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jiminycricket1 74M
5533 posts
1/1/2020 10:55 am
Well, Well.. who's "WELL" is it for..A not so Happy New Year..


I wrote this on leafs blog....Maybe some of you can NOT connect politically.. But take a second connect it from your own life experience. It's the same New YEAR ......For generations Past, Present and Future when HOPE is gone, and the only thing left is the FIGHT.

The idea that you may have. that somehow i disagree..that somehow I see Trump in a lesser degree than Hitler..That all of Hitler's parts aren't there with Trump.. is totally wrong.. It's different not in the parts, but in the whole.....Hitler may have been an architect...But Trump is NOT...... Trump is not building an empire.. he is tearing one down..
His collusion with Putin is not to build something... it's to tear US down..So THEY can build anew.... It's the same war Republican's have with themselves..Not to confront their own disagreement, as it has no purpose..YET.
The collusion is in their agreement..to remove the obstacles to their building..It's their common interest...to achieve uncommon goals. Everyone is welcome, who is willing to tear it down..even their opposition.
The true nature of Republicans, Facists, Communists, Terrorists, Racists, and the "collusion" of Trump and Putin..Is not in their agreement, it's in their disagreement..to be resolved only when it possibly "can be"
So NOW, Now, now.....It's not about what they WIN.. It's about what we lose....And WE keep losing...And the irony of things lost.....and the places they go..where they can't be found..

[MARY POPPINS]
Do you ever lie
Awake at night?
Just between the dark
And the morning light
Searching for the things
You used to know
Looking for the place
Where the lost things go,

The German people never had it.. to lose it..and from their ashes, they get to build new.
Not so easy for US...We had it, and lost it..What we build from here on out will be on a faulty foundation..For we can not follow... where the lost things go.

If you have any understanding of where I am coming from...You would understand....People get to build what they choose... but people NEVER get to CHOOSE what they lose... Once lost.. You will lie awake wondering where it went, and never be able to get it bac.... quite the same......You can't build upon what you lose

I'd take Hitler over Trump any day of the wee I would take the possibility of salvation...before the surety of damnation.

Hitler led his people drink from the poisoned well....Trump is getting his people poison the well, so there will be nothing left drin


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
1/1/2020 11:01 am

Age brings with it... not answers, but questions.....And with the New Year comes looking back..When there seems less to look forward to..

And all we've got left....... is wondering where the lost things go...


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
1/1/2020 11:25 am

"Do you ever lie
Awake at night?
Just between the dark
And the morning light
Searching for the things
You used to know
Looking for the place
Where the lost things go

Do you ever dream
Or reminisce?
Wondering where to find
What you truly miss
Well maybe all those things
That you love so
Are waiting in the place
Where the lost things go

Memories you've shared
Gone for good you feared
They're all around you still
Though they've disappeared
Nothing's really left
Or lost without a trace
Nothing's gone forever
Only out of place

So maybe now the dish
And my best spoon
Are playing hide and seek
Just behind the moon
Waiting there until
It's time to show
Spring is like that now
Far beneath the snow
Hiding in the place
Where the lost things go

Time to close your eyes
So sleep can come around
For when you dream you'll find
All that's lost is found
Maybe on the moon
Or maybe somewhere new
Maybe all you're missing lives inside of you

So when you need her touch
And loving gaze
Gone but not forgotten
Is the perfect phrase
Smiling from a star
That she makes glow
Trust she's always there
Watching as you grow
Find her in the place
Where the lost things go"

Mary Poppins.. "Where the Lost Things Go"

********

"We save in time.....
What we lose,
Unless we lose in time...
What we should have saved".

Jiminycricket..."Lost in Time" 01/01/2020


LeafReport 73M

1/1/2020 12:48 pm

This blog is worthless, in my view, without the following contribution I provided before. I am at wits end on how you could possibly take the conversation where you have...

My comment...
Truth is so complicated now. It is getting murkier by the day in fact. Over the holiday I watched a documentary about the Shroud of Turin. I've seen several over the years and while most of them touch on the same issues this one hit me differently than the others. First, I've come to believe that it doesn't matter to the faithful whether or not the shroud is real. What matters is the faith itself. But I listened intently to the hypothesis advanced by a researcher on 'why' a forgery was pursued in the first place. What's interesting isn't the debate on the motivation for the forgery, but whether or not the perpetrator of it grasped what would become of it...how the masses would react, religious leaders too, and how that would shape opinions, and faith itself, hundreds of years later. That's unknowable of course. In other words, the truth debate is never "It is what it is". If only that were true. It's not your rules, or my rules that is a determinate here, even if there is such a thing. I'm speaking of course as all this relates to fascism and the blog's article. I don't think there is a 'mastermind' here, like there was in the rise of the NAZI party. But that too is very relevant to what is happening in America. We need to start talking about that in depth. When economic times became better the German people fell asleep. I don't think society as a whole has any grasp whatsoever of the 'details' of that rise to power, and the evolution that took place from consequences itself. Sadly, and dangerously, the media is not educating the populace the way they should be. Is that by accident, by design, or by consequence? Is it all three, or none of the above. THAT is what we should be talking about, not whether something is black or white.


