I just don't feel, today, like having to fight a resurgence of right-wing bullshit is a failure of those who fought it in the past. It isn't. It's just the nature of shifting
ideologies & times & so on.

Not sure if that makes any sense. I haven't had coffee yet this morning so maybe it isn't as coherent as I'd like.

I don't feel like we got to some final end point & it was knocked down & good people failed. I feel like we've had some good times & hard work & things have been good sometimes & shit other times & there's an acceptance that that's how it goes. & the only failure is to stop fighting entirely.

Which could be a frustrating thing: i.e., holy shit we have to keep DOING this, have to keep fighting, can't we stop? Can't we rest for once, for good?

And it doesn't feel that way to me. It's actually kind of a relief, because I feel like it isn't a failure.

This past weekend it really sank in that the fight against fascism never really finishes. & that's the way it is.

There will never be a point in time where fascism, authoritarianism, xenophobia, & all things that threaten the liberty & freedom of human beings everywhere, will just be gone or finally eliminated.

& it's the retrogressive ppl making things so shitty. The authoritarians, the GOP, conservatives, MAGA-heads & ammosexuals & so on.

Not everyone, everywhere, but the *majority* of ppl in the US support progressive values like same-sex marriage & labor unions & legalization of cannabis &c. We're a progressive nation, run by retrogressive fucknauts.

& also hopeful: commenter reminded readers & lurkers that the US is a progressive nation, & provided stats to back the argument up that yes, indeed, we are, in terms of the bulk of *the people*.

A comment from a redditor on US conservatives' true feelings about the US that I found thought-provoking: https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/zc5s3e/comment/iyv9s40/

On to some good old-fashioned Mr. Mister now. #cosomusic

Also, does anybody else think that Steve Farris was/is a total smokeshow? Or just me?

TIL that Murray & Anthony Head are siblings.

With music written by 2 members of ABBA & lyrics by Tim Rice, no less.

#cosomusic It still blows my mind that there's a musical out there about chess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU

@DebyFredericks I hear that. I lost constant pain & anemia, so that was pretty cool.

& while I remember my mom mentioning hot flashes, nobody prepared me for this. At all.

I mean compared to what my periods were like for 30+ years, menopause is a walk in the park. Still, the brain fog, constant fatigue, & night sweats pretty much suck all the ass.

Oh & I've had to switch to decaf because blood pressure.

For all that the elders in my family complained about this sort of thing as I grew up, somehow it didn't dawn on me that it'd actually happen to *me* someday.

Oh, & this *menopause* shit?? WTF.

#cosomusic A bangin' swing tune from the 80s. Ah, the time of my youth... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pns

@DMArt55555 LOL yep. And then some supplements. Oh, & that arthritis cream. And slippers. And GET OFF MY LAWN.

I rent. I don't even have a lawn. LOL

Just ordered my cholesterol meds.

Aging seems to look like a lot of medications every morning.