As a child, when I was sick and had to stay home, my parents would generally give me things to do that were not too demanding.  (Yes, I had to do things while sick because that’s the sort of non-nonsense German upbringing my mother had. Better health through movement, aka dusting, including the leaves of house plants — which must be talked to as one dusts) If I was really sick, and had to stay in bed, there were puzzle books, or coloring books, or other educational type fun. One of the books was always connect the dots. 

Connect the dots taps in to that very basic human instinct of taking various pieces of information and trying to figure out what they indicated. We all use this skill, all the time. I’m sure someone’s studied it, but I’ve no idea who. At any rate, you might well find yourself on a lonely trail and seeing a dark outline moving across the road up ahead think “Oh, a slithering snake”, only to arrive at the spot a bit later and discover “Oh, a stick moved by the breeze.” There’s no shame in that. We’ve all done it. 

Some dot puzzles are easy, we can see right away what it might be. Others can be a little tricky. Maybe you don’t have enough dots. Or perhaps you have never seen what the dots will ultimately depict. If you haven’t seen a butter churn, how would you know what its outline might represent? Would you know the creature above was a blue dragon if it was dottified (I made that up) ? Given it’s immensely tiny, smaller than a single section of your little finger, would you touch it if you saw it? (NEVER, Never touch it!) 

This kind of scenario is where having elders comes in handy. People who can pass on a culture’s known collective historical / scientific record of experiences with blue dragons.

Lately I’ve been thinking about these things, collective wisdom and connected dots. Some people remember enough history to connect them. Some people never learned the history. Some people simply don’t see the dots as dots, let alone connections.  I’ll give you an example. Here’s a series of events.  You can decide if you see any dots, and what all dots you may or may not be connected, and when connected, what they might show.

Bush v. Gore (Dec. 12, 2000 – The per curiam opinion was made up of the five most conservative justices: Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas. ) The US is attacked by terrorists Sept 11, 2001Bush starts a 20 year war with Afghanistan Oct 7, 2001Homeland Security Act into law to create the Department of Homeland Security Nov 25, 2002Bush starts another years long war, with Iraq, falsely claiming it has WMDs Mar 20, 2003People vote against their interests because they are in a “war”, Nov 2004.The Great Recession: Wars, Fed Interest rates & Bubbles. August 2007 (really, read about it)Hard Economic Crash: Sept 2008 Nov 2008 – 2016 Democrats spend 8 years picking up the pieces of Republicans mismanagement.March 16, 2016 Legit SCOTUS Judge nominee, Merritt Garland,  is illegally denied a seat by Republicans in Congress. Nov 2016 People vote for the same people who dragged them into pointless, expensive, decades long wars, and completely destroyed their economy. January 31, 2017 Illegitimate SCOTUS nominee  – will become Judge GorsuchJuly 9 2018 Legit SCOTUS nominee – will become Judge Brett Kavanaugh Dec 19, 2019 Covid begins to spread.Feb 2020 Potus describes deadly Covid as like the common flu. March 11 2020 a global pandemic ensues.Sept 26, 2020 Illegitimate SCOTUS nominee – will become Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Oct 27, 2020 Swearing in of ACB kills the Constitution’s required Check & Balance feature and creates a rubber stamp Court of the Star Chamber.Nov 2020 Over 300K Americans needlessly die of covid due to Republican covid denialism. (1.3 million in total will die, with countless thousands permanently impaired) Nov 2020 People wake up to reality and vote for the people who fix things, again.Jan 6 2021 Insurrectionists, encouraged by the POTUS to overthrow the newly legally elected government. And fail.Jan 20, 2021 – Jan 19 2024 Democrats spend 4 years picking up the pieces of the Republican train wreck and get the US on a path to health and a soft land. Prices are high, but jobs are plentiful. Jul 2024 Candidate former POTUS tells people if they vote for him in Nov, he’ll fix it, and they will never have to vote again.Nov 2024 People vote for the same clowns who dragged them into pointless, expensive, decades long wars, allowed bubbles to form, and whose Fed policies completely destroyed their economy. Jan 20, 2025 Immediate illegal EOs flow from. Including the illegal arrest of legal immigrants based on their exercise of 1st amdt free speech rights, free assembly, habeus corpus, etc. Jan 2025 Illegal DOGE team and POTUS being destroying government, while Republicans in congress betray their oath of office, fail to act in accordance with the Constitution, and cease to be the government of the people, destroying a Check and Balance and becoming essentially a duma.Jan 2025 AI tech bros are given free reign, and the AI Bubble begins to form Apr 2, 2025 “Liberation” Day tariffs, crashes the economy. Jobs disappear, Inflation jumps. Public Data is “disappeared” so the government can’t be seen/proved to be failing (think, Midnight in Chernobyl mentality). July 31 2025 The new WH ballroom (aka the Bunker) is announced. Aug 11 2025 DC Crime “emergency” announced. Sept 2025 Attacks on the Fed Reserve to lower interest rates.Oct 20 2025 The East Wing is Illegally demolished .February 21, 2025 After rubber stamping by illegitimate SOTUS the decapitation of career military in favor of loyalists begins.February 28, 2026 Illegitimate war with Iran started by POTUS and Israel throws markets into a mess. March 31, 2026 Illegal EO to interfere with voting announced.June 17,  2026 Fed continues to leave rates low.August 2026 Ai Bubble grows to over 1.2 Trillion dollars. Sept 3 2026 Request to Star Court of the US to corrupt midterm elections to prevent GOP’s loss of majority. (See Bush v Gore).  Sept 4, 2026 POTUS mired in costly unwinable war, demands Fed lower interest rates, as AI bubble grows and bonds and T-bills lose value.

