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Republi-DUMBS, the Repugnant Party

During my years working for democracy and to make democracy work in Florida, New York, and the land I love called the United States of America / WE THE PEOPLE, I have often had, out of right field Republicans make some kind of derogatory remarks about Democrats, black folk, immigrants, LGBT+, Jews, and various ethnic groups. I have commonly just sat by and smiled and laughed without being contentious in return. MOST of the time I have done that.

Sometimes I have stood up for the groups of people being denounced. But nobody likes to get into a contentious argument, do they? And I believe the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) just loves to be hostile and openly hostile with no provocation. They are bullies who wish to see how far then can go as bullies. I have also experienced that with bullies who love to bully the gay or “sissies” or “nancies” of the world like me. I have had to take it on the chin.

After all, I witnessed such taunting of black folk in upstate New York after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. Out of the blue, white bastards would taunt black folk. I found it disgusting as a kid. I find it disgusting today.

In Florida, I worked with Democrats who did not give handouts to me with welfare or what not, but respected me enough to recognize my skills and talents enough to lead me on a path towards opportunities for employment. They did not just hand me a job. I earned the respect for jobs.

Originally (1983), when I moved from Upstate New York to Florida, I was living in the only Republican county in Florida: Pinellas County. I was registered as a Republican in New York. I was living during the time when Ronald Wilson Reagan (666) split the Republican Party from one of moderation with Gerald Ford to one of far right ideas and fascist attitudes of “my way or the highway.” Reagan began to weave a fascist dictatorship into the mixture while being a hypocrite in his opposition to the Soviet Union. He was not willing to work with others who disagreed with him and would denounce such people here in OUR nation made up of a community where consensus and compromise were necessary to solver America’s problems together and do so by recognizing how we all fit together. One example, for sure, was his opposition to R&D to solve this new thing (at the time) called AIDS. There were other examples in which he favored Jerry Fallwell and the disgusting group I shall title the “Christian Nationalists” at Liberty Road Baptist Church so as to begin to curtail freedom of religion in favor of a “nationalist” religion made up of hypocrites who were not familiar with the true Jesus Christ. The Republicans in Pinellas County at that time were still connected to the more moderate wing of the Republican Party and disliked Ronald Reagan for splitting up the party during the decade preceding the period I moved to Pinellas County.

I worked for Republicans in Pinellas County to help unseat a person who was a Democrat and sitting in the Florida House of Representatives. When we did door-to-door canvassing, we NEVER EVER had any Democrats in a gang of people who stalked us down the street and told us, “you are not allowed to go door-to-door, even if you are speaking with fellow Republicans.” Never did that EVER happen with Democrats. In the Democratic Party county of Palm Beach, in 2018 when DeSatan was running for governor against a black man, we had Republican gangs on the streets of Palm Beach County tell us, “you are not allowed to go door-to-door to speak with people.” We replied that we were only going to speak to Democrats, so yes, we are allowed to do that. But at that point, it made me feel very bad for going door-to-door in Pinellas County and work to unseat a Democrat in the Florida House. I felt ashamed of doing that after experiencing the BS of Republican gangs in Palm Beach County. That was one big example of what I have come to call the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans). There are other examples on my trip through life up to this moment in time.

I have had Republicans, out of right field (and I use “right” to make a point), call Democrats names. Names such as Dumocrats. I just had it happen TODAY while I was speaking with a Democrat. Typically, I have said nothing but to smile and laugh it off. The Democrat who accompanied me while being stalked in Florida, also a former Republican who HAPPENED to have lived and worked with me in Pinellas County, smiled and said, “yes we do have a right to speak with people and we shall continue.”

Today, my reply was to say, “the word Republican is found in the dictionary between the words, reptile and repugnant.” I have had it with the emotions of illiterate people who call themselves Republicans and get a kick out of taunting others. But unlike the black folk of the 1960s who were taunted by lousy low-life white folk, I try to follow more closely the pacifist remarks and examples of Martin Luther King, Jr. Words like “we shall overcome” and other pacifist remarks are in my vocabulary. The words about reptile and repugnant are somewhat passive remarks, but they only come AFTER someone says something like “DUMOCRATS.” I have NEVER pushed any words at Republicans which come out of “left” field (I might as well use the word left, although I am one of moderation). Never. I have written words about how the Republican Party is actually the American Fascist Party because I have evidence of things being this way with that one-time YANKEE political party which once worked more for moderation in life.

As Democrats in Florida, we never pointed our remarks of “reptile and repugnant” at Republicans. We simply would joke about it among ourselves. “Republican is in the dictionary between reptile and repugnant.” This was sort of like some of my gay friends who thought it to be funny, among ourselves in the gay community,” to speak in a facetious manner about homophobic bullies as being “fags.” Or the manner for black folk to lash out by use of the word “nigger” or “honkey” when speaking about those who disliked black folk.

And what about the Democrats? As a kid, there were the Yankee Democrats and the Dixiecrats. They all attempted to unite into one party called the Democratic Party. Unity was done by means of compromise and finding common ground.

However, the Dixiecrats were a bunch of turds in Dixie with white skin who promoted Jim Crow and lynching of black folk. They were fascists, too. Reagan pulled the Dixiecrats into the Republican (word between reptile and repugnant) Party, thus building a path for the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans). The Dixiecrats are white turds “still fighting the civil war,” as my dad would say in disgust. And Reagan was pulling them into formation as the American Fascist Party while using the name “Republican.” I would more likely call it the Repugnant Party.

It is interesting, too, that there is evidence that Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty has deliberately been appealing to the illiterate emotional ones of America. He does so because he knows they can be enticed by stupidity and lies and not know the difference. MAGA fits this bill very well. I have a shirt which says “the Bill of Rights is not about emotions.” MAGA Maggots and the Man-baby are about emotions and the feelings they have for people who do not fit their framework. Hitler was like that. Mussolini was like that. Hirohito was like that. Stalin was like that. Castro was like that. Mao Tse-Tung was like that. Daniel Ortega was like that. Putin and the leader of Hungary ARE like that today. Leaders in Brazil and Venezuela have been like that. The Taliban is like that. Shall I continue with the list which emanates primarily from HISTORICAL examples from which we as Americans should be LEARNING and not returning to re-live such crap in life, due to emotions.

Hitler’s propaganda minister, Goebbels, said, “if a lie is told over and over again it eventually becomes the truth.” Emotional illiterates don’t know the difference between the truth and lies, so they are easy to impress with lies being told over and over again when it appeals to their emotions. Intelligent people are suppressed by any leadership which resembles Hitler and Goebbels because they are intelligent enough to know the differences and do not become emotional experts or “drips under pressure,” as the illiterate ones are. The Man-baby and MAGA maggots are fearful of such intelligence because they know they can be challenged. So how do these idiots respond? By calling Democrats “Dumbocrats” and doing so with no provocation. Just as the dumb white kids of the 1960s in New York tried to taunt the black kids, these unintelligent illiterate dolts today attempt to taunt those who are intelligent because the dolts are in fear of such intelligence.

In days gone by, we often described those attempting to be “leaders” but lacked intelligence as experts or “drips under pressure.” The Man-baby and MAGA maggots, in attempting to consolidate their power, are nothing but “drips under pressure,” thinking they are experts. They are “experts” only in the narrow-minded knowledge they have and the inability to take a broader overview of situations and how they impact WE THE PEOPLE and not to be narrow and impact ONLY the racist, bigoted, prejudiced billionaire oligarchy.

