I'm too tired to outlast another Repuke presidency

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

I acknowledge my 52nd birthday about the time in 1956 as I am writing this today. I have lived through both terms of Nixxon (sic), all of King Ronnie the Simple, George I, Clinton the Great Appeaser, who signed the Phildo Gramm bill that has given us our looming Second Depression, the Chimpenfuhrer/DicKKK administration, which was rendered upon this country only because Clinton was too much of a stupid backwoods hick to keep his dick in his pants, and now I gaze down the 12-gauge barrels of Grampy McAlzheimer's and the Rapture Malibu Barbie (the Trojan Moose). I can take no more.

If the Repukes steal this, I am gone. Surely some keiretsu in Japan, chae-bol in S. Korea, or whatever their equivalent is in Vietnam could use an Ivy League law grad to to teach English and whatever remains of business law. If Grampy is installed, his reign, such as it is, will be brief. One of Mooselini's cult will make sure he gets Trotskyized in relatively short measure, and then she can press the button to insure that worldwide nukular holocaust will ensue to make sure that her insane Zombie/Rambo Jeebus will "come back" and rupture all the beeleebers up to Hebbin while the rest of us fry to a crispy, gray dust that will remain undisturbed for eternity. The Vulcans will never notice us, I guarantee you.

I am too old for this shit anymore. I will flee, courage being for the young, at least until they put you in Gitmo, and my desire is now to preserve what little time this depression-laden (DXd) and Asperger's (DXd) corpus has left for me. Let it be in a pleasant clime, surrounded with potent liquor, beautiful young women and delicious native food. Let it be surrounded by the Confucian culture of balance and moderation. Let it be away from this cancerous and rotten empire that makes Nero's Rome look like a bastion of good government,

If, America, you elect Grampy or let him steal it, all I can say is that what you have reaped, so shall you have sown what you shall richly deserve. It is not inevitable, but given the intelligence, or lack thereof, of the average American voter, who can say in subsequent breaths "GO, dammit!" when watching the AA wide receiver of their favorite team, and "ME?? Vote for a fucking N*GGER? Are you fucking CRAZY", no, I am not optimistic.

[izzie]

1. I have 20 years on you so you can guess how I feel.

I am sure their is some thing in history about things lasting to long so that they reach the end point and become non-workable. I have met many people that say we have passed that point and have had our day. I wonder about that at times.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

2. Ornery old coot birthday kick

:kick:

[npincus]

3. happy b-day! Your'e not old... didja hear?

The 50s are the new 20s! :)

[alterfurz]

14. as Al Gore put it...

...upon attaining the milestone earlier this year: "60 is the new 59!"

[roguevalley]

16. double that, honey. I remember living in the Old Republic and I

don't have the strength either to go for ninety. :) I wanted to beat my grandpas and grandmas but not in this fresh hell.

[liberal N proud]

4. Liberty is too tired as well

She can't take another 4 years of this shit

[Peacetrain]

5. I have 50 in my rearview mirror also

and like you, I am just exhausted with the thoughts of another republican messing up the economy.. I guess I have lived long enough to see, that every major financial mess is under the republicans who do NOT know how to handle large government

That is why they pound on small government, while growing it at a rate that is off the charts. They are a disaster handling government

[ITsec]

6. I'm 53 today... I know how you feel... but...

I'm planning on staying and fighting. To my death, if necessary.

I owe it to the men that gave their lives who penned the following words...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Cheers...

[Peacetrain]

9. Happy Birthday!!!

:toast:

[KaryninMiami]

12. I turn 51 next Monday and I fully appreciate how you are feeling.

I've been working on campaigns for as long as I can remember and I lived through 2000 here in Florida (still have not healed) and then watched them rig 2004 and still cannot comprehend how the American public is not outraged enought about voting on corporately owned, non-verifiable machines to DEMAND a change. I spent years talking to people- on planes, trains, supermarket lines, in taxis- anywhere I could start a conversation, determined to get the truth out ("be the media", etc.) about those machines and about the theft of our democracy- even handed out little cards with links to where people could learn more and take action. Did it make a difference? Did any of our efforts really change anything? How many states are still voting on those same fucking machines. Florida has new machines- opti-scan so although they can still be rigged, at least we have a paper ballot backup- sounds great, right? We won that battle, right? Wrong. If the race is close here in Florida, thanks to a quitely, little known bill (thanks to Jeb Bush, it is illegal here in FL to count the paper ballots- so if it's close- we can only legally, count the (easily rigged) machine votes. That is unless we go to court and don't get me started there.

