Wait...it gets better!

Greetings good citizen, tangential to Trump's defense of his 'Billionaire Cabinet' [calling them 'thoroughbreds and champions'] we must consider the most damning aspect of the 'self-serving'.

The Donald is 'obsessed with success', he thrives on surrounding himself with WINNERS...

How stupid is he for not noticing these 'personally successful' individuals EACH had a hand in creating the cesspool the rest of us live in?

These guys know about MAKING THEMSELVES RICH, PERIOD, AMEN, FULL STOP!

Newsflash Mr. President, campaigning AGAINST these people is precisely WHAT GOT YOU ELECTED!

Not that the doddering fools who voted for you are about to mount a revolt [they aren't worth spit if they miss their nap!]

It's their grandkids, the ones that didn't see the point in voting at all because neither candidate was singing their song and besides, NOTHING CHANGES...and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it.

How ironic after the invasion it will be too late.

That said, it's a fairly safe bet to tell you it is already too late, whatever's coming is already on its way!

Our 'one move' would be an exercise in futility and fighting off both the US and Chinese military is insanity. The rebels that fought the original revolution were armed 'comparably' to the British regulars, now, we don't have a chance in hell, firepower-wise.

Sure, once the hardware is out in the open we could even it up fairly quickly...but we're going to lose a lot of ground waiting for that opportunity to present itself [We may well be running so hard that we won't have the time to retrieve the arms of our own fallen!]

But I digress. We are now witnessing The Donald's 'strategy' to make Murika 'Great Again'...and he'd have lost in a landslide if he had been upfront about it...and I think he knows that!

Ya know, insanity is doing the same thing over and over, each time expecting a different outcome. Kinda reminds you of voting, doesn't it?

Could this be why Donald keeps swinging from debacle to debacle [and losing a ton of is inheritance in the process?]

Because he believes these people who have already succeeded in eviscerating the global economy, enriching themselves at our expense, are now going to repeat the process for YOU [All of us actually. I'm not holding my breath, waiting for this 'magical transformation'!]

Apparently the wealthy drink their own Kool-Aid...behind every Billionaire are two billion CHUMPS! Gonna guess Donald didn't get THAT memo...

Either he doesn't realize 'the few have much AT THE EXPENSE OF THE MANY or he's just providing the second part of the 'em all saying that finishes "and the dumb ones twice!"

Or my own personal favorite 'How did we live so long being so STUPID and not knowing nothing? We should be dead!'

But we're not and that counts for something, doesn't it?

How pathetic is it that all the oligarchs have to do is motivate the morons among us to keep playing their game [Mock elections] and the rest of us will continue to live with the outcomes...although I personally don't believe they can 'do it again'.

There won't be another 'Election Cycle'. They're actually out of candidates! [unless you want to start tapping Hollywood's pool of action heroes...that would be hoot!

Who do you think would win if Tony Stark/Ironman headed up the Republican ticket against Deadpool running as the [non-existent] Democratic candidate? (I was going to choose Captain America but that's already a thing, isn't it?)

Now...how many of you would write in the HULK?

That's what electoral politics has sunk to here in the world's 'greatest democracy' [emphasis on the 'cracy'!]

Can't candy coat it good citizen, the BS has to STOP and we need to regain control of our society or the exploiters will run our one and only planet off a cliff, just so THEY can be RICH!

If you WERE wondering how The Donald was going to keep his promise, NOW YOU KNOW! 'Those billionaires are gonna make the economy hum! You just watch 'em!' (said the crazy old coot!)

Anyone who believes that has no frickin clue how the world really works...[and probably believes money is 'real', Ha-ha!]

Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

You can't make this up!

Greetings good citizen, what began as idle speculation seems to have taken on a life of its own!

What am I babbling about? The Chinese invasion of the US, sanctioned by the UN, no less!

As we see more of The Donald's cabinet picks, the more 'unstable' the overall government is appearing...making the, er, 'necessity' to secure the world's largest nuclear arsenal that much more 'imperative'.

There is even an 'op/ed' piece, penned by a champion of the president elect, who opines the world already FEARS a Trump presidency and this [to him] is a 'net positive'! [Considering how Mr. Obama tried to make the US 'likeable' (by nailing the Middle East with a relentless drone program, slaughtering thousands and writing them off as 'collateral damage'.)] But STUPID is as STUPID DOES and this 'conservo-whacko' proves the rule, you can't fix crazy by electing MORE OF IT!]

