Well...fuck. Hurricanes suck. · 10:27pm Sep 5th, 2017
So...
One of my partner's mothers is in Florida. If you have lately watched the news, you'll know why that's bad. Worse, she's in Del Ray Beach, which is going to take the brunt of the storm. Even worse, she's a fluffy, disorganized, emotional marshmallow with type 2 diabetes who bought a bunch of pudding cups and granola bars yesterday. She has a two day supply of water, and hasn't so much as boarded up her apartment's windows.
This is her planning for the most dangerous hurricane in 50 years.
Fucking, really.
Keep in mind, this is after we know exactly how shitty and limp-wristed Trump's response to Harvey was, the gutless fuck.
My partner isn't in good shape, as you can imagine, so I'm taking care of him and trying to write at the same time.
My other partner's best friend/room mate is a DACA recipient. YAAAY...a 23 year old X-ray tech about to be deported because mommy and daddy couldn't be arsed to get their papers in order.
I want to say this loudly and clearly, because right now, I'm angry.
I hope Trump's family isn't there to hold his tiny hands in his dying moments. I want to watch him pissing out his last mean, cruel little breath in a filthy hospital bed, ignored, beaten for fun by the staff, and left to watch nothing but the American liberal left retaking this country and erasing his entire life.
I want every Trump branded property to strip his name off because they don't want to be associated with a raping thief.
I want to see his family torn apart and every penny of money they've stolen from this world reclaimed. I want them to find every hand turned against them and their only solace found in smoking that extra pack of cigarettes every week as they're shoved into the Florida ghettos to live out their remaining years in a stinking, diseased trailer near Mar-a-Lago. I want them to watch as the right wing has its back broken, and every inch of comfort they receive is from the social welfare they would deny to millions.
When this man dies, I want him to go to his reward, which will be living strapped to that same hospital bed, watching his failures replayed on a loop until the end of time. In his private Hell he will have the empathy forced on him to realize why all the things he's done are wrong, but be unable to change it.
If the next chapter is slow, these are the reasons why. This is all on top of finishing our move.
Sorry, hard to be upbeat this month. I promise we'll be back to our regularly scheduled Chessie at a point soon. Hopefully one who isn't quite so pissed off. Every now and then, friendship, love, and tolerance are just too hard...
-Chessie
Hate begets hate.
Hope your friend makes it through this safely.
4659596 Completely true.
-Chessie
damn
I sympathize with your situation. I hope everything gets better. I'm also pretty sick of watching whackjob lefties, AND far right "racial purists" tear this country apart. Theres far more important shit going on in the world, like Irma and Harvey that should bring us together, but the media keeps spewing hate and forcing otherwise reasonable conservatives and liberals into smaller and more hate filled camps, making normal people out to be Hitler or the next Mao or stalin depending on which way you lean.
4659637 Sigh. Yeah. Probably.
-Chessie
I feel you, Chessie. I feel you.
Sincerely,
A guy in the military who doesn't want to be sent to death for someone's ego
I cant begin to understand the hell you are going through. I'm glad for mcclain (never thought i'd say it) growing a pair to defend obamacare, or i'd be having to choose on wether I wanted to breathe, or the eat. (As I wouldnt have enough to do both.)
I cant begin to get the anguish folks under the daca (I havent been watching news, as ive been spiking my blood pressure into heart attack levels if I do.) are living under atm. And I pray, that he pushes the wrong person, and the wrong place, and they act. I just hope its no one close to you or your close ones.
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As your fellow writer of pony Investigative Madness. I expect the worse Hurricane in the last 50 years tomorrow afternoon considerring I'm in Puerto Rico, with a Boarded up front door, steel reinforced windows, and a reinforced concrete home, enough food for three weeks and a Diesel Electrical Generator that has been there for close to 20 years, and has been maintained very well for that time. And enough diesel for a month if we are lucky.
Oh, and a Walter PPK Pistol, an Ax, a Pocket Knife, and a rusty blade. Because the infrastructure is bad enough that for the next month or four electricity will be gone. For good. So I don't expect there will be much of a local government by the time this madness is over. I'm preparing for the possibility that I may need to kill a man within the the following days to come.
