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The Mid-terms are coming! The Mid-terms are coming!

September 26, 2022

The mid-term elections across the United States are only six weeks away. Since Trumpism is now a part of US politics this is no longer just a throw away date on the calendar. There is too much at stake!!! It is time to end the fascist attack on our democracy once and for all. Can the numbers shift the national conversation to the "Sea of Blue" I have been waiting to see since 2018. It could happen, right?

Roll back the clock to 2016... An election cycle like none other in US History. It changed everything - - Trump won! All of sudden complacency allowed a 7-time bankrupt businessman to take control of the White House. It was a change to the political landscape that will forever be the rallying point for me. Right there, my politics will no longer be taken advantage of. My vote going forward will always be BLUE! And, it has held true for a lot of other Independents since then. There is no longer going to be a centrist movement in this country. Compromise is no longer an option.

Since, then the Democrats started showing up at the polls in record numbers. In 2018, control was returned to the House of Representatives. In 2020 power was turned over to the Senate by a tie-breaker vote from the vice president to also BLUE! And now, control could go back to the Democrats in two of the three branches of government. Almost, too late if you politicize the Supreme Court - which never should have happened. Three seats on the highes t court in the land were gifted to the REDS. Trump was impeached twice, and still finished his single term as President. Plus, the cultural war is now at the forefront of our political dialogue.

And, now today! Neither side is addressing the concerns of the other side of the aisle - - if you are BLUE there is abortion, immigration, and LGBTQ+, then if you are RED you get inflation, taxes, and crime. We are not seeing eye to eye to fix any of these issues. What about education? What about Health Care? What about WAR? None of these topics are helping the middle class. The centrists have all but dissapeared. Every issue this cycle is a partisan topic. Once again, the political parties are pandering to their bases - with no input from anyone in the middle of the road.

Progrssives, are powering through the mid-terms in hopes a majority of the electorate are going to see INFLATION is temporary. The 9%-10% numbers in the daily newscycle will be 2%-3% after 12 months of the data are compiled. TAXES being imposed on corporations, and will start paying dividends next year. Finally, CRIME is a fear-based issue that gets media attention, but not reflective of the amount of guns that are now available across the US. 

Reality is we need the BLUE WAVE during this mid-term. Register to vote, 42 days to go!!!


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The Mid-terms are coming! The Mid-terms are coming!

September 26, 2022

The mid-term elections across the United States are only six weeks away. Since Trumpism is now a part of US politics this is no longer just a throw away date on the calendar. There is too much at stake!!! It is time to end the fascist attack on our democracy once and for all. Can the numbers shift the national conversation to the "Sea of Blue" I have been waiting to see since 2018. It could happen, right?

Roll back the clock to 2016... An election cycle like none other in US History. It changed everything - - Trump won! All of sudden complacency allowed a 7-time bankrupt businessman to take control of the White House. It was a change to the political landscape that will forever be the rallying point for me. Right there, my politics will no longer be taken advantage of. My vote going forward will always be BLUE! And, it has held true for a lot of other Independents since then. There is no longer going to be a centrist movement in this country. Compromise is no longer an option.

Since, then the Democrats started showing up at the polls in record numbers. In 2018, control was returned to the House of Representatives. In 2020 power was turned over to the Senate by a tie-breaker vote from the vice president to also BLUE! And now, control could go back to the Democrats in two of the three branches of government. Almost, too late if you politicize the Supreme Court - which never should have happened. Three seats on the highes t court in the land were gifted to the REDS. Trump was impeached twice, and still finished his single term as President. Plus, the cultural war is now at the forefront of our political dialogue.

And, now today! Neither side is addressing the concerns of the other side of the aisle - - if you are BLUE there is abortion, immigration, and LGBTQ+, then if you are RED you get inflation, taxes, and crime. We are not seeing eye to eye to fix any of these issues. What about education? What about Health Care? What about WAR? None of these topics are helping the middle class. The centrists have all but dissapeared. Every issue this cycle is a partisan topic. Once again, the political parties are pandering to their bases - with no input from anyone in the middle of the road.

