Idiotsticks and Fucknozzles EVERYWHERE

Good morning (?) from my office perched between the two stadiums in Seattle. It is a Sunday, and apparently the day after an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, leading contender to be the next POTUS. Trump is alright, save for a nick in the ear, but the shooter is now a dead fuck, taking a few bullets to the face from at least one Secret Service sniper.

Frankly, I am surprised. Not at the assassination attempt, but the fact that we haven’t already had at least a few assassinations over the past couple of years. Look what went on in Mexico during their recent election cycle. Societies are breaking down. Nations only survive only with the cooperation of all the people. Everyone has to share the same common vision and goal.

This is how the United States lasted as long as it did. For the most part, we were all rowing in the same direction on this ship.

But not so much lately. We are becoming virtually balkanized, and some attempts are in place to make it a reality. We have been steadily dividing ourselves into this ‘us’ versus ‘them’ groups, where “they” are seen as an “enemy”, instead of a neighbor or ‘fellow American’.

We literally have a presidential candidate that has spent his entire political ‘career’ in an ongoing attempt to dehumanize the people he dislikes and / or disagrees with. Y’all thought he was a “plain talker” and “not afraid to call a spade a spade” when he comes up with his ‘cute’ nicknames for his opponents, real or imagined. You never realized that most of his name-calling and denigrating was mostly projection on his part. Calling a political opponent “crooked”, when he, himself has been involved in all sorts of shady, if not outright illegal activities. You can’t help but notice that Trump’s current rallies no longer involve the use of “LOCK HER UP!”. The projection became too obvious.

He’s had almost no consequences for what he says or has done. Throw enough cash at the problem, it will go away — but not without doing a shitload of damage to the system itself.

Most of our institutions operate with the cooperation and the commonality of the American citizen. If corruption is allowed to take hold in any of these institutions, the trust and support of the American citizen will fade and disappear altogether. We are seeing that happen right now.

I can’t pretend to know what was going on in the head of the twenty-year-old cunt who thought he could climb up on the roof of a concession stand and try to take out the leading Republican candidate for president. Most likely nurture over nature, because most people aren’t naturally wired to kill other people like this. I am sure that someone will categorize this as “GenZ angst” or something like that.

We could blame the media. The media has spent the best part of the past twenty years or so dividing us. Opinions and facts are often interchanged and most people can’t tell the difference. They get their heads filled up with bullshit and eventually we end up with twats like our now-newly-dead-and-stinking assassin. A failed one at that.

My Echo Dot was on fire yesterday afternoon with all of its ‘notifications’ it wanted to share with me about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. “Breaking news” was going on all over the place. Reddit is probably off-the-fucking-hook right now. I just don’t want to look.

“I don’t want to know,” and “I don’t want to look,” has become my new slogan. I don’t really want to know anymore. I have a sudden desire to be “uninformed” about any of this crap. I need some bliss in my life and I’m not going to get it if I continue to be ‘informed’ about the goings on in the world.

I’m glad that Trump didn’t get killed. Nobody needs Trump — or anyone else — as a martyr. I really don’t need to see his mug on a coin or a bill, as we’ve done for a couple of our assassinated POTUSes. (or is it POTUSI?)

Well, I’ve got my Asset Tracking Base to work on, and the code isn’t going to write itself. If I tire of that, I can always watch some more videos on the Billy the Kid controversy (my newest infatuation). It beats rotting my mind out watching cable news.

I’ll leave you this morning with a couple of memes and a video.