Pitted against enormous amorphous forces, no way to comprehend all of it, a world citizen must sit in the target zone of corporate and society-designing minds, waiting for the next change, precipitated usually by a disaster (Covid, Trump's election, 9/11, JFK assassination, Pearl Harbor, USS Maine).
I've learned to balance these upsetting feelings of helplessness before our leaders' recklessness, consumed with power-seeking as they burn up the world to achieve ends fit only for them, but I wonder if they'll ever enjoy anything. Enough isn't their word.
Laughter, at zero pennies per pill, works best to counter these creatures of greed, power, money-grubbing; these practitioners of violence, obtrusive nosiness, and chronic lying.
Liberals balk at Elon Musk's new ownership of Twitter. Alyssa Milano let us know she's turning in her Tesla for a Volkswagen SUV. Musk took a poll of Twitter users to determine if Donald Trump should be allowed back on the platform. Determining free speech by poll, instead of honoring the Bill of Rights, pretty lame, Elon. Trump shouldn't have been taken off of Twitter in the first place. Twitter allows neo-Nazis on its platform. It lets the 2016 election results-denying Hillary Clinton say whatever she wants on Twitter.
Musk reveals information about how Twitter conspired with the Democratic Party, the 2020 Biden Campaign, and mainstream news media individuals to suppress the Hunter Biden Laptop scandal. Biden left his laptop at a repair shop. The device ended up in the hands of a third party, the contents were written about in a New York Post article in early October 2020. Joe Biden's and Hunter Biden's unethical business relationships in Ukraine and the People's Republic of China were on display. Hunter Biden acted as a liaison between foreign business interests and his father, then Vice President Joe Biden.
Information on this was suppressed by Twitter in league with government and corporate allies. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook admitted that the FBI sent agents to speak with Facebook employees, persuading them to suppress the laptop story. This evidence of Joe Biden's shady financial practices would've damaged him, perhaps, in his election bid, but it was pushed to the side, until 2022 when a paper that had called the laptop story Russian disinformation, The New York Times, revealed that it was Hunter's after all.
Showed up nearly two years late to the party, fuckface, that's what I say to the editorial board of The New York Times. They did their job, though, misinforming the public about a political candidate a few weeks before an election. A misinformed public is best equipped to understand the world so they can make good choices when they vote. Like when they voted for a fine upstanding pillar of integrity and truth, Joe Biden. Sure, he lied about all of his campaign promises, he's endlessly arming Ukraine instead of helping the poor and homeless of his own country, he shafted the railway workers, he screwed the graduates with student debt after promising to relieve at least some of it before giving them nothing. Great guy, honest guy, better than Trump, right? Trump talked about "taking" Syria's oil, Biden is actually doing it! Biden this year invaded Somalia. What the hell are we doing in Somalia? I'm sure if it was Biden's decision it must be a good, humane one.
Haiti is looking to get militarily "saved" by the United States soon. When it comes to war, Biden has less of a problem ejaculating his violent fantasies on more countries than Trump ever did.
Still, even if Biden runs in 2023-24, fighting off the slow gravitational force of old age, Democratic loyalists will vote for a man who has done nothing but harm America his entire political career. Why? The propaganda is just good enough. Trump bad, Biden good, was the way of looking at it in 2020. Now, though it should be obvious that Biden is very bad and always was, he has defenders who ignore his senility, never mention his mass murdering habit, and never criticize him for goading Russia to the edge of a nuclear war probability if we keep this insanity going in Eastern Europe.
Without Biden, the 2024 race looks as full of incompetents as ever: Vice President Harris, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren (?). Throw a man in there: Adam Schiff, the Congressman who took on Trump, the Congressman owned by the weapons manufacturers, profiting from the war in Ukraine, what a great guy. AOC will be old enough in 2024. A President with an Instagram account. A President who acts like she's in high school. A President complaining often about her fear, about the death threats she gets, not realizing, apparently, that public figures get death threats.
My evident cynicism about politics in America shouldn't cloak my enthusiasm for life. My liking for dogs and cats, squirrels and rabbits, birds and bees. For science fiction, fantasy, detective novels, history and films, music, the art forms making life have an accent, a spice. A child's drawing on a refrigerator has more value, ultimately, than any bomb.
Vic Neptune
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