In my life and career, I have had many Democrats, and not JUST leaders, have had a positive and productive impact on me by providing guidance for the path of life. I have not expected handouts, but certainly I believe and have experienced many people who need that safety net which is provided by SNAP or welfare or other means. On the other hand, I have had leaders of the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) who have taken away from me. Shall I name people? In Florida, Jeb Bush, Rick Scott, Ron DeSatan, Marco Rubio, Pam Bondi. Just a few names but there are more. I can go into detail for all of them. I can also mention Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and the Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty. I have watched as Fascist Republicans have pulled the rug out from beneath other Republicans. For instance, the “victims” of such actions have been Charlie Crist and Mark Foley of Florida. In some instances, I could say I am also a “victim” of such actions. The Man-baby has even attempted to do the same with John McCain. There are others. In a communist dictatorship such actions would be called “purged from the party.”

Then there are those in the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) who, they believe they can rant and rave against Democrats and no one should challenge them on their ranting and raving. Truly, this is an example of fascism and the idea of “my way or the highway” dictatorial procedures. No communication because it’s “my way of the highway.” Attempt to calmly ask the question, “please explain your dislike.” Reply. “I don’t know but I hate them.” But gee. If I had someone I did not like or did not respect, I could explain the reason why. Reply. “Don’t talk to me about this.” But gee. YOU were the one who brought it up and now you just expect of me to accept what you say and with no evidence or facts at all? I call such people “sick puppies.” Whether they are relatives or not, they are “sick puppies.”

As for the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) stealing from me, it began with the employee stock I owned. It was necessary to steal it from me so as to make sure the largest stockholder pockets were bulging with money. There are more examples I have to offer, too. But let me just limit to this one.

At the same time I lose money, I have to listen to Jerry Fallwell or other hypocrites in the “Christians Nationalists” push this idea that the “Ten Commandments should be posted on government buildings.” “Thou shalt not steal” is the Eighth Commandment in the Bible, out of the Ten Commandments. Yet, it is these religious groups who endorse the actions of the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) where stealing by the leaders and the billionaire oligarchy is done all the time. The mere words of “trickle down” by Ronald Reagan indicates a “reverse Robin Hood” trend in which “free markets” opened up the thievery by such folk to do as they want in killing capitalist competition, limiting what people over a certain 6-digit income should contribute into the FICA (Social Security), lay off people and take their stock holdings (as with me), purchase favors of our government (buy elections with PACs and Citizens United) so as to obtain tax credits that hard working Americans who seek opportunities for success, don’t get, and layoff employees so the CEOs get a better salary (it’s not about profit) and we can watch as such CEO salaries have increased by about 1000% over the time that living wages for all have decreased.

Overall, I am fed up with people who make claims that Democrats are “dumb” and do the same thing those in control of the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) do. You are wrong about this and I can prove it. But again, the reply is that “I am not going to listen to you because you might win over my argument.” Really? The only ones who win or lose are those in our society overall. Not me. Not the person who might have a warped outlook of Democrats, so warped they would call us “Dumbocrats” or other names and NOT be willing to humble themselves to learn the facts of the situation. I just outlined the facts over my lifetime. And the only Democrats I MIGHT not care for as much are those who are too wimpy to take a strong stand against the American Fascist Party. Sure. It is nice to be diplomatic and a statesperson.

When the competition is the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) and not a political party which believes in democracy, the very form of government which, for nearly 250 years has made this nation great, in spite of some imperfections along that timeframe, one can no longer be so diplomatic. And that is a tough statement to accept, especially as a TRUE Christian who rejects the heresy of the “Christian Nationalists.” If you are younger ones who have NOT been taught the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution or the words of the Gettysburg Address, you are wishing for something easier in life so you fall prey to the lies of the Man-baby and the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans PLUS the MAGA maggots). Be careful what you wish for, though. Because while consolidating power for a fascist government, in the end, you could end up as Niemoller said of Hitler (and there are different versions of this):

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

This is not about a “persecution complex.” It is not about paranoia. It is about considering that we are all human beings who seek opportunities in life. We are all human beings and thus do not live by a barbaric Machiavellian message of “the end justifies the means.” We are all human beings who can be moral and ethical enough so as to obey the 8th commandment about thievery against others, as the billionaires today have done and are attempting to consolidate their power with one political party: the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) or the Repub-DUMBS or the Repugnant Party.

The leadership for the Repugnant Party comes from the money-loving suckers at the top who are evil. The leaderships for the Democratic Party does NOT base its power on the billionaire group. It may HAVE some billionaire supporting it and for reasons of supporting the grassroots, not just themselves (in many cases). The Democrats work to obtain grassroots money. Sadly, Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty wants to eliminate such grassroots financial support becasue he and MAGA maggots are cowards and afraid of competition just as much as the “free market” supply-side Reaganomics folk are afraid of capitalist competition so they use “free market” as a free ride to form monopolies. The description given here is fascism.

The GOP with their fascist MAGA maggots are “too dumb” and the dummies “will fail.” These dummies are a bunch of people with foul mouths who taunt others and such perverts will fail. They are the dumb ones, not the Democrats. Republi-DUMB.

That makes the person today who called Democrats “dumbocrats” to be a repugnant Republi-DUMB just for making such a remark which is not based on facts, only emotions. I have outlined the facts here. And I say to repugnant Republi-DUMBs (of course, your lack of intelligence and you are unable to, as with an alcoholic, acknowledge being such), if you should experience any Democrat who is NOT like I describe here from my many years of experience, then let us know. Seriously. I wish to know who they are who are so troublesome to your dimwitted illiterate emotional ways to such a degree you feel you must make a derogatory remark to a person like me who was simply being positive about life and working towards what is best for all humanity, human equality, and human justice. In other words. Principles for humanity. A DEMOCRAT for a democracy and a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, as our Founding Fathers defined for us and has worked for so many years, in spite of any failures along the road of the timeline of the existence of this nation.

f you think we are “dumb” because we refuse to go along with the billionaires who run our government, then you are wrong because we stand for America “… with liberty and justice for all.” And be careful for what you and other young asswipes wish for (who lack appreciation for what we have in this nation) because if you were to live in a fascist nation with a fascist government and you were to call the leaders of that government, “dumb,” you might be executed or lined up with others and shot down in genocide. THINK.

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What is Fascism and How to Identify Fascists/

First of all, let me explain my background knowledge. I was trained to lead democratic groups based on Roberts’ Rules of Order for Parliamentary Procedure. Compromise and consensus were two very important words I learned. A leader does not control by trying to control others with his/her opinions and force those opinions upon others. Democracy is about discussion and coming to consensus by means of compromise, if necessary. If you don’t like this description of democracy, then leave this nation and find one that does and see that you do not befall execution or genocide. My heart would bleed for such lainbrains, then. But then, I am NOT a bleeding heart. I rely on learning from history, not re-living history or repeating history. My heart aligns with other human beings of all kinds so we can ALL achieve success and satisfaction in life, even if it means we do NOT always have our way in a minor way, but are not forced to do what we don’t like.

Fascists are those who wish to control what other human, beings eat, drink, have sex, so as NOT to be merry.

  • Prohibition of alcohol is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Prohibition of drugs is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Prohibition of porn is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Prohibition of abortions is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Prohibition of nudity is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Prohibition of guns is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Prohibition of prostitution is fascism (even Christ, who said, “judge not lest you be judged,” told a crowd who wanted to judge a prostitute that “the one who has no sin should throw the first stone”); regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Censorship of information is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Lying and slandering is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Government run by authoritarianism is fascism; teaching how to run meetings with Roberts’ Rules of Order for Parliamentary Procedures is democracy; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Shutting down communication because it goes against someone’s opinion is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Attitudes of “I must win with my opinion only” is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Telling someone “don’t speak to me about politics” is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Forcing economics based on love of money with criminals who gain most of the money due to the evil love of money is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Free markets left unregulated and without the balance defined by capitalism is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Business monopolies which destroy competition is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Supply-side Reaganomics, a one-sided economic system, is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Jim Crow was/is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Anti-Semitism is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Anti-civil rights and anti-voting rights is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • One group controlling other groups in society is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Foreclosures and taking real estate and property from people is fascism (and this includes the white man taking from the indigenous, Castro taking from Cubans, and the Bolsheviks taking from Russians); regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Thievery, murder, genocide, executions, corporal and capital punishments are fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Anarchy produces fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Apathy produces fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Not voting produces fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy

Have I said enough to make my point? I could go on and provide a never-ending list. Have I made my point? Or are you too stupid to humble yourself and learn? Shame on you. Everybody is ignorant, but no one has to remain ignorant and if they do, they become stupid.

