My Last Post

You have read that right, this is my very last post with The Otherside of Midnight and that makes me sort of depressed. This blog started out as a way for me to get Facebook likes, but it turned into so much more. #TonsOfFacebookLikes

In the 5 years I have been writing this blog, I have received over 60,000 views from 38 different countries. This blog has been translated into Spanish, Russia, German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Swahili , and even English (UK). Now to any one of my dozens of faithful readers know that is fucking shocking because my blog is difficult to read and hard to navigate in English let alone  in a translated version that Google shit out.

To me that number is absolutely bonkers. I only thought some friends who already thought I was funny might read this blog sometimes, but I have been blown away at the people who want to see me make hashtag jokes and put a white guilt spin on them. Why the hell would you want to read that shit in Swahili?

There have been posts about my crazy and often exaggerated adventures, there have been posts about me shitting my pants, there have been posts about the death of my friends, there have been posts about me making new ones, and going back to read some of them for nostalgia time sake has shown me that I have really grown up. Not in the way of getting a suit and voting Republican. But in a way that all of you have recognized and some of you have stopped reading this blog because of.

I have gotten a little too political.

This blog isn't funny anymore. I was reading through them and I could feel the tension between the John Kelly who has made his entire identity from jokes and humor - a John Kelly who will sacrifice his own comfort and reputation if it means a laugh,  and the John Kelly that was beginning to emerge who feels passionately about issues and thinks the police are full of shit and that he absolutely needs to write about it and write about it loudly.

It is a struggle that I have been forced to grapple with. Should I continue this blog but move it back into the comedic vein if for no other reason but to give me an outlet to do it? Or do I write about the things I am beginning to truly care about and double down on political motivations?

Neither of those seemed fitting so I did the only thing I could think. Ditch this sinking boat and do a crazy hair-brain idea that is surely guarantee to take up 150% of my time and give me little reward. And I convinced the Goswami himself to join.  Together we are creating a news website and its called:

nonprophetnews.com

Kaushik Goswami and I have been talking about doing this for a while. We have been fed up with the state that our news is in and we honestly think we can do a better job. Sites from Politico or the New York Times have been filling their column inches with shitty articles and sponsored content from outside vendors with big wallets. This has gotten so bad that there are estimates that 25% - 30% of the content you read on a daily basis is sponsored by an outside source.

Fucking what did you say? 35%!? Yes that's sort of right and news agencies cleverly hide it. Politico doesn't even post that is sponsored content most of the time, but then it has Jeb Bush's campaign manager writing an article about Jeb is still in the race. (Spoiler Alert: He's not) The worst part is that it is almost indistinguishable from their real articles.

Well Kaushik and I aren't going to take it anymore and you guys get to benefit. Don't worry it is not going to be 100 articles all from us. We can't fill up a website with our articles alone, so we are making a News Aggregate

"I am sorry John I am not 90 years old, what the fuck is a News Aggregate?"

Think of the Huffington Post or RealClearPolitics but written by two stoners who are funnier than any of those pricks.

Each day we will find the best articles we can find from all over the web, articles that aren't sponsored by corporations or political campaigns and post the shit out of them. We want this to be your one stop news source.

We aren't just posting from Mother Jones and r/SandersForPresident. We are grabbing from Rare, RedState, The Atlantic, Reuters, Politico, New York Times, Economist, RealClearPolitics, CATO, the Brookings Institute, Foreign Policy, Scientific American, Rolling Stone, and anything we can get our hands on. We don't want this to be a partisan news website.

We want this to be the best goddamn news site in the world.

The Q&A Section 

John will you still be writing your own shit? It seems like all of that top part is horseshit if you don't write you own articles. Aren't you in the middle of your white male struggle to find purpose?

Kaushik and I hope the website will be 80% outside news articles and 20% of our own. This means more articles for you and NonProphet Originals to really sink your teeth into.

John you are a pretty lazy guy, you didn't even keep up with this blog, are you really going to be able to fill this website with articles?

Fuck no I am not! That's why I need you. If you care about an issue, I want you to write about it. If you think I am wrong on a piece, I want you to write about it. If you want to post an article to our website so you too can get Facebook likes, then I want you to write about.

