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ORANGEFUSION!

The Cato Institute has never been a favorite American libertarian think tank for Tubularsock but occasionally EVEN they provide information worth looking at and this happens to be one of those times.

According to The Cato Institute,”the chance of an American perishing in a terrorist attack on U.S. soil that was committed by a foreigner over the 41-year period (1975-2015) studied . . . is 1 in 3.6 million per year.” (this is weighted by 9/11 where 2,605 U.S. citizens died)”.

“The chance of an American being killed in a terrorist attack committed by a refugee was 1 in 3.64 billion a year.” THAT IS BILLION WITH A “B”!

“The annual chance of being murdered by somebody other than a foreign-born terrorist was 252.9 times greater than the chance of dying in a terrorist attack committed by a foreign-born terrorist.”

So this over-the-top fear of terrorism on American soil killing YOU may be better spent looking out for buses while you cross the street. Trump hasn’t banned buses yet! Well, it’s only Thursday. Still time. But knowing Trump, it would have to be ONLY Moslim Buses!

But what is insane is the total OFF-THE-WALL Moslim ban to protect us from terrorism from countries who HAVE NEVER HAD A TERRORIST attack our citizens.

But countries that HAVE SENT TERRORISTS to attack us are NOT ON THE LIST!

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Care to figure out THAT logic?

Oh really don’t bother. It is the basis of American Foreign Policy …. it’s the way we roll!

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It is perfect. Our American “leaders” are out to “protect” us again!

And where do they rush to ban travel from but Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Sudan?

All countries, with the exception of Iran, that THE U.S. HAVE BOMBED! And Iran has been advertised for years TO BE BOMBED!

So once again the U.S. Governmental “leaders” send the cavalry in the WRONG DIRECTION. And pump up and puff out their chests like something meaningful has been accomplished!

On 9/11, 15 Saudi Arabian Terrorists, 2 United Arab Emirates Terrorists, 1 Egyptian Terrorist and 1 Lebanese Terrorist attacked New York and killed close to 3000 people.

So did we RETALIATE by bombing the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia?

OR Egypt? Lebanon?

NO!

The United States RETALIATED by attacking AFGHANISTAN and we are still attacking Afghanistan.

And then we took our mighty JUSTICE and started a war with IRAQ!

NOW THAT IS WHAT TUBULARSOCK CALLS LEADERSHIP!

Yep. Our country just HAS TO get the Academy Award THIS YEAR for BEST AT BEING WORSE!

Sure there are a lot of supporting actors that have helped this on its way and Tubularsock would be amiss if he didn’t thank Pathetic George and his sidekick Tortured Cheney. Hey, you live with fucking Lynn for five minutes and you’d be tortured too. But he likes it! Beat me, beat me.

And sure there was known-unknown Donnie, and brain dead Condo, old blue douchebag Barbara who does have to be given some credit for spawning Pathetic George. It is a little known alternate fact that Tubularsock is mean-spiritedly making up on the spot, that Pathetic George was really aborted and was left on the Capitol steps only to found by a wandering-cheney and brought to life.

Oh my how Tubularsock has digressed.

There also was Step-En-Fetch-It-Hope-And-Change-Obummer who lulled the lost back to the possibility of changing the direction of our country only to take a HUGE SHIT on their heads that was so convincing that they all rallied around the Wicked-Bitch-From-The-West-Hillary who promised “MORE OF THE SAME SHIT”.

And just as luck would have it THE RUSSIANS SAVED US!
Well the maimed stream press seems to be promoting a different slant to their alternate-fact news but Tubularsock is going with his own alternate facts.

Which leads us to OUR very own ……….. President Orange Tweeter Feed!

My my my ……….. the child in the oval office.

Oh look, oh look ……… gosh, POTF can sign his name.

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Oh another signing, another crayon.

Oh, oh, hold up your work. It’s so pretty. Good job!

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The GREAT thing about having America Great Again is that now the DEPLORABLES have someone to believe in.

Now the brain-dead “liberals” had step-en-fetch-it and now the brain-dead deplorables have Orangie-Tweet-Boy. See how GREAT America has become! Just like Leave It To Beaver.

So with supporting actors like those and a 15 BILLION DOLLAR WALL Americans deserve the Academy Award!

Hell, Thelma and Louise isn’t the only movie that can GO OVER THE EDGE!

