calimary
calimary's JournalTotally get that, Cheviteau.
Sometimes I actually find it comforting that Im no longer young. I hope to be gone before the polar bears disappear.
It hurts my heart. I have kids. And Im soon to be a grandmother. What kind of world will we have left them?
OMG! Is that for real?
Indeed.
I have NEVER seen Vladimir Putin so ebullient in public!
Not EVER. I be seen him smile and be cordial. But NEVER like this. Beaming so broadly his cheeks puff up nearly to the point that his eyes are nearly shut. High-fiving a suspected cohort. In public. Vigorously, too. They did everything but pop champagne corks, set off fireworks, and take off their shirts and tummy-bump each other.
Although for all we know, the champagne service, at least, wasnt far away.
Ouch!
We have to start calling him that.
That.
Red Tide Rick. Reminders like this of that horrid marine affliction are quite useful. Attaching something widely acknowledged as negative and/or outright noxious to someone. The concept to the person. In this case the concept being the ecological calamity that is actually, literally, genuinely, tangibly happening.
Happening right now in the real world in real time.
Further, that helps connect another dot. Attaching Red Tide to Rick Scott makes it clear that the dreaded Red Tide applies to him or is somehow connected to him. Well, he was governor in Florida. Why would one couple Red Tide with Rick Scotts name? Because maybe as governor it happened on his watch?
Because maybe as governor it DEVELOPED on his watch?
Maybe as governor he had a hand in that development or enabled it with friendly executive directives or creative manipulations of laws or regulations?
And you can retrace the steps from here... why did he want to use his powers and authority as governor to enable conditions that eventually resulted in red tides? Why did he, how exactly did he, when did he - and for how long?
And who benefits? ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ask who benefits. And how do they benefit? And how leads directly to how much. Money is usually involved. Usually BIG money. Big money from whom? And why? For what purpose?
If we start planting this seed, seeds like this, it will begin to sow doubt as those seeds germinate. Itll serve to remind that the red tide conditions that are proving to be literal threats to local economies as well as drastically and directly (and extremely negatively) affecting the local ecosystem. And Rick Scotts leadership as governor has directly led to this. GOOD that the Red Tide label be attached to him by name. Thats GOOD. It can help wake people up. At least a few. At least for starters.
Hard to live in a bubble where youre constantly told that everythings fine, when you step outside your own front door and see it right there in the flesh along the nearest neighborhood shoreline or waterfront. Or you know people who attest to this happening in THEIR neighborhoods.
Seeing is believing. We can only hope that enough people start waking up, and coming to their senses NOW. And you can start that by messaging. Planting seeds in peoples minds. Perception management. Managing their perception of the world and the world around them. I just regret that too many people in this country cant learn a lesson in any way other than the hard way. Theres a fair amount of grief and anguish ahead.
The expression on her face says it all.
We'd have already saved countless billions if we hadn't "elected" YOU.
How much of our hard-earned tax money have you already wasted on your lavish trips to your golf havens every weekend (for starters)?
How much are we wasting on that stunt moving all those troops to the border - to do exactly WHAT for months?
How many millions have we spent guarding all your extended grifter family members who are also busily mooching on us taxpayers?
How many more millions have been run through because every last one of your damn resorts and lavish getaways have to be intensely guarded all the time?
How much have we spent having a so-called pResident whose lies and crimes and fraternizing with the enemy have led to investigations that wouldnt have been necessary if it wasnt YOU squatting in our White House?
And yes, I know wed have squandered countless more millions on fly-by-night republi-CON investigations and multiple other phonied-up persecutions of a President Hillary Clinton that would end up finding more truckloads full of nothingburgers.
And thats just off the top of my head.
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