The Daily Dose/March 26, 2019
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Like you no doubt have, we read the manifesto of the man responsible for the mass shootings at two New Zealand mosques on March 15. The killer is not an idiot and once you set aside, temporarily, the fact it is a diatribe by a psychopath and its contents abhorrent to all but the fringest of elements, you realize it is not completely unreadable. Our world is far from perfect and you might well find yourself nodding your head and saying to yourself “this is not completely inaccurate”.
We did. Not too often. We don’t consider immigrants to be an occupying force like he does nor do we find them deserving of slaughter. But boy, some thoughts he has on our United States hit home. Read this and weep:
The United States is in turmoil, more so that at any other time in history. States hate other states, the electoral college is under attack at every turn and the races are at each others throats. On top of this is a two party political system, split by racial, social, cultural, linguistic and class divides.
The end result is a nation in gridlock, unable to respond to any great change, unable to commit to any great projects. A political and social stalemate that makes any advancement impossible.
Good gravy, if this does not hit the nail directly on the head, no analysis of our country does. We are, indeed, a nation in gridlock, our racist present mired in our racist past. Hatred is our leading export now and America is merely marking time until we collapse. Forget being great again, America needs improvement to even be mediocre again. Our nation has not done anything of substance we left the moon for the last time in 1972.
We’ve yapped about this every hour on the hour on the campaign trail for both the United States Senate and House of Representatives: our government and its citizens are nothing more than a fractured, partisan and bickering mess. We have been at war non-stop for three decades and we are $22 trillion in debt. We are a social and political stalemate and if you and me – we the people – do not do something soon, preferably at the ballot box and preferably in 2020, our nation will collapse, the Great American Experiment snuffed out, probably before this half-century is out.
We deserve better than that. Our grandchildren deserve better than that and we all deserve better than having our country accurately analyzed by a psychotic mass murderer who believes immigrants are nothing more than an occupying force.
Today At The Site
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow accepts the veteran service officer position for the county, and he runs into a can of something that is a combination of fish and sweet potato. Today’s Diary.
I’d never heard of a fish/sweet potato combination and I had zero idea where it went, but I headed off to the canned fish section – we don’t have celery, but we have canned fish – and nothing…I look a little closer at the label and it says DOG FOOD on it, in pretty small letters, so I don’t feel too bad about noticing it the first time.
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