To Rant or Not to Rant? That is the Question

I received an email after my newsletter came out. A technical glitch held up my newsletter emails and hadn’t gone out in some weeks. The email was from a subscriber and read,

“Fascism has now been imposed in America, a genocide has likely killed more than 100,00 people in Gaza, Israel is engaged in its 78th year of land theft….and this is only the beginning.  The topics in your blog are the last things I care about.  Please remove me from your list.”  

She complained that what I was writing about was superficial. But, judging by my analytics, my audience loves topics like fashion and beauty the most.  Several years ago, I tried writing about my political opinions but got nasty responses. So, I deleted those posts and decided to keep it out of the mix. 

The truth is, I agree with that subscriber. I don’t like the way things are going in the world. It’s insane. This puts me in a conundrum. Should I risk expressing myself and how I feel, or keep silent and focus on less controversial content?

Honestly, I don’t want to stay silent. I think that has been the problem all along. People are not paying attention. They are going about their lives avoiding dissension.  So, in the interest of that subscriber and probably many others, I want to get a few things off my chest.

This is what I really think

First, I understand you may have an opposite opinion, but as a blogger, I should be able to write about whatever I want. That’s not to say I’ll start blasting politics on my blog because it’s too stressful. When I rant, I rant on Threads. It seems to be a safe place for me and I need a place to vent. 

I kept quiet for the last four years because some relatives who are on the opposite side of the aisle would get pissed off on Facebook. They have a right to their opinions but mostly post about cats and other “safe” stuff.

I am finding it harder and harder to stay quiet and I don’t believe it has to do with the political party you are affiliated with. The Constitution is the Constitution and when it is being ridden roughshod, we need to speak out and stop it. 

Here’s the deal 

The citizens of the United States elected a convicted criminal to be President. He committed fraud and a jury of his peers found him guilty for 34 counts. He was indicted for many other crimes but his money and influence shut them down. He was impeached twice. You may say, “Well, the Democrats politicized the justice system to charge him with the crimes, but the fact is, all of the witnesses in the January 6th investigations were Republican except for 2 black election workers whose lives he ruined.

A convicted felon should not be allowed to run for office period. It doesn’t matter what party they are affiliated with. The Supreme Court has two justices who have accepted ridiculous bribes from rich men with clout. They should be removed from the court because that is also a crime. I don’t care if they are Democrats or Republicans. Congressman Bob Menendez, a Democrat, was convicted and no one complained. He committed a crime and got caught.

Since the current President has been in office, he has gutted federal agencies and fired thousands and thousands of qualified workers. Those people have families, mortgages, and pensions. DOGE took a chainsaw and fired air traffic controllers, public health officials, veterans, IRS officials, CIA, FBI, and more without researching whether or not they were needed. It was random.

Brown faces were rounded up like dogs with no due process and put on airplanes to foreign countries they never lived in. A dog killing Barbie had a photo op in front of the prison with men who had tattoos assuming they were all in gangs. Mass deportations happened before in the 1930s and 1950s and didn’t end well. But this crazy cult, which has nothing to do with traditional Republicans, instilled fear in the masses that they are all rapists and murderers. Nothing could be further from the truth.

One woman who was deported is worried about her two-year-old child. She was simply being a mother. This is wrong. Fox News paid the courts 787 million dollars for spreading disinformation about the 2020 election. Many viewers, some that I know, had no idea this occurred.

A trillionaire spent millions to elect a man who conducted rallies with sparse crowds doing stunts like working at McDonalds, talking about Hannibal Lecter, and not speaking in complete sentences. 

The Democratic candidate in the last Presidential election had massive rallies, with huge influencers and lost. Seems weird to me. Oh right, she was a woman and was black.

The same trillionaire tried to buy off Wisconsin to elect a Republican for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and failed. 

Putin and Kim Jung Un are happy with this outcome. They are popping champagne corks.

The current President has sold out Democratic Ukraine and instead is in cahoots with a murderous dictator (Putin)

Our President is happy to slaughter everyone in Gaza and throw them out to the wind to build a beach resort. (FYI, I am Jewish and stand with Israel, but appalled to see children being torn apart by bombs.) 

Then there was Signal Gate where war plans were broadcast on a third-party app. But, why not? Classified documents were stored in the Mar a Lago toilet, so why worry about Security?

I hope everyone with a 401k hasn’t lost their savings from tariffs as the stock market tanks. Even penguins in Antarctica were tariffed. Russia or North Korea were not. Go figure.

NPR, PBS, the Kennedy Center, and even Sesame Street are in danger of extinction. I suggest you donate to keep these treasures of art and culture in business.

The women’s rights we fought for in the 70s have been decimated. Bigotry is running rampant. 

I could go on and on because new craziness happens daily. It’s impossible to consistently write about it because it becomes old news the next day. This is not normal.

If you voted for the criminal I don’t know what to say. You know where I stand. However, I will continue to write about fashion, beauty, travel, and all the fun stuff. I will expound my political views at my safe haven on Threads. @rebeccaforstadt I block crazy people in droves.

So, do you think the content on BabyBoomster.com is superficial considering what is happening in the world?  If not, please subscribe to post updates every Thursday here. Leave a comment. However, I ask that you don’t get nasty because I will delete it. I own this blog and can do whatever I like with it. I choose to let it remain civil.