Nothing To Say Here
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Hey Friends,
After four years of publishing consistently every week without fail, I've finally experienced writer's block.
Literally couldn't think about one thing to write about this week. I usually have really good zingers when big things happen.
Like, for example, about this time of the year back in 2022, when Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine, I wrote a post titled "The British Invasion Was Better" where I highlighted a meme consisting of my neighbor, grinning as he scooped up the elusive, rare bourbon, with me standing behind him, looking whipped.
Or the time when the Pope was sick, and I wrote an issue titled "Let's Pope for The Best," and he died a few weeks later. And in the same issue, I wrote about Elon Musk accidentally firing key nuclear staff, where I said the following:
...the biggest write-off of the year was from Elon himself when he wrote off good advice and fired some important nuclear weapons staff "by mistake." He canned a real-life Homer Simpson and left a key department with no one to push a big button – at least, no one with the proper training. This is almost as bad as firing the guy in charge of changing the federal toilet paper – only to have the acting toilet paper changer put all the rolls on facing the wrong way. I know the government is inefficient, but it's little things like this that kill us.
But this week, after trying to transition from a long holiday break to normal routines, including getting back on my workout routine (which is partially rebooted) and writing this newsletter, I sit before this screen, only to tell you, I have nothing to say.
So I won't say it. I won't say that we are now an aggressive nation whose government believes that the world is to be governed by strength and force, and any smaller country is a resource to be exploited at will. A country whose president says its actions are limited only by what is in his mind.
I won't say that Stephen Miller looks like a 13-year-old dork who talks funny and is a low-class prick, but he gets away with it because his dad is a lawyer and has leverage at the school. I won't say that he once painted hair on his head, only to admit as early as a month later that he is best described as bald. I won't say that Marco Rubio constantly licking his lips, not because he does coke, but more likely because he's just completed a session with his boss, and hasn't had a chance to brush his teeth yet.
Obviously, I'm not going to point out that even Germany, the home of Hitler, and the country where water is not even complimentary at restaurants, has accused the United States of destroying world order.
I won't be able to describe the 300% increase in funding for ICE, to create an aggressive deportation strategy that is more militant, which, to my eyes, appears to be designed as much for showmanship, to instill fear, capture photo ops, and gain news coverage as it is to manage immigration. Obviously, I can't cover their presence in Minnesota, targeted at either the Somali refugees or Tim Walz (who really knows).
In Minneapolis last night, droves gathered in the streets to protest ICE after one agent shot Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman, as she was in her vehicle pulling away from agents who approached her after she blocked the road in protest. The administration says she was using her vehicle as a weapon as an act of domestic terrorism, a bald-faced lie, deserving less credibility than Kristi's plastic surgeon, who might have a better career as a balloon animal twisting clown than a lip flip artist. Speaker Mike Johnson seconded the company line and carried Trump's water as usual, saying she weaponized her vehicle against officers and bystanders.
Eyewitnesses and FBI experts say it was nothing of the sort. Even DHS's own policies say the officer should not have fired, and common sense says that if a vehicle is driving, don't stand in front of it. The whole thing was caught on video from multiple angles, so you can judge for yourself. The Minneapolis Mayor, Jacob Frey, said to ICE, "Get the fuck out of Minneapolis."
But obviously I'm not going to say any of those things. How would I, when I have writer's block?
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That's it for this week.
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Have a great weekend!
