Politix

So, the little experiment I’ve conducted has enlightened me, pleased me, and left me also feeling like I’ve lost something. I stopped social media-ing, news-ing, and talking about anything except business. It has been a chore to avoid all of it, but I’ve done fairly well. I don’t know who’s ahead in the polls, haven’t got a clue how many have died from da corona shit, and I don’t even know where all this damned smoke is coming from, and I don’t really care to know any of that, even a little bit. But it’s hard to avoid it all, I’m breathing a bunch of it.

 

I said many years ago, (like I’m thinking maybe thirty-five or forty years ago), that what we were doing for the sake of squirrels, owls, and various bugs in our land by letting our forest go un-maintained would cause major problems. It has. People scoffed at Trump for suggesting we clean our shit up, but we haven’t and it burns ever brightly in all the wrong places every year now. And I still have never seen a spotted owl, or a condor, mountain lion, bear, or any of the other, “gotts-to-save-em-at-all-costs” critters. Guess it didn’t work.

 

My only conclusion is the do-gooders who engineered all this engineering are total idiots and they have fucked up the world completely. And I also have concluded that the so-called “liberal factions” are total idiots as well. And as such, I think if your goal is to elect a democrat of any kind for any office, you are an idiot as well. But thanks for fucking up the world from A to Z.

Homeless Chapter II

I have frequently piped in on the “homeless problem” and my views have changed over the years. I am/was a junkie, pretty hardcore. I am lucky I found sobriety many years ago. It’s not perfect, but I don’t kill myself any more than normal. I know junkies. I can smell them. I got sober with tough love. There was not one compassionate note in my introduction to AA. I was told by a huge biker guy with his Hell’s Angels jacket to “Go sit in the corner and keep your fucking mouth shut and listen. I’ll tell you when you can talk.” He wasn’t asking me.

That guy got me sober. He was a total asshole about it, but we became good friends for the rest of his life.

Homelessness is a by-product of the junkies. I keep hearing the woke ones tell me how some of the homeless are not junkies, they are everyday people, who met hard times, or mentally ill. Being a junkie is being mentally ill, so they all are, for that matter. And so-called “compassion” doesn’t fix either one and the only person it does any good for is the “compassionate” one who gets to feel good for his efforts at saving the world. You ain’t saving shit.

Here’s my take on what it will take to solve the homeless problem. It will never happen like this,  but it would work.

1. Make it illegal to be homeless and enforce it. Make detention centers and we can make them a decent place to stay, but make it jail.
2. Arrest homeless people and detain them, determine how to fix their problem so they can live in unison with the populace. Put their kids in a school and give them shelter and food until the parents can take care of them properly or find them suitable homes.
3. Fix what you can; job, job training, maybe relocation to more affordable area, whatever they need in order to be a member.
4. If they are a junkie or drunk, (same thing), sit their ass down in an AA meeting three times a day for 60 days and make sure they can’t get any of whatever they desire.
5. Help the junkies find a job and put them in a halfway house, supervised and enforced for a year, with weekly drug tests and an ankle bracelet. And an agreement to go to an AA meeting every single day. Punishment for not complying is in the last paragraph of this manual.

Those steps will help a few, and many will get back to being a member of this society, but I would hazard a guess that it would succeed less than fifty percent of the time, but oh well. The ones who don’t succeed are subject to the last paragraph as well.

Second offenders, put them on an airplane and drop their junkie ass on an island in the Pacific and drop a shit load of drugs with them, and keep them there til they run out of air.

 

 

The funniest thing I see about this whole damned thing is the outrage. It is simply amazing. We are outraged, individually and collectively, from sea to shining sea.  And the biggest outrage? Undoubtedly it is how the other side is so outraged.

The left says the right is outraged, the right says the left is outraged. And it is the worst thing ever. Do you believe when a politician tells you all the positives? Then why believe when one of them says something’s bad? The outrage is complete, every possible subject, every possible scenario the only possible result is outrage.

