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Chapter 2: Pep Rally: The 2008 Elections

“I am so all-American, I'll sell you suicide
I am totalitarian, I've got abortions in my eyes
I hate the hater, I'd rape the raper
I am the animal who will not be himself
fuck it” – Marilyn Manson – Irresponsible Hate Anthem – AntiChrist Superstar

It’s almost 2008. Not really considering how I’m writing this going onto September of 2007 but that’s close enough for people to keep playing the shit storm that they’ve been playing ever since the 2006 mid-term elections ended for Congress and the House.
It seemed like a huge victory for the Democrats. In all honesty, I was excited enough to paste it all over my dorm room door. I mean, that whole war thing and turning the country into some crazy anti-abortion off-stream of reality… I thought a lot would change.

It feels slightly like it has, but by that point I was so sick with politics that I’ve more or less jumped out of paying attention. My stomach got black,. Ill, sickened by playing super-Republican in art-school for more than anything half-reality and half-accepting the role of being the provocateur. When I was a little kid my daddy used to chase me around with a towel and I’d run with my dick and ass flapping in the wind. And I laughed because it pissed him off, and in general, I just like to piss people off. Because nothing should be so solid and in stone that there’s nothing you’ll do to change it. Nothing should be like a ‘religion’ because that means we’re going to war. That means the fucking crusades and that means that people on the other side of the country ‘hate us because we’re evil’. Now I don’t particularly blame Bush as much as bad speech writing for that one. But that’s the beginning of a whole series of bullshit that we’ve all gotten ourselves into.

After jumping out of the political game, switching sides and playing far left, then far-right, from overly Democrat where I wouldn’t talk to anyone who was Republican to being overly Republican, I’ve come over the true conclusion. I’ve come to the point of NOT being careful.

I’m a goddamn person. I like to live in New York City. I live in Manhattan but can’t really afford it. I’ve fallen in love with huge buildings and dreams that I’ve built into my heart since I was a child. The very idea of leaving behind the stupidity of suburban life I never really wanted to cling to for something better is what the island really represents to me. I don’t know if I consider myself as much an American as a New Yorker. I don’t know America, I know this area.

In America, the things I say may be disturbing. They may be disgusting. But they’re true from my heart. And in New York City; that’s supposedly currency. When that’s bankrupt the city Lou Rudin worked to save is going into the water, that’s that.


First of all, let’s start out with the 2000 election which is pretty much where my political interest really began. I mean yeah, yeah, yeah and all when I was a little kid I wanted George H.W. Bush to win because I liked him over Bill Clinton but consider the fact that I was a little kid and my instinct was because I liked him more. Because he wasn’t southern and because he had a Connecticut-ness to him.

In 2000 we were assigned to watch the elections. Looking at both sides very quickly I was rushed into the decision of being a Democrat based on who caused more censorship. This was quickly explained to me and overall explained to me on the economic scale situation. I’m poor and Democrats were supposed to boost people out of that. Supposedly. So I jumped on that bandwagon.

Al Gore seemed to be on my side about, well, I didn’t know what the hell he was talking about really I was stoned most of the time I watched this I was in 11th grade.
What I did understand was Bush was pushing this religion thing. The whole thing seemed affected from the fact that Clinton got head and I couldn’t understand why politics were this way. I was so disturbed by this that I figured I was on the Democrats side for the fact that I couldn’t give a fart or a fuck for pushing the hate of Clinton on the Monica thing. It seemed absurd.
Later in a documentary called ‘The Politics of Fear’ I would learn how Clinton was turned into the anti-Christ. Everything taken with a grain of salt but it made a lot more sense considering the neo-con theory made a good deal of sense. FEAR+FEAR+FEAR has been pushed on this country for a long time. Neo-Con Leo-Strauss-ism makes a good deal of sense, otherwise, why would you tell the country every time there was a possibility the world was going to explode? And can the world REALLY be ready to explode every week? And only near the political season? I think even Bloomberg may have used this tactic. Or his team. And I like him.
But doesn’t it seem like an interesting coincidence that we were on a terror alert one month before the election???

Now, let’s go back to where I just was in 2000.
Al Gore didn’t win the election despite the fact that he won the national vote.
There were a few people in a COURT that voted in the president?
I mean, I was what like 16 years old but even then that made absolutely no sense. Even as a kid the entire thing felt rushed and disturbing. I couldn’t vote but why was I going to vote if the popular vote meant nothing compared to 12 men or whatever deciding the next President of the United States?
Now I guess the country needs a leader and people were really scared that Bill Clinton got head and liked it, but couldn’t he just stay in the office until we finished voting?
Or counting? Or whatever?
Well, boo-hoo for Democracy. At the time I figured that was the genius of the system. Even if you’re playing for the wrong card (against you know, the process and all) if it was within the rule-book you still win. If you keep the people happy everyone is well, ready to go on.
I mean, nobody expected the country to go through a crisis situation so the President kind-of seemed to me a difference between the guy who invented the internet by supposedly investing money into turning it from a military project into the World Wide Web and the other guy.
I forgot that his dad was president before him and how creepy this all seemed that we were switching back and forth.
Now looking back on the situation, if another Clinton ends up in office I’m going to pee on myself just for the fact of two separate families fighting for country control. It’s awkward.
I’m not saying I’m some sort of news source here or anything at all. What I know is what I know but I’m sharing my feelings on the issue because I’m sure somebody else (atleast one person) will read this, as I once read blogs and shit like this, and thought; hell atleast I don’t have to feel bad on not following every inch of the blah-blah hate field.

