Apparently, Donald Trump caught a wicked cold when he was out golfing last weekend. His doctor ordered him to drink a glass of scalding hot lemon water after an equally scalding hot bath. I asked Donald how it had worked out. “Can’t tell yet,” he said in his saddest whine, “I haven’t finished drinking the hot bath yet.”
Yep, you guessed it, if you know your Democrats. Suicidal Stupidity. They’re at it, as usual — haw, haw!!! To the delight of any Republican, the Democrats are busy punching each other and furnishing Donald Trump with belly laughs and TONS of soundbytes and talking points, and in his case, the resulting crash of the Democratic Party causes a major trembling in the earth.
Fact is, the Democrats have once again proven that they are not capable of cooperating, not capable of putting aside differences, and certainly not capable of winning against Trump. Probably no Democrat could be, thanks to the circular firing squad effect they seem to prefer over victory.
The Democrats are not interested in solidarity. They are deservedly well-known for eagerly “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory,” and last night’s performance was no exception.
It was very reminiscent for me of the scene emblazoned in my memory, almost as if it had happened just yesterday.
Back in the day, I watched in fascination and horror as the Athenian citizens stood in the assembly Agora, arguing with one another, yelling at each other, blaming one another — as they were being cut down with bronze swords by the Spartans, who met no resistance.
That sure looked like the free-for-all pile-on against Biden that I saw at last night’s so-called “debate”, actually promoted like a boxing match, which it was. It seems to be the only way candidates can get any face time in front of the voters these days — you can’t make speeches from the back of a train anymore.
Well, if the battle’s already lost and won, might as well figure out the accommodations — that’d be zero, in the present public mood, which means “SELL BUTTONS” and get out there fast with the Work Message, before it’s too late.
It’s ALMOST too late now, but you knew that, didn’t you? So what are you going to do about it, anything at all???
Most folks will just watch it all go by, wondering why they missed the whole thing. Pardon me while I laugh.
As I said two and a half years ago, if you’re a minority of any flavor, the time to exit out of the United States is yesterday — but if, like me, you’re just plain too old to pick up and split, or you can’t just grab stakes and run for your lives because of health issues, economic issues, lack of opportunity and just plain bad luck, well, you’ll be sharing my situation, along with millions of others.
I was born in New York City, but if I were anywhere in any densely populated area, I’d expect to be rousted every block and my papers demanded every five minutes, while I walked under the baleful eyes of television cameras.
I do NOT expect to be treated well or fairly or decently or respectfully. I’m a senior, and that means I’m a target for age discrimination and, yes, it’s as prevalent and mean and nasty as any other form of prejudice.
I have the means to defend myself without weapons, but you might not. Maybe it’s time to consider moving to almost any of the midwestern states, where “open carry” is permitted, meaning you can walk around town with a gun strapped to your leg, Old West style.
I myself don’t prefer a sidearm — I like to travel with a personal guard of a dozen highly skilled and trained ninjas, but that’s unwieldy and expensive in my present lifestyle, so I just do like everybody else.
The outlook is mighty dismal, but there is a way out of the Trump Trap:
How To Do It
First of all, get hold of a Godd™ Particle and wear it all day every day. Get hold of a Bardo Band and put it on your left wrist, making sure to wrap the thin end OVER the flash drive, not under it, for a more comfortable fit.
Get onto your PC and log onto the Godd™Game, “Oval Office”, which is a 3D walkthrough of the White House.
Go into the Oval Office and sit on a chair or cushion, and allow your Avatar to beam ENLIGHTENMENT vibes into the office.
That’s the most powerful action you can take to stop Trump from wiping us all out — just flow Enlightenment Vibes in there and let them take root as an Influencer vibe.
Make sure your mind is clear and your heart is pure, or the INFLUENCE won’t work. Keep your attention on the goal, which is enlightenment — you can add a bit of WISDOM to the mix if you know how, or learn the skill at a workshop, clinic or retreat.
Our retreat center is opening up for the first time in over 45 years, and we’d like to welcome you to consider taking a retreat with us — you can find out about rates and make arrangements for work-study.
