Quick Thoughts Of The 2016 Farce
With the elections fast approaching (as of this column’s
posting), there doesn’t seem to be enough time for me to cover
everything that needs to be said before the elections. So rather than try to pick which one subject
I should focus on, I’m just going to give you my quick thoughts on a whole
bunch of things in one column.
Beyond the Locker Room –
Donald Trump’s so-called “locker
room talk” tape got a lot of air time, and it generated women coming out of
the woodwork to show that he wasn’t just boasting. But “he said-she said” is one thing... having
it on video is another, and there
is video of Trump being Trump when it came to another former Miss Universe,
Jennifer Hawkins. And this wasn’t from
eleven years ago. This was from just
five years ago. In public.
Didn’t know about that? Yeah, well
that’s because the media decided they would focus on something else in the
pretense of providing “equal time”.
Oh, and you can add
a former Miss Finland to the growing list of women that Trump grabbed and
groped like they were grocery produce.
The FBI Zombie Investigation
– Just when you thought the whole mess with Hillary’s emails and the FBI were
over and done with, FBI Director James Comey decided
to resurrect the monster and launch a new investigation... just days before
the election, and in possible violation of the Hatch Act. (Look it up.)
But there’s “nothing political about that”, is there?
Right. And if you believe that,
then there’s a PhD program at Trump University just for you!
Here’s the thing: the “new information” comes from their continuing
investigation of former Congressman Anthony Weiner. Yes, Weiner and his wiener yet again. The feds are still “investigating” the claim
he was sexting underage girls, when they supposedly discovered more of
Hillary’s emails on a computer shared by himself and his wife, who is still one
of Hillary’s top aides. The discovery,
by the way, could
very easily be tossed in court under the Fourth Amendment. Then again, if the FBI doesn’t give a care
about the Hatch Act, why should they care about the Fourth Amendment?
And do you know why the original investigation didn’t get any political traction? Because it is boring as hell! That’s why the whole drip-drip-drip Wikileaks
wasn’t really working; because it is boring!
The only people that were paying attention to it were the Fox News and
Brietbart crowds, and both of those media groups now have people working for
Donald Trump’s campaign.
And it was the same with Bill and Hillary Clinton’s original
investigations. Remember, I’ve been
doing this for over twenty years now. I
remember all the games with the travel office and the Rose Law Firm and
Whitewater and the death of Vince Foster… and the only thing from all of those
investigations that really stuck with the American people ended up being Bill
Clinton all over Monica Lewinsky’s infamous blue dress.
So once again we have a Clinton investigation where sex gets involved. What is it with these GOP manufactured
snipe-hunts in that they can’t seem to get any kind of traction without
dragging sex into it?
Comey Needs To Go – I really
think that this latest news will be Director Comey’s swan song, because, no
matter who ends up being President, he pretty much wrote out his career.
When Comey first ended the investigation of Hillary’s use of a private
email server without bringing charges against the former Secretary of State,
the GOP and Narcissist Trump were both wanting Comey’s head on a platter. He did not deliver what they wanted, which
was Hillary behind bars.
Well what the hell do you expect?
This is post-Watergate Washington we are talking about! You give the illusion of accountability, but
you deliver little else. Remember when
the White House outed a CIA agent over her husband’s job questioning their
justification for the Iraq War? That
blatantly violated a Reagan-era law. Only one person was held to account for
that, and that was arranged to protect his higher-ups. CIA operations were in jeopardy, but that
didn’t matter. Lives were at stake, but
that didn’t matter. The White House was
to be protected, period. No more Nixons. Same with the Clinton Regime. Find some underling to take the fall. No more Nixons. Unfortunately, Big Bubba Bill made too much
of a mess to get away unscathed, which is why he took the hit and everything
else just disappeared. No more
Nixons. It’s just that Hillary was
Nixon, not Bill.
This is the game in Washington. I’ve
seen it. Hell,
I even commented on it when it happened!
I can even understand why Comey felt “obligated” to disclose this
information now. It’s really a
damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t situation.
