Thursday, November 29, 2018

The Kraken tries arguing on Twitter

I'm not exactly a proficient Twitter user. Something something tentacles getting in the way of the character limit etc. So I only rarely get on that platform, and even more rarely interact with people. But, occasionally I get a random shard of coral stuck in one of my arms and need to engage. Who are the most obnoxious [real] people on Twitter? My vote, as insignificant as it is, goes to the gun nuts. They are like pit bulls that just lock jaws on an argument and just never let go. I happened to see David Hogg's tweet about taxing gun sales to fund research on gun violence. Kind of like alcohol and tobacco taxes are supposed to fund health care (I don't know what those actually do except impoverish smokers). Anyway, I immediately thought of Chris Rock's famous stand up routine about making bullets cost $5000 each. And here's the result, I wasn't angry until Glen chimed in. It's only when the reprogrammable meatbags who have done a great job on internalizing gun lobby propaganda that sound like strong pillars to them but are actually made of smoke start shooting their mouths off that I go full Lakoff.






Yes, there is a tax on firearms and cartridges already existing. It did not dissuade the Las Vegas shooter from spraying thousands of bullets into a crowd. If the idea is that making something more expensive will lead to lower consumption of that product has any merit, then a surtax on ammunition should be productive. Perhaps, if you are discussing things in good faith and your aim is actually to decrease gun violence, then this would be a conversation worth having. But:



This is an individual that wouldn't understand how arguments work if one walked up and slapped him in the face with a rifle. So I abandoned good faith and simply rejected the premise of his NRA talking points. Talking points that have obviously never been challenged by anyone after they have escaped his pie hole.







It seems that the art of arguing with gun nuts seems to be expending as little effort as possible for each line while rejecting the premise of each of their assertions. The NRA and gun propagandists have presumable spent a lot of money and time crafting these "criminals don't care" frames and injecting them into the minds of followers. If you have spent your entire life with the intellectual crutch of merely accepting these talking points and never having them challenged or even spending a moment of critical thought on them, then it makes sense that they sound like "common sense." As much as "the sun rises in the east" but never asking why it does so. Telling them that the sun isn't actually moving and it is actually the Earth rotating into view of the sun fries circuits.

No expert here, but I'm pretty sure when you claim to have won the argument you have really just given up. I could keep challenging him on who these criminals are, are they completely monolithic and sharing every attribute? Or is this simply a lazy, unfounded, and sweeping generalization without meaning? Most stories of gun massacres I read specifically state that the weapons and ammunition were bought legally, so I don't know what on Earth he is talking about. He sure got touchy after I deduced that he supports gun violence from his words didn't he? But I guess I will give him points for not calling me a libtard or communist.

After Glen stopped liking every reply from Fat Cat and nobody else stepped in to support the cat, his enthusiasm for making me cry started to wane. Just for future reference here is a chart of logical fallacies, it is one of many. Should we play bingo on it?

The fundamental components of argument are that the party making an assertion has to defend it. The other party has no need to prove the assertion is incorrect. To "win" your assertion must be supported with facts and evidence. Making assertions "all criminals obtain their guns illegally" without proof is called conjecture and is as hollow as regurgitating talking points without any understanding of what they mean.

Now for some obligatory book references:

Lakoff, because to negate a frame is to activate a frame (criminals don't obey laws).

Altemeyer, because gun nuts are almost by definition scared little rabbits who surrendered the ability to think critically and assess new information to fear a long time ago.

Charles, because the gun debate should have some actual facts and history.

Neiwert, because gun nuts really do inhabit a different, much more violent reality from the rest of us

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Sunday, November 11, 2018

Adios, Keinweidersehen, Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out Scotty

I was hasty in my last post, Scott Walker has dropped out of the race and conceded. Just like he dropped out of college because higher education expects you to think of others and not be selfish AF. The man who claimed being an Eagle Scout prepared him for being Commander in Chief of a military he never served in, Scotty seems to have never internalized the values of service that the Boy Scouts stress. Public service to Scotty was always an avenue to self-aggrandizement, that is why he titled his garbage book unintimidated [no link because fuck the bastard]. That is why he once claimed after hiding in the Capitol basement that "taking on" 100,000 protestors qualified him to rule the country and the world. The little weasel with the lazy eye and bald spot has been removed from office, he has only the lame duck season to inflict more harm on the state of Wisconsin.

