Airing dirty laundry: Electiongeddon 2016

Okay, I'm coming clean. I've been secretly feeding inside information to Gary Johnson in an effort to undermine Stein. BUT, I've also been feeding Stein info about Johnson, in order to undermine McAfee. Because, I'm playing the odds and running casino bets in every state over who takes which state Trump, or Clinton.

Oh, for fuck's sake, Goddamn everyone else is trying to tamper with the fucking election, I didn't want to be left out.

But - and this is important - where the fuck are Trump's tax returns? Hmm? I mean, Jesus Christ in a Wheelbarrow, we've seen every other damn piece if dirty laundry - why can't Assange, or the FBI, or the Russians, or YamaLlamaGucciDong 1.3 produce the fucking tax returns??

You thought I was kidding about McAfee, didn't you?

Happy Halloween

Musical Monday - WITCH DOCTOR by Sonic the Hedgehog

This is simply awesome. The song is silly, of course, and has been around forever (okay, since Ross Bagdasarian Sr. performed it in 1958), but the idea that ILuvKnucklesShadow spent - I'm going to guess about a hundred - hours going thru all that Sonic footage (talk about being a Sonic fanatic!) and cutting this together.  That's love for the art form ;-)

I'm familiar with Sonic the Hedgehog, of course, since he totally overran pop culture for a while. (Of course, just skimming the Wikipedia page, I realize by "familiar," I mean "there's this blue cat guy who runs really fast and has a video game, right?" Yeah, I so totally missed the phenomenon that was Sonic the Hedgehog.)

I'm not sure I ever knew there was a television show, and definitely would not have imagined the television show as Sonic in Space or that Sonic might crossover with Dragon Ball Z, you know?  

(Artist unknown. I found it on a site where it 

had already been swiped from somewhere else.)

Electiongeddon 2016

Because "Electiongeddon" totally needs to be a word, and I said it first.

I mean, what a fucking mess the US elections of 2016 are.

The GOP couldn't field any decent human beings in the primaries, and then got their entire party and platform hijacked by the biggest asshole conman in the world, who is now facing multiple criminal sexual harassment and rape charges, and well as numerous fraud charges, AND he's already announced his plans to burn down the GOP and launch a civil war if NOT named dictator-for-life.

The DNC had their own mess with an Independent hijacking their primaries in order to force their platform go the left (not even "hard left," just "left"!). And then a scandal when their emails got stolen (possibly by a foreign government) and made public and embarrassing as Hell airing the dirty laundry of inside horse-trading. And their nominee is both admired and reviled in equal parts, often by the same people.

And the entire mess has created a massive shake-up of one of the biggest infotainment outlets around - Fox News - as several of their female talking heads have bailed amid scandal of sexual harassment at Fox.

Electiongeddon 2016 has permanently damaged the already screwed up American election process. I mean, we at least used to have a veneer of civility and credulity, but from now on, fuck it all.

Sheeple

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't convince the horse the water isn't poisoned when it want's to believe...

Fill in your favorite "XYZ Are all sheeple idiots!"

It doesn't matter. We're all fucking idiots.

Yes, I really do want to know what you think

So, there's a thread, and this guy decides I'm "putting words into his mouth," (actually, I was trolling him with baited questions, because he wasn't saying much of anything, let alone anything informative).

And he remarks "Oh, no, just keep putting words in my mouth, because then you keep winning." (You can see why I was trying to bait him, right?) 

And my response was to explain that it's not about "winning," it's about knowing what other people think, even when I don't agree with them.

Yes, seriously. I'm abnormal that way. It's like a mental disorder that I like to hear what other people think. Well, as long as they can form proper sentences, anyway.

You ever burn time in an echo chamber? It sucks. A lot. I actually do want to know what other people think. Oh, if they're total assholes, or idiots, I'll say so, and probably walk away. If the ideas are really stupid, I'll say that too.

Most times, if the person can form complete sentences, and express ideas that aren't totally insane, then I'll just say "thank you."

I don't need to dominate a conversation to "win." I "win" by learning something new, and learning a new way to view things.  

I - that's me - win by growing.  

What a novel concept, right?

Hannity's true essence

Sometimes there is a quote so good, you just gotta grab it.