i've had an essay accepted by appalachian renegades, which is the new location for what was nc renegades previously. here it be. didn't have as much editorial time on this as some but those appearing there in future will. in fact one's rolling around what remains of my brain now; 

“I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.” — Hillary Clinton
This from a woman who created the ‘Russian’s meddling in our election’ hoax in 2016 which was disproven from all angles but she continually speaks of it. She lies. It’s why she was fired from the Watergate committee, yet being married to a politician provided her with some credibility in the eyes of ‘our mockingbird media’.
I must begin this by testifying that I’ve not had a president since November 1963 so don’t begin to suspect that I find any measurable differences in our current ‘choices’ if you compare promises and actions in recent years. Secrecy and dictates like we have been witnessing aren’t authorized in our constitution. Twenty years ago I wrote to the editor opposing the shrub/decider. Here are some inconsistencies I’ve recently observed;
Believing in freedom of speech makes you a threat to democracy, “unlike ‘disinformation,’ which is intentionally misleading, or ‘misinformation’, which is erroneous, ‘malinformation’ is true but inconvenient for the powerful. We once had free speech. Now we have categories.
The narrative here in the empire is that the orange man is nasty. Bombastic. Talking heads on the TV virtually all joined in the chorus opposing him as they praised the Kamala ‘joy machine’. He says sometimes that ‘some of our new Americans’ are rapists and thieves which leftists call hate speech. Many items that reinforce his point can easily be found on web or TV. Listen to many ‘far left’ speakers as they hurl emotional epithets like gradeschoolers on the playground showing no wish to work for compromise. Tell us how ‘new Americans’ support themselves in a land where they are fully immersed without job, home, or language. Follow that rabbit hole to its logical conclusions..........more...........