You might ask, "but Mr. Kraken, you don't even live in Wisconsin anymore. Why aren't you more jubilant that Bruce Rauner is going home?" Good question gentle reader, I guess I'm over relying on the liberal superpower of memory as Driftglass likes to say. I was one of many casualties of Scotty's war on workers. I will probably never have a career because though I excelled in school, unlike Mr. 2.59 GPA. Maybe I should have signed up for the right wing grift machine? It was always personal, Scotty set himself up as an outsider even though he was a career politician and the rubes bought it. The subtle fascist overtones of "us against them" was always present in his communications. Scotty didn't even have to dog whistle, he ran against President Obama as though he was in the same league as the constitutional law professor. It didn't matter, the white working class of Wisconsin presaged doughfacedonny's base in their overt displays of racism and ignorance of how anything in the United States actually worked. You couldn't go to any restaurant or bar without overhearing "serious" conversations between old and not so old white people who probably never travelled 50 miles from the place of their birth holding court on "Milwaukee people" and their invasion of small towns, how state workers were pampered at the "regular folks" expense, and especially about the eggheads in Madison.

So to prove how trampled upon they were, they elected a man who ensured that none of their kids would get a decent education and would leave the state at the earliest possibility. Thus ensuring that stagnation, economic and social, persisted in their communities. But it's cool because there was a black man in their White House to blame. The few Democrats in my area had always been demoralized by the sea of militant ignorance around us. And I was blacklisted against any possibility of employment. So don't fucking tell me not one answer to a thousand resumes and cover letters wasn't personal. And I was now overqualified for blue collar work too, not that any factories were hiring during the great recession.

Eight years later, Wisconsin is basically a shell of it's former self. The state is no longer really a laboratory of democracy, and has almost no residual progressivism that marked public life and made the Badger state such a good place to live. I guess I never really understood or appreciated what a difference the progressive income tax made in smoothing out funding for schools, libraries, and other public services. In Illinois, the rich pay the same low (though the one rate was raised slightly when the new budget) percentage of their income as the working class. Therefore, we have a 10%+ sales tax, out-of-control property taxes, toll roads, red light camera automated traffic tickets, and a million other labor/cost intensive revenue streams all diluted by the corporate interests who get a piece of it when they corrupt the politicians. These interests do not care if it is Democrats or republicans they corrupt and lobby to get their rents, so every time I see a reprogrammable meatbag commenting on the corruption of the "Democrat Party" in Chicago or Springfield I want to mail them dungbombs. That is the road that Scotty put Wisconsin on, cut progressive taxes and jack up user fees. The republicans floated toll roads a while back as a great idea but probably had to abandon it because it would mainly hit their voters commuting into Milwaukee. And Wisconsin probably would have a train running from Milwaukee to Madison by now if Scotty hadn't refused it.

You don't even need to name details. Everything Scotty says was a self-serving lie, everything his pet republican legislature did was to inflict maximum cruelty on their "enemies" in education.

Good riddance. It will take 16 to 24 years of continuous Democratic governance to recover from Scotty and his thugs' destructive 8 years.
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Saturday, November 10, 2018

The Left Finally Makes it to the Starting Line

I don't want to make light of the victory. It was historic in many respects. First off, the many parasites removed from the body politic. I was amazed that Governor hedge fund conceded so early. But he has a posh billionaire's life to go back to and can probably leave the smoking ruin he left in Illinois behind for some sunny clime. Governor bald spot of course hung on and still hasn't conceded at the time of writing. He is a spent force. No nice billionaire or foundation has a chair waiting for him after the many times he failed "conservatism." I don't really care as long as he fucking leaves. Same for the others on this list.

It was a win for women and a win for diversity. The midterm elections really showed that turn out can make a difference. Your vote mattered. Local races matter, volunteering or donating money in them can do a lot. It is high time Democrats figure that out. Not the national party or it's consultants just fighting over a percentage of the ad buys. We, the people, at the community level can get our friends or people we know into local offices all on our own. That really can be the new, hip thing to do; DIY democracy, the way the founders intended. From a big picture and just day to day perspective, the people on the school board or city council have an outsized influence on our public life. Sure, local government has little power to combat climate change or make the filthy rich pay their share in taxes but having control over local governments give you stepping stones to influence at higher levels.

