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Moostache

Moostache's Journal
Moostache's Journal
November 19, 2024

I am finished with the Chicago Bears until Eberflus is fired and the team is sold.

I simply cannot take any more and NOW I am beset by guilt for dragging my son into fandom of this clown car franchise as my dad did to me and my grandfather did to him and on down the line...

The Bears are dead to me until the headlines read "Bears fire feckless coach; McCaskey family to sell NFL charter franchise"

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
I am through being Charlie Brown to their Lucy routine!!!!

I need another drink...

November 7, 2024

Edmond Dantes, reporting for duty in a new century of madness.

I find myself contemplating Alexandre Dumas and the fate of Edmond Dantes a lot these last two days plus...

I have had to dial back away from everything... I have literally spent most of the last 48 hours alone as much as possible. I have not watched ANY news coverage, no speeches, no pointless navel-gazing analysts, nothing. I have gone 100% dark. I'm definitely not ever going back to them again. The press and the bullshit and the media are enemies forevermore. Those taking money to abet this madness, to play a role are Caderousse to me. Vile opportunists, worthy of nothing but contempt and an agonizing death of their own making...

And in my darkness, hate abounds.
Contempt and loathing.
Vitriol and recriminations.
It is toxic, it is violent, it is consuming.
It has its own gravity, much like being trapped in the pull of a black hole and held in a deteriorating orbit. Slowly, being drawn in to the destruction at the event horizon.

If I could strike them all out of existence, I might.

Reason has been defeated.
Rational thought is in the trash.
Concepts like 'equal justice under law', 'one person, one vote', and 'all the news that's fit to print' / 'democracy dies in darkness' are laughably trite and discarded.
The world I thought we lived in is exposed as a fantasy.
Fairness, equality, opportunity - all bullshit.

Crony.
Money.
Profit.
Get the 'others'.
Blame.

Those are the currency of the realm now.
I refuse to participate, I refuse to acknowledge it in any chosen way.

I apologize to my unfortunate friends who cannot take my cowardly way out.
I am white.
I am male.
I am 53 years old.

In short, at a glance and by education and birth, I'm "in the club"...
Unless I choose to speak out, most dipshits who are in the cult of personality simply speak around me as if they are talking to a friend. I will allow them to do so. I will hide in plain sight. I will listen and ignore or not reply. I will allow them to speak as hatefully and openly as they can, secure in the knowledge that their hate and rhetoric pales in comparison to the fires of hell that burn in my core towards them.

But my hate will fester and grow.
My vengeance will wait.

I am going to become the 21st century Count of Monte Cristo now. I will take on masks and identities that aid my plans and that will hurt and harm them in the end. I will see them all die or destroy themselves and will relish the damage to them and to the ones that their black hearts still beat for.

It is sad that there will necessarily be people harmed when I take my revenge.
But in the end, Dumas' antihero Edmond Dantes found the two words to sum up human accomplishment:

Wait, and Hope.

November 7, 2024

Wait and Hope.

I find myself contemplating Alexandre Dumas and the fate of Edmond Dantes a lot these last two days plus...

I have had to dial back away from everything... I have literally spent most of the last 48 hours alone as much as possible. I have not watched ANY news coverage, no speeches, no pointless navel-gazing analysts, nothing. I have gone 100% dark. I'm definitely not ever going back to them again. The press and the bullshit and the media are enemies forevermore. Those taking money to abet this madness, to play a role are Caderousse to me. Vile opportunists, worthy of nothing but contempt and an agonizing death of their own making...

And in my darkness, hate abounds.
Contempt and loathing.
Vitriol and recriminations.
It is toxic, it is violent, it is consuming.
It has its own gravity, much like being trapped in the pull of a black hole and held in a deteriorating orbit. Slowly, being drawn in to the destruction at the event horizon.

If I could strike them all out of existence, I might.

Reason has been defeated.
Rational thought is in the trash.
Concepts like 'equal justice under law', 'one person, one vote', and 'all the news that's fit to print' / 'democracy dies in darkness' are laughably trite and discarded.
The world I thought we lived in is exposed as a fantasy.
Fairness, equality, opportunity - all bullshit.

Crony.
Money.
Profit.
Get the 'others'.
Blame.

Those are the currency of the realm now.
I refuse to participate, I refuse to acknowledge it in any chosen way.

I apologize to my unfortunate friends who cannot take my cowardly way out.
I am white.
I am male.
I am 53 years old.

In short, at a glance and by education and birth, I'm "in the club"...
Unless I choose to speak out, most dipshits who are in the cult of personality simply speak around me as if they are talking to a friend. I will allow them to do so. I will hide in plain sight. I will listen and ignore or not reply. I will allow them to speak as hatefully and openly as they can, secure in the knowledge that their hate and rhetoric pales in comparison to the fires of hell that burn in my core towards them.

But my hate will fester and grow.
My vengeance will wait.