LeafReport 73M

1/1/2020 12:52 pm

Another related comment...

WW I did leave that behind, no argument from me there. However, I think it has been reported, perhaps by Trump's biographer, that before Trump ran for the presidency he studied Hitler's rise to power. Now, I'm not using that as a premise for my argument, BUT, very early on in a conversation I had with Roxy I wrote about a concern over a new kind of fascism that might emerge in America. I don't always get it right and sometimes I'm far off the mark. Guessing the direction of the stock market is one notable failure, I'm sorry to admit. But I found evidence of a bizarre similarity, a mirroring if you will, of Trump's messaging, proposals, and later implementation of policy, that clearly, and unmistakably, and deliberately, aligned with what Hitler either advocated or allowed to happen in his rise to power and in his leadership. There were several components of my argument at the time. It wasn't exhausting but it wasn't absent of substance either. I understand fascism. As a result of that writing I began to beef up on my knowledge of the war and my suspicions quickly rose to outright alarm. I've been worried ever since and its only grown more chilling than I saw at the time. I view everything that Trump does through that prism now. I'm not trying to shape facts around my theory, but rather stack it on top of a mountain of other evidence. There is a dark motive and a plan here Cricket. You're welcome to tear into the suspicion all you want, but there is compelling evidence you'll have to confront. America is now deep, and I mean really deep, caught in this new web of evil. How we get out of it, IF we can get out of it, is a big question.

What I don't know...is if Trump himself is the architect. Is it Putin and the Russians, is it Stephen Miller, Jared Kushner or someone else. They are all playing significant roles here. I don't think its a fluke of history. Somebody is shaping all this, a modern day rise of fascism to accomplish what? That's another seriously important question to explore. Is it to destroy America with a belief that fascism will ultimately fail anyway and leave America permanently weaker, or to some other end? Is it only cover to protect an ongoing blackmail, again to what end? People are now exploring these possibilities. The intelligence community would be incompetent to ignore all that. There is a sinister motive here Cricket...it is NOT political indifference. Someone has been studying Hitler's rise to power and is actively involved in reinventing fascism, learning from past successes and failures. I don't have that answer, but the odds that all this is just coincidence it not believable in my eyes.

The proof? it's a long list and surely you know already...attacks on the free press, propaganda, obstruction of justice, economic malpractice etc.


LeafReport 73M

1/1/2020 1:09 pm

Last Comment...
Hi Cricket. Well you aren't comprehending anything I'm writing here. It's frustrating and that is what concerns me about so many Americans who doggedly refuse to listen regardless of consequence. If America loses it will in large measure be the responsibility of those who don't listen. That sir, is a genuine American tragedy.

I'll give it one more stab but you're trying my patience. I specifically, specifically theorized that 'whomever' the architect is has as their motivation to make America WEAKER permanently. That has NOTHING to do with empire building. So what on God's green earth are you talking about. a 'NEW' fascism is NOT the 'OLD' fascism Cricket. It's a strategy designed to navigate a political structure in ways to advance a goal without political support. You're barking up the wrong tree when a black and white skunk is sunbathing on a hammock.


LeafReport 73M

1/1/2020 1:09 pm

Well one more....Happy New Year


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
1/1/2020 2:18 pm

Looking at the decimation of a well functioning government that serves the country, I have to agree that Trump is deliberately tearing the US down......When you look at the departments and how they are being decimated piece by piece, it looks like a deliberate deliberate destruction.......Trump is a smarmy mover.....a swarm of locusts on structure and foundations of the massive establishment created by generations......It's so much more subversive than neglect.....It's a giant game of Jenga......It's the revenge of a madman for a lifetime of feeling slighted..... a psychologically disturbed monstrous Pied Piper........


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
1/1/2020 2:26 pm

    Quoting sparkleflit:
    Looking at the decimation of a well functioning government that serves the country, I have to agree that Trump is deliberately tearing the US down......When you look at the departments and how they are being decimated piece by piece, it looks like a deliberate deliberate destruction.......Trump is a smarmy mover.....a swarm of locusts on structure and foundations of the massive establishment created by generations......It's so much more subversive than neglect.....It's a giant game of Jenga......It's the revenge of a madman for a lifetime of feeling slighted..... a psychologically disturbed monstrous Pied Piper........
Absolutely!

It's the MOST evil...To WIN only by destroying all your opponents.

A monstrous Pied Piper....Who can't tell the difference between the CHILDREN and the RATS.


