Hi, my name is Steve and I am a critical thinker.
If you’ve ever been to any of the varieties of Anon meetings or seen them on TV, then the above line might seem familiar. I have a problem; not your average problem by far, but a serious one: I like to use my brain (you might get a different answer from my girlfriend but that’s another piece all together).
I like to think about things, I like to read things and research stuff, and I thoroughly enjoy a heated debate (as long as the other person has a willingness to listen and approach objectively as possible, not scream “I’m right, you’re wrong, *climbs pedestal* conversation over!”). That being said I feel like people like myself are too few and far between.
NOW HOLD ON!! I can see some of you salivating, waiting for this to turn into a political diatribe that will paint you a picture of why I’m a friend or an enemy, fingers stretched and ready to praise me or rip me apart in the comments. Well, OK, this is going to be very political, but if you are (and I mean really, really are) like myself, then you will enjoy, nay, understand, the following words. If not, and you are one of those people who have meltdowns over Facebook posts, save yourself the aggravation and go back to only reading things that you agree with, or trolling people who you don’t.
SOOOOoooooo, here we go…
HEY! Wanna know why everyone is such a prick when it comes to politics these days? SOCIAL MEDIA THAT’S WHY! Any platform where Joe and Jane Blow can gear up to fight all the injustice in the world with their caps lock on and “unwavering moral code” is the problem, and there are too damn many platforms (soapboxes?) for that. This is why there is so much contrived hardship when it comes to anything remotely political, because people revolve their lives around their feeds, their “go-to sites” for a majority of the hate and hope in their existence. I mean hell, even the national news networks pull Buzzfeed articles and celebrity twitter posts and pass them off as legit before researching them! Admittedly, I’m no journalist, but I did take an introductory class in college, and the first thing we learned (literally, this was written on the board under the full course name) is RESEARCH; and when CNN posts anything that’s source is from an unknown who’s online handle was “HanAssholeSolo” (yes, that’s where it came from, that was the username the “news” glossed over, can’t make this up) you have to, as a person with half a brain (hopefully, maybe?) come to the conclusion on your own that SOMETHIN’ AIN’T RIGHT!
Before we continue, I just want to throw this one thing out there. You’re going to see me bash the “news” a bunch. This is in no way because our spray tanning Commander-in-Chief has been beating the “fake news” horse to death since his campaign trail. This is a belief I’ve harbored for as far back as I can remember. I grew up outside of NYC and every day I would see The New York Post and The Daily News posting the exact same article, sometimes with the exact same picture, with two very opposite viewpoints; and it still goes on today. I would watch people pick up the paper that’s headline they aligned with, and that was now their version of events. The fact that every news paper doesn’t have the same factual content and that they use specific words and cherry pick certain things to include and/or leave out in order to fit their personal view doesn’t make for news, but glorified opinion pieces. This goes for all news outlets. As the infamous Hunter S. Thompson said:
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.”
Even Mr. Thompson saw it decades ago! The cable news is a little more uniformed because they mostly tend to lean to the left (except FOX of course, which is the whipping boy for the other networks because of that choice). So that’s my reasoning; this isn’t new, this isn’t made up to make this article work, this isn’t my ode to President Trump, it’s the result of my own thinking and conclusions that I based off personal observation. Alrighty, back to the meat and potatoes…
Every single protest, convention, show, famous moron shooting their mouth off because for some reason, the ability to entertain is synonymous with higher thought, or anything at all; is dictated by some sort of social media precursor. Even the President is doing it! Regardless of your thoughts on the guy, he’s using social media, specifically Twitter in case you live under a rock, several times a day to simultaneously enrage and placate the country. As much as I try to ignore the fact that Twitter exists because I think it’s completely stupid, I still know what fucking Tweeters tweeted and twoted and twa….SHUTCHO MOUTH; SHAFT! (sorry, couldn’t help myself). But do you see? I don’t use Twitter for ANYTHING (the only reason I have an account is because an ex made one for me however long ago to enter a contest) and I know about the tweets in detail, that’s the power social media has to reach beyond it’s own realm. The psychosis of social media is causing the country to eat itself from the inside out. It’s not the government (although they love to take full advantage, as we all see) or who is in office, it’s all those who live for the bullshit that is destroying whats left of common sense and decency in the world, i.e. those who live for and/or on social media.
