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Sociopaths--birds of a feather. I am guessing they have a spectrum, most conditions do. These people are drawn to one another. Might it be because they know they're not the norm? Something curious about them is that they learn to "act" like they have empathy. As they age, they know the right words to use at specific times, but they are not experiencing the emotion. What a relief: they can point to Ayn Rand's objectivism movement to prove they aren't so different. She even confirms they are superior. Having a conscience is such a nuisance!

Seriously, it's a very interesting situation. Republicans espouse being strong rugged individuals but will walk lock-step with their weak lying leaders. Now they have become captive to the likes of the Proud Boys, Three Percenters, militias, Patriot Prayer and Oath Keepers. That's just part of the list. Should an Ayn Rand loving, rugged individual need a gang?

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TOMBSTONES

Well, it's another Sunday evening in America just like all the rest, the end of the first day of another predictable week chock-full of foolhardy Republican "shenanigans." (Bidenspeak.)

Oh just say it: Bleep Republicans and their death cult!

Just about every horribly evil, wicked policy they champion oppresses or threatens to oppress a hapless population in one way or another and usually results in wasted years of needless suffering and death, most of it for no other reason than to fit into some bleeped-up delusional ideology that doesn't work in real life.

But mostly, our society -- especially the Republican Party -- is crashing and burning because they're nothing but a bunch of greedy, sadistic, power-hungry sonsableeps who don't care about anyone but themselves. Enter tin-god Trump.

Just like the rest of the world, I'm sick of it all -- sick to DEATH of all their stupid bleep.

So okay, bleepholes, let's keep going with your favorite, unspoken, anti-life theme to close out another empty holier-than-thou day in bleeping Meerkkka.

I mean, instead of counting sheep tonight, imagine the many obvious pithy epitaphs and derisive epithets carved into their cracked tombstones reflected in flashes of lightning on a dark and stormy night in the graveyard with Peter Lorre singing lullabies in the background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaQcT5MS7_U

"He was a lyin, cheatin, muderin bleeptard who should rot in hell for all eternity, which is a damn long time, and we're all glad he's dead."

Naw, too long. Most people don't even get a fragment of a sentence to remember an entire lifetime. Careful though, you might have wingnut nightmares like Johnny Cash singing, "Don't Take Your Guns To Town." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTAZ7xzZKAw

Being a good Democrat, instead, try copying a million or so names off their tombstones -- enough already dead people to stuff enough ballot boxes to have some small statistically meaningful chance of realistically affecting any outcome of any race anywhere other than maybe for the local alcoholic sheriff in Dog Patch, Aladamnbama.

Good luck with that. Make sure if they're dead Republicans to mark their ballots DemocratIC so they'll spin in their graves. At least, you’ll nod off dreaming about THEIR tombstones for a change instead of all their countless victims.

Hey, it's just a dumb dream. Better to get the hostility out of your system at night harmlessly so you can be a nice, peaceful, latte-drinking, tree-hugging, bleeding-heart liberal during the day. Just smile with a barely perceptible shake of the head whenever some zombified Fuxnut tries to formulate an intelligible human thought. Hahahaha!

After all, as sick as they all are in the head, they still do provide cheap entertainment when there's nothing better to do. May as well enjoy the spectacle since it's futile trying to communicate with sputtering-mad cretins who should be dead but ain't.

Sweet dreams.

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In AZ they are looking for Bamboo in the ballots in order to prove that they were ballots smuggled from China. We are the number 1 importer of paper products. China is the number 1 exporter of paper products. Who is to say that the paper that ballots were made on was not imported from China. Most paper manufactured in the USA has a certain percentage of recycled paper pulp. Some as high as 100%. Who is too say that it does not contain Bamboo fibers? https://www.worldstopexports.com/paper-imports-by-country/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_(paper)

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Off subject but something that I know a lot about: A major fuel pipeline from Houston to New Jersey was shutdown due to a cyber attack. Why? Because they choose to operate the controls and instrumentation on the vulnerable internet. Instead of employing people at various stations they control valves and monitor instruments on the internet with Industrial Programmable Controllers. Solution: Separate controls from the internet. Build a Intranet. If you can run a pipeline you can run fiber optics to each station and you can hire people to do the controls. I did not work on pipelines but did work at major industrial companies. They really need to get off of the internet.

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The new defense for the January 6th Insurrectionist is that they suffer from Foxitas. Being exposed to too much Fox News and being brainwashed from it. This could be a legal defense because Fox does Brainwash its viewers. I will have to say that there was probably other contributing factors, also. https://www.yahoo.com/news/beware-deadly-disease-spreading-across-130050298.html

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The board game MONOPOLY mirrors our current trend toward Kingdom and Serfdom. The game's goal is to capture ownership of small monopolies and grow your real estate kingdom by collecting rents and then developing your properties with homes or hotels. Eventually, the winning player commands sufficient rental income from all other players until they can no longer pay and must forfeit.

In the real world, the game doesn't end. Instead, it produces billionaires in each economic sector and then in multiple sectors. Along the way, we start to see the phenomenon of a multi-billionaire. At each "nuclear" level of wealth, the billionaires and multi-billionaires attempt to counter what they perceive as threats to their concentrated corporate wealth that can arise in a democracy, where theoretically and as a matter of belief, each person has only one vote.

From the standpoint of those who own most of America's concentrated corporate wealth, the solution that counters this inherent democratic threat is to own one of the two political parties and, secondly, purchase as much of the other party that's available. As a fail-safe mechanism,

control the SCOTUS in case plan A & B fail for some reason, or you lose a cycle or even two. Suppose democracy becomes a severe problem, one that certain billionaires & multi-billionaires become uncertain they can continue to control. In that case, there are always other options like undermining confidence in democracy, gerrymandering, voter suppression, or even financing, planning, organizing, and inciting a coup. If all of those fail, they can try to make any threatening POTUS a one-term POTUS.

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Legend. Lol, I strangely miss teasing them more than taking anything they said seriously. My bad.

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From Thom's last paragraph: "Plus, paid subscribers, in addition to supporting our work (thank you!), can post comments on my daily rants. It’s a great way to hear from people who actually care, while keeping out the trolls and spammers."

After the change, all of the right wing trolls have disappeared. Along with the Russian language and Viagra salesmen. Were the right wing trolls Russian? I actually like to hear the right wing side.

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