surrender Dorothy
the war in Iran is lost take care of your people
They named their daughter Tennessee Meredith which about broke me. Goddamn that’s gold. This is definitely the simulation I asked for. These girls are cool as shit. This family is American gothic in a thumbnail, the nuclear postcard in a cracked snowglobe. The oil companies are top shelf gangsters. The US military is spending two billion a day to paralyze the world’s oil supply while up to three hundred thousand orphan oil wells poison Oklahoma.
This family has black gold seeping up through the floors of their house. Black death throwing rainbows down the hallway. Water becoming sludge in their kitchen in their bathroom in their playroom and the bank said fuck off. The insurance company said sorry it’s not our problem.
It’s your problem sir press six for grievances.
The environmental regulatory bodies in OK pointed at each other. They pinched their nipples like those customer service wankers at the cable company and the governor has not said jack shit.
How many abandoned undocumented orphan wells are burbling out there fixing to purge in Texas Louisiana and Tennessee.
Do you not love the language they use for fossil fuel extraction.
How funky the echoes with human despair.
How many lost oil wells are there every fucking elsewhere.
Nobody knows the longterm fallout of fracking neither because we are the long term fracking case study and the control group at once.
The New Madrid is ever shifting breathing growling under our feet. If the Mississippi were ever going to run backward again it would be during this big end times sodom and gomorrah party, this ship of fools gathering on the white house front lawn next month.
The next gulf war is the Mexican, the Cuban gulf.
The insurance companies are the oil companies. The banks are the data centers. They are the weapons industrial complex papa Ike warned us of seventy years ago. The banks are the machine. They are google they are amazon they are microsoft they are palantir.
They are all tangled up with Blackrock and house Trump.
The big gov data harvesting machine is the thresher crushing its own people. Tanking the economy. Choking the world’s supply chain while strangling the crops and ruining the water right out in the open.
The mad sad maddening thing, the most broken thing is the fortune cookie the Epstein oligarchs will never grasp, that most of us the ninety nine percent consider these folks the Merediths lucky.
They were smart tough determined and brave enough. They saved worked hustled kept their shit together twelve years. They stayed together. They fought through storms through crazy through life and love and through lockdown. They survived the 2010s plus change to get themselves and their kids a little prairie dreamhouse they adored in
where the hell nowhere Oklahoma.
This is the definition of heart.
The Merediths are what is America supposed to be if not them. The Merediths are the shit. From the DC angle the big oil the money the Epstein vantage right or left they are little people. The lowest most insignificant tax bracket. They are bugs on the windshield.
This is the Flint, Michigan of who gives a fuck Oklahoma.
From the everywhere else angle on the ground in the real, the humans watching this slow motion crash
the Merediths are the best of us.
Fuck this shit.
Surrender Dorothy.
You lost the war in Iran day one. You shamed us all by killing hundreds of schoolgirls at their desks.
A proper gentleman admits defeat.
Take care of your people.
The Merediths deserve justice.
Oklahoma deserves clean water.
The trail of tears never ends, the ghost of Andrew Jackson comes back for us all.
Surrender.
peace
no peace
pick one
The chickens are coming.
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The propublica story about the Merediths on ubertube will break your heart, link below. This is exactly the sort of journalism we must protect.
Every day reporters are getting terminated at major outlets for stories the machine doesn’t like.
This kid reporter who brought the story is old school, he’s people and no doubt he is already on a list.
Choke the machine.
The posting of memes and protesting on Saturday does nothing.
The trail of tears is forever a flat circle.
Black the black mirror.
Resist.
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justice for the girl named Tennessee.
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Great commentary on a tremendous piece of investigative journalism. This sad story began around 2000, when horizontal drilling was combined with intensive fracking in -- wait for it -- Oklahoma. Yields increased, but the toxic liquid waste had to be disposed of, and what better place than the well holes? The first sign that something might be wrong was the sharp increase in Oklahoma earthquakes that began in 2009, the indication that the high pressure injected toxic waste liquids were expanding, moving, making room for themselves. And moving up in the earth is easier than moving down, so they moved into the water table and then into the fresh water aquifers. We've had about 30 years to learn from experience that we are doing something very bad in the oil fields. A lost opportunity, and the damage continues to grow and spread.
Nice! I see the fire getting stoked in you.
Couldn’t have said better.