“America Will Never Be A Socialist Country”.
“We Were Born Free And We Will Stay Free”.
– 45 SOTU Speech
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Just two of over eight thousand, according to the WAPO, and these may not be considered, as they are opinions.
Just because a person can label something other than what it is, doesn’t make it so.
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“Let’s just think about this for a minute”
– Bill Hicks
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1 socialism
noun
so·cial·ism
\ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm\
: a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies
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Full Definition
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
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*Consider the military industrial complex as a root program, feeding intentionally and unintentionally other industries for the simple sake of keeping many people employed / enslaved.
In general knowing that most weapons built, will never be used (on the positive side, it reflects we are evolving) yet, blind eyes are turned because in the grand scheme of things, it provides jobs.
“People don’t want anything near ‘em… except military bases. They don’t mind that do they? They like that. Give ‘em an army base, give ‘em a navy base, makes ‘em happy, why? Jobs! Jobs! Self-interest! Even if the base is loaded with nuclear weapons, THEY DON’T GIVE A #UCK!!!
They say “well, I’ll take a little radiation if I can get a job!” Working people have been #ucked over so long in this country, those are the kind of decisions they’re left to make.”
– George Carlin
Plus, it trickles down to other economies that would appear to be separate from it.
The person(s) getting paid to build a destroyer, wants to build a house. Needs to hire an architect, a contractor, get a loan from a bank. Etc., etc., etc
“Defense” cleverly disguised as socialism
To the tune of 700 plus billion a year for “seed” money.
2a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
There is no “private” property, the banks are holding the leases and the banks are controlled/regulated by the government and doled out and around by the International monetary fund.
Besides no matter what a person might think that they “own”, it is an illusion of cliché proportions.
There are no U-haul’s behind a hearse. You can not take it with you and whoever dies with the most “toys” is dead.
b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
* See above.
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3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
First known use: 1833
– m-w.com
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A clever bean counter, a hedge fund manager, or currency manipulator are not productive members of society.
Not saying some good may not come out of their actions but it is a perpetual roll of the dice that they could gamble any one’s business or a country’s economy into the poor house.
“Sky scraper buildings
Corporate corridor, office suite
Executive board, high finance
Big businessman suit
Not stained by sweat or blood
Using money like perfume water
Sophistication smiles
Hide stain and decay
Realistic decisions
In columns and ledgers
Dividing profits among themselves
Spoils of war are spoils of war
Says Junk Man owner of the junk
Grafitti Man’s got something to say
Message in a scrawl message on the wall
Down with bosses
No more bosses
Something’s gotta change
Something’s gotta change”
– John Trudell
Farms subsidized because of an inept foreign trade policy is socialism
State laws requiring you to pay a partial premium to cover “uninsured motorists” is socialism
Paying to have your trash removed, which too often ends up on garbage barges, then dumped into the ocean is met with society paying to clean up the ocean, is socialism.
Not to mention it is our insatiable need to feel good about ourselves that we consume as much material products in the first place.
Thinking that if we buy the latest gizmo that is newer, shinier, faster, softer, harder, has an extra bell or whistle, then we’ll be complete.
Driven by a treadmill like news cycle that reaches the negativity of armageddon type proportions, creating a “live like there is no tomorrow” entropic attitude.
“Open spaces in shopping center walls
Middle class man middle class land
Clean enough to be a family affair
Nice place to take wide eyed child
Controlled climate temperate zones
Neat little shops all laid out
Everything by sale
By cash or plastic
Price not negotiable but payment is
Different junk man different junk
Spend some money buy some more
Grafitti Man’s got something to say
Message in a scrawl message on the wall
Put on blinders
Dull the senses
Who’s worth more than money they spend?”
– John Trudell
“We Were Born Free And We Will Stay Free”
– 45 SOTU Speech
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
“Freedom
Freedom is the measurable distance, between you and your watch, wallet, phone & keys.”
– me
Unless you can, at will, transform yourself into the ether, enter and exit other dimensions, pass through liquids or solids at the drop of a hat, you are not free.
You are bound and shackled, first by gravity, oxygen and sunlight. That is just on nature’s end.
“It’s not a free country. You’re born free…
I mean, you are born absolutely free, except for the laws of nature. If you drink, you get drunk. That’s a law. If you get old, you die. That’s a law too. If you sit on a tack, you will bleed from the ass.”
