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Might as well. I have the time and I’m still not over this whole “seasonal allergies” thing, so…

A long time ago, it used to be a meme amongst libertarians and other anti-war types to wonder what would happen if war was declared… and nobody showed up.

Well, it looks like we’re about to find out.

The news these days vis-a-vis Trump is that he’s readying more sanctions against Syria, Iran and Russia.

Yeah.

*sigh.*

More sanctions. Yeah. Wow. Could there be anything more dumb, or predicable, or pointless at this time than yet more sanctions against some people that the sitting US president just doesn’t like, personally?

Question- have sanctions EVER worked? Ever? On any country?

I ask because the Cuba sanctions didn’t do anything, and neither did the Iran sanctions, or the last round of sanctions against Syria and Russia. And of course the North Korean sanctions have done nothing, obviously.

Soooooooo… WTF, guys? More sanctions? Really? Why?

Why is this being done? The entire world at this point understands that US government sanctions do not work, and in fact typically backfire. Look at the last time we levied sanctions against Syria, Iran and Russia. What they did was just work together, to get around the sanctions we imposed. And, ultimately, they did quite well economically. In fact, you could say they prospered because of the sanctions- necessity is the mother of invention, after all. The sanctions failed, utterly and completely.

Look at Syria- Assad is as strong as ever. He’s winning the war. Russia just paid off the last of it’s foreign debts. And Iran is still there, strong as they’ve ever been in recent history. So… more sanctions, Trump? Really?

And who in their right mind has ever thought, in a million years, that sanctions were a good idea against Russia, of all countries? Sanctions are a way to economically isolate a nation, which… doesn’t work when the nation in question is by far the largest on Earth.

See- it doesn’t make logical sense. How is the US gong to impose sanctions against a nation that is twice it’s size, geographically? Russia has seven time zones! 7!!!!!!!!

If sanctions failed against North Korea and tiny little Cuba, what are the odds that they’ll work on Russia? Nil, right?

So, WTF is going on? And why are we even doing this, anyways?

To the oligarchs- guys, I can’t emphasize how much the world is over it, at this point. Nobody fucking cares.

God damn it, it really does seem as though it’s absolutely impossible to get the ruling families here to change, even one iota, in any direction at all. The overlords here in the United States are still acting as though this was the fucking 80’s, for some reason. Nothing has changed one bit in the 1% in literally 35 years at least. It’s like they’re stuck in some impossible time warp, far far away from the rest of humanity and it’s concerns, which is just baffling and frustrating as fucking hell at this point, because they never fucking change, ever.

It’s just baffling. Oligarchs- the public here is over it, too. I don’t care how many of the dumb terrorist “drills” you force everyone to watch. People are beyond tired of this “war” shit at this point.

When is this stuff going to end, guys? When, for fuck’s sake?

UGH.

Look- the oligarchy here needs to get it’s head in the game, somehow. They need to start living in the real world, and the sooner they do the better off everyone will be.

And I know that I’ve said all of this stuff before, probably many times at this point, but holy fucking shit, it’s not like I have a choice in the matter, do I? If they refuse to change- than it’s not like anyone else here can change either, can they?

Look- just to close this thought out because I’m tired and want to go to bed; Putin absolutely looks like the sane one in this little conflict of ours. His sanity and reasonableness has been well established to the world at this point- see my earlier posts, here. It’s the US that looks desperate, and more than a little nuts right now. The war machine that we have just does not stop. It just keeps killing and killing endlessly, with no concern for international or domestic stability heeded.

This stuff needs to end, and soon.

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I think I’ll crank out another one of these, while I’m on a roll. Because why not? To me, Trump is just such a perfect emblem of the failure of our government, if not our country, that I can’t resist another exploration of him and the problems that we have because of him and those around him.

Trump just gave Associated Press an interview. Let’s analyze it. It’s here: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c9dd871023064917932966816d6c2c2d/trump-100-days-its-different-kind-presidency

Basically, my takeaway from it is that Trump really doesn’t like the people who voted for him much at all. He doesn’t think as they do, doesn’t understand their ways, and seems to hold them in open contempt. At best, he likely sees them only as a springboard for his own success. At worst, he probably views them as embarrassing, and an obstacle to be overcome, if not removed for his own family’s sake.

