Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

I hate to insult clowns that is why I accentuated the miss spelling of with a K in every word that should be a C, and the KKK reference was not accidental.

The GOP has made their bed and now instead of trying to clean up their own mess they are coming out and placing the blame on the other side of the isle.

 ‘The Democrats are not voting to let the House get back to work.’ ‘If the Democrats would have just voted for McCarthy, we wouldn’t be in this mess…’   

Give me a break, the left voted to keep the government open while McCarthys’ own party brought a motion to vacate the Speakership, a rule by the way that they put in. No, the Democrats didn’t vote to save McCarthy and won’t vote to put Jim Jordan in that seat. It is not Hakeem Jefferies job to get the democratic caucus to vote to give the arsonist the match. We have offered to run the government like adults but that won’t work for the Greene, Jordan, Boebert wing refuse to do any kind of compromise governing, they would rather take their ball and go home than act like reasonable adults. So don’t give me the story that the Democrats have to step in and babysit the winy bitch party.

I am convinced that the disfunction the Republicans are displaying is a Feature not a Bug. They like disfunction, they relish it. In 1980 campaign for President, Ronald Reagan said, “The scariest works ever spoken are, ‘I’m here from the government and I am here to help.” That is the GOP mantra and every day they want to prove that government can’t work, and we should turn the whole country over to the corporations. Their collective campaign slogan should be, “Government can’t help, vote me in and I will prove it.” It is amazing the people that hate government but still want to be a part of it, I suppose it’s easier to burn it down from the inside.

A prime example of the party differences is job growth. The findings for private-sector job growth are even more striking: businesses have added jobs at a nearly 2.5 times faster rate under Democrats than under Republicans, on average. In fact, the private-sector job growth gap between Democrats and Republicans is even greater than the gap when including government jobs. The supposed fiscal conservatives record according to PolitiFact “Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush 41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. Obama halved it to $600 billion. Trump’s one term got it back to a trillion.” For those that aren’t old enough to remember Jimmy Carter, he served one term and handed Reagan a budget surplus.

The republican will have us believe that they have such a narrow margin in the house that they can’t get any legislation passed unless the democrats play ball. They neglect to mention the Nancy Pelosi had the exact same narrow margin and the republican voted against nearly everything but still the democrats passed a budget, the PACT act, help for veterans, I could keep going but I won’t.

The government is set to run out of money again in November if a budget isn’t passed and the Klowns can’t even decide on a driver. This tells me that this iteration of the Republican Party is not serious about governing and should be relegated to the minority until they can get their shit together.

Thanks for suffering through another rant.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Are we collectively on a path to ensure extinction of the Human Race? I am seriously asking this because with climate change and war we seem to be continually hammering nails in our own coffin.

The jury is still out over what killed the dinosaurs, was it a meteor, volcanic activity than caused plant life to die because eruptions blocked out sun light for multiple growing season that led to an ice age, there are lots of theories out there. I am going to hazard a guess than when the next intelligent species rises on this planet their archaeologist will determine that we killed ourselves. “they were so smart and so stupid at the same time” will be on the tombstone of humanity.

I am sure you are wondering why I am so morbid today… Well first off it is October 20^th, 2023, and it is 100°F /38°C here in Phoenix AZ that is not normal for this time of year. Our summer was the hottest on record and according to future predictions our steek of 110°F+ days this past summer is only the beginning of that nonsense, but to way too many, climate change is just a folly, nothing to see here. On the that front we are rapidly running out of water worldwide which is amazing for a planet that is 71% water but 95% of that water is in the oceans and not potable for human consumption. Nothing like dying from dehydration on a water planet.

The next item of contention on this blue marble floating through the cosmos is our constant desire to kill each other over a deity that no one can prove actually exists. We have genocide in Jerusalem and Iseral over a piece of land that they both consider holy, but can’t agree what prophet is the right one, Moses, Mohamad, Jesus, Aberham. Seriously they are all monotheistic and teach the same basic morality and from I have gleaned from the collected works of all these religions, ‘kill thy neighbor’ wasn’t one of the tenants.

Since man could walk upright, we have found ways to kill one another, maybe the ‘God’ that’s image we were allegedly created in was Aries the God of war or Hades who relishes in the suffering of others because the pledge to Love one another seems to be far down on the list.

I hope we figure this out but at the moment to don’t have high hopes, just hope that the next intelligent species has more sense than we do.

Sorry for such a dummer post.    

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The call has been made over and over to drain the swamp. The swamp is the least of our worries, the overflowing cesspool is a far greater threat. All of the name calling, all of the blame laying, all of the whining about how unfair he has been treated is just so much crap.

  The supporting characters in our Congress need to be removed and ushered into the world where human values come first, not greed, not self importance, not self pity, and certainly not a belief that because you wear a certain hat, or kiss a certain ass you are somehow about the law or the Constitution of the United States. If it means a trip to a cell for an extended period of time, the loss of everything they had thought they were going to receive with the golden parachute, or some fate that we would prefer not to predict, then so be it, but get them out of positions of any influence. From the crap that runs out of the mouths of these people I hope they are not raising children.

  Each and everyone of these people ran on some sort of platform to get elected, unless of course the district they came from paid no attention and just filled in the blank. If that platform does not conform to the nonsense they are preaching then they need to be reminded of it and not in a subtle way.

  As for our National Press Corps, where the hell are the reporters that actually report news? Did all the real news reporters die or are they just hiding?

  News of the day is that a Federal Judge was attacked outside her home this morning by individuals that are loyal to Trump.  We must be living in some sort of place where lawlessness is the name of the game. The record number of places that now have open carry laws for weapons, the number of deaths that can be connected to weapons, the amount of hate speech and disregard for others that is common, makes it easy to believe that every negative emotion of every hate monger in the country has been released as the result of the election of Donald J. Trump.

  We have always had our fair share of bigots, they just have had to keep a civil tongue in their mouth and a lid on their hate. Since 2016 they have had a spokesperson at the highest level of government that has encouraged, capitalized on and exalted negativity for all things civil and decent. Praise has been showered on depots around the world, our normal allies have been shut out or pushed aside for the sake of looking great to people like Putin and the like.

  The tactics of the Mafia or similar organizations should not be tolerated. If they want to play with fire then burn them. Were they just supposed to scare the judge, harm her or worse? Whatever their mission was, let them enjoy the fruits of their efforts. Maybe the next ones that show up will be wanting to take her to have coffee at Starbucks.