“These are the only laws they that you’re born with. And any kind of government just #ucks you out of that type of freedom.”
– Doug Stanhope
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Get into the man made systems and you may as well be lying in an Iron Maiden, waiting (and / or hoping) for the lid to close.
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If you really think you’re free tonight… You, hero! Officer Bob, you’re a free man! You live in a free country!
You go upstairs… You take your own beer you risked your life for… You sit on the hood of your monster truck in a parking lot… Drink your beer. And see how long it is before actual veteran cops come by and pound on you with trudgeons on the kidneys, to show… “Why can’t I do it? I’m just having a beer.” “I don’t know.”
That’s the law, you don’t #uck around.” You can’t drive down the street without a seatbelt on, why not? Or you gotta put on a helmet.
You can’t sit in your own backyard naked, your own filthy dirty flesh that you’re born with. You know that body you carry around? “Filthy! You can’t sit out… Why not? I don’t know, that’s just the way it is. You’re not free.
You’re not free in the least. You need a dipoma in this country, to cut hair. Are you free? You need to keep your tray in an up right and locked position during take-off. That’s not just a hack premise, it’s a #ucking felony.
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“Why do I have to have…? This doesn’t make sense.”
They say if you give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day, but if you teach a man to fish….
…….Then he’s gotta get a fishing license, but he doesn’t have any money.
So he’s got to get a job, and get into the Social Security system and pay taxes, and now you’re gonna audit the poor c*#@$ucker, ’cause he’s not really good with math.
He’ll pull the IRS van up to your house, and he’ll take all your shit. He’ll take your black velvet Elvis and your Batman toothbrush, and your penis pump, and that all goes up for auction with the burden of proof on you, because you forgot to carry the one, ’cause you were just worried about…….. eating a #ucking fish, and you couldn’t even cook the fish ’cause you needed a permit for an open flame.
Then the Health Department is going to start asking you a lot of questions, about where are you going to dump the scales and the guts. ‘This is not a sanitary environment’,
And ladies and gentlemen if you get sick of it all, at the end of the day… not even legal to kill yourself in this country.
Thanks again, John Ashcroft, you weird bible addict, can’t even handle his own drug. You were born free, you got fucked out of half of it, and you wave a flag celebrating it.
The only true freedom you find, is when you realize and come to terms with the fact that you are completely and unapologetically #ucked, and then you are free to float around the system.”
– Doug Stanhope
Speaking of Iron Maiden
“The Prisoner”
We want information
Information
Information
Who are you?
The new number 2
Who is number 1?
You are number 6
I am not a number! I am a free man!
[Laughter]
I’m on the run, I kill to eat
I’m starving now, feeling dead on my feet
Going all the way, I’m natures beast
Do what I want and do as I please
Run – Fight – To breathe – It’s tough
Now you see me now you don’t
Break the walls I’m coming out
Not a prisoner I’m a free man
And my blood is my own now
Don’t care where the past was
I know where I’m going …out!
If you kill me it’s self defense
And if I kill ya’ then I call it vengeance
Spit in your eye I will defy
You’ll be afraid when I call out your name
Run – Fight – To breathe –
It’s gonna be tough
Now you see me now you don’t
Break the walls I’m coming out
Not a prisoner I’m a free man
And my blood is my own now
Don’t care where the past was
I know where I’m going
I’m not a number I’m a free man
Live my life where I want to
You’d better scratch me
From your black book
Cause’ I’ll run rings around you
Want to test your freedom? Next time you are at a “sporting” event, that uselessly (for no intrinsic reason) plays the national anthem. Stand like a statue, with your hand over the heart arm, raised and “flipping the bird” (finger “swearing” oooooh) towards the flag.
See how long it takes some thick neck, arm swinging, red “MAGA” hat wearing, insecure about the size of his flag pole dude to come by and rearrange your version of freedom to his. Whilst keeping this in mind.
“We Were Born Free And We Will Stay Free”
– 45 SOTU Speech
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“Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.” (and government.)
― Steven Pinker
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If society is going to expunge public officials from office for being racist, that is completely understandable.
Is dressing up in black face offensive?
Yes.
As society sloooowlllllly evolves, was it inappropriate, showing poor judgment, and insensitive. Yes, yes, yes.
