars.

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See also Trump posted a racist video of Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as monkeys! WARNING!

Trump is not going to like this . . . tariffs will go up 5,567,364%! And I'm dying LOL

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Wednesday February 04, 2026 · 6:57 PM PST

2026/02/04 · 18:57

Donald Trump singing opera — Name what he's singing

Donald Trump singing opera — Name what he's singing

OMG! OMG! OMG! I’m going to go fan girl NUTZ!!!!!!!

It’s an opera! I love OPERA ^{(well not Aida)} and this IS an OPERA!^{(somebody gave me fire!)}

I love lampooning Trump

And this opera LAMPOONS Trump!!

Two things that I enjoy!

Chocolate and peanut butter TOGETHER! ^{(Get your damn peanut butter jar OFF my chocolate bar — that’s so unsanitary, eeeww)}

Really American and Raw America and Steve Harness just dropped a video about a real, current, opera, that makes fun of Trump!

It’s staged, has a score, costumes, singers, EVERYTHING!

It’s called Monster’s Paradise

The only issue is that the opera is in German . . . but never fear, Steve explains the plot, etc.

It is sad that both lead singers have had to distance themselves from it because they are scared of Trump reprisals. (or Trumprisals,^{If you will} if you’re tired of typing both words.)

But I just had to rush over here to tell Y’ALL Video:

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See also:

‘Hamburg Opera Debuts World Premiere: ‘Monster’s Paradise’ Satirizes Trump’

‘Monster’s Paradise,’ lampooning US President Donald Trump, has world premiere at Hamburg Opera — AP

'Monster's Paradise,' lampooning US President Donald Trump, has world premiere at Hamburg Opera

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Just a thought

Maybe Adam Sandler can reprise Opera Man and perform an aria from this opera on SNL.

ICE/CBP are stalking white people - they are eating the paper

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Wednesday February 04, 2026 · 4:00 AM PST

2026/02/04 · 04:00

silhouette of a stalker

silhouette of a stalker

Why? Because white people of conscience are using what the system bestows upon them to help those the regime is targeting.

Reese Waters posted a thread yesterday from FB.

The “threader” vintageweave, explains that ICE is starting to follow white people from grocery stores because they think “white people of conscience”^TM are making food and supply runs for those the regime/ICE are ~~hunting~~ targeting.

Write the address on a long stick of gum so at least it tastes good!

My remark ^

Reese’s remark v

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“white people of conscience^TM” is sarcasm. (in case anyone is offended by that attempted little ^{(the TM)} injection of humor.)

I have no desire to ride a bull named Fu-Man-Chu

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Sunday February 01, 2026 · 10:50 PM PST

2026/02/01 · 22:50

Little plastic green army man flipping the bird. From my collection of little toys. — One of the little toys in my collection. It just seemed right for this diary.

Little plastic green army man flipping the bird. From my collection of little toys. — One of the little toys in my collection. It just seemed right for this diary.

I have struggled to write this. I mean it’s hard because there are so many things in Trump’s america (lower case on purpose) that are shouting for needed and deserved attention.

When Trump took office again I told my husband that I wasn’t sure I’d live through this, this time. I was thinking about how I did the last time around. He triggered my PTSD, gained from my abusive ex-husband. And due to the constant stress I was pretty sure that my brain and body were bathing in the stress hormone cortisol, like it was a swimming pool.

The stress from that time seems quaint now.

Three months ago my husband was laid off. Because of this I’ve had to stop subscribing and donating to a number of things, including Dailykos, that I support. It kills me every time I get email from DailyKos about needing money. I want to, but I can’t.

My husband’s salary was great enough that I haven’t needed to work outside the house for the majority of my adult life. Which has been fantastic since I have spent the majority of my adult life, disabled and unable to hold a job. Much, but not all, of which I have chronicled here at DailyKos. (see below)

Because of my immigrant, naturalized husband I have been able to stay off disability, etc.

Now we’re on Cobra and I will eventually have to enroll in MassHealth, and file for disability, if my husband (who is 59) doesn’t get another job.

