Monday Moaning (10-16-23)

 

  Well, I came back for a second week in a row. A little late this week, but I'm trying to make myself go through this exercise. I was pondering what to write about, my LAST POST didn't get much traction. I was actually expected some backlash, but no such luck. Then again, I've been away for a while, and well, so have many of the bloggers I follow. It made me wonder, where have all the good bloggers gone?

 I first started blogging in 2007 on "The Sporting News." It was a great community of bloggers with great back and forth. Many of the bloggers were better writers than Sporting News staff. The website noticed our community and sneakily started to boost stuff from the blogging community. Shortly before they killed off the blogging community, some guys started their own site and invited some of us to join. I eventually bought into it and helped run it, as well as posting every day. Other groups started their own sites, and rivalries that began at "The Sporting News," continued at these different sites. I miss the blogging wars. All those places are gone now.

 They aren't the only ones. When I started this blogspot page I found a world of other blogs and bloggers. There were people posting poetry, creative writing, introspective pieces, politics, pop culture, photography blogs, people who used it like a journal. There was "A Frank Angle" and "The Daddy Files" which were never miss reads. There was something for everyone and there were things you didn't even know you would be interested in. They seem to have faded away.

  Our attention spans have gone to shit. The written word is dying. No one wants to read 8 paragraphs on my perfect Heisman trophy prediction, or Aaron's trials and tribulations of being a father of 3 uniquely different kids and trying to balance work and family obligations, or a nuanced argument on the days latest horrifying events. Everything got broken down to a quick tweet, or an Instagram pic with a couple hashtags written below it, or stupid short videos on TikTok or Instagram. The world has bought into "less is more." It's not.

  Some may say, I'm being over dramatic saying the written word is dying. Let me prove you wrong....English class is not called English class anymore. It's called "ELA." Phonics is not taught isn't schools anymore, neither is cursive. I have two high schoolers who work for me, both are in "Honors ELA." They both can barely write anything legible. They can't read or write cursive. They have horrible grammar and struggle to properly pronounce everyday words, and the admittedly don't read, nor are they assigned reading. I wasn't in honors English in high school, and I was required to read a book every week the first three years of school and was tested on them. These kids have no idea who Jack London is. 

  On top of that, we have communities, cities, school boards, lunatic governors, banning books throughout this country, and there is little push-back against it. There is little coverage from the media, and less coverage of the small push-back. Does the media/journalists not realize that they'll be next to be censored or banned. We are dumbing down our kids...We are dumbing down ourselves. 

 I'm going to keep writing, even if no one is reading...And I'm going to start searching again for whatever quirky blogs are out there, sharing their own little slice of madness.

Have a week.

Afghanistan, Republican Bullshit and COVID

 

There is a mess of things I need to get off my chest and I'll start with the mess in Afghanistan. The Republican party and the media, both Left and Right leaning outlets have been shitting all over President Biden for going through with Pulling U.S. forces out of that hellhole, even while they all have said we should get out of there. 

It's time to speak some truth about this shit people. The GOP and many Democrats fully Supported President Bush sending out Troops in there 20 years ago, with no real plan of ending our time there. President Obama talked of wanting to get out but got loads of pressure from Republicans and lobbyists to stay, as well as not having a solid plan to get out. That asshole President Trump, went ahead and released 5000 Taliban prisoners and gave them a seat at the head of the table to negotiate the U.S. military withdrawal, giving them a watered-down, candy-coated treaty that basically said, don't shoot our guys and we'll leave. Then left it in the desk for President Biden to deal with, while bragging about the deal he worked with the Taliban and praising them and Republicans in Congress and Right Wing news twats like Fox News fully supported him. Now the GOP and their networks are trashing Biden for working with the Taliban and this garbage deal they all supported.

By the way, never forget the Taliban was born from the Mujahideen, who were guerilla fighters fully funded and armed by the United States to fight Russia from 1979-1989. We loved them so much Hollywood made a Rambo movie where he fought alongside the Mujahideen, and the original ending, dedicated the film to them.

Back to present day...

