Fixed It

Anybody got any solutions?

How about this, what if we give North Korea everything they want? I mean, fuck it, right? We’re the richest nation, they’re fucking crazy, let’s just give them all that shit. Let’s do a full Star Trek, let’s give them so much shit every North Korean becomes rich and we fill them with so much wealth they explode. You think North Koreans are going to put up with a God King if they’re all rich? Why not try it? The shit we’re doing is dumb and doesn’t work. Anybody ever think of that?

Immigration? No restrictions. Everyone can immigrate to America if they want. We’ve got enough space. You can move to any city that has less than 1 million in population. We did it before. When we went all Manifest Destiny everyone could go claim some land if they felt like it. Do it again. The shit we’re doing is dumb and doesn’t work. Think about all the jobs. If people move to somewhere remote, we’ll have to build roads to get there, power plants, water filtration, everything. Everyone will need everything it takes to be a part of modern society. Done, no problem. Everything we’re doing right now is stupid, fuck it, why not?

Nuclear weapons? We get rid of them first. If America dismantles every single one of its nuclear weapons immediately, with no restrictions and no promises and no deals with any other country, do you think that all of a sudden they’d start pushing us around and threatening to bomb us? If anyone uses a nuke, the entire Earth is destroyed. Mutually assured destruction as a foreign policy is, and has always been, in effect simply by the existence of nuclear weapons. A nuclear weapon is not a weapon, it’s suicide. The Japanese didn’t surrender because we dropped nuclear bombs on them, the death toll between Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined was less than the firebombing of Tokyo. The only difference was that you can rebuild after a fire, you can’t rebuild after radiating the Earth. The threat of dropping nuclear weapons is effective(?), but actually using them, at their current strength, is stupid. Fuck it, everything we’re doing now is stupid, why not?

Climate Change? Check this out. We fucking move now. We don’t even bother trying to solve it, that’s dumb, it’s too late. Let’s just figure out where it’s going to really damage shit, and then move. Florida? Nope. Move out. Food? Crops? Animals? Start moving them, too. Soil isn’t fertile? Start working on it now. Shit has been terraformed in the past and we’ve survived it. We didn’t have modern tech back then, all we had was a fucking hoe and a dream and an infant mortality rate that was crazy high. We’ve got all kinds of shit right now. Imprison every executive at Monsanto (because they’ve absolutely committed crimes, like, ridiculous numbers of crimes, like, they’ve committed all of the crimes, I bet you wouldn’t even have to do that much investigating, I bet I could just google Monsanto and the first google search result would be “Monsanto totally committed some crimes, damn, lots of crimes”) and put the people at Monsanto on the job. If you can genetically engineer corn to be infertile after one generation, I guarantee you can figure out dry soil.

Income inequality? Here’s a plan, killing all rich people doesn’t work (as much as I’d like to, as satisfying as it would be (ok, maybe we kill one or two) but we tried it in France and it did not go well, I wouldn’t expect it to go differently now - we can pretend that we’re better than our counterparts in the 1700s, but I don’t actually believe it), so we let them keep their money, but, rather than hoard it, they must spend 40% of their yearly income on stuff. Let’s Brewster’s Millions income inequality. All the wealthy do is try to become more wealthy, they hoard money like dragons. Make them spend it. We’ve had massive stimulus packages in the past, instead of having the government tax the wealthy, they’ll just try to get out of that bullshit, why not pass a law making them spend the money? It’s just like a stimulus package, but it’s private. What is the fucking point of having money if you aren’t spending it? This way all of the Ayn Rand-loving piles of human waste get to satisfy their libertarian LARP fantasy and pretend that the bullshit they say makes a goddam bit of sense. At the same time, they put enough money in the economy to actually benefit human beings, like we are, instead of satisfying cruel, psychopathic monsters, like they are.

Are these all reasonable, workable solutions? No. Maybe. Who the fuck knows? But the solutions that have been discussed, the limitations that have been falsely ascribed to the situation we find ourselves in, and the people who absolutely refuse to entertain any creative notion all need to fucking go. Get these fucks out of here. America has been run by the dumbest, worst, most horrendous people for the past all-of-its-existence and it’s time to get rid of them. Now.

SCOTUS

Until we change the Supreme Court in one way or the other, we will be the victims of mass shootings.

In 1936 FDR added justices to the Supreme Court (imagine how that would go down now, Democrats were so incompetent and Republicans so intractable that we spent more than a fucking year without a justice) in order to pack it with his people, people that would rubber stamp pretty much everything he tried to pass. Do not misunderstand, this is a shaky situation. In that particular instance, FDR was using these justices to get America out of the Great Depression and he was doing so in a way that would benefit the large majority of people as opposed to the richest. In fact, no president has ever had a more aggressively progressive agenda (shocker, during this period the lives of the poor began to improve at a faster rate as well as a more consistent increase shown over the next 40 years until the great fuckface Reagan fucked everything up for us). However, any use of power, especially this type of ‘partisan’ power, can be misused by the other side, as evidenced by Obama’s use of executive orders. By giving the president more power, which, by abdicating their own, Congress did, you give both presidents more power. The president that used that power to commit some war crimes, versus the president that is currently committing all the war crimes. So if we’re going to pack the Supreme Court in order to actually fix this dumb fuck government, we’re also going to have to close the door behind us. Otherwise we’ll just get into an ever more insane SCOTUS arms race.

