With One Possibly Inspiring Environmental Report at the End
HAMSTRUNG
BY CONVERGENCE of geriatric disability and the increasingly severe
punishments the Neoliberal (NeoNazi) United States inflicts on those of
us it wants to exterminate -- i.e., people of color, old folks like
myself, LGBTQ people, allegedly "uppity" women, disabled people however
young or elderly, non-Aryan whites, impoverished people (again like
myself), anyone else deemed either undesirable or insufficiently
profitable or both -- this week's Dispatches will be hastily assembled but cynically outspoken as always.
Yes
I am sick yet again -- this time it's cellulitis, a chronic infection
in both lower legs that is one of the more debilitating consequences of
congestive heart failure. Meanwhile my schedule is controlled by my
permanently car-less dependence on volunteers for first-of-month
chore-transport, a condition due not only to poverty but to the fact
Pacific Northwest
"transit-is-welfare" white racism dooms Tacoma to forever-shitty mass transport. Plus now I'm coping with the annual interrogation the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services inflicts on recipients of its ever-shrinking stipends and services. Filling out the paperwork, assembling the required documentation and annotating it by mechanical typewriter -- the only way my arthritic hands can do it legibly -- steals at least seven workdays from my life every year. And of course every year DSHS and its Neoliberal masters vindictively add new requirements to the already difficult (and bottomlessly nerve-wracking) process.
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"transit-is-welfare" white racism dooms Tacoma to forever-shitty mass transport. Plus now I'm coping with the annual interrogation the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services inflicts on recipients of its ever-shrinking stipends and services. Filling out the paperwork, assembling the required documentation and annotating it by mechanical typewriter -- the only way my arthritic hands can do it legibly -- steals at least seven workdays from my life every year. And of course every year DSHS and its Neoliberal masters vindictively add new requirements to the already difficult (and bottomlessly nerve-wracking) process.
Today's
DSHS, of course, is nothing more than a meticulously malicious
zero-tolerance gatekeeper, focused not on helping impoverished people
but rather on finding ever-more-euphemistically creative ways to deny us help and thereby fund the untold, ever-increasing billions in big-business tax breaks -- by far the greatest such giveways in the U.S. -- by which the Democratic (sic) Party state government rewards the party's Capitalist owners and bribemasters...
Even as Washington state's lower-income population, which now tops 50 percent -- suffers under the nation's most deliberately, vindictively, viciously regressive state tax structure.
Such are the rules of existence -- and death -- under the Democratic (sic) Party's allegedly "progressive" (sic) governance.
Which,
in embittering truth -- except of course for the Democrats' loudly
proclaimed and moronically applauded agenda of suicidally aiding the
ChristoNazi Sturmabteilung
by imposing mandatory pacifism and therefore compulsory victimhood via
near-total forcible civilian disarmament -- is yet another Big Lie, part
of the Democrats' perpetual, ChristoNazi-enabling repetition of "change
we can believe in": the most devastating, tyranny-enabling electoral
deception in USian history.
That
said -- preachment ended -- let us continue with some of the week's
most allegedly "subversive" reports of allegedly "fake" news:
(To read the rest, go here.)
