“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”
― P.J. O’Rourke
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What would it take
Save a live confession
With verifiable proof
Via a “smoking gun” and
Pool of concrete
Scientifically and church
Substantiated evidence
Plus corroborating testimony
By uncoerced witnesses
Including tax return revelation
For the maga hat wearing crowd
To contemplate that perhaps
Donald may just not be the
All wonderful being he claims to be?
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Just asking for a friend…….
Recent and soon
Are rendered useless
Ancient and modern
Fair about the same
Long ago and future
Blend together nicely
Yesterday and tomorrow
Don’t even count
Beginning and end
Have the value of zero
In the cosmos
Which is
Never ending
Never beginning
Where
Nothing is original
And
Everything is original
Merely repeated
Ad nauseam
Discovering that
There is neither
Time or space
To travel nor bend
Only this moment
Experiencing life
As sparks of
The divinity
With all of the other
Sparks of divinity
At least
In terms of infinity
Plus DC’s distracting puppet
Of course 45’s henchman
Thinks he can (or will)
Get away with whatever
Because he’s done it before
On a grandiose scale
In the dark of night
Plus in the light of day
“On the day of 9/11, while the remains of the twin towers and WTC7 were still smoldering, one of Mayor Giuliani’s first concerns was clearing away the evidence from the crime scene.
Despite reassurances that the rapid removal of the evidence from Ground Zero was important for emergency access, this process went far beyond merely clearing a path for rescue workers.
As Erik Lawyer, founder of Firefighters for 9/11 Truth points out, the massive operation to haul away over 1.5 million tons (3 Billion pounds) of debris and to sell much of the steel to Chinese firm Baosteel at discount prices was not just an overzealous approach to clearing the area, but was itself a crime.”
– corbettreport.com
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As for Rudy’s “Insurance”
I’m guessing everyone has
Enough on everyone else
To run a 12 shell shell game
Letting all the players play
Without any repercussions
Or ejection from the game
Just a greed pig #uck $ grab
Putin
Trump
Giuliani
McConnell
Graham
Nunes
Mueller
Hannity
Carlson
Ingraham
Schiff
Conway
Shuffling around
What they value
At your expense
As to who can pick up
The empty conch and
Speak “freely” (scripted)
Is anyone’s next guess
To cleverly distract the
Millions of minions
From truth and actualities
Corruption and the
Stench of manipulation
Under everyone’s noses
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Speaking of a “Conch”
“Lord Of The Flies”
“I don’t care for this world anymore
I just want to live my own fantasy
Faith has brought me
To these shores
What was meant to be
Is now happening
I’ve found that I like this
Living in danger
Living on the edge it feels…
It makes me feel as one
Who cares now what’s right
Or wrong it’s reality
Killing so we survive
Wherever we may roam
Wherever we may hide
We’ve got to get away
I don’t want existence to end
We must prepare ourselves
For the elements
I just want to feel like we’re strong
We don’t need a code of morality
I like all the mixed emotion
And anger
It brings out the animal
The power you can feel
And feeling so high
On this much adrenalin
Excited but scary
To believe what we’ve become
Saints and sinners
Something within us
We are lord of the flies
Saints and sinners
Something willing us
To be lord of the flies”
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– Iron Maiden
The drips and drabs
Of shock and awe…..shit
Really, another day
Of nothing getting done
Congresspersons
Poorly performing in
The dog and pony show
Of endless he said she said
Mindless distractions
Like first time drama students
Primping and preening
In front of an audience
Backstabbing and hiding
Behind the curtains
The trouble with
Getting nothing done
Is that it is
Harder than it looks
Like reality TV stars
Pretending to be pretending
Not to be noticed
By being noticeable
For if their mission
Is truly meant to
Serve the “people”
The first thing
They could / should do
Is follow and apply
Thomas Jefferson’s advice
Regarding governments
Dismantle what we have
Start a new paradigm shift
Evolve into something
That matches our best desires
“As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.”
– Thomas Jefferson
For as allegedly good
That democracy
Is supposed to be
It is inherently corrupt
Because it was
Designed by humans
Which is not to say
A better way of living
Could not be created
(After all it is our “right”)
Plus within our capacity
It is just a matter of
Detaching ourselves
From what doesn’t work
If democracy was a car
You would return it
Under the lemon law
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Perhaps we could use
The Thomas Friedman model
That ‘The World Is Flat”
(No, not really) rather
We are all
Interconnected and interdependent
Reliant on each other globally
All we have to do
Is become aware and
Start behaving like it
Transcending borders
Languages religion race
Time zones etc…..
I’m sure we could
Accomplish all that
Even if we did it in
Drips and drabs
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”
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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)
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As the first two are
Meekly and boldly
On the take
For the scraps
It discards
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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 ?
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It is a mystery to me
Therefore will keep trying
To lift the veil
While
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“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
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“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
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“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)
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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.
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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?)
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“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
Looking at the world through a windshield. 