Democrats Need Their Own War On Xmas

Josh Hawley claims a man isn't really 'a man' if they play #VideoGames and aren't married with children #tech https://t.co/MsHm3T6xyS

— Raw Story (@RawStory) November 7, 2021

Democrats need to be more like Republicans and find somebody to hate on. Sen. Hawley has cornered the unmarried men market (appealing to suburban women because CRT is not gonna last? I dunno.). Democrats and the Squad really need to reach out to these people:

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— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 7, 2021

Another reachable rural voter from that NYT piece.

John Wright...said he listened only to pro-Trump programming.
“I don’t care if the media said the moon was full of cheese, and there was an astronaut who brought back some cheese...If the media said it, I won’t believe it.”

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 7, 2021

Preferably with a butterfly net.  Nikki Haley says we should have a cognitive test for office holders.  With voters like this, why bother?

Holy god, how does this guy not go out to buy milk and come back with the deed to the Verrazano Bridge? https://t.co/jZZq9kybAN

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 7, 2021

Let me say this as slowly as I can:  the country is insane right now because we all spent 12-18 months home alone, on-line because we couldn't get out, and the internet is the greatest outrage generator humanity has ever invented.  (If it were only the "vast wasteland" Newton Minnow called TV; it would be an improvement.  Amazing how we take every technology with the promise of vastly improving the human condition and drive it right into the ground almost immediately.  Anyway....).  Steeped and soaking in such bile for so long we have met ourselves in the Twlight Zone, where the people of America corraled so much hate and anger over the civil rights movement (it was the very early '60's; things got much worse) they "vomited it back up" and created endless night over large patches of the country.  It was a metaphor, but the point is we've been here before.  There is nothing new under the sun, or blotting out the sun. for that matter.  But having soaked in that outrage with no outlet for it except to pour it into the internet from whence it returned 10 fold in a feedback loop from hell, we are now reaping the whirlwind having sown so many dragon's teeth.  This too shall pass, but CRT and books in schools have bugger all to do with "real" concerns.  Our real concerns remain fear of a brown planet and the Great American Sense that somebody's is getting something I should be getting, and so "they" aren't entitled to it.  Inflation?  Don't make me laugh.  I remember the inflation of the '70's. The current situation is as comparable as a Cat. 5 hurricane is to a summer shower. Most of us aren't even going to get wet.  Anyone else old enough to remember the vaunted Japanese production style of "on-time" delivery of parts, rather than storing them in a warehouse?  Welcome to the inevitable bursting of that little bubble.

When the stores start running out of toilet paper and chicken meat again, let me know.  Until then, you probably don't need it anyway, and we should all again consider the virtues of the $100 Christmas.  Although maybe the correct term now is $1000 Christmas, and not because the price of milk has gone up lately.  I mean, a trillion dollars doesn't buy what it used to:

The roughly $1 trillion infrastructure package will modestly help the economy in the short run while priming the U.S. for slightly stronger growth in coming decades, economists say https://t.co/es9wH1yRbl

— WSJ Politics (@WSJPolitics) November 7, 2021

Now what's the threshold for when we start talking about real money?