Politics………………….1-15-2024
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I am appalled by
what I see on television news every day. I will start with what prompted this
discussion.
Sleepy Mitch
McConnell was talking about what republicans (not
capitalized intentionally) are having trouble spending money on. People
with too much money are preoccupied with accumulating more. Some very important
issues are being ignored.
We have several
global situations in progress at this moment. The one that bothers me the most
is the fact that approximately 50% of American people are determined to elect
Trump, a proven, lying, cheating, criminal, seditious traitor, as president of
the U.S.A. This will certainly aggravate the other situations I want to
discuss. You young people are fucking up my planet!
The first global
crisis, (but not necessarily the most important) only because it occurred
first, is the criminal invasion of Ukraine.
Without our
support, Putin would have defeated Ukraine in the first several months of the
war, which he started without provocation, solely in the interest of expanding
Russian borders. With our help, Ukraine inflicted serious damage on reluctant
Russian forces. I say “reluctant” because of the exodus of Russian citizens
that, not only don’t want to die, wrongdoing, but the majority of Russian
people would audibly protest if it weren’t for the fact that they would be
punished for free expression, our most treasured freedom.
If the free world
were to help Ukraine win their war, Russia would, pretty much, be prevented
from being competitive in a “world war”.
Our republicans,
(not capitalized intentionally) have more important things to fund and have
suspended aid to Ukraine. Only time will prove me to be correct. This is a
disastrous position.
My opinion:
I understand the
United Nations’ position, being unable to assist a non-member, however, Ukraine
has expressed a desire to become a member. The very purpose of the “U.N.” is to
prevent the spread of tyranny on this planet.
The reason for not
stopping Putin is the fear of “world war”, which is inevitable for that very
reason. I think America has a responsibility to stomp on Putin, regardless of
the danger of world war. If it doesn’t happen now, it will certainly happen
later. We should, at least, continue to support Ukraine and encourage other
U.N. members to do the same. Electing Trump president will certainly aggravate
the situation, as Trump is a “wanna-be” dictator who
is friendly with criminals like Jong Un and Putin. I probably won’t be alive
when the world discovers that I am correct in my thinking.
Another crisis is
the very existence of Hamas, a terrorist regime, which is guilty of unprovoked
attacks on Israel for as long as I can remember.
I am empathetic
about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, however, I believe that instead of
weeping about civilian casualties, Gaza citizens should focus on eliminating
Hamas. There have always been Israeli civilian casualties, as well as over a
hundred hostages, some of which are American, who have been captured without
provocation, and held for a half a year.
The reason we are
tippy-toeing, and criticizing Netanyahu is because we fear “world war”, which
is inevitable. We are fighting in countries which support Hamas, and are,
themselves, terrorist regimes.
If we assisted
Israel, not necessarily as a pro-Semitic effort, but to support “freedom of
choice”, it would be the right choice, regardless of the danger of “world war”,
which seems to be happening, anyway.
The Chinese are
sitting back, watching all of this happen, occasionally tossing a “sabot” into
the gears of both sides. If they entered World War 3, they would inflict
serious damage to the opposition, regardless of which side they chose, simply
because of their numbers, however, I am of the opinion that many Chinese
citizens would prefer a democracy and are only silent for fear of retribution.
I believe Chinese leaders are aware of this, and it will be interesting to see
which side they would choose in a world war.
Once again, I want
to emphasize the aggravation of the situation that the election of Trump would
create.
ANOTHER republican
(not capitalized intentionally) SNAFU;
Government
funding, and the border crisis, is in the news, daily.
republicans (not capitalized intentionally) threaten to shut down
the government every few months, and they weep and wail about foreign migrants
wanting to enter the country. The thing they fail to acknowledge is that their
own ancestors did that very thing, over a hundred years ago, not necessarily to
flee danger (as most migrants today are doing), but, simply to have a better
life! I know of NO native American republicans in the House of reps. or the
senate, so, they are all guilty. If immigrants had been stopped 200-years ago,
most of us wouldn’t be here, and there WOULD NOT be a bunch of stupid
republicans (not capitalized intentionally)
threatening to with-hold government funding! Address the problem!!!
Those poor people are fleeing drug cartels ang gangs which endanger their
families daily because republicans (not capitalized intentionally) allow it.
They are allowing Putin, Hamas, and drugs to run rampant because they profit
from it. Democrats’ hands are tied because my idiot fellow countrymen are voting
to keep these morons in power. Believe me!!! When we suffer the consequences
from this, YOU AIN’T GONNA LIKE IT!!! WAKE UP!!!
