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Well the Trumpster doesn’t believe in climate change. He believes over 90% of the world scientists are in a conspiracy. His transition team seems to agree with him well I guess we’ll just have to wait for the climate apocalypse to happen to see who is right. You know Trump comes from that 1% who when something get screwed up in the neighbor hood they just leave the country for awhile. Speaking of leaving the country people want to know since I don’t live in America anymore why they should listen to anything I have to say about what goes on. Well I moved to Colombia because my body was telling me I couldn’t keep working like I was and I needed to retire. I moved because all I had to live on was my Social Security Check and after I paid rent I wouldn’t have money for utilities or food. Of course people said move and I could have but I spent over 50 years working for what I had and the way I lived so I wasn’t willing to downsize and move. When we went to Colombia on vacation to visit my wife’s family I saw the people and the cost of living. Would I have preferred to stay in the US? Of course but the economics of doing so were prohibited. I don’t advocate people moving out of the country because they don’t like the way the government is going unless they’re willing to give up everything they’ve gotten by working hard up to this point. What I do advocate is protest. People say what good will that do? It helped get us out of a bad war in Viet Nam. It might just help keep the Trumpster from ruining the country. We do need change I just don’t think Trump was the right answer and by the way either was Hillary. We have made a lot of mistakes simple by doing nothing and letting a bunch of old men who think were too stupid to govern ourselves make decisions for us. In the days and weeks ahead I’ll try to show you where I think we went wrong and then maybe together we can come up with some constructive ways to bring about change. This is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin, Colombia.

Well the election is over and the Trumpster won does that upset me a little? Yes but what really pisses me off is how happy the American Nazi party is. how happy the climate deniers are, how happy those people that don’t in equal rights for women are and how about those people that want to take away a women’s right to choose. Now these people’s being happy really upsets me. I’m not going to say well it’s over and time to sit around and sing cum ba ya and say everything will be alright. Nope I ain’t going to do it. I’m going to complain and raise hell and see how many people I can piss off, because sitting around and goin oh hum just ain’t going to cut it. If you really want to be pissed off, just look at some of the contenders for the Trumpster’s cabinet. Sarah Palin for secretary of the interior, she thinks climate change is a joke. Personally I’d be surprised if she knew how to spell it. Ben Carson for secretary of health he still think Darwinism is a hoax. Then you Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio who will have us all going around with barcodes tattoo on our necks and that’s just a few of the possibilities. This election should never have happened if people wanted change they should have picked two candidates that would have given us an actual choice. Not the two most corrupt one out there. all of you that are cheering and hoping to see Hillary in jail. Take a good look around then go read some books like Mien Kamph and Orwell’s 1984 better yet read all the history you can get concerning politics and government from the early 1900’s and I don’t just mean America history. Any how this is Flounder and I ain’t going anywhere saying CIAO from Medellin, Colombia.

Here’s what I don’t get the Electoral College. It was originally designed to keep the big states from controlling the presidential election well that’s how it working now. It’s what makes people feel that their vote doesn’t mean anything. Looking at the election right now in any other country in the world Clinton is President. She won the popular vote albeit only a few hundred thousand votes but if she ran in Colombia she would have one with that margin. I think it time America let the people elect their president. Any other national organization that elects officers goes by popular vote. If we did that then people in small states would feel that their vote really meant something. The Electoral College has out lived its original purpose and it’s time to change. This is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin Colombia.

Well Trump supporters you got what you wanted but don’t expect all those jobs to come back to you home town anytime soon. There are a couple of reasons for this. The big one of course is profit. Companies are not going to start paying all those benefits that American workers want including the high wages and health care. The next reason is most manufacturing jobs are becoming obsolete with the introduction of robotic workers and now with the advances in artificial intelligence the American factory worker is a thing of the past. Now as for that wall across our southern border. Well let’s say he builds it whose going to do those jobs that immigrants are doing now. You know landscaping, construction, common labor. Even these jobs can be replaces with robotics. You given the racists in this country the idea that White America will be back. First of all white Americans are fast becoming the minority in this country that wasn’t there’s in the first place. If you think I’m wrong look at some towns in New Jersey where Patel has replaced Smith as the most common name in the phone book. There are jobs being taken by immigrants but we keep looking in the wrong direction. In other words stop looking at Mexico and start looking at Asia. When was the last time you dialed a 800 number and got a Hispanic voice? I think that there are going to be a lot of changes in America I just don’t think they’re going to be ones people hope for or like. This is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin, Colombia. And by the way you should of voted for me.

