Restless Again
By
Cat West
July 16, 2025
Knowing Where You Are
It’s important to know where you are so you can make decisions based on relevant information. Are you at a concert where you can sing along with the act on stage, hoot and holler, wave and cheer? Or are you at a theater, watching a movie or a play where that kind of action would be disruptive and frankly, rude?
Are you at a WWE wrestling match where you are given a storyline that you have to pretend to believe so that the athletes in the ring (the storylines are fake, the wrestling is real) are flinging each other around, accompanied by the whole crowd booing, hissing, (not allowed to throw stuff), shouting? Is it okay to suspend reality so you can be part of the storyline? Yes. Your face is full of anger, your throat hoarse from shouting, you never looked uglier or meaner. You are part of this. Congratulations.
You and the crowd are doing exactly what you are supposed to do. Like a soap opera, you stay tuned in, attend every match, before and afterwards, you and your buddies (never go alone) are buying up the merch, the booze and exhausting your emotions. You are totally invested in this storyline. You see yourself in the story that has nothing to do with you or reality. But you ‘feel’ it. It’s permitted violence. It feels goooood.
Or, are you at a political rally, being fed pure bullshit from the stage? Are you shouting, hating on cue, menacing the press, swearing at them? Using your ugly face because the guy on stage promised you ‘retribution’? Congratulations, you are doing exactly what the nazis want you doing: Reacting to a fake storyline without thinking about how unsupported it is, and without counting the lies.
You have completely let go of any sense of personal responsibility, and you have bought the merch, donated your money, often more than you could really afford… to support someone who promises “retribution”, not leadership. You are in an arena full of others, your grunts and screams completely in tune with theirs.
You never stop to ask: “What retribution? For What?”
The price of eggs? That was Bird Flu. But you're mad. Ok, look around, who do we blame. IMMIGRANTS!
#Reminder: If you are not First Nations, you descended from immigrants.
Low wages? Don’t blame the corporations that underpay you while making themselves into billionaires… blame Immigrants. As if immigrants control the paymasters at jobs? They work for lower wages? Sure because that is all they are paid. Billionaires have been lobbying to keep minimum wage 20-30 years behind the cost of living, and those billionaires have bought every politician they can get their hands on. But you’re mad so blame immigrants.
Also, on the blame list, the stage is set and the storyline is Socialists! They are the bad guys!
Socialism is where funds (taxes) are pooled for the common good: Schools, Fire & Police, Hospitals, libraries, roads, etc. But we need to make that a dirty word, so Socialists are now what you boo and hiss at.
Ok, Dems are the ones we can hate now because they are ‘tax and spend”. Funny how spending is only remarked on when Dems are in office. No debt clock ticking in the media windows when the republicans are at the wheel, and the debt is screaming skyward.
It’s easier to burn a house down than to build one. Dems get into office and legacy media goes nuts trying to discredit and blame them for the debt run up by the republicans who give tax breaks to billionaires and billions of dollars in grants to oil companies, who are rolling in it to begin with.
You, you, you, and I are losing benefits: They are coming after Social Security now, putting in that Russian guy they call Big Balls, from DOGE. They already cut Air Traffic Safety down to the bone and have broken those bones… planes are crashing to the ground, but hey, billionaires are paying less taxes than the waiter in the restaurant on minimum wage, so that was a bonus.
Children’s Cancer Research has been eliminated, Cancer Research has been stopped, including treatments in progress, and people will die… and there’s a republican Senator snarking that “We’re all going to die” so your family, your child, not of any importance to her. She’s going to compare cancer research to the Tooth Fairy next. Yeah, she hurts everyone that votes for her, but she is really nice to the billionaires that put her in her seat.
Since billionaires are the only important ones to the Republicans, they are going after Medicare and Medicaid. Those are the programs that pay when you can’t afford $4-$8,000 for your kid’s (or anyone’s) broken arm or leg. They also pay when your kid is so sick they will die without medical care… “We’re all gonna Die!” *And she laughs*
The important thing is tax breaks for billionaires. You too, will get a tax break of maybe $300 on your taxes. Fix your kid’s arm with that. Take your newborn to the hospital with that.
