#1200

This is ostensibly a sex blog despite all the half-baked pretense.

It’s
a huge privilege to be able to do this. By that I mean both that it’s a
privilege, in that I enjoy doing it but I also mean something more
along the lines of: I have a job that pays a living wage; that job lets
me write my own schedule and feature which allows me the free time to
keep a queue running pretty regularly. Add a reliable internet
connection, a reasonably good laptop, shelter, clothing, food, etc. and
you’ll see the sort of privilege I want to indicate.

I take that
privilege as a challenge. To remember all this takes place in a world of
disorder, inequality, terror, etc., etc. And every 50th post gets
dedicated to a sort of cross section of current events.

Honestly,
after Drumpfldore became this country’s President Elect, it’s been hard
to be vigilant about current events. Everywhere you look there’s
gallingly inappropriate cabinet nominations.

There were misguided
effort to mount recounts in strategic states by the Green Party
candidate Jill Stein–who was a terrible candidate but who gets entirely
too much hate for aiding in Drumpf’s win, when it’s been shown
categorically that HRC’s campaign and the DNC doubled down on what
everyone but them realized was a losing hand.

In an effort to
salvage some of his legislative legacy Obama initially played nice–in
what has become something that is disturbingly commonplace for this
president. (If you want to read something that is staggeringly well
written and which also critiques Obama in a fashion independent of his
race or the way he lives his life and interacts with his family,
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ piece in The Atlantic is unparalleled.)

Then we
started to hear about Russian hacking. It’s no secret that most voting
machines are only slightly more difficult to hack than airline data
servers. Drumpf who screamed about widespread efforts to keep him from
winning continued with an accusation that he’d have won the popular vote
by a ‘landslide’ also if it hadn’t been for interference. This despite
widespread disenfranchisement in cities like Detroit, which should be
weighed against the gross negligence of HRC ground campaign there.

Everything
I’ve heard suggests that there was Russian hacking but it was more
aimed at making the polls looks like HRC was doing better than she was.
But still we’re going full tilt with sanctions against Russia–which
won’t end up amounting to anything once Drumpf takes office.

Then
there is the situation in Syria–which is likely to become Obama’s
legacy. It’s debatable whether he could’ve changed anything. And we
really cannot go in now–the scenario is entirely too cocked up.
(Whereas intelligence folks with boots on the ground and Arabic fluency
pretty much agree we need troops in Yemen yesterday, to head off a
rapidly deteriorating situation there.)

And then the Russian
ambassador to Turkey is shot by an off-duty Turkish polish officer who
starts ranting about Russia’s support of Syria’s Assad…

Everything is a mess. And the only advice I can think of is this wood cut:

Also,
I meant to add links for citations but I am existentially exhausted. My
partner tried to commit suicide last night–she’s receiving medical
care and is alive and we believe out of danger–but I am existentially
exhausted right now.

Thank you for your patience. Hoping to restart a queue today but definitely a new post tomorrow.