ladyloveswolves7 | Entries tagged with political insanity

We all know that the Republicans in power have their hands in the till and are sticking with Trump because once he goes, they go. We also know that a lot of fringe weird morons will never leave Trump's base no matter what crime he commits. But, there MUST be sane, sensible, honest, upright citizens who love America, love the constitution, believe in true law and order, revere truth and justice and do not want America to become a police state with citizens being beaten in the streets for lawful, peaceful protests. Those Republicans should take a deep breath and for once in their lives vote Democratic ticket. Four years...please just give us a four year breather and use that four years to find and groom a decent Republican to run for President four years from now. Save the country from gestapo tactics and a fascist president. Trump was NOT your choice, he became what was left for you to vote for if you were determined to vote Republican, just as Democrats are faced with Biden. The system and the dark money on both sides give you unpalatable choices...please please please side with sanity and give America a chance to breathe again. Because for 3 1/2 years we have not been able to breathe under Trump.

It is almost as if: Trump was briefed back in January and he gathered all his cronies like Steven Miller and Jared Kushner to find out how they could make money off this situation. Then Republicans gathered to figure out ways they could benefit. Several sold off major stocks in things that were going to tank fast on shut down of economy and invested in things that would boom in a pandemic. Others scurried around like rats figuring how to make book or money on the pandemic. Some thought..hey, real estate crisis, not enough new homes, kill off a lot of old folk and voila frees up real estate and government gets estate taxes for Trump to spend on wall, less money going out for social security so he can tap more out of that fund. Maybe a lot of old age homes will empty freeing up beds at higher prices. Maybe a lot of expensive veterans will die. Maybe the homeless population might be thinned. Hey, we can exploit this and come out on top. So FEMA/Federal government starts outbidding the state for equipment and then ships it to red states to save Republican bodies and lets blue states in more desperate straits go begging as the death rate in Democrat voters goes higher...win win for Republicans. Then using the pandemic as an excuse the Republicans use it as a squeeze tactic to get another huge windfall for the top 1% and corporations that don't pay any tax and offer dribs and drabs to the actual tax paying populace. They lie and obfuscate and placate and tell happy stories and pretend they never heard any of the hospitals crying for supplies and complaining supplies are in short supply (i NEVER HEARD THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH NOT ENOUGH TESTS). Trump's failing hotels will get money and ordinary tax paying citizens will lose their homes. Insurance companies will raise their premiums to cover their losses, people will go bankrupt for tests for everything but the virus and still not get free test for virus cause THERE ARE NO FUCKING REAGENT CHEMICALS AND THEREFORE NO TESTS. i could go on but it makes me sick.

On the bright side...sort of...my family comes out of this just fine thank you very much. I am a solitary who loves to hibernate and I am retired so income is secure (except for savings which are melting), sister is also retired and no savings to melt, younger son on disability with no savings to melt, Brandon in meat industry...still working and drawing full salary (worried about his lungs and virus), Michelle works for post office another secure job and continued salary, Cheyenne is a nurse and is assured of work through this thing. Mackenzie job on hold but she has mommy's money to balance any shortfall of EI. David is also on disability and I have no idea about Michelle's second boy. All in all we are covered.

I was thinking of how crazy it has made me to watch ordinary Americans crowded into Trump rallies, cheering him on, wearing t-shirts they paid him for sporting his latest slogan and all this despite the lies, the criminal behaviour, the outright theft from their pockets. Last night I thought of Walmartians and the thousands of pictures available on the net of these strange people who, when you look at them, you think WTF were they thinking, are they blind...have they no shame? My mind wandered on to Vicks..famous and rich and loves to hurt dogs and thinks it is okay. On to Davidian's compound, the mothership folk, Jones and his koolaid. It continued...fundamentalist christians that send money to men like Falwell despite knowing they use it to live high on the hog. I kept thinking about people who run puppy mills and perpetuate that kind of horror, Epstein and his little girls, suicide bombers promised what in return for their lives? On and on my mental progress through a world where horrors are routine everywhere and we live with them. Random people walk out with a gun and kill 1-50 other random people and nothing is done. Politicians like McConnell work the system up front and brazenly and dare anyone to say them nay and no one does or seems to have the power. 300,000 million people in the country and these few stand and thumb their noses at those that elected them and pick their pockets and the population seems totally helpless to stop them. The government takes a good chunk of the money the people sweat for, leaving them barely enough to keep a roof over their heads and feed their children. The government then spends the money on wars deliberately fomented so that the oil barons and the arms merchants get obscenely richer and the children of those same tax payers die far from home. Then some fat rich politician cuts food stamps, health care, allows pharmaceutical companies to raise the cost of necessary drugs out of the reach of the citizens that need them to survive, sells public land to rich friends, allows other rich friends to pollute drinking water, takes away protections for endangered species so other rich men can get richer and 300,000 million people seemingly can do nothing, in fact, 150,000 million cheer them on as their jobs disappear, they have to sell the family farm to a big conglomerate (you think that wasn't planned), miners with black lung are given a two minute audience after travelling hundreds of miles to beg for help of their elected official. The craziness goes on and on and on and I am lying somewhere between asleep and awake and trying to see my way to somehow not caring. I want to stop feeling angry, I want to stop feeling astonished, surprised and sick. I want to stop wondering how this can happen. I want an answer. I can't turn to a bible and let it tell me just accept the shit... that if you believe ...something better will come in the next world. We are living the Peter Principle...we have all risen to our level of incompetence and can no longer deal effectively with our world and so we are like chickens with our heads cut off... running in circles for the little time we have left. There doesn't seem to be an answer but if I can hold that image in my mind of Walmartians and Trumpers, maybe I can accept that I have always known there was crazy in the world..it is just that I forgot that most of it wears a normal face with their crazy on the inside and the poor Walmartians wear theirs on the outside for the world to see. They always tell speakers with stage fright to look out and picture the audience naked. From now on when I look at pictures of Trump supporters...I will see Walmartians.