This week while evacuating over 100,000 people, our Military suffered a horrible loss of 13 lives. The Right used this to attack Biden and called for accountability, which he in a press conference, without hesitation took responsibility for the lives lost. Something Commanders in Chief do. Well, most do. Trump didn't while he was in office and 63 servicemembers died in Afghanistan, nor did grandstanding jackasses in the GOP, call for him to resign or be impeached over it, like they are now. Dickhead, JOSH HAWLEY this week was one of them, suddenly against our withdrawal from Afghanistan. I guess he for got when he tweeted at Biden in April that we should pull-out immediately. Something his father should have done! 

We also have had many Republicans and media members screaming how we need to help the Afghan people and get these refugees out of there, while in the same statement or tweet like Ted Cruz did, say how we shouldn't let them come here. Nothing like a son of a refugee telling refugees to fuck off! 

And yes, after losing 13 U.S. servicemembers, suddenly, many Republicans wanted us to stay there, and send more troops there. They're so angry about the lives lost, they want to risk more lives. For Fuck's sake, Kevin McCarthy in a press conference Friday changed his mind 4 times on whether we should have troops in Afghanistan permanently or not.

I find it incredibly hollow that so many in the media and the GOP said little to nothing about Afghanistan over the last 20 years, as well as saying nothing about the 2,372 U.S. Servicemembers who have died in Afghanistan over the last 20 years. The major news networks covered Afghanistan from 2015through 2019 for less that a hour of airtime combined. ABC: 16 minutes. CBS: 25 minutes. NBC: 16 minutes. Now, suddenly after 20 years war, lives lost, military funding and VA funding be held up in the name of playing politics, underpaid troops, now you care. They only care, because war, suffering and controversy boost ratings and poll numbers.

The biggest fact we all should know is there was no winning this thing. History has shown this. Afghanistan is a place of constant civil war. There are 14 religious sects (mostly fanatical) fighting for power and control. If U.S. forces stayed any number of years, they would be at risk. Whenever our forces started leaving a power grab was going to start. All these pundits and politicians have a shitload to say and criticize, but none...NONE of them have offered a real solution or a better plan. They are all just trying to get clicks, likes, and political points. 

Military members, especially those who have been in action or served in Afghanistan, gladly say what you wish, your perspective means a great deal more than some dick in a suit who spend his life in a studio, behind a desk, reading a prompter. Unfortunately the networks don't do much of that. (TRIGGER WARNING): Military guys, don't talk about how you fought or are fighting for my freedom. Have you fought for our security? YES! But the United States military has not fought for our freedom in DECADES. They have been used to fight for the "Country's" political and economic interests. I respect you dearly. You do a job I know I could never do and you are grossly underpaid.

To the COVID section...

What I am going to say next is not to belittle or try to take lightly the military deaths in Afghanistan...A few days ago when a suicide bomber killed 13 servicemembers and over a 100 civilians, that day more Americans died from COVID than all the U.S. military deaths over 20 years in Afghanistan. 900 just in Florida alone. Where is the "Pro-Life" party screaming for the head of GOP governors trying to ban mask mandates. GOP politicians and media figures pushing anti-vaccination bullshit? They pushing people to treat them self with medicine made for farm animals. These dolts are against science and doctors until horse de-wormer gives them the shits and they catch COVID. Suddenly they want a doctor's help. Fuck them, let them die!

I can say that here, I'm not allowed to on social media. These two images got me suspended on social media for "promoting self harm."

Yet they aren't stopping the people who spread anti-vaccination bullshit and anti-mask bullshit and 'go get some horse or goat or cow medicine and you won't get COVID' bullshit. 

I spend too much time on social media and lots of it trying to combat this ignorance that is running wild in this country. It rattles me. It angers me. I had someone (now former friend) private message me about why I get so worked up and post so much about it. (they are an anti-masker for kids in school) I had some shit to say.

I'll sum it up like this. Over 635,000 Americans have died from COVID. If that alone doesn't make you take this seriously, I don't know what will. I don't want businesses to shutdown again. Most won't survive it a second major shutdown. I don't want people losing jobs and homes and loved ones. Americans, we love sports and to talk about TEAM. If you can't get onboard with the team to stop the spread of death, I'm done with you. I have a 10 year old daughter, who is not yet eligible to get a COVID vaccine. Which means compared to the rest of our household, she's at the greatest risk of getting it bad. (especially since the Delta variant is hitting kids harder than the original) If my daughter gets COVID, you're all done. I burn this fucking world to the ground. 