Beyond the knee jerk unexamined reaction though, one ought to take into consideration, the diversity of the staff.
Also review the policies implemented, removed, or unfairly and unjustly enforced.
After all, an elected official may have never put on black face in any context, but may still surround himself with a mostly, all (pink) “white” male cabinet.
Then by executive order, implement an unconstitutional travel ban barring peoples of a specific religion from entering the country.
Likewise creating a bogeyman under the bed (across the border) fearful hysteria to coalesce a boneless base into being ardent supporters.
Because, you know, if Norway was the country at the southern “border” 45 would be declaring a “national emergency” to build a concrete, one way, four lane super highway heading north.
Plus be able to admit through confession that it’s okay to assault women when you have “celebrity” status, and get away with it.
Pile on the executive orders (that he said he’d never need to use) to deny people who have had medical procedures from volunteering to “serve” their country.
Need I go on?
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Obviously the politically correct way to get away with continuing to practice blatant racism, religious intolerance, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, treason, stealing from the lower and middle class to give to the rich, sidle up to dictators, despots, autocrats and murderers, then all you have to do, to make that behavior acceptable, is dress up in a blue suit, a white shirt, a red tie and paint on an ORANGE face.
Besides the
Fairy tale
Notion
Of an
Alpha and Omega
Existence
Energy
Can neither
Be created
Nor destroyed
Therefore
It merely
Changes shape
In
S p a c i o u s n e s s
Or density
Inertia
Or velocity
Opaqueness
Or clarity
That is
If you are looking at it
At the right moment
To even decide
If it is
A particle or a wave
Or both or neither.
Such is
The sustenance
Of our minds
At the
Perpetual crossroads
Of evolution
With no
Turning back
It is impossible
To unlearn
But never to late
To rearrange
One’s beliefs
Or perceptions
‘Twas like thunder, all thru the night
Promise to see Jesus in the morning light
Love say “Take my hand, it’ll be alright
C’mon save your soul tonight”
“Thunder”
– Prince
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During the pregame warm up to the chaotic “state of the union” speech.
Much like football, each side hyping up what “their” team is going to do, based on past performance and wishful thinking.
We think 45 is going to declare a national emergency to build a wall.
If 45 declares a national emergency just to appease his racist base, it will get clogged in the courts.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Relentlessly regurgitated, recycled, repeated and repeated with no nutritional or spiritual value.
We think Larry linebacker is going to stop the play, We think Randy receiver will fumble the ball. No, kicking Kevin can save the day and win the game. As I said.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Relentlessly regurgitated, recycled, repeated and repeated with no nutritional or spiritual value.
Just once, would like to see/hear either or both sides, speculate outside of the box, they’ve trapped themselves in and pontificate the following.
Seeing how horribly 45 failed as a negotiator, we think Potus will have had a “come to Jesus” or Buddha or Muhammad, or Kermit the frog, or Winnie the Pooh, or Oprah moment, and eloquently describe a new vision.
Maybe something like this.
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“My fellow and feminine Americans, after studying the globe and consulting with cosmologists, humanitarian and history experts, now realize, regardless of how countries are identified, how big or small they are, they all are on the same big blue green spaceship magically floating in an elliptical orbit around the sun.
Therefore it seems silly to bar any one from moving freely around the vessel. Especially since, everybody is already here. We can work on that, once it is understood we are all coming from the same place.
Might as well realize that, then collectively take care of our intergalactic traveling Winnebago just to see where it is taking us. Without it falling apart due to poor maintenance.”
– Speculation as a transformed 45
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Otherwise the collective stays mired in a thick gooey loose stool circular muddy rut, regardless of how hard it tries to get out, only gets worse.
A formidable follow up to “On No Particular Day”
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
– Dr Wayne Dyer
What if, instead of “caravans of criminals”, “miles of migrants” or “deluge of drugs” were coming over the border (an imaginary line dividing dirt).
It was “reported” as “frightened fetuses” or a “barrage of babies” were heading north to avoid being aborted or buried.
Same thing, different context.
Would, then the “religious right” (yeah, right), “Christian conservatives”, or racist #ucks, step up to the plate, welcome and assist? My guess is nope. It would simply be reframed as not our problem.
