It was a small smouldering fire on the kitchen stove before Trump … now the entire kitchen is on fire … but everyone is sitting in the living room trying to ignore the smoke that’s filling up the rest of the house.

When you negotiate with lying egomaniacal assholes who never say the same thing twice … what do you expect is going to happen?

I had an old friend years ago who worked in a paper mill. He had been there for over 30 years in all kinds of positions and at the time he was on the verge of becoming a manager with a desk job and big responsibilities. We told him to avoid the management job and to just stick to whatever he was doing until retirement which wasn’t that far away from him at the time. Management would have meant more pay, more perks, more money … but also more responsibility and more opportunities for people to blame him if anything went wrong. Besides, he was making a ton of money in the position he had at the time. We all told him to just stay where he was and he did. He was fine, he had enough money, he had enough responsibilities and he was in a great team of people he had known all his life and he was a senior level worker that everyone looked up to anyway. Within five years of making that decision, he was diagnosed with cancer and he died shortly after. But during all that time, he was happy at work, made a fortune for his family and he got to spend his free time with his family and friends. If he had taken the management job, he would have gone through tons of stress, and probably been blamed for a dozen things and a high likelihood he would have been fired and lost his benefits. It was a company tactic to place long term workers in management positions, give them too much responsibility, and get the excuse to fire them so that the company wouldn’t have to pay into an expensive retirement package. It was a high risk position.

Moral of the story is … if you get to place in life where you get to have some measure of control and you are comfortable … stick with it because it might not get any better than that.

Does that mean there is a data copy somewhere where we can … um … review the footage?

OH GREAT! … we made it to the surface … now you want to back into orbit again!

That monk has seen some shit

This is all part of the circus show

mess up the reflecting pool - mess up the white house - add a boxing ring on the whitehouse lawn - turn it all into a trailer trash nightmare

All to distract the neighbours and police from the meth lab they’ve been building in the basement

(*the meth lab being the absolute robbery of the public purse in America)

Almost made it years ago … I’m a recovered alcoholic and one of my recovery options was to be admitted into a facility but I wasn’t that far gone yet so I was able to go through lighter treatment services and go through the 12 step program instead … that was over 30 years ago and these days I feel like I’m edging towards losing my sanity again every day.

I only made the comparison of social media to a mental hospital because just about every day I see more and more deluded realities than ever before. At one end, I have my younger relatives (under 30 years of age) living some kind of weird online life that they try to emulate like a k-pop reality show, a soap opera or a comedy show with a laugh track (meanwhile their real life situation is anything but) … and at the other end, I have older relatives (over 50 years of age) who only ever want to be angry, afraid or semi or fully racist or fascist (when in real life their lives are good peaceful and they would never be openly racist or fascist, or show any support for it!). People keep telling me that maybe it’s just the quality of people I am around … but I look into other social media feeds with family who live in the cities down south, the rural areas, the northern remote areas or the busy suburban areas and its almost all universally the same. And I know a variety of people … poor trailer trash types, northern poor people, native families living on reserves … as well as middle class white people living in cities, upwardly mobile professionals, teachers, office workers, government workers, a few medical doctors and nurses and even a couple of millionaires who live in the city.

I should also clarify that these observations are all about corporately owned social media … and yes I know that they are heavily influenced and managed to be like this … but still, it feels so overwhelming that at one point, it does feel like being trapped in some kind of institution. Sure I can leave but all or most of my family and friends are in there. Most of the people I know are not technically savvy or interested and they just prefer being on FB, IG or TikTok or even X … and whenever I do see them there, I feel like I’m visiting the FB Ward or the TikTok Ward of a giant facility full of deluded people.

The stupidity is not that Trump wants to do this

The stupidity is that behaviour like this has been normalized by the American public and American leadership

They’re all taking steps to degrading and destroying themselves and no one ever wants to do much to stop it.

The thinking, mentality and emotions about all this are normal … I know, because I’m getting to the age and experience in life that I feel this way too sometimes …

… the part that is not normal is that many of these people choose not to be polite, considerate, accommodating, compassionate, empathetic or kind and keep these thoughts and ideas to themselves.

Think about it … if I applied every idea or thought that you thought was a good idea, it would satisfy a good percentage of everyone, but it would not be suitable for everyone. The same thing applies to everyone else’s ideas or thoughts. None of our individual ideas will ever perfectly mesh with everyone in society … we all have to learn to accept and live with the idea that we all have to live within certain limits and learn to accommodate others around us and hope that they do the same for us.

We all have to compromise a little bit for one another and that way, we all get to live in a little bit of peace … because due to human nature and our ever expanding ability to screw with one another in ever more creative ways, it’s the best we can hope for.

Perhaps the first step towards any kind of sanity in all this is in first understanding that this is how we all are.

says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

… which means, it already happened a year or two ago and it is much, much worse than anyone can imagine

Trump making an announcement?

The only idiot in this equation are the people that actually think anything he says means anything

Past a certain age, you can’t tell if someone is rage baiting or just fed up with life

Also doesn’t say what kinds of cancer. In those same time periods, lots of chemicals and substances have been introduced while CRT TVs disappeared. We might not have cancer causing rays from our TVs anymore, but we’re eating more cancerous materials, in, on or around our food everywhere … not to mention surrounding ourselves with plastics, chemicals and substances while closing ourselves inside perfectly sealed homes that trap everything inside for us to breathe and ingest.

We’re basically the Romans from a thousand years ago who installed lead in everything everywhere and basically poisoned themselves. We call them stupid for not knowing that … we’re doing the same thing to ourselves now with a thousand other chemicals.

The wheel is also fixed … there’s a giant lead weight on the opposite side of ‘peace’, which means it will never land there

Yeah it isn’t much of a secret to anyone any more … anyone who is looking at it from outside anyway.

It’s like watching a used car salesman stealing money, bank cards and credits cards out of the pockets of a disabled quadriplegic sitting in their chair and no one wants to do anything about it. The salesman also keeps going back to the disabled quadriplegic to forge his signature, thumb print and photo to get bank loans and mortgages … and all the while, the bank knows about it, the companies know about it, the neighbours know about it, the police know about it but none of them want to do anything about it all.

The same meter is used for every decision …

• show gay pride flag
• show pink ribbon
• show black ribbon
• pizza party Friday
• use more AI
• throw children in boiling oil
• use more solar
• use more green energy
• supporting Nazism
• replace lead paint in offices
• raise worker pay
• apply more OSHA regulations and keep workers safe
• destroy all life everywhere
• bean bag chairs
• ping pong tables in workplace

… and depending on whether or not anything will throw the meter to Maximum profit or Maximum loss, the company, the CEO and the board will get behind anything, as long as it means more money for them.

The second coming of Christ could arrive tomorrow and if supporting Satan to battle against the Son of God meant more profit for the company, the company would throw all their support behind the Dark Prince and they would all hail Satan, regardless of how Christian they might have been beforehand!

Everyone’s riding the train and they’re all just hoping that today won’t be the day that their car will ride off the tracks … but they all have a sneaking suspicion that it’s going to happen soon … but hope it won’t.

America pushing people aside and running to the front: … HOLD MY BEER!