Brain Damage (On Stupidity, Volume Three, Part One.)

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.  We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream.  The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same.  And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. ~Ronald Reagan

I saw this earlier today. Finland apparently expects Russian aggression since they're planning on joining NATO. More importantly, they're acting accordingly.

Sisu, remember that word. It will come up.

Meanwhile, the big topic here in America today is that Elon Musk is apparently buying Twitter? So what? Meet the New Boss, Same As The Old Boss. What's the difference between one vaguely Libertarian tech-bro and another one? Seriously?

But of course, under the heading of "Business and Finance" this evening, I spotted the hashtag "Liberal Tears." Now, as I've said before I think the whole "Own The Libs" thing is puerile and childish. More to the point, if you act like that most people are just going to be momentarily annoyed, before they block your ass and move on with their day. Is all that really some kind of a great thing to live for?

Some of these idiots think...and out of deference to one of my regular "critics" I'll use that term very loosely...that Elon buying Twitter is some sort of "Own The Libs" gesture. 

I doubt it, love him or hate him, the dude seems to be pretty competent, less motivated by this bizarre desire to count some sort of political coup over imagined "enemies" and (aside from his apparent desire to be the ruler of Mars before he dies) he seems to be a lot less of a doctrinaire political anything than a lot of his fanbase is. 

Thing is, outside of money issues a lot of libertarians don't necessarily fit well on one "side" or the other (Although, because of the money thing I'll say that "Republicans who like to smoke weed, works pretty well as a descriptor.) And on a side note; I think Musk might be legitimately replacing Ayn Rand as the "Libertarian Jesus."

So anyway, I posted this as an actual question: "Who are these idiots that even think this stuff up?" and got over a dozen responses almost immediately, about half of them other people actually commenting on what I said. 

The others were all obvious bots and trolls, basically telling me to go fuck myself for simply having said it. Apparently I struck some sort of a nerve with some provincial Komsomol or some shit. 

Whatever, but the thing is, the reason the Russians or whatever figure they can do this is, well, when Newsmax or RSBN or one of these other whacko right-wing pseudo-networks goes to a Trump rally we see an endless parade of actual fucking people who are just like this.

I mean, where did we even get all these brain damaged motherfuckers?

And of course, wherever the Nazis or the neo-Confederates or the Q-Nuts think they're going to have an actual audience they show up. Apparently they're "Protesting" Disney now.

And I'm increasingly convinced that the acting out is the point. It would be comical except for the likelihood of mass violence.

And I hate to say this, but I think whatever happens in November (and I don't think Republicans will do all that well, personally) but I think we're not far from seeing the end of the last few old-school Republicans. Adam Kinzinger is already retiring, Liz Cheney may survive this election, but will probably follow to political independence or retirement soon enough. 

I honestly think guys like Elon Musk and even yes, Donald Trump, will eventually get tossed overboard. Certainly Ron DeSantis is working hard to replace Trump, he may well succeed...but I don't even think he's got a handle on the pulse of the Republican base right now. I have a creeping feeling it's more reactionary than even he thinks. But I'm more worried that this whole situation will cause somebody else to rise up who will be more competent and intelligent.

Honestly, before the war in Ukraine started, I thought it not unlikely that Putin might be the dude...and for many of these "Conservatives" he's just that.

And eventually we're going to end up having to defend ourselves against that motherfucker. The Russian Army might be garbage, but there's a lot of it, especially if Putin decrees a general mobilization.

But my goddamned point is that while the Ukrainians have exceeded everybody's expectations and become the defenders of the Free World, and the Finns are apparently preparing to step up as well...and the Russians seem clearly intent on widening their war at least to Moldova now...there's one hell of a lot of Americans who's gaze is not set on the future, nor watching the horizon for threats, but firmly fixed upon the soiled membranes of their own colons.

Yes, a lot of Americans just plain have their head up their own ass.

They'd rather act out and get glory for it from other blazingly stupid people, or just bicker online with people that they don't know but who appear to hold opposite political positions.

And modern American "Conservatism" (or for that matter, Christianity) is in any case less a coherent political philosophy than post-hoc justifications for reactionary emotionalism.

And I can't help but think that a lot of this ignorance is deliberate and the obtuseness regarding the state of the world...as well as the inconsistency and insularity of a lot of modern American "Conservatives" is quite deliberate.

A lot of These Fucking People have been told to hate their fellow Americans more than they love their own freedom, and when we've got somebody like Tucker Carlson blatantly stanning for Viktor Orban if not for Vladimir Putin himself, that's a fucking problem.

And it doesn't help that a large portion of our government refuses to actually hold these fuckers accountable.

If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen. If you want to be free, get your head out of your ass and in the game here.

I mean, come on. Jesus Christ, what the hell is wrong with people?

I cannot help but think this freakish desire to "Own The Libs" at any cost will get some of these motherfuckers actually owned as serfs by some Russian oligarch.

The trouble is, it legitimately seems like some of these fucking people would prefer it that way, and for all too many of these sons of bitches, literally any flag but the Stars And Stripes will do.

I don't know about you, but I think there's something wrong with that.

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