Of contradiction
Clad in Vietnam
Marine regalia
Assumably proud
Of his service
In an unjust war
Brokered from
The French losing
Battle after battle
Was wearing a
Baseball cap
Praising 45 to
Win reelection
With a search engine
At my fingertips
I pulled up the following
“When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.
Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.”
– https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/
It occurred desperately to me to
Kindly inquire about the juxtaposition
Of the mixed and contradictory messages
Between his vest and his hat to at least
Grasp at some understanding of WHY??
Why would one support a loser when 45
Considers the vest wearer a loser
Then I realized I don’t usually strike
Up a conversation with billboards
Plus, then I’d be compelled to point out
That his hat was probably made in China
Which isn’t exactly an America first tactic
To build a strong economy here
While spending money, some place else
So, since my writing muse
Presented me with this information
Thought I’d write about it
And leave it here to amuse my
WordPress audience of this blog
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
My love for infinity
Comes back to me
In infinite ways
Infinitely forever
Almost like there
Is no separation
Between me and
Everything else
Oh wait….there
Is no separation
Imagine that
Neither good
Nor evil…….
Just infinite love
That goes on and
On and on and on
Merely a change
In consciousness
Through experience
Altering between
Waves and particles
Beyond the speed
Of light or thought*
No beginning
Nor end therefore
No “creator”
Or “destroyer”
No “one” to thank
Nothing to pray to
Nothing to be prey for
“Bind all of us together,
Ablaze with Hope and Free,
No storm or heavy weather
Will rock the boat you’ll see.
The time has come to close your eyes
And still the wind and rain,
For the one who will be King
Is the Watcher in the Ring.
It is You.
It is You.”
– Iron Maiden
“Revelations”
“A song written about religion, or about washing your car, or … actually, it is about opening a pair of curtains.”
– Bruce Dickinson
*
The speed of light is a man made mind construct
Having made machines to measure things
The speed of thought is quicker exchanging
Words for thoughts and thoughts for words
And like infinite love, goes on forever…..
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
I am wrong
About everything
I’m okay with that
Me being “right”
Helps no one
It’s a good place to be
To question everything
Besides there is not any
Proof in any pudding
It could all be simulated
Sensory stimulation
Who is to say otherwise
Like virtual reality goggles
Within a VR headset
Inside of a hologram
Based on a projection
Digitized and displayed
On the mind’s eye
Think of a memory
That happened “back” when
“When” it occurred
Sometime before now
Depending on your
Focus and recollection
It is happening “now”
If that memory is “stored”
Where is it stored
How come one cannot
Throw it out or delete it
How may it be retrieved
When it happened while
The earth was spinning
Hurling through space
Both at break neck speeds
Millions of miles ago?
“My solipsistic worldview
Does not allow me to see
What may be real reality.”
– Angelo Devlin
Is everyone enjoying
The puppet show
Because that is what
You are watching
Yet, it seems so real
Audience members
Yelling at the 4th wall
Or transfixed immobile
By the sheer amount of
Digital distraction
Displayed in deceit
To keep one behaving
In reaction mode
Instead of spirit
That knows it is just
A puppet show
Individual sparks
Of the divine
Caught up in the
Deadly entertainment
Pulling emotional
Strings of doubt and fear
“I’ll show you politics in America.
Here it is, right here.
“I think the puppet on the right
Shares my beliefs.”
“I think the puppet on the left
Is more to my liking.”
“Hey, wait a minute,
There’s one guy…………
Holding out both puppets!”
“Shut up! Go back to bed, America.
Your government is in control.”
– Bill Hicks
From a vague recollection of a meme…
American to a Russian:
What are you doing here in the United States?
Russian: We’ve come to study your propaganda.
American: Why, we don’t have propaganda here.
Russian: Exactly……..
