Everyone talks about a Revolution.

Paine provided a match and Jefferson lit the fire. That’s the supposed story of the American Revolution. From January 10th of that year to July 4th of the same year, there was a lot of talk about Common Sense and what it meant for the subjects of the King. The Loyalists were aghast. Are you all insane went the conversation from New Jersey to New York on the way to Boston. Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson are both English! They both are immigrants from England. Mad, sire, they’ve gone mad.

Then you start to hear the dissonance. Adams and Jefferson both died on July 4th the same day. Were they both poisoned, went the rumors. Of course not. Both Presidents died of natural causes on the same fateful day that also happened to be America’s Independence Day. George Washington one finds out in an opinion article or at Mt. Vernon had lost his teeth also due to “natural causes”. And in their place, someone had replaced them with fake teeth loaded with springs that caused him enormous pain every time he chewed. Did anyone ever ask him as they were putting in those fake teeth “How this Paine for you now, Mr. Washington?”
You liked reading Paine did you? Did you?

The problem with Revolutions is that they’re organized by the System itself. The French found that out once Napoleon turned his cannons on the revolutionaries. Vive La France became Vive La Napoleon! There are a lot of songs about Revolutions though. From Bob Marley to The Minions, from Miranda Lambert to Tracy Chapman, from The Cult to the B-52’s, from Elias to Alaska Thunderfuck, from UNSECRET to Pennywise, from Stone Temple Pilots to The Beatles and The Skillets. Each of them have sung that song called “Revolution”. Then they go into lists like “Radical and Revolutionary Songs” or “Antifascist Resistance Songs” or “ULTIMATE PROTEST SONGS” and then people get arrested.

I don’t quite know what my role is. I am almost certainly a government secret project. That is in the interest of full disclosure. You should probably not visit this site, I see the numbers starting to go up and it worries me. I only want to see T-shirts so I can fund a Driver’s Cooperative called WheelShare but I can’t or won’t unless there are at least a 1000 users or a 1000 cities (at 80 cities and 3 countries according to Google Analytics). The T-shirts will not call for a Revolution. They will be messages that can only be deciphered by someone who has read the post it references. I figured that if we could get enough people who are tired of the System to start wearing these T-shirts or hoodies or coffee cups or whatever else we sell, it will become a running joke on TV and movies and songs and so on. That’s my idea of Revolution: change the System by wearing merch. I don’t want your money, but I do want ride share Drivers to have apartments and not sleep on the street.

Does that make me impatient? Or prudent? I know many of you can’t stand the slow pace of it. Many of you can’t stand letting children die in wars of our volition. Many of you would rather just not have the System and have something else. Yet power vacuums are almost always filled by worse people in power. The way I see it is that the Democrats will almost certainly win the House and Senate in a big way this November. The social democrats are on the rise and may have about 45 seats in the new House. Surely that will change everything. Thomas Paine circa 2026 would suggest, things won’t change. They too are of the System. Born and Raised each of them. They too are only yes men and yes women and yes whatever. Each of them had to do things on tape to get into their positions of power. The System holds that against them. They will do what the System wants.

Gemini sang “You are the System” presumably as a joke. I assure you neither you nor I are the System. We don’t even have the System’s Timelines. If I have an individual Timeline it has not been disclosed to me. I will become whatever the System wishes me to be. I say that in the interests of full disclosure so if I change or I suddenly start sounding like a MAGA or a Social Democrat that’s what they wanted me to become. Until then, I will curate. Hopefully you find the curation useful and my fond hope is that it helps you see the cage you are in as of July 4 2026. If you can see the cage then you’re better off. A prisoner who knows they’re in prison is always better off than the ones who seem always puzzled by events. That’s my July 4th message to Americans: you’re in a prison you can’t see or break. It would be best if you wake up. And please don’t get arrested. Just wear the T-shirt and give each other a knowing wink and hi-fi when you see each other.

I offer these songs to you as a jest. Does that make me a cynic or someone who questions the System? I think I am an optimist. I think we can change things by buying merch. Call me a people’s opportunist.