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Background & Solutions for America, Land I love

My American progenitor ancestor was named Thomas Cornell. As feuding began in England between Anglican Catholic followers of Queen Elizabeth and King James, Catholics subservient to the archbishop (?) of Rome (known as pope), and Puritans like Oliver Cromwell. Before Charles I was beheaded and the English civil war was fought. 

Thomas Cornell’s family escaped the tribulations of civil war by moving to Massachusetts Bay Colony and what is now downtown Boston. 

Thomas opened tavern in Boston. By the time Cromwell’s son relinquished position of Lord Protector and Charles II re-took throne, many Puritans fled and moved to Boston. 

As a result, these Puritans were creeps and control freaks with a desire to control other people’s lives by forcing others to do as they want.

People like Roger Williams and Baptists, with Anne Hutchinson. Were banished from Boston. 

Because Thomas Cornell refused to follow orders of anti-alcohol prohibitionists and close his tavern when they ordered it to be closed, Thomas and his family were banished from Boston, so they joined Williams and Hutchinson in the area known today as Rhode Island. 

Cornell built a home on a waterway where there was ease of access to transport commerce.  Thomas died in late 1600s. His wife, Hannah Briggs Cornell inherited home. The oldest son was Thomas Cornell, Jr. 

Thomas, Jr’s line of descent is the line for Ezra Cornell of Cornell University. 

My line of descent is by way of Thomas Cornell’s (Sr) son named Richard. Richard had moved to Flushing on Long Island. Rose were the years of the Dutch colony. Richard Cornell’s name was pronounced in Dutch way as Corne-velle. Thus, our branch became Cornwell. Those who remained many years in Rhode Island continued with name of Cornell, even after moving to New York and central New York following American Revolution.

In Rhode Island, in order to confiscate the Cornell property, puritanical ones were likely behind death of widow Rebecca Cornell and setting up an honest man as murderer of Rebecca. They had Thomas, Jr, wrongly executed with lies based on ghosts or apparitions. 

It is known that puritanical creeps pushed such actions and accusations about witchcraft so as to confiscate property, as puritanical Fidel Castro did in Cuba. Dictators. Pushing authoritarianism based on selfishness and greed, just as Hiitler also did in Germany in the 1930s. Just as Trump, DeSantis, with Republican goons attempt to do by firing up puritanical creepy control freaks today. 

Puritans don’t truly believe in love as taught by Jesus Christ, but believe the world only works well if everyone denounces alcohol, drugs. LGBTQ, abortions, drag shows, true history about people of color and Jews, and immigrants; all who don’t believe as authoritarian Puritans believe. 

MAGA and Trump, with others, maintain and endorse  thoughts just like puritanical dictators of the 20th Century did. As Putin (pu(ri)tin) with puritanical Russian Orthodox church does. 

This “new world order” was pushed by Anti-Christ GHW Bush with his false thousand lights. Too many stupid people, pushed by multi-million dollar evangelists and TV evangelists have grabbed hold of the BS of this “new world order.”

Their method is divide and conquer. They perpetrate the destruction of true Christians, many who endorse progressive Christian ideas, while these true Christians, due to loud voices of puritanical ones, are stereotyped as being evil and chase people away because they are confused about who God is and such people become atheists who even attack progressive Christians. Divide and conquer, in the name of the puritanical Anti-Christ. 

These puritanical control freaks, with divide and conquer attitudes, are destroying America by dividing America. Their methods involve sabotaging good people like President Biden and Democrats in their goals to solve America’s problems by learning from history and applying what is learned in order to help America progress through the 21st Century in a humanitarian way. All for the sake of generations to come.

If I point out how history teaches us that 18th and 19th Century wealthy Americans endorsed paying taxes and contributed their wealth for the sake of America, am I going to be squelched by puritanical ones who defend the wealthy greedy brats today and call my analysis politics and don’t allow my teaching of history? 

Perhaps such puritanical brats won’t allow me to explain how a  wealthy person named Royal W. Clinton gave his money to build a PUBLIC high school after taxpayers voted it down? Because wealthy ones today don’t follow words of assassinated President JFK who said, “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country, ” so therefore I am censored because, as puritanical creeps cast aspersions on me as “talking politics?” It is to learn from history, not talking politics, so go shove those thoughts where the sun don’t shine.

Or maybe learning from history is about considering that America was wrongly sent to Vietnam by the influence of greedy Texas oil men, so we need to consider whether we still fight over oil and pipelines for oil? I am squelched, censored in saying this because of finding evidence in history from which America can learn from this history. It is called censorship based on, “we don’t talk about politics.” In other words, destroy democracy by not allowing people to learn from history because it is “politics” and being part of a democracy. 

Politics is democracy so I don’t accept killing politics because it destroys democracy.

It is better to return the Fairness Doctrine which was unilaterally destroyed by fascist loving puritanical control freak and creep GHW Bush who was like the Manchurian candidate. For the Fairness Doctrine was designed to endorse freedom of speech, but to stop lies, hatred, slander from being told by making certain any of that shit had to have a counterpoint with truth or else could not be aired or printed.

Eliminate gerrymandering by creating congressional district based on geographic jurisdiction in which boundaries remain static, but dynamic changes made each decade by changing the weighted ratio of each representative when voting. No more gerrymandering, which is NOT a provision of the U.S. Constitution.

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Puritanical Authoritarianism in USA Needs to be Stopped: Learning From History

Europe is safer than the USA. Regulates guns. Less DUI due to larger public transit system. Has same violent video games as USA

 Discusses sexual identity. Has drag shows. Allows younger folk to drink alcohol so as to teach attitudes of consumption. Some areas regulate drugs illicit here. Allow abortions. Allow full frontal nudity, even in advertisements. Are not overwhelmed by brutish prudish puritanical control freaks. Don’t censor history and books by casting aspersions about politics upon people. 

In the midst of this, it is safer in Europe than in America. 

Don’t hate me for saying this, but learn from what I say and change creepy puritanical attitudes in America. I salute the red, white, and blue. I do a really sensational rendition of the National anthem, America the Beautiful, and My Country Tis of Thee. My ancestors believed in giving their wealth to America and being wealthy, to pay taxes.

We are the true Patriots of America, not the loud mouths of MAGA and others who spew hatred and censorship on anyone who disagrees with the puritanical way.

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Groupthink & Media

My commentary, not op-ed, to PBS Washington Week producers.

I am trying to understand why there seems to be such a strong “undercurrent” within the people whom I communicate. After watching PBS Washington Week and considering the money I see donated to PBS and NPR by big oil tycoons, the Koch brothers, I am now beginning to understand.

The PBS programs appear to be in the gutter, avoiding good investigative journalism and relying on analysis of political ideas and the ideas of those who don’t support the fascist, John Birch, KKK agenda in America today. You don’t discuss this fascist agenda, perhaps because money comes to PBS from fascists like the Koch brothers and big oil?

Gasoline prices. They are actually lower, figuring for inflation over a long period of time, and in comparison to the inflation aspect of consumer earnings. I have the evidence. It was published in NEWSPAPERS but not in the broadcast media. Comparisons in terns of inflation, from the early 1950s to the oil embargo of the 1970s, to today. I READ NEWSPAPERS and PRINT COPY of periodicals. I could do without the junk mail in print copy, but we are FORCED by big fat pigs of corporations to accept the lack of printed NEWS and INFORMATION.