And NO, it’s not media in general (although ALL news today is mostly anything but truth) because media in general is even being duped. I mean, honestly, the above mentioned CNN bit is proof of that. A once reputable, I’ll say it again ONCE REPUTABLE, news station ran with a Buzzfeed article that someone in the studio probably had on one of their social media “news feeds”. Really think about that: A world news organization took an article from BUZZFEED (you know the site, “10 reasons your lover wants you to shave your back”, “how to save the world by driving backwards and speaking Latin”, “funny things kittens said”….no offense Buzzfeed, I love ya), sold it as news and did ZERO research; and that is far from an honest mistake, that’s blatant stupidity. Honestly, think about that… If you found out one of your child’s high school teachers was basing their lessons out of a textbook that they found in a toy box in the kindergarten classroom written in crayon, as opposed to, oh say, the library, would you ever take them seriously? I hope the answer is no. And furthermore, if that is the kind of digging and research they do, what else have they slipped in there that actually passed off as truth? Social media’s bullshit has gotten so out of hand that it’s being passed off as legitimate news. That’s fucking insane!
Social media, hands down, is the biggest reason why everybody is such an asshole today, the reason there’s so much animosity, so much stupidity. Why is this? Welllllll this is because everybody can be, and wants to be, heard but no one wants to actually listen. When hiding behind a screen and an avatar it’s easy to “change” world one letter at a time; this is cliched but it’s the truth. That truth is made even worse by the fact that there are very few people that can maintain the consistency of their social media profiles in real life. Also a huge reason for this is no one can be told to shut the fuck up in person as soon as they’re being a goddamn idiot. People lack a sense of humility that comes when acting like an asshole in public these days because now they can go online and find a group of like minded assholes to act like assholes with because they’re ASSHOLES; plus, if you don’t agree with the groups of assholes you are labeled as one of the things they hate. So your either an asshole oooorrrrrr a bigot, pussy, sexist, racist, stoner, redneck, something-phobic, uneducated, America hater, evil, cry baby, Hitler, snowflake or any other of the plethora of things that are being forged daily in the name of “I’m right, you’re wrong because you disagree with me”.
All this is the biggest reason no one takes anything seriously; why all the crying and bitching on both sides is for naught and only giving fuel to the people who are actually in power to push the machine forward and consume our lives while we bicker amongst ourselves to no avail. What is going to get accomplished by getting a bunch of angry jerks together to go annoy a bunch of other angry jerks just because they don’t identify with each others plight (so obviously they’re wrong duhhhhhhhh). Are both groups wrong? Are both right? Am I able to objectively hear both arguments and make a decision after or do I go in with my head down and just wait for my turn to repeat what I heard on one of my news feeds? And most importantly if I don’t agree with the other side, can I still at least be comfortable that they have their own viewpoints? You know, one of the big reasons we broke away from the Mother Country; because we couldn’t do that back then or the Redcoats would come knockin’. These are the questions that need to be asked of yourself before anyone goes ape-shit about something, because getting all riled up and acting like an angry child only lessens the chance of someone with different viewpoints or opposing viewpoints listening to you, let alone taking you seriously. It’s like people are legitimately confused that everyone doesn’t agree with them, like were all one big hive mind and those not part of their particular empathy club are the ones that are broken.
Fredrick Nietzsche, one of the most brilliant philosophical minds ever, talked vehemently about “the herd” morality and how it’s destroying the world. Basically it’s defined as a morality in which people with the inborn ability to rise above the average sideshow are pressured into becoming a complacent member of “a smaller, almost ridiculous type, a herd animal, something eager to please, sickly, and mediocre.” (Beyond Good and Evil); and this is what is going on today, only being helped along by social media. Social media is the “grouping ground” and people flock toward each other at full speed when they see something to attack or praise, it’s hard not to notice. I’m going to use an example of this that was a point of contention for me on Facebook a while back. Get your hater hats ready! And to those who are still reading that believe they are right in everything they do and know, this next bit is just for you.
