You Brexit You Bought It... (And A Few Other Thoughts)
So once again we enter a time when a whole bunch of things popped up, and
rather than try to focus on just one of them, I have to try to get them all.
So here we go...
Brexit: The absolute big news
this past week is England’s decision to leave the European Union. The so-called “experts” said that it really
wouldn’t happen. That this was just the
sour grapes of a few malcontents in England and this would all blow over once
people realize what would be at stake.
Hell, the financial world bet the farm on England remaining with the EU!
That, I think, should have been the first warning sign right there. Any time the financial world does that, they
often lose. And “they” don’t really
lose; the rest of the world does.
I’m not going to try to pretend to know everything about what was going
on with England and the European Union.
But I will suggest that both England and the EU deserved this vote.
First you have a country that really wasn’t embracing the EU. It was like they were still in the trial
period and they just can’t make up their mind to commit. Hell, they were still working on the pound
currency instead of wholeheartedly embracing the Euro.
Second, you still have a whole bunch of people pissed off over what
happened in 2008 with the Great Recession.
Yes, the 1% ended up with the gold over there too... and everyone else
got the shaft. And then add to that a
whole bunch of people from Eastern Europe and the Middle East who were looking
for work, and you get a whole segment of the populace pissed off at “outsiders”. Hell, in this country they’d be called “’Muricans”
and would be voting for Trump.
So you have Europe and the British politicians that quite simply underestimated
the discontent that is in England right now. They either dismissed the group outright, or
they just ignored the grumbling masses. What
they thought was a meaningless gesture is now a swift kick in the bullocks.
The funny part is all of the
Monday morning quarterbacking of the vote and how the so-called “experts”
screwed up. They’re ready to blame
anything and everything that doesn’t include the word “ourselves” in it. The media script says that the voters somehow
didn’t “understand” what was at stake when they voted to leave the EU. They point to one jerkoff that claimed that he
didn’t think his vote “really mattered”.
Excuse me? The whole “my vote don’t
matter” excuse is supposed to be used when you don’t vote, not as an
excuse for how you voted! Another script
says that the British newspaper, The Sun, is
to blame for the surprise victory because they ran an 11th hour “special”. Guess who owns that? Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News.
So now we have the markets crashing, the British Pound getting so cheap
it could practically be sold at Wal-Mart, the pompous elitists in the EU
demanding that England go ahead and leave right this very minute (spoiler alert: that won’t happen and that’s by design and they damn
well know that), Scotland and Northern Ireland wanting to do their
own reverse-Brexit from the UK, France wanting to do their own “Brexit”, and
the self-promoting clown, Donald “The Ego” Trump, taking credit for all of it.
In short, folks, I think this will be a learning moment for both England
and Europe. You don’t ignore the masses
that you’ve been screwing over. You’d
think that England, of all places, would keep that in mind, but, then again, they
still celebrate Guy Fawkes Day as an insult to the grumbling masses, not as an important
lesson. You know what they say about
those that fail to learn the lessons of history...
Orlando Crisis Loons and the “Sit-In”
– So after a screwed-up loser shoots up a gay nightclub in Orlando, murders
forty-nine people, and pledges allegiance to two warring Islamic factions that
hate each other (which is like pledging allegiance to both
the Hatfields and the McCoys) before being done in, we have our
usual political temper tantrums about how to supposedly “prevent” these things
from happening again.
The chicken-hawk fascists on their masturbatory fixation on hating Islam
say that we need to embrace Trump’s McCarthist anti-Islam policies. That and bomb more places around the world...
just ‘cuz. Hell, former Speaker Newt
Gingrich, the pompous adulterous hypocrite, is
even suggesting we should resurrect McCarthy’s House Committee on Un-American
Activities! Oh, and did I forget to
mention that Gingrich is supposedly a contender to be Trump’s running mate for
the GOP ticket?
But the liberals aren’t any better!
They have their same broken record script that they’re gurgitating faster
than a Hollywood bulimic with a seven-course meal and a bottle of ipecac. Their script is even simpler: Ban guns, ban
guns, ban guns, ban-ban-ban g-g-g-g-uns!
