Dear Kim Jong None,
(yes, I do know how to spell your name properly. But we know who I am referring to.)
You are threatening to nuke my country. You are threatening to nuke my people.
Are you kidding me?
Do you truly believe we won't retaliate?
Do you remember Osama bin Laden? He drew first blood. Ask him what happens when you attack us. Oh, wait. He's fish shit now.
Do you know how many nukes we have?
No?
Me neither.
But to quote Dirty Harry,
"...do you feel lucky, punk? Do you?"
15 May 2017
02 May 2017
Why Hillary Clinton lost the election
It's enough to make you pull your hair out.
The Democratic Party (hereafter known as the DNC), is 'wondering why Hillary lost the election."
Well, DUH. Now mind you, I cannot stand Trump. I sure in hell didn't vote for him. He was beaten but the electoral college...a bunch of nitwits who were bribed, paid off or promised some sort of benefit if they cast their vote for Trump...put him in the White House. Why we need an electoral college in the first place, in this day and age of computerized results available as soon as the votes are cast, is beyond me.
But, DNC, I can tell you why Hillary lost.
Because she's Hillary Clinton.
I despised her when she was First Lady of a philandering, lying, cheating schmuck of a guy named Bill. The idea that Bill wouldn't interfere in the running of the country once his wife was elected was ludicrous. I hated Bill Clinton, because of his schmoozing ways. I did not vote for him. I didn't vote for Bush, either. I threw away my vote, casting it for Nader in both instances because voting is a duty, and I didn't want either candidate.
Hillary ran against Obama and lost. Hillary ran against Trump...it should have been a shoo-in. And lost. Why?
Because she's Hillary Clinton.
When she ran against Obama, she made it known that women were EXPECTED to vote for her solely due to her gender. Talk about patronizing!
She ran on the assumption that she should be President because that's been her goal since childhood. It's what she wanted, and damn it, the people of the US were going to obey.
She lost because she's Hillary Clinton. Perhaps she's not as strident, shrill and harridanish in private life, but that's the persona she put out there. Every time she opened her mouth I cringed. She had a voice that could cut steel. Everything she said made it sound as if she were some washerwoman haranguing her deadbeat husband, coming home from a three day drunk.
There was..and is..nothing likeable about her. She can't be blamed for her appearance or her voice, (although my spouse said, Who in the hell is dressing her?) but she could have at least toned it down until after the election. But no, she acted and sounded like a pit bull. Her mouth was was smiling but her eyes were cold, calculating, hard. There was no smile in her eyes. It was phony. You got the impression that to her, people were for walking on to achieve her goal, nothing more.
Is it fair that she was held to a different standard than male candidates? No, but that's life. Compare her performance to Margaret Thatcher. She was equally hated in Britain. Why, I don't know...I thought she was an excellent Prime Minister. She was called the Iron Lady and you knew why. She carried herself as a high class elitist, a polite one. Hillary was of the same make: a high class elitist, who was instead of polite, was always on a tirade at the top of that shrill voice.
Whether she liked it or not, she was judged on other things than the men were. Again, that's life, but she should have paid attention to it, rather than dismiss it.
Her past was no help, either. We all saw her throw her schmuck of a husband's accusers under the bus. We heard her when she made mention of the fact that women should be home baking cookies. She was a ball buster.
Most especially, we watched as she 'stood by her man" when he was up against the wall for having sex in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky.
Had she divorced him then and there, I believe she might have had a chance.
But no. We had her pinned even then. Hillary was on Bill's bandwagon, come hell or high water. They even has a phrase for it: Bill and Hill, Presidents of the United States. 8 years for each.
That too may be why Jeb Bush was beaten so early. We, the voters, were tired of the Bush family and the Clintons. Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton...god damn it, no. Go away. We were sick of them ALL. The Presidency is not a inherited right. This isn't a monarchy, it's a democracy (although, with Trump in charge, that is rapidly changing into a plutocracy.)
I heard it put succinctly in two ways. Both are quotes by men:
"I don't blame Bill Clinton for having sex with Monica Lewinsky. I wouldn't sleep with Hillary if she were the last woman on the planet."
