The World of the Pod People. That’s where we have arrived and it’s time to get off the short bus and have a look around.

I haven’t written blog-like post in years. In fact I think it’s been since the early 2000’s that I’ve sat down and tried to write something for public consumption. It takes a lot of dedication writing bullshit for strangers to read on an ongoing basis, and knowing me that dedication will burn out in a few months and I’ll start to obsess on something else new and shiny to my brain.

So why start writing now?

I’m starting this whole bullshit blog page during the Corona-virus Lock-down of 2020. It’s April as I write this, and as I journey through the Corona-virus kerfuffle, I have come to realize, with horror, that what I thought about people is terribly wrong.

Well, not wrong so much as not the same.

It all started with this guy:

Donald Trump. Well, it didn’t really start with Trump but it’s definitely when I noticed Pod People showing up.

I guess that actual start goes all the way back to George W Bush, that cunt.

Way back in the early 2000’s we had this thing go down called “9/11”. If you weren’t around for it, what happened was a couple of planes flew into the World Trade Center buildings and a bunch of people were sad.

After two planes flew into two buildings, three buildings collapsed in New York, the Pentagon got whacked and a plane dropped out of the sky in Pennsylvania.

We found out that Saudis were the guys who apparently did this, so the USA attacked Afghanistan and Iraq.

I’m not at the weird part yet.

After the attacks, GWB decided that, for the interest of safety, the Patriot Act was needed and for some reason the laws against propaganda had to be loosened up as well.

We had to “Support the Troops!”

The years of salt and misery continued under Bush until the entire global economy caught AIDS and went down in a ball of fire because the USA (and other nations) had been slowly de-regulating banks and stock exchanges since the 80’s. A bunch of greedy fuck-tards in banks and Wall Streets had fucked up the system so bad loans and mortgages across the globe went to hell and countless people lost their homes and businesses. So, George Bush gave $800 billion to banks so the people who fucked up the system could get their annual pay bonuses.

Thank god Obama got elected as the next President.

Right?

Within 6 months of being elected Obama confirmed the $800 billion to banks so everyone who fucked the system could get paid, and to make sure they were all happy Obama also chose not to prosecute anyone for destroying the global economy and causing countless thousands of people to lose their homes and livelihood.

So I guess fuck Obama too.

Also fuck Obama for giving the world the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012. This little gem of legislation allows the US government to utilize propaganda within the USA. If you google this little puppy you will find all kinds of “fact checking” websites telling you the Act is safe, and don’t worry about propaganda because the Act doesn’t directly give the government the authority to spread the propaganda. This is true… until you couple it with the powers the Patriot Act and now suddenly propaganda is a necessity for the safety of the USA.

In the 80’s that fucker Reagan also allowed the US news media to present news stories with an “editorial” slant, which means almost 30 years later their festering drive to convince the public their opinion is the right one, we are now stuck with people like Rachel Maddow and Sean Hannity professing their own particular asshole view of geopolitics.

Which brings me back to this guy:

So this fuckin idiot shows up on the world stage sometime back in 2013 or 2014 and tells us all he’s going to be President.

Donald J Trump wanted to be President. Fuck me. Does it get weirder than this?

I think it’s safe to say that back in 2014 we all figured his presidential run was a joke, or a publicity approach to promote his own television agenda.

We were all pretty comfortable with the idea that Donald was going to run for a while, build up some public capitol and then just fuck off and go home. And, that’s what was happening… at the start.

As the Republican candidates debated, dropped out, or campaigned, it started to appear that Trump wasn’t just a jokey side-liner, but instead was handing the ass to everyone in debates and scoring huge support with “Average Americans” because he gave no fucks about Republican inner-circle protocol, and the Democrats loved it because all of the Republican adversaries they were worried about having to face in an election were being destroyed by a reality TV star in debates and were looking like a bunch of assholes.

Then, when it looked like Trump was going to be the Republican Presidential candidate everything changed.