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
To never ever be fixed
Even though they are fixable
But that is not where
The vested interest lies
It lies about solutions
Giving rise to dichotomy
For the sake thereof
To have something
That, although solvable
Such as immigration *
“Legal” or otherwise
Never gets solved
When it comes to an
Imaginary border
Through war requisition
Land “purchases”
(“Crazy Horse”
“We Hear what you say
One Earth, one Mother
One does not sell the Earth
The people walk upon
We are the land
How do we sell our Mother ?
How do we sell the stars ?
How do we sell the air ?”
– John Trudell )
Or alleged “holy” scriptures
On an interconnected
Spinning sphere in space
That all inhabitants belong to
Much like a Rubik’s cube
With many ways to get
To the same results
Those who can not solve it
Mess it up for those who can
Immigration is not a problem
It is how most people’s
Ancestors got where they are
To wherever they are now
From a primordial ooze
(Could be soup, but ooze sounds better)
In a Goldilocks Zone
For the life we know to emerge from a
Mother Earth that created us
It would be best to take care of her
Whilst we still can
“When the world was virgin
Before the coming of men
Just a solar witness
The beginning of the end
From a world of magma
To a cold rock face
The ascent of madness
And a human race”
“If Eternity Should Fail”
– Iron Maiden
Spherical or flat
(Am trying to be inclusive even of the most likely wrong)
We are all of this earth, hurling through space
On our spaceship, ought not we figure out how
To best manage all our resources so we don’t ruin the ship
“What do we do? We say things that don’t make sense. Do you understand how stupid we sound on the news?
Is there anybody who even knows a little bit about our history, when we say things in America like, “I don’t mind immigration, but I do mind “illegal” immigration.
No, you don’t! We’re America. Every beautiful thing that we have in this country was built. …… illegally.
This is not me, saying this as a beaner. I’m saying this as an American, who accepts the reality of who we are.
White people, when you landed on Plymouth Rock….You did not have a visa.
Look, all the immigrants are laughing.
Look at all the white people. ….. That was a long time ago.”
– Carlos Mencia
Immigration is not a problem
“It is politically valuable to both sides.”
– Robin Quivers
Overpopulation is
The solution is education and abstinence
Or “Incentive Based Eugenics” – Doug Stanhope **
Which is not what the corporations want
They need uneducated consumers to buy stuff
Plus create more consumers to buy more stuff
That “unsolvable” problem creates gross profits
To have more employees to purchase more waste
Guns and bullets for the fearful of shadows
Flags and diapers (one in the same, really)
Small, medium, large and super-sized screens
To keep the easily distracted mesmerized
By the flashy light emitting distracting diodes
Telling them what to think and believe
For the indoctrinated resident immigrants
To watch repeat and regurgitate
What best suits their comfortable level of fear
In their perpetual protracted two minutes of hate
Since it is “okay” for “their” kind to
Immigrate from a different dimension
Think not. Why else are babies considered
As arrivals and welcomed by residents
Everybody everywhere is where they came from
Their mother earth and, is home all the time
Wherever they are, just in different rooms
In different conditions indifferent to their surroundings
I heard a senator on the news gleefully repeating
“We need more babies. We need more babies.”
In a creepy, non-sexual, but uneducated way
“We need more babies. We need more babies.”
In response to an abortion question, who I suspect
Would be more than ready to eliminate border crosser’s
Because “those” grown fetuses are unwanted. What?
*
Senate Republicans threaten to block border security bill they negotiated
The striking turn of events comes as Donald Trump tells the GOP to sink the bill, arguing that it could take the political heat off Democrats ahead of an expected rematch with Joe Biden.
– NBC News
By Sahil Kapur and Frank Thorp V
WASHINGTON — Within 48 hours of the release of a long-awaited immigration and foreign aid bill he had championed, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Republican conference rejected his pitch to support it, knifed the deal and left it for dead.
Just four Republicans voted for it. In the end, even McConnell backtracked and voted against the package that he had helped develop.
