I'm changing my DU name to Braindead. I need a fricking lobotomy to survive in Amurrika.

[live love laugh]

I cannot get past my anger at this bailout. There was a serious backlash by Americans who did not want this. Yet, it passed. At first, it did not pass but then, on Friday, a day known for news dumps, it seems they thought they could slip it in. And they did while redirecting attention to the debate. I guess they assume we are too stupid to notice.

Then there is the debate. Watching the debate last night was another joke. It was punishment really. I mean, WHY was Sarah Palin even THERE? She did not belong there and yet she is and so I watched her NOT answer questions while seeing alleged simultaneous audience reaction meters on the bottom of the TV screen tell me Palin was doing a positive job in responding when I couldn't even understand what she was saying.

I listen to stories about Palin bragging when she lost a run for Mayor that she was not just going to be mayor but governor--and now proposing to change the vice presidency. And I recall stories about a younger loser Bush who also did not belong in the White House but who would tell anybody who would listen that he was going to be president. And he is. And she may be. And the Vice Presidency may change exactly the way she says it will. And none of it makes any sense...that people like this rule the world.

I think about the IWR and I was as frustrated then as I am today because I knew they were lying then. I know they are lying now.

Every day I grieve for my country. It is not the place I thought it was. It is rife with corruption and blatant wrongdoing. I thought I was free. And I hear the thieves of my freedom of speech and of freedom of privacy telling me that they are spending billions and killing millions to protect the very freedoms they are stealing.

It seems like everything that I learned about being right and smart and fair and good have all been stolen from me these past eight years as well. I am so sad that I am crying as I write this because so much has been lost.

I had stopped coming here for a while because I needed to avoid the frustration I feel. And now as we are one month away from what is an extremely important election, I can hardly bear watching and hearing the lies and seeing fake polls showing 50/50 ties and news readers who won't even ask of a $700 billion historical bill, whether anybody is even overseeing it or whether the bill is loaded.

I will adjust in time I guess, to the new world order. Right now,though, I am struggling.

(My apologies for the disjointedness of this post. I would like to say more but I can't put it into words.)

:rant:

[truedelphi]

1. In just one week or so, the M$M made up a new meme

Small businesses are failing across America and all because Congress will not yet, or is stalling, in voting for the Bailout Bill.

Even people in DU say, "My sister's business is failing because of the Bailout Bill not passing."

Rove has known about this phenomenon for forever - say something often enough and it will become true (or at least it will be believed as being true)

So what about the Bill - it wasn't passed last Monday, and then not until Thursday (The Senate) and then today (House) -- the ramifications are probably going to be so insignificant that it will be hilarious if not tragic. (I am adding on later edit - By the ramifications not being significant, I mean those in terms of mending this HUGE FALLING DECK OF CARDS THAT USED TO BE AN ECONOMY - not in terms of how it will take even more money away from middle income people and help the rich get richer. The wealth distribution thing-ee is gonna have a few ramifications - none of which wil help the economy.)

But one thing the BailOut money does do is give this Administration the ability to postpone a TOTALLY BLACK Monday until the Dems are in power.

[live love laugh]

2. I know. And those people whose "sister" has a failing business...you wonder about them.

At least I do. Because they seem to be doing the bidding of traitors. And I cannot understand why people would support traitors like those in power.

[Hydra]

3. You crystalized something I've been feeling this entire Administration

Before the election was stolen in 2000, I believed in the myth of America. I had some nagging questions about pieces that didn't fit here or there, but on the whole I believed it.

Since then, Bushco's blatant power play has highlighted EVERYTHING that's wrong with our country in stark detail, from our Monetary System to Capitalism to propaganda to state secrets.

The most devastating revelation was that we had no voice. Everything in America is for sale, and if you don't pay you're not allowed in the game.

Don't cry today- laugh. Out of this stinking rot, we have the greatest opportunity EVER. We can tear all of this BS down and bury it for as long as we and our children remember how dangerous it is.

Today was a bad day, but a lot of people got the message- "Your money belongs to us."

It remains to be seen if it was just sparks or a fire created today.

[live love laugh]

6. "we had no voice"--that is devastating. I knew there were free speech zones a long time ago

but calling Capitol Hill was supposed to mean something. Voting is another place where we have lost our voice. And we have no voice in the media--or at least very little. I was listening to the only progressive radio station in my city today and thinking how very generous it is of the powers that be to allow me to listen to an opposing point of view. It has come to that. And I recognize that they can pull the plug anytime they want to--they have pulled many plugs in the past ten years.

I hope that we can remember and rebuild. The two are interdependent.

[chicagoexpat]

4. It's clear the one you have is working quite fine

you deserve to lose ur student loan, ur job, ur 401K (if it's not all stuffed in ur mattress)

[live love laugh]

7. You obviously support the corruption then I assume? How could you not see what I see?

And seriously, why do you hate America?

[MadrasT]

5. I'm there, too

I feel like I've slipped into a horrible alternate universe where THIS CANNOT POSSIBLY BE HAPPENING.

I'm too numb to say more right now. :hug: