Quick rant on current election

Let's clear this up right now. I want you all to take a good look at the fact that both candidates are atrocities unto themselves and neither deserves presidency. Stop bickering over who is better between them and who has more past disreputable dealings. Understand that you are all acting like uninformed, vapid, ignorant blowhards and that this infighting between the citizens of this country is what is feeding the media the fuel to keep everyone's focus turned away from everything that we should actually be concerned with and making efforts to do something about. In case anyone hasn't noticed, there are alot of unscrupulous people running our government and treating it like their own personal plaything. Using our own armed forces and our own money to push their own, mostly corporate backed agendas. Let us take a minute to stop arguing like children on a playground at get a good look at the world around us. And how the very foundations of this country, the very freedoms and ideas it was built upon, are being destroyed while we turn a blind eye and focus mindlessly on frivolous media propagandism. Don't watch the news to learn what's going on, don't listen to the radio, don't hop on the bandwagon just because your friends are on it. Research, fact check, study up on current events worldwide, THINK FOR YOURSELVES.

Quick rant about the state of things.

Its funny how governments that fought AGAINST hitler are the ones most closely follow his processes for complete and total control of their people. Simple concept, yet highly effective. Remove small liberties over a period of time and continue doing so but only with small things at a time. People will adapt to this, much like a frog in a pot when you gradually increase the heat. And by the time people realize(if ever) that their freedom has been taken, its too late and virtually nothing can be done short of total revolution.

Returning to my blog.

I disappeared for a while due to work and moving. With the primaries a week away I see no reason to keep posting on politics in the aspect of candidates and the election. Suffice to say I feel the only worthwhile candidate is Bernie Sanders and he has my vote. I will continue to speak on world politics and many other topics now that things have settled down. Tomorrow will be my first actual post now that I'm back.

Trump is closely emulating Hitler(History repeats)

I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here, but something has got to give. Trump is by far the WORST possible choice for an individual to run this country. His views on Latinos/Latinas as well as his views on Muslims are almost exactly the same as Hitler's views on Jews. Does that not bother anyone? Are some of you so afraid of what the media feeds you about how terrible the world supposedly is that you actually encourage this train of thought? This "man" being elected president will only result in one thing, World War III. His "trying to define what it means to be an American" is exactly like the pitch Hitler himself used to stir up the Germans, by "trying to define what it means to be German". History, to those who do not study it or learn from it, is doomed to repeat. His ideals of intense nationalism will lead to MORE hatred and malice. Turkey tried to do the same thing in the early 1900's and it lead to in large part, the Armenian genocide. Trump is no hero, no savior of this country. He will be a tyrant, and his orders will closely resemble that of Hitler. The holocaust was well thought out and premeditated, starting with intense nationalism and climaxing to a full on genocide of the Jewish people. Trump is feeding into the same idea, whether or not any of you want to admit it. This man is not worthy of the title of president, and should not have the power to send us spiraling into a third world war with his ill-formed ideas and corrupt beliefs. Continuing to point out that a man like this already existed once, Trumps ideas for badges and IDs for all Muslims is a page taken directly from Hitler's playbook. Please people, do some research on Hitler and the holocaust.. What Trump is saying and trying to do is no different and will only end in another world war, one which in the age of nuclear and biological weapons might be the last humanity will ever fight. Not because the US would win, rather because there would be no one left TO fight eachother in the aftermath of that.
Using fear and intense nationalism has so many people rallying with him, and it is the same thing that lead to Adolf Hitler's reign and ultimately to his undoing. He doesn't speak for Americans, he speaks for his own hatred and bigotry. Please think twice if you plan to vote for the tyrannous blowhard that is Donald Trump.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership(quick overview)

The TPP(Trans-Pacific Partnership) effectively hands over basically the entire sovereignty of the US to multinational corporations. Basically allowing the removal of any and all laws and regulations that impede in any of these companies' profits, allowing them to sue over such regulations and have them changed while also allowing them to demand compensation for "profits lost" by any such regulations. Control of almost 80% of the US economy is being handed over to the parties involved. Obama claims that the TPP will increase jobs but that is a lie. The TPP makes outsourcing of labor exponentially easier by removing virtually all customs practices from imports and exports sent and received by parties involved in the TPP agreement. The way the TPP is written and what it entails upon further investigation could very well in some ways be considered treasonous in what it allows other countries control over in respect to current US policies and regulations.
Pharmaceutical companies will get an extended period of control over drugs patented, which effectively removes generic versions available to the people unable to pay for "name brand" prescription drugs from the market nearly twice as long. Which in itself could very well result in thousands of avoidable deaths and avoidable illnesses.
The TPP allows virtually EVERYTHING to be patented and controlled by corporations involved. Also, in regards to patent and copyrights, allows for the removal of all patent and copyright protection prior to the TPP becoming active if any parties involved so choose to do it.
There is also the potential(almost a certainty to be allowed given the way this agreement is written) for the allowance of labor laws and safety regulations to be removed and also lower quality of testing and requirements for drug research and patents.
TPP potentially allows pharmaceutical companies that treat illnesses such as cancer or AIDS to sue for projected lost profit for treating those illnesses.
There is also a vaguely written section which practically allows any corporation to sue for infringement without actually owning any registered property.
Any information that can be obtained from your ISP would now be legally allowed to be demanded by governments and any involved corporations.
Any involved corporations would be allowed to withhold information about their products as they see fit.
Before I end this post i want to to base on one more thing about the customs section, which basically encompasses a good majority of the TPP and what it allows. Imports and exports would no longer be subject to customs checks. Now to me, I see that as a huge back door for even more illegal activities a cast majority of these involved countries and the corporations that basically run them are already a part of. Meaning illegal or banned goods/substances being hidden within imports and exports more so than it already happens as a result of not having to worry about any customs duties. I hope I am not the only one who sees that as a MAJOR red flag in itself. Nevermind the fact that the entire TPP is written so poorly/vaguely that it allows any and all corporations involved free reign to do whatever they want and be able to remove any barriers that would "impede profit".


