Just Say No! To Billionaires

 

The gap between the top 1% wealthiest people in the world and the other 99% is about the greatest it has been since the time of the Egyptian pharaohs. It is so great that the top 1% has started to see itself as being separate from the rest of the human race. Not bound by the same laws. Viewing humaity as a disposable commodity, or at worst given the most recent drop of Epstein files, like livestock that can be farmed.

These people do not have your best interests at heart, and they aren’t going anywhere. They are young, they will be around for another 30-40 years minimum, getting richer and becoming more power hungry and detached.

What right do these people have to such extortionate wealth? None. They are just the inheritors of good luck and being in the right place at the right time. They aren’t the only people who have ever had good ideas, but with access to the entire globe their reach has grown exponentially in an incredibly short period. Once you get on the wealth wave it just keeps on growing. Money breeds money. There is no upper limit for these people.

It wouldn’t be so bad if they just stuck to being the new Scrooge McDuck, but now they want to get involved in politics – on the fascist side. Democracy? Annoying. Borders? Meaningless when you own properties all over the globe (look at Trump’s ridiculous ‘Board of Peace’). Morals? The only morals they have are the ones that appear when they get caught doing something dodgy. Any other time they can do what the fuck they want. They have moved on from being the fabled Illuminati of the 20^th Century to the Epstein Class of today.

So what can be done? Short of a French revolution style solution, the only thing in your power is the power of boycott. Look what happened to Tesla when Musk ripped off his mask. It lost hundreds of billions of dollars in value virtually overnight. Don’t buy products associated with them. Avoid their media platforms. They only understand money and power, so hit them in their wallets. There are alternatives like Bluesky instead of Twitter (or X or whatever) and plenty of online shopping platforms other than Amazon.

Just say no, I don’t want any of your shit.

Oh yeah – and don’t support any politician that is supported by them. Politicians are just legislative janitors– there to do their dirty work ad protect them from accountability.

All of this requires vigilance and actually doing some homework, but the days of putting blind faith into the powers that be are over. Ignorance will just turn you into a peasant, which is ultimately what they want.

Unicorn Economics 101

We are talking about mythical creatures here. Something as likely as a white pony with a horn on its nose dancing on a rainbow. No, it’s not a Republican with a spine (actually, no it would be a Republican with a spine as well), I’m talking about rich folks with a generous soul.

It’s been a popular myth since the 1980s, when Reagan, Thatcher and sundry others put their poisonous agendas into action, that giving money to rich people benefits everyone. And how does it benefit everyone? Because they will be spending up large, dishing out their wealth to worthy causes and passing on savings to the minions with very little. And how often does that happen? I’ll let you answer that for yourself.

Trickle down economics is the biggest lie ever dreamt up by the power-at-any-cost elite. Rich people don’t spend money, they tie it up in property, shares, bonds and other long term and inaccessible forms that benefit no one except themselves and their families/cronies/shareholders. Right wing spin doctors love to point out the few examples of philanthropy that exist as proof that the system works, but it’s like a sighting of bigfoot. It maintains the myth while allowing the status quo to continue unquestioned.

The trickle down effect is actually a vacuum up effect. Because rich folks can afford high prices, the people selling the goods pitch prices aimed at those who can afford to pay top dollar. That’s why you can’t afford to buy a house, or stay in a hotel, or buy cheese in the supermarket. Someone else can, and if you can’t, screw you. That’s how economics actually works. As long as the rich and powerful will pay it, nothing else matters, because rich and powerful people are political donors, and policy is for sale.

I don’t know if you saw Trump’s ludicrous promotional video for his vision for Gaza that he had AI generated, with Elon Musk dancing around throwing money in the air for children to collect at his feet. That’s what those people want you to think is happening. That’s how dumb they think you are. And unfortunately, that’s how dumb some people actually are. They look at those gazillionaires and think they must be good people because they have got so much. WRONG. They are gazillionaires because they are soulless bastards without a conscience that have screwed people over for their whole lives and are hogged everything for themselves.

The latest pennies from heaven myth are Trump’s tariffs. I don’t know how many times people need to be reminded – tariffs are a tax, paid by the importer of goods from overseas. The importer pays money they already have to the government as an import duty (the tariff). It’s a cost to the importer, paid out of their pocket. No one in their right mind is going to wear that, so the importer passes that additional cost on to the wholesaler, who isn’t about to carry it either, so they pass it on to the retailer, who has no profits to absorb it, so they pass it on to you, the consumer, who ends up paying it. None of that money has arrived from overseas. It all existed onshore. It is a re-distribution of domestic wealth from private individuals to the government. 