Inflation. Really no worse than it has been many times in history. But keep limiting information to being the worst. I have seen worst. Give us a long term HISTORICAL evidence this is the worst. Do a comparison to what the inflation was like under various political party leaderships over the past. Nixon and his proposals for “price controls.” Don’t just tell us how a FEW voters think about this. That is disgusting.

Dealing with inflation. There is newspaper info. with ideas about how to deal with inflation. But of course the technology industry, propped up by big oil and the fascists, is pushing a liberal agenda to stop reading newspapers. Yes. I said liberal.

And then the liberal agenda pushes the envelope in trying to maintain that, somehow, reading newspapers in digital form is going to save trees. Really? What saves trees is to stop ripping down the rain forests for development and not replacing those trees, such as what has happened in a South American nation now run by a vicious fascist. PLUS. The consideration that the more technology, computers, and mobile phones there are, the more electricity is consumed which brings pressure on the electricity infrastructure and its grid to produce more.

Does anyone actually believe the fascist agenda with Trump, Rick the Prick Scott, DeSatan, and others is truly going to change the scenario I identify above?

Rick the Prick inherited from Democrats a really lousy setup of PUP insurance for hurricane coverage in Florida. Did Rick the Prick make a change? Nah! He never made any change in this. What DID Rick the Prick do instead? Fought Obamacare because it goes against the egotistical narcissistic ways of Rick the Prick who made money from PRIVATIZATION of hospitals, where he plead the 5th numerous times when he was charged with stealing from Medicare. |

When Florida voters approved of a fast-speed rail system so as to save money over the long term and cut down on carbon emissions, why did Rick the Prick override the voters? Because he had his marching orders from the Koch brothers and others who insisted they wanted to continue to sell oil and to hell with other means of getting around it.

Those of us consumers and voters were screwed by Rick the Prick when he did this. Some of us invest in corporations which wish to do BOTH oil and alternative fuels. The Koch brothers ONLY want oil. So, in the name of the Koch brothers, Rick the Prick took his marching orders from vicious egotistical bastards who just MIGHT be giving support to PBS. And we the consumers who invested in real residential real estate along the route of that rail system were screwed as well.

Developers along that proposed rail route were screwed as well, while corrupt developers in Palm Beach, with house flippers, made out well with their corrupt practices while working with the banks. Who does real estate in Palm Beach County? Care to guess? The guy at Mar-a-Lago.

And the answer to this is, by the ideas of the fascists, to use coal and pollute more. Electricity in a Florida utility, I am told, is now concentrated with coal and gas while a less-polluting nuclear plant has been shut down. Not to endorse the ideas of nuclear, but there has been R&D work to improve the safety of producing nuclear. Where? in Europe, where the build rail systems.

The undertow of groupthink talk here is to put down electric vehicles, as if they are going to do bad things to the electric grid. What about the bad things being done to the grid when people are buried more in technology and not paying attention to their fellow human beings?

What is being described here is being done in the midst of this consumer groupthink undertow of information to push the idea that the local newspaper stop printing on paper. The anti-electric vehicle (anti-solar, anti-wind power, anti-hydro power) and pro-non-printing on paper is inconsistent in claiming, “the environment will be better.” According to this talk, solar is awful. Wind power is awful. But keep putting those newspapers out in digital form where consumers have to fight with the technology and pay higher costs just to get their newspapers and INFORMATION.

But no. The cost aspect is thrown at me by those who wish to defend what THEY want and never consider an overall COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS over the long term.

Liberals are just as bad in pushing the envelope too far. There are alternative biomass fuels which can LOWER carbon emissions in vehicles. But no That lack of PERFECTION and they reject those and dig in their heals ONLY for solar or wind power, etc. Methanol. Still has carbon emissions. But compare such fuels to gasoline emissions? Is it better? I believe it is. But only a theory on my part. We need the evidence from the media doing its job, not simply giving us analytical views of politics.

In a PURPLE America where we got along, the production of methanol fuels could be bolstered by people working with Iowa farmers, not the coal producers. Or by orange growers in Florida with “co-electric projects.” Corn and other agricultural products can be grown in the back yards of the Keystone project people in Pennsylvania. For the production of fuels with LOWER carbon emissions. Not zero carbon emissions, perhaps. LOWER carbon emissions than what we get with gasoline. Hybrid vehicles as a choice for consumers as we ease into electric vehicles. But no. Liberals are opposed to this just as much as the big fat pig fascist oligarchs of oil are opposed to electric vehicles, solar, wind, and other energy sources. Such fascists get supposedly good-thinking “red” Americans to stupidly line up behind them.

Even if someone like me did not care for George W. Bush, he pushed the idea of reduced carbon emission vehicles. I liked that. In one of his state of the union addresses, he pushed for the use of switch gas for biomass fuels. Why? Because, as he proposed this, he outlined how the fermentation process can be reduced. So where are the switch grass farms today, some 20 years later? We have the agricultural lands, but where are these farms and the corn farms today, for these purposes? Stifled by liberals who insist “we don’t have a perfect fuel, so let’s not do this because we wish to concentrate on ONLY the perfect energy sources with NO emissions.” Stupidity here , too, among the liberal groupthink. HOWEVER.

Where is the money today? In the hands of the liberals who are yelling and screaming their dissent? Or in the hands of the wealthiest at the top who insist there IS no climate change, so let us continue to use oil. For the future of our children and generations into the future, we need to stop this BS approach and work together. We need those of us who have invested in a more moderate approach to get us through these years and into the future. A STRATEGIC PLAN is missing because there is too much tugging of one way or the other just to see who comes out the winner. The WINNER needs to be our entire community of people in the great USA, into the future. What is the STRATEGIC PLAN to accomplish this goal? With the fighting and the turmoil, I have a problem detecting it.

It’s a PURPLE STRATEGIC PLAN, not a RED PLAN (fascists) or BLUE PLAN (liberals) which will determine our way forward, based on what we can learn from the past, not RE-LIVE the past, as the stupidity of MAGA, QAnon, and others propose.

The reason the Koch brothers and other big fat pigs in the oligarchs push for Trump, Rick the Prick Scott, and DeSatan is really simple to see. So why is the media not projecting this? Is PBS getting support from the Koch brothers, so ignores this simple thing?

Governor Lawton Chiles, of Florida (and a person people hoped would be president in 2000), filed a lawsuit which brought down big tobacco in the USA. He filed this lawsuit with several other states, due to the cost the states had to endure in helping their citizens with lung cancer due to smoking tobacco. The costs were staggering, according to a report by journalist and lung cancer suffering Peter Jennings. Chiles won the lawsuit.

The vicious fat pigs of North Carolina relented by taking over the electric utility where Chiles had served on the board of directors. With thousands of other Florida employees, I lost my job due to the strategic plans of those fat pigs. A plan implemented slowly and over time and gives us much of what we have today

I am just supposed to shut up about this, due to the benefits I had following the layoff. But I won’t. Because much of what the fat pigs like Jeb Bush, Rick the Prick and DeSatan did in the interim between layoff and retirement was to screw me even more. I speak of this, in site of the wonderful career I had. I could have had more in retirement. That is a statement made because their are stupid asses who vote for the fascist Republicans who wish to bring down the Medicare and Social Security systems for which I rely on after Rick the Prick Scott and others destroyed some of my retirement investments in Florida, among other things.

These oligarchic fools don’t have the right to do that just because they have money and they need to be called on it. Where is the media to do this laying these people on the carpet? By the first words in the Constitution, WE THE PEOPLE, these fools don’t have a right to do this. Just by those simple words alone. They believe that what is good for the oligarchs is good for the nation. BS on that.

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Power which takes into consideration more than a minority of people called white people is a corrupt power and tries to move towards the “absolute power which corrupts absolutely.” Koch brothers, John Birch, KKK are all corrupt and their absolute power corrupts we the people absolutely.

