Have I ever said that you or anyone should vote for Trump? Have I? Of course, I haven’t. You just ASSUME, that because I am so critical of Biden, that I must be advocating for Trump. Why don’t I give equal time to criticizing Trump then, you say? The answer to that is simple; because all the media that so many of you watch has been doing that very job 24/7 - 365 days a year for four years straight! If the orange motherfucker raises an eyebrow, somebody will soon say it was Russian-controlled. You don’t need me to criticize Trump… which I could EASILY do… because that’s already packed into your head tighter than a fucking kielbasa.
I’m just trying to uncover the truth of what’s going on here for myself, so that I (and anyone who wants to follow along) can begin to let go of whatever cockamamie nonsense we have flying around in our head... so that we might BEGIN to see things as they ARE instead of as we WANT them to be.
Look, you’re going to vote or not vote for whoever you want to vote or not vote for. You can vote for a third-party person, if you like or you can just vote for local candidates and propositions… and in all of that, you are going to think it matters to the degree that you do, which I’m pretty sure is a LOT less than I believe it matters. But hey, that’s just me. What do you care how other people vote - or think? At one time, allowing others the freedom and respect to vote in private as they wanted to was a sacrosanct democratic principle. Not anymore. Now we feel it is our duty to police our friends' thoughts and opinions. How pathetic and crazy is THAT?
Trump is a complex weird character but because the news is dedicated to constantly reducing him to a threatening CARICATURE, what am I supposed to say about him except that he’s a complex weird entity playing the role of president largely no worse than any other weirdo spokesperson who has played the role before him.
The fact that so many folks have chosen NOT to believe that ol’ Joe has been on the take and for sale from the very beginning of his career is all the proof that any sane person should need, that you’re willing to accept dog shit for food. I am not, and I don’t think you should either. But you will... so fine... Iive long and prosper.
A lot of friends… especially it seems from the olden days, have come over time to see me, their old buddy Spoon, as an annoyance when I express ideas that go against their biases and their programmed hatred of this one person that four years of media has trained them so effectively to despise!
This makes it easy for you to make accusations that sound like you speaking your own mind, but are in reality mostly you repeating the thoughts that have been planted in your head by those scientifically-gifted in the arts of social engineering and mind-control. And the SAME is largely true of all Republicans and Trump supporters too, who are repeating as well what they have been programmed to think and say. (!)
All I’m suggesting is that you throw all that baggage off and think for yourself, and that starts by turning off the TV and pursuing evidence provided by truly independent sources that based on their integrity earn your trust over time… including hopefully, some selection of your “blessed” friends. But unfortunately, that takes work and trust and a lot of self-examination.
Am I not correct that those who take the most virulent Anti-Trump postures are in fact regular TV watchers of blue media channels like CNN or MSNBC? (Are there exceptions to that rule? I’d be interested to hear about that.)
Anyway, I know changing others people’s beliefs is pretty damn hopeless business - and I am not set out to do that … but this for better or for worse is MY truth an my experience of the world, and so I’m gonna put it out there- just like this...at least as long as this place remains censorship resistant, otherwise it will eventually just leave those who never go against the grain together in their own echo chambers.
This will pave the way, so that when the BIO-SECURITY STATE arrives at your front door one day, perhaps you’ll remember your old buddy Spoon, who tried to tell you that it was never about red and blue politics, but that it was always about long-term and ONE WORLD totalitarian control.
Hell, we put up with worse for decades while our government (and our various “allies”) exercised brutal and violent domination (and Libya-like destruction) over impoverished peoples in faraway countries.
As naive Americans, we just naively assumed that such brutality would NEVER show up on our doorstep… and it might NOT have, except that the TECHNOLOGY got so good and your smartphone got so easy to track, that we all in a sense gave them our CONSENT to do to us whatever they wanted to do, which they happily did. And then as the tech got better, they got bolder and then back in March, they finally said - “We’re ready! Let’s go! Let’s do this thing! Let’s shut them down, let’s crush the little people! Let’s make all the performers go home; let’s make all the artists be quiet. Let’s put everybody (including the kids) in front of screens, so we can monitor them. Let’s destroy all the mom and pop businesses... and bigger ones too. Let’s destroy whatever is not strong enough, rich enough or well-connected enough to survive!”
And they did that and they’re still doing that... and it’s working like a fucking charm… and they’ll keep doing it by way of using every trick in their arsenal… including that old favorite.. your health, safety and security in the face of a deadly pandemic or deadly climate change or deadly aliens or deadly whatever! Damn, you know, how obvious can you get… taking your directives verbatim from the Nazi era.
But, it’s working! It’s undermining people’s sense of well-being and security. It’s making them so afraid that they’ll easily turn on each other and FIXATE on things that will divide them... like race, politics, gender issues, vaccines and masks, etc. … until we feel that our very “identity” (whatever the fuck that actually might mean) is under attack, and then we’ll back whomever stands up and promises RETRIBUTION on "the others." That’s what you’ve been ultimately programmed to want... retribution against anyone who would dare to think or behave differently than you.
I know that’s not exactly how you see it… because all these steps are taken slowly and imperceptibly. That’s what it is though; it’s a very specific type of cognitive bias in favor of fascism. You know fascism, right? It’s control by AUTHORITY. It’s the functional merger of corporations and the state to assume ever greater control over your lives, and the lives of your friends, family, co-workers and communities... and then to use abusive amounts of cognitive dissonance to get you to do just as they want, to think just as they want you to think and to let them do whatever they want to you - without your criticism and even without your knowledge,
And if you dare to resist, at some point, they will come for you or they’ll shut you down or turn off your bank account or deny you access to food, travel or human company, just as they are doing now in Australia, Ireland and the U.K. (I assume they will get to the U.S. last, as we still have a lot of guns, and those other countries do not. Other reasons, I’m open to hearing.)
The LOCKDOWN would never have happened back in March if the mandarins of BIG EVERYTHING weren’t confident that they had things under control. So, every time I listen to my friends express their acceptance and support of these goofy-fuck politicians and the status quo that they are required to sell you, I know the new fascists are right. The big boys and girls are alas, almost always right, by virtue of their having ALL the money and all the media and the whole entertainment Industry, which means they can play their games however and whenever they want., for as long as they want.. and we’ll never know the difference UNLESS (and this is a very "BIG" UNLESS) we make that extra effort to look deeper, to think sharper and far more independently and to see BEHIND THE “proverbial” CURTAIN and to observe there, caught in the glaring light of discovery, the mostly anonymous shady and twisted wizards of GLOBAL CAPITAL - the Klaus Schwabs of this world!
But alas, most people will never do that. They will never see behind that curtain... because it has been made indelibly clear to them that they should not WANT to. And if there is anything sadder and more tragic than that state of affairs... I don’t know what it is.
That is the way that things are… Freedom to all beings.