
Late For Dinner To "Late Capitalism"
When The Dumbs + Dumbers Run Shit, It's Time To Wise Up
First, a big THANK YOU to everyone whoās a paid subscriber or patron of COLLIDE PRESS. Your love and support allow me to focus on creating work I love instead of scrambling to find freelance gigs to keep the lights on. So thank you, thank YOU!
The collective Collide Press Crew not only helps me surviveāit helps me keep our collective art, culture, and history alive. And with so many doing their best to erase everything LGBTQ from our collective consciousness, I donāt take my duties lightly.
Now, letās talk about whatās going on for lots of us:
Since Con-Old Chump was sworn in on January 20 (ughā¦a day that will live in infamy), Iāve noticed a sharp decline in revenue for myself and for many other independent artists, content creators, and small businesses I know.
Itās like the rug got yanked out from under us, and no oneās talking about it. Not the legacy/mainstream media, not the pundits, and definitely not Wall Street. Theyāre all profiting off the misery of others in my opinion. Putting Wall Street first and allowing Main Street to wither, theyāre all war criminals in my book.
Hereās the part where I say the quiet thing out loud:
The Chump regime isnāt just cluelessātheyāre willfully ignorant, proudly corrupt, and drunk on their own arrogance, hubris, and unchecked power. Theyāre not āconservative.ā Theyāre CONservative. Theyāre not āpro-business.ā Theyāre pro-billionaire. They stand for nothing but greed, self-interest, and the consolidation of power. And letās be real: itās less a political movement and more a cult of personality wrapped in a Ponzi scheme.
There. I said itāout loud. Not because Iām proud, but because it needs to be said.
You didnāt have to be Nostradamus to predict the Orange Dumbass would make an even bigger mess the second time around. And just in case anyoneās forgotten: COVID started under his so-called āleadership.ā We all saw how that turned out. Funny how quickly people forget when denial feels easier than accountability.
Witnessing the dumbs and dumbers making decisions for everyone is terrifying.
Honestly? I can't wait for these dinosaurs of selfishness and self-righteousness to go extinct. But damn, those death rattles are LOUD. And dangerous. If only the next Ice Age would cometh for the Cult Of Chumpā¦the fossilized bullshit might provide fuel for the next millennia. So whereās a meteor when we need one?
We are living through a slow-motion trainwreck called late capitalism, where everythingās monetized, union-busted, algorithm-rigged, and gig-ified to death. Where creativity gets crushed under the weight of clickbait, and where artists, educators, and everyday workers are expected to give more for lessā¦or get lost.
But here's the twist: WE ARE NOT POWERLESS.
If youāre still showing up, still making things, still supporting others, still caring? You are the resistance. You are the future. And maybeājust maybeātogether we are the beginning of something better.
So letās keep creating, keep calling them out, and keep wising up.
With love, light, and my middle finger raised high to the powers that be!
Clint šāļø
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ON THIS DAY = APRIL 24
BIRTHDAYS
1581 = Vincent de Paul = French priest and saint
1858 = Ethel Smyth = English composer and suffragist š
1904 = Willem de Kooning = Dutch-American painter and educator
1908 = Marceline Day = American actor
1914 = William Castle = American fimmaker
1930 = Richard Donner = American actor and filmmaker
1934 = Shirley MacLaine = American actor, singer, and dancer
1940 = Sue Grafton = American author
1942 = Barbra Streisand = American singer, actor, activist, and producer
1952 = Jean Paul Gaultier = French fashion designer š
1953 = Eric Bogosian = American actor and writer
1964 = Cedric the Entertainer = American comedian, actor, and producer
1964 = Djimon Hounsou = Beninese-American actor and producer
1968 = Aidan Gillen = Irish actor
1973 = Damon Lindelof = American screenwriter and producer
1977 = Eric Balfour = American actor
1982 = Kelly Clarkson = American singer-songwriter and talk show host
1992 = Jack Quaid = American actor
EVENTS
1704 = The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
1800 = The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress."
1885 = American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES
PORTRAIT + QUOTES OF THE DAY
āI would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.ā
Jean Paul Gaultier
āI take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.ā
Jean Paul Gaultier
Bravo Clint for voicing (writing) what we, the sane and educated are thinking!! If it were Jonestown Chump would charge for the Kool-Aid
Thanks again Clint. I was calling Jan 20 Antichrist Inauguration Day. Something wicked has come back. The main road through our town has 3 large cemeteries. Now there are more funerals again, like it was during COVID, but not as bad yet.
Eric Bogosian is in the new Interview With A Vampire series. I just finished the second season.
Aiden Gillen and Charlie Hunnam seem to be the most successful actors from the original UK QAF series.
Jack Quaid looked so much like Richard Feynman that I couldn't wait to see Oppenheimer, but I was disappointed that his role was so small. One of my favorite programs of all time was another PBS show, The Search For Tannu Tuva, 1988, about Ralph Leighton and Feynman's friendship. Matthew Broderick played Feynman in 1996's Infinity, with Patricia Arquette.