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#MAGA

#MAGA – Treason pisses Americans off. It should piss you off too. People, a lot of good people, fought and died for your right to support this fascist. Sadly, it appears they died in vain.

If you are ok with money laundering and corruption and Cambridge Analytica and emoluments and porn stars and pussy grabbing and endless lying and alternate facts and “fake news,” – everything that’s not on Fox News is “fake news” –

more collusion and blackmail and Russian tampering with our elections and the KKK and White Supremacy – then he’s your guy.

His own Secretary of State called him “a fucking moron.”

Obama was a politician, that’s what they do. I’m not excusing, it’s just a fact.

So was Bush II and Clinton and Bush 1 and Reagan and Carter and Ford and Nixon and LBJ and JFK and IKE and Truman and FDR and on and on.

This fascist pig is not in any way presidential. He is a threat to everything we have held dear for longer than I’ve been alive.

You have every right – no thanks to people like trump – to support anyone you like. I hope you also enjoy the shit storm headed our way if this pig and his entire regime stay in office.

I never understood the money…

I’ve never understood the money…

The vast amounts of money that things like Google or Facebook can generate. I remember talking to another IT guy, from West Point, in the late 90’s about Yahoo and Excite – years before Google.

He saw things from a more military perspective than I, more of a global reach to these things, but neither of us could understand how giving people free e-mail and free search services could make them any money.

Fast forward twenty years and you have Google and Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest and a dozen others.

Vast oceans of money from “free” stuff.

Then I hear a story like Cambridge Analytica and it starts to make sense.

My daughter was getting married in 2009 we were emailing back and forth about cake bakers and photographers near her. I noticed then ads popping up in Gmail and Google for wedding related stuff, gowns, limo services, cake bakers…

At the time I was mildly amused. Possibly a bit concerned about my privacy, but not overly concerned with either wedding cakes, tuxedos or my personal information. I was, after all using a free email service. I did not expect real privacy and security.

A couple of years ago I noticed that if I’d google certain bicycle parts or Mustang car parts that similar parts would show up on Facebook ads and google ads and even emails. Maybe I was a bit more concerned.

Ok, so Google and Facebook and Twitter are mass marketing machines. I had to decide if I could accept that. I long ago realized – I don’t know who first said this – don’t put anything on the internet that you’d not want to see on the zipper in Times Square – If you want to sell me Mustang high-flow fuel pumps while I’m bitching on Facebook that doesn’t bother me that much.

But…

Being a powerful and ubiquitous advertising mechanism still didn’t add to the billions and billions and billions…

It seemed to me that advertising generated more money than the goods sold. It didn’t add up.

Guys like Zuckerberg who were multi-billionaires long before their companies ever turned a profit. Google and Yahoo and Amazon as well.

Then yesterday, I learned about Cambridge Analitica and Facebook and political campaigns and Russians and it all suddenly made sense.

They cull our personal information from us and use it to create a twisted personal reality, profiting from our fears and insecurities and feeding us lies. We act on these lies and make some incredibly bad decisions. Decisions that work to our detriment.

It’s actually creepier and more terrifying than even George Orwell warned us about.

VOTE

If you think your vote doesn’t count. If you are too busy or too tired or just too damn lazy – remember #PA18.

We get the government we decide to accept. You don’t need to march or protest or write or scream – you need to vote.

Connor Lamb erased a TWENTY POINT trump lead in 2016. He did it one vote at a time.

If you want trump gone, the Russians out of our government, sanity back, these congressmen who are owned and operated by Big Pharma and the NRA gone – before we forever lose the chance – when your opportunity arises you need to go vote.

The system may be skewed against us, we may all be played, but we can beat these scumbags with numbers. #PA18 proves that.

Don’t call yourself a patriot and sit on your ass and complain. VOTE

Tan Suit

‪Forget all of the indecipherable layers of bullshit of the past 1 year and 45 days.

Forget all that…

If Obama had done ONE of these things, just one – one – The House would have had impeachment proceedings in a day.

Jesus, they raised Hell when he wore a tan suit. ‬

trump tells Russia top military secrets.

He refuses to issue sanctions when even he admits that nation tampered with our election process. A process often called “our most sacred right.”

He has porn stars with information held over his head.

He is reckless – at best – with the economy.

Thinks nuclear war is winnable.

He has, and is daily, systematically allowing the protections to citizens, and lands – irreplaceable national treasures – to be taken down.

trump is so owned by and scared of the NRA it is laughable, almost a caricature.

So owned by foreign investors, by big pharma, again, he’s a caricature standing up there wagging his mouth.

trump has already increased the national debt to the point it is equal to the GDP.

But Obama wore a tan suit and that outraged Fox News.

I need one of 45’s supporters – just one – to explain to me how one – just one – of the above mentioned articles is ok. Not even presidential, just ok…

I’m going to go way,way out on a limb here and suggest it has more to do with the skin color of the guy in the tan suit than anyone’s politics or policies..

When I watch the news…

I watch the unrelenting deluge of crisscrossed news articles – hourly it seems now. Some jerk is defiant and an hour later it’s suggested he may be drunk an hour later he says he’ll cooperate.

Russian sex coaches…

Sarah Huckabee looks exhausted and denies in a tone that tells me she just wants to go home.

“Dad, get me outta this – Warren Zevon, Lawyers Guns, and Money.”

Payments to porn stars and flagged bank accounts…

I think it’s the droning tone that I find the most annoying now.

No collusion…

Fake news…

I’ve been with guys as they waited to be arrested. I recognize the behavior.

I’ve seen guys put tape on leaking water pipes too. It may hold for a few minutes, but everyone knows you are wasting your time. It’s only a few minutes before it blows apart.