SEAT thyself Sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary. But most humble though he was, and far from furnishing an example of the high, humane abstraction; the Pequod’s carpenter was no duplicate; hence, he now comes in person on this stage. ~Herman Melville, Moby Dick, "The Carpenter."
Tango Foxtrot Papa. These Fucking People, idiots, idiots everywhere. Goddamn but I've fucking had it.
I guess Walmart is going to start requiring masks chain-wide this week.
Good.
The way I found out about this, not so good, because I was stuck listening to this older lady that I know whine about this subject for quite a while. This lady is older, white, and from a small town, the sort of apolitical low-information person that doesn't bother to care about issues most of the time, much less actually vote. She's not particularly healthy either, enough so that if she gets the Coronavirus she has a pretty good chance of dying.
But damn, to hear her tell it, on top of everything else that's going on she has to wear a mask when she goes to the store.
Note: I've been masking up since February, and avoiding going to Walmart as much as I can because that really is where all the anti-mask people seem to shop.You'll note that the person in the snipped pictures from this Twitter video, when asked "Why are you angry that I'm wearing a mask" basically responded "Because you're wearing a mask" before rambling on about stupidity, living in fear and the "Deep State" trying to control everybody.
No bitch, this virus is a natural occurrence, one for which we were probably a bit overdue, and the only ways to defeat this thing are reason, science, and basic self-preservation instincts. Like, ya know, if wearing a mask will help keep you alive you wear the fucking mask.
Why is this difficult? You wouldn't have sex without a condom or some other form of protection, would you? Would you go into a room full of poisonous gas without a gas mask on? would you smoke right next to a tanker truck full of jet fuel, or a bomber loaded with dozens of bombs? If the Zombie Apocalypse actually happened, would you go outside or go foraging without a baseball bat or some guns or knives or other weapons to protect yourself?
No?
Then why is wearing a mask different? Why has protecting oneself, or one's kids from diseases become a thing that we've politicized? And to what end?
Let me give you an example; There's a faction of Republicans (and of course the racists) that want to blame China for this and say Coronavirus is a biological weapon or something something gazpacho.Now, think back to the COVID-19 outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. How exactly do you fight a war when you have a virus incapacitating an aircraft carrier for two months?
Now, let's tack on, that there's also a faction of Republicans that is against testing or even doing anything about this disease...their usual excuse is the economy blah blah blah...but how do you fight a war or run an economy when you have a growing pile of dead bodies? How do you fight a war when you don't want to even test for the disease that's killing the troops? How do you maintain...well, anything, when people can see what's going on around them and know that something is killing people?! Or do they just assume that everybody is as much of a partisan fanatic as them, or wants to die to "own the libs?"
Morale, or people's desire to go shopping, or literally the entire medical sector or civilization itself is going to break sooner or later...probably sooner, the more you fuck around instead of dealing with it. I'm guessing their actual plan is as long as they can keep themselves, their assorted hangers on and retainers and enough users of force to protect them from getting sick, the rest of us can just die and civilization can go to hell.
But what are these motherfuckers going to do when all their money is worthless, the food runs out, and the guys with the guns are getting hungry and looking at them not as providers of employment, but as a potential meal? And no, don't tell me these fucking fools really think Jesus is going to show up and save them. Most modern Republicans seem to be a fairly irreligious bunch. Religion is for ginning up the base, manipulating the voters, and for the suckers that believe in it.
What a hopeless way to fucking live, ya know?
What the fuck kind of a life is it, to have nothing more to look forward to than having your boot on someone else's throat before you die, or to basically want to spend one's life as some kind of a petty warlord in a post-apocalyptic hellscape?
I'm not going to lie, I just don't fucking get it, and I used to be a Republican.
Also, a word about Kanye West's declaring himself a Presidential candidate:No.
Son, I'm just gonna tell you this one time. You want to keep working here? Lay off the drugs.