So now that you have the existing dots, I’m sure you have some sort of picture. But I’d encourage you to look forward to the following future dots to see another picture.

Nov 3 2026 Midterm elections Sept 2028 When the Presidential Bunker is to be finished.Nov 2 2028 Presidential Election Jan 20 2029 Current POTUS (who wants an illegal 3rd term, per merch at the WH shop) must vacate the Bunker, in DC, surrounded by National Guard.

What you see on the path ahead when the dots are connected, you’ll have to decide, and exercise your right to vote accordingly, by Nov 3rd. I’d encourage people to learn from our past history and to not touch poisonous things, to do what they can to keep from repeating cycles that not only don’t benefit them but clearly are detrimental to them. But one can only do so much on that front. As was recently pointed out to me once again last night.

A US friend called me. He has suffered with allergies for decades. It got so bad he had a surgery to widen his sinuses hoping that would help. It’s so bad, he uses a CPAP at night. It’s so bad his doctor told him recently to try taking two prescription medications, alternating every week. Which is when I said, “have you ever had an allergy test?” He said, “No.” I was dumbfounded. He’d been through all this and his doctor had never ordered an allergen panel?

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I suggested he get one, so he could at least be sure the medication he was taking was effective for whatever he was allergic to, and so he did that basic, basic thing that should have been done years ago at his doctor’s instruction.  The report came back yesterday that while he did have some grass allergies, he was actually really off the charts allergic to most of what he was eating, coffee, egg whites, milk, cocoa, wheat…. I asked him if he was going to change his diet at all, to help relieve his suffering and to lower his Rx costs.  He said, “No.” He’d rather keep eating what he liked and suffer.

If you’re thinking “white male privilege” answer. I’d agree with that. He assumes his suffering is his own and since he can pay for it, it’s fine.  He disregards all the other people who pay higher premiums because of him. Doctors who have to give him appointments he doesn’t actually need because of his self-inflicted disease. Sick time his company shells out when his allergies become extremely bad. Medicines he takes that other people actually need. It’s a weird total disregard for himself and for all of society that makes no logical sense. But there it is. Perhaps he would have benefited from a parent who asked him to dust house plants when he was home sick. Maybe that’s what my mother was doing all those years ago, teaching me to care even when I was in a place that I myself need care, and to remain connected to community even if that community was small and green and silent and so unlike myself.