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Lordy, I hope there are tapes

18 Saturday Aug 2018

Posted by in Conspiracies, Dingleberries, Emotional Intelligence, First Amendment, Indivisible, Lying (oops, I meant ‘mistruthing’), Mental Health, Middle Way, Patriotism, Revolution, Trump-Hole

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One of the things I spend way too much time wondering about is how can Trump’s supporters keep themselves talked into staying a supporter in the face of everything he says and does himself. Let alone what he blames on his imaginary Deep State.

When Comey got axed, Trump suggested there might be audio recordings to prove his side of events. Aside from being one of the most staggering displays of tone-deafness by a sitting U.S. President (I mean, when has a President who secretly tapes his staff ever been a problem?!) But even then, the suggestion was that Trump had taped people, not the other way around.

I mean, what does it say that, of the two people we know of who have recorded Donald Trump are:

1. Michael Cohen, Trump’s fixer and consigliere. The guy who knows where all the bodies are buried. The one who probably knows Trump the best, what he’s capable of. This lawyer taped his boss and client. What unique circumstances might have been present for a lawyer to perform such an act that could lead to his immediate disbarment? What would trigger that kind of self-defensive/destructive action?

2. And then here is Omarosa, his Apprentice doppelgänger. That’s right, the woman who defined “reality show villain”, became a confidante to Trump, and he too must have felt a similar connection since he took her under his wing. So why would a calculating, manipulative, reality TV star feels she needs to secretly record the staff of the White House, and possibly even the President? Especially since you are automatically cast in a dark light yourself by recording people in stealth like this. What was she hoping to show?

And in the president’s Twitter seizure afterwards, he insults HER intelligence as an employee. One that he hired! Friends or not, these jobs are too important to hand out like soccer camp flyers. Either this White House cares more about paying back favors for friends than they do about hiring a Senior White House Advisor who is qualified, or they really don’t know how to screen people.

If you have dismissed enough “rank and file” WH employees because you don’t trust them unless they are from your inner circle, then how do you expect anyone to make sure that things are being screened according to the hugest security protocols?

And so, the outgoing Deep State employees are not the who’ve been revealed to have secretly taped the President… it’s his own ‘trusted’ inner circle! Even he doesn’t refute that, and yet… the blame is still falling on his enemies! How?!

Conspiracies and shadow groups are now the official opponents of the Republican Party. It’s true. At this point most of the things they are openly arguing for in the light of day, are predicated on conspiracies themselves. And the thing is, it doesn’t matter how convincing you are, you can not argue against a conspiracy. Since it contains no facts, it can (and will) always morph and adapt to fit the cause.

That’s exactly what’s happening now. America is no longer worshipping facts and reason. Instead, large parts of America are now worshipping victimhood status, and adapting these old crazy classics to cover them with, like a new throw pillow.

Feeling like there’s a shadowy government group running things? No problem! Let’s just dust off this old Illuminati story…

Need help convincing yourself that things don’t make sense? Convinced that there’s an underground pedophile ring that only Donald Trump can expose?! Enter “Q”, where Donald Trump is a super hero who has been tasked with taking down a secret worldwide cabal of pedophiles… and really not skeezing on his own daughter.

You can’t make this stuff up! Actually… you can. That’s why it’s not real.

All of these conspiracies arise out of the ashes of people’s crumbling dreams. When you are unable to accept the harsh reality that your persecution of the world no longer fits the stuff you are living and seeing, the ego come forth to say you must look elsewhere, anywhere. The pliability of conspiracy theories means that one size truly can fit all.

But the goal never changes. The conspiracy theory ultimately serves one purpose. In the end it is a self-justifying excuse to perform the extreme acts you already have every intention of performing. And that is exactly why this is so dangerous.

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Trump pulls security clearance from ex-CIA Director, John Brennan

15 Wednesday Aug 2018

Posted by in Brain Droppings, Dingleberries, Emotional Intelligence, First Amendment, Middle Way, Patriotism, Politics, Revolution, Terrorism, Trump-Hole

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That’s just the headline, but it says it all. Heres the fact from that headline, though. All Donald Trump has succeeded in doing today is making America a little less safe.

