Can be changed
I’ll let that sink in
Imagine that
“Rules” made-up
Out of electrified
Spongey gray matter
Escaping a thick skull
Can be changed to
Suit the rule makers
Congress persons
Senators
Presidents (executive orders)
Communities
Businesses
Sports *
And………
Parents
Probably the biggest
Maker and breaker
Of temporary rules
* Basketball started with 13, now has over 100
Infinite rules
In infinite ways
Declarations
Constitutions
Amendments
Commandments
Absolutes
And “rules”
Why?
Because they are made-up
In the first place by those
Who feel compelled
To control or guide “others”
In ways to suit their agenda
With very few to benefit the “ruled”
“The kids have rules to live up to, but most of the rules were tough. They had some good rules, y’know, I don’t mean to put them down. Parents had some pretty good rules. No running with the scissors. That’s one I never disobeyed. Made sense to me. This big mother’ll go right through me. “What are you doing?” “I’m not running with the scissors…for one thing.” They had a couple more good rules. They had another one: No sticking your head out of the high speed railroad train window. Say, goddamn, Dad, good rule. Doesn’t want our heads chopped off. Fantastic, Dad.
But then they had some dumb rules: No running in the hall. Where ya gonna run? In the rooms? Gotta keep turning in the rooms, man, s**t! You can’t get up any speed at all, man, s**t! Hallways were made for runners. The hallway sprint – try to take that quick right before you crash into the statue of the Sacred Heart- man blow everybody… blow the whole feast day.
They had another dumb rule: No singing at the table. Why not? One guy with a bad voice fucked it up for everybody else? No singing at the table. How about humming? No, by extension, humming and whistling included. There’s no such rule as no screaming at the top of your lungs at the table. That ought to be good to try that. Show me the rule. You could stand right next to the table and sing your ass off. Just don’t sit down, man.
🎵”I’m standing near the table during dinner and I’m singing and it isn’t even covered by……….. your rules.” 🎵
“Sit down, you.” That was your middle name…you. “Come here, you.”
– George Carlin
With minimal research
All religions advise
In one form or another that
Thou shalt not kill
While clearly stated
Is vague as all get out
All depends on who
May be getting killed
Much more flexible if
The killee is of …..
A different religion
Then the one whose rule
States “Thou shalt not kill”
Perhaps, they should have a meeting???
Maybe suggest sharing their rules….
You know to make the game easier to play since
“Life is sacred”
Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death! Has been for thousands of years! Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians; all taking turns killing each other because God told ’em it was a good idea. The sword of god, the blood of the lamb, ‘vengeance is mine’; millions of dead motherfuckers. Millions of dead motherfuckers, all because they gave the wrong answer to The God Question:
“Do you believe in God?” “No.” BAM! Dead.
“Do you believe in God?” “Yes.”
“…Do you believe in my God?” “No.” BAM! Dead.
“My God has a bigger dick than your God!”
– George Carlin
Likewise various governments
Federal, state and local
Have rules stating that it is illegal
To kill people…… Hey good rule
Unless, the Federal government
Needs a few of their volunteers
Who signed up to kill people
To……get this, ………go kill people
Giving them what is known as
Qualified immunity since they now have
A James Bond license to kill
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
In a recent post, “Shame”
It dawned on me that I wrote
That I, too, have done nothing
To make this a better world by
Having started or participated
In a peaceful revolution as it goes
Which is unfortunately very true
However, I realized I did do something
By not doing anything to add more
People to an already over-full planet
No one to waste her resources
Exponentially excremental
Pollute her ground or breathable air
Cut off her hair (trees) or dig deep
To (mine) every last drop of energy
“Her love rains down on me
As easy as the breeze
I listen to her breathing
It sounds like the waves on the sea
I was thinking all about her,
Burning with rage and desire
We were spinning into darkness
The earth was on fire
She could take it back,
She might take it back someday
So I spy on her, I lie to her,
I make promises I can not keep
Then I hear her laughter rising,
Rising from the deep
And I make her prove her love for me,
I take all that I can take
And I push her to the limit
To see if she will break
She might take it back,
She could take it back someday
Now I have seen the warnings,
Screaming from all sides
It’s easy to ignore them and
God knows I’ve tried
All of this temptation,
It turned my faith to lies
Until I couldn’t see the danger
Or hear the rising tide
She can take it back,
She will take it back someday