I have heard by hearsay from a person married to a white apartheid-loving anti-Mandela person from South Africa, that the tobacco companies have moved operations to South Africa. So, that makes that lawsuit by Lawton Chiles so bad that they had to murder Lawton Chiles and make it look like something else? Rather than build better “American mousetraps” (as has been a good example of America), we embolden white supremacists out of their closet of hiding their racism and cry foul when things are not as foul as these people make things to appear?

The only speculation I can make is that we have a lousy media today taking their cue from the money of the Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch, and other oligarchic robber barons of the 21st Century. A media which does not follow what Peter Jennings did with his reports about big tobacco and the lawsuits which benefited society overall (according to the Peter Jennings reports). A media which will identify and bring out of the closet the vicious fascists today, rather than just reporting everything as if we as normal today as the era of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, etc.

What does the media propose to do? What analysis based on strategic plans for the sake of WE THE PEOPLE does the media intend to present? Anything? Because I don’t see it and have to wonder why? I say, WHY NOT?

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Fascist Big Oil & Bigots Need to Leave this Nation so we can Coexist in a Democracy with True Capitalist Competition with Supply & Demand, Investments & ROI

Fascist big oil working to mesmerize people about how their answer is the only answer – only one way. Monopoly. Perhaps wanting to take money away from investors who believe in a progressive future and are not liberal, but are being smeared. These ones are fearful cowards who are not able to compete. Talking and talking and talking face to face and never willing to listen. This has been my experience with the fascists around me. I am sick of this and think these people need to go hide in a hole somewhere. Fascist big oil is scared. They don’t like oil companies which are investing in the future with research and development to make alternative fuels possible. And jobs are the only thing, from Keystone to polluting oil companies who don’t give a damn about the environment with more and more oil drilling. Talk jobs. What about the American way of building a better mousetrap? What about investing in and incubating entrepreneurs who can build for the future? Instead, these fascists block anything that goes against oil, the slick pollution which has given us climate change and global warming, from the time the Amazon forests were cut down and took oxygen out and all the other things. Progressive, not liberal. Where is the trust buster when we need him? Where is the Progressives of the Progressive Bull Moose Party – Teddy Roosevelt. Rare to find such people in the Republican Party, but primarily in the Democratic Party. Only fascist cowards and bigots would put forth the corrupt practices so as to push their agenda. 😀 🧐🤓😁😎

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Fig Leaf

In the TV program, Naked and Afraid, we still blur the genitals.  The mindset is from ancient ideas and traditions which cannot be validated by a library of books we call the scriptures. These are man-made ideas, not those from a loving God.  Ron DeSantis and the majority of Roman Catholics on the SCOTUS have no right, under the U.S. Constitution, to invoke their beliefs about covering over genitals, portraying sex on TV, or even putting porn on TV.  If so, then why are my rights and beliefs being tread on when I say I don’t want to see blood, guts, violence, and guns on TV, held by vicious and barbaric people who are like the Ancient Romans and carried forward by the Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church?  My beliefs are about a loving God who would not do such things as massacres, genocide, or homicide.  Those are my beliefs and need to be protected by the U.S. Constitution which had a great deal of writing by Deists and not just those who call themselves Christians.  This is NOT a Christian nation.  It is a secular nation of one culture and a multitude of religious beliefs. 

Walking out of a modern art museum in Florida, someone in our crowd began to bloviate about the nudity in the paintings and photographs.  As someone involved in the arts, I protested and said that the human body is as beautiful as the scenery and other scenes on canvas or photos.  Perhaps under the new law by DeSantis and the RepubliFascists of Florida, I would be shot for protesting such an expression against art, with a dissension against public displays of blood, guts, violence, and guns on T?  The dissension for which this heinous law intends is to allow those like DeSantis or the idiot from Arizona (Blake Masters) to shoot down those who disagree and express the disagreement in words of dissension against what THEY believe?  RepubliFascists need to be routed out, especially when they are moles hidden among the Democrats and divide the Democrats in the process.  There is no free speech for hatred and lies which merely push people to fear in order to vote for RepubliFascists.  This needs to be ended.  Puritanical Roman Catholics and puritanical Protestants have no right to push their religious beliefs upon the rest of us. It matters not whether it involves their beliefs about blood, guts, violence, and guns on TV, sexual identity, abortions, frontal nudity, sex, or porn. 

When introducing college students to the Internet in the 1990s, we found many young people were searching out porn. They would come to the college library to use the publicly available computers connected to the Internet in order to view the porn.  We had a rule about not using the computers to view porn, but it did not stop the students.  My approach was to ask someone whom I caught on the porn whether it would be good to have such actions portrayed live and on the tables in the library? Or at the same time, whether such public displays of bashing another person’s head in should be allowed in the library?  It would give the students an embarrassment.  I would use that as a learning moment to help understand how we need to respect what others think in a public situation and one way was to not put on the screens of the computers what others might find very offensive. 

Then one day, a student who heard me say this asked the question: “why are there scenes of violence on computers and you say nothing to them?”  He had me on that one.  I merely said, “I wish I could, but my boss is more concerned about not having the porn, nudity, and sex on the screens and there is no concern about the violence on the screens.”  That was the 1990s. Most of those young people at that time are now in their 40s and perhaps 50s.  Many who were in their 20s in the 1990s were of the ages of those who stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, with weapons and vicious, spoiled brat attitudes of immaturity. 

As the Internet got going, I no longer had to police for porn and utilize such situations as learning experiences.  Did not matter because I don’t think anyone else used such situations as learning experiences. In fact a colleague promoted violence by physically abusing the students by hitting them over the head.  When I protested that being done and tried to explain how it could be a calm learning experience, I was put down and the boss never took it seriously. Only tough guy vicious ways were promoted.  And today, look what we have.  With such actions of violence against the students, why would they not choose violence? 

Funny thing.  Because we had black folks in the library, too, and never once did I ever see a black person looking at the porn. That does not mean none of them did so, but it was always white guys whom I saw doing that. It was the white guys who got hit over the head by a librarian. It was white guys who stormed the Capitol building.  When the black folk lodged a protest in Washington, prior to Jan. 6, they did so in a peaceful way of protest.  So don’t talk to me about how black folk are bad and do so in a demeaning and ignorant knowledge about black folks. 

My rights are being denied against the public viewing of blood, guts, violence, and guns on TV. In Europe, with less guns, allow such things to be viewed and don’t have a stupid jackass bloviating about seeing nudes in an art museum, as I viewed in the early years of the 21st Century in Palm Beach County, Florida.  But then again, I have not endorsed censorship of  blood, guts, violence, and guns on TV.  I also don’t endorse censorship of public viewing of nudity, sex, or porn, either.  Remove the Goddamn fig leaves, too, not because I get a perverted sense of enjoyment because I don’t.  But because these are beauty among human beings which cannot be denied.  And stop eating sugar and carbs so as to increase obesity and diabetes in America today.  Again.  Remove the Goddamn fig leaves because my God of love objects to such use. That is MY belief and should be protected under the U.S. Constitution.  

Side note: perhaps a book such as Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language is something worth reading? Especially after I use words tantamount to swearing?  Stop the puritanical shit with the sin book and look to how human beings are born with “original blessings” and can make mistakes. Deliberate sin is bad, but that is the same as deliberate sin by people like Trump, Rick Scott, Ron DeSantis with corruption to purchase elections or steal money from Medicare.  

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While living in South Florida, we had choices for cable TV and Internet services. Here in Tioga County, we often have only one choice. For many of us, that one choice is Spectrum, unless we try HughesNet, Dish, or DirectTV through the airwaves of satellite.  Satellite services are not given a good review, particularly with Internet. 

