Talking parlays makes my sports-crazed heart beat faster (go RU and not Russia for the uninformed) and seals the deal. Mine is silently chanting "I believe that we will win," Obama's epic three-pointer and that TX shocks the world. Will be comfortable being wrong about TX though...
So you are human? Just keep on doing what you. It's all food for thought, And this was a good way to focus on something else other than my nerves. Where's the nerve tonic anyway? Did that really used to be a thing?
Thank you for this, Greg. Those tarot pulls - - whoa, man. The Force is strong with you! No beating yourself up for not being able to predict the beyond-belief underhanded inclinations of Fake45 & his GOP Vladministration. Never in my 58 years did I expect to see some of the shit we've witnessed in the past 4+ years. I feel hopeful, but no popping cork 'til I see that Joe/Kamala won an indisputably winning number of electoral votes.
I needed a belly laugh badly this morning, and your description of Jason Miller ("...a deadbeat dad who looks like a thumb with a face Sharpied on...") had me rotfl...you totally nailed it, lmfaooo!
See you on the other side of Historic Poetic Justice tomorrow!
I love this post so much! I did an art piece involving the tarot tower card (a trump card) in 2016. On the card is written: “The tower is number XVI of the trump suit. When it appears in a reading, disrupting change is at hand. It will take clear eyes to see all that is shifting and changing.”
Well done you! While we pray that the average voter chooses Biden over Trump, we know that there is more to this whole situation than we’ve been told. More than we can suss out in our relentless research, reading books written about what happened in 2015/16; reading history and knowing that history repeats more often than not. What’s more is the failure of MSM to tell the truth about Trump and his henchmen-the Republicans, to the voting public, at least 85% of us believe that Trump is a crook, but there’s always that 15% knot of the population that rebel against acceptance, inclusion, and just want to burn it all down.
The vast majority of media know, but can’t say because their bosses are making cold hard cash for the first time in 10 years, the journalists and talking heads finally have more to talk about than an under inflated football...thanks to Trump and his need for complete adoration every day all day long.
But we voted, 100 million + early votes, blockbuster lines of people of all stripes, all denominations, all Americans mostly democrats, who have a visceral need to get Trump out of the White House and expose Republicans for the traitors they are, by voting them out of office, denying them the acceptance of what they have done over the past 4 years, we will not suffer under the yolk of tyranny that Trump offers his base who are too far gone to realize that he offers them nothing but expects complete obedience, acceptance of his power over them.
Let this day be the day Americans tell the traitors for once and all that they are not welcome, that they are never welcome again.
one of your very best my friend—and that's saying a LOT. when you're ready to do a Native American Medicine card draw let's do it together! thanks Greg, as always.
Wonderful. You are right more than you are wrong. And even when you are wrong, you are on the right track, because everyone else is making bad choices and decisions and THEY are wrong. Would 200,000+ Americans be dead if the impeachment process had proceeded as "reason" intended it should? That question will haunt me and I'm a Democrat. Those Republicans who sat on their hands should be having nightmares, yet somehow I think they are not. Anyway--this essay is just what I needed today, so thank you very much as always. And finally, Justice is a combo of Schrödinger's cat and the Sword of Damocles. I like it! #JusticeIsComing and I can't wait. Happy Election Day, Greg!
If I were not living in California, I would not feel at home in the USA. I am not the least bit surprised that I was born in San Francisco. It’s one of the smartest and sharpest populations in the entire country. Most Americans I think are apolitical and focused primarily on surviving, and frankly I can’t blame them for that. Surviving in America is a full-time job. Politics are not important when compared to having enough money to pay the bills, and having a secure home, and having good health.
I am an anomaly. Politically. Intelligence. Imagination. Knowledge and experience of the human world. Even having managed to discover, of all things, an “essential” job for myself, what in Boston I was calling a “recession-proof” job, is a freaking miracle. I am a miracle. That a person like me exists, and manages to survive, in this arch-conservative country is miraculous.
Half the voters in America are deluded into voting for a con artist, a sex criminal, a blowhard, a corrupt man who lines his own pockets whenever possible, a corrupt man who is lacking in basic intelligence but has enough intelligence to read Hitler and to delude the intelligence-deficient half of society into supporting him. It is unfathomable to me how dim the people in this country are.
Yes, we are in Election Week. Yesterday is Tuesday, November 3, 2020, Election Day in the U.S. I am ashamed to report that most of conservative, rural, and stupid America is choosing this creep a second time.
