The most surreal part of the climate emergency (when you’ve been working it for decades) is the shock with which folks are realizing that we’ve missed the window for slow, gradual, orderly climate action.

There have been years and years of more and more dire warnings. Now shock. https://t.co/I4ow24NSYJ

— Alex Steffen (@AlexSteffen) October 14, 2019

This is a large part of the reason for the hatred and dismissal of Greta Thunberg. People are realizing how terribly they’ve screwed up, how bad it’s going to be, and do not want to admit it or acknowledge it. And they definitely do not want an actual child that their inaction directly harms to remind them of all this.

Elizabeth Warren flaunts her fitness as candidates’ health becomes issue.

She doesn’t look 70 at all. Sure, she has money, and that helps. But she looks about 50. Biden looks about 900. Sanders only looks about 800.

They should have a deadlift showdown on stage. Now that’d be something.

Lately, I’ve looked at houses just so I could discover the weird and pointless word salads people have painted or framed on their walls. You know, goofy stuff like, “Live. Laugh. Love.” and that sort of pap.

I now call it pseudoaisthograpy. Greek roots. Means “false emotion writing.”

It’s a sickness, I admit.

My workouts in the past 24 hours (in two phases):

Phase I:

• 30 overhand pull-ups (bodyweight)
• 105 push-ups (bodyweight)
• 24 isolation curls with 80 pounds
• 30 flat dumbbell presses with 45 pounds in each hand (90 pounds total)
• 60 bench dips (bodyweight)

Phase II:

• 30 lunges with 45 pound dumbbells in each hand (90 pounds total)
• 30 goblet squats with 45 pound dumbbell
• 30 leg curls with 105 pounds
• 60 weighted crunches with 20 pound dumbbell
• 210 scissor kicks (bodyweight)

In case anyone is wondering what I am doing to get the results that I am seeing. I usually work out with my partner. Each workout takes about an hour or so when we do them together. Some days take longer — deadlift and bench press days are the lengthier ones, taking maybe an hour and a half.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Is there someone who can actually think about Trump and what he means – rather than weeping and calling the gods like some old minstrel in romance novels?

— Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) October 12, 2019

I know. This, among many other causes, has led me to abandoning identification with and expression of “progressive” thought. Seeing people flagellate themselves and rend their clothes, moaning about Trump’s election being the worst day of their lives has been infuriating. Many of these people were alive on 9/11 and around for the Iraq war in 2003, which were both far larger tragedies. Even Obama’s abandonment of the middle class and embrace of the banksters was far worse than anything Trump has done (though his tax cut for the rich comes close).

Though I don’t support the impeachment of Trump mainly because then we’ll get Mike Pence, I do support the idea in principle. However, Bush. Jr. and Obama should’ve also been impeached as both were war criminals as well.

People (mainly idiot progressives) see Trump as some sort of abnormality, some sort of divergence from the norm. However, the sturm und drang associated with Trump is the new normal around the world.

There are no systems thinkers in the media or in the progressive camp, so both have no clue at all what’s going on and probably never will.

We need those new minds. So far, I see scant evidence that enough of them are being created to matter.