The choice quotes here are Trump’s answers about the questions about the border wall. This is what he had to say:

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AP: … If you get a bill on your desk that does not include funding for the wall, will you sign it?

TRUMP: I don’t know yet. People want the border wall. My base definitely wants the border wall, my base really wants it — you’ve been to many of the rallies. OK, the thing they want more than anything is the wall. My base, which is a big base; I think my base is 45 percent. You know, it’s funny. The Democrats, they have a big advantage in the electoral college. Big, big, big advantage. I’ve always said the popular vote would be a lot easier than the electoral college. The electoral college — but it’s a whole different campaign (unintelligible). The electoral college is very difficult for a Republican to win, and I will tell you, the people want to see it. They want to see the wall, they want to see security. Now, it just came out that they’re 73 percent down. … That’s a tremendous achievement. … Look at this, in 100 days, that down to the lowest in 17 years and it’s going lower. Now, people aren’t coming because they know they’re not going to get through, and there isn’t crime. You know the migration up to the border is horrible for women, you know that? (Unintelligible.) Now, much of that’s stopped because they can’t get through.

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He (Trump) claims some estimates of the wall costs are too high. “Oh I’m seeing numbers — $24 billion, I think I’ll do it for $10 billion or less.”

AP: If you don’t have a funding stream, your message to your base is what?
TRUMP: My base understands the wall is going to get built, whether I have it funded here or if I get it funded shortly thereafter, that wall’s getting built, OK? One hundred percent. One hundred percent it’s getting built. And it’s also getting built for much less money — I hope you get this — than these people are estimating. The opponents are talking $25 billion for the wall. It’s not going to cost anywhere near that.

AP: You think $10 billion or less.

TRUMP: I think $10 billion or less. And if I do a super-duper, higher, better, better security, everything else, maybe it goes a little bit more. But it’s not going to be anywhere near (those) kind of numbers. And they’re using those numbers; they’re using the high numbers to make it sound impalatable (sic). And the fact it’s going to cost much less money, just like the airplane I told you about, which I hope you can write about.

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Personally, I can feel his contempt for his supporters practically dripping off the page with these quotes.

Trump really, really doesn’t want the wall, himself. He obviously hates the idea, probably because it would make him or his daughter unpopular amongst the other oligarchs. But he feels as though he has to, dammit, because of those annoying losers who voted for him.

In his response to the first question, I can practically see him squirming for some way to avoid fulfilling that particular pledge. He’s looking for an out- anything, really- that would excuse him from actually listening to the public. Note how Trump himself never says that he wants the wall. Always, it’s his base that wants it. Not him, not his family, not his administration, but those irritating losers in flyover country that just won’t shut up about it. It’s their fault that he has to do it, you see?

And in his blathering and obfuscating, you can see him desperately reaching for something, anything, that could let him off the hook. In his response, he tries to change the subject by turning it into a question of “electability” for himself and his friends, in the exact same way that John McCain, the Bushes, and Reagan did. I mean, in the exact same way. If you don’t believe me, look at those youtube videos of the townhall meetings where that idiot McCain confronted his furious “support base” over his want for amnesty. Always, the oligarchs try to reframe the issue in terms of “elections” for their own families and friends, as though that’s all that matters to them. Which is, unfortunately, probably the truth.

Trump even goes so far as to downplay the implications of his own landslide victory in an obvious and embarrassing attempt to dodge his responsibilities. Trump was all about bragging about the size of his support base leading up to the election, during it, and then after it, but now that it’s time for him to deliver he’s all of a sudden in the minority, without a leg to stand on, so don’t expect him to actually do anything, OK?