The best thing about contesting and winning local office is denying them to the fascists, fundamentalists, and petty mountebanks who otherwise can sleaze their way in. And then those same people have to "go get real jobs" as they are always telling liberals and young people to do. Some local offices and state legislatures allow representatives to hire staff, more opportunities to get young people involved. Because then you get experience in how government works. In this day of newspapers shuttering it is difficult to get information on how local government works, but if you know a guy or gal on the council you can learn a lot. Maybe young, hip people getting into local government could lead to a renaissance of local media. It isn't difficult or expensive to start a blog, podcast, or even YouTube channel. If this trend becomes a movement these new "news" entrepreneurs could expand into print and even AM radio. All without permission from the national Democratic Party or big media operations.

All of this is to say that this midterm election, against all odds, was a success. Not an unqualified success, each House seat was way too difficult to wrest away from fascist republicans, but one party dictatorship has been broken for now. Right wing authoritarianism is a minority position, that is the first step to that starting line, to realize and finally believe that right wingers are neither omnipotent nor legitimate. This has been something of a through line of my blog, calling right wing nonsense "conservatism" is the big joke, they aren't trying to conserve anything that really exists but using the word dresses up the extremism and irresponsibility of republicans, imbuing them with an air of legitimacy. "Conservative" sounds grown up and responsible, the strict father who's only doing this (to you) because it's for the best. Well, no, the cruelty is for cruelty's sake alone. As is the name-calling, gloating, and condescending faux-paternalism they call on more lucid days "tough love." Reject the premise. Any deference to their delusions will legitimize racism, misogyny, short-sighted nihilism, lying, and mean-spirited ignorance.

If it took a con man with short fingers and ridiculous hair to finally convince millennials and all Democrats to finally dispense with any residual misplaced belief that the elder generation knows what they are doing because they are older, great. Now we need to use that epiphany to pressure the news media to stop treating republicans with undeserved respect and deference that allows their lies and cruelty to go unchallenged. Then, when the inevitable cries of "traitor" and "anti-American" arise from wingnut central command, we can dismiss them as the empty rhetoric they always were.

It's gonna be hard, it's gonna take a long time, but we can get there. Let's have some hope that this time the lesson takes, that all the new voters and participants in Democracy on the Liberal side stick with it. If any of your friends start saying anything akin to "well, I voted, now it's up to the Democrats to do something." Or when the new Democratic officials inevitably compromise liberal ideals and fail to stand up to doughfacedonny with sufficient zeal these friends throw up their hands and say fuck it to remind them that it's up to us, not the people we elected, to keep informed and keep pressure on. It's human nature to get comfortable or complacent, it's also natural for young people to get discouraged relatively easily when things don't go as well as they hoped. We all have to stick together and support each other. We made it to the starting line after getting kneecapped for decades, but we can catch up to the fascists if we just put one foot in front of the other and keep going. 

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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

So What Happens Tomorrow?

Let's game out the possibilities.

Liberals have to be prepared for the worst. It is possible that "our" best isn't good enough. That despite nearly unprecedented energy and motivation from Democrats this time around, voter suppression, gerrymandering, straight up corruption and ballot tampering, foreign interference, and ever present republican ratfucking will fit Lady Liberty for cement shoes and drop American democracy into the drink. The gloating from your republican "friends" will be beyond unbearable. The damage to the country will be unimaginable.

Elections are so tricky. When I was in college, political science classes always claimed that midterm elections were stable and that incumbents had a 90%+ chance of reelection. The conditions that make for a wave are hard to assemble, but an unpopular president and complacent party of enablers in Congress are pretty good pillars to build that wave. But we've never had a "majority" (ho ho!) party so openly and brazenly rig the rules. In the unruly nineteenth century elections were pretty corrupt, but it was equally so in most cases. Except in the post-Reconstruction South, where intimidation and outright murder was often the order of the day by ex-Confederates of African-American officials overseeing elections of storing ballots.

If Democrats take back some governor's mansions and statehouses but fall short of a majority in the House of Representatives then you can probably just write of the Federal Government, from Social Security and Medicare to what's left of federal agencies. Donald Doughface will have succeeded in the lifelong republican dream of completely destroying the one institution that could hold the corporate elite accountable. Any progress the states make under Democratic leadership will be crushed by federal power intrusion and the illegitimate supreme court. Maybe people will remain engaged and motivated to try again in 2020, more likely they will give up and resign themselves to misery and ruin. Then the few of us who remain active may finally admit that this is an occupied nation. No other force would take over a country and strip it of resources, drive it into unprecedented debt, wreck every function, and strive so hard to placate it's supporters. It's as if the mafia took over and is getting ready to burn it down for the insurance money. Oh, duh. That probably will happen soon too.