It seemed to happen almost within a week. The media, financial institutions, educational institutions, Democrats and Republicans all suddenly turned on the guy and we started to get told Donald J Trump was the worst human to set foot on earth. It was sudden and uniform everywhere, and that’s a little odd.

I admit, I fell for the message. From mid-2014 to mid-2016 I loathed hearing the dude on radio or seeing him on TV. He was arrogant, self absorbed, and pretty stupid. He had failed companies, allegations of sexual misconduct, and no real political experience except whatever he got in a board room. I felt GREAT about my opinion. Pretty much everyone I talked to agreed with me, and those that didn’t were obviously red-neck idiots.

That’s the message right? Racist, fascist, homophobic, elitist, and corrupt.

Something changed.

This ghoul slithered her way into the Democratic nominee. By stacking the super-delegates Hillary and team by-passed the social contract they made with their party membership, ignored the majority, and snatched the leadership for herself.

Huh. That wasn’t very nice.

And then the rhetoric ramped up. Trump was worse than Satan at this point. It wasn’t merely that Donald Trump was an under-qualified candidate for the Presidency, he and his cabal were clandestinely planning a coup of democracy. They were going to hand over the world to sneaky dictators and the richest among us.

The rhetoric that began to vomit from the voice boxes of the DNC was getting a little absurd, so I decided I wasn’t going to simply ignore Trump anymore, but instead I had to have a good look at what he was actually saying, and maybe not rely on news outlets to filter the message for me. The news outlets seemed pretty heavily in favor of Hillary at this point and I felt I was going to have to filter out a lot of “editorial slant” in order to get the full message, so I went strait to the horses… or sun tanned rich guys mouth.

So the first thing I did was read one of his campaign speeches, and I was surprised. He was advocating for tougher taxes on the rich, lower taxes for middle and low income people, restructuring manufacturing in the USA, controlling mass immigration and securing borders against guns, drug, and human trafficking. Not bad.

Strange, I thought, that none of this was even making a headline or editorial in a newspaper or television show anywhere other than Fox.

When I was browsing Reddit, I had blocked “The_Donald” sub-reddit because due to their size their pro-Trump posts were constantly making it to the front page of r/All and I was sick of seeing the dude I hated in my face every day. But after reading the campaign speech I wanted to head into his supporters’ “back room” to see what the people who liked him actually had to say about the dude. So I un-blocked the sub, and made some posts in The_Donald.

And… get ready for this… they were…

Polite.

And friendly, and fun, and concerned about their fellow citizens, the state of their country, the finances they and their children had to look forward to, and the corruption in Washington. That was a little odd.

It was odd because these weren’t the people who were supposed to like Trump. The people who were supposed to like Trump were dudes like “Florida Man” and people with confederate flags painted on the tailgate of their pickup truck, or maybe people whose fashion centered around overalls. The people who liked Trump were not supposed to be middle and lower class Americans, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, accountants, lawyers, civil-rights supporters, and generally the average person who isn’t a complete asshole.

What the fuck was going on? I mean sure, you are going to get racists in the Republican party, but you just need to take a look at Joe Biden’s record to see that the Democrats are just as loaded with racist, homophobic, sexual assaulting assholes and the DNC is cool with those people. I was actually finding that there really wasn’t as many assholes supporting Trump as there was the democrats.

So I looked deeper. There was all those assault allegations, right? Surely with the post-pizzagate post-#metoo internet someone would have dug up some pizza parties Trump had in the past. Shit, he even said Epstein was a great guy! There had to be a skeleton in that closet to find so I could comfortably go on hating the dude like all my friends.

Nope. It turns out Trump actually provided testimony against Epstein to help out Virginia Guiffre (Roberts) in her case against Epstein. The Miami police and FBI made statements in 2009 that they had interviewed “hundreds” of witnesses and no allegations against Trump had come up and that he had been very “forthcoming”. What – The – Fuck was going on??

Okokokokok… there was at least that one girl who said Trump had raped her of her virginity while Epstein watched. That was in the early 90’s so Virginia Guiffre wouldn’t have been around to witness that, so that would explain why she, or the other 10 Epstein victims, didn’t point a finger at Trump, because it happened more than a decade before they got involved with Epstein.