It’s the last Sunday before the election and I know we’ve fooled around with me running for president, but now reality time. Jeff is 70 years old and has even been an elected at one time on the Democratic ticket. He says that after that he didn’t vote for almost twenty years because it was such a horrible experience. He believes all politicians are crooked to some extent and don’t have the interests of the regular people at heart. Assuming he is correct in his opinion this election should be canceled and we should start all over from scratch. In case you’ve missed it Jeff and I don’t belong to political parties because we like to think for ourselves. Growing up Jeff says he watched his friends chose parties based on how they felt about the parents. That is if they got along good then they would probably chose their party as well as their sport teams. We aren’t born Republican or Democrat, just like we aren’t born a racist. These things are taught to us by those around us. We don’t believe things will ever change with the system the way it is now and unfortunately we don’t have an alternative.
Now let’s look at this year’s participants shall we. We have a few third party candidates that have a very loyal following but not enough to allow them to mount a real challenge. Part of this can be explained by lack of major funding because they’re opinions are not in line with that of the money people. The other part is people have been conditioned to the two party system, and won’t pay any attention to so called outsiders. Which is strange since one of the candidates Donald Trump goes around telling everyone he’s an outsider. So let’s look at Trump he claims the system is rigged against him, well if that ws the case I don’t think he would have been nominated in the first place. He’s not the outsider he claims to be he’s from the 1 percent and those people have never been known to show compassion for the little guy. So if he does get elected I don’t expect any great changes for the good. Then you have Hillary on the other side and according to her foes she’s the devil. I don’t believe she’s the devil but just another crooked politician. I think she can be either very good or a real disaster. I think she’s like Bush she’ll want to prove she’s better than Bill and that America made a mistake when they didn’t choose her instead of Obama the first time around. Now she can go like Bush and make a colossal mistake or she could possibly in her attempts to prove she better make some really good changes, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. I think America you’re like the Cubs before this year it’s sort of wait till next year. this is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin, Colombia.

I just finished reading an interview with an ex FBI agent who says the Clintons are criminals. Well he’s probably right because if you’ve read my blog you know I think all politicians are crooks, I mean look at history. The first obvious one is the Kennedy clan his dad was a bootlegger. The Bush had ties with oil companies how crooked are they. Do Trump supporters really think he made all his money without bribing people actually he admits that. No politics is a dirty crooked business and I say this knowing that some of my friends and even family aspire to be politicians. My hope there is that they don’t end up compromising their morals for the sake of power and money. I have found that even the most honest looking of our politicians has at least one crooked skeleton in his or hers closet. Well speaking of skeletons tomorrow is Halloween and the kids will be out trick or treating so beware when you’re driving home from work. The adults have presumably have had their party and should be sober after all it is a Monday. It’s sort of appropriate that the day falls so close to the election since politicians are always wearing masks that is all accept me after all it’s hard to hide the fact that I’m a cat. This is Flounder saying CIAO, be safe tomorrow, from Medellin, Colombia.

Well we’re coming down to the end of the campaign trail and I for one am very happy. As much as I love to make fun of politicians this election doesn’t even qualify as having to vote for the lesser of two evils. Both of these people are dishonest to an extreme. But wait you say Hillary was never found guilty of anything, well either was OJ. The justice system in this country looks out for the rich and famous. So now we know that a true crook and liar will be leading the greatest country on earth. Hey it’s been this way since the beginning so don’t be too upset at least this time everybody will know it. What you have to worry about is the facts that if we elect a woman will the Muslim world be willing to talk to her and if we elect Trump, will rioting break out in the streets. Not a real pretty picture is it. But we deserve whatever we get we’ve been sitting on our asses letting a bunch of crooked old men do whatever they wanted and never said he that’s enough. People think if they elect Trump they will be saying that but Trump can’t govern unless he has total control and our system of government won’t allow that. So either he has to be declared king or we’ll have to deal with Hillary. Of course you could still vote for me if nothing else it would make for great laughs. Can you imagine a cat elected president of the US? God I would pay anything to see the looks on Putin and Trumps faces when he has to say I lost to what. When you think of your present choices how much worse could I be. Well I’m going over to the couch and watch some football this is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin Colombia.