Anyways, doesn’t matter because the rural hospitals will close first. It takes money to run those and as we can see, that money is gone. The cities will start closing hospitals almost as fast. So, yeah, we’re all gonna die and she’ll tell us about the Tooth Fairy since we are being such big babies about it. Don’t worry, she and every other member of congress will be fine. They go to a special hospital, Walter Reed, just like the president that signs the bills that gives those tax breaks to billionaires.
Back To Basics—Hello Texas!
Yeah, defunding NOAH put the emergency weather reporting and forecasting down to the bone and most of those bones are gone, what’s left is being broken. So, the guy they put in charge of FEMA, literally did not know what “Hurricane Season” was. He also had no plans for a budget when Congress asked him what he’d need. “Hurricane what?” He just has a cushy office and secretaries.
Everyone at FEMA that knew how to prepare for disasters, how to get logistics in place for after a disaster… they all got fired. Kristi Noem, the cosplaying Homeland Security Bimbo, (she wears different costumes for each occasion, not kidding), fired them.
So, the weather reports show an emergency coming and flooding… but the communities that had been requesting funding for sirens to warn residents to get to higher ground, never got them, except one community that paid for them themselves. BTW, that one community, everyone survived.
Anyhow, the warning comes, but the persons in Texas that were supposed to relay it, weren’t on the job. Some consider it a 9 to 5 job, so there’s that. That camp full of little girls got wiped out, and over 100 drowned, including the owner of the camp who tried to save them. More on him later.
Tots & Pears
It’s Uvalde all over again, dead kids, by the hundreds and a system that failed because it wasn’t important to maintain or support. You know, “Socialism”.
Immediately, well, almost, give a day or two, Republicans all came out with “thoughts and prayers” and “Don’t you dare make this political!” Well, it is politics that killed those kids, but sure. It’s “too soon”.
(Note: It’s still too soon for Uvalde and every mass shooting that preceded or followed it, so how dare we think of the safety of our children when we are voting.)
Cancun Cruz, who abandoned his State and his little dog, when the Big Freeze came down and Texas was without electricity for a week or more, people dying, freezing to death, etc., was vacationing with his family in Greece. I hear it’s lovely this time of year. Said he would rush home as soon as it was humanly possible. But first, he had more sightseeing to do, a couple more restaurants, and so, 4 days later?
Hey, if it had been billionaires, he’d have flapped his arms and been there in an hour, right? But, it’s only constituents and mostly children in the news, drowning in the floods, so, you know… Tots & Pears for the families. Oh, and a very sad face, furrowed brow, no grinning.
Back To The Broken Back
The system already broken worked out this way with Kristi Noem and her little buddy at the wheel.
When the floods started happening (July 5), FEMA answered 98% of the calls. The next day, they only answered about 36%, the next day, less than 18%... why? Because Kristi refused to renew their contract, you know PAY THEM after the 5th when their contract expired. The few who did answer the calls, did so without pay.
She is so opposed to Socialism, bless her heart, that she was willing, in the middle of a catastrophic flood, to cut off the very people that knew what to do. She’s also fired 90% of the responders, so, you know, “We’re ALL Gonna Die!” – Sincerely, Tooth Fairy.
She waited almost a week before she decided to renew the contracts. I guess she wasn’t sure she’d have the money? Well, FEMA’s budget was hijacked to build Alligator Auschwitz. Some private, for-profit prison is getting billions to torture people who have committed no offense, have not been charged, in cages like chickens on an egg farm, crowded with no sanitary facilities. They were big supporters of Republicans and especially top MAGA himself. So, yeah, that’s where FEMA’s funds are going. Kristi directed it. She even had a costume wardrobe to wear when she toured the place. “Hurrican what?”
