Well,
so much for goals. I started a little serial novel, and then damn! If it didn't become part of my own little “Nebraska Creepers” serial.
But seriously? It's a good thing I have that kind of psychopathic
moxie, because it seems to me, we're headed down a road that is going
to produce a singularity, and I may need my ability to let go of every human inhibition to survive. I do believe I posess the flip side of a serial murderer and I can conjure that up easily, if need be. With the country's situation quickly unraveling that may be necessary. Lemme explain, or at least try to clarify.
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The last time the USA had a Presidential slate like this was with the Dems in 1984, and no one could put up a candidate to beat Ronald Reagan. Every jackleg on this podium is not qualified to be President, and most are incompetent in whatever it is they do. God help us all.
On
the one hand we have the GOP. I may as well start with them first,
since they're the most obvious. Ted Cruz is running for President and
so far, NOT ONE jackhole in power has done ANYTHING about the fact
that he is not a native-born American! I personally believe the FEC
(Federal Election Committee) is run by no one, or Keebler Elves, or
Christ knows who, because back last summer they let a guy named “Deez
Nuts” in Iowa register to run for Prez and it turned out to be a
15-year old kid in Iowa who polled 3rd behind Donald
Trump in North Carolina, when “Deez Nuts” asked to be polled,
because dems da rules. “Deez Nuts” got the idea when some 17 year
old in Kentucky recruited his friend's cat “Limberbutt McCubbins”
to run for President and that created some kind of press interest.
How fucked up is that?
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Okay, so with these two in the Executive Branch, something might get done. Gridlock, back-biting and I suspect, greed, corruption and out-of-itness as regards the American people are at an all-time high. Not that we didn't help, by not checking out the jackanapes who were running for office and that we elected.
So,
we have like 70 jillion people running for President on the GOP side,
and that's a huge mess, because everyone seems to be waiting for the
other guy to denounce Donald Trump, but this guy is not going away.
The reality of a Trump Presidency is very real and it's scary, but no
one is calling out Ted Cruz on his non-American birth, which should
have been done, the minute he filed for his candidacy. When did we
get so sloppy?
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Gah! What a pair of feckless gorms! I'm not sure which looks phonier. Don, with that god-awful hair and flappy lips, or Ted and his Bob's Big Boy countenance. What's up with those thumbs? Are they getting ready to ram them up each other's asses?
Over
on the Dems' side, it ain't lookin' much prettier. The smaller the
margin, or the farther behind Hillary falls, the shriller she sounds and the more she flails around.
She also is carrying some pretty hefty baggage that MUST be addressed
when she takes office. Bernie was right at the beginning of the
Debate Season (why must there be debates like, every other minute?)
when he said “forget about the emails” at THAT juncture, he was right, but as
more and more information comes out, it looks like Hillary did some
pretty shady stuff. Also, I do not believe that she really and truly
has the people's interests at heart. It boils down to trust and I no longer believe her. I do believe Sanders and I'm with him now.
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Not to turn into a catty bitch, but ME-OW. That coat Hillary has on is eye-scorching and she apparently got it from Dolce-Gabana and wore it everywhere. It's hideous! One other thing, Sanders got 60% of the Primary Vote in New Hampshire, and Hillary only got 33%, yet she won more delegates, due to the stupid system they have with the Super delegates, whatever in the hell those are. No wonder the system is broken. It allowed George W. Bush to "steal" two elections and that whole system needs revamping.
Sanders
is a populist in the truest, most old-fashioned sense of the word. He
understand what this country is going through and while I do not
believe this can be fixed in two Presidential terms, we can start the
correction. I believe Obama, being a realist knew this when he took
office and knew he was going to take heat for it in his second term. This mess took 40 years to take hold; it will not be fixed in six years. A new approach is needed and Sanders knows this.