Then also 3 months ago I had an echocardiogram. I had a heart attack while in the hospital for my hysterectomy (2020), and I’ve been seeing a cardiologist ever since. I also asked him at the time, to up my diuretic since it wasn’t clearing all the fluid and I was still having edema in my legs any more. He did. He then told me I have congestive heart failure.

Congestive heart failure is a long-term condition that happens when your heart can’t pump blood well enough to give your body a normal supply. Blood and fluids collect in your lungs and legs over time. Medications and other treatments help manage symptoms like swelling. Congestive heart failure is life-limiting for many. — Cleveland Clinic

For many years before my heart attack I did experience the sensation of drowning when lying down even on my wedge pillow.

The news probably should have hit me like a ton of bricks, but my brain took over shielding me. I said “thank you,” and that I didn’t have any questions and I just packed that information away. I really didn’t want to even think about it until after the holidays.

Now I’m dealing with the information. Now it has hit me, leaving me dazed, sometimes weeping at my computer.

My Dad died from congestive heart failure in 2021. He was 87. Time from diagnosis to death; 14 years.

My Mom died from congestive heart failure in 2022. She was 93. Time from diagnosis to death; 6 months.

The average time between diagnosis and death is 10 years.

Yes, my parents lived long lives. I’m only 63, ten years younger than my Dad when he was diagnosed. My parents also didn’t have a life time of illnesses. I do.

Two weeks ago I told my husband and that afternoon I told my kids, their partners/spouses, my brother and sister, my brother and sister in law, and my granddaughter.

Am I scared to die? No.

I don’t believe in heaven or hell and believe that that belief is the root of the fear people have.

I believe in the void. In endless, painless sleep. And that idea has comforted me more than the idea of heaven or jannah, or valhalla, etc. ever has.

I don’t need the carrot and the stick to be a good person.

I am scared that I’m not going to get everything done that I want to do. Like my month long trip to the UK to visit all the places I’ve read about or have seen on TV (Oxford is big in the plan, so is Bletchley Park, Colchester (Boudica), King’s Lynn, etc) , and to do more research into the person I profiled in my capstone project for my history degree (Margery Kempe), etc.

Do even go for an advanced degree now?

At my Dad’s celebration of life ceremony I said that I would finish mine. In doing so taking my Dad over that finish line too since he never finished his maters.

Do I make long range plans?

Do I give up my desire for more pets? Is it fair to burden my husband or my kids with them after I die?

Will my next trip to Pakistan to visit my in-laws be my last?

What happens if Trump takes my husband and 2 sons?

Last week I told friends and family on Facebook.

One of my friends on Facebook is the woman who was my parents helper and was there with my sister when both died. I had to go back home a few weeks before my Dad died and was there when my Mom died. My sister and I were able to keep our promise to both of them about dying in their own home.

She checked in on me to see how I was doing.

I am annoyed.

I, long ago, decided to go physician assisted suicide so I wouldn’t suffer for years before my death. I didn’t want to live and don’t want to live the life my mother lead for the 5 years before her death.

I wanted a death that was comparatively clean and quick as opposed to what happened to my parents in the weeks before their death. It was, what I consider messy and drawn out.

And I don’t want my kids wiping my ass.

i was always going to go “Do Not Resuscitate” (DNR) when I was 70. Do I go ahead and do it now, 7 years before I had planned to?

Well I guess this post is long enough. Hopefully I have illuminated some of the thoughts that are happening before I get to be able to anything like ride “a bull named Foo Man Chu,” but I have hiked the Rocky Mountains.

I’m in the process of loving deeper.

I will be sad to leave all the music.

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Some of the diaries through the years:

I IS HEALED!

Yes Trump, I blame you.

Claustrophobia and this maladministration

KosAbility: Two Snow Cones Make You Blind

I AM Iron Wooooomahn!

KosAbility: Shhhhhhhhhhhhh

KosAbility: Me. Nakey!

KosAbility: Bam! Zap!

KosAbility: Bad Blood

KosAbility: Flour, snow cones and blindness

KosAbility: I should be freaking Wonder Woman by now

KosAbility: I was a fetal experiment (This diary was shared by DES Action)

KosAbility: My SAD Vace

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I.C.E. commits B&E of autobody shop in Utah. Had NO warrant.