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
1/1/2020 2:45 pm

I am sorry I am trying your patience......LOL..
Like....I continue to ask you .. when is good.... good enough. I'm not good enough?
I talk of Trump and OUR destruction......and how at this point they welcome opponents to complete the task. They bank on opponents to complete the task. You talk of their destruction.. Like they ain't US
You talk of Their stupidity...WOW!
You talks of THEIR use of FEAR.
And just like Them you're talking to the mirror.
You welcome it...The opportunity to destroy what allowed them power. As it is their opportunity to destroy what gives you your power.. Destroy it and start over.

You have never understood why... You are the one to be feared.. not them. they know what They want to accomplish....You don't have a fricken clue. You want to stop THEM....You lie.. You want to take over. Stopping them, for You means YOU get to take over.
Stopping YOU for them..means they get to take over.
It was never about Now and Trump.. It was always the same for you, Always the same issues, Always the same enemies...Always the fact that YOU, like them, have been slighted..by not getting your way. WE have NEVER been "good" enough for YOU.
I don't want any of you f*ckers to take over. I want you f*ckers to leave me alone.
You re right.. I'm not good enough..I don't SIDE with you enough....And anyone who would expect me to.... can go to hell.

I can stand on either side of that wall, and no matter what I say.. I am still talking to a wall. WE are doomed... You assures US of that.... Because WE are Never going to be good enough..Not for You and Not for them.

I am trying to SAVE the good in US...for I see it disappearing... You think you can save Us by correcting the bad in US...WTF? ...Do you think, They think, they are doing?


TxJW_105 81M

1/1/2020 3:03 pm

Throughout history every system is or becomes corrupt. We are there.
The one you can depend on is yourself.
When the rules change just grab a piece of the action.
Do not bank on it falling from the sky. You may be disappointed.
We have passed the Ice Age and moving on!
Party On!


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
1/1/2020 3:53 pm

    Quoting jiminycricket1:
    I am sorry I am trying your patience......LOL..
    Like....I continue to ask you .. when is good.... good enough. I'm not good enough?
    I talk of Trump and OUR destruction......and how at this point they welcome opponents to complete the task. They bank on opponents to complete the task. You talk of their destruction.. Like they ain't US
    You talk of Their stupidity...WOW!
    You talks of THEIR use of FEAR.
    And just like Them you're talking to the mirror.
    You welcome it...The opportunity to destroy what allowed them power. As it is their opportunity to destroy what gives you your power.. Destroy it and start over.

    You have never understood why... You are the one to be feared.. not them. they know what They want to accomplish....You don't have a fricken clue. You want to stop THEM....You lie.. You want to take over. Stopping them, for You means YOU get to take over.
    Stopping YOU for them..means they get to take over.
    I don't want any of you f*ckers to take over. I want you f*ckers to leave me alone.
    You re right.. I'm not good enough..I don't SIDE with you enough....And anyone who would expect me to.... can go to hell.

    I can stand on either side of that wall, and no matter what I say.. I am still talking to a wall. WE are doomed... You assures US of that.... Because WE are Never going to be good enough..Not for You and Not for them.

    I am trying to SAVE the good in US...for I see it disappearing... You think you can save Us by correcting the bad in US...WTF? ...Do you think, They think, they are doing?
You don't get it, ad you NEVER will.
I don't NEED political support... I don't want Political support

I dont' giver a shit about today's politics.. That can define..integrity, honesty, prejudice, and bias, As issues
I don't define...racism, justice, equality, religion, and guns as political issues.
I don't define... education, gender, LGBT, Healthcare, immigration, citizenship, voting rights, abortion, and humanity as political issues.

I don't define.. corruption, taxes, pork barreling, propaganda, leverage, blackmail, character assassination, fake news and alternate facts, campaign finance, and lobbyists, or conspiracies as political issues.

I don't define our problems..by the homeless, income inequality, big business, healthcare, the deficit, electoral college, election interference. a two party system, capitalism or socialism, or Liberal and Conservative.

What I see is the the greatest country on earth... The greatest plan on earth..Who people can't live up to it...Who by the greatest design in history... will be able reap what they sow. That there can be no greate4st, without the ability to fail.


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
1/1/2020 4:21 pm

    Quoting TxJW_105:
    Throughout history every system is or becomes corrupt. We are there.
    The one you can depend on is yourself.
    When the rules change just grab a piece of the action.
    Do not bank on it falling from the sky. You may be disappointed.
    We have passed the Ice Age and moving on!
    Party On!
Party on..

I'm throwing a party....Everyone's invited... Winners and losers... All the same to me.

Sometimes doing nothing is doing enough..... sometimes doing anything is doing enough..and sometimes doing everything ISN'T doing enough.

