to be the most ignorant person in the world.
Stupid I isn't.

Its like an old saying I heard years ago, " What do you call ignorant people that only speak one language? Americans "

I went down to dinner in the hotel "sports bar" tonight, as I usually do on a trip. A First Officer that I had flown with years ago recognized me, as well as a Flight attendant that sat next to me on the bus ride from the airport, and they came over to my table and sat down. She looked up at the TV and said, "0h good, the Clown Show isn't on." And he said, "yeah, I couldn't stand to watch those two losers...hey, look, the Cubs are on!"

Now I barely know either of these two people, and generally, politics is a bad choice for conversation at work (and almost always avoided), but all of a sudden, three random people were thrown together at a table, and all three were in agreement, on a touchy subject.

Reddit posted this article where it shows that Hillary did steal the election.
In states where they use paper ballots, Bernie won every time.
States that used machines and no paper ballots, Hillary won.
The article has great graphs showing how the exit polls didn't match up with the vote tally.
I'm hoping someone will do an essay on this so that more people will see it.
http://alexanderhiggins.com/stanford-berkley-study-1-77-billion-chance-h...
And in the lawsuit that some Bernie supporters brought against the DNC for rigging the election for Hillary the DNC admits that if the Bernie supporters knew that the DNC was doing everything in could to make sure that Hillary won, then people shouldn't have donated money to him.
It's going to take too long to verify the information that shows that the election was stolen before Hillary is sworn in as president.
I'm with you, al. I'm tired of reading about innocent people being killed in our wars of aggression because the corporations want the resources in other countries.
And if Hillary becomes president, the numbers are going to go up. Including US soldiers.
They are risking their lives because of the greed of the corporations.
I wish that they would realize it and quit in mass.

when I wanted to be Swedish girl in France, rather than a German one.... it's a long time.

So, I declare you now a Canadian, at least for now and for fun. Have a good Thursday.

what are they going to do on election day? Stay home?

I am voting 3rd party, I have to , I cannot sit this out, nor can I accept the Punch 'N' Judy show the MSM are foisting on us.
I cannot in all honesty let either one of those two get my vote, not with the records they each have as part of their "resume"
The world is watching this farce play out with baited breath, some find it funny if we get Trump, most are wishing we are smart and get Jill in office, they are more aware than most of the fooled who would support Hillary. Hillary is a known and scary commodity, like the fact that she has made threats, and she likes bombs, and we still happen to be the only nation on Earth to throw Nukes in anger at anyone.

Trump gets in the world may cringe, they may laugh.

Hillery gets in the fear times of the Cold War return as she may hurl Nukes just because....

Johnson gets in, again a joke as he has severely put his own foot in his mouth too many times.

Jill gets in, the world will sigh with relief and relax.

I feel like we as a country are on our way to truly hit rock bottom. If Clinton wins, nothing will change for better. The wealth gap will grow larger, the MIC will flourish and our futures will be handed out to the privileged on Wall Street. The Democratic party will continue their love affair with Wall Street; we will have more neo Dems like Patrick Murphy and DWS who are only somewhat socially liberal but indistinguishable from Republicans fiscally.
The DNC will take the win as a mandate and continue unabated with their prostitution to Wall Street.

George Carlin said he agreed that if you scratched a cynic just underneath you'd find a disappointed idealist, which he admitted he probably was. But he ultimately decided to remove himself from the Big Picture, which left him artistically free to eviscerate the charade and fraudulence in his own inimitable and sorely missed way. As he said about life here in the Greatest Country In The World(TM), "When you’re born into this world you’re given a ticket to the freak show. And when you’re born in America you get a front row seat." Boy has that statement ever been more prophetic than now? He just sat back, took notes and gave it back to us. The current disgrace would have been too obvious material for such an advanced and thoughtful person as he was, but I'd bet he would have found some really interesting angles and brought it out in a broader context of which he was always masterfully capable.

You have to change yourself – and we’ll never do that. Because everybody wants a dollar and a toy. Everybody’s got a cell phone that’ll make them pancakes and rub their balls. So nobody wants to rock the boat, nobody wants to change. Don’t wanna change anything. We’re in a nice downward glide. I call it circling the drain….I gave up on my species and my fellow Americans.

Some may see the views he finally settled on as fatalistic, but there's a lot of sober truth and I find myself in these days feeling much like him. Though I don't feel like I'm ready to completely give up.

Here's an excerpt of an interview explaining some of his views on politics:

“I would admit that somewhere underneath all this there’s a flicker of a flame of idealism that would love to see it all – whoosh – change. But it can’t happen that way. Incremental change, it just seems like the pile of shit is too deep. There just seems too much to do. To do it all, to clean this act up, too much…and there are forces that don’t want that. You have big companies, Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Petro Chemical, Big Insurance, Big Real Estate, Big Aggra Business – all these people feed on us, they don’t give a shit about borders anymore. It’s all international.

Ever thought of getting into Politics?:

“That system is so broken. First of all, the money raising. You have to make a lot of compromises with yourself, just to go to meetings with those people, just to sit down at talk to them. You have to abase yourself in front of them, 'I need $150,000.'

"At some point there leading into the '90s, I divorced myself from any stake in the human adventure or the American adventure. That sounds kind of pompous so let me just break that down. What I decided was that I didn't give a fuck about what happens on this planet to these people. I mean, I see the nice things in people, I see the good things, but I also see what a depraved, sick species we are, the only species that kills its own for personal gain.

I'll go back to square one on this: We squandered a lot of gifts. Human beings were given a lot of great gifts. We were given the ability to reason, this extra-large brain, walking erect, having binocular vision and the opposable thumb, and all of these things, and we had such promise, but we squandered it on goods and superstition. We gave ourselves over to the high priests and the traders, and they are the ones we allow to control us. I think that's a huge mistake and it's disappointing to me. Now, the corollary is, America was given great gifts, this ideal form of government, this most improved form of self-government that has ever come along up until that time, and we squandered it. And once again, on the same two things: gizmos and toys and gadgets -- goods, property, possessions -- and also this country is far too religious for its own good.

So at some point, I drifted away from feeling any allegiance. Abraham Maslow the psychologist once said, 'The fully realized man does not identify with the local group.' Boy, when I read that, I said, that's me. I don't identify with city, state, government, religion, association, county, organization or species, even. And what I realized was that this feeling of alienation from all that gave me a kind of emotional detachment that was very valuable artistically. To be able to look at things and not give a fuck. To not have a rooting interest in the outcome. I don't really care what happens in this country. I'll be honest with you. I don't give a fuck what happens. I don't give a fuck what happens to this earth, because it's all temporal and it's all bullshit."

It's fair to say the fatalism expressed at the end came from watching the country go from, a hopefulness tied to a socially conscious awakening during the 60's during his transition from mainstream comic to radical commentator, to a disdain for the ugly, vapid consumerism, selfishness, greed, suffocating conservatism and phony religious grandstanding that began in the 80's which hasn't abated. I'm not as fatalistic. But there's a lot of searing truth in there.

Either way, disagree or agree with him, I always find Carlin instructive, poignant and challenging, to say the least, and find probably 99% of the time he's right on about things.

I agree most of the time with you too, my man.

It would be like, wow, Donald Trump is president of the United States. We had George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and now Donald Trump.

Actually, I think Donald Trump as President would accurately reflect the farce our entire electoral process has become like nothing else could.