Bipartisan Hypocrisy and American Idiots

First is the hypocrisy ... I have a visceral reaction to people saying one thing and doing the exact opposite when it benefits them:  it makes my skin crawl, no matter who’s doing it.  If you think I’m directing that at conservatives alone, you’d be wrong; I have received a lot of rather hysterical backlash from people on the left when I’ve questioned their motives as well.  I’ve had to block a lot of liberals who have adopted the attitude that if I happen to disagree with something they’ve said, I must automatically be a “trump troll”.  And I’m not.  I just don’t like hypocrisy.  If you’re going to attack the other side for doing something heinous, make sure you haven’t done it yourself, first.

Second: the uneducated stupidity that runs the entire political spectrum.  A perfect example of this:  someone posted a brief video of a performance of Julius Caesar, performed as part of “Shakespeare in the Park”, in Central Park, New York City.  Change they made:  dressed the actors up in business suits instead of togas.  One of them vaguely resembled trump.  You expected the right to go freaking nuts, which they did:  “The New York Times put on a play showing the assassination of trump!” they yowled.

No, they didn’t.  They put on a Shakespearean play depicting the assassination of Julius Caesar, you boneheads.  But it’s doubtful that the right knows anything about Roman history, Julius Caesar or even who William Shakespeare was.  That level of idiocy you’ve come to expect from the right.  Not to mention that past versions of the character have resembled Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and they were all fine with that.  Hypocrisy again.

But the left?  You hoped the polls were accurate:  that the left in general were better educated than the right.  But that statistic didn’t hold up in the conversation that followed.  No matter how many times you told them, “Julius Caesar”, “Shakespeare” – whatever – their brains refused to kick in, either.  It was obvious that most of them just jumped online without bothering to read any of the previous explanatory comments:  “That’s terrible”, “I don’t like violence!” and (my favorite) “The playwright should be ashamed!”  Yes, from the left.  Funny, I don’t think William Shakespeare is experiencing a whole lotta shame over it.

To give you another example:

Tinkerbelle (“Tink”) posts a fake news post with the headline, “trump finally shoots pedestrian on Fifth Avenue and gets away with it!”  Without bothering to check any legitimate sources, Dolores Umbridge II (“Dot”) posts it again.  30 seconds later, there goes “Bossy”.  Anyone who stops and looks at the source realizes it was posted from Russia.

The very first comment on all 3 duplicate posts:  “Fake news out of Russia; don’t click on this link, it’s clickbait.”

And here’s what follows:

Poster #2:  Why hasn’t he been arrested?

Poster #3:  This country has sunk to the depths of depravity!

Poster #4:  Terrible!

Poster #5:  Unforgiveable!

Poster #6:  Despicable!

Poster #7:  He must be impeached – NOW!

Poster #8:  This is what happens when you give the mentally ill the right to buy guns!

Poster #9:  I'm not in support of this at all, it's absolutely wrong.

Poster #10:  Omg this is wrong in so many ways.

Poster #11:  Why did I get a virus when I clicked on this link?

Poster #12:  Folks, THIS IS FAKE NEWS!  Do not click on this link!!

Poster #13:  Why hasn’t he been arrested?

Poster #14:  This country has sunk to the depths of depravity!

Poster #15:  Terrible!

Poster #16:  Unforgiveable!

Poster #17:  Despicable!

Poster #18:  He must be impeached – NOW!

Poster #19:  This is what happens when you give the mentally ill the right to buy guns!

Poster #20:  I'm not in support of this at all, it's absolutely wrong.

Poster #21:  Omg this is wrong in so many ways.

Poster #22:  Why did I get a virus when I clicked on this link?

.... and it goes on, and on, and on, and on ... just to let you know:  some of these are actual responses to fake news stories previously debunked on the threads as fake news.

Anyone who thinks liberals are all much better educated than their counterparts on the other side of the aisle never signed on to Facebook.

Toto, I Don’t Think We’re in Kansas Anymore

[Subtitle:  Or Maybe We Are; Kansas Has Nothing to Brag About]

More entries have been written, erased, revised, re-written and erased again in the course of the last 7 months than I may have made the effort to, in the last 7 years.  Reason:  As soon as I wrote one sentence, another appalling outrage made it obsolete.

Could have gone either way:  either something appalling actually did happen, or appalling headlines made it seem like it did.  Whatever, most Americans on social media were punched in the face and sent reeling on a daily, if not hourly, basis.  It’s a miracle most of us aren’t curled up in a fetal position, sucking our thumbs. 