Best of luck to you and your team Cheesie. I'll see you in hell! Your long time fan. - Disavowed ASH
Well. Um. I'm sorry, Chessie; good luck to all of you.
Get over yourself. It's not like they didn't know a hurricane was coming. Hurricanes are even nice enough to give you a few weeks to get out of the way, and Trump's response still wasn't as bad as the Hurricane Katrina response.
How about instead of whining about how the current president is corrupt, or evil, go buy a gun, get some people together, and do something about it. This is why I hate liberals: all they do is complain, but none of them have the balls to go out and be the change they want to see in the world... Jesus Christ, either accept your situation, or do something to change it. Sitting around complaining about it does nothing.
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Yikes!
Here is hoping it does not come to that.
4659723 Me neither, but the possibility of being thrown onto the Iron age will be very real.
4659711 What shall I do, exactly? Murder the President? I am, surprisingly enough, not inclined to murder. It's just not my cup of tea.
-Chessie
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If you aren't going to try to change anything, stop bitching.
4659737 Like what? I joined my local socialist party, I've donated money, I've protested and stood on the pickets. I've made myself informed about politics and informed those around me. I'm going to be canvasing for my local liberal parties come the 2018 elections, and I've voted in every major and minor election locally since then.
I'm not suitable for office (too much of a freak), else I'd probably be running.
What, exactly, else do you want me to do?
-Chessie
You've got my sympathy, Chessie.
Sounds like a tough situation all round, no doubt. Family can be so frustrating when they don't seem to want to help themselves. But maybe some good luck will happen, hm?
You're not completely alone, there's all your fans online too. If there's ever a time to give up, it isn't now. Surely there's something that can be done, however small. A phone called, an email sent. I'm not a US citizen, so take my words with a grain of salt, but if the usual channels fail...maybe there's another path? Social media, perhaps?
Signed, another guy in the military who doesn't want to be sent to death for the ego of someone in another country you'll never meet
um
Tensions are high indeed. As much as anybody may agree or disagree about certain things that have been and will be said in the following years, can't we all just get a long and not consider petty ideas about people before their term even ends?
Hang in there. The fuckwits with too much power always self-destruct sooner or later.
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That's the requirement for entry, right?
4659994 Funnily enough, no. They didn't ask for money. It was the Wobblies who needed a donation.
-Chessie
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I didn't know you were doing any of those things. I strongly disagree with your views, but I greatly respect that you're willing to act on them rather than sitting around waiting for the world to change for you.
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I hope some of those people (especially dirtbag leftists, of which I'm one) who say 'I would run for office but I'm too much of a freak' take a moment to look at the President
I have a different reason: I would really, really hate that job. But in almost every case it pays better than what I currently do…
Just to get these facts out there. DACA was not a valid program. It was created by an illegal executive order by former Pres. Obama and should never have been implemented. Every court challenge returned the same result that it was an illegal order, but no-one was willing to move against it.
Is this a crap move for the so called Dreamers? Yes it is. But all Pres. Trump is doing now is putting the decision back to where it belongs, in Congress. They are the ones who are supposed to decide immigration policies, not the President.
So while I do feel sorry for the so called Dreamers, they didn't ask for this situation, it doesn't remove the fact that their parents brought them here illegally. We are foremost a nation of laws and the law is the law. If we want them to change them then we need to change them. Until then they will always be at risk.
Yeah, I'm living right in Irma's path as well, so I know how hard the next few days are going to be. Hopefully, the hurricane will only be a glancing blow, or maybe it'll lose a little of it's strength, but we'll just have to wait and see.
Also, while I don't really agree with your feelings toward our current leadership (not really a fan of Trump, but also don't hate him that much), I at least understand your need to vent about it. I wasn't much of a fan of former President Barry myself, so I often wrote rage pieces myself. It can be very therapeutic in the right circumstances.
Hope things work out for you and your friendos.
My 93 year old grandfather lives in Florida with one of his nieces... while it is in a little backwoods place just an hour's drive north of Tampa (so thank God not directly in the path), I am still worried for him. Tried contacting him, but unable to get him or my second cousin. So I am hoping it is because they are evacuating and that I will hear something from them soon.