If many states see state level gains by Democrats, a large percentage of those nearly one thousand legislative seats and governorships lost during the Obama Administration, then a lot of the gerrymandering and voter suppression can be undone. At least the conditions for free and fair elections can be restored. It was strategic state level investments by project REDMAP in 2010 by republicans to capture whatever levers of power to draw the maps they needed to take over a majority of seats with a minority of voters. This is the level of farce we have been living in since at least 1994, an entire generation of minority rule.

A gain of 25 seats in the House of Representatives will mean that committee chairs pass to Democrats, the Speaker's gavel goes to a Democrat. It means that Democrats will set the agenda. It will mean Democrats have subpoena power and can get moving on the investigations needed to uncover the criminal conspiracy of the occupying force. Retaking the Senate is realistically out of reach. THAT WAS WHY ALL OF YOU JACKHOLES SHOULD HAVE VOTED IN 2016 EVEN IF HILLARY DIDN'T "INSPIRE" YOU OR WHATEVER RUSSIAN-INSPIRED NONSENSE YOU BELIEVED AT THE TIME.

*Ahem* Sorry about that digression. I'm just unimpressed that it takes a fascist takeover of our country to get people to finally take notice. That is the most important thing tomorrow. STAY AWAKE! You and I and everyone we know have to stay involved, informed, and ready to vote again. Next time and every time. Evil thrives on apathy and division.

Whatever occurs tonight, don't you dare pretend ever again that politics doesn't affect you. Or that both sides are equally bad, or that you don't want to bother because it's only the lesser of two evils. Democrats have flaws but Republicans are a death cult of human suffering, their evil is on a completely different plane. Tomorrow if Democrats retake the House expect a unified chorus from Doughfacedonny on down the right wing noise machine about fraud and illegitimacy. Expect constant efforts by the lame duck devils to bury the bodies and wreck everything they can before leaving. If they leave.

This election season was a battle. Tomorrow will be a battle. When the new Congress and legislatures are seated will be another battle. Democracy is worth the fight. Fascism needs to be defeated.
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Saturday, October 27, 2018

The War Comes Home

Enough imagining, enough asking questions, enough coddling violent and deranged republicans. Once they start mailing bombs, we have passed the point of civility or unity or reconciliation. Of course it was a trump supporting republican who sent them. Who is limbaugh trying to kid?

It seems redundant to ask everyone reading this to make doubly-damn sure they are registered to vote and get a friend or ten to go with them to vote, but here we go. MAKE SURE YOU VOTE! And vote straight Democratic, the time of protest votes or other excuses has passed. We have this one chance to restore the rule of law through the system. Say it. Say it loud. Republicans are fucking fascists and don't give a shit about the Constitution. Now Republican stochastic terrorism has manifested in the most cowardly, right wing authoritarian way: bombs through the mail. I tweeted it, I Facebooked it:
Mailing bombs is the exact method a right wing authoritarian follower would use. He has been given explicit permission from all of the authorities he respects and maintained cowardly distance from the violence i e taken great steps to not be held accountable. These are all hallmarks of high RWAs, they are burning up with hatred toward the scapegoat du jour, abhor a fair fight, and dogmatically believe they are in the right.
This is probably the Fort Sumter of the new (cold) civil war. This time, the elite has to wake up and take notice. It probably won't be a shooting war, though this kind of random violence will continue. It's a dangerous time to be a journalist, they are going to be squeezed from both sides even more than before. To be a journalist is to report what is going on, and what is going on is continuous aggression by republicans (I refuse to use any permutation of the word "trumpism"). The maga hats will continue to threaten journalists physically and journalists' bosses will continue to threaten their jobs and censor their work. Doughface Donny and the republican talking heads have practically begged the disposable chumps who blindly follow whatever the party line of the day happens to be to assault and murder as many reporters as they can. Now some drooling reprogrammable meatbag has attempted to do just that, and threw in a bunch of prominent Democrats just for kicks.

I have noticed that very few of the white racist maga hats that get caught on video screaming at minorities for parking while black or speaking spanish in public actually seem to get punished. There seems to be very little repercussion for acting like a jackass in public these days. Sure, their flailing in plain sight goes viral and occasionally merits a few seconds of coverage on TV news, but have any of them lost jobs or been charged with crimes? If they have it hasn't made as big a splash as the viral videos. So what exactly is the negative reinforcement mechanism for right-wing violence? They certainly couldn't care less that people they consider subhuman enemies are shaming them on teh interwebs. And here we are, there is certainly a species of republican who can't wait to be caught and enshrined in martyrdom, but most just know that there is no punishment for authoritarian behavior.

