Happy 'Murica Day (No Hippie Hunting)

When I was in my twenties, the Fourth was still a big deal to a lot of the folks I hung out with in Illinois at the time. I remember us all grousing about W. But I don't think any of us was ready to join the Weather Underground over it. Maybe a wee bit. I did read Bill Ayers' book. But the fireworks and the shitty Pomp and Circumstance music seemed to fit the heat and the overall tones that swing in the Average Joe summer. What happens now if you still dig the holiday? People have a lot of names to call you. That's pretty shitty, to me. I don't agree with that. People can have holidays of whatever sort they like, as far as I'm concerned. If they are adult themed, keep them at the club or at the bar. Folks can have Christmas and the Fourth if they want to as well, for fuck's sake. Sure, they're fake. Most everything is. Big whomp. Holiday fight, bring all the plebs! Who gives a shit?

Are we a nation of extremists now? Are you? Have you thought about it? I have. I don't think it's very wise to have extreme political views, and neither does history. So, I try to figure out who I like for leadership (if anyone) by giving enough of a damn to look at the players aside from the propaganda news, which is spun garbage. Talking strictly presidential candidates, no AOC, no Lindsay Graham---most of the Republican choices sound like high school bullies as I've said with their basement rhetoric and their cynical skepticism, so I only looked at the one of them I don't know anything about: Tim Scott. I got about what you'd expect. That is to say that he sounds like Conservative In A Can. Folderol, not a serious player. I could be wrong. We'll see. I also looked at Robert Kennedy since I didn't know as much as I might ought to about him. After I watched him, I was pleased. I'll include the RFK stuff later. I wrote quite a bit, too much for today's post.

My thinking: Trump or Biden again isn't a good idea. Both men fucked up, end of story. Don't let them do any more of that. You could almost fairly say that Biden is a traitor and Trump is a squatter who incites riots when he gets evicted.  Sorry, but it's like that. DeSantis is a prick. Even where he might be okay in his talking, which is not very often, he's a fucking prick. Who the fuck leads off a speech with basements if they want to be taken seriously as a politician? This isn't the Moose Lodge, you asshole. No one's playing rummy right now. People are getting killed here and abroad. And you're mentioning fucking basements. You'd have done better to demand Biden be thrown in jail post haste. You just want him "back in the basement." I feel like DeSantis spent a lot of time in a basement waterboarding people at Gitmo. He has the eyes. Jocular and mean and lying. And Biden. Fuck that swine. I agree with the conservatives on the fact that he is a treacherous prick who ought to be jailed. And I never liked his Alfred E. Neuman attitiude about running the country. That's okay in a comedian but not in a president. Of course, those are just candidates for president, not a whole country.

As for America itself, I live here and I do have love for the land--I imagine I've done a few haywire things in my days that would have gotten me life sentences in other countries, usually having to do with illicit substances, but often enough alcohol. India's drug laws are fucked, for example. In Houston the cops were pretty cool and so were most of the regular folks, I have to admit that. Only McDonald's on Airline was a dick. Our populus has been kept safe enough from everyone but themselves (barring 911) or it has seemed...I think I'll leave that alone today, though. You could say a lot good for basic life in this country, even though sometimes it seems like slavery thinly veiled as a sitcom. I guess we all have to choose a Master. Sucks a bit, but like Manly Hall said, "anyone who can figure out how to live without one, please tell the rest of us. We'd like to know."

Hollywood ripped that from him but Hoffman delivered it very well. If you haven't seen "The Master", you should. 

Ah, the 19th century. The more things change...

If I had a July 4th wish I'd wish the government would stop using the debt myth to keep the public foaming at the mouth, and keep them broke...this isn't to say that "debt is fake". Watch this: since I've been old enough to pay attention or give a shit--Clinton zeroes out the debt so W can drive it through the roof and Obama can bail out banks, at which point Trump comes to zero out the debt so Biden can drive it through the roof and now here comes another Messiah (your next president) to start a fucking major war ala Johnson, presumably to help with the debt. Lots of kickbacks in having allies. 

Isn't debt HOW the USA maintains relevance on the global stage? Is that not global economics? Part and parcel to our society's inflation? Is that not how we first gained relevance as a nation when we brokered that first deal with the Dutch? And wasn't that the argument back then? Relevance? In such case the blame game played by mainstream the news' debt argument is a plebiscite myth. It isnt pressing to the arbiters of finance, it's their blood, get it? But for us it's just crap to keep us clueless and bickering over two bogus wings that don't flap a bird but instead somehow wag our dog. Fact: the bank needs debt to stay relevant. It's financial entropy, see, you CAN'T close it out. But we don't know that unless we research things, which most of us don't. If you look you'll notice that these gargantuan piles of debt always seem to get raised and zeroed out in these four year boxes, like I said. The only way to pull that shit off is to rob Peter to pay Paul. Unless Trump dug into his own coffers, fat chance. There are yachts to buy.

Those last two paragraphs are from my notes. The point of including them is this--being an American kinda means not bitching at your neighbor just because the establishment wants you to. If we had thought in those terms this whole time, we'd still be occupied by the British. Long ago, they enjoyed us fighting amongst ourselves and not against them. Maybe think before you hate others. Think before you believe every fucking thing you look at. None of us know the whole score. Not even one. Not even me. And if you know better, I'll be glad to discuss this with you. If you think I want to watch our country be destroyed, you are mistaken.

Back to the lookie-loo fluff--

Since most of the explosives were on lock down today, if you got to use one I applaud you and I mean that in a non-violent, stars and bars and barbeques kind of way as long as you didn't beat your family around in a drunken rage, which I doubt you did because you can read. We can't do fireworks in Nevada anymore. There's a big sign at the 50 roundabout reading FIREWORKS ARE ILLEGAL and a bunch of bullshit after that. I should have taken a picture of it. I know someone who might be shocked to hear this.

Well, I don't have a good way to close this so fuck it, get back to your beer, your White Claw, or you whiskey or your straight up whipped amphetamines if that's your thing, I can't come to the party anymore but that doesn't mean I think you should feel any type of way for your own self, and at any rate, I have weed...the only party I can do. Happy 'Murica Day. Avoid hippie hunting. Avoid foaming at the mouth over pundit spittle. Use a Stars N' Bars butt lantern and hump on the bunting.