Chris Rock, who's never been known for soft soaping things, said: "Yeah, I can see having a woman for President. Just not THAT woman."
You nailed it, Chris. I don't know if I'm ready for a female president, but I damn sure don't want THAT female.
The Democratic Party (hereafter known as the DNC), is 'wondering why Hillary lost the election."
Well, DUH. Now mind you, I cannot stand Trump. I sure in hell didn't vote for him. He was beaten but the electoral college...a bunch of nitwits who were bribed, paid off or promised some sort of benefit if they cast their vote for Trump...put him in the White House. Why we need an electoral college in the first place, in this day and age of computerized results available as soon as the votes are cast, is beyond me.
But, DNC, I can tell you why Hillary lost.
Because she's Hillary Clinton.
I despised her when she was First Lady of a philandering, lying, cheating schmuck of a guy named Bill. The idea that Bill wouldn't interfere in the running of the country once his wife was elected was ludicrous. I hated Bill Clinton, because of his schmoozing ways. I did not vote for him. I didn't vote for Bush, either. I threw away my vote, casting it for Nader in both instances because voting is a duty, and I didn't want either candidate.
Hillary ran against Obama and lost. Hillary ran against Trump...it should have been a shoo-in. And lost. Why?
Because she's Hillary Clinton.
When she ran against Obama, she made it known that women were EXPECTED to vote for her solely due to her gender. Talk about patronizing!
She ran on the assumption that she should be President because that's been her goal since childhood. It's what she wanted, and damn it, the people of the US were going to obey.
She lost because she's Hillary Clinton. Perhaps she's not as strident, shrill and harridanish in private life, but that's the persona she put out there. Every time she opened her mouth I cringed. She had a voice that could cut steel. Everything she said made it sound as if she were some washerwoman haranguing her deadbeat husband, coming home from a three day drunk.
There was..and is..nothing likeable about her. She can't be blamed for her appearance or her voice, (although my spouse said, Who in the hell is dressing her?) but she could have at least toned it down until after the election. But no, she acted and sounded like a pit bull. Her mouth was was smiling but her eyes were cold, calculating, hard. There was no smile in her eyes. It was phony. You got the impression that to her, people were for walking on to achieve her goal, nothing more.
Is it fair that she was held to a different standard than male candidates? No, but that's life. Compare her performance to Margaret Thatcher. She was equally hated in Britain. Why, I don't know...I thought she was an excellent Prime Minister. She was called the Iron Lady and you knew why. She carried herself as a high class elitist, a polite one. Hillary was of the same make: a high class elitist, who was instead of polite, was always on a tirade at the top of that shrill voice.
Whether she liked it or not, she was judged on other things than the men were. Again, that's life, but she should have paid attention to it, rather than dismiss it.
Her past was no help, either. We all saw her throw her schmuck of a husband's accusers under the bus. We heard her when she made mention of the fact that women should be home baking cookies. She was a ball buster.
Most especially, we watched as she 'stood by her man" when he was up against the wall for having sex in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky.
Had she divorced him then and there, I believe she might have had a chance.
But no. We had her pinned even then. Hillary was on Bill's bandwagon, come hell or high water. They even has a phrase for it: Bill and Hill, Presidents of the United States. 8 years for each.
That too may be why Jeb Bush was beaten so early. We, the voters, were tired of the Bush family and the Clintons. Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton...god damn it, no. Go away. We were sick of them ALL. The Presidency is not a inherited right. This isn't a monarchy, it's a democracy (although, with Trump in charge, that is rapidly changing into a plutocracy.)
I heard it put succinctly in two ways. Both are quotes by men:
"I don't blame Bill Clinton for having sex with Monica Lewinsky. I wouldn't sleep with Hillary if she were the last woman on the planet."
Chris Rock, who's never been known for soft soaping things, said: "Yeah, I can see having a woman for President. Just not THAT woman."
You nailed it, Chris. I don't know if I'm ready for a female president, but I damn sure don't want THAT female.
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