Nope. I looked at court filings, interviews, watched her video, and read as much about the allegation as I could. It slowly dawned on me that the only evidence supporting this claim was the girls testimony… and that was it! True, her lawyer took another statement from another “victim,” but this statement was given anonymously OVER THE PHONE, so who knows who gave the actual testimony?? Nothing else was legit. The court papers had falsities, the claimants’ own statements conflicted, and Virginia Guiffre even came out to state that the claim was bogus because half of the things she said happened were things Epstein never did. What the fuck is going on?

I was getting pretty pissed off at this point. I really wanted to keep hating Trump because he was obviously a giant asshole fuckwit, but every time I went to verify why I thought he was an asshole, research started to prove my premise wrong.

So it had to be the sources, right? Maybe I was just consulting the wrong sources and switching out to something more reliable would help me find the dirt I needed to keep my hate on.

So I went back to the news outlets and I grabbed a bunch of articles that promised to really REALLY make me hate the dude. Things like “Russia!”, “Rape!” and “Racism!”. There definitely had to be something that NBC, CBS, ABC, the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Mother Jones, Huffington Post, and anyone else I could find that really had some good dirt on Trump. I was definitely going to find something with this journey.

Nope. Every time I read an article it was the exact same format. Crazy headline, 3 paragraphs telling me why the headline was terrible and why Trump was about to doom all of us, maybe another couple of paragraphs explaining something tangential to the story, and then finally a couple paragraphs at the end retracting everything in the first three paragraphs and explaining their theory was hypothetical and that something else was currently the actual truth, but the stuff they wrote about earlier might be true some day. What the fuck?

It’s not like this happened only once. It kept happening. Over and over and over.

Then, it was announced Facebook and Google would filter out “Fake News”.

Then the YouTube started to demonetize certain video’s which went against the Democrat agenda… pro gun videos, no anti-Clinton videos, no pro-Wikileaks, and on and on. Then a little later YouTube began to delete videos or entire accounts because of the “message”.

Most recently YouTube took down a video of two doctors relating their experience with Covid-19. They questioned the statistics and concluded that Covid-19 was less dangerous than the flu. Video gone. Deleted. YouTube’s excuse for deleting the video was the video was “dangerous” to view. What. The. Fuck??

It’s been about five years of this fuckery.

Now, when I search for news, I have to read the headline to see what the lie is, skip 1/3 down the article to see their shitty evidence, then skip to the end to see what they don’t really want me to read after 10-15 paragraphs of shitty writing.

The most reliable way to look into a story is to scan news articles that predate 2013/2014. I’ve found that most news prior to this point is fairly journalistic, but the closer you get to 2020 the worse the journalism is and the stronger the partisan leanings become.

Over the past few years I’ve started to grow pretty comfortable with this routine. Read, scan, verify, next. I think it has been a pretty reliable way of filtering news and information to at least get to the meat of the real story. The downside with this routine, is that it’s a little harder than just reading the first 3 paragraphs and moving on, and it’s soul crushing to realize this is my reality in 2020.

Then Corona virus Happened

This is really where it begins to get weird.

We started getting news of this virus out of China around December of 2019. By January it was clear that China wasn’t dealing with just a flu like Avian or Swine flu.

As this news was starting to cross the Pacific media and public officials started to tell us not to wear masks. They said masks wouldn’t prevent us getting the virus. They said that wearing a mask only prevents the wearer spreading the virus. Instead we should practice the “elbow cough” or “vampire cough”. Wash our hands, limit public exposure, and if you feel sick stay home.

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Please, dear reader, believe me. If coughing into your elbow works to prevent the spread of a virus, I guarantee that wearing a surgical mask will do a better job.

In fact, wearing a scarf, ski mask, or even a fuckin maxi pad strapped to your mouth (clean please) will do more to prevent the spread of a virus than simply coughing into your shoulder.

