RANDOM THOUGHTS

From my obsessive depressive mind

I used to be a very big fan of Jon Stewart.  I used to think he was our modern day Mark Twain.  But I realized quite awhile ago that Stewart actually peaked 9 years ago.  His Comedy Central show was the best he was capable of.  He's decided to join the "dark side" establishment and has had little to say about the downhill slide of our country over the last four years, anxious to stay on the "good boy" side of the establishment.  His performance on the late night court jester site of his friend, Steven Colbert, in which he accidentally told some truths was quickly destroyed by his desperate backtracking.

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I don't think Tucker Carlson is such a great interviewer, but what he does do, unlike so many others, is give a voice to so many who are censored by the establishment which claims to be protecting us from the onerous chore of deciding what we believe to be true by doing what they can to prevent us from hearing anything other than government propaganda. What really has me confused is this First Amendment thing, that only the government is subject to abide by it. Julian Assange isn’t even a citizen, yet is subject to the made-up laws of the United States. So how come if you’re private enterprise in the U.S., you are not subject to follow the law because you’re not the government? Who doesn’t remember the case getting to the Extreme Court in which a small owner baker was sued because she didn’t want to bake a cake for a gay couple. Personally, I think that’s wrong, but would I want to patronize a store that discriminated against me? Especially one selling food items that they’re making. Haven’t they seen “The Help”? However, if a baker is subject to federal laws how do we decide that it’s okay for gigantic internet corporations with massive influence are free to censor, are free to ignore our First Amendment?

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When I was 14 I had a high school economics class - and yes, I’m so old we were taught economics and civics in school instead of faith-based science, reality is whatever you say it is and, most importantly, obedience to authority. The teacher was what would be called a knee-jerk liberal. But what I really learned from that class was a belief that capitalism was a system that was based on parasitism. I became a socialist and for many years believed it would benefit the majority of people far better than capitalism. Then perhaps ten years or more ago, I started to feel that socialism would not work until we also were freed from a patriarchal mindset. And perhaps to take a closer look at those who seek to be leaders, are they really the best capable of leadership?

Do we really need leaders at all? Seems to me as long as we possess a patriarchal mindset, we will have leaders who either start as, or degenerate into authoritarians. The DSM is put together by a group of overprivileged members and defenders of the establishment. They have never established the putative mental health of either money hoarders or the majority of those who seek leadership positions in our society. This needs to be done but it will never be addressed by the same caste (sic) of characters as those who label opposition to an unjust authority as a mental health disorder. So I then decided to consider myself a matriarchal anarchist.

But then covid happened and once more I didn’t know how to “label” myself. I found myself more in agreement with right wing Christians than anyone else (except for their stance on abortion and religion). The so-called Socialist group I supported were all donning masks and standing apart from each other. And that was after noting that at our meetings, I was usually the only woman who even spoke and noted how I was listened to politely, then the men returned to the male-dominated meeting without comment. I found myself more in agreement with right-wing Christian conservatives (except for the Jesus part also). I was in agreement with them on covid, on vaccination in general and the jab in particular. I was also in agreement with them on the newspeak rationalizations for illegal censorship. Can we ally ourselves only with those in 100% agreement with our own belief system or is it possible to ally with others based on a common enemy - and then fight or compromise later after eliminating our common enemy?

Many on the genuine left disagree that there can be any common ground. Be that as it may, I found that many of those news sources who I most trusted to be honest had been reporters for Fox or even CNN. I was dismayed at the death of the irreplaceable John Pilger. His death on New Year’s Eve was especially stressful. I may not believe in Jesus, but I definitely believe in omens and this was not a good one.

I’ve discovered how intolerant many who call themselves “leftist” really can be. I used to sneak-listen to Alex Jones, ashamed because I had been informed by those who never listened to him that he was a racist. I never listened to him on a regular basis, but never heard him say anything that could be construed as racist - which doesn’t mean he isn’t, I know. But the name of his show “Prison Planet”, that was enough to draw me in. And I listen to Tucker Carlson, also called a racist by those who’ve never listened to him. I find him passionate, strange and, for me, believable. I started listening to him even before he was fired by Fox News. It’s made me wonder: Have I become a right-wing conservative in my old age? I know I haven’t become a Christian, the closest I come to having a religion is Astrology which I have studied and practiced for 60 years. I folowed the science and it led me straight to Astrology. I’m not even sure what conservative means as others have informed me that conservative means white racist and right-wing/left-wing seem to have lost their meaning as well. Democrats are now being called “leftist”. Except, for me, fascist seems like a more apt label for this cabal.

