Restless Again
By
Cat West
April 24, 2026
The Weakest Person
Some people think bullies are “strong” but they are in fact, the weakest and the most fearful. They fear more than anything else, the truth. They use whatever they have to convince others to do their dirty work, cover their crimes, and above all, to praise them for existing, all the while never mentioning where they were wrong, where they failed, where they lost. The Illusion must be sustained.
So, no surprise that Lonnie Olson was a bully in elementary school, high school and probably throughout his life. Picking on Werner for sport was an exercise in cruelty that he never outgrew. That tells me that he became weaker and more fearful instead of more mature.
Now, struggling to keep the illusion of his invincibility intact, he is (I believe) using his position as a Federal Judge to urge the prosecutor’s office to continue to attack Werner Kunkel, despite the evidence, from the very start and to this day, proving he could not have been the killer of Gilbert Fassett.
If that illusion breaks, his entire career will be brought into question, dragged into the light of reinspection, kicking and screaming, as every bully finds themselves when at last they are exposed.
He is a weak man, perhaps even the weakest person, sitting in a powerful position on that bench. He still has people doing his dirty work, and they should be ashamed of themselves. This one is obvious.
A more mature man would never have done this in the first place. A man deserving of the faith and trust of the community would have grown into the robes instead of hiding behind them. He would’ve said he’d made a grievous mistake and apologized, but that would take character, integrity, strength and courage, all of which he is lacking.
He fears being exposed. However, by continuing the cruelty and the farce, he is exposing who he is, more and more every day. He knows the day is coming. He masqueraded as a hero for falsely convicting a man of a horrendous crime, even though he knew then and has always known, Werner could not have committed the crime. But he just couldn’t resist using Werner as a fall guy, hurting him one more time.
By hurting Werner he knew he was stopping any further investigation into who really did kill Gilbert. He left Gilbert’s family with a false sense of resolution to his brutal and senseless murder. He betrayed them. In so doing, he allowed the real murderers to laugh their way into a long and free life. The system of laws he swore to uphold, was just a joke to him. No one was safer. But he got to climb another rung of the status latter, and look where he is now.
Lonnie is afraid of Werner Kunkel. Werner Kunkel stands in the light of Truth. Lonnie Olson quivers in the shadows of pretense and illusions of righteousness that are by every metric, coming unraveled.
He sits amongst other judges, a “peer”, an equal, and he has their respect. But now they know more and they know better. And he knows they know. His discomfort will lead him to play the victim. Every bully, when their gang is no longer surrounding them and shielding them, begins to shrink into victimhood: “I thought we were friends!”
No longer strutting the halls of elementary school, high school where he can push and shove his victim to the amusement of his pals, he has to walk to and from his office, wondering if everyone he passes is reassessing their respect for him and their support of his character. Perhaps even, reassessing their own.
I wonder if his children, grandchildren look at him the same way as they used to. Or if they too are realizing that everything they thought he was in this world, was a lie? He did in fact, in betraying his oath to uphold the law, betray his family as well. They can no longer, with any real pride, claim him as their proof of integrity or family pride. People know.
People know the Truth, and the Truth is what every bully fears the most. His weakness will drive him to rage, and self-pity, and blaming everyone and everything around him for his own deliberate failures. Some illusions, like mirrors, when they break, leave sharp edges that continue to cut.
He has had decades to grow integrity, character and courage, but that’s an investment he was both too lazy and too weak to make.
Egrets
I am reminded of my time on the islands of Haida Gwaii, where I began this journey, and the previous blog that endured for over 25 years. It was and it is a most unusual, beautiful and powerful place. Remote from the mainland, it had a variety of species that thrived and coexisted, sometimes in unexpected ways.
It was home to the largest Black Bears in the world. They thrived on the salmon runs and on the berries and roots of some very exotic flora. Magnificent in their bearing. Respected by all, revered by First Nations who had for over ten thousand years, maintained a stewardship of those islands.
There were more eagles and ravens all around, and they were different too. Many had the characteristics of the First Nations spirits, and kept their clans in a visible hierarchy.
Eagles so majestic, but also apex birds of prey, who, for a very long time, had raided the rookeries of Egrets, cutting their numbers more and more every year until many thought we’d lose those beautiful, graceful birds.
But a strange thing started to happen about 40 years ago: the egrets started increasing in numbers. Each year, more and more. Biologists discovered that instead of building nests far away from eagles, who could span the islands in an hour or two, and instead of fighting them off and losing adults and young in the process, egrets started to build their nests in the territory of eagles.