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So I listened to at least two or three weeks of this shit. I was lectured daily on my drive to work that I shouldn’t wear a mask. And daily I was confused, because a mask works for a simple cold and Covid was a respiratory disease, so why was everyone frantically telling me not to wear a mask?

Then Trump cancelled flights to China, and the world freaked the fuck out.

Then Italy went all to hell

And Spain started to go to hell.

Then Trump banned flights to/from Europe and everyone freaked out because he didn’t ban flights to/from the UK. (He did a day or two later).

Then everyone freaked out because Trump said “it might not be that bad”

Then the USA began to go into full lockdown and everyone freaked out that it took so long. (most countries except Spain and Italy went into lockdown after the USA btw).

Then some doctors tried out Hydroxychloroquine and found that it was helping people, so Trump suggested trials on that drug, and everyone freaked out because they said it was dangerous! (so is morphine, codeine, chemo-therapy, and fentanyl – all doctor prescribed drugs).

Then Trump unveiled a $2 Trillion dollar relief package that somehow was assembled and presented to Senate and Congress in weeks, and everyone freaked out because money was going to banks and corporations (even though more than 1/2 of the relief was designated to help small businesses and average workers’ paychecks). Don’t forget large corporations in the USA tend to employ a lot of people… so ya, they kinda needed money too.

Then, when the “curves” began to flatten, Trump suggested we begin to relax quarantines, and everyone freaked out. (about 1 1/2 weeks later everyone else started talking about relaxing quarantines).

And it still gets weirder.

Then there was the fines, and arrests, and anti-protests. On the radio, internet, and television news channels, fines for violating “social distancing” were being lauded. Police were breaking into homes in the UK without warrants and people celebrated. Governments used drones to track hikers. Fuckin power-boats were banned for use in Michigan for gods sake.

All of this was going on, and Americans were eating it up. You know who Americans are, right? They are the dudes who invented the “Declaration of Independence” and all that other freedom stuff Americans really don’t seem to be caring about anymore.

Yeah, I just wrote that. Americans aren’t caring about all that freedom stuff anymore. WTF?

Enter The Pod People (finally)

As Corona virus began to creep around the globe, the DNC was running through its presidential nomination routine (you know, the one Hillary leveraged against her party a few years ago?). And due to the questionable practices during the last primary with Hillary, the DNC made a really strong effort to ensure fair vote counting. They did this by creating a phone app that gave more votes to Buttigieg and Biden than Sanders. They also made sure the votes were counted only by DNC officials to make sure the votes showed 5-120% voter discrepancies against exit polls. Pelosi even suggested officials “carry votes to polling stations” to aid with social distancing. (I wish I was kidding).

Everyone eventually dropped out of the race except Biden and Sanders. Then Sanders dropped out and that left us with Joe Biden as the sole Democrat candidate. And instead of affirming the only candidate remaining, the DNC decided to continue with the voting process for some reason.

And Joe Biden is human filth, let me just say that. He’s wrapped up in scandal in the Ukraine (thanks Hunter, you coke sniffing fuckwit), he’s tied to the Benghazi scandal, he’s tied to the false FISA warrants, and he seems to have this really weird fascination with young girls, smelling their hair, and grabbing them in inappropriate ways. Finally, in March (before Sanders dropped out btw) Tara Reide, a former Joe Biden staffer and long time Democrat, accused Biden of sexual assault.

The news was SILENT.

We currently live in a post-Epstein, post-Weinstein, post-Spacey, post-Bill Clinton, post-Cosby world and the silence from the media on Biden was unsettling.

Then, a video was found from Larry King in 1993 which allegedly had Tara Reide’s mother calling in to the show to seek advice for her daughter who had been assaulted by “a well known Senator”. Then Tara Reide’s brother confirmed she had spoken with him shortly after the incident in 1993. She even went to a Democrat funded women’s shelter for aid, but was turned away. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?

So the Democrats have fielded a candidate against Trump who actually has more documentable fraud, collusion, and sexual assault claims than Trump ever has… and these people expect to win?

But it’s not just the Democrats and the media…

This is the point were I started to notice… POD PEOPLE.