This crap ISN'T HAPPENNING IN A VACUUM! The WORLD is watching but we all know that, don't we so who will be 'surprised' when the oligarchs' shill produces the outcome they intended for us all along?

[At BEST a nuclear 'Mexican Stand-off' and at worst thermo-nuclear Armageddon...with the 'invasion' (that will never end) being the decidedly unhappy 'middle outcome'.

PICTURE THE SCENARIO [if you haven't already.] The US's largest creditor invades the nation they PAUPARIZED [at the behest of their enablers, the One Percent] to collect what they're OWED! [Although the official reason will be to secure the world's largest nuclear arsenal against 'improper use'.]

The question you're seeing here good citizen is one YOU WON'T SEE ASKED by the CORPORATE OWNED MEDIA! but you'd have to be INSANE to not know this card is in play!

So, are there a lot of 'crazy stupid people' wandering around out there?

What do YOU think?

Is the question we should be asking go along the lines of 'How many DAYS will the Trump presidency last?' Because the military governor they appoint over him MIGHT let him retain his position as 'figurehead' [meat puppet.] But that's not up to either one of them, the oligarchs will decide.

The darker matter here will be the 'subjugation' of the world's only remaining 'superpower' under the nominal rule of a communist overlord.

How many 'patriots' that refused to get off their ass and Strike [while they could] will end up dead in the streets because they are 'terminally stupid'?

We ALL know the answer, ALL OF 'EM.

That leaves who, good citizen? Probably YOU because you at least will listen to reason and you KNOW it won't happen if you sit there waiting for somebody else to do it! [Because they are waiting for YOU to do it!]

Fine pickle, eh? (No, I insist, AFTER YOU!)

You know what we call a leaderless group, don't you? Slaves.

Are you ready?

Because if you aren't, you soon will be!

Don't point the cannon at Trump, he's the 'end result'. Point it at the spineless jellyfish that rolled over and played dead when Reagan stole that first election!

We SHOULD HAVE lynched the One Percent then.

Ironically, being cannibals, there are fewer of them now than there used to be...and social Darwinism took quite a few of them out over the years...but those that remain are the worst of the worst...and if they succeed in 'subjugating' the largest remaining 'free society' on the planet then their victory will be complete.

The military subjugates the 'third world' and so it will be here. Pretty good at Battlefield. Call of Duty or Halo...expect a knock on your door because Microsoft has been keeping track...you'll either get 'drafted' or you'll be taken to the gulag!

Think of it as an 'offer you can't refuse'.

Remember, this stuff isn't there 'for nothing'. If you played Farmville you have nothing to fear, people content to live in a fantasy will not notice their chains.

Yeah, I heard that boing a while ago but this had to be said. Even if it takes out your CPU.

You can't plan for what you choose to remain ignorant of...and a whole lot you qualify as the poster child for ignorant...

Not a slam, just a fact.

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Head feints and fake-outs

Greetings good citizen, the POTUS-elect has rising popularity numbers, making us wonder once again just who are they asking...or more succinctly, what? I think most people are pretty damn glad he's not Billary but that fact alone doesn't necessarily make him 'popular'.

Then we have today's headline news that sort of falls between WTF and 'Better than nuthin'...

It appears Oregon legislators have found an ingenious way to raise new revenues, they plan on taxing the income of CEO's whose pay exceeds 100X what their regular employees receive.

I didn't read the article so left to our imagination is how much the, er, 'surtax' will be?

Also left unexplained is how they arrived at the 100X figure? Why not 20X? Under A Simple Plan the ENTIRE SPREAD from Apprentice to Leader is 10% [Prices are tightly regulated too so we'd be rolling the pay scale back to the turn of the last century...when a penny was actually worth something! That said, physical currency would be outlawed [since *all crime is cash & carry.]

I have already written a fairly lengthy book on the topic of 'life, we're doing it wrong!' were I to organize it into a coherent framework.

It comes as a surprised to no one that we live in a world run by thieves and scoundrels that are convinced if they lifted their foot from our neck we'd bite their leg off.

