That’s a line uttered by the great Keanu Reeves in the first John Wick film, about a top-tier assassin who is goaded out of retirement. If you like violent, bloody suspense thrillers, you might look up that film series.

But yes, we’ve been away for awhile. For me, the post-COVID world has required some adjustments, some realignments, and a lot of burnout recovery as life slowly returns to something closer to what we’re used to. It ain’t easy, radically changing your lifestyle overnight – twice. The last few years are an indistinct blur… And the feeling of being unheard, a lone voice crying in the wilderness, so to speak, weighs heavy sometimes, knowing that you are unrepresented in the world around you.

But it’s time to once again beat my fists against that high brick wall. Because the stupid is getting thick again, and I need to vent about it.

Yeah, Sleepy Joe pissed me off again…

Our President went campaigning on the 16^th. I don’t recall the event – it doesn’t matter – but at the climax of his speech he shouted “Name me a single objective we’ve ever set out to accomplish that we’ve failed on. Name me one, in all our history. Not one!”

I read that and just about put my fist through the monitor. Which would have been a bad thing, particularly since I was at work…

Well, Mr. President, I – along with just about every living, breathing citizen of this country over the age of 30 with three working brain cells – can give you a whole damn list of things we’ve failed at. In my own lifetime, and off the top of my head:

Vietnam.

Afghanistan.

The “War on Drugs.”

The “War on Poverty.”

The “War on Crime.”

COVID. Yes, I’m including COVID as a failure, because we had thousands of unnecessary deaths directly caused by government mismanagement. And not just by the Administrative Branch.

And we may as well add border security, controlling inflation, and climate change to the list, too, since nothing positive is actually happening under this administration’s active direction.

And that’s just off the top of my head. And just in the last 50-some years. If you want to go back further, the Reconstruction after the Civil War didn’t go so well, either. And we didn’t prevail in Korea, did we? In fact, we haven’t actually won an armed conflict since WWII.

The only thing keeping me from advocating Sleepy Joe’s removal from office is one cold, terrifying, blood-chilling, three-word phrase:

President Kamala Harris…

But there is something happening in that world I’m not allowed in that makes me happy. And that’s the fact that the indictments are now coming fast and furious against former President Trump and his associates. After years of threats, promises, dire predictions, foaming at the mouth, outright lies, and wishful thinking, grand juries have decided sufficient evidence exists to charge them with criminal acts.

Yes, this is a good thing. Because now it’s up to the prosecutors to actually prove the charges they’ve been talking about for so long. It’s no longer just political posturing and fear-mongering. They have to convince a jury, use actual evidence of wrongdoing, or the defendants will be acquitted. Vindicated. Proven right.

Of course, if they are convicted – or acquitted, for that matter – there will be a very vocal minority who will not accept it and will resort to violence; we’ve already seen that. There have already been threats made against the judges and DA’s. I just hope law enforcement will be better prepared than they were the last time.

Frankly, I don’t care if nobody reads this. I feel better for having actually written it out.

So, yeah, I think maybe I’m back…