If we can successfully add at least two more justices to the court, we’ll be able to pass through a large amount of progressive bills that would otherwise be challenged for a billion years in court. We’d be able to revisit cases that have fucked over the lower classes for hundreds of years. Did you know there are precedents from hundreds of years ago that are still used today? Fun Fact: that’s fucking stupid. Imagine reversing the damage done to women seeking an abortion, the damage done by fucking Citizens United, and the upcoming damage done to the working class by their utter gutting of worker’s rights. Unions will be decimated by the upcoming ruling that will allow non-union workers to opt out of paying dues.

They’re doing this because unions have been a reliable source of support for the Democratic party and also because they are owned by oligarchs who want to make every possible fucking cent they can. Unions benefit not just the people within the union, not just the people who do the same job and refuse to join the union, but every single member of the working class. The stronger unions are, the higher the wages of every single one of us. The argument used currently to compel non-union members to pay dues is that if you’re a public school teacher, union or non-union, the collective bargaining power will benefit you. If it benefits union and non-union equally, then both should pay their fair share. This argument is unimpeachable and yet, somehow, the SCOTUS will almost certainly rule it unconstitutional or however they may put it. They will do this because the GOP has packed the court and will use that power to ruin our lives until we do something about it, or the requisite judges die at the same time as a non-idiot, non-monster, non-oligarch supporting, piece-of-shit moron with malignant narcissistic personality disorder president is in office.

If we don’t successfully alter the process by which SCOTUS fucks us, whether by packing it, or perhaps, not a bad idea, abolishing it entirely, we will be in the thrall of the GOP long after they’ve been removed from Congress.

Unhealthy Taxes

You’re going to be told that the GOP is moving on from destroying healthcare to tax reform. Don’t buy it, they are the same thing.

It’s easy to talk shit about ‘my tax dollars are going to this?’ but don’t forget, every positive thing the government does is funded by taxes, too. The government’s budget is almost entirely eaten by Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, and Endless War (or at least that’s how it should be named on those pie graphs instead of bullshit like ‘military spending’), combined they’re more than 2/3rds of the whole thing. Of those three, if money were scarce, which do you think the oligarchs are going to come for first?

Even our dumb allies like Kamala Harris and Cory Booker voted to increase the military budget this year by almost all of the college loan money. America is out of control with the whole military thing. Hindsight is 20/20, but I don’t think we should’ve fought all those wars and then kept fighting those wars and then never stopped fighting those wars. Could be me, though.

Obamacare, comparatively, doesn’t even cost much to the government. In a lot of ways, it’s really the epitome of what Republicans used to be in the 90s, privatised and still in the racist closet instead of the ‘17 ‘out and proud we’re nazis’ model we have. And you can already see they’re trying to kill it with a thousand cuts. They’re pretending to do weekly maintenance on the enrolling website in order to impede a few more people from signing up. Weekly. On a website. The fewer people that sign up and participate, the higher the premiums other people pay. Every time the premiums rise, more people will cancel their coverage, raising premiums for everyone else. It takes effort, but you can sabotage anything from healthcare websites to voting machines to free and fair elections to one big election that may have accelerated the end of the world to a breakneck speed.

All of this is about taxes on the oligarchy. All of it. It’s really insane. It’s so mind-bogglingly insane it forces you to realize that they are psychopaths. Why did the GOP want to get rid of the ACA and literally, not figuratively, literally, sentence more people to death and bankruptcy? Tax cuts for the wealthy. A tax on the oligarchs helps pay for Obamacare. Every bill the GOP tried got rid of that tax. They just wanted to give the oligarchs a tax cut. Now that we’ve stopped their efforts to repeal Obamacare, and literally, not figuratively, literally, saved lives, now the GOP is moving on from that to...giving the oligarchs a tax cut.

You saw Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder, two psychopaths who should be put in a time machine and beheaded during the French Revolution, kneel alongside their employees, coopting a symbolic protest directed entirely at them and their other, decrepit, monstrous, billionaire, kleptocratic cockbag peers by way of a police force that has become a militarized pauper’s prison; a self-perpetuating murder machine that penalizes the helpless, the homeless, and the person of color for existing in a public space; a police-force cum street-gang that chants and cheers while it beats back any attempt to curtail their brutality. Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones didn’t kneel to protest them. They knelt because they needed to make sure you didn’t put them on the guillotine first. Those same two assholes have donated more money than you or I will ever see to GOP cockbags for the express purpose of lowering their taxes. They don’t care about anything but money.