Which is where this “45%” B.S. comes from. Trump’s base demographic is probably the largest demographic on Earth, as I’ve already discussed, and in fact support for the wall is much higher and broader that just that. Trump neatly sidesteps this by trying to frame the issue as Democrat-Republican as though there wasn’t a huge number of Democrats that support the idea of the wall, too. Just think of how many blacks in this country- who are ardent supporters of the democratic party- would like to see the wall built, for starters.

Trump’s response to the second question is perhaps more revealing than his response to the first one.

Essentially, the important thing about the wall, to Trump, is how much it costs. Not what it would do for the country, not what it would do to help his base, and not what it would do for anyone else, besides those in upper reaches of the government. It’s all about money, for him. Not even security- he talks about building a “super-duper” secure wall as though that would be unreasonable, given it’s meager cost increase over an “normal” one.

Firstly, this is about Trump trying to dodge his responsibilities, again. What’s he’s trying to do, here, is to reframe the issue into a financial one, so that there might be a way during the budget talks for him to get out of building it.

See, Trump doesn’t really care about how much it costs. I mean, he just declared World War III, for fuck’s sake!

And consider that multi-trillion dollar infrastructure project that he wants. And he’s concerned about a couple billion for an upgraded, “super-duper” wall? Please.

No, he just wants an out, any out at all, that would let him leave his campaign promises behind him as quickly as possible.

Secondly, you can really see here in his responses how much he wants to distance himself, at all costs, from the people he supposedly represents. Any idea that a wall might protect American culture is absolutely not something he has any desire to talk about, ever. Because again, Trump is only about himself and his own family. Ours and our traditions can be damned for all he cares.

And lastly, you can see him try to change the subject, yet again, with that idiotic misdirection about some stupid airplane (IDK what he’s talking about there, and IDC, either). He just really, really does not want the wall to be built, at all. He doesn’t even want to talk about it, or even acknowledge the reality that other people might want to talk about it, even. So, always, he tries as hard as he can to redirect the conversation to anything at all that doesn’t have to do with the wall as soon as he can.

So- interesting interview, more for what Trump doesn’t say, than what he does.

My impression of Trump remains as it has been for a long time now. He is a pampered, spoiled oligarch that despises the working class every bit as much as any of his predecessors in the white house. He doesn’t think like them and doesn’t want to; he sees himself as above them and probably secretly views them as an annoying obstacle that will just get underfoot in his plans for his own family.

Trump isn’t a conservative; not even close. He never was. His only interest is in the perpetuation of the power of the ruling families of the United States, regardless of the cost to his own base or to the rest of the world.

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Trump still looks ineffective. He still looks out of touch and hapless.

All of this “war” stuff that he and his cabinet are pushing has amounted to nil in terms of popular support, both within his base and without.

IDC if North Korea threatens the US. I don’t think anybody does, TBH. They’ve been doing that now for God knows how many generations and nothing has ever come of it. TBH, at this point I wouldn’t think it impossible that North Korea’s threats are perhaps just policy initiatives that get lost in translation.

War isn’t going to work, anymore. No longer can the tail wag the dog, so to speak.

I think it’s shaping up like I described it, earlier. Trump will fail or not based on how well he fulfills all of his campaign promises. He either “drains the swamp” or dies, quickly.

The oligarchs are still clueless, even now.

The worst part of Trump’s flip-flops is that he looks not only clueless and disorganized, but ineptly dishonest and conniving as well. And, TBH, I shouldn’t say “looks” because that’s exactly what he is.

The problems with Trump’s nonsensical crusade against North Korea I’ve already outlined, but I haven’t touched, yet, the stupidity and arrogance of his stance against Russia, and particularly Putin.

See, what Trump and his cabinet don’t seem to get is that we know Putin. He has been a fixture on the Internet ever since the late 90’s, when he was elected Prime Minister of Russia. People worldwide know the guy, and they know him well, with Trump’s own base perhaps knowing him better than anyone else outside of Eurasia.

Putin is not a threat to us. Obviously. If he were, that would have been made clear at least a decade ago.

Many people here in the US know Putin better than they know anyone in Trump’s cabinet, including perhaps Trump himself. And we know that he is not a threat to us, no matter what Trump says this week or the next, whatever the hell that might be.

