Turkey - It's not JUST for Dinner ...

[PsychoBabble]

First - Turkey, Erdogan, Nuclear Weapons ... this is not a good thing.

Link to tweet

Second: I was looking at this phrase in the tweet: "All caused by referenda and election"

I suppose I have been "woke up" in the clusterf*@k of our US election, and also since I have now been forced to become a budding Kremlinologist/IC/Bot specialist .... I mean, Citizen of the United States.

The things we HAVE to know about now to make good decisions are things we should NOT have to know about. In previous times, I would have said that the "Erdogan" election results are "the will of the people" ... and moved on.

BUT NOW -- Knowing how much influence media manipulation, etc, can have on every apsect of our politics, I can now easily conceive that a politician/friends of power could use their connections to manipulate every aspect of a referendum and election to create a desired outcome. Like THIS:

It comes as no surprise that at the last minute, when the counting showed the "no" vote was threatening the thin lead of the pro-Erdogan "Yes" vote, electoral authorities stepped in to announce they would allow unsealed ballots to be counted, in contravention to the rules.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/16/opinions/turkey-election-less-democracy-opinion-ghitis/index.html

Not a world I want to live in, but I do. Guess I need to now also brush up on Islamic Studies, and MİT (Turkish Secret Police, in case you were wondering).

"George Taylor," in the original Planet of the Apes movie, may have had it right as he knelt and stared at the rusted, half-buried ruins of the Statue of Liberty in some distant future that might have seemed unimaginable until ... well ....

"You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"