Neither would I get an argument from anyone as the whether or not it wouldn't be just what they deserve...

I'd love to collect feedback from my readers to see if they'd be interested in such a work [wouldn't cost me a cent and most of it is already written!] but we have already determined the bulk, nay, ALL of my readers have no idea what their keyboard is for...

Now that was uncalled for. It is wisdom not to post/comment here. I'm old and 'foolish/unafraid' so I don't care what becomes of me.

Some of you are selfless too but not to the point of recklessness I regularly display.

[It's not silly if you know nobody is actually reading this...]

Will your masters permit you to leave a one word reply/comment? Should I compile a book or not?

Silence isn't helpful...ya gotta say something!

But I digress.

There are MANY things those who claim to 'educate' us don't venture into BECAUSE your ignorance is more useful...to those who would exploit you.

Again, difficult to say if this is treason or stupidity. Yes, there are many highly intelligent people out there with heads just chalk full of NONSENSE!

Have any of you wondered why this is the first you're hearing of half the topics I raise? Seems 'intelligence' is more complicated than we are led to believe.

Hollywood is supposed to be overflowing with intellects that eclipse Einstein yet we have a entertainment wasteland to show for it AND none of them has put forth a single major break-though in ANY of the sciences.

There ARE geniuses among us but I suspect their observations aren't shared with us because the 'freakishly selfish' don't want to have to explain the unconscionable.

So [asked the guy that has yet to receive a single comment] Do YOU think there should be a book where you can reference between the way things are as opposed to how they SHOULD BE?

Leave our response/vote in the comments.

If YOU want one, I will compile it! [My promise to YOU]

Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,

Gegner







* All crime EXCEPT crimes of Passion, a.k.a. crimes committed due to being emotionally disturbed...like a majority of murders...although under A Simple Plan, 'justifiable homicide' and dueling would return. At the behest of our betters/overlords, justifiable homicide has already made a come back but you have to be wearing a Blue Uniform and a badge to qualify.

For whom the bell tolls...

Greetings good citizen, the jury is still out on just how eminent an invasion might be but the POTUS-elect is sure making a 'pre-emptive strike' more likely with his multiple mis-steps.

Not only have we never experienced an electoral outcome like this but we also haven't seen this many 'faux pas' committed during the 'transition' [and Donald is far from being the first 'neophyte' to move into the White House although he just might be the least experienced.]

The conundrum we face as the 'targets' of the oligarchs machinations is how much of what is 'hand-waving'? Is Trump making these political blunders just to distract us?

If this is 'common' meaning every incoming administration commits 'mis-steps' as it is handed the reins then why is the media so focused on THIS ADMINISTRATION'S Mis-steps?

Perhaps more, er, 'baffling' is how 'rank & file' Republican legislators have already vowed to block Trumps efforts to penalize employers who off-shore jobs.

Once again I ask, how much more do you need to see to finally DO SOMETHING about our badly broken, definitely 'hijacked' political system?

The 'R' is meaningless and the 'D' is imaginary so who the hell are these puppets...because it is OBVIOUS whose 'bidding' they are doing.

Seriously good citizen, this is TREASON.

"Nothing is more heinous than treachery that results in tyranny!"

(Said the lone voice in the electronic wilderness.)

[We] really need to act good citizen before our ONLY OPTION is to 'DO NOTHING'. [Literally suicide, which is preferable to compliance that only results in 'living death'.]

I'd ask why 'voters' [those not intelligent enough to eschew the polls] keep voting Republican, obviously out of ignorance because we got where we are today under the banner of Republicanism!

Which returns us to our puzzle. If there are no Republicans then WHO THE HELL ARE WE VOTING FOR?

Again I charge that the public is only being provided with 'the illusion of participation'. The four year long campaigns and days long voting process [that no one seems able to verify, look at the judges moving to block recounts wherever they were initiated, some of them at great expense!]

Why would judges block one of our most fundamental rights as citizens of a democracy?

Are they ready to declare that Democracy is DEAD?

I wish they would. It would be preferable to this charade!

Not that anyone gives a crap what I want. It's just that you SHOULD want it too...

If asked right now I'd have to stick to my guns and say we are living under a criminal conspiracy intended to defraud us out of our rights as members of society.