Also, I’m looking for volunteers for house painting and garden work — there’s a lot to be done, and we could use the help, in exchange or partial exchange for workshop attendance, not including food, but definitely including lodging.
You might want to know that I’m selling off large numbers of artworks — my collections are slanted for the marketplace.
Notably, I have a powerful collection of LGBTQ Original Copperplate Engravings from the 1940s by the most famous LGBT artist of them all — Pablo Picasso. They range in price from $2650.00 to $18,500, and each one is an ORIGINAL MASTERPIECE, almost impossible to obtain!
It comes with a full certificate of authenticity, and they are BEAUTIFULLY FRAMED in luxurious high-design exhibition style, ready for hanging on YOUR wall.
These are so rare and so important in the Picasso Ouvre that they can be DONATED to museums, colleges & other institutions, and they will really appreciate them!
You could get the entire set and donate them to a museum, and even build a special wing to house the incredible collection!
YOU can own a stunning set of PICASSO ORIGINAL male ballet dancers, and you won’t believe the sensitivity with which the pieces were done. Picasso was profoundly affected by the suicide death of Carles Casagemas, and he never got over it.
These are very classical in drawing style — nothing like the bizarre and angular “Cubism” with which Picasso is wrongly associated. The actual founder and progenitor of CUBISM was in fact Picasso’s close friend, Georges Braque, whom Picasso copied to produce most of his best-known works.
If you want to see what he copied from, just Google: “Cubism & Braque”.
These graceful ballet dancers are a side of Picasso that only the experts get to see, and they would make a fabulous collection for an art gallery that had a lot of LGBTQ clientele.
I have closed my gallery. At 77, I simply can’t manage to get in there every day, and that’s what you have to do in order to make a gallery work, plus nights.
It’s been a couple of decades since I was able to travel at night, so Friday night shows and signings and such were not a factor, but any gallery director worth their weight in salt would know that the Friday night show is how you build traffic and a strong client list.
Online, it’s even easier, and that’s the only way I’d be selling art these days — there is no point to running a gallery — you can make appointments through social media and never have to open another commercial space again.
Everything can be done online, even a restaurant that is 100% online, the plans for which I have here in my sweaty palm.
Yes, I decided to open a strictly online restaurant, but the seating is limited and the service is slow. Once I’ve worked out the bugs, I plan to get it out there as an IPO and no, I’m not kidding.
The idea of a 100% online restaurant is worth a billion dollars.
Gorby’s Online Cafe
Even food can be sold online without tasting or seeing the actual object, just by the power of graphics and compelling text with sound, none of which was available to the seller back in the day — it was all about black-and-white printing, half-tones and Pantone Color Matching systems.
Printing was expensive and catalogs were expensive to mail out to people. Today, the internet is the means by which we can send out INFLUENCERS like our adverts and buttons and such.
I plan to offer my food delivered.
The Button!
The Button is a very simple concept. It consists of one or two image graphics, plus several text graphics & overlays, plus a hotlink to somewhere commercial, a landing page of some sort. You can see a powerful example in the top graphic at the head of this blog.
The photo or screenshot or drawing or painting or whatever image you select for your button, will draw the client’s attention. You have only a fraction of a second to capture their interest.
Then the text takes over, bringing them to an analytical conclusion or an action cycle such as a “click-through”, which is what you ultimately want, to your destination page, resulting in a conversion or a sale or both.
I have a minor invention for your consideration:
Make an InstaGram Button that has as its mini-blog associated with it some sort of joke, but make sure, absolutely sure, that it is directly and clearly related to the button.
In short, the button should almost “telegraph” the joke.
Put some identifier in the graphic that makes it clear that it came from you — do this, because as surely as the elevator goes all the way to the top, any successful graphic WILL be stolen.
Even if all your work ends up being sold at a wholesale electronics market in Hong Kong only two days after you’ve brought it out, you’ll at least have the satisfaction of the buyers knowing from whom it was stolen.
Small compensation, but there isn’t a whole hell of a lot of money in revenge.
Wow, the time sure flies when you’re having fun! Don’t give in to despair! Don’t let Trump get you down! Don’t cave in to the endless pit of crushing defeat!
Illegitimati Non-Carborundum — translation from the pseudo-Latin: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down”.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby