We're Talkin' Candidates - Part 1 of Who The Hell Knows

Obviously were are very early into this election cycle.  Nevertheless I feel that I have most likely made up my mind on whom I will be supporting.  This is part one of a multi-part series where I will discuss each of the candidates which I think are relevant to next year’s election.  First let me get one thought off my mind.

All of the Republican candidates are varying levels of pro-life.  There is nothing inherently wrong with that stance and I would never chose a candidate on one issue alone.  People who get abortions are some sick mother-fuckers with loose morals and a disturbingly skewed sense of right and wrong.  If there is a God, then these people will surely go to hell for blatantly sacrificing the gift that He gave them.  Abortion makes me sick.  That being said, I am anti-abortion and absolutely pro-choice.  I am not a woman, so it is not for me to decide.  I will not put my Judeo-Christian morals on other people.  There is not an efficient system in this country for handling unwanted children.  Lastly and most importantly I am not adopting any children.  If you do not adopt children and you are pro-life then you are a fucking hypocrite, you have zero credibility, and you are not part of the solution.  You do not get to be pro-life unless you are actively helping to make the lives of unwanted children better by bringing them into your home.  Also, as I've stated before calling yourself pro-life when you are for the death penalty is utter bullshit and in my expert opinion, unchristian.

Now on to the first candidate, Donald Trump.

The Donald may be my favorite Republican candidate and not simply for his love of hats or because he is every bit a clown like myself.  One of the best things about him?  He is not afraid to say that this country sucks giant hairy balls.  He acknowledges that we are not the greatest country in the world...a concept which seems to terrify or completely incense some Americans.  The only way to get back on top is to finally admit to ourselves that we are not in fact, anywhere near the top.  In 1999 he proposed increasing taxes on the rich by 14.25%.  He still feels this way today.  This is a good idea, though it may not be enough without closing existing loopholes.  He believes that giving a withdraw date from Afghanistan was a “stupid mistake”.  That is spot on and I couldn’t agree more.  Trump feels that China is a huge danger to US business and labor.  This is not a brain buster.  Additionally he feels that we as a country should not do business with countries that have a poor human rights records or where the people are oppressed by the government.  Obviously based on where manufacturing is centralized these days this is a tall order, but his heart is in the right place.  He believes in smaller government, which I am a huge fan of, but we differ on where the cuts should be made.  Trump thinks we should get the fuck out of the Middle East.  I concur.  There is no victory there for us.  Trump is pro-gun and against assault weapons.  This mirrors my own beliefs.

Trump is rather vocal on immigration issues.  Just for schnitzengiggles I got into a debate with my daughter about whether “anchor-baby” is a racist or appropriate term.  CNN is discussing this ad nauseam.  Guess what?  It doesn’t matter.  Yes these kids are US citizens.  Yes, some of their parents may have had these babies to give themselves a footing in this country.  I don’t mind the term “anchor baby”.  It seems apt to me, but I can see where some would find it offensive.  Certainly this term should not be the center of the debate.  It deflects conversations from the deeper issues.  Why are people fleeing Mexico and South/Central America?  They are fleeing because some of those places blow big-time and on many levels.  We know this.  So what do we do?  Trump wants to build a giant wall on the Mexico side and have Mexico foot the bill.  As a NIMBY libtard this sounds like a fine idea to me!  The wall will be damned ugly.  People will still somehow get over or under it because people are like water; they are both unstoppable and will find a way.  I would hate to live on that border and see a giant prison wall on a quarter of my property line.  Also, you have to make allowances for animal migrations and natural water-ways.  Betcha Trump doesn’t have a good solution for either of those.  We cannot deport US citizens, so what do we do with these “anchor babies”?  We leave them and their parents alone; even though every single one of these people will turn out to be a rapist and/or murderer.  Yes, we need more patrols.  I think a wall would be expensive if we cannot get Mexico to somehow pay for it not to mention ugly and unfeasible.  The logistics for deporting every illegal in the country seem insurmountable…especially for a government that sucks at pretty much everything.  So let us fast track who is already here.  Let us step up border patrols which would put people to work as well as stop new folks from coming in.  The Christian thing to do would be to welcome these people in as brothers and sisters in humanity and help them in every way possible.  Thankfully, I am not a Christian so I don’t think this is necessary.  Also, we already have loads of people here who need plenty of help.