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The Right Honorable Judge Scalia was very conservative and he spoke plainly and sometimes roughly, but all who knew him said he was a kind man and took his responsibilities very seriously. Who wouldn't being a judge on the highest bench in the country. Liberals had nothing good to say about him. Although I may seem to have a liberal cant, I am an Independent and NEVER vote platforms. He wrote opinions that I often agreed with, and I'm sorry he's gone. Most Supreme Court Judges live to be eleventy-billion years old. President Obama is correct in trying to name a replacement as soon as possible. It is one of his Constitutional duties, and the ninnies in Congress need to shut their pie-holes and read the Constitution. The House Whip needs to send them to bed without their Scotch.
And
now, we have the sudden, unexpected death of Antonin Scalia and the whole of the
Republican Congress goes batshit insane and tells Obama he CANNOT
install a replacement. What horseshit. This is the LEGISLATIVE branch
of our government telling the EXECUTIVE branch of our government what
it can or cannot do with the JUDICIAL branch of the government.
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Geeze, President Obama has gotten gray since taking office. No wonder, dealing with all the shit he's had to take. He still has like 300+ more days. He's probably counting the minutes.
I
do not believe any of these pinheads who are hollering that Obama
CANNOT appoint a replacement have read the Constitution and it's time
they did so. The 3 branches of government were created separately to
keep any one branch of government from holding too much power or
garnering it. If Obama backs down and gives in, this is tantamount to
saying, “Okay, Legislature, I guess you rule here.” What
nonsense.
This
is the kind of stuff that brings on civil unrest and we're not all
that far from that scenario. We have para-military groups within the
police that act with impunity. Not all police are bad. My Aunt and
Uncle's family are rife with people in law enforcement and they know
their responsibilities are to the citizens they protect. You will
find no more such honorable and extraordinary men and women who put
their lives in harm's way.
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A cute picture; we actually have parties with our District 3 Tampa Police, about four times a year. The fact that I live in a highly dangerous area is one of the reasons, but these guys know our names, know who lives where and they do check up on us. After the thwarted home invasion here, they've been by to check up on me. Tampa is NOT a small town, but this 'hood has a small town mentality.
However,
in Ferguson, Baltimore and elsewhere, there are horrible problems
with the police and they are more apt to kill a citizen and concoct
some story later. There are “dark” places in Chicago, where
people are held against there will, with no formal charges, thus
abrogating our last true civil right that defined the difference
between us and either a fascistic or tyrannical state. This may not
be occurring on a National level, but we need to unshroud these
mysteries and pull all of it into the light. Does Rahm Emanuel know
of this? Being Obama's friend and confidante, how far up does the rot
go? I'm not insinuating anything; merely trying to connect dots.
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No one wants to see a military state, but with the passage of the Patriot Act, oodles and oodles of money went to local and state law enforcement and certain of the agencies ramped up their equipment, armor and weapons, beyond anything that would be needed against the local citizenry. Either through oversight, or planned, we have the mechanisms in place to become a police state, over a "terrorist act"; it won't take much
I
have mentioned in the past that we've pretty much just given away our
III, IV, V, IX and XIV Amendment rights, with the passage and the
extension of the Patriot Act. Most of us are all too familiar with
the “slippery slope” theory, or as we cross one line, it becomes
easier to cross others. They're not easy to retreat from and if we
are serious about “making corrections” we have to really look at
where we are and be bluntly honest with ourselves. We didn't get here
by being proactive and caring about what our country means to us.
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There was a time when I felt proud to be an American; that time has long gone. In a way, I'm glad my parents are deceased. They set great store on being Americans, as many immigrants do, but they would not be proud of this country. They could not look around and say, "yes, I recognize this; this is MY America!" They would just hang their heads in shame.
We
can stand up and thrill to Lady GaGa singing the “Star Spangled
Banner” as jets fly overhead and Super Bowl L commences. We can
tell ourselves that America is still great, but it's a hollow lie and
if anything, we have become the enemy. We do all of the nefarious
shit that we hold against our villains and we delude ourselves, when
we talk about our “generosity as Americans”. We may be so in the
specifics, but in general? We are monsters; we have no compunction
about bombing other countries, taking out civilians and in some
cases, killing our own people in the name of “national security”
or as “collateral damage”. None of it is worth it, but we, The
People ceased caring long ago. We have turned ourselves over to The
State, and the only reason the State exists is to ensure the
existence of the State.
