I Unplugged and You Should Too

[Mdhorn 5935]

17 hours ago, softlynow said:

If it comes to armed resistance, as you imply, and I’m somehow a combatant, we’re looking at a Man in the High Castle type scenario. Sure, if it comes to a real civil war / rebellion, I guess it’s possible I’m in the shit. 

But there will be no real rebellion. We are not those people anymore. We are fat, lazy, entitled, and awash in distraction. Maybe there will be the odd freedom fighter cells, and IRA type bombings here and there.

So, no, I’m not dying along with just a few dozen others in a futile attempt to otherthrow the Trump Dynasty. 

Was thinking about this the other day.  The low info voter probably does a lot of things wrong in their life, more than just letting their mental health go.  We're no longer a fighting society that swarms when our freedoms are infringed on.  We talk the talk and will try and "buy" our way out of a threat, but who are we fooling?  We're so heavily medicated meds are in our tap water.  Obesity is a thing that this country massively fights with every fashionable dietary slimming pill guaranteed (without FDA approval) to lose the weight.  Americans aren't lumbering anywhere.  The military, however, is quickly becoming a smaller, stealthier, sleeker, remote controlled death by air assassin that the general populace will never feel, see or hear.  While thinking we need to shine the old tool of war to water the tree of liberty with someone else's blood, we simply one moment won't exist.   

Edited 4 hours ago by Mdhorn

[Mdhorn 5935]

42 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The Capitol in Austin is similar. I know people who had decades-long careers lobbying, problem solving, etc…and they have bailed and are bailing. Because the environment is so toxic, unproductive, and flat-out mean. They can’t even get a meeting or a sympathetic ear, on the real everyday issues and solutions that government traditionally addressed. And then when you do get a meeting…the legislator and the staffer are not smart.

Bought stooges, including SCOTUS members, that only represent the interests of their rich payer.  They aren't the class council, honor society, or clown types, and they'e especially not free thinkers.  They're the drop out and join a cult types that found their paydays as paid programming sacks of flesh, government installees.      

[Bateshorn 9914]

1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

 

I did this a few years ago and am much better for it.  Like Bates but to a lesser degree, I have to follow the business news for my job.  (CNBC, WSJ, etc.). I really only pay attention during elections and that’s more so because I just can’t quit it.  I know that when I’m not following it, I’m in a happier place.

Arthur Brooks wrote something a few months ago about how Capitol Hill has become a profoundly unhappy place and I’m curious on Bates’ perspective on that.

The staff are mostly miserable.  It’s easy to rant and rave about draining the swamp and tearing shit down, but it’s actually a complex and difficult thing to run the world’s largest economy/military/bureacracy. 
 

It’s like running an air craft carrier with a crazy half drunk person in the captains chair (and I don’t mean Trump).  There’s a lot of cogs in the machine between there and the propeller shaft, in a human sense and you want them to do their job right so the crazy drunk captain gets what they ordered. It’s exhausting and hard and the pay is not great. 

[Bateshorn 9914]

57 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:

Was thinking about this the other day.  The low info voter probably does a lot of things wrong in their life, more than just letting their mental health go.  We're no longer a fighting society that swarms when our freedoms are infringed on.  We talk the talk and will try and "buy" our way out of a threat, but who are we fooling?  We're so heavily medicated meds are in our tap water.  Obesity is a thing that this country massively fights with every fashionable dietary slimming pill guaranteed (without FDA approval) to lose the weight.  Americans aren't lumbering anywhere.  The military, however, is quickly becoming a smaller, stealthier, sleeker, remote controlled death by air assassin that the general populace will never feel, see or hear.  While thinking we need to shine the old tool of war to water the tree of liberty with someone else's blood, we simply one moment won't exist.   

Was it Jim Jefferies who pointed out the absurdity of an AR-15 protecting you from the government: you are bringing a gun to a drone fight.

[Old Freak Nasty 821]

We should all take the time we need to process this result.  But it should be measured in months and not years.  We have to stay informed and engaged.

I haven't been on socials in many many years and all of my interactions have been with Trump voting people in person (and some phone banking in the last several months) or reading political news.  And even still I'm going to unplug at least until a few months into the next administration.

But I will be back, no matter where I physically am.  I'm not giving up on America.

[Biff Tannen 45577]

1 hour ago, Bateshorn said:

The staff are mostly miserable.  It’s easy to rant and rave about draining the swamp and tearing shit down, but it’s actually a complex and difficult thing to run the world’s largest economy/military/bureacracy. 
 

It’s like running an air craft carrier with a crazy half drunk person in the captains chair (and I don’t mean Trump).  There’s a lot of cogs in the machine between there and the propeller shaft, in a human sense and you want them to do their job right so the crazy drunk captain gets what they ordered. It’s exhausting and hard and the pay is not great. 

Sounds exactly like working for a global corporation. 

[InkaUtexas 25608]

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

The Capitol in Austin is similar. I know people who had decades-long careers lobbying, problem solving, etc…and they have bailed and are bailing. Because the environment is so toxic, unproductive, and flat-out mean. They can’t even get a meeting or a sympathetic ear, on the real everyday issues and solutions that government traditionally addressed. And then when you do get a meeting…the legislator and the staffer are not smart.

It is real shitty to work in. That is one reason I posted the award in the Cuba thread. It pissed me off. That is not how are system is designed to work at all. I researched the company and they have no experience I can find. No website, nothing. Spoke with a buddy living in Ecuador and he confirmed there are generator companies all over the place. But nope, some unknown mo-fo got the bid.

And folks, that level of corruption is all over the place right here in Texas. When you hear the words emergency coming from a high level government agency they have already solved it and probably some asshole is about to make some money.

I see government corruption daily and when it gets to me I head out to the garden. But I won't unplug.