.Friday Firesmith

friday firesmith – the birth of a demon 1994

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Back in 1994, I was living in Tifton, broke, just started a new job, and knew no one there at all. I did have a desktop computer, and I had a lot of time on my hands. I remember the day was cold and wet. I turned my heat on when I started seeing my breath inside.

Anne Rice had done amazingly well reinventing vampires, so I decided to reinvent a monster. Which? Werewolves? I thought about it. Zombies? No. Vampires again? No, please. Mummies? For the love of Anubis, no, no, no!

Demons?

I watched the sleet pound the windows and turned up the heat. Okay, supposed Demons possessed people, but exorcism doesn’t do anything to them, and never did. Demons know there are no gods or goddesses. So far so good.

Can they die? Kinda. If they aren’t inside of a host they black out into a super cold and totally dark place. How long? Every time feels like forever, but then they are reincarnated back to earth, and they are weaker than when they left. They have to find a host, and soon, or they get black zapped again.

I needed a name. I looked around my tiny apartment and saw the box some cookware came in.

“Regal.” The Demon Regal was born.

Regal is old, over eight thousand years old. He was there in the beginning of Demons, and was there when Atlantis fell. His host was murdered, and he got zapped, but returned in good order and found a host.

He killed the Demon Barbos, who had killed him, and now the two are enemies.

Demons possess people by getting them to surrender control of their bodies and mind to the Demon. They can manipulate memories. They can control parts of the mind through memories. All humans can resist minor Demons. Some can resist stronger minor Demons, but Regal can possess any human at will and nothing can stop him.

Some Demons, like Regal are kind to their hosts, and try to make their lives better. The Demon Vodun has a team of hosts that run a Yoga studio. The most they have to do is eight hours a day of possession, or Yoga, like a regular job with full benefits. Vodun punishes disrespect harshly and ruins the lives of humans who do not hold up their end of the bargain.

The Demon Isere is the most liked Demon as far as humans go. Much younger than Regal or even Vodun, she helps her hosts live a much better life.

This is how stories are invented and evolve.

Questions?

Take Care,

Mike

Epic Fails and Charles Darwin

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For reasons that escape reason, young people began eating Tide detergent pods and posting videos online of them eating the pods. It became a thing. Eating Tide won’t kill you outright, but it was a lot like watching the two cute chicks eating Carolina Reapers.

People do stupid things because they believe that the stupidity somehow lends them an aura of bravery or indifference to consequences.

The two women in the Carolina Reaper video suggests that this is not only untrue, but catastrophically false.

One of the first terrible things I saw online was the video of a young man on top of a three story building with a skateboard. His plan was to jump off the building, land with the skateboard on a rail below, then slide down the rail while the video was being made.

He jumped. He landed perfectly. But instead of going down the rail he went face down into the concrete. His friend behind the camera laughed then stopped. The would be skateboarder was not moving at all.

“Dude?” is the last word you hear from the cameraman before the video ends.

I think he was dead when he hit the concrete.

It’s difficult to believe people do things that are either embarrassing or painful or lethal, and have someone making a public record of it. Yet the internet has tens of thousands of videos like these. Those clips of people using a chainsaw to cut down trees that then fall on houses or cars are legion. Anyone can walk into a hardware store and buy a chainsaw, and they kill and maim more people every year than do rattlesnakes. Most people who drown can swim but they put themselves in positions where their skill comes up lacking.

The video of a man talking his girlfriend into shooting him with a .357 at short range is stunning in its idiocy. He tested a bullet proof vest at one hundred feet and it withstood the bullet. At twenty-five feet it killed him.

All of these example of otherwise functional human beings hurting themselves, maiming themselves, or others, and all of it live and on camera, is a stunning testament to the power of evolution fueled by downright stupidity. The young man launching himself off a three story building to concrete below displays an extraordinary ignorance of basic physics. His friend behind the camera laughs at the sight of a friend lying still after impact. He simply does not comprehend the danger, either. He will go to his grave replaying that day in his mind, over and over.

None of this, not one example I’ve given to you today comes anywhere close to the sheer magnitude of stupidity, or lack of understanding, or outright indifference to the lethality of what has happened when people voted for Trump.

Take Care,

Mike

friday firesmith – trump’s war on america

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Iran has been chanting “Death to America!,” since 1979, when the people of Iran deposed the dictator we installed back in 1953.

Our illicit and sometimes outright illegal activities, not to mention the bombings and economic sanctions, have not led to peace. Now we’re in a full fledged war with a country incapable of doing much stronger than chanting at us.

