I’ve kind of hit “peak fuck it” politically
We have a former reality TV host for president. A guy who raps over Metallica licks might soon be a senator. And the next Knoxville mayor may be a former professional wrestler.
Donald Trump says absurd things. And does absurd things. But those things are not as absurd was the media reaction to them. The press is full on hysterical about this guy. Their behavior is irrational and, seemingly, seems to actually help Trump in the polls.
One group of idiots protested another group of idiots. Then both decided to try to out-idiot eachother. One was slightly more successful. One group incited violence and they got it.
The “news” is just a joke. It’s so blatant that their distaste for Trump is influencing the reporting.
You read facebook and every third post is fake news. And I don’t mean like Trump’s labeling things fake news. I mean people posting all sorts of bizarre cures, supplements, click baity headlines that are not true. It’s absurd that people who I thought were otherwise reasonable believe some of the nonsense they post.
And I care about it all less and less each day.
August 16th, 2017 at 5:44 pm
I often wish that I could borrow Doc Emmett J. Brown’s Delorean and travel back to a more sane time in U.S. history. Which would be damn near anytime prior to the 1960s.
August 16th, 2017 at 5:52 pm
“My tire went flat because Mercury is in retrograde. Also, if you don’t agree with me about contentious topics, YOU’RE A SCIENCE DENIER!”
Jesus wept.
August 16th, 2017 at 7:08 pm
SMOD 2020?
August 16th, 2017 at 7:13 pm
Preach it man.
August 16th, 2017 at 8:18 pm
“Peak f**k it”
Heh!
You know, why wait? SMOD 2018!!!
August 16th, 2017 at 8:27 pm
I kind of feel like, anyone to the right of Marx is going to be called a nazi lately, so I don’t even want to waste the energy saying “No, those nazis are assholes.”
One, that ought to be self evident. Two, saying it doesn’t protect me from being accused of all manner of evil because I don’t believe in an SJW/Antifa Utopia.
It’s easier to just ignore it all.
August 16th, 2017 at 8:32 pm
Sigvald, Trump made your tire go flat because that’s just the kind of asshole he is. If you don’t believe me, then you’re a racist homophobe!
The subject at hand could be baseball on Mars, but the third comment is some twisted-logic attack on Trump and by extension, the original poster. Then it degenerates into some third grade playground “I know you are, but what am I” exchange.
Soo tired of it…
August 16th, 2017 at 11:32 pm
Even if you don’t care, the Social Justice Warriors care about you.
August 17th, 2017 at 9:00 am
Anyone who makes the establishment and the media (I know) foam at the mouth like that can’t be all bad.
August 17th, 2017 at 9:35 am
Yeah, peak fuck it is accurate. It’s all noise, manipulation and outrage over things that, in the grand scheme of life really just do not matter.
And people are just so damn nasty to each other over things that are so insignificant and that makes me sad, but also apathetic about it all.
August 17th, 2017 at 9:50 am
“Even if you don’t care, the Social Justice Warriors care about you.”
Right you are, Kevin P. And that not in a caring way…
August 17th, 2017 at 10:01 am
Try avoiding all news sources for two weeks, then dip a toe back in the sewer and watch a few minutes of cable “news” channels. Any channels. You will be amazed at how clearly, irrefutably irrational all the reporting and commentary is if you don’t wallow in it constantly.
August 17th, 2017 at 11:00 am
mikee, is it just me or have all the news readers become more dramatic and made their hand gestures more emphatic?
August 17th, 2017 at 11:55 am
I remember Chet Huntley, who made David Brinkley exciting, and Walter Cronkite seem totally insane. Now THERE was a guy who knew how to sit behind a desk, have a smoke, and read news aloud.
I have a very hard time watching TV news because the information content is so very small, and shallow, compared to the emotions and opinions.
August 17th, 2017 at 11:57 am
Here is Huntleys unusually humorous and report on the Beatle’s first trip to the US:
August 17th, 2017 at 1:08 pm
If only Trump had said: “As a President from the Party of Abraham Lincoln, I am gratified that the Democrats are finally purging the monuments to their racist, slave-owning, Confederate past.” Then watch Leftist heads explode.
Not that I blame him for not thinking of it. It took me a week to come up with it, and I’m ten years less senile than him.
August 17th, 2017 at 2:41 pm
nk, not a matter of him not thinking of it but rejecting it as the lying revisionist bullshit that it is, and Lincoln for the lying, murderous First Rino that he was.
August 17th, 2017 at 4:34 pm
Well we voted for change and you can’t say we’re not getting it, in the Mencken sense of “good and hard”. For sure the inmates are in charge of the asylum, the leadership of the “party of youth” averages about 80 and is working on a kinder, gentler coup d’etat, and the Repubs have been in the minority for so long they don’t know what to do with themselves.
Interesting times, in the sense of the Chinese curse.
August 17th, 2017 at 7:55 pm
mikee: No kidding on the irrational. We canned cable, but picked up Sling, so all I get is CNN (well, and Bloomberg I think, but…), and sometimes I watch in the morning just for… the… I don’t even know. Chris Cuomo really seems like he’s on the verge of a stroke every single morning.
August 21st, 2017 at 9:25 pm
@nk, well, slave-owning goes back to the founders like Washington and Jefferson. And I suppose Jackson and Grant need to go from the $20 and $50 bills. Yes, Union Gen Ulysses S. Grant was a slave owner until AFTER the Civil War. Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation was an admitted war tactic. Even his views bring the purging of his memorial into question. The 13th and 14th Amendment ended legal slavery after the war. Yet if you read the 1857 SCOTUS Dred Scott decision, the vestiges of slavery are still supported by politicians who condemn the Confederacy.
August 22nd, 2017 at 12:49 pm
Ron W and nk,
Judge Napolitano said this about that in discussing Teddy and Woody.
August 22nd, 2017 at 12:50 pm
Damn, forgot the link:
August 22nd, 2017 at 1:38 pm
JTC, Thanks for sending that!!! Excellent history lesson from the Judge.
August 23rd, 2017 at 8:27 am
In theological terms, we are seeing the “The Fall” play out in every realm of life. In pop-cultural terms, there is nothing funny about The Idiocracy, and it pervades everything from politics to people’s pick for the top TV show. I bet we are not yet at Peak F*** It.Somehow, it’s going to get more bizarre and dangerous.