Who Is The Problem

American Political stuff

 Just a political post:

"Dubbed “Operation Dildo Blitz,” the protest outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building saw demonstrators place sex toys in a chain link fence while others handed out rubber phalluses to protesters who threw them at passing federal and local law enforcement vehicles."  -- Minnesota news 

Attempts to disrupt and destroy the postal 📫 service continue. 

This is NOT about my feelings on religion. But Republicans pretend to be " super Christian" and "anti Islam." Yet, in Islamic culture, name change upon marriage is rare, but in Christian culture it's common. 

Really, it's about preventing women from voting. It's an anti-marriage law. It's an attack on Democracy.

Epstein files. Pedophiles do not deserve any position of power. Sex offenders should be ineligible for any government position. 

The attack on voter rights is ridiculous. 

"Voter turnout in the United States is much lower than in other countries, hovering around 60% in presidential elections and 40% in midterm election years." - political site

We barely get people to vote as it is. 😮‍💨

The voting situation gets worse. Trying to exclude more potential voters.

Another attempt to restrict voting and kill democracy.

Elected officials profit from screwing over Americans. Some are trying to prevent this. 

🧊 Terrorism funded by tax dollars. Human rights violations. It's disgusting.

More of me opposing the Terrorism happening in my country. 

More protesting the financial corruption.

And more about the evils of 🧊 the most anti-American agency. 

I know my Congressional Representatives probably don't care. I'm probably being ignored. 

BUT

You can't say I was silent. 

I'll go to my grave knowing I didn't 🤐 keep my mouth shut. 

Here is PROOF, in writing, that I do try to stand up for my morals, for what I know to be right. 

It might not change anything. But it matters.

Rereading Earlier Works with the IWSG

https://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/p/iwsg-sign-up.html

handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG.

The awesome co-hosts for the February 4 posting of the IWSG are J Lenni Dorner, Victoria Marie Lees, and Sandra Cox!

February 4 question - Many writers have written about the experience of rereading their work years later. Have you reread any of your early works? What was that experience like for you?

A few years ago, I pulled out an old handwritten notebook and started typing the story I had written in it. My debate was- do I keep it as is, or punch it up for modern times? It's a YA story, set in the 90's because that's when I wrote it. Half the plot dissolves to dust if a decade of tech is added to the story. Two major conflicts are resolved with the popularity of mobile phones and the existence of caller ID. (Actually, caller ID coming to my area was why I originally gave up on the story. Because, seriously, as soon as the MC knows the caller, the story moves to the closing resolution pretty quickly.) 

{Yes, kids, there was a time when we had to just answer phones with no idea who was on the other end. Or we used answering machines to screen calls, because unlike voicemail, you could hear the message as it was being left and opt to pick up the phone. And yes, that's why the old people leave you three-minute messages, because you might pick up... even though there are barely any answering machines left.}

Obviously, there are new workarounds since I started typing the story, new ways to mask numbers, or disposable phones. So I could go back to that story, again, now, and update everything. 

But it makes me curious what another five or ten years will offer, what other new plot points might deepen the story as technology changes everything again. She could spend three-quarters of the story thinking it's an AI bot calling her! (Laugh if you want, but I had a bot texting me this month and didn't know until last week that it wasn't a human. Because why would a bot text me at 1am? Why??? Because the programmer is an idiot and the bot isn't supposed to be doing that. 🙈🫢) 

Anyway, I have three other stories on my plate right now. And I spend wayyyy too much time on medical drama and whatnot, and not nearly enough on actual writing. 

(For friends and those who read last month's IWSG post-- Dad is back home. He's doing well. Heart surgery went great. My uncle had my dad all worried that there were five other procedures and problems, but no, my dad did not have the same issues as my uncle or their father. Dad's was a fairly routine fix, the surgery was less than six hours, and his hospital stay wasn't even a week.)