Until now.

Trump had blustered and blundered his way into a war he cannot extract himself from and cannot claim victory and walk away. A man who bone spurred Vietnam five times has created a new endless war he cannot get out of, and each day he stays in things get much worse for both Trump and America.


Iran has a legitimate opportunity of doing real damage to the Unites States of America, and they’re getting plenty of help. By lifting sanctions on Iran, while he’s bombing the same country, Trump has assured the world Iran’s economy is booming. Whatever damage we can inflict, Iran will have the money to pay for.


Infinitely worse, Russia’s futures have likewise brightened. Russian oil is flowing again, with buyers in the Pacific ignoring Trump’s admonishments not to buy. Russia can now fully fund their destruction of Ukraine thanks to Trump.


China and Russia can now both send intel to Iran as to where to hit the Americans, how to hit them, and maybe even pay them to strike American positions throughout the Middle East.

Suddenly, Trump decided to call up the Marines.

If there is anything more asinine than a war in the Middle East, it’s a ground war in the Middle East. Recruitment numbers were already crashing and now very real possibility of a bloodbath, with American blood flowing, looms large.

Once we establish any sort of infrastructure anywhere close to Iran, it’s going to make the previous Gulf Wars look like Disney. Bereft of allies willing to join in the stupidity, Marines and the American Army will be sitting ducks for any armed group in the Middle East who has a grievance against America, or Israel.


In the meantime, Israel is burning through billions of American dollars bombing people anywhere they think someone might die. By targeting oil fields and energy infrastructure, it’s only a matter of time before oil prices reach a point Americans are walking to work, if they can find a job.

How will this affect Trump and his family? Not at all. They’ve grifted their way through this war as if it were money for the taking. Qatar gave Trump a billion dollar plane and in return he allowed them a base in America. We have no idea what’s other deals he’s making or with who or for how much, but we do know Congress doesn’t have the balls to do anything about it.

As long as the Epstein files keep pinging the headlines, Trump will cause wars. It’s his way of distracting the county from the idea he ought to be serving life sentences without the possibility of parole.


Are we great again yet?


Take Care,
Mike

friday firesmith – the pedophile war continues

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This week the whole of nations across the globe told Trump to go “Eff” himself. Newly elected, he tossed tariffs out at anyone and everyone he could, railing against the inequity of global trade. Canada and Mexico, our closest neighbors and long-time friends, were threatened and bullied as well as fellow NATO countries.

Trump proclaimed America was doing too much for too many and “America First” was tattooed on his forehead.

Things descended into Hell.

When the European countries began not only releasing the Epstein Files, but also punishing those in them, Trump began to sweat, and he also began waging war. His quickie invasion of Venezuela and the illegal and immoral kidnapping of the president of that country, puffed Trump up like a schoolyard bully. Nations would tremble at his name.

Trump spend a lot of time and tweets telling people Obama would attack Iran to cover for being a bad president. Then Trump turned around and attacked Iran, telling everyone who would listen and more than a few who didn’t want to hear the sound of his voice that Iran’s nuclear program had been completely destroyed and it would take years and years to rebuild.

But the Epstein Files began to build attention and Trump’s name was mentioned so often it seemed like Epstein might have been working for Trump.

So Trump attacked Iran again.

Trump was looking for another Venezuela. He got Nam in the sand. Iran attacked in all directions, sending missiles after anyone who wasn’t an enemy of their enemy. They stopped oil from leaving the Middle East and American gas prices spiked upward quickly.

The man who promised gas at two bucks a gallon could soon see a half gallon go for more than that.

And things were worsening by the moment. The aircraft carrier Gerald R Ford arrived without functioning toilets. A fire broke out in a laundry room destroying the bedding of hundreds of soldiers. The toilets are clogged with tee shirts and debris, fueling the rumor the sailors aboard the Ford are sabotaging the ship so they can go home.

Trump cried for help from allies to help make the waters in the Middle East safer for oil tankers and was met with stoney faced glares from the men and women he once threatened with tariffs.

Now, back home, with the midterms eight months away and counting, gas prices are still rising, our military is in a war no one knows how to end, and Trump cannot string together a coherent sentence.

The price of gas will get him even if the war he claimed Harris would start if she was elected, is somehow stopped. Crops are not being planted this spring because of fuel costs and they will not be harvested in the fall. Food prices and fuel prices at all time highs as winter closes in is going to hurt millions of Americans.

And the Epstein Files are not going away. It’s looking worse and worse for Trump and his wars are not distracting anyone.

