Well, the midterm $election$ have turned out to be everything that I thought they wouldn't be -- and even less than that. Worse than ominous.
Why even vote? I mean, who really knows what's going on, beyond the obvious fact that the whole, murky shambles of the Federal $election$ process is massively criminally rigged beyond any realistic hope of repair? Untold billions of dollars of dirty money, hordes of unctuous lickspittles and oleaginous functionaries -- in both major parties -- combined with millions of perfunctory voters and a bought-and-sold amen chorus in the news media, have yielded the preordained, ineluctable, programmed outcome: the proverbial, political, sh!!!!!t burger.
A full week after the polls closed ballots are still being counted in Arizona and other places. I have read that the Democrats have won the U$$A Senate; and that something on the order of 20 or 30 contests for seats in the House of Representatives remain undecided, a full week after the election. The Democrats are slowly closing the gap in the House, and who knows? -- with another month or two of diligent counting of all of the dog-chewed ballots that lie yet undiscovered in trash cans and dumpsters throughout the land, they may yet take control of the House of Representatives, thus institutionally solidifying their political control of the Federal government.
To be sure, as this great, criminal con job unfolds it is far too simplistic to selectively decry Democratic Party electoral corruption, although there is clearly a monster tidal wave of that, without simultaneously acknowledging that without equally massive, criminal acquiescence on the part of the Republican Party, none of this would be happening.
Meanwhile, Trumpty-Dumpty is loudly trumpeting his displeasure and snipping and sniping, even going so far as to publicly talk down and childishly belittle crucial political allies who would be essential to any plans he may have to run again for President in two years -- people like the governors of Florida and Virginia, for example. Thereby, Trump is very publicly undercutting his own, future, political prospects, and unnecessarily sowing deep ill will in the very party from which he seeks support.
Moreover, he had four years in which to reform the electoral machinery in the U$$A, during which time he did nothing. He could have established a Presidential Commission to systematize elections and guarantee their timely accuracy, legality and security, but he didn't. Instead, he waffled and dithered for four entire years, while the problems festered and worsened.
Far from being a solution to the systemic crisis of corrupt, rigged elections in the U$$A, Trump's a big part of the problem. He's an ineffective administrator, a weak, rudderless, bloviating, political Pied Piper who whips up a populist frenzy to no productive purpose. A rich, fat man from New York City who likes to hear himself talk in circles.
I simply can't imagine why millions of people believe that Orange Jesus will lead them to the political Promised Land. It's a mystery to me. He's only a man, and a quarrelsome, unintelligent, narcissistic one, at that.
The FTX Brouhaha
Enter one, shifty-eyed, Scam Bank-Man-Fraud, erstwhile CEO of the notorious FTX crypto-currency exchange ---- er, I mean, Sam Bankman-Fried, yeah, that's it, who in little more than one week has nearly single-handedly torpedoed the world's cryptocurrency markets, defrauded millions of (ahem) "investors" in his multi-billion dollar FTX crypto-Ponzi scheme, and shone a global spotlight on the reeking cesspit of U$$A political campaign finance and a vast U$$A-Ukrainian-NAZI money laundering operation.
The whole operation is so enormously improbable that it staggers the imagination. The tentacles stretch everywhere -- Washington-DC, the Democratic Party, the crypto-currency sphere, Kiev and far beyond.
Wealthy sports and political celebrities are evidently caught up in this hare-brained scheme: Tom Brady, Shaquille O'Neal, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, as well as a teeming, multi-million host of lesser lights. There is much more yet to come to light.
Meanwhile, I have read and viewed various threads online about the supposed whereabouts of the con man, Sam Bankman-Fried. He is variously said to be holed up in a luxury Bahamian resort owned by Tiger Woods, Justin Timberlake and the British billionaire, Joe Lewis, or, alternatively, on the run to Argentina or maybe Dubai, or perhaps already scooped up by the Feds and under interrogation.
And then there is Sam Barfman-Fraud's, screeching-finger-nails-on-chalkboard-goofy, "girl friend," aka, Caroline Ellison, the CEO (sic!) of Alameda Research who handled billions of dollars of "trades" for FTX. Watch and learn; it has to be seen to be believed:
You can't make this stuff up!