Submit any all submissions to npn@nonprophetnews.com and if you write enough of them we can make you a permanent writer. 

Did you just try and offer us a non-paying job to help you with your bizarre website?

With this economy, yes I did.

John are you going to ask us to follow you on social media?

Fuck yeah I am! What else is on your news feed? Candy Crush Saga? Heuer's Spring Break Photos? John Kelly Liberal Facebook Posts?

We promise to be a news website that is better than anything else you have read on your news feed. We will have only the best articles from the web and if that sounds boring to you, then I don't know why we are friends.

Are you even making money on this?

Absolutely not! And not by choice! Google Adsense is sort of ridiculous because you have to click on the ads to get any money and we don't want stupid readers who think clicking on ads is a good life decision. We are looking to create a reader fan base and move on from there before we even think about money.

John can you please just make one more emotional plea? 

Like most business ideas this has a high chance of failing and becoming a shell of nothing. Our first revenue stream is likely to hit after we all self-driving cars. We need you. I need you. Please visit this website as much as you can.  I promise it will have interesting articles and information you need to become an informed citizen. 

John why are you really doing this?

Because, I live deliberately and this is what that means to me.

Live Deliberately John Danger Kelly

CRAZY IDEA #247: Donald Trump Needs 1000 Hologram Machines To Win the 2016 Election

I am not sure how, but I am somehow still not famous yet. I wake up every morning and I go to work at my desk. I don’t have to fight off paparazzi or sign autographs from desperate fans and this is not only  a shock to me but to America, and of course all of my dear readers.

And it's not like I haven’t been trying. Trust me, I have been fighting with all of my strength. I released one of those butt photos on Facebook and NOTHING. I stopped eating anything that my  white wealthy friends claimed to have gluten in it and NOTHING. I even got a Google+ account and I am still only barely more popular than Bobby Jindal. #4FriendsAndCounting

I have been trying to get my sex tape made but APPARENTLY Pornhub isn’t interested in another Michael Cera themed Porn Parody. Sometimes I wonder why we even have hipsters. Scott Pilgrim was supposed to change the world, not take away our boners.

It has been something that I have been grappling with every day and night. I figured by the time I was 19 that I would have at least had a couple of widely publicized drug addictions or at least a selfie stick, but I guess the world is way more interested in what’s happening with the climate change and football air pressure and dumb dogshit like that.

I had given up hope. I figured it wasn’t my place to become famous and John Kelly would die just a local hero rather than a national one. I started wearing cargo shorts, growing a  vegetable garden, taking out the recyclables. It was getting disgusting to say the least. I was obviously in a deep depression.

But then a moment happened.

A moment that I can only relate to the apple falling on Newton’s head or Ben Franklin’s kite getting struck by lightening or Sarah Palin putting lipstick on a mama grizzly for the first time.

It was a moment that struck passion and excitement into me. It was a paradigm shift, one so powerful and so severe that I couldn’t see the world in the same light again.

It was the Republican GOP Debate.

Now I have been watching politicians meticulously for years. Watching how they craftly circumnavigate around political dicey situations. Watching how they explain their $600 haircut to voters who can’t afford to feed the 5 kids they had before they were 22 because the only sex education they got was “don’t.” Watching how they explain a dick bulge and the clever alias “Carlos Danger” shouldn’t mean that voters lose confidence in their ability to lead. And their efforts have been admirable. I have seen some political maneuvers that would make Frank Underwood look like Dopey playing with his dick in a tub of Pert Plus soap (the one with extra sting!) .

But none of that compares to what Donald Trump did in that debate.  If you haven't watched it. Watch it now because it is a rare moment in history.

Donald Trump discovered something that we have all known for years. Americans love assholes. You can see it in the characters we love, the reality shows we watch, to the people we have become. We have known it from the beginning and people in power have been trying to avoid it for years. They want to paint over America as a holy country where we don't like anything lewd or offensive.

