And we’re in for our own ride with “Polly Pockets” as my wife calls him (pierre poilievre). Since it increasingly looks like our fellow citizens are going to fuck up… <sigh>
Same here. Shit, I’m doing that right now in the front lines over here in Florida. I’m not going to cower to this madness. And when shit hits the fan, we are gonna need people on the inside.
Here’s a bad ass song about enduring. I’ve translated the lyrics using google translate in case you don’t understand Spanish.
Note: To endure, to hold, and to put up with are the same word in Spanish.
spoilerWe were born to endure what the body sustains We endure what came and we endure what is coming We endure even if we have the seconds counted Our body can last up to fifteen minutes hanging We endure whippings, having both arms cut off Fractures in any bone, three weeks in a cast We endure the urge to go to the bathroom all the time To see Halley’s Comet, you have to endure seventy years We endure school, college, institute At dinner time we hold in our burps The people of Burundi continue to endure famine We endured three days to reach the Moon We endure the cold of the Arctic, the heat of the Tropics We endure microscopic viruses with antibodies We endure storms, hurricanes, bad weather We endured Nagasaki, we endured Hiroshima Even if we don’t want to, we endure new laws We endure that today kings still exist We punish the humble and endure the cruel We endure being slaves because of our skin color We endure capitalism, communism, socialism, feudalism We even endure stupidity We endure the guilty when he plays innocent We endure our fucking president every year For what was and for what could be For what there is, for what may be missing For whatever comes and for this moment To toast for endurance For what was and for what could be For what there is, for what may be missing For whatever comes and for this moment Raise the glass and toast to endurance To toast for endurance We endure any type of pain even if it hurts us We endure Pinochet, we endure Videla Franco, Mao, Ríos, Mon, Mucabe, Hitler, Idi Amin Stalin, Bush, Truman, Ariel Sharon and Hussein We endured more than twenty concentration camps When you swim underwater you hold your breath To build a wall, we hold the bricks Those who don’t smoke endure the smell of cigarettes. We put up with Monsanto infecting our food We endure Agent Orange and pesticides When we sail, we endure seasickness We endure minimum wage and unemployment We endured the Malvinas and the British invasion In the city of Pompeii we endured volcanic lava And within the logic of our humanity We believe the lie and no one can endure the truth For what was and for what could be For what there is, for what may be missing For whatever comes and for this moment Raise the glass and toast to endurance To toast for endurance We put up with the atheist, the Mormon, the Christian To the Buddhist, to the Jew, we put up with the pagan We put up with the one who sells bullets and the one who shoots them We endure the death of Lennon, that of Víctor Jara We endured many wars: Vietnam, the Cold War The Hundred Years War, the Six Days War Let them endure the revenge, we come to retaliate Today our liver can endure whatever the bar invites For what was and for what could be For what there is, for what may be missing For whatever comes and for this moment To toast for endurance For what was and for what could be For what there is, for what may be missing For whatever comes and for this moment Raise the glass and toast to endurance Let’s toast to endurance!
Well, the first thing I’m going to do is drink myself into a coma. After that, I don’t know. I keep hoping to wake up rich so I can have a lot more options, but that hasn’t happened yet.
Same thing I did last time. Hunker down in a blue city in a blue state, worry about my friends and relatives in red states, and do what I can to take care of myself and others.
I’ve already got my passport, and my partner is getting their’s later this year. I’ve always wanted to finish a masters, and it would be a great excuse to be anywhere else.
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