Well, this is all from what I think everything is from the periods of time I was overly into the news. Don’t call me the like #1 form of news.
The reality of the situation is as far as I believe it, even though my father has informed me otherwise, I’ve gone about believing that George W. Bush’s push into the corporate tax-cuts and the economy helped to stimulate the growth of student loan corporations that gave me student loans. Apparently, I’m told this isn’t true but I’m not really an economist as much as I aspire to be, one day.

As far as I understand in general, student grants have not improved anywhere near where I’d like them to be. If they have at all.
I’m pretty sure Bush had a speech about the future and then the Republican congress proposed a bill to increase student loan rates or cut the program for the poorest families. I was pretty sure they cut down on Perkins loans, but, don’t quote me on that.

Now, there’s a lot of theories on 9/11 and it’s kind of crazy to get into the situation without saying that my outside sources come from a movie I saw on the internet that I believed because I don’t know, either it was really warm in my dorm room or all the evidence I saw on a movie likely from Google movies made a perfect amount of sense. There was a lot of news sources and stuff. But it’s rather ridiculous to believe this one source. Of course, it’s either crazy or incredibly true to the point of NOBODY important wanting you to read this because it would cause a lot of fucking trouble in this country if people found it out to be true.
It’s called “The Truth About 9/11” which is different from “Loose Change”. Because the ladder film is edited and takes out all of the footage from that day from Fox News and other sources that would never actually sign on to stand against the very people who basically own every building everywhere.
I’ll let you get into that one.
As far as I look at the situation and thinking back to the whole Michael Moore ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ thing, I think Bush was given an un-fair card. In all honesty, if I was the President of the United States and you told me the two towers at the World Trade Center just fell, I think I’d shit myself for a lot longer. What? He sat there for a few minutes? 13 minutes? Trust me, more sitting there looking at little kids would have happened on my end.
But I’m never going to be in that position in all likelihood. I mean, if I could handle being a politician I would smile a lot more than I have any interest in doing during the course of things I bloody enjoy.

As for the economy, isn’t the economy actually starting to pick up? That was the last time I heard but I mean, I don’t actually drive a car. I live in Manhattan. Even if I could afford it I really doubt I’d drive a car in New York City. Driving gives me a decent amount of anxiety (although it’s mostly because I’ve never driven a car that I own… somebody’s shit on your hands is too much really dude).

Now, before I get onto the 2008 elections with some small stolen Wikipedia figures on the matter, let me get into how little I trust television media.

T.V. is owned by important people who have vested interests in censorship.
It’s just the way it is. And censorship is the very thing I’m against, any party that turns to censorship is a party that has already started to disgust me. I have no interest in censorship of anything. The very second that Janet’s tit turned America upside I was pretty much bitter towards the Republican Party. And this is something I jump back and forth on since I latter would join the young Republicans. But I mean, if you can call me a Republican I’m pretty damned far-left. It’s almost better to just say I represent myself so I don’t have to kiss babies. They smell like powder.

So taking the tit thing into account, taking into account how Howard Stern was crucified for his open words against the president (and later from the other side of the scale Imus); considering how on 9/11 American news sources were still showing people crying and playing the sympathy end of the scale when the B.B.C. were already reporting what had happened from a serious perspective; American News Media fails out as far as I’m concerned. Until somebody puts a check on this opinion news shit or until people start checking both internet free media/Democracy Now and Fox News; nothing is 100 trustable (except C-Span; thank you for C-Span).
Personally I have a very, very high level of respect for Amy Goodman of Democracy Now and always have since my first year at S.V.A. when I found Amy Goodman and would force my girlfriend to watch Democracy Now. It became a joke, she didn’t like her voice, and I’d laugh because I loved it so much. They played TV on the Radio in-between news-clips as well. How can you not love that?
More importantly, I read “The Exception to the Rulers” which informed me a great deal of the situation in America. Most personally to me, it informed me of what Michael Powell was doing inside of the F.C.C. to make sure you didn’t find out what was really going on in America. He also was manipulating how free our speech was and how you were able to experience art. He wanted to go into manipulating more and more forms and this very fucking fine heavy situation makes me want to throw up.
The fact that Howard Stern throws some tits on the air-waves or there’s some mothersfucking on T.V. means a corporate station gets fined a mass amount? It gets the corporate broadcasters in a titty-twist because it’s there job to make a profit. It turns people aginst the corporations because they think that it’s them alone doing it and it turns the country into a stupider situation of thought, because we’re all obsessed with family values over the sake of art? I’m always going to go with the artist over the political spectrum and I’m always going to stand up for free speech over the economical. Anybody who’s going to censor us needs to go.
That was something I learned in depth from her book. I would give these books out to security guards at the School of Visual Arts, because I felt it was incredibly important to spread this information to everyone. Especially the people in the lowest of the economic brackets, because I was pretty much the same as them, and thus, I knew that I wouldn’t really give a shit or get into it if there wasn’t some crazy kid at my work telling me that this was so important Chick Little was coming. I was extreme, but you have to be, really to get attention.
Even if you flip-flop your opinions, as long as your true and really believe it in the moment your writing it, or more importantly, if it’s ever involving a evolution of the mind, people will be with you.
Only religions stick with the same drone thought for thousands and thousands of years. That’s the reason that milk cartons have expiration dates. Sometimes the mother’s milk is going to go bad and you need to find some new titty.