So, why the hostility, Trump? WTF are you thinking here? Is it that Kushner twerp, like so many are saying?

Speaking of Kushner, who is that guy, anyways? Who the hell is that little cretin to tell us that what we already know to be true is wrong? Honestly. That guy has his job for two reasons, neither of which has to do with competence or his own personal insights. He’s there because 1) he’s Jewish, so his say in the Middle East is more important than mine is, since Israel is more important to the oligarchs than this country is; and 2) he’s part of Trump’s family, so of course he gets a job in the White House. I mean, why the hell wouldn’t he, since Trump’s even less qualified daughter got one as well?

God damn it.

I dislike all of this, in the same way that I dislike seeing Trump mindbogglingly side with Al-Qaeda against the secular leaders in the Middle East, like Assad. Note that I say “mind-bogglingly” here because I’ve leaving out the dreary reality that Al-Qaeda is and has always been a tool of the US oligarchy, from the 80’s on, up to and including 9/11, of course. So, no that isn’t really unexpected, but still.

And people- to those of you who still insist that 9/11 was not an inside job, please, please grow up.

It’s a matter of public record that Al-Qaeda was a US creation back in the 80’s. They were created by the CIA here to fight the Soviets, which they did. After the USSR fell, they were owned and managed by Pakistan (a key US ally) until they attacked us in 9/11, after which they became a public ally of this country again, siding with us in war after war in the Middle East, from Iraq to Libya to now, Syria.

People, what are the odds that Al-Qaeda, America’s strongest wartime ally in the Middle East for decades, decided to just up and attack our homeland for no reason on a random Tuesday? And then be forgiven for that attack immediately afterwards?

And no, I don’t need to produce evidence, any more than I would need to produce evidence that the sun rises every morning. I mean, just look, people! It’s right there!

But look, what I’m trying to do here is get this country back on track, somehow. To that end, we need to recognize and understand a few important things:

1) The US economy is broken, as evidenced by the horrific money velocity. Simply put, money, the lifeblood of the economy, is not moving anymore. It’s being pooled up at the top- which is why the US has the worst income inequality in the world- and it’s staying there. It is not getting out of the pockets of the rich people. So, the economy outside of the world of the 1% has dried up, in the same way that blocked arteries and veins in a human being causes parts of the body to dry up and die for lack of nutrients. Except in this case it’s like every once of blood has become trapped in a person’s head, and is not getting out. Bad. Very very bad.

2) Infrastructure will not fix this. Trump’s much vaunted infrastructure projects will do nothing for the economy, at all. In no way are additional bridges and roads and stores and mines going to fix the problems I just described above.

3) What will work, and in fact the only thing that will work, is to force money out of the pockets of the wealthy and into others’ hands, for once. And this will eventually happen either voluntarily, or at gunpoint, or over the dead, decaying corpses of the rich. But in some way it will happen. Bet on it.

4) It is waaaay too late to start working on these issues. I can’t get over that part, because nobody else can, either. It’s toooooo late. It’s so late in the game at this point that effort is probably hopeless.

But, there it is. Yet again.

Let’s see if this does anything.

It probably won’t.

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I guess I just can’t resist. I just love the morbidity and darkness of all this, and I so love to document my own thoughts and feelings in this little personal grimoire. Love love love watching the horrors unfold.

IDK, I’m not feeling well, since allergies. So, there’s that (and that’s probably a good deal of it), but, still…

So, here it is. Trump is over, it looks like.

Today he was crowing on twitter about how his approval ratings cracked 50%, as though that was some kind of accomplishment. What an idiot.

This country has been brought to the brink of war now on like 3 or 4 separate occasions in the last couple months, and Trump’s approval ratings have barely cracked half. Trump- that is not an accomplishment.

That is, in a word, pathetic. That is sorry as hell, and proof that the idiot’s base has in fact done what I said they did- they’ve abandoned him, already, not even 100 days into things.

How very, very sad. How pitiful. As in, that’s it, we’re sunk, as far the government goes. It’s over, for them and us.

