Sam Kinison

(In order to read this post you must have seen this guy performing live. If you haven't, here is a link. Warning: Watch this before you read.  https://youtu.be/qhFI8q3Dtzk?si=efhOEug-6OAfXSXq  )

ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT!

So I'm sitting here! I'm sitting here WATCHING this country! And I'm thinking to myself… WHEN DID WE BECOME SO STUPID?! WHEN?! AHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHH!

You got these POLITICIANS! These POLITICIANS! Standing up there going, "We're gonna make America great again!"

GREAT?! IT WAS NEVER THAT GREAT FOR MOST PEOPLE! Unless you were RICH! Or WHITE! Or BOTH! Then yeah, it was FANTASTIC!

OHHHHHHHHH! OHHHHHHHHH!

But for EVERYBODY ELSE?! It was like being on the TITANIC! In STEERAGE! While the rich people are upstairs going, "OH, THIS SHIP IS WONDERFUL!"

YEAH?! YOU'RE NOT DOWN HERE WITH THE RATS, PAL!

AHHHHHHHHH!

And they tell you — THEY TELL YOU — "If you work HARD! If you WORK HARD! You can MAKE IT in America!"

WORK HARD?! PEOPLE ARE WORKING HARD! They're working TWO JOBS! THREE JOBS! They're working so hard THEY DON'T EVEN SEE THEIR KIDS!

And you know what they GET for it?! YOU KNOW WHAT THEY GET?!

NOTHING! DEBT! STRESS! A HEART ATTACK AT 50!

OHHHHHHHHH! OHHHHHHHHH!

"BUT SAM! IT'S THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY!"

OPPORTUNITY?! OPPORTUNITY FOR WHO?!

The guy who already HAS money gets a TAX BREAK! The guy WORKING at Walmart? He gets told to apply for FOOD STAMPS!

AND WALMART'S OWNED BY BILLIONAIRES!

WHAT ARE WE DOING?! WHAT ARE WE DOING?!

AHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHH!

You got people — REGULAR PEOPLE — fighting over CRUMBS! CRUMBS! While the rich people are upstairs at the BUFFET going, "MORE LOBSTER! MORE CHAMPAGNE!"

And when you say something? WHEN YOU SAY SOMETHING?! They call you a SOCIALIST!

SOCIALIST?! I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO AFFORD A DOCTOR! I WANT KIDS TO EAT LUNCH! THAT'S NOT SOCIALISM! THAT'S CALLED NOT BEING AN ASSHOLE!

OHHHHHHHHH! OHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHH!

They got you fighting over BATHROOMS! BATHROOMS! While they're ROBBING you BLIND!

"Oh, who's using what bathroom?!" WHO CARES?! I'm more worried about the guy using the TREASURY like his PERSONAL PIGGY BANK!

WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!

AHHHHHHHHH!

And HEALTHCARE! OH, HEALTHCARE!

You break your LEG in this country! YOU BREAK YOUR LEG! They charge you FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS! FOR WHAT?! A CAST?! SOME ADVIL?!

In OTHER countries — OTHER COUNTRIES — you break your leg, they FIX IT! You say THANK YOU! And you GO HOME!

Here?! Here you get a BILL! That follows you to your GRAVE! Your KIDS inherit your MEDICAL DEBT!

WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY DOES THAT?!

OHHHHHHHHH! OHHHHHHHHH!

AHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHH!

"But Sam! We're the greatest country on Earth!"

BASED ON WHAT?! WHAT ARE YOU MEASURING?!

We got people living in TENTS! TENTS! In the richest country in the WORLD! People with JOBS living in their CARS!

AND YOU'RE TELLING ME WE'RE GREAT?!

WE'RE NOT GREAT! WE'RE DELUSIONAL!

AHHHHHHHHH!

And EDUCATION! OH, EDUCATION!

You wanna go to COLLEGE?! You wanna LEARN?! That'll be TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS! FOR WHAT?! TO WORK AT STARBUCKS?!

Kids are graduating with MORE debt than their parents' HOUSE COST! And we wonder why nobody's having BABIES!

THEY CAN'T AFFORD IT! THEY'RE BROKE! THEY'RE LIVING WITH ROOMMATES AT 35!

OHHHHHHHHH! OHHHHHHHHH!

You got BILLIONAIRES! BILLIONAIRES! Going to SPACE! SPACE!

While people down here can't afford INSULIN!

HEY! ELON! JEFF! HOW ABOUT INSTEAD OF MARS, YOU FIX DETROIT?!

AHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHH!

And they got you BLAMING each other! BLAMING EACH OTHER!

"It's the IMMIGRANTS!" "It's the LIBERALS!" "It's the CONSERVATIVES!"

NO! IT'S THE BILLIONAIRES! IT'S ALWAYS BEEN THE BILLIONAIRES!

THEY'RE LAUGHING AT YOU! THEY'RE LAUGHING AT ALL OF US!

WHAT ARE WE DOING?! WHAT ARE WE DOING?!

OHHHHHHHHH!

This country — THIS COUNTRY — was supposed to be DIFFERENT! We were supposed to be BETTER!

Instead?! We're the same GREEDY! SELFISH! CRUEL empire that we BROKE AWAY FROM!

WE BECAME WHAT WE HATED!

AHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHH!

And you know what the SADDEST part is?! THE SADDEST PART?!

We COULD fix this! WE COULD! We got the MONEY! We got the RESOURCES!

But we WON'T! 'Cause we're too busy arguing about FLAGS and PRONOUNS and who said WHAT on TWITTER!

WHILE ROME BURNS!

OHHHHHHHHH! OHHHHHHHHH!

So GOOD NIGHT! And if you're OFFENDED?! GOOD!

'Cause maybe — MAYBE — if enough people get MAD! If enough people WAKE UP!

WE MIGHT ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING!

BUT I DOUBT IT!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Thanks for reading. Abrazos.

AHHHHHHHHH!!!!