And the result is the feeling of impunity among would be assassins of the Dunning-Krueger variety. The right wing noise machine barely wasted a moment before calling the entire episode a "false flag" operation by Democrats to bomb themselves and gin up sympathy before the election. Because why not? 'What are you gonna do about it lefty?'

That is the only question to ask anymore, how to punish them. What can be done? Sure, there's voting but let's be serious; Democrats don't show up in midterms, young people barely show up at all. We have to proceed with the assumption that team blue falls short, that any gains at the state level will be challenged and harrassed by republican lawyers and officials. That the election happens and nothing changes. Will it be the Russians again, or simply the voter suppression and dissuasion campaigns run by republicans? Respectable leftists don't seem to want to admit the central premise that we are an occupied nation, occupied by the zombie corpse of the Confederacy and it's Doughface apologists. As such, what do tyrants care about rules and norms?

Violence won't work, these meatbags thrive on violence. It has to be an escalation of what has sporadically been occurring already, public shaming, noncooperation, boycotts, disrupting family "peace". How many years have the civility police been wagging their fingers at liberals for responding to crazy uncle liberty at the stereotypical Thanksgiving dinner? "Sorry dad, I don't want my children associating with traitors and fascists. Sorry mom, maybe you should have thought about the grandchildren before supporting sexual predators, unrepentant drunks, and utter corruption." Leave no baseless assertion unchallenged. I've heard people trying to build support for a Lysistrata campaign, obviously that wouldn't work for the already captured white women who have been brainwashed by their husbands etc. but the sentiment is good. That won't have any effect on the "incel" goons or loners but this has gotten so far beyond the "shop at farmer's markets" level of resistance that the campaign will have to reach into unconventional areas.

Remember, the intent of the bomber was to kill. He wanted to hurt his arbitrary enemies, the "them" whom he had been brainwashed by fox and the noise machine into hating. There is a level of authoritarianism in most men but when it is egged on by the leaders they respect their aggressiveness, dogmatism, and conventionalism escalate. Every trump supporting republican is a potential bomber. Or shooter, or brawler, or member of a lynch mob, or just a plain old internet troll and they enthusiastically perform these services for their masters without pay in many cases.

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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

I get the feeling

Perhaps I commented as the Tentacles Facebook page on a news article about Beto O'Rourke and his campaign to unseat one of the greasiest, most loathsome Canadians ever to sneak into the US Senate. I have written a couple of posts about Tailgunner Ted, he is so reminiscent of Joseph McCarthy in his style and duck-speak that a Wisconsin Sea Monster had to take notice. So I get the feeling that the fundamentalists and authoritarians in Texas are ramped up and extra sensitive about anyone talking smack about their dumb ass senator.

Almost as soon as I posted the last blog about my new troll followers I got another one. This time a genuine Texas fundamentalist Christian clicked the "like" button on the blog's Facebook page. This one is so sophisticated she could not figure out how to change her current city of residence. Her favorite book is the bible, she loves movies about how persecuted the Christians are, but can actually post an occasional item that has nothing to do with politics. I welcome good faith arguments but my time is too valuable to swat down regurgitated talking points from professional liars and pre-chewed memes that confirm authoritarian biases.

So I guess I will post this advisory. You can lurk. You can ask questions in good faith. You can comment on why you think what I post is wrong or mistaken. What you cannot do is flood my posts with duck-speak, word salad, or endless streams of doctored pictures we call memes; okay?

Ted, Michael, and Corena you three can have an opportunity to be actual conservatives. Or you can earn my scorn as re-programmable meat-bags and gullible authoritarian followers without an original thought in your heads. You can continue to be led around the path to poverty and destruction by liars and sociopaths who laugh at how easy it is to get you to jump on command. Or you can step up, learn a few things, and earn your citizenship in our great Republic.

I doubt it, but it's your choice.

