SERVING BITTER TRUTH ON SPECIAL WITH A SIDE OF MOVE ALONG

What’s worse than seeing a big strong man taken down by bitter truth and forced to accept responsibility for their actions?

They say what they need to say, then say it again when more details come out.

And there’s always more details.

I’m left asking why this happens so often? It’s disturbing, disruptive, and ultimately disappointing.

To quote Nancy Kerrigan, “Why, why, why?”

The bitter truth landed on so much of what baby boomers grew up with.

The forward thinking beacon of freedom, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, collected a bevy of blonde babes later in life and paraded around like the king of an empire, which he was, until things turned and the women reported on the trials and tribulations of spending time with a creepy old man.

What? Old Hugh wasn’t the cat’s meow whose irresistible charm had young, nubile, women lined up from LA to West Quoddy Head, Maine?

Spending time with him was a business decision, not an irresistible instinct like a moth and flame?

More like bare ass to camera flash and everyone goes away happy. Most everyone.

I was disappointed to see the bitter truth unfold before me.

 

Too Much Truth Served? Jack Was Right, I Can’t Take It

While we all want the unvarnished truth, the bare bones of fact without the frills of fiction, what we usually settle for is close enough.

In other words, we believe what we want to believe, not what the facts say.

If you get investigated, charged, tried, and found guilty, and you disagree with the process?

Tough luck, son.

Unless you have the means to change the process.

Then it’s all good, nothing untoward happened, nothing to see here.

So move along.

But the process works when you’re the one getting investigated, charged, tried, found guilty, fined, and imprisoned?

Move along?

Shuffle along in those chains and don’t complain. It could be worse.

 

Change The Bitter Truth

Who wants change more than the people suffering from negligence, whether it’s economic equality, housing, or opportunity.

We look for change, for improvement, for progress, then throw down when it’s not exactly what we asked for.

Change is more than someone saying, “Pull my finger, go ahead, give it a pull.”

It’s more than promising a chicken in every pot, promising blue skies on a cloudy day, more than crossing the road and wondering why.

For the well grounded, the mentally stable, those willing to listen, change never comes from the bullshit artist, the con man, or the fly by night flash in the pan.

Change comes from people unwilling to walk away from problems, away from finding solutions to those problems.

And it sure as hell doesn’t come from some scatter brained narcoleptic living in a cloud of sleep deprivation replacing known problem solvers with bug-eyed characters fulfilling their own fantasies of power, of finally getting the corner office, the private jet, and a staff willing to do anything, anything, they ask.

Change doesn’t come with the promise of a pardon, an exemption, or a blind eye.

 

We Give Up, Davidpdx. How Does Change Happen?

In 1962 American President John Kennedy invited a group of Nobel Prize winners to dinner.

I want to welcome you to the White House. Mr. Lester Pearson informed me that a Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President’s “Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn.” I want to deny that!

I want to tell you how welcome you are to the White House. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

 

From Google AI:

 

On April 29, 1962, President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy hosted a1962 Nobel Prize dinner, not a luncheon, honoring 49 Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. It was a lavish black-tie event featuring French cuisine, meant to honor American intellectual achievement, famously described by JFK as the most distinguished gathering in the White House since “Thomas Jefferson dined alone”

 

Any change, lasting change, comes from learning what people need, what they ask for, and expect.

No one asks for a shit sandwich, and when served hears, “Enjoy.”

Change happens when the gap between what’s needed, and what’s possible, narrows.

You can’t tell people, Americans in particular, that you’re stuck with what you’ve got.

One dear leader famously asked, “Why do so many people from shithole nations come to America,” while his cartoonish appointees work to lower the American standard.

‘Proud to be an American’ means following through on the promises made of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; of defending the freedoms outlined in our national instruction manual, the Constitution, against enemies foreign and domestic.

Change happens when responsible people gather to address the bitter truth and have the stomach to call it what it is instead of slurping the sweet pablum served by convicted crackpots, slippery swindlers, and loquacious liars affectionately known as shitfaced shit-talkers speaking in secret code known only to their sucked up sycophants.

 

 

PS:

When people get tired of excuses, worn out by false hope, and start grasping for anything to alleviate their desperation, they don’t want to hear, “What’s the big deal, plenty of people have it worse.”

PSS:

Even if you’re on the fence watching for which way to jump, remind yourself to use good judgement. There are not good people on both sides, especially when one side is invested in keeping you in the dark.

Ask yourself who you’d send on an international diplomatic mission, experts with deep knowledge of a region and strong connections to the best possible outcome for the greatest number of people, or a couple of well heeled amateurs following instructions from a reckless hack?

Take your time answering.