Still fighting? You bet- and working for Obama when I have time. But am I tired- yes indeed. I don't know how much fight is left in me now and I too am thinking that if we don't win this- and IT CANNNOT BE A CLOSE ELECTION or we are SCREWED FOLKS-- if we don't win- I'm not sure I want to stay in this country. Costa Rica is sounding mighty enticing as of late but I'm open. Maybe I can go do some good somewhere- find an NGO who could use my passion-- staying here under a McShame -Palin White House does not interest me in the least.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

15. The hope represented by those greats is gone

Should we try and protest, much less rebel, Blackwater will gun us down or ship us to prison camps. I read the local news reports here in the Twin Cities during the Repuke convention. The normally decent Dem mayors of Mpls and St Paul sold out all control of local law enforcement to Skeletor's forces months ago and were constantly in the papers and on TV justifying the Gestapo tactics of the cops as measured and righteous.

230 years ago, it took the Brits a long time to send the oppressors here. Today they can appear overnight and slaughter without any fear of reprisal. See Ike, see Katrina.

It's over folks. The American Empire needs to die for the world to survive. If I can manage, I am headed for Vung Tau.

[Orsino]

7. A valuable reminder of all the years of prosperity stolen from us.

We have a chance to improve things, but we don't get that lost time back. We're gonna be playing catch-up for decades, at best.

[barack the house]

8. Keep the faith the game ain't over till the fat lobbyist sings.

[donco6]

10. I'm right behind you - 49 here.

Being gay, working in public education - I just don't think I can take anymore, either.

[secondwind]

11. "Hang in there"! Never give up! Racists are a dying breed, and the young voters,

those who have taken a year off from life to join the "movement", come in all colors!

We WILL win! It will be close, but we can do this! (most of the racists are clustered together in the red states anyway)

[pipi_k]

13. 55 here but I'll tell you who I feel sorry for

My kids and grandkids.

What sort of half-assed world are we leaving our children and grandchildren, anyway?

Mounting debt..pollution...the threat of fiscal disaster...the threat of wars started by idiots with greed in their slimy little guts, etc., etc.


My own depression and anxiety disorders (also Dx'd) have been so adversely affected by these past eight years I can't even begin to count the ways. In 2000 I said to myself...OK...it's like being in prison for four years with a beginning and end date. Then in 2004 it was four more years of prison. And now it just seems like an endless sentence...and all because of what? Because Americans are too goddamned STUPID to see what's right in front of their eyes?

It would have been bad enough with McCain and, say, a more sane VP choice...like maybe Charles Manson or some NYC wino living in a cardboard box in the bowels of the subway system.

But Sarah Palin....

She's as crazy as crazy can get without having to be strapped into a nice white suit in a rubber room.

The last time I was this scared of a political figure was back when I was a child and I saw Nikita Kruschev banging his shoe on a desk yelling "We will bury you!" I think I was eight or nine years old at the time.

And you know, I agree with you...I do believe, as you do, that one of Palin's cult...in classic Manson fashion, will "creepy crawl" his way into position to take out McCain so she can have it all.

I'm not a praying type of person, but I'd be willing to pray every day if I knew there was really a God who would not allow America to destroy itself.

[samuraiguppy]

17. happy birthday!

I an younger than you and just as worried about surviving another Repuke adminsitration.

I am a cancer survivor--and at high risk for future tumors. When I lost my job in July, I could not afford my Cobra coverage (it was an outrageoous amount and I had no money). Every insurance company I have tried has refused me and I can't get hippa coverage because I did not exhaust my Cobra coverage.

So--I am fucked. I really and honestly don't think I can do it through 4 years of McJerk.

I have looked into immigration--but face it -- someone with no job, no money and no contacts is not a big catch for most countries.

I am so stressed over this election I am probably going to give myself a heart attack or a stroke over it.