Last day, How to deprogram, 5000+

by Duf Anything and Everything

Today marks my last work day prior to a nice fat five day Christmas weekend.  I’m looking forward to it for both normal holiday enjoyment and an opportunity to get stuff done as well.  I have no less than four printers sitting in the hobby room that are currently in need of repair and three EUC projects I have ready to roll.  I also have Cindy’s old pc waiting to have some additional hardware installed so I can make it my Quest 2 streaming system.  When you add in whatever stuff I get to play with from Christmas, I will have an action packed 5 days for sure.

I have seen a number of people talking about a very real problem our country is going to be facing now that the election is over, how to deprogram Trump cult members.  Now to be clear just because you voted for Trump does not mean you are one of his cultists.  You are a member of that group if you still have Trump election signs in your yard, posters of Sydney Powell on your wall, and find yourself waking up in the middle of the night screaming “RELEASE THE KRAKEN!”  If you still are participating in the charade lead by the Grand Puppeteer himself, President Big League, there is a pretty good chance you can count yourself in as a cultist.  So the question is, how does society manage to rehabilitate you?

No speech is going to get the job done, only actions.  The non-cult members of society need to press forward with greater good principals that ideally result in better living conditions for all.  It will not happen easily or quickly and for some cult members, there will truly be no hope as they will wear their MAGA hats to their graves. The brainwashing that has occurred is not something new in human history.  TV preachers have demonstrated it’s power for decades as they cultivate fear and money from their blind congregation.  This is just the first time a US president has been able to utilize those same tactics in an effective manner on the general populace, hopefully it is also the last.

So Congress passed a bloated 5500 page plus Covid relief bill.  The main headline that gets blasted out to the public is $600 direct payment checks!  It’s pretty crazy that out of a bill that is longer than an encyclopedia, they are able to summarize it in one sentence.  Well of course that is what works in today’s society, catchy headlines, memes, and one sentence explanations that play favor with ADD ridden, dumbed down Americans.

Let’s first deal with the “highlight”, the $600 to people making less than 75k.  It is a pittance that is unlikely to make much difference in anyone’s life that has been derailed by covid.  When you compare the covid support the US government has provided compared to other modern nations it is unreal.  Just north of the border qualified Canadians have been getting $2000 A MONTH since the pandemic started.  Many EU countries have offered similar levels of support for their population. So for the US, the richest country in the world and the biggest covid bungling as well to offer a total of $1800 in direct support over the course of 9 months is a joke.

So once you get past the anger over the lump sum numbers you can start getting really pissed off when you look at the details of the relief package.  In much the same format as the initial “stimulus”  the bill is filled with pork belly political favors for countless corporations/countries that have absolutely no benefit to Americans.  My favorite is a new exemption for corporate executives allowing them to fully deduct their meal expenses. The 5500 pages is filled with similar nonsense.

Now if you know anything about modern day congressional legislation you know this practice is commonplace.  They constantly throw these riders onto bills that have no connection to the original intent.  They are quite simply paying off obligations congress has to the lobbyist army that truly controls American politics.  If you ever have a chance to look at the details of this stimulus bill or any other legislation passed by congress I guarantee you will get very angry, very quickly.  It’s a broken system that has no chance of ever being fixed as long as the people that benefit from it’s corruption are the same ones responsible for changing the system.

I hope you and your family have a great Christmas holiday.  I’ll try to drop an entry in here before next week but no promises can be made.  Unlike congress I prefer to under promise and over deliver.