What is currently happening in the US government and has been happening since January 20, 2025 is appalling. And horrific. And ghastly. And atrocious. And nightmarish. And repugnant.
And…
Well, you get the point. No need to beat you over the head with it.
Entire departments are being gutted. Federal workers who know how to do their jobs are being let go.
Planes are falling from the sky.
Law firms are being shaken down for money.
Legal residents are being caught up in the dragnet under the excuse “searching for illegals” And sent to a brutal El Salvador prison. After they are branded a Venezuelan gang member. Whether they are one or not.
Legal residents are being detained and deported after convictions are “discovered” upon their return to the US after being abroad. Sometimes they are being detained without even leaving the country.
Americans are in hiding because the administration doesn’t believe that people can be transgender. And seek to punish those who are transgender. The administration has cast this very small minority as the bogeyman in their latest horror story.
Foreign aid has been all but stopped. And what is still “allowed” is very piecemeal. HIV medication treatment is still okay, but not education about how to prevent HIV.
In the messages that I have seen from outside of the US, the reputation of this country is in freefall.
There is an outbreak of measles in the US. 483 confirmed cases in 19/50 states.
Research institutions’ grants are being yanked and the institutions themselves are being tasked with NOT researching very real and very needed things. There is a list from the NIH of words that will no longer be allowed for research. Words that we know trigger the government, this government, like women and men and transgender and covid and gender. There are many more; ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY SEVEN banned words at last count.
The imbecile who is running the HHA has announced yet another research into the link between vaccines and autism. Despite it being examined and investigated and investigated and investigated, ad nauseum.
Who is going to tell him that there isn’t one? Scratch that. Who is going to get through the layers of denial and admitted heroin use and convince him that there isn’t one?
All this destruction and “findings” that are not really findings but instead are letting a ketamined up bear in the china shop and letting them break things. Because they can. Because no one in Congress is stopping them.
And for what?
To assuage the very hurt feelings of a grown-ass man?
Because we as a country told him no in 2020.
Sure.
It feels more and more every day like the country has been taken over by a venture capitalist. As if this country is being dismantled and sold for parts.
And the vultures will take apart the rest.
No, what has happened since January 20 is not a joke.
I’m not laughing, are you?
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 