I'll say one thing though, if you choose to make a ruckus it will only increase my score in Facebook's algorithm and make my work more visible. More visibility means more likes from my side, more page views for the blog, and more valuable monetization of my writing.
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Not the kind of publicity I am looking for

There has been an uptick in the number of "likes" this blog's Facebook page has gotten recently. At first I thought that the approaching midterm elections and general rising awareness of just how bad authoritarian government really is was driving it. And we're still talking about a tiny number of people overall, this page is just my hobby after all. I am not really interested in spending money promoting my work or doing the kind of shameless self-promotion necessary to draw a larger following. If people like what I write, great; but I'm not losing any sleep that I don't have more of an impact. The internet is enormous, the choices of political voices to follow are immense, and frankly it is more about expressing myself than winning hearts and minds or anything like that.

However, yesterday I noticed one of the new likes has as his profile page a man riding a horse while wearing a shirt made out of an American flag. Hmm, now that is interesting. So I fumbled around and finally figured out how to look at his page. I'll give you three guesses as to his political leanings and the first two don't count. Oh good, a troll. Then I looked at the next guy, who didn't have a profile picture of his carefully-coiffed, shit-dressed hairstyle. Yup, another one. Both old, white, baby boomers from the confederate states. Both have a huge number of right wing memes posted one after another on their pages. Did I comment on some other page they were trolling and that is how they found me? What are their plans? As far as I can tell don't know each other. A mystery in the making.

I guess this will be an interesting experiment. I haven't attracted trolls in quite a while. The last time I recall was several years ago and that was a one and done word vomit of a comment about guns. Very few of the shared memes and links I saw had even a personal comment from them, and very little interaction from their friends. Can we infer from that that these trolls are nobodies? Speculation can lead to stereotyping but I can't think of any plausible good faith reasons why two baby boomer wingnuts would "like" my page. Question is, are they as lazy and stupid as so many of their peers? Will they delve through my work to muck up my comments? Are they scouting for their handlers back in Moscow? Are they even real people? I have lost count of how many friend requests I have gotten from pretty young ladies with no friends or posts other than some generic landscape pictures. You can just delete those without any problems but how do you handle obnoxious fans on a public page? So far I have not experienced a concerted wingnut attack in my home turf.

It will have to be a "wait and see" situation. But if I had to scuttle the blog's Facebook page I would not lose any sleep over it. If I had to scuttle the blog itself, would I even think twice? Probably not.

Gin and tacos used to have a field day whenever somebody shared one of his posts and their right wing relatives would come and give GnT a hard time after seeing their insolent young liberal child or niece share some "offensive" thing where their snowflake baby boomer ass could see GnT's exquisite take downs of the authoritarians' talking point du jour and get triggered. It was like art watching a professor of political science run circles around these bigoted boomer assholes. If need be I can always take lessons from him.

I want to be very specific here though, many baby boomers aren't like that. Many did march for Civil Rights and against the war with sincerity, and even if they didn't just lived quiet lives not bothering anyone. No these are almost exclusively white men without college degrees who never had life shit on them outside of their control. Getting divorced or alienating their kids was a decision they made because nothing ever forced them to grow up and stop being so selfish. These are the people who at first listened to Rush Limbaugh during commutes or alone at work. Then started listening to Limbaugh clones as they began dominating the AM radio dial. They jumped up on their little hind legs and bleated with joy when Fox News started confirming all of their prejudices. And they got their children to set up email accounts for them so they could share every anonymous chain email that bashed minorities, women, or liberals. Now they use Facebook and Twitter without having much knowledge of how the platforms work. And everything is their business, if they can't butt into someone's conversation they will invent one to provoke a response. Everything is a power play and everything has to be politicized. They are the least self-aware Dunning-Kruger patients imaginable and never met a logical fallacy or hypocritical double standard that they didn't fall in love with.

They love doughfacedonny because he is just like them and just like how they wish they could be with money. Gaudy, boorish, bullies who can use and abuse women anytime they feel like it. Donny is their ideal and his stolen election has given the red hat boomer assholes license to shit all over anything. They act as though they have immunity to any repercussions from their childish behavior. The baby boom generation was born into an almost paradise on Earth, prosperous and safe with good schools and plentiful jobs waiting for them after their school years. But something happened somewhere along the line to a large enough cohort among them and they pulled up the ladder after them, screwing their kids and the planet in the process. They voted for Reagan to cut their taxes once they were really secure in their professions and shred the safety net while giving them war boners with all the Pentagon spending and new toys. It has been a downhill slide since.

I wish beyond reasonable expectations that these guys would finally find a new hobby and leave the rest of us the hell alone. We have quite enough to do to clean up their mess.
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