I realize that we need to get the crazy right-wing ideology and the big money out of politics, but I'd like to propose that while we're at it we need to institute some sort of a program to keep vapid American pop culture out of politics as well. I'll admit that in 2016 I figured Trump was going to get his ass waxed, but his entire campaign fucking horrified me...and that was just the start. There's no shortage of assholes, whack-job conspiracy theorists, outright fascists and flaming religious nuts in American pop culture and media...or for that matter far-left whack-a-nuts that can be just as misogynistic or racist as the far-right, and then for good measure there's always the apathetic nihilists, outright shit-starters and vapid airheads. Maybe we should, ya know, stick to our better angels in some fashion instead of trawling through the sewer of American popular culture before we end up with Jenny McCarthy running on the ticket of some Anti-Vaccination Party? Just sayin.'
And speaking of vapid airheads, assholes and shit starters...
Seriously where in the fuck does Tucker Carlson, of all fucking people, get off talking ignorant shit about Tammy Duckworth?I mean, sure, Tammy Duckworth lost her legs when her UH-60 Blackhawk was shot down by an insurgent with an RPG-7 in Iraq, and continued to serve after a long and arduous recovery when she could have just been medically retired and spent her days drinking gin and tonics down at the VFW and waiting for her disability check to direct deposit like many Old Republican White Guy Veterans that I've known..
...But ya know, Major, and later Lt. Colonel Duckworth didn't do that, she kept going, and also served in the state-level Veteran's Affairs department in Illinois, then was Assistant Secretary of Veteran's Affairs under Barack Obama...and then she ran for Congress. That suggests to me that Tammy Duckworth is somebody who gives a damn.
What has Tucker Carlson ever done for anybody but Tucker Carlson? I mean, before he got on Fox News and became the face of simpering, smarmy, snide Republican frat boys everywhere I mostly remembered Tucker for getting dogged out by Jon Stewart live on CNN. He's a fucking TV-dinner company heir who never had to do anything in life.
Tammy Duckworth's family bounced around Southeast Asia while her father (A US Army and Marine Corps veteran of WWII and Vietnam) worked for various private companies and the United Nations. She learned several languages and was an honors student at several International Schools before graduating from High School in Hawaii, going to college in Illinois, and becoming a commissioned officer in the United States Army Reserve in 1992 after graduate school. In point of fact, she wanted to be a helicopter pilot specifically because it was one of the few combat missions open to women at the time. She lost both legs and had one arm severely broken when her helicopter was shot down in November of 2004. If her story ended there and she'd spent the rest of her days sitting on the couch watching CNN it'd still be pretty impressive, just sayin.'
But she's a Senator, and a damn good one at that. I think that's pretty damn amazing myself. If she wanted to, Tammy Duckworth could be the kind of person people make movies about...and yet she chose public service instead.
Yet there are people who, given the choice between the two of them will enthusiastically declare that Tucker Carlson is the hero, because Tammy Duckworth isn't a quisling Republican who tells them what they want to hear on TV every night.And Kanye West thinks these people won't throw him under the bus, too?
They're perfectly willing to destroy themselves, if it aligns them with Donald Trump's strategy of ignoring COVID-19 and hoping it will go away.
These Fucking People are perfectly well willing to set their own lives on fire for racism, to go to jail for racism, to burn down their country for racism, and to willfully ignore a deadly virus that could kill them, in no small part because of racism.
Yet if you resist racism or simply want to protect yourself and your own life, or even just don't want to be part of their shitty little tribe, these fucking people will say you hate America...even as they actively plot to burn the country to the ground...for Donald Fucking Trump, of all people.
I think the thing that most repulses me about modern Republicanism is that people are so disposable, but "ideas" like racism are not. It's like the analogy of Plato's Cave if there were cave paintings of dicks on the walls, tribal totems at the entrance, and a gold-plated bust of Donald Trump somewhere near the end.
I'm sick of this bullshit.
It needs to be said.
You know who hates America, its Constitution, its diversity, its history, even its military and major power status? Republicans do, that's who. Look at their actions, not just what they say.
These Fucking People hate America.
They will throw you under the bus. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
And Democrats and Never Trump Republicans and Black Lives Matter and the Lincoln Project, even the assorted disparate groups that get lumped together as "Antifa" are the ones who...for all of its faults...seem to love America and are the ones trying to save it.
Meanwhile, people like Tucker Carlson fool a hell of a lot of Americans into loving their own destroyers...and there's a non-zero number of people who think he should run for President.
End the Idiocracy.
Get these fucking people out of power.
Before we get any dumber and forget how.
Part Six.
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