So some of you may know that I have a twisted sense of humor and so do all of my closest friends. I try to surround myself with people who can laugh about anything, even if it challenges their belief systems; and I conduct my Facebook page as such. I posted a meme I thought was funny for my friends, knowing some people wouldn’t like it, but, in truth, I really don’t give a shit what people think of my posts, delete me and solve your problems like an adult person. Anyway, it was about the Women’s March back in January of 2017. I don’t know much about it other than women’s rights are at stake because Trump is President and glass ceilings and wage gaps and if you are a woman you need to be on board or else you’re…well, wrong (this is based on what I’ve gathered from a bunch of my social media friends…”research”). One thing led to another and it went from sharing laughs (mostly among female friends who got a kick out of it, by the way) to a political shouting match and up to almost a week later, there were still people (some of which weren’t even friends of mine on Facebook, but not missing an opportunity to “right a wrong” chimed in anyway) posting their 2 cents and patting themselves on the back for it. I’ll be the first to say the meme could be considered “tasteless” (yet in my world that translates to “fucking hysterical”…so sue me), but the direction it went in a split second was crazy.
I didn’t say this on the post because I knew it would only make it worse but my take on the march is as follows: Whatever your reasons for having it (I only say whatever because I’ve heard so many different answers)it was drowned out by the absurdity. Ashley Judd screaming about period blood to a bunch of people wearing vagina hats (some even topless) is not the way to get a point across…because it looks ridiculous. That’s why it’s hard to take seriously, it’s completely belligerent. Who’s mind are they trying to change by doing that? I guess Harvey Weinstein missed the memo, even though there was enough Hollywood “elites” involved (where’s the March planned against his twisted ass, by the way?). I watched clips, not because I was interested in the plight, but because it was a fucking train wreck and I wanted to see it, like internet rubbernecking. Sure no one got arrested or broke anything, which is always the goal and it’s great, but other than not breaking the law and other peoples things, what did they really do other than give the other side more ammo? Really, what? What came of it, I am genuinely asking, and not to be a dick, I really want to know what was accomplished or thought to be accomplished; and “awareness” isn’t a sufficient answer, it’s a cop-out and I feel like most people’s version of awareness is “look at meeeeeee”.
I don’t think I need to explain why “The March” was so hard to take seriously, but here it is anyway: It’s because the group of people whose minds they’re trying to change sit back in bewilderment and think of how ridiculous they all look and sound with your vagina hat and your breasts out screaming about menstruating. If a group of people came up to you on the street, naked and/or dressed like they came from some LSD laden Mardi Gras costume party, screaming about anything, whether you agreed or not, would you actually sit there and ponder the finer points of their argument? If the answer is yes, than the March must have been the deepest most introspective event since Gandhi ate a pound of shrooms (read about that on Facebook…”research”). But if you’re like most people that prefer conversation over ornery screaming and megaphone chants you may be able to agree that they took the wrong approach to make a point.
The worst part is not all of them, I’ll even say not most of the people at the march, were part of the, what I’ll call, “New Age Feminist Burning Man on Crack”, but any good the rest of the people in the march did was overshadowed by the sideshow that was all over the news and feeds because that’s what gets hits on social media. Put it this way, when the Westborough Baptist Church can have a more uniformed and clear protest than you, and they are the absolute scum of the Earth, you might need to rethink your plan of action; I mean c’mon they don’t even have to stop traffic, they just stand on the side of the road with their hate and their despicable, crazy shit and get pelted with eggs and bottles. It’s sad that our God given right to protest is being muddled by our God given right to be morons. Where did meaningful marches go?
Want to know why the civil rights marches in the 60’s worked, because they had an actual, visceral, tangible problem that everyone involved both knew and agreed upon. Not saying we don’t have those today, but now racism is used as the reason for something bad happening as often as it can be whether or not it’s remotely related to the actual reason, which utterly undercuts the times when it’s the root issue. Back in the 60’s, the urgency to combat racism was underlined by the fact that the problem was acknowledged by everyone (even the racist ones that didn’t think it was a problem) because it really existed (Jim Crow ring a bell?). Now days, this is best described as an example: A few weeks back I heard a woman call a guy a “racist blind bastard” because he beeped at her for crossing the street when the “DON’T WALK” sign was clearly and brightly lit. See what I’m saying? Today, racism is being concocted because claiming it (specifically when it isn’t the case) gets you attention, it gets you sympathy, it gets you things. Anything can be racist now. The barista gave you too hot a cup of coffee…RACISM! Yeah, I’m being facetious but there are cases like this every day. It’s making the real issue of racism be ignored and it’s anger misplaced.
