This won't be pretty. I don't do pretty. I'm not pretty, but I get by. So fasten your seatbelts and wait for our airbags of varying quality to explode in disapproving faces as we list my "hope and change" issues, the way hope and change were meant to be before the Obama bunch soiled the pages of the dictionary from whence these very words were stolen and abused:
1. While politicians behind the Vietnam War/Conflict Era draft somehow decided they needed young American bodies for an effort that probably should have been confined to corrupt old bastards such as themselves, I started taking college courses directing me toward a career in journalism, primarily of the TV/radio variety. However, a draft notice sent me scrambling to an Air Force recruiter, who promised faithfully that following the completion of basic training I would attend photography school. To my amazement, photography school instead turned out to be training as a medical corpsman, completed by specialty education in physical therapy (at least I had some input with the latter). For a succession of reasons, returning to my previous goals post-military years later no longer worked out So what?
Here's what: Maybe the military draft did me a favor. As perhaps never before, major TV networks and newspapers, like Internet providers, have become bastions of lies, historical wipes and blatant obliterating agents against truth. News is "managed" and mangled every day by sources we all like to think are untarnished. Consider the Donald Trump-hating Washington Post and staunch enemy of the right, the New York Times, consistent in their so-called reporting.
I know that sounds old tin-foil-hat and unfair, but just look at the latest example, where a former ABC-TV staff member, then working for CBS, thought to have been a "whistleblower" who released to Project Veritas a recording of an ABC-TV reporter's network-scuttled report about Jeffrey Epstein (and his leftist pals?), was apparently fired from CBS -- solely on the advice of ABC executives, who blew her in for supposedly releasing the video. Most troubling, the woman fired and an anonymous ABC source (who contacted Project Veritas) absolutely deny that she was the person who released the recording.
If this event is as described by those harboring no connection to ABC or CBS, may these networks be sued for millions next year. Similarly, now that the revolting case of multi-media harassment and fictionalization of the incident with Covington Catholic student teenager Nicholas Sandmann has been re-opened, may this kid walk away with a few millions of dollars himself for what leftist criminals hiding out as journalists did to his reputation.
None of this helps portray the majority of good, lower level journalists as the heroes they really have been and will yet be. Unfortunately, political agendas creep into the most unsuspected places.
2. I hope that Congress takes a really close look at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, You Tube and all the other Internet biggies who act like publishers, NOT platforms. The difference is stark, the most obvious point of contention being an apparent forced algorithm base which deletes or censors politically conservative content -- hardly surprising, since most web empire builders are hard line Democrats. Should breakups be in the works, authorities must make certain that the faces behind these giants do not "help" in writing the rules, because sure as sunlight they will do everything they can to keep competitors from starting up or surviving.
3. President Trump must gain another term in Office, despite actions driving some people to the edge. Everybody has faults, but the very fact that he is a non-politician trying to clean up some of Washington's less than admirable qualities makes him stand out above the rest on both sides of the aisle. And if anybody should care about ridding the government of "Deep State" denizens (hello-o-o-o-o State Department. . .), whom some might say reside in his own Administration as well as in the DNC, it should be Trump. He might also consider conducting business without verbalizing a word, as apparent enemies within his Administration are more than willing to blow in every word he speaks in the presence of leakers and covert political operatives desirous of preventing Trump from screwing with their personal and illegal agendas.
4. May the good people of California throw Pelosi, Schiff, Feinstein and a host of others, including the governor, out as elections roll around. Instead of leaving for other states (and potentially taking your politics with you to infect greener pastures), you would better serve your state by remaining and legislatively fighting off the creeping evil perpetrated by progressives, already fouling West Coast beauty.
I'm familiar with an old man who several years ago was so angered by a town government adept only at raising taxes that one morning he walked into the supervisor's office and dumped a bag of horse manure all over his desk. Californians could probably attempt a similar stunt -- certain to be looked at with contempt by the police -- but they need not bother seeking a horse. Just scoop human poop up from your own formerly proud streets.
5. The mass murders of Americans in Mexico: Now there can be no doubt. Build the wall, but if not the wall what? Technology can fail on a dime, so maybe no choice exists but a solid wall. Mexico's drug lords and their minions in towns and cities throughout the country aren't going to pack up and go away willingly, and without the consent of Mexico's president, what can we do? Yes, drones and efforts demonstrated most covertly frequently seem a viable option.
6. Rid the country of word police. Particularly on colleges campuses, they live and thrive because malleable young minds will often eat anything set before them by bonkers liberal professors and advisors. maybe even a pile of steaming dog poop if seasoned properly. Word police are dedicated to making the mere utterance of certain established words a criminal violation, and when this goes on in perpetuity people fear not only saying words and associated ideas, but also in merely hearing them. Those who wish to corral, usurp and ban words are destroyers, not champions of communication.
7. Even Greta Thunberg, yes, young Ms. Thunberg, whom I prefer to call via reference to a character in old comic books, Oona Goosepimple, has a right to say things. I'm especially pleased that the brain-blasted out left look upon this highly annoying and knowledge-starved 16-year-old as a climate expert who knows what's best (more likely worst) for us all. After all, if movie script reader and director-choreographed puppet Leonardo DiCaprio takes up her cause, "how dare you" question this dynamic duo? My wish is that Thunberg receives a permanent chair in the United Nations, where she will sit for the rest of her years, talking to herself and anybody passing by who cares to listen to her profoundly shaky brilliance regarding human-caused climate change. The science is all in, don't you know?