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A nation of laws...and...Trump?
Because any time somebody says 'Nation of Laws', we can just point to Trump. There's nothing else that needs to be said. His mere existence gives lie to that.
-Chessie
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How exactly is Trump breaking the laws? He was lawfully elected by the people and everything he's done has been fairly open so far. Other Presidents have done similar stuff with others being down right illegal. Like Obama and DACA which set this part off. Most of Congress and all of the Courts agreed it was an illegal move. Heck, he even said that it'd be illegal to do the year before he even did it. The difference later was that he won re-election and wanted to leave even more of a legacy behind.
Deep breath and exhale.
Concern is natural. So is anger, really. But the bitter hatred? We love ponies because they're better than that, and we aspire to be too.
Also, it looks like someone has been watching Lucifer lately.
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Well, there is that thing the FBI is investigating, about the secret extra-legal agreements with the Russian government... but that isn't proven yet, so I suppose it doesn't count. I'll admit, I find the first-hand testimony by the director of the FBI to be a fairly convincing statement, but that's just me.
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He didn't place his businesses in a blind trust and is still directly in violation of the Emoluments clause of the Constitution.
He's got years of well established involvements with the Mafia during his time as a New York property mogul.
He's admitted to assaulting women in a taped recording. 'Grab'em by the pussy' is not just locker-room talk.
His second wife, in her deposition before the court during their divorce, said he raped her when she criticized his hair surgery.
He's under FBI investigation for collusion with the Russians and it has now been confirmed that there was, if nothing else, an attempt to collude.
He's obstructed justice and several members of his staff have extensive ties to Russia. His daughter sat in for him at a U.N. meeting, which is a violation of nepotism laws and his oath of office. She is not the President of the free world. She's a sleezy fashion model.
He fired James Comey over his Russia investigation, then gave a public interview where he said he fired Comey over his Russia investigation (directly). (http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/12/politics/trump-comey-russia-thing/index.html)
He accused a former President of illegally wire tapping him with absolutely no evidence whatsoever, which is - AT BEST - libel and defamation. This has since been proven completely, unequivocally false.
He's nominated a non-scientist to head the USDA, which is against the law. He's nominated and had confirmed a Supreme Court judge for a seat which was stolen from a former President. This is against the law. He's lied to the public on every topic under the sun, some of which probably meets the legal definition of public fraud, if nothing else. His conflicts of interest are so pervasive that describing them would melt my computer.
This is before we get into possible treason or his foreknowledge that Michael Flynn was probably a foreign agent when he was granted security clearances. We won't even go near the amount of money he's forced the Secret Service to spend at Trump properties, or the appalling weight of his incompetence where staffing absolutely necessary parts of the government is concerned. These are parts of the government he is required to staff to keep the government operating.
If it came down to throwing the book at Trump, the book would be made out of neutronium.
Shall I go on?
-Chessie
I cannot possibly imagine how furious you probably are right now. I'll just say that your anger is plenty valid, and I don't begrudge you any of it.
And I suppose we can all cross our fingers that the people we care about make it through Irma okay.
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As I recall, regarding the "locker-room talk" thing, he was speaking in a hypothetical manner. He wasn't saying that he literally had done that action, but due to his fame and status, he could have and gotten away/been allowed to do it.
Was it a crass, disrespectful, and incredibly egotistical thing to say? Absolutely. But it's never talked about that way. Instead, it seems that people are pushing it beyond that as being a confession of criminal activity. (Were that the case, some sort of legal action would have been taken) If we get actual, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence he did this, I'd gladly change my tune.
Overall, there are a few things in your list that are "x accused him of". An accusation is not proof of guilt in this nation, because it was recognized how easy it is for an accusation to be made, and the injustice in harming an innocent person accused of something they didn't do. So I'd say that when it comes to being critical of people, make sure it's because of actions and decisions they have been proven to have made. Lord knows there's more than enough to be unhappy about when it comes to the president without resorting to rumors and accusations.
4660875 Trump has a long, proven record of misogyny against women. He's admitted to wanting to fuck his own daughter and made lewd comments about 10 year old girls in public and on the record.