I remember as a kid seeing Congress and the media freaking the fuck out about Janet Jackson’s nipple getting show on live TV. As though Americans weren’t the most tit thirsty citizens on the planet. Congress and the Media had no idea what Americans wanted and created this false sense of outrage towards this black woman’s nipple and fined her hundreds of thousands of dollars because of it.

The Donald however cut through that bullshit. He showed that Americans won’t follow Megyn Kelly’s lead even when she is trying to point out that calling women horrible things and treating them like objects is morally reprehensible. No no no America. They will follow who is ever louder and gets the last word.

I have never seen a candidate or even a celebrity as rude as him. He set his hair on fire, jumped up and down, and even admitted to bribing every major politician for the past 2 decades for political favors.

The best part you ask? He is still commanding a formidable lead in the polls.

The moment hit. The apple fell from the tree and the lightening struck the kite. This is it. This is what I need to do to get famous. I need to become Donald Trump. It has been in front of me this entire time. 

I am political, not that smart, loud, mean, and I seemingly have no limit to what I will do for attention. It fits together a little too nicely if you ask me.

Now I am no brianiac but ain’t no sac of horse glue either (an Arizona phrase, you wouldn’t get it). I know I can’t go out and be Donald Trump instantly just because I saw him do it on TV. BUT what I can do is use the Donald to get me to the famous level and make me his pupil. We can even call the partnership his Celebrity Apprentice. #Cancelled

In order to become his Celebrity Apprentice, you have to show you are worthy. I have been watching every episode day and night since the debates and I have had a truly novel realization, the Donald likes bold ideas. But not just any bold ideas, bold ideas that were stolen from other ideas but presented as new ideas. 

It’s like he made a challenge sculpted around my personality. Stealing people's ideas has been my bread and butter for years now.


Donald Trump Needs 1,000 Hologram Machines to Win The 2016 Election

Now before you start saying shit like John you stole this idea from Tupac at Coachella, please remember that my pop culture knowledge is still at the level where I think You’ve Got Mail references are  relevant and funny jokes. #UseItOften #StillFunny #HanksBestMovie #CantWait4TheSequel

I stole this idea from Narendra Modi.

For those of you who don't know, Narenda Modi is the current Prime Minister of India and the Donald Trump of the East.

Imagine Trump but instead of the famous hair-doo he has a suit that has his name written on it 1,000 times. Modi killed innocent Pakistanis when he was Chief Minister and his only regret is that he "didn’t handle the media better" and should have been calling "them rapists, murderers, and criminals to win the media war" (sound familiar my Chicano Trump Supporters?), and regularly uses Twitter to make fun of his political opponents.

I thought I was a lot like Trump until I heard of this guy. It looks like that Planned Parenthood baby organ cloning program worked.

Modi won in a landslide so big that it left the Gandhi family in its weakest position since 1977 which was the election where Indira Gandhi ruined all the crops in India, built a nuclear bomb on the backs of those who were starving, and started another war that had another casualty count in the millions.

How did Modi do it? Well he stole the hologram idea from Tupac.

Modi’s hologram machine went around India giving speeches in different languages and visited over 1,000 different locations. Modi promised a growing economy because of his business connections and his success as Chief Minister. He promised infrastructure and a toilet in every house. His wild accusations, methods, and promises make him the perfect model to base Donald's campaign off of.

John Oliver even joked about this before the Indian election saying "So, who are you going to vote for? Modi. Why? Because he appeared as a hologram and told me he'd give me a toilet. That's not just how you get elected, that's how religions get started."

Now, Trump has a lot more money than Modi and it has to look like a new idea to Americans who have no idea who Modi is and already have a toliet. Tupac used it in Cochella, not as a campaign surrogate so Modi was fine. Trump needs 1,000 of them so every good American can meet the Donald himself and Modi can’t do anything but pray he doesn’t get compared to the eccentric billionaire.

CNN put the cost of a hologram projector similar to the one used at Coachella at $300,000 - $400,000. Now I am sure with Trump’s impressive business skills and the mass order he will make, he could get them a lot cheaper, but even if we take it at face value it will only cost $300 million dollars to buy 1,000 of them.

Why 1,000? So you can put 20 of them in every state and let every American meet you via Hologram.