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“Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
– Unknown (just kidding)
– The late JC (I think)
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As for a correlation to the “deluge of drugs”, if there were no consumers of the product there’d be none coming north in the first place.
No one is smuggling in products that won’t be purchased, it is as simple as that.
On no particular day, when 45 was steeped and embroiled in narcissistic self induced look at me controversy with prepared distractions which lead back to him, (I need attention) regardless of likely criminality, deception and ignorance. As I said, no particular day.
I dropped down on the satellite radio dial both numerically and dispositionally to Faux news, to hear how they might spin 45’s involvement with Putin.
Only to discover that since there was no one else to blame or to un-twist a half baked presidential pretzel. The host was ranting and whining over the emotionally rankling topic of abortion.
Nothing like gearing the material for their audience. Must be policy, that if you can’t say something nice or accurate about the president, keep the base glued over useless controversy. Keep ratings up and revenue streaming.
Faux must have an endless rotating cue of prepared topics to distract and detain. Ones, that will never ever reach a resolve any more than figuring out, which came first, the chicken or the egg. Items such as flag burning, immigration, gun control, prayer in school, God in the pledge of allegiance, anthem kneeling, Hillary’s e-mails, climate change etc.
When faux is not avoiding the (in general, would be good to know) topics, they all always seem to deceptively direct the dialogue to dichotomous distraction. To the point, where it just is people talking over each other.
I keep waiting for for Fox to realize, they have no more threads left, to keep the emperor clothed.
“They’re not pro-life. You know what they are? They’re anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don’t like them. They don’t like women. They believe a woman’s primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state.”
– George Carlin
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The only two cents, I want to throw in, is that until government outlaws post natal abortions (war casualties) pre natal ones should be just as “legal”. Or be able to cite a reasonable differentiation between the two.
What is the deal? Men can abort as many, out of the womb fetuses they want, but women aren’t allowed to have one or two?
As Kamala Harris so poignant and eloquently pointed out, during the failed supreme court vetting process.
“There are no laws on any books, regulating men’s bodies.”
– Kamala Harris
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Here are my credentials:
First of all
I have none
Seeing as how
I have a penis
That should end
Any males input
On this subject
However
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Since I never ever
Wanted to participate
In that decision
Making process
I chose not to
Join the military
Where I would have to
Follow orders to
Perform late term
Out of the womb
Post natal abortions
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“Wouldn’t it be nice to have a kid? To have this fresh, clean slate which we could fill. A little clean spirit, innocent, and to fill it with good ideas.”
Yeah, yeah, how about this? If you’re so fucking altruistic, why don’t you leave the little clean spirit wherever it is right now?
– Bill Hicks
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That is what I did
Just to bolster
My ability to comment
Never planted any
Seeds in any garden
So that
Would never
Be a decision
On my plate
Besides
Was very
Self aware as to how
I turned out
Would not impose
My thinking
And over thinking
On anyone
“Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.
Conservatives don’t give a shit about you until you reach “military age”. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they’ve been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.”
– George Carlin
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Don’t think of it
As an abortion.
Think of it as
Fetus / womb separation
At the uterine border wall
Deporting the soul
Back to the spirit realm
Where “it” belongs
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Metaphorically that “should” end the *immigration arguments as well.
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In that context
Perhaps Laura Ingraham
Can get behind it
And stop wasting
Valuable air time
With emotional dialogue
Trumped up to
Distract
*Immigration
“There’s too many people in this fucking country. But I think if you’re going to focus on keeping people out, you got to focus on people who don’t contribute to society. That’s a no-brainer.
There’s a specific group of over 4 million people that come into this country every year and don’t contribute a fucking thing.
And everyone knows who I am talking about, but no one wants to say it, because it is politically incorrect
But, fuck that, you know who I am talking about. Officer Bob. You know who I am talking about, who am I talking about. ….
Babies, that’s who I am talking about, babies, they come out of your hole, they come in to this country. They don’t speak the language, they don’t want to work.
They just take and they take and they cause a ruckus. They waste all of our natural resources. I say put the border patrol agent at the foot of your uterus.
Anything comes out without a visa, you kick it back in the hole. What is your name? You are not on the list, get back behind the velvet rope. The club is over full, we’ll call you when we need you.
Sick, the amount of people.
Oh Doug, don’t do an anti baby bit on every cd?
