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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI've got it narrowed down. I've done too much LSD, I've lost my mind,
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or I'm living in a goddamned George Orwell novel!
Every goddamned day, i wake up, light up a Marlboro ultra light and peruse the news. What......a fuckin trip man. Is this shit real? Can't be. But the walls don't seem to be breathing. I got no tracers. My face isn't melting in the mirror. What the fuck is going on, right?
Case in point. We have a presidunce who's base includes the fucking "moral majority" (and might I digress to add fuck them). And it's now common, pretty undisputed fact that he he was fucking a porn star while the birther FLOTUS was recovering from childbirth. In fact, $130 grand was paid out to keep her quiet. And where's the "moral majority"? Fucking crickets man. Fucking crickets. These are the same people that were soooooo offended that a Democratic President got him some head from an intern. Don't get me wrong. I'm not exactly cool with that... But I'm a realist. Hell, the French newspapers have been known to post pics of their President on a yacht with his mistress. That's what men in power do. They get some strange. Been that way since we learned to walk upright. Hopefully, the metoo movement might make some strides in changing that shit, but i doubt it. Testosterone is a powerful drug. Mark my words, if Trump is removed from office, Pence will be dipping his wick. Although, I'm inclined to believe it will be with a 20 something young man. Way to much homophobic smoke for there not to be a fire there.... But I digress. How in thee fuck are these people not outraged? Maybe I'm just tripping balls, but I don't have that twitchy feeling so i'm guessing not.
And then there's the almost weekly verbal fellating of Putin by Komrad Kombover. What the actual fuck? All I heard while we had a real leader was how soft he was on the Russians. Now we got a dude (i refuse to denigrate the office by referring to him as anything but dude) who refuses to enforce sanctions and who is constantly verbally licking the balls of his favorite oligarch. He might as well show up in the oval office when the Russians visit in a ball gag and a gimp suit. But hey, as long as he goes on twitter and announces,"NO one has been tougher on Russia than Donald J. Trump," his sycophants believe this shit. It's unbelievable! I'm looking for the eye in George Harrison's hand to blink (20 points if you get the reference). Ain't happening. Okay. Fine. I'm not tripping.
This motherfucker is ass deep in emoluments clause violations (a mouthful, but I'm a liberal, so i actually know what it means unlike my knuckle dragging, FOX news watching peers). But what do I hear daily? Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton, Hillary fucking Clinton. And the Clinton foundation. Did our allies and enemies donate to that motherfucker. Yes. Were the Clinton's raking in the cash from it? Fuck no. A resounding, unapologetic, screaming from the goddamned rooftops FUCK NO! It's a triple A rated charity. Let me repeat that shit. A TRIPLE A RATED CHARITY. Once more for effect, yeah? A TRIPLE A RATED FUCKING CHARITY. Meanwhile, the Trump foundation has been shut down for fraud, he's bilking the taxpayers millions of dollars every time he goes to Tack-istan (otherwise known as Mar A Lago) by charging the taxpayer for rooms for the secret service, meals, even fucking greens fees and golf cart rental. And this is the asshole who had soooo much more stamina than Hillary. What the fuck do you need a golf cart for? In fact, he was the healthiest person to ever run for President. And then we find out that was written not by his doctor but dictated to his doctor by himself, Jesusfuckingchrist. And while I'm on the subject, didn't Obama golf too much? Didn't the Archie Bunker Billionaire declare on twitter that if he was President, he wouldn't have time to golf? Because he'd be too busy doing the peoples' business. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm not hearing voices. And I'm not drooling. I don't seem to be without my mental faculties, obscenities aside.
