Definitely my dear. I’m safe. My people are safe. I hope you are doing well in these strange times.

It’s not Mad Max out here, even a little bit. But it’s feeling more and more like Logan’s Run

Police carrying guns with less-lethal and gas canister rounds looking at suspicion at anyone who drives by them. Police looking intently at a man on an overpass waving a Mexican flag.

But it’s not quite fair to say “business as usual.” What there is is a LOT of is police. Police in riot gear blocking freeway entrances. Police cars, sirens on, in quarter mile lines barreling down the freeway.

I live just north of Downtown and have to pass through the curfew zone to get almost anywhere. It’s not Mad Max out here.

I definitely could see the puffs of gas rounds going off from the Freeway earlier in the ride. This is what fascism and resistance to it looks like. I am so proud of my city for standing up to Trump’s jackbooted thugs and I hope we can continue to resist the tide of inhumanity he he sends our way.

Update. Mark Zuckerberg was the hidden through line

Interesting! I hadn’t considered the Monty Python of it all. Also, it is easier to have ruins and set dress then less than build a full castle set or refurbish an existing one.