4.19.2025 – but it is OK

but it is OK
if it doesn’t cost something
not a principle

Adapted from the passage:

So, yeah, I’m keeping my bank account, my pension, my football team (for now) and, I hope, my marriage. This exercise is not about rejecting the modern world or the pleasures and comforts of modern life. It’s about turning away from America and turning towards Europe. One day I’d love to go back to the States and eat a cheeseburger in a Brooklyn dive bar, toasting old friends and new with shots of rail bourbon in the Land of the Free. But not for the time being, not under the current regime.

But it’s OK. It’s not a principle if it doesn’t cost you something.

From the article, This unAmerican life: can you really divest yourself of everything from the US? by By Jeremy Ettinghausen (Sat 19 Apr 2025).

You know what day it is?

April 19, 2025?

2025 marks 250 years since the Battle of Lexington and the start of the American Revolution.

The redcoats are coming.

Paul Revere.

The Minutemen.

British Regulars Advance on Lexington Green.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.

250 years of steady progress.

And one guy and his minions undo a lot of it in just 3 months.

Time to go back to the village green and take a stand.

Scary times.

Scary times to take a stand.

We have met the enemy and they are … US.

But it’s OK. It’s not a principle if it doesn’t cost you something.