The voters in this country gave Trump a massive favor, and all he has done as “Thanks” in return is ignore us, condescend to us, and work to undermine everything we stand for and believe in.

God damn, does this country’s political class suck. They are all just really, really bad at their jobs. In no way would these clowns survive on their own, in the job market that their subjects face. It’s their money that elevates them- not their skills, and certainly not their intellect. It’s their inherited wealth and “network” that gives them the edge over the rest of us.

Regarding the idiot’s approval ratings- that is a brutal indictment of the system, not just of Trump. Depending on who you ask, Dubya’s approval ratings hovered around 75-85% when he launched missile strikes against Iraq in 2003.

And speaking of Dubya, after 9/11, his approval ratings were at something like 95%. And before 9/11, he was regarded as a lame duck and unpopular president, although his ratings were a little higher than Trump’s are, today. And even with all that, he left office as probably the most hated man to ever step foot in it.

Trump- heed my warnings, here. You have A LOT of ground to cover, very very fast, if you want to avoid a monumental disaster. For starters, you must make MASSIVE and historically unprecedented overtures to your base if you want to keep what remains of it. What you have given us to this date is flat-out insulting at best.

For starters, immigration. It’s bad. All of it. There is no such thing as “good” immigration, and there never will be as long as I live. ALL immigrants, regardless of origin or intent, are a problem that needs to be “fixed”.

And the rest of it. The public is beyond tired of these stupid wars. Diminishing returns come into play, here. I mean, holy shit, it’s taken like the threat of World War III to create a minor uptick in Trump’s approval ratings. That card has been played out. It’s tapped out; it’s done, finished. No longer will any politician be able to dodge his responsibilities by just lazily throwing a few missiles at somebody that the public probably respects more than their own leaders, anyways.

Trump’s agenda is domestic ONLY, and it is ONLY domestic policy that will affect him and his approval ratings appreciably. To that end, he needs to produce 4 years of very, very strong gains in all things for his base. And as I’ve pointed out Ad nauseam, what he has done as of this date is nowhere near the ballpark of being acceptable.

I’m going to bed, now, on account of the allergies and such. But I want to close this out by saying that it may be a good idea to shelve liberalism for a generation to get all of these huge problems worked out. Can’t be more eloquent that than that right now.

*sigh*…

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I’m sorry, but this whole Trump thing is simply baffling me at this point. This stuff doesn’t even make sense, anymore.

Ok, to summarize: In Europe, Trump threatens Russia with war. In the Middle East, he threatens Syria. In Asia, it’s North Korea. And now come reports that we’re going to be putting boots on the ground in Somalia now, too.

This is altogether too much. Way wayyyyyyy too much, all at once. This is so much, all at once, that is looks like our dear leader would not be out of place in a straight jacket.

Ok, people. Let’s sit down and think about this.

Usually, a President’s first couple of months in office are used to familiarize himself with the role. You know, he gets used to things, forms his cabinet, maybe meets some world leaders, enacts a few domestic policy initiatives, etc.

This is kind of what everyone thought we’d be getting from Trump. We thought that he’d build the wall and reign in Wall Street, for example.

But this……. IDK WTF this stuff is. I mean, it’s just bewildering.

Thus far, there have been zero domestic changes of consequence, and a series of policy changes that make it look as though Trump has just declared World War III, for some reason.

This isn’t what anyone, and I mean anyone, thought that we’d be getting at this point.

It just doesn’t make sense. Who are we fighting, here? Is it communism? Well, no… that wouldn’t explain Syria, or Somalia. Terrorism? No, because Russia. I don’t get it. Is this just a list of countries that Trump doesn’t like, personally?

Not what I expected from “America First”. Hoooooooly shit.

Ok, to the bloggers on the right that still support Trump: Are you guys serious? I mean, look at this. The border is still wide open, and we’re doing all of this stuff internationally, and you still support him? Still?

Guys…. come on.

IDK even what to think, anymore.

You know, that’s also the general feeling that I get from others. People have just tuned out. The government will do what it does. We can’t change it, we can’t prevent it, we have no say. So, who cares?

