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I have decided to go into the US election season wearing an over the top, big hat like one might see at the Kentucky Derby. Such things are called “fascinators” in Britain. Also, I plan to have lots of tea parties, not unlike the Mad Hatter in Alice and Wonderland, minus the Mercury contamination of course, since I prefer to celebrate “life and life abundant” rather than the slow erosion of one’s brain.
Alas, it is nearly impossible to observe a US election cycle without slowly eroding one’s brain.
A bit comical, while a lot of women were horrified by the imagery in Margaret Atwood’s, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” I was simply envious of the big winged hats that are much like horse blinders. When it comes to observing human behavior I do prefer to just cover my eyes, in as fashionable a manner as possible. Horse blinders would be most helpful, if only we could make them fashionable and current. As the quote goes, “this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper,” and I hope to at least be properly dressed for the occasion.
Don’t judge me! My goal in life has now become making sure my tombstone says, “she often summed up enough muster to get out of her pajamas.”
I don’t know how to say this but, we are going to lose. We have already lost! We will all be losing. There are no winners here at all, except perhaps for the New World Order and who ever they decide to crown, to officially coronate in our perfectly just and secure elections that we can all totally trust in 120%, which ironically also happens to be the same number of votes our duly elected candidate shall receive.
I am pretty sure fascinators were made for such a time as this, for when one is forced to participate in Bread and Circuses and clap politely every time they announce, “a chicken for every pot.” Just once I’d like them to announce “a pancake for every bunny head,” but we can’t always get what we want.
In case I have not made myself abundantly clear, my belief in the integrity of US elections now stands at about a -5. My faith in the idea that “electing the right person will fix everything,” or really fix anything at all, is even lower, probably a -9.
Part of the issue here is that many huge and glaring problems have been clearly identified, documented, exposed, and yet there has been absolutely no effort to remedy any of them, and certainly no closure. Nor have we even attempted to learn from our mistakes! This is not unlike my rather unsuccessful war on potholes. Since our local county has received millions of billions for pothole fixing, I rather foolishly assumed they might want to fix one particular pothole that could easily house a family of four. Little did I realize this particular pothole is already receiving subsidized housing funds and unless I “hate the homeless,” I will just learn to keep my darn mouth shut about pot holes.
It’s fine, everything is fine. I’m sure things will go right on just being fine.
So I’d like to offer you some wisdom, some hope, perhaps even suggest a moral to this sordid tale, but I got nothing to offer. It just is what it is. The Bible says in Psalm 146, “Put NOT your trust in princes,” which indicates that is exactly what the vast majority of us shall promptly proceed to do. In 1 Samuel 8, Sam and the Lord discuss the problem with people and the problem with Kings. Samuel tries to explain to the people all the potential issues, but the people are like, “No, We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles!”
So the Lord just says, “okay,” and that is that.
There is another way, a better way, one where you honor the Lord and learn to govern your own self but that’s so, so much work and totally uncool these days. We really want a figurehead to go out and fight our battles for us while we all sit home and virtue signal or lament, depending on how much they foul it all up this time.
A friend of mine used to call it the “silly season,” a triumph of hope over experience, which may sound rather optimistic on the surface, but it also happens to the very definition of insanity. Let’s completely ignore the issues, do exactly what we’ve always done, and see if we can get different results…..this time.
See, there's this thing called biology... 
One of the problems with “Democracy” is it inevitably misleads people in to thinking they can decide their vote the same way the shop for a new hat. Unless and until people get it through their thick skulls that voting wrong can destroy the world and annihilate the human race, the world will continue to be destroyed and the human race will continue to be slowly annihilated.
But we deserve what we get because it’s like HL Mencken said, or maybe it was Gandhi, or else it might have been Genghis Khan:
“People need to get everything they vote for, in spades, good and hard, until it grinds them to powder, and they blow away like dust in the wind.”
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i disagree. we don’t “deserve what we get”. even when we vote “right” or at least not not “wrong”, we still get what THEY want us to “get” and they fight us tooth and nail, every inch against what we “deserve”. We deserve the freedoms and rights guaranteed and provided for by the Constitution. We have never and never will “deserve” the Tyranny of the Powerful that our Republic has become. Never
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I’m saying we deserve to be tyrannized because it’s our Christian duty to not be deceived. I think we deserve to suffer excruciatingly because only stupid idiots and degenerate dirt bags could fail to see through the ludicrous lies the politicians and their media masters tell us.
