It is Monday, 6 March 2023. Lisa and I are up and after it, and I’m wondering when daylight savings time ends this year… checking…we’ve got another week or so before the “spring forward” event.
I need to exercise a little discipline. I have some weaknesses… and apparently, I have been indulging them this past weekend. It is amazing how quickly I can add five pounds when I slip off my meal plan. Time to get back to eight glasses of water per day and no carbs, or a lot fewer carbs.
I’m back in the virtual classroom today, another week of cloud administration, the same as the course I delivered last week. I’ll be covering a few different modules than I did last week, as I am co-delivering with a different trainer. This course is one that I’m pretty comfortable with, so I can float between modules pretty easily.
Politics is happening, and the farms are spinning their comments on social media. There are forces in the US and abroad that want certain people in the halls of power in order to push their agenda. That agenda is pretty dark in the eyes of people that support diversity, equality, and inclusion. This past weekend, the CPAC conference went on (conservative/reactionary), and some of the stuff that came out of that group is quite alarming. One clown proposed the eradication of all transgender people… not therapies, not treatments, not discussions, the complete elimination of an entire sector of our population. It wasn’t shortly after that someone posted a link to a story about how the Nazi German government under Adolf Hitler went after and wiped out a transgender/transvestite clinic in keeping with their pursuit of some mythical “purity”.
These days the same thing is going on. Some ideologies don’t do inclusion. They don’t do equality. They require a target for their hatred, and they generally go after populations that are incapable of defending themselves. The transgender population is a target for right-wing hatred. The transvestite population is a target for right-wing hatred.
It’s already started. Tennessee has passed a law banning drag shows, with a punishment of up to 6 months in jail. Multiple states are implementing a ban on gender-affirming care.
If you want to confuse a right-winger, ask them the definition of “woke”. Then ask them about their medical credentials to diagnose gender dysphoria.
Time to get some things going on the day.
I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
