A Scenario
Here’s a scenario:
Imagine America is attacked by various individuals with bombs. It doesn’t matter who the people are or where they come from. What matters is what they are bombing. The only things they are bombing are properties owned by ASSHOLE: Trump Tower. Mar-a-Lago. his hotels, his golf courses. There are plenty to go around. They could have a field day. After they destroy all the properties, I wonder what ASSHOLE would do? Would he hop on Twitter and declare them to stop? Would he fly to each property to inspect the damages?
Now here’s another scenario:
America is attacked by various individuals with bombs. Once again it doesn’t matter who they are or where they come from. The places they attack are Trump Tower, the Statue of Liberty, Sears Tower, Hoover Dam, Disney World and LAX. All are famous landmarks. Which one do you think ASSHOLE will mention first? Do you even think he’ll mention any of the other landmarks? Do you think he’ll care if anyone was killed at any of the other landmarks? Do you think he’ll care if anyone is killed at Trump Tower?
My point is: if a nuclear bomb was dropped on us today, no matter who drops it, no matter where it comes from, how is ASSHOLE going to react? What is he going to do to protect us? My feeling is that he isn’t going to do shit because (1) he’ll be shitting in his pants under his desk in the Oval Office (2) he has no clue how to protect us. Like everything else he says he’s going to do, he has no plan.
As Americans I feel it’s important for us to know how our “leader” will fight for a country he obviously doesn’t care for. He made it quite clear he doesn’t care about America or what it stands for when he dissed the American press, people involved in U.S. intelligence and former presidents during his most recent overseas trip. On top of that he acted like he and his Russian ASSHOLE counterpart were long-lost reuniting lovers.
I have a feeling that North Korea isn’t the first and only country ASSHOLE should be worried about. Unfortunately, ASSHOLE doesn’t realize that.
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Shedding Some Light Into My Little Part of the Country
I wasn’t going to post anything to commemorate Independence Day this year because I’m not feeling very patriotic. What I am feeling is embarrassed, disgusted, fearful and sad.
I really don’t like feeling this way about America due to a select bunch of assholes. America isn’t like that. I was an American long before the Crazy Train took over. So today I stopped and reflected about what, for me, makes America my America.
I compiled a list and started with the basics: my family and friends
Then I began thinking about what being an American means to me. Freedom. Simple things like getting in my car and driving to any state I want to and not having to present identification papers at each state border. Knowing there are military forces that have protected us for years and will keep protecting us. Knowing that journalists are our eyes and ears and we can choose to believe what they say or not believe what they say. No matter what anyone else says. I like being able to watch whatever I want on television at two in the morning without the government shutting the networks down. It’s nice not having to sneak around to an out-of-the-way secret internet cafe to use Twitter because if the government found out I was using Twitter, I could be killed. I love knowing I don’t have to respect anyone or show loyalty to anyone in the government. Especially someone who doesn’t deserve it.
I then added the material things:
backyard barbecues
Thanksgiving
Christmas
going to the beach
Disney World
Springsteen
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
Patriots football
national parks
New England foliage
mountains
Boston
New York
fireworks
the Statue of Liberty
After thinking about the things that make America what it is for me, I began to feel a little better. Until the darkness that America is under passes, I will try to remind myself of these simple things to shed some light into my little part of the country.
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln
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You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until It’s Gone
I’ve come to the conclusion that whatever happens with the whole healthcare fiasco happens.
As crazy as it sounds, it actually would be great if this bullshit passed. You know why? Because everything happens for a reason.
- First of all, if this shit bill passes it’s going to be a while before it actually goes into effect. If they think otherwise, then things will be really interesting.
- Something nobody has mentioned (except Senator Angus King from Maine and my husband), is how this is going to effect everyone. I don’t mean the people who need healthcare. I’m talking about the healthcare workers. I’m talking about the pharmaceuticals. Does anyone know how huge the medical field is? How many hospitals, doctors, nurses, administrative people, pharmacists this bill will affect? Even nursing homes and rehab facilities. Think about it. If nobody can afford to have health insurance, how will any of these medical facilities remain in business? Watch Senator King explain it all here to the hosts of ASSHOLE’S favorite MSNBC show “Morning Joe.
3. Here’s the great part. You know how ASSHOLE keeps pointing the finger at Obama blaming him for this “awful” healthcare that we have? You know, the Affordable Care Act? Well, if this new shit healthcare Congress came up with gets passed and ASSHOLE signs it, guess what? HE CAN NO LONGER BLAME OBAMA FOR SHIT HEALTHCARE! He won’t even be able to blame Turtleface McConnell BECAUSE ASSHOLE’S name will be on the bill! So, you know what THAT means? WE can point the finger at ASSHOLE and he will be the only one to blame.
4. Once Congress gets sick of the mess they created and ASSHOLE signed off on, along with all the chaos it has caused, they don’t even need ASSHOLE to repeal the shit bill and replace it back with–you guessed it–OBAMACARE!
5. Here’s the best part: after all this shit has been done and gone and the ACA is back in effect, people (at least the intelligent ones) will realize that although the ACA may not be perfect, it’s a hell of a lot better than what the greedy GOP assholes stuck us with.
6. It will finally be realized that–DUH!–ACA needs to be revised, not repealed.
Remember: you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.
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Pursuing Happiness
Although I have lived in America all my life, these past six months, particularly the past six weeks, have really made me think about where we’ve come from and where we’re headed.
To get where we are we fought hard for our independence. Now I feel we are at a crossroads, still independent and yet timid in expressing our freedom. I feel our democracy slowly slipping away from us and we can’t let that happen. No matter who may want it to happen. We fought too hard for it. Many battles were won. Many lives were lost. To get where we are today fifty-six individuals signed a document stating that Americans were free to seek “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.
Today when I think of these three words it occurs to me that in order to pursue “happiness” we must first have “life” and “liberty”. The fact that a lot of money-grubbing politicians want to make access to healthcare unaffordable or even impossible for most puts a damper on the whole “life” thing. It’s kind of difficult to lead a productive life if one has to worry about being able to afford medical care for themselves and their loved ones while trying to put food on the table as well.
The definition of “liberty” is: “the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views”. Apparently some people forgot this word was part of the Declaration of Independence when they decided to ban individuals from coming to America because their life was full of turmoil somewhere else in the world. The meaning was forgotten when they decided to ban people of a certain religion, but only the ones of that religion from specific countries. Nobody in North Carolina knew what “liberty” meant when they felt it necessary to create a “bathroom bill”. Obviously the White House has no idea what “liberty” means as every day they oppress the very people who are America’s first eyes and ears: journalists. They should really pay attention to the key words in the definition of “liberty” that say “free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority”. And apparently even people in Congress have no idea what “liberty” means. If they did know they wouldn’t be seeking the voter details of American citizens. You want my name, address, age, last four of my Social Security number, party affiliation? Fuck you. Because it’s my “liberty” to keep that private. Especially from the likes of what is clearly appearing to be a very corrupt United States government.
Right now because of our rights to “life” and “liberty” being tampered with, I don’t know how anyone can pursue happiness. Who can be “happy” with all this shit going on?
America may have come a long way in 241 years but it still has a very long way to go. With luck the direction will be forward instead of backwards.
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