So, now a back-broken FEMA is clearly unable to handle the job, and of course, we will hear RW media proclaim how FEMA is a waste of our tax dollars, so yeah, “All gonna die”. (You’re saying it with me now, aren’t you.)
Hero to Zero
That man Texas Governor Abbot is calling a hero for trying to save all those little girls who got swept into the water because their cabins were built on a flood plain, which he bribed officials to not put on that map because it would mean he would have to build cabins higher, on higher ground and that would be expensive? He waited over ONE HOUR after he got the Flash Flood Warning before he bothered to do anything. Take your pick on that one.
Texas has continued to elect Paxton as AG because *shrug* they don’t care that he is a felon and he uses his office to help himself avoid prison, and sell protection to others just like himself, and Abbot, who gleefully celebrates putting razor wire coils in the rivers that refugees tried to swim across, when he blocked all the ports of entry for immigration, and when that man, with his young daughter, clinging to his neck, was cut up and drowned, he celebrated. Y’all call yourselves Christians? How many billionaires would Jesus dine with?
Abbott also has had the state’s National Guard marching up and down to ‘protect our border’, in the hot sun, not enough provisions, as a show of force, for years. Typically, the National Guard was only used for emergencies. You know, like floods, earthquakes, tornados. Not this time. But that’s how the inbred in Texas vote. That’s what they want: Dead kids, families missing, property destroyed, all the guns under heaven, and tax breaks for billionaires.
Tots and Pears for Texans. All of them. Cruz will bring some from his next overseas vacation.
Back To The Arenas
This is what MAGA stands for. It’s what they want. It’s what they cheer and celebrate. Their idol never takes responsibility for anything he f’s up and he’s f’d up everything he’s ever touched.
He blames everyone who had nothing to do with it. His excuse on FEMA failing was “He’s putting it all on the cloud and it will be better than ever.” So, just be patient while those children are swept away. The screaming stops after they are dead. Rest easy.
Nobody listens to the parents of dead children. “FAKE NEWS! CRISIS ACTORS!” Yeah, that works. The slaughter of children taught us we can ignore the deaths of our most sacred trusts: The children, the Future.
SHUT UP!
I do remember and so do you, that he promised to release the Epstein Files. That was the one thing that really got the crowds going wild. For some reason, everyone seemed to forget or never know, that he and Epstein were best friends for decades. They thought the Epstein files would contain Bill Clinton. Maybe they will.
Epstein was arrested and jailed during his last term. The FBI raided all his properties: New York, Mexico, Florida, Private Islands, and gathered literally tons of evidence. Which all seemed to disappear into some vault that Bill Barr was in charge of… and labeled “CLASSIFIED/TOP SECRET” and the next admin, Biden’s was unable to shake them loose from a compromised FBI, and even if they could, RW media would declare them all Fake News, right?
All those pieces, boxes, files were under the control of Mr. MAGA himself. He had vaults of stuff hidden at his properties. Stuff like our national secrets, lists of our spies and informants, many of whom were slaughtered after he and his son-in-law sold them out. Why do you think Jarred got a $2B deal from the Saudis the day after Mr. MAGA left the WH? You remember when MBS (Mohammed Ben Salmon) kidnapped, imprisoned and executed about 30 members of his family? Right after that late night meeting where he and Jarred stayed up for 12 hours going over boxes of intel?
Yeah, say it with me: “We’re all gonna die”.
Well, now that he’s back at the helm, the juiciest red meat he tossed to his cult, “I will release the Epstein Files!” is coming back to haunt him.
Pam Bondi, Blondi by his side, declared that “I have the files on my desk right now and I am looking at them”…
But suddenly, for some reason, Mr. MAGA doesn’t want them released. He’s calling them a HOAX. You know, Fake News. Y’all bought it for years so now when he says it, you catch on that he’s lying? Oh? Only some of you? Ok, that’s a start. I know, it’s really hard to admit you made a mistake, especially one this horrific. Stay small, pretend you never did any of the hateful stuff.
