I also heard Whoopi Goldberg say that Trump's behavior, by comparison, is altogether different and much much worse because he was sober when he made his choices. It's warped and twisted self-serving logic but what do you expect these days in the Looking Glass World in which we find ourselves? One viewer commented that her husband was also a recovered addict. She said Hunter's presidential pardon was offensive and how dare they lie to us and insult our intelligence. "How dare he cite addiction as an excuse when it doesn't apply to the rest of us. My husband and I work our asses off and still live paycheck to paycheck we both work so we can't get government help. We have kids in daycare, a teen with autism, and we struggle to pay bills because of a bad choice my husband made years ago while in the thick of addiction and depression that left a felony on his record -- which inhibits him from getting a good job. He has to work night shift and sacrifice family time which leaves me working over 40 hours a week and basically being a single mom."
Those words strike me as going to the heart of the matter especially the bit about working their asses off and still living paycheck to paycheck. This is reality; cold, hard reality of the sort most of us can identify with. The husband is sober now and life is hard for him and his family. No fairy tale ending here, just a harsh reality.
Now, there are all kinds of addictions and there are all sorts of things to be addicted to -- not just alcohol, drugs, and sex. These days, way too many people are addicted to fairy tales. That is, in regard to the climate, or Covid vaccines, or about the war in Ukraine, or about how Biden won an election without leaving his basement. These are fairy tales told by a mainstream relic media obedient to their own profits. Too many citizens are high on the thought that someone is coming to save them, that someone is going to right all the wrongs and give them a happy ending. By pardoning Hunter, President Biden sends a message to the American people and the world that he's corrupt and that he doesn't care who knows it.
The truth is, Biden is able to do the things he does because he is powerful. After all, he's the president of the United States of America. I mean, we could say the old man is senile if you wanted -- you could say that he's not in charge of anything and someone else is making all the decisions. I don't really know. We could say that Hunter has actually been pardoned by the Deep State, or whatever you want to call it. It doesn't matter. The relevant point is that we the little people are being told to our faces that the reality is our world is run by crime families sometimes cooperating with one another and sometimes at war for more control and more power and there's not a damn thing we can do about any of it. This is the real world. Notice the absence of anything smacking of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. This enlightening knowledge is perhaps an unintended consequence of the internet which is to say that by building a matrix in which to trap everyone else, the bad guys (and ladies!) inadvertently gave us the means to see behind the curtain, to see the truth of the little man working the levers back there. Whether by accident or by design, we see them and all we're experiencing now -- especially the increasingly frantic and deranged censorship of the internet -- is that desperate little man's reaction and response to being out in the open. We can see their game and so now we're having it rammed down our throats that there's one set of rules for them and another different set of rules for us.
Joe Biden has been manipulating the levers of power for his own ends for decades; yet, do the Bidens seem like happy people? Their lives look kind of like hell to me, rather like drinking fine wine and eating the best food while you're up to your neck in an open sewer. We can't know for sure but the Bidens don't strike me as happily ever after kind of people.
But back to the recovered addict husband and his wife working their asses off and living from paycheck to paycheck. No one came to save them even after he did the right thing. It will be entirely up to them what happens next and that's just the way it is. I suppose I'm saying it's easy to understand why there are so many addicts addicted to drink and drugs. Being drunk takes the edge off, as we say; it obscures reality and even makes reality go away. While being sober and clean is desirable, it isn't actually neatly and conveniently better, it's just real. Reality is hard but it's the right thing, it's the right choice, but still no picnic -- which doesn't seem fair but life is not fair as previously noted.
Ed Dow, former Black Rock portfolio manager turned truther said that on the way to personal salvation he sobered up. Unfortunately, after a few years of sobriety, depression kicked in. Doctors offered more drugs as the remedy but Ed chose to get healthy by himself. He got physically fit and and began to be of service to other people. By being of service he cured his depression.
During the Scottish so-called Enlightenment of the 18th century, the chair of moral philosophy at Glasgow University was occupied by one Francis Hutcherson. Francis was a Churchman as well and in a time when most of his ilk preached that happiness was a random gift from heaven like Mana, Hutcherson contrarily said that happiness was the by-product of spending all possible effort making other people happy.
One of Hutcherson's students was a certain John Witherspoon who in time became the second president of Princeton University and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
Can you see the ideological connection? There's good grounds for thinking the line in the Declaration about the pursuit of happiness came from the teaching of Francis Hutcherson.
It seems to me that those whom we routinely describe as being still asleep -- not awake -- are not exactly asleep. They are, rather, entranced, even enchanted, if you prefer. You see, they are in fact addicted to the illusion that everything is okay. It's what they've been told all their lives. They believe the illusion despite the evidence. So drunk are they on the lies and propaganda that are woven into the fabric of perceived reality, the very thought of any other explanation sets them off. They consciously choose to remain under the same false perception. You know why? Because it's easier. It's comforting to rely upon that which has always been true. Or, in this case, what seemed to be true. Who wants to admit they've based their life on misinformation about reality?
There is a bit in First Corinthians that reads: "When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things, for now we see through a glass Darkly; but then face to face now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known..."
Life is hard and unforgiving and so it follows that reality is hard and unforgiving. It's no fairy tale, no heroes are going to ride in and fix it, there won't be a happy ending written for us by a life planner working at some government agency.
You know, facing up to reality is hard enough without being manipulated and kept in the dark. On the other hand, plenty of folks are just plain old hard-headed and no kind of evidence is going to reveal to them that the man in the shrouded booth pulling levers is just a traveling salesman working a conjob.
TommyBoy
Remember Biden saying no one was above the law? What a bunch of baloney.
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