Is This....

 Is This World Just a Bot Farm?

The Nobodies- Eduardo Galeano

 (Suddenly, we are all nobodies to them. Nobodies and expendable.)

"Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that, one magical day, good luck will suddenly rain down on them – will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down, yesterday, today, tomorrow or ever. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day on their right foot or start the new year with a change of brooms. The nobodies: nobody’s children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no-ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way. Who are not but could be. Who don’t speak languages, but dialects. Who don’t have religions, but superstitions. Who don’t create art, but handicrafts. Who don’t have culture, but folklore. Who are not human beings, but human resources. Who do not have faces, but arms. Who do not have names, but numbers. Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the crime reports of the local paper. The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them."

— Eduardo Galeano, "The Nobodies

Journey (to the past)

 (evidently this was written back when trump was president the first time. Gee, i thought he was a dictator then. But actually I've believed america has always been susceptible to dictatorship instead of not. does that make me smart? everyday now he proves me right, about himself and about america. americans are chum. trump is a lumbering dinosaur

journey

I'm going somewhere. don't ask me why? don't ask me where. I said somewhere. every day I get a little closer, I can feel it. there are days when I really want to just get there and see if I can figure out why I came in the first place. other days I try and walk backwards everywhere I go because I'm pretty sure I don't want to get where I'm thinking I might be going.

what will happen when I get there? will my journey end, no more destinations? will that be the end of days, my days as a traveler?

or will there be two thousand six hundred forty-nine more days of absolutely waiting around for something bad to happen, somewhere else to catch my interest. 

 

Hope, I can only hope that someday the glorification of all our wars are toppled like the hero confederate soldier statues of the civil war, a misnomer if there ever was one, at which time we'll all have to admit that dying in vain is the price we pay for the opportunity of living out our delusions of

honor, patriotism, nation loving, fearin the day the mundane and the profane live side by side, on top of each other, and where each demands its moment, though it seems each time, they never cancel each other out. are all human traits not to hold up high but keep at arm's length.

 

trump tweets while Rome burns.

 

Trump, the Great Uniter

It's wonderful that Trump has made us all realize that the country is really better than what we thought. The military, the corporations, the FBI, the CIA, even the Republicans are all united in fighting hate, fighting Russia, fighting ISIS, fighting inequality, and making sure America spends every cent to protect and serve the rich and powerful. That's what they tell us, anyway

So, my question is what the hell has been happening the last seventy years? Seventy years because that's all I've been alive but you can extend it to two hundred years, historically speaking. We finally have a president, a straw dog president.

Then Hilary writes her book and they, they being the sour progressives, that still think she should be president rather than just a footnote in history.

She has every right to say what she feels yeah, but why wait until the monster is in the White House before getting all introspective. I don't really get the true believers thinking she has suffered at the hands of the republicans. For fucks sake everybody who believes that has only suffered from the damnation of the failed ambitious. The most qualified failure in the history of presidential electoral politics. 

 

With our military budget there will never be health care for all, never be enough money for infrastructure, never be enough money for anything. We now have a military dictatorship based on a theory that we are under a threat. This theory is as archaic and old method of keeping a population in fear. It was used by Hitler, Russia, North Korea and on and on.

 

Shit or go blind.

We don't know whether or not to go backwards and forwards at the same time. The future, scimitar or retreating from progress because it's like a herd of mastodons going over the cliff.

Coming to an American city near you-soon-picture of water cannon parade in Hamburg 

Finally, Victory in Mosul- picture of Mosul destroyed

 

Rather than a nuclear free world it looks as if we'd be nuclear radiated. I guess there's a difference.

Oh man, does power have the luxury of patience, or what? Trump is…

Oh man, does power have the luxury of patience, or what? Trump is like the grand master chess player taking on a hundred other players, moving from chessboard to chessboard, like a magician. I'm sorry but you have to admire it. The other players, so out of their league.

First Player-The Danish/ Greenland leaders saying they want to address the us security concerns around their country, something about a 1951 agreement allowing the us to establish military bases, you know, for the Cold War. It's obvious though these leaders are hamstrung over their own misconceptions. Little Denmark colonizing Big Icy Greenland a couple of centuries, regardless of the 1951 agreement, and the population of Greenland that wants total independence from both US and Denmark. It doesn't bode well for anyone in this day and age to want independence, even citizens of America.

Second Player-Venezuela waits on the long term sanctions to take effect once again.

Third Player- Cuba which has sustained a life long penalty for trying and succeeding to assassinate the POTUS in retaliation for the CIA multiple attempts to assassinate Fidel, plus in trying to counter the US by having a non sexual relationship with Russia, currently tries to answer the question, Can a little socialist island ninety miles from colonial Florida survive the hatred of the Secretary of State?

