Up to now, the incompetence has met with loss of money, inconvenience and quite a bit of fear and uncertainty.

The longer this incompetence lasts, especially now that hurricane season is about to start … expect this government incompetence to start costing lives … lots of lives. Not just from the immediate consequences of serious natural events happening but from the lack of or delayed or mismanaged actions that will happen when relief and rescue efforts will be required to saved lives.

Everyone shrugs off the stupidity right now because it isn’t hurting or killing people … that’s going to change in the next few months and expect the US to start getting severely damaged and destroyed, with no help or adequate recovery in sight.

Are you governing a country by chance?

That’s the thing and something I’ve noticed for many years and in meeting many Americans.

The majority of Americans I’ve met in person were good wholesome people and most of the time I couldn’t tell the difference if they were American or Canadian (unless they had a strong accent from the American south).

It’s when you start talking about politics or religion that things seem to fall apart. There’s a strong Christian ‘identity’, it’s certainly not religious … cult like but not religious.

But in the mix are good natured people with good natured ideas of politics and inclusion … but the loudest most obnoxious ones always seem to win out.

I’ve done my best to not paint all Americans as selfish, ignorant, self absorbed, hateful individuals … but in light of everything that is coming out of the US government, which should represent the ideas and attitudes of a country … it is getting harder and harder to like America or Americans.

Why? You look good to me. I’m a guy and straight but the moment I saw your post and your picture, I didn’t see anything unusual except a handsome young man.

Don’t sweat it, it looks good on you and to someone new who sees you the first time, they would never notice.

When you start showing confidence in yourself, no one will ever see the lines anywhere on you.

The biggest problem here is your perception of yourself. You look good man, be proud of it.

Everyone likes to laugh at Turnip and Muskrat for being, talking and acting like idiots … which they are … but enough of a country voted to have this clown in office, who then selected this unelected monkey to run their country.

Who’s the idiot in this scenario? The idiot doing idiot things … or the people who made it all possible and allowed the idiots to gain power?

It’s going to take a lifetime for me to look at an American as anything ressembling intelligence.

Nothing like meth to make you think that invading Russia was a good idea

The best part to all this is their belief in an afterlife in heaven where you never have to worry about your health, your food or your shelter ever again … an absolute communist hell hole.

They deny any humanity in this life because they believe in a humanity that will never happen in an after life.

a. W

b. T

c. F

His face is like a taco … orange/yellow sides and shit comes out of the middle when you squeeze it

It’s a method of normalization.

You keep pushing the message … false, lie, exaggeration, rumor, suggestion, whatever

Keep repeating and pushing the idea of immigrant terrorists and everyone will talk about it.

Until at one point everyone will believe it.

“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, is a law of propaganda attributed to the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.

“Just because you got the monkey off your back … it doesn’t mean the circus has left town”

• George Carlin

… of all the times for someone like George Carlin to leave us alone in this dumb fucked up world … God I wish he were here.

The biggest surprise for me is in how America just stands by and says nothing about it

If Biden had been up there saying that about a political opponent … it would make headlines all over the world.

Trump does it and his behaviour is so normalized that everyone just shrugs their shoulders and moves on.

These idiots in positions of power saying and doing whatever they want aren’t the problem … it’s everyone else who just accept it all.

I do watch and listen to a lot of Chomsky … but the guy has so much content, you’d have to relive his entire life to hear everything he said and read everything he ever wrote. The man is amazing. I just wish he were a lot younger than he is.

The common denominator to all these scenarios are the wealthy owner corporate class that discreetly shovel money towards the ones they want to win.

Thanks for that … now I have credible references to attribute this thought.

I knew it wasn’t smart enough to think this, it’s just haven’t read enough to know or see where others have said it before.

I’ve been saying it for the past two US election cycles … the US is a one party state with two different organizations representing just one political party.

The Chinese have the Chinese Communist Party

Russia has a ruling class of Oligarchs

The US has the Republican/Democrat Party

All three operate in the same way

Wow … that is impressive

Not only did they have to watch a lot of Star Trek but each episode would probably be analyzed, catalogued, noted, researched and screenshot for hours or days

We’ve all normalized that he is the leader of the US and represents all of America … whether America likes that or not no longer matters.

The fact that he is there doesn’t go to show how unhinged he is …

… it goes to show how unhinged we all are.

I thought they just wanted to Zig-a-zig ha

A nice campfire next to a lake in the woods with no one around.

I haven’t been able to do that in over a year and sometimes I feel like I’m going insane because I haven’t done this for so long.