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Old 02-25-2019, 11:45 PM   #30
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Vote for who? Proven liars, brigands and thieves? Absolutely not. They don't represent me and I refuse to endorse a single one of them. However, I still have the right to observe and report, as do we all.

Please don't misread my point: It's far, FAR too late to do anything about Trump, or Hillary, or Obama, or Bush, or Slick Willy. Once they're in The Big Chair, you'd have an easier time getting toothpaste back in the tube that removing any of them from a position of power. "Impeachment" is a word people love to throw around as if it's ever really worked the way everyone expects it to. The entire system is designed to protect these people from the consequences of their own actions. Nobody's getting impeached, and nobody's going to jail. Not the Top Brass. Maybe a few flunkies, but that's what they're there for, to take the bullets so people like Trump and Willy don't have to.

BUT. We can do more, starting now, to ensure that people are held accountable going forward and those who are obviously unfit to wield power are kept far away from it. That means removing the idea that there are "small lies", or that some lies are acceptable. They're not.

We especially can't be having such horse sh*t coming from the horse-mouth of someone who openly espouses "transparency in government!" like nobody's ever heard THAT one before.

My attitude of "So what?" regarding other political scumbags is, it's already over and done, people could have stepped in or spoken up, but it's too late now. You folks got worked, and that's too bad, but if we're not going to learn anything and then apply those lessons in the future when the latest snake-oil salesman shows up... well, then yeah, "So what" indeed. People need to sh*t or get off the pot, at some point.

AOC is important because she's the latest pretty face, disguising a brain made of oatmeal, and she's not "just" talking about taxing this or raising that, she's proposing things that, if executed to their endgame, would destabilize the entire global economy. And what's her response when even people in her own party confront her with the black & white truth that nothing she says makes any sense? "Like, y'know, like... whateverrrrrrr!" Her disdain for Trump amazes me, because they're the same: Vapid, Twitter-obsessed celebutards who are playing a straight con on billions of people. But again, you would THINK we would have learned something from recent history.

She's dangerous because people believe her sh*t. And I said the same thing about Obama: If anyone truly thinks he or she is a "pure soul", "doin' it for the people", they're a crayon-gobbling fool. He turned out to be Just Another Scumbag Politician, as I predicted. But her... I get the feeling that she actually believes the nonsense she says, whereas with Obama, it was very obviously all spin. The fact that she's so incredibly immature, vapid, and dishonest makes her far more dangerous than he was.

We can't change the past. I'm beyond caring about what Trump does, because he never should have been in the race (and neither should Hillary, but that's another rant). "We The People" let sh*t get this far out of hand, and no, I don't feel any sympathy, because people have to reap what they sow in this world. BUT. We can decide, collectively, starting NOW, that we're not gonna fall for another idiot with a pretty song and dance. We can decide, "We Won't Get Fooled Again".

But see, that's too complicated for most people, who insist that the game's already lost, so hold your nose and pick one piece of sh*t over the other piece of sh*t, otherwise your voice is "lost". Nonsense. If I vote for Trump, I'm responsible by proxy for his actions. Same for Cortez or anyone else. I accept neither credit NOT blame for other people's actions, period. And I also refuse to ever enable the bad behavior of others.

But observing, reporting, and debating are no crimes. We all have a voice, and we should all use it. But I, personally, will never join the chorus with ANYONE who goes to work wearing a suit. That's positive ID as "Enemy Of The People". Same goes for a badge. Anyone who sets a Life Goal for themselves of, "I wish to rule over others" is a piece of sh*t. I'll call them out on their bullsh*t but I otherwise I won't have anything to do with them, and I definitely won't endorse them. That's called "integrity", something none of them have or would ever understand.
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I'll give AOC credit for one thing, though: She recently implied it was irresponsible for anyone to have kids in the current situation, and I'll agree with that 1000%. I've been saying it since she was in diapers. Adding another hungry mouth to the zoo when there's so many people struggling to survive already is incredibly selfish and irresponsible. So, points for that. But it doesn't take a genius intellect to reach that conclusion, it merely takes two eyes and common sense. So I can't get excited that she finally said ONE thing that's fairly sensible. As Snipes said, "The sun even shines on a dog's ass, some days." She never shuts up, she was bound to say something true-ish sooner or later. That's just math.
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I'm not saying anyone should "keep silent", not at all. Rather, we need to ACTUALLY care, and stick to our principles. NOT selectively apply them when we happen to agree with one side over the other, or one empty suit over another. As I've said many times, picking any side other than Your Own Side is step one towards failure, because NONE of these people care about you. So we shouldn't be getting emotionally invested in them, or whether they're Red or Blue. We can't have blinders on about the nonsense coming from "our" side. We shouldn't even be PICKING sides, it's a joke, a diversionary tactic, a carny hustle. We need to be more on the ball than this, and we need to actually apply the same standards for "Our Side" as we do the "Other Side". Because ain't NOBODY doing that, now or ever. But they should.

"Well, these people tell the lies I wanna hear, so I support them." Well, that's great, lube up and bend over.
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I think where you and I fundamentally differ isn't so much politically. It seems like you believe things can or will improve, whereas I truly don't have anywhere near that much faith in humanity. People talk big, but they're ass about the follow-through.

It's like Carlin said: "If you have nothing but selfish, ignorant people, you're gonna have selfish, ignorant leaders. This is what The System produces: Garbage In, Garbage Out."

I can only call what I see. And that's what I see.
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