I hope a large
number of people will read this dissertation. I don’t expect to change the mind
of any supporter of Trump. I have had similar discussions with Trump supporters
and found them to be ignorant, and willing to overlook his criminal activity. The
ones that can’t be classified as ignorant are only interested in monetary
gains. WOE UNTO YOU.
I, most certainly,
plan to continue this dissertation because I am certain that I am correct in my
thinking, and I hope the proof is not too painful. If things don’t happen the
way I hope, this world could become an ugly, uncomfortable place to exist, another
danger aggravated by the very existence of Donald Trump.
Every time I hear
the man talk, (and play his “air accordion”) I feel embarrassed for the man.
His speech is unintelligent and predictable.
He claims to NOT be
a fan of global warming, which flaunts his ignorance, and displays his
non-acceptance of scientific fact, and even more obvious, daily occurrences,
such as receding glaciers, ice pack melt, rising ocean temperatures and depth,
loss of land mass, and extreme weather all over the world. (He may not really
be that stupid, but only supporting the wishes of the extremely wealthy, who
only support him, in fear of retaliation.)
I am amazed by the
incredibly hazardous weather across America, especially the tornado belt, which
is expanding into the east coast, and, surprisingly, into Florida. (Makes me
glad to live in California. The changes here are mild so far.)
I think it is
already too late to avoid catastrophe. If everyone got on board immediately, my
great-grandchildren might have a reasonable chance for survival. It won’t
happen, though, simply because it requires action by people with too much money
(like Trump) that want more. They don’t worry because they think that they will
be dead before it affects them! SURPRISE! Some of these morons are already
dying because of the effects!
I want to stop here
and upload this and add it to my table of contents. If I can get the attention
of one person and guide them to a choice that’s good for America, my efforts
will have been worthwhile. I can assure you that Trump will NOT MAGA! (make America
great again) America will always be the greatest country in the world, in spite
of Trump. He may diminish our greatness by a minute amount if he is elected. He
can only fuck up the country for four more years. (Unless he gets the two-term
limit changed, and even then, he is an old man, (my age) and his fat ass will
probably die of natural causes before me, if someone doesn’t kill him first.)
I have been around
the world five times and have seen the dregs of humanity in every corner of the
planet. I have friends in every corner of the planet also, and the ones I still
communicate with really don’t see Donald Trump making anything great, again, or
previously, for that matter. I am appalled by my fellow countrymen. Please
choose wisely when you vote.
I don’t endorse Biden,
but he is certainly the lesser of two evils. Maybe something will happen to
give a woman vice president a chance to show the world that a woman CAN BE a
good president. She certainly is capable of being the lesser of THREE evils.
Let’s just see.
Another thing on
the news today, your stupid EVs. The climate change, which Trump is not a fan
of, is fucking up your STUPID electric cars and trucks and stuff. Record cold
temperatures are rendering relatively short ranges even shorter, and people are
being towed to wait in line for a charge, longer than I waited for gas in the
1970s, thanks to greedy oil producers!
I’ll wager that
most of you don’t know that the electricity to charge the stupid electric
vehicles is generated by coal, and fossil fuel burning power plants. They
aren’t cleaning anything up. Also, no one considers the inefficiency of the
monstrous, toxic batteries, which are produced (lithium mines) by
underdeveloped countries at the expense of poverty-stricken citizens And we
complain that our Nikes are made by child slave labor. The enormous battery
packs are inordinately expensive, and have a short life span.
We have a long way
to go before we are ready for electric vehicles.
About 50 years ago,
I proposed the use of hydrogen, and fuel cells, which could be refueled with
your garden hose. That’s right, and the exhaust from hydrogen and oxygen is
WHAT? You guessed it! Water, a fucking non pollutant! Can you imagine how clean
the air would be if we would have eliminated fossil fuel exhaust 50 years ago?
I was threatened to keep it to myself, convincingly, by agents with unknown
agenda.
Every effort to
proliferate hydrogen burning engines has been quashed by fossil fuel
profiteers. It will never happen until you stop these “destroyers of the
earth”! Again, Trump is ALL FOR drilling, and fracking, regardless of the
consequences!
A few autos use
hydrogen burning generators to charge their monster batteries, and I applaud
the effort, but we need to develop batteries, or some other method of
electrical storage before EVs are practical. I guess we have to start
somewhere, though.
My son encouraged
my grandson to buy a car that didn’t require a smog certification, not because
it was a non-polluter, but because it was pre-1980-something. Why do I make the
effort to keep the earth clean for someone like that???
I have spent my
whole life cleaning polluters, anti-littering, and recycling. Some of my
efforts were stronger than others by necessity. When I was poverty stricken, I
religiously recycled for “beer money”. I have always felt guilty every time I
discarded something that wasn’t organic waste. Our resources are not infinite,
and if we don’t clean up our act soon, things are going to become expensive.