Trump may tuck tail and run from his war in Iran, but if things get worse over there, he may have to hope his impeachment due to the Epstein Files distracts voters from the war he cannot extract himself from.

Take Care,

Mike

friday firesmith – the end of trump

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Trump’s demand of “unconditional surrender” will bury him. The Iranians were negotiating in good faith up until the day Trump declared war. No one in Tehran thought it would come to war, because they agreed to stop enriching uranium, and agreed to oversight. Trump attacked them the next day.

What Trump doesn’t realize is that by blindsiding the Iranians he precludes the possibility of surrender. He’s eliminated any goodwill from allies in Europe. Trump has set the clocking ticking as to how long he can sit in the water and throw rocks at Iran while declaring the war being won.

Today is the 8th of March, 2026. In eight months the Republicans must have something to show for this war or they are going to take a beating in the midterm elections. Trump has already hinted the next war will be against Cuba, and he doesn’t have so much as a thin excuse to attack. But Trump knows if the public focuses on the Epstein files he’s going to spend some time, maybe a lot of time, in prison when the Republicans finally lose power in Congress.

None of this helps Trump in Iran.

Unlike any other opponent he might face, Iran is in it for the long haul. The Persians have fought wars for thousands of years and Trump isn’t the worst they’ve seen. He’s an American colonist as far as most Iranians are concerned and they rather die than surrender to him. At a minimum, at the very least, these are people who are not going to be bombed into submission.

The moment, the very second Trump orders ground troops into Iran, he’s screwed. He’ll have to crank up the draft in order to get enough bodies on the ground in the Middle East. The American people will fill the streets and the Republicans will face extinction.

Yet by declaring he will accept nothing but “unconditional surrender” Trump must also commit to total war. It is a war he cannot win, or even extract himself from. In the meantime, the United States is bleeding money out in billions. Israel, who has a leader who also must distract with a war, has to hope they can continue to bleed American taxpayers dry.

Yet this is some sort of end game for Trump unless he can pull off a coup. He’s already the most hated President ever. He’s already destroyed all credibility on the international level. He’s abandoned domestic policy for endless wars that will not force anyone to forget he raped children.

My deepest regret is he will likely defect to Russia, screwing America over one last time.

Take Care,

Mike

friday firesmith – the pedophile war

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Whatever you’ve been told you’re going to get from the war with Iran, what you are actually getting is abundantly clear by this point. Gasoline prices have soared up to over three dollars a gallon and getting higher. Four bucks a gallon, or even more, is a given by the end of March.

At the end of March, we’ll see April roll around, then May, and finally Hurricane season in June.

Imagine a hurricane barreling down on New Orleans with gas already at four bucks a gallon.

With the Gulf of Mexico rigs out of production, even for a short while, we’re looking at gasoline prices somewhere around five bucks a gallon. If the war is still raging at that point, it might be considerably worse.

Higher gas prices during the spring means farmers, those who are left by this time, will pay much higher prices to plant, and to harvest, which means we’ll be paying even more for food by the middle of the summer.

By the teeth of hurricane season in September, we could be at the point farmers, those who could afford to plants, are unable to harvest. The states pounded by hurricanes could be looking at limited help from the government, and unable to pay for fuel to do search and rescue.

Hopefully, the Pedophile War, that war of distraction from a sitting president doing anything possible to distract from his crimes, will be over, but I doubt it. Trump knows he had to remain a moving target, creating one distraction after the next, regardless of what it costs the average American, or America herself.

Sadly, even if after midterm elections, even if Trump is impeached and removed from office, the forces that allowed something like this to happen are still in place. We still have a population of voters who believed everything Trump said and willingly followed him down his path of destruction and supported him at every turn.

We still have a government that doesn’t function well at all, and the two sides of the aisle in Washington are little more than bought and sold lackeys of corporate America.

We still lack the will to put a leash on campaign funds, or prosecute elected officials who are on someone else’s payroll other than the taxpayers.

House prices, food prices, fuel prices, medical care and transportation are all priced out of range for the average American, whose paychecks are getting smaller as government gets bigger, yet not better at all.

Trump is a cancer, that needs to be removed, and everyone paying attention knows this to be true. But the causes of this disease are still in place, and recurrence is 100% unless we change the way we run elections, and our schools.

The stench of Trump’s diapers might be gone when he goes, but we’ll be dealing with the same sh!t until we come together for real change.

Take Care,

Mike

friday firesmith – is the constitution worth fighting for?

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The Constitution of the United States of America is the law. Not the President, not Congress, and not the Supreme Court. All three branches of the Unites States government are co-equal, and serve to act as checks and balances on the other two.

