Can anyone else believe it's Independence Day this weekend? Me neither.
It seems wishful thinking to be celebrating our country's independence from a tyrannical oppressor at this particular moment. Know what I mean, Vern?
Meat knows what I mean, even though he's chomping at the bit to get out and spread joy and who knows what else to all his friends. Unfortunately, he's still in Tater's quarantine. I had to beg her to let him out on the porch where I could yell at him from mine.
The truth is, Meat's been exhibiting all the symptoms of a hard flu for nearly two months. Tater's taken him for 3 different Covid-19 tests and he's tested negative each time. Just a negative guy, I guess.
"I tell you what SJ, if we wanted to end this pandemic we'd put Tater in charge. She don't put up with any whining about rights and freedoms. She ain't gonna hear it. I've got the independence of a parakeet right now."
"Yeah, Meat, sometimes children need to be told what to do and you qualify right along with a lot of other folk around here."
"Says you, Mr. Haven't Worn Pants in Weeks. You got 4th of July plans?"
"Not really. Might drink a few beers and shoot some firecrackers. I'm not sure we have that much to celebrate."
"Well if all that death cult mumbo jumbo you've been writing is true, better celebrate while you can."
Like I said, Meat gets it. Freedom in this country is an idea we all love, but a truth very few get to experience. The color of my skin makes me more likely to experience it than others, but the color of my blood reminds me every American deserves the security real freedom brings.
That includes the right to vote, the freedom to speak my mind, and the grace to worship in the manner that works for me. It includes the freedom from worry that sickness will bankrupt me. The confidence to walk the streets without being attacked for the way I look. The peace of knowing my elected leaders aren't working with foreign powers to undercut all this country might be.
Right now the fraud in the White House is looking the other way while Russia has placed bounties on our soldiers. His lawyers are in front of the Supreme Court trying to take healthcare from millions of Americans in a pandemic. His party is doing everything it can to block citizens' votes because they know they lose if they don't.
Our country is now the laughing stock for the world. The once liberators of Europe aren't welcome because we refuse to do the most basic things to defeat a deadly disease. Mexico is helping build the wall to keep us out. Even Canada, the friendliest country on the planet, doesn't want us visiting.
There is no freedom in ignorance, in denial of facts, in living in the past. Independence for the American individual is a great idea, but as likely as Bigfoot laying a wreath at the grave of the unknown soldier.
If all Americans aren't free, none of us are. The Death Cult wants to make sure it stays that way.