It would be easy with Trump’s self-proclaimed $10 billion dollar fortune and it will guarantee him a seat in the oval office. The hologram machines would instantly become a viral phenomenon. I know I would spend hours by my local Trump asking it different questions and waving my hand through it. Who wouldn’t be excited to have a Trump Hologram in their town? You could even connect it to his twitter feed so it could read his asshole comments to everyone in a 200 foot radius.

Donald, I know you could steal this idea from me and take the credit yourself. I did it to Modi and he did it to Tupac and he did it to R2-D2. But PLEASE let me be your Celebrity Apprentice, pupil, or even Vice Presidential choice if you want. I will show you I can be the asshole America needs. And don’t worry about the fact that I am too young to meet the constitutional requirements for VP, it’s not like anyone is going to ask to see my birth certificate. Who would be that much of a dick?

John Danger Kelly
Live Deliberately 

You Can Have My Fetus and Eat It Too

I have always been one of those kids that were way too involved into politics at way too early of an age. I am not talking about those extra large kids who would wear their father’s suit to class every day and were balding by the age of 12, but you know still into politics. I remember being on the playground in Middle School where kids were trying to play bump-out and I would be raging about the ridiculousness of the Iraq War. While other kids were figuring out how to use their boners, I would be reading the Bible, not out of curiosity or a search for a new found spirituality, but almost out of this desperate vindictiveness. I would put myself into a frenzy so I could find passages like Exodous 35:2 that said my mother should be put to death for working on the Sabbath as though that screaming that verse at the Heuers somehow validated my entire claim about religion’s illegitimacy.

It took me a while to realize what the real reason for why I have been so into politics and I think it is because I thrive on uncomfortableness. Even that sentence probably has a lot of my readers nodding their heads up and down. While others try and step craftily away from offending any group, I dive straight for the heart. Offending people with boner jokes and liberally showing my small butt were my bread and butter for so long that I didn’t realize that it just sort of morphed into how I debate politics. And if I can throw a Ja Rule reference in there, the happier I will be.

Using your words to persuade someone seems romantic and noble. Speaking with passion and excitement in your voice is how you begin to show the world your side of the argument, that you have something to say. Throwing some comedy and well crafted phrases in there allowed me to stand above the rest as a new voice in the debate and goddammit if I had to make my points by the swing set, I was going to do it.

Politics isn’t about having the most facts, but presenting those facts in an emotional and appealing way. Everyone has roughly the same facts (except Brian Williams and those babies at Fox News) so its how you view and twist those facts to make your side the victor. It’s by using your diction and charm to string sentences and prose together to hit at people’s hearts. There is no battleground of politics that doesn’t have some sort of emotional aspect to it, and if there was, I probably wouldn’t debate about it.

There is one debate however that has become so emotional that facts cannot be let in. Even the debate itself stops before it begins and any movement one side or the other means that you are weak and moving to the crazy side. I am of course talking about abortion.

49% of America believes abortion to be a moral right

48% of America believes abortion to be a moral abomination.

This is the definition of a lose-lose issue. It can only rile up your party base and alienate the other side. If social security is the 3rd rail of American politics, abortion is surely the nuclear reactor. Say one thing in the wrong light and you become politically radioactive to the point where your entire party disowns you.

Fucking no one wants to talk about this because everyone has opinion and 10 seconds into any conversation about it you either end up a murderer and you’re going to hell or you are systematically trying to control women’s bodies and pushing us back into the 1950s.

Now I could talk about the hundreds of stories that my mother saw while working for Planned Parenthood for 24 years. I could talk about my teachers and friend’s parents protesting in front of my mother’s work. I could talk about the young children who were brought to the picketing lines of Planned Parenthood to yell at vulnerable women as they enter the clinic. I could talk about any number of things and incite emotion and some truth into this debate, and I could win doing it, but that’s not what this issue needs.

Before you click away you beautiful angry conservatives on Facebook who only clicked on this blog post because they too wanted to find something to upend my entire argument, I am not going to get emotional in this post. Hell I am not even going to defend abortion in this debate, so take a breath and let’s have a conversation.

We need to de-escalate how we talk about abortion, because some serious fucking bullshit is going on because of how personal and clouded this conversation has gotten.