– NBC News
Oopsie
Side note
(Wouldn’t everyone like to know what 45 is blackmailing
The likes of McConnell, Graham, and Mike Johnson with?)
Just speculating, I have no proof……..oh wait here is one
“You know how you make America great again?” Graham asked in 2015. “Tell Donald Trump to go to hell.” Then, on the same day Trump essentially clinched the GOP nomination, the senator predicted, “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.”
– thedailybeast
Now, Graham is just the lead bootlicker of the bootlicker base.
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
** Doug Stanhope continued………
“If I had any cause over the course of my career that I’ve bitched the most about, It’s overpopulation, which is the root of most of the other problems you care about.
//
The only solution that I’ve ever come up with, Which I think is great, but no one’s gotten on board, incentive-based eugenics.
Eugenics was a practice of sterilizing people. Hitler got a lot of the credit for it, but it was actually done in this country long before Hitler even knew who he was mad at. We were practicing eugenics in this country.
Eugenics was the practice of forced sterilization of undesirables, which sounds bad. And the way they did it was bad ’cause they would…
First of all, the force is wrong. You don’t force people to do things they don’t want to do. And, “b,” who decides who’s undesirable?”
(If Don is in charge, the only people left, will be wealthy white people and women who don’t report rape.)
“They were doing it in this country At the turn of the 20th century, Which is the 1900s, for a lot of my fans. Early 1900s. To criminals, perverts, which is way too vague, the mentally ill, mentally retarded, homosexuals, which makes perfect sense.
We don’t want them breeding.
//
But if you took away the force, And you just made it incentive-based for people willing to sterilize themselves. Offer up some white trash prizes. You know, Nascar pit pass, meet your favorite driver. All you’ve got to do is snip the sac. “Really?” Year’s supply of sunny delight. You want some sunny d, don’t you?
//
What do we got to do? “Are you telling me, if I cut off my balls, I’m going crossbow hunting with Ted Nugent?” Well, shit, yeah. “No. No, sir, sir, sir. Wait, no. “We don’t actually cut off your balls.
We just make a small incision with a local anesthetic.”
“F%@! you. I want you to cut off my whole balls. “I’m gonna hang them from my rear-view mirror “like a lucky rabbit’s foot. “I’m going crossbow hunting with the Nuge. I ain’t never won nothing in my life.”
That’s a workable plan. Can’t argue with that. It just won’t happen.”
– Doug Stanhope
Of my sandbox
I get to play with words
Not made up of sand
Rather fluid thoughts
That manifest quickly
Seemingly out of
Nowhere now here
Triggered sometimes
By an errant comment
Inherently contradictory
From its intention
Of its stated purpose
Pro-lifers for the death penalty
(If they don’t live now, can’t kill them later)
Pro-Choice people against the death penalty
(If they make it out of the womb
Then we’ll try and save them)
“Patriots” hating their government
(I’ll let that sink in…….people who love
Their government, want to change it)
Gun owners against nuclear weapons
(We can have our toys, but they can’t have theirs)
Animal Rights Advocates
Marching in leather shoes
(Because they are comfortable and stylish)
People for religious freedom
Wishing to eradicate other religions
So they are not encumbered
By questioning their own beliefs
(Where is the freedom in that? )
Then, with all those grains of sand (words)
I try to sculpt castles of thoughts to present
My most ardent supporters or passersby
Thought sculptures, only to re-arrange them
Later or surely again in a different form
Mostly for myself tweaking a grain placement
Here and there, or content in the right context
So that I might understand the world better
Outside of the safety and sanity of my sanctuary
Inevitably recalling a lyric or a comedian’s bit to help the post
“Do you have your own words? Hey, I’m using the ones everyone else has been using!
Next time they tell you to say something in your own words, say “Niq fluk bwarney quando floo!”