On a very unrelated but related note, Amy Goodman is an actual journalist. She was exposing the embedding of journalists with the military when nobody else wanted to talk about it. When the newscasters were sleeping with the military and the military was shooting at outside soruces, Amy Goodman was there.
Amy Goodman has been taken prisoner, Amy Goodman has been shot at and almost died for the very liberty we let 9/11 scare us away from.
Amy Goodman is a reason to remember if there’s ever another attack the worst thing we can ever do is to give up freedom for the sake of surviving. Hiding from the enemy of freedom by giving up freedom is like being a zombie in the crossfire of your limbo-prequal afterlife.
Thus…
Next time something goes boom and the Patriot Act is up for another renewal, tell your Congressman to vote NO on destroying your liberty or he’s NOT getting your vote.

Of course, we’re going to need some sort of news program that informs us kinda like in a The Daily Show sort of way, but one that gets people on the ball days ahead of the bills being proposed. This will get the American people into their government again and on the phone with their politicians. Make it fun, make it outside of rank and make it outside the party game and you’ll find out pretty quick who’s who.
And it’ll be fun, because it’ll be like real life football.
If we could get people to stand up for themselves like they do for the World Series we’d have a whole new world without a “revolution”. We’d have “evolution”.
Or… we’d have the political system called Democracy.
Democracy+Capitalism = Maternal + Paternal = America.
Make it profitable and father company really isn’t going to give a shit who he hangs with the truth, as long as you speak to the religion of capital in a bank account.
Otherwise, you wouldn’t get the Micahel Moore and the ‘Disinformation’ series.
Otherwise you wouldn’t get everything that’s informed me about the very human bar code of genetics being patented by companies.
(aka – everything I love about the Sundance Channel and DocDay [Mondays] which is where I’ve learned much).

That’s a good prequal for 2008. Because I should like, do the read-over on the candidates before I start blabbing to you. Even though I can tell you how I feel without reading the issues right now.

Guliani: loyal to Guliani because of not wanting to get mugged in Manhattan. Enjoying the living life of people I don’t have the eonomic bracket of yet. Enjoying the sort-of clean up of Times Square and deminsihment of the prono-distrct. Still, if I need some porn I’m starting to think it could always be a good thing. Hell, I have cable for that (New York real estate could be used for better means than that creepy bold black dude standing outside the big blue pron store on 8th Avenue…right?)

Barak Obamma; enjoyed his blog for years. I like him, liked him when he was talking to me at Barnes and Noble in Union Square. He told me he wasn’t going to run for the presidency because he didn’t wanna be shot. Said America wasn’t ready for it. He’s a political machine and he’s starting to sound like everyone else. I don’t live in wherever he’s from and I’m not going to vote for him because he’s black. On the other hand I’m very poor and waiting for Guliani’s position on what he’ll do for the arts, censorship and abortion. Each of them should promise my generation certain things, in public, before we cast away our vote. But I’ll get into that on another entry, perhaps the next item.

Hillary Clinton… eh. Isn’t she in that office because Rudy didn’t run against her?
I mean, the 90s were cool to talk about her haircut everyweek but what the fuck has she done for the state of New York which she isn’t actually from? I’m not originally from here first but I feel New York City is home.
I haven’t even seen her once in any way representing New York. Except for being a tough kinda dykey turning woman to run for the primaries.
But whatever that’s cool. Apparently in America you have to piss away your opinions to win votes. Which is true, But that’s why I’m sickened by the entire fucking process and no longer can lie to myself on the candidates.


Umm… everyone else… eh. Kucinich or whoever came up a couple of years ago as matching 100% on AOL vote for me. That was almost 4 years ago but whatever.
I don’t have anything else to say on that matter.

Until next chapter.

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