I am sure most of you by now have seen this video

Planned Parenthood Caught Selling Baby Parts!

Even the title seems comical. I mean I might have said Baby Guts instead of parts but I still laughed when I first read it. Immediately images come to mind of a blood thirsty abortion doctors ripping out fetus’ hearts and brains with their fangs so they can throw the discarded carcass onto their burning liberal hellfire. #BreakingSpawn #TeamObama #DefeatJesus

But if you have been watching this debate, it isn’t even about abortion. In no way are they talking about a women’s right to choose or even abortion itself. The entire debate, that entire video focuses on what happens after the abortion and what we do with the fetal tissue after the procedure. No one is talking about how to reduce abortions in this country or even the morality of the procedure itself. All this is what we do with the fetal tissue after the procedure.

This a debate where even that most basic fact is hard to get through. Virtually no reason or logic has been proposed in this debate and the Democrats haven’t been helping either. They have just been touting Planned Parenthood’s other successes such as their massive impact on the health care for low income women, their fight against cancer, and their efforts to administer free and low cost birth control to help end abortion all together.

But that’s because they are uncomfortable talking about this.. The Democrats don’t win when they talk about science, they win when they talk about poor women. By changing to the debate to women’s health care they have a high chance of winning. But I love science and this issue needs a healthy dose of something other than images of starving HIV infected women standing underneath Mitch McConnel’s penthouse and babies getting torn apart limb by limb for their precious organs.

What we need to talk about is scientific research. These fetuses have proved to be invaluable in terms of curing diseases, learning about the human body, and yes saving lives millions of lives.

It is really easy to get grossed out by the thought of this or those printed out little mutilated fetus pictures they pass out on your local college campus. But I am asking you to be tough and look at this from a non-emotional aspect. This program is not eugenics, it is closer to the Organ Donor Program. Consent is required for every fetus donation and it is comical to suggest Planned Parenthood is doing this for profit. The video even shows that the fetuses come with a $50 or $60 price tag attached to it. I don’t know where the fuck you have been but you can’t even get out of a doctor’s office with less than a $500 bill now a days. I promise you Planned Parenthood is not even breaking even with this fetal tissue donation.

Even if you believe that a fetus the size of a pomegranate seed is somehow a life, can you not make the rational realization to at least use that fetal tissue to save lives. Isn’t saving lives all what Pro-Life should be about?

Studies by the CDC have shown improved functions with parkinson's disease, autoimmune disease, stroke victims, anemia, cancer, immunodeficiency, corneal damage, blood and liver diseases, heart attack victims, diabetes, prenatal care, and countless other ailments once the patients used experimental therapies using embryonic stem cells. And you know what the most damning part of that is? It's only been in the last 7 years that this progress has been made. During the entirety of the Bush administration a ban on stem cell research was in place and it took until Obama came into office where the ban was lifted and the research had gotten done.

The most damning point of all is that miscarriages have dropped roughly 3% -5% each year and most of it has been attributed to the research done on aborted fetal tissue. Prenatal care and the care of the fetus has improved greatly once scientists were allowed to examine these aborted fetuses and save lives of both women having children as well improving the health of their fetus. They are using the freaking fetuses to save other fetuses! It's like a super fetus!!

And abortion isn’t a small practice about half of pregnancies among American women are unintended; about 4 in 10 of these are terminated by abortion. Twenty-one percent of all U.S. pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion. (AGI).

Are we really willing to throw away roughly 200,000 specimens every year because the religious right found out how to hide a go-pro and how to rebrand scientific research? Not only do I say no, but I say hell no.

I am as guilty as anyone when it comes to hyperbole, but I am sorry if I have more than a few hesitations when I hear the "baby organ farm argument" side of this. Especially because this is coming from the same group that told us homosexuality was an abomination, that abstinence was the only thing we should be teaching our children, condoms should be illegal, and that if you got pregnant from rape that means you liked it.

With politics it is hard to cut through the bullshit. There are a million ways to spin an issue and it can look like your side is 100% correct if you don’t back away from it. Maybe it's time we realize that Planned Parenthood isn’t hawking baby organs to cloning farms and that maybe there is a more reasoned way to debate this issue.