The FCC has given favor to big business and corporate welfare and has nationalized (socialism) by way of corporate welfare and favors to the wealthy who run such services. Not only have we lost local content in newspapers which were once chock full of local news, information, and culture, we have lost control of local broadcasting.  Television broadcasting, especially in rural hilly areas has been made so weak by the FCC, that we are forced to subscribe to Internet and cable TV.  It’s all a strategy to nationalize by way of corporate welfare by way of money funding the government and favors done for the wealthy.  Radio broadcasting, too, is weakened.  When in my younger years here, we did not have difficulty in driving in a car and receiving the local radio broadcasts just about anywhere, whether AM or FM.  Today, to open up bandwidth for the thumbing on mobile phones which come nowhere close to what we had in local broadcasting, we are unable to have powerful local broadcasting stations in this rural hilly area. Oh, I forget. When we go on top of the hills where the density of population is lower (smaller audience to make money), we can get clear signals.  In the valleys, the reception sucks.  It might not be a huge number of people, but sure is more densely populated with a larger number than on top of the hills.  Perhaps we should be like Chinese communists and move populations to where they wish to have them located – on top of the hills?  This is ridiculous.

In the 1960s, in the hills of upstate New York and Pennsylvania, the cable television industry was born – on the local level.  The FCC did not micro-manage these things with regulatory authority. The regulatory agency involved the local authorities.  The FCC, doing favors for corporate welfare CEOs, has wrongly regulated cable TV and other local media outlets. 

To reiterate. In South Florida, we had a choice of cable TV and Internet. The old copper telephone lines into our home were used to deliver Internet by way of AT&T fiber optic lines up to the box and connected to the copper wires.  We also had the choice of copper coax lines by way of Comcast.  The lines within the home were all the same type of lines as what we had with telephone and cable TV in the past. 

In addition to these two options, a small and local firm named Laurie’s TV offered cable television and Internet within our Homeowners’ Association development.  We could pay extra and at a lower cost for this HOA cable / Internet access, in addition to the HOA fees we paid.  The speed for the Internet was not good, so we chose AT&T, delivered by fiber optics and copper.  We chose Laurie’s TV for cable TV.  (FYI: Laurie’s TV was sold to another firm). 

Explanation about this HOA.  The HOA was like an incorporated village, but run by a private organization based 60 miles away in Miami.  Residents had problems trying to pay their bills at such a distant location, but were treated like dirt by an attitude of “I’ll break your knees if you don’t pay,” even when a check was lost in the mail.  The one-party dictatorial fascist Republican control in that state put teeth into the ability of these private organizations, called “condo commandos” to run rough-shod over the people.  Even a retired NY State Trooper was treated like crap by an organization like this. 

Within the “mini-village” environment, they provided choices for local cable TV and Internet.  But the costs for us, per year, to maintain sidewalks, streets, public lawns, and social hall were about four to six times what Newark Valley village residents pay in government taxes in order to do the same thing.  And they were like Mafia bosses in attempting to collect, protected by Republicans who controlled the state. 

I say, to people who wish to move to Florida, be careful what you wish for.  I say to people here who complain about incorporated village taxes, be careful  what you complain about because I have seen it much worse when such village services are provided by PRIVATIZED HOA services.  After all, George W. Bush and his brother, Jeb Bush of Florida always said, “what’s good for [PRIVATIZED] business is good for America.”  Not so fast in believing such stuff because it sucks, like a Nazi Hitler-type in Germany. Like a communist Chinese. Like a Putin fascist dictator.  Be careful what you believe and dig in your heals in such regard.  Being humble means learning so as to overcome ignorance. Not being humble and refusing to learn means being a stupid idiot. 

After some 40 years living in Floridan and observing what happened there, I bring a different perspective to this community. Cable TV is one issue in which I bring a different perspective.  I have a different perspective on other issues besides cable TV.  It would be nice if somebody would listen, consider, and THINK about my perspective and the information I have to offer. Stop the BS about whether this is politics and my opinion. It is my experiences with facts to share.  Stop  scoffing at me in the same manner 19th Century NY Governor George Clinton was scoffed at when he proposed what was called by the scoffers, “Clinton’s Ditch.”  Stop the taunting of me because I give my perspective.  Cable TV in rural upstate NY really sucks, but so does the nationalization of cable TV and media, for the sake of corporate welfare, while social welfare and taxes for all are issues castigated with wishes to destroy, not reform. 

Side note besides cable TV:  What the people need is to take back local control which is good for all, not just for a group of white supremacists called Nazis.  The Republican Party is no longer the party of Abraham Lincoln, but should be re-named the Nazi KKK Party. 

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Fix or Destroy?

The Beatles: “All you need is love… love is all you need, love is all you need.”

The Beatles: “With a little help from my friends.”

The Beatles: “Come together…” and coexist.

The Beatles:

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world

But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out

Don’t you know it’s gonna be
All right?
Don’t you know it’s gonna be (all right)
Don’t you know it’s gonna be (all right)

You say you’ll change the constitution
Well, you know
We’d all love to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You better free your mind instead

But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow

Don’t you know it’s gonna be (all right)
Don’t you know it’s gonna be (all right)
Don’t you know it’s gonna be (all right)

Stevie Wonder: “love’s in need of love today…”

Somebody says to me, “Americans don’t like change.” Oh, yeah? Then why is it that followers of propaganda broadcasting Fox are getting on board for a Trumpican type of change called DESTRUCTION? That is change.

There are two forms of change. (1) Destroy and (2) reform. Destroy is done with a dictatorship and leaves many people out. Reform is done with democracy and works to attempt to embrace as many as possible, even though it is IMPERFECT as humans and human institutions are. If the person who said this said, “Americans don’t like reform,” I would believe it. But too many Americans are giving in to the FUCKING … yes I said FUCKING…. Nazi fascists in the form of people like FUCKING Trump or FUCKING Palladino or FUCKING ROMAN CATHOLIC RON DESANTIS. FUCKING people who don’t deserve a life because they only want to destroy what is good in America, due to the imperfections THEY DON’T LIKE. Excuse me for using the acronym FORNICATION UNDER CONSENT OF KING (OR QUEEN).

It is not with arrogance I say this. It is with love of country and what the Founding Fathers of this nation gave us. Deists, not Christians, in the Founding Fathers. This is NOT a Christian nation, but a secular nation with the freedom to worship and hold spiritual beliefs each one of us chooses. That is part of LIBERTY and FREEDOM, protected by many people in the past who put their lives on the line to protect this LIBERTY and FREEDOM … LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. Trumpicans have no idea what LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL, with all its IMPERFECTIONS, truly means. The arrogant ones are those who follow Fox, Murdoch the asshole and all those others.

Yes, Americans don’t like change. But the change they embrace is destruction of what has made this nation great over many years.

Here are the things which are being done to put in place CHANGE for the sake of the wealthy and the FUCKING puritanical Protestants and American Roman Catholic bishops – dictators, plus for the sake of wealthy fat pigs and the corporate welfare they continue to enforce CHANGE upon America for the benefit of ONLY corporate welfare. This list demonstrates how the person who made this statement about “Americans don’t want change,” to be an imbecilic remark not worth considering. That’s the STUPIDITY in America today. Rather than work to do change which is in the form of REFORM and considering how to make life better for America, theses fucking assholes devote our tax dollars and money to shit so as to destroy, destroy, destroy, not reform, reform, reform.

1. Abortion and Roe v. Wade. It has its imperfections, but the FUCKING AMERICAN CATHOLIC ROMAN BISHOPS, with money from FUCKING LOUSY AMERICANS just want it destroyed and ignore the young folks rape and date rape, from public schools to college and above. Destroy, destroy, destroy, not reform, reform, reform.

2. Rick the Prick Scott, Reagan and the privatization of America’s public hospitals. Destroy, destroy, destroy, not reform, reform, reform.

