3D-Chess

"Stranger In A Strange Land"

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Gilead, where I find myself, is a land of contradictions. For example, one of its nicknames is "The Friendly State" but Gilead executes four times more incarcerated every year than the next closest state. Gilead prides itself on being welcoming, but buses refugees all over the country with phony promises of employment. And - for a Friendly State, they sure have gone out of their way to make life difficult if not outright deadly for pregnant women.  The Friendly Gilead state government strives to be dickish whenever it can in order to make life more difficult for anyone who isn't a moneyed interest. For example - just the other day the Gilead governor signed a law that eliminates locally mandated water breaks for construction workers. Now dig this - as I tippy tap this spammy blog post out at 9:20PM in an air conditioned kitchen - outside it's 93F with a heat index of 102F. Tomorrow, the temperature in this part of Gilead will be 103F with a heat index of 116F. Imagine busting your balls all day in that heat with water breaks given at the discretion of Gilead construction companies...  Lastly for now (I could go on), there's an expression one sees quite a bit down here: "Gilead Tough." And yet - grown men - ostensibly law enforcement officers waited outside a school in Uvalde Gilead while 19 children and 2 adults were shot to death by a punk with an AR-15. These tough, well armed, law enforcement dudes were afraid for their own lives, it turns out. Tough indeed..  I'm not from these parts - so it's entirely possible that I am not fully understanding how things are done here. Perhaps Gilead governance is playing 3D-chess compared to my puny liberal state's governing game of checkers.  ~