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The truth of politics the world over is that what we are seeing every day reported by media is all bread and circuses to keep the attention of the masses of sheep from realizing they are surrounded by wolves that control every single politician...Republican AND Democrat..and the media. We are at their mercy (of which it appears these days..they have none). People are rioting in the streets all over the world ..and why? Because those greedy corporations and grotesquely rich people have gotten greedier and more careless of letting their actions show. They are moving too fast to undercut and take away the few chintzy rights the middle class and poor people have fought so hard to gain in the past 100 years. Brazenly handing out tax cuts to obscenely rich people and then claiming education, health care and veteran's services need to be cut because there is no money. WTF they must really believe that the entire population is blind, deaf and dumb. They have managed to dumb down half the population and are working hard to undercut the rest but I think these old white men have forgotten..women, blacks and gays have gotten a taste of freedom and power and we will not be shoved back in the closet or kitchens of the nation. If we can't stop these thieves any other way we will march and burn them to the ground. Drag them from their rich mansions and tear down their power structures. The French revolution did it...it can happen again. Money didn't save even the King of France, what makes you think that when climate change starts destroying our lives that we won't come for you. Memories are long and we know who is responsible. Right now the people are trying to let the laws of the land do the job of protecting the people from the predators who have gotten too greedy and shameless but make no mistake...we are not the peasants of France, we will take you down if the law won't. Look out your window when the women march and imagine if we decided to stop being peaceful. We might bring the country down around our own ears faster than you are already doing it but you will be crushed under our feet first. Talk about Civil war....yeah some of your brain dead followers might get up in arms but thanks to the NRA the rest of us are armed too and we are a fuck of a lot smarter. Just because we are currently law abiding doesn't mean you can keep pushing us over the brink. We are not lemmings, we can and will strike back.

Tom Morris
October 17 at 6:11 PM
I just saw the most fascinating short exchange on Quora. Someone asked what the Republican party could do to help Democrats see it as a viable alternative again, moving forward. This is the answer from someone with classic conservative values.

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This is the most frightening book I have read in as long as I can remember. It was written a month before President Trump's inauguration and published a month after. As I was reading I went on YouTube and watched a video of the author introducing his book in a book store and what he said twisted my guts in a knot because I had watched the campaign and it had upset me and made me deeply political for the first time in my life. I could not believe what was happening and spent a lot of time ranting and upset watching the, to me, systematic dismantling of democracy and a true copy cat 1933 Germany coming into being. The entire world seemed to have gone crazy and the sane members seemed helpless to stop it. Rule of law was disappearing. This was my personal point of view. Early in 2019, I turned off my television, I could no longer watch what was happening. I turned to the past and my books. But information seeped in and kept my personal pot boiling. This book just capped it all. It is three years of more and more, worse and worse and everything he warned about in this book, all the sign posts of fascism and dictatorships and people turning off their minds and becoming sheep...has all come true in every aspect. Hope is fading. We who are still fighting for truth and democracy leap at every renewed chance of hope like 'impeachment' as if it will save us and yet Trump's minions appear on television lying through their teeth and are given a platform by mainstream media (out of fairness???) to spew their garbage and I know that the base of the mindless sheep that follow Trump just like the Germans followed Hitler in 1938 are out there sucking it up as mother's milk. We on the left are so busy following the rules and not wanting to descend into the depths of depravity and hatred that the right has gone so far from rule of law and human decency that it is like a runaway train. If women would fight for women, if the gays would take to the streets again, if Greta's climate change movement only gets larger. This is not 1933 Germany with its terrible problems and people already crushed under a burden imposed by outsiders...this is a wealthy country, with educated citizens who can see climate change, can see when a politician is trying to take away the rights of women and denigrate them, can see the people who are responsible for telling us the truth of what is happening around us...being vilified. Just like with climate change...we are at a tipping point...we must do something. Everyone who sees the truth must do something before it is too late. Bush started this ball rolling by taking away the rights of citizens under the guise of homeland security and Trump is doubling down all over the place and the sheep are cheering the coming police state. This book is a tiny bombshell of truth that should be carried in the pocket of every single citizen just as Mao's little red book was carried by his.