Warning: Offensive

You may have noticed I don't bring up politics anymore- or at least not much.  Not because I don't have opinions- you've heard 'em.  Not because I've "lost some friends" over politics- though I have, and it's on them, not me. 

But it isn't worth it anymore.  It's not entertaining, it's not informative, and it is far, far from constructive.  Today, I see Congressional eyesore Kamala Harris is going on yet another rant about how Trump should be impeached.  Have you ever noticed that out of ALL the Presidents who have had people yelling for impeachment, the only one who even came that close to getting turned out was the only one that did something to deserve it?  I mean, other than having policies the other guys don't like (See Andrew Johnson, Barack Obama) or got caught doing stuff others got away with in office (see Bill Clinton, Jack Kennedy, Warren Harding).  And of course, if one semi-senile radical says it, then all the other ones go right along with it.  When was the last time we got one with an ounce of sense to tell the others to act adult?  It does happen, but you barely hear about it.


And it isn't one sided.  I would like a buck (slang for DOLLAR) for every time I hit "hide post" on a low class dig at John McCain at or near his death.  (You'll note that just one week ago, I had some fun with McCain, but only because the cameraman shoulda had him standing a little more in profile so he didn't LOOK like he was peeing.)  Getting a bit tired of Hillary-in-prison-orange too, BTW.  AND the former-FLOTUS-was-a-man crap.   And while I get that about 90% of the stupid stuff our current POTUS says is just to distract idiots from what he's actually accomplishing, It would sure be nice if he didn't give vultures like Bob Woodward and the world-famous "anonymous official" so much ammunition.

So let's take a teenage not-so-victim of a massacre and turn him into something he's not- either a living symbol for people who don't get that neither side really wants to get rid of guns because they are a valuable tool in divide-and-conquer, or a whelp of the Anti-Christ (so said by many who wouldn't know a false prophet from a car salesman).  Or let's start a mass movement involving insulting half the population to make a point you could have made better by setting up a charitable foundation to help bridge the hate and prejudice- but then, if you did that, your lack of skills at football would have left you to sink into obscurity.  Or how about nailing a real weasel like Harvey Weinstein, beginning a movement to root out all the similar weasels- and then trying to lie your way out after it is learned you were the very same kind of weasel-ette.


Or how about telling everyone who succeeded in a previous administration, "you didn't build that," but when the next administration starts succeeding, saying, "I did that."


A FB friend who has inspired me in many things- not of them yet illegal- posted this today, and it inspired this post of mine...


I’ve decided to wrestle back a perfectly acceptable word from the English language. A word which has been co-opted by the LGBTQ community. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you “queer,” meaning “strange” or “odd.”
Wish me luck!


I agree with him, here.  Not about "wrestling back", but about the whole stupid thing about, you can't use x-word.  So a man gets fired for using the word "niggardly" in a sentence correctly.  Or I have to have PSAs warning me not to use the word "gay" as an insult.  I'll make you a deal- I'll cease using gay as "that (insert TV show/sport rule/shoe style) is so gay when YOU stop using it for "homosexual".  Until then, I just don't care.  I still remember Howard Cosell getting in hot water one Monday Night.  He was admiring the squirting-away ability of diminutive wide receiver Charlie Brown of the Redskins, and said with an inflection of pure amusement, "The little monkey".  99% of people knew there wasn't a bad intent anywhere in the comment- but after the next commercial, he had to apologize because some moron with nothing better to do complained it was a "racial slur".


Did you see what I did there?  "squirting-away", "Redskins", "moron".  I used those terms basically to demonstrate how many ways the Jackbooted Language Thugs (Oooh, there's another one) make life miserable by sitting in mama's basement (AND another) and picking apart every word that anyone says.  Like my friend, I am sick of it.  It is a queer thing to have to fight over language and I intend to gayly ignore it all.


So, did I offend anyone?


#MeToo.