In fact, he says that the Epstein Files were a hoax forged by Obama, Hillary, and Biden. He has epic meltdowns on his Truth Social, telling everyone to SHUT UP about the Epstein Files! Why are you still talking about him? He’s been dead for years!
So, that red meat he tossed to the crowd, making them go wild, cheering his ascent while ignoring all the damage he did before…was … nothing? Hmmm…. He was right about you. He called you all suckers.
Now, where to go with this story line? How to keep the crowds on his side? The audience is stirring. They are becoming restless. He’s tossing gardeners and nannies, house keepers and day laborers, most of whom have green cards, many of whom are US Citizens, into prisons with these massive abductions through neighborhoods and across farms.
Produce is rotting in the fields. Price of tomatoes is going up. So are all the fruits and veggies. Eggs? Eggs! The Price of EGGS for godsakes!
Does that make you forget his red meat, Epstein Files? His loyal media puppets are all deciding to go along with the new storyline and forget about Epstein. Have you?
You know why he won’t release them, right? It’s because he’s in them.
You know he’s a racist, a nazi, a thief, a rapist, but are you okay with a man who rapes little girls? You are? Hmmm…. How’d you get here? Were you always ok with that? Or has the slaughter of so many children, their grieving parents being called crisis actors, their dead bodies clinging to flood debris, hardened you to whatever you used to be.
Retribution
It’s an act of violence against one’s perceived enemies. It’s not about leadership, it’s about violence. Have you had enough? The damage is only beginning. Are you too weak, too lazy, or too enthralled to fight back yet?
He promised “I am your retribution.” Who were your enemies? The immigrants? The children? The poor? Let me know when you’ve had your fill.
And, by the way, it will take a generation to repair, maybe two generations to repair, all that has been broken. That house took generations to build, and minutes to burn down. Keep voting for the arsonists, because “We’re all gonna die.”
The Good People who want to live in peace, be treated fairly, and want justice are not seeking revenge or retribution. They are seeking Democracy. The billionaires cling to their piles of cash, tax free, and we think they should start paying for the damage they have done, the wealth they have stolen, the lives it has cost and the future that died when the children were slaughtered. We are seeking balance.
You, with the Red Hats, take a good look at yourselves. Know where you are.
You know where to find me.
~Cat
#Random: First Rule of letting go is unclenching your fists.
Did He? Or Didn’t He?
Rustin Hunt was supposed to turn himself in at the end of June to begin serving his sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm. (I’ve heard he had an arsenal. Go Big or ?)
Did he turn himself in?
Now would be a good time for those crack Federal Investigators at the BIA and FBI to search his properties for evidence of more crimes. Something they should’ve done the minute he was caught with firearms.
Maybe find evidence of or pieces of Jemi Posey, or even his younger son, Isaac, who went missing after losing his shit over what he’d seen his brother, his dad and others do, and became a threat?
Did Rustin and his older son, D’Angelo really kill his younger son, D’Angelo’s brother? Neither of them seemed too concerned with his abrupt absence and no one hearing from him. Then again, they were very unconcerned with the sudden disappearance of Jemi Posey, the mother of D’Angelo’s son. They have the baby, but not at all bothered that the momma is missing. *Shrug*
Isaac’s older brother, Rustin’s favorite son, D’Angelo Hunt is raising that infant child of Jemina, but now I’m told that he is currently in prison or jail, but haven’t heard what the charges are that put him there. Could be anything. The dude was tweakier than anything.
He wears a weird woven leather vest when he gets tweaky. He thinks it will protect him when in fact it broadcasts to the world that he’s beyond paranoid. He’s foamy, frothing.
I’m wondering how it happened. Did he grab her from behind, use his forearm against her throat, pressing harder and harder while she struggled and choked “Stop it! You’re killing me!” ?
Did he speak in her ear, in that angry whisper, “I love you, I love you..” until there was that dull ‘snap’ and her body went limp?