That’s the feeling I’m getting, now. In my family, even my parents, who hadn’t missed a day of TV news for the last 40 years, have stopped watching the news. Because what’s the point? It’s not like it matters, anyways.

Ugh. Wow.

This stuff just isn’t good, people.

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More thoughts, in light of what’s happening these days:

1) One thing I have always liked about the North Korean oligarchy is their lack of pretension. They are who they are. The ruling families in North Korea don’t pretend to be democratic, or free, or open. They are honest with themselves and the world about what they want, who they are, and how their country is run.

You don’t get that, here. In the US, you have a long, unbroken string of Presidents that are literally golfing buddies, from Trump to Bush to Clinton and Obama, and yet the public here has to pretend that this country is some kind of “democracy”, and that everyone has an “equal chance” at becoming President.

God, I just hate that. In no way is this country a “democracy” and in no way is that “equal chance” claim true. In fact that claim is so obviously wrong it seems like a way for the American oligarchs to insult their subjects.

Kim Jong-un, for all his faults, is at least honest with his people about how his system is actually run, and his honesty spares everyone involved time and effort.

If the oligarchs here were to simply be honest with people- say, if they were to come out and just tell people that there was no chance they were getting in, that we’re not a democracy, that voting makes no difference, and that activism is pointless and dumb, than the people would, I think, be a bit disappointed at first, but they would then come to respect the honesty of their overlords.

The problem with the system we have is that the oligarchs must engage in a ridiculous, pointless, and idiotic song-and-dance routine every 4 (or 2 and a half) years, as they clown around for peoples’ attentions in a vain and stupid attempt to convince the public here that this is some kind of democratic nation.

It’s pathetic and dumb, and all that that nonsense does is perennially disappoint the public. It makes everyone involved frustrated and angry.

The North Korean people, I’ll bet, are likely not eternally frustrated. Depressed, maybe. Angry, perhaps. But I doubt they’re frustrated, because the leadership there makes no overtures to them and their lot in life, whatever that is. So- they never get disappointed, unlike in this country, where being disappointed with the ruling families is literally a national tradition.

Case in point- Trump, who is an excellent “Exhibit A” for any study on the problems of oligarchy.

Trump’s interest in obviously not in the nation, but in his own family, as to be expected in any oligarchic regime. Hence his appointing his daughter and son-in-law to peachy posts in his administration that they are clearly unqualified for, probably to set them up for planned future successes within the ruling heirachry.

Obviously, this is not what the people who voted for Trump wanted. “Drain the Swamp”, this isn’t. But, that makes no difference- not to him, and not to anyone else attached to the establishment families. Approval ratings be damned, of course.

The North Korean way- of just doing it, as opposed to doing it after spending years promising you wouldn’t, seems to be a better, more moral and honest way, in my opinion.

2) The celeb leaks just keep coming, and I’m frankly just ignoring them, now. And considering the lack of news coverage surrounding the recent batches, I’m not the only one.

It’s still kind of too much, and in my case, it does drill home the point of how distant I really am from my supposed girlfriends.

Rumors are out there now about a Taylor Swift set that apparently contains hardcore sex stuff. Which… I will admit, I’m interested in seeing, but I will also admit will disappoint me hugely upon seeing it (if it exists), since that isn’t at all what I wanted from my relationship with Taylor.

What I’m looking for isn’t that, but commitment. I don’t want to sit and watch other peoples’ relationships, I want some of my own, and I would hope that people would understand and respect this, and most especially those people that everyone considers my girlfriends. And Taylor in particular, out of those.

If these Taylor rumors are true- then what would be the point in me continuing on with her? Would there even be a point? IDK, to be honest. I can make any life I want, provided I concentrate my powers on it. So… what, then?

I think the question I’m asking here is if Taylor is actually devoted to me or not. Is she the person I think she is or not?

I need to know this. I’m not going to spend 10 years of my life devoted to someone because they try to entice me at every given point, only to have them turn around and leave me when convenient. That wouldn’t be fair to me.

