Maybe those are the words I utter when I find myself looking at Ford SuperDuty trucks in a kind of self-masterbation fashion, telling myself the only kind of pickup truck that I can get that is going to be all reliable is a SuperDuty with the big ol’ 7.3L, thanks to the EPA all the half-ton and mid-size trucks are complete disposable crap that probably won’t make it down the road for the next ten years. Thin oils, supercharging, auto-shut off and all the tricks to keep the old ICE engine lumbering along have ruined cars. We need to go electric, without all the high-tech Tesla crap. Make me a Ford F-250 that’ s electric with as few buttons as possible. Buying a SuperDuty – I thought you cared about climate change – you are listening to Greta Thunberg’s Climate Book while ranting about how bad the EPA is.
And I just read the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, both now free through the public library, with a lot of disgust. I mean, I voted for Donald Trump mostly because I was pissed the legislature denied me the right to even consider any candidate besides Kamela Harris and Donald Trump. I thought it would be cool to cast a protest vote for the felon, somebody who has seen the other side of the criminal justice system, someone who is deeply cynical about government. Someone who ain’t a boot licker. In the days after the murder of Renee Good, we now know the Trumpster is the ultimate boot licker. And for all his talk about being a strong advocate for the second amendment, it’s hard to say that Trump has even lifted a finger to defend the second amendment. While Democrats too often are willing to tape over the check engine light, Republicans remind me a lot of Henry Holyoak Lightcap taking a 357 magnum to the check engine light. While admitting you have a problem is a step, blowing a hole in your dashboard doesn’t fix it.
Too many days I have the same attitude as the DOT workers who shovel the children’s brain fragments, blood and bones off the concrete after the car crashes on the superhighway, to get traffic moving again after the wreck. Yeah, that’s kind of bad, shrugging it off in a lot of indifference, noting it’s part of having superhighways and the times we live in. Fucking indifference about everything, maybe too much acceptance knowing we are hardly able to resist the evil that has been unleashed on our country, so the best we can do is protect our own interests. Those SuperDuty trucks are simple, reliable but big and burly trucks. I should be out there protesting all the evil that Trump is putting forward, how our world is being overrun by invasive species and garbage heaps, how the poles are melting and our climate is changing slowly but surely in obvious ways. But I tell myself, if I can’t save my country, it’s best to save my own life.
They say you can’t ignore the engine knock. Eventually the rod will snap and go through your block and things won’t go anymore. Truth is sucks for the colored and the poor, and immigrants who are getting roughed up by Trump’s ICE. But so far despite friends posts on social media, I have yet to be impacted by ICE. It’s not like there are ICE agents driving up and down the streets of Albany in military fatigues and camouflage Humvees. While there are still too many cops and cameras watching motorists for speeding and running red lights (honest, we’re doing it’s for the bicyclists safety!), so far the crack down hasn’t come down to the middle-class world of Albany outside of our social media channels, free newspaper subscriptions and color televisions, I see the direction of our country as a nation of bootlickers. While the liberals are looking at disdain at Trump’s boots, they’re more then happy to support the cops when it comes to banning guns, and preferably gun owners, hunters, and farmers too. Liberals have no problem with Trump’s tactics if it supports their agenda. Maybe the only good thing that Trump has done is de-legitimize our government. Made even the most prestigious of government agencies grounded in rational procedure look like violent thugs. It’s not bad that government has been knocked down a few pegs.