Well, I only read about ten paragraphs, but I am not 100 percent sure he is grasping the entire situation.

The fact that the Totally-Corrupt-corporate-biosphere-destroying-Dem-Party has a slew of lame candidates is true, but the other, more dis-spiriting part of the situation is — the Red-White-And-Blue Amerikan voters themselves. The Voters are brain-damaged, propagandized, non-critical-thinking, talking-monkeys. (Not ‘blaming’ them – they are victims of the system. They didnt ask to be dummed-down. I’m not Les Baker saying their stupidity is their own fault. But, the results are the same whether its the systems fault or the individuals.

The Big Picture is much darker than just a slew of ‘boring and bad candidates.’

You canNOT have inspiring, progressive, biosphere-saving politics, when the voters are brain-dead Frankensteins, whose brains were sucked out and re-filled with jello, string, and silly putty.

And anyway, the Dems do indeed have a pretty-darned-good candidate in Tulsi. And she will get about the same amount of votes as pretty-darned-good-candidates usually get. The Jill Stein Amount. Maybe five percent. Cuz thats how many critical-thinkers there are in this Nation.

And so it goes, in the late stages of the Idiocracy Era. 🙂

Have a nice day.

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“I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

“The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by the prints of clogs. This was March, but the weather had been horribly cold and everywhere there were mounds of blackened snow. As we moved slowly through the outskirts of the town we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment. At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. I had time to see everything about her—her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold. She looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye. She had a round pale face, the usual exhausted face of the slum girl who is twenty-five and looks forty, thanks to miscarriages and drudgery; and it wore, for the second in which I saw it, the most desolate, hopeless expression I have ever-seen. It struck me then that we are mistaken when we say that ‘It isn’t the same for them as it would be for us,’ and that people bred in the slums can imagine nothing but the slums. For what I saw in her face was not the ignorant suffering of an animal. She knew well enough what was happening to her—understood as well as I did how dreadful a destiny it was to be kneeling there in the bitter cold, on the slimy stones of a slum backyard, poking a stick up a foul drain-pipe.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“Only 3 OCs have been w their team longer than 1 year”

Wow.

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wv wrote:

Anyway its not quite dark enough. Zooey, you are too light and optimistic about America.

No, sir.

I just still have the ability to block out everything in my head sometimes, and bash on, regardless.

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Very well. Bash on.

…i made the mistake of looking up “despair quotes” on Goodreads. Now, I’ve spent the last half hour laughing at 1139 despair quotes 🙂

darkness:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/despair

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“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty’s dead.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“The only real laughter comes from despair.”
― Groucho Marx, The Groucho Letters

“When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich

Cal wrote:

I used to think Pelosi’s decision to not start the impeachment was an acceptable decision like Waterfield. But as the election starts to come into view, I’ve changed my mind.

The Democrats official position should be that Trump is a lying, piece of shit, con man; a racist asshole. They should be going to war with him, not playing political games. Congress can accomplish this by starting impeachment proceedings and dragging Trump’s name through the mud everyday.

Now, maybe Pelosi will make a smart, strategic decision and start the impeachment hearings this winter so people don’t get tired of being drug through the mud everyday. But the democrats should be stating over and over that Trump is incompetent, a liar, and a disgrace for a sustained period before the election by conducting the impeachment hearings and having people testify and talk about how sleazy Trump is.

I agree that the Dems are generally incompetent and won’t take that approach. We probably won’t see ANY impeachment hearings. Pelosi and the current Democratic leadership will continue to walk the tightrope of saying Trump is unlawful and corrupt but they can’t actually do anything about it.

The recent debate/issue about extending the debt limit for 2 years is another example of Pelosi’s incompetence and stupidity. Instead of protesting Trump’s handling of the economy, Pelosi and the democrats agreed to dump more money into the economy.

The next year, know nothing Americans should be reminded everyday that Trump’s economy doesn’t work. You can’t just a borrow a trillion dollars every year without making an investment on the future–green jobs, re-shoring American factory jobs, etc.

