WHY THE WORLD IS SO WEIRD, EXPLAINED

Think about it, dear reader, and you will agree that the world has become very, very weird. I'm talking about Donald Trump. Brexit, Boris Johnson, Moscow Mitch, climate change denial, resurgence of authoritarianism, greed trumping (oops) the well being of human civilization, and so many other weird things these days. None of it makes sense in a rational world, and so we have to conclude that the world is irrational. But why? How did we get here?

The answer is simple. Our world is a computer simulation. And the teenager in the very technologically advanced world somewhere out there who is responsible for this simulation wrote a random weirdness routine into the simulation program. And, as randomness goes, the weirdness routine popped up everywhere in the simulation at the same time. And here we are, welcome to weird! (Don't worry, nothing is real.)

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EL PASO: ALL ABOUT TRUMP, AS USUAL

This photo and commentaries are all over the news media today, but I just have to add my opinion. At an El Paso hospital, none of the shooting victims agreed to meet with Donald Trump, so his staff arranged for two victims to come back to the hospital to "meet" the president. But obviously this was for photo ops. 

The infant in this photo is now an orphan because his mother and father were both killed as they shielded him from the murderer. Look at the faces of Donald and Melania - they are grinning! And Trump is flashing his trademark thumbs up symbol. WTF??? What is the message here? "Look how wonderful the POTUS and FLOTUS are! Aren't we GREAT??" 

This totally creeps me out. The press was not allowed into the hospital with the Trumps, but photos and videos and interviews have been published by people who were there. Medical staff told reporters that Trump mostly cracked jokes, and repeatedly talked about how small the crowd was at Beto O'Rourke's El Paso rally a few months ago, compared to the huge crowd at Trump's rally.  

When I look at these evil, grinning fools, I can't help remembering the nasty, hateful things Trump has said about El Paso and about the "invaders" from south of the border. His bigoted words have stoked the flames of hatred and, in the opinion of many, myself included, contributed to the mass murders in Dayton and El Paso. And when I look at Melania, I can't help remembering the words on the back of the jacket she wore when she visited an "immigrant children's shelter" at the southern border: "I don't really care, do you?" 

Well, yes Melania, we really do care!! We do care that Paul Anchando, the baby in the photo, lost his mother, Jordan, and father, Andre, who were both murdered as they shielded their baby with their bodies. The Anchandos are true heroes in this story; Donald and Melania Trump are true opportunists capitalizing on the suffering of others to burnish their own brand. 

Why are these grifters in the White House? When will America wake up and drive this evil man out of office and into a jail cell? Not soon enough. 
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