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You tell me what’s going on…

I think today we are seeing capitalism’s end game.

We are seeing raw, unbridled greed running wild.

It has now lost even the desire to pretend anything it does is for the common good.

Capitalism is Fascism’s cousin. The world we see today didn’t simply happen. It’s the end result of a long, ugly, well planned and executed process.

You don’t need to be really smart, or well educated to understand what is going on today. You need to be able to read at a ninth or tenth-grade reading level. That’s the reading level that most newspapers and journalists aim for. You don’t need to be particularly bright, you need to be able to seek information and read and comprehend that information.

Fake news, whataboutism, these are tools of the fascist from the 1930s. I don’t care what your party affiliation is, I don’t care who you believe in who you don’t believe because there’s not a whole hell of a lot out there to actually believe in, but if you read and study just a little bit you will see exactly what is happening.

Fake news, division, unbelievable lies, the discrediting of long standing institutions. The thought – “just believe me, just trust me”

This is Webster’s definition of Fascism:
often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.

Read it, use your own mind.

In the words of the great Marvin Gaye,

You tell me what’s going on…

 

Kelly Ann and Samantha Bee

Watching TV the other night – why I still do this I’ll never fully understand – I was dozing listening to Samantha Bee rant.

I realized that she is to the far left what Kelly Ann is to the far right.

I watch Samantha and Kelly Ann with the same level of disconnected amusement and fear.

They both have jobs, messages to spread. [Read more…] about Kelly Ann and Samantha Bee

line at the grocery store and assorted patriots

Standing in line at the grocery store. A young woman with three young kids, panicking because she was $5 short buying groceries. It looked like food for her kids, not cigarettes and booze and movie tickets and the things  Senator Grassley thinks poor people spend money on – frivolously…

I gave her $10, she cried and thanked me.

I don’t know why she was crying. The Dow just hit 25,000.

I’m talking to these guys last week, bringing home $350 a week, drowning in credit card debt. 10-year-old car with bad brakes, no health insurance, hungry kids, and misery.

Damn near standing and saluting. Damn near worship, saying “yes sir, Mr. President.”

For the record, I’ll worship no man. Not today, not any day.

Like Brother Marvin said, “Make me wanna holler, way you do my life…”

broken men and their nukes

main_900Two psychologically broken men wagging their nuke dicks to compensate for god knows what broke in them so completely.

The world – minus the 32% who think trump is some kind of infallible fucking god – watches in a sad mix of horror and disbelief.

Congress needs to do something about the American idiot.

The UN needs to do something about the North Korean idiot.

I makes me quite sad that I have used this picture of an exploding nuke at least five times since last January 22nd…

How did it come to this. The fate of the world rests in the hands of these two manics, a failed congress and a dysfunctional UN.

I for one may not be buying green bananas anytime soon…

This morning I woke up sober.

This morning I woke up sober. That means this year I’ve spent more New Years mornings sober than sick. The balance has shifted to the positive side and will hopefully stay there.

I’ll never understand the appeal of the years waking up on the floor, surrounded by violent people. Drugged people, severely drunk people. Sick people. [Read more…] about This morning I woke up sober.

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