What do you want me to do about it? I’m 65 & in poor health. Not everyone looks like a senior citizen in a viagra ad. I’ve been voting my whole adult life — what good has it done? vote, vote, vote everyone screams as if it’s going to solve all the problems. I’ve voted. It’s worse now than ever before.
I was ready to march in 2016 but nobody else was. Well, too bad. I caught pneumonia last year & haven’t been the same. If I catch covid, I die. I wanted to march against Gulf War 1 & 2, but nobody else did. I wanted to march after 9/11 and show that we are all in it together, rich & poor, stock traders & donut delivery guys all got killed together, but everyone wanted to blame Saddam Hussein. I said “Americans aren’t stupid enough to blame Iraq when it was Saudi Arabian business partners of the Bushes.”
But they were! All the flags came out, Rah Rah USA, Jesus needed new angels so he killed all those firemen & office workers.
Well fuck off. I’m too old now. I’m not going to risk my head getting bashed in by some rightwing cop, or getting pepper sprayed or tear gassed & losing all of my lung function. Everyone should’ve been out protesting in the streets from 1980 onwards. Hostile corporate takeovers, junk bonds, propaganda on radio & tv, billionaires moving manufacturing offshore along with their bank accounts. No taxes on billionaires & their businesses, union busting, no wage increases, consumer price index dropping food & energy costs, the 2000 election.
I was ready and writing (actual snail mail stamped) letters & phoning congress (on a landline) & sent faxes and y’all were too fucking lazy to get off the couch. Reality tv? It’s shit, stop watching it, assholes. But you wont. It’s your “guilty pleasure.” You watch shit singers singing shit music & dance along saying “He’s pretty good.” No, he’s not, he sucks & so does his music.
I’ve got Medicare & I’ll be gone in a few years. Why don’t you all get off your asses & get out onto the streets this time, ok? I did it against Vietnam & against nuclear power & for the environment (back when it was called “environmentalism” instead of “climate change”). Why don’t you get your heads bashed in or get shot by an AR 15 by someone who will get away with it? I’m done, stop begging me to sign your useless online petitions, you Facebook Instagram Tik Tok assholes.
You get your asses off the couch for once & do something. Fucking lazy video game addict fat slobs who video yourselves taking a shit in the bathroom & sitting in your car talking to your phone about your political beliefs.