You get to slave endlessly [or languish idly in poverty once you're too old to maintain the pace, a fate far too many of us currently suffer] so 'a few' can be rich...and SQUANDER the resources of this planet upon their worthless selves...because we REFUSE to do anything about it!

Yup, you read right. Rather than upset what little you [wrongly] think you have coming, you sit complacently, hoping YOU will reach the finish line before what you've worked so hard to build is torn away from you...like so many of us have already had torn away from us!

The fact that a majority of us stand amidst the scorched earth of what was once our dreams and ambitions is reason enough to ask why nobody is willing to revolt?


Seriously, what is WRONG WITH YOU?

Don't answer that, I already know. In order for YOU to act you must first have a leader...

Starts with the strike, once a strike [global] begins, leaders will pop out of the woodwork...and 3/4's of 'em will claim to be ME!

If you're not in Boston, [MA] it won't be.

But by then I might not be in Boston anymore either.

Remember, once the invasion begins there will be NO stopping them!

Tick, tock good citizen, time to act is slipping away!

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Loco-Motion

Greetings good citizen, the 'crazy train' is nothing new, every day we are, er, 'treated' to some new revelation that makes us wonder what those in charge are thinking [or not, depending on the circumstances.]

Again I remind you that 'they' control the media thus you are told what you're told 'for a reason'.

The latest issue to be giving humanity a 'spontaneous wedgie' is the alleged surge in 'Nationalism' [read nostalgia for the old days, back to when the current crop of septuagenarians 'understood' a world that no longer makes any sense to them.

Ironically, the term for this, er, 'disorder' was coined back in the early Seventies, they called it 'Future-Shock'.

Has the WORLD changed? Somewhat, not in substance but in essence.

What people long for is 'familiarity', today's world feels 'alien' to them. Part of this is due to the intentional pushing of humanity's 'comfort zones'.

Who is pushing it? The same people who ALWAYS push it. WHY are they pushing it? To create precisely the discomfort, the confusion that comes with change.

People like, perhaps even CRAVE 'normalcy' [even if normal is crushing poverty!] Pushing people out of their comfort zones [the realm of what they have become 'familiar with' within reasonable expectations] creates uncertainty...and it is within this 'environment of uncertainty' that change becomes acceptable.

So the recent, er, 'upsurge' in nationalism is in reality a craving/desire to return to a world that makes 'sense' to them.

They intellectually understand that [faulty] modern ideology has shifted civilization from the 'tried & true' and placed it in jeopardy by ignoring the hard reality of preparedness.

Another 'shift' ushered in by the Reagan Revolution [actually the worldwide victory of conservatism] was the 'War on redundancy'.

We no longer have 'back-up'...pretty much anything. It got to the point where people started being tossed into the street due to 'redundancy'...and it wasn't the most qualified that, er, persevered. It was those deemed most likely to keep their mouths shut that won the contested position.

'For want of a nail' is still a VERY REAL threat. Why is it our 'Strong on Defense' conserve-whackos turned a blind eye to the offshoring off our defensive manufacturing capabilities?

It is time to point to the 'neck-deep in stupid conundrum' again?

Those in charge [the ones responsible for these changes] aren't concerned. They don't need to fight us if they can 'starve us out.'

The food supply has been 'globalized', a net positive. World wide food exchange has existed for as long as we have been capable of reaching foreign lands, it improved and grew geometrically when food sprouted 'wings'.

The hand wavers want you looking at electric ground transportation but there aren't any electric flying transports.

So when fossil fuels are exhausted guess which 'supply line' will collapse, [catastrophically I might add?]

Mag-Lev trains may cobble together enough of a network to preserve some semblance of a year round food supply but today's fly everywhere because we can will cease if we fail to crack the secret of gravity.

I suppose NOW wouldn't be a good time to mention that RESEARCH into this technology is non-existent BECAUSE it would infringe on the 'profitability' of the fossil fuel industry...isn't capitalism GREAT? [The Donald thinks so!]