I am going to become the 21st century Count of Monte Cristo now. I will take on masks and identities that aid my plans and that will hurt and harm them in the end. I will see them all die or destroy themselves and will relish the damage to them and to the ones that their black hearts still beat for.

It is sad that there will necessarily be people harmed when I take my revenge.
But in the end, Dumas' antihero Edmond Dantes found the two words to sum up human accomplishment:

Wait, and Hope.

August 15, 2024

10,000th Post

Well, to borrow a phrase, "What a long strange trip its been..."

I've been around DU for two decades now. Since those days in 2009 - when I believed the world was spiralling out of control with the economy crashing under the housing crisis (which was in turn brought on by insane GOP policies and decisions), the GOP nominating an absolute moron as their VP and an incredibly charismatic Democratic candidate making me believe again that we could still do more than bunker down and survive, but we could CHANGE the tide and make things better.

Through the Obama years, the Liberman betrayal, the 2012 campaign and all of the inherent and overt racism from 2009 through 2017, to the darkest night of my life - election night 2016 and the site being down most of the night as I (and many more) were left cut-off from the DU community during the jaw-dropping results and terrible realization at the end of the night that our country had actually elected a person less qualified AND stupider than Sarah Palin to the TOP JOB.

I've been around DU longer than the 2009 username reset and reboot...I was here for the aftermath of 2004, I have seen so much and seen it all come around in circles again to the current moment.

I thought I would have something profound or memorable to say on the occasion of entering 5-digit post count status, but instead I want to say two very simple things.

Thank You DU.

Thank you for being my sanity check and my sounding board and my release valve when Mrs. Moos would prefer to send to to Guam than listen to another rant...
Thank you for being my reality center and trusted source of news and information in an era of falsehoods and inanity.
Thank you for being my extended family and to those who have reached out to me in private messages over the years.
Thank you for being my unpaid grief counselors through losses that injured my soul and left me changed as a man and a human being.
Thank you for checking my impulses (on a few bad post take downs) and expending my understanding when I was incapable of seeing my own flaws through the forest of my own thoughts expressed at a keyboard without proper consideration.


and.... LET'S GO!!! WE'RE NOT GOING BACK!!!

We have come around the circle again to a GOP out of touch with reality, with HORROR show nominees worthy of a slash film, and hellbent to jump back into the hole and resume digging, just as we (as Democrats and loyal AMERICANS) have stopped digging but not yet had the votes to start filling it in and moving forward. I have gone through the stages of grief so many times it feels like a well-worn path somewhere...but I know this much, if we hope to have access to places like DU and the ability to sound off and state our displeasure with the powers that be or to champion our preferred policies and positions, we MUST defeat them once more.

I am reborn since the end of July. Ready to fight further and ready to do so hand-in-hand with my sons, daughters and wife especially as three of my children will all be eligible to vote in their first presidential election this cycle.

So THANK YOU DU....and LET'S GO!!! WE"RE NOT GOING BACK!!!
July 19, 2024

Is anyone else massively annoyed by the ear pillow?

That may be the single dopiest looking thing that Tangerine Mussolini has done and THAT is saying something.

(I was way past peak-asshat with him years ago...but that stunt with the dead fireman's uniform was almost as bad as the ear pillow).

May 30, 2024

This campaign in a simple to understand slogan

No Future, All Past - Trump
Your Future, Move past - Biden

Challenge Trump to list ideas and stop grievances and self-aggrandizing (which he simply cannot do because he NEEDS to hear and talk about the only thing in the world he actually cares about (at all) - HIMSELF. Not what he has actually done, not what he would actually do...about him, only him, all the time.

Message - Trump does NOT care about you, your family, your future or our country. He cares about himself. No one else. Ever. (cue the quotes and speeches and Trump being an amoral asshat in his own words).

I'm Joe Biden and I care about your future, our country and building a better world for everyone. I approve this message.


Biden team? You're welcome.

September 20, 2023

My only surprise here is that ANYONE is surprised by this at all...

I have become increasingly disillusioned with all levels of government as I have aged. When I was young, I believed that people in the highest levels of our government were honorable, smart and capable and did what they did out of a sense of duty and patriotism. I bought the myth of the founding fathers as benevolent deities on Earth, of the Constitution as the truth of the question "what is the best way to govern free peoples?" and I ignored the bad and unsavory elements of American History.

Things began to change when I was in high school and watched Ronald Reagan's OBVIOUS mental decline during his second term. My family has been Democratic (large D, party supporters) since they emigrated to America between the wars. FDR was third in line behind Jesus and the Pope in our family history. My grandfather and his brothers (all 6 of them) all served in WWII. My father and his cousins served in Vietnam. But it was Reaganomics and the gutting of the unions in America that started the decline into the current morass. Reagan from 1986 until he left office in 1989 was enfeebled, mentally suffering from dementia and cognitive impairment and it was obvious to anyone looking. But the corruption of his administration was already destroying the country, his administration took what Nixon had done and put it on steroids and proceeded to do pretty much whatever the hell their donor class demanded. That pattern has NEVER even slowed down since the election of Bill Clinton.

Whitewater, Lewinsky, Florida recount, "what do liberals hate America?", Fox News, 9/11 story time, Afghanistan, WMD Iraq lies, Iraq invasion, torture, water boarding, and on and on and on...then Palin was unleashed in a desperate bid to unseat President Obama (who had already been knee-capped and tormented by House bomb throwers and overt racism over birth certificates and the might of the drug industry and medical insurance lobbies). Finally, the culmination of all of this race to the bottom - Trump. The worst elements of all of them - Nixon, Reagan, Shrub, Palin, Beck, Limbaugh - all rolled into a self-unaware man-baby with personality disorders, a tortured relationship with both the truth and reality and no conscience at all.

The horrors of the last decade have been unrelenting. But McConnell and the theft of the seat that Gorsuch now contaminates was the low point up until January 6th, 2021. I cannot even adequately communicate my horror at the continued viability of Trump as a major party candidate for the Presidency...and then it hit me...the real power does not (and NEVER has) resided at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (or even in the Senate) since the Kennedy assassination. It resides in the shadows and pockets of thieves, billionaire vampires who have sucked their very existence out of the nation's bounty and our workers and the poor. The very nature of capitalism unchecked is monopoly and fascism, it is financial Darwinism run amok.

The cure for all of this is currently unattainable. Constitutional amendments are functionally impossible to achieve in the political climate that has oozed into existence. Getting a 2/3rds majority of ANYTHING is impossible - even life and death issues like pandemic prevention and vaccinations have shown that. There is no hope of changing this without a massive awakening from the squishy middle that they MUST stop voting for things as a popularity contest or who they'd like to have a beer with and recognize the peril of the republic that has wrought.

The influence of money and greed is unfortunately a human relic from our savannah-monkey past - the banana scarcity paradigm is ingrained into our monkey brains and forces us to respond like Pavlovian apes (sorry for the forced and somewhat bad analogy!). I am left in the end to wonder what was the greater evil - Citizen's United or Neil Gorsuch? Richard Nixon or Donald Trump? Ronald Reagan or W.? Perhaps it does not matter who or what was worse, just that all led to the same path and like small stones heading down the mountain into an eventual avalanche, it is no one thing that becomes the eventuality, but the combination of them all.

March 31, 2023

I am getting a bad feeling...

The statements and hyperbole fro.m the moron brigade of Trump water carriers is quasireligious tripe and exceedingly cultish. Its starting to feel like we are heading to an American "Troubles" along with the death, misery and senseless loss it would entail.

I am getting a pit in my stomach that gets worse daily...talk me down, I'm on the ledge lately...

November 17, 2022

We need some bomb-throwers on Gym Jordan's witch hunts

The GOP nonsense about Hunter Biden needs to be torpedoed by EVERY Democrat who should bring up Jordan's own complicity in sexual abuse of wrestlers at Ohio State when he was a coach there.

You wanna be an asshole and go after Hunter Biden in some kind of Kabuki theater manner to try to harm Joe Biden? Fine...but every single hearing should have at least one, if not all Democrats on the committee bringing up Jordan's sordid past in detail and tie the two together so tightly that the farce becomes known as Gym Jordan's Sexual Perversion Defense - a farcical attempt to avoid accountability for his own REAL crimes by smearing other people for imaginary crimes.

Enough is enough. Additional thoughts about Congressional investigations post-Trump:

1) Congressional subpoenas are to be 100% ignored in all cases, no matter how much they have standing.
2) No witnesses or people with real knowledge of ANYTHING should EVER appear before the Kabuki Theater.
3) Gym Jordan can go fuck himself.
4) The rest of the GOP circus can get themselves on tape being extremists, but those tape should IMMEDIATELY be cut into internet ads and targeted to each member's home district every time they speak.

Turn this weapon back on the GOP and learn the lessons of the Trump era - #1 above all? NEVER testify, never tell them anything and stall in courts until 2025, when this nightmare party fully implodes and the country decides how to govern responsibly and still respect opposing opinions and ideas. To get THERE, this GOP must become extinct or toothless to the point of irrelevance. The more they help with their own words and actions, the better.

February 24, 2022

Important to remember now and TALK ABOUT in run up to November...

The GOP once attacked JFK as "weak on communism".
Today's GOP gets weak in the knees FOR Putin, who pines for a return of the USSR.

This switch in alliegence is really jarring to the this former Gen-X kid who remembers the early 1980's and the assumption that any day would be WWIII and nuclear war.

The Day After? Yeah, that fucked me up as a 12-year old worried that I would be vaporized by the USSR's missles...where the fuck is Gen X at now? I know we collectively get tarred with the apathetic brush (always have) but for fuck's sake people...I did not grow up in a vacuum, did I? There must be SOME collective memory of Reagan and the GOP war-mongering and trying to show how much MORE one hated commies than thee next?

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