I know it sounds like a no-brainer to say that someone who is on the “no-fly
list” shouldn’t be able to get a gun, but that list in and of itself is an
Orwellian wet dream that needs to be taken to a shooting range and used as
target practice. You don’t know if you’re
on “the list” until you go to the airport and find yourself on that list. There are no set standards for being on “the
list”, and no recourse that can be made if you are on “the list” and you’re not
supposed to be. And who determined
whether or not you should be on “the list”?
And what kind of accountability is made if someone puts you on “the list”
and they’re not supposed to?
It’s rather ingenious if you think about it, because the liberals are
using the favorite weapon of the neo-conservatives born from their fanatical obsession
of 9/11 against them!
The only problem is, they can’t win, even with this weapon. They don’t have a majority in either side of
Congress.
So the Democrats decided to stage a sit-in on the floor of the House of
Representatives. Good old-fashioned
sit-in from the 60’s! Led by Congressman
John Lewis, no less!
Unfortunately for him, it still didn’t work. Speaker Paul “Mister Budget” Ryan simply
adjourned the House early. It was
useless, just like Senator Ted Cruz’s filibuster a few months ago.
My problem is this: the same people that were calling Canadian-born Cruz
a “hero” for his filibuster stunt were mocking and making fun of Congressman
Lewis for his sit-in. I may not agree
with what the Congressman is pushing for, but he’s been putting his neck out
for what he believes in far more times than anyone on the opposite side ever
has!
Would you take a fire hose to the face and a police baton to your gut for
what you believe in? Would you be
willing to go to jail for what you believe in?
I don’t see any of those gutless chickenhawks willing to do any of
that. They’d rather be holding the
truncheon instead of being on the receiving end of it.
I’ll make this painfully simple for those “’Muricans” who suffer from Fox
News ADD: If you hold your allies to one standard and your opponents to a
separate one, then you forfeit any claim to be a champion of the rule of law! If you can’t tell the difference between the
rule of law and the rule of egotistical sociopaths, then you are the problem in
our society, not the solution.
Speaking of Orlando Crisis...
– We’re all obsessively fixated on the nutcase with the automatic weapon, but
he wasn’t the only villain in Orlando that weekend. There was the premeditated murder of “Voice” singer
Christina
Grimmie at her concert just the day earlier, and then the
death of a two-year old boy at the hands of an alligator not far from
Disney World. Three tragedies in the
same weekend in the same area... I’d hate to be part of the tourism board over
there right about now.
And that brings me to my last subject...
Speaking of Loons... – The mass-shooting
in Orlando has turned the LGBT community into the momentary cause-to-protect
group. It was a year ago this week that
the Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriages were constitutionally valid
nationwide, but that didn’t change the minds of those bible-thumping
extremists, nor those of the Fox News crowd that saw the decision as a complete
and utter failure of the United States.
But now, after the shooting, those same factions are in a bind because
of a self-professed Muslim extremist. Now
they have to support the very group that they spent last year wringing their
hands and gnashing their teeth over.
There is a part of me that is laughing over that little bit of tragic karma.
But not everyone in the Fox News crowd has signed on to the new
protect-the-group mission. There are
still some extremists that see the LGBT community as being biblically evil. And they’re not afraid to say that the Muslim
loon who couldn’t decide which extremist group to support on the phone was not
only “right”, but that he didn’t go far enough.
Yes, those people still exist. And
they’re not afraid to say what they believe.
Unfortunately, they’re getting an ugly taste of the very persecution that
the rest of their political allies used to dish out. Their signs are being vandalized and they are
facing vocal threats.
And I have a serious problem with that.
Let’s get brutally honest here... while I’m not a supporter of the
anti-LGBT crowd, I recognize that they have every right to say what they
believe on church signs and their own home signs. It’s called the First Amendment, and it was
the very constitutional amendment that the LGBT crowd celebrated this time last
year. And if you really do love freedom
as I do, then you have to show the same kind of tolerance for their hatred as
you expect others to show for you.
Tolerance is not one-sided. It’s
not “do as I say not as I do”. That’s
the hypocrisy of our joint enemies. Don’t
be like them. Be better than them. Show them how it’s done through example, not
through posturing.
A lot has happened in the past two decades that I’ve been doing online
commentary, but the really important stuff didn’t happen overnight. It happened when we decided that we needed to
be better than what we once were.
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