So Planned Parenthood you can have my aborted fetus and use it however you like. Just when you send it to the clone farm, remember that I want the Donald Trump option.

Live Deliberately
John Danger Kelly

An Open Letter to Bernie Sanders: Please Hire Me

Dear Bernard Sanders,

First off, I want to tell you that you Ja Rule. There are very few candidates who can take the stage looking like the old man who gave you nickles for Halloween and somehow still manage to blow the roof off of every town hall he enters. Every time you stand behind a podium it reminds me of Michelangelo  approaching a blank marble block or Caesar standing at the Pantheon delivering his soldiers' marching orders to take back the republic or Little Caesar mashing pizza dough and trash together to make a quick $5.

You are one of the few populists that I have seen actually stand for something. (Looking at you Obama). 

You aren't afraid to take a position compared to those other clowns who have said things like “ I might not have not gone into Iraq if they didn’t have the right intelligence unless that information came via Dick Cheney’s crystal ball... …… on a wednesday …… please give me money”

You on the other hand have actually taken a stand for what you believe in and have not backed down in the face in adversity.

Bernie you have verbally decimated the war on drugs calling it racist, illegal, and the cause for a generation of black men stuck behind bars. You have pushed back for the working poor and let the richest men in the country know that you don’t want them to donate to your campaign, instead you blatantly tell them loud and clear that you want to take their money through taxes and put it into education, healthcare, innovation, infrastructure, and creating a future that doesn’t look like a bad mad max remake. 

But you have enough yes men.

Because I am here to tell you though even though that I believe in you with all my heart, I know in my brain that you can’t win. You know this. I know this. Hillary Clinton knows this. And this true fact is your greatest weakness and by far your strongest advantage.

The Koch Brothers are spending an unprecedented amount of money in this election to the tune of $1 billion dollars. Hillary Clinton hasn’t been doing anything besides trying to raise a formidable war chest to try and take on the GOP’s deep pockets. You on the other hand will be lucky to raise $10 million dollars before you get your ass pummled on Super Tuesday and won’t have a leg to stand on.

The bright side? None of that matters.

The Koch brothers aren’t going after you.In fact they want you to get as many votes as you can get to try and push Clinton into some unfavorable terrority. The media ain’t coming after you. You are the only hope they have to make the Democratic Primary beat the Seinfeld reruns they were going to show in its place. The media will treat you like a king.

The very fact that you are getting this free pass from every single one of your opponents shows that you don’t have a chance in hell and you know it.  

What you need to do with is use this free pass to make as loud of a noise as you can make.

I know you know all of this. I just want to let you know that I know all of this. I also know that you haven’t been doing the job you need to be doing. Townhalls, campaign speeches, CNN interviews are all great but that is small ball crap. That is how you normally run a campaign. If you play by the normal rules and follow the normal campaign guidelines, than this run is all for nothing. Don't be fooled by the good press, you need to fool them.

You need someone like me. You need an idea guy. A guy to come up with political stunts that are so smart, so edgy, and so thought provoking that it can compete with billions of dollars in ad money. You need to stop any money you are spending on campaign ads, ground staff, leaflets, offices in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina. You need to stop spending money on anything that a normal politician would.

After you do that, you need to hire me.

Now before you call me up and offering me a corner office and a huge salary. I need to tell you what my is plan for you. It’s a 3 point plan that will certainly lose you the election, hopefully put you into a prison cell, and make you go down in history comparable to Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.  It might not be the plan you have in place. It certainty is not the plan your campaign manager is telling you to go for or what you thought was going to happen when you started running.  But you need to do it, because we need you do it. You are 73 years old and one Mars Bar away from a diabetic coma. Do something with your time. Even Sheleela Booof wants you too.

The nation doesn’t need another president who gets muddled down in the partisan bickering.

