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Vibe Check: In Darkness We Rise [1]
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Date: 2025-04-02
What captures your vibe right now?
When we’re all watching the same TV but plugged into the silo’d show.
Filtered, algorithmed into personalized nightmares or fantasies, depending on your particular flavor of delusion.
Reminds me of a similar stretch of months from the not-so-distant past
February 2020-March 2020
And April was then it really hit — this was no Aprils Fools… for a day — this was our new reality — this might — though however unlikely — might just be — the new normal.
And we all reacted differently, we all had to look inside, of our our homes, our family, our selves, our fears, our power, and our joy.
The turmoil we all experienced, and how dealt with it (or died with it) revealed something in our consciousness — I truly believe that. Each and everyone. The world for a few short months showed it could slow dow. It could stop… and the sun would rise again for most of us, not all of us.
As it was, and as it remains.
Then Americans do what American always do, we rolled up our sleeves and made the best of it.
Well …. almost everybody
and Now, because of that
Instead of masked healthcare workers intubating patients, we have masked ICE agents deporting families.
I could go on… and on. But where do you even start? The constitution, congress, courts, civil rights, corruption, or coup?
Because the point of this diary — isn’t to post the umpteenth felony of the confederacy of dunces and their ruzzian puppeteers.
The point isn’t to wallow in any feelings of anger or despair.
Not is the point isn’t to offer any type of short term peace offering to save the Democratic Republic.
I’ve already thrown my gauntlet, and as pathetic and uneventful as that may sound, hear me out.
The America that comes next will not resemble the one of the past century.
We are in the 4th Turning.
and they've finally done it. The bathtub fantasy of drowning a government. A messy, gurgling spectacle as democracy thrashes in its final moments. The water's rising, the bubbles are fewer, and we're all expected to …
What exactly?
Where do we go from here?
Because we're witnessing the culmination of a decades-long, meticulously engineered (and spectacularly bungled) series of events that combine psychological warfare, information warfare, and lawfare.
That last one is where we’re really gulping it down hard.
So we turn to.. The judicial branch? Captured. The legislative branch? Kneecapped The executive? A throne of swords for who has the will to push the boundaries of what was once unthinkable.
They're not stopping. They can't stop. The momentum of their machinery requires constant escalation—foreign emails hidden behind encrypted servers, perjury delivered with a straight face to lifetime-appointed judges they selected, tariffs slapped across global trade with the subtlety of a wrecking ball — I mean Chainsaw.
The government is under assault — On January 6th neo-confederates and the alt-wrong scaled the steps of the capital brandishing weapons, assaulting officers, and evacuating congress.
The stakes ratchet even higher with each news cycle in 2025. That cazy-pilled 2024 election season riddled with crime, hijinks and bafoonery. Some perpetrated out in the open, on green grass under the bright sun, some deep behind the curtain until the DOJ finally smoked out a few ruzzian paid influences — but the literal tip of the ice burg was too close...
and the USA has crashed into it twice.
This time isn’t going to end the same — but don’t expect it to end much differently.
That said…
Let’s have a vibe check.
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