Random Thoughts

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Some kids feared the school bully. A few thought he was a joke. Most ignored or avoided him. Nobody respected him.

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ICE agents have been permitted to act like criminals, so it's no surprise that criminals impersonate ICE.

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Your front doorbell chimes. And just then, the phone rings. At that moment, someone starts pounding on the back door. You see someone peering in your window and tapping on the glass. Your laptop starts dinging because a bunch of emails just came to your inbox. Your neighbor is on the sidewalk, shouting your name. A notification beeps to let you know there are social media messages for you. In the next room, the smoke detector starts beeping due to a low battery. You hear an unidentified crash in the bathroom. You notice water leaking from under the kitchen sink. Just then, the dog barfs on the living room rug.

That is "flooding the zone" and it works because it overwhelms your ability to respond, leaving you confused and unable to prioritize.

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Nearly every day - sometimes multiple times per day - donald does or says something that would have been considered scandalous for a real president prior to 2016. Often, his actions would likely have led to impeachment and conviction for pre-2016 presidents. Yet most of these things go by with little public attention, unreported by "major" news organizations. Those who should know better, who should take responsibility for holding public officials accountable, who should - at the very least - inform the public, have blandly accepted a criminal madman as the country's leader.

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I visited donald's blog, to fact-check whether some of the posts recently attributed to him are real. It's a mess. Aside from being a stinking swamp of lies and hatred, it is poorly designed, difficult to navigate, unsearcable, and really ugly. In other words, appropriate.

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People in government used to believe they were required to act within legal boundaries. The lawbreakers hid what they were doing, because they believed they'd be held accountable if caught. But then they found out that the people who could and should say no to donald (and by extension to his minions) weren't saying no, and that no one was willing/interested to hold them accountable. So they began doing the bad stuff openly, because that was easier than hiding it, and they became more and more confident that no one would stop them, no one would punish them. They have crossed so many lines that they are in new, weird territory, a Bizarro World where NOT being corrupt is seen as a bad thing. Where "making America Great" means destroying everything that is actually great. Where decency is a joke, and cruelty and perversion are role models.

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Whatever happened to the "Age of Aquarius"?

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