Something funny
From an unfunny
Morally constipated 45
“President Donald Trump signed the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act Monday, which was a nice thing. “This new law directs the Treasury Department to issue 400,000 $1 silver coins in a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of women securing the right to vote,”
Trump explained during his remarks at the bill’s signing. “The $1 coins that we—will be issued under the act will honor the vital history of the women’s suffrage movement and celebrate many of the brave heroes who fought for the right to vote, such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, and Ida B. Wells.”
– Slate.com
Here’s the funny part.
“Trump, shortly after signing the bill, started sniffing around for credit.
Trump: This is a great—you’ve been working on this for years, right? (Applause.)
So—and they have. They’ve been working on this for years and years. And I’m curious, why wasn’t it done a long time ago? … Well, I guess the answer to that is because now I’m president, and we get things done.
We get a lot of things done that nobody else got done.”
– Slate.com
Whew, I sure hope that when they find where Donald parked his time machine, he is strapped in and sent back to math class to understand how long it takes to recognize something that happened 100 years ago, takes 100 years.
Are words made up
By previous generations
Like prosecute and persecute
Which are used a lot
Certainly more than
Caring and sharing
Guiding and teaching
The former get used more
Cause society has
Convinced itself through
Biblical machinations
That life will be better
With some rules
So it has opted
To conjure up a cliche
The end all be all
Of human summation
Which is
“The rule of law”
.
First by religion
(Thou shall not kill)
Then by government
(Thou shall not kill)
(Unless we say it is okay)
Now by corporations
(Thou shall kill)
(If it props up the bottom line)
(Disguised using the former rule makers)
.
As the first two are
Meekly and boldly
On the take
For the scraps
It discards
.
.
Neither the plant world
Nor the animal kingdom
Knows justice or injustice
Just instinct and survival
Humans for the large part
Being Pavlovian simpletons
React not to the bell
Rather the light emitting
Pulses of the wall rectangle
Surrounding talking heads
Programming far too many
Not only to react on command
More so what to react to
Impulsively on cue
With pseudo information
Having learned how what who
To react to and when to
Like Manchurian masses
Shown a queen of diamonds
.
“Free speech as
Free as its thought
Controlled behavior
Reacts as its taught
Fighting for Peace
Can’t comprehend
Hate out of love
Is violent pretends
//
Their violence works
it hardly ever fails
When blind man can’t see
He believes blind
Blind obedience is
The child of mindless minds
New world order
Is an old world lie
Fighting for peace,
See how they die
Dragging in God,
As they turn violent
God says nothing,
He just remains silent
Stop madmen from
Running loose
Mother earth woman
Can’t take the abuse
Living right now is
Living for tomorrow
Time is saying
There’s no more time tomorrow”
– John Trudell
Excepts from “Bombs over Baghdad”
Humanity seems to like
Its truth veiled and its
BS revealed
.
Peekaboo takes the blame
Established as exciting
By “authority” figures
That that behavior is
Permanent in our programming
Never tiring of the
Pseudo revelation
Playing the game
Over and over
For the sake of
Playing the game
Over and over
Revealing stuff
We know exists
Instead of evolving
From what we understand
.
Look around folks
The “rules” aren’t working
Except for the “rulers”
Over the “ruled”
Ruling out their significance
Save being useful pawns
In a game of greed
Consuming to the death
Primary moves
Made by distraction
Focusing on differences
Instead of similarities
Finding it is us
With our hands
Over our own eyes
Leaving the game makers
To do as wished
.
Why else would and do
The masses accept results
From “closed door” “hearings”
Putting themselves in a
Position of accepting
Choreographed information
Instead of full disclosure
All ways all the time ?
.
It is a mystery to me
Therefore will keep trying
To lift the veil
While
.
“The foot bone’s connected to
The leg bone.
The leg bone’s connected to
The knee bone.
The knee bone’s connected to
The thigh bone.
// And the //
The thigh bone’s connected to
The hip bone.
The hip bone’s connected to
The back bone.
The back bone’s connected to
The neck bone.”
Plus
.