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Sunday February 01, 2026 · 12:40 PM PST

2026/02/01 · 12:40

The first 10 Amendments known as "The Bill of Rights." Made by Clytemnestra using AI, because her body shakes so much now she needs ehlp to be creative.

The first 10 Amendments known as "The Bill of Rights." Made by Clytemnestra using AI, because her body shakes so much now she needs ehlp to be creative.

Medias Touch reported that I.C.E. literally broke down the locked door to get into an autobody shop, in Utah. That’s “breaking and entering” (B&E) and I’m pretty sure in Utah that’s illegal even for cops (except under special circumstances, but I think they have to “back fill” that too)

They detained 2 people. One an El Salvadoran employee and the other the business owner. I can’t find anything that says whether he is documented or undocumented — NOT that it matters to the goons.

When challenged by the wife of the employee they said that they didn’t need a warrant. However, it shows in the video that their faces are uncovered.

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I guess this un-American evil regime is trying to violate every one of the first 10 amendments, also known as the “Bill of Rights,” like they’re a type of Pokéman. But instead of collecting them all, they are working on violating them all.

Who’s going to stop them?

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The Hangman

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Wednesday January 28, 2026 · 6:34 PM PST

2026/01/28 · 18:34

Forrest Valkai is a biologist, educator and as he says a “science communicator.” He is also prominent among “YouTube Atheists.”

You can often find him on The Line, and The Atheist Experience. (If you ever watch him in a live, do NOT ask him for book recommendations. He will give them too you. A lot of recommendations. He will pull out piles of books and read off their covers. His co-hosts will display a visceral irritation at your request. It’s a whole thing . . . its. . . a. . . just don’t )

I love his Reacteria posts.

Today he spoke about two poems. The first was First They Came – by Pastor Martin Niemöller and The Hangman by Maurice Ogden.

And then he said he liked Ogden’s poem better. My opinion is they build upon one another, speaking the same wisdom, especially for our time What do you think?

(The text of the poem is under the video of Forest wonderful recitation of it.)

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The Hangman

By Maurice Ogden

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Into our town the Hangman came
Smelling of gold and blood and flame—
And he paced our bricks with a diffident air
And built his frame on the courthouse square.

The scaffold stood by the courthouse side,
Only as wide as the door was wide;
A frame as tall, or little more,
Than the capping sill of the courthouse door.

And we wondered, whenever we had the time,
Who the criminal, what the crime,
The Hangman judged with the yellow twist
Of knotted hemp in his busy fist.

And innocent though we were, with dread
We passed those eyes of buckshot lead;
Till one cried: “Hangman, who is he
For whom you raise the gallows-tree?”

Then a twinkle grew in the buckshot eye,
And he gave us a riddle instead of reply:
“He who serves me best,” said he,
“Shall earn the rope on the gallows-tree.”

And he stepped down, and laid his hand
On a man who came from another land.
And we breathed again, for another’s grief
At the Hangman’s hand was our relief.

And the gallows-frame on the courthouse lawn
By tomorrow’s sun would be struck and gone.
So we gave him way, and no one spoke,
Out of respect for his hangman’s cloak.

2.
The next day’s sun looked mildly down
On roof and street in our quiet town
And, stark and black in the morning air,
The gallows-tree on the courthouse square.

And the Hangman stood at his usual stand
With the yellow hemp in his busy hand;
With his buckshot eye and his jaw like a pike
And his air so knowing and businesslike.

And we cried: “Hangman, have you not done,
Yesterday, with the alien one?”
Then we fell silent, and stood amazed:
“Oh, not for him was the gallows raised . . .”

He laughed a laugh as he looked at us:
“ . . . Did you think I’d gone to all this fuss
To hang one man? That’s a thing I do
To stretch the rope when the rope is new.”

Then one cried “Murderer!” One cried “Shame!”
And into our midst the Hangman came
To that man’s place. “Do you hold,” said he,
With him that’s meant for the gallows-tree?”

And he laid his hand on that one’s arm,
And we shrank back in quick alarm,
And we gave him way, and no one spoke
Out of fear of his hangman’s cloak.