There are no pennies from heaven when tariffs are imposed. It’s just part of Trump’s endless firehose of lies and gaslighting. If it was true, and tariffs brought in billions of dollars to the economy from overseas, every country in the world would set tariffs at 1,000% because then it would just be rainin’ cash.

The truth eventually becomes clear when businesses collapse and people notice their costs going up, but they don’t necessarily join the dots. There is always someone for politicians and their enablers in mainstream media to blame.

So here are some truths for you to learn and repeat:

• Rich folks don’t give a shit about you
• Tariffs are a tax
• Billionaire backed corporate media lie to you 24/7

And always remember this: the only good unicorn is a dead one.

 

Will the real Jesus please stand up?

 This is a belated follow up to my previous post about the big G and his usefulness as a tool for oppression. You can’t talk about the father without mentioning the son, or his ghost, or whatever it is that folks think he is.

All myths and legends have some root in fact, and the myth of Jesus is no different. I use the word myth for a reason. The Oxford Dictionary defines a myth as “a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining a natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events”. Sound familiar? Man from humble origins upends established and hypocritical religious system while carrying out multiple miraculous acts that build up cult like devotion. Walking on water, feeding thousands with next to nothing and raising the dead. Not your average protester in other words. But who was this ancient liberal social activist really?

There seems to be a considerable amount of embellishment in the origin story, or at least basic misunderstanding of facts that lead to embellishment. His mother was considered to be a virgin, but there is a lot of debate about the translation of that from ancient Hebrew. The word in the original Hebrew texts could also mean an unmarried woman, which makes more sense if we are trying to dissect the myth from the fact. Then there is the wandering star leading the wise men to the baby Jesus, which introduces elements of UFO conspiracy to the story. I don’t have much of an opinion on that, but the wise men aspect sets up the link to ancient prophecy that caused the ructions in the religious establishment that would eventually lead to his demise as an accused charlatan/messiah (delete according to your beliefs). Along the way there are the aforementioned miracles, the social activism and the development of the cult that would eventually take over most of the known world, until Mohammed emerged to present a counter claim.

The first thing to ask is, did Jesus exist as a person or is it all a legend using an avatar to deliver a moral lesson? Well, the fact that both the Jews and the Romans wrote about him indicates that he was a real person. The Romans in particular had no need to write about a remote messianic figure when they had their own well-established pantheon of supernatural beings to worship. They wouldn’t have bothered promoting the story if there was no actual trouble-maker to focus on. The fact that they didn’t take him seriously actually adds more legitimacy to it. They didn’t think he was worthy, but he was causing such a big stir in their conquered territory that they recorded it for posterity in a “how about the nerve of this guy” kind of way.

And that is where the myth-making kicks in. Jesus might have gone unnoticed if the system he was attacking wasn’t under the control of the most powerful civilization on Earth at the time. If he was a shaman in some remote Mongolian village it would have fed the local story tellers for generations, but it would have stayed below the radar everywhere else. The power of mass information was the same then as it is now. If you want to make an impact you have to hit the headlines. If it was left to the rabbis, Jesus would never have been spoken of again, but his cult followers kept the story alive, embellished it a bit to strengthen its impact, then started spreading it out from the middle east into the heart of ancient civilisation. It was the Romans who legitimised Christianity by exposing the underground cult and later adopting it, albeit with a few devotees fed to the lions along the way. Jesus was ignored in his home territory, where he was dismissed as a con-man, and later wholly rejected by the emergence of Islam.

The myth had legs because, let’s face it, it’s a classic everyman, good guy vs bad guy, sticking it to the man kind of story that everyone loves and which, with a bit of added supernature, fitted the mold of Roman legends like Romulus and Remus. By exposing the cult in its early stages the Romans helped it grow, and as people started to move further around the world others began to latch onto it. As Douglas Adams wrote in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Jesus ‘got nailed to a tree for saying wouldn’t it be great if everyone was nice to each other for a change’. The essential nugget at the heart of it resonated with people.

That’s the ‘how’, so let’s circle back to the ‘who’ and answer some questions. Was Jesus the physical son of God? Were his reported miracles actually supernatural? Did he actually die and make a come-back?