The recyclables we are tossing into our “landfills” are going to be difficult
to recover if we ever need them.
We must stop
littering. The plastics in our oceans are a danger to every living thing.
Another species becomes extinct every day causing danger to species that depend
on them. There are multiple forms of pollution at both ends of the earth, the
Arctic and Antarctic. Did you ever think that was even possible? That is
terrifying to me, even though I won’t be around long enough for it to affect me
significantly.
If anyone is
interested, I have proposed an economical recycling procedure. You can see it
at http://www.petesmemories.com/trash.html.
Now, all we have to do is get our refuse collectors on board. Good luck
with that!
There is no need for landfills if we recycle everything except organics.
They recycle themselves by becoming nutrients for vegetation, and many living
things such as earthworms. Recyclables provide jobs, and go to great lengths to
clean up the environment.
Our refuse collectors recycle most plastics, except for single and multiple
use plastic bags, the most grievous offenders. Walmart buries me in re-usable
plastic bags every time I have my groceries delivered, many times with a single
item in a bag. This wouldn’t be so bad if they provided a way to re-use them.
It wouldn’t be bad at all if our refuse collectors allowed them in our recycle
containers. They do not!
Enough about garbage! I want to stomp on republicans (intentionally not
capitalized) some more.
Most republicans hallmark their religious accolades and deny women freedom
of choice. The earth is over-populated, but republicans force women to give
birth to unwanted children, regardless of the condition of the fetus or the
circumstances of conception.. First of all, mind your own fucking business!
Your position of “thou shalt not kill” doesn’t fly well from warmongers. You
are not God, and certainly, not qualified to be judgmental.
Most of republican “religious posturing” is only for social acceptance.
Science has proven that the content of the “Holy Bible” is highly unlikely, and
the idea of a “merciful God” borders on ludicrous.
I was raised in a conflicted religious home. The things the Bible
emphasizes and encourages the most are ignored by self-defined “Christians”.
Most “Christians” fail miserably at “loving one another” My mother’s cult is
highly discriminatory, and if you ain’t “one of us”, you could just “go to
hell”. My father practiced Lutheranism and was tolerant of other’s beliefs,
including Atheism, which I lean towards. I don’t deny the possibility of a
higher power, but I do not believe in the God that mankind has fashioned in his
own image. That is almost humorous!
The merciful God depicted in the Holy Bible would never give free will,
then render “eternal damnation” for exercising that free will. That is a form
of slavery, which most humans have tried to abolish. Do you think someone with
the power to create the universe really cares if we worship him, and grovel
before him? I think not.
He would have never allowed the monstrous activity that occurs daily. The
merciful God with the power to create our universe could have created a world
with no suffering, and no necessity for his creations to kill, and eat
one-another.
We are relatively ignorant and are unable to see far enough to know for
certain that our universe isn’t very tiny, and there are other, even more
amazing things beyond our “field of view”.
To think otherwise is extremely arrogant, in spite of our scientific
knowledge, which is ridiculously limited.
I applaud scientific inquiry, but, find jealous disagreement quite
humorous. So many fields of study discourage studies that may find fault with
their own. Archaeology is one of these fields.
There is evidence of engineering feats which defy explanation by present
day scientific knowledge. There are abundant monoliths, and megaliths, so huge,
that were manipulated by the ancients, we know of no way to accomplish this
without modern, highly developed methods. Some feats are considered impossible
to this day.
There are enormous stones, which we would find impossible to move, that
were quarried, transported unthinkable distances, and fitted tightly within
fractions of a millimeter, which present man would find difficult, if not,
impossible. The search for the technology responsible for these “miracles” is
discouraged by modern archaeologists, and they are reluctant to further
investigate sites which may reveal a super advanced society, where they have
already declared a lack of such. This resistance may be preventing discoveries
which would proliferate our advanced abilities.
This, further disproves the Bible, which fails to acknowledge the existence
of dinosaurs, and denies any possibility of evolution, which is so obvious, it
makes the story of “Noah’s Ark” laughable.
Nevertheless, humans have the freedom to believe anything they choose, but,
sadly, most of those archaic thoughts prevent any advancement of scientific
knowledge.
I would never discourage freedom of thought and would never attempt to sway
anyone towards my way of thinking. I am merely offering a look at an opposing
viewpoint. You are free to have your own opinions!
Now, I would like
to bash Trump some more.
Corona virus 19; Trump
was one of the morons that denied the existence of covid. When somebody finally
convinced him that it was a real thing, he inquired about injecting
disinfectants, or “shining light into the body”, to counteract the virus.
