In Case You Missed It

Hearing these two men speak actually gives me some hope for this country.

Like millions of others, we've been watching the Democratic Convention this week, and I have to say how…refreshing…it is to hear adults in the room again; to hear adults with vocabularies bigger than that of a 5-year old speaking with an eloquence and passion I haven't heard for the last four years.

The Democrats must win the Presidency and flip the Senate this year, or the incredible experiment that was the United States will have failed.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but register to vote. Check your registration. Have a plan to vote, in person or by mail. Text VOTE to 30330 for polling information and to get help securing your ballot.

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From Greg Fallis:

Republican Friend: I've been a moderate Republican all my life. I voted for Trump last time, but I didn't think he'd actually win. I can't bring myself to vote for him this time.
Me: Great. Glad to hear it.
RF: Don't be too glad. I'm not voting for Biden either.
Me: Those are the only choices. Trump or Biden.
RF: I'm voting for Jo Jorgensen.
Me: Who?
RF: Jo Jorgensen.
Me: Who is Jo Jorgensen when she's at home?
RF: She's the Libertarian candidate.
Me: So you're voting for Trump.
RF: No, I'm voting for Jorgensen.
Me: Same thing.
RF: No, it's not. I'm voting my conscience.
Me: Bullshit. You're dodging your conscience.
RF: No, I'm not. I said I can't bring myself to vote for…
Me: Yeah, I know what you said. And I know what you meant. You mean you don't want to feel any responsibility if Trump is re-elected.
RF: No, that's not it.
Me: Bullshit. That's exactly it. You don't want to vote for Trump, but you're not going to do anything to prevent him from being re-elected. You're more concerned with soothing your conscience than with protecting the Constitution.
RF: That's not true. Biden won't fix the nation's prob…
Me: Does Jo Jorgensen have a popcorn fart's chance of winning?
RF: No, but that's not the point. The point is…
Me: Fuck your point. This is a toggle election. The choices are truly binary. Yes or no. Up or down. On or off. Biden or Trump. Those are the only choices.
RF: I have to vote my conscience.
Me: Fuck you and fuck your conscience. You're a coward.
RF: I'm not a…
Me: You're dodging all personal responsibility to act for the good of the nation. It's no different than saying you oppose the pandemic but won't wear a mask. Fuck you.
RF: It's not like that at all.
Me: Did I just say 'Fuck you'? I believe I did. Fuck you again.
RF: Are you angry with me?
Me: Shut up. Go away. Fuck you and everybody you know, you fucking coward.
RF: I understand you're upset.
RF: Hello?
Former Republican Friend: Hello?

I Don't Think…

…that phrase means what you think it means, dude.

Without your military-style penis extender, you're just a frightened little boy spewing trash talk from your mom's basement.

And at this point I would take that even further by asking if anyone (other than his brain-dead base) gives a shit what Trump himself has to say? Everything that comes out of his piehole is either gibberish or outright lies—sometimes both at the same time.

You Wanna Know…

…what pisses me off about unemployed people getting a stimulus check or an extra $600 a week?

Not a damn thing, because other people who are struggling are not my enemy and their bank account or what they spend their money on is none of my goddamned business.

A Message to Anti-Maskers

The irony of the anti-mask crowd is, it's YOU, you dumb fucks. You're the ones who are stealing freedom from all the rest of us.

This shit is contained in every other first world nation because no other culture has you morons. You've been asked to make a handful of entirely manageable sacrifices for the common good, but you won't do that because you possess this uniquely American malfunction: you have a spoiled rich kid's idea of freedom; Donald Trump's idea of freedom, which is "I do whatever I want, and if anybody else gets hurt, fuck 'em."

"We can contain this outbreak if we all just wear masks when we go out? Oh thank god, that's so easy!" say the rational Americans whose brains still work.

"NO!" shriek you wingnuts. "I've decided 'liberty' means my every passing whim must be gratified because my emotional development stopped at age three!"

And so, no matter how many millions of us do the right thing, make the sacrifices, y'know…CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE, there have consistently been enough of you maniacs offering free rides to the fucking Coronavirus so that the whole country has to stay trapped in this funhouse.

Social media circles are so easy to manipulate. Shit, this crap is probably all coming from nerds at a Russian troll farm, cackling about how much easier it is to kill Americans with memes than with bombs.

YOU are the reasons schools aren't safe for children now, by the way. All that lost educational and social development that you're suddenly so concerned about? It's your fault, and every fucking day you spend shrieking at entry-level service employees about your perceived "rights" is another day you take from them; another day you take from ALL of us. The the rest of us just have to fucking live with it, I guess. As you take and take and take from millions of people you can't be bothered to think—much less care—about. You take their safety, their peace of mind, their future. And in 145,000 160,000 cases and counting, you've taken everything. All this suffering and death doesn't seem to move you in the slightest, and I have to say that's really fucked up.

You folks are broken. You are failed humans. And congratulations, you've ruined everything for everyone else. You got what you wanted. Nobody can tell you to eat your peas. There'll be another quarter million corpses before this is over, and it'll take years to recover from the economic carnage, but you showed us! You "owned the libtards" and nobody can make you do something that you don't want to!

Nobody can make you wear a small piece of fabric over your nose and mouth. For short periods of time. To end a crisis. To save lives. Your parents must be proud.