And both sides are equally outraged about…well no one really gives a fuck; whatever’s handy. It’s simple. All you have to do is steal a picture off the Internet of some celebrity or political clown. Make sure the picture either has an ugly scowl, or maybe a soft compassionate look, a look of abject horror, or a philosophical look bolstered by a pair of reading glasses slid down on the nose. Then write some words on it. No real attention needs to be paid for accuracy, spelling, or truth. Make a statement about something and post it on the Internet; Facebook is best. If you throw up a hundred memes, no doubt, a percentage of them will connect to the outrage, and then it’s on.

It’s all made up, all of it. There is nothing to be outraged about. There are things that should concern people, I suppose, but that’s not the human way, at least the Internet slaves’ way. The only way for us is the “outrage” and someone is always destroying the world. And it’s always the other side. Outrageous. You noticed I’m sure, I did not put in an exclamation point, right?

Outrage is common and commonplace. It’s nothing.

 

 

Here’s what I like about Trump.

1. Business people I deal with are happier than they were three years ago. Their stores are full of people, there’s very few places to park in their parking lot, and they’re making regular deposits to their banks, and hiring more people to pay. That is the result of Trump’s actions, mostly the corporate tax rate cuts to bring our business tax schedules into a more advantageous position. But also because he has, by executive action mostly, begun lessening regulations. It has caused a boon to business and has caused more people to be hired. I don’t really talk politics when I’m doing business, but I hear business people who, like me, are praising the new America, greater or not as it may be.
2. He has attempted to alter America’s course in International politics to lessen our country’s burdens dealing with the rest of the world. We still pay for most of all the bullshit that comes from The United Nations, NATO, and all the other alliances and trade deals, and garbage bullshit scams that are “International Feel-good crap” but we have put on notice that more nations need to pick up their end of the damned blanket.
3. He has systematically allowed the Federal Government to back away from States issues, like parks and schools. While the nation needs those items, I see no good reason to have a national park that, while it may benefit anyone from anywhere to go to the park, it only benefits economically the state and community where it is located. Let that state or community fund it and run it. If it fails they lose the income, bet it won’t fail. Schools, same thing. So far I’ve seen, the Fed has encompassed a whole country with an arbitrary benchmark system for school success. But those benchmarks are wrong for a good portion of the country. Some benchmarks should be considerably higher, and the states and communities who care to increase their own worth should control their schools if schools are even mandated and regulated.
4. I like that he shit-canned the tax on health insurance, you know, the one that says you have to pay a tax if you elect to not have coverage. The fine was never enough to dissuade me, just a stupid fucking annoyance I had to deal with at tax time. That was the most petty and slimiest rip off in the history of the US, in my opinion, and the second most heinous act Obama perpetrated.
5. He has recognized and is attempting to square our standing in the International trade sector. It hasn’t resulted in much yet, but he is working to fix that crap that we have subject ourselves to for the last 70 years. And it has been a boon to some industries located here in the states and may eventually bring the “labor” countries overseas into line with paying their damned people more money. That remains to be seen how that will work but is exactly how I would do it. I like America being involved in the world, even be a leader in the world, but I want all the nations to do their part. They don’t all, they need to, and as long as we fund most of everything, countries will not participate as needed; like Sudan and Pakistan and Afghanistan and…for fuck’s sake this could go on all day and I don’t have enough ink bytes.
6. He has shaken up the status quo in D.C. He is hiring and firing, trying this and trying that. I like that there is action. He’s made some dumb moves and he has made some great moves, but he is moving. The previous fucks didn’t care even a whit about fixing anything, they just took their money and ran, except for Obamahammamamma. That fucker is still talking I hear. Bet he starts off with that famous phrase of his, “That’s not who we are.” You Dumbass, yes it is.

Here’s what I don’t like about Trump:

1. He hasn’t fixed the health care crap, it’s not such a worry for me, I’m old enough to be a dyed in the wool socialist now with my own little ID card and new restrictions on what I can get fixed in my body and where I can get it done using my medi-care. He hasn’t got rid of the most heinous thing any president in my life has done, (Obama Care), besides those assholes who drafted little boys to go fight those other little boys with their automatic weapons and knives back in the 1940s until 1973.
2. He hasn’t fixed immigration. He really hasn’t even attempted to fix it, most of his efforts have been to wail about a stupid ass wall, that will never happen. Why not make the Congress get off their good-for-nothing asses and fix it? He hasn’t mustered the balls to do that.
3. He has not cut the taxes as much as he said he would, the middle class has seen a so-so gain, according to national figures that say 60 percent of the middle class did see some new tax relief, but not enough.
4. He has run the deficit even higher, at a faster pace because he hasn’t even attempted to get rid of much of the fluff in the Federal government. We still have agencies that are useless, do nothing of value, and dot the D.C. area with ugly buildings and hordes of paper pushers making good salaries with outrageously high retirement benefits and are beholden to one of the most crooked institutions in history, that of the public workers’ unions.
5. He hasn’t stopped participating in the world-wide skirmishes, wars, and whining-ass bullshit. Trump get off the stick and fix it or don’t tell me you will.

