14 Sunday Feb 2021
Posted in Anxiety, Brain Droppings, Change, Compassion, Conspiracies, Coronavirus, Corruption, Death, Democratic Socialism, Depression, Dingleberries, Ego, Emotional Intelligence, Environment, Existential Risk, Fear, First Amendment, Fucking Hannity, Grief, Growth, Guns, Hate, Healthcare, Human, Indivisible, Islam, Kids, Love, Making Sense of Guns, Male superiority, Memorial, Mental Health, Middle Way, Moscow Mitch, News, Open mind, Patriotism, Pledge, Politics, Putin, Race, Revolution, Sameness, Tax the Church, Terrorism, Trump-Hole, Women
Donald Trump and his new Republican Party proved something: That a Constitution written when indoor plumbing was actually cutting-edge technology, is not itself strong enough to withstand a manipulative assault on it by a modern day organized crime mindset that literally came of age in the dark gaps found between its words.
24 Saturday Oct 2020
Posted in Change, Coronavirus, Corruption, Environment, Fear, First Amendment, Indivisible, Moscow Mitch, Patriotism, Politics, Race, Revolution, Terrorism, Trump-Hole
Today I saw two fairly typical rural New Hampshirey kind of guys (white males, beards and baseball caps, obligatory work boots, and a variety of apparel from famed designers such as Mossie Oake and Coco Flanell) slogging hip deep through the roadside tick-grass dragging a massive sign that proclaimed: “Asians for Trump”. These guys were in the process of hammering it into the ground directly between myself and a bunch of very beautiful fall leaves. I absolutely hate political signs.
I suspect if I had actually pulled over and pointed out to these guys just how dense their political irony was, it would be as welcome from me as breaking the news about where fortune cookies actually come from.
The problem is that publicly voicing any sort of political speech these days is just as likely to get you shot, as get you are to get run over by a muscle car or big-ass truck with giant tires and a Punisher sticker on the back window. All while sustaining a barrage of colorful potty words, and various observations about your appearance and pedigree.
I am afraid that no matter who wins this presidential election, there will be violent reactions across the country, leading to far more deaths than there should ever be in a country with free and fair elections. And if you’re wondering just how many deaths should happen as a result of free and fair elections, the answer is zero.
20 Monday Jul 2020
Posted in Brain Droppings, Dingleberries, First Amendment, Fucking Hannity, Human, Male superiority, Politics, Race, Trump-Hole
Sometimes I used to wonder if there was some way we could figure out how to tell someone is a racist shitbag. So that when they walk into my business, I could tell them they’re not welcome at my lunch counter. But of course, you can’t always see racism very easily.
Now we have a pandemic, and wearing a mask is suddenly a hot button issue. The thing is, maybe we should have required people to wear face-masks sooner. It really makes things so much easier.
What else is amazing is that the battle lines they’ve drawn are suddenly concentrated on the right to choose what someone can do with their own body. And no government (or local deli) can tell them what do to with their bodies!
I shit you not! They’re actually saying this now. Anyway, what I’m saying is that it’s easier to see them now…
14 Friday Sep 2018
Posted in Compassion, Ego, Emotional Intelligence, Human, Love, Middle Way, Politics, Race, Sameness
Between yesterday and today, thousands of Americans have considered switching political affiliations.
First, we have a massive hurricane making landfall in the Carolinas. There are also scores of houses burning in Massachusetts due to a gas line issue.
It’s for these reasons that thousands and thousands of conservative, self-sufficient, pull-themselves-up-by-their-bootstraps kind of folks will suddenly decide that Socialism ain’t so bad after all. It’s a common conversion that happens when your house is on fire, or you need to be rescued from the roof of your flooded home.
When it comes to paying taxes, they’re a fiscal conservative/capitalist who is more than willing to fight the good fight based on the “It ain’t right, because the 16th Amendment” argument. But once their house is burning or floating, they are happy to proclaim their status as Americans, shouting, “But, I’m a taxpayer!” as their expectations of public services suddenly exceeds their demonstrations of individuality.
When the shit hits the fan and you have to do the unthinkable and ask for help, it’s because your ego has finally fallen from its lofty perch long enough for your spirit to recognize that we are all actually in this together. And just for the briefest of moments, we are all on the same side. Even them liberals, and non-whites.
07 Saturday Jul 2018
President Douchebag
You’ve heard the phrase, “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. It’s the empty logic that conservatives use to short circuit gun control arguments.
I say we use the same method for the immigration knuckleheads:
Right, Donald?
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Trump’s Mar-a-Lago asks to hire 61 additional foreign workers using visa program — abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/trumps-mar-lago-asks-hire-61-additional-foreign/story
23 Saturday Jun 2018
Posted 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
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?
08 Friday Jun 2018
Posted 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
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.
29 Tuesday May 2018
Posted in Conspiracies, Dingleberries, First Amendment, Hate, Indivisible, Mental Health, Middle Way, Patriotism, Politics, Race, Revolution, Terrorism, Trump-Hole
This guy has every intention of stoking a fucking civil war!
He really has no problem if people go to war and die over what comes out of his fucking mouth. All the better reason to suspend elections.
24 Thursday May 2018
Posted in Change, Conspiracies, Death, Dingleberries, First Amendment, Guns, Human, Indivisible, Making Sense of Guns, Middle Way, Patriotism, Politics, Race, Revolution, Terrorism, Trump-Hole
The NFL has decided that they’re willing to take sides against their own players in a senseless culture war started by Donald Trump decided last year.
Apparently it wasn’t enough that they have been covering up the long term effects of concussions for decades. Now they’re willing to destroy the player’s lives while they’re playing, as well as after they retire. All in the name of almighty profits.
Meanwhile, the original purpose of the protest is still going strong, as unarmed black men continue to get shot and killed by the police paid to protect them.
04 Wednesday Apr 2018
Posted in Conspiracies, Dingleberries, Hate, Human, Middle Way, Patriotism, Politics, Race, Revolution, Terrorism, Trump-Hole
President Bone Spurz campaigned on the idea that he alone would be able to smote ISIS (and would do so in roughly the same amount of time it took Charlie Sheen to use the power of his mind to heal himself from addiction).
Spurz has decided that ISIS is no longer our problem, and he is planning on ordering his troops back home.
Why? Because, he can’t get Americans to agree to pay for the wall that he promised Mexico would pay for (apparently is difficult to force another sovereign nation to pay for your batshit crazy campaign promises. Who knew?)
And so, the plan is to guard our borders with these American soldiers. I’m guessing the plan is to station them along the border at the ready, to deter anyone from trying to enter. And when no one does, he will claim to have stopped a problem that barely existed.
There will be no mention of the the northern border to Canada, or America’s endless oceanfront, or the vast sky overhead, or any other method people have used to get into our country for that matter. In fact, as America continues its slow decline into a third world country, people will no longer see it as the shining example of freedom it once was. And that, more than anything, will stop immigration into the United States.
