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A Street Gang Mentality

22 Sunday Mar 2020

Posted by themiddlewaythrough in Change, Coronavirus, Ego, Guns, Human, Making Sense of Guns, Revolution, Trump-Hole

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The Renaissance came after the Dark Ages because people had started to engage in critical thinking and using something that became known as the scientific method. The natural result was to grow away from the teachings of The Church at that time, because the results science was getting threatened the validity of the Church itself, the authenticity of its edicts, and its iron grip on power.

Now the United States has a leader who is in a position of power he neither earned, nor deserves. And like the church, he is so frightened of being wrong and losing power that he is willing to put countless lives at risk just in order to appear as if he isn’t wrong.

And so, here we are centuries later slowly sinking back into the same dark abyss of magical thinking, selfish prayer and quack ‘cure-all’ medicines. We are again leaving behind rational observation and thought as we bound head first into cults of personality and brand identity, as if they offer something more substantive than a street gang mentality and some Second Amendment bumper stickers.

The “S” Word

13 Friday Mar 2020

Posted by themiddlewaythrough in Brain Droppings, Democratic Socialism, Dingleberries, Fear, Healthcare, Open mind, Politics, Sameness, Trump-Hole

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As usual, I am having trouble with the fact that Donald Trump’s base of support would eat a shit sandwich if he said it was a big brown chicken nugget.

As Agent Orange spitballs ideas such as paying people who don’t have sick leave, massive financial stimulus packages, and other socialistic methods to help patch the smoldering wreck that was his ‘beautiful stock market value’, I can’t help but wonder why no Republicans are screaming about Trump’s sudden socialist shift. I mean, this is obviously going to taint the free market.

Just to be clear, right now the biggest difference between Bernie’s version of socialism and Trump’s is that Bernie’s would actually be part of a cohesive plan, and not part of some knee-jerk, radioactive act of desperation.

In the world of material worship, socialism is an old testament god that may only be summoned in the event of an apocalyptic event. Specifically one that threatens the wealthy, as well as us lowly serfs.

“What did you just say?!”

In other words, everything the United States isn’t doing

10 Tuesday Mar 2020

Posted by themiddlewaythrough in Coronavirus, Dingleberries, Healthcare, Open mind, Tech, Trump-Hole

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What will it take?

09 Monday Mar 2020

Posted by themiddlewaythrough in Corruption, Politics, Trump-Hole

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It wasn’t impersonating a journalist who is disabled.
It wasn’t being recorded on a hot mic saying he grabs women by the pussy.
It wasn’t rumors of a pee tape.
It wasn’t sleeping with porn stars.
It wasn’t suspicion of Russian aiding him in his election.
It wasn’t being named in an indictment that his personal attorney is now serving time for.
It wasn’t campaign finance violations.
It wasn’t firing the FBI Director.
It wasn’t kids in cages, or separating families for the crime of seeking asylum.
It wasn’t withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement.
It wasn’t travel bans.
It wasn’t a lackluster and deadly non-response to Hurricane Maria.
It wasn’t trying to appoint judges who were demonstrably unfit for the bench.
It wasn’t tariffs that are crippling our own farmers.
It wasn’t hiding politically sensitive information on national security servers.
It wasn’t the Mueller Report showing plenty of collusion, if you were one of the handful of people who read it.
It wasn’t getting impeached, and having someone from his own party vote to remove him from office.
It wasn’t making money off of the Secret Service who are forced to pay his company to stay at his properties in order to protect him.
It’s wasn’t the golf trips have cost the country well over $100,000,000 and counting.
It won’t even be his botched handling of a growing pandemic.

No, Trump only cares about money. He inherited a booming economy and has been taking credit for it since he walked through the door. But, now that it is teetering on a massive decline, he won’t be able to resist the urge to manipulate things to save his cash. The fear of a bad economy in an election year would probably be enough. But let’s face it, he doesn’t care of someone else goes broke, just himself.

If anything is gong to bring him down, it will be something to do with money.

Listen to Phil

03 Tuesday Mar 2020

Posted by themiddlewaythrough in Change, Patriotism, Politics, Revolution

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Phil Lesh, reminding us of
how important voting is

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