Tue Thoughts

On our run today, I was asked, "Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?"  Thinking back to some of my comments, maybe I did.  But maybe what's going on is a better explanation.

As a columnist in the newspaper today asked, why do some folks/groups get the book (legal book) thrown at them while others continue to skate away Scot-free?  The auto companies, he pointed out, have rightly been nailed with tens of billions of dollars in fines for their dishonesty involving a smattering of issues, from recall cover-ups to mileage fraud to false sales figures.  But how many bankers and Wall Street-types were similarly punished?  The dishonesty, fraud, lying, etc. by these people caused the loss of jobs, savings, homes, and more.  Yet where were the "high-profile prosecutions," let alone prison sentences?

Think the state government and Flint...... We're still waiting, aren't we?  Don't forget to take a look closer to home, in local and school politics.  Certainly you don't believe our local elected officials or their appointees are forthwith with us??????

For that matter, where is the prosecution for the bald-faced lying by politicians?  They lie and they know they lie and we know they lie--deliberately.  Of course we immediately think of Clinton (both of them), Obama, W Bush, McConnell, Reid, Pelosi, and the rest.  (Note I included both parties.) Think of the state government and Flint...... We're still waiting, aren't we?  Don't forget to take a look closer to home, in local and school politics.  Certainly you don't believe our local elected officials or their appointees are forthwith with us??????  Where is some watchdog to hold them accountable?  Obviously, much of  the electorate is too apathetic, trusting, preoccupied, or stupid to care.  Those who do care and point out the lies, etc., are marginalized or ignored by and Establishment more concerned with itself than with constituents or the nation.  And the Establishment is buttressed by a compliant LameStream media.  BTW, where has been the prosecution and punishment of the LameStreams who have lied and distorted?  Of course, they hide behind the shield of the First Amendment.  But does the First Amendment protect against deliberate dishonesty?  Not all Bill of Rights guarantees are absolute.  Your right, it is said, to swing your fist wherever you desire stops at my nose.

And all the government bureaucrats who are about as duplicitous as those corporate types, where is the watchdog holding them accountable/responsible?

As the columnist pointed out, there is a "rigged system [with] two sets of rules."  It's like the Clinton e-mail felony.  You and I would have been prosecuted and likely with zeal long ago had we done what she did.  That, as one of my classmates said in defending Clinton wrote, "We all mix our personal and business e-mails.  It saves time.....," is not at all the same.  Isn't there quite a bit of difference in work/personal e-mails and classified and top-secret information??????   If some can't see the difference, well, they just can't see the difference--if you know what I mean.

That's why so many folks are upset.  There is a set of rules for "them" and another for "us."

And the Democratic Convention?????  How can anyone belong to a group that, well, works to undermine its own people, works to negate the wishes of a large segment of its party?  Note the DNC leaks about the Sanders campaign.  Does anyone think the Clintons and their supporters weren't behind that?  Well, anyone except the willfully blind?

And how can a party ask someone like Elizabeth Warren to speak?  "Fauxchahontas?"  What does that say about the morals/ethics/principles of the Democrats?

I am still astonished to see any "Clinton" tee-shirts, banners, etc.  I don't understand.  Regular (both of you) readers of One Man's Lonely Opinions know I won't be voting for the charlatan (or worse) Don Trump.  But I can't at all imagine anyone voting for Clinton, either.  A few weeks back, another columnist suggested we "deserve" better than Trump or Clinton.  He did not at all explain exactly why we "deserve" better than than these two "pathological liars" (and, remember, those aren't my words, but those of national pundits!), but maybe those two completely rotten candidates are just what we "deserve."  What is it that we have become?

More in a few days, if not sooner.