And then I wonder if in fact, I'm living in a George Orwell novel. I mean, really that's the only other explanation there could be. The GOP, who insisted that no President is above the law when Clinton was getting his rocks off (as if I give two shits. See paragraph 2), is now tripping over each other to commit obstruction of justice to show fealty to a person (and I use that term oh so fucking lightly) that had he not been born into money, would make a living mopping out the stalls at the adult bookstore. Seriously. Un-fucking-believable. And if that's not enough, these "law-and-order" motherfuckers are actually going after the FBI to protect the aforementioned jism-mopper. The conspiracy theories that are borne to protect this asshole would normally get you locked up and injected with enough lithium to produce a worldwide battery shortage. But not today! Not fucking today. Anything. Fucking anything that can explain away every hypocrisy, corrupt act, or moral failure by this orange douche bag is not only accepted, but embraced! Even if you'd have to huff gasoline for twenty years to be mentally "fit" enough to accept it. It's all good now.
I guess that's it then. We're all living in a George Orwell novel. Up is down. Ignorance is strength. Black is white. Would somebody do me a favor and turn the fucking page?
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)I am in LD25 and we are making inroads...slowly, as is how things are in AZ..but making some headway..
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)It's a very spiritual place. Deserves a good democracy!
pbmus
(12,422 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)There can be no other explanation.
hobby10113
(51 posts)Or a bad episode of Twilight Zone. Could just as easily be a horrible episode of Black Mirror also.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)malaise
(268,667 posts)for sure
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Every day I wake up and go, WTF?
Gotta say, it's worn thin. First few months mighta been like, this shit is funny. No more.
Docreed2003
(16,847 posts)And before anyone starts to shame me, yeah I know they're bad for you, yeah I know all of the health complications for me and those around me...it's my one Afghanistan vice that I indulge in once, sometimes twice a day. It is what it is...
Back to th post, spot on Glamrock!!
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)For shame! Not that i got a leg to stand on.....
Hope you are doing good brother Doc.
Docreed2003
(16,847 posts)We're all good here bro, better than we deserve...love seeing your face here!
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)If I ever get down to Nashville, it's on!
Docreed2003
(16,847 posts)Glamrock
(11,787 posts)She wants to see Graceland. I wanna see Gram's Nudie suit! And then roll over to Memphis and visit Stax! Told her I got a tour guide in mind....
Docreed2003
(16,847 posts)Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Another big reason I wanna go is for a meet up!
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Kinda flooded the board Sunday nite with music. Was deep in a bottle of Jamey. Posted a great Faces clip. Reeaaalllly sick jam dude.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10345715
Docreed2003
(16,847 posts)Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Exotica
(1,461 posts)Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Very cool! Not something that I'm gonna run out and buy, but I dig it. And by that I mean the band, not LSD. Know where I can find some?
Exotica
(1,461 posts)Here in Sweden they are more draconian than the US. Best to go UK or the Netherlands or Belgium. Antwerp FTW.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)But thanks for the tip! Now I really want to cross the pond!
Last few trips I had weren't great. Not bad, per se. But second to last had to much strychnine. Spent most of the trip on the toilet with stomach cramps. Thank god there was cool wallpaper. And the last I just never got off... Been years since. Pretty much gave up and just try to score mushrooms when the mood takes me.
Exotica
(1,461 posts)from Bordeaux .
French terroir FTW.
AND MUSIC
Docreed2003
(16,847 posts)Here's a similar message for DT!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)We live in the most severe time in the last 300 years. If you tried to publish our reality as fiction, they'd still laugh you out of your publisher's office. We're in Philip K Dick land and it's scary.
erronis
(15,170 posts)I wouldn't be the first to think that the pharma-induced drug overdoses aren't part of a scheme to weed out the lesser people.
The russians have long experimented with fentanyl and even more powerful derivatives. Of course vodka was a poison of choice but it took years to kill.
Arkansas Granny
(31,506 posts)I'd have to go with the Orwell novel choice. It seems like every day is a new chapter. I've never seen anything like it in my life.
BTW, excellent rant. 👍
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Coming from you that's quite the compliment!
WheelWalker
(8,954 posts)Glamrock
(11,787 posts)WheelWalker
(8,954 posts)But I can accommodate a fellow traveler on a natural path
Ferrets are Cool
(21,102 posts)Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Much appreciado
They_Live
(3,223 posts)of Philip K Dick.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Unfortunate as that may be. We's in uncharted territory here baby.
erronis
(15,170 posts)So many great authors with such prescience. Unfortunately.