Eagles are very territorial and if another eagle tries to encroach on their territory, they fight them. Egrets still lost a number of their young, but due to the territorial behaviors of the raptors they lost fewer because that which killed them would also defend them (as future food, mind you, but you rolls the dice and takes your chances, right?)
Survival is a complicated process. You can’t always overpower your enemies. Sometimes you must outthink them and use their very nature against them. The sacrifices were and are real, but the survival of the species is guaranteed.
I see that same method instinctively played out in the human dynamic, especially where predators are put into positions of power and authority. People becoming socially involved with the very people that they despise and who hurt their families – simply so they can survive. Their sacrifices, conscious or unconsciously, are often severe and many become that which they never wanted to be, simply as a means of survival.
Eventually, they will lose because that’s how the system works. Watching how the power dynamic works in Indian Country, where too often the corrupt are given the support, the means and the incentive to desecrate their own in order to stay on the top of the heap, by the Federal Government and those in positions of power to profit from the corruption, has created a dysfunctional, crippled demographic wherein the people of integrity, character, and courage are harassed and silenced by the very people they would uplift, but who fear being the next meal themselves, and so gladly do the dirty work, and drive their own people away, and then cry that no one will help them.
The cycle continues. “Jealousy and alcohol,” my friend Melvin GreyBear would say, “are what brings down the people, every time.” Alcohol is a retreat from responsibility, and we can include all the drugs in that too. But they didn’t do this to themselves, even though too often, to heal from it, they have to endure a life-long process with both assistance and opposition pulling at them like a dried wishbone from a turkey dinner.
Jealousy on the other hand, is self-inflicted. Instead of finding one’s own place in the flow and stream of things, instead of doing their part to make a process more successful, a jealous person will seek to tear down someone who is having an effect, and is bringing attention to an issue. In that work, the person who stands out is the one attacked by the opposition that doesn’t want the issue to get attention, and by the persons who are afraid to take the risk and responsibility.
Melvin had another saying: “To make a Medicine Man, just add water”.
He experienced his share of jealousy by the very people he was helping. He was a powerful Yuwipi Man, and that made him a target of spiritual warfare, and the government that felt threatened by the people healing up and becoming stronger, more united and remembering the old ways, especially the sweat lodge and vision quests. Both very powerful experiences.
The sad joke about “just add water” was because so many (men) who didn’t want to do the work on themselves, to become more spiritual and humble, wanted the attention and respect that would earn them, and after one or two sweats, were strutting around proclaiming themselves as spiritual leaders. They were nothing.
They wanted to be worshipped, admired… but too lazy and too corrupt to actually do the work.
It is this form of misunderstanding the real work and sacrifice of real leaders that has led our society, indeed, our entire nation, to become enamored of ‘celebrity’ in all forms. Someone who is given a script and plays a role that makes them appear as smarter, stronger, than others on the show who have scripts that only support the main character, becomes to the viewer a conflation of truth and celebrity. To them, that person is of the same caliber as someone who runs into a burning building to save a child.
They are not the same. But given what it would take to run into that burning building, and how easy it is to sit in a chair while someone does your hair, make up and dresses you, gives you favorable lighting… presto! You’re a celebrity and your character is considered equal to that of the person who actually earned, achieved, strived for, sacrificed for others.
One is real, the other is a fictional creation.
We live in a time where people don’t want to think, they only want to react to the man on the stage, on the screen, yelling at them telling them what he wants them to believe, despite their own eyes telling them otherwise. People want to be near the celebrity because that proximity makes them a celebrity amongst their peers.
I understand why egrets do it. I understand why captive communities do it. What I don’t understand is a full 30% of a nation rushing to the edge of the cliff, waiting for the order to jump, and then shoving their kids into the abyss of childhood plagues that before vaccinations came along, filled our cemeteries with headstones of small children.
I don’t understand why, despite all the available evidence including all of his bankruptcies and his own words about raping and sexually assaulting women, people wanted that man, a celebrity, a fictitious success on tv, to lead our nation—especially after the disasters of his first term. What are they hoping for? What illusion are they trying to shore up that makes them feel superior to the people they are seeing brutalized and abused on the very streets of our own country?
