Thursday, July 09, 2015
Porkulus, Hillary Clinton, and the Self-Driving Car
The presidential race nicely is playing itself. "I think Hillary would make a terrible president," says Mr. Trump. I have to agree with him that she was the worst Secretary of State in history. In all probability Mr. Trump does not know each and every Secretary of State in America's history, and his view is an opinion. It also is a generalization. It is hyperbole. He is speaking figuratively. Figuratively is the way the Supreme Court of the United States interpreted the language in the Affordable Care Act concerning federal versus state sponsored exchanges for the purchasing of government subsidized health insurance. Reason triumphed. Those crafting the president's health care law could not foresee every possible legislative inroad. Thank goodness SCOTUS understood this and ruled in favor of the greater issue. They ruled in favor of the greater good. Trump is generalizing about Hillary Clinton, and you could not expect him to contrast and compare her performance with each and every Secretary State in the history of America. That would take much study, and he is busy making millions of dollars building hotels and such. While I am sure there have been worse Secretary's of State in the history of America, my impression has been the same. During her four year tenure as the head of the State Department, there was very little about her agenda in the national news. We saw little of her at all. Comparatively we saw and heard a lot about Dame Madeleine Albright. She seemed to enjoy this position of international liaison, and her scholarly accomplishments would have honed her skills as a diplomat. Hillary not so much. Everyone knew her appointment by President Obama was a token. This view is an opinion. It also is a generalization. It is hyperbole, but we can choose to believe it or not. Without ever having seen any of her accomplishments as head of the State Department, I would agree. The Secretary of State is a large public figure. We hear about John Kerry fairly often, and he seems visibly active in the job. The only time Hillary was in the national news was when U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith were killed by Islamic militants at the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Possibly no news is good news. The presidential race nicely is playing itself. It is difficult to describe the freak show other than comparing it to the Theatre of the Absurd. All communication breaks down, because human existence has no meaning or purpose, but it does. To make money. This is not the platform of the United States Presidency, but I am not sure any of the candidates knows what it is. I am certain they do not understand that successfully interacting with Congress to pass useful legislation for the American people is necessary. This is an anachronism. It now is defunct. No longer is it possible. This is a opinion. It is a generalization. It is hyperbole, but we can choose to believe it or not. I agree. It has been obvious. Our Congress is the biggest bunch of dough boy, radical, incompetent, on-the-take losers in Americas history. They are political farce, and we should treat them this way. President Obama has chosen to recognize this issue by evoking his executive powers to make necessary changes for the good of the people. In the scope of history a coup should be near, but we have been brainwashed by poisoned food, endless propaganda, and technology. We are so frustrated by our unhappiness and yet lack of ability to object to it, we are the perfect product of the Republican Party. While we eat pink slime at McDonalds, savvy legislators are busy looking for every loophole in the law to allow them to fuck us more. Fuck the American people. That is the new motto of the United States. Not, "We the people," not "Four score and seven years ago," and not "I pledge of allegiance to our flag." Fuck the people and especially fuck the young people of America. We have been doing that since Mr. Bush was president. Want to go to college? Lean over. Technology has contributed to this breakdown. Why put cops on the street in Fayettenam, when we can put cameras on traffic lights and sit in a room drinking coffee and eating donuts? Is it any surprise that this Wall Street tactic of moving money around is not helping the crime rate? You can't move criminals around from a little room with computer models. Technology contributed to this problem. Technology has contributed to the gross and continual decline in education in America. While America's job structure drastically has changed in recent years, abandoning the humanities as a starting place for education has not been helpful. Now we have tech-savvy sociopaths, students who have not learned the lessons of history by being exposed to them. Truly we have created a new generations of zombies, and it is frightening. They want self-driving cars? What will you be doing when the car is driving, texting or loading your AR-15?