MuseRider
(34,095 posts)It's like one of those trips that are not good but not bad just creepy and you then feel creepy for an unknown but not short amount of time. Yes, done my time with that one and this is just crazy ass, wall melting discomfort that turns into paranoid freak outs that eventually become your reality.
Did that make sense? I didn't think so but neither does anything that has happened with Dolt 45 in office. Ole Spanky can't even keep it straight.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)I dig what you're laying down.....
MustLoveBeagles
(11,580 posts)It's crazy isn't? I still can't believe that all this has happened. I wish we could turn back the clock and get a do over.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)I hope I'm not being presumptuous. You can call me Glam.
I'm of mixed feeling on that. Yes I'd have preferred Hill, but at the same time, i feel as if this last election put nitrous oxide behind the pendulum swing. Dont't get me wrong, I want this fucker out asap. But would we be seeing the blue wave we're anticipating now if it had gone the other way? Would we have thousands of females running for office? Just trying to see a silver lining.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,580 posts)Interesting questions. I would like to think that the wave of women running for office would've happened anyway. Perhaps inspired by Hillary's election victory. That might be wishful thinking on my part.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Just don't know. But I told a friend before the election that if he was elected, it would destroy the GOP for a generation. Looks like my prediction is coming true.....if we can survive it that is.
Great name by the by. My Dad had a beagle who would sing along with me when I was practicing....miss that guy. Beagles are special. From someone who had one in his life....
MustLoveBeagles
(11,580 posts)This country can't function very well when one of the two main parties has gone insane. The Republican's need to go back to their roots and throw out the crazy fundies. That might be more wishful thinking on my part.
Your dad's beagle would jam with you? That's so cute.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)I'd be singing Zeppelin or Bad Co. or whatever....and he'd be howling right along side. First time, I must admit, I was annoyed. After that? I loved it. Beagles are awesome. What a special breed they are.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,580 posts)They're wonderful dogs.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)An explanation that actually makes sense.
Initech
(100,029 posts)And reality was turned upside down when Biff stole the Delorean and rewrote history. And the corrupt Biff was modeled after you know who.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Couldn't have said it better. And rich Biff is soooooo Comrade Combover.
Initech
(100,029 posts)And he basically said that when they initially pitched the idea for the alternate reality Biff during the writing process for the script, he was indeed modeled after Trump. Pretty awesome if you ask me!
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)I'm not surprised.
Initech
(100,029 posts)But the producers never confirmed nor denied it until last year. I'll go see if I can find the article.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)So, get your ass over here and start passing it around.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Think I got a vid for ya....
"If you're holding, don't hold out'
Initech
(100,029 posts)apkhgp
(1,068 posts)Now I could only read the first half of your post. With me being legally blind and all it gets difficult after awhile. These Moral Majority jerks have a double standard. From what I have seen the last forty years has been one long tirade of their diatribe. They get moral on Democrats but when Repukelican do something they look the other way. I see it time and time again. I am really sick of it.
The one weapon I got against this is my vote this November. The rest of the stuff between now and then will give me an ulcer.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)(It's quite good...damn, pulled a muscle patting myself on the back).
But, all kidding aside, you are right. And you aren't the only one sick of it. C'mon 11/18!
JohnnyRingo
(18,614 posts)You accurately describe the intense effects, unlike poseurs who misunderstand the meaning of halucination.
I used to sell it in my youth. Every couple months my friends and I made the trek across state to Ann Arbor where we scored the best from a kid with a really weird name. Blue Owsley, Sunshine, Windowpane, and even nostalgic Sugar Cubes once, we had the real stuff in those days before weak ass blotter became the norm (it's like a "body high" ). I finally had to quit when it seemed bad things would often happen while I was peaking on a double dose. Things like arriving at a gas station shooting, a night club raid by the Feds, and even a bloody riot once. I tried it one more time later, but the fact my life was more ponderable with a wife & children convinced me my astral elevations were a thing of my carefree years past.