We need real leaders. People who have done the work. People who speak the truth. People who not only have a plan but one that makes sense and we can all understand. Yet, 30% of the nation hangs onto the fraying fragments of the very flag and every symbol of our democracy, being shredded, thinking they will be among the protected? If you want to be protected from the bully, quit voting for them. Quit voting for their enablers and their protectors.
Realize you have a choice. You are not egrets. This is something within your control. Take responsibility and start working to clean up the mess made by every elected celebrity since Reagan. Trickle Down? Seriously? Give the rich even more so that they might give us a little? 40 years of that has only widened the gap, and made you angrier and more helpless and hopeless.
The minimum wage was kept down to levels of the 1970’s while the cost of living has only gone up and the pay and perks to the corporations and their CEOs has skyrocketed, while you’re still scrounging to make a dollar more than the current minimum wage? Your healthcare has been taken from you. Your hospitals are closing. Highways are falling apart, planes are crashing and falling out of the skies because their firing air traffic controllers and they don’t care about your family.
The man is building a multi-billion dollar ballroom, putting gold ornamentation up all over the White House, making it look like a whore house, put only the stupidest but most loyal people into positions of government that affect your life and mine, started a billion dollar a day war with no plan, covering up the scandal that is the Epstein Files which he is mentioned more than anyone else in the world, his sons are getting multi-million dollar government contracts, children are being held in prisons, he’s building concentration camps, and he now wants to give hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to one of the richest Arab Nations in the world because the war he started is pinching their purses just a little bit? But not any money for healthcare at home, no, we can’t have daycare, what is wrong with you people? Oh, and the tariffs that raised the cost of everything? You paid that.
He’s using the department of Justice as his own personal mob enforcement arm. The head of the FBI is a coke fiend who drinks to the point of passing out on a regular basis? How quickly it all unravels when you elect an illusion instead of a person who really did the work, understood the issues and cared about the country. Now, it’s a piggy bank being raided by the bully.
Remember how I used to go on about how there were TWO FBIs: The ones they parade as heroes on TV and the ones running the show who protect the corrupt. It was obvious to me and to everyone else who saw it close up: Child trafficking was being reported, funds being stolen from their accounts, and worse. The FBI was called. When they came out, they weren’t interested in the traffickers, the embezzlers, they wanted to investigate and harass the people reporting the crimes, and that’s what they did. They harassed Tom Sullivan, who was a Federal Administrator for ACF, District 8, because he was reporting the abuses of children in the care of ACF in Indian Country. They pushed him out of his job. They never said Boo to the traffickers. They took them to dinner.
Now do you see it? The agency always had a soft underbelly and it had it’s shares of scandals that despite the nat sec breaches, changed nothing at the agency, allowing the corrupt to continue to rise up through the ranks instead of being weeded out. And now, they’re running it. Look who they are going after now: Everyone who investigated the corruption of f47’s first term, and including his hoarding of national secrets in the bathroom and ballroom of his Mar a Lago resort AFTER he left office. All that was information he could use, sell to the highest bidder… and y’all voted for him again? There were over three moving vans loaded of files—and that’s just from that one resort. He has several other properties which for some reason, never got investigated.
The FBI didn’t suddenly become corrupted overnight, this was always baked into the recipe.
I wonder how Iran knows all of our weaknesses? Hmmmm?
I remember when Kevin Cramer was running for Congress and he was the only one backing up the people who were doing the reporting. Even though he was a republican, I supported him thinking he would take action. For awhile he did. But then, soon as the reality show celebrity ran for office, he became an egret, a sycophant extraordinaire—to a man he KNEW had a history of rape! Ok.
I was fooled once. He’s still supporting the rapist despite the Epstein Files proving that he raped children. All republicans are egrets, by choice. Those who aren’t, can’t get elected. The party is all in for protecting the corrupt and the powerful.
Meanwhile, they want you and I to fight. They want all of us to set our hair on fire over immigrants… not the criminals, but the ones with paperwork who followed all the rules. ICE doesn’t have the cajones to go after the violent. They prefer the nannies, the little kids on the way to school. You know… the brown ones.
You think it’s the LBGTQ who are ruining your life? You think those are the threats to your safety? How about the creep who followed a 12-yr old black girl into the restroom at a restaurant and demanded she prove she wasn’t a boy? What about him? You know a guy like him? I’ll bet you do. I’ll bet you voted for one. Or at least for the one who is protecting that kind of sexual assault on a child.
He pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who literally trafficked hundreds of tons of drugs into the USA and bragged about it. So, he’s not concerned with law and order. You know someone who’s struggling with addiction? You know a family unsafe in that nightmare? You know who to thank, right?
And now he’s desperate to pardon Ghislane Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice.
But he and his entire party rail against women in leadership, men who aren’t white, other religions, LBGTQ as if THOSE are the people causing your discomfort? How dare anyone talk about raising taxes on anyone making more than $5Million a year! Better keep it the way it is where they pay nothing and you can’t afford groceries but you have to pay more taxes than the billionaires.
Anyone seeing the benefit to this? Are the lies soothing enough to fill the bellies of your hungry children? Pray they don’t get sick, or break any bones because you can’t afford that bill. There’s corruption on top of corruption but they don’t want you looking there or demanding justice or pointing out the facts. They want you to shut up and applaud, like you’re watching a show.
WAKE THE FUCK UP!
Stop tolerating the bullies. They aren’t protecting you, they’re diminishing you. They are diminishing communities and the nation. Their illusions are poisoning the future.
Maybe start small: Look at the judge who got where he is by bullying an innocent man, taking more than 30 years of his life away from him, while lying to you that he put away a murderer. He knew the man was innocent. He knew the guilty were still walking free. He fed the entire state, fiction.
Consider getting rid of him as practice for the bigger frauds and corruption you’re going to have to bring down.
And, when someone in your community is doing the real work, and working with you, think twice before you let jealousy take you over. The work is not about any one person, it’s about everyone coming together to right a wrong, to protect the community from predators, and their visibility puts them at risk. Maybe do your part to protect them rather than to tear them down.
Unity is the other thing the frauds and bullies fear. It’s time we learn to unify, to understand one another. Otherwise, we’re just egrets hoping we aren’t the next ones to be picked off.
The evil that walks among us is hoping we don’t see them, or what they are doing, and what they have done. The children are getting sick, addicted, abducted, trafficked and there are too many murdered and missing in our midst for us to pretend there’s nothing can be done or nothing we can do.
We have two powerful tools, but we must make them stronger: Truth and Unity. The strongest person is all of us.
We are all related.
You know where to find me.
~Cat
April 8, 2026
Day After Maybe Thermonuclear War
Going to tell you a funny story that is, cross-my-heart, 100% true. Pretty sure I covered this story in the previous “The Murder of Eddie Peltier” Restless Spirit blog. If so, feel free to sing along if you know the lyrics.
Back in the day when I lived on Haida Gwaii, a small chain of amazing, beautiful islands off the northwest coast of Canada, there was only one road that went from south to north and there were only two traffic lights, one at the very south end when you got off the ferry and exited the terminal, and one at the north end, just because. In between was about 100 miles. Mostly it was bracketed on both sides with tall trees, with occasional exits for logging roads.
The towns and 2 villages were at the North and South ends of that highway. There was a tiny village in the center we just called “Port”, a few houses there, gas station, a diner that had various owners, not all of whom could cook, and a supermarket. After that was what we called the Port Stretch, going north to Old Masset and Masset, where there was a high school, and government services, including Victims Assistance and a military base, that housed personnel but wasn’t active in much of anything, but they did have the only hospital at the North end, the other being at the south end.
Ok, you can see how remote this place was. It was also a 6-24 hr ferry trip from the mainland, depending on the weather and tide.
Story begins: Part 1
A good friend of ours worked in Victims’ Assistance. Everything from domestic abuse, assault, theft… anything that was traumatizing, they would find counselors there who could assist, sometimes even support them during police reports, court hearings.
Some very dedicated and highly qualified individuals worked there. Unfortunately, their supervisor was a raving bitch. Always trying to show how much authority she had by mucking in the counseling, or other services and making ridiculous comments and demands of staff. Most of which could be easily ignored. (Good help is hard to find). Let’s call the supervisor Karen.
One day a woman comes in to talk about a terrifying event that happened to her: she had been chased by a UFO while driving that long, dark stretch of road, The Port Stretch. It rattled her to her core. She described how it came down, tilted, and chased after her car.
She was terrified that it would come back again, or that it was stalking her.
My friend was her counselor. Her process for clients was never to disbelieve anything they told her, but to deal with the fear that was real and give them methods and tools for them to deal with it so they could adjust to life.