See you at the bottom.

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Now we all have had bad days at work and what you have to do is just roll with the punches. Maybe President Orange Tweet (POT) may be going to have some trouble with BRINGING JOBS BACK TO AMERICA when the U.S. largest export is TERRORISM!

 

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Tubularsock had to leave the Bunker to gather food. Usually Tubularsock remains incommunicado until well after the first of each year. One reason is that if Tubularsock stays away from people during late December and early January Tubularsock doesn’t have to listen to “Oh, happy holidays or Merry Christmas” and that fucking “Happy New Year” shit!

Some years Tubularsock has gotten through “obsessive-happy-days” without contact. But not this year.

Now Tubularsock’s response to the standard happy-cheer-statements is a clear diversionary tactic such as “Same to you fella, and So’s your mother!” That usually stops them from further conversation. As well as having them move quickly away.

Anyway, as Tubularsock pulled out of the garage of Tubularsock’s top floor corner office underground bunker overlooking Washington, D.C. from Oakland, CA (see Bunker Tour) in his pickup Tubularsock turned on the radio and as fate would have it a CBS programed interview was in progress. Now how did CBS even find its way onto Tubularsock’s radio dial. That was a surprise to Tubularsock …….. well that’s radio for ya’!

Anyway within this interview the commentator weaved in the standard programmed reference to the Russian’s being blamed into hacking into our elections …. as if it were fact.

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Remember repeat the lie often enough ……….

The fact, that to date there has been NO PROOF provided is par for the course.

And the master-bating-media seems to just beat off to a different drummer.

Now really, so far, THERE IS NO PROOF!

But Obummer today is kicking 35 Russian intelligence operatives out of the US, the NY Times reports. The agencies are believed to have been involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee and others.

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But look …… it is all bull shit. What Obummer really is doing is putting the onus on Donald Trump to lift the sanctions when he takes office, officially signaling that US intelligence agencies can’t be trusted. (Like, exactly who does trust them anyway?)

You see, it is just a game. A simple school yard game between the boys. The unfortunate part, as usual, some poor innocents will be harmed at some point and we’ll all rally around the flag with THE RUSSIAN’S DID IT! Whatever the IT happens to be this week.

And as we see the almost black boy and the clearly orange boy slug it out before the end-of-recess bell rings as we ponder why Putin appears to be the only intelligent MAN in the game. Maybe it’s the vodka.

 

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WORLD PEACE — VOTE TUBULARSOCK! ***

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In any given election those who want your vote will promise you ANYTHING but not Tubularsock. Tubularsock, just like take-out Chinese …. delivers!

Tubularsock has a full scale plan to end war in our time. We are talking PEACE here folks. PEACE for you, PEACE for your children, and PEACE for your grandchildren!

Now how, you ask, can Tubularsock create PEACE and stop war in our time?

SIMPLE!

War is ONLY ABOUT profit. War has nothing to do with bringing “democracy” to other people of the world, or humanitarian concerns about poorer nations, or even caring about others. War is ONLY ABOUT profit!

Now Tubularsock’s A JET IN EVERY GARAGE PROGRAM will keep Boeing, Lockheed Martin,  and Northrop Grumman in the profit column for years to come because EVERY YEAR there will be a new model with all new features! Like the “extras” provided by BAE Systems that will include the Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer that provides sophisticated simulation training for your teenage pilots. Just think of the possibilities!

And don’t forget about the end of “road-rage”! With proper training the new popular “air-rage” will help be prevented by L-3 Communications unmanned aircraft systems. See, nobody there to get angry with! Sweet!

And think of the growth in the building trades. JOBS, JOBS, JOBS when each American family (like Obamacare) will be required to build a three-jet-garage! Can it get better than that!

Tubularsock thinks outside the box AND A VOTE FOR TUBULARSOCK WILL PUT YOU IN THE JET STREAM!

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TRUMP’S POSITION ON **PAT**

Well you have finally figured out by now, mostly due to the up to the minute maimed-steamed-press that Trump has “issues”. Dah.

Now you may be under the impression that PAT is another one of those “trade-treaties” or something. But NO it is not a trade treaty but it is still a fundamental platform in Trump’s belief system.

PAT = Pussy, Ass, Tits !

