Day: April 1, 2025

I found myself thinking about this meme this morning. I find myself thinking about the moment often. More now that Trump is targeting law firms who hire lawyers he doesn’t like. This situation we are in is largely being promoted by one “side” of the media, and not being given enough gravitas by the other. What we have is a sitting president using the power of the government to go after citizens he has beef with. These are not criminals. These are not people who’ve done wrong. These are people who have opposed him in the past; people he doesn’t like.

That is some real dictator shit, and nobody it taking it seriously enough.

The man is talking in news conferences and interviews about seeking a 3rd term. That has been constitutionally illegal for 75 years. So, now we are changing the amendments to appease a bully? He would need to control three quarters of the country’s state-level governments to approve such a change. That means that the narrative is going to be about how those resisting states are “holding back freedom” and “don’t believe in American values” which will lead to them loosing government funding (also illegal).

Honestly, I didn’t think it would get this bad. I voted against the man, but even at the time it felt like a number of Americans wanted to just let him have his turn so “it would be over”. Few realized it would not be over until he says it is over. The democrats don’t have the same level of machine that republicans do to prop up candidates. There is not someone out there right now that can deal with the overwhelming nonsense and two-faced policies and smiles of the republican party. It feels like we’re fucked as a country. It feels like the people who will be worse off are still going to clap and smile and support this nonsense because they like the optics of some of the things that are happening. All of it tracks with their belief system. None of it helps our nation internally or externally.

USA is starting to feel as short-lived as all the fiction suggests. The corporations at the top aren’t going to be too terribly impacted if we crumble as a nation. They can always go somewhere else. But where are we going to go? I’m trying to figure that out now. I’m trying to figure out if my state retirement is safe.

The truth is, I have no idea.

This is the first week things really got tough in relation to the grad school work. The problem wasn’t content so much as time. Rewriting a novel, teaching all these classes, and having a life really interferes with trying to get the studies right. I learned that I am failing at organization again. In truth I am in that moment where I can see a clear path forward to success. Unfortunately, I tend to see that path and say, “I got time today.”

I don’t. I really don’t.

The issue is not taking the time I have and using it wisely. That is the secret of the ten minute rule–that is the message to be shared from this blog overall. We have the time, so long as we are willing to devote the time and energy and planning to use that time effectively. We don’t know how much time we have, so we tend to waste it until, ultimately, it is too late.

Perhaps we would be different if we knew exactly how much time we got start to finish. Perhaps our lives would be coated in purpose as opposed to waste. As it stands we don’t take advantage of the time we have. I am guilty of that. I don’t want to be guilty of that any longer. I want my life to be better. I want to enjoy my moments and I want to do what I can with all the time I have left.