I have to revise my estimation of the U.S. population. Of course when I am out there working as a truck driver, at the warehouse in West Sacramento and on the road at stores and warehouses and hotels and truck stops, I am in constant contact with the average dummy who votes for Trump or who doesn’t bother voting. Technically they are my people, my society. Unofficially they are my stupid younger cousins. I cannot ever hope to see America educated. The so-called blue states might have a larger proportion of educated people, people who oppose a corrupt sexist racist anti-gay anti-Mexican anti-black anti-Puerto Rican leader. But even the blue states like California are riddled with, flooded with, dummies who are conservative and in denial about reality. Like my parents. Like I was, because I was raised in that family atmosphere.
Most people who are struggling to survive, most people in America cannot discern illusion from reality. They are attached to a view of conventional America which is a throwback to the 1950s and 1960s (and before), and they cannot move on from that whites-first men-first straights-first society bubble.
I should think that it’s sad. I should. But I don’t find it sad. I find it puzzling. I find it baffling. How can you live with yourself being so stupid and clueless about the real world. It’s embarrassing. It’s embarrassing being a clueless dummy.
I used to be hurt and pained that my candidate for President never won. I did not vote for a winning Presidential candidate until Obama. My first election was 1980, I voted for John Anderson. I have been hoping that American society advances a bit, but they are decades behind the smartest European societies. We are a stupid nation. We are a nation of stupid people. We aren’t even as smart as the average German from the Hitler years, because at least Hitler was delivering on his promises. He built the autobahn. He designed and constructed the VW Beetle for the common family. He brought food, heated homes, and prosperity to the country, that’s why all the devotion. Trump is just a goon, a con man, a rapist and soon-to-be registered sex offender, a corrupt profiteer who lines his own pockets and only profits his cronies. He hasn’t done anything to help the common American, he just lies about helping them and they believe him.
As a country, we are no better than the average nation in Latin America or Africa or Asia. All we have is the Constitution, and a mostly non-corrupt government and election system and legal system. If we did not have that, we would be no better than Belarus or Russia or Noriega’s Panama or Marcos’s Philippines.
It’s a poor state of affairs. I think I have been living in my own delusion. It’s not a delusion like the Trump supporters, it’s a delusion that my society is a reflection of me. I think I have been in denial about how poorly aware and poorly educated my own country actually is.
It’s sobering.
I am just barely, just barely, beginning to understand why Donald Trump could win a second term. I am living in a nation of dummies, of deluded dummies. This election is not about Trump. This election is about the 10s and 100s of millions of Americans who really don’t understand what is happening in the world.
I mourn for consciousness. I mourn for awareness. I mourn for intelligence, for wisdom, for knowledge. I am so grateful that I am not one of the brainwashed, one of the deluded, one of the clueless, one of the benighted.
[end]
Please excuse me if I have offended anyone. Not my intention. I lifted this piece straight out of my journal, it's personal and vulnerable and raw. I did not write it for this post, I did not write it keeping in mind all the good people who are reading it now who live in other states besides California. It is just me.
Hey, guy, thanks for sharing your journal entry. Its raw despair matches what's in my heart right now. Even though Joe/Kamala will likely win, the Senate will still be in #MoscowMitch's gleeful grim reaper claw, so Joe had better get that Executive Order pen warmed up & ready, at least until we can flip the Senate in 2022. My belief is that this overwhelming white support for BLOATUS threads back to Fox "News," OAN, & talk radio trolls like Limbaugh & his ilk spreading lies & misinformation to people who don't/won't question what's being presented. Many people just aren't that into politics, so they find a "news" outlet that matches their general beliefs & stick w/ it. I think it's a mix of both - - racist bullies who hate "liberals" &/or just very under-educated, low-information voters. Add them to the wealthy, who support the GOP blindly because it's good for their bottomline$ & you have ~50% of the electorate who want that pus-filled asszit to continue his strafing of our Constitutional Republic. Even if Joe wins, I should probably move to another country, since I, too, feel like a stranger in this one...
Wonderful way to end the article....and one hell of a Tarot card spread!
Crazy, right? Chances of that spread are just off the charts low.
Talking parlays makes my sports-crazed heart beat faster (go RU and not Russia for the uninformed) and seals the deal. Mine is silently chanting "I believe that we will win," Obama's epic three-pointer and that TX shocks the world. Will be comfortable being wrong about TX though...
I was this years old when I realized RU was Rutgers. I knew it wasn't Russia.
So you are human? Just keep on doing what you. It's all food for thought, And this was a good way to focus on something else other than my nerves. Where's the nerve tonic anyway? Did that really used to be a thing?
Today we win.
I am Nexus-6.
Best thing to do today is vote, get other people to vote, and then distract yourself until tonight.
