I shouldn’t have to say it, but I’m gonna.
I haven’t been around these parts for long minute because I’m an active, professionally working senior and damn proud of it.
I actually still have a career and will be winding it down in a few years.
I feel bless and fortunate to be in good mental and physical health to do so and I look to folk like President Biden as an example of tapping deep and long experience to do the job needed.
In a way, he’s a lot like me and I’m a lot like him. Would my place of business fall apart if I retired tomorrow? No, but one would need a lot of money and resources to immediately replace the institutional knowledge that would walk out the door.
I’m kinda sick of the ageism here and everywhere. The utter lack of respect for elders is disturbing. People who put in the time and service, people who are the links to historical information are generally treated as throw away people once they reach a certain age. The health care sucks, SS sucks, paying taxes until you die after retirement sucks, fixed income sucks — no wonder I haven’t retired yet.
Cut Biden a break, okay? Because technically he really didn’t have to sign up for this job. If you recall the first 2020 debates, Biden was just as checked out. Harris and others creamed him. He was my pick all along, even over Harris for one major reason — he could beat the idiot. I just needed to know if he wanted the job. I think he wasn’t totally sure of it himself until South Carolina. Once he was in — he was ALL IN.
Furthermore, he had more experience than all others combined and during his first term, it showed as he has had to govern this joint with one hand tied behind his back in the form of idiot Republicans who now only run for office to grift and not to serve.
I shouldn’t have to state the obvious, but for the one zillionist time:
- We have only one functional party in this country. The Democrats. That’s it. That’s all we got right now. The Republicans have totally capitulated its’ values, its’ platform and its’ purpose in life to money grabbing millionaire/billionaire oligarchs and their handpicked puppets.
- We have well-funded, rightwing extremist think tanks who want to permanently make the United States into an apartheid of money and class — the .1% has all of the money, power and privilege to do whatever they want to do, including commit murder on Park Ave., and they want the have the right to get away with it — but the 99.9% of the rest of us? That would be a no and ‘go straight to jail, don’t collect $200’ with that.
- The balance of power between the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches of Government is off — way off. Let’s dust off some government history books if you don’t remember how this is supposed to work here. Currently we have a Heritage Foundation/Koch Bro funded Supreme Court who is imposing its will on the other two branches of government in a straight up power grab for the oligarchs. A Supreme Court who is wholly unethical and don’t GAF who knows that they are.
- The Corporation Mainstream Media is run by conservative to RW/MAGA type executives — it was NEVER A LIBERAL MEDIA. CBS and CNN flat out admitted that the most money they ever made was when the idiot was running for office and when he was in office. The science of pure journalism is non-existent. With the heavy assist of social media, mainstream media is a cesspool of talking heads trying to make a name for themselves while attempting to gaslight the rest of us that it ani’t they job to fact check. Never mind that they have 1st Amendment rights to do just that — it’s more profitable to support a narrative of fear, anger and loathing so that they can laugh at the masses all the way to the bank.
- Many elected and appointed government officials have been compromised by foreign actors. We forget that there are many countries who would love nothing more than for the United States to crash and burn. This method has proven to be far more effective than a nuke.
I acknowledge with a full throat that torches need to be passed to the younger generations. Such is the change in life that comes as we move into the elder’s position. And the younger generation’s time will come all very soon.
But let’s get real people.
Our government’s structure is state of disrepair. I won’t say it’s broken yet, but damn — the cracks are starting to show large.
Our system has worked — not because of onerous laws and regulations (surprisingly enough), but because we all have agreed up to this point to the process of peaceful enforcement and transition of power.
Those days are numbered and all but gone now.
We can’t trust Presidents just to do the right thing.
We can’t trust Congress just to legislate the right way.
We damn sho’ can’t trust the Supremes to remotely prescribe to the Constitution.
Solution: We have to now elect people who can legislate to fix a lot of these cracks. That starts by re-electing Biden AND giving him sizeable majorities in the House and Senate to rebalance the 3 branches of government. They have to enact laws to ensure our voting rights, our civil rights, rights to our bodies and the right to marry who TF we want. We have to enact laws to actually deal with climate change and allow the government agencies the right to provide the regulatory details because the Executive Branch hires the damn experts — they are your civil service government employees who actually know how government is supposed to work.
So. Do me a favor. Cut Biden some slack. Not to go all ethereal here, but I believe that Biden is the POTUS at this very moment in time for reason. We may not understand it now, but when history is written for this time, it will all be very clear.
What is going on right now is a distraction designed to discourage and cause chaos and descension. Chaos agents wouldn’t be doing this if their path to victory was clear and certain. The fact is that they have no path to victory. NONE. NONE. NONE. They only way they can win is for our side to fffing give up. That is why they are doing this.
So again, I ask, why do we keep doing this? Why in the devil do we keep falling for this okie dokie shyt? WHY?
Why is it that our side is wasting breath on trying to be all intellectual and political when that is not what the other side is doing? They.don’t.care.about.your.intellect.or.your.politics. They only care about destroying you by any means necessary — be it right or wrong, legal or illegal, moral or immoral, ethical or non-ethical.
Stop feeding them and the media who supports them. Just get out and vote and take everyone with you. That is all you need to do.
/rant over. Thank you for joining my TED talk today.