Progrssives, are powering through the mid-terms in hopes a majority of the electorate are going to see INFLATION is temporary. The 9%-10% numbers in the daily newscycle will be 2%-3% after 12 months of the data are compiled. TAXES being imposed on corporations, and will start paying dividends next year. Finally, CRIME is a fear-based issue that gets media attention, but not reflective of the amount of guns that are now available across the US. 

Reality is we need the BLUE WAVE during this mid-term. Register to vote, 42 days to go!!!

Tags: #bluewave


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Another Two Cents

April 22, 2022

This post is related to a recent article I just read, "After Babel - Why the past 10 years of American Life have become Uniquely Stupid"

What I gained from the article is; 8% on the far-far-right, plus the 11% on the far-far-left, are really fucking things up for everybody in the middle.

There are 3 things the article says we need to fix:

1. Harden Democratic Institutions
2. Reform Social Media
3. Prepare the Next Generation

And, yes I think everyone of these is possible. This article goes pretty hard at BOTH SIDES of the fringe elements making up our current political spectrum. But, what are the actions we can take?

I would like to take a step up on my soapbox, Generation X - has surpassed any expectations I have had of the current generational cultural war*** by just staying "out of it." We do however need to get off the sidelines in the next decade if we want to stop the "Ivory Tower" from continuing its collapse.

Hardening Democratic Institutions - means first removing ALL the partisan labels (RED/BLUE). Additional recommendations; open primaries, ranked voting, third party regulators, and fixing gerrymandering laws. All of these would take legislative actions, but being able to break away from a two-party system is the hardest task - simply put that is where all the money is, if you look up Democratic and Republic parties - they are privately owned/operated with their own bylaws and rules.

I am not going to sugarcoat this - -  The CLASS WAR in America has the highest number of casualties across the board. The global pandemic, (that we are still fighting in case you didn't know) - is killing a 1000 Americans a week, still in 2022. Mostly 65 and older and tragic, yet apparently not newsworthy since WW3 has started in Europe. $3.4 billion dollars in AID has gone to The Ukraine - just to keep American boots from "going in." We are sending tanks and bombs - not food and medicine. Don't believe anything about peace keeping missions. It is going to get a lot worse, before it gets better. And, this is for Democracy, right?

Reform Social Media - I love the Artificial Intelligence (AI) discussions in the article. The robots are already here - not some Terminator T1000 out to kill Jon Conner and has declared war on us. But, algorithms telling us who to like and what to buy. Frighteningly, it's simply going to take unplugging to get this one fixed. Raising the age for social media to 16 is quite a stretch, but is possible. Plus, holding companies responsible for their own content is like having foxes to watch the henhouse. Rising diagnosis of anxiety, stress, and depression are clearly side effects of the rampant abuses of Social Media.

Technology is just a tool - that is it. Don't use it as a mirror to get your serotonin fix. But, addiction is hard and, selling shit is easy. The poor girls on my Instagram feed can barely afford clothes, LOL! Plus, if you have ever bought anything on Amazon - pretty amazing - it is fast, cheap, and delivered right to your door. Does anyone remember when the commercials said 4 to 6 weeks? By the time it was delivered, I already forgotten what I bought - and that was only 10-15 years ago.

Prepare the Next Generation - Living in front of a screen has been detrimental, and FREE PLAY is quite possibly the hardest thing to encourage a child to do. First off, doing anything at all in today's society is really expensive. Next, simply finding a SAFE SPACE can be near impossible. And finally, who can we really trust? I know the milk carton kids are a thing of the past, and if you think in terms of the millions of kids in America "Amber alerts" are very few and far between. The protections we put in place have really exponentially dropped the number of abductions and abuses of the past generations. I don't want to risk anything happening to my kid or even happening to someone else's kid for that matter.