She can take it back,
She will take it back someday
She can take it back,
She will take it back someday. “
– Pink Floyd
“Take It Back” from The Division Bell
Therefore, I did not add anyone to
Roll over, click, cut, copy, paste, and
Indoctrinate with my beliefs, which
May be completely wackadoodle or
Thoroughly reasonable and questioning
To teach one to decipher and compete
With other people’s beliefs of
Invisible men living in the sky
Causing constant consternation
No proof, only persistent perception
No one who needed to pretend
Faux ownership in sports franchises
(“My”team” won the blah, blah, blah)
So they could “have” a team to
Argue endlessly and mindlessly
Over useless status statistics
Knowing more about the players
Than teachers or principals
Librarians, health classes, or
Practice financial well-being
Dodge bullets in an enclosed
Locked up space that probably
Spends more money on security than books
Modifying socially acceptable behavior
Instead of questioning for deep understanding
To advance a peaceable living world
That in the eons of infinity
Lasts only a brief moment
……… Neither that, or have to explain
Why another invisible dude, Santa Claus
Brings more stuff to rich kids than poor kids
Or have to clarify why being born through
The accident of birth on one part of a sphere
Has more credence than others because their
Flappy cloth rectangle stands for something
Different to everyone waving it, than other cloths
I write this neither to be
Boastful or proud
“Don’t be proud. Too much pride as it is.
Pride goeth before a fall. Never forget Proverbs.” (Proverbs 16:18)
– George Carlin
But rather, as a reflection of a
Deeply divine spiritual satisfaction
Knowing how much I accomplished
By doing absolutely nothing
To which there is no shame
“I know in Norway
You are all about the environment
You have a lot of stringent
Rules and regulations about recycling
Yeah! How many babies can you have?
As many as you want?
Then all the other shit…is pointless.”
– Doug Stanhope
Adding no one to believe
In a deceptive democracy
That their vote counts
When it is as much of a distraction
As football, the economy, or war
Race, sexuality, gender, or wealth
“My solipsistic worldview
Does not allow me to see
What may be real reality.”
– Angelo Devlin
Shame, shame. (Ring, ring)
Shame, shame. (Ring, ring)
Shame, shame. (Ring, ring)
– Septa Unella
“Games Of Thrones”
The only way this ends
Is, by everyone walking away
In shame
On one end
Shame for those who
Lifted nary a finger to prevent it
(Me, I’m lifting fingers)
(Albeit to a very small audience)
What else can I do, “Fight” city hall?
We know how that turns out
“I fight authority, authority always wins
I’ve been doing it since I was a young kid
I’ve come out grinnin’
I fight authority, authority always wins”
– John Mellencamp
On the other end
The shame of regret for those
Getting so riled up in hatred
Following a narcissistic grifter
Guiding gullible groups
Into not thinking
Not thinking they are focusing
Their self hatred onto
A mirror they can not see
Hating immigrants
Their own ancestors once were
Despising women for being
The reason they are in this dimension
Not recognizing the constant miracle
Holding this fragile ecosystem together
As something that may be survivable
Disgraced nearly to death after realizing
The people they projected their hate onto
May very well be why they stay alive
And help them to heal their shame
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Beyond certain inevitable death
Manifest without substance
As invisible bogeymen that pose
At best, a temporary inconvenience
By people who will never be affected
Either directly or indirectly at all
Still feel unconsciously compelled
To reveal their unsubstantiated fears
That some shoeless migrant
Traveling in a rickety caravan
Hundreds and hundreds miles away
Seeking a better life for their family
Compels someone behind a keyboard
To regurgitate what their blind leader sees
As a scary unsubstantiated distraction
For people to coalesce into thick anger
Triggered constantly by 2 minutes of hate
By wiggling their limp finger
At something the right wing media
In an unconscious echo chamber
Uses for a dominant deception
Of scapegoating their happiness
Instead of, onto solvable profitable solutions
By using the capitalism, they swear by and
Getting the immigrants the jobs they can get
To buy the shoes they need and food to feed
With the minimal education of gross greed
Helping a family undergoing such hardships
(Which methinks, is something *Christ might do)
They are willing to leave the home they know
Guided by the light of liberty and freedom
To do what the border closers’ ancestors did
Move to the alleged “United States”, because
Where they were, was in a bad situation such as
Simply as having no potatoes to eat or who were
“Suffering” from religious persecution
The persecution they now concentrate on “others”
Ooopsie
How does that first amendment go?
