Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The election coming in 2024 will be contested during the campaign, during the ballot counting, and after all the votes have been counted and certified. It will be claimed to be stolen again as in 2020 because the outcome is destined to be the same this time around.
Why do I say that, because no one with a conscience wants to live in a world run by a mad man and that is what we will have if he (Trump) is put back in office. 

  All his vitriol about how badly he is being treated, and that the system is not fair and blah, blah, blah. He has not said one word about what he will do to make things better for the nation, only how he will go out of his way to punish those that have betrayed him and not supported his bull shit.

  He has made a big deal out of the fact that he and the gang in jail for insurrection have made a song that seems to have made it to the top of the charts, at least according to Trump. At any rate it has been copyrighted and is making money, which is the important part, wonder where that is going? Like most charity donations it is going into some pocket that is already full but can never be full enough.

  More great news from the followers of the one they are forming some sort of vetting program so that they can fill all the important government jobs with those that are loyal yes men. It is so special to see that the nation has produced so many that have grown up mindless and spineless that they are content to take orders from a very mentally impoverished gameshow host.

Comments always welcomed…

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

You are making all kinds of noise about having the military on the streets as soon as you are confirmed, which must mean you believe people are going to be opposed to you being elected or being railed in by the electoral college. Either way we are looking to have a scorched earth election. 

  If you are not elected your followers will have a civil war because your ego will not be able to stand the shock of the loss. If you win you are going to put troops on the streets to track down all those that have opposed you and deport them. Either way instead of the shining city on the hill you are going to oversee London after the blitz. 

  Hitler went to the Eagle’s Nest to get away from all the carnage he caused, where will you go? Is there a golf course big enough to shield you from the view of destruction of the country that you profess to love? Maybe Scotland except they won’t let you in. Some of your other friends that will rejoice over the destruction of this nation may have a hiding place for you, but once you have the ball rolling, who do you trust not to turn on you?

  Quite a dilemma that you are creating. It would seem that the only way out is to not have you on the ballot. No need for your followers to riot, you withdrew and asked them to stand down. No troops on the street as no one is protesting a very dicey election result, and all of the damaged stock in Congress have been replaced with critters that don’t have mad cow disease.

  Many people have aspired to be President, you actually made it. With no real training or understanding of the position and nothing but your ego to fulfill you did make it. Put it in you trophy cabinet and let it go. At your age you probably do not need the stress and the rest of us don’t need the mess, leave the politics to others. Go play golf.

repost from 3/3/23

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

I just read the writeup about America is a War at Home on the Great America News. This is very much a conservative site as all the problems are blamed on Democrats and Biden.

What I see as a lack of understanding that America did not begin as one brand of religion country. The founding fathers did not name a God or deny that people are different and yet equal, even if they did allow slavery. 

Now we are being told that if religious dogma and free market methods are not followed, we are somehow unfit to be American. They claim this is not about white supremacy, but it is and denying that we have just recently been home to people with other than heterosexual tendencies is very narrow minded. Also, the business of the classing of every person that attempts to come here from somewhere else as an illegal alien is just crap. Putting them on buses and sending them to DC is not an answer for someone that is supposed to be in a position of authority.

Do not know what to do about it, maybe finding a way to get rid of the vipers in the mix would help but as long as we have the hate mongers we are screwed. I wonder if they have ever thought about how things might work if they would only try to work through a problem rather than blame it on others and deny that there can be a way to solve it.

As always any and all comments welcomed.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

This saying has been an often-repeated phase as of late and I absolutely agree with the sentiment but am not certain how to deal with the rampant stupidity. Agreed it is very difficult to fix stupid, but do we need to even engage stupid or just politely walk away. I am assured that I am not the only person that encounters the deep dark recesses of dumbness and situation by situation it is always to judgment call whether to engage to dumb, challenge it, or just stay quiet.   

If your child says something ridiculous as a parent, you are obligated to challenge the statement because we all know that if unchallenged that dumbness will fester and grow into even more ludicrous thoughts. Do we, as a society, have the obligation to challenge at least some of the stupid shit that is spewed at us on a regular basis? That is a hard call. The other untold truth about ingrained stupidity is that when challenged it may become violent. Idiots don’t like it when their idiocy is pointed out, especially in group settings.

My dilemma is that just like children if stupidity goes unchecked it spreads like the common cold. One of the Third Reich’s propaganda tools was to tell a lie so big, so absurd, that some would believe that there was no way that anyone would make it up, then they repeated it until especially of the lie went unchallenged. We all remember the Kelley Anne Conway ‘alternative facts’ line, its not a lie it just alternative facts. Sorry when I was a kid bull shit was called bull shit there was not counter argument.

We survived 4 years with a blowhard in the White House that couldn’t go five minutes without spewing his version of reality, ‘alternative facts’, and he is still doing it. Sadly, far too many people don’t verify the facts and those that do are unwilling to the challenge the bullies that rapid fire repeat the propagandized lie. The truth has become partisan, which it never should be, the truth is true, and a lie is a lie no matter what side of the isle it comes from.

