Month: October 2016

Here is the deal: Trump has been sued some 4,000 times.  Of those, only TWO were for sexual harassment, and neither involved him personally.  http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/08/02/trump-employees-have-sued-over-sexual-harassment/87969188/

What I think is obvious, but is not obvious, because people have stopped being people, have stopped understanding normal human sentiments, is that on this audio Trump is trying to convince Billy Bush he is one of the coolest guys on Earth. It’s what he does.  He likes being him.

But guys BULLSHIT.  They do.  They do it all the time, ESPECIALLY in locker rooms.   If Trump were wandering around grabbing women’s genitals somebody would have sued him by now.

For his part, Bill has had MANY credible accusations leveled at him (as has Hillary, who as one example threatened Juanita Broaddrick personally).  He settled a sexual harassment lawsuit for $850,000.  He has plainly cheated on Hillary many times with many women.  Shit, he had a child by a crack whore, with whom he engaged in the little known menage a quatre.  Kathleen Willey says he put her hand on his (probably erect) dick, then that she was subjected to threats of violence.  Her tires were slashed.  The list is very long.  I”m quite sure he can’t remember all the women he has fucked.  He has boasted it is over 2,000, according to one of the women.

We are being threatened with nuclear war by Russia over our insane policy in Syria.  We are $20 trillion in debt.  Iran and North Korea are both testing missile delivery systems.

So: soccer moms: suck it up and make a decision based on the issues.  Hillary has failed horribly at foreign policy; her economic polices will destroy our economy; the cross border invasion is creating waves of crime, declining wages, and increasing unemployment.  Her Supreme Court appointments will deliver the final nails in the coffin of our democracy.  In the past eight years we have successively seen the corruption of the IRS, Secret Service, the FBI, the State Department, the Justice Department, and Immigration.  How many more dominoes need to fall before people wake the fuck up and realize we are realistically looking at the end times of our Republic?

When the rule of law is gone, then so is the will of the people, and the reality of an accountable government.  We are there, now.

I am reading increasingly that there is a working partnership between these two families, and if that is true, then why wouldn’t Obama be part of the whole thing too?  Does it not seem obvious there is an elite that act as king-makers?  All the media are owned by people who are in it to make money, and only honesty would keep them from spinning things in their own interest.  Honesty, and the fallout of being perceived as full of shit.  Yet, Fox and CNN are by and large both still spinning the same stories of Trump’s awfulness, and overlooking the countless (I can’t keep track) reasons not to elect Hillary to an office as high as County Dog Catcher (even though she likely does have some experience rounding up Bill.)

It occurred to me that if we posit that our last 3 Presidents have effectively been in cahoots, then we can draw a clear line from the Oklahoma City bombing that happened under Clinton, to 9/11 which happened under Bush.  Both were clearly large conspiracies.

And the specific point I wanted to make was this: credible claims were made by high level Iraqis that Hussein did in fact have many WMD’s up until about 3 months before the war, and that they were smuggled to Syria.  You may or may not remember, but perhaps 6 years ago Israel went into Syria to destroy a nascent nuclear weapons program.

Bush never really talked about these claims, even though it would have gone a long way towards exonerating him from the charge that he lied, and would have reduced the effectiveness of one of the key talking points for Obama, who was viewed favorably in no small measure because of his early opposition to the Iraq War.

Why wouldn’t he want to defend his decisions and reputation?  If we want to go there, because it was Obama’s turn, and it was his job to support him.

One of the merits of Trump in the Primary was his honest claim that he could self fund his campaign.

Well, Donald when are you going to start?  Absentee ballots are already being collected.  The voting has already begun.

I don’t watch TV, but people I know in Ohio and Pennsylvania said all the ads are Hillary’s.  They aren’t seeming to do her much good, but the point is to get and keep a lead, and ads seem to be a good way to do that.  Hopefully the debate will go better too.  And hopefully Hillary’s meds fail badly.

I was actually wondering if it might be possible to smuggle in a flash of some sort, and trigger it to see if Parkinson’s symptoms could be evoked.  Based on all the reports I read, even if she does win, it will take a miracle to get her through four years.  In all likelihood it will be something like the period in Wilson’s second term where it could be honestly claimed he was alive, even if he was not good for anything.  Bill presumably plans on filling her shoes.

