Sighinide

Interesting local news this morning: Cook County continues to lead the nation in population loss. See more here:

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/cook-county-has-largest-population-loss-of-any-county-in-the-u-s/

I think I know why.

People do not like living in this area. People are really, really angry here. Like really angry. Like, you wouldn’t even believe how angry and frustrated the average Joe is, here.

See my previous posts for evidence, if you need any.

This place… is a powder keg. If Civil War II is to begin, it will probably start here.

I don’t think it will start in California. Or in New York City. Or Texas, or any other border place, TBH. I think it will start here.

This is where I differ from establishment conservatives, like Pat Buchanan and those at VDARE and other places. It’s long been a meme amongst them that Civil War II, if it were to begin, would start in California, owing to conflict between the Mexican invasion and the mythical conservative white base there (conservative, because they voted for Reagan).

White Californians are not conservative, though, and never were. They were and are liberals, and I offer up the fact that they supported Reagan as proof of this. Reagan never took hold here; the people always saw him for who he was: a California liberal and actor who played the part of a conservative for his masters.

I’m willing to bet that this little area here in Illinois has the starkest divides in the country. In Chicago, you have the extremely liberal Democratic machine that birthed Obama, Hillary, Jesse Jackson, and Oprah. And in the surrounding areas you have those strongholds of hyper conservatism; many of the people just outside of the liberal bastion of Chicago are IMO the most conservative people in America, if not the world.

These two sides do not mix. They exist in separate universes.

This place… feels like a war zone. You can feel it, in the air. You can hear it in the things that people say. You can practically smell it. It’s like… there is no way the two sides here will ever see eye to eye on anything. They will never agree, on anything. All they can do, and all they have done since Obama’s election, is prepare for conflict. And these days they’re both extremely pissed off. No peaceful resolution can happen, and neither side is going anywhere.

IMO, this is where it will begin.

I think that this knowledge might be the reason behind these posts… like, I want to document things, as they are now, before this world is gone forever. Before all of this is consigned to the dustbin of history. So that the people of the future can learn from our mistakes, and hopefully, not repeat them again.

I don’t think that Trump’s meager efforts as President are anywhere near enough to divert anything. This massive area is beyond hope, at this point. It’s over. The border should have been closed 30 years ago. It’s too late, now.

The oligarchs still don’t seem to get it. They’re out of time. They continue to play these stupid games with everyone but really, there’s only seconds left on the clock before the buzzer sounds. It’s really and truly over, and they’re still wasting time offering up healthcare plans and debating other, non-essential issues.

The surprise election of Trump has given them a few more minutes to play with, but those will exhaust themselves shortly. Sure, we’re not in Civil War II right now, owing to Hillary’s defeat, but that is miles from saying that things are “fixed” now.

The clock is still ticking.

Ugh. Here we go yet again. It’s OK to turn elsewhere; I don’t care. But this stuff needs to be said by someone, especially in the wake of the Trumpcare disaster, so here it is.

The real problem that Trump has is the one he shares with the rest of the oligarchs: he operates as though there isn’t this thing called “The Internet” that allows the public to debate and criticize the actions of the regime.

Oy.

Look, Trump already looks like a lame duck president, with Trumpcare being DOA. So I’m not saying this to help him, since he looks beyond that, at this point.

I’m just saying this as a way to diagnose what went wrong, in way that a coroner would investigate a corpse. Because you need to know, even if after the fact.

Trump campaigned and then took office, as I’ve said God knows how many times before, like this was the early 80’s. I’m not going to rehash the details yet again (for my readers’ sanities, if not my own), but he seemed to think that it would be an easy thing to pull the typical GOP Ronald Reagan type bait-and-switch routine.

But… that just won’t work, today. It can’t work. This is a nation in decline, and nobody likes Trump. He is in fact an inherently unlikeable and nasty person.

