So, the world's going to hell, right?

[Merc]

The news everywhere is so fucking depressing. ISIS fanatics taking over northern Syria and now Iraq, strife and death between Israel and Gaza, Libya and Syria all fuct up, Putin seizing Crimea and poking the West at the border of the Ukraine, Ebola virus spreading in West Africa, thousands of child refugees at our border as Central America becomes a lawless and murderous narco-state, poverty and deprivation and war all around the world. Here at home, the middle class is dispirited after having their way of life destroyed and sucked dry by financial parasites, squeezed to the breaking point. Forget the house, the car, college for your kid. We're all fighting over scraps now. And the red/blue political divide is really really useful for our owners to keep us at each other's throats. While we entertain ourselves to death.

Probably forgot a hundred other atrocities going on right now. It's really fucked up, this world. The centenary of WWI is not a comforting thing, as the Middle East blows up. I think something calamitous might happen, that we'll be drawn into again.

Found myself wondering what the fuck self-licensed opthamologist Rand Paul would do as Prez, god forbid. He doesn't seem that fucking bright. And on the other side, people want Elizabeth Warren to run, against Hillary. I think Warren's fantastic, but she's doing a great job where she is. I don't see her as a war president when the world blows up. I can see Hillary having the brass; wouldn't it be something if she announced she wouldn't run?

Anyway, sorry for the pessimistic musings. It just seems dismal in the world. As dysfunctional as we are here, it could be much much worse.

[LongPlayer]

Merc, Shhh! I can't hear the Two and A Half Men marathon that I'm trying to watch!

[henchman]

I agree. I live Elizabeth warren.
But Hillary knows how to swim with the sharks.
Maybe a Clintin/Warren bill?

[henchman]

I'm actually mire concerned about the upcoming midterm elections.
If republicans gain power in both houses we we are all truly fucked.

[nycbiscuit]

We're all doomed.

[DannyA]

Aug 8, 2014 13:58:33 GMT -5 henchman said:

I agree. I live Elizabeth warren.
But Hillary knows how to swim with the sharks.
Maybe a Clintin/Warren bill?

This country is still 40 or 50 years away from electing two women. I'd be surprised if Hillary wins on her own.

[boots]

I'd just like the shooting to stop.

[DannyA]

In my new job as a high-school English teacher I had to sit through a workshop today about how to deal with school shootings.... when you and your kids are the target.

America, fuck yeah!

[Darren]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: America will end in our lifetime.

Part of me wants it to because the powers that be have become the very oppressors our ancestors revolted against in the first place, but I feel for all who gave their lives for the freedoms and liberties that a chosen few are systematically removing while we keep up on the latest shenanigans of Khloe Kardashian.

I'm just curious as to which piece that falls will bring the country down with it. Whether we like it or not, America is under attack - not from those we've been trained and conditioned to believe might be the culprits, but by those who see upheaval as the distraction necessary to commit the heinous dismantling of our rights for their own gain. Inside job. And whether we will stand up or not won't even be an issue because it will happen with the flick of a switch.