I'm not being dramatic. This shit was preventable, but a bunch of ignorant-ass, fucktards, lead by Qanon dipshits and Trump, decided there is no greater freedom in the world than to be inconsiderate, selfish, assholes. The right to get sick and die a horrible death or just merely spread that death is the most important thing to them.

The stories of those who chose to not get vaccinated and fought against vaccines and masks, now dying, do not make me sad. they had plenty of time to get their shit straight and they chose ignorance and a death cult. But their choices are impacting us all now. So I will shame them. And if my child get COVID because of their ignorance...It's over.

One last thing for all you full of shit Republicans and Trumpers...

If Trump was still President today, he wouldn’t have gone to meet the returning U.S. military bodies as Biden did. He would be ignoring the COVID surge and not getting briefings on Afghanistan and a major hurricane, he’d be fucking golfing! 

#WakeUpAmerica : It's All "Reality TV" to Him

 

Welcome to my third installment of Lying, Asshole, Trump is using COVID as a Campaign Ad...The FIRST was Friday...The SECOND  was Sunday...Now here we sit, me being right...AGAIN...

Saturday and Sunday Trump tweets videos saying he’s doing well, just before the nightly news...Monday they announced he’s leaving the hospital at 6:30, the same time the nightly news starts...He’s getting constant free TV time...And with it promoting his lies that COVID isn’t that bad...It’s all political theater...And boom just like that, all but 4 minutes of the nightly news was covering his motorcade and helicopter flight...The “reality TV” President just played everyone....

Now he’s thumping his chest about beating it...if he actually has it, which I still don't believe...But if he does, he’s getting a treatment regimen that is not legal for anyone else to get...If you roll into the Hospital with a positive COVID test and say, I want the stuff Trump gets, they'll not only say no...They'll most likely send you home to quarantine until and tell you to come back only if you show severe symptoms...They'll tell you no, because those treatments Trump is getting are not yet "approved" for public use and are still in the "testing" phase...Also, he needed to get a special exception for those treatments...The type of exception normally only given to someone in the worst case scenario....

And as for that show they put on at the White House...I won't post the videos...Fuck him...I'm not putting his Mussolini/Hitler- like propaganda videos up on my page...I'm bullshitting...There was press that was filming from across the way, and White House reporters posting and tweeting about Trump and his crew doing reshoots of him entering the White House and retakes of his speech where he was trying to spew his bullshit that COVID isn't that bad...

He's saying it's not that bad...But this weekend the White House Gift Shop started taking pre-orders for "President Donald J. Trump Defeats COVID" collectors coins...I'm not bullshitting...And While Factcheck.org flagged my Facebook post about it, they clearly didn't bother to click the LINK...It's the White House Gift Shop's website...

This has all been a campaign ad...This is the only thing Trump has done well in his career...Put on a "reality TV show" and sell idiots, shitty, made in China merch...

He has played the American public and the American media for fools...You know I'm right, because we all see his ignorant cult members every day...We see their stupidity in full force as they blindly believe everything he says...As they scream against wearing masks...As they scream against people peacefully protesting, while they violently protest....America has a "Reality TV" President and we did it to ourselves...People bought the myth that a non-politician was the answer to our ills, but it made us sicker...

The Republican party repeatedly enabled him, wanting to grab as much power as they could...They bought his bullshit and now with each Republican that gets a positive COVID test, I get a smile....I feel no sympathy for those who denied science...I feel no sympathy for those who had none for the first 210,000 Americans that died from COVID...

Again, his morning Trump was spreading the lie that COVID is less deadly than the seasonal Flu...210,000 Americans dead from COVID...This fucking "Clown"...

Yes, Facebook got something right and removed it...Twitter hid it, but it's still visible just with a warning first...These action lead to dipshit tweeting to "REPEAL SECTION 230"...Listen, section 230 has cost me two Twitter accounts and has gotten me suspended many, many times...Most of those for Calling him an Lying Asshole...For calling Tucker Carlson a racist cunt...For Calling Melania and Ivanka Cunts...For calling fucking racists, fucking racists...For calling Kanye a fucking idiot...Now, I feel all of those statements were true...But I took my penalties like a man...Unlike Trump, who like to act like Mr. Tough Guy, but then cries on the rare occasion he's held accountable for one of his countless lies...

