Turn off TRUMP TV!

We have been duped, sucked in, brainwashed and fucked. 24/7 Trump TV is killing us. Trump is the triumph of the corporatist infotainment reality TV oligarchy media complex. He was created by the media through the nihilistic dog eat dog reality TV world where nastiness, stupidity, cheating, lying and deceit are rewarded with TV ratings and ad revenue. The network heads salivated when he announced his candidacy and orgasmed when he ascended to the throne. Who cares that his narcissistic sociopathic nihilism is now a few feet away from a button that can destroy the world? His chaos, his tweets, his bombascity and shear stupidity has mesmerized us all. We see the path of irreparable destruction this self avowed pussy grabber is causing and have been rendered helpless to act. The media oligarchy is feeding us opinion, innuendo and speculation that somehow Magic Mueller will solve all our problems via a corrupt and ossified legal and constitutional system that requires men and women of integrity and conscience to enact. That somehow a legal and political legal system after 40 years of Reagan conservatism has brought us nothing but historical revisionism; and elected officials willing to look the other way as sexual molesters and child sexual predators are supported as long as an agenda serving the oligarchs is carried out @ the expense of the rest of us. Trump is now on all the channels all the time including the Christian Broadcasting Network that I'm sure if you dig back to his so called "liberal" days, you can find that they saw him as an anti-christ and a devil worshiping demon. Trump feeds the cable news networks as there is never a quiet time -- even @ 4 in the morning the mother fucker is tweeting nonsense and explosive written diarrhea. So the network heads laugh all the way to the bank. They really don't give a shit what they've done to us and the world. They both regale him and vilify him nonstop. And we are snookered into watching -- vicerally reacting to every stupid piece of shit he does or says. So it's time to stop watching this virtual coliseum spectacle. It's time to just let the Mueller probe do it's business, and time to focus on the coming election in 2018. And time for us to support both financially and with our bodies organizations as ACLU, SPLC, the uniuons, the women's, LGBTQ, indigenous people, prop net neutrality, conservation, etc. that are on the front lines trying to hold back the Trump tsunami until maybe we can get back to logic, reason, compassion and empathy before these attributes are lost to us forever. When we do, without a constant audience, and failing ratings, the corporate infotainment media will be forced to cover other issues and events; and maybe Trump will just shrivel up and melt like Margaret Hamilton in the Wizard of Oz. I know it's going to be hard. Trump is an opiate. But the worst kind. I'm in the process of trying to build the energy to go cold turkey. Or to @ least get out of the Russia rut and focus on the real horrible destruction he's doing to health care, education , the economy, women and LGBTQ rights, the environment ad nauseam.

WE APOLOGIZE

With the latest revelations about Senator Al Franken -- it's quite reasonable to say that WE MEN have @ some point in our lives done something grossly inappropriate towards others -- either towards women or other men.

I think ALL MEN need to now acknowledge this -- and show remorse through actions.

First, I will apologize collectively for all men -- We are sorry for being assholes -- some of which was attained through social conditioning and learned behavior, and the rest, well, just because we can be assholes.

Second, we ask those who have been harmed or wronged by our past actions, please judge us by how we redress these past transgressions.

If, like Trump, or O'Reilly, or Moore, or Weinstein, or even Bill Clinton -- men show no humility and admission of previous bad and inappropriate behaviors, then by all means condemn them and let them face the full consequences of their wrongdoing.

But if men demonstrate that they have sincerely atoned for these past offenses through actions, deeds and clear and genuine remorse, though there shouldn't be forgiveness for these past actions, instead we should use the opportunity to rebuild bridges and trust so we can move forward together in a more supportive and respectful environment.

True transformative change comes from changing the paradigm -- and that can only happen when we face the past truths and admit that what was is not how it should be going forward.

Farts

Was inspired to write a bad poem:

I fart.
we fart.
all sentient beings fart.
Gaia farts.

Smugly self smelled farts
grinning farts.
bubbly pool farts.
silent but deadly farts.
musically atonal farts.

The JP Donleavy character
farting in B Flat.

Walter The Farting Dog.

Farts are people.
fragrant
silent
rank
noxious
downright horrible.

Farts are just
CH4
like rotting peat bogs
like thawing permafrost
both comforting warm and deadly.

Ultimately, though,
farts explode anthropogenically.
Then farts are no longer funny.

So much for the Human Comedy
being a series of endless farting jokes.

Everything ends.

Even farts.

What I Think After Eleven Days in Trumperika

As an old person who lived through the Nixon administration and Watergate, I predict that the Trump regime will far eclipse the venality, illegality and sheer audacity of anything Nixon and his coterie of conspirators perpetrated.

First, Nixon had to contend with a Democratic Congress and Senate and the tail end of the Warren Supreme Court. Nixon and cohorts committed many crimes, but were forced to resign; and his minions were convicted and went to jail.

Trump and his cabinet cavalcade of horrors face none of these impediments. Trump is surrounded by white supremacists, Christian Dominionists, extreme right wing conspiracy theory followers, rabid Islamophobes, homophobes, misogynists, militarists and corporate oligarchs.

The far right wing controls the Congress and the Senate and is about to get the majority of the Supreme Court.

The Trump, Ryan, McConnell, Koch Brothers, Pence agenda is about to gut most human service, education, public lands, environmental and health care programs, create an extremely regressive tax system pouring billions into the accounts of the uber rich, and destroy the wall separating Church and State. And about to plunge American and international foreign policy into a world crisis.

By the time this junta is over, the corruption and nefarious acts perpetrated by this cabal will have reached historical and irreparable proportions the likes the nation and the world may have never seen.

In hindsight, maybe if Obama and Holder had held accountable and prosecuted the Bush administration for war crimes and the bankers for malfeasance; or if fucking Pelosi had instituted articles of impeachment against Bush when the Democrats held the House; and if Obama had pushed the "Blue Dog" Democrats to institute a true Keynesian like recovery stimulus plan like the New Deal or even instituted the Public Option as part of the ACA -- maybe those acts would have prevented the rise of Trump. Maybe.

Instead, we have this nightmare. We are a nation now held captive by the decision of a minority of low information ignoramuses and self serving asshole rich fucks, and an antiquated bureaucratic system designed by slave owners to ensconce this insidious blustering authoritarian Il Douche fuck in the White House.

We are POWs stuck in a virtual Tiger Cage and about to be tortured by never ending Trump decrees and blood spectacle for who knows how long.

What do we do about it?