Listen to the Silence

So, apparently this is now a thing.   https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Tired-Stupid-Democrats-Trump/dp/B09KX3P9R3/ https://www.amazon.com/PTSD-Pretty-Stupid-Democrats-T-Shirt/dp/B08PFZQ84J/ https://www.amazon.com/Funny-Pretty-Tired-Stupid-Democrats/dp/B0BQ1KWZGP/ https://www.amazon.com/PRETTY-TIRED-STUPID-DEMOCRATS-TRUMP/dp/B097SLJP75/ https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Tired-Stupid-Democrats-Shirt/dp/B09D8T93DV/ That's just the surface....that's just the first half of the first page of Amazon's list of the search of....  *sigh*  ... ... Guys, I just....I can't.     I...I really just....I got nothing here.   I'm the guy who always has some kind of quip, or clever turn to whip things up but this...  June is fucking PTSD awareness month, and here it is a few days away, and a lot of these are just showing up now to take advantage of people searching for ACTUAL awareness t-shirts.... I just.... ....*sigh* Look, I don't talk about this much.   In fact, I don't know if I&

Can we please, please, PLEASE just be fucking civil? The various media and newspapers and indie papers and social groups...they're stirring up shit. I get that. That's how they get ratings. "Let's You and Him fight," is one of the oldest games in politics. More than a few journalists have been caught lying about sources, making up articles or doing "he said, she said" to start a newsworthy piece of drama. Groups like that have agendas. Ones that rarely have all of our lovely hearts in mind. I get that. I hope /you/ get that. Because that's the kicker. We're angry people, and they're fucking liars trying to make a buck off us being angry. They're doing the talking for us. They're lumping you into their shit piece of a story and selling it prepacked to channels. And we're just taking it. Fox tilts center right, CNN tilts hard left, NBC waffles, Breitbart has cleared so far out into right field it's out of the park and the WaPo a

Please. FUCKING PLEASE. If you need to find a sliding scale therapist or psychiatrist, or an open clinic, or a county health office, or a welfare diagnostician - I'll help you.   I will PERSONALLY help you - it's something I do every single weekend as part of my volunteer work. (That's on top of being a cop, on top of building toys for Creative Kink, and on top of being a full time Dad, btw.  So yes, I really commit to the work, and yes, I really will help you.) But this self diagnosis shit?  This shit has got to go.   There's a reason why so many people go through years and years and YEARS of graduate education to be able to make a diagnosis of psychological or psychiatric treatment needs.  I realize self diagnosis is the latest fad.  I realize having some 'mental illness' makes you seem trendy, and I realize all your celebrity favorites are "coming out as having...".  I get that it makes you feel better to have a label to hang on yourself