Fourth Player- The Epstein files sit somewhere like Humpty Dumpty, unreachable by even all the Anti-kings men, who themselves are the masters of self-deceit and questionable scrambling loyalties, a breakfast made in hells own kitchen.

Player Five- Trump has announced that the next phase of the Gaza Rehabilitation Plan will begin soon, now that Israel has established military outposts in Gaza and seems not only to have disquieted their own population, which favors not a two state solution just like its leaders but also has forgotten its own leaders corruption.

Player Six- Corruption Itself one of the first grandmasters predicted to fall is the very deciduous nature of the systems supposedly designed to keep America and everyone else stabilized. Trump loves to play this piece, the Kings gambit, by not limiting himself to the games restrictions of his favorite piece, allowing complete freedom of direction and movement. This is done with assurances of money, security, safety, and threats. ( By the way, the constitution never addressed the possibility of a leader that doesn't want to play by the rules, an actual dictator)

Player Seven-Iran has been in the game for awhile, playing , like many of the boards, on threats it can't back up, a legitimacy it can't maintain, except for its one moveable piece that has become more and more irrelevant. Like Cuba, Iran has the distinction of having thrown out a leader which the US favored by trying to colonize these countries and having failed, thus creating a decades long revenge on the part of the US. Unfortunately for both Cuba and Iran, the world's nations are weary, possibly bored, with claims that the US is to blame for just about everything bad that happens, whether it's true or not, because their own truth and tell is also as skewed as the USA.

Player Eight-The Constitution- see above. Like Player Seven, who relies on a liberal reading of the Constitution to sustain its game skills, the claim that the US is on the edge of a constitutional crisis isn't scary anymore because it's a simpleton's denial that the constitutional crisis already arrived and is now in full effect, and it appears it's not too bad after all, kind of like a small 'a' apocalypse. No citizen nor politician rises to point out the emperors rules are naked as all get out.

Player Nine- The Apocalypse is Here or Coming board brings prediction, promise, religion into it all, and though it sometimes appears that our current situation is driven by the return of a supernatural evil, this player doesn't want to undermine his game by proofs or the truth. Until Trump says it's here, it remains a possibility, especially if Trump himself is the Beast.

Player Ten-If Trump fears any player, which he doesn't, it is the national election board where several small borderlying, so to speak, issues dominate and sometimes frustrate his ability to maneuver. Immigration, sleepyness, congress, democrats, domestic terrorists, housewives all throw up smokescreens, deceptions, feisty press conferences, stupid questions ( by women, especially).

Player Eleven- I mentioned at the beginning of this essay that there were a hundred players and I'm not going to mention any more for two reasons. First, Trump can always pull a rabbit out of a hat, because he is a master at sleight of hand and mind, so the other eighty nine players could be anything, and, for that reason alone, I'm already exhausted like many are, trying to maintain compassion, empathy, hope, and a belief in a god or revolutionary justice prevailing.

I do wonder if any belief in god, hope, revolution, or equal justice for all philosophies is merely an AI twitter account or book I read once.

I also don't know if Trumps defeat in the game of life vs death will resolve the situation. I like to believe and fear that it's bigger than him because we, those of us who wish for actual change, need to learn how to experience our own revolution rather than just go back to same o, same o.

Checkmate.

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A new poll in Israel shows the general population in the country is…

A new poll in Israel shows the general population in the country is becoming more in line with the current Zionist philosophy. This is interesting because as both Israel and America become increasingly fascist oriented, it's less than prophecy to say that Americans are very close to the same fate. This is obvious when you consider the changes that have the probability of happening in America are dead upon arrival. A Democrat lead congress after midterms will only lead to the acceptance of Israel's apartheid and fascist genocide as before. There is no reason to believe that the Democrats have changed at all. Democrats believe Trump is the problem, the only problem.

I find it ironic that in the supposedly greatest nation on earth is permanently vested in war, economic profiteering, extreme income inequality, genocide, apartheid, weapons profiteering, and a moral diffusion historically reminiscent of Roman Empire, that Americans actually believe they are more free than in any other authoritarian nation.

The Odyssey

Love is like a wrecking ball.

One reason why there will never be change. The stock market is directly tied to

a). Corporate, individual, union investment based solely on success and future payoffs through pension plans, 401k, and international drug and weapon transactions.

b) The weapons and technological industries that provide both defense (offense) and security to entire national interests are also the same channels providing drugs and other restricted items across borders and into the hands of other presidents, politicians, big players.

c) The international wealth elite cabal. This is also the one positive. It almost guarantees nuclear war limitations. Conventional ok.

But despite all this tyranny, Trump finally has relented and drawn up plans to invest in the art community. He is generously going to provide a space for graffiti and visual artists, by erecting the new Art de Trump which will go up on the national mall. The Art de Trump will be the largest and greatest ( his own words) single structure for artists of all types to be able to integrate public engagement with interactive art projects.

