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Blood Gold
Marketing murder for profit and power,
The gold in their hands stained with innocents’ blood.
Again … and again … and again.
Fuck the NRA and Fuck Ted Cruz,
Fuck Mitch McConnell and Greg Abbott too.
Y’all can take your thoughts and prayers,
And shove them up your ass.
The time has come,
Your time is done,
America DOES love our children.
We’re a nation awash in weapons of war,
Last I heard, 20 million or so.
And that’s just the assault weapons.
Americans own more guns than there are Americans.
Ain’t THAT some shit?
OK, not exactly bard-level poetry, but it was cathartic writing, “Fuck Ted Cruz.” I am simultaneously optimistic and terrified at the current status quo. I am optimistic that Democrats will be able to retain both houses of Congress in the November elections. This is due to the collision of these shootings, the Roe decision, and the J6 hearings.
I am terrified because I also foresee the right wing as exploding in response to NOT winning the control that they expected to win. A whole new round of claims of election fraud claims will ignite the long simmering civil war tendencies among the crazier ones, and things will decline quickly from there. MY hopes and prayers are that I am wrong about this.