Ok, So Here Is the Straight Shit . . .

This is depressing but having spent two weeks struggling, along with the majority of US citizens and educated people of this planet, to understand what happened and why, enough already. Read the comments on this excellent article (that only states the obvious) and you will get the list. Good people fooled, good people angry, bad people happy, bad peopled fooled by other bad people, bad people angry, everyone angry because Hilary was a politician, a crook, a success, a woman but we all just have to deal with it and the government just doesn’t matter anyway because Trump is a narcissistic, lying con artist who’s successful at making people do stupid things. (Isn’t that what lying con artists do?) Or some combination of all of those things. Do we say alt-right or racist assholes? Alt-right is a term that people say and if you are going to say what people say you will need to say alt-right even though everyone thinks you mean racist assholes. Except. of course, the people who are racist assholes and they think you mean right thinking people, so their pissed at being called racist assholes. Then there are the non-racist alt-right assholes who are just going to buy more guns to prove to the educated-coastal-left-wing-elite assholes who’s really an asshole. Which brings me to my point.

Assholes. We all have one but some people have two, one on each end. Right now we are stunned to discover the presence among us of the two asshole subspecies. Much of our depression and confusion is suddenly having to deal with the two asshole concept. Almost all of this has been caused by way too much and way too rapid change from technology affecting everything. Notice we don’t waste time talking about that because there we are so totally fucked. Everybody agrees to that even the people who don’t know what the hell everyone else is talking about on Facebook. And now, not only did we get suddenly over run by people with two assholes, and who knows, there may be three asshole people, but we accidentally elected one to be president. I think Trump is a three asshole person but where he keeps the third one I don’t want to know. Enough already. Didn’t I already say that?

There comes a time in the affairs of men, women and the non-gendered, when we need to admit that the damn thing is busted. The wheels have come off and we are sliding purely on momentum with more and more pieces coming loose. And we are heading for a sea of shit which shouldn’t be a surprise when you let people with two, or more, assholes get control. At this point, as we are still the leaders of the planet I say we throw out the anchor and bring this thing to a halt. Isn’t a primary quality of leadership recognizing when you done fucked up and run the sucker into the ground? It’s time to step up and own this thing with some very straight forward apology. Sorry folks, our fault, but this thing needs to stop because we have structural problems with this model which is being used in different variants all over the industrialized and post-industrialized world and we are at risk of a whole lot of people getting hurt not to mention making our planet uninhabitable for our species. Obviously this is going to take some time as we suddenly realized we had more assholes than we thought and we need to get this figured out.

I personally think Obama would make a hell of an anchor. He’s kept this thing moving when it should have long since ceased up and he was dealing with twice as many assholes as he thought. The fact that he has something like a 76% approval rating now is good enough for me. Let’s just declare the last election a mistake and ask Obama to stay around and keep the lights on while we do some redesign and major clean up. Oh, everyone wanted to ‘drain the swamp’ so let’s do that. Disband Congress and send them all home with a year’s pay for termination. Then we get really serious with Silicon Valley, the IRS, DoD and come up with an algorithm to apportion districts at one person, one vote for every state and an AI system to monitor it for every election. We have to trust someone and it sure as hell shouldn’t be any people. Particularly as I, for one, don’t want to get into the asshole counting business.

So we schedule a new, full election for next November, declare six months with no politics and then allow a six week campaign. Any candidate caught lying is disqualified and forced to live in Kansas for five years. That should clean up a lot of things. We’d have a hell of an election but I can guarantee we wouldn’t have any of the people we are all sick of seeing. We can figure out a way to make it up to the people in Kansas later . . .

What do you think?