Brennan doesn’t get any personal benefit from having that clearance. One of Trump’s more glaring problems is that he thinks that everyone thinks like him. He has convinced himself that he has punished Brennan by keeping him from seeing our juicy government secrets. But instead, when something happens to America that John Brennan may have been able to help out country with and consult on, we have just lost the benefit of this man’s knowledge and expertise. All because he criticized the President of the United States. Something every citizen of this country should do at least once in their life… or per week.

Trump just cut off his nose, despite his asshole of a mouth.

When the truth is found to be lies

20 Friday Jul 2018

Posted by in Conspiracies, Dingleberries, Emotional Intelligence, Hate, Indivisible, Mental Health, Middle Way, Politics, Revolution, Trump-Hole

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Here is why so many people in the Republican party are willing to set aside solid evidence, and instead believe what Donald Trump tells them. The far-right movement of conservatives that has been living on a diet of straight-up conspiracies and lies for so long, that it is second nature to them now. As evidenced by your average conversation these days.

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Bubba Q. Public: “Obama is secretly from Kenya”

Normal Brain Brian: “Seriously, there’s a public records trail a mile wide that refutes all of that.

“Bubba Q. Public: “Planted years ago. Them there Muslins think in decades, not days.

“Normal Brain Brian: “Did you get upset at some of the stuff his church minister said? That Jeremy Wright guy… You know, from Trinity Church?”

“Bubba Q. Public: “Oh sure. You know that guy was part of the human trafficking syndicate. See, there’s this pizza place in Warshington…”

“Normal Brain Brian: “Wait! What? I thought you guys said that was a Hillary thing?”

“Bubba Q. Public: “CROOKED HILLARY!!!!! BLAAAAARGBLBLBLBPPPPFFFF!”

**(about 20 minutes of swearing, and breaking things, and a whole lot of babble about emails, and shills, and back braces, and uranium, and pizza shops, and foundations, and Benghazi, and emails, and Benghazi, and emails…)

“Normal Brain Brian: “Are you okay? It sounds like we might have hit a nerve and…”

“Bubba Q. Public: “LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!!”

“Normal Brain Brian: “There’s no one else around us. Why do you keep chanting and looking around for people to join you? It’s only you and me.”

**(another 20 minutes of ranting and yelling at the salt and pepper shakers on the table…)

“Normal Brain Brian: (to self) “Maybe it’s time to lighten up the mood) — “So, how about this weather lately?”

“Bubba Q. Public: “You fucking snowflake! Oooh noooo! The world is gonna end because it’s raining out! It’s the big bad global warming! What’s that?? Oh, we had record snowfall this year. BOOM! Take that! You fucking shill.”

“Normal Brain Brian: (pauses to come up with something, anything to talk about that doesn’t involve a conspiracy…) — “How about we put all this aside and go grab a cup of coffee?”

“Bubba Q. Public: “Coffee?! HAHAHA!!! Suuuure! Yeah, let’s go get some mocha choka burnt crap from Charbucks so we can fund more terrorists coming over the border, I can see right through you and your Commie crap.”

“Normal Brain Brian: (Walks away shaking his head, as Bubba screams about winning the argument because of his superior ‘free thinking’ American logic, and telling everyone to ‘Do your homework people!’)

The fate of the United States is in the hands of a very sick child

15 Sunday Jul 2018

Posted by in Conspiracies, Dingleberries, Ego, Emotional Intelligence, Fear, Indivisible, Middle Way, Patriotism, Putin, Revolution, Trump-Hole

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Donald Trump is mentally ill. And no, this is not the beginning of a joke, I am very serious. And I don’t mean this the way most people bandy about phrases like, “the guy’s completely nuts”, alluding to the fact that this person is your basic, run-of-the-mill, unhinged egomaniac.

No, Donald Trump began his break with reality in the 1980’s, as he sought constant attention from the press. He saw himself as a persona, and not really as his own person the way most people do of themselves. So, in support of that delusion, he began to sculpt his own mythos. Trump went so far as to produce additional characters out of whole cloth (the most well known of which is, John Barron), whose sole purpose in this dimension was to lift up their hero, Mr. Trump.

But, it was The Apprentice that finally gave Donald a massive dose of that… whatever the hell that thing is that people get exposed to in ‘Celebritopia’, that causes people go all Macaulay Culkin.