I may have forgotten to mention earlier that the islands were also notorious as a major UFO hotspot. The local paper even had a UFO Season where people could ‘expect to see things more often than at other times of year’ and that ran from mid-May to October or thereabouts. That seemed to be when there were more reports. Just about everyone on the island had seen them or known someone that had seen them.
Apparently, not Karen. She leaned in on the counseling session, made faces at our friend who got up from her chair and gently closed the door (Karen had opened it). And worked with the client for over an hour, and it seemed to help.
As soon as the client walked out the door, Karen called for a ‘gather meeting’ where she stood in the middle of the room and said that if anyone, ANYONE came in with a wild-ass story about being chased by or even seeing a UFO, they should be ignored. Under no circumstances should their story be believed. They should be told there are NO SUCH THINGS AS UFOs and sent for drug & alcohol testing if they insisted.
ANYONE FAILING TO DO THAT WILL BE FIRED ON THE SPOT! DO YOU ALL UNDERSTAND ME?
This upset the staff who sometimes had to deal with people who were having breakdowns or other mental crisis. They all shrugged and then wondered who among them would be fired later that week, or even the next day.
The Next Day:
Karen comes screeching into the office, her eyes wide with wonder and fear. ‘THEY’RE REAL! IT HAPPENED TO ME! I WAS CHASED BY A UFO LAST NIGHT ON THE WAY HOME FROM WORK! I HAD IT FLOORED AND IT STAYED ON ME LIKE A BUG!
Staff did as they were instructed and ignored her. Changed the subject. She became more frantic and was visibly shaking. Clearly, she had an experience that rattled her to her core. But staff were given a directive, and that had been followed up by a memo, and that memo was produced and put on Karen’s desk as a reminder of the strict new policy rule…
Karen was sobbing, and wailing and no one, not one, assisted her. She quit her job that day. (“Thank you, UFO!”)
Part 2:
My husband’s ex, who became my best friend when I moved to the island (much to his chagrin. Another story, another time), was having a birthday dinner. She lived at the very north end of the island. Most of her friends lived in our tiny village (about 100 people) near the south end. We often carpooled to events North or South because gas was so incredibly expensive (everything came in by barge).
One of her friends offered to drive us and we offered to split the cost of gas. “No need,” she said, “I just don’t want to drive the stretch alone, after dark.” Ok. I mean there are deer, bears, and such and if you hit one, way out there, you could be stranded. This was before cellphones were common and coverage was non-existent.
She came and picked us up in her big ass pick up truck, the one she used to drive to work, at the north end, 6 days a week. She was a school janitor. We all drove north, went to the dinner, had a great time and then it was time to drive home.
“I’m just glad you guys are with me,” she said. “I’m going to tell you something and I don’t want you to think I’m crazy.” (Note: You’d have to go pretty far over the edge to be viewed as crazy on that island, so I knew the story was going to be extreme.)
“In fact, I think I must be crazy, but I saw something a few months back and it scared the shit out of me.”
(We’re listening)
I was driving the Port Stretch and there was another car way up ahead of me. It was about 8:00 PM, (so really dark), and suddenly, out of nowhere, and without a sound, this UFO drops down --- and starts chasing that little car! You could tell the car was at top speed, I thought they were going to wreck, but the UFO was tilted and ON IT no more than 8 ft off the ground and probably just as close to the rear bumper of that poor car! I couldn’t drive fast enough to catch up, nor did I want to, but I could see for about 15 miles, that thing was ON that car!”
She stopped speaking, waited. “You probably think I’m crazy…”
“No, we don’t. We know who was in that car.”
End of Story
We Are Trained To Not Want To See
There’s a lot to unpack in that episode. Let me unwrap a few layers for you to think about.
First, and this has always bugged me, it is as if that UFO KNEW to chase Karen. To me, the odds on it being a random pursuit, is remote. As remote as that island from the mainland, and then some.
No, it wasn’t a helicopter. We only had 6 cops, maybe 3 police cars on the whole island (tight budget) and no helicopters. Hell, no helipad except at the south end to medivac to the mainland for medical emergencies. Anything more than a broken arm. Those choppers had to come from the mainland. The military base had no planes, no helicopters. And, given that there were tall trees and power lines on both sides of that narrow long highway, no one could fly without getting tangled and mangled. (*suppresses urge to begin rapping*)
I’ve never gotten an answer to that question and probably never will. But I will keep questioning that part. Just because the answer isn’t evident or instant doesn’t mean the question doesn’t need to be asked.