Someone wake me up when it's over. Please tell me it's not real.
Why The $ham $election$ Don't Even Matter
The political system in the U$$A is hopelessly corrupt and rigged. Obviously the country will not and cannot vote itself out of the venal, bought-and-sold, political quagmire in which it is hopelessly stuck. The people just voted and look at the ensuing, electoral train wreck. Voting is clearly no recourse. It doesn't change anything.
What comes next can only be highly, negatively dysfunctional. Demons without scruples are in charge of the system. They are deeply entrenched in the courts, the state and Federal legislatures, the governmental bureaucracy at all levels, in the police, the military, industry, Wall Street, the universities.
Homelessness, hunger, financial hardship, infrastructure decline and failure, supply chain failure, an ever rising death rate, dictatorial public policy, a falling standard of living, war, societal discord and loss of social cohesiveness, more street crime & so forth. It wearies me to say so, but that's what's coming, and that's just a partial listing, as woeful as it is.
What Is Not Being Discussed
The flip side of the not-yet-ended, $election$ charade is that almost everything about them has been so banal, so trite, so superficial, so jingoistically shallow and criminally corrupt that a whole long suite of vitally crucial issues has gone barely mentioned -- or completely unmentioned -- in the national, public, political discourse.
The following themes, issues, policies or subjects will certainly not be treated in a serious manner by virtually any of the mainstream political "actors," present or past, virtually all of whom are phonies, charlatans and/or confidence wo/men (that's another can of worms), and some of whom really were/are TV and/or movie actors: Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura, Al Franken, Sonny Bono, Jerry Springer, Clint Eastwood, Fred Thompson, Shirley Temple, etc.
In no particular order:
organic agriculture -- as long as this is not dealt with, Humanity's food will continue to be toxic and hazardous to health
interest free money and banking -- as long as this is not dealt with, Humanity will continue to be hopelessly shackled by debt-ridden, global, economic slavery
free energy straight from the vacuum/aether --as long as this is not dealt with Humanity and the planet will continue to be beset by toxic, environmentally destructive uranium, coal and petroleum industries
natural, holistic health -- as long as this is not dealt with Humanity will continue to be mortally afflicted with the ongoing, lethal, allopathic, medical scam that kills and maims myriad millions the world over, for filthy, financial profit
reforestation -- as long as this is not dealt with the planet will continue to be deforested, with the direst ecological consequences for the whole world
species extinction/loss of natural habitats -- as long as this continues, the biosphere on the Earth will continue to crash, and Humanity itself may well go extinct
chemtrails/geoengineering -- as long as this horror is not dealt with, the Earth and Humanity will continue to be Satanically poisoned
genetic engineering -- as long as the travesty of artificially tampering with genetic codes continues, the entire biosphere on this planet is under the gravest threat imaginable
A.I. -- as long as the development and implementation of artificial intelligence is permitted and promoted, biological Life itself is under immense threat of being usurped and outright exterminated
5G technology -- a long list of researchers and their technical findings have demonstrated the deadly consequences of this "Internet of Things" network; it's much worse than merely bad, it's frankly demonic
paper ballot elections -- digital voting systems can be and are criminally hacked to corruptly alter election results; this is a profound governance issue in many countries
getting rid of nuclear weapons -- nuclear war directly jeopardizes the biosphere of this entire planet; it's an insane game that no one but demons can win
... and I'm sure that each and every person who reads this blog post can add some issues and policies of their own to this list. What I have set out here is not exhaustive, only indicative of the sort of direction in which Humanity must move, if we are to have any sort of sane future at all on this world.
If these issues and policies are not substantively addressed in a meaningful manner, nothing will fundamentally change for the better.
Failure to do these things will mean that as a species we have senselessly abdicated the proper stewardship role on the Earth that we should have, and have acquiesced in the destruction of ourselves and our planet.
Regrettably, the stupid is very strong with the great mass of Humanity these days, and so we slide precariously towards oblivion.
Alas!
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