That exposure was way too much for the already damaged psyche of Trump. And so, like Voldemort’s damaged soul, Donald’s thinly egg-shelled ego crushed under the weight of having attained its deepest desire: Enough recognition and admiration to finally convince him that it’s all true… Every bit of it is true. He really is that famous, and influential!

It was this Donald Trump that, on January 20, 2017, became the most powerful man on earth, The President of the United States. Of course, the rest of the world sees and knows that there’s no way Donald Trump could have become president on his own merits, not even remotely. And there’s plenty of evidence to show that they’re right. But the inner-Trump, who needs unwavering admiration, can never accept such a preposterous idea.

Trump then dwelt in this twilight reality for a few years, feeding his inner Mr. Hyde a 24 hour diet of Twitter and Diet Coke. It was then that Donald Trump finally achieved a level of self-deceit required to break out of his demented chrysalis, and finally he burst forth in his final, monstrous form.

To think that Vladimir Putin isn’t beside himself with glee over how childishly persuadable the new President of the United States is. Or that he has begun visualizing effigies of himself being erected next to those of Vladimir Lenin’s, then you clearly do not understand the gravity of these current events. Putin sees himself as the father of New Russia, and Donald Trump, Putin’s very own useful idiot, is helping him every step of the way.

Donald Trump isn’t evil in the same deliberate, scheming way that Vladimir Putin is. No, Trump has far more frightening incentives that make him dangerous on so many other levels. And it’s primarily because of this that it’s impossible to tell which reality Trump is inhabiting when he’s making a particular decision. How do you defend against something like that?

Donald Trump doesn’t feel like you and I feel. One of the scariest part about having Donald Trump as a President is that he has about as much emotional connection to his world-altering decisions, as you or I do about purchasing a property during a game of Monopoly. He sees his choices in isolation, not in context. He simply wants to win the game. And the only skills he possesses for such a task are ruthlessness, and self-preservation. The problem is that if Trump doesn’t see or hear the suffering of real people as a direct result of his decisions, then any results are simply too abstract for him to recognize them in connection to the bigger reality. In other words, you and I are as real to him as the little toy pieces on the game board.

The world is a going to be a different place after this meeting. No one in a position of influence has the courage to stop this before it happens. And they’ll be no reversing things once Putin gets his entire foot in the door.

Dibs on the little dog piece.

It sucks, doesn’t it?

23 Saturday Jun 2018

Posted by in Change, Dingleberries, Ego, Emotional Intelligence, Environment, Fear, Hate, Human, Indivisible, Islam, Love, Male superiority, Middle Way, Open mind, Politics, Race, Revolution, Sameness, Trump-Hole, Women

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So, news reports have said that members of the Trump administration have been denied service in, and chased out of, businesses they thought they had the right to frequent as a normal customer. It’s completely unfair.

And I hear they’re also having trouble finding dates, or keeping them when they do. People are just walking out in the middle of dates when they find out someone works for the administration. It’s just rude.

No one likes to be judged by others. Especially not before they even get a chance to know you. And something personal, like where you work or what you believe in, shouldn’t affect what restaurant you’re allowed to eat in… Right?

Melania And The Amazing Messagemaking Greencoat

21 Thursday Jun 2018

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Yes, people are going to talk about her jacket, you tone deaf morons.

There is nothing about this jacket that says “First Lady”. It doesn’t even say, “Super-Ultra-Casual First Lady who’s away for the weekend”. And even if it isn’t meant to send a message, it does. And if you work in the White House, you know it sends one too. So, stop trying to pretend it’s the lying snowflake media.

The thing is though… I’m pretty sure Melania knows that.

Maybe she’s been planning her big escape, and it’s her wearing the coat triggers some sort of surgical extraction from the Secret Service. Hopefully it will be a better plan, and she makes it longer than a few weeks this time.

There’s a whole lot more to suicide prevention

15 Friday Jun 2018

Posted by in Compassion, Depression, Emotional Intelligence, Fear, Love, Mental Health, Middle Way, Sameness, Spirituality, Suicide

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This one was tough to put into words, even more so in writing.