This week we, as a nation, have been exposed to more crap about who the real Trump happens to be but is he any different than any other locker-room-bull-shitter except that he’ll shout it from the rooftops?

It reminds Tubularsock of that line that parents say on Thanksgiving after Uncle Fred says aloud, “She’s a fucking bitch!”. The parents turn to their children and say, “Now those are grown-up words that children shouldn’t say.”

{an aside: The children later are heard saying to one another, “What the fuck are mom and dad talking shit, like we haven’t heard that fucking shit before?”}

Now of course EVERYONE has shown appropriate SHOCK and are all disgusted about Trump acting out ……. how is this news again?

It might be necessary to remind everyone of a basic truth that seems to have been set aside and replaced with “shock and awe” and that basic truth is that, males linger in the adolescent-mind much longer than admitted.

Men tend to “think” about SEX or more like the “IDEA of sex” at about the 14-16 year old level. And for a huge majority of men that IDEA OF SEX remains until death!

That is what Viagra is all about folks!

Now many have stated that Trump’s sexual statements are NOT PRESIDENTIAL .

But really is that true?

To explore YOUR inner view Tubularsock has created this Social Science Test for you to take so as to expose YOUR …….. “Inner Male” (yes, women may take this test as well to explore your “yang” side).

Look at this photo of three former Presidents ………….
Look closely at their eyes and their demeanor.

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Now, what are they discussing.

  1. FOREIGN POLICY

2. TITS AND ASS

YOUR ANSWER WILL BE CONFIDENTIAL, SO REPORT IN THE COMMENTS BELOW.

Tubularsock thanks you for supporting SCIENCE.

And remember, Social Science has the word Science in it. And SCIENCE is never wrong!

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CHANGE?

Now Tubularsock knows that you know that the election game is rigged. And you know that the American public really doesn’t care because to really care one would have to take some responsibility. So staying in the “dream” — of America is great — is all this fantasy requires.

Now Trump supporters are basically limited in “smarts” and really don’t think much past the next state fair caravel ride.

And Clinton supporters are more highly educated which only goes to show just how poor the educational system has become. They too prefer a ride but more often than not it’s in a Prius. But with all their “smarts” they still “believe” that their vote counts for something.

And then there are the greater part of the American electorate that is being tricked into voting for Hillary on the bases of FEAR alone. They don’t like her BUT they are afraid of Trump!

REALLY?

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For generations now the old adage has been thrust forward every four years that YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR THE LESSER OF THE TWO EVILS that are running. And people have done just that until this election! WE HAVE BOTH EVILS ……. now there is a dilemma for you.

It’s just simple math really. If you divide EVIL in half to just short of infinity, well you reach this point in time. So here we are!

So what if …………………… You vote for EVIL in the name of Trump? Would that break the mold?

Americans have voted for the lessor of the two evils for years and look where that has gotten us ………….

So a vote for Trump is a vote for change! Tubularsock would just like to see how BAD THAT COULD BE.

Seriously, the only real difference in the complete decline would only be slowed by a tiny bit with Same-As-It-Ever-Was-Hillary as opposed to a complete collapse immediately with Look-Out-It’s-Falling-Trump.

The advantage is that the rebuild could be sooner. Tubularsock is always so positive.

As for Tubularsock, a vote for Jill Stein and the Green Party is the direction that Tubularsock can believe in. There is REAL change in direction in what the Green Party stands for but Americans would rather go down with their ship.

Tubularsock can’t wait to “. . . groove in the rubble.”

 

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LA LA LAND AMERICA!

Well reality TV at its dumbest was the first presidential debate. Tubularsock didn’t capitalize presidential because it would deem it with respect. Fuck That (capitalized).

Tubularsock usually can’t stand to watch trivia-shows and doesn’t have a TV BUT a very good friend came to Tubularsock’s Bunker (see Bunker Tour if you are new to Tubularsock) and begged Tubularsock to tape this crap so it could be seen by my friend later in the evening after work.

Well Tubularsock, all heart as well as brains, had to quickly rig up a system to pull off that task. Looking more like a NSA setup for spying rather than recording this “debate”, a misnomer if there ever was one, Tubularsock set up a microphone and placed it in front of his very large speakers and used his tuner to tune into the radio broadcast from NPR.

Then connected the microphone to the computer and opened GarageBand (a Mac app) and recorded the program’s sound.