Reagan’s betrayals of this country were made possible by several things: 1) People grew up liking him, owing to his past as a popular film actor, and his skill at pretending to be “one of us”; 2) This country was on the upswing, which meant jobs and optimism; 3) it was a more ignorant time in some ways and people actually trusted the government, somewhat.

Trump can’t use Reagan’s strategies and make them work. He is inherently unlikable, everyone is pissed off at the oligarchy anyways because there are no jobs for Americans here in America, and nobody, and I mean nobody in their right minds would ever believe what a politician says without double and triple and quadruple checking everything that comes out of their mouths, regardless of party.

Hence, the failure of “Trumpcare”. That kind of legislation- which is just a rebranding of Obamacare- can’t pass from a GOP politician in this kind of environment. The base will not stand for any of that, anymore. Did the GOP not learn anything from Dubya’s repeated failures to pass amnesty? GOP, what the hell is wrong with you? You are only pissing the public off more and more. Stop it!

Trump, do you want to leave office as universally hated as George W. Bush was? If so, then by all means continue with his habits.

Which brings us to Trump’s other problem- his personality. Trump is an unlikeable, unsympathetic person. Which is of course why he was elected- people thought that Trump, being a crude asshole, would be an asshole to the people that deserved it- the Clintons, say, or Goldman Sachs. And then, of course, he filled his cabinet with GS alums and failed to bring even a modicum of punishment to any of the people he said he would.

So- NOW what? Why would anyone on either side of the aisle support Trump in this kind of environment, with this kind of behavior coming from him? An asshole who doesn’t target your enemies is YOUR enemy, instead. Think about it, Trump!

“Trumpcare” isn’t going to fly in this environment. In fact almost nothing coming from Trump will. With the border still open, Trump has no legs to stand on, and no credibility amongst his base or anywhere else.

You know, I blame part of this nonsense on the losers, suckers and fools who popularized that “God Emperor” meme last year. And who championed that stupid frog- I forget his name, but it was that one that looked like he was drawn by a retarded 9 year old. I never got into that nonsense. That stuff always looked so embarrassing and childish to me that it made me recoil whenever I saw it.

But, those things seemed to set the tone for Trump’s admin. Memes, and no substance. Twitter posts, and no actions. And I think that all of that “God Emperor” stupidity went to Trump’s head. As in, maybe he actually started to believe it, since so many fools and children on the net seemed to think it. I mean, why not? To a narcissist, anything can be real!

TLDR; this stuff really, really sucks. Trump- you suck; congress- you suck; GOP- you suck; US regime- you suck; public, for blindly and ignorantly putting up with this crap and not demanding more from your “leaders”- you suck; professional “conservatives”- you suck more than anyone; blah blah blah blah

And still, it continues.

The clown show just continues on, day after day, with no reprieve in sight save for the final, inevitable one.

I don’t much care if Trumpcare passes or not. At this point, it seems moot either way. Trump’s base has already checked out. He’s disappointed them too much, too soon. He has still done nothing for them at all in all his time in office. At this point he barely seems interested in giving their concerns lip service.

They just don’t get it. Even now. God, is this frustrating.

Trump is too much of a pussy to support. He is weak, immature and pathetic. He is as narcissistic as a ten year old girl. He always was, really, but all of this makes it clear and obvious.

I despise the GOP. All of them. Burn them all to the ground. Burn everything.

You know- I’m really starting to hate this country. I know that it’s not the country’s fault, since the oligarchs are the responsible party here, but I can’t help it. We put up with this. We enable it, through our inactions. It’s the truth.

Oligarchs- you have a mess on your hands. A big one. You need to fix it, or else.

My advice: Tell the truth. Come forward, and explain the truth. About everything. About the NWO, about the racial differences in IQ, about, well, everything.

And end the government. Put it out of it’s misery, once and for all. Kill the dollar and replace it with something reasonable and logical, like a gold standard. And bury the entire political system and everyone in it.

And do it soon, before the inevitable.

The clock is still ticking.

Thanks for the pictures and the videos. But… if we’re being honest here, no thanks.