I was in the grocery store today looking at somebody with an MLK, Jr. t-shirt that said “it’s always the right time to do the right thing”.  And I thought: she’s going to vote for Hillary.  Millions of Americans who are actually decent people will vote for this awful human being because they lack the imagination and insight to realize their consciousness has been captured and abused by a machine.

It occurs to me that what clinging to pain does is allow us to predict the future.  When you are not pointing your feelings in certain directions, into certain forms, by the pain you allow to continue, then it is impossible to know what you will be feeling in the future.  It is a trackless space.

Pain gives you a place, and a time, and that is as close to a given path as we get in this life.

But life is about getting lost, over and over.  You learn in the lost places.  You can only maintain when you are securely found.

And I was pondering this whole Beginner’s Mind thing.  Neurologically, it is virtually impossible for an adult to approach anything without prior conditioning entering the picture.  But what IS possible is to enter into each moment with curiosity.  Curiosity implies emotional openness.  It is an open searching for anything unknown and new.

As I’m sure I’ve said before, my code has 2 things not to do, and one TO do.  The only affirmative value is “be curious”.  The other two–don’t feel sorry for yourself, don’t quit–support the third.  You just have to hang on until you can spark your latent capacity for seeking out learning and novelty.  That then pulls you through life, and it is much easier.

The essence of Beginners mind is amnesia.

I’m mostly serious but I’m fucking around a little.

Ponder.

No: not like the last time. 

It occurs to me s hiding place is always also a prison.

I had physical hiding spaces when I was young. I would go into the attic and a particular closet and the basement.

But the one you carry with you is where you were pushed to.  You flee in fear, emotionally and eventually find somewhere they can’t get to you. This is a happy discovery. But this place too has walls, and if you never leave you never return to the life you left.

That whole thing was weird. Assuming he actually has what he says he does, someone must have convinced him he was safer with an ace in the hole than putting it all out there. Once he releases what he has there is no threat he can make (like if I die, release everything) with any strength. Perhaps he wants Donald to take a bigger lead so he risks less.

But if we use a chess metaphor, as he did in discussing Hillary hiring a discredited, conniving fellow bitch, then play it out. If Trump wins he’s fine. If Hillary wins the first thing she will do is figure how to shut hi down. She can prosecute anyone publishing or even talking about illegally obtained documents. She can shut down alternative media by labeling it hateful, especially if she can engineer her fire in the Reichstag.

And she is patient and very very vindictive. However he plays this from now on he has a permanent bullseye on his head. She waited years to get her revenge on Gaddafi, but she did (in InfoWars today they reported a peace treaty was already negotiated, but she nixed it out of personal spite. The entire region burned to satisfy the hatred of this woman.

Assanges only hope of living to older age and eventually leaving his de facto prison is a Trump Presidency. Trump is a deal maker and may well reward the help rendered. If Hillary is elected, nowhere will be far enough or secure enough.

Release the documents. That is my call.

I don’t feel it is overstating the case to call this election a battle between sanity on the one side, and media and “educational” elites on the other. If sanity loses, it may not get another chance. Hillary is already talking about shutting non-complicit media down.

I like Camille Paglia, because she isn’t batshit insane, even though she is a Democrat.  That’s a tough feat to manage.  I used to enjoy reading her columns on Salon. I’m not allowed to comment there, but, Oh, well fuck it, I still liked reading her columns.

I noticed I haven’t seen one in a while, and it looks like at Salon anyway her last one was in June.  I wonder if after the Bernie revelations she has taken a turn for the, oh I don’t know, the “reeducation ready”.

If Salon does not want to publish her, how can we guess what she has to say?  She is smart, feisty and independent.  Other than the first, when combined with cynicism and amorality, those are not valued traits on the Left.

So Camille, why are you still on the Left?  You and Milo might make great pals and go on tour together.  Just a hope and fantasy.

Electing Hillary now would be like reelecting Nixon after Watergate.