The answer to all of these is no, no and no. Like I say, myths are based on some essential truth, but they are built up with a few added bells and whistles to make them worth re-telling. It would be a yawn to say, “yeah I knew Jesus, he was a good guy, shame he had such a big mouth”. If you think what he said and did was worth repeating you’ve got to get people on board, and they won’t listen if there isn’t a wow factor. The ‘son of God’ thing is a metaphor. He was embodying the teachings of God as written in ancient texts, which can be described as him being the ‘son of’. You see that pattern continue over time in a lower political level in figures like Ghandi, Mao and others who upend the establishment and seem to embody the zeitgeist of the time.

As for the miracles and the rebirth? Well, there are plenty of stage magicians that can recreate similar miracles. The English magician Dynamo, in particular, spent a lot of effort in the early 2000’s walking on water, emptying thousands of fish from a barrel and levitating in some pretty spectacular stunts. Jesus no doubt had some similar skills in the illusion department. Don’t ask me how they do it, but are they genuine miracles? Even the story of Lazarus must have some medical roots. Raising someone from a coma is a miracle a lot of doctors perform on a daily basis, but back then it must have seemed like the work of God. Jesus raising himself? Indian yogis do some wild stuff with their metabolism – maybe Jesus was able to ‘play dead’, even with a spear in his side, until he was cut down and was able to slowly recover in the tomb before emerging ‘reborn’.

What about Jesus the man then? What was he actually like? Born-Again Christians make a big deal about ‘knowing Jesus’, but do they really? From the stories in the bible it’s obvious he was a complex character with some serious skills in self-promotion. Narcissism is a horrible thing, but a narcissist focused on doing good would fit his profile. ‘I am the son of God’ and all that. Couple that with some exhibitionist manic-depressive episodes (the whole crucifixion thing) and you are getting close to his personality. He would have stood out in a simpler time with such a modern personality profile. There was a Jewish mystic who emerged in Turkey in 1666 called Sabbatai Zevi who was similarly endowed in the manic-depressive exhibitionist stakes, but he wasn’t the complete package and history has largely forgotten him. You need to be the real deal for messianic longevity. Who will history remember in 100 years – Muhammad Ali or Evander Holyfield? Right, Ali all the way.

Having said that that, after 2,000 years, people are starting to critique Jesus a bit. Maybe that’s the use by date for messiahs. American “Christians” in particular find him a bit too liberal for their tastes. They want their messiah to be a bit more kick-ass and little less forgiving. For a lot of them, Jesus would be seen as a socialist trouble-maker/ radical left lunatic if he was around today.

So is it time to move on? It’s always an individual choice, but here is an interesting little fact as a final twist: Buddhists recognise Jesus as an incarnation of Buddha. How meta is that from a phenomenological point of view? Maybe people should just focus on doing what is right as a human being without resorting to the cult of personality, because no matter what you believe in, actions ultimately speak louder than words.

Who is this God guy anyway?

The name gets thrown around a lot. You know: oh my God, thank God, God knows. But who is this guy God? For someone who is so all pervasive he sure is conspicuous by his absence. Sure, he may have created the world, but what’s he done lately? He talks a good talk but for someone with such a vested interest in humanity he sure is saving those walking shoes.

Then you hit the complicating factor of him delegating most of the heavy lifting to his late son. So who do you go to if you have a complaint? The company God & Son doesn’t even have a website for God’s sake.

Alright, enough frivolity in the intro. This is actually a serious topic, because the phenomenon of Christianity has done more damage to the world than any other human construct over the last couple of thousand years, and continues to do so as we speak. The initial rationale behind Christianity was pretty straight forward, and everyone needs some rules to live by. So don’t kill, don’t steal and don’t lie. I get that. That makes sense. I think most people can accept that and go on with their lives.

But then you start going beyond that into the moral rules and the religious clauses. That’s when it starts getting dodgy. Especially when you read the potential punishment for breaking said rules. For someone who professes to love humanity so much, the punishment for crossing him seems a bit extreme. I mean pardon me, but being burned for eternity while demons stick pins in your flesh seems a bit disproportionate for envying your neighbour’s donkey and cussing the big G and J out. And where is the appeal process and probation option? It strikes me as being a bit narcissistic – I love you as long as you grovel at my feet, but I will unleash hell on you if you dare to cross me. Fuck that! That sounds like the approach of every despot in human history, and they all were, are and will be, scum. If someone like Putin or Trump thinks I’ll be swallowing their shit, they have many thinks coming. Same goes for Mr God, whoever he is.

