Waking up with a cup of Joe for the Bern

(M)an: Dude! A husband and wife pairing doesn’t make the husband and wife the same person. Yes, they can and do live parallel lives if the wife has had the educational and job opportunities that Hillary Rodham Clinton has had. But notice the way the Republican Party presidential contenders have placed blame on Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton for the sins of her spouse, former President Bill Clinton.  

(D)ude: Man! The American Republican Party is perverse. Bill Clinton is perverse because the two entities, the GOP and President Clinton, reached the agreement in 1996 to instate harsh welfare reform by implementing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which essentially enforced the two “can’t dos” in democracy and diplomacy, blaming the victims and the attempt at differentiating so-termed ‘deserving poor’ from so-termed ‘undeserving poor’.

M: Dude! I don’t favor Hillary Rodham Clinton anymore, because she has clearly stated something that I consider to be a strong indication of her covert political alliance with the American Republican Party and overt agreement with President Clinton’s political actions while in office. She stated the following to Rachel Maddow on Thursday, October 23, 2015, “Well, I want to say a word about the issues you mentioned, because my take on it is slightly different. On Defense of Marriage, I think what my husband believed – and there was certainly evidence to support it – is that there was enough political momentum to amend the Constitution of the United States of America, and that there had to be some way to stop that. And there wasn’t any rational argument – because I was in on some of those discussions, on both ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ and on DOMA, where both the president, his advisers and occasionally I would – you know, chime in and talk about, ‘you can’t be serious. You can’t be serious.’ But they were.  And so, in a lot of ways, DOMA was a line that was drawn that was to prevent going further.”

D: Man! Rachel Maddow went on to categorize President Bill Clinton’s response as “a defensive action” and Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed, didn’t she?

M: Dude! Yes, Hillary agreed and said that, “It was a defensive action. The culture rapidly changed so that now what was totally anathema to political forces – they have ceded. They no longer are fighting, except on a local level and a rear-guard action. And with the U.S. Supreme Court decision, it’s settled. ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ is something that – you know, Bill promised during the ‘92 campaign to let gays serve openly in the military.  And it’s what he intended to do.”

D: Man! And Rachel Maddow continued by calling the whole mess a “firestorm. Terrible firestorm.” Right? How exactly did Hillary Rodham Clinton respond?

M: Dude! Hillary agreed again and stated a while later that, “My take on this, now, is we’re going to have an election that is truly going to be, at bottom, about fundamental rights.  A woman’s right to choose, defending Planned Parenthood, marriage equality, taking on the continuing discrimination against the LGBT community.  You can get married on Saturday, you can get fired on Monday.  Voting rights – the most profound citizenship rights that we have being blocked and undermined at every turn. We are going to have a very vigorous debate in this election, because the Republicans are all on record as trying to reverse and rip away the progress that has occurred. A lot of it, because of decisions that the court has finally made – both for good and for bad.  I mean, the marriage equality decision for good, the terrible gutting of the Voting Rights Act for bad.  And the local activity in states against a woman’s right to choose and defunding Planned Parenthood.”

D: Man! Will President Hillary Rodham Clinton be held hostage by the United States Congress for her husband’s indiscretions and infidelities as well? Will Paul Ryan become the far-right grinch as Newt Gingrich was during the reign of the GOP’s “Contract with America” that then-Speaker of the House Gingrich espoused and through which the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 became the grim, grave reality of the disenfranchised and destitute, like mothers and their children, particularly minority and immigrant populations?

M: Dude! The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was signed into law by President Clinton! And you’re right about the disenfranchised and destitute populations being targeted in order to balance the national budget of the United States and creating the Clinton Surplus, but look what happened in the following Walker Bush Administration, the disenfranchised and destitute were retargeted for the purposes of reducing the national deficit of the United States of America!

D: Man! What do we do right now to stop the scourge of the privileged political class placing all the responsibility of balancing budgets and creating surpluses on the backs of the poor and working classes; only to demand in a following presidential administration to reducing the deficit on the backs of the poor and working classes?

M: Dude! Vote for Bernie Sanders for President of the United States and Joe Biden as Vice President, because the two have remained outsiders for the entire length of their careers, instead of joining the privileged political class of Washington, DC! The Clinton Administration and the Walker Bush Administration were led by Presidents of the United States that believed heavily in mathematically accounting the soul out of the poor and working classes. That spread the scourge of the poor and working classes turning against one another for resources intentionally limited by President Clinton and President George Walker Bush, both men being friends to the sad extent of George Walker Bush degradingly referring to Hillary Clinton as a sister-in-law in subsequent interviews with the American Press Corps. You do know that in the Middle East and Eurasia, referencing a woman as a sister-in-law is considered disrespectfully disregarding her as a vassal?

D: Man! Yikes! That’s definitely not a move forward for the United States or the World!  

M: Dude! ISIS and ISIL are GOP vehicles to shred the dignity of Muslim women that was put into place by the Prophet Mohammed and solidified with the Prophet Mohammed’s Koranic breakthrough teachings, which emphasized the care of and a compassionate route to handling war widows and orphans. The nomadic lifestyle compounded with the enslavement of war widows and orphans was abolished by the Prophet Mohammed although the trend to enslave was pervasive across the globe then. And keep in mind that the Prophet Mohammed was born in 570 CE in Mecca and passed away at the age of sixty-two in Medina.  

D: Man! That is an important distinction made by the Prophet Mohammed, not to enslave war widows and orphans. I was reading Pat Shipman’s Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari and came across a fact about how the Kingdom of the Netherlands fought the Sultanate of Aceh in what became Indonesia. Mata Hari’s first husband was a Dutch soldier in the war and Shipman reveals how there were native indigenous women who serviced the soldiers from the Netherlands as their sexual partners and homemakers on the front lines of battlefields. It reminded me of the Vietnam war and the women and children abandoned there as well. Of course, very few of the Dutch soldiers actually continued to provide financially or embrace their offspring as their legitimate heirs in some way or fashion, which was for the most part rare.

M: Dude! The American Republican Party or GOP saw, through both Iraq Wars, that Muslim women overwhelmingly were cherished and bequeath rights and rites like Hijab for their integrity and safety in society. Therefore, the American Republican Party or GOP funded the careful construction of ISIS and ISIL that deliberately dishonored and disenfranchised Muslim women in that region of the world where Mohammed, the Prophet of Islam, had solidified a code of moral conduct towards women and orphans through his teachings that became the Koran.

D: Man! Really?

M: Dude! Bush 41 and Bush 43 particularly placed priority on dishonoring Muslim women in both Iraq Wars. Honoring girls and women and cherishing them as legitimate family members and contributors to preserving the family system and greater society at large, was a characteristic of Muslim civilizations since the Prophet Mohammed’s teachings that is still unique and a historic game changer that hasn’t taken place anywhere else in modern civilizations, that is, the sacrament of the female condition.

D: Man! What about the argument of arranging marriages in the Middle East?

M: Dude! There is a television serial that has united the Pakistani and the Indian film communities, entitled Mera Naam Yousuf Hai, which brings to light that, according to the Prophet Mohammed, marriage is a consensual affair for both the groom and the bride, via the “nikah” or matrimonial service where the bride too signs the marriage contract, hence signifying her consent. But many times, as portrayed in the television serial that translates to “My name is Yousuf”, the parents sign their daughters’ contracts themselves, forging the bride’s signature and claiming it as legit, which is a major issue in female autonomy in Muslim culture.

D: Man! Is Hillary Rodham Clinton autonomous? Her campaign surrogate’s her husband!

M: Dude! I’ve got to get back to my minimum wage commitment! Let’s begin again tomorrow!