Monday, March 21, 2016

Hot Fun In The Summertime

People under forty are in for a treat this summer. A new reality show combining the very best of "Survivor," "Jackass," "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire," and "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo," will begin July 18th and run through the 21st. It promises to be the television event of the year, and you don't even need cable. The macabre spectacle known as the Republican National Convention will be held in Cleveland earlier than usual this year so as not to step on the TV ratings for the 2016 Olympics. The Democrats follow suit a week later in Philadelphia, so everybody can jet off to Rio de Janeiro and bring back the zika virus. The GOP's soiree will take place in the Quicken Loans Arena, which seems a bit insensitive, considering their quadrennial gala will be held in a sports arena owned by a mortgage company that was sued by the government for "knowingly violating underwriting practices (and) issuing hundreds of defective loans." But it all makes sense when you discover the arena is owned by Cleveland Cavaliers owner and heavy Republican donor, Dan Gilbert, a billionaire businessman and Chairman of Quicken Loans who accepted a government bailout for his mendacious operation. So that's a good start on what will be the billionaires' political convention.

Several pundits are predicting that the cyclone that's about to devour Cleveland will be comparable to the 1968 bloody Democratic Convention in Chicago. The greatest similarity is that we get to sit on the couch with our popcorn and watch the implosion of a major political party. The differences, however, are many. The national mood leading up to Chicago can best be described as incendiary. LBJ announced he would not run for re-election in March. Dr. King was assassinated in April, followed by the murder of Robert Kennedy in June. The best hope for peace was Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, who came to the convention with the most delegates. Every manner of protester flooded into Chicago- radicals, moderates, anti-war activists, hippies, Yippies, and the Black Panther Party. Mayor Richard J. Daley was the law, mobilizing the National Guard and the Chicago police with orders to "shoot to kill" arsonists, and "shoot to maim" looters. This emboldened the cops, mainly Korean War vets and high-school drop-outs, to commit sanctioned brutality against the loathed, long-haired intruders. For the next three days, while the Democratic Party was disintegrating inside the hall, blue helmeted riot police removed their badges and went on a rampage, wading into the protestors with sadistic zeal, cracking skulls and bloodying campaign volunteers, both men and women. In the end, party bosses chose Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who had not entered a single primary, as the nominee. Because their candidate was crushed underfoot, a whole generation took their ball and went home, sitting out the election and enabling the reign of Richard Nixon, setting off another five years of bitter anti-war protests. Like Mick Jagger said, "You can't always get what you want."

This year it's the Republicans who are in chaos. With tempers boiling, talk of a brokered convention and an insider "Stop Trump" movement, there's every potential for violence. Only this time, the violence will be inside the convention. While a delegate might mention the word "riot" under his breath, Trump just comes right out and predicts it. When Donald Trump speculated that if he doesn't get the nomination, "I think you'd have riots. I'm representing...millions of people," he virtually invited every Tea Party yahoo, Klansman, white supremacist, and open-carry gun neurotic to come to Cleveland. For certain, protesters will descend righteously into the city where twelve year-old Tamir Rice was murdered by a policeman who was previously declared "emotionally unstable," for brandishing a toy, Airsoft rifle in a public park. Black Lives Matter will be in force. So should the many groups publicly denigrated by Trump: Mexicans, African-Americans, Asians, war heroes, women, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Seventh-day Adventists, Mormons, the disabled, and the poor. This time, however, law enforcement will be overseen by the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service, if we can keep them away from the prostitutes, and not the trigger-happy Cleveland Police.

So buckle up, this is going to be ugly. So far, it looks like the only people who will speak on behalf of  Trump are Dennis Rodman, Sarah Palin, Mike Tyson, Chris Christie, and Omarosa. Maybe they could get the Cliven Bundy militia to pre-record a message of support which will then be introduced by Phil Robertson. The strange thing is the rules committee is not bound by rules, so they can make it up as they go along. There are two scenarios here: Trump loses the nomination and begins rampaging around the land like Cloverfield- or Trump wins the nomination but the GOP announces a third party candidate so as not to let the country fall into the hands of a sociopath who once said, "It really doesn't matter what (the media) write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass." Who can argue with logic like that? Except, imagine for a second if that quote came out of the mouth of Barack Obama. Rednecks would be locking up their daughters. No matter how repulsive Trump is regarded by his fellow candidates, everyone of them, without fail, pledged to support the party's nominee. Go ahead and nominate his ass. We'll renew his hate-filled reality show for twelve more weeks, then the voters can cancel him for good- and maybe the Republican Party also.

2 comments:

  1. Black Lives Matter, Mexicans, African-Americans, Asians, women, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Seventh day Adventists, Mormons, the disabled, the poor, and every other dysfunctional group and person in the country...you must be referring to the Democrat base. Trump may be a sociopath, is a bit scary, and could turn out to be a dictator, but Hillary is just another brand of sociopath. If she is elected the country will be ruled by a pathologically lying Marxist, bisexual, sociopathic necromancer and her sexually depraved pretend husband. What a choice. You mentioned billionaire Republicans...why not give equal time to the billionaire Democrats? The Clintons are close enough. I never understood why Democrats hiss through their teeth about wealthy Republicans, but give wealthy Democrats a pass. I guess hypocrisy reigns supreme in the hearts of Progressives. They never seem to learn that the pot should not call the kettle black. Besides, delusional Progressives may see racist overtones in that old saying. Parenthetically, have you ever wondered why uber-wealthy capitalists often support and underwrite Marxism? Sounds counter-intuitive doesn't it? Why finance an ideology that is out to take your money from you and re-distribute it? Here is the answer. Marxism is a ruse. That is why the uber-wealthy are all for it. It is a scam supported by super-capitalists (in the sense of enriching oneself at the expense of others). How so, you say? The uber-wealthy don't like the fact that the middle class siphons off wealth. So, they devise a system that will eventually destroy the middle class. This means more wealth for them. Their plan is to create two classes...themselves as the ruling elite and the rest of humanity over whom they will rule, who will have their basic needs met (wise 'ranchers' take care of their cattle), but that is all. In effect, 95% of humanity will be de facto slaves living in poverty, while the super-capitalists will siphon off most of the wealth that is produced and live in extravagant luxury. There will be no welfare class or prisons under global Marxism, because the criminals, and all who cannot (the aged, chronically ill, or mentally challenged) or will not pull their weight will be eliminated. The ruse about a 'workers paradise' is bull to sucker in the useful idiots who aid the super-capitalists in pulling off their scam . The Elite rulers will own all of the Earth's resources and control all of human behavior to suit their ends. The world will, in effect, be a global prison. You 'Progressives' need to wake up and smell the coffee before the super-capitalists fulfill their plan for you and all of the rest of us. In fact, Trump could be a closet super-capitalist who will work to fulfill the vision of the rest of his homies.

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  2. Hmmm...sounds reasonable and that could explain some of the paradoxes. For instance, wealthy capitalists funded both the Bolshevik Revolution, as well as the Nazi war machine. What's wrong with that picture? Purportedly, the extremely wealthy have financed every revolution and war since the French Revolution, because they make money off of both sides of the warring factions. The Viet Nam War was supposedly supported and fought for the oil deposits off of the coast of Viet Nam by this same element. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark and what the last writer alluded to may explain it all. The 'super capitalists' may be using Marxism to enable themselves to own and rule the world. That is paradigm blowing. They could be scamming everyone about wanting to care for and raise the standard of living for the world's masses while actually wanting to enslave them. I guess the Devil is in the (hidden) details. I wonder if this is taught anywhere.

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