Sometimes You Just Sit There Mouth Agape

In France watching charges of nepotism, fake jobs for the family of prominent politicians, police truncheon rape and the probability of a fascist once again getting into the second round of the presidential election. So I went to a local PS meeting, a meeting so boringly dour and joyless that I left early even more depressed with the left than before.

Watching a toddler throw tantrums in the White House whilst Cheney MKII tries to pull the strings. Watching Democrats circle the toilet bowl whilst screaming Russia blissfully unaware very few give a shit about them. Meanwhile a jilted journalist spreads anti-Semitism in revenge for his ex-girlfriend going out with someone else. Someone mentioned Bill Maher [cant remember why] to me so I threw a book at them.

The Middle East burns, refugees die, I'm subjected to never ending consumerism 24/7 whilst young girls walk three hours to collect drinkable water. Someone mentioned tax cuts as economy boosting [Emmanuel Macron I think] so I threw the paper at the TV.

Goddammit I running out of safe things to throw, as a Chemical Engineer I have to be really careful just what I start throwing.. some of them would leave quite a hole.

They say when you start to think that the world is insane then it's probably you, I'm fucked then. However I still maintain that the evidence is on my side and so are many of the people I chat with. Something got distorted between those that govern us [or want to] and the realities and sensibilities of the rest of us, we inhabit two different worlds.

The distorted prism that we call the media sells contradictions and absolutes. Stories on extreme poverty and abuse are infused with adverts from another planet where you pee milk and honey, all in soft focus, or heaven forbid have you checked for these symptoms and you might enjoy these side affects our drugs can provide, all included in the excessive price. Sometimes I don't know whether to pee or throw up, perhaps I should see/annoy my doctor about XXX after all, ML would kick me out of her surgery. Damn.

We are sold hate and division as if they are some form of panacea to all our ills or at least we'll be able to transfer the blame to someone who has no power to object. Heaven forbid we actually hold the ass-holes really responsible accountable, kick that homeless/junkie/Muslim/Jew/Person of Color/LGBT/woman be sure to hate enough when so doing. Maintain an adequate sense of entitlement at all times, deny it when pointed out [hello Bill Maher now I remember why].

Infotainment or Fake Reality are being sold as justification and the sheer volume that we are subjected to every day makes it understandable how many take it as an actual reality. We are shown the horrors committed by or "enemies" but little of those committed in our name. Carry that $300 handbag made by those paid 50cents an hour and mercifully allowed to sleep on the factory floor between shifts with joy, after all we should take pride in our corporations for providing them a safe place to sleep.

Some ask the question "why do they hate us" ad infinitum yet never try to propose an actual answer to that bloody inquiry, it usually comes just before "bomb em all" anyway. Just assume we are right and those non-humans are worthy of summary execution, we cannot be held responsible, our government did it, funny how that concept of democracy works, eh?

"Vote the least bad" is so fucking anal that I cant even begin to express how I feel, dammit the cat is sitting on my journal. We expect bad hence the least bad is somehow more acceptable to something obviously bad. Snake oil gushes from those that promote that shit, sometimes the deviously bad is actually worse than the fucking obviously bad. We have been weaned on this shit for decades, morning, noon and night.

Its fucking got to stop.

I am sorry this turned into a rant but I have nothing left to hurl, I draw the line at the cat.

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thanatokephaloides's picture

Goddammit I'm running out of safe things to throw, as a Chemical Engineer I have to be really careful just what I start throwing.. some of them would leave quite a hole.

Thus proving you to be smarter by far than this "genius":

[video:https://youtu.be/0R66Fvhx0vQ width:500 height:306]

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

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mimi's picture

everybody is going insane. You are not alone. They are wrong, not you, it's them. I am not throwing anything, but I don't leave my bed. Quarantaining myself from the world. I have never been so discouraged in my life. I hope someone finds a cure and kills this virus.

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Alligator Ed's picture

@mimi That will kill the virus and also the rest of us.