Then found a “live stream” of the “debate” from the Washington Post and turned off the sound so as to only view the picture which due to a slow internet connection during “high-peak” usage spent more time with a “spinning wheel” than picture. The delay time ran about four to seven minutes which was funny because as the goofballs started to speak on NPR the Washington Post stream pictured only two empty podiums. WHICH TO TUBULARSOCK WAS THE ONLY SIGN OF TRUTH FOR THE NEXT NINETY MINUTES!

Now Tubularsock know you techies will have questions about this set up but don’t ask. A. It’s not important and B. The reason for this round about way was the only option under NSA guidelines.

So the major question Tubularsock has after this imbecilic-travesty-on-truth that was presented as a “debate” is:

WHAT FUCKING PLANET ARE THESE PEOPLE FROM?

And even worse ……… are the messed-up-media-spinners and the opinionated brain dead American public THAT STUPID?????????

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It is really beyond rational comprehension. These two political-clowns represent “LEADERSHIP” to the American populous? Really?

You know that old well used statement of Albert Einstein comes into play once again,

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That being said ……….. the fanatic-fanciful-fantasy  continues.

 

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TUBULARSOCK SEES CLEARLY ……..

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Tubularsock was sitting around his Top-floor corner office in Tubularsock’s Underground Bunker overlooking Washington, D.C. from Oakland, CA (see BUNKER TOUR) pondering ….. What has made the French so stupid NOW?

No, Tubularsock isn’t going as far as “Freedom-Fries” like the brain dead Bush Administration Congress. French Fries are still tops on Tubularsock’s culinary menu. Well, EXCEPT for the ones served with the prix fixe McDonald’s menu on the Champ-Élysées ! Sometimes American Exceptionalism doesn’t translate!

Tubularsock has always loved his visits to France and found the French people delightful. Even years ago when so many felt that the French had a shitty attitude toward foreign tourists. Tubularsock, speaks no French except, “Ne touchez pas le chien, il mord !” ( Don’t touch the dog, he bites!)

And the only reason Tubularsock learned that phrase was, well Tubularsock’s Yorkie, Gizmo, would bite people if they tried to pet him …… and even with Tubularsock’s fluent-limited-French, four Frenchmen and two French women got themselves bitten by Gizmo.

The great thing was none of them blamed Gizmo or Tubularsock but apologized for not following the warning. And took full responsibility for their action. Unlike Americans who would have blamed the dog’s owner and attempted to sue.

So Tubularsock has been taken surprised by this French reaction to, of all things, the Burkini! What’s with that?

Manuel Valls, the French Prime Minister has stated that the New York Times has painted an “unacceptable” picture of France with a recent article about discrimination against Muslim women.

France previously banned the headscarf from all state schools in 2004 and former President Nicolas Sarkozy banned the niqab – or a full faced veil – from all public places in 2011.

And now, the Burkini!

The reason, “. . . the swimwear still poses a risk to public order.”

So, armed French police officers are shown in photos forcing women to remove their burkinis on beaches. And the humor of all that is not missed on Tubularsock because topless sunbathing on beaches is allowed just not clothed sunbathing! SO FRENCH!

Now all of these rules, according to Prime Minister Valls, have been created so that women don’t have to “. . . live under the yoke of a chauvinist order. The female body is neither pure nor impure; it is the female body. It does not need to be hidden to protect against some kind of temptation.”
But it’s the French government’s chauvinist order that is well, ahh, chauvinist as well!

And of course, it is all in the eye of the beholder. The 1905 French constitution guarantees the freedom of religion and freedom to exercise it. However the original text MADE NO REFERENCE TO CLOTHING.

And if Tubularsock recalls, neither does the U.S. Constitution.

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Tubularsock wonders if the wearing a kippah (skullcap) is outlawed in public in France. Does anyone know? Should be, Tubularsock assumes, because of the “. . . posed risk to public order”.

Traditionally, Jewish men and boys wear the kippah at all times, a symbol of their awareness of, and submission to, a “higher” entity.

Another chauvinist position handed down from on high!

But in truth, this is all too funny to Tubularsock. Somehow having women more nude rather than less just seems to be at the heart of the matter chauvinist but maybe it’s just Tubularsock.

Tubularsock has always hated “dress codes”! Public Order be damned!

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