I Started A Joke...
The joke started as a response to a news article about the US government agreeing to give a foreign country a lot of money...money the US doesn't have.
I made the comment that I should cede from the union and start deficit spending like the US government, and I would name my new country *(Myname)istan. I was then informed that people have been taught to worry about countries whose names end in "stan." To which I responded that it would be okay; I would borrow astronomical amounts from other countries to support my ridiculous spending habits, but that I would share the wealth so it appears that I'm a benevolent dictator.
Of course, to support all this I would have to control my people.
From there, I put up a help wanted ad looking for ministers to help me make (Myname)istan the best dang dictatorship in the world...
And that's when "the joke" changed from a joke to a sad commentary on the state of the world. The things I was saying in my "joke" could be said about most countries today, and yes, even the US.
My Ministry for Population Control could be equated to the Justice Department. Ministry for Propaganda could be the Education Department (or at least, the White House press department). Ministry for War would be the Defense Department, and so on.
I used to follow a couple of ultra right-wing Facebook pages, but after a certain incident I decided I couldn't do it any more. There's a limit to the amount of BS a person can listen to without rising up in retaliation...or so I've thought. Based on the apparent lack of vision by an alarmingly high population all over the world, I'm not surprised that the globe is in the sorry state it's currently in.
Yes, I started a joke...today. But that "joke" was originally started a long time ago, and it's just gaining momentum. How long before more people realize that the "joke" is actually on all of us?
*Names may, or may not, have been changed in order to prevent an unconstitutional drone attack on anyone named, or not named.
What A Bunch Of Bull...
Or maybe not. You'd think I wouldn't be able to report on any more food-related scandals this week, but you'd be wrong. What's our tally at so far? Let's have a brief recap:
- Horse lasagne (with ties to arms traffickers)
- Horse meatballs
- Horse on the shelf
- Inorganic organic eggs
- Salmonella eggs
- Fetus flavored Pepsi
- Horse tacos
I don't know about all y'all, but I've had it with food production companies messing with something that is meant to be ingested. But what do we expect? There is an alarming complacency regarding what we eat (look at all the fast food places) until such time as something like the salmonella outbreak or the horse meat scandal brings it to the forefront. But how long is the outrage going to last? I'm guessing, not long. Why? Because apparently there is nothing amiss about using real lemon in a floor cleaner but artificial lemon in your drink...how does that even make sense?!
