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mallorys_camera___ texted me last night: Going through a really bad spell of political depression. So bad that I am physically shaking.
True of many, many, many people I know right now.
This degree of angst and hypervigilance is not sustainable.
I think the way to survive it unscathed with one’s mental faculties intact is to remember to choose one’s battles wisely.
For example: When the Left zeroed in on the Hamilton tweetage yesterday, they were really letting themselves get played.
The big story yesterday was Trump’s payoff in the Trump University lawsuit. I gotta give Trump this: He's a master of redirection. And the Left allows itself to be misdirected every time.
To the best of my knowledge, Der Donald has never, ever settled a lawsuit before.
But, of course, that story is not as sexy as the Hamilton story. Nor does it provide beleaguered snowflakes with such endless opportunities to leap to the defense of artistic integrity, free speech, and making sure that a white man never again gets to play the Potentate of Siam in a revival of The King and I. No. The Trump settlement only gives those poor chumps who bought the Apprentice hype pennies back on the dollars they squandered in hopes of learning the secrets of real estate investment. Not a sexy story at all.
And you can be sure that nobody is gonna give those poor chumps who voted for Der Donald any pennies back on their investment. I’m not sure, of course, they deserve any lifeline out of the misery he is about to inflict upon them. They were shortsighted enough to vote for him.
Because – hello! – those infrastructure projects? They’ll all be automated, fuckers! Those coal workers and steel workers will not be reemployed. Robots will be doing the job. Even roads are now more high tech than just a layer of asphalt. Roads now have multiple layers. You don't see guys shoveling and leveling asphalt that much these days, unless it's just to patch a hole. So, the promised jobs won't appear. And I bet you anything there will be a sweet Trump Construction contract of hundreds of billions of dollars to build these things and the Wall.
Plus if everything is brought back to the USA and cheap Chinese imports will not be allowed in, and trade war tariffs added, hello-o-o-o inflation! That $15/hr minimum wage will be erased. Those without jobs will get squeezed even more.
You see what a vortex this endless political and economic speculation is? How it only exists to bring you d-o-w-n-nnnnnn…?
Like I said: You pick your battles wisely.
You do not agonize on behalf of a Broadway musical that’s charging close to $3,000 for an orchestra seat.
You quietly make a resolution to attend the next budget meeting of the city or county council meeting where you live.
You show up, and you watch.
You learn how it works.
And then you do something about it.
Not sexy, my friends. Not sexy at all. The real nuts and bolts of positive change seldom are.
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My happy place is showtunes! So, I listened to a lot of them yesterday while reading up on Russian history. Man, those tsars were wacky.
I think Chicago has the most brilliant lyrics of any musical ever written:
Whatever happened to fair dealing
And pure ethics
And nice manners?
Why is it everyone now is a pain in the Ass?
Whatever happened to class?
Whatever happened to Please may I
And Yes thank you
And How charming?
Now every son of a bitch
Is a snake in the grass
Whatever happened to class?
Oh, there ain't no gentlemen to open up the doors,
There ain't no ladies now there's only pigs and whores
And even kids'll knock you down so's they can pass
Nobody's got no class!!!
Whatever happened to old values
And fine morals
And good breeding?
Now no-one even says oops
When they're passing their gas
Whatever happened to class?
Oh, There ain't no gentelmen that's fit for any use,
And any girl will touch your privates for a deuce
And even kids'll kick your shins and give ya sass
Nobody's got no class!
All you read about today is rape and theft
Jesus Christ, ain't there no decency left?
Nobody's got no class!
Every guy is a snot
Every girl is a twat
Holy shit
Holy shit
What a shame
What a shame
What became of class?
True of many, many, many people I know right now.
This degree of angst and hypervigilance is not sustainable.
I think the way to survive it unscathed with one’s mental faculties intact is to remember to choose one’s battles wisely.
For example: When the Left zeroed in on the Hamilton tweetage yesterday, they were really letting themselves get played.
The big story yesterday was Trump’s payoff in the Trump University lawsuit. I gotta give Trump this: He's a master of redirection. And the Left allows itself to be misdirected every time.
To the best of my knowledge, Der Donald has never, ever settled a lawsuit before.
But, of course, that story is not as sexy as the Hamilton story. Nor does it provide beleaguered snowflakes with such endless opportunities to leap to the defense of artistic integrity, free speech, and making sure that a white man never again gets to play the Potentate of Siam in a revival of The King and I. No. The Trump settlement only gives those poor chumps who bought the Apprentice hype pennies back on the dollars they squandered in hopes of learning the secrets of real estate investment. Not a sexy story at all.
And you can be sure that nobody is gonna give those poor chumps who voted for Der Donald any pennies back on their investment. I’m not sure, of course, they deserve any lifeline out of the misery he is about to inflict upon them. They were shortsighted enough to vote for him.
Because – hello! – those infrastructure projects? They’ll all be automated, fuckers! Those coal workers and steel workers will not be reemployed. Robots will be doing the job. Even roads are now more high tech than just a layer of asphalt. Roads now have multiple layers. You don't see guys shoveling and leveling asphalt that much these days, unless it's just to patch a hole. So, the promised jobs won't appear. And I bet you anything there will be a sweet Trump Construction contract of hundreds of billions of dollars to build these things and the Wall.
Plus if everything is brought back to the USA and cheap Chinese imports will not be allowed in, and trade war tariffs added, hello-o-o-o inflation! That $15/hr minimum wage will be erased. Those without jobs will get squeezed even more.
You see what a vortex this endless political and economic speculation is? How it only exists to bring you d-o-w-n-nnnnnn…?
Like I said: You pick your battles wisely.
You do not agonize on behalf of a Broadway musical that’s charging close to $3,000 for an orchestra seat.
You quietly make a resolution to attend the next budget meeting of the city or county council meeting where you live.
You show up, and you watch.
You learn how it works.
And then you do something about it.
Not sexy, my friends. Not sexy at all. The real nuts and bolts of positive change seldom are.
###
My happy place is showtunes! So, I listened to a lot of them yesterday while reading up on Russian history. Man, those tsars were wacky.
I think Chicago has the most brilliant lyrics of any musical ever written:
Whatever happened to fair dealing
And pure ethics
And nice manners?
Why is it everyone now is a pain in the Ass?
Whatever happened to class?
Whatever happened to Please may I
And Yes thank you
And How charming?
Now every son of a bitch
Is a snake in the grass
Whatever happened to class?
Oh, there ain't no gentlemen to open up the doors,
There ain't no ladies now there's only pigs and whores
And even kids'll knock you down so's they can pass
Nobody's got no class!!!
Whatever happened to old values
And fine morals
And good breeding?
Now no-one even says oops
When they're passing their gas
Whatever happened to class?
Oh, There ain't no gentelmen that's fit for any use,
And any girl will touch your privates for a deuce
And even kids'll kick your shins and give ya sass
Nobody's got no class!
All you read about today is rape and theft
Jesus Christ, ain't there no decency left?
Nobody's got no class!
Every guy is a snot
Every girl is a twat
Holy shit
Holy shit
What a shame
What a shame
What became of class?
