C.T.E.

This is what happens when government and big business refuse to address a problem or pay lip service and sweep it under the rug.

Roger Goodell makes in the neighborhood of $65 million a year, do you think he's going to do anything that challenges the financial success of the NFL?

Ditto United Health.

The public is disillusioned. If I hear one more Democrat tell me to wait until 2028... If you believe there will be a fair election that year you're delusional. Trump has already requested the voter rolls from every state. Furthermore, it has been documented that Republicans deleted many legitimate Democratic voters from the rolls in 2024. I'm not saying Trump didn't win, but I am saying that once you control the apparatus of the system, you can put your finger on it to tip the result. And who wants to give up their job anyway, the Republicans in Congress are so afraid of Trump that they refuse to challenge him, because if they do they'll be primaried and out of a job.

Now I'll get e-mail from Republicans saying I'm wrong. But one of the big problems is they're reading different news, which intentionally leaves out anything negative about their party or its officials.

Ditto the NFL. Are you going to see reports on C..T.E. during the game? OF COURSE NOT!

Actually, C.T.E. has been well covered in the "New York Times." As has the deletion of legal voters. But when you have an autocracy, the first thing you do is hobble the legitimate press. To the point now where those on both the left and the right refuse to believe anything in the "Times," never mind the "Wall Street Journal" or the WaPo.

Unlike ABC and CBS, the WSJ is never going to cave. Rupert Murdoch knows if he settles with Trump his entire staff will revolt, there will be no paper. Furthermore, if you know anything about legitimate news outlets as opposed to online blather, the price to pay for willingly printing a falsehood is so high that they fact-check stories up the yin-yang before they run them. But Trump says he doesn't doodle and sues. Even though many of his doodles have now surfaced.

What's a poor boy to do? Certainly not play in a rock and roll band. That's for chumps. Everybody starving becomes an influencer, because that's where the big, easy money is available.

Or believes they'll become a sports star.

Now I'm not saying the rest of the sports are injury free...

Anytime I write about the NFL, people ask me about skiing. Did you see that Italy just passed a law making helmets compulsory?

But that's an apples to oranges comparison anyway. Skiing isn't based on hitting your head repeatedly, violently, which football is.

John Madden, who may be dead but whose name still fronts a mega-successful video game, said that your body would never be the same after just one game in the NFL. Many of these men can barely walk, never mind think. But the game continues.

Not for me. I've opted out for years now. I'm boycotting. I'll watch the Super Bowl because it's a national holiday, but nothing else.

I'M UNAMERICAN!

Yes, our tribal country denigrates anybody who won't go along with the herd. This is what artists and musicians used to do. But now everybody's so afraid of alienating a potential fan that they refuse to. They're business people, not artists. They're not leaders, they're cash registers.

My inbox is going to go WILD with pro-football people.

But do we still have gladiators?

And how about AK-47s... But you do need those to hunt, PEOPLE!

Our entire society is hypocritical. And if it makes a buck, you do what is expedient, you don't challenge power at the risk of your enterprise.

That's what the big law firms said... If we don't settle our rainmaking attorneys will quit. Thank god the underlings, the associates with no power, are leaving these firms for their stance. Ditto law students who are no longer applying for jobs.

And then you've got ABC and CBS... Isn't it funny that the Skydance merger was approved after Colbert was fired? If you don't think this is a factor, you don't believe football causes C.T.E.

Then again, RFK, Jr. is busy contradicting science every day. Science is now up for grabs. It's what you believe, having done your own biased research, if at all... As for herd immunity...THAT'S FOR SUCKERS!

But you don't play football and you immunize your kids so you have a hard time getting upset.

That doesn't make it right, that just makes you complicit.

Meanwhile, the Chinese will own the car industry within ten years, but let's focus on combustion engines and gasoline, THE PAST FOREVER!

Make America Great Again?

When the effect finally hits the individual, when you lose your Medicaid, when there's no hospital in your neighborhood, what are you going to do.

Be disillusioned.

But there will be some who take action.

This is exactly what happened in the Arab Spring. An overeducated fruit vendor just couldn't take it anymore. Like the guy who shot the United Health executive and this latest shooter. No one is standing up for the little guy, no one is addressing the problems of the hoi polloi.

So eventually someone revolts.

Don't tell me they're mentally ill, OF COURSE THEY ARE! But if you write off these two killings that way, you're missing the point.

Notice how we haven't gotten the true reason for Ozzy Osbourne's death, was there a suicide solution?

I don't know, I'm only speculating, but people take their lives because of ongoing pain on a regular basis. And oftentimes it's nobody's fault, but other times there's glitch in the health care system and...

Don't say I'm being hysterical, don't unsubscribe and think you've triumphed.

I am one, just like Pete Townshend sang. Back when you got your lessons from musicians. And one can make a difference. And one made a difference here. And he's not they only one.

Because when you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose.

Never mind being angry at the rich whose taxes just went down, who run rampant all over this country. Bezos is so stupid that he has an over the top public wedding not realizing that he's one of the most hated men in America. Man, if you've gotten rich milking the system you're better off hiding today. Or maybe the Kiss Cam will come to you!

Just a little sunlight. Does anybody have any sympathy for the Astronomer canoodlers?

No, because they're offended on a moral basis.

I'm offended on a moral basis that football has not been banned in America. From kids to adults. You want to play flag football, be my guest. But the full contact sport we now enjoy kills. You just won't admit it.

But famous players from Jason Seau to Dave Duerson have shot themselves because their brains were so injured. Never mind the walking wounded still alive.

Just ignore what I have to say. Enjoy your Sundays and beer. But if you think bad behavior goes unnoticed and unchallenged...

You're just putting your head in the sand. An uninjured head.

People feel no one is looking out for them, that they're powerless, therefore they're talking matters into their own hands.

Hell, isn't that what America is all about, the rugged individual? Ha!

Think about all this and justify the status quo.

A thinking person can't.

Are you wearing blinders?

Don't say you've got no power, a movement starts with one and then engulfs many.

Is a movement coming?

I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised.


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