Today was all about seeing my parents.
I got up, drove over to their house and just hung out all day. I’m hardly ever in Tampa, so it’s rare that I get to hang out at home with them.
It was nice. We got to catch up on all the bullshit and compare notes on our respective views of this highly unusual life we’re all going through.
One of the things about my parents that’s really interesting to me now, is that they’re into politics. When I was a kid, my dad never talked about what’s going on with the country, or how crooked politicians have hijacked our once great system. Never.
I just don’t remember it ever being a point of discussion.
The most political my dad got was when he would talk about how lucky he was that he didn’t get drafted for the Vietnam War.
I think the next time we talked about politics was when he was livid that they were spending tax payers’ money trying to prosecute Clinton for lying about a blow job.
8 years of Bush and Cheney changed all that shit for my folks.
As they sat and watched these gangsters hijack our country and turn the majority of the world against us, they slowly became interested and active.
My parents live in Florida, and if you don’t know anything about Tampa, it’s a wonderful place filled with fun loving young people and lots of old political conservatives.
There’s a lot of the type of people that watch the O’Reilly Factor on FOX news and nod in agreement with a down-turned sour puss. “This country is going to hell in a hand basket!” They got mad at the Dixie chicks for speaking out against Bush and the Iraq war, and they think that Sarah Palin has moxie.
Basically my parents are surrounded by a bunch of stubborn old retards that can’t seem to realize that we’ve been taken over by a fucking pirate ship dressed up as the Christian American Dream™.
My mom put an Obama poster up on the front lawn and someone stole it and replaced it with a McCain one. She even volunteered to help his campaign, a true first in her life.
We talked about my own cynicism in regards to our political system, and how that’s changed over the last year or so.
To me, American politics were such an incredibly tortured fucking mess.
These gigantic corporations were donating insane amounts of money to each candidate’s campaign, and these candidates follow the agreed upon agenda of these businesses regardless of the will of the general population.
To me, this whole system seemed 100% irreversibly fucked.
We’ve got a system where a gigantic percent of the people are dullards, yet we have a democracy where supposedly everyone gets a say in what goes on. The whole voting thing in itself is a horrible way to run things.
There’s no fucking way everyone should have a say.
Now, I know what you’re saying, “That’s like something Hitler would say, asshole.”
Which, I’m sure he probably would have, but what better example to illustrate the point?
If THAT crazy motherfucker got into a position where people were listening to him,
There’s no fucking way the masses can be trusted.
They’re responsible for some horrible, horrible choices.
There are just WAY too many dumb people.
Just look at the numbers, they’re fucking STAGGERING. Over 50% of Americans recently polled believe that the earth is less than 10,000 years old. OVER 50%.
One of them was the chick running for the position of the Vice President of the United Fucking States of the World.
Now if everyone really gets to vote, that’s a wrap.
Fuck… if they believe that, what the hell else do they believe?
Now that I’ve seen the results of this election, I’m thinking it’s not exactly that simple or cut and dry. Just seeing Obama in office and hearing him talk has changed my feelings about our future. For the first time in over a decade I feel optimistic.
I see him on TV, and the fucking dude is a rock star. People fucking LOVE him.
He goes outside and people go ape shit when they see him.
That fucking dude really is hope for a huge percentage of the people, not just in America, but on the whole planet. He’s smart as fuck, and his speeches are intelligent and inspirational. Who knows if he can pull anything off or fix this mess we’re in – it’s obviously too soon to tell, but to me that fucking guy feels like the real deal.
He really feels like a positive leader, and that gets me thinking – what if it really is that simple? What if our whole country’s direction isn’t really lead by a secret cabal of international bankers with a secret agenda for world dominance, but rather it’s run by the whims of whatever person happens to be in the oval office.
For real.
Is that possible? Is it really that simple? I have a tendency to explore seemingly ridiculous conspiracies, but watching Obama run the country really has got me thinking that maybe it’s that simple.
Maybe we really are in this horrible mess that we’re in right now because for the last 8 years we’ve been lead by a dim witted buffoon and his cabinet of sociopaths and criminals, and now that they’re gone maybe shit really is going to change.
That’s how my parents feel, and I’ve got to admit it was really strange pulling up to their driveway and seeing Obama bumper stickers on their cars.
It was awesome hanging out with them for the day, and seeing my sister and her kids as well. What a strange thing family becomes when we grow older and start making people of our own. My mom talks openly about how strange it is to see her baby on television, or how weird it is when we go somewhere and people want to take pictures and talk with me. And she talks about how strange it is to see me grown up as a man.
I guess that’s just how it is when you create a life, you just never cease to be fascinated by this ever so common, but incredibly unique experience of watching a person develop from scratch.
You know it’s funny. For all the horrible things that the Bush administration did over the last 8 years they actually did something good for this country. Hard to believe that I can type that statement right there.
They actually got people to pay attention and to care about politics on a whole different level than they had ever before in their lives. I think there is actually hope in this country because of what they did to destroy it. Because people paid attention to the debates, the campaigning, the conventions and all the things that both Obama and McCain had to spout and actually voted for the right person. For the first time in a long time (probably since Kennedy) there were enough people that cared about our country and our future to go out and vote.
Even if a lot of people don’t go out and do the things that Obama talks about as far as volunteering and contributing to this country, the point is that there will be MORE people that do because of the hope that this man has inspired. Everyone who voted for him may not go out and try to change the world like he would hope, but enough people will do it that it will make a difference in making our country a better place to live.
To me that is what matters most, is that the man inspired a whole new level of hope that will change the course and direction of our society. Will it be on this grand scale that we would all like it to be? I don’t know if it will, but it will happen on one level or another, and the fact that it is actually happening is what will be the difference.