Trauma
Trauma is hard to look at without being affected by it. The preservation instinct is to look away or not believe. But if we do that, we become susceptible to experiencing the very same or similar trauma because we’ve blinded ourselves to its existence.
But another point is how a person or persons can experience trauma and be doubted, mocked, socially crucified if you will because no one believes them. The reason no one believes them is not because the experience hasn’t happened to them personally, but rather because the system we live under has imprinted on us certain boundaries of what we are allowed to consider as true or even possible.
It’s only been a few years since the government released those UFO videos from 2012. Tic Tac and Gimble. Now we hear there are even more and different, but we are told to ignore them.
We are told (still) that if we have a profound or traumatic experience to not report it, not say anything about it. At least, not to our government. Doesn’t matter what that experience is or was: UFOs? Child abuse? Incest? Rape? Being trafficked amongst the rich, powerful men in this world?
Sure, you can report it, but the system will come after you to silence you. You see it happening even as the #EpsteinFiles are being made front and center and other nations are arresting their wealthy and their former leaders for their involvement in the abuses and trafficking. Only in the USA do we pretend it’s okay.
Why? Because once you report it, others will report theirs and theirs can be validated, verified by yours… and the ripples become waves and the waves become, as in the case of the #EpsteinFiles a tsunami that threatens to reveal all the darkest, dirtiest parts of the system that has constructed itself to protect the very wealthy, the powerful and the famous, from scrutiny. They can do that because they built and they own it. You and I just pay for it.
And here we are. Hearing the stories from women, who as young girls were raped, assaulted and witnessed as much and often worse, by some of the most important and powerful men in the world. If they reported it then, (many did) the story would be hushed up, the victims and their families harassed, threatened and sometimes killed, but their stories, the truth about what happened to them, would be buried.
The FBI did it’s part in covering up the crimes. Agents who had credible reports from victims couldn’t get those 302’s past their supervisors. Power protects Power.
And that’s why it’s more urgent now that we continue to listen, to understand and to believe the stories that are the same from different victims or different times, because they back up, they validate the worst crimes of the most powerful who remain untouchable.
Criminals that go unpunished for their crimes don’t quit committing crimes, they get bolder and commit more. They surround themselves with weaklings who will never stand up to them, never hold them to account and who have no integrity.
The system supports, enables and protects the worst monsters among us. That same system tells us they aren’t real. We are fed troughs full of PR most of which is fraudulent, plagiarized or outright lies. Look at all the congressmen who were caught lying about their service in the military. Stolen Valor used to be enough to shame them into resignation. Now, it’s just quietly removed from their websites. Some still hold medals they never earned for battles they were never near. “That’s ok. Just a mistake. I like what he says.”
And here we are.
The Day After, Almost
Yesterday, the madman who started a war with Iran with no legitimate reason and whose ‘reasons’ became more fluid from day to day, hour to hour, and then he threatened to literally wipe an entire civilization off the map, putting the entire world on edge about thermonuclear war, is now patting himself on the back because Iran has said they would open the Strait of Hormuz (which was only closed because a babbling idiot started a war with Iran, in order to change the headlines from his part in the #EpsteinFiles, which his bimbo AG, Bondi, could not cover up despite withholding millions of files, hard drives, videos and other evidence) .
How did he accomplish the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz? He didn’t. He threatened Nuclear War against a nation that had no nukes of their own, and after the global blowback was so strong, he made up a story as to why he was suspending the bombings for two weeks (Geez! Everything is “Two Weeks!” with that jerk! Still waiting on that health plan that was going to be better than Obama Care that he promised would be in Two Weeks, back in 2017).. so he simply ‘changed his mind’ (this time) (But he reaalllleee wants to use the nukes.. remember when he wanted to nuke the hurricanes? He’s that stupid)…
The Iranians then decided to re-open the strait AND charge a $2Million fee for every ship that crosses it. Yup. He’s so proud that he ‘accomplished’ what no other president accomplished… because no other president even considered antagonizing Iran to the point that they would close it… AND remember: Before his stupid little war that cost us hundreds of billions of dollars, killed 13 (or more) of our servicemen, wounded approximately a thousand more, killed thousands of civilians… before ALL of that, ships passed freely through the strait and it cost them NOTHING.
