Well, we can now add to the list that proclaims that the only things that are certain are “death and taxes”. The list now contains 3 items that are a certainty when we add that anything that comes out of Hair Fuehrers piehole or gets tweeted from his tiny fingers is going to be vile, obnoxious, or a lie.
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The Gasbag in Chief recently spewed that we only get immigrants from “shithole countries”. What he and others don’t realize is the US has become one. On this list, in terms of Quality of Life, the US ranks 18th, behind Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Norway, Switzerland, Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, the UK, Japan, Luxembourg, Ireland, France, and Singapore.
We just edge out Portugal and China. China, for the love of God, CHINA — where they have to put up nets to prevent factory workers from committing suicide and locked gates prevent workers from leaving!.
We have sunk in status for things like maternal and child mortality, education, life expectancy, health care, and a list of other really important criteria. We conveniently forget that we haven’t been “Number One” for decades unless you are considering military spending or the percentage of our population that we have incarcerated. USA USA!
We aren’t #1 in “freedom” either considering how even the most peaceful protests are squashed by our now-militarized police force, elections and politics are ruled by an avalanche of dark money liar ads, and people of color are routinely manhandled, killed by police, or stopped because they are driving “too nice of a car".
Our districts are gerrymandered so our votes don’t count, privately computerized voting or vote counting machines are vulnerable to hacking, corporations and the rich can donate vast sums of money anonymously to ensure the candidate that will serve them is elected, and people are routinely denied their Constitutional right to cast a ballot because they can’t obtain or afford a “proper ID” to vote or they committed some legal offense years before. Far too often, the candidate of the rich and corporate gets in office to “serve” their donors rather than the people they are supposed to represent. The majority of our “representatives” are millionaires or richer which ought to be forbidden as undemocratic in a country where the majority of people aren’t rich.
Freedom of the Press is a Constitutional Right that is losing ground daily as corporations now determine what “news” we’ll hear, the FCC gives telecoms the ability to “slow the flow" of information based on ability to pay, and the Current Occupant of the White House opines on the governments' lack of control of media content.
Buhleeve me, as tRump would say. This country has been a shithole for quite some time now - just not in the way Hair Fuehrer and his cult followers comprehend. Our "great times" aren't behind us - they're ahead of us. It’s time we recognize that fact and work to improve things so we can once again have sincere pride on our country and live up to our reputation and claims.
On a personal note, I had a CT scan of my chest, abdomen and pelvis on Thursday and my oncologist called me Friday to tell me that I was still in remission from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She was almost giddy from the results. More. Good. News. Please. I want my heart better, too.
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