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Spring Time Allergies!
All natural hay fever medicine:
This fall pluck a good bunch of goldenrod (genus: Solidago) blooms. Put them in a quart jar. Cover the goldenrod with apple cider vinegar. Store your jar in a cool, dark place until next spring. Take a tablespoon of vinegar as needed or use it on salads- get creative. I made my first batch last fall and so far this spring it is helping my husband tremendously.
Thursday, May 12, 2016
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A Hypothetical Scenario That Will Never Happen But Would Be Interesting And Amusing
Trump and Bernie on the same ticket; take the ride |
(To read about Jon's mega-collection, Exit From The
Matrix, click here.)
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Trump and Bernie on the same ticket; take the ride
The mass hallucination called 2-party politics in
America
By Jon Rappoport
Don't lose your lunch or your cookies or your marbles. Follow this
one to the end.
As Bernie throws charges at Hillary for vote-rigging to gain the
nomination; as Hillary solidifies her prurient control of so-called
super-delegates (Democrat insiders and hacks), thus overturning the force of
Primary voting; as Trump, Cruz, and the Republican leadership heat up an
internal war over delegates; as Colorado and other states reject the validity of
Republican Primary voting; the hallucination that is 2-party politics in America
is on the verge of cracking. And if the crack widens, the foul creatures who
emerge will reveal an oozing Hell in broad daylight.
We've gone past crazy.
And since that's so, anything goes. It's important to understand
"anything," which is why I'm dreaming about an independent ticket of Bernie
Sanders, fresh off his rigged loss to Hillary, and Trump, emerging from his
stinging defeat at the hands of Republican Beelzebubs. The two enemies on the
same side.
Bernie and The Donald. Donald and The Bernie. Can't agree on much,
but who cares. Burn the political house down. Walk away and start a new campaign
for the White House.
Left populism plus right populism. Together.
A realistic winner in November, as long as they have a cold-blooded
army of pros investigating the voting machines.
Bernie: "I hate Donald, except for his stance on trade treaties that
are stealing millions of jobs from Americans."
Donald: "I hate Bernie, except for his stance on trade treaties that
are stealing millions of jobs from Americans."
Could be a lot worse.
A lot.
How about this? "The ticket," a new independent party spokesman
declared at a Washington Press Club gala, "is Karl Marx and Ayn Rand. Deal with
it."
Why not?
Remember, the 2-party hallucination is matched by the American-public
hallucination. Both sides of the equation represent absolute
insanity.
The public is ready to accept the fact (after a few huge protests)
that the Primary votes aren't votes at all. Just a beauty contest. The two
parties pick their candidates in whatever way they decide to.
"Okay, you voted, now shut up and let us give you the most corrupt
candidates we can conjure. That's how the system works."
"Who's more hideous? A or B? B, right? So let's give them
B."
Here's a plus for a Bernie-Donald ticket: the media will gnash and
weep, weep and gnash.
"How can you possibly explain running with Bernie, Mr.
Trump?"
"I don't explain. I hate him, but he's a pretty good guy. When we're
elected, we'll argue every point. We'll hammer it out. We'll have to. Just last
night, we both decided we don't want any unnecessary wars. That was big. It's
better to defend America than go off attacking people overseas. What else? I
think he sort of likes Putin. So do I. So we'll go over to Moscow and see him
and tell him this new Cold War is ridiculous. We're going to cancel the strategy
of surrounding Russia with bases."
"And you, Mr. Sanders. How can you possibly explain running with Mr.
Trump?"
"I hate him. He stands for everything I oppose. But I kind of enjoy
talking to him. We're working on a plan to stop US companies from shutting down
factories and going abroad. We want to bring jobs back here. Turns out there are
a lot of things we can do."
"But Mr. Sanders, just a few months ago, you said Mr. Trump was a
sleaze-bag capitalist."
"He is. But I've come to realize he has advantages over Hillary
Clinton. To your point, he's somewhat less sleazy. Actually, far less sleazy. I
presented him with my plan for worker-owned businesses in America. Not as a
mandate, but through tax breaks and minor funding. He wasn't opposed. In fact,
he said he was willing to try that with one of his companies, which I understand
is going broke. I convinced him this isn't some Communist plot. It's motivating
to employees. It's participatory democracy. And if it works, it's
good."
"Mr. Trump, Mr. Sanders wants to revisit the federal bailout of big
banks. As you know, he pegged that fiasco at many trillions of dollars---far
more than the government was willing to admit."
"Bernie's four hundred percent right on that one. We gave away the
farm to those bastards. They held us up. It was highway robbery. I've been
talking about the banks and Wall Street for years. They're running a long con on
the American people. We should get a large chunk of the actual bailout money
back. I mean, what do those guys actually produce? Nothing. They sit there and
make money make money. I build hotels and casinos and golf courses. I'm a
builder."
