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SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)
9. Here's the thing...
Thu Sep 11, 2014, 05:09 PM
Sep 2014

When you start following the money, looking at the big picture and putting all the pieces in place, you realize we are well and wholly fucked. All you can do is put your head down, and try to take care of yourself and your family as best as you are being allowed to.

When you look at for profit health care, a for profit justice system, when you look at income inequality, corporate personhood, a complacent media, a government that has shifted so far to the right that conservative views are routinely viewed as the perspective of the left and right wing views are actually paranoid lunacy, you start to realize that the world is completely bonkers. I mean it, we have gone around the bend and landed in Crazyasfuckistan. I actually find myself avoiding knowing too much about too much. If only so I can keep my sanity.

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It is just business RobertEarl Sep 2014 #1
It's an open invitation to money laundering, too n/t arcane1 Sep 2014 #2
nobody invited me reddread Sep 2014 #8
Business as usual. The SCOTUS made it very clear Rex Sep 2014 #3
Oh, it's much better than that jberryhill Sep 2014 #4
More people need to connect the dots...the mass media is in a huge conflcit of interest positon Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #5
The same can of course be said of newspapers throughout our history, Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #6
Not near this extent, not near the political money, it is no contest with TV news, the money is Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #11
Citizen Koch. Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #13
The circle of life...... FSogol Sep 2014 #7
Here's the thing... SomethingFishy Sep 2014 #9
It's Bizarro World. DC Comics had it nailed way back then. Enthusiast Sep 2014 #18
Yep libodem Sep 2014 #10
The biggest laugh? Reagan claimed all that money was going to go into PAYROLL. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2014 #12
K&R.... daleanime Sep 2014 #14
I'm afraid you haven't even scratched the surface. Savannahmann Sep 2014 #15
I'll see your Truman Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #19
Truman left with only his National Guard pension. Savannahmann Sep 2014 #25
I seem to recall that US Grant was also at the poverty line Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #26
Which is why I said he left Washington Broke. Savannahmann Sep 2014 #27
Yeah, I get that. Now. Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #28
Don't forget all the research done for corporations paid by the taxpayer. nt valerief Sep 2014 #16
Oh, it's a scene, man. Enthusiast Sep 2014 #17
You are right! libodem Sep 2014 #21
you just defined fascism. Adam051188 Sep 2014 #20
Yeah, pretty much. Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #22
Can you go Further.....your post left me hanging to viewpoint and links? KoKo Sep 2014 #23
It was just one of those D'Oh moments. Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #24
I can understand what you say then. Yes...sometimes giving links and such KoKo Sep 2014 #29
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