You know, I’m glad that people are shocked and motivated to raise awareness about suicide since the passing of Anthony Bordain, and Kate Spade. Similar concerns erupted around Robin Williams suicide a few years ago too. But unfortunately, it’s very likely that these concerns will have to get voiced again, and again, since this problem isn’t going away anytime soon.

Awareness is a good thing, but in and of itself, it’s not very practical. Compassion, and awareness need to be paired with action to show their real effectiveness. Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not saying awareness is useless. I mean, it sure beats some of our other bright ideas, like ‘life’s a beach’ T-shirts, truck balls, and Budweiser mirrors, but it is only awareness after all.

Suicidal ideations don’t usually just come out of nowhere. Usually those kinds of thoughts are like an old friend that has quietly whispered never ending doubts into your ear for many years. And it’s not usually a threatening voice either. In fact, to the some sufferers it’s a very reassuring one, because it’s the only one that offers anything resembling relief, however final it may be. While the idea of suicide may seem a tad drastic at first, with constant nudging from that voice, it begins to lose that feeling of being such an “extreme act”.

It should be universally understood that someone is no longer functioning normally when they are willing to conclude that everyone they care about (and who cares about them) would be better off if they were no longer alive. It should be, but it isn’t. Instead, people confuse depression with sadness, in much the same way a very vocal minority confuses climate with weather.

For the sufferer, anything that interferes with their ability to wallow in their own thoughts, gets jettisoned quickly. The passage of time is only relevant to how long it’s been since their last bout. For years the voice has been convincing them how minor their death will be, that everyone is better off, and how it has always been an option. And the more they listen, the more powerful it becomes, just like Hyde did to Dr. Jeckyl.

If you know someone is struggling, you need to reach out to them. Think for a second about how willing you are to reach out when you’re feeling down… a lot of us would just like crawl back to bed, at the very least. So take a few minutes out of your day to talk with them and catch up. Make sure to stay in touch with them, because a huge part of the problem is the almost total inability to ask for help!

If we know someone who might actually need help, we should encourage them to talk to their doctor or seek another form of help. We should keep in touch with them, and follow up. We need more human contact, we’re all beginning to realize how much of that we’ve given up for our phoneputers. And I’m probably guiltier of it than most.

I’d love to wrap this up in a nice bow that tells everyone how we can fix it. Yeah… that’s not how this works. Helping people can be inconvenient sometimes, but we aren’t going to solve some of our more ‘human’ problems without getting right in there and showing that we give a shit.

America, as I have known it

08 Friday Jun 2018

Posted by in Brain Droppings, Compassion, Conspiracies, Dingleberries, Ego, Emotional Intelligence, Fear, First Amendment, Guns, Hate, Human, Indivisible, Islam, Kids, Love, Making Sense of Guns, Middle Way, Open mind, Patriotism, Politics, Race, Revolution, Spirituality, Terrorism, Trump-Hole, Women

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Being an American does not mean you should or shouldn’t possess a gun, but we should respect each other’s right to choose either. It’s a gun, it’s designed to kill people. You should be glad not everyone wants to do that.

Being an American does not depend on where you were born. We are all a mix, and we always have been. No one likes to be the last one picked for a team, so don’t be a jerk.

Being an American does not mean you need to speak a particular dialect, and we have never had an official language. Don’t be so self-centered, you look and sound different to other people too.

Being an American does not mean we must obey a particular religion or God, but we sure do know enough to keep them all out of our laws. If everyone doesn’t believe in something, then there’s no way you can rule with it. Ignoring this always leads to uprisings.

Being an American means you don’t need to know the words to our national anthem, or even to stand up during it. There’s people who think you should, and others who think you shouldn’t. The wonderful thing about freedom is when you get to exercise it.

Being an American does not mean you have to submit to an arranged marriage, or any marriage for that matter. And if you do want to marry someone else, we are finally beginning to realize that it’s no one’s business who you fall in love with. No matter how closed-minded people can be, no one like’s to be told what to do.

Being an American does not mean you have to fit in one of the predetermined parties that we group people by in politics. In fact, most of us rarely like everything that comes bundled up by a single political group. It’s almost as if people are actually different. That’s a good thing.