That night we saw with dread surprise
The Hangman’s scaffold had grown in size.
Fed by the blood beneath the chute
The gallows-tree had taken root.

Now as wide, or a little more,
Than the steps that led to the courthouse door,
As tall as the writing, or nearly as tall,
Halfway up on the courthouse wall.

3.
The third he took—and we had all heard tell—
Was a usurer and infidel. And:
“What,” said the Hangman, “have you to do
With the gallows-bound, and he a Jew?”

And we cried out: “Is this one he
Who has served you well and faithfully?”
The Hangman smiled: “It’s a clever scheme
To try the strength of the gallows-beam.”

The fourth man’s dark, accusing song
Had scratched out comfort hard and long;
And “What concern,” he gave us back,
“Have you for the doomed—the doomed and black?”

The fifth. The sixth. And we cried again:
“Hangman, Hangman, is this the man?”
“It’s a trick,” he said, “that we hangmen know
For easing the trap when the trap springs slow.”

And so we ceased and asked no more,
As the Hangman tallied his bloody score;
And sun by sun, and night by night,
The gallows grew to monstrous height.

The wings of the scaffold opened wide
Till they covered the square from side to side;
And the monster cross-beam, looking down,
Cast its shadow across the town.

4.
Then through the town the Hangman came
And called in the empty streets my name,
And I looked at the gallows soaring tall
And thought: “There is no one left at all

For hanging, and so he calls to me
To help him pull down the gallows-tree.”
And I went out with right good hope
To the Hangman’s tree and the Hangman’s rope.

He smiled at me as I came down
To the courthouse square through the silent town,
And supple and stretched in his busy hand
Was the yellow twist of the hempen strand.

And he whistled his tune as he tried the trap
And it sprang down with a ready snap—
And then with a smile of awful command
He laid his hand upon my hand.

“You tricked me, Hangman!” I shouted then,
“That your scaffold was built for other men . . .
And I no henchman of yours,” I cried.
“You lied to me, Hangman, foully lied!”

Then a twinkle grew in the buckshot eye:
“Lied to you? Tricked you?” he said, “Not I.
For I answered straight and I told you true:
The scaffold was raised for none but you.”

“For who has served me more faithfully
Than you with your coward’s hope?” said he,
“And where are the others that might have stood
Side by your side in the common good?”

“Dead,” I whispered: and amiably,
“Murdered,” the Hangman corrected me;
“First the alien, then the Jew . . .
I did no more than you let me do.”

Beneath the beam that blocked the sky,
None had stood so alone as I—
And the Hangman strapped me, and no voice there
Cried “Stay!” for me in the empty square.

"People are doing something wildly dangerous. They are singing and dancing" - Nick Knudsen

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Wednesday January 28, 2026 · 2:46 PM PST

2026/01/28 · 14:46

made by Clytemnestra

made by Clytemnestra

See also Springsteen sings for / with Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the tipping point. There is so much evidence of that from some waking up and leaving MAGA, Republicans splitting off, and even more resolve from the people. The music follows.

Here are more protest songs to include in your collection

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Phil Ochs song “Knock on the Door” has been updated:

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There are many short songs, and song/chants in the video below

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We are trading out fear for harmony — h/t

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Hey, Oh

We won’t be silent as our friends are gunned down

at 1:34

This is for our neighbors who are locked inside

Together, we will, abolish I.C.E.

AT 2:04

Hey Nazis, Fuck You!

Hey MAGA, Fuck You!

Hey Proud Boys, Fuck You!

Hey Elon, Fuck You!

Hey fascists, Fuck You!

oh lay oh lay oh lay oh lay

(call:) Fuck Trump!

(response:) Fuck Trump!

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Hey, Kristi Noem, I wanna know

why you’re such a cunt

At 4:11

At gonna let no I.C.E. agent turn me round

turn me round

turn me round

aint gonna let no fraidy cat I.C.E, agent

turn me round

I’m gonna keep on walkin

I’m gonna keep on talkin

(can someone help me with this line. I can’t pick out the words of what he sang)

turn me round . . .