The oligarchs buy politicians who, rather than run on the clearly unpopular position of ‘we will make the poor die’, have their white supremacy stoked and erect, jingling keys that the destitute white idiots look at in order to vote for their own shallow grave. They’re almost certainly white supremacists themselves, but that’s gravy on top for them, all they care about is keeping just a little more money. And the more money they keep, the less money there is for programs that actually help people.

Apparently, regardless of party, they’ll never touch that military budget, they’ll never lower that fucking military budget. They’ll cut Social Security and watch old folks die before they take a penny away from a fucking plane that can’t fucking fly. They’ll cut Medicaid and watch poor people die before they stop building fucking tanks for a ground war that will never fucking be fought. They’ll raise the fucking military budget to 700 fucking billion and then tell us that single-payer healthcare isn’t fucking feasible. (Jesus Christ, Kamala fucking Harris, I was rooting for you.)

In the 1950s the top marginal tax rate was 90% on income above 300k. Marginal in this sense means people didn’t really pay 90% on every dollar over 300k, but rich fuckers making more than 2.5 million did. I’m sure back then there were loopholes and investment dodges and all that, but they still paid a whole hell of a lot more. Coincidentally, income inequality was nowhere near the staggering level of near-serfdom we live in now.

When they tell you we’ve saved Obamacare, we haven’t. We fought and won the first battle for a small part of the healthcare system. Now they’re starting the battle on the entire healthcare system. We need to fight just as hard, otherwise we’ll see just as many, if not more, people die.

Alternatively, we could seize every billionaire’s assets over 2.5 million and, this is true, fix every problem that poor Americans have. Just sayin’. And if they complain, I mean, time machine, French Revolution, fixed another problem poor Americans have.

Propaganda

Stop caring about what they say. Stop caring about what they think. Stop caring about what they write or publish or shout into the void. They stopped caring about you a long, long time ago.

The people who want your healthcare taken away are going to have their healthcare taken away, too. They will cheer for this. They are stupid. More importantly, and more to the point, they will be incapable of reconciling this fact. As the elderly, who voted for Trump overwhelmingly, die miserable and in pain, unable to afford a nursing home or assisted living facility or a house or an apartment, not just bankrupting themselves, but bankrupting their families who will do their best to treat them with compassion and throw money at their problems; they will applaud the very people who sentenced them to this fate.

Why will these morons, these utter fools, too stupid and entrenched in their own idiocy to stop for one moment and consider how they’ve destroyed themselves, still live in denial? Because they won and we lost. That is all they care about.

Trump voters do not care about themselves at all. They do not function within rational self-interest. All they care about is what liberals want, ironically. They care about it so much. They think liberals are the source of evil. They have been thoroughly indoctrinated with a belief in nothing but the destruction of liberal thought. So long as liberals lose, they will be happy.

The GOP does not have any ideas or policies or ideology beyond ‘dismantle everything that liberals have made’. What have they built? Their healthcare policy is ‘no healthcare’. Their tax policy is ‘no taxes (for the rich)’. Their military policy is ‘more war’ (doesn’t get more destructive than that). Their only goal is death on a massive scale.

There is no logical argument that can sway them, they are irrational. Pointing out the benefits of a socialist structure, and how many there are, and how much they would improve everyone’s lives will not give them pause, it will not change their minds. They are lost and to imagine otherwise is naive in the extreme.

Furthermore, the people whose interests the GOP is ostensibly acting for are just as stupid. The oligarchs will get more money in the short term from the massive tax cut they’re angling for, and then they will get less money because their businesses only function if people buy things. Siphoning money away from the middle class (which they’ve been doing but are now accelerating) will keep people from having enough money to buy things. This is a true thing that they cannot admit to themselves. This is what we learned during the 20s when the crash hit. The only way out was to redistribute income from the rich to the poor and it fucking worked. It worked so well that lives improved uniformly (though definitely not equally) for 40 years. When the GOP began dismantling the New Deal, overseen by the third dumbest president in American history, lives worsened uniformly (though even more unequally). These are true statements, borne out by history.

And not just American history. The events unfolding today have been the fundamental failing of humanity since always. When you consolidate power among a small few to the detriment of the many, everyone gets fucked. Sooner or later a rebellion happens. Sooner or later the oligarchs fall (hopefully in as violent a manner as possible). Or, even worse, when they realize there is nothing left for them to suck out of the many, like the miserable parasites they are, they eat themselves.

Monarchs and oligarchs last a few generations at best and then they suffer the same fate as the ones that came before and the ones that will come after (for as long as there is an ‘after’).

Humanity has a history problem.

So few are left who lived through the Great Depression, who saw firsthand the effects of a "Rich Folk First!" world, it is no longer a real thing to us. It is something in a history book. History books can be written by anyone, but they can only be distributed by those with the money and power to do so. So they'll teach the history that benefits their agenda, regardless of reality.

In Texas history books, slaves were “workers”.

Christians believe the Earth is 6 to 10,000 years old, depending on flavor of stupid.

So long as history has no ties to reality, you can justify whatever it is you want to do in the present. Propaganda is the destruction of reality, so it fits right in with every other GOP policy.