I think the biggest problem with Christianity is the way it has been used as a tool by the empowered elite as a method of ensuring compliance and control. How many of them have said they are God’s appointed representative, or that they are blessed by said representative in the Vatican. The two go hand in hand. The religion sets the rules with the dagger of divine punishment hanging over everyone, then the power hungry among us latch onto it and say they are chosen, so if you don’t follow my regime then you are going against God, so hell awaits if you go against me. That fear factor is what ensures compliance. Occasionally that system breaks and you have events like the French Revolution and American War of Independence where people realised the Emperor was, in fact, naked. But then the replacement regime finds they need legitimacy so they run back to the Pope or whoever for some endorsement and off you go again. Power hungry people love to put themselves up there with the big guy, whether through birth right or by self appointment. More on this later.

The second biggest problem with the whole corrupt system is the opening book in the bible, which states that God made the world for the benefit of mankind. That has opened the door for absurd exploitation and environmental damage. All the rape and pillage merchants who dig up the ground, pollute the air and poison the water justify it through that book. God said it’s a smorgasbord so we can go for it. Get yours while you can and never mind those that come after. And when we run out over here we’ll find some other part of the world to exploit. It isn’t coveting your neighbour when God says it’s okay right? That’s just grabbing what he said is yours.

Those sharp-eyed readers will have noticed the glimmering of hypocrisy in there, which is the third major aspect of Christianity that needs to be called out. Never mind the abuse of power and the destruction of the planet. That can all be justified by selective application of the bible. But what about when you cross the line and start drifting into lying, stealing and killing to get what you want? Well, you use your get out jail card by saying it’s God’s will. Let’s take it for a spin to see how it works shall we?

Racism: those other races don’t believe in our God, therefor they don’t fit into his plans and can be ostracized, abused and, if they get stroppy, killed. They are sinners because they have other Gods before ours right? And our God doesn’t like sinners, especially the type that talk back and don’t grovel for forgiveness.

Colonialism: natural progression from racism and a major contributor to how fucked up the world is under Christian authority. Those uneducated, pagan, barbaric people need to be “saved”. And if they don’t want to be saved they can be punished as sinners, which means forfeiting their culture, land and resources to those enacting God’s will. We warned them. It’s God’s way or the highway.

War: natural progression from colonliasm when you are dealing with whole countries that don’t buy your shit. Since God doesn’t like heathens, because they are sinful and won’t put him first, they need to be shown the error of their ways. The medieval crusades were all about this, even though their opponents actually followed the same God. But details, huh? They didn’t believe in his son, so that had to be straightened out. You name just about any other war involving, say, America and you will see them pushing the Christian side of things to deal with “Godless communism”, “criminal juntas” and “Islamic terror”. Napalming villages is what God would do if he could, right? The US army is just acting as his right hand.

Greed: This one applies in spades when looking at modern American style evangelism. I could devote several pages to how ugly and corrupt that is, but let’s look at the broad strokes. Evangelists believe that God provides to the holy. That the devout get rewarded. Anything you need, pray for it and God will give it to you, because you can have a personal relationship with the big guy and he knows what you want. And what do most people want? Well, money of course. And God rewards charity too, so once God rewards you with the cash you can give it all to your local church, which is a tax free charity, and you will be doubly rewarded. See how that one works. Your private jet having, diamond Rolex wearing, Ferrari driving mother fucker of a preacher gets you so pious and devout you don’t know which way is up, then says all you have was given to you by God, so it’s His money anyway, so why not give it back to Him so you can prove how charitable you are. But as there’s no return address you can give it to the church, which represents God, and that will cover it. I, your preacher and God’s chosen representative (and I know this because I can talk to him and have a better personal relationship with him than you ever will) will use it to do God’s work; and buy a couple of mansions and helicopters and gifts for my mistress on the side too, but that’s okay because I am more devout than you and God wants to reward me (he told me so).

Yes, piousness is a sweet thing once you know how to use it. Wealth is equal to Godliness, and since wealth is power, all your political leaders have to do is pretend to be pious and say they are getting closer to God by following the American dream (through sucking up to oil barons and billionaires) on their way into congress. So now you can extrapolate it even further by saying that political power, enabled by wealth, is God given. Jesus is my saviour and Trump is my president. Tidy, no? And very effective as we have just seen.

Apologies to those who can’t deal with speaking truth to power, but these things have to be said. Allowing corrupt people to run over you is no longer acceptable when the future of the planet is at stake. People fret about zero oil. How about zero water? How about apocalyptic genocides in God’s name? How about cataclysmic shifts in weather patterns destroying food supplies while “Christians” drill, baby, drill.

