This is Real

This is how American politics works. There are two Parties who represent the same interests, mostly Corporations and Billionaires. Millionaires don't qualify. These two Parties fight like cats and dogs in public about ancillary issues that no one can agree on. These are the topics you, the American People, shred each other over daily. It's like placing one toy between two toddlers. They are distracted. Then, these two Parties go about their criminal ways serving their real constituents, which aren't you. Divide and conquer! Get the picture?

So, yesterday the whole "Nervous Nancy" and "We're disgusted" show was just that a show. Like dialogue between the Lannisters and the Starks in Game of Thrones. Emotionally compelling, sharp witted dialogue delivered to the audience is what good showmanship depends on. It was a D-Day memorial. What better time to deliver the act. Lots of emotional, patriotic, American VOTERS watching. You could think it was real... it isn't, but you get so caught up in the drama. The news comes on and rehashes the SHOW over and over reinforcing the idea, "This is real." This is a battle between good and evil. This is what matters... who sits on the Iron Throne. 

I just threw that Game of Thrones reference out there to illustrate a different point. If you're a Democrat you just associated Democrats with the Starks, the protagonists of Game of Thrones. You see the Democrats as the underdog fighting against the corporate fascist greed of the Lannister Republicans. If you're a Republican, you just associated the Republicans with the Starks, fighting against the elitist totalitarian rule of the Lannister Democrats.

You're both wrong. It's the final episode of Game of Thrones. You are Jon Snow, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are Daenerys and her dragon(s), and I am Tyrrian Lannister who just told you the unpleasant TRUTH. It's not about who sits on the Iron Throne.

The dragon had the right answer. 

Now, save the world or go on shredding each other over shit that politics cannot solve. If it could it would have years ago. 

That IS real.

I Want a Refund!

The Paris Accord: Celebrated by Douchebags Globally

Not too long ago, I took the time to read through the much lauded Paris Accord on Global Climate Change. Not just the overrated thirty-two page signatory document that is shoved in front of your face every time you Google "Paris Accord", even on Wikipedia. All 195+ pages of the actual meat of the matter took me a little over three days of reading at two to three hours a day. (Thirty percent was actual reading. The remaining seventy percent was deciphering what the hell I just read.) That's six to nine hours of my mortal life I can never get back again, and I want a refund.

I've read a lot of legal documents in my day, and never before have I read one with so many caveats, loopholes, escape clauses, and pitfalls, yet still be acclaimed as a magnificent artifact of human cooperation. This thing is worse than a gym membership agreement and a music club contract combined. The most ubiquitous statements made in this remarkable examples of legalese horseshit reads like this…


That in layman's terms says absolutely nothing except "We're going to accept your legalese horseshit statement about climate change."

PERIOD!
NO COMMITMENT TO MAKE ANY CONCRETE CHANGES WHATSOEVER.
NOTHING!

So, if Climate Change is such a grave threat to all life on planet Earth, why do politicians keep telling you it is but then acting like it's not.

Actions speak louder than words, even when written in legalese!

We're done with the bullshit… er… horseshit!

I want a refund!

The Pyramid Scheme

At first a nation is guided by the purifying fire of the revolutionary. With the heat of a crucible his fervor drives out the dross. In time the revolutionary is replaced with the mediocrity of the bureaucrat sowing the corruption and division “necessary” to administer and build the State. Brick by brick, block by block, layer by layer, the bureaucrat designs the nation to his own liking. The well recognized pyramid emerges. From the pinnacle of the pyramid the all-seeing eye peers down searching, hunting, and guarding against chaos. Protecting the bureaucracy it has built from the revolutionary and the chaos he brings. The chaos of revolution and the purity it brings.

It's a cycle. That's why it's called a “revolution”.

Can you feel the Wheel turning?