Is it time to turn off the lights?: thoughts on the Trump / Biden debate

 

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By the time the debate had ended 7 beers had been consumed. I was numb, not from the beer. I was numb from thinking about the consequences of the spectacle I had just witnessed. Watch it in full here.

I had seen two adults wishing to be President behaving like a couple of high school punks in a school yard arguing. Sophomores at that. This display was their attempt to win votes. It's experiences like this that turn the American mind into silly putty.

Donald Trump and his White Christian Nationalist agenda has a real chance of being the direction the U.S. chooses. Democracy Now report. If that happens the entire world is imminently imperiled.

The other candidate, Joe Biden is not the solution to the problems of Americans on Main Street. Biden is the solution to the problems facing the Wall Street status quo. Biden, however, can be a 'plug' in the hole Trump has drilled in the Ship of State. Biden can put out the fires Trump has started, but he WILL sell us out in the long term because of his loyalties to corporate profits. For now Biden is America's life boat that we need to get to shore. 

Being allowed to have only these two candidates to choose from is hardly able to be called self-determination when there are so many different points of view which are not included. For instance economic ideas like Socialism and Marxism are anathema in current political discussion.  However the problems of Americans trying to scratch out a living on Main Street are an indication that there needs to be new managers in charge of the economy and we have only thought in Capitalist terms up to the present moment when it comes to managing the economy.

Teachers like Richard Wolff have proven that Americans are ready to re-consider whether or not they want to change how the economy is managed. I'm ready, how about you?

Is it time to turn off the lights.  Is the music over?  Well, as far as I'm concerned it's not time to turn off the lights just yet.

Hollyhock

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This summer I decided to grow hollyhocks.  An entire package of seeds was planted and one plant resulted.

Planted in May it wasn't until July that one plant appeared. When it did I wasn't sure it was a hollyhock but, or so, I let it grow.  Despite the frustration of not knowing what it was that was growing until mid-summer I really enjoyed growing this flower. 

I was utterly dumbfounded at the size, strength and vigor of the plant.  The number of  large, showy, vibrant pink flower blossoms was mind-blowing.

Growing the flower garden this summer was spiritually beneficial in a time of COVID stress.  The genuineness of the law of 'Karma' is evident every day you do or do not weed and water. Gardening is a genuine life lesson, you reap what you sow.  Or as The Buddha said:  

"1. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.

2. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."

I enjoyed growing the hollyhock and was impressed with how big it got.  The plant in the picture is not as big as it had been destined to become. Fate intervened, a wind came up and ripped off 4 large blossom laden stalks leaving only the center stalk which was impressive in it's own right. 

I made a video and for some reason I am unable to display the video with the embed code you can see it click here.  

As a public service with the President racing the length and breadth of the nation hosting disease spreading events there is something you need to remember.  Voting this November is a MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.  

I'm beginning to wonder. How about you?

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The social unrest in the United States under the supervision of Donald Trump is increasing.  Social conditions involving lack of employment, lack of healthcare, environmental devastation caused by global warming and police reform are foremost in the social discussion which the Trump Administration is seeking to stifle.  In short living conditions are dire for tens of millions of Americans who are concluding they have been, since the revelations of Donald Trump about COVID contagiousness, hung out to dry.  

They are, as a result, raising their voices in dissent.  The electorate is coming to understand that their elected lawmakers have abandoned them and subordinated the requirements of their lives and the lives of their families to the profits of Wall Street Profiteers.

Social justice, both religious and social, comprised  the conditions upon which Jesus of Nazareth applied the principles of the Kingdom Of Heaven.  (Christian pastor condemns evangelical support for Donald Trump)

Social justice can only exist in an environment in which the institutions of society are free from corruption.  Such a condition requires every aspect of society be on the up and up from the king to the bedroom of the shepherd. We know for certain that is not a description of the United States form of government under Donald Trump and AG Barr.

The irony of this is that the US claims to be a Christian Nation.  That may be. But it does not deserve the claim to be a nation that applies the principles of Jesus to it's decision making.  Christians can be cruel and autocratic.  The record of the 4 gospels is that Jesus was never that way.

The principles of the Kingdom Of Heaven will promote social harmony.  Abandoning those principles involves embracing a specific type of decision making. In the U S that type of decision making is characterized by prioritizing Wall Street profiteers over ordinary citizens.  

Now the problem with this is that Jesus anticipated malefactors making laws and provided the following insight at the link to encourage those of us less fortunate than Wall Street profiteers. 

The paragraph below is from a book written by a woman who was acclaimed as a prophet by some and proven to be a plagiarist by others.  Her name was Ellen G. White. The author provides a bleak depiction of a future America.  Read the words below and ask yourself if these words do not reflect reality.

"In the plague that follows, power is given to the sun “to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat.” 1076 The prophets thus describe the condition of the earth at this fearful time: “The land mourneth; ... because the harvest of the field is perished.” “All the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.” “The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate.” “How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture.... The rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.” “The songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.” 1077 The Great Controversy

A question.  If you don't speak up and present the government with your grievances how do you think the trajectory of the present course will end up?

It Just Keeps Getting Crazier And Crazier

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It Just Keeps Getting Crazier And Crazier.  America now has a President who disrespects those who have been unfortunate enough to have suffered for the good of their fellow Americans.  Rachel Maddow  has the down low on this. 

I would think the President's stated opinions of wounded veterans (CBS News at link) would discourage people from serving in the military with him as Commander In Chief.  Who would serve a man who thinks so little of the worth of the life and health of his own soldiers?

Does the President view the soldiers as 'renewable resources'? 

Americans have some soul searching to do. (Poem by Allen Ginsberg at the link) A good number of Americans are doubtful of a positive or desirable outcome from the planning of Trump and the Republican Party for the future of the nation. 

I'm just hoping a majority of Americans can defeat the President's plans to fuck up the election. I hope we as a nation are able to reject this impostor to the Republic.

I've made up my mind that my vote will be for Biden if the President is unsuccessful in his attempts to keep me from voting. The President may yet succeed in corrupting the outcome of the election.  There's nothing I can do about it so I've made lifestyle changes with the intent to lessen the stress produced by the ongoing social unrest caused by Donald Trump's policies.  

I've stopped watching the news more than a few minutes a day because it is non-stop aggravation and unsettling information that is unnecessary since I have made up my mind.  

Since I am certain Trump is as un-American as a man can become  (link to The Damage Report)I do not need to be further angered by hearing the increasingly distressing accounts of the growing madness that is stalking the halls and rooms of the White House and spreading like a pandemic through the hearts and minds of his followers, the TRUE BELIEVERS. The Damage Report reveals more.

Instead,I decided to make my own sanctuary and grow a garden and feed birds and let the madness blow past.  It's all either going to hell or Americans will save themselves from Trump and the Republicans and the Christian Sharia value system of the religious right.

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Hopefully the election will reveal that Trump has been voted from office and the Republican Party has been irrevocably and completely disgraced as a byproduct of it's allegiance to the Trump Presidency.  That would be nice to wake up some morning post election and find out that was true, wouldn't it?

Maybe the day will arrive when a squad of wounded marine veterans and active military in wheel chairs, with crutches and artificial limbs will have the privilege of escorting him from the White House to Leavenworth.

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