That being said, I cannot vote for Trump.  We clearly disagree on immigration and he is a racist who is not afraid to make broad sweeping generalizations about an entire group of people.  He is a “drill baby drill” candidate.  He is not pressed about sustainable energy.  He does not support farm subsidies and is for cuts in the USDA and FDA.  He somehow thinks that the US is the highest taxed country in the world.  Spoiler alert…we aren’t even in the top 5.  Trump dislikes our current education model, which I do as well, but he has not provided solutions other than eliminating the Department of Education and handing control to local and state governments.  Look at Texas and tell me if that is a good idea.  Trump is against same sex marriage which is kind of a deal breaker for me.  Forbidding people to have something which you have, in which giving it to them in no way affects your life, seems pretty lousy to me.  He is against the Affordable Care Act, but has no suitable replacement in hand.  Finally, Trump is a lousy and savvy business person.  He and his companies have filed for multiple bankruptcies, but he personally always comes out on top.  Sometimes he creates investor projects that fail, but his contracts are written so that he shares little of the risk.  He has even made profits on failed investments while his partners suffer all or most of the losses.  He doesn’t play the business game well, but has expert legal advice.  Therefore he always works the system so that he comes out ahead either through use of contracts or through litigation.  Stay classy, Trump.

No to Trump in 2016. 

Caustie el Payaso

http://2012.presidential-candidates.org/Trump/Issues.php

https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/how-does-trump-repeatedly-file-for-bankruptcy-and-still-stay-on-top

How Did Ignorance Become the Armor Plated Kevlar Body Armor of the New Millenium?

I was speaking to a friend yesterday about The Affordable Care Act.  She said she was against it because Congress and their staffers were exempt.  I allowed as to how that was untrue.  They just didn't have to sign up because they were already covered...just like any of us who are already covered.  She said that she didn't like it because government could screw up a wet dream and they were running it.  I said that she was right about the government sucking balls mightily at doing just about anything part, but that they weren't providing the insurance or the care, and that the insurance companies were.  She sighed and said it was just too expensive for the government.  I said that the tax payers would individually carry the cost and that eventually it would become self-sufficient as everyone joined up.  She said, "How do you know all this?  Did you read the law?"  I told her that as much as I'd love to, no, I don't have time to read even the 1000 page condensed version of the law.  So I go to sites I trust and get summaries.  If I find a site that leans one way or the other, then I try to get confirmation or dissent from the other side.  I went to Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.  I looked at BBC articles.  I went to factcheck.org, and politifact.com and then checked their sources as well.  I'm no slouch on research, because I expect to defend my position and defend it well.  She wasn't impressed with my sources.  She asked who was behind THEM?  I said, Steve Forbes, Rupert Murdoch, Eugene Kiely, The Tampa Bay Times and other sundry writers and researchers.  I am as familiar as I can be with the politics of these people. These publications, and the others I refer to are about as neutral as can be found.  I asked what sources SHE used for her "facts".  Her one source was her fucking mother-in-law.  This is what I'm dealing with day in and day out.  
I am not an instant fan of "Obamacare".  There are issues with the law...but it is the law and it has been deemed constitutional by The Supreme Court of the United States.  I know several people who will pay more than they used to for insurance.  I know people who were willing to play the odds and forgo insurance that will no longer be able to do so...at least not without a penalty.  Insurance companies already had too much power before this law.  They collect too much money and look for any reason not to pay out.  That is bad.  And look at the odds.  The fact that they make so much money shows that many people do not need insurance.  What I am for, however, is an end to lifetime coverage limits, preexisting condition restrictions, and the idea that with coverage people will get preventative treatments and examinations where they haven't previously.
My friend was unimpressed with my facts and my neutrality.  Nothing I could say would sway her.  Why is she so entrenched in her beliefs?  I am going to look into this, because when I figure that out, I'll have the answer to why this country is in the shape that it is.

