Friday, March 13, 2026

Question For The Day – Be Here All Along

It’s 2026. Do You Know Where Your Country Is?

March 13, 2026

Today, we present the question right up front, followed by the set-up. Hey, it’s a topsy-turvy world folks. Just trying to fit in.

Today’s Question For The Day:

How did we get here?

A few weeks ago, long before Demented Dipshit Don launched Operation Epic Failure in Iran, my aunt, my mother’s younger sister, who was born in Belgium in 1938 and landed at Ellis Island along with her parents in 1951 (one year after my mother immigrated), often talks politics with me. We regularly commiserate about the current state of despairs. During that recent chat she asked, “How did we get here?”

In a way, it’s a pretty straight line from Jump Street to Trump Street. Day One, we murdered millions and millions of the land’s original inhabitants and took their land. Then we dragged more millions from their homes across the ocean and treated them worse than animals. Neither one of these crimes against humanity has really ended to this day. And we have never, as a nation, attempted to make amends or reparations or apologize.

It has been said the Hitler’s concentration camps were modeled after America’s Indian reservation system. American returned the compliment by creating Japanese internment camps, and now, the Fascist/Trump/Epstein regime is trying to build concentration camps for mostly innocent immigrants.

Yet people keep saying, “This is not who we are.” They insist Donald Trump and his fascist fuckwits are not who we are. Well guess what, despite all the sick, criminal, seditious, insane, dementia-addled shit Trump has perpetrated upon this nation and the world, there are still more than one third of Americans, along with 52 senators and 218 House members, and very consistently six Supreme Court justices, who continue to all-but-literally (as far as we know) kiss his ass.

Todd Rundgren – Shinola (1982)

Bonus Question:

How and when can we be somewhere else?

This has been your Paying Attention™ Question For The Day.

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