Is that the order you drew the cards in? Or is there some method to determine which one indicated the past, present and future?
That's the order, and the order is always that way: first is past, etc.
It’s crazy because I just created this image this weekend as well https://www.deviantart.com/xntrik-fenix/art/Morning-After-859912404 I call it “Morning After” and I wasn’t sure if it was speaking peace or fire to me. But it’s eerily similar to your center Tarot card
I fully endorse your tarot reading.
Thank you for this, Greg. Those tarot pulls - - whoa, man. The Force is strong with you! No beating yourself up for not being able to predict the beyond-belief underhanded inclinations of Fake45 & his GOP Vladministration. Never in my 58 years did I expect to see some of the shit we've witnessed in the past 4+ years. I feel hopeful, but no popping cork 'til I see that Joe/Kamala won an indisputably winning number of electoral votes.
I needed a belly laugh badly this morning, and your description of Jason Miller ("...a deadbeat dad who looks like a thumb with a face Sharpied on...") had me rotfl...you totally nailed it, lmfaooo!
See you on the other side of Historic Poetic Justice tomorrow!
😁✊🏻💙🇺🇸🌊🌊🌊
I love this post so much! I did an art piece involving the tarot tower card (a trump card) in 2016. On the card is written: “The tower is number XVI of the trump suit. When it appears in a reading, disrupting change is at hand. It will take clear eyes to see all that is shifting and changing.”
The Tower is, of course, Trump Tower.
Definitely. I wish I could figure out how to post an image here.
More to the point, cats are never wrong. Magical post, Greg!
Also true.
Yes. Magical. Perfect description. Now I'm going to draw 3 of my Zen Tarot Cards!
Well done you! While we pray that the average voter chooses Biden over Trump, we know that there is more to this whole situation than we’ve been told. More than we can suss out in our relentless research, reading books written about what happened in 2015/16; reading history and knowing that history repeats more often than not. What’s more is the failure of MSM to tell the truth about Trump and his henchmen-the Republicans, to the voting public, at least 85% of us believe that Trump is a crook, but there’s always that 15% knot of the population that rebel against acceptance, inclusion, and just want to burn it all down.
The vast majority of media know, but can’t say because their bosses are making cold hard cash for the first time in 10 years, the journalists and talking heads finally have more to talk about than an under inflated football...thanks to Trump and his need for complete adoration every day all day long.
But we voted, 100 million + early votes, blockbuster lines of people of all stripes, all denominations, all Americans mostly democrats, who have a visceral need to get Trump out of the White House and expose Republicans for the traitors they are, by voting them out of office, denying them the acceptance of what they have done over the past 4 years, we will not suffer under the yolk of tyranny that Trump offers his base who are too far gone to realize that he offers them nothing but expects complete obedience, acceptance of his power over them.
Let this day be the day Americans tell the traitors for once and all that they are not welcome, that they are never welcome again.
Amen. Amen. Amen.
one of your very best my friend—and that's saying a LOT. when you're ready to do a Native American Medicine card draw let's do it together! thanks Greg, as always.
Thanks, Will. And thanks for sharing!
We shall prevail!
Love your posts every day...but this one gets 5+ stars!
Brilliant. This may be my favorite piece of writing you’ve done and we needed the fun tarot reading in the end.
And yes....We hope you’re right.
Thank you for helping keep me somewhat sane these past weeks and especially today as I live each day surrounded by trump lovers.
Wonderful. You are right more than you are wrong. And even when you are wrong, you are on the right track, because everyone else is making bad choices and decisions and THEY are wrong. Would 200,000+ Americans be dead if the impeachment process had proceeded as "reason" intended it should? That question will haunt me and I'm a Democrat. Those Republicans who sat on their hands should be having nightmares, yet somehow I think they are not. Anyway--this essay is just what I needed today, so thank you very much as always. And finally, Justice is a combo of Schrödinger's cat and the Sword of Damocles. I like it! #JusticeIsComing and I can't wait. Happy Election Day, Greg!
America is riddled with dummies.
If I were not living in California, I would not feel at home in the USA. I am not the least bit surprised that I was born in San Francisco. It’s one of the smartest and sharpest populations in the entire country. Most Americans I think are apolitical and focused primarily on surviving, and frankly I can’t blame them for that. Surviving in America is a full-time job. Politics are not important when compared to having enough money to pay the bills, and having a secure home, and having good health.
I am an anomaly. Politically. Intelligence. Imagination. Knowledge and experience of the human world. Even having managed to discover, of all things, an “essential” job for myself, what in Boston I was calling a “recession-proof” job, is a freaking miracle. I am a miracle. That a person like me exists, and manages to survive, in this arch-conservative country is miraculous.