Being an American does not mean you have to like your president. In fact, we have always believed that a peaceful protest to can help right the wrongs we sometimes make. America has always tried to assure that the minority opinion gets heard. And when it doesn’t, it is our right to engage in constructive dissent to see that it does.

Being an American means that we recognize the world is bigger than us, most people are different from us, nothing is forever, a majority does not equal harmony, we don’t like bullies and monarchs, and we prefer to change our public servants often.

Being an American means that we take the good with the bad, and strive to be better next time. It means that you shouldn’t insult others for protesting during an anthem, especially if you can’t remember the words to our other national ballads.

Being an American means that we do believe, we do care, and we are united. But what we care about, what we believe in, and what we unite over, is different for each of us.

We are strong because we are different. We are special because we are equal. The most aggressive are the most afraid. And what looks like the end always brings a new beginning.

Official responds to shooting by calling for fewer school doors

20 Sunday May 2018

Posted by in Change, Conspiracies, Dingleberries, Emotional Intelligence, Guns, Human, Making Sense of Guns, Memorial, Middle Way, Open mind, Revolution, Terrorism

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You don’t get to this level of batshit crazy overnight.

No… You have to spend years consuming a steady diet of nothing but mind-numbing-common-sense-destroying-absolutely-bonkers conspiracies and ideas.

You need years of believing that military exercises are the really the way The New World Order will secretly attack us.

You have to be willing to buy the idea that it’s possible there was a sex ring being run by a goddamn presidential candidate, who was doing it out of the basement of a pizza shop that doesn’t even have a damn basement.

You need to be willing to think the laws of physics cease to exist if someone performs a homosexual act, and therefore hail stones the size of truck-balls will fall in East Butt Munch, Missouri.

You have to be willing to overlook most of reality, and accept the idea that there is a parallel universe, and in it there’s a company where you can actually rent ‘actors’ to play high school students who are willing to get shot at?!

Only after lengthy vomit-inducing diet of this crap, could you really believe that MORE GUNS AND LESS ESCAPE ROUTES IS A GOOD FUCKING IDEA!!! Because, where else can they lay the blame that isn’t on fucking guns?! This time the school even had full active shooter plan, as well as a that NRA magic fix-all, “a good guy with a gun”!

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Texas’s lieutenant governor reacted to a deadly school shooting by suggesting schools have too many doors. “We may have to look at the design of our schools moving forward and retrofitting schools that are already built. There are too many entrances and too many exits”, Dan Patrick said during a press conference after a gunman killed at least 10 people at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas.
— Read on www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-shooting-santa-fe-school-doors-dan-patrick-lieutenant-governor-a8358691.html

Love and Sacrifice

19 Saturday May 2018

Posted by in Brain Droppings, Emotional Intelligence, Love, Memorial, Middle Way, Open mind, Patriotism, Sameness

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So I’m sitting here watching some of the royal wedding stuff, when they show both William and Harry walking along in uniform. And while I don’t totally ‘get’ royalty, I quickly grasped something completely different from this scene.

It occurred to me that, traditionally the British Monarchy has always laid their lives on the line for their country and crown. In fact, Prince Harry actively fought in Afghanistan through two tours, and was considered a high value target to the enemy. That is as real as it gets. And that is also a sacrifice that many of us understand all too well.

And while Americans like to think we are so much more advanced because we are no longer tied to those barbaric royal traditions, everything is not what it seems.

Sure, we famously spearheaded the ideas of the democracy. We developed radical ideas, such as, we would now trust in our citizenry to defend and run the country. We were no longer willing to trust some out-of-touch royal bum-sniffer, so removed from the struggles of daily life, that they have no clue as to what their subjects have to go through in their daily lives to survive. And worse yet, the same out of touch rulers think it’s only proper that they pass on this power to their clueless heirs.

Except, that’s not really what’s happening, is it?

Instead, as I watch Prince Harry gets married in his military uniform, I can intuitively conclude that this prince who is all the way over in Great Britain has far more in common with everyday people, than President Bone Spurs ever could, or even wants to. Because in America, political power will always get you out of military service, if you don’t want to go.

It seems as though our “representative government” went off the rails somewhere along the way. Instead, this morning millions of Americans spent the early hours of the day, fantasizing that they were somewhere, and maybe even someone else, at least for a few hours.