Pelosi’s decision to not do anything about Trump’s wasteful spending and tax cut for the rich just allows Trump to continue boast how he has fixed the economy. This will be his main boast for the next year. Instead of actively protesting this stupid credit card economy, Pelosi and the dems will just have empty, long-winded criticism of Trump.

Boasting about how good the economy is will help Trump get re-elected, not the democrats holding impeachment hearings for 6 months.

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That only makes sense IF you know WHO the ‘undecideds’ are. I mean, you well know, the Dems ALREADY wont vote for Trump no matter what. The Reps ALREADY will vote for Trump no matter what. So WHO will actually decide the next ‘election?’

Who are these people who are still open to voting either Dem or Rep?

Do we have any idea who they are? Are they a mixed bag? Or are they mainly this or that?

I dont have access to ‘that’ info. But I’m assuming Pelosi does have access to that info. Though who knows, and she does have her own agenda, etc.

So, i guess I’m saying we dont know what the best strategy for ending-trump is, cause we dont know who the undecideds are.

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The reason this was not a disaster is that most people simply do not care.

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Well, I agree with this in a sense. I dont think 90 percent of the citizens cared about the hearing itself.

Thats cuz 90 percent of the citizens have already made up their mind on the criminality of Trump. The Reps of course think its a liberal-political-witch-hunt. And the Dems think Trump is the Most Corrupt President Ever.

No hearing is gonna budge the blue/red/90 percent.

About that other ten percent or so. The deciders. I have no idea. Maybe they were out playing video games or at the mall.

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What truthdig (god bless em) doesn’t mention, is the actual numbers on the Democrat-Left. How many of these leftists are there in the House and in the Senate? Five percent? Its NOT like there’s this big battle for the soul of the Dem Party. Its, like, 95 percent Corporate-Centrists and 5 percent Tulsi’s and AOCs and Bernies.

I ‘wish’ there was a battle for the Soul of that corrupt-corporate party. I wish.

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The Greer Barnes one was interesting.

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I get about 100 kids at my house every year for Halloween. Over the last decade more and more of them have gotten ‘graspy-er’ and fewer and fewer say ‘thank-you’ every year.

Last year, I only had one kid out of 100 that was ‘notably’ kind and considerate.

Put that in the meaningless-anectdote category. Still, thats been my experience.

Could be as we age, many of us mistakenly just fall into that “theze kids today are rotten” mentality.
Could be as a corporotacracy ages, it produces more greed, harshness, desperation, etc.

Hard ta say whats really goin on.

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Sex cases are just really really hard to get right. We just cant know what was in his head during the incident. I suspect he’s lying, but no way to know for sure. No way to prove his intent ‘beyond a reasonable doubt.’

Not Guilty, just means “we dunno,” or “we ‘cant’ know.”

Maybe a better law would be to create a charge where if a person has a medical condition, and they recklessly drink alcohol and do something stupid, they can still be charged for touching someone inappropriately. The culpability would be because they knew they had a medical condition and they drank alcohol anyway….etc and so forth. Put the responsibility on the drinker. It could put a stop to some of the “well i was drunk” excuses.

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Zooey wrote:

Yeah, I’m talking about the symbolism of it, but I think that has some value…in the Bash On, Regardless spirit of things.

I’m in a pretty dark place, too. I think we’ve passed the tipping point, and hell awaits us. But I can’t surrender to the darkness, and I can’t ignore it and party it up with the time that’s left.

All the world’s a stage, buddy, and men and women merely players. We have our entrances, and exits. And the final scene is always sans everything.

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Well there’s a part of me that totally ‘gets’ the impeachment idea. I can see where yer comin from.

But there’s another part of me that actually sees the whole effort as…oh…hiding the fact that this is now a murderous-imperial-corporotacracy. Its not a ‘republic’ or democracy in any meaningful sense of the words.
And impeachment of one selected president wont change any of that. Its almost like impeachment hides the real problem. The systemic problem. So, part of me goes down ‘that’ hopeless dark road 🙂

Your view makes more sense, probly. I think I’m too politically-damaged at this point to care 🙂

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