You know what I want? You know what I really want?

I want to talk to Taylor Swift.

THAT’S what I really want.

And you know what?

That’s what I deserve.

Ok, beyond what I’ve already said tonight, the problem with Trump thus far is this: when you look at every republican president since 1980, there is very little to no difference between them in policy, narrative or style, Trump included.

Always, it’s the same shtick, over and over again. You see a reformed liberal become “conservative” and win the presidency on some dumb, unthinking “law and order” and militaristic platform, like… Nixon did, basically.

It’s always the same damn thing. It never changes, and people everywhere are beyond sick of it.

I understand a lot of the anger that the more liberal types feel towards Trump. He’s boorish and not very respectable as an intellectual, in the same way that Reagan and Bush the younger were.

Through his campaign, I gave him the benefit of the doubt. After all, he’s a self-made billionaire, so I thought, surely he’s just doing it for votes. Underneath it all, of course he’s secretly brilliant, and we’ll all see that side of him once elected.

Ugh. Joke’s on me, I guess. Well, joke’s on everyone, it seems.

It’s always the same platform. Big government=bad and wasteful, except for by far the biggest and most wasteful government dept. of all, the military. That one is literally always good.

And the rest of it. Promise the country one thing, and then deliver the other, over and over again to the point that doing so becomes tradition.

This stuff is just pissing everyone off across the political spectrum, and it needs to end.

This endless regurgitation of the same old stuff, over and over again, was at least part of the reason for Ron Paul’s popularity. He was a GOP candidate that actually dared to try something different for once, and people respected that and listened.

So, NOW what? It looks as though we’re going to be getting 4 more years of standard-issue GOP nonsense, yet again. And THEN what? Oprah? Her name is being bandied about by a good number of former supporters of Hillary, as though that would be a change from Trump, somehow. Honestly, Oprah? A billionaire who made her name in the 80’s through a connection to talk shows, an occasional acting gig, and trashy reality TV? Wouldn’t that be just Donald Trump, all over again, yet again?

So, if not Oprah, who, then? Hillary, yet again? Biden, again? Obama, again? Some combination of those 4? Is there any functional difference between them anyways? Or will we get 4 more years of Trump, again?

Jesus fucking Christ, this shit is getting so God Damn TIRESOME.

The oligarchy needs to either leave, or change, or be pushed aside.

There really is no other way.

So, with Trump having had over 50 days in office now, where are we?

The same place we were 50 days ago, it looks like. And the same place we were 50 days before that, and then 50 days before that.

Ugh.

You know what? Fuck it. I need to vent. Hence, this post.

I really, really just hate politicians in this country. Not a one of them is worth the brain power needed to think of a way to criticize them, yet we’re all forced to deal with them anyways.

And I’m getting really tired of hearing politicians talk about themselves, and of hearing others talk about politicians talking about themselves.

So, where are we, now? We’re 50 plus days into the Trump administration, and everything Trump has done since his inauguration has been about him. Not the country. Not even his family. But HIM.

I’ve written before about how my great fear in regards to Trump is that he would turn out to be another traitor like Bush or Reagan, but in this case, even that would be in some ways an improvement, as that would at least show some initiative or curiosity on Trump’s part.

More than 50 days in, and Trump has done nothing of importance, good or bad, and as far as I can tell, he has shown no inclinations to do much of anything in the future, either.

Where is the wall? Where is the crack down on Wall Street excess that we were promised? Where is the immigration stop? Where is the end to street violence? Where is the repeal of Obamacare? And where the fuck is everything else? None of that is here, and it’s nowhere that I can see, either.

There appears to be no substance to his administration. At this point he is looking exactly like the man is described in my earlier posts- he looks like an sheltered oligarch awkwardly aping the mannerisms, concerns and ideals of working class people. In the Oval Office, he looks like a fish out of water almost as much as then Obama did.

Thus far I have found little to like in him or his actions since he took office.