8. Gun-hating politicians at all levels throughout the country should prove their sincerity about depriving Americans of such effective personal protection by instructing their security personnel to shed their own firearms, or perhaps these political fascists could take the extra step of ridding themselves of all security personnel, period.
Similarly Remington Arms should be found blameless for the terrible child shootings in Sandy Hook conducted by a whacked out nut carrying their device. Surely, one cannot successfully sue an antifreeze manufacturer for one spouse poisoning the other with the substance? Much of this lawsuit talk has been whipped into a frenzy -- as usual -- by enemies of the Second Amendment, intent upon winning, if not in the usual manner, then by forcing a company into bankruptcy despite the verdict.
9. Men and women of science spent hundreds of years determining that humans exiting the birth canal arrive as one of two genders and no more. There comes a time when one must look not only at the human mind, but between the legs as well. My wish is that thousands of college students who pay outrageously for their education finally break through the chains of deluded and progressive fraud professors teaching them otherwise and seek what used to be the standard for higher education: Truth.
Sorry, sir, but without the surgery and without the drugs, you ain't no lady except in your head, my ignorance and cruelty not withstanding.
10. Hong Kong: Freedom for the average resident is about as likely as the evolvement next year of a giant dinosaur-sized Pekingese destined to rampage through China, eating communist party officials. Nevertheless, we wish China would stop pretending any hint of benevolence toward the world while treating people within its scope of influence very badly. As 2020 approaches, can nothing change? Cooking and eating dogs while treating wildlife horribly answers the question, as many of us prefer to remain barbarians.
11. Vaping: Democrats rushed to ban vaping products even with nary a clue of what constitutes the problem. If (1) Vitamin E acetate and (2) black market products purchased by young or adult fools are the culprits, fix it and let people get back to what used to be America -- the ability to choose. Bring back flavored vaping and if people need to choose between smoking and vaping, let 'em vape. Yes, it's a bad decision, but it's a decision left to the individual, provided they know the risks. Sorry, but the kids have always wanted to get a buzz on beer, cigarettes, marijuana and things far worse -- and they aren't going to stop.
12. Fraternity deaths: These racked up a high number in the past year, and again we pose the question: Who made them drink booze in the first place? Unless they were tied down and force-fed liquor, then it's a case of young people doing stupid things which they know are stupid things, but they want to fit in at the old frat house. And the choices were made. Whose fault? Whose? The idiot fraternity? College administration? No, wrong. The fault lies with the individual, and if one is smart enough to attend college, then one should use those brains responsibly. Families of the departed have the right to cry at the funerals, but sadly that's about all.
13. College free speech: Somewhere along the way, under the tutelage of crazy professors and advisory staff, students were ingrained with the idea that free speech means allowing only people who agree with you to speak. Crazy, yet true, campus news sources report on this phenomenon routinely. In the next year, I hope campuses across the nation are peppered with speakers unwilling to tow the party line and effective enough to convince young minds eclipsed by professorial pap that conservative and other alternative goals are worth auditioning for a better future.
14. End "diversity" classes. I attended a diversity class once and actually learned to dislike other people even more, and I speak as a former Air Force medical person who helped treat thousands of people of all races with no "diversity" problems. Not to speak unkindly, but diversity classes generally have a way of advancing a sometimes murky atmosphere that white folk are bad and responsible for all the ills befalling non-white people -- and, again, just check the daily bag of utter racial nonsense dumped out on college campuses. Diversity classes are almost gang activity in themselves, are hazardous to one's mental health (particularly the young) and should be terminated. When universities get away from this foolishness, reduce emphasis on knuckle-dragging athletics and associated "heroes" and actually spend quality time teaching students how to make their way in the world without protest signs welded to their hips, good things may happen. Thanks, Obama, for advancing little but hatred by way of "social justice."
15. Let us hear from the infamous Ukraine "whistleblower." If extensive research (including signed statements and recordings) performed by Glenn Beck's staff and others is correct, this is the one person Democrats cannot ever allow to surface and testify publicly because his hands are allegedly all over all sorts of Ukraine corruption, and putting him "out there" would jeopardize Deep State operations, the Democrats and quite possibly activities which would be considered profoundly un-American.
Just who are the "American people" whom slick politicians reference in their carefully worded speeches these days? Do they mean us -- or somebody else?
16. Somehow convince potential young voters that socialism and the social media are not the same, because polls seem to indicate that a disturbing number are all in for socialism -- about which they know nothing. Good luck.
17. Remind the country that conservatives were the original, well, conservatives. Clean water, clean air, caring for animal populations, it was all there until human corruption won out. Don't look to the United Nations for assistance -- that bloated body of eco-carnivores serves primarily to satisfy the worst aspirations of the Third World, China, Russia and tinhorn communist dictators all around the globe.
18. Last, I want world peace (just kidding -- no way that will ever happen. I know what we are).