– George Carlin
Then, close it out with an (hopefully) appropriate closer
“I do not wish to be right
Only wish to be understood. “
– Angelo Devlin
: a wrong or inaccurate idea or conception
– M-W.com
One may think
That a dictionary
Defines words
Which is nary the case
It is not until the reader
Reads the definition
Interprets its brief
Worded description
To put it in a context
In their individual mind
Which is so
“Subjective”
“3a: characteristic of or belonging
to reality as perceived rather
than as independent of mind”
– M-W.com
For example,
Not an objective reality
To be solely satisfied
That it means what best
Suits their context to
Apply to their content
Only to be read or heard
By anyone else and mean
Something completely
Different than intended
“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the—if he—if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement.…”
-Bill Clinton
“Bill Clinton really is a guy who’s willing to think carefully about “what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” This is way beyond slick. Perhaps we should start calling him, “Existential Willie.”
—Timothy Noah of “Slate”
Meanwhile, returning to our current chaos
Many, if not most, “gun” owners, or is that
Owners of guns, which, if you think about it
The “owners” are actually “possessed” by the gun
By a way of genitalia extension perception
Ignoring that their would be dictator (I mean president)
Said, “Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
Ooopsie
Donald Trump has indicated his support for confiscating firearms from certain dangerous people even if it violates their legal rights, in comments guaranteed to enrage a large section of his support.
In remarks almost unthinkable for a modern Republican president, he told senators at the White House to discuss general school safety: “Take the firearms first and then go to court.
“I like taking the guns early, like in the crazy man’s case… take the guns first, go through due process second.”
– the-independent.com
That is not even a verbal slight of hand
Like wiggling around with what the definition of “is” is
It is his opinion of how to solve a problem
“Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
“Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
“Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
I am guessing then that the Donald would
Get to decide who is “dangerous” and who is “crazy”
“And I’m not against guns. I’m not one of those mindless Hollywood c*cksuckers. I’m not against guns, I’m not against bullets. I’m not even against people shooting each other. sh*t, shooting somebody is part of the American dream.
I don’t care who it is; parents, teachers, kids. f*ck ’em. Let ’em get shot. Doesn’t bother me.
– George Carlin
My problem is that I am infinitely amazed
That people want, what they say they
They do not want, or is that just my
Misconception
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Like Iron Maiden’s “Eddie”
According to Bruce Dickinson
In his book
“What Does This Button Do?”
(Am paraphrasing since I
Listened to the audio book)
What keeps the band together
Through petty squabbles and
Major riffs (guitar pun, mine)
What carries them forward
Through tough times is “Eddie”
Their macabre metal mascot
Being a greater purpose to
In the end, always getting along
As a combined unit of unity
With slight variations and a few deaths
“Eddie” is greater than the sum of their parts
Same could work for humanity
Not the invisible one that already
Has eight billion interpretations
Which causes so much death because
Everyone has a different perspective
That their version is the best and if
Only all, could be guided “their’s”
Everything would be hunky dory
For the briefest moment
“A moment is coming. Almost here. Its getting closer… any moment now, almost here aaaaaaand now its gone.”
– George Carlin
Literally, for the briefest moment
The photograph of the earth itself
Dawned a realization, this is our home
That we ought to care of it and
Each other born of its Gaia consciousness
But unlike “Eddie,” that image did not adapt
To new evolving phases (albums)
Seventeen in nearly fifty years
Each member, either side of 70 years old
The image stayed the same
So the inhabitants got bored quickly
Discarded the image through apathy
Although now, when viewed again
The overpopulated metro areas
Look like a cancer growth on its host
“Southwick in his Chapter 15 excerpt Human Populations introduces a very interesting analogy between the human population and cancer cells.”
“Other scientists consider human population growth ‘an ecopathological process’ that is out of control and injuring the earth. In this sense, such population growth in some parts of the world is carcinogenic, a ‘cancer-like growth’ with the potential of destroying the global ecosystem.”
http://fubini.swarthmore.edu/~ENVS2/S2010/mahn1/overpopulation.html
Where can we find that “Eddie” like mascot to help us evolve and grow whilst still getting along without fighting over the mascot?
