As Above, So Below
Jan. 20th, 2026 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraWe are in the midst of a severe solar storm, the magnitude of which has not been seen since 2003. The Aurora Borealis is supposed to be visible to the naked eye at my latitude, but I had to use the night settings on my iPhone camera to snap this:
And the Arctic blast is back. It is cold out. Very, very, very cold. Not supposed to rise above 18° F for the next three days.
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As above, so below.
Trump is literally sundowning—a thing that happens to many people with dementia. They may seem coherent during the day, but at night, they lose it entirely, hence Trump's late-night social media posting mania: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace!
The historical comparison is no longer strictly to Nazis anymore—though ICE is the Gestapo.
No, the historical comparison is more to Caligula.
Assuming human history continues past 10 years—to my mind, not a safe assumption at all—historians are going to be asking the same question over & over again, WHY didn't they DO something? He was so obviously insane.
Honestly, I do not know.
This is very, very difficult to live through.
Because, I mean, what do we do?
Ignore it? Keep living our lives as though it isn't happening?
There's a core of physical dread inside of me; I walk around, trying to ignore it, trying to maintain, but that's increasingly hard to do.
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I have a bunch of errands to do today, plus the gym—bad weather has kept me away from the gym since Thursday last—but I have very little interest in doing them, very little interest in doing anything. Even parking myself in front of a screen & watching mindless television would not distract me from the mind monkey sitting on the Bodhi Tree's branch & chittering.
But ya gotta do what ya gotta do, so I guess I'll force myself to do those errands. As the I Ching reminds us: Perseverance furthers.
And the Arctic blast is back. It is cold out. Very, very, very cold. Not supposed to rise above 18° F for the next three days.
###
As above, so below.
Trump is literally sundowning—a thing that happens to many people with dementia. They may seem coherent during the day, but at night, they lose it entirely, hence Trump's late-night social media posting mania: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace!
The historical comparison is no longer strictly to Nazis anymore—though ICE is the Gestapo.
No, the historical comparison is more to Caligula.
Assuming human history continues past 10 years—to my mind, not a safe assumption at all—historians are going to be asking the same question over & over again, WHY didn't they DO something? He was so obviously insane.
Honestly, I do not know.
This is very, very difficult to live through.
Because, I mean, what do we do?
Ignore it? Keep living our lives as though it isn't happening?
There's a core of physical dread inside of me; I walk around, trying to ignore it, trying to maintain, but that's increasingly hard to do.
###
I have a bunch of errands to do today, plus the gym—bad weather has kept me away from the gym since Thursday last—but I have very little interest in doing them, very little interest in doing anything. Even parking myself in front of a screen & watching mindless television would not distract me from the mind monkey sitting on the Bodhi Tree's branch & chittering.
But ya gotta do what ya gotta do, so I guess I'll force myself to do those errands. As the I Ching reminds us: Perseverance furthers.
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Date: 2026-01-20 05:33 pm (UTC)A question I keep asking myself right along with 'what do we do. People keep telling us 'well, the Republicans are starting to get uncomfortable' but so? They can be uncomfortable but until something is done to stop him, he is still in power.
I've always wanted to see the Aurora...
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Date: 2026-01-20 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-01-21 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-01-21 12:41 am (UTC)Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Reagan's handlers close ranks when he was far into dementia in order
to protect their jobsto make sure Those People didn't get a crack at power to topple the Correct World Order? Maybe it's in the handbook. But Reagan didn't have social media to display his deterioration in.