Matisyahu's Blog

"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"

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Category: Politics

  • I’ll put this under the title of ‘a penny for your thoughts’:

    I was watching the following video and thought about it in context to the post I made before entitled ‘I’m sorry, I don’t believe they’ve changed’ (link) that I made a few days ago where I pointed out that I don’t believe that the videos of people regretting their vote will actually translate into a…

  • I’m sorry, I don’t believe they’ve changed.

    I finished watching the following video – I can’t help but get the feeling that a lot of FAFO content is hopium for non-MAGA to believe that there will be this giant ‘ah-ha moment’ where those who voted for MAGA will realise how wrong they were and will become Democrats. I’m sorry but I don’t…

  • Returning to work.

    Getting ready to go back to working, did some washing however I couldn’t go for a walk today because I have sore feed – there is a crack at at the back of my heel and it hurts when walking on it, the skin is dry and cracking so I wonder if that has something…

  • Controlling the narrative.

    “The first casualty of war is the truth” It is commonly said that the first victim of war is the truth and something that the neoconservatives (or what remains of them now) have learned from the collapse of support for the Vietnam War and the second war in Iraq is that if you don’t control…

  • And it continues.

    I was watching a video from ‘Amanpour & Co’ on YouTube where David Frum was interviewed regarding the recent military operations being carried out by Israel and the United States: I have to prefix this that I am not a fan of the Iranian regime nor am I a supportive of the military operations taking…

  • Day off work sick.

    Still got a sore throat and I’ve lost my sense of smell and taste – I think I may have COVID but I’ll need to get a testing kit to see whether that is the case. I originally thought that maybe it was due to a cold or seasons changing but apparently it is quite…

  • Rain, rain and more rain.

    It has been a rainy day today so I’ve spent my time at home relaxing, recovering, watching some videos and catching up on the news all while trying not to get too anxious about the world. For lunch/dinner tonight I had some chicken, steamed carrots with garlic butter and some fresh bread which was satisfying.…

  • End of the week, start of a new week.

    Work today was ok but it wasn’t exactly smooth sailing with a sore throat but one small blessing is the fact that I still had some fisherman’s friend sore throat lozenges – like Kurols Mentholated Pastilles, it has a strong menthol hit to them which does a good job dealing with a sore throat. I’ll…

  • One more day to go.

    Finished work tonight and then went for a 11.6km walk – having been lazy for the last couple of days it was good to get back into some exercise, enjoying fresh air and do a bit of looking around to see if anything had changed in the couple of empty plots of land that are…

  • A couple more days to go.

    Work today was so-so and I finished it up with an 11.6km walk tonight along with some free weights when I got home (on top of the ones I had done during my breaks while working from home). I’m looking forward to getting the week over and done with but on a good side I…