The whole statue thing (that has apparently lost all steam as of late)is an example of that. Someone saw a remnant from history that may symbolize something to them that doesn’t to others that went unnoticed for decades, but now it’s racist because no one knows what actual racism is anymore. The statues weren’t erected as a tribute to slavery and slave owners, and to think that shows you don’t think that much. It’s like people expect world history to be in-line with today’s bullshit because in their fantasy land it’s possible somehow. In the 60’s racism was hard and real and it caused huge problems in America. It was an issue that needed to be addressed in our country, and it was done the right way: with intelligent discourse and sensible, peaceful protests. The people then didn’t just make up and selectively pick statistics to fit their ideals and throw it in people’s faces, or dress up like imbeciles and run around screaming with their private parts flailing in the wind. And it wasn’t all sent into overdrive because they loved or hated the president. But now I wouldn’t be surprised if labeling something“racist” isn’t used more than it was decades ago when racism was commonplace. Honestly, now all it takes to lump you in with one group or the other is to hear who you voted for, because that makes sense. I guess it’s easier to assume something and join in than ask questions and investigate. Which brings me to another brilliant quote from Nietzsche:
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to tell them to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” (The Dawn)
Even though this directly deals with youth, it goes for everyone. When perusing Facebook (sorry I keep using Facebook, it’s literally the only social app I mess with regularly), you can pick any politically themed post and, if you’re observant enough, can pretty much quote what people are going to say in the comments before you even read them. The inability to free think starts with the youth in schools like U.C. Berkeley, where you are rewarded with praise for identifying with the majority and verbally, sometimes physically, assaulted for not (looking at you ANTIFA, you are the parody of a free rights group and domestic terrorists and do nothing to help either side, go back to the holes you crawled out of, please…and invest in some shampoo, you all look like you need some shampoo). This was explicitly seen when they cancelled conservative speakers visiting campus in lieu of the violence (both verbal and physical) that was supported by a number of faculty and staff against the speakers and those who wanted to listen; it was only addressed when Ben Shapiro pushed back after having his speech cancelled for “safety reasons”.
Mr. Shapiro is one of my favorite people (Mr. Shapiro, if you are reading this, let’s grab a beer; on me) and even though I don’t agree with everything he says, I love hearing him talk and he is also one of the biggest proponents of free speech and equality going. He is also a Jewish man who was the number one recipient of antisemitic journalistic attacks a few years back, as revealed by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League). Why is this relevant? Because those outside protesting him were doing it on grounds that he was a white supremacist and a Nazi (you know the people who really hate Jews, just to name one of the many things they hate). If anyone outside had actually taken the time to find out about Shapiro before running to the craft store for poster board and markers they may have saved themselves some time, energy and money. (This incident alone is enough for ten more pieces so I’ll leave it here for now, but anyone interested should check it out, it’s quite the story). Why didn’t they? Mr. Nietzsche told us in that above quote. It’s the “group think is greater than free think” argument and the impressionable youth are the easiest targets because they just want to be accepted. Very few people at that young of an age have the desire to want to be isolated from the group because of an idea that isn’t status quo, so they gather all the info they need from their social feeds and “friends” and adjust accordingly, we’ve all been there to some degree, some just stay too long.
We need to promote free thought and subsequently, free speech, we just have to. Unless your idea is punching babies and killing puppies for fun, who gives a shit if what you think isn’t on par with everyone else. It’s naive to think that as many people as is portrayed think exactly the same, and I mean actually think that. From watching and listening to social media and the news itself, it’s perceived that there are only two sides to the state of the union, WHEN THERE ARE LITERALLY UNLIMITED SIDES. Solutions can only be come to by talking, not fighting and pointing the finger and refusing to listen to the other sides; and I mean sincerely listen, not wait for your turn to comment. As I said earlier about myself and my Facebook page, I conduct it how I conduct myself, and if I think something is funny I’ll share it and I have lost friends over it; oh I’m sorry were talking about Facebook, I meant “friends”. I’ve been chastised by everyone from family to “friends” of “friends” (as pointed out earlier) just because they can’t see past their own ego long enough to think I might not actually be suckling the same teat that they are chugging from.
