One Fucked Up Race

We’ll dive into today’s headlines—and just how truly fucked up we are as a race.

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My name is Kenneth Queen. I’m a retired Navy Chief, a program manager, and a new author with a lifelong love of storytelling. My roots run deep in rural North Carolina. I blend a passion for epic fantasy with the grit of Southern life, writing character-driven stories filled with heart, magic, and hard choices.

This is not that.

This is my take on just how fucked up we are as a species.

  • ***Fascist Alert*** Fascist Alert *** This is not a drill***I repeat this is not a drill**!!!!! 14 AUG

    Today we got a clean shot of fascist bullshit—right across the bow. Well, sometime since I went to bed anyway. This might be less than a shot across the bow and more of a direct shot straight up the ass. A fascist enema!

    NBC Washington is reporting that the Mango Mussolini will be allowed to inspect and approve all Smithsonian exhibits to make sure they align with his “vision” for America. His vision. What the fuck! Not history. Not peer-reviewed science; not documented history. Trump’s dumbass vision.

    This is the same asshat who bankrupted a casino, can’t keep a wife, and couldn’t successfully run a taco stand—let alone a country. And let’s not forget the U.S. economy: his “vision” has nearly bankrupted America so his buddies could leverage the world and make more money for the top 1%. Simply put—his vision is fucked!

    This, my friends, is Fascism 101. It’s about cementing his power base in white America and rewriting history to fit the narrative they so desperately want to sell.

    I’m in the process of publishing my first novel, and even I’m getting dizzy from this much rewriting. They want to put up monuments to Confederate traitors instead of Harriet Tubman—or to the hundreds of families who risked everything to support the Underground Railroad. We are one fucked up race.

    For fuck’s sake! For such a homophobic group of fascists they sure seem to enjoy fucking America up the ass.

  • Aug 13 (Time to roll it back)

    Aug 13

    I’m jet-lagged like a motherfucker. Work took me to Guam and Japan for two weeks, so I’ve been wide awake since 2 a.m., waiting to see what fresh hell would pop up in my news feed to crush my hope for humanity today.

    Nothing noteworthy… until 7:47 a.m. BAM! Just like magic, it popped up on my Yahoo top stories.

    This article was about setting the clocks back! And no, it wasn’t the usual “fall back” daylight savings story bullshit—it was about literally (not sure that is a good use of literally, but we will stick with it) turning the clock back a hundred years. A call to end women’s suffrage. Yeah, you read that right. Roll the clock back 100-plus years.

    And who’s pushing this misogynistic, right-wing, religious nonsense? None other than Ex-Fox News anchor and the White House’s favorite booze-soaked frat boy, Pete Hegseth. On a side note can you believe he is heading up the DOD, WTF?!!

    Now, I’m no stranger to Southern Baptist bullshit. I grew up deep in the Bible Belt—square on the buckle to be exact. My father and uncle are Southern Baptist preachers, and I even graduated from a Baptist university: Gardner-Webb in North Carolina (great fucking school). But damn… promoting the idea that women shouldn’t have the right to vote? That’s a whole new level of stupidity.

    And Pete —-bless your heart.  You are hiding behind your warped interpretation of the Bible while getting drunk and “allegedly” (because we don’t listen to women) beating your wives. Yeah, I’m starting to see a MAGA pattern here.

    With my religious upbringing, I feel qualified to say this: the whole MAGA crowd is in the express lane to hell. Cherry-picking scripture to hang on to white male power isn’t Christian. Loving your neighbor, feeding the poor, and living like Christ seem to be just a little too “woke” for the American Christian.

  • Day One! Our Journey Starts Today (well… yesterday) 12 Aug 2025

    The world—especially the U.S.—has turned into some backward-ass parody of itself. It’s like living in a mash-up of Idiocracy and Terminator. We’ll get to AI later. Every single day, I find myself amazed… and not in a good way.

    I’m a retired Navy Chief who grew up in rural North Carolina, so I’ve seen my fair share of strange. I like to consider myself well-traveled and well-educated, but these days? The headlines make “strange” take on a whole new meaning. Honestly, I yearn for the good ole days when the biggest scandal was a simple intern in the White House giving head under the Resolute Desk. 

    I’ll do my best to write this as apolitically as possible. But fair warning: I lean left of center on a lot of issues. The goal here is simple—document a few major stories that pop up on the big media outlets and social media each day for the next year. Not to argue whether they’re true or false, but to marvel at just how screwed up we are as a species when it comes to what we choose to value… and what we ignore.

    Let’s be honest—50% of people will believe it no matter what. Which 50%? Well, that depends on whether you’re wearing the blue jersey or the red one.

    WARNING: To be even more honest, I probably won’t try all that hard to stay neutral.

    Now, this liberal streak of mine may ruffle the feathers of a few MAGA snowflakes who stumble in here by accident. I’m not sorry about that. I don’t agree with starving children or women losing the right to vote, drive, or, you know, exist with basic dignity. And I’m sure we’ll hear plenty more about things like that in the next year. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I do NOT agree that it is ok for grown ass men to rape little kids. Cough Cough…Trump. Release the damn list….

    I thought about waiting until January 1, 2026, to kick this off—nice, clean start and all that—but that’s the same lazy logic people use when they say, “I’ll start my diet on Monday, I will go to the gym on Monday, blah, blah, blah…” Screw that. We start today: August 12, 2025.

    Here we go.

    AUG 12

    Day One: The Petty Olympics
    Following up on something that broke in the news the past few days.  Mr. Orange Himself—aka “Taco the Trump”—has apparently moved Obama’s portrait to a hidden staircase (we gotta make sure NO ones sees the uppity black man while moving around the White House). This little nugget is going viral. I’m reading the Buzzfeed piece on Yahoo, which is really about Gavin Newsom’s response.

    Somehow, in a world where Russia is still attacking Ukraine and Israel is killing kids in Gaza, this petty little stunt by Mr. Small Hands himself is what dominates the news cycle. And to be fair—it is petty. Shouldn’t shock anyone, though. As I’m calling it now, Day One: Trump will, in great detail, remind the world how racist he is as we digest this fucked up race over the next year.

    The first Black president—whether you liked him or not—should be celebrated as a milestone in our history. But nope. As Gavin Newsom put it, “Small men hide from history’s giants.” Pretty much nails it.

    A Quick Look at the Daily Fascist Report—Fascist Times
    (I’m guessing this will be a daily feature… well, at least until the First Amendment is gone—at which point I’ll be writing this from a bunker using dial-up internet or sending it out by messenger pigeon.)
    From the AP: President Cheeto is once again making his push to end democracy. He’s sending in the National Guard under the disguise of “fighting crime,” which—surprise, surprise—means moving troops into yet another U.S. city.

    What makes this funny—maybe not ha-ha funny, but funny nonetheless—is that the guy personally carrying the highest concentration of felonies in the D.C. area is also the same guy who pardoned the folks (terrorists) who beat the hell out of cops on January 6. And we voted for this guy! We are one seriously Fucked-up species.

    He’s been in office just over six months and has already mobilized troops into two major U.S. cities. My prediction? He’ll do it again before our 365-day journey together is up.