AMERICA!!!  WAKE THE FUCK UP!  "Reality TV" is scripted and too many of you have fallen for Trump's script. 

#WakeUpAmerica

National What The Fuck Day

 

So I missed this “National Daughter Day” stuff and I guess it was followed by “National Son Day”...I don’t know...I remember when every single day of the week wasn’t some made up “National” Day...Am I an old curmudgeon? Maybe, I turn 45 tomorrow...Is that old? It use to be in my teenage mind, back then 45 was light years away...Or am I just crabby fucker, sick of today's bullshit...Not literally today...Like recent shit...

Back to this "National Day" shit has I hopped off the rails real quick there...

I’m a father EVERY day and don’t need to pat myself on the back for it...I like Pizza and Tacos and Burgers every day, not just on their “national day"...Yes, there really are "National Days" for basic shit like pizza, burgers, tacos, donuts, and apparently being a parent...Listen, i don't need a "National Day" or an excuse to smash some Pizza or Tacos or Donuts...I'll fucking Door Dash some right now and Livestream eating it just to show you....There's also "Grandparents Day," that just magically appeared out of nowhere a few years back...All of this shit just appeared...All these nonsensical National Days, out of nowhere, for no damn reason....

We have gotten awful needy for things to pump up or be excited about...or just to have a reason to post on social media...That's it...It's fucking social media...This goddamn "look at me" world we now live in...And yes, I'm here preaching and bitching, but I'm guilty as fuck of it...I bought into Social media years ago and I'm like a fucking junkie now, checking Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...#FuckTrump, #FascistTrump, #TrumpWantsToFuckIvanka....

I've been writing blogs since 2007 and whoring them and myself out on social media...'Maybe one day someone "important" will read my shit and want to pay me for it!'..."Me, I like to cast my death on yesterday, 'cause what doesn't kill us just makes us better whores!"

Guess what...we have an evil criminal, no tax paying, lying and not giving a fuck that over 200,000 people died, many because of his lying, IDIOT, traitor, wants to be a fascist dictator, for our President...fucking hell! There's plenty to post about on social media...I've lost countless friends and followers and had 2 Twitter accounts permanently suspended because all I have done for months is post about this lying, fucking asshole...This Traitor and his cult of traitor followers...And the "friends" and followers I've lost because of it, I'm not sad about at all...They are either silent members of his cult or complacent idiots who don't realize or don't care about what is happening to this country...

#WakeUpAMerica

Every day is NATIONAL WHAT THE FUCK DAY!

Ignorance Is Bliss?

 

Once again my good friend posted a question on Facebook, as she does almost daily...You can see my previous post talking about this...Well, she did it agin...Asked a simple question that should have been easy to answer, and I just started writing away...Just letting the madness pour out of my head...Today's question...

"What is Your Idea of Perfect Happiness?"

Not having to worry about money, the all consuming monster that controls our lives....but that’s a fairytale...

The saying ignorance is bliss is so true...My life was happier before the internet...before smart phones and computers and social media...I physically and mentally happier...Yes, it allowed me meet more people and make great friends from a distance...I reconnected with so many old friends and that is wonderful, but like everything else, it’s been corrupted by money...

Now it’s a war to sift through the bullshit and propaganda and advertisements that pop up after you google something or talk to someone about something...

Yes, the internet has informed me of more things they didn’t teach me at St. Edward High or at Cleveland State...Yes I can make my voice heard through blogging and social media...I feel like I have to make it heard because I have this knowledge and these opinions and this technology to get it out there...

Maybe my mental state would be better off if I just wrote it all with pen in a notebook...Maybe my mental state would be better if I never learned more, informed myself and was concerned about others and the state our country has been in and is in...But then I’d be one of those ignorant people I hate and scream about daily on social media...I’d be ignorant as fuck...but I’d be happier, right?

Two Words

 

I have a very dear friend who almost every day asks a question of her friends on Facebook...During this COVID, quarantine time it has been something I've enjoyed and I think many other have...We all have gotten to learn a little more about each other...Yesterday's question had me stumped for awhile..."If you could write a note to your younger self, what would you say in only two words?"

