Playing Cards with Beelzebub is in Your Future

What has unfolded as our American Presidency, in its absolute senile demented psychosis, is challenging our core.  Having irrationality shoved in our faces on a daily basis, as our news media struggles to stay abreast of legitimate news, is horrific.  Truly it is like arguing with a stupid brick wall.  Accordingly I have stopped looking at or listening to the President.  I read the news to stay informed, and it has gotten difficult and challenging.  It is key to realize and remember the hi jinks of the President could and should be construed as diversion from real issues, like the War in Ukraine and the Jeffrey Epstein debacle.  It was inevitable that the President would turn his back on the people and serve his patrons, the rich.  Big Oil.  Duke Energy.  Elon Musk.  Vladimir Putin.  It has become clear that these political decisions that involve military action, War, are simply a tool for the rich to get richer.  The greater American population, the middle and lower classes are the butt of his joke.  Continued inflation especially at the grocery store, of our energy costs to keep our homes running, and of fuel for our necessary vehicles to commute to work are a metaphor for the raping of America by her own President.  There are many examples of this behavior, but they are foreign to us.  With this smoke and mirrors emanating from our White House, it is important that Donald Trump's attacks on the Iranian people are the foreign metaphor.  The real violent attack is on the American people through clandestine, subtle, backdoor corporate behaviors that are harming our health and our ability to survive.  There is nowhere better to experience this behavior than near the world's largest military installation, Fort Liberty.  How is it that our Department of Defense and its secretary now have become a war department and an Army post named after a Confederate?  With all of the money spent and deliberation on finding a new name for Fort Bragg, finally Fort Liberty was born.  It was a good thing.  Now in a berserk circus Pete Hegseth has become the War Secretary and Fort Liberty evidently is back in the late 1800's.  Underneath this political theater manifesting itself as greed, narcissism, and passive violence, our lives are being attacked on the home front through a variety of inbred methods.  In Fayetteville these challenges alone have reduced a once middle class cultural town into a ghetto.  The homeless are the most common sight doing their best to survive with the closing of many of Fayetteville's soup kitchens and shelters.  It is the corporate assault on our daily sensibilities that is the most dire.  I have just experienced a handful of these assaults, and they come invisibly through the air unknown to most.  Much of it is aberrant electricity of all denominations.  Radio frequency (RF), Electromagnetic Frequency (EMF), and now Low Frequency Alternating Current (which should be added to the list) are wreaking havoc on daily activities and human health.  Case and point is what has happened to me in the last few months.  First the charging port on my Macbook Pro shorted, sparked blue twice, and burned preventing it from charging its internal battery.  Perhaps I am naive to believe such a repair should be common, but Apple makes it complicated.  They do this on purpose.  I have been an Apple user since 1991 when I moved to Columbus, Ohio to attend Ohio State University.  Specifically I wanted to learn basic computer music, and I did.  Dr. Thomas H. Wells headed the Sound Synthesis Studio which promulgated electronic music and audio recording.  I built my own personal Apple Macintosh system from surplus parts he harvested from university auctions.  Apple was the chosen system, because unlike Microsoft Windows, the Mac operating system was not an operating system on top of an operating system.  While Apple abstractly did steal the Zerox graphics interface for themselves, Steve Jobs produced a high end, long-lasting, quality computer that best serves the artistic community.  I did not reject the PC or Windows, but it did not make sense to use either.  Apple products were expensive, and as such it was not until my Prophet 600 synthesizer was struck by lightening that we were able to use the insurance reimbursement to purchase my first Apple Macintosh Color LC.  Over time I was able to upgrade to a PowerMac into which I installed a Newer Technology NuBus G3 accelerator card.  This allowed me to record four channels of digital audio being run by Mark of the Unicorn's Digital Performer.  It was a long and challenging build that took place over a few years.  Slowly building this system with bits and pieces was my sole focus at that time as a composer and jazz musician.  Therefore I have stuck with Apple, because it has served me well until Steve Jobs died of cancer and appointed Tim Cooke the Big Kahuna.  Instinctively I knew Apple never would be the same producing forward thinking, innovative, creative computing products.  It would just become Compaq with Tim Cooke's primary focus of filling stock holder's pockets with loot.  None of this concerned me, because second party sellers were still a viable option for finding Apple products.  The beauty of Apple's products was, because they were so well built, they could continue to serve their owners for several decades.  Tim Cooke attempted to change that philosophy to keep Apple lucrative for shareholders.  Not unlike the automotive industry manufacturers began to factor in a shelf life of their products necessitating eventually you would be forced to buy a newer product.  Easily this has been accomplished by slowly choosing not to support older products and phasing out their operating systems.  Newer software and peripherals were not backward compatible, and often it was as simple as a different connector.  The inbred cluster fock of PC computing connectors is real.  You, as the consumer, were forced to educate yourself not only with second party vendors, but Apple's conscious decision to make your machine obsolete.  Who would believe in 2026 they continue to do the same thing?  When my mother died, her iPhone 7 remained.  It worked perfectly, but having experienced the emotionally taxing bereavement of my mother's passing, I let it sit unused.  After a few months and spiraling cable TV and wireless prices, I cancelled her Verizon service.  The phone remained.  Surprisingly to me Boost Mobile had no problem ascribing it a new number.  It was reborn, and I chose to install a second new battery.  OEM batteries become scarce for an older phone, so you must rely upon your own instincts to find the appropriate replacement.  The phone has continued to work until a week ago, when I left it plugged into my iMac computer after uploading a single photograph I had taken.  The next morning the phone inexplicably was dead showing zero battery capacity.  Quickly I googled, and also had remembered that a "necessary and immediate emergency security update" had been suggested by the phone.  Not really thinking I agreed.  If Apple was choosing to update a ten year old phone, it must be for the good?  NOT!!!  The security update they installed in the phone via the internet through my iMac computer (capitalizing on the speed of my fiber optic internet service) is what caused this harm.  What harm?  The battery went from completely functional to DEAD in one night.  Apple's explanation was no different than it was in 2017 when they were sued for purposely "throttling" the processors of older iPhones to slow them down and make you buy a new device.  They were found guilty and were fined 500 million dollars (half a billion) in punitive damaged which was intended to go to individual users for their suffering and eventual loss of their phones.  Again their explanation was a Trumpian gaslight saying that the older aging batteries could not handle the demands of the phone's internal Power Management System.  They were doing the right thing slowing down the phones.  In actuality, truth, and fact Apple behaved criminally under the baton of CEO Tim Cooke.  My iPhone 7's demise was no accident.  They want me to buy a brand new phone.  Any sane man, after such an attack, never would allot one penny to the Apple company ever again.  That is not the way to do good business.  When you fuck your customers up the ass without them knowing it, you are abandoning your attorney client privilege and forsaking your bread and butter.  Apple got richer, shareholders got dividends, and the great divide between the ultra rich and the poor grew more.  For the likes of Musk and Bezos and Gates to hoard America's money and not invest it back into a dynamic economy where money flows is what has killed America and her free market system.  It is exactly the philosophy of our current President.  When God asks these men when they arrive at the Pearly Gates why He should let them into the kingdom of heaven, they will have no reply.  They will be diverted to Hades, where in agony hell fire they will be judged and sentenced to eternal life in through gates of hell.  All they have to do is do the right thing here on Earth.