There is no free lunch, and only a pathetic loser criminal dumbass could possibly believe there is. Yet, people think they can vote themselves free lunch, in violation of God’s law and the
laws of physics and economics and thermodynamics.
So, sorry, I feel no sympathy for voters. I hate the voters. I will always hate the voters until they start voting with some common sense and decency.
II Timothy 3:
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Galatians 6:
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
It’s easy for me to say all this because I’m not running for office. I am running though, as
fast as I can from the vast mobs I have enraged.
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No one deserves to be tryrannized or abused. You “hate the voters”? Lol. Stop hating people, or people just like you and me, for the “ugly sin” of disagreeing with you. Believe it or not, we’re all in this together. Redirect that “hate” and venom to the System that makes it possible to “hate” others like you do.
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It’s time for people to grow up and take some responsibility for how they vote and stop blaming everybody else besides those who actually cause the problem. Politicians only have power because people vote for them.
The mass lying media only has power because stupid idiots believe them.
Why shouldn’t I hate the people who hate the truth and love to be deceived? Why shouldn’t I hate the people who vote me in to slavery?
It makes a lot more sense for me to hate the voters than to waste time hating the politicians and the mass media.
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You’re wrong brother. We don’t hate any person. And “politicians” have “power” more than just the one day every two years that we vote for them. Largely, they do what they want the other 729 days. Those are the days they wield “power” and we have zero say in what they do until the next time they need our “vote”. They “have power” by taking it and exercising it mostly with or without your consent during those 729 days. But we don’t “hate” people. We hate the System. Get your heart and mind right, brother.
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“But we don’t “hate” people. We hate the System.”
It’s rotten people that make the world rotten, not systems. The worst sort of system would not be a problem if people weren’t rotten, and the best system imaginable will still be rotten if the people in it were rotten.
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the people who really “run” our country want us to “hate” other americans. to divide and set us at each other’s throats. you’re playing their gam, by their rules, with their desired results. Hate for anyone, other american voters included, is not the way of Jesus. and it’s not our “christian duty” to enrage anyone intentionally. get your heart and mind right, brother
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I think the egregiousness of the error of the voters is worthy of using the word “HATE” with a capital H.A.T.E.
Surely you can’t be saying that people should not be criticized in proportion to the egregiousness of there felonious fault, are you?
Frankly, I think the voters are worthy of being sent to a place infinitely worse than hell, for a time infinitely longer than an infinite number of infinite eternities, laid end to end consecutively and not running concurrently.
Is that hatey enough for you?
The one concession I might make to you is that since I live in California, I probably have a skewed view of how rotten voters are. It might be that voters in other places might be as bad as the ones here.
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I certainly tried… Titus 3.10-11. Have a great day. Hate for people is not one of the Fruits of the Spirit in gal 5. It comes from elsewhere. I hope you will one day return, but you’re lost buddy.
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Love is a fruit of the spirit, but love for everyone every where of every type in equal measure is not of God’s Spirit.
I confess my usage of certain words often involves a heavy dosage of hyperbole, but even Jesus used hyperbole in order to drive His point home, to divide between your soul and spirit, and your joints and your marrow.
Luke 14:
25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,
26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
How do you know it’s not the case that, if you don’t hate the voters, you cannot be a disciple of Christ? Think hard before you answer, and think deeply, and not like the stupid shallow
world thinks.
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I think there is something to us having, “a Christian duty to not be deceived.” Perhaps a better way to say that would be, “a Christian duty to think for ourselves.” Failing to deal with things, failing to take responsibility for ourselves, does have consequences and perhaps we do deserve to experience those. I would mention however, that there really are principalities and powers at play, dark forces at work outside of our control. Our destiny is not entirely in our hands, we are not the only one’s steering the ship. LOL, also we are really dumb! I am not sure how that works, but God is full of mercy and grace towards His foolish children, just as good human parents have a lot of grace mercy towards their kids when they stick beans up their nose or get their fingers stuck in holes. That’s why kids have parents, to watch over them because they really are foolish.