Yes, cause you won’t stop having them, so I am going to keep saying it.
Almost every problem in the world boils down to too many fucking people and I’m not just talking out of my ass. I’ve had my vasectomy, I have no children.”
“Deadbeat Hero”
– Doug Stanhope
“Immigration / Vasectomy”
“I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me –and I’ll build them very inexpensively.
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”
– 45
Maybe, he should have said, he will build caves.
For no one “caves” better than the Donald.
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“I will build a great cave — and nobody builds caves better than me, believe me –and I’ll build them very expensively.
I will build a great, great cave on our southern border, and I will make the Merikkan taxpayers pay for that cave. Mark my words.”
– Cave Man
“I ascribe to Mark Twain’s theory* that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most.
The one who should be picked, is the one who should be dragged, kicking and screaming into the White House.”
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– Bill Hicks
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I would run for president, but methinks I would be assassinated upon announcing my platform. So……
Here is my platform.
Hmmm, so many places to start.
It would probably be too frivolous to start by changing the National Anthem to John Lennon’s “Imagine”, so, will save that for later as a global / cosmic anthem.
First up, remove the rule of law.
Eliminating the vague mock adherence to the ineffective, selective, defective and deceptive to the collective, “Rule of Flaw”.
The premise, that making something “illegal” by printing words on a page and “enforcing” them, has never prevented any unwanted activity.
Never ever, in any culture at any time. From alleged “stone tablets” to “legal libraries” in marble buildings.
Not only is Justice “blind”, it is deaf and dumb. It is also manipulated by skin color, money in the bank, social position. Who one knows, or doesn’t know. Pushed by for profit prisons, etc.
In other words, it is corrupt, plus its very title reveals that. Why else would it be called a “Criminal Justice System” ?
While at first, this sounds like it might create societal anarchy, even just starting with traffic “laws”. Knowing you won’t get a “ticket” for “speeding”.
Quickly, most would realize it would turn into a self preservation thing and would be a consequential act of looking out for others by looking out for one’s self.
“Here’s a little red light story, somebody told me.” “A guy is driving along, got someone, sitting right next to him and he goes right through a red light sssweeeeew. Guy goes “What are you doing? Nevermind, will ya, my brother drives like this. Goes a little bit further, comes to another red light, sssweeeeew, goes right through it. Guy goes “What are you doing? I told you, nevermind, my brother drives like this. Goes a little bit further, comes to a green light……. and stops. Guy goes “What are you doing?, Well, my brother might be coming the other way.
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– George Carlin
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If that doesn’t explain the theory, I don’t know what will. Other than without laws, my perception is that by “selfishly” looking out for ourselves, we’d be intentionally and unintentionally looking out for everyone else. All of our “brothers” and “sisters”.
We are living in anarchy now, we just don’t call it that. Here is “definitive” proof.
Anarchy:
b : a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority
– m-w.com
One thing I’ve noticed in order to stir the masses, there needs to be an invisible intangible improbable bogeyman. I guess to be politically correct, that would be a bogey person, better yet a bogey entity.
Most administrations have used some form of “ism”. Something nobody can “see” or put a finger on, but is used to scare the begeezuz out of a docile mass.
Prior to this tempestuous twitter tweeting toddler twit. The bogeyman was terrorism, or communism, or McCarthyism, or socialism etc. You get the picture.
45 switched it up from an ism to a shun (tion), making the bogeyman, immigration. Taking cues from recent previous administrations by scapegoating brown people.
I will double down, breaking away from the singular format of motivation that eludes to the illusionary protectionist scheme, that some how a monolithic “Big Brother” will be able to protect everyone, when in reality, it can protect no one. Also, will move it from fear to hope.
Two tangibles that each individual can grasp and do something about themselves. Making the seemingly necessary bogeyman defeatable.
Here it is, Ignorance and Complacency. Which can be personally defeated by reading and engaging.
Otherwise, the nonsense we are currently participating in, merely maintains the status quo of the haves, the have nots and the have mores.
Which does minimal for the individual to master the creativity of our divinity in the infinity for all eternity.
* As of this writing can not find that Mark Twain reference
Likewise, have not heard those words from Bill Hicks in a recording, however saw it attributed to him. Seems like something he “might” have said.