He says he can aggressively, physically attack women and they'll let him do it because he's rich and powerful.
He tried, by his own words, to make an extremely aggressive pass at a woman who was married and had no interest in him. He didn't feel a conversation or a glance at her hand for a ring might be worthwhile.
Why defend him? Why nit-pick? Why call accusations on the public record 'rumors'? They are not rumors. There are recordings! People recording his voice as he says, in context, the things he meant. This is Trump saying shit HIMSELF.
You want to defend someone, defend the poor people he's deporting. Defend Hillary Clinton, who had one of the highest favor-ability ratings of any politician until 3 years ago. Defend Bernie Sanders, who has been fighting for American rights for 50 years.
-Chessie
4660170 I miss being apathetic. It was nice. Being involved is hard work. Laying on my ass playing video-games was easier. Standing in the rain holding a sign or writing emails to people I know will only take my email as a statistic or talking about politics with nutters when all I want to do is go back to bed and wake up three years from now is awful.
Why can't it all be over? I don't care if the President is liberal or conservative. All I care about is that he's not fucking crazy and broken and hates people and wants to take revenge on everyone whose ever said something bad about him.
Give me Pence. He's a religious freak and I hate every single policy position he stands for, but who cares? So long he gives a damn about anything besides himself and will act with some freaking dignity in public. If his policies don't work, he'll get voted out and somebody else will try. He's got to be better than Trump. Anything would be better than living in a farce.
-Chessie
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"My daughter is a real beauty if she wasn't my daughter I'd date her."
"I'd date you in 10 years when you're old enough."
All things that been said by people that aren't degenerats, only when it's Trump.
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The Emoluments Clause would stop him from receiving profit from a foreign government. He's still allowed to make profits from his regular business.
All of the accusations against him have never been proven since he would have been impeached if anything stuck. Heck, the dem's have been trying to find some way to impeach him before he was even sworn in but could never find anything solid.
Ivanka Trump might have sat in his chair, but I seriously doubt she said anything besides reporting to her father about what happened while he was away. If you can't trust your family then you can't trust anyone.
Except for Robert Mueller, since he is a Special Investigator, they all served at the pleasure of the President. If they didn't do what he wanted, he was within his rights to dismiss them.
With regards to the wire tap charge, I got nothing. Maybe he thought there really was something there, but other groups have been slinging worse ever since he won. Maybe Obama really tried to do something, maybe not. There is too much chaff in the air to tell either way.
I don't know enough about Clovis to comment one way or the other about his qualifications, but Trump can nominate all he wants since it's Congress who will determine if those qualifications are met.
Trump did nothing to steal the Supreme Court seat for Gorsuch. Again, the President can nominate all he wants but it's Congress who decides whether to act on it or not. The prior Congress was within their rights to decide to not go forward with Garland's nomination. Was it necessarily playing fair? No. Was it a political maneuver? Very much so. Was it illegal or theft? Not even close.
With Flynn, who knows what Trump knew or when he knew it. Unless someone can definitively prove it all anyone has is speculation.
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For this set all I can say is that while he may be a misogynist, raciest, or any other -ist you wish to name, until he physically acts on them and does something illegal he has every right to think and speak like he does. We have yet to devolve to having thought police going around so people are still free to be whoever they want to be unless they actually interfere with someone else.
And while Hillary may have been popular she is someone I would point out as actually doing illegal activities. All of the foreign donations the Clinton Foundation received while she was Sec of State. Bill just so happened to have a secret meeting with the AG while she was being investigated. Her IT guy, Paul Combetta, was caught asking how to delete her emails. Heck, even her whole private server scandal was swept under the rug. I've heard of 4 star Generals losing their entire career over one misidentification error and she gets away with several (to hear her supporters claims) if not hundreds (according to her enemies)?
And as for Sanders, the guy actually scared me on the campaign trail. I do not know what would happen if we became a Socialist nation considering we have fought other foreign Socialist parties in the past. A very hot war with the Worker Socialist Party and a long cold war with the Federative Socialist Republic. Now I'm not saying Socialism is automatically bad, but it is kind of counter to the Republic and Capitalistic society which got us where we are today.