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”
*
Their other leader they tend to forget because
Compassion, forgiveness, charity, and kindness
Are so “first” century, without internet truths
Who posed no threat, veiled, or otherwise
“I do not wish to be right
Only wish to be understood”
– Angelo Devlin
Opinions
1a : a view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter
Are like a
2a : belief stronger than impression and less strong than positive knowledge
– M-W.com
In other words, information regurgitated based on nearly nothing
Formed in the mind and less strong than positive knowledge
Passed on to others of unconscious like mindedness in order
To recite and repeat, regurgitate, and repeat reckless rhetoric
You know, as a way to belong to a group that likes what it says
Over and over without ever questioning motive or malignancy
Besides, proof is only established by what is believed to be true
Facts get in the way when emotions and feelings carry more weight
Allegations, innuendoes, and suggestions are more fun to play with
Than repeatable realities and presentations of probable proof
In which occasionally someone might have to admit they are wrong
Then where would we be, evolved, and enlightened and courteous
How would the economy ever survive under those circumstances
If there were no indoctrinated caste systems of wealth and poverty
Every Jones, being like a Jones just to keep ahead of the Jones’s
Everyone, content, living in their own skin and being kind, following
That reciprocity rhetoric of do unto others as you would to yourself
Unlike the other Golden Rule that states
He who has the gold, makes the rules
My opinions are just that, opinions
Formed in the mind and less strong than positive knowledge
Hoping mostly that they inspire infinite questioning
In small groups whose only requisite is thinking individuals
Owing to a personal philosophy
That “I do not wish to be right
Only wish to be understood. “
– Angelo Devlin
There is no bridge
To span the gap
Between the desire
For personal peace
And it’s attainment
Because of some
“Other’s” bridge
Is built differently
Plus, is in the way
So it becomes a
Matter of knocking
Down their bridge
To happiness so that
They can build theirs
Meanwhile……..
The cycle repeats
Whilst the wealthy
Try to cover the gap
With more money
The famous
With more fame
The intoxicated
With more toxins
It is the lucky soul
Who has personal peace
That had arrived there
Without bridges
Showing others
There is no gap
Regardless of the
Elusive building materials
“My solipsistic worldview
Does not allow me to see
What may be real reality.”
– Angelo Devlin
Of The Tinkerbell Effect
Made manifest through
People believing they
Are perpetual victims
Which is then cast on
The world’s stage as
A pathetic projection in
Anthropomorphic form
Of a pathological liar*
Who says much of
What they want to hear
That everything outside
Of themselves is to blame
For their unhappiness
Nothing is ever their fault
They have the white right
Regardless of skin color
To point fingers every way
That keeps them victimized
In their own situations through
Nobody’s fault but their own
Even though the fact fairy
Has been poisoned by greed
Wealth and petulant power
Can still survive by rallying
His base into believing BS
So they clap and applaud
At all of his antics and deception
To keep the political pixie alive
Whereas if they looked into
A mirror of their creation
They would turn away in horror
To create themselves as
Thinking responsible adults
Not believing this nonsense
That a victim can fix anything
When he can’t fix himself
Obsessed with his appearance
Concentrating on his hair and
The illusion of not being a loser
In spite of overwhelming evidence
Of failed businesses and elections
Casinos, airlines, water, steaks
Bogus universities of fraud
Tax evasion and insurance fraud
Liability for sexual assault etc. etc.
Election interference, racketeering
Classified document hoarding
……..just to name a few
*
“Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president.
Nearly half came in his final year.”
