If there's one thing this world needs, in times like these, it's another blog by a white fella talking about the news and culture he loves to hate.
All in The Trumppening
Fear the raped.
So we've gone from needing a wall to protect us from the Mexican rapists, to not getting the wall, to needing the military to stand guard at the southern border to protect us from those who have been raped.
"Also, the pee tape probably exists. What are you gonna do? Things get weird, sometimes. If there's a tape there's a tape. So much for your *Kompromat,* Vlad."
"It matters that the President is a racist cockbag. It matters. Holy shit, it matters."
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"It's Always Been Thus."
"The truth is that the lowest common denominator always sells, and always has, and always will--because some of the population is dumb enough to just straight up buy it, and the rest is all-too-pleased to get off on their own self-aware self-congratulation to do anything besides continue to lap it up, too."
Friday Night LinkDump TakeStorm! Or TakeDump Linkstorm! Or, whatever!
"The morality of any given entity or situation isn’t secondary to him--it’s utterly non-existent, a non-factor. I think this comes out of a peculiar sort of reductive nihilism--a specific sort that I first noticed in very redneck-y poor white people, but I recognize more and more elsewhere, now. They believe they have discovered the absolute base, terrible nature of our true humanity, and have no illusions about it. Everyone is just another shit-stain human being. None of us are any better, all of us are utter shit with nothing to redeem us. To pretend otherwise is just the false, politically-correct nonsense of “putting on airs.”
“You ain’t no better than me, because none of us is any better than our absolute worst selves,” they believe. All of us just crabs in a big ol’ bucket."
When To Punch Nazis
"This is a problem of confusion about institutions, I think. Even if you grant some of the absurdity above--that the cost of education or healthcare is violence, for instance [ed. note: Blogger had mild aneurysm trying to grant said point, shouted “NO GODDAMN IT, VIOLENCE IS VIOLENCE, YOUR FUCKING TUITION IS NOT VIOLENCE,” and quite startled the cats.]--it is beyond ridiculous to suggest that Cletus in his Nazi get-up must be held accountable for your institutional grievances, no matter how valid."
"The distance between *what this actually says* and *how our enemies are going to use this against us* has been entirely eliminated, regardless of the actual original content. "We must interpret what is before us only in the terms that the lowest common denominator will interpret it, and then reject the whole thing without a second thought," they're effectively saying. Or, it must be South Park's fault that some Twitter egg or Pepe the Frog quotes Cartman's "your tears are delicious" while shitting on your heartfelt terror about the Trumpian State online. That asshole certainly wouldn't have found some other way to bum you out, if South Park had never existed, I guess.
We have had a reactionary cultural response to the age of irony, and well-meaning deference, sincerity, empathy, and credulity have conspired to replace objective shared reality with a collective ethic of solipsism--and then held that solipsism up as a virtue of progress!
John Oliver Savagely Dunks on Second Grader
When you refuse to even nod in the direction of the rapid pace of change, when you dismiss the sincere concerns--to be clear (again again again) I think they're mostly wrong--of millions as absurd random nonsense, you only exacerbate the divide. You're not interested in conversation with these people, you believe them to be outside The Project. And then they go and elect a screaming lunatic and huckster as president of the United States, the shrieking and growling fruit of our rotten tree, just for the indignant satisfaction of having a flaming middle finger in your face all the time.