I’ve been accused of and berated for voting Rep and Dem by those too ignorant to ask and just assume, that because I like to think for myself and ruffle feathers of the sheep on both sides, that I’m a bastard from the left/right. I believe both sides have their solutions to problems that could work (as well as the other sides no one hears about), but by no means does one hold all the answers. So who did I vote for? Neither, I cast my vote for Johnson (he was on the ballot, look it up if you don’t believe me), I don’t play the lesser of two evils game. Both candidates were so awful I wouldn’t have been able to sleep knowing I was responsible for whoever won. (Bernie with his never ending bag of other peoples money and his election promises that were probably written in glitter pen on the back of a Sizzler kids menu wouldn’t have been an option for me if he made it anyway, which he should have over Hillary, but hey that’s just my and a lot of other peoples opinion). I will say this, I thought the Reps were being babies when Obama won in 08, but until witnessing the utter disgusting, hateful shit that that came from the Dems (who want to stop hate…by being hateful — have yet to see this strategy work) is nauseating. And can someone tell Hillary she’s not running anymore? Please? She really isn’t helping anyone but herself and her own interests (which is par for the course for her, I guess).
Every chance she gets she’s back in the spotlight, running her mouth on TV and social media, blaming everyone and everything except her shitty attitude, demeanor and past deeds for the reason she didn’t win. She wrote a book about it for Christ’s sake. Hey, lady, you lost to Donald Trump, not for any other reason than the fact that you are such a terrible person that you couldn’t swindle a win out of the Presidential Campaign. You were such a bad candidate that I think it would be safe to say that you lost the election more than Trump won it, if that makes any sense. Say it, Donald Trump beat you, the least qualified, most over zealous person that ever ran for President of the USA beat you without question or need of a recount; not because of racism (Obama won with overwhelming numbers the first time if anyone remembers( Electoral college: 365–173) and the second time ( 332–206) so unless he turned people racist during his terms, that argument holds no water), or sexism but because you belittled everyone who wasn’t on your side (deplorable’s ring a bell?), blamed Russia (yeah, I know this is about how social media is ruining the world but I’m still waiting on any proof that a Russian ad campaign on Facebook blew the doors off an election), and I could go on for pages with just bullet points but at the risk of giving her more attention I wont. I’ll just step away from her antics with an example of why I think she lost.
The following are three tweets, each a minute apart, after the Vegas shooting:
Hillary ClintonVerified account @HillaryClinton Oct 2
Las Vegas, we are grieving with you — the victims, those who lost loved ones, the responders, & all affected by this cold-blooded massacre.
7:02 AM — 2 Oct 2017
The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.
7:03 AM — 2 Oct 2017
Our grief isn’t enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.
7:04 AM — 2 Oct 2017
Before I give Mrs. Clinton the ol’ one two, I want you all to know that she was not the only person doing this, I know that. My gripe with her is the fact that she’s trying to make it seem like she lost the election because we’re all bad people, not because she’s a bad person, so she asserts herself and her asinine bullshit every single chance she gets; like a spiteful ex. Here we see her using the massacre to once again stir the pot, like she’s going to get a call from Trump to take his spot.
So she starts with the usual prescription post of thoughts and prayers, fine, ok can’t really get on her for that because we we’re all feeling this way. OK Mrs. Clinton, I can stand with you on this one.
Then, a minute later, like a melodramatic Tourette’s outburst, places blame on the NRA and tries to scare people onto her side with *gasp* silencers. First, the NRA isn’t holding any office or a direct part of the government, they’re literally an interest group. Yes, they’re a pretty damn huge one, yet so are the Boy Scouts and Yankee fan’s (from the late 90's), but since they don’t revolve around guns, they’re OK…for now at least. Their influence is there, as is any interest group, but because their interest is the hot issue, they’re branded the enemy. Furthermore, silencers do not make a weapon silent, this isn’t a 007 movie, it’s real life, Mrs. Clinton. Silencers, especially on assault weapons, are there to lessen the sound, not silence it. Use Google and look it up, I’m not going to waste much time explaining it here, but, to be quick, the sound is caused by the hot gas rapidly expelling itself from the chamber through the muzzle, the silencer just gives the air more places to go instead of one, which lessens the sound, it’s like going from screaming to talking loudly. On to the third tweet, yet another minute later.