We have let nonsense become mainstream, now there are flat earthers, science deniers, those that will tell you with a straight face, and one is the Speaker of the House, that the earth is 6,000 years old. We can’t fix stupid be as a thinking rational person I feel we have at least some obligations to challenge it, throw facts, statistics, even logic in stupid’s face, stupid won’t like it but maybe if it is challenged enough stupid won’t be a stupid.

Thanks for putting up with another rant… feel free to interject any suggestion on how to combat the dumb in our world today.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

  Trump claiming to be your retribution to the Republican Party. He can hardly claim such a status to the American people in general as he wishes to destroy everything that makes America worth being a part of. We already have too much gun violence, homelessness, overpricing on medications, doctors, hospitals, and commodities thanks to the Republican ideas of trickle down economics. Send jobs overseas where labor is cheap and then bring the products back and sell them for inflated prices if you can find anyone that can afford to buy the stuff.

   Over half of our nation’s youth would like to leave and live elsewhere because life in other countries looks much better. Public education, health care, and no toxic politics are all reasons for the desire to leave, not to mention the whacko gun laws.

   There have been speeches made about how nations like Russia, China and North Korea have leaders that are strong, intelligent (?) and in power for ever, and that is what we need and we can get that with Trump he is strong (?) intelligent (?), and whats to be in power forever. In order for that to happen we would have to elect him and stop voting until he died off, which might be a damn sight sooner than he thinks.

   Ludwig was King and he was declared insane and he drowned in a lake. Other leaders that were found lacking have not stayed in power for long, as history is witness. If the party that believes they know best for all of us thinks they can run this up everyone’s ass it may prove to be a bit more difficult than they believe. With the pious already showing signs of being corrupt to the nth degree it is hardly likely that they will have devine assistance in getting their way. 

   We would all be better off if a very vain person would stuff his ego where the sun don’t shine and go home instead of continuing to whine about having an election stolen when it was not. Being a good citizen is just too much to expect from someone that was never taught that losing is a possibility.

   His proposal to build camps to put immigrants in is another of the ugly truths of someone that believes that being in power means you can be ruthless and inhumane. He has also indicated that those that oppose him would or could find themselves in such camps as well. What a wonderful world we live in, and no doubt there are some that are very much in favor of such things. Wonder how they would feel about that situation if the tables were turned and when he loses they were rounded up as enemies of the state and locked in camps? No doubt they would all be whining about their Constitutional Rights even though they were perfectly happy to take away other peoples rights and not care.

   Let’s be totally honest about this, if you like the idea of waking up and being able to live your life as a free person, not as an object of a dictator, then you do not want to put Donald Trump back in the White House.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

  We are going to have a major crisis to overcome in the very near future. It is time to put the country back on its feet and start shutting some revolving doors that are allowing a few of our less than honest citizens to run everything into the dirt.

   When did corporations become persons with voting rights, when did money learn to talk, why is it okay to bribe people in Congress and in the Supreme Court, and when did the division of church and state stop? All of these issues have been approved by the Supreme Court over time and since they are on a lifetime appointment changing things does not look like an option. So maybe we better change the appointment schedule. There are other issues that need to be changed as well, it seems that the Court recently passed an ethics bill and none of the things that would get them thrown out of the temple were considered bad. These are all supposed to be such good religious and righteous people, in a horse’s ass.

    Every major problem we have today be it homelessness, gun violence, drugs, or anything else you care to name can be traced back to a stupid decision made by the members of the supreme court. They have allowed so many things to be convoluted into law that big business now buys outright or bribes openly officials that could make a difference and that is where money gets a voice. The drug companies, the oil companies, and anyone else that wishes to lie, cheat, steal, inflate, or misrepresent something and they have the money can simply grease a few palms and that is all it takes.

   More and more efforts are being made to take away rights to vote, own property, get a good education, have access to health care or even read something that might be slightly controversial. It is okay to separate families if they are not white, it is okay to kill people if they are of a group that believes in something other than straight relationships, and the logic and reasoning for  hate and disenfranchisement become less reasonable for sane people and easier to support for those that find reasons to find other to be betheath them.

   Each of us has worth no matter what we have done, it could be our value is a lesson is what not to do or be but it is worth something to someone. Far too often it seems the view we have of those that are different from us is taken as a view through the sights on a weapon rather than a picture on a postcard saying “Wish You Were Here”. The song says “From a Distance You Look Like My Friend” and given half the chance probably would be but we are shooting at one another so much for being friends. The sad fact is that most of the people do not know why they are fighting.. If you could figure it out as something other than just a couple of malcontents deciding to have it out and dragging everyone else in to the mess you could probably sell the movie rights for a small fortune. 

Please feel free to comment, agree, object…