I just witnessed an adult point at a TV screen with Dan Bongino on it and say “This guy is great…”

And he was serious.

I may have blurted out “Dan Bongino? He is a fucking moron.”

Guy just looked at me.

I added “He’s a grifter. You’re the mark.” on my way by.

Dummy.
Just imagine the lifelong sequence of bad decisions required to arrive at adulthood impressed by Dan Bongino.

Usually, when there is that little brain activity, they harvest the organs.
Oh, I left out the prelude.

Guy is ranting about how COVID is the flu.

Then he blurts out - rhetorically - to the two 60+ year old waitresses “Ya know how many people die from the flu each year?!”

And from down the counter, I say “36,000”.

Waitresses turn to look at me.
Dude turns to look at me.

His friend turns to look at me.

It was a record-scratch moment.

Me: 36,000 people die of flu in the US in a typical year.

Him: 😶

Me: That’s about how many died from COVID every month.

Waitresses: 😳

Him: 😶

Me: A year of flu deaths every month.
Dude literally stopped talking.

Didn’t say another word about COVID.

Waited a minute and then changed the subject.

This has happened several times now. Fox News-watchers all bluster until they realize someone who knows they are full of shit is listening. Then crickets.
I have to say, I’ve been surprised by it.

I’ve blurted something out because I just couldn’t take it and then braced for what I thought would be an argument… and the blistering big mouths have just shut the fuck up.
It’s like Fox News is their opportunity to talk shit like they’re smarter than people who they secretly know are smarter…

And when they realize they aren’t among just their fellow numpties, they clam up because they know they’ll get embarrassed.

It’s interesting.
I truly think that for a lot of these people it isn’t about the content at all. It doesn’t matter what the subject is.

They are just resentful.

They are just mad about where they are in life and hate the people above them in the food chain.

They’re oppositional toddlers.

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21 Dec
Maybe if we just talk to them, they’ll get vaxed.
The eligible-but-unvaxed population are suicide bombers at this point.

They are a societal danger by choice.

They potentially cost innocent lives every time they are out in public.

We are about to be forced back into lockdowns specifically because of their recklessness.
I really cannot put this any more bluntly, as a public policy input, I don’t give the tiniest shit why someone eligible is unvaccinated.

I care that responsible and vulnerable populations are not endangered by the irresponsibility of the unvaxed population.
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20 Dec
If you are so fucking stupid, you use dipshit lingo like “brogressives” when talking about JOE BIDEN’S LEGISLATIVE AGENDA, your stay in my mentions will be very brief.

And if you like or retweet moronic comments like that, so will yours. Image
Seriously, it is absolutely pathetic how many people are so obsessed with hating OTHER DEMOCRATS, they cannot process that Progressives were the ones trying to protect JOE BIDEN’S LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES.

There is no excuse in 2021 for being this fucking obtuse. None.
The irony here is that AOC’s biggest fans hate me because I have been a critic of *some* of her choices.

They think I’m some centrist because I’m an older progressive who understands that the keyword there is “progress” - as in, actually making some.
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17 Dec
Seeing some pretty wild, over the top takes about the “Tik Tok school violence scare”.

Seems like folks might not really understand Tik Tok and the current dumb trend.

1/
The backstory here is that somehow, a topic went viral on Tik Tok talking about there being violence in schools across the country today.

Topics spread fast on Tik Tok. It is designed for that. That’s literally part of its strategy. It is a viral platform.

2/
Tik Tok is built to find things that are getting attention and accelerate them getting much more attention.

Usually, they’re totally benign. A dance. A stunt. Sometimes they’re things like BTS mobilizing a zillion people to sign up for all the tickets to a Trump rally.

3/
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17 Dec
I am a person who tends to vastly underestimate the amount of effort involved in things I want to do.

If I like an idea, I will be at least 100% off on my estimate of how hard it will be to do.

Every time.

Case in point: I saw an eagle today. I wanted to take its picture.

1/
I mean, how hard can that be?

I have a camera with a very large lens and the eagle was just sitting there.

This would certainly be a quick affair.

The minor rub: the eagle was a freakin’ mile away.

See the yellow arrow?

2/
So, I’m like “No prob. I shall walk down this bank approximately 50
yards and that will somehow reduce the distance between us by approximately one mile. Geometry!”

It… did not.

I ran out of bank and was only this close.

3/
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16 Dec
It seems reasonable to speculate that the White House Press Corp:

1) Heard about the Trump Admin’s evolving coup plot

2) Didn’t report on it for a variety of reasons (eg would hurt their access; didn’t take it seriously; etc); and

3) Now, they’re in a bind

1/
It seems absolutely impossible that the Maggie Haberman’s of the world didn’t hear *anything at all* about literally the only work anyone in the Trump Admin was doing for two months.

These crooks ain’t that slick… and a bunch of them saw nothing wrong with what they were doing.
Narcissists are experts at creating a coercive dependency that keeps people onboard with their misbehavior - or at least keeps them silent.

We’re quickly learning about the lawmakers who were onboard.

3/
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14 Dec
It has come to my attention that @SamStein has blocked me.

Did you know that when Sam is done hyping Politico’s anti-Biden bullshit every day, he goes home to his multimillion dollar home paid for by his Facebook attorney wife?
Or, here’s a fun-fact:

Sam silver-spooned his way through a prep school that runs close to $50k a year before silver-spooning his way through an Ivy.

Now Sam uses all that privilege to shitpost the Biden Admin for profit while his wife collects Facebook money.
Guys… Sam would NEVER badmouth Kamala Harris just because his household income is closely tied to the Facebook platform that openly supported Trump.

I’m sure a Dartmouth grad just wasn’t bright enough to know Kamala Harris’ headphone choice wasn’t crucial news.

Must be that.
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