Now Chesssie, I don't mean to dismiss or demean anything that you're saying or feeling. It's just that people are getting so riled up on one side or the other that I just feel the need to point out the other side on occasion. You have every right to feel stressed out, or scared, or whatever else you want to feel, but please just step back and remember that their are other people out there that can help. And other's who will keep their eyes on Trump and stop him if he goes to far.
Like I said before, we are a nation of laws. And if Trump goes to far outside of them he will be impeached so fast he'll be out the door before Pinkie could get your party hat on. He cannot act alone and the very nature of our government system means that there will be someone to stop him if they need to.
So please, take a deep breath and remember that no one is ever truly alone. Take care.
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Yea, this was something I had to point out around my university campus after the election. Some people were freaking out after a year of sensationalist predictions about Trump's presidency, to the point they were certain that "Trump is going to round up [minority group] and [put them in camps/execute them/bad things]"
I had to remind them that there are many systems in place to limit the power of the executive branch, and to remove the president from power if they commit an illegal act. The legislative branch is there for many important reasons. But being a jerk is not a criminal offense.
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Tell that to people like Arpaio, who ran a private concentration camp (that he called a concentration camp, on camera, in public) for decades mostly without interference, until his own employers at the Arizona justice department finally dropped the book on him... only for Trump to presidentially pardon him for his many, well-documented crimes, some of which directly caused people's deaths. He's hardly the rule, but to claim it doesn't happen? Not really very believable, either.
In the US, the law is often more a suggestion than a rule and pretty routinely broken when someone in power decides that wanting something bad enough justifies the means for whatever it takes to get it. Trump was already used to getting away with that kind of behaviour even when he was just a rich egomaniac, not the literal most powerful person in your government. He's frankly detached enough from the life experience of the average person to do all of that, has already done much of it, and considers it his good right, too. This is the man who once tried to put a solid gold desk in his office that was so heavy, it broke the floor. He barely considered most of his employees people and treated them accordingly. There are a lot of first-hand horror stories about this that you could look up, ranging back decades.
The guy is basically a poison for the entire country. Hillary is an awful, corrupt scumbag, but she was still better. Think about just what that says about a man.
Bro, chill the fuck out. Can't wait for 8 years of Trump.
As someone outside your country; from where we are standing when you start looking into it there's actually very little between either of your parties. They're both out to increase the size of governmental control and screw you, albeit in different ways.
People are tired of lying politicians.
Brexit was two fingers to the establishment. Trump likely got in because people voted for the one person who wasn't actually a politician. Of course that meant you still got Trump. Was the bumbling vain fool worse than the corrupt hypocritical weasel? Who knows.. from here it looked like a choice between two clowns.
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The problem with the political two-party system we have is that one leans far right up to centrist right, while the other usually try to aim only for centrist left, to get those voters on the right to agree to some of their people.
Hell, we have a thing called split-party tickets, where people will vote for one party on one seat and then the other party on the other seat, just so they can "work together". Maybe if both were centrist, sure, but when one is someone who leans far, it just doesn't work, and yet people do it all the time.
Also, it's not like the US wanted Trump either, it was a very clear margin of popular votes going to Hillary's side, but because of the Electoral College which was designed to stop people like Trump from getting into office, we didn't get her, and we didn't have as many scandals and white house thrashing as people are getting so tired of.
Living in Paraguay has made me used to shrugging whenever I heard something bad about the government. Quite frankly, however, at least the corrupt governments we have know how to manage to keep their shit leaking out in little doses that ultimately don't damn them in the end. Once Trump is out, soooooo many political groups are going to go straight for that family, and if a Dem wins, they might even try to bullshit the law and take over their property just to try and take some money back from what that family used.
As much as I hope Hurricane Irma wipes his Mar-A-Lago property off the map, I'm sure someone like him will find a way to bounce back from it. On the plus side, if it is wiped out, he'll be forced to stay in that "dump" you guys call the White House, at a much reduced taxpayer's bill.
EDIT: Also, I just realised, like everyone of his ilk, once climate change starts to affect him, he'll change his tune real quick.
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Question. Are we gonna have four years to live? Also, nope. We ain't havin eight.