People who should be outraged about Biden are silent. People who should be outraged over the fraudulent primary practices of the DNC are silent. People who should be outraged about violations of freedom of speech and assembly are silent. People have just become silent.

It’s not just Americans either. It’s Canadians, it’s British, it’s Italians. It’s fuckin everywhere!

Where are my friends?

I know some really fuckin smart people. In fact I pride myself with the intelligence and wit and know-how of all my friends. They are really amazing people, and I’ve been lucky to meet them all. I know theoretical physicists, philosophers, archeologists, engineers, programmers, mechanics, artists, musicians, feminists, social care givers, and other really friggin smart people who’s jobs I don’t even know.

They have all turned into Pod People. And I’m alone.

So what’s a Pod Person?

What I mean by the term “Pod Person” is someone who’s attitude and beliefs are NOT the same as they were in 2014. They don’t even seem to be the same people. I’m talking about those people who used to be champions of individual rights, and now they are carrying the banner of totalitarianism gleefully with everyone else. I’m talking about those people who loved political intrigue and hated corruption. Those people who saw a woman, or a child, hurt and immediately called for justice.

These were people who though critically, reasoned the evidence, and formed their opinions based on the evidence regardless of what it says.

They are gone. Those people don’t exist anymore. The critical thinkers in my life cite me the headlines of CNN and NBC, and when I question them on the meat of the articles the discussions end there. It’s like the headline was the absolute authority of the story and whatever I can say following this is irrelevant.

More insidious is the gut reactions these people have when I try to talk about things “against the message”. I’m insulted, or made fun of, or simply ignored. I’ve been getting called a “conspiracy nut” by my closest friends and acquaintances for years and laughed at because I saw some truth in the #pizzagate claims.

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Pizzagate was a nick-name given to a theory which espoused an international child-trafficking ring centered around a pizza restaurant in Washington DC, and involving Hillary Clinton, the Podesta borthers, and in some versions of the theory Barak Obama.

Cray-cray right?

It’s definitely a crazy theory to think the some of the most powerful and influential movers and shakers of the world could get away with child trafficking and child rape.

Until you look at Jimmy Saville hanging out with Prince Charles. Or you look in to the Dutreaux affair. Or you look into a fraction of the Epstein thing. Or you simply google “political child trafficking”. [Actually don’t. Use Duckduckgo.]

If I can paraphrase Rick and Morty ” YOU HAVE ALL KINDS OF EVIDENCE!”

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So I’ve had to eat shit on the child trafficking thing.

It gets worse than people not caring about child trafficking.

In fact, I could list one fucked up thing after another, and that’s probably what this blog will be for, and issue after issue will get ignored and written off because “That’s not the message”.

It’s fucked up.

I feel like I’m living this life where I can see the lies clear as day. Anyone can. Simply check the source. Instead of listening to what NBC tells you Trump says, just go view the actual footage of him speaking. Instead of believing what CNN tells you is in the Wikileaks Podesta releases, just go look at them for yourself. Instead of believing that Trump fucked dozens of girls on Epstein’s Island just go look at the actual court documents.

My friends used to do that. They don’t now and their minds seem to have been replaced with little mini Rachel Maddows and Sean Hannitys.

The situation is so bad now academics have become afraid to express their own political views in what seems to be fear of reprisal. People have begun wishing death on those who support anything other than what the TV tells them to believe. Bait and Switch news stories are the norm now and everyone is buying it.

And where it leaves me is in a world where I just want people who are smart and reliable to look at the TRUTH and make their decisions from there. I don’t care if someone disagrees with Trump’s financial policies, or social policies, or policies on immigration, so long as those decisions are based on the actual facts and not the political and social motivations of those in the Democrat party, and/or of the news media who blindly advocate any message the Democrats or their rabid supporters hand to them.

So at the end of this post, what’s it all about?

It’s my first post on my blog and it’s taken me almost a fucking book to explain my use of the term “Pod People.”

I want my friends back. I want logic back. I want fairness and judgement back.

So I’m going to write a blog to see if that helps.