Funny Stuff
By this point, you