It’s not easy to maintain decorum in what in normal times would be considered a world of bad practical jokes led by the prototypical middle school bully. Actually…it’s impossible. I tried and got various examples of snark, sass, sarcasm, and outright mean. I could never find the intelligent, intellectual treatise so much of my writing resembles. So I decided to go with the version that is just cranky, but in a world-weary, wacky way. Enjoy…not!
It’s quite started already. No I don’t mean the seeming swiftness of idiocy by which Dingy Donald is making his presence known. It’s the swiftness in which most reasonable people, even some of the lame brains who once supported Donny Dingbats, are tuning it out. “Oh, it’s just too idiotic to even think of.” “I can’t bear to watch the news so I’m not going to.” “It will go soon enough and this will be out of everyone’s system.”
If you’re dumb enough to think the constant lies that continue to fall out of his orange face and the incompetent if not outright stupid decisions he and his Kookie Cadre are attempting to foist upon us, you are as big a problem as the erstwhile assistant, Immigrant X-Factor.
I wish I could give you the citation but I am not sure there is a single source. It seems it is more of a truism that those who constantly lie do not do so hoping you will believe them or even to deceive, but that you ultimately become so inured to the lies that you stop caring about them being lies. That and it’s sneaky cousin, increasingly more outrageous acts, are what is going on. Dipstick Donny is out to barrage you with so much that is unbelievable that you stop believing.
You may have notice I have taken a page from Donald Dillweed’s playbook and made up some darling sobriquets for him, not necessarily to disparage, knowing I haven’t actually come out and said anything about a specific and clearly identifiable about any specific person. Consider it to be but just letting you decide who is the f***wad around here. Remember any turdbrain who accuses me of being hard a real person clearly is showing his/her/its true feelings assuming they think it must be DJ the Dipstick. (Did f***wad give it away?)
Naturally this is, for the time being, a free country, so if you disagree with me you have the right. And I have the right to delete any comments I don’t like then later say they never existed. But I would encourage you, to instead start spreading the word that there are bad things happening and its not that the price of eggs has almost doubled since November 5.
It’s the bad things like there is a tuberculosis outbreak going on in the US and the agencies who would be responsible for tracking and reporting have been ordered to not release information to the public. It’s that aid is being withheld from disaster areas until the local government succumb to the once and mighty tv personality. It’s that the $35 cap on insulin was repealed on January 20. It’s that the Department of Labor has been told to cease investigation of and enforcement activity against discrimination in the workplace. It’s that the NIH is no longer allowed to even authorized publication of research.
For every lie or contorted half truth that falls from the face of a perpetual lying machine, we need to make the truth just as loud and just as relentless so the Neanderthal masses understand that being a bully was not the way to get through middle school and it still makes them look like they are as dumb as a bag of rocks and not as good looking.
End of rant.
This is where I’d normally say something about another blog on a different website but it’s too classy to be associated with such drivel.
The Real Reality Show Blog 
Oh my goodness. I read this three time for pure enjoyment. I love a good Michael rant. You know that, right? Especially when your insightfulness and humor coalesce. Offering comfort…if only because you see the insanity and call it out so well.
I loved this statement most of all – the wondering about repetition eventually becoming “truth”:
“It seems it is more of a truism that those who constantly lie do not do so hoping you will believe them or even to deceive, but that you ultimately become so inured to the lies that you stop caring about them being lies.”
Feeling the same. And in the spirit of my disgruntlement, I don’t have an appropriate emoji to share. Very un-Vicki-like but you know what I mean.
Thank you Vicki. And now I know some good has come from said rant. Finding an appropriate disgruntled emoji. Let’s see, if gruntled means to keep good humor, then disgruntled would be unamusing. There is an unamused emoji (😒), maybe that can stand in for disgruntled.
It works, it works! 😒Although it’s not intended for you!
Of course not for me. Just something to keep the Vickiismlike responses alive and well!
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I have taken a page from Donald Dillweed’s playbook and made up some darling sobriquets for him… So you have and I’m here for it. I saw someone on Threads say that we’ve hit the Era of Aggressive Stupidity and I couldn’t agree more. Where we end up is anyone’s guess, but in my experience bullies eventually get their comeuppance. So let it be with The Donald.
I there with that. Not only nothing good comes from bullying, nothing lasting comes from bullies and not even an executive order can can change the course of that ship.
Your ability to come up with cute and quirky names for the head honcho in office makes me smile. Your pursuit of truth is where we should all be. And bullying is never an answer, no matter what the question. The ignoring of our present reality isn’t helping anyone. You can’t just throw money at people to make anyone or anything better. It takes character and integrity. This country is in short supply of both.
Sadly, yes, it is short on those commodities. Or maybe people are holding on to them. I certainly hope not. You won’t get a better return on character and kindness, integrity and honesty than you can right now.
I hope so. We do need those character qualities now. Maybe it’s just going to take those who see the deficiency to act with kindness and integrity to make a stand, make a point, change one person at a time.
Fred Rogers would know what to do – be kind, be kind, be kind. Somebody will figure that out.
In the meantime, we can do what we should do. Not be swallowed up by malignant cruelty
One of the things I like least about this administration is the overload of things to rant about. No reasonable person can speak truth or even make fun of them all given the pace at which they are being shot out of the cannon. But this is a very good start!
Thank you Wynne. They are coming at us at a particular high pace. That’s by design. It wears people out and while we’re flustering over the outrageousness of the ones they make sure to highlight, the truly impactful ones go nearly unnoticed.
So scary!
I follow The Contrarian Substack (not sure what the Substack thing is from, but whatever). It is made up of journalists who were encouraged to move on. There are good articles and good comments after.
I have to check that out. The ones who were encouraged to move on are probably the most encouraging!