I too hope it will be a difference because as a new father (like Joe Rogan here) I too hope for a better future for my child than what I have experienced so far. Watching my son grow from newborn to now 17 months old really puts the whole human journey and life into perspective. Things tend not to get to you as much because sometimes it’s just the little one calling you da, da that has more positive meaning in your life than anthing negative ever could.
I’d like to be optmistic too, but I just can’t. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
There are some things I like about Obama, like that he is much more in tune with the scientific community. He’s clearly better than what we’ve dealt with for the last 8 years. You really have to look at his administration as a whole though — and it’s filled with douchebags. The president doesn’t really have much power, obviously. Obama is just a figurehead more than anything.
Obama’s presidency is just convenient for the people who really have power because he superficially represents “change,” and many people aren’t going to question him, when shit is just going to stay the same, if not get worse. It’s like a big game of chess for the people in power. Just like Obama’s advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski titled one of his books “The Grand Chess board.”
We’ll just have to wait and see if his actions speak as genuine as his words!
Obama scares me. This blog doesn’t have enough space for me to express and detail all the reasons why. I’ll start by saying that I voted for him. And I’m already regretting it.
This guy is the biggest cult of personality since Jesus. People all over the world think he’s going to fix EVERYTHING. We are putting an unbelievable amount of power into his hands by doing that. We are basically saying “do whatever you have to in order to fix things for us.” Why is this a scary notion? Because it’s not the president’s job! The president, as defined by the Constitution of the United States, has one duty: “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Read the Second Article of the Constitution and the presidential oath. That is the job description. Period. This whole notion of a president doing more and more has become imperial in it’s scope. Which is exactly what the framers and founding fathers were trying to limit.
“Hope and change.” I don’t buy it. Hope is a feeling of desire that what you want will happen in the future. Hope always exists in the future. It’s that unattainable goal. A complete intangible, like “faith”, or a war on “drugs” or “terrorism.” If you never name the goal, you never have to commit to it, and you never have to attain it. Like Bill Hicks said, “it’s like declaring a war on jealousy.”
What is change? Change what? How? These ideas are totally ambiguous. It’s designed to let the individual superimpose their own personal “hopes”, and ideas for “change”. It means something different to everyone. It’s a sales pitch that, in actuality, means nothing. How about “Dreams and making stuff better.”
Giving the president our okay to broaden his powers in order to fix everything, and empowering him with limitless expectations is approaching deification. Like monarchs who are descended from or connected to god. He gets all our hopes and dreams and our authorization to do what he needs in order to accomplish them. It’s an impossibility that will lead to disaster.
Obama voted FOR the Wall Street bailout. That should be enough to show that he has zero intentions in supporting the interests of the average citizen. Obama’s “stimulus plan” will fail just like the Wall Street Bailout, even if for different reasons. Fundamentally, “trickle down” doesn’t work. It’s a scheme to distribute tax payer money to the top people of those various industries. Scary.
Obama is using the same “haste” tactics, “we need to do this now”, that were used to pass the Wall Street bailout. The government has NEVER made a decision in haste that proved beneficial or successful. At least not beneficial for anyone other than big business. Now he’s claiming that “the federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back to life.” The last time we heard a world leader talk like that, with as many sycophants cheering him on, was a guy with a funny little mustache over there in Europe. Obama’s really pushing this “big government” idea. How far will he take it?
We’ve seen NO proof, logically or historically, that shows any probability for success or relief from this stimulus package. More handouts and more debt at the cost of the tax payers is NOT the answer. More trickle down is not the answer. More government is not the answer. We’ll be paying for these bailouts and stimulus turds for generations.
By the way. Who is Barak Obama and where the heck did he come from? I find it impossible to believe that Obama appeared from relatively obscurity to lead the most well funded and expensive campaign in history, winning the seat of the most powerful office in the world. There is no way that you sit in the oval office without playing the political game in Washington. And there is no way that the interests of the citizens will take precedence over the interests of the companies that “donated” all that money. (The top donations came from Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Google, JP Morgan Chase and Co., and Citigroup.) Scary.
Bush was a douche bag, a liar, and a criminal in virtually ever aspect of his administration. But we knew it, and we knew to question him and everything around him. What happens when the same people are behind the curtain, making the same underhanded decisions, and perpetrating the same level corruption, but Barak Obama is the one selling it? Scary things.
Shakespeare got famous writing about the crazy shit the Romans, and Brits were doing. Not to mention the Greeks. Why do we think that government and money are different now then they were then? Because we have cell phones and the internet? The ONLY fundamental difference between then and now, is that information travels to the world instantly. And it’s possible to change the perception of the world just as fast. That’s it.
So, we have a man that the country, if not the world, is placing all of their individual hopes and dreams on, endowed with whatever ever-expanding powers he needs in order to realize those hopes and dreams, who hasn’t disclosed what he plans to do, or how he plans to do it, backed by the largest financial institutions in the world, surrounded by the same people, playing the same game, in the same city, and subject to the same influences, as every other corrupt administration in US history, and who has the ever evolving technological capability to change global perception instantaneously.
If this is the equation, then I fail to see how we expect anything good to pop out other side of the equal sign.
Hope + Change = people – rights – money – freedom
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I wish it were that easy dude, I really do,
but FUCK, looking at Obama makes me wonder
I agree, he
I wish it were that easy dude, I really do,
but FUCK, looking at Obama makes me wonder
I agree, he IS a fucking rock star, but hes also a brand, getting whored out to an American public thats more than willing to eat it all up
no shit, I walked into walgreens today and they were selling Obama commemorative plates?! What the hell is that?
Anyways, I guess time will tell if its thats simple, I wish sometimes I still felt that way
fucking alex jones opening my eyes haha
take care man