If he stayed silent until after the election it would have unleashed a GOP hyper-tantrum. But that doesn’t change what he did when
he did. If Hillary wins, Comey is
fired. No ifs-ands-or-buts. He’s toast.
If Trump wins, Trump would probably fire Comey because Comey didn’t
deliver the first time around, and, again, the nature of Washington is that
this email thing will also blow over, so Trump would then feel obligated to
fire Comey again. Can you fire someone
twice? Trump would find a way to do
that.
Speaking of WikiDrip-Drip-Drip – I
seriously think that WikiLeaks should be obligated to change their name to
WikiDripDripDrip if they want to continue playing this game for Trump. In fact, that is what “WikiLeaks” is now…
they are just WikiDripDripDrip.
And, equally seriously, what the hell does Julian Assange hopes to gain
from this? Does he have some sort of
backdoor deal with Trump for an automatic pardon if the Narcissist gets
elected? That’s really the only possible
explanation for Assange’s actions right now and why everything is
drip-drip-drip. If this was any other
situation, then WikiDripDripDrip would have just done a huge info dump and be
done with it. But, no, it’s
drip-drip-drip.
And… is it now a crime to have behind-the-scenes discussions about
certain issues and certain political groups?
That seems to be what the WikiDripDripDrip crowd wants us to
believe. No more playing devil’s
advocate. No more raising questions that
may not follow the “party line”. And no
more speaking fees! How dare these
former politicians make money speaking at private companies and private
functions! They should be living in
homeless shelters, panhandling for food, pining for those glory days when they
were wined-and-dined by K-Street and C-Street lobbyists.
Unless, of course, you’re the Narcissist, Donald Trump, in which case you
call those things “motivational workshops”, and then claim that you’re
“motivating people to be successful.”
That’s being “smart”.
Quadruple Standard on Polls –
So, Donald, how is it that you can “win every poll” in one hand, then tell
people to “ignore the polls”?
Third-party candidates are intentionally shut out of the debates because
of “polls”, but then Trump tells his own people to ignore what the polls say
because they’re part of the “rigged system”.
And if you’re winning in those polls, should we then automatically
discount them, because, after all, they are part of that “rigged system”. Which
is it, Donald?
Voter Fraud for Real – So you
know how the GOP continually whines and wails like the spoiled brats they are
about voter fraud? Well it turns out it
does exist, because they
arrested someone in Iowa for voting twice in two different polling
places... for Donald Trump!
As the Narcissist would say... “Oops!”
There Are Alternatives, Stop Lying About Not Having
Any! – If half the customers of a restaurant want a
pulled pork sandwich instead of a chicken sandwich or cheeseburger, whose fault
is it if the restaurant has it but nobody orders it? That’s right... it’s your fault! You wanted it, you demanded it, you got it,
so stop trying to debate between a chicken sandwich and a cheeseburger and just
order the goddamned pulled pork sandwich that you asked for in the first place!
Likewise, there are alternatives to Trump and Clinton! They are there. They are on the ballot. So whose fault is it if you don’t vote for
them? Yours! So every single one of you need to shut the
hell up about a lack of alternatives!
I’d go on and on about this, but that’s a subject for Election Eve.
Voter ID Vs the Selfie –
There are laws on the books that prohibit people from taking selfies of
themselves in the polling places. One
such law got shot down in federal court, but several other states have
similar laws in effect.
What annoys me is that these are the states that also push for mandatory
Voter ID when it comes to voting, and their respective political parties have
campaign thugs that send out messages to the voters saying “We know who you
vote for, if you don’t vote our way we will let your neighbors know!” Remember
the dirty tricks #Cheat2Win Ted Cruz used in Iowa?
Now… if there is no such thing a voter privacy, then why the hell is it
illegal to take selfies in the polling place?
That’s a blatant double standard!
If you’re going to demand that people bring photo ID with them to prove
that they are who they say they are, and if you allow your own thugs and
hoodlums to use scare tactics claiming that people have no voter privacy, then
you have absolutely zero legal or moral authority to tell people that they
can’t take selfies in those same polling places to prove that they are
voting! None!
