We do not need wanna-be dictators in this county, nor con men sitting in the White House and Congress.
Find a protest near you by going to NoKings.org
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #2,366
yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
Plucking a doggie poop bag from the container attached to my end of the leash, I cleaned up Prancess Lily’s offering deposited in a neighbor’s yard, thinking to myself it is amazing how much of our lives we spend dealing with shit.
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #3,683
yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
I am still not imbibing news, at least consciously. I do follow my investments on Google’s Finance page which at the end of my watch list always has news stories related to those investments or to the market in general. Today one headline read that tRump was threatening 50% tariffs against our good friends in Europe.
For some reason a picture of the orange orangutan currently occupying the White House came to mind. In this picture he is sit squatting in the Asian manner inside a zoo cage. He is busily flinging his turds at the various zoo visitors passing in front of his cage. For reasons unclear, the zookeepers have removed the glass partition that would have kept his excrement on his side of the wall. His malodorous missiles were landing pell-mell, but damaging those among us in the most need. Maybe if he turned that Bible upright… nah.
Outside of making him and his contemptuous cronies even richer, I am still trying to figure out what the problem is that he is trying to fix. He is making America anything but Great.
While this posting, A Jack Handey Fable, is about addiction, I see MAGA’s devotion to El puta pendejo naranja in a similar vein.
And so it should not go.
Bruce Springsteen: Land of Hope and Dreams
My feelings exactly, but I am not hopeful like Mr. Springsteen. The America I have always loved has turned into an abusive relationship.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
20 lessons for our troubled times as read by one of my favorite actors, John Lithgow
A Test for Our Elected Officials: Two Beers and a Puppy
Okay I am a Johnny-come-lately to the “Two beers and a Puppy” test. I became aware of it when a friend of ours sent a text to Señora and I saying that we both were a Yes and a Yes. Undoubtedly, she was thinking of charismatic Señora more than Señora’s curmudgeonly Plus One.
In an article about the test Ross McCammon starts out by saying,“’Two Beers and a Puppy’ is a test that I developed while working at Esquire.” Another article whose author I could not ascertain went on to say the story being worked on was about the American “son of a bitch”. Whether it has any tie in to the “Two Beers and a Puppy” test I do not know, but a search on American“son of a bitch” and Esquire came up with an article from Roy Blount Jr. that was an interesting read: Let Us Now Praise The Son of a Bitch
The Test
In order to find out how you actually feel about Continue reading “A Test for Our Elected Officials: Two Beers and a Puppy”
Sheer Hubris
The following video was passed on to me by one of my Spanish tutors who is Mexican and lives a little north of Mexico City in Querétaro. Apparently the United States is running this ad on Mexican television. Having become skeptical of most things on da ‘Net, I did a search (on the da ‘Net) to see if it was real. It is. Kristi Noem’s TV Ad Calling to ‘Hunt’ Down Migrants Faces Ban
Besides the sheer hubris of this country running this ad in another country, my other thought was that if they have millions of dollars to run such ads why are they not spending those millions of dollars on US citizens??? My other question is, why are we arguing with our good neighbors, Mexico and Canada? It makes absolutely no sense anyway I dice it. It is simplistic on my part, I am sure, but if you want to fight illegal immigration, one good way would be to help provide economic opportunities in their countries. Most of these folks are just looking for work, for opportunities that are not currently available in their country. That too would be a better use of those millions of dollars.
But then on the other hand we have a similar situation here. It is called Fox News which was started and probably still owned by a foreign national, Rupert Murdoch. I have never figured out if Fox News was one of the causes or a symptom of our current national malaise. Probably both.
And so it should not go.
Good Article: The world has a verdict on 100 days of Trump 2.0
From the article:
“But the lesson for Americans couldn’t be clearer, even at a moment when the domestic carnage inflicted by the Trump regime feels limitless and irreparable. To everyone else in the world, his first 100 days have been a flatulent self-own, and an unexpected boon for normie centrist politicians all over the democratic map who seemed, only months ago, to be facing Armageddon. Right-wing populists like Viktor Orbán and Marine Le Pen have begun to back away in embarrassment: Sorry, new phone. Donald who?”
Read the whole article here: The world has a verdict on 100 days of Trump 2.0: Wow, what a loser
No comments from me except that it is a good article worth the read.
Bumper Stickers from Etsy
A friend of mine fell down the Internet rabbit hole called Etsy. He sent me the following:
Nothing is further from the teachings of Jesus Christ than the Republican Party.
No one is an illegal on stolen land.
If illegal immigrants are “freeloaders” why is ICE always raiding work places?
No child wants to die for your second amendment rights.
If you are more concerned with making other peoples lives worse than making your own life better than you must be a Trump supporter.
Everybody has the right to be stupid. Republicans are abusing the privilege.
Disliking a fact does not make it fake news
We longer have a difference of political opinion, we have a difference in morality,
Try being informed instead of just opinionated.
Don’t like abortions? Ignore them like you do school shootings.
One day we will wake up to his obituary.
If only closed minds had closed mouths.
Imagine voting for a rapist then calling yourself a Christian.
Elect a clown, expect a circus.
https://www.etsy.com/market/annoy_a_republican_bumper_sticker?ref=pagination
Better If I Stayed Home
I am beginning to think it would be better for me not to go out of the house for the next four years. If there were any power in prayer that four years would be much shorter, much much shorter. Is it bad to pray to wake up the next morning and be able to read someone’s obituary? Of course, I really do not believe in prayer power. When I feel the urge to pray I interpret it as telling me that there is a problem I need to focus on or let go.
It is springtime and with that comes a few trips to the local Lowes, Home Depot, etc. As I was walking into Lowes this Friday morning there was a middle-aged “gentleman” wearing a t-shirt that read “Trump Won“. In all likelihood it was from the 2020 election cycle and the attempted coup of our democracy.
I saw that t-shirt and it was like a demon took over my body. My face flushed with anger, the flight or fight response kicked in, mainly on the fight side. Before I could catch myself (normally I just shake my head and try to ignore such ignorance), I found myself putting my right hand on his left shoulder and proclaiming, “most of us are sorry that fucking idiot won.”
His response, “I love this shirt.”
Fortunately I was able to control myself and not escalate the situation. What nearly popped out was something along the lines of, “well that shirt does scream I have a low IQ or I lack critical thinking abilities.”
I am blaming it on the gummies. The first week after the election I imbibed more marijuana that week than I had in the whole previous 40 years. I have slowed down a little, but not much. The one thing I ever had faith in or put my belief in was the United States of America. Now El puto pendejo naranja and his gang of fascist thugs are busily dismantling this country. There is no sane or logical reasons for what they are doing to my once beloved country and to the world to some extent. I absolutely cannot stand reality right now. Yeah RawDog2, I know THC does not make you violent, but it does relax inhibitions.
Pray for me. Either I am going to end up in the hospital or in jail for battery after a confrontation of this type.