“Shadows in the stars
We will not return
Humanity won’t save us
At the speed of light
Shadows in the stars
We will not return
Humanity won’t save us
At the speed of light
We slip into the night”
“The Speed Of Light”
– Iron Maiden
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Both make my brain
Come to a screeching halt
When they refer to
Their go to justification
For mere existence
Religion with the invisible guy
Living in the sky notion
Or science with their
Useless Big Bang theory
When to my best perception
Both could be right if they dropped
The invisible man and BB theory
That a God energy and the cosmos
Simply always, all ways exist
Nothing to fight over or have
Anything to prove which is like
Chasing rainbows to a pot of gold
A ceaseless chasing of the tail
For no reason other than it’s there
Besides, it is in the buy bull
The contradiction is right up front
Genesis 1
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the…….”
“Spirit of God was hovering over the waters”
If God created everything
Where did the water come from?
Just asking for 8 billion friends
Science is even worse
From a different direction
Always referring to the big bang
Like it is a verbal tic
They can not control
To decently explain or quantify
Humanity’s need for a starting point*
Leaving out that if a
Microscopic dot exploded to
Get this….”create” the universe
That goes on and on and on and on and on………
What did it expand into
That wasn’t already there
Again
Just asking for 8 billion friends
If I am good at anything
It is beating a dead horse
But come on, how hard could it be
To accept that everything that is, just is
It changes energy from kinetic
To stored and back again
Interchanging waves and particles
Ceaselessly always all ways
In an endless infinity of infinity
(That’s how Infinity works)
As for a God energy always existing
Obi-Wan Kenobi said it best
“An energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.”
– Obi-Wan Kenobi
I understand that Obi-Wan Kenobi
Is a fictionalized character, however
He is made up of words that “created” him
Which is the back and forth
Between words and God
“In the beginning, the Word already existed.
The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
Wherever there are words and / or actions
Or things to describe using words
There is the “God” force always existing
Not some humanoid caricature of some invisible dude
Pulling malevolent and benevolent strings to determine
For anyone to prove their faith so that they are lovable
When they already are a part of that energy of existence
Not the whimsical puppeteer that determines the outcome of
Sporting events, elections, car crashes, and health concerns
Because “he” is sitting on a throne entertaining himself on
The concerns of one planet, out of trillions of other ones
In a Google-zillion of other galaxies and more universes
* Even “Star Wars” “began” with episode 4
This means there are always prequels to stories
Sequels, sidetracks, spin-offs, and everything else
The imagination can conjure up with words
Think not. Try and think of something without using words
“I do not wish to be right
Only wish to be understood. “
– Angelo Devlin
The Biggest Grift Is On
As an alleged billionaire
Through fraud
Tax and insurance
Along with sexual assault
Has poor people
Paying his bills
Through a voluntary
Idiot Tax, better known as
A go fund me page
To pay his legal obligations
Plus, selling fake gold sneakers
To the same people who think
It is perfectly okay to give
Tax breaks to the wealthy
I can’t make this shit up, I’m not that good.
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
– Dr Wayne Dyer
“There’s a sucker born every minute.”
Attributed – P.T. Barnum
“It seems that everyone believes things a little too eagerly, especially if they want to believe it.”
– medium.com
“I loves the poorly educated, I do well with the poorly educated.”
– Donald Trump
“Of course, he loves the poorly educated, and of course, he does well with the poorly educated.
How else do you explain, how a bragging narcissistic pathological billionaire, who is constantly telling you how much money he has, just throwing it in your face, ostentatious, I’m a billionaire, I’m worth billions. I have billions of dollars.”
//
And how else do you explain how a guy, a billionaire, is able to get people who are suffering financially…to..give..him..money.
Of course, he loves the poorly educated. A smart person wouldn’t do that.”
– David Cross
Looking at the world through a windshield. 