That first paragraph is the way the American system of government was designed to operate. Nothing else you believe or I believe, or we agree or disagree on should affect the way the government is designed to operate.

Nor, in point of fact, should anyone, not even the President, be allowed to operate outside the constraints of the Constitution.

And here we go.

When Trump said, “Sit up!” to the Republicans they did. They would have no matter what else he said, but this command, without so much as a treat, was rolled up in the subversion of the Constitution.

The job of Congress is not America First. The job of Congress is Constitution first. The Constitution guarantees life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Congress has the job of legislation within the realm, but it is, and ought to be constrained. And so should the President.
Trump, by defining the job of Congress, and by ordering them to stand or sit, or roll over and play dead or beg, pollutes and dilutes, the Constitution.

While many people think Trump is a senile moron hampered by incontinence and sundowners, his attacks on the rule of law in the United States are precise and well planned by someone. Once he convinces Congress that he is above the law, he can wage war as he pleases, toss tariffs around like beads in Mardi Gras, and claim immunity from prosecution.

Trump has done all of this, and he’s still doing it.

The Republican Congress is a cowardly collection of coattail riders without a single care for the American public. They think, they hope and pray, the MAGAs will stay delusional for another election so their donors will keep paying them to run for office.

In the meantime, the country hurtles towards one war after another, more insane and detrimental economic decisions, and a government that seems bent on grift and incompetence.

It’s time people. Get out into the streets and protest against this government while we still have a country to fight for.


Take Care,

Mike

friday firesmith – what does trump fear?

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It’s been said that everything Trump says or does has one purpose and one purpose only; it’s a distraction from the Trump-Epstein Files. While running for president, Trump was beating the drums of having those files released, but then, once reelected, it took a full blown revolt of the Republicans for the files to see daylight. Now Trump is saying it’s a hoax, he isn’t in the files at all, and we just need to move on.

Trump was charged with raping a woman, convicted, and his cult didn’t bat an eye. He’s turned Elon Musk loose on sensitive files in the Social Security administration and MAGA didn’t blink twice. He murdered people with air strikes to prevent drug runners from running drugs then pardoned a convicted drug smuggler, invaded Venezuela, and stolen their oil. He has done everything Putin has asked him to do, and his cult salivates at the sound of his voice.

So with the rape, murder, and outright disregard for rule of law and due process, you now have to ask yourself only one question when it comes to Trump: what is in those files that has Trump running scared?

Early on, there was talk of a “pee tape” where Trump was engaged in sex that involved waterworks. Is that video going to be released? Will it be streamed?

Lately, the files had some mention of Trump performing a sex act on “Bubba.” Is that out there? Did Epstein have a library of videos of powerful men doing strange things with other men?

Ghislaine Maxwell is still alive, and of all the people involved with Epstein, Maxwell was the one person who was in deepest. And she has life insurance or most certainly she would be dead by now. What has she hidden away, where is it, and what would be released if she died in prison? We cannot know. But we know the Justice Department took Maxwell out of a real prison and put her into a minimum-security country club for rich felons. Or felons who know where the bodies are buried and has video.

We know Putin and Epstein traded emails and we know Trump was the subject of those emails. We know Trump has taken Russia’s side in the war with Ukraine. We know Putin hasn’t slowed down, not even a little, the Russian War in Ukraine.

But think about the weird and outrageous behavior, even from Trump in the second term. It’s a long stream of bizarre acts of a man who is either losing his mind, or he’s trying to distract everyone from the truth.

The closer midterm elections get, the stranger Trump will be. He knows that if the Democrats sweep the House and the Senate, he’s going to be impeached, tried, convicted, and removed from office. And he’s going to prison.

Prison is the driving force behind everything Trump does. He doesn’t want to go to prison, so he has to find some way to distract everyone all the time.

So, what’s your theory on distraction? What does someone have on Trump, and who is that someone?

And if you had to charge Trump with one thing and nothing else, why would it be treason?

Take Care,

Mike

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friday firesmith – America is rising

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I was out protesting the second Gulf War. It was incredibly unpopular to do so, because of Weapons of Mass Destruction that Colin Powell assured us that Iraq was on the brink of using against the United States. Colin Powell lied to us.

That war began in 2003, which was 23 years ago. We still have troops there and not a whiff of a Weapon of Mass Destruction has ever been discovered. But what the war proved is that Americans will believe lies told to them without any hard evidence at all, and they will not remember it well enough to hold the liars accountable.

