Tick bite monitoring requires ongoing care | Ramblin' & Amblin' | Nov 4, 2026

Yesterday out on a trail I managed to pick up a tick and I almost feel like it's symbolic for what we were just facing with the election that just went by last night and the blue wave and that it went deeper than a lot of people are seeing that it wasn't just those big seats that got flipped , it was also lieutenant governors and local politicians and it was a huge win to see women finally getting some W's on the board but yeah you know what I mean but here's the thing I got this tick yesterday and you know I went home you know I'm getting ready for bed and I see oh my gosh there's a tick on my leg and you know it's moving I could see it moving it was terrible so I got the good old pointy tweezers and a big bottle of alcohol and I poured it on there and I beautiful mushroom I love to catch up to the mushrooms and not step on them the uh and I was able to successfully extract the tick and you know in America you know uh you know it's there's still a wound I still got a little dot and I gotta watch that thing I even did a little zoom up on them with a microscope view of the camera on my phone and I can even see the little dots where the fangs were stuck into my skin but now is the monitoring my son once uh about 10 years or so 10 years or so ago uh got a tick bite and developed Lyme disease and fortunately we were able to get it taken care of uh but uh he's had no no issues since then fortunately um now I gotta watch uh you know I'm watching that that little spot and just just removing the tick isn't enough it isn't enough it isn't enough you've got to watch it because it can leave stuff behind uh you can leave bacteria you can leave all kinds of horrible things in your bloodstream you hear about the people with the uh can't eat meat anymore stuff like that um oh frogs uh you know Lyme disease can cause all kinds of problems and that's uh you know as America we we have that now too is that yeah the um the uh tick has been uh has been pulled with that now the uh the house and the senate the full congress uh is flipped over with enough of a majority that I mean we're gonna see I don't know I mean I'm not a uh I'm not a wonk on this topic I'm I'm I'm just an American who's been here for a long time and I got my uh peepers peeled and I'm watching what's happening but I also know that I once upon a time knocked on doors for Bernie Sanders I'm not uh saying I'm some super uh political advocate person here but I have at least gone out on the trail um and this was back in uh 2016 so we need to be mindful is that just like that tick bite that I had the poison the bacteria it can still come back and uh that's uh we can't forget that this isn't the first time fascists have tried to take over America uh the business plot in the 1930s Smedley Butler came out and all kinds of people uh you know the the pre-epstein class uh you know the proto-epstein class uh were seeking to make him a basically a king and they would uh rule America through uh a fascist dictatorship Charles Lindbergh American icon was a was a open fascist uh don't forget about what was happened at Madison Square Garden prior to world war ii and uh world war ii when the uh germans stopped being uh so tolerated uh the nazis being I should say clarify differentiate the nazis from germany but it was nazi germany and uh let's not pretend um japan shouldn't get a pass on this either uh neither should america but uh these are real aspects of our history that should not be denied and they have a way of coming back on you and it's it's been scary um so right now yeah there was a win remember there are still business interests who who play um both sides and i'm not doing this both sides you're really bad no i'm saying that there are wealthy people and powerful people who play both sides and we see that i have my reservations it's gonna be very interesting to see what happens to sch umer and jeffries uh given that they've shown some of their colors and stevens you know there's there are and and fetterman and collins oh god getting collins out good job maine um she was exasperating they will carry bags they will carry water and they will act as as uh as if they're allies and they are not don't think that just democrat is is a win it is it is important win to take away the reins of power from people like johnson and hex hexath and miller and all of these vile technocrats and don't ever forget that elon musk threw a nazi salute multiple times it wasn't an accident he is no ally to america teal palantir carp yeah i'm probably on a list somewhere but i don't matter you guys just remember you got the tick you might have extracted it and poured a whole lot of alcohol on it hoping that's going to take care of it but it's going to take monitoring it's going to take time to see whether it how bad and how deep the uh the infection really went and then remember this isn't the first time they tried it there's too much money at stake there's too much power and they will not stop look at sopa look at how pilot bills get passed they just bring it back over and over and over again why because it's an unlimited money pit of power that they're they're looking to get so monitor this wound don't don't just think this is everything and that it's over and don't get distracted by identity politics or any of that serious issues but i don't care what race you are what gender or anything if we're all starving we're all starving together all right got kids here not my kids they're our kids that's good let them enjoy their day all right thanks bye