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The writer of “Minnesota Anthem,” Marc Skjervem, acknowledges that this song was created by AI

AI Disclaimer: This song was created using artificial intelligence. The goal was to quickly offer a piece of music that could help people express what’s happening in Minnesota and feel inspired to take action. There is no intent to profit or seek attention. I strongly encourage musicians and songwriters to create and share their own authentic music — and I’d be glad to amplify it. My hope is that this project serves as a bridge that inspires creativity, connection, and positive change.

Minnesota Anthem

In the frozen heart of Minnesota's plains.

we watch the winter turn of fire and rain

Voices rising where the snow won't slay.

Shadows falling in the breaking day.

Renee's name whispered in the bitter wind.

A life cut short where justice should have stood

and the bells cried out over.

Who will stand when the night won't let

children trembling at the clang of fear

but every post grows loudly here.

We are the north star blazing in the cold.

We are the stories that the mountains told.

From every tear we forge a flame.

We call their names. We call their names.

And in this land of storms and snow,

hope will rise where rivers flow.

Alex moved with healing in his hands.

In the streets where people took a stand.

A nurse, a friend, a voice for the weak.

Silent cries in the words we speak.

They try to break us with iron and lies, but

truth glows brighter and open skies.

Hear the hearts that be in unison.

Mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, side

by side beneath the autumn moon.

We’ll march until the dawn comes soon.

Raise your torch. Let justice ring for every

soul lost to win.

We are the north star blazing in the cold.

We are the stories that the mountains told.

From every tear we forge a flame.

We call their names. We call their names.

United voices break the longest night.

From hurt to hope, we claim the light.

In Minnesota's heart, where the snow

drifts deep,

we sow the seas that love will keep.

From sorrows, depth to sunrise high.

Together we rise.

Together we cry.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

My apologies to Kossak TiltTownSinger who sent me this song in October, but I just now saw it.

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No Kings, No Crown

No kings, no crown. Not ever. Not now.

No kings, no crown, not ever. Not now.

They got alligator prisons.

Jack boot police.

The grandpa, a nephew or niece.

That man's selling ice cream.

They'll take him, too.

They're just fool after fool after fool.

They're just fool after fool after fool.

They pardon the criminals who beat up the cops,

even those who pled guilty with flag poles and rocks.

Starve hungry children

stealing medicine, too.

They're just fool after fool after fool.

Fool after fool after fool.

They're robbing the veterans

wounded in war. Close the suicide

hotline. Slam the hospital doors.

Call them suckers and losers for the

red, white, and blue. They're just fool

after fool after fool.

Fool after fool after fool.

No kings, no crowns,

not ever, not now. No king, no crowns, not ever, not now.

Their God that breathes fire sets them up for the fall.

Behind their halo curtain, there ain't no God at all.

They think they'll get to heaven.

Rival King, Solomon's new.

They're just fool after fool after fool.

Fool after fool after fool.

When we stand together, we become bulletproof.

Like old Paul Rivere shouting up to the roof.

One your neighbors and repeat after me.

One if I land and two if I see.

History will be recorded and quick to condemn.

the cowardly traitors both for women and men.

And it's good to remember and times is by 10.

There's way more of us and there are them.

There's way more of us than there are.

There's fool after fool after fool.

Fool after fool after fool.

Fool after fool after fool

Fool after fool after fool.

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Recent dairies about/of protest music

Do you need some music to heal, to vent your rage and/or to encourage you on? Here's some

Inspirational Protest Songs to the Rescue

Meet the Raging Grannies

"In the shadow of a would-be king, Oh, resistance bells shall ring" - new protest song about I.C.E.

Springsteen sings for / with Minneapolis

This one made me shed a tear or two

Bruce Springsteen releases Minnesota protest song

Do you need some music to heal, to vent your rage and/or to encourage you on? Here's some

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Tuesday January 27, 2026 · 9:00 PM PST

2026/01/27 · 21:00

Music as medicine. — Music as medicine

Music as medicine. — Music as medicine

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The Resistance on Youtube and is putting out many protest songs for this era. By request, some of those songs are available on many music streaming platforms (mostly the major ones , except iTunes and Apple Music). Search for the artist name "Swan Court."

Example

"In the shadow of a would-be king, Oh, resistance bells shall ring" - new protest song about I.C.E.