There is simply too much to put into words, but this should give a basic idea of how much of a catastrophic idea the TPP is and why Obama should NOT be given ability to sign it. Our country is already on the verge of self-destruction, and he should not be allowed to seal that fate indefinitely.

Thoughts on Bernie Sanders

While many people are going to question why I am most likely only going to post about these 2 candidates, I am choosing to do so because it is looking like these 2 are the only ones that are truly making any headway in there campaigns.
That being said, let us continue to what this post is about. Independent party Senator of Vermont turned Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

Foreign Policy:
For the most part he seems to have a good head on his shoulders in this area, though his views on American involvement and support of Obama's use of sanctions against Russia involving the Ukraine are bothersome. Yes, the situation is far from ideal and not going well but it is not the business or right of the US to continue to stick its nose in the business of other countries. The only thing that will truly come of it in the end is making more of an enemy of Russia than the US already has. Putin openly referred to President Obama as a child at the G20, which that in itself does not bode well for the future of US-Russian relations. Moving on, Sanders opposed the war in Iraq and calling the US getting bogged down in Afghanistan "a costly quagmire like Vietnam". He also believes that the fight against the Islamic State should be undertaken by countries like Saudi Arabia, which borders Iraq and has both the financial and military resources to fight the extremist group. To put it simply, the extremists in Muslim culture should be handled by the non extremists in said culture. Which I am inclined to agree with given the fact that a vast majority of the people kill by ISIS and the like are Muslims. America is stretched thin enough after the wars and financial fuckups of the bush administraion and should be focusing on recovering its own losses before trying to take on more tasks that do not directly involve the US to begin with.

Environment:
Sanders has warned against the severe impact of climate change and supports stringent measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Including tougher standards for new vehicles and offering some "politically unorthodox" ideas such as providing money to study carbon sequestration(the capture and long-term storage of carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon to either mitigate or defer global warming and avoid dangerous climate change.) in an effort to at least delay global warming and reduce our overall carbon footprint.

Same-Sex Marriage:
Strong supporter of same-sex marriage. Believing that it is the right of all US citizens to have total marriage equality. Not much more really needs to be said here, as there is no reason to argue his stand on it. He supports it, which is a big step for a politician in this day and age to be honest.

Immigration:
He supports Obama's executive action in 2014 shielding millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. That is not actually all that bad a thing if citizenship wasn't almost as difficult to pass as some military training programs. A good chunk of whats on the test is things people born and raised here don't even fucking know about the country in which the reside. In that, he also called for reigning in the guest-worker program that provides many businesses with low-wage immigrant labor as he believes it fuels youth unemployment. Which is pretty accurate.

Healthcare:
Senator Sanders supports a Medicare-for-all single-payer health care system. Which in truth is actually a good idea. Single-payer health care countries have a lower overall tax on healthcare and also have FREE healthcare for all. To help put that into perspective I would like to talk about a recent study done by the World Health Organization that showed that women in the US have twice as many maternal deaths during childbirth(with the healthcare system currently in place) as countries that have single-payer FREE healthcare systems, such as Canada. Just a little food for thought there.

Lastly, we have
Economy:
Sanders supports increasing government spending on creating jobs and rebuilding the infrastructure of this country. He would also raise the federal minimum wage to $10/hour, and has before stated that $15/hour is reasonable. Now, before you start going into an uproar about how that is wrong and unfounded I'm going to try to get you to peer into reality through those narrow minds you've got there and point out that at $8.09/hour(current minimum wage), a single person would have to work upwards of 80 hours a week just merely to survive and pay bills. Realistically, in this day and age with what it costs just to live, $15/hour is actually appropriate as it would be a living wage. And to those complaining about how EMTs and such make that doing more than what some fast food worker does, it should be known that all wages would have to be increased proportionally to the increase in minimum wage. Meaning more money for those of you who make above minimum wage already.
He also proposed breaking up the nation's largest banks, saying the 6 biggest wield too much control over the economy, which is actually quite true if you bother to think about it. Proposing along with this, that we should bar banks' chief executives from serving on the Federal Reserve's 12 regional boards of directors, citing that their membership poses a conflict of interest and threatens to (further) undermine regulation of the financial services industry.
Finally, he adamantly opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership with Asian nations(the trade deal Obama championed). Asking, "Are you on the side of working people who would suffer as a result of this disastrous trade agreement, and seeing their jobs go to China and Mexico? Or are you on the side of corporate America and pharmaceuticals?" His opposition to the TPP is well-founded.
As a side not in the economy section of my post I want to add the Sanders believes in the decriminalization of marijuana. Which, truthfully, if done correctly would actually benefit the economic situation the country currently finds itself facing in a rather larger than most want to believe way.

My thoughts, in closing, are that honestly out of the candidates with highest potential to win, Bernie Sanders stands most sensible and capable of turning things around for this country. I will consider further write-ups of some other candidates, but at this time I am probably going to focus on posts on world events and other political issues outside of presidential candidate views and policies.

An update on the idiocy of Trump

So his genius idea is even more segregation, which work OH SO WELL when it was racial. He believes Muslims should carry ID cards stating their religion! Are you fucking kidding me?! Is this man trying to win the "World's most moronic and ignorant bigot" award?!? Not going to make a long post on this, but just let the fact that he genuinely believes yet another form of ignorant misinformed segregation is a great idea..