Get out your spray paint and /acetylene/ welding torches, the Art de Trump will be waiting for your personal touche upon erection or even while it's being built, in case you're impatient.

No one ever discovers anything new, they just make another sound for it. Like intersectionality. Like we're all connected, man, every last Venezuelan of us. Harm one, harm all. Like one for all, all for one. the three mouseketeers.

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Acirema

 

Ignorance can hardly be denied, but the causes are multiple. One being the real issues surrounding daily life and life decisions are complex, much more complex than they should be.

The governments of the world, both local and national have simply grown capitalism beyond the comprehension of anyone to understand the oppressive nature under which they live. Believe me, this is no coincidence.

Capitalism has been taken to the heights of another religious cult, whereby those who profit by it and are able to use it to their advantage, like all religions, are also able to convince those who are used by it that it is a universal, "natural" order of how things work in the world.

Now, in this country, Acirema, capitalism has forced itself into all the workings of government in order to better manipulate and subvert the institutions and ideals the nation supposedly built itself upon.

Immigration to Acirema is entirely built on rumor, innuendo, and false belief among the world population. For sure, it is better to live in obscurity once one does safely cross the border and disappear amongst the herds of “know nothings” rather than continue living in some violent village in your own country, susceptible to the brutality most third world nations offer. But that same brutality exists in Acirema, and, although for many decades it was less obvious, recently gun, domestic violence has been more widespread and fearsome.

Real solutions to violence require addressing root causes, including poverty, addiction and community health, and how about the acquiescence of the general public to Ignorance. Stupid is derogatory, but it is an actual behavior which entails the ignoring of actual events, details of significant knowledge, and the relationship between oneself and their own personal environment.

All the so-called dreaming going on, of what’s now compared to what’s tomorrow isn’t going to change any fact that not only does everyone die in the end of every story but they become obsolete long before that.

What difference does it make that I was right about this or that while I was wrong about that and this?

 Everybody's going to be right and wrong in all the ways they thought everybody else was wrong and right.

Don't always just play the hand you're dealt; deal the hand you want to play. Deal It Yourself, cheat!

Bad Behavior or Let's Turn the White House into Farce.

 I have to admit I've held a secret admiration for Trump to do what no other president of the united states has ever done, or, even, if any ex-president had contemplated what Trump does, some social convention or childhood lesson, prevented them. Trump has no social conventions, which I suppose, makes him so endearing to certain kinds of people. After all, some still like a clown that kills, ala Stephen King. Possibly, Andrew Jackson thought about hanging scalps and ears he might have taken from Indians, or British soldiers at New Orleans, and hung them up in the oval office, but, since they didn't have press conferences then, no one ever chronicled it. There were probably other presidents who thought of some ingenuous revenge on real or imagined enemies. Certainly, a few of the roman emperors weren't above farce. Nero, for example, who loved the spectacles where men fought to the death and families got eaten by lions, tigers, and rare and exotic beasts.

Nevertheless, I'm getting to live in the age when a president of the free world, creates an environment that turns upside down into downside up. His newest comedy routine tells us just what he thinks of history, and I'm inclined to say, "here, here" because if there's another thing Trump does well is he puts names to the problems all of us have wondered what the names are. The fact that the names are usually wrong and are merely self-aggrandizement for his never-ending fantasy for acceptance, takes scapegoating to an entirely different level. Still, don't you ever wonder who really did cause the war in Iraq, or the mortgage crisis, or the lack of universal health care, or any number of events in our history that are unmistakingly the result of an unwritten ethos, carried out by a universal acceptance of standard chaos. 

One reason why I am entertained by all this is because it satisfies my deep belief that Trump is showing us where all of us, including himself, will end up, on the very same trash heap of history, except with a laugh. I hope that whoever is the first president after him that recognizes this "museum" he is creating in and on the white house needs to go be torn down and reassembled into wherever his library is, (New York), so future generations, if there are any, can enjoy a few of the laughs he continues to create amongst the irreversible damage he is nurturing.  Some may think this is too cynical, but irony is the mainstay of politics in the long run. Every politician builds his or her legacy on making the tragic seem reasonable, a form of necromancy, for sure. And once it seems reasonable, then everyone, with a little subconscious guilt, can accept the insanity of it all.

It's what we do with everything. Slavery, genocide, war are all acceptable within their time. They were argued, discussed, negotiated, and made over thousands of times through time, and guess what, we're still in an existential crisis, getting worse because civilization itself looks like one of  those plaques in the white house reading, " Trump solved all of the wars, and climate change was proven to be a hoax, tariffs and the greatest tax cuts brought joy to everyone, US President Donald Trump loves you."

Trump has made the real life "escape room" we live in more interesting than prison or incarceration, for sure. You have to appreciate that, keep laughing, to keep from crying, don't you?