But now, he’s patting himself on the back and saying that he’s going to be part of the fee structure and that ‘there’s going to be a lot of money made’…
And RW news, all legacy media now owned by the billionaires that supported him, donated to him and profited off of his lunacy and his protection of them and their fortunes, just dutifully report this as if he were sane, as if he in fact, accomplished something great.
So, until it happens to us, we are conditioned to believe it never happened. We are told when we witness what happens that we are misunderstanding what we saw or are seeing. We are told there is nothing to see here, despite all that we are seeing and experiencing.
It IS happening to us, but we are told to ignore it by media that pretends it’s normal or necessary. It is neither.
The word “Antifa” means Antifascist. Our elders fought fascism in WWII but now we are told that being anti-fascist is wrong. Antifa is labeled as a terrorist organization when in fact it is not organized and there is no ‘leader’, no ‘training’ and have caused no harm to anyone but have exposed corruption in the system that is protecting the worst abusers who hold power or authority over our lives.
“Go Woke, Go Broke” they tell us. That means: Cover your eyes, go back to sleep. And yet people gleefully repeat that as if the people showing you the terrors unfolding before our eyes, the assaults, the abuses, the killings, are in fact not real? Not the truth? just a bad dream? Nothing to see here.
Maybe it’s time we start seeing, start listening and start demanding accountability from our leaders and from those who hold the levers of power and authority in the system that rules our lives. Maybe we should believe enough of what we are told by those who’ve had the victim experience, to demand at the very least, that the claims be investigated and the crimes when uncovered, prosecuted.
We need to break up the monopolies on the industries that control us. Media should never be consolidated into the clutches of the extremely wealthy few who want to dictate what we are told and how we are informed. Break up the monopolies.
Above all, stand up against the tyranny of government thugs in our streets, wearing no ID, never held accountable, kidnapping people off the streets or breaking into their houses, or killing them in inhumane captivity, with no warrants, no trials and denying them any rights, even to food and water.
The credibility of the USA has become a joke. We will never regain in our lifetime or our children’s lifetime, the respect or trust of the world we once held. That’s gone. It was squandered for the ego of a reality show buffoon.
It was squandered by the entire Republican Party who fell to their knees before their golden calf and can’t get up again. They’re gone. They serve only him, no one else. It’s a fact.
Even as he brought the shadow of nuclear war right to the edge, and has committed war crimes abroad, and crimes against humanity at home and abroad, his party praises him as if he were their Jesus Christ. He has begun to compare himself directly to Jesus now.
Not satisfied with stealing trophies and medals from athletes, nor bullying the Nobel Peace Prize winner into surrendering her medal to him, he now wants his signature on the US Currency, and his image on the Gold Coin that supposed to celebrate 250 years of Democracy, to instead be about him and him alone.
He has taken a literal wrecking ball to the symbol of our nation’s capital, and still, they say nothing. He has turned a once world-respected seat of power into a gawdy gilded showroom in the style of a whorehouse. And still they say nothing.
He’s taken away healthcare, now killing off the supplemental funding that helped provide daycare, killed the SNAP program that fed children and kept our farmers in business, but he can build that ballroom, knock apart the once respected seat of our power and respect, and they say nothing.
He’s firing the most respected military leaders, the most qualified and knowledgeable government agents that protect our internet and infrastructure from foreign attacks, and replaced them with clowns who will fawn over him.
He literally shit himself while sitting behind the desk, signing some sort of proclamation, and his handlers instantly rushed everyone out of the room, not a single question was allowed to be asked… and they say nothing.
He’s used our banking system to multiply his family’s wealth by billions, and his republican servants in congress passed laws to back up his crypto scam with the US Treasury… but no healthcare for you. Cancer treatment for children was stopped immediately, and now the CDC is completely gone… good luck with your herds, your pets, your plagues. I see polio, measles and whooping cough have made a comeback… they do nothing. They serve only him.
And when they no longer serve him, when they cannot do the impossible and bury the truth that keeps popping up everywhere? He fires them, primaries them, gets rid of them, replaces them with even worse versions of what they were.
Republicans do nothing to stop him. They are the majority and they are like drunken frat boys destroying the house they live in, that we ALL live in. We can clean up the mess once they are stopped, if they are stopped, but we cannot fix what they have so recklessly broken. We will have to build from scratch.
And while we’re rebuilding, they will be attacking us, saying it costs too much money. That we are ‘tax and spend’. Well, yes, taxes is how we get the money to spend on the services we need to fix and support the country we all live in. The difference between us and them is that we want to tax the super wealthy. Those making over $5 Million a year. Is that you?