We need a leader and that leader doesn’t have to sit in the oval office. We need a leader who can push the fucking rich back into their corner and bring back the Middle Class. We need a leader to say out loud that black lives matter and push back against police brutality that has caused so much unneeded pain. We don't need a shift in electoral politics, we need a political revolution. And I will give it to you

….. if you follow my 3 point plan (it sounds like I am going to offer it for $19.95. Or $9.99. I should have written this to Herman Cain)

1. Move your campaign headquarters to Zuccotti Park

Zuccotti Park is the birthplace of Occupy and these are exactly the type of supporters you will need. Doing this will instantly make you a cult leader and by putting your campaign headquarters in the middle of the park, it shows that you are the voice of the New Occupy movement. The occupy movement failed because of 3 things: lack of a leader, the cold winter forcing them out, and the finger twirling. The finger twirling was so stupid and made everyone of those supporters look like children. I am not saying I am going to leave if you make me twirl my fingers if I agree with you, I am just saying I will make jokes behind your back.  Make the headquarters be able to hold a lot of people, have heaters come in the winter months and allow people to camp out there as long as they can. This will be a much better allocation of campaign funds than those annoying leaflets you get in the mail.

With the momentum that Occupy was able to produce and the current frustrations within the Black Lives Matter movement, you could start protests and similar camps around the nation so that every can see hear your voice without having to press skip 5 seconds in on a youtube video.

Putting your headquarters here will show to the banks and the government that they can't wait till the first frost for the political movement to die and this alone will give you the strength to weaken their foundation.

2. Run as an Independent -

Now we will have to time this perfectly. As soon as you run as an independent Hillary Clinton’s machine will jump on you and for a good reason. If you run as an independent you will cost her the election and she knows that.   The republicans however, will cheer you on because you just became their golden ticket to the Oval Office.  This will immediately force every political pundit to take you seriously and if you can get into the Presidential debates, then you have won. That is your goal the moment you stop running for the Democratic nomination. Get into the debates. Make the switch at the beginning of 2016 right before Iowa for the biggest impact possible. It will make the Democratic nomination incredibly boring and put the spotlight on you.

If you do this right, you could start a 3rd party in America and return a notion of democracy back to American politics, rather than 2 terrible parties battling it out.

3. Smoke Weed on the Senate Floor -

Now you need to get arrested. This sounds like the sort of suggestion that will cause you not hire me, but let’s take a look at history and you will see how right I am.

• In 1930 Gandhi walked all the way to the Indian Ocean to make salt in protest of the British Government. The British government forbid this and made India buy all of its salt from the Motherland. This simple act became a symbol and resulted in the arrest of over 60,000 citizens and ended with the toppling of the oppressive British regime. After Gandhi made the first cup of salt, the British government couldn’t stop the nation from everyone making their own salt in defiance.
• In 1849 Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his taxes in a protest of the Mexican- American War as a symbol of Civil Disobedience. Here Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience from his jail cell and became a rallying cry for Martin Luther King and Gandhi after him.
• In 1963, Martin Luther King was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama and from here he wrote a letter that spread across the nation and showed to those in the south, the inexcusable treatment of African Americans in this country.

The jail cell became every one of their podiums and it can become your platform to change the nation.

By lighting up a joint on the Senate floor you can make a stance against the drug war that has imprisoned nearly 1 million people for weed alone and almost 2 million for all non-violent drug charges. The media will crave this type of story. Let Mitch McConnell take you to jail and from here and the media will cover it so much that you can talk all day about racist prison policies, the fact that we have spent over $51 billion in the past year alone on the drug war and $1.5 trillion since its start, and most importantly that conditions of prison do not rehabilitate prisoners but make it harder for them if they ever get out.

Let the doobie be your salt, let your prison cell be your pulpit, if you do this right you will have protesters across the nation lighting up a doobies for the first time not to get high but in protest of a government that puts corporations firsts at the cost of millions of lives.

Now I am sure I could make some bullshit up about how I have time management skills and a hard work ethic, but I am sure you got plenty of people who can do that for you. You need someone who isn’t trying to get you elected. You need someone who isn’t trying to get electoral votes. You need someone who believes that ideas are bigger than the office. You need someone who is willing to travel the less taken path and can handle a bit of chaos when thrown its way. You need an idea man and we need you.

Bernie Sanders for President

John Kelly
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