In her dramatic conclusion to the tweets she begins playing on the heightened emotions of the country and blaming the NRA once again, and suggesting “putting politics aside” as if her tweets (I hate using that word while trying to be serious…tweets…ugh) were anything but politics. Look, no matter what you think of the NRA, they aren’t arming citizens and telling them to shoot people, they aren’t even writing legislation, they’re AN INTEREST GROUP and if they have any influence at all it’s only because they’re so vast and varied. They are just a scapegoat for weak minded people to point the finger at every time something bad happens with a gun because having civil discourse just doesn’t happen anymore. Someone needs to be responsible right away.
What Clinton did is deplorable (see what I did there, hehe). She couldn’t even wait a day, AN HOUR, to climb up on her pedestal and start firing shots, it’s like she’s addicted to being a jerk. What she did was weak, she played on the anger and fear of the moment just to hear herself speak and get everyone fired up, she couldn’t even wait for the dust to clear; at the time she wrote that, the whole terrible event was less than 12 hours old and no one knew anything about it, well, except for her apparently. What Hillary did was show that she’s incapable of getting a point across without using some sort of emotional sidecar; then she doesn’t even exploit the issue correctly! On top of the fact that she used zero tact by not even waiting for the smoke to clear before spouting off, you know, like The Donald (but it’s OK if she does it, praiseworthy even).
Yeah, gun control is a HUGE issue, and needs to be talked about; but with constructive words not blame and accusations. However, talking about it 10 minutes after a mass shooting is like trying to settle a divorce 10 minutes after you caught your spouse cheating. Is there really a rational conversation to be had that close to it happening, or can anything good come out of the conversation by riding the coat tails of a mass murder? And we have been talking about it, for as long as I can remember, just not constructively; so I don’t get the sentiment that anyone is “afraid” to talk about it today; are people legitimately scared to talk? Actually, I stand corrected, we haven’t been talking about it, we’ve been talking at each other. We need to compromise, not have one way get total say, or it will never work. It’s like the whole country is part of some bad movie; which is even more upsetting because now it’s hard to find a movie that isn’t some poorly veiled political message. Why, Hollywood, why…?
Unfortunately, Hollywood is full of the biggest hateful crybabies so 90% of everything from that world is biased and revolving around their views and no one can get away from it. I don’t know when it happened but we are going through this weird type of reverse McCarthyism. For those of you unfamiliar, McCarthyism was “the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence” (nabbed this from Wikipedia). This was a Cold War practice where if you didn’t like someone for any reason you could claim they were a Communist and they would be dragged over the coals and shamed and vetted. Of course more often than not it ended up not being true, but looks like we’re doing it again. Now it’s the people with more money than God who pump out shitty movie after shitty movie who are pointing fingers. Or the “news media” pulling internet opinion pieces and passing them off as breaking news that have somehow gained the power to accuse, when the reality is they refuse or lack the mental fortitude to get facts straight. But because people listen they get away with it. Anyone ever play Lemmings?
To sum this whole thing up I don’t want or need to be dramatic, I’m just asking, and not for me but for yourselves, to put a little extra effort into the thought department, don’t get so bent out of shape when someone thinks one way is better than another. Calm down and read and absorb information, maybe actually read an article you might not agree with instead of blasting off in the comments because the headline disrupted your mental homeostasis. I’m not asking you to change your mind, just open it and I mean actually open it; you never know what you can learn or what will change a thought process you had by learning something you might not have known, and wouldn’t have known by discounting it’s source because the person who wrote the piece isn’t the political alignment, ethnicity, age or sex that you think qualifies knowledge of a subject. There are a lot of smart people out there of all colors and creeds who know a lot about a lot of things, I promise. Please, turn off the social media for a single day and try all of this, for the good of the world, because this is the only way we will overcome any issues, by being observant and open minded. As one of my favorite comedians said: “Democrats are idiots. Republicans are idiots. Anyone that makes up their mind before they hear the issue, is a fucking fool. Be a person. No normal, decent person is one thing. Listen first then form an opinion.” — Chris Rock
Amen, Mr. Rock. Amen…