Washington Post
By Glenn Kessler
January 23, 2021 at 6:35 p.m. EST
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Wouldn’t it be funny
Or at least deeply ironic
That since under an
Alleged democracy
Guns can not be
Criminally confiscated
* it would be unconstitutional
(There have never been plans
Just suggestions and innuendoes)
(Usually as false flags to sell
More guns and ammunition)
Yet under a potential neo
Autocratic lawless government first
Eliminating the “criminal” justice system
Other “necessary” checks and balances
Banking regulations, insurance investigators
For 45/47 to make it so, after the trigger happy
Gun owners start to go after billionaires
For soullessly benefitting from the tax cuts
That the head muckety muck
Decides to take gun owner’s guns away
Since the Billionaire class
Would need to be “protected”
Then maybe that lawlessness
The gun owners thought was so cute
In all of his indictments and civil litigation
From a narcissist in need of attention
Isn’t as amusing anymore
Unfortunately, it’s too little too late
Trump: ‘Take the guns first, go through due process second’
BY BRETT SAMUELS – 02/28/18 3:59 PM ET
“President Trump on Wednesday voiced support for confiscating guns from certain individuals deemed to be dangerous, even if it violates due process rights.”
“I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence.
“Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said.
– thehill.com
* Second Amendment Explained
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
– constitution.congress.gov
“Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said.
“Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said.
“Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said.
Ooopsie
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Rules this world
In various ways
From the bottom up
To the top down
If only
If only the Billionaires
Would pay more taxes
If only
If only the oppressed
Would give up their plight
If only
If only the Billionaires
Could make more money
If only
If only the indigent
Could save more money
If only
Guns were outlawed
Abortions were outlawed
Everyone loved their country
The rest stayed in their’s
The temperature was just right
Their car was faster
The other car was slower
Prices stayed low
Education was free
Liers didn’t lie
Cheaters didn’t cheat
Laws did not apply to everyone
Laws did apply to everyone
Resources were unlimited
Everyone believed in the same God
Everyone didn’t believe in any God
If only I could make a point
Without some long abstraction
Of words manifesting in my mind
Presented in pixelated print
To a small yet greatly appreciated audience
That makes sense on the first read
Then and only then I’d be happy
Just kidding, I’m doing fine
I’m happy I have family that loves me
That I have family to love
Does a big lie become
So exaggerated, it too
Escapes the realm of reality
Would 1000% to 1500% more
Be enough to recognize
Bullshit regurgitated out
Of the mouth of a grifter
Be enough to stop playing
An emotional shell game
With human lives seeking
A better place to be
Recently, 45 stated
“They let — I think the real number is *(15, 16 million) people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump told the crowd at a rally in New Hampshire. “That’s what they’ve done.
They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just to three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”
Trump then repeated the use of “poisoning” in a post on his social media website Truth Social, saying overnight in an all-caps post, that “illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation. They’re coming from prisons, from mental institutions — from all over the world.”
Ginger Gibson and Nnamdi Egwuonwu and Vaughn Hillyard
NBC News
Updated December 17, 2023
My best understanding
With minimal research
Is that about * 1.2 million
People migrate to the US
(That’s a big f%#k difference)
From beyond the “borders”
Yet, an additional amount
3.6 million enter the US
From within the “border”
Through another dimension
And yet “outsiders” are
Scapegoated as the problem
“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”
If 45 was more of a real estate mogul than a con man
He would be building houses and apartments for people
In order to get this………expand his real estate empire
Instead of shamelessly hocking worthless trading cards
With a straight face on national television news shows
And since people (not vermin) want housing, would work
To obtain that housing, learning skills, and trades. Ooopsie
Or what I learned, that many hands make light work
Think of what the collective could do if we only focused
“Nobody questions things in this country anymore.
Nobody questions it—everybody is too fat and happy. Everybody’s got a cell phone that’ll make pancakes and rub their balls now— Way too fucking prosperous for our own good. Way too fucking prosperous,
Americans have been bought off and silenced by toys and gizmos. And no one learns to question things.”
– George Carlin
Many who alleged themselves
To be “Christian” Conservatives
Are willing to believe his BS
Repeat and regurgitate the hate
Than ask the question WWJD?
Which with what little I know
Would be to make sure all are fed
And feel welcome and loved
Regardless of their plight
And if by chance they were poison
Would do everything to help heal
Themselves and not turn them away
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 