Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts

Friday, July 29, 2016

Why Donald Trump is a danger and not just a "bad nominee"

"A man you can bait with a tweet, is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons"

I don't know if you like Hillary or if you hate Hillary, but the point is that is a damn good and true quote.

You don't want a TV Entertainer running for president who has no tact, has already employed people in other countries, and has filed enough bankruptcies to probably have credit that was a negative number if he didn't legally bounce around that.

The most common excuse I have heard for people electing Trump is this alleged wall that he is going to build and the fact that he is a businessman.

The main Trump company was actually started up by his father he inherited it.
The funniest thing about capitalism, is that if you have a lot of money you are able to make more out of it much much easier.
You can build a mega company with enough money hire enough people but you are not a true businessman until you make it work and until everybody is happy.
Lawsuit after lawsuit bankruptcy after bankruptcy..... How much of him is actually a businessman and how much of it is all show? How much of him is a pathetic rich boy trying?

As for his wall: do you notice his white skin?
Can you say.....European descendant?
Unless you are a Native American you too have grandparents that are immigrants.
And if you are: you are surrounded by many MANY immigrants.
Anthropological experts say that people are always in motion. Even throughout history, nobody stays in one place forever. Humans are always migrating looking for something better and I can guarantee if you grew up in a country like Mexico; you would do the same exact thing.

I also want to point out that Trump is employing people in Mexico, India, China all of these other places as opposed to "Making America Great Again" and actually having people employed here.

How can you make claims that you were going to fix all of the issues as a president, but turn around and practice business in the completely opposite belief system of what you are preaching?

Republicans, don't just do it because he has an elephant on his sleeve.
Trump is a nightmare for both parties and he will make sure that this country goes straight to hell in a hand basket.
You still have other options.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Cecil the lion and the public humility that is Walter Palmer

As an advocate for the voiceless, I felt as if writing a blog on this was completely necessary.

Most of you have heard the story about Cecil the lion and the dentist (Walter Palmer) that payed $55,000 to have him killed. Not for the purposes of meat, but for the purposes of self satisfaction, a pelt on his floor, and a head on his wall.

The first thing my the fine people of the internet started doing was writing messages regarding what a dark person he is. One particular place targeted was his Yelp page for his dental business.

According to Venture beat, Yelp was relatively upset about the manner and went and deleted the reviews regarding pointing out this Lion killing dentist, making a claim about the combination of business and politics.
While usually this would be a wise decision since the combination of Business and politics is usually an ugly ugly disaster that breeds arrogance and debt, this is definitely a case of moral that Yelp isn't considering and has probably made this decision to save their own ass.

While I usually fully support the separation of business and politics, I certainly make an exception for a malicious case like this. One has to think, if a man is capable of brutally killing something, torturing and terrorizing it for 40 hours, coaxing it, and putting $55,000 dollars to mount pieces of it on its wall, do you really trust his morals when it comes to working on your teeth?

Anesthesia is usually used, and surprisingly: people CAN die from getting their teeth worked on.
I suppose there is the psychology behind big game hunting but I just can't understand but looking at it from an analytical perspective, it sure looks like malicious behavior.
This isn't a lion that was killed for meat or population control. This lion wasn't threatening anybody. This lion simply died for Walter Palmer's ego.

He could come up front and give his apology that just beat around the "legal issue" bush, but you have to look at the larger picture here.

So do we attack his business and insure he could never practice again? Why not?

He attacked and murdered the beautiful animal, father of 24 cubs, at his weakest point and even lured him out of the sanctuary to do so. So public shaming and losing his business shouldn't occur, because why?

Sometimes, humility and shame needs to occur in order for moral to improve. If you've ever taken a course in sociology, you would know that you respond different in the eyes of others than you do in your own home or personal life.  Sometimes without knowing. It is a natural human instinct to impress others, and humility is a good way to raise moral behavior when it cannot be raised by "giving a shit about the needs of others."

So these people who are out to kill for the sole purpose of killing, how else are they going to learn?
We are much past the point in history where people get killed for bad moral. The world is only getting darker and worse as time goes on. Why that is I am not sure but society has gotten so "overprotective" of these malicious beings that are only creating issues for other people.

This goes back to that childhood fable (was it Aesop?) Where "two wrongs don't make a right" but how else are we to practice good leadership and influence others who clearly cannot learn to practice sympathy or empathy on our own?
What if public shaming taught others to do correct things out of fear if doing wrong is just a part of who they are?

Would love to read a response somewhere on this one.