A follow up to “I Would Run”
Part 2 of my presidential platform.
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“Running on – running on empty
Running on – running blind
Running on – running into the sun
But I’m running behind”
– Jackson Browne
A nonworthwhile try.
The latest mindless mantra projected on the faceless bogeyman is “crime and drugs” to which is an oroborus beast feeding on itself. Therefore the best way to elliminate most of both, would be to make all drugs “legal” or decriminalized.
Nothing would break up the “cartels” quicker than a nod, for them to compete, fair and square, with all the other “legitimate” pharmaceuticals.
The ones harvesting mostly unnatural chemical compounds to numb out an already TV anesthetized soft brained society.
Let them be as liable as the other corporations. If their product doesn’t live up to its expectations, or causes harm, if not used as directed.
They can hire those TV lawyers, perpetually advertising, always trying to cash in on the Erin Brockovich type money.
Have you been injured, are you a victim of your own incompetence or a big business’s standard operating procedure (neglect)?
Call the law offices of “Dewey, Screwum and Howe”. 1 800 Screw U 2
(Best not to run, too easily sidetracked)
(At least my distractions are unplanned.)
Besides, the excessive profits would probably pay for everyone’s universal health care.
Whadaya know, stumbled on a policy just by writing this out. Whodathunk?
Legal or illegal, people are going to do drugs, they already do, alcohol, caffeine and nicotine. In unlimited quantity, regardless of age.
“This is a country where tobacco kills 400,000 people a year — so they ban artifical sweeteners!……Because a rat died. Know what I mean?”
– George Carlin
Categorizing “Other than pharmaceuticals” as illicit substances, only jacks up their appeal and prices.
“Dealer man not dealing drugs because people do drugs, it’s so they will. A way of fixing them, while they break.
As they run out of wishes and hope, he steps in with materials and dope….”
– John Trudell
“Somebody’s Kid”
“This is a place where alcohol ruins more lives than cancer, and everybody gets upset when some athlete gets hooked on cocaine.
You know Time Magazine and Newsweek put cocaine on the cover, but they put the liquor advertisements……. inside the magazine.”
– George Carlin
“Alcohol doesn’t get credit where credit is due, and it’s not the best drug. It’s not even in the top 5. But, it’s the easiest one to get and we’re a fat lazy country of convenience. Alcohol is a very convenient drug.
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If drinking required that I had to sit in a Denny’s parking lot for two hours in the middle of the night, waiting for my friend Alan to answer his voice mail. Finally show up just to drop off a six pack. I’d never drink again. I’m a lazy #uck.”
– Doug Stanhope
I concur, I enjoy a legal liquid mind altering refreshment, but if it was a hassle to get, would not bother.
“All illegal narcotics are medicinal.
Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if used as directed. Life’s temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile. You should be inventing new drugs is what you should be doing! Newer, crazier drugs… “
– Doug Stanhope
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Make it all “legal” and tax it, like all our other vices and use that money for treatment. Till humans can understand their own divinity.
“Why is the drug czar in this country—well, let’s go back; Why do we have a “drug czar” in this country, A.
B, why is he a cop? Why do they put drug users in jail? They’re sick, they’re not criminals.
Sick people don’t get better in prison.”
– Bill Hicks
“We can have all the blue-ribbon committees we want, but if we don’t get tough on drug dealers we’re wasting our time,” he said in New Hampshire, a state whose overdose rate is twice the national average. “And that toughness includes the death penalty.”
– Donald Trump
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“Now there are alot of people who want to expand the death penalty to include drug dealers. This is really stupid. Drug dealers aren’t afraid to die. They’re already killing each other every day on the streets by the hundreds.
Drive-bys, gang shootings, they’re not afraid to die. Death penalty doesn’t mean anything unless you use it on people who are afraid to die. Like… the bankers who launder the drug money.
The bankers, who launder, the drug money. Forget the dealers, you want to slow down that drug traffic, you got to start executing a few of these fucking bankers. White, middle class Republican bankers.”
– George Carlin
While that might work, it is still a violent solution to a nonviolent problem. Besides, it is on a treadmill run that never ends.
That is the whole point of a treadmill, which when the collective decides to “hop” off, we can all move on to our most ideal potential.
There is no us vs. them. It is all us. Besides, even though there is no proof, am quite sure *eternal recurrence occurs.
