During the days of Covid, in April of 2020, my son was so depressed about things he attempted suicide. The good news is that he is OK now, because his attempt was not fatal. He spent a week and a half in the hospital, mostly in ICU. We couldn't visit him during this time, I could talk to him on the phone and that was it. My wife and I just wanted to be there, hold his hand, and tell him we loved in and see him through this time of hell.
So, the least the gay community can do with regard to the Monkeypox is cool it with the big gay orgies. If that's asking too much of you, guess what? You can eat shit.
I'm still bitter about being told I can't be there for my son during his greatest moment of need...
(no duck or bike related jokes today... sorry. I can't)
It's always amazing how these news story's from each crisis try to mislead the public. The headline, “GOP Governors Cause Havoc by Busing Migrants to East Coast" has a real "Republicans POUNCE" feel to it. Who caused the crisis? Not the Democrat President who invited all of Central and South America, no not that guy. No, it was the REPUBLICAN Governors on the border who noticed and said, "why don't you go to some places where they love undocumented immigrants" who created this crisis. It's the same uncanny, every time, without fail response from our media. So frustrating!
What blows my mind is that even after all the evidence of just how untrustworthy and/or incompetent the MSM and their go-to experts are, many people are apparently buying into the narrative that monkeypox affects everyone equally. I'm reading about these anxious people trying to assess their risk level, all because they only read the NYT or Wapo. They are just sheep to the slaughter, every time.
"But health officials and longtime HIV activists say abstinence won't work." WHAT?! Gays can't even do "two weeks to slow the spread"? What's with the argument that "it's not fatal"?! "Once upon a time, long, long ago, in 2020-21, you were literally a terrorist..." This is another instance of hypocrisy and double standards.
"We can be pushed around because we’re just a bunch of rubes." That's because we haven't coalesced as a "tribe" yet. Most of us never wanted to belong to any tribe but "American" and we accepted in anyone who accepted and played by our rules.
Possibly the biggest current tribe in the US is that 25% (or less) of the 13% (and declining) of the population who are Black Americans. They are losing ground. And although Hispanics make up 17% or so of the population, they are a splintered tribe, if they're a real tribe at all, and many of them aspire to join "the Americans". Perhaps 10% of the 17% are some kind of generic Hispanic tribe. Probably 40% and growing are joining the "Americans", as are maybe 15% and growing of the Black Americans.
But the Gay Tribe has never been more than 2% of the total population. However, they usually don't have children (unlike the "Americans") so they have time and money that they can use in politics. They also discovered (or some of them did) that their particular combination of the major political resources -- time, money, and votes -- used cohesively and spent with passion and persistence gives them outsized sway. The difference between a company of well-armed Marines compared to a random mob 10 times as large.
However, the push, push, pushing of the rubes seems to be forcing them to create their own tribal identity separate from "Americans." Lets call them the Bitter-clinging Deplorables. That tribe may include 80% of working class, no college education whites, 15% of working class Blacks, and 40-50% of working class Hispanics. That's a real big tribe. And they're getting tired of being pushed around. Maybe they feel like pushing back. Now what happens?
I think we're in one of those political Realignments that the poli sci types like to talk about, but I think there are fewer tribes aligned with the Progressives than there are with what many of us used to be proud to be called -- Americans. Call that tribe MAGAs or Dittoheads or whatever, but if you poke them much more, I think that the Deplorables will make you wish you hadn't.
During the days of Covid, in April of 2020, my son was so depressed about things he attempted suicide. The good news is that he is OK now, because his attempt was not fatal. He spent a week and a half in the hospital, mostly in ICU. We couldn't visit him during this time, I could talk to him on the phone and that was it. My wife and I just wanted to be there, hold his hand, and tell him we loved in and see him through this time of hell.
So, the least the gay community can do with regard to the Monkeypox is cool it with the big gay orgies. If that's asking too much of you, guess what? You can eat shit.
I'm still bitter about being told I can't be there for my son during his greatest moment of need...
(no duck or bike related jokes today... sorry. I can't)
I can name it anything I want? Great! I'm going to call it Geor...
NO PUN INTENDED!?!? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's always amazing how these news story's from each crisis try to mislead the public. The headline, “GOP Governors Cause Havoc by Busing Migrants to East Coast" has a real "Republicans POUNCE" feel to it. Who caused the crisis? Not the Democrat President who invited all of Central and South America, no not that guy. No, it was the REPUBLICAN Governors on the border who noticed and said, "why don't you go to some places where they love undocumented immigrants" who created this crisis. It's the same uncanny, every time, without fail response from our media. So frustrating!
"None of this is about science. "
It never is.
Follow the money.
I didn’t ask for the ... *pencil-thin mustache*, but somehow the AI knew that’s what it needed.
My favorite Jimmy Buffet song: Pencil Thin Mustache
https://youtu.be/cXQS4S3vgGA
What blows my mind is that even after all the evidence of just how untrustworthy and/or incompetent the MSM and their go-to experts are, many people are apparently buying into the narrative that monkeypox affects everyone equally. I'm reading about these anxious people trying to assess their risk level, all because they only read the NYT or Wapo. They are just sheep to the slaughter, every time.
"But health officials and longtime HIV activists say abstinence won't work." WHAT?! Gays can't even do "two weeks to slow the spread"? What's with the argument that "it's not fatal"?! "Once upon a time, long, long ago, in 2020-21, you were literally a terrorist..." This is another instance of hypocrisy and double standards.
What does 115 credits get you?
"We can be pushed around because we’re just a bunch of rubes." That's because we haven't coalesced as a "tribe" yet. Most of us never wanted to belong to any tribe but "American" and we accepted in anyone who accepted and played by our rules.
Possibly the biggest current tribe in the US is that 25% (or less) of the 13% (and declining) of the population who are Black Americans. They are losing ground. And although Hispanics make up 17% or so of the population, they are a splintered tribe, if they're a real tribe at all, and many of them aspire to join "the Americans". Perhaps 10% of the 17% are some kind of generic Hispanic tribe. Probably 40% and growing are joining the "Americans", as are maybe 15% and growing of the Black Americans.
But the Gay Tribe has never been more than 2% of the total population. However, they usually don't have children (unlike the "Americans") so they have time and money that they can use in politics. They also discovered (or some of them did) that their particular combination of the major political resources -- time, money, and votes -- used cohesively and spent with passion and persistence gives them outsized sway. The difference between a company of well-armed Marines compared to a random mob 10 times as large.
However, the push, push, pushing of the rubes seems to be forcing them to create their own tribal identity separate from "Americans." Lets call them the Bitter-clinging Deplorables. That tribe may include 80% of working class, no college education whites, 15% of working class Blacks, and 40-50% of working class Hispanics. That's a real big tribe. And they're getting tired of being pushed around. Maybe they feel like pushing back. Now what happens?
I think we're in one of those political Realignments that the poli sci types like to talk about, but I think there are fewer tribes aligned with the Progressives than there are with what many of us used to be proud to be called -- Americans. Call that tribe MAGAs or Dittoheads or whatever, but if you poke them much more, I think that the Deplorables will make you wish you hadn't.
Enough already with Better Call Saul.........PLEASE.