But you knew that, right? We have 'next gen' phones like clockwork [where the real 'improvements' are transparent to the user. you don't care how 'accurately' your new phone can track you...or record and transmit what you're up to.] It's that new AI you want, it has the silliest answers to your improbable questions as it compiles a profile on you at the behest of its manufacturer. It's a profile that COULD land you on a no-fly list or cost you a promotion/new job. [Let's not FORGET, with the permanent suspension of Habeas Corpus, your new toy might get you disappeared into the new 'gulag system'.]

THAT'S what 'new & improved' technology does today! [It is also the driving force behind the 'simpleton movement' to turn back the hands of time they are calling 'nationalism'.]

Um, more than meets the eye good citizen, you really need to be on your toes...all the time!

I'm still calling for a strike...if anybody is interested in saving humanity from the thieves that run things. Just an idea. They won't stop stealing until we stop giving them stuff to take from us. [Especially now when they only 'pretend' to pay us for it!]

[Remember, if you can't live on what they pay you it's NOT THEIR PROBLEM, its YOURS!]

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Shock & Awe

Greetings good citizen, if our overlords DIDN'T want Trump to be their boy, he wouldn't be. You know it and we all know there is NOTHING we can do about it.

THEY own the media so 'reality' is THEIRS!

You're free to disagree, you're free to speak out in opposition to the 'official version' but in the end they have the 'lock' on what you BELIEVE.

Imagine my conundrum. Yesterday my 'page count' tells me I received 8 hits total for the day...but when I switched from Week view to Day view the number shot up to over a hundred!

I'd be flattered if my more than a hundred Russian readers were real but I have no way to tell; so I take it on faith that my traffic is higher what the readings display. [Often the number of countries visiting exceeds the number of displayed views and I am also going to...'guess' my comments are blocked and, to repeat myself, there is nothing I can do.

Be advised that according to my dashboard, comments are turned ON!

Just understand what you're up against, good citizen.

I suspect if they allowed comments the conversation would quickly take a turn they wouldn't like...thus do I maintain my 'lonely vigil'.

Which is to once again lament the inability to discuss with others the situation as it continues to deteriorate.

Hopefully many of you have heeded my earlier warnings to squirrel away emergency supplies against the day the capitalists pull the plug and announce we are 'truly on our own'.

Wouldn't want to be caught short when that day comes, talk about chaos! [We should all be so lucky if Anarchy broke out...because the half-wits don't know what Anarchy actually is!

Talk about the dismal state of public education! Anarchy is the practice of voting directly on the laws rather than having a middle-man, accountable to no one, voting in your name without EVER consulting you!

It's insane playing 'prove it' with the law we all must live under. Why is it our current system prevents us from getting laws that would protect us from exploitation on the books?

Yeah, the current system is a JOKE! How pathetic is it that the butt of that joke is you and me good citizen?

[This 'observation' is made to ALL my readers, wherever you might be!]

The 'US model' might be far more accurately labeled 'the Rabid Capitalist model' which ALL nations operate under [at least commercially.]

You may be required to genuflect when your head of state graces you with his presence but, fortunately for us that practice has YET to become 'widely accepted'.

[Not to hard to imagine hardcore Trump supporters doing such a thing and watching dum-dum eat it up with a spoon!]

It only takes once...

Why is it nobody recognizes 'stupid is as stupid does' in the moment?

Our greatest hope is people start falling over when they try to do it and the rest of us bust a gut laughing, that would put a quick stop to a misplaced gesture of fealty that one needs to be both reasonably graceful and somewhat coordinated to pull off.

Naturally, I digress. Our problems are far worse than having to genuflect before Trump the Great!

Um, what problems are those, you ask?

Well, it is universally agreed that 'Money makes the World go 'round' and the imbeciles running things have 'broken' money [the monetary system.]

NOBODY {especially so-called ECONOMISTS] even raises the subject of HUGE POOLS OF MONEY existing where they do NO ONE any good! Even the freakishly selfish can't benefit from money they can't spend!

Yes good citizen, you read that right, they literally CAN'T spend it on anything that would do ANYONE any good!

And, astonishingly enough, they are 'disinclined' to 'give it away'.

Did I mention Freakishly Selfish?

Do you DESERVE a degree in economics if you can't figure this simple problem out?

I digress again when I ask what a degree in economics is worth considering the world's finest financial minds can't figure out how to 'save the global economy' using the F-U, PAY ME capitalist model...

