yeah I know you did not ask!
I was reflecting that old age is that period of life where the creditors come knocking on your door collecting for all the bad decisions you made when you were younger.
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 6,841
yeah I know you did not ask!
Going around the Internet currently in reference to Effingham Donald Trump
POTUS: President of the United States
SCOTUS: Supreme Court of the United States
SCROTUS: So-Called Ruler of the United States
I think I have a slightly better one:
SCROTUM: So Called Redeemer of the Unlettered Masses
How do we get Trump to IKEA?
We had a small gathering at our house the other night in celebration of Robin achieving another year around the sun. As sometimes happens the conversation turned to politics. At least in our circle, these conversations never last a long time as we are all in consensus in being appalled and distressed at the current state of the country and the country’s politics.
I made the comment that Trump had started me praying again, a funny thing for an agnostic to do. I do pray sometime, but I look at it as a way of focusing on what is upmost on my worry prone brain. I elaborated by explaining that I pray every day that Donald Trump Continue reading “How do we get Trump to IKEA?”
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 3,539
yeah I know you did not ask!
I thought there could never be an American President dumber than or worse than George W. Bush. Effingham Trump has proved me wrong.
The State of Our Country
Make America Great Again…
DUMP TRUMP
This political cartoon sums it all up for me…
You have already arrived
Robin and I are driving from St. Louis down to Fayetteville, Arkansas to see our
granddaughter and incidentally, my son and his wife. I do not quite remember what it was, but something occurred that started me grumbling.
Realizing what I was doing I remarked, “I’m turning into a grumpy old man.”
Without missing a beat by ignoring the rest marked on the score, Robin replied, “Turning? You have already arrived.”
To which I said, “Thanks… I love you too.”
Her question back to me was, “You did say dirty old man, right?”
Thinking she is trying to recover her faux pas, or perhaps she really did mishear, I clarified, “No I said grumpy old man.”
Again ignoring the rest marked on the score, she barbed, “Well that too.”
Must read article from The Atlantic – How to Build an Autocracy
From the article in The Atlantic How to Build an Autocracy:
“Those citizens who fantasize about defying tyranny from within fortified compounds have never understood how liberty is actually threatened in a modern bureaucratic state: not by diktat and violence, but by the slow, demoralizing process of corruption and deceit. And the way that liberty must be defended is not with amateur firearms, but with an unwearying insistence upon the honesty, integrity, and professionalism of American institutions and those who lead them. We are living through the most dangerous challenge to the free government of the United States that anyone alive has encountered. What happens next is up to you and me. Don’t be afraid. This moment of danger can also be your finest hour as a citizen and an American.”
We should all be very concerned. Part of me wants desperately to run and hide from this cluster fuck that is happening to us. We need to heed David Frum’s advice.
Support of Trump is a Litmus Test
Rightly or wrongly voting for or supporting Trump has become a litmus test for me. In an attempt to articulate my arbitrary position I have come up with the following reasons:
- If you voted for Trump you are possibly intellectually challenged. I deal with enough mentally deficient people, I do not need another one in the hopper.
- If you voted for Trump simply because he was the Republican candidate and you always vote Republican, or you did not want to split your ballot, then you are lacking in key critical thinking skills. See number 1.
- If on the other hand you have a reasonable level of intelligence and still voted for Trump then you have a twisted world view. And I am sure it is a world view I do not care to associate with.
- And finally if you voted for Trump because you thought it would be entertaining to have a narcissistic reality TV star in the White House… I only have a string of malas palabras for you.
In past elections I could at least see where there were some basic philosophical differences that would cause us to vote differently. That is how is should be, that is why we have elections. However, this election resulted in putting a thug in the White House. There was a stark difference in an America for the people versus an America for Trump’s ego. And if you are responsible for enabling that egomaniac, do not expect to see a Christmas card from me.
Word of the Day – Kakistocracy
- Noun:
- “government by the worst element of a society,” 1829, coined (by Thomas Love Peacock) on analogy of its opposite, aristocracy, from Greek kakistos “worst,” superlative of kakos “bad” (which perhaps is related to the general Indo-European word for “defecate;” see caco-) + -cracy. Perhaps the closest word in ancient Greek was kakonomia “a bad system of laws and government,” hence kakonomos “with bad laws, ill-governed.
- Synonyms:
- ochlocracy
- mob rule
- choas
- misrule
- dystrumpia
- Usage
- “Luckily we have one word that sums it all up: a kakistocracy, which literally means government by the worst element of a society. A kakistocracy is a government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. Trump plans to bring us the worst of both.”
- Encountered
- after being pointed in that direction… article on alternet.org Degeneration Nation: It Takes a Village of Idiots to Raise a Kakistocracy Like Donald Trump’ –
Trump mistakes LBJ quote as a guideline
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” ~~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I went to Snopes.com to verify this quote. At the end of the article they stated:
” In the blunt vernacular that he loved to use, LBJ was describing what the television pundits of today would probably call the politics of resentment and divisiveness. It is still very much with us.”