You can think I am doing nothing of value... You may think anything I do is of no value..I will gladly accept that...I ain't correcting nothing..
Because...what I think... is everything you do is ADDING value to it. of course it doesn't make any sense.. addition by subtraction..

Leaf would say .I'm talking about the New fascism.. No such thing.. just a return to the old fascism that hasn't arrived YET.. So in the same light we have passed the ice age... but we haven't passed shit...It just the return to the old ice age that hasn't happened YET.. LOL

Party ON!


LeafReport 73M

1/1/2020 6:50 pm

I've read this horseshit Cricket. Advance the subject or change the subject but stop chasing your tail...its ridiculous.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
1/2/2020 12:19 am

Homewardbound

The words are too precise
In a mechanistic way
No gently rounded mergings
Like a river with the sea.

The peasants are on the move...
The price of gas excludes.
He told me about that wall, where
guarded by armed soldiers
the artists paints a hole
in the dividing wall
with peace shining through
And the band struts
not trusting the thrust of Divinity
that drives their love around
in sound.....
Listen, there's a woodpecker chiselling
a hollow Cedar snag in the valley.

Echo sits in with her
acoustically enhanced repeater.
Next time the beat comes around
it brings along the falling hum
of nighthawks over a Summer bluff.

The brand new dad
shows off his baby girl
to his baseball buds
at the tournament
wildflowers bloom again
and the wind sings a paen to the muse
for she shows her sacred face
in unexpected ways
where love prevails
where love prevails

And the couple with the baby
hold the precious innocence
for the whole damn team.
while the lady in pink
arrives to chastise the boys
for not meeting her rigid expectations.
They dip their heads in shame
looking sheepishly at the floor
shutting down
shutting down like soldiers where Paraphernalia rules

Where's the music now?
The rise and fall of conversation swells
but where's the trustworthy
beat of masculinity?
Let it go, sisters,
don't shame them,
for God's sake, don't shame them.

Seizing up like Wayne
who offed himself again...
Not this lifetime either
eh, old friend....old friend

I would have chosen
a longer association
had I known


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
1/2/2020 11:40 am

    Quoting LeafReport:
    I've read this horseshit Cricket. Advance the subject or change the subject but stop chasing your tail...its ridiculous.
I tell you..What I am doing.
I tell you what I am thinking.
I am the one chasing my tail
Certainly that is true.
For me
But is it true for YOU.?

My tale doesn't fit in your box
Nor waves about
In search of your attention

It does not invade
the space you occupy
nor tries to box you in

I should keep my tale
between my legs
In the litter box
Or when others are in heat.

For my tale is not special one
It's just one of many
But I can only chase my own
Smell it... when it raised
And to tell of being in heat

So I choose to chase it
Mine not yours
The meaning of the meaningless
That hides beneath my tail


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
1/2/2020 12:20 pm

    Quoting sparkleflit:
    Homewardbound

    The words are too precise
    In a mechanistic way
    No gently rounded mergings
    Like a river with the sea.

    The peasants are on the move...
    The price of gas excludes.
    He told me about that wall, where
    guarded by armed soldiers
    the artists paints a hole
    in the dividing wall
    with peace shining through
    And the band struts
    not trusting the thrust of Divinity
    that drives their love around
    in sound.....
    Listen, there's a woodpecker chiselling
    a hollow Cedar snag in the valley.

    Echo sits in with her
    acoustically enhanced repeater.
    Next time the beat comes around
    it brings along the falling hum
    of nighthawks over a Summer bluff.

    The brand new dad
    shows off his baby girl
    to his baseball buds
    at the tournament
    wildflowers bloom again
    and the wind sings a paen to the muse
    for she shows her sacred face
    in unexpected ways
    where love prevails
    where love prevails

    And the couple with the baby
    hold the precious innocence
    for the whole damn team.
    while the lady in pink
    arrives to chastise the boys
    for not meeting her rigid expectations.
    They dip their heads in shame
    looking sheepishly at the floor
    shutting down
    shutting down like soldiers where Paraphernalia rules

    Where's the music now?
    The rise and fall of conversation swells
    but where's the trustworthy
    beat of masculinity?
    Let it go, sisters,
    don't shame them,
    for God's sake, don't shame them.

    Seizing up like Wayne
    who offed himself again...
    Not this lifetime either
    eh, old friend....old friend

    I would have chosen
    a longer association
    had I known
We begin our lives
not knowing who we are.
It's revealed in the decision we make along the way.
It's fated...
Who we we are..... is what we are to become

There is greatest in our acceptance
of who you are.
A telling of the flaws and all
And no one is immune.

So fate has chosen the course
and the decision to live... as who you are.
But acceptance is not a resignation
Of choosing the path already defined.

And through it all.. definitions become clear
and the choices made.. define who you are..
But in acceptance.. you neither have to succumb, nor fight it,
For there is no choice in who your are.
But the choice....in how you choose to live it.