3. Betsy DeVoss and the Bush family with others (Jeb Bush) to endorse wishes of the Roman Catholic bishops and the fucking pigs who are recipients of corporate welfare, work to privatize public education by DESTROYING public education and then claiming, “it does not work.” That is bullshit because public education, if funded correctly, has proven to work in America. Destroy, destroy, destroy, not reform, reform, reform.

3. The Bush Republicans and their destruction of the FS&L system put in place by FDR and the Democrats. Change for the sake of whom? Neil Bush or George W. Bush and his money in the Cayman Islands rather than invested in America – you know, the fucking idiot who said, “what’s good for business is good for America.” Translated from the corporate welfare pigs: “what’s good for corporate welfare is good for America.” Destroy, destroy, destroy, not reform, reform, reform.

4. The Reagan deregulation and destruction and eventual destruction of PUHCA legislation under Shrub gave us supply-side economics and destroyed the ideas of capitalism called supply AND DEMAND. All of these CHANGES were done and many Americans just embraced them, like lemmings being led off a cliff. Destroy, destroy, destroy, not reform, reform, reform.

5. The change to thumbing practices with noses in cell phones was done with the net result of destruction of local newspapers and a claim, “no one wants to read newspapers any more.” Fuck that because when you remove the local content and DICTATE and PUSH nationalized news upon the people, of COURSE THEY WON’T READ IT. It polarized America in the process while stupid idiots in the lower classes simply went along with the changes and, in fact with this peer pressure groupthink they FORCE us to accept these changes, working with the change mastering destroyers. Destroy, destroy, destroy, not reform, reform, reform.

6. Local broadcasting destroyed in order to make room for the fucking THUMBING and NOSES IN THE MOBILE and for the corporate welfare system to be strengthened. There are people who live on the hills of upstate New York in lower dense populations than those in the valleys who get better reception of local broadcasting than those in the valleys where the population is slightly more dense. And there are those who are ready to defend these changes made, as if it is all for the “sake of money.” Go to hell. If it were, then we would have radio and television which was powerful enough to reach the hills AND the valleys. Fuck the FCC for allowing this, in the name of honor for cell phones. Changes, for sure. Changes in the form of DESTRUCTION. And lousy Americans just sitting idly by and allowing such destruction. Destroy, destroy, destroy, not reform, reform, reform.

7. Don’t pay taxes and place a heavier burden on those who do who don’t want to act like rats and turn in those who do not. In many cases, I am on the same side of those who don’t pay it, but I believe in this nation to try to do my best to pay taxes, not be a criminal and NOT pay taxes. I understand why they don’t want to pay regressive income taxes or don’t want to pay taxes on services, especially if it is a small business which finds accountants and lawyers hired to help them pay taxes are eating into their profits, something which did not happen before “Rocky’s Tax” in NY and income taxes anywhere. Tariffs supported American business and its domestic products, while putting taxes on imported goods which were commonly snarfed up by wealthy fat pigs and robber barons in America. Tariffs are a FORM of VALUE-ADDED TAX. But no, we have fucking lousy regressive income taxes, fucking lousy sales taxes, corporate welfare fat pigs keeping Social Security insolvent by not paying as much into it as the common folk (and resisting the change but endorsing the destruction of ALL Social Security, plus moves under Shrub to change Medicare for the sake of big insurance and big pharma so as to sabotage and create and atmosphere that the common folk jump on the bandwagon like a bunch of lemmings being led over a cliff). Destroy, destroy, destroy, not reform, reform, reform.

Need I go on? I could add a number of other things in which there is change, but change only for the benefit of the corporate welfare state, not for WE THE PEOPLE, the first words of the U.S. Constitution. Or not to create liberty and justice for all. Or not to endorse the ideas about “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” for ALL Americans. They do a better job in socialist-capitalist Scandinavia than here in America. Survey after survey says the Danes are the “happiest people on earth.” They don’t have dictatorships, but democracies, alongside the capitalist PRIVATE businesses like Volvo which operate in a capitalist SUPPLY AND DEMAND system, not pretending that robber baron-induced supply-side economics is capitalism. In America, liars, liars, pants on fire. And lemmings in the common folk who are so stupid and idiotic they go along. Silly me for being so mean in saying this. After all, with decades of Trumpican type sabotage of PUBLIC EDUCATION, I should feel sorry for these people. Not if they insist on digging in their heals and perhaps saying I am arrogant. I don’t feel sorry for them with their lack of ability to LISTEN and LEARN. Without the listen and learn, perhaps I should feel sorry for them. But what good does feeling sorry for such people do for America, the land I love.

In line with what I say, let us consider what Warren Buffett and others have said.

Warren Buffett says what? The results of a search in Google can tell us some. But he has recommended easy changes and fixes which might work. But even Warren Buffett is NOT PERFECT. He is just one of many Americans with suggestions for America. One thing I do recall is that the U.S. Code (the words which conclude all the legislation in this nation) is convoluted and that Congress needs to take a vacation from legislating for a time and review that U.S. Code, tossing out all that is part of it which is really too convoluted. Unlike the Trumpicans who want to toss out parts of the U.S. Constitution after taking an oath to defend it (like FUCKING Clarence Thomas and Kavanaugh and Barrett with regard to religious freedom in this nation), the aim should be the U.S. Code. Did Buffett say this? Seems like I recall hearing about it at one time. Read all about it. The results of a search on Google. Read all about it. That’s the way it was… Read and weep.

The Buffet Rule: This is how you fix Congress! – IMDiversity
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Local Binghamton CBS affiliate, channel 12

Dear Sirs or Madams (of CBS Sixty Minutes):

We regularly watch Sixty Minutes and appreciate having this news AND information source available to us. We despise Fox News with its lies. the National Association of Broadcasters needs to put Fox out of business. 

We have a bumper sticker which reads: “We get our NEWS from Comedy Central and our entertainment from Fox News.”  That about describes what we have to the nth degree in America today, due to the Republican destruction of the Fairness Doctrine which was put in place in the 1940s to guard against Nazi propaganda which had destroyed Germany.  In the 1940s, everyone was in agreement, so this was a bipartisan decision.

For some 20 years or more, I have written to publications and the media. I have used local newspapers and local television outlets, as well as networks. I write to Sixty Minutes, especially when I hear the recently repeated story about robots (Anderson Cooper?).  I write about many other news reports. With the demise of local news, by hedgefund lovers of money (also a recent story on Sixty Minutes), I have watched as my writings have not been published.  At first, I was puzzled. As time has gone by and with the wisdom of age, I have discovered the reasons.  Both your Sixty Minutes report and an article in The Economist and other publications have unraveled the mystery and puzzle to me.  When one relies only on intuition and observation of actual events at a Florida newspaper and elsewhere, it is good to find out that what I have been writing about what I KNOW has been correct, it is sad that no one pays attention to me anymore.  At one time, before the older great journalists retired – the people of good will running local newspaper – I was accepted. Now I feel as if I am on the outside looking in when most of what I have written has been correct.

Wat I am finding is that my distribution to a local Binghamton Fox affiliate has been read by such people at Fox. What do they do? Just as Trump does. Put a spin on what I say that is in line with their lies and re-distribute.  There is no teamwork among people of good will in the media business and that is a crying shame.  So, I have removed the Fox affiliate from my distribution.  I have removed Sean Hanity from my distribution list. 

With this being said, what about the other three Binghamton television network affiliates? NBC and ABC affiliates in Binghamton are run by one owner. The local news comes from one outlet: Newschannel 34, the ABC affiliate.  The PBS affiliate has no local news, only the PBS Newshour and other PBS network news analysis. 

This situation leaves the local CBS affiliate, WBNG, channel 12.  The local news is not always “local, but taken from “wire” stories on CNN and other news places. CBS Channel 12 had the best local news source in this area, back in the years when I was growing up.  Today, I would have to say this Grey Company local affiliate is not THE BEST, but it sure is better than Fox 40. 