If you are honest, faithful and trusting you have my sympathy, but you need to also need to realise that you are being played. Don’t lie, don’t steal and don’t kill is all you need. Everything else is a bunch of bull pucky.

For a bit of light relief I recommend this channel: Mrs Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. It will educate and enlighten and have you doubled over laughing if you let it. Don’t be afraid to say no to evil manipulation. It’s like exiting a bad relationship. After the initial pain and confusion has passed you will feel a whole lot better. Just replace that devotion with an equal commitment to the planet and to respecting the good in other people. And when other people aren’t good? Don’t give them anything, not even time, and certainly not money or power. That’s how we got into this mess in the first place.

You’re welcome.

Death Notice

 

Genocide by any other name

I was going to put up an image of a swastika inside a star of David, but that would be cheap, sensationalist and a bit misleading. Symbolism needs to be handled with care. It's better to just put up photos of the effect. Have a look at the above photos and spot the difference. It isn't a trick. There isn't any difference. Both are the result of political bullshit forced on the innocent by narcissistic sociopaths.

There is probably a psychological term for it, but the victim often turns into the bully and acts the same way. That's what Israel has become. No one can deny the suffering of the Jewish people at the hands of the nazis, but IN NO WAY does it justify the Jewish people now committing their own genocide on the Palestinians. IN NO WAY does it justify the blind ego of a political leader who has lost all sense of humanity. Cut through all the political spin and righteous anger and what you are watching is history repeating itself, and the victim has become the oppressor. 

When you hear right wing Israelis talking about cutting out the infection it is so close to Hitler's rhetoric it is chilling. When they label all Palestinians as terrorists they might as well give them matching uniforms and a badge. It's all the kind of political lie that allows them to bomb hospitals and refugee camps because they can claim they are all harbouring terrorists. If you believe that Hamas uses their own women and children as human shields you will believe anything. And even if they do, how does that justify killing said women and children to get to them? What is happening in Gaza is genocide, pure and simple - unjustifiable evil perpetrated in the name of God.

Fun fact: Jews, Christians and Muslims all worship THE SAME GOD. The only difference is who has the greatest prophet or not, and whether you believe in some fairly wacked out magic tricks - the likes of which are reproduced in the modern era by stage magicians that can pull off the old walking on water or being buried alive routine for the cameras. The madness of this has been going for a couple of thousand years and it is showing no sign of stopping. And it won't. Netanyahu's fine words that he is trying to unite ancient peoples are absurd. It's the same old shit - killing for peace is like fucking for virginity. All those Palestinian children that have watched their families murdered in front of them aren't going to grow up and think what a great guy he was for showing them the error of their ways. They are going to form the next generation of terrorists looking to settle the score. And so it goes on for eternity or until the rest of the world gets sucked into the vortex and self destructs.

What sucks more than anything in this is that the world is more likely to do that than to act to stop it. And why? Because Israel knows it has the USA at its shoulder. Netanyahu is acting like a crazed school yard bully because he knows his cage fighting big bother will come to his rescue when he whistles. As long as the arms flow the madness won't stop, and arms are big business in the USA. Religion and greed - the two compliment each other like wine and cheese at a billionaire's birthday party.

This post doesn't offer any solution other than restating the need for people to reject organised religion and political charlatans. The only religion is the moral standard we set for ourselves. Something completely abandoned by the religious and political hierarchies of the world.

Just to round it out here is one last photo of the precision removal of terrorists by the IDF. Oh yeah, and the 100 or so woman and children that happened to be in the way. Praise the lord and pass the ammunition.

Dumber than a sack full of hammers

I've talked about the USA a lot in earlier posts: Amerikaemia, Lessons From Easter Island and Turning Points. Why am I so concerned about one country when there are other places facing threats to democracy or have autocratic rulers or are religiously bigoted? The reason is that, apart from the USA potentially ticking all of those boxes, it has inserted itself into the world as the upholder of certain standards whether the world likes it or not. That combined with its military power and cultural influence means the question is: how can you not be concerned about them? Like it or not, they have created the western power structure that the world lives under. Most of the antagonism in the world is directly attributable to the attitude of the USA towards economic systems (communism), religion (Islam) and the division of the world into have and have nots (first vs third world). If you want to comply with their standards you are welcome into the club, if not they know where you live.