Caustic the Clown

On This 9/ll, Please Keep Your Silence To Yourself

     Lots of assholes will be jumping on the 9-11 bandwagon today.  As you watch them spew their nonsensical and poorly reasoned requests for silence, take a moment and really think about that day and what it means to you and your country.  Think about the real heroes that died trying to help save the person in the next cubicle, or who stopped to help a co-worker when they may have made it out in time on their own or the heroes that rushed into the collapsing WTC in the hopes of saving anyone at all.  Think about the heroes that tried to clear rubble in the hopes of finding anyone alive at all (and they did).  Also think about the work-a-day schlubs that died no more heroically than a simpleton who stumbles out into oncoming traffic, but let's not make them heroes.  They're just dead people.  Did they deserve to die?  Most likely not, but let's try to reserve the word hero just a bit, can we?  Think about the sorts of businesses that could afford to have offices in the WTC.  Maybe think about the people who worked in the insurance companies, and law offices and financial institutions some of whom made their livelihoods out of dicking over Americans.  Not heroes at all, really.  Think about what drove men to hijack and crash the planes and the people on board who tried to stop them.  Think about a plane smashing into the outer wall of our own Pentagon and then remember the international atrocities which have been planned and executed from that building.  Think about what over-reacting to this day's events in the first place has done to our rights and our freedoms.  Think about all the people, Americans and otherwise, who have died in our mission to fight something that cannot triumphed over using violence...terrorism.    Think about all these things...and the silence will come of its own accord.

Caustic the Clown 

As always, I welcome your comments below as well.

How to Piss Off Hundreds of People In The Aftermath of a Tragedy or How I Learned to Be Sickened by Facebook

So let me try this again.  You know that thing people say about not digging your ditch deeper?  F%&# that.  Hand me a shovel. 

So Facebook is full of attention whores.  It is designed for the expressed use of said whoring.  That is why it works.  Here's what I ate today.  Here are my pics of Asscrack, Indiana.  Here are my butt-heinous kids, etc...  I get that.  But when you post your prayers and well wishes to people during a tragedy, what is the purpose of that?  The families certainly won't see the posts.  Only your followers.  That is whoring. even if you don't know it.  I guess I can't blame you.  I like posting so much I have this stupid page.  So, I've been using dickishness to call people out on this attention hounding today.  Turns out people don't like to be called out on that sort of thing.  People have unfriended me (Seriously?  I just had to add unfriend to this dictionary thing).  So what to do?  You could pray silently in your home.  You could sit cross legged or lotus style and send love or energy across the country or world to these families.  Maybe that works.  Then the only people that would know about your prayers, wishes and energy would be you and your maker...oh, and possibly the families receiving these bucketfulls of space wishes.  But crap in one hand and send wishes on Facebook and see what you get at the end of the day.

Am I any better?  Is the whore that runs around the streets of FB pointing and yelling "Whore!  Whore!" any better?  Probably not.  Way more fun though, and at least I feel like I'm contributing to society.

So what is the alternative?  Jimmy Carter.  He used to build houses for people who needed houses.  That's pretty cool.  I think that was before Facebook.  Don't get me wrong.  HFH has a Facebook page, but they don't use it to send energy.  They use it to promote their habitat construction cause...which is pretty awesome.  Before Facebook people had to get off their asses to contribute to the world and could only tell people that they were praying for other people a couple of friends at a time.  I miss that.

Next, turn off the news.  Right.  Now.  In two days or a week or a month all the details will be out.  Don't let CNN grab your whole Friday night (or worse your whole damn weekend!) for the same footage over and over and the same sad sacks doing nothing and saying what a tragedy this is or the pro-gun and anti-gun dildos duking it out and miniscule updates every hour on the hour.  Fuck Wolf Blitzer.  At least for today, fuck him right in the facehead.  They get us during hurricanes, blizzards, wars and elections.  Take the night off.  Wait until they have something useful to say.  Tonight---go out drinking with your friends and tell some positive stories.  Hang out with your family and watch Home Alone or The Santa Clause or something.  Hug people.  Hugs are good.  Not enough hugs in the world.  Incidentally, I'm a huge proponent of hugs!  Creepy clown hugs for all!

Tomorrow--think of a way that you can improve your life and the lives of those around you: family, friends and strangers.  Then do the thing that you thought of.  Yes you can wait until after the holidays.  We're all busy...I know.  Make at a New Years resolution.  No, not one of those fake ones where you don't quit smoking, or drinking, or kicking your dog, or beating your children, or cheating on your wife.  Make a really real one and follow though with it.  If we all do that, there will be a lot less terrible tragedies for CNN to report on...at least ones as bad as this.

Caustic McGee

P.S.  Fuck you if you don't like my attitude.  Maybe my medium sized penis of truth hurts just a little too much when I pound it (minus lube) into your sensitive rear of ignorance!
Bwahhhahhahha!
P.P.S.  I'm on Chantix.  It may be making me more caustic than ever.  Whatevs.  I love it.