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Steven D's picture

and you're not insane.

We are governed by oligarchs. If they could, they'd find a way to securitize our lives (slavery) and sell them to the highest bidder. Oh wait .... we're halfway there now.

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"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott

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sojourns's picture

Rant on!
The insanity is spreading. Now La Penne(sp), the Donald Trump of France was busted sending a twit or tweet or whatever containing a video of a journalist (one of the first) being beheaded by ISIS. This is highly illegal in France and if pursued, she may face five years imprisonment and an 80,000 euro fine.

So, thats two of the hard right candidates experiencing great troubles with their campaigns. Perhaps this will be the in the left needs? One may hope.

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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
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@sojourns Party

So, thats two of the hard right candidates experiencing great troubles with their campaigns. Perhaps this will be the in the left needs?

In the process of dumping DemonRATs, the Left needs to emphasize issues that matter to the 99%. Did anybody hear that when Tom Perez was on MSDNC with Keith Ellison being interrogated by Chris Mathews? Nope, all we heard is "organize, plant them grassroots". No issues. Issues are an anathema to CorpraDems.

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sojourns's picture

@Alligator Ed --but yeppers. The 99% needs to keep pushing. I find Matthews a bit difficult to watch. Besides, I get no broadcast television. I would like to have seen that. Perhaps it's up on Youtube. If Perez doesn't have the spine to tell the DNC to fuck off concerning recanting his remarks as to the rigged primaries then how can he be expected to push for the co-opted left agenda? No can do.

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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage

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was video of some kid, drunk, being tazed and jerked from his truck by 3 huge cops and slammed to the ground. One cop kicks him over and another continues tazing him. It is obvious as hell the kid is unconscious. Then a big cop shoves his knee onto the back of the kids neck and bears into it, killing him.
Now as barbaric as it was and so horrible to watch, it did, amazingly, change my reaction to it a 180 degrees. This, and more, is what HAS to happen.
Let me explain.
After bush the lessor rendered our Constitution and Bill of Rights invalid , (quaint I think was the word,) I suspected things were starting to turn against us in a forceful and permanet way.
As that administration moved forward, Abu Garib, waterboarding, extreme humiliation, dogs used to terrorize, I thought these soldiers would not ever use these tactics against their own people.
I thought these servicemen would muster out and come home to their communities and find gainful employment and return to a peaceful and secure life.
I don't have any numbers how many went into law enforcement but their weaponry, brutal tactics, and vicious retaliation for the most minor offence infested our police.
Now, they seem to be above all laws and apparently have "a license to kill". In fact they are now , essentially, Gods. No check OR balance. Eventually, something's gonna break.
Which brings me to this. What happens then? Well, it's gonna get ugly.
The 300 million armed citizens will finally have rise up, just to survive. Kinda like Armageddon. America will collapse. We are getting so close now. Then the thought struck me, those soldiers were being trained in door to door urban environment for a far greater purpose. They learned to see civilians as not human. Dirty animals to be kept in small cages, you know, like the ones they used at the Dapl protests.
Now, Trump wants to boost budgets for law enforcement to bring law and order back. Only we have lowest crime rate in decades. I don't know what it's going to take to spark it all off. But events like this, in the aggregate, are going to make the blowback vicious. So strong will be the need to avenge decades of inhuman abuse, anyone in uniform will perish. Like the hunt for Nazis after ww2, politicians, Billionaires, possibly even church leaders will find no place on earth to hide.
As sickenly as it was, that video, along with all the one we've already seen will have to have some kind of release.
I'm getting up there in age. It's not me I'm concerned with. It's my kids and grandkids I worry about.
So I want America to see every brutal, terrorist like video. To store up the outrage.
Hopefully, it will happen before I die, so I can go in peace, knowing my kids and future generations will not be kissing the feet of the likes of the Cheneys, Bushs, and Clintons.
Thanks for staying with me on this comment that probably should be an essay.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.