Later, he informed his fellow Americans that we had “turned the corner”, and
declared it was no longer an issue. That was around four years ago, and, today,
(1-17-2024) infections are on the rise from a new sub-variant, of which there
were many, and people are dying from an old, but only recently, widely
recognized virus called R.S.V. (respiratory syncytial virus). I wonder what the
Trump moron has to say about that.
R.S.V. has been
recognized for a long time but was previously only seen, mostly in infants. It
has only recently become common in adults as well.
A
close friend, whose intelligence I formerly respected, is another denier, He told
me his aunt and uncle had sniffles, but nothing serious. ?????? I won’t dignify
that any further!
Another close
friend, whose intelligence I formerly respected also, actually contracted
covid, and nearly died from it. Six months later, as he lay in bed, on oxygen,
incapacitated by the disease, he was on Facebook, recommending that everyone
ignore President Biden’s suggestion to wear facemasks, and socially distance
themselves. “You can’t tell us what to do”, he said! ????????
These two clowns
popped my circuit-breaker, and I cursed out everyone, and closed my Facebook
account forever!
I recently became
ill, 99% sure it was covid, with a minute possibility it was R.S.V., about
which I know very little. I have had a “cold” and the flu countless times and
it was nothing like this. Thankfully, I had been vaccinated and boosted five
times. Had I not, I would have died, for certain. As it was, I very nearly
died, and am recovering so very slowly.
It was like
something I have never experienced. It started as a raspy, honking cough and
developed into gasping for breath after the slightest physical exertion. A
25-foot trip to the restroom left me gasping for breath for two hours (no
exaggeration) until I had to go again. As it worsened, I was forced to get on
my knees in front of my chair, and pee in a jar. It started on the 29th
of December, and got really bad over New Year’s. On the 7th of
January, my 78th birthday, I
was unable to stand in the shower. Today, the 17th of January, I still gasp for
air at the least exertion. I contemplated harming myself for over a week, with
my gun in my ear. So very terrifying! I wouldn’t wish that on someone I hated. On
3-23-2020, I wrote a web page titled “My
thoughts on the pandemic”. See it at http://www.petesmemories.com/covid.html. It hasn’t
been updated to include the experience, and probably won’t be.
If you haven’t been vaccinated, it would be wise to heed President Biden’s
advice, and wear a mask, and socially distance yourself, but “I’m NOT TELLING
YOU WHAT TO DO”!
NEW SUBJECT;
What happens when
you croak (die)? Are you going to be placed in a coffin, and buried 6-feet
underground, so that your remains will never be disturbed??? 😉
Are you serious??
Yesterday I watched a movie where the camera pulled back from a row of grave
markers to eventually pan across hundreds of acres of headstones. I have never
imagined a cemetary of that magnitude. Thousands of gravesites, completely
dominating the field of view.
Try to imagine
every human ever born, dead and buried in their own plot. Can you imagine he
real estate this would require. At this moment there are nearly eight billion
inhabitants on earth. In 100 years, most will be deceased. !00 years ago, there
were five billion different individuals, and one hundred years before, around
one billion.
Here are some
estimates;
How many humans
have ever existed?
117 billion members
No demographic data exist for more than 99% of the span of human existence.
Still, with some assumptions about population size throughout human history, we
can get a rough idea of this number: About 117 billion members of our species
have ever been born on Earth.
Another estimate;
Taking Poston's
number into account, we came to our revised estimate of 117 billion people born
since 190,000 B.C.E. We also estimate that by 2050 another 4 billion births
will increase the number of people who have ever lived on Earth to
about 121 billion.
If you are hoping
for an undisturbed grave, you are being unrealistic. You will most likely be
dug up, and your cemetary will become a strip mall. (Costco, Home Depot,
Walmart, or maybe even a golf course.)
Cremation is
becoming the most efficient way to dispose of human remains. It’s not practical
to bury corpses in the hopes they will lie, undisturbed.
Was that gruesome
enough for you??
That exercise went
back in time. Now, let’s go forward.
World population projected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050, and 11.2
billion in 2100. The current world population of 7.6 billion is expected
to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100,
according to a new United Nations report being launched today.
We are straining
for resources at this moment. What is going to happen in 76 more years?
Can we continue
without some type of birth control?
I’ll wager
republicans (not capitalized intentionally) won’t be flapping their faces about
abortion in the year 2100. There isn’t much to worry about. A thinning of the
herd is happening right now. It goes by the name of; covid, RSV, monkey pox,
zika, etc. etc. etc.
If one of those
doesn’t get you, we still have asteroid collisions, and any number of
delightful methods of population control.
If we all don’t
kill each other, something else will! Relax, enjoy yourself, and make the best
of it. Above all, BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER!
TO BE CONTINUED…….Is
that even possible???
The End
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