Is that how it happened? Are there enough drugs for him to live with that?
Did he and his dad dismember her before shoving her into that burn barrel? She was so tiny, maybe she just ‘fit’ perfectly?
How is that baby doing? Is he safe?
He should’ve just let her go, yeah?
Remember The Good People
They are living inside this nightmare and it’s only getting worse. With no respite and no rescue from the government that oppresses and then blames the victims for every evil deed in their midst.
When criminals have all the protection, police ignore the information if it goes against their Blue Wall, you have to wonder if they are that stupid, or if they just pretend to be.
Every time you see a polished uniform give a press conference where they discuss/relate the horrors of a crime and then implore the public “If you see something, Say Something”, just know that evidence of a brutal murder was delivered to them and they ignored it, dismissing it as “Not one of ours” when clearly it was.
Police always complain that the community is shielding the bad guys by not speaking out, not coming forward. I have to laugh. If the community trusted the police to do their job, they WOULD come forward.
You know who shields the bad guys in their community? The police. We all hear stories of ‘bad cops’ as ‘bad apples’ when they get caught. It always turns out that everyone on the force KNEW they were bad, corrupt, committing crimes… and none of them spoke up.
So, All You Good Cops out there, set an example for the communities you are supposed to be “Protecting and Serving”, by cleaning your own house. You’ve seen it, but you’ve kept quiet.
Oh sure, there are consequences for ‘snitching’ on bad cops… You see how that works? You keep waiting for someone else to do your job for you. This is why no one trusts the police.
Unfortunately, we have no one else to call when a crime is committed against us or in our community. But sure, blame the community for ‘shielding the bad guys’.
One of the reasons cops don’t out the criminals in their ranks is they know they have nowhere to go. Corruption in Law Enforcement goes all the way up the chain of command and to the ladders beyond.
Look at Lonnie Olson: A corrupt prosecutor with a childhood grudge who wrongly convicted Werner Kunkel of a brutal murder by violating over 200 rules of evidence.
He is now a judge. You think he’s any better now? Now that he has more power and more influence? Think again. It hasn’t bothered him a bit that the real killers of Gilbert Fassett got away clean to do it again and again, and to continue to be a threat to the community.
Corruption leads to more power. We have to change that. The whole stinking wadded up system has got to change. We can’t do that if we aren’t looking at it. We can’t do that if we are afraid to see the truth.
Know the history and the truth becomes clearer. Hate that history paints in both dark and light colors? You only want to see the white? It will blind you.
#Random: If they can make you angry, they can control you.
Anger As A Control Mechanism
Some people think that being angry all the time makes them stronger. It does not. It weakens them. Like a cancer, it eats them from within. It blinds them with bias, deafens them with slogans, and creates a pool of stupidity that will drown them.
But anger is how we got here. Blaming immigrants, blaming anyone that is a different race, religion, and now blaming people who have spoken up against the hate and division… you never run out of hate. Price of eggs too high? Don’t look at the Bird Flu that caused the slaughter of millions of chickens, blame immigrants.
Now, put those immigrants in cages. Deny them dignity, food, water, toilets and bathing. Now tour those cages and look at those broken spirits… call them evil, and tell me the price of eggs.
Immigrants have only brought vibrancy and strength to our communities. They did not create low wages. Those low wages come from greedy corporate businesses that want a return to slavery where there are no rights for workers. To get there, they need you to be angry at anyone but them.
Billionaires are not to be admired, they are the cause of your low wages. Every billionaire has made their fortune off of the sweat, the broken backs and aching heads of under paid employees.
Now, to replace the immigrants we have blamed for the low wages and the price of eggs, we need outright slavery. The government is going to lock up people, with no rights to see a judge, no warrants and then sell them to private corporations or farms or businesses who will then ‘be responsible for them’ and in return, get their labor.
Welcome to the New South. Slavery is coming on board. We have cages to be filled, and billionaires to adore.