After kicking it around for awhile, I had nothing and just vomited a bunch of words onto her page until it came to me...

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For hours I've been trying to think of two words to sum it up...I considered a couple jokes...that either were shots at myself or at someone from my past...I tried for something meaningful...

I thought "No Regrets"...But how can I say that...I carry regrets with me...I can't shake them....Even little meaningless moments that everyone else who was in the room doesn't remember, I hold on to them and still feel embarrassment or shame or anger or whatever...I'm a walking ball of regrets and maybe they are what has helped shape me...But they also make me hate me...(don't worry, not like that...this isn't a cry for help...I just went mildly insane and started writing a blog when ~A~  asked for two words)....

 But in two words it's tough...So here I am hammering out word after word, like an ass...There's plenty of great answers here...

Suddenly, it comes to me...As I make sure my kids get off to sleep, and I look at my beautiful wife...And the news is on in the background reminding us how fucked up this world is....But our own little spaces can be wonderful...I have it...I have two words...I just needed to crank out a couple hundred to get there....

Make Love.

Monday Moaning (Open Letter to Friends)

It was a lovely sunset last night here in Erie, PA last night...

After a day of high heat and afternoon and early evening thunderstorms, the sky looked amazing...

So I snapped some pictures from my front porch with my phone and posted them on Instagram and Facebook....

Over the course of the evening the post of sunset pics kept getting views and likes...It got me thinking...I've been repeatedly suspended on Twitter...The last one for calling Betsy DeVos a twat and saying her ignorant ass should be executed...For a period of time I was shadow banned on Instagram...That's when they don't lock you out, or suspend you, but they don't like what you are doing so make it hard for people to find you and slow down things from getting into your followers' feed...

So since Instagram and Facebook are in bed together, I was wondering if Facebook has been doing the same to me...My sunset pics get plenty of views, and likes and whatnot...But since the murder of George Floyd, my social media has become 98% speaking up for Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights, calling out racists, ranting about the corruption of government, screaming about the Trump Crime Family, bitching about COVID-19 deniers, and assholes who won't wear masks, hating on those traitors who wave Nazi and Confederate flags, the 2nd Amendment lovers who refuse to standup for the us 1st Amendment lovers...and so on...

As the sunset pics continue to rack up likes, the mural of Harriet Tubman with a blurb calling Kanye West an Asshole got 5 likes...Posts about Trump's Secret Police assaulting and kidnapping protesters in Portland get 2-6 likes and maybe 1 comment...Videos of Trump speaking ignorantly and incoherently, spewing lies and stupidity get 1-2 interactions...

So, is Facebook shadow banning me? Or do I have a friends list full of people who don't give a fuck about these things going on in out country?  I get it, lots of people have social media to escape the everyday bullshit...Some have it solely to share pics of kids or grandkids and life events...Or just some funny meme to help us all get through this fucked up mess with a laugh...It's a great communication tool...I have a great friend that posts a question every day...From important life event shit to what crappy movie do you love...And it gets a bunch of us to answer and have a little back and forth with each other, some of us strangers...

I didn't always go political on social media, I mixed it in here and there but it wasn't full blown...I changed...I can't stand what my country has become...I can't stand what it was and so many didn't know the history...I want it to be better for my kids, and grandkids...I want it to be better for your kids and grandkids...I want us to actually be able to have grandkids and them to have a bright future in this country...So I'm not going to shut up and just post happy stuff, I'm going to keep sharing the shit too...And I'm not apologizing if you don't like it...There is an unfollow/unfriend button...You won't be the first to use it...

I'll close with a little meme for ya...

Have a week!

Monday Moaning: Dementia Moved In

The image is click-bait but that's always been part of the game, and a major part of my game since I started blogging at Sporting News back in 2007...But I always found a way to tie it in with the post...I carried it on with me here and at the now defunct YouGabSports....

