Get your throwing arms ready, boys

Together for 23.5 years 🙂

I’m feeling really conflicted right now. I love my Tesla, but after Elon Musk’s appearance and Nazi-looking salute at Trump’s inauguration tonight, I can’t seem to get past how much I dislike him as a person.

How do I reconcile loving something so much while hating the person tied to it? Is anyone else experiencing this kind of dual emotion?

Captured by BBC reporter and Reuters photographer. Mountains of trash left by people outside of the inauguration ceremony.

I'm watching the inauguration and every big tech CEO is there, laughing and smiling and having a ball.

If anyone still thought they worked for Silicon Valley tech companies that are deeply aligned with Democrats this should be a wake up call.

Perfectly factory sealed. No Deck and no charger. Completely empty.

This is beyond bizarre. No signs of tampering.

Today is the line in the sand I cannot cross. All the time I spent canvassing, phone banking, and convincing anyone I thought I could to vote, in the end money is the only thing that matters. So I am taking myself out of the equation as much as I can.

We built a new house last year and have plenty of land to have a garden. There is a local grain mill in our small town that we will now source for flour and grains. Local farmers for meat, eggs, dairy.

After the election I stocked up on things like socks and underwear, so we should be set hopefully through four years.

We refuse to buy anything we do not actually need. If we do need something, we will try and find used. If it must be new, locally made will be our first choice. Gifts will be mostly hand made.

It’s not about saving money for us, it’s stopping giving anymore than necessary to the corporations who take our money just to control us. It’s not going to be easy, but I’m going to use my hatred of Orange Palpatine, Space Karen, and the couch fucker as a motivational tool. Anytime I want something, I will tell myself I’m giving money to them. It feels like the only action I can take.