* The idea of eternal recurrence—which Nietzsche presents as a sort of thought experiment—appears in Aphorism 341, “The Greatest Weight”:
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself.
The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!'”
– Fredrich Nietzsche
That certainly highlights our insignificance, however within that, lies our freewill to alter, our thinking and behavior. We can shift our position and perception within that “eternal hourglass”. To get along with all of the other “specks of dust”. That at some point, will meet and be going through the narrow neck at the same time. Might as well make it pleasant as possible.
A follow up to “Running On Empty”
Part 3 of my presidential platform.
“I Would Run”
“Against the wind
We were runnin’ against the wind
We were young and strong,
We were runnin’ against the wind”
– Bob Segar
“If voting made any difference….. they wouldn’t let us do it.”
― Mark Twain
“I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me?
I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, “My God! I love everything.”
Yeah, now if that isn’t a hazard to our country … how are we gonna keep building nuclear weapons, you know what I mean?
What’s gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize that, WE’RE ALL ONE?!”
– Bill Hicks
Speaking of the arm industry. My perception is that humanity has evolved past the need for war.
Or as Dennis Miller used to say.
“It’s just my opinion, I could be wrong.”
Or to take a line from Doug Stanhope.
“If it didn’t exist, would you invent it?”
War, that is.
Of course not. The whole planet is conquered, in more ways than one.
So…now that we know that and realize the bank draining, soul sucking, life destroying activities of the military industrial complex, it is time to transform the swords into plow shares and other useful things.
“The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base outside Tuscon, Ariz., is where old planes go to die. More than 4,000 military aircraft are parked on the base, from B-52s to stealth bombers, where they are salvaged for parts and broken down for scrap. It’s one of the most popular satellite pictures online, making guided tours of the area a hot ticket.
See the airplane graveyard on Google Maps.”
“Time” Magazine
At a minimum of ten million a piece, that is forty billion tax dollars sitting in the sand. A wasted cog in the wheel of the military industrial complex. Built by fear and patriotism, resource theft and imperialism.
That is the unspoken socialism, nobody (especially those faux broadcast consumers) want to really address.
Where taxpayer money is spent arbitrarily keeping people working for the sake of producing widgets (wmd’s) just to keep them busy.
When instead, quite sure we could use alot of it for housing, or buildings and pipelines for water treatment. Food storage and distribution.
Now that I’ve laid out my dopey hopefully funny useless platform, have decided not to run. Knowing that a meritocracy needs no singular leadership.
“Democracy is the worst kind, I am sorry, but it is. We get to pick our leaders..well…
What if I don’t want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own, I don’t want to be “led”. Is that freedom?”
– Doug Stanhope
Just a society of people doing what they’d rather be doing. I enjoy being a freight transportation supervisor aka (truck driver) who has the time to think of this and put it to digitized print.
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“I Don’t Want To Be President”
“Just after I was born,
my father said to everyone
That I would be the President one day
You’re a natural politician,
boy, get it in your head
And you know that it might
just turn out that way
So through all the years of my childhood
There more important things than to play
I started caring for my country
and my fellow man
And this is what I would always say
I’d say, I don’t want to be President
But I want to help
the poor and the helpless people
I really don’t want to be President
But if I’m elected I promise to be faithful
I graduated college
with my law degree
I was a young man on the move,
they always say
I was helping my community,
committed to the people
I was working as a citizen,
to build a better day
They persuaded me to run for Congressman
They said from Congress
you could do much more good
And you’ve got to have the power
if your changing things
And I was hoping to do everything
I could for the people
I’d say I don’t want to be President
But I want to help the poor and
the helpless people
I really don’t want to be President
But if I’m elected I promise to be faithful
Time is a march
where the powerful are drummers
Big business, big labor, big oil
And soon I was meeting
with the men who ran the country
The men who owned
the sky and the soil
Oh, I became a Senator,
a man to be reckoned with
Playing golf with millionaires,
and speaking on TV
And when they talked of potential presidential candidates
Most often talked about, and most prominent was me
Well, I got the nomination, ran a campaign of conscience
I stood for peace and brotherhood
and for prosperity
And on the day of the election
I went home to my mansion
When the people had spoken,
they’d elected me
But I don’t want to be President”
– Harry Chapin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 