Don’t look now but it’s an election year… so, run for the hills. Get out the snow shovels and air freshener because the crap is starting to pile up quickly. The Dirty Dozen (at the time of this writing I think there are still about a dozen republican candidates in the race, but not for long) and the Terrible Two’s (Clinton and Sanders) are all over the tube
And how do we get our grubby hands on these goodies you ask? Vote for them of course! Good grief, does anyone really believe the bile spewing from their lips anymore? Until the election in early November it will get progressively worse my friends.
I hate to dredge up an oldie but goodie, however, it still holds true today—how can you tell when a politician (and of course, a lawyer) is lying? Their lips are moving. Yep, and their lips are a flappin’. No football and now an election year. I’m not sure I can survive this!
Thinking of donating to a candidate? Don’t! Instead send off a check to Wounded Warrior’s or Shriners Hospital or Children’s Hospital or any other worthwhile charity. At least it will actually do some good. Don’t encourage these beggars. I know, I sound cynical and pessimistic. I’m not, except when it comes to politics.
I believe it’s due to the dread I feel knowing every time I turn on the TV for the next nine months I’m apt to see a mega-rich, out-of-touch candidate asking for money so they can be the next president of the United States and turn the world into a Garden of Eden full of sugar and spice and everything nice… blah, blah, blah! What do you call one hundred politicians at the bottom of the ocean? A good start!
Here’s a little unsolicited advice for you fledgings out there. Over the course of the next year do not discuss politics with anybody. It will only end poorly for you. Most committed political party members are insufferable, arrogant, self-indulged pompous windbags intent on luring you into an argument without any intention of being rational or objective.
Their only purpose is to change your mind to vote for their candidate and show you just how smart they are along the way. It will be a waste of your time and you will walk away regretting the encounter. Insult their kids or their dog instead. It will end better for you Here are a few quotes to help enforce my statements.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy – Ernest Benn
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap – Napoleon Bonaparte
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts – Henry Adams
Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics – John Mason Brown
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other – Oscar Ameringer,
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians – Charles Krauthammer
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life – Robert Byrne
We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics – Hubert H. Humphrey
We have the best government that money can buy – Mark Twain
A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate – Eric Idle.
Be aware my brothers and sisters… you have been warned!