Well I’m sick of talking about Trump and Hillary so all I’ll say today is just vote for me at least I won’t make things worse. Ok that’s out o the way I spent yesterday sleeping because Jeff took Ruby to lunch at one of the top three restaurants in Medellin and it was worth every penny. I get into that another time. When he got home he went right to the TV and NFL football. So I’m lying on the bed watching with him and I see this 280lb defensive end make this good play and the he jumps up and SKIPS off the field. You read it right I said SKIPS off the field. What the hell is that about and he wasn’t the only one. I thought only one player had come out as gay but here they were SKIPPING around the field. It doesn’t bother me that they might be gay but SKIPPING come on that’s juvenile. Of that’s not the only juvenile thing these athletes do now a days. You had the soccer player going around biting people and apparently he just punched another player in the head the other day. There are guys who do ridicules dance moves after scoring goals or points in all sports, there are players that do this even though their team is losing by 30 points. I have no problem with celebrations like they do when they win a championship but if every time you make a good play your going to look stupid, after all your only doing what your being paid to do. I guess pretty soon we’ll see hopscotch as way to warm up for a game. Maybe there just trying to get an audition for Dancing with the Stars. Maybe soon that show will replace Monday night football. I can see John Madden grabbing his chest on the sideline going WTF right now. Well this is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin, Colombia.

Well I said I’d be back after the debates and here I am. America should realize now that Trump can’t be President the Republicans have to know now that they have made the biggest mistake in political history by giving him the nomination. It actually would be better to elect me a cat then have Trump on the ticket. Now this will get people really mad at me but I’m not so upset about Trump making lewd remarks about women as I am about the fact that it wasn’t locker room talk because the idiot said it near a live mike. Can you imagine him walking out of a meeting with some world leader and saying to his aide “I could absolutely do her she digs that I’m president and would do anything I wanted?” It’s the idea that he’ll take this talk out of the locker room or high school gym and use it in the real world. I haven’t met Trump but I have met his sister the judge and I think somewhere along the line this family has gotten pretty screwed up. They think because of the money they have that they should be beyond the law and the mores of society. Listen I’m a cat I lick my balls in public but that’s to be expected of me. Trump goes around and basically does the same thing only in his case being human it is not accepted behavior even more not so for a presidential candidate. He brings up Bill Clintons infidelity. Well look at other presidents Eisenhower was reportedly having a long affair with his secretary John Kennedy was doing movie stars and the list goes on. But the difference is they didn’t brag about it to the point that it made news they did get caught. Trump says he could do whatever he wanted to do because he was rich and a star. He has an ego that needs to be fed constantly by whatever means necessary. Some voice whispered in his ear that he could be President and to him that was just what his ego needed. I think in the beginning he didn’t expect to win the nomination or have any chance at being President he simple wanted to be in position to do himself good. Maybe take control for the Republican party and become a king maker. But now he thinks he still has that chance and that he might even be able to make himself king. What I miss now are guys like George Carlin who had an eloquent way of showing what a complete ass Trump is and how screwed up the people that support him are. That’s it for me right now this Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin, Colombia.

Well this has certainly been a fun week. I was going to wait until after the debate Sunday to write a post but I just had to say a few things. Listen up America the damage is done you have officially become a joke. I don’t care if Trump or Hillary or even me gets elected the political system has turned into a Saturday Night Live sketch. I think we might have seen the end of the two party system, since I think the Republican party has just about imploded. Don’t worry the Democrats won’t be far behind. Do you think that Obama and Bernie and his people are excited about the prospect of four years of Hillary? Well maybe not as bad as the prospect of the Trumpster being there for four years it’s still not good. The world is laughing so hard at the US right now you might as well elect me (Flounder) as President. I certainly couldn’t be a bigger embarrassment then what’s happening now. The world is laughing for two reasons one is how easily we get distracted from real issues and two is how we can have a complete incompetent running for office. American might be surprised by the amount of racism that’s appearing in the new right now, but trust me, the rest of the world isn’t. as for Trumps attitude towards women, well most men in power tend to treat women like chattel. Well I can’t wait for tonight’s debate it just might make the Porn movies of the week who knows? This is Flounder saying I’ll be back on Tuesday to talk about the debate in the mean time CIAO from Medellin, Colombia.