Here we are today, with millions, if not billions, tossed away in Iraq every year, and lies are more common than used diapers in the White House.

Trump’s War on Minnesota has taken a turn for the surreal. He and Pam Bondi, his Attorney General, have declared anyone murdered by ICE to be a domestic terrorist, despite what video evidence has shown. They’ve murdered nurses and school teachers, practically anyone who gets in their way, but suddenly, it’s ICE who is crying foul.

Trump isn’t paying ICE their bonuses. They don’t have the Health Insurance they signed up for. And they’re getting doxed every single day by average Americans who are just plain tired of living in a police state.

America is fighting back.

Last week, dozens of high schools reported students simply walking out to protest ICE snatching children at schools, to lure their parents into surrendering. The students, in most cases, were told if they left the school buildings, they would be punished. Thousands walked out anyway.

The “No Kings Protest” and the “Anti Ice Protests are growing larger each week. Two weeks ago, in Valdosta Georgia, a blood red Republican town, two schools had walk outs and a protest downtown in subfreezing temperatures drew one hundred brave, and chilly souls.

People I have known for years that voted for Trump before they realized what he was, are now joining social action groups. They’re showing up with their children. Things are going to hell and they realize all issues begin at the top.

And this isn’t even mentioning the Epstein Files.

Mostly, there is a core group of activists who believe all things that Trump says and does, no matter how weird or how many people are killed, is an attempt by Trump to push those files away from the light.

The problem, at least for Trump, is those files have been released in countries not run by an Orange Dictator. The names of American politicians and fat cats are going to be brought into the light. The files mention Trump’s name thousands of times. He has every reason to fear those files. He could go to prison forever plus a million years.

Trump had lied, and he has back-stabbed, and he had robbed his followers for years. Now, suddenly, the game is over, and people are angry. Those of us who have opposed him since day one are seeing a wave of new protestors making signs and yelling.

America is rising against the Orange Pedo.

Why are you still worshiping him?

Take Care,

Mike

friday Firesmith – How Jack Daniels saved a marriage

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My friend Steve was a great guy as long as he was sober. When he drank, he kept drinking until he lost control of his memory and his keyboard. The day after he would be apologetic but his wife, Barbara, took most of the damage. Social media was a big problem, and Barbara woke up every morning after one of Steve’s benders and started tracking down what he said and who he said it to.

Then came the day that Barbara packed her stuff, moved out, and took the dog and the kids with her. Steve was freaked out. He came to me for help and I told him to seek help for this drinking binges and before he got the woman back, he would have to prove he was willing to change.

I told him to ditch his online girlfriend or lose his wife. No. Other. Choices.

His online girl was a looker to be certain. Younger, hotter, interesting, and she didn’t exist.

I was surprised. But all of this, this train wreck that one night of hard drinking Steve went through, never really happened.

If a group of women conspire against you, there is no hope of defense. If you’re too drunk to see it coming, you might as well close your eyes and just go along for the ride.

Reba Reynolds never existed.

But she did flirt with Steve while he was drunk and online, and she did look good. But she was a photo of a cute woman no one knew. A complete fabrication of Barbara, her sister, and a couple of friends. First, they were just going to see if Steve would respond to a strange woman. He did. First test failed. Then they wanted to know how far he was willing to go. Second test truly failed. And finally, they wondered if he would agree to meet Reba somewhere privately.

Steve bailed. Even drunk, really and truly drunk, he backed away from the abyss. As they were setting up the date, Steve simply closed out the program, shut the computer off, and passed out on the sofa.

Of course, the next morning he got a message from Reba thanking him for the photos and expressing excitement over them meeting in person.

Barbara moved out that day. Steve was left with his imaginary friend and his drinking habit.

Steve broke up with Reba. Told her he wanted his wife back. He started a fire in his burn barrel and I think the space station could have spotted the bourbon burning.

He went to AA, avoided his friends who drank, and stayed upright and sober. Reba would show up every once in a while, but he blocked her.

One day, years later, when he had been sober for so long he lost track of it, I asked him what happened. One of Barb’s friends had told me, and sworn me to secrecy, but he never asked, never wanted to break the spell of trying to get clean, and just left it where it lay. But he told me he always wondered what a fifth of Jack Daniels looked like when it burned. He put a bunch of wood in the barrel, set a bottle upright, and torched it. As the blue flames finally went out, Steve realized he wasn’t likely to remember that much bourbon any other way but on fire. The wife, the kids, the dog, his home, his job, and life as he knew it shook him, but that one moment of clarity came from watching Jack Daniels burn.

Take Care,

Mike, Day 87.