Having said that, I often wonder as you do if I'm losing my mind or if we're living a new normal where the Bizzaro World abuts neatly the realities I once knew. Old friends who protested along side me now cheering war, demanding the exodus of all people of color, and encouraging Right To Work laws makes me question why I haven't changed along with them. The fact that they insist I changed and not them perplexes me to no end. Maybe I did too much.
The Beatles never warned us of this future.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)They changed, you didn't. You stuck to you're ideals and fucking good on you for it. Screw those people who sold out to materialism and racism. Be proud man. Be proud. And if you need a kindred spirit to hang out with, I ain't far. Just over the Indiana border. Just hit me up via DU mail. I will be expecting you to be holding though with your public resume.....
P.S. I hope you're not an educated man, cause then I'll really hate ya....
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)You're a daisy if ya do....
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,614 posts)At my age I often get confused because I misunderheard someone, for example.
On edit:
Shit! I'm turning into Crankshaft.
Owl
(3,638 posts)Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Aristus
(66,275 posts)That's one funny fucking rant. Nowadays, we need our fury to be tempered with humor, or we're just not going to make it.
"jism-mopper" is going to enter the lexicon of derogatory humor, mark my words.
Well done, my friend. Well done.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)I'll be honest, that was a couple months of pent up WTF, you dig? I feel much better.
Aristus
(66,275 posts)It was the coolest thing ever. I miss the hell out of him...
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Mom says I was born in the wrong generation. Shit, I adress dudes as baby. Sumpin wrong wit me....
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Ohiogal
(31,895 posts)What a helluva rant. You said what we ALL feel here. Holy smokes. Standing O!
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)I hope that's not offensive. I generally read what others have got, post some tunes... But after awhile...... Dig?
Ohiogal
(31,895 posts)I dig a thousand percent. Sometimes it feels so good to just let it fly! You da man tonight.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)MarkEzra
(27 posts)I wouldn't have made it through the 60's without it. I suggest you prepare to heed the weatherman 'cause there's a mighty storm coming. Have faith and stay LOUD!
ancianita
(35,926 posts)Last edited Tue May 15, 2018, 10:58 PM - Edit history (1)
we'd be if Trump had done ANY.
But LSD has brought so many humans to consciousness, including me, that I find it un-fucking believable that we now suffer from all the law and order motherfuckers who didn't.
And yeah, we might be living in a George Orwell novel, but I will fucking never believe there's ever enough MORAL acceptance to embrace what is wrong about corporate values over human values. There are too many grounded humane globalists who won't let that happen. Chomsky doesn't agree with me.
I feel you. But I still think there's plenty of reality left to rewrite the ending.
Thanks for your post.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)And couldn't agree more.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Please run for our nomination!
Perfectly encapsulated. And you didn't even touch the surface!
Bravo darling!!!
PS. I have no patience for long threads..but read every word of yours
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Thanks Laura, I'm touched!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Make this a series. When u have time, write Part II !
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Rereading it, it was kinda foulmouthed... but genuine.
Thanks though, I'm flattered. Maybe I should, last time I did this I got the same response... Write more!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Words there are to describe trump so now we are left only with cuss word modifiers. When "idiot" just doesn't cut it anymore.."fucking idiot" is all we got.
WestMichRad
(1,316 posts)Am with ya 100%.
If this is reality, I want out.
Have been wondering for some time when it would cross the threshold and the repukes would speak out. But now it's crystal clear there is no threshold - they're all in, regardless of how corrupt and incompetent the presidunce. Who'd have guessed this is how our country would go down the tubes? For that's exactly what is happening. Might continue to be a slow motion trainwreck for a while, but we're in the beginning of the end of this country as an open, quasi-free republic.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)The activism we're seeing now hasn't been seen in decades. Maybe we're turning the corner?
WestMichRad
(1,316 posts)...but the cynical side of me seems to be right too often...
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Me too...
orangecrush
(19,384 posts)This most certainly is NOT!