What bothers me about local channel 12 is the fact it no longer accepts email. This is the device I have used to distribute what I write.  Why does channel 12 do this? Why does a news AND INFORMATION channel not read what I write any more? What the hell is going on? Here we are and I can say my likes and dislikes are pretty much on the same page as channel 12. But none of my writing is accepted there.  Don’t get me wrong. There is never 100% agreement with any humans or human organizations. But my judgment is that, unlike Fox, they don’t lie. They are not liars, liars pants on fire.

Yesterday, I was in an area in which a local Solid Gold radio broadcast (Equinox) was difficult to receive as we have a country music station interfering. So, in the car, we turned to another local radio station with music more acceptable to us, though it was NOT solid gold.  In this area, there are pockets where hills block one signal and from some valley comes another. Back in the days of my youth, with mostly AM broadcasts, that never happened here. Even when FM was introduced, it never happened. We received ALL Binghamton stations plus other smaller city stations. Today, we senior citizens are being relegated to purchasing, on a lower revenue stream in our family budget, Sirius XM. At one time, it was all FREE, FREE, FREE – supported by local advertisers.  But yesterday, in the car, when listening to this other station because we were FORCED to do so by rules emanating from the FCC which is controlled by big business when it should be a third party representing the DEMAND SIDE of the market or WE THE PEOPLE.  It is represented by those on the SUPPLY SIDE of the market. Period.  Money is used to validate this. BS on that because free broadcast once DID make money and could still make money, just not feed the already filled to the brim pockets of those with hedgefund investments like the guy Sixty Minutes reported on who now owns a multitude of newspapers and can buy a mansion in Miami when most of us have had to leave Florida because we cannot afford the housing there (along with factors of heat, humidity, and hurricanes with outrageous costs to put money into an insurance hole for hurricanes and never see it again).  But on this radio station we were FORCED to turn to, as a Cuban citizen might be forced when Castro put a block on many broadcasts from Miami, we listened to the news. At the end, we discovered we were FORCED to listen to Fox News. Fox News ended the broadcast with “all America loves Fox News.” Another lie because all America DOES NOT love Fox News. They say it to inspire groupthink from peer pressure and get Republicans elected. I call the Republicans “republicunts” and “repugnicans” because, due to Fox News, the Republicans have become perverted and are NOT like the Republicans I knew one time, associated with, and was a registered Republican. BTW. How much media is covering those of us who have found that “republicunts” and “repugnicans” have forced us to leave the party? Instead I hear crap about Democrats. 

Interestingly enough, the story on Fox News which we heard and which surprised us, was a condemnation of Joe Biden. It was absurd as this news report did not just report the news, as was the function under the Fairness Doctrine, but made a comment about how bad Biden was because he stood up to Big Oil.  In other words, he stood up to the Koch brothers, Texas slick oil men, and others.  Fox News did not say that, did they? They wish to force the Keystone Oil Pipeline and only do that by drawing a false picture of alternative fuels. Had we been more in line with alternative fuels, due to Fox News, we would not be stuck today with the a dilemma which mirrors the results of the 1973 oil embargo.  It was republicunts which put the axe on alternative fuels – for the sake of BIG OIL

This harks back to a Sixty Minutes report many years ago about the development of green technology and alternative fuels with the help of government “incubator” money for business in America.  The report was a great one in which we the people learned that America, perhaps being blocked by BIG OIL back in those days(?), did not have investors to buy up those companies because it required deep pocket-ed investors for the long term development of such alternatives.  Your report told about investors from China who were purchasing these “startups.”  And to Fox News people, they blame government dollars being thrown to China, while they never report on how much Big Oil was sabotaging Americans who may have wanted to invest, so as to hold the control in thic country. It is the basis for attacks against Democrats, while, as is always the case (and with gun safety and domestic terrorism), it is the Fox followers and their sabotage which are the root cause – with their evil love of money. 

With all of this explanation, I return to the issue of local news CBS affiliate, channel 12. Back in the days when television was first begun, I recall channel 12 being both CBS and ABC. The local NBC affiliate is now Fox40 and a new NBC affiliate was formed after that change happened.  Channel 12 was the only VHF affiliate at that time. It still really is the only “digital” VHF, except perhaps the local NBC affiliate run by ABC affiliate channel 34. Thus, in those early years, few people actually invested in a UHF antenna. I know my dad did not. It was stupid of the FCC to do that, especially when we compare to the city of Scranton where ALL the local affiliates have been UHF and VHF has not existed there. If there were smart people on the FCC back then, they would have handed all the VHF to bigger cities such as Syracuse, Rochester, and so forth. With the VHF affiliate in Binghamton and no one investing in UHF antennas, but purchasing huge VHF antennas to receive channel 12 of Binghamton and the Syracuse VHF stations, that station in Binghamton left the other network broadcasts in the dark as underdogs to channel 12. The news reporting on channels 40 and 34, quite frankly my dear, SUCKED.

When channel 12 was both CBS and ABC, we got to see, in the late 1950s when I was at pre-K age, Mickey Mouse Club. It was broadcast on ABC, so channel 12 picked it up.  (Ironic that ABC is now owned by Disney and the “mouse”).  Thus, my favoritism of CBS channel 12, which went to CBS only at the time channel 34 was created (WBJA) as an ABC affiliate (see the story about the history of channel 34: https://tvstations.fandom.com/wiki/WIVT ). 

Thus, with the sabotage of my stories conducted by Fox and the fact that a better news station (CBS 12 of Binghamton) rejects email, I have to protest this situation because good people are not coming together to solve this problem in America. This is not polarization. It is the news and information being taken over by one network when we have four networks. Fox operates in the same way as the communist party or Nazi party control of broadcasting in a dictatorship. 

I repeat. That is NOT polarization so bleeding heart liberals need to stop being so damn diplomatic about it all and calling it polarization.  I despised the Capitol 4th concert this past week (on PBS) because, once again, it tries to be nice and talk about a divided America. It is NOT divided. It is a nation with the stage being set for dictatorial control just like that of Hitler and Goebbels. We need to stop pussyfooting around with all this BS for bleeding heart diplomacy – as if that is going to fix the problem.  Given the evidence in history in other nations, THIS BLEEDING HEART DIPLOMACY WILL NOT FIX THE PROBLEM OF THIS NATION HEADING TOWARDS A DICTATORSHIP. IT WILL NOT. I have been correct in EVERYTHING I HAVE SAID AND WRITTEN SINCE THE ELECTION OF RONALD REAGAN IN 1980, so TO BE IGNORED NOW IS REALLY ASININE.  To not be able to write to the local CBS affiliate is asinine, too.  You people need to collect the information, not be concerned about how nice Fox or republicunts or repugnicans are treated.  Stop the BS of bleeding hearts.  Stop scoffing at people like me and ignoring what we are saying. 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. People of America consider what German Niemoller said: 

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.’

This quote was one of many which inspired the creation of the Fairness Doctrine in late 1940s USA.  Cowards are the ones who realize I am correct and use what I write to the detriment of people of good will among the Democrats AND true Republicans (i.e., the Lincoln Project).  It is about time journalism and media reared its head loud and strong against such actions. 

Why does local CBS affiliate channel 12 NOT accept email? What the hell is this in forcing us to do? All to go to ONE monopolized platform called Facebook? Or forcing us to go to social media only?  Forcing us to listen to the lies of Fox and other outlets of hatred?  Listen to the DEMAND SIDE of a capitalist market which SHOULD exist with balance between supply and demand. I speak about such balance and keep in mind this is just as the checks and balances are SUPPOSED to exist in our government between executive, legislative, and judicial, but has been SABOTAGED by people like Trump, Giuliani, McConnell, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Gaetz, and many other sodomites who enjoy rape of women, but not homosexuality. 

For the DEMAND SIDE, I am speaking. Now pay attention to many of us who want checks and balances in government and economics, not a dictatorship of the SUPPLY-SIDERS.

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