I need to know if Taylor is actually devoted to me for the long haul or not.

And if I can’t ever determine this to be 100% in one way or another, than IMHO I don’t see the point in continuing past a certain time frame.

And, since I lack any input at all from her, it will be up to me to determine how long that time frame is.

Hrrrumph.

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One more thought, while I’m still thinking (and angry) about this.

Trump’s attitude towards North Korea underscores how very much “unlike us” he is. And by “us” I mean conservatives, of course.

North Korea is most respected here in the US by Trump’s own supposed base. Shades here of how they support Putin, as well.

North Korea is in many ways a very conservative society. Not by American standards, but by their own. They like law and order, and tradition, and standing their ground culturally against the powers that be. Which, I might add, is something they do very well. Better than conservatives here, that’s for sure.

Their society is safe, I’m sure, in ways that ours isn’t. I can’t imagine that there are many dangerous street gangs there that take their hostilities out on the common man. I can’t imagine that the illicit narcotics industry has the hold there that it does here. And I can’t imagine that even things like white-collar crime are as prevalent there as they are here.

To that end- they have their own National bank, not connected to Wall Street, which is something that most of Trump’s supporters would think of as being heaven on Earth here in the US itself.

North Korea is a very agrarian society, with lots of farming and an inherent distrust of many modern trends and fashions. All of which are things that the people who are “represented” by Trump can identify with.

And as far as Kim-Jung Un being crazy, well, he only looks like it in the kind of way that a cornered guy might get crazy when confronted by an aggressive gang of bullies or thugs. Yeah, he acts crazy. He tries to puff himself up to make himself look more dangerous than he really is through rhetoric and aggressive posturing.

And, to his family’s immense credit, it has worked, for a long, long time.

TBH, he does more for his own society’s traditions that the weaklings appointed to do so here have done in the US. I mean conservatives here don’t do much of anything. Conservatives here are cowards and easily bowled over pussies that fold at the slightest hint of resistance. See- Trump, himself, and those gullible, no-expectations having fools who support Trump even now, because he might do something, at some indeterminate point in the future, for them, somehow.

Ugh. This whole thing is just beyond disgusting.

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Ugh. ENOUGH with this North Korea nonsense!

Here’s what Trump and his gaggle of nepotists and oligarchs don’t seem to get: his agenda, and the whole reason for his Presidency, is domestic stuff ONLY.

Domestic policy is the ONLY reason he was elected. He has no mandate and NO support amongst the public here or internationally to do anything overseas.

Trump’s Presidency was supposed to be a way to “right the course” domestically. The nation has become too liberal, too diverse and too multicultural, and his Presidency was supposed to bring things back into line with where they’re supposed to be, right now.

That having been said, that is enough saber-rattling with fucking North Korea!

God damn, does that just look terrible. The US right now looks like a empire of power-crazed lunatics. Trump, you’re embarrassing the country. We HATE what you’re doing! STOP IT, YOU STUPID ASSHOLE!

End this dumb, illogical shit, and actually start to work on the things that you promised the country that gave you the landslide victory that you and your party received for your promises.

Look, Trump, you mindless, bumbling idiot, your recent actions against Syria, and most especially North Korea, make you look like an incoherent, uneducated bully.

Look, Trump, here’s how it is: North Korea is no threat to this country. I don’t care what North Korea itself says, they aren’t, and everyone knows it. Kim Jong-un and his country are not regarded as being a real threat to the US to anyone under the age of 50, here.

In fact, it’s the opposite that’s the case. Younger Americans in particular don’t see him as being even a problem at all. To a lot (I think most) young Americans, he’s more cute and bumbling than dangerous or “evil”. He seems somewhat odd, yes, but not even close to alarming or scary.

Yes, he might blab about nukes or destroying America or stuff like this, but all that that does is serve to create fodder for jokes on SNL and South Park. We all know he isn’t going to actually do anything. Because he isn’t. Kin Jong-un isn’t perceived to be a realistic threat today.

