The first time i realized. Trickledown economics bit me in the ass.

Usual warning 59 year old man’s dyslexic bad punctuation ramble on back patio having morning coffee.
I’m still pissed over this bill that was passed total economic cruelty and my mind is on overdrive.
Now i do not take my time in service seriously it doesn’t define who i am i was kid and i was lucky 84-87 all peace time.

So my first actual lesson on Reagan’s fuckery it is 1984 typical hot ass day down at Fort Benning I’m 18 doing O.S.U.T. Infantry over in Harmony church.

The platoon is being punished for some sin that we committed as was the usual . And I’ll say this you’re exposed to the finest N.C.O.’s the army has infantry Drill Sergeants.

And Benning wasn’t hard for me the physical part it is all mental. It is like summer camp yet you have these guys with Smokey the Bear hats brown rounds trying to fuck up your day and they will.

Because it is their job the infantry drills to vet you to teach you to become a dumb ass private and barely function once you hit your first rifle platoon it is all a science.

To describe punishment it is all physical as in P.T. to describe mountain climbers or push ups low crawl high crawl three to five second rush or sit ups. So in this one moment to the poles for punishment.

Yea telephone poles your platoon each squad curling lifting these poles over your heads. D.I. Screaming the one to four count or hold with the poles elevated over our skulls good times sarcasm people.

Next thing I’m out on the ground I’m heat casualty so through this only time i dropped i ended up at this troop medical over this. And they determined I had bronchitis gave me antibiotics and went back to training platoon.

As i was laying in this medical bed getting loaded with I.V.to hydrate sitting next to me was my platoon senior drill. As he drove me in pickup to troop med clinic.
And he asked me 412 referring to my roster number on my helmet cover that we always wore. He asked why did you join my army.

And i replied typical answer stock answers several as in i really didn’t want to converse with this man. As to me the drills were not types you wanted to talk with on a one to one. Yet one answer i gave was the G.I. bill.

And this Drill informed me you don’t have the G.I. Bill you have V.E.A.P. And he said i gather that your recruiter did not explain this as he was taking a drag off his kool menthol cigarette.

And in the only heart to heart one on one i ever had with an infantry drill he explained VEAP to me. And lying in that bed getting hydrated from I.V. I was thinking FUCK ME.

Yet in the ride back in that 1980’s Chevrolet army pickup he said to me.
412 you have 48 hours of light duty you’ll be expected to make each formation and chow I’ll allow you to rest on your bunk during the daytime and in morning and before lights out.
You will report to me for your antibiotic at my office then after two days you’ll be back to dedicating your mind asshole and body to training.

And that evening at chow formation he was giving the platoon a speech as they were being punished front leaning rest position NOW! You shits are being punished.

Over 412 not letting the Drills know that he was sick.
Remember all of us were wanting to stay off of these men’s radar. As I stood there and my platoon was being taught that lesson when one fucks up you all fuck up.

Drills screaming you can’t thank 412 for this and if any of you are sick you lets us your drills know. No flak from fellow trainees we all knew it was part of the program.

We all paid for our sins whether individual sin or platoon transgressions in the holy communion of how dare you as a low scum civilian think you are worthy of the blue infantry cord.

It was just a head game and truly that really didn’t work me mentally. You thinking they can’t kill us and they feed us decent chow, it’s all in what you make of it.

And yet over these last forty one years trickledown economics or trucking union trucking deregulation has bit me in my white ass in that i rode two major union carriers down gone out of business because of Raygun.

2026 is coming will have elections Trumpig admin cannot stop midterms. Sure they’re gonna try once they see in that people are pissed yet midterms are ran by each state.

Anybody care to stop around and read a fortune cookie over coffee.

Before you say yes . It may take awhile to get to the fortune cookie part as will have to wait on Dunc the golden chunk to produce.
Reasoning behind the wait is yesterday as i was in the kitchen cleaning the counters.
This seventy nine pound furry long eared galoot counter surfed a Chinese takeout fortune cookie and then proceeded to haul ass out of the kitchen with his score.
I once read a meme that said. There is no faster land mammal than a dog, when you ask ( what do you have in your mouth) the conversation yesterday went.
Me - After catching the golden shit head out of my peripheral vision. Hey what are you doing you drop that.

Dunc - Doing the side eye front paws on counter then takes off out of the kitchen for living room.
How do i know it was a fortune cookie, he spit out the wrapper on floor after eating it. Yet no fortune cookie paper.

Forty five years of dealing with republicans bull shit.

My mind is going full on this morning alone with my thoughts and concerns in this old man of 59 dyslexic bad punctuation ramble.
Not sure of actual numbers , yet millions are gonna lose their healthcare others will lose food subsidies. All for tax cuts for the wealthy it is just absolute cruelty.

You republican maga P.O.S. take away folks healthcare cause food insecurity’s with no school lunches or S.N.A.P. What options do the people have left as our government fails us folks will become desperate and I’m fearful over violence on both sides.
It is so apparent that the maga repigs in voting for this bill they never read history in what happens when you push tyranny on a free people.
The bill that was passed we all understand it is class warfare.
We are on the way to the 2026 midterms and it isn’t going to be easy. When these maga politicians and their King Saul start understanding the fallout of this apocalyptic bill it is going to get worse.

And in what form will it come , magat martial law a manufactured crisis from trumpigs administration. I’m confident if that was to happen they do not have my army to support maga administration.

At this point I’m ready to deal personally with I.C.E. Agents on Election Day 2026 in polling stations asking for I.D.
Fucking Reagan and his trickledown welfare queen bullshit. Forty five years of cannibalism by republicans on democracy and the middle class and my tribe of blue collar oppressed white men bought into the republican lies right up to today.

Yet there is good news as i just talked with the Snoopervisor Dunc the golden retriever chunk and his crew of one Oliver a Pyrenees retriever mix who are remodeling the backyard. I asked what their ideas are on remodel.

More holes dad we’re gonna need more new best holes.

I have to visit my 79 year old mom today at her nursing home. She is on Medicaid descending into dementia.

And I’m going to have to try and explain to her that she is gonna have to get a job. In order to pay for the tax cuts for the rich to keep our third world country afloat.

A father son moment yesterday.

We saw a young couple pushing a stroller on our evening walk . 20 asked does that bring back memories. I said yes although you were terrible after you outgrew your stroller. Because your mom and i played HELL trying to leash train you.

I'm happy now my Senator is able to go on vacation.

I met a beautiful golden retriever service dog today.

Service Pup was well trained personable extremely intelligent. And as i sit on the back patio grilling. Thinking in comparison of the service dog and my golden floof.
At this moment my golden Is in the back yard barking into a new best hole he just dug.
Dunc will dig then stop bark into the new best hole the yapping brat frustrated golden bark. Then toss his head with attitude and start digging again.

At this moment. I have a 80 pound golden chonk on my lap.

As I sit on the patio chair having coffee.
Reason a garden snake just slithered past Dunc the chunk and squeak lamb as they laid in the yard.
I said bro you left squeak lamb in this outfit no one gets left behind.

This so disgusting. And yet the maga bottom feeders take pleasure in others suffering.

Making a tomato pie today.