All that said, I think Trump is the change. We were promised change before many times but there has never been any change in the least. He has fundamentally changed Washington and the US, Some of it’s good, much of it’s bad, but at last, it has changed and that makes me a bit happier than I was, and I think the same goes for quite a few people.

I will not vote for a democrat and since my vote in California will be ignored when the electors look at it, I will probably vote for whoever the Libertarian guy or gal is. So, I’m irrelevant. My thoughts here are irrelevant. My writing, though, is neat and concise. Put that in yer pipe and smoke it.

 

When I write my thoughts it’s more to get them out of my mind onto…well, a place, not of paper, but a screen of some sort. I write many things that are a culmination of my thoughts and experience, some bolstered by research from outside sources. But mostly they are mine. I’m not an expert in much of anything, but I still have thoughts and ideas about how things are and how things should be and I have a desire to write them.

When I post to Facebook, which is where most of my shit winds up, there is no way for me to turn off the ability for others to comment. Sometimes my posts are just observations, they don’t need or command interaction with the reader. I completely understand people not agreeing with me, but in the Internet age, civil discourse is easy to fuck up.

I couldn’t figure out how I might write my political ideas and thoughts and not invite negative comments that really have no bearing on what I write. I also don’t care to see to the soundbytes which is the usual fare for Facebook interaction. I do like to discuss politics with people and I can see other sides, it probably won’t change my feelings and thoughts much. It’s not so much that I’m hard-headed, (I am) but it’s I have watched this world for a few years, and when I read the crap that gets published, disseminated, and finally squashed down to a meme pasted on a stolen picture of some celebrity, it just doesn’t ring true.

People do not do the shit that gets said they do. If you take a hundred people together to take care of little kids, ninety-nine of them will be kind and will attempt to help and nourish the children however they can do it. That’s just how people are. And the one who doesn’t gets ridden out on a rail.

With that said, there is no way you, the media, or the little dipshit wanna be leader, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can convince me that people are abusing children at the border. It just wouldn’t happen, period, dot. I wanted to believe that woman actually was smart and a good person, but I came out a few months in and I can only determine that she is a total idiot with who the fuck knows what ambitions she may have if any.

But anyway, I’m sure there will be those who want to comment on my thoughts, some will agree, they’ll punch the “like” button or maybe the “love” or “laugh” button, and some will push the “angry” button. Some will comment, some will offer good things that cause contemplation in me and others, and some will post good arguments against my thoughts that make me think, and occasionally my stance may alter a bit. But there will be the comments that are just mean and full of shit attacking either me or my friends from behind a goddamed keyboard. And when that happens my Facebook feed becomes a scale model of the crap that goes on in the seats of our government and collective psyche. It’s fucking bullshit and has no place anywhere except in your own ramblings.

And it causes hard feelings with people who are supposedly friends. I’m as guilty as the next, but I work to stop being a shit-head, many don’t and they piss me off.

This is my solution to my problem. From now on all my political or controversial writings will be written on a website, where no one can comment on it. I don’t care if anyone reads it. I know it’s good. But if you do you read when I post a link for it, know I wrote it as well as I could, and it is real for me. If you like it, keep reading, if not, don’t read. Pretty fucking simple.

You can find the thoughts, when I have them, at http://politix.blivetbag.com/ And please be advised most of my posts will include curse words, a “fuck this” and a “fuck that.” If you don’t want to read shit like that don’t click on the fucking link.

I’m sure there will be those who will want to comment, please do. I reserve the right to delete the fucker.

This will be the first post on my new blog, others will follow when I fucking feel like it.