“The drinkin’ bone’s
connected to the party bone
The party bone’s
connected to the staying out all night long
//
And the lonely bone’s
connected to the…
Drinkin’ bone’s connected to the party bone”
– Tracy Bird
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It doesn’t mean
The immorality bone
Is connected to
The economic bone
The sycophant bone
Is connected to
The ego bone
The defender bone
Is connected to
The ignorance bone
Save some
Abstract notion
Of compunction
That if they too
Occupied an oval office
Their behavior
Would be similar
Which seems very
Disconnected
The parameters of reality
Within cranial confines
Gives our puny collective ego
The audacity to think
It is mapping out the cosmos
With more powerful telescopes
“Deep space” (yeah, right) probes
(In terms of an infinite expanse
We haven’t gotten off the porch)
Collecting and id’ing samples
Disseminating information
For the sake of information
Impossible to know
Given that any given language
Is completely made up
Adapted from each and all
Expanding and contracting
Based on use by who’s using it
Interpretations and translations
Quantify our perceptions as such
That we may relate and communicate
To the best of our ability
Even though what we know
Or what we think we know
Is impossible to “know”
Primarily lost in the sauce
Accepting what suits ego
Satiating understanding
Stopping there
Because it is easy to do
Instead of asking more
Questioning questions
.
“Eternal blackness beyond the stars
We think our wisdom will get that far
At the master’s table the table’s bare
No land of plenty, devastation, despair.”
“If Eternity Should Fail”
– Iron Maiden
As per usual, days late and no money to be had.
(A day late and a dollar short)
.
The troops… You got to support the troops, right? ……..Wrong again.
You keep trying but… I’m not saying “Don’t support the troops”, I’m saying I support people on a individual basis.
I gotta meet the troop first. If I meet the troop, he’s a cool troop, we drink, and he doesn’t turn into a d****… “Yeah, support him.” I’ll support him no matter what he does.
.
//
But some troops are d******. Some troops are… You know them… Some are #ucking assholes. I was down in Killeen, Texas, by Fort Hood.
There was a troop down there in a bar. And he wanted to hammer my head flat. Cause I accidentally dumped over his piss warm draft beer. And he was #ucking… You know how they get the #ucking forearms, swinging forward… A #ucking monkey redneck. #ucking
“Oh, you wanna kick my ass?!”
– Doug Stanhope
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Regardless the reason
It is strange to honor
People who kill people
And then not expect
To have more and more
People who kill people
Armistice day originally
Celebrated the end of
World War 1 in 1918
Altered in 1954
To Veterans day
Guess Madison Ave
Thought it would
Be a tacky way to sell
Cars and appliances etc
(Which is more, its intended purpose)
On a day remembering peace
And had we evolved properly
Would have produced
No more Veterans
Of any more wars
(Where’s the money in that?)
.
“You know what gives me the creeps about the Vietnam vets, they have this obsession with wearing the hat.
They have to let you know they’re a Vietnam vet. They all wear the baseball hat with the gold leafs and the platoon and the year. “Dang Wang, ’68 to ’70, Vietnam vet.”
Why the fuck would you wear that hat? Did you forget how brutally fucked over by your own government you got on that deal? And you wear a hat celebrating it?
Nixon, in his own words in the Nixon tapes, talks openly and casually about delaying the withdrawal of troops just so he can win reelection.
“Fuck ’em if thousands more die. I need this gig again.” And then, you’re wearing a hat.
They fucked you over and then sold you merch after the gig.
How bad do you need someone to buy you a Pabst Blue Ribbon down at the VFW?
That’s like a rape victim walking around in a pink trucker cap that says, “Molested, step-brother, ’82 to ’86.” “Hey, girls, where’s all the fun at?”
– Doug Stanhope
Ever get the impression
We are failing as
Human beings
Caught up in
An endless moment
Of consume
Distract and repeat
Consume
Distract and repeat
Satiating insanity
With no room left
For heart or soul
Only connected to
Disconnected connections
Overdosing on want
Plastic intervention
Rehab online
This must not be
Why we are here
Even as an aside
It becomes our
Distracted focus
‘Stead of being
Our intended being
“Being”
c : conscious existence
– m-w.com
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From
“Presto” – Rush
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If I could wave my magic wand…
I am made from the dust of the stars
And the oceans flow in my veins
Here I hide in the heart of the city
Like a stranger coming out of the rain
The evening plane rises up from the runway
Over constellations of light
I look down into a million houses
And wonder what you’re doing tonight
If I could wave my magic wand
I’d make everything all right
//
I’m not one to believe in magic
Though my memory has a second sight
I’m not one to go pointing my finger
When I radiate more heat than light
Don’t ask me
I’m just improvising
My illusion of careless flight
Can’t you see
My temperature’s rising
I radiate more heat than light
