JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

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I didn’t like IRAN-CoNTRA either, so if DiSantis wins the election, I hope he doesn’t totally cut our SSI.

re: Fiction and Affirmative Action

See also, EEOC and “diversity”

CHINA: You woke the tiger.

Dear CNN et al. : I’m getting drunk so I be hung over for the returns tonight. Let woman buy own.

Speculative Fiction by John Rubens

The Federal Government is staffed with ample portions of Veterans and preppies. What could go wrong?

Sincerely,

The overweight Good Humor man, John Rubens

ZOE LOFGREN: I don’t find that good humor either John.

Dear NASA: Please change one name of ARTEMIS I to “Lady Liberty”. Like Cape Canaveral/JFK/and in Houston, LBJ.

Disclosure: We saw #RunningMan (1987) all the way through together at home in Hollywood.

Camo and Humor go a long way.

RUPERT MURDOCH et al.

Coffee, Hazelnut by Gavina

Take care; the opposite of hate.–Fictional Pilsner Urquell

COP: And vulnerabilities?

re: Hunter’s laptop, vault 7, MIMC and retained, self-interested, Deep State

JESUS: We’re all self-interested by nature.

JOHN MATTHEW RUBENS: Yeah, just more evident among lawyers and Muslims?

JESUS: Accountability. Arabs are more open to truth as there are less lawyers to lie for them.

JOHN: [part South Asian]: Time to change your ways Joe.

KAMALA: That’s what we said.

JOHN: FAKE HATE SPEECH. Virtue Signals.

POW-WOW OF THE POMO [Because POMO rhymes with POW-WOW and CA Prop. 27, not intended as words of the Pomo Tribes of Northern California]: Merely puffing smoke.

JOHN: I’m no fan of Aristotle either. I like Plato though, and Homer’s The Odyssey.

CHP: Take his money.

BIDEN: It is written: “[even what little he had shall be taken away]”.

“Sexist pig!”

“Better than being called a Male Chauvinist Pig. Thanks for your temper.”

TRUMP: There are some nice people and some disgusting people on both sides [Liz Cheney]. We confine our disgusting duties to the water closet. Offending others is not a Trump thing.

RUBENS: Au contraire!

THOMAS FRIEDMAN: My eyes burn.

TRUMP: Tom, I’m better for you than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. I would never do that to you. I mean Tom, who would you rather work for, the Murdochs…

FRIEDMAN: Jeff Bezos or even Elon Musk.

TRUMP: …or the Trump family…? Good luck. Khashoggi didn’t turn out so good. Worked for Bezos didn’t he?

See also: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8208506701182723362/1111429734298768696

Speculative Fiction by John Rubens

Nov. 6, 2022

Joe Biden now repeating one of Elon Musk’s former criticisms of twitter, “[It’s a hellscape!].”

RABID REPUBLICAN: You’re insane.

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8208506701182723362/5255577254260158563

Muskrat and Wombats Love Too. re: individual rights and liberties v. Majorities

I identify as “porcupine” now. Urbanomics.

My conscience: John, you were better off in the suburbs.

JOHN: But not in the summer.

NYC: Dirt and gritty.–“Summer in the City” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpYA9NLq5y4 The Lovin’ Spoonful

CHP: You don’t need to own a car in the city.

JOHN: I’d like at least a golf cart or motorcycle.

GOV. NEWSOM: You can like all you want.

SIC: CORRECTION: “Muskrat and Wombats” is intentionally not “Muskrats and Wombats” above, but is here. For a new song, I like “Muskrats and Wombats”. I used “Muskrat” because the speaker doesn’t identify with muskrats as individuals, as he does wombats as individuals. I used wombats in a book entitled Skyscraper Heavens (2015). Tunnelers and mazes.

CUOMO: Maybe the Bills are right [O’Reilly and Maher]. CUOMO [asking a rhetorical question for his viewers and/or next guest{s}]: Should Joe Biden resign to let Kamala Harris fill the space?.

If this is “hate speech” then I make the point to myself.

I am not asking for Joe Biden’s resignation in this work of speculative fiction.

RADICAL REACTIONARY: Terroristen!

JOE BIDEN: WE LOVE UKRAINIANS.

RUSSIA: THE FATHERLAND, EH?

FICTIONAL CORY PALKA: I remember them, pre-pandemic.

RUBENS: TARNISHING REPUTATIONS > LOSS OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES.–RICHARD M. NIXON AND EDWARD STEINMAN “Who owns “G.I. Joe”?

“The military industrial media complex [MIMC].”

“You idiot, last I heard Amazon owned the whole schbang.”

“Shabang? Hasbro still owns it bro.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_G.I._Joe:_A_Real_American_Hero_characters

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8208506701182723362/5255577254260158563

EDWARD STEINMAN: PRIOR RESTRAINTS.

BOXER: IT’S GOTTEN WORSE JOHN.

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John Rubens

Nov. 5, 2022

BARNEY, AUNT GAYLE’S BOYFRIEND and ultimately We.

I like to let loose with beer. Former Rugby Player.–Bergin Hall SCU; Grunions, Goleta/SantaBarbara. Cottage Hospital is where I ended up. Never paid them back yet.

PUTIN, Ich Verschtent.

JOHN MATTHEW RUBENS TO SAM ANTAR RE: GARY GENSLER AND THE SEC/FINRA

LEVITY: Go fuck yourselves, it helps.

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY FACE UNLESS YOU PAY MORE THAN $163.00 MOTHER FUCKER.

JOHN RUBENS, JOE BIDEN, GEORGE THOROGOOD AND THE DELAWARE DESTROYERS!

GEORGE WASHINGTON: GO FUCK YOURSELVES!

JOHN ADAMS: We have enough. Mother Mary vs. Muslim Bitch Feminists. My wife says the Armenians are behind it. She came to Los Angeles more than two decades before me.

ED O’NEILL: DRAGNET

subtext: We got laid along the way, sure, but I kept boxing.

CORY PALKA: After all I did for you.

FOX: DIFFERENT CHANNEL.

Handymen, drones, gardeners but not locals.

Suspended Agent for God, I hope.

CORY PALKA: LOCALS HELP LAW ENFORCEMENT TOO!

I worked for a plumber. Plumbers deserve a UAS due to thieves.

FICTIONAL PLUMBER’S UNION[S]

CAVEAT: #TheFollowHomeDrone[s]

Consult: Global Hawk II NOC

DEAR THOMAS FRIEDMAN:

BETTER THAN A POKE IN THE EYE WITH A SHARP STICK.

ONLY COLLEAGUES CAN STEP ON TOES?

GRANDPA BOWSIE: The insurance companies need a sharp stick.

Dear Tom Friedman:

Some people are targets. I shop at Target.