-I had a couple of masterpiece blogs in the bullpen...They were going to get me noticed by Barstool Sports who would offer me a job...(yeah, right!)But with the murder of George Floyd, the ensuing protests, the hate spewed by the President and his ignorant supporters who hold the Confederate Traitors in such high regard, I scrapped those...I didn't blog...I just carpet bombed social media facts, truth, reality, history, and quick rants...I got flagged on Facebook for things that were factually correct but Anti-Trump and Anti-Racism...I got unfollowed by plenty of people, which is fine...If you're a racist...If you are ok with people flying Nazi and Confederate flags, I don't want to know you and don't want you around....I got suspended on Twitter twice...A week for tweeting at Drew Brees that he "is a fucking idiot"....My first tweet back was at Twitter and their owners, pointing out the hypocritical bullshit standards they have...And then I retweeted porn clips that are allowed on twitter at them...

-One blog shredding MLB for being a bunch of greedy fucks who are killing their game and are about to lose the dog days of Summer to the NHL...The NHL is planning to have their playoffs (the best playoffs of all sports) in July, August and September...Pushing the start of next season back, and if they stick with it that way they can continue starting their season later, and having their playoffs in the Summer, sports dead zone, when many people get extra casual with Baseball until it gets closer to September....But with Billionaire owners and millionaire players fighting over money, more and more people are going to care less and less about a sport who's core fanbase is dying...


-I had done  series of "COVID Blogs"...Those stopped This next section was going to be one in the series...A month into the COVID shutdown, we moved my Mother-in-Law in with us...My wife, three kids, two dogs, myself and my dementia riddled Mother-in-Law...She was in assisted living and was locked down, stuck in her room for over month...No visitors allowed, no activities, no dining room...It scrambled her already fragile brain even more...When we saw her outside of the place on her birthday, my wife and I knew we had to get her out...So she's here with us...My Father-in-Law went down this same road so we knew to some extent what we were getting into...But it's bad...It's hard...

The kids were doing school from home...The wife works from home...there's limited separation people can get...We get bombarded with the same questions over and over again...The last 20 years don't exist...She doesn't know who I am, except that I cook for her and answer questions...There are times she doesn't know my wife...

We made a answer sheet for her to keep...When she starts asking questions we tell her to look at it...She would ask a question, you would answer and she would ask it again immediately...She looked at the sheet and said, "This is my daughters house?" I said yes...She then said "Is she still alive?"...Which was when the most blunt thing I could say fell out of my face..."If she was dead you wouldn't live here."  I felt awful, but she forgot it within seconds...

My day often starts with making her Tea and toast or an English muffin with orange marmalade...Once she is sitting down eating and working on a puzzle I go and check to see if I have to mop the floor in her bedroom, the hallway and the bathroom, as she likes to take her diapers off during the night and often leaves a trail of pee.... 

It's hard seeing someone fall apart in front of you...It's hard on my wife, as her mother often seems ungrateful for what we do for her...At night she becomes child-like, wants to "break rules" and gets pissy with my wife...We had to put up a baby gate to try and prevent her from roaming around the house at night while everyone is asleep...She loves to search for cookies between 11:00 PM and 4:00 AM...We have signs on doors to help her and prevent her taking a header down the basement steps....

The one thing makes my wife nuts...Her mother will go to the bathroom door wide open, doing her business, everything hanging out...But then when she's done, she pulls the door shut behind her...WTF!?!

If 2020 didn't suck bad enough, especially for the kids, my oldest having her senior year of high school kicked in the balls...She gave up her room for her Grandmother and moved into her little sister's room...And Grandma has no idea who our kids are...She had lived everyday for over two months with them and looks at them like strangers...We spent so many weekends visiting...Personal time and vacation time spent with my in-laws...Moved to fucking Erie to take care of things for them....and she has no memory of them or any of it...There are moments when I talk to her and she looks at me like 'Who the fuck are you and what are you doing here.?'

As frustrated and annoyed as I get, I have to remind myself that my wife is watching her mother's brain turn to pudding right in front of her everyday...I don't know how my wife deals with it so calmly...Well, she does like to hit the bottle like the piece of click-bait at the top of this post! 

That's what's been going on in my world...

Have a drink...Stay safe...Stay strong...Don't be a racist...Help fight for positive change in this country and world...And love...Love your family...No matter what, love your family.

COVID 19 (blog 6)

If you are protesting anything wearing a mask, I feel you are a coward...If you are protesting stay at home orders and safety measures (like wearing a mask) that are in place to protect you and everyone else from a global pandemic, you are a chicken shit, pussy with no real conviction in your protest...You just want to play army dress up, before you clowns all go back to your militia clubhouse and suck each other off!