All of this could be acceptable if the USA itself wasn’t such a hypocritical cot case. Consider the war in the Ukraine, and disclaimer before I start I’m not apologising for Putin – he is an evil narcissistic sociopath that has to be stopped – but this is to show that hypocrisy at this level needs to be called out whenever it rears its ugly head. Picture this: specific country has considerable wealth and is strategically important. Greedy larger country wants unlimited access to specific country’s wealth but doesn’t want to worry about negotiating terms and conditions so it invents some disinformation to justify a military invasion so it can steal said wealth and seize the desirable strategic advantage. Sounds like Putin with Ukraine right, but I was actually referring to the US invasion of Iraq in the ‘war against terror’ twenty years earlier. That is all conveniently forgotten in the current climate. We don’t want no arrest warrants for war criminality issued to any former US presidents now do we?

All the buffoonery and toxicity of Trump has brought the role of the US even more into the spotlight. Assuming it is going to be the world’s sheriff (and who is big enough to argue), what laws is it going to be upholding and who is going to make them? If they can’t get their own shit together how can you take them seriously when they come kicking down your door to put your house in order?

This could potentially be a massive post, but in the interest of time I’ll try and summarise the state of America and how it has no right to be talking down to anyone, anywhere at any time.

The USA has a polarized political system that splits the population roughly down the middle so that each time they have an election the winner is determined by a few thousand votes in a handful of states. How that is democratic is anyone’s guess because it puts ultimate power in the hands of a few undecided John and Jane Does that have no mandate or qualification to determine the fate of the world. The rest of them stick to their guns (literally) with no hope of ever sharing common ground.

On the left, in the blue corner, you have the disparate bunch of ‘progressives’ that like to kid themselves that they are outward thinking and leading the rest of the world with their staggering foresight and liberty. In their dreams. They at least walk the talk a little bit when it comes to living up to the American hype, so you can give them points for trying. On the right, in the red corner, you have a brainwashed, backward looking, subservient, gullible bunch of flag waving sheep that will kill to maintain a status quo that doesn’t exist anymore, and who accept the word of their religious and political leaders unconditionally because they are brought up from day one to follow instructions and reject knowledge. Knowledge is for the people they place their faith in. Education is a tool of the devil. Education leads to questions, which leads to change, which is unacceptable when you have a bible that tells you how things have to be now and forever. That’s how Trump can still command about 45% of the vote, even though polling suggests half of them don’t like him, but they still aren’t concerned about the implications of voting for him. My granddaddy was a Republican, my daddy was a Republican, so gosh darn it I’m a Republican no matter what. As one of their favourite movie characters says: stupid is a stupid does.

Then you add in the credulousness when it comes to fairy stories like the American Dream, that tells them that life can be perfect and anyone can make it big if they give it a shot. Living that dream applies to about 0.1% of the population, but it’s constantly reinforced by Hollywood fantasies that also set them up for the dark side of this whole blind acceptance – conspiracy theories that suggest organised dark forces are at work, preying on them and undermining their way of life. So you get millions of people that believe The Matrix was a documentary and Q-Anon is the only source of truth. That’s how someone as shallow, self-centred and dishonest as Trump can be elevated to cult status and be viewed as some kind of messiah in some corners, because those that buy into it are accepting the fantasy, not the reality. Reality doesn’t have a shot in a culture like that. Reality isn’t heroic. It doesn’t have good guys and bad guys. Reality is dull. Reality is also hard to deal with because it ultimately exposes the big lies they are living under.

Sounds mad right, but it doesn’t stop there. The real kicker is the cultural hypocrisy that allows at least half the population to accept mentally deranged teenagers running around with military styled assault rifles shooting school kids as a ‘fact of life’, then at (literally) the same time swallowing and being outraged by a fake story about Haitian immigrants barbequing cats. Hypocrisy is so ingrained it doesn’t even register. So you get politicians that commit egregious acts then project it onto the other side. You get religious leaders that preach hatred and division. You get absurd wealth paying to influence democracy. You get criminal wars masquerading as police actions, and you keep races partitioned off in ingrained poverty in the land of freedom and liberty for all, and NONE OF THIS is questioned in any meaningful way. And if you are brave enough to bring it up, then you must be ONE OF THEM GODDAM (fill in derogatory stereotype of choice from the list: commies, pinkos, fags, muslims, yankees, democrats, etc etc).

The problem is the USA is too big and diverse, and has too much to lose to act as a unified country. It is really 50 different countries all pretending to act as one. Much as I loath her, Marjorie Taylor Greene will probably get her wish of a ‘national divorce’ by the time she shuffles off into the sunset. The madness is just unsustainable.