Meanwhile, the administration got what they wanted in that bill they passed. Cuts to Medicaid which will cut millions off of health care, cuts to Medicare which means the elderly won’t be able to afford their care homes and will be dumped either on struggling families or in the streets.
The good news for republicans is that they put in the bill that it won’t take effect until 2027. When that timer on that economic bomb goes off, by then Dems will be in control of both houses because people will be sick of the abuses inflicted and the losses suffered.
And when it goes off, Republicans will shout from the rooftops that everything was fine when they were in power and now that the Dems are in, look at everything you’ve lost!
That fuse is lit. Nothing we can do to stop it. Republicans will get back into power by blaming Dems and either immigrants or Jews, or Palestinians or Catholics or Muslims or… or… women… or… gays… or transgender… the list goes on and on… and y’all will be so angry you’ll vote them in again.
It was just like the Afghanistan withdrawal that he signed last time he was in office: He timered it to go off 3 days after Biden took office, and with no system in place for an orderly withdrawal. No logistics, nothing. And sure enough, when it happened, even with a two week extension, it was a mess. And there they were, shouting from the rooftops about how Biden and the Dems got our boys killed! And.You.Bought.It.
Your anger steered you into this mess and you don’t want to admit you were blinded and lied to, so you have to keep buying into every lie you are told about it. Suckers.
Now, when you are told that all the drugs and all the crime, all the murders are happening in Indian Country, and particularly in Spirit Lake Nation, you will believe it is the fault of that community. I guess the government will then shrug their shoulders and say: “They must want it that way.”
Just know the truth. Find the truth. Nothing “Just Happens”, there is a history, some of it not pretty, that laid the groundwork for our discontent. Know how it started, the causes, the perpetrators, and then you can look to change it and fix it.
But if you just start today as if yesterday and the year before and the decades, even centuries before never happened, you will fail.
When you fail you will look for a scapegoat. The cages are there already. The dehumanizing began at the inception of our great nation. And deception remains at play as the wealth earned off our blood, sweat and broken bones, continues to leave our pockets and flow upward into the powerful and influential.
Let go of the anger and find the truth. Your strength is in the truth. Your shield is in the truth.
The Value of Immigrants
They come here to build with us, for us. Growth requires change. If there are no changes, there is no growth. Stagnation stinks.
Immigrants bring their culture to share with us, not to replace what we have, but to add to it. Take what you want and leave the rest.
Their foods, their music, their artwork, their skills, their approaches to problem solving, and their love of life not to mention their loyalty and gratitude for the freedoms that this nation used to offer.
Where immigrants thrive, there is more depth and more beauty, more strength and more unity.
It’s like going from Black & White to technicolor. Remember when TV’s were all we had, and they were Black & White? And only a select few channels? Now it’s everything.
You like your computers? I like mine. Steve Jobs and Wozniak brought Apple Computers into the homes of the average person. Steve was the son of a Syrian immigrant. Wozniak didn’t trace his heritage to the Mayflower so, yeah, immigrants ADD to our lives. The things you use, the food you enjoy, the music, and more. What the hell are you afraid of?
But we are told to hate them, blame them, cage them. We say they should come here the “right way”, and when they do, masked thugs abduct them, destroy their papers, put the in cages, send them to countries they’ve never known, or into barbaric El Salvadoran prisons. We take them from their court hearings for immigration. They are doing it the RIGHT way. We aren’t.
Why? So we don’t hold those accountable for robbing us who have been robbing us for generations while building their empires on our underpaid labor.
I sure hope people who bought those lies can wake the f’ up and soon. Or we’ll all be Indians, bringing our evidence of crimes to the authorities who will take or leave it depending on whether it is important to them.
We will all be hearing the lectures of “If you see something, say something” and we’ll all be hoping if we do say something, it will be to the ‘good cops’ … the ones we know shield their own.
#Random:
And before you go off on me for speaking up about transgender people, I remind you that your children are safer with Drag Queens than they are with priests.
You know where to find me.
~Cat
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~Cat