I have a 21-year-old, now. She is doing great, but compared to where I was at 21. She is so safe! I was living day to day for a while, there. Hell, I was in the US Army, hitch-hiking, partying, and also blacked out most weekends. I can't even compare - WE ARE NOT THE SAME. Prepare the Next Generation, pfffft! Prepare me for what's next, #amiright! This is not a BOOMER thing, trust me I do not want to go back to the "Good ol' Days" -  let's move FORWARD! We still have a lot of potential in this country. People my age are not too old to fight - just happy to get through another day. we thought we were goners at Y2K.

 ***Cultural War - is going to have to be for a different BLOG POST. I want to say it is not worth fighting or even picking a side, but the generational "he said/she said," US/THEM, and Black/White - Red/Blue bullshit takes a fucking toll on all of us. There is no easy fix. Honestly, my little corner of the world is not perfect - I don't wanna rock the boat, but currently its because I feel "my side" is winning. 2022 - if CONGRESS flips, there is a fear in my head the world will become a much darker place, quickly... as long as my wages continue to out pace inflation - I am doing alright. 

Tags: #afterbabel, #soapbox


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Day 44 of the WAR

April 5, 2022

I have 10 minutes to type something up real fast, because 10 million people have now left their homes in Ukraine. 4 million have fled the country all together, and an estimated 6.5 million have relocated from within the country.

The images this week from Ukraine are also getting more atrocious. Bodies in the City of Bucha, just northwest of the capital of Kyiv, show signs of systematic executions of all male residents under the age of 50. There are images on TV, that carry a warning before all news footage. Ukraine is going to take decades to recover from what is happening. 

And, the weapons are pouring in from the west. Javelin missiles, and tons of ammunition are being sent. The Russians are currently regrouping in Belarus and provinces in the East. Yet, quite simply there will be no easy end to this conflict. 

I am afriad the consequences of the last six weeks are going to lead to more conflicts than solutions. Russia will be made to pay.

Tags: #ww3


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12 Days of WAR

March 8, 2022

The world is witnessing the invasion of Ukraine. A chain of events reflects a sovereign nation trying to fight an invading force that has already destroyed several cities. 1.5 million people are fleeing a war torn country to unknown lands in search of safety. As stated in my initial post this is not getting any easier to watch. The death toll continues to rise and all public media outlets reporting out of Russia have been shut off.

We will no longer see any independent sources of information coming out of Russia. Today, all exports of Russian oil will also be shut off. The ruble has been essentially made worthless, and sanctions have been implemented that put an entire country on notice. 500 additional US Troops are being sent to Europe to defend the Western Front, and the leader of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky is still begging for a, "NO FLY ZONE."

I left Facebook, because it is not worth the hassle of being reported as an independent source under the guise of another "social media" outlet. These are my theories of the current events happening, and it will be my un-verified sources that will be published -as often as I see fit. What is going to happen next is a global escalation of the current conflict. My main sources are CNN, Google, and my couch.

So, #WW3FMC becomes a journey towards inner-peace. I have been holding "in my head" the end of civilization that began right after 9/11. The catalyst that was the start of the "War on Terror" - these laws essentially ended the civil liberties that were afforded to all of us in more ways than we could ever imagine. The Patriot Act of 2001, a phenomenal piece of legislation that legally created the New World Order. The NWO was just a pipe dream during the first Gulf War - Yet, a New World Order is the roots to the next level of Authoritarian control of the masses. "WE" all wanted it, and the new laws were going to protect all of us. It worked. There hasn't been another attack on US soil since. We have seen plenty of close calls, but nothing to the extent of what occurred over twenty years ago.

So, can the United States expand The New World Order 2.0? Afghanistan was proof we could not do it through nation building. Now, there is clear evidence the Russians don't want to play nice either. A ninety country coalition reminiscent of Desert Storm has already been formed through the United Nations. Putin has done all of this before, Syria and Chechnya keep coming up from the news pundits - his propaganda machine is in full swing, it is looking like a Trump Rally from the only images getting out of Moscow. Really, disturbing stuff. He is telling his people they are winning the war, but not showing the people the entire world is against him.

Ukraine is going to rebuild, but we may be a few weeks away from the NO FLY ZONE, needed to support their cause.


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