But this circles back to HOW the Dow Jones Industrials [which doesn't have a single 'Industrial Stock' on it] cracked the 20,000 point mark...a mystery so deep even degreed economists don't understand it!

Making it a mystery on par with those of the Bible...where one is obliged to accept on 'faith alone'.

Or that MONEY is worth ANYTHING...another 'leap of faith' the none too swift are forced to accept.

But I preacheth to the choir, do I not?

It's truly SHOCKING how stupid they believe WE are and they, without a doubt, stand in AWE of THEMSELVES...[Lame but it is what it is...]

Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Peace in our time

Greetings good citizen, what better time to discuss 'world peace' than the winter solstice celebration of Festivus?

Has anyone [never mind our scatter-brained media] ever asked 'what's the shooting all about?'

No, even the GWOT was received as a public service announcement that the latest exercise in 'protecting our freedom' [what freedom in particular they weren't specific about] would commence as soon as we offloaded our troops in a place that had nothing to do with recent attack.

How sad is it when our 'friends' do us dirt we go and give our 'enemies' a good thrashing...just because we can.

For reasons unknown, this somehow translates to the incredible question of 'why do they hate us?'

The answer to this media shill question is fairly obvious, if you MURDER my loved ones because you can, I'm not going to be especially fond of you either!

Yet the camera can still find the occasional dolt who will display their monumental ignorance for the world to marvel at.

[which is to opine sometimes 'neck deep in stupid' seems like an understatement.

So, where were we? Oh yeah, 'peace on Earth'.

Wilson [the same moron that gave us the 'League of Nations', which later morphed into the UN, imitating it's host's name...but bonehead was also responsible for the Federal Reserve and the subsequent widespread ignorance regarding MONEY! (via some of the first 'educational standards' initiatives ever instituted...)]

If we back track to the 'marooned' conundrum, you know the question of 'why are we here?' one would suspect our 'function' is to fight off anything that comes sniffing around so deeply ingrained is war in our psyche.

This also begs the question of 'at whose behest' do we lay down our lives for?

Is it they who dictate that we be at one another's throats?

War is generally over resources that could just as easily be shared rather than fought over so who resorts to 'military might' instead of negotiation?

Armchair warriors are the most dangerous kind!

Those that believe 'might makes right' are a scourge upon civilization, not just their own but any who harbor them!

So, how do you feel now about the president elect picking ol' 'Mad Dog' to be his Sec of Defense?

[That aside pretty much anyone is better than Rummy!]

Most of you have stopped reading again but this is where we ask the important point:

ARE WE ON A TREAD MILL?

If we look back through history, war appears to be the 'preferred method' of conflict resolution without exception...mostly because 'treaties' [especially the 'made to be broken' kind] haven't done spit to 'keep the peace'

How many of you remember what the third pillar of civilization is?

That's right Peace! Why is peace vital to civilization? Because without peace there can be NO PROSPERITY!

Yes, good citizen, the widespread poverty often driven by war keeps the 'war machine' fed.

How do we dismount this insidious monstrosity?

Just say no?

Those who have the courage to refuse have a different name, we call them 'cowards'. This coming from weasels that will do anything to avoid combat and enduring the privations of war personally.

They consider themselves 'too important' to die...for any reason.

Don't you think these are the numbskulls we need to summarily execute?

Considering that war really translates to the most savage method of 'population control' one can imagine [and is otherwise 'useless'; nevermind the enormous waste of it all!] War has zero purpose.

Yet we still fight...most often for the dumbest reasons imaginable.

and nothing is stupider than fighting over a made up deity.

GOD CAN'T BE DEAD BECAUSE HE NEVER EXISTED IN THE FIRST PLACE!

So, what ARE we fighting for?

Shouldn't we be fighting the gross mismanagement of our species?

Again, I describe a fairly 'one sided' conflict. the hardest part will be ferreting out those who 'profited' from the widespread suffering they were responsible for.

Peace on Earth, good citizen. it is neither 'impossible' nor hard to imagine. How ironic is it that if we wipe out all of the 'fake gods' we'd be more than halfway there!

Which is to point out that 'nonsense' is learned and guess where it comes from? Well-intentioned parents!

Thanks once again for letting me inside YOUR head!

Gegner