The patterns and the cycles of this destruction have existed for decades, getting worse each time until here we are. The drunks and the idiots are at the wheel, squealing with glee at the damage they are doing and the lives they are ruining, the profits they are making from the corruption they are practicing. How long do you think you can survive in their wake?
The sooner we start stopping them, start picking up the pieces, start looking real close at what we thought was true and why we thought it was true, the sooner we’ll see more clearly who we are, what we need to do and what we need to stop.
When it stops, then we can start to feel safe in our homes, at our jobs, in our environments.
The one thing they will push now more than ever is their hatred and mistrust of other races, religions, and they will push anyone who is not cis, white, male, as a threat to your existence.
I will tell you now: It wasn’t the Black Man, Woman or Child who caused this. It wasn’t women seeking health care before, during or after pregnancy that caused any of this.
It wasn’t the LGBTQ+ who took away your health care, raised the price of gasoline, groceries. It wasn’t the Muslims, the Gays, the sick, the injured, the mentally ill who took your comforts from you… it was the greedy, and it was their enablers. It still is them and they are still doing it.
They just don’t want you to look at them so they screech about invented fears of gays, transgender, Muslims, Atheists, anyone not lily White. They make you hate people who have done nothing wrong and nothing to you so you won’t look at those who ARE doing it to you, taking away from you, hurting you and making you sick.
They make you angry and then they misdirect your anger. And you fall for it every time.
Let go of your misdirected anger and direct your energies towards the real problem: The greedy, the corrupt and their enablers.
Just because someone is a cop, Senator, Congressman, Mayor, FBI Agent, Celebrity, doesn’t or shouldn’t automagically confer “truthteller” on them. Most are not.
Just because someone is a young person, disabled or addicted, a runaway or poor, doesn’t mean they are lying when they tell you what happened to them or what they heard or what they saw. Authorities should investigate before dismissing the victims of crimes whose perpetrators are wealthy, powerful, “important” or famous. That’s why these claims need to be investigated.
Had they been investigated, long ago, the entire world would not be in the pile it’s in right now. Least of all, us.
You know where to find me.
~Cat
Keeping this one pinned
March 7, 2026
Listen to the Podcast
This is a brief one from me. I’m going to drop a couple of links here. One is to the podcast by one of Werner’s attorneys, and it gives a clear review of their case for Werner’s actual Innocence and the petition to release him while the prosecution side ponders if they want to refile charges or not.
They have NO case, and it would be purely punitive for them to do that, but we’re talking North Dakota and a prosecution that never should have proceeded in the first place. Keeping Werner locked up is just another bullying move by a man who bullied him all his life and is using the judicial system to bully him now.
It is the first case I have ever heard of where the conviction in a homicide was overturned. That has to sting. The (IMO) disrespectful treatment the prosecution showed the court leading up to the hearing was rather shocking.
The judge considered every word of what was presented, examined the facts and rendered a very deep, thorough ruling when he overturned the conviction.
Typically, when a conviction is overturned, the prisoner is released in short order. This one is stalling.
I’m not privy to the behind the scenes cogs and wheels, and my opinion is based on what I see and hear, just like you all.
I do know that the terrorist organization known as ICE had a deportation order for him based on his conviction. Now that that conviction is overturned, I would think their warrant would be nullified and they would withdraw it. But, this is the same agency that hires trigger happy types with sketchy backgrounds and give them a fraction of the training that used to be mandatory. You’ve seen the results in Minneapolis.
I learned from listening to the podcast that Werner’s father was a US citizen. I thought that would make him a US Citizen when he immigrated here at the age of 6 or 7, but ICE is what they are and that part needs to be sorted out in court.
I do know that Werner Is disabled now. His treatment in prison has left him wheelchair bound only able to walk short distances with a cane. He’s neither a flight risk, if they do decide to try him again, nor is he a convicted murderer so he should be released, either way. Let the man breathe fresh air. It’s been over 30 years FFS.
And If You Can Help
There is a legit GoFundMe page set up for Werner. To help him get his life in order. Prison doesn’t give you a payout when they turn you loose. And 30 yrs in prison didn’t exactly let him build up a pension. Every dollar helps. He’s coming out into a world he hasn’t set foot in for over 30 years.
You know where to find me,
~Cat
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You know where to find me.
~Cat