Author: docboese

Queen Elizabeth II just died. I am sure that she was a good person, even though I never met her. Let’s face it.  I could never, ever, if hell froze over have met her.  She was the Queen for God’s sake. Lived in Britton, in a palace, and wore funny hats. I live on the opposite side of the planet in a beach shack, and only wear a hat when the sun comes out, which on the Oregon Coast happens once in a decade. I also was taught by my mother to take off the hat when indoors.  She called it manners. Apparently British nobility never met my mother.  Although she did cook like a Brit, overdone and tasteless.  How do they eat that crap with bad teeth?  But I digress.

The point of this my latest rant is why are we as Americans obsessed with a monarchy that we bloodily escaped from 250 years ago. As a whole the Royals are not particularly good looking, or talented, or brilliant.  The possible exception to this is Megan Markel, and she’s American. Okay, Diana was somewhat attractive, but not enough for Charlie to keep his short arm out of Camilla, who looked like a dried-up cauliflower 20 years ago and who has not improved with age. Diana was just okay. She certainly was not so wonderful that 50 trees had to be cut down to make tabloid newsprint to report every time she changed her panties. Also, the Royals speak the American language with a funny accent, again with the exception of Megan Markel, and the Brits hate her for it. 

So, what is the point of the Royals. They are a symbol of the UK, however, they are not allowed to publicly have political opinions. Their sole purpose in life is to cut ribbons, reproduce like rabbits, and kiss snotty nosed babies, occasionally meet with the Prime minister, and generally soak up tax dollars with no value added.  And unlike Trump they cannot be voted out of office.

At one point in time the Royals ruled an empire on which the sun never set. But then Hitler came along and nearly destroyed them, Japan kicked them out of Singapore, and Hong Kong.  The only reason they survived WWII was that America bailed them out.  You would think that if the Royals were truly great leaders the UK would recover, but their empire collapsed with the ultimate humiliation being the loss of India to a short, bald headed guy with ugly glasses, who wore a bed sheet and probably was going commando.  And why does their national anthem have the same tune as America the Beautiful? Can’t they come up with something original like ours, with rockets red glare, bombs in the air, and flags waving.  Ours ends with “home of the brave”. Theirs ends with “God save the queen”. Well God didn’t save her and now they got Charlie who once said he wished he could be Camilla’s tampon and that was when he was still married to Diana!  OMG. And now he is the King Charles the Pervert.  I always thought Americans admired winners.  So why are we obsessed with this bunch of stick up the ass, funny talking, perverted and ugly losers?

And obsessed we are. For the last 4 days every time I turn on the news its, Lizzy this, Lizzy that, Charlie this, Charlie that, and the kids are coming to view the carcass, whoo! What happened to the real America news? There are wildfires killing people in the west, killer heat waves in Arizona, a hurricane about to demolish Disney Land, and a second mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. I am sure the Queen was a nice, maybe even a great human being. But the Rams just got a can of whoop ass opened up on them by the Bills. In America the headlines for Thursday, September 7, 2022, should have been, “NFL season starts!!!  And on page 2 “Something happened to the Queen.”

Anyone who has followed my blogs know that I am a proud liberal. I have had lots of conservative friends, but no more, I am done, finished and uncontrollably angry. I can’t have a conversation anymore with someone that thinks we stole the election from that fucking son of a bitch, grifter, pussy grabbing, money laundering, serial adulterer. I can understand if you voted for him once. I can forgive you if you were fooled twice.  But supporting him now brands you as someone I do not want in my life. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, fool me three times and I must be Susan Collins.

Some of us bleeding hearts are still trying to reason, understand, walk a mile in your moccasins. But I am not that man. I thought after we invaded Iraq that my country had hit rock bottom.
We were lied to about the weapons of mass destruction and Sadam trying to make a nuclear bomb. Those lies were horrible as thousands of our boy and tens of thousands of Iraqis paid the ultimate price. My belief in the greatest of America was diminished. Now with the revelations of the lead up to the January 6^th insurrection my belief in my country in destroyed.

In high school I was required to take a course called Civics.  It’s focus was the Constitution.  How it came about, why it was amended and maybe next to the Bible how it was the greatest document in history.  When you joined the armed forces, were elected to public office, took the pledge of allegiance, you took an oath to that document. I did not vote for Bush or Trump, but they won in compliance with the constitution. I did not like their policies, but they were legally elected. I had no doubt of that. It was a relief to me when old man Biden was elected in what used to be called a landslide. I know he’s old. He is several steps slower than what he was when he was VP.  So  fucking what! That does not rate impeachment or subverting the result of an election because your man lost.

What makes me sick is that my former conservative friends now repeat the insane idea that Trump really won the election without a shred of evidence.  What is fucking wrong with you??? You used to tell me that my ideas were not constitutional. You used to tell me that the laws the law and that no one was above the law.  Now I realize that your black and white view of America was a lie. You cannot be trusted.

I made the mistake yesterday in listening to AM right wing radio. I was informed that the election was stolen from tRump and that all that needed to be done was to carefully audit the 2020 results in those six states that were close. That has pretty much been done two years ago.  No fraud, no extra votes for the man who tried to overthrow the constitution that you right wing patriots carried around a copy of in your shirt pocket right next to your tin of snuff. I quickly switched stations to listen to Sean Hannity complain about the lack of voter ID required. He wanted everyone to have a picture ID to vote and to vote only on election day in person at a polling station.  This makes it more difficult to vote.  And as has been shown on numerous occasions that there are more polling locations and voting booths in republican areas than democratic ones. My conclusion for this it that the Republican party is trying their damnest to suppress voting to their advantage.  Then Republican led states gerrymander voting districts to guarantee their guys win. Does this sound like American exceptionalism to you?  If it does than FUCK YOU.

I switched stations one more time and got a rant about the evils of abortion and how Roe vs Wade was unconstitutional.  This from the same people who kiss the ring of the orange orangutan who just tried to overthrow the government. So, I repeat. FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON.

I still have a few “conservative” friends on Facebook. I patiently read what they have to say but no longer respond. The latest was one of these posts was voicing outrage of some rock band singer who was threatening to renounce his American citizenship and move to a more liberal country. She took it as an insult to her son who was actively serving in the US military. While I think it is stupid to abandon your country over a misguided supreme court ruling, how is this an insult to her son? I have a son who has been in the Navy for 30 years and he wonders what the hell she is insulted by. I wonder why she is not insulted by hundreds of MAGA hat wearing fools who invaded the capital building, beat up police officers and shit on the floor.  I wonder why she is not equally insulted by a president who aided and abetted this attack and illegally scammed with his staff to overthrow our government. And finally, why didn’t she mention her outrage that the Texas republican party thinks that their state, a state she move to, has the right to succeed from the United States of America!  That truly is an insult to her son.

Where are the conservatives that I use to have stimulating discussions with?  I see the same faces, a little older but they look like the same people. What happened? The obvious answer it that they have been secretly replaced in their sleep by space aliens. But a saner answer is that I never really knew them in the first place.  They were never truly expressing their opposition to a government taking away their rights. They were expressing their fears that a browning of America was going to take away their white privilege, that gays were going to dilute marriage, that prochoice was going to destroy the God that they have made in their own image, that mask mandates were a conspiracy by medical professionals to neuter them is some unexplained and hideous fashion.

OK. You win. I give up. I cannot reason with you. Goodbye. I wish you well. Jesus may forgive you, but I won’t.