Only reason we’re not (yet) are the news stories in print or airing everywhere (except Fox News and Breitbart) of the rather dramatic implosion of the current ... whatever you would term this mindboggling assortment of embarrassingly clueless idiots ... to the point where they’re calling it a death rattle.  You get the impression you’re about to witness the second presidential disaster of your lifetime ... Nixon being the first.  At the moment, Robert Mueller is installed as Special Counsel and former FBI Director James Comey just testified in the Senate, in a hearing that boasted of more listeners and viewers than the imaginary inauguration crowd we keep hearing about.

I’m not going to go on for pages about our current political situation ... I don’t think I could say anything that millions of people haven’t already said ... instead, I’ll whine about social media.

You may have noticed that I’m not overly fond of other women.  (You:  “Nooooooo!  REALLY??”)  Lots of reasons, long before now.  The last 7 months seems to have exacerbated the dislike.

I had finally settled on one Facebook page that has about 40,000 members in it ... let’s call it, “Griping About Politics”.  Not their real name.  I settled on one mainly because almost every FB page on the same topic has the same posts, the same memes, the same blather.  Some worse than others.  Some, run by ridiculous wannabe twinkie cheerleaders who have never once read, “The Art of War” and demand that you toe the “When they go low, we go HIGH!” line, to the point where you want to slap them all silly – repeatedly.

Then there are the liberal dimwits who truly believe that, for the sake of argument, if the current president finds himself tossed out of the office on his keester, that means that Clinton would automatically be installed since, you know, she won the popular vote.  No matter how many times you remind them of a line of succession laid out in a document they may have heard of (anyone remember we have a Constitution?) ... you can’t get it through their thick heads that such a scenario isn’t even remotely possible.  “But that’s not faaaiiir!” they wail ... there’s only so far I can roll my eyeballs.  Yeah?  Life isn’t always fair, buttercups – suck it up.

Next are the discussions about choices for 2020.  That’s even more disheartening.  I swear liberals never even heard of the concept of “strategy”; they just want the warm, familiar fuzzies of legacy names.  First they want Michelle Obama.  We shoot that down.  Next they want a Kennedy.  Any Kennedy:  Joseph, Caroline ... not because either of them are qualified (and I doubt they even think they’re qualified), but because they’re Kennedy’s.  Then they want Bernie Sanders – a Socialist.  Then they want Cory Booker, Tulsi Gabbard or Kamala Harris ... the list goes on and on, absurd choice after absurd choice.  No wonder Democrats keep losing.  Here’s my idea – you just lost the entire south because they’re all racist boneheads who hate women and anybody who isn’t white, rabidly regressive and depravedly theocratic.  So, let’s nominate anybody who makes a southerner’s hair curl – sure, that should clinch the White House in 2020.  And yet Liberals keep coming up with these absurd suggestions.  You want to knock  their heads together until their brains kick in.

Proof positive that there are so many awesomely stupid people on both sides of the political spectrum, you are left wondering how this country manages to function at all.  Or maybe it doesn’t, which is why we ended up where we are.

Unfortunately, the FB page I selected had their own issues:  women, two or three in particular.  Let’s call them Tinkerbelle (“Tink”), “Bossy” and Dolores (“Dot”) Umbridge II.

Tink, Bossy and Dot decided that their main purpose in life was to post every single post they could find anywhere on the entire internet, on the “Griping” FB page, without bothering to check if (a) it was already there, (b) if it was relevant, or (c) if it was fake news or legitimate news – they didn’t care, they just uploaded everything they could find.

You’d sit there and watch post after post after post from Tink, Bossy and Dot get uploaded, literally one per second, to the point they drove you freaking nuts.  No matter what time of day ... I watched them go berserk with these posts at 3 in the morning when I was up getting a drink of water.  4 in the afternoon.  8 in the morning.  Noon.  Midnight.  I swear, that’s all they did.  God forbid you mention any of the above objections:  already been posted, fake news site, off topic, irrelevant, whatever ... and these drooling bobble-heads would go screaming menopausal-psychotic on you.

Other gripes:  Type “Yes” if you agree.  New Rule:  I will type “No”, and “Fuck You” whether I agree with it or not, I’m so sick of that. 

Another woman posted her idea of what was REALLY important:  “5/25/2017 5:55:50 AM:  Biggest mistake of the day - watching the Dirty Dancing remake instead of the Survivor finale.”

Women.  That’s why we’re in the hell we are now in.  Are you a woman and object?  Suck it up and admit you and your gender are idiots.