Right-wing reporters are saying they are fighting against left-wing fascism. So confusing, but I think I still like matriarchal anarchist better, but perhaps I’ll just call myself a Dorianist (that’s my name) and stop fretting about agreeing with others or they with me. Seems best since no one agrees with anyone 100% and apparently if you’re not 100% there’s no common ground unless you’re a member of the World Enslaving Fuhrers brigade. They’re in agreement: divide and conquer.

So back to Tucker Carlson once again. What he did was give a human face to both Putin and Russia at a time the insane among us, who have way too much power, which means any at all, are itching to start a nuclear war.  As far as Navalny, from what I hear from the uncensored press, Navalny was a white nationalist, a racist.  Doesn't mean he deserved to die, but there is zero proof that we was even murdered.  Our state-owned media along with Biden, the puppet currently assigned to the role of president, claim that Putin ordered a hit on Navalny. They figured this out because they know that’s exactly what our government would (has) done under similar circumstances. Despite the lack of proof, it doesn’t mean that wasn’t what happened. He was a dissident, someone who claimed the Russian government was corrupt and their leaders lived like royalty while the people struggled. Sounds all too familiar to me and I’ve never even been to Russia.

Maybe the Christian Conservatives are rubbing off on me but I’m thinking maybe instead of worrying about the mote in Russia’s eye, we work on the massive beams in our own eyes, blinding us to our own governmental criminality, to what is being done in our name. We need to be looking at those we imprison for telling the truth, such as Julian Assange, despite not being American, the U.S. feels it has the right to hold him accountable to our censorious laws.  And of course there’s Snowden, forced to live in exile - in Russia of all places - for the ultimate and most unforgiveable sin of truth telling in Amerika. Why do I have the feeling that if we were to compare our political prisoner list to Russia’s, we’d have another #1 to boast of along with the worst and most expensive health care in the western world, the most unarmed citizens murdered by police and the highest mortality rate in the west for mothers and newborns.

And how many political voices have been silenced by being framed for crimes there is no proof they ever committed? I believe Leonard Peltier has been in prison for close to 50 years. Mumia Abu Jamal, a journalist and political activist connected to the Black Panthers, in prison for over 40 years for a questionable crime. Another Native leader whose name currently escapes me, gaining too much power with his tribe, was set up as a child molester of his two grandsons who he and his wife were raising. The children were very young, given lots of candy while being questioned/manipulated - take your pick. They were talked into testifying against their grandfather despite lack of any corroborating evidence. When they were older, they recanted their testimony and reported on how they had been, ages around 4 and 5, manipulated to testify as the authorities wanted. The grandfather was never granted a new trial, and even when he was dying of cancer, he was denied parole. And of course it would take forever to list the number of those murdered by the government, so many Black Panther members, including the assassination of 21 year old Fred Hampton, awakened from sleep and shot to death. Lumumba, Che Guevara, Gadaffi, Saddam Hussein and of course the assassinations of both Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., JFK, RFK,John Lennon all by government actors. Not to mention those murdered for their discoveries of cheaper, better, healthier ways to do many things that the raptor class had a strong financial interest in keeping expensive and with worse outcomes.

When I hear people I love clearly erase the crimes committed by our government and instead censure Russia and Putin as an “evil dictator”, it’s hard for me to remain silent, to accept such comic book thinking from people I know to be otherwise intelligent, loving and caring people. I find it ironic that they condemn Putin for the crime of defending Russian borders while our own president shows his contempt for the American people with his own border issue, justifying not protecting our borders. Or is guilt an issue here? Are they seeking to return the one-third of the U.S. that was stolen from Mexico back to Mexico? Probably not. I hear psychopaths generally sleep very well. Whether or not Putin is an evil dictator I wouldn’t know. I do know, however, that you don’t need insurance to see a doctor in Russia. Health care is free. I suppose that’s another item on the “why we hate Russia” list carried by all good establishment pols.

Living in a country that has been using propaganda to control and manipulate its residents (hardly citizens) for decades, makes it very difficult to discern what is and isn’t true. So I use the sparse facts available to me. The U.S. has been fluoridating American drinking water since 1945, one of only two countries with a massive program to do so. It was started in the early 1940’s by nazi Germany, fluoridating the water in their pharma-created concentration camps in order to create a docile population.