"Mr. Sanders, isn't Mr. Trump unconscionably and disgustingly
rich?"
"It makes me sick to think about it. But at least he does put people
to work. That's more than I can say for Wall Street traders. Now, when we get to
immigration, Donald and I are definitely on opposing sides. But I'll admit our
screening process to detect potential terrorists coming here is broken. Donald
and I have been talking to border officials. They're honest and hard-working.
They're at the end of their rope. We've got to give them help, if we want to
prevent what happened in Paris and Brussels from visiting our shores. I'm not in
favor of public places in our cities blowing up. Are you?"
"Mr. Trump, Mr. Sanders is a declared socialist. How can you put up
with that?"
"I can't. Socialism is the most stupid form of government humans have
ever tried. Obamacare is a complete mess. Bernie sees some of the flaws, too. He
wants single-payer. I tell him that'll be far worse than what we've got now. I
want free competition among companies, so the best plans attract the most
customers. Bernie and I are still arguing on this one. But he's open to the
concept that we want a healthcare system that works. What an idea, right?
Something that works? And the medical people---we can't let them off the hook,
either. Too many drugs. The big drug companies are killing us with their
marketing campaigns. They're inventing diseases to fit the drugs they're
developing. I think Bernie and I are both beginning to see that. Their lobbyists
are feasting off the Congress and the President."
"Mr. Sanders, what about---"
At this point, the live television feed suddenly goes
dark.
Trump's voice can still be heard for a few moments.
"They're censoring us. Don't worry, folks, we'll pick this up on the
Web. Go to our site, 'Trump plus Bernie'. If they shut that down, you'll know
we're under martial law. Go to the White House and make your voice
heard..."
Trump plus Bernie? Horrible? Unthinkable?
Worse than Hillary or Cruz or Ryan or Romney? Really?
Is the hallucination that "everything is all right and everything is
under control and everything is standard" better than cracking the political
two-party egg?
Is it?
Is the endless media gloss better than the media desperately trying
to deal with Bernie and Donald on the same ticket?
If this country is internally starting to pull itself apart even
further, into two battling camps, is it better to put a war-crimes gargoyle like
Hillary in the White House, and listen to her babble about national unity---or
is it better to shove the two men who represent the great separation out there
together?
And if putting those two men out there together on one ticket drives
the American people nuts...is the contradiction actually making people crazier
or is it starting to bring them back toward sanity?
What's the fear of two opposing candidates on the same ticket all
about?
Is the fear authentic, or is it just a reaction to the fact that
we've been fed fake unity wall-to-wall forever? Candidates and leaders have been
selling us fake unity to cover their crimes and their hunger for control.
They've been pledging togetherness while they've been tearing us apart, because
divide and conquer is still the first rule of politics.
Instead of pretending the fake unity is real, why not dump that
delusion and put two men who are, in many ways, opposed to each other on the
same ticket?
Why not bust the delusion?
Why not let them argue?
Why not let them come to some agreements---because they
would.
Why not show the American people that endless whining and moaning
about issues and differences is best displayed by taking the differences to the
top of the political food chain, in the form of two men who might actually
believe at least some of what they're saying?
Let them argue, disagree, and try to hash out their problems with
each other. In full view.
At the very least, it will create a pause in the mind.
The public mind, such as it is, will spin wheels and break cogs, and
flip and grind and stop---because it can't process the new situation, because it
can't deal with an actual dialogue between two enemies. Because it can't
conceive of the possibility that it's viewing two extremes having voices in the
same space, out in the open, on the same ticket. Because the public mind has
been tuned to thinking that never the twain will meet. Because the public mind
wants the conflict to seethe and boil under the surface rather than on the
surface. Because the public mind wants non-resolution. Because, yes, the public
mind wants to moan about what can never be resolved. Because the public mind is
a mad insane child who can't be satisfied and wants it that way. Because the
public mind is a vast loser. Because the public mind is an artifact, a synthetic
substance molded from a thousand personal dissatisfactions into exactly the kind
of Mass Victim our politicians need and desire.
And even for those who have escaped the left-right, black-white,
yin-yang, ding-dong status quo, who have seen through the divide and conquer
formula and the two-political-parties- with-one-head ruse; the prospect of
seeing two men who are apparently on opposite ends of the spectrum put their
cards on the table in public, together, and go at each other, in order to come
to some understanding----that would be a relief. That would be a start of
something interesting in a White House that has, for decades, been rigged to
disable the country and the people and the world.
If there is a sliver of a chance of turning fake share and care into
real share and care...why not?
Break the trance.
Shake and bake.
Put those two boys on television every night and let them go up
against each other, all out, while running together on the same
side.
Make the impossible possible.
Shred the "this-or-that" set-up.
Explode the American political cover story.
Bernie AND The Donald in 2016.
Yin plus yang equals what?
Take a chance, for once, and find out.
We already know the sum of fake reality plus fake
reality.
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