Speaking of thugs and hoodlums...
Hillary’s Fictional Hit Squad
– So the alt-right wacko extremist crowd, otherwise known as the GOP base, want
to spread continual rumors of Hillary Clinton having a super-secret ninja team
of assassins that “eliminate” anyone that crosses her or insults her. This is something that goes back to the death
of Vince Foster in the 1990’s.
Funny, though, how all of the really “harmful” people would somehow...
not... die.
If Hillary really did have her own personal ninja hit squad at her
beck-and-call, then how did Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Wiley, Paula Jones, and Monica
Lewinsky somehow survive the 90’s? How
did Linda Tripp continue to give damning testimony? How did Barack Obama mange to beat her in
2008? Why didn’t the talk radio people
questioning her on Benghazi suddenly go silent? Why was Bernie Sanders allowed
to challenge her this year? Why is
Anthony Weiner still around to give people headaches? What’s the point of having a super-secret
ninja hit squad to go after anyone who challenges you if you don’t actually use
it in the way that people claim?
In other words, it’s just another lie manufactured by the “duct tape and
plastic sheeting” fear-mongers whose only possible benefit to the planet will
come when they are no longer living on it.
And even then, I would want the EPA to do a toxic waste test on their
rotting carcasses just to make sure.
And finally…
Not Voting? You
Are A Goddamned Tool! – Just as damning as the people
that claim that there are no alternatives in this 2016 Farce are the ones that
say they won’t vote because of Hillary and Trump.
This is what the two dominant political parties want, people! They have wanted all this time for you to not
vote! Why the hell are you giving them
precisely what they want?!?
I’ve said this twenty years ago and I’ll say it today and I’ll probably
say it twenty years in the future: the two dominant political parties do not
want your vote! They do not need your
vote. They have all the votes that they
will ever count on. All they have to do
is to make sure that everyone else does not vote, and… let’s get brutally
honest here… Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are two of the biggest examples
of this tactic that I have ever seen in my life!
We have in place two of the most volatile and despised candidates in the
history of the United States. And, yes,
I am not exaggerating here. This is
worse than any of the other political races ever. Hands-down.
And yet the two dominant political parties have knowingly, willfully,
intentionally, and maliciously orchestrated it this way on the idea that we
would supposedly have to choose which one was worse than the other.
Yes, it is true that Trump and Clinton are equally bad, but not in an
interchangeable kind of way. One is
Machiavellian. The other is
narcissistic. It’s like arguing over the
Earth being hit with a gamma
ray burst versus all-out global thermonuclear destruction and then telling
us which global extinction event the Earth deserves. There nothing equivalent about these things;
they’re just plain wrong! You know it, I
know it, and they sure as hell know it because they created the goddamned
situation!
This is not a challenge to vote for one or the other dominant worst
option. There are alternatives on the
ballot. You’ll see them if you
vote. And even if they don’t win this
time around, if you do vote for those alternatives, then that shows that people
do want those other options. Remember
the Reform Party in the early 90’s? They
didn’t win in 1992, but they scared the crap out of the two dominant parties enough
to consider change. That’s far from
being a “wasted vote”. That does a lot
more to bring real change than either buying into their zero-sum “lesser than”
propaganda or by not voting at all. You want
change? You have to actually vote for
that change. Not voting means that you
are in effect voting to continue the insane death-cult that we are mired in
right now.
There is a running campaign slogan that was done as a joke: “Giant Meteor
2016”. It was based on an editorial
cartoon where a pollster asked someone if they would rather vote for Hillary
Clinton, Donald Trump, or for a giant meteor to come down and wipe us all
out. The punchline was that the respondent
was standing on the roof waiting in anticipatory glee for the giant meteor. The problem is that a lot of people, myself
included, would also be hoping for that giant meteor to come down and wipe us
all out, because that really seems to be the only way we can put an end to all
of this. You, the great unwashed, are
too willfully stupid to actually do the right thing, so that only leaves the
yearning for nihilism.
But that is actually a subject for the Election Eve column.
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