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Monday January 26, 2026 · 4:28 PM PST

2026/01/26 · 16:28

I tried to write an introduction to who Seth Staton Watkins is, but I could do no better than his about section of his YouTube channel

Seth Staton Watkins is an American folk singer known for his renditions of classic Irish rebel songs and political activism through original compositions. He records and produces all of his music in his home studio in Nova Scotia.

He dropped an original song 3 days ago called “Resistance Bells — Abolish ICE.” The words are below this vid in this dairy so you can follow/sing along.

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Abolish ICE.

Lyrics:
Just another day for the hell brigade
Another body for the reaper
They say deny your eyes, well, it's comply or die
All hail the glorious leader

The banshee’s cry was heard through the night
For another precious martyr
How many need die for the changing tides
To bring the Lady’s mighty hammer

Oh, the battle’s just begun, Oh, there’s freedom to be won
In the shadow of a would-be king, Oh, resistance bells shall ring

The masks they wear can’t hide the murderous stare
Of the fascist armed invaders
It’s not a means to an end; it’s just the evil intent
Of the malignant white crusaders

But the rebellious sparks that spring from love-filled hearts
Won’t be coerced into submission
With every passing day, oh, they set the stage
For the coming revolution

Oh, the battle’s just begun, Oh, there’s freedom to be won
In the shadow of a would-be king, Oh, resistance bells shall ring

Oh, the battle’s just begun, Oh, there’s freedom to be won
In the shadow of a would-be king, Oh, resistance bells shall ring

And through the dark and stormy days, Oh, the fight is not in vain

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He also covered Bella Ciao (English)

Declaring or acknowledging martyrdom signifies the ultimate, voluntary sacrifice of one’s life

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Monday January 26, 2026 · 3:06 PM PST

2026/01/26 · 15:06

“Declaring or acknowledging martyrdom signifies the ultimate, voluntary sacrifice of one’s life for faith, truth, or a cause, functioning as a powerful, supreme witness that validates beliefs and inspires others.” — google

When the president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” Many, if not the majority of us understood that this was a declaration of war. To stand for our constitution was not going to be bloodless.

We understood that they would try and provoke us to violence, or send agitators in to create the conditions they wanted/needed to declare the insurrection act active. We, to our estimable credit, did not bite and haven’t bitten.

We, have also known that every time we attended a protest, a rally, whether participating or observing we make a conscious decision to lay down our life if necessary. I struggle to write more here that doesn’t sound like a white girl just waking up to what the black community has always faced.

But make no mistake, we’ve reach the point in this time line where your decision to protest or observe may end your life. This is not to dissuade you, this is to encourage you get your affairs in order before you do protest or observe. To understand that you may not come home, but protest and observe any way. Because they want that paralyzing fear that keeps you home and your head turned away. Do not give it to them.

Even Google AI understands the power of martyrs in its overview.

The power of martyrdom lies in its ability to transform ultimate personal sacrifice into a potent, enduring force that galvanizes movements, challenges authority, and shapes collective memory. By validating beliefs through suffering, martyrs create "blood as seed" scenarios, turning persecution into symbolic, often political, power that can inspire, mobilize supporters, and outlast tyrants.

In my mind protesting/observing/fighting with the sole aim of becoming martyrs is a cynical manipulation of the idea of martyrdom. It is something that my husband witnessed in Pakistan as groups of young men joined a fight to become martyrs — not to fight for the cause with martyrdom as a possible outcome, but as the sole reason to fight.

If your object is to die, then fighting for your cause is not the object. Death, and if you’re religious, the reward in the afterlife, is. That memory always reminds me of what General George S. Patton said, "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country"

While we are “fighting” as protest, we are peaceful, non violent, funny, even joyous. We are fighting for our country, its citizens and non-citizens and the US Constitution.

So by all means criticize the cynical exploitation of political martyrs. But don’t underestimate the fierce and genuine emotion that political martyrdom generates, and the extraordinary political power it exerts as a result. — David Bell

Wall of Martyrs

Renee Good

Keith Porter Jr

Alex Pretti

You are gone, but your sacrifice will never be forgotten.

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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