This ties back neatly to what I said about this stupid conflict in my earlier post about it. This fucking thing has been going on now since the year 1950. If North Korea actually was going to do something, they would have done it by now. They ain’t gonna, not now, not ever.

Maybe 40 years ago, with the USSR backing them, sure, threats from NK would have meant something. But now? Guys, they if they didn’t do anything back then, then they’re not going to do anything now, and we all know it. So WTF is up with this nonsense?

That’s enough, with all this.

The US government looks like a bully right now. We have by far the largest military ever, and it looks like we’re picking on the little guy, to try to cover up for our own internal weaknesses. Probably, because that’s how it is.

Nobody in this country at this point even remembers why this particular conflict even began. Even for those with a working memory of how it started, things are probably hazy at best. I mean, it started back in the middle of the last century. No young person today gets this conflict from a historical perspective. They see the US with it’s enormously power military poking and threatening and posturing against poor defenseless North Korea and it just looks terrible.

Trump- that’s enough of this. Hands off of North Korea, already. Let them do their own thing, whatever that is.

You were elected to fix those damn internal weaknesses that I mentioned above. THAT is your fucking job, you spoiled, pompous, oligarchic, nepostistic asshole. Now STOP PICKING ON THE WEAK AND THE DEFENSELESS, AND DO WHAT YOU’RE FUCKING SUPPOSED TO DO.

The damn border is still open, you asshole! And your approval ratings aren’t going to budge up by any appreciable amount as long as it remains so.

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Ok, let me explain. It’s not that I can’t use them, it’s just that I don’t want to. I mean, if this was five years ago, sure. I’m sure that if this was 2012, I would be at the edge of my seat, waiting to see Alison Brie’s boobs. But this is 2017, and that’s not really my thing anymore.

That’s the thing, with these leaks. These aren’t the days of the Paris Hilton tape, where seeing this stuff was new and exciting and novel. These days, none of it is. I mean, there are a few people where it might be interesting, but honestly, not even that so much.

There’s a real sense of exhaustion setting in, as far as these leaks and the celeb picture community and even the public is concerned. It’s like, OK, fine, we get it.

No, really, it’s like we get it. Thanks.

So…….. yeah.

As far as I’m concerned, I really am looking more for the human element, now. Like, I really am more interested in the real Taylor, or the real Emma or Victoria, or whomever. Like, I’m kind of over the whole “celeb” thing, as far as these people go. Like I want to know the person, preferably IRL, and not so much the “celebrity” anymore.

I think that that’s kind of the natural progression.

See, social media has kind of destroyed that veneer of glamour and larger-than-lifeness that celebs used to have. They’re no longer mysterious, like they were even 10 years ago, let alone 20.

It’s like… now they’re just camgirls. Especially the youngest of them. They’re camgirls. They’re talented, yes, but they’re camgirls.

See, the thing is, is that these days you can plainly see how much of it is managed and controlled by others.

So… now what?

Look, about the Taylor thing- we can all see it, at this point. We get it. It’s all a show.

And I’m glad to be the ringleader of that show, but I think that that’s kind of hit it’s natural limit, so to speak. Like there’s not much more ground to be gained. Like, that’s it, you know?

So….. yeah.

Taylor, are we going to talk, or what?

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More stuff to download and deal with… Oy.

You know, I’m not gonna. Thanks but again, no thanks. I was kind of hoping for something else, you know.

Look- I am smart. Like extremely smart. We know this. And I’m sure that I could get Swifty if I was to devote some odd years of my life solely to that pursuit. But realistically, is that going to happen? I mean, with everything else that’s going on?

IDK.

Look, I get it, I do, but this isn’t something that you can really build a future with. And I know that we all know that, but still…

I do realize that many fans out there appreciate this stuff, and they should. Nice pictures are nice.

But is it really too much to ask just to have an opportunity to talk some of this stuff out with Taylor? Just to know what it is that we’re both looking for, so we don’t waste each other’s time, or anything else?

Oy. Look, I can’t use 99% of this stuff. It’s too much anyways, and I have other stuff going on right now IRL. It’s just altogether too much.

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