Enough, already, with this talk of Obama wiretapping. NOBODY FUCKING CARES, and Trump, you look like a self-absorbed brat even mentioning it, even if it is true. Just SHUT UP.

Ugh.

Thus far the tone of Trump’s admin has been a mixture of extremely dated 1980’s GOP boilerplate militaristic nonsense mixed with Obama-era multicult garbage mixed Keeping up With the Kardashians. And, UGH, I mean that literally. Thus far, Trump’s three most notable acts as President have been a proposal for a massive and senseless increase in the military budget, a proposal to keep Obamacare up and running (!) in all but name only, and a summit with Kanye West.

People, what the FUCK?

No, no, no!

Trump, you have a JOB to do. You were HIRED by people, in this case the public, to CLOSE THE BORDER, amongst other things.

NOW DO YOUR FUCKING JOB.

Trump, it is not difficult to build a wall. With modern techniques and an infinite amount of money at your disposal, a wall separating the US and Mexico could be built in a week, to be generous to you.

And there is no reason why such a wall has not been built already, except for the obvious one, which is that you, and the rest of the oligarchs, really do not want to build it.

If we can declare war on Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Vietnam with a Presidential Order, than surely a fucking wall can be built with one, too.

Look, guys, the circus that is Washington, D.C. is running on borrowed time. The depression that started in 2008 continues, unabated, to this day.

Trump is being given a grace period, to allow him to acclimate himself to the job. But that grace period will not last long. He needs to PRODUCE, and do it like NOW.

Enough!

What I’m thinking now, as I close out this post, is how Trump’s presidency illustrates everything that is wrong with oligarchy.

Trump and the other oligarchs are inherently uninterested in the advancement of the nation, or in the fixing of it’s problems. Their only interest lies in stability- of the country, maybe, but really of themselves. In an oligarchy, those with power work only to keep it, and they will only change if they believe that change will help them hold onto power.

Hence, of course, Trump’s reluctance to fulfill any of his campaign promises. To my eyes, he seems unsure if closing the border will benefit himself, his own constituents be damned. So, it hasn’t been closed yet, and it might never get closed in actuality. I would not put it past him or those around him to half-ass a “wall” with giant gaps that would allow the flood of illegals to only be moderately reduced, as opposed to eliminated. Why? Because this would benefit the rich, and Trump, like the rest of the oligarchs, are all about money and position, and not principles.

I believe that this motivation is what inspired Carson’s recent goofy comparison between slaves and immigrants. What he (Carson, or maybe his handler) is trying to do to generate sympathy for immigrants amongst black people with such idiotic, nonsensical statements. Then, hopefully, Trump can use that sentiment to weasel his way out of his promises.

Well, either that, or Carson is just a typical Affirmative Action employee. Illogical, untalented, and awkwardly foolish, but impossible to fire or ignore without causing too much of a hassle.

You know, what I would really like to see within my lifetime is this: A political administration I can actually respect.

I hope, truly, that this is not an impossibly tall order for the oligarchy to fill. Though it may well be.

I don’t want a president that takes advice from Kanye fucking West, and I don’t particularly want one who comes from a Reality TV background, either. And I certainly don’t want one that is an illegal immigrant from Kenya, or one who deliberately and openly declares war on his own country with a terrorist attack on the U.S. homeland, or one who prefers getting blowjobs from ugly interns instead of preventing the dismantling of the entire nation’s economy.

I’m getting really tired of this shit, guys. Me and everyone else, really.

The oligarchy here runs on inertia and fumes. Once upon a time, a LONG time ago, the people who ran this country were competent, good natured, and wise. They knew how to act in such a way that their actions benefited the people as well as themselves.

Because of this legacy, the fools running the ship now have been given “Get Out of Jail Free” cards by the public. Hence why none of them have yet been executed for treason, regardless of their actions.

Oligarchs- it’s time that you kids grew up, and started acting like adults.

If you don’t, one day, the warnings will stop.

Keep that in mind.