The Third Reich was heavily supported, perhaps even created, by American industrialists, many of their descendants proud members of the unelected, contemptible and conspiratorial WEF. Fluoride is a toxin, adding it to a population’s water supply in basically using that population as a free toxic waste dump. It is known to create passivity as well as to lower the IQ. The current average IQ in the U.S. is below average, around 98. Of course if I were to refer to this issue as a very obvious conspiracy by the rich against the working class, well, that would make me an aluminum-hat wearing conspiracy theorist. At least that’s what the propaganda tells us. Although the Nuremberg Code states quite clearly that medicalizing procedures against human beings without their knowledge or permission is the dictionary definition of unethical. Hear that jabbers? To make it even worse, if that’s possible, they are now saying they will be adding this mRNA “vaccine” to our food. Are we meant to take vaccines on a daily basis? Just because it hardly works to prevent covid doesn’t mean it has no negative (not)side effects up to and including death.

So we know that the vast majority of countries do not use their population as a toxic waste dump. And that includes Russia. What else? Well how about health care. The U.S. uses its children as human pincushions for a variety of mostly useless, possibly/probably harmful shots. I noted an article this morning citing the limited lifespan of the measles vaccine. Although it is public knowledge that measles was already disappearing when the vaccine was created, Big Pharma still takes credit. Being an old person who had measles as well as every other childhood disease, somehow my immunity to these diseases has continued to be “safe and effective” for over 70 years.

I was unable to find information about the Russian vaccine schedule and I’m under the impression it isn’t too different from our own although I could be wrong- misinformed, malinformed, anti-informed, just not transformed. Since Putin took office, the average lifespan has increased and infant mortality has gone down from 18 to 1 to its current 8 to 1. They do have paid maternity leave, 70 days prior (how would you precisely know?) and 70 days following the birth. Sounds pretty unimpressive until compared to the U.S. which is the only country in the west which provides zero paid parental leave. Russian fathers do not get paid parental leave. Apparently Russian fathers are as tough as American mothers.

I wanted to say something about Jacinda Ardern but couldn’t remember her name so I duckduckgoe’d “evil dictators”. Amazingly all the evil dictators they had images of were men which does not surprise me. Men do seem to have a superior record of evil dictatorship: Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Papa Doc, Idi Amin, Biden. I didn’t even see a picture of Putin. And no, they didn’t really broadcast Biden’s record as an evil dictator. I think we’re not allowed to use that term for American politicians unless they’re working diligently for the working class, or their name has the letters Donald Trump in it.

After considering the information available, it is my opinion that Putin loses his Evil Dictator du Jour title to Jacinda Ardern. The pictures I saw of Russians lined up to get the shot showed them packed in closely. The jabs were reserved for those most at risk for whatever it really is, not advised for those who had whatever it was or were pregnant. And definitely not mandatory.

For an evil dictator, I have to say Putin is a major disappointment. Homosexuality was decriminalized in 1993 but homophobia is alive and well and “propaganda” promoting homosexuality is a criminal offense punishable by a fine and a possible prison sentence of up to ten years. Abortion was legalized in 1920, made illegal again under Stalin, one of the top evil dictators on wikipedia’s list, and legalized once again upon the death of Stalin in 1956 (I believe it was).

My favorite evil dictator has to be Moamar Gadaffi. He was so vile, he forced the people to move out of their tents and into the new housing he dictated be built for them. Unlike the blessed U.S. which can’t move people from their homes into tents fast enough to please the hedgefunders buying up all the housing. If that wasn’t bad enough, he also provided free health care which meant people were more likely to see doctors. I’m assuming his evil plan was for people to trust doctors instead of their own instinctive yet infallible understanding of healing themselves. And worst of all, free education. Encouraging the prolonged stress of forcing endless information into your head instead of resting your tired brain watching whatever the Libyan version of The View is (was). The Libyan people have been blessedly freed from all that by the Obama-Clinton Do-Gooder Brigade. I’m sure one day they’ll both be nominated for sainthood.

But if Putin wants to keep his hard-won title of Evil Dictator du Jour, he’ll just have to step it up. He needs lessons in evil dictatorship. May I humbly nominate Joe Biden for the job?