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There were over 50,000 U.S. deaths in Vietnam...While the death toll was climbing Americans protested to end the war because the cost was too high....Now with the U.S. deaths from COVID19 nearly at 90,000, people are protesting and murdering for having to wear a mask, to practice social distancing and to stay at home...I touched on some of these idiots a few POSTS back....And yes, I did say murdering, as a family was charged in the murder of a store security guard because he told the wife/mother of the family that the store policy was that everyone had to wear a mask to enter the store...So she got her husband and son, and they shot and killed the poor guy...

People are protesting so they can get a haircut...100% truth there are people I know who haven’t gone to church in 30 fucking years posting memes bitching about how they’re not allowed to go to church...People are protesting social distancing and stay at home orders by waving Nazi and Confederate flags...Flags of our enemies...They don’t care that the death toll is too high and still climbing...My how priorities have changed...Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, (both of the) Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson...and so many more are rolling over in their graves....

America or at least the myth of what America was, always came together in times of crisis...Now we are divided as fuck...I put much of the blame on our idiot, criminal President...HERE'S just one example of his criminal Bullshit...There's MORE and I could give you links for days but, this isn't about that...The issue right now is how he has dealt with COVID, saying one thing that goes along with what doctors and scientists say, and then out of the other side of his mouth he contradicts that...Vocally saying that Governors need to handle how each state deals with it's cases, just to put his full throated support behind these wannabe toy soldiers...But we all know if these were black people showing up armed to the teeth, he would call them thugs and want them locked up...

And he says we are doing great testing and things are looking good...If 90,000 dead is looking good, what the fuck is bad...And about that testing...There are many different tests being used and many aren't FDA approved...And I particularly find it hilarious that the tests that have been being used at the White House, the FDA had to put out an alert because those tests were having an unacceptable amount of False Negatives...33-48% False Negatives!

This White House is one fuck up after another....

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I'm just putting this in, because this is the "great businessman," piece of shit, lying, asshole that you Trumpers support...

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Moving the fuck along...So all the bitch, moaning and complaining, and asshole protesting convinced many states to start opening up businesses late last week and this weekend...Yes, I get it, no one wants to see the economy tank, but I don't want to die, or see another 90,000 Americans die....So guidelines were given...People are asked to socially distance, and wear masks and be fucking smart and respectful of their fellow human beings...

Personally, I think the opening up is going to be too much, too soon as states were still seeing increases and there is yet to be a prove, clear-cut treatment for this virus...Don't believe me about numbers still rising, because I read pay attention to facts and some don't...Saturday, Texas had it's largest single day increase of COVID cases...

And my old home state of Ohio started lifting restrictions with a number of guidelines...And from the pictures I was seeing on social media, and from family back home, many bars, restaurants and their patrons were not following the social distance guidelines, as people were balls deep in each other...

You know what...I want to scream and yell at these people...But what good would it do...They clearly don't get it that 315,000 people have died worldwide...90,000 in the U.S. and these people are packing in the bars, all up in each other...Fuck it...Maybe I should be rooting for COVID...Thin the fucking idiot herd...

Me, I'll stay home and do my drinking here.

Song of the Day....

Almost every day on Facebook I post a song of the day...Normally there is no deep meaning behind it...Some days it just may be a song that is in my head...Some days it is picked based off of a chat at work...Like when a co-worker thought "The Joker" by the Steve Miller Band was done by The Offspring....Kids these days...Some days I just go through the 1500 songs on my iPhone and pick a random tune...On rare days like today, it has a little more behind it...

I was looking at Facebook and Twitter and was just getting sick...The constant posts about politics and disagreements about our political views...And yes, I'm guilty of it...then there are the news stories of murder and mistreatment and all around shittieness...This just leads to many of us judging entire groups by the acts of the bad apples...

The overriding theme on the Internet and it seems to be so in real life, has become Anger and Hate...And I understand the anger...I'm an angry asshole a lot of the time...

But fuck it! We need some love up in this bitch...Watch the video for today's song of the day...Let inspire you...And go out and fucking hug someone!