{"id":6126,"date":"2026-06-04T11:47:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:47:52","slug":"really-havent-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/really-havent-moved\/","title":{"rendered":"Really Haven&#8217;t Moved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following last  week&#8217;s revelations about the Massie loss, I&#8217;ve found myself in an odd situation.  My determination, then, was that I&#8217;m not going to ever vote for anyone who supported the release of the &#8220;Epstein Files.&#8221;  The one Louisiana Republican who actually was the sole vote against, on further research, seems more than a little off his rocker.  My rep, Don &#8220;Replacement Moran&#8221; Beyer Volvo wasn&#8217;t there to vote.  Didn&#8217;t take long for me to find yet another reason to vote against him.  Whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Bridget Phetsey had a <em>Dumpster Fire<\/em> dispatch that largely mirrored my take on the reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thomas Massie Just Became the Horseshoe Right Mascot\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G9vjZ0QBS64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m sorry.  I don&#8217;t believe in your space laser conspiracies.  And I think a lot less of you because you&#8217;ve signed on to them.  Bridget is pretty consistent with her 1990s feminist views on many subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that makes me a Christian Nationalist Rapist, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk famously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realityslaststand.com\/p\/my-political-journey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted this cartoon<\/a>.  Do I necessarily agree with Elon?  Nope.  I&#8217;m farther right than he is on the X-Axis, but socially I&#8217;m pretty far to &#8220;the left,&#8221; even if some of those views have moderated as I&#8217;ve reconsidered faith teachings.  When I was in college, I would have agreed with pretty much wide-open contraception\/abortion, and I was in favor of capitol punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I now don&#8217;t want to see either eliminated, I&#8217;m not a fan of either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I have a start of a long OWT on all of this, if I can find the energy to distill it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s see how I feel after some coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following last week&#8217;s revelations about the Massie loss, I&#8217;ve found myself in an odd situation. My determination, then, was that I&#8217;m not going to ever vote for anyone who supported the release of the &#8220;Epstein Files.&#8221; The one Louisiana Republican who actually was the sole vote against, on further research, seems more than a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6127,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions\/6127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}