Half the voters in America are deluded into voting for a con artist, a sex criminal, a blowhard, a corrupt man who lines his own pockets whenever possible, a corrupt man who is lacking in basic intelligence but has enough intelligence to read Hitler and to delude the intelligence-deficient half of society into supporting him. It is unfathomable to me how dim the people in this country are.
Yes, we are in Election Week. Yesterday is Tuesday, November 3, 2020, Election Day in the U.S. I am ashamed to report that most of conservative, rural, and stupid America is choosing this creep a second time.
I have to revise my estimation of the U.S. population. Of course when I am out there working as a truck driver, at the warehouse in West Sacramento and on the road at stores and warehouses and hotels and truck stops, I am in constant contact with the average dummy who votes for Trump or who doesn’t bother voting. Technically they are my people, my society. Unofficially they are my stupid younger cousins. I cannot ever hope to see America educated. The so-called blue states might have a larger proportion of educated people, people who oppose a corrupt sexist racist anti-gay anti-Mexican anti-black anti-Puerto Rican leader. But even the blue states like California are riddled with, flooded with, dummies who are conservative and in denial about reality. Like my parents. Like I was, because I was raised in that family atmosphere.
Most people who are struggling to survive, most people in America cannot discern illusion from reality. They are attached to a view of conventional America which is a throwback to the 1950s and 1960s (and before), and they cannot move on from that whites-first men-first straights-first society bubble.
I should think that it’s sad. I should. But I don’t find it sad. I find it puzzling. I find it baffling. How can you live with yourself being so stupid and clueless about the real world. It’s embarrassing. It’s embarrassing being a clueless dummy.
I used to be hurt and pained that my candidate for President never won. I did not vote for a winning Presidential candidate until Obama. My first election was 1980, I voted for John Anderson. I have been hoping that American society advances a bit, but they are decades behind the smartest European societies. We are a stupid nation. We are a nation of stupid people. We aren’t even as smart as the average German from the Hitler years, because at least Hitler was delivering on his promises. He built the autobahn. He designed and constructed the VW Beetle for the common family. He brought food, heated homes, and prosperity to the country, that’s why all the devotion. Trump is just a goon, a con man, a rapist and soon-to-be registered sex offender, a corrupt profiteer who lines his own pockets and only profits his cronies. He hasn’t done anything to help the common American, he just lies about helping them and they believe him.
As a country, we are no better than the average nation in Latin America or Africa or Asia. All we have is the Constitution, and a mostly non-corrupt government and election system and legal system. If we did not have that, we would be no better than Belarus or Russia or Noriega’s Panama or Marcos’s Philippines.
It’s a poor state of affairs. I think I have been living in my own delusion. It’s not a delusion like the Trump supporters, it’s a delusion that my society is a reflection of me. I think I have been in denial about how poorly aware and poorly educated my own country actually is.
It’s sobering.
I am just barely, just barely, beginning to understand why Donald Trump could win a second term. I am living in a nation of dummies, of deluded dummies. This election is not about Trump. This election is about the 10s and 100s of millions of Americans who really don’t understand what is happening in the world.
I mourn for consciousness. I mourn for awareness. I mourn for intelligence, for wisdom, for knowledge. I am so grateful that I am not one of the brainwashed, one of the deluded, one of the clueless, one of the benighted.
[end]
Please excuse me if I have offended anyone. Not my intention. I lifted this piece straight out of my journal, it's personal and vulnerable and raw. I did not write it for this post, I did not write it keeping in mind all the good people who are reading it now who live in other states besides California. It is just me.
Hey, guy, thanks for sharing your journal entry. Its raw despair matches what's in my heart right now. Even though Joe/Kamala will likely win, the Senate will still be in #MoscowMitch's gleeful grim reaper claw, so Joe had better get that Executive Order pen warmed up & ready, at least until we can flip the Senate in 2022. My belief is that this overwhelming white support for BLOATUS threads back to Fox "News," OAN, & talk radio trolls like Limbaugh & his ilk spreading lies & misinformation to people who don't/won't question what's being presented. Many people just aren't that into politics, so they find a "news" outlet that matches their general beliefs & stick w/ it. I think it's a mix of both - - racist bullies who hate "liberals" &/or just very under-educated, low-information voters. Add them to the wealthy, who support the GOP blindly because it's good for their bottomline$ & you have ~50% of the electorate who want that pus-filled asszit to continue his strafing of our Constitutional Republic. Even if Joe wins, I should probably move to another country, since I, too, feel like a stranger in this one...