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One main prob with our us “elections” nowadays is that each political party.. and we’re ONLY ‘allowed’ two (false binary)… and the media… the 4th branch of government these days (or are they just a propaganda extension of the people who really “run” our country?)… have in their minds. and want to make us believe too, that it’s all about the “Power” to impose their wills and decisions on the other maximum 49% who didn’t vote for them… “for our own Good” of course, because of course… “They” know better. I’ve realized over the last few decades that the US lost our Constitutional footing LONG ago. We are not the Federal Republic of Free and Independent States (plural) that we were founded as. We have a Federal Government that no longer “serves” but sees itself as the “Master” of the States that once Voluntarily agreed and chose to join together as a Republic. We were not founded as a “Country” (singular) called the “United States”. The free and independent States “United” to form a Nation of “States” (plural).. ask yourself… when did this happen? Once you see the answer, you’ll understand that even though we have “elections” where the people can “vote” for the candidates that the only Two Parties and the Media “allow” us to “choose” from… with rare exceptions, we are only as “Free” as they allow us to be. Largely, we are not governed by the “consent” of our “votes” from One day every Two years.. we are “Ruled” by Power Hungry and Authoritarian Tyrants the other 728 days… On BOTH “sides” which are really just the One System. And it’s not the system that Constitution originally endorsed, set up or mapped out for us. It’s the One we fought the Revolution to throw off. We haven’t been “free” as the founders envisioned for us for a Very, very long time.
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Good point about how elections and political parties seem to be all about having the, “Power to impose their wills and decisions on the other maximum 49% who didn’t vote for them.” There used to be be a time when someone would at least say, “I will be the President of ALL Americans” and you got the impression that as a country we were at least going to be somewhat united. Things have gotten very divisive and vengeful.
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Think of all the ‘Blue States’ that Reagan, and that’s because he ran appealing to the benefit of all Americans, not just special interests.
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I think I disagree with your statement (at least in context of eternity) that “there are no winners here at all, except perhaps for the New World Order and whoever they decide to crown.” At the end of the day (The End of Days), these will be the biggest losers of all, because they have lived their lives believing their own lies and went to their graves without repenting. This is why I (lovingly) pray they come to justice in this life, so they might have a chance to confess, repent, and escape eternal consequences. (I assume you believe this also and were only speaking in terms of this life, because the “losers” in this life will be the winners in eternity. See you there. 🙂 )
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Ah yes, I was only speaking of modern politics not of heaven or kingdoms to come. There’s an amusing quote about “winning” elections, “half of you will be disappointed tonight and the other half of you will just be disappointed a few weeks later.”
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And as in all other species, our behavior arises from our DNA… Which leads us to honor our resulting feelings rather than think about that?
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Hmm, I am not sure if politics is the result of our DNA? If it is, that kind of dispels the whole notion of survival of the fittest and evolution, unless we have somehow managed to evolve backwards or something?
I am laughing, but I genuinely don’t know how much of our behavior is influenced by our DNA. If we were supposed to organize into collective groups for the betterment of the species, it doesn’t seem to be going very well. I honestly can’t find one single thing about evolutionary biology that ever makes any sense. 🙂
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We’ll have to find something else to quarrel about; evolution strikes me as that triumph of hope over experience that you mentioned. “Progress” seems preferable. The simultaneously competitive behavior that our species demonstrates quite a bit of progress, so far, with no change in behavior visible, though we do seem to some extent, to modify our applications of that behavior. Mostly. And only when it pays us to do so. And that’s part of our behavior, isn’t it?We call the socialist assumption of changing our behavior blind hogwash while our churchly folk pursue the same illusion in a different direction, seems to me.
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Politics today just plain suck. Since it’s nearly start of Summer let’s hear some vintage Christian rock with a good message instead lol
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I used to be such a political junkie and now I can’t hardly stand to watch any politician speak these days, even ones I favor. It just all seems so disingenuous; the standard demonization of opponents, the finger pointing, the empty words, the fight to claim the narrative, all kinda pointless and shallow.
Meanwhile the giant pink elephant in the room has died suddenly and the erosion of our political institutions have come full circle to near collapse. Where we go from here, nobody knows, but it’s certainly not business as usual.
Does Amazon sell those blinders? I’ll take 2!
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Re “the giant pink elephant in the room”
Always keep in mind that there are 2 “the giant pink elephants in the room” and they are married — “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room” … http://www.CovidTruthBeKnown.com (or https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html)
“We’ll know our Disinformation Program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” —William Casey, a former CIA director=a leading psychopathic criminal of the genocidal US regime
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King, Jr, 1929-1968, Civil Rights Activist
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I’m jealous that you ladies get to wear bigger hats.
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The Mexican sombrero is for everyone
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Good point.
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