Ohiogal
(31,895 posts)have actually seriously talked about moving out of the country if the asshole wins the next election. It's that bad. I can't believe we even had that conversation. Sometimes you can't even come up with the words to describe it. However our Glam did a bang up job tonight. Bravo Glam. 😘
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)And if you and Mr.Ohiogal ever wanna do dinner, you know I'm in Ohio every week.....
underpants
(182,587 posts)🤪
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)I love your screen name. Because I'm always talking to underpants....
underpants
(182,587 posts)I was really just marking your post to read fully in the morning - headed to bed.
Hey since you're here. Check this out. It was news to me.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016206738
amlehn
(15 posts)We are knee deep in shit. But a great rant. Felt good to read it.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)You got a potty mouth amlehn! For shame!
All kidding aside thanks. Sincerely. Felt good to blow off a little.
amlehn
(15 posts)For shit's fucking hell yes. What else are we going to do. Drink all the time or vent? Oh wait, already on the drinks part
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)I just spewed rum all over the hotel room! Damnit!
mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)Now more than ever. I swear if the fucker bombs Iran, Im buying a carton..
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)I gotta quit myself, but dont let that monkey back on yo back grammy!
calimary
(81,085 posts)Ive screamed and growled and snarled this same stuff for - what has it been? Almost THREE years, dating from the time the Orange Madness rode down that escalator.
One would think that whats going on now is hallucination material but its too damn real.
I wind up every doggone day bewildered, thinking this CANT be happening! Wish I were merely hallucinating! This whole era is turning into a bad trip.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)That it is.
pnwmom
(108,955 posts)And thanks for telling the truth so strongly.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Soul searching enlightenment
Not even cheap bad cuts
See my sig line below at the bottom of my post
More like a scary twilight zone episode to me that can't be turned off
Edit to add I think this is the GH Avedon you referenced posted for others here to see and it ain't about to wink or blink this is real times ahead of us . Let's hope it's more like his tune All things must pass and soon is better with me
Now the darkness only stays at night time
In the morning it will fade away
Daylight is good
At arriving at the right time
But it's not always going
To be this grey
All things must pass
All things must pass away
All things must pass
All things must pass away
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)All things must pass indeed!
underpants
(182,587 posts)Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,540 posts)Glamrock
(11,787 posts)I've had a couple conversations with people that did a lot. Resembled the following:
I was home petting my, uhm. My uhm, ya know. The uhm, thing. Has four legs?
Dog?
No, uhm. The thing man! Says meow a lot....
Cat?
Yeahhhhh man my cat! I was home and I was uhmm. I was uhm.
Petting it?
Yeahhhh man I was petting the cat.
And?
And what man?
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,540 posts)Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)Thank you!
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)I always enjoyed my LSD trips, but I'm more a mushroom guy these days. And frankly, now that cannabis is legal, I don't really feel the need to do any illicit substances any more. I would like to try peyote some day however.
librechik
(30,673 posts)ploppy
(2,162 posts)Tack-istan.... my new favorite word. Thanks for the laugh and such a sad state of affairs.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)..............Moliere for the hypocrisy and the Marquis de Sade for sadism!!
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)oasis
(49,321 posts)Good to know, should we get into a "whataboutism" debate with a Fox News addict while waiting at the grocery checkout stand.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)a professor i know is retooling his research lab. i was there to relocate a control panel. I've known this man for 8 years. We've greeted each thousands of times and share a lot of chit chat. today he let me know what he really thinks.. free market forces, Obama, Obama that socialist, man's fall grace, Trumps legacy (wtf?) blah blah. this all took place in matter of minutes, with several uh huhs from me (I'm in shock at this point because he's getting wound up). a good person by most measure, educated to the max in his field yet he believes this shit? I hope the novel '2018' ends in a blue wave!!
Ligyron
(7,615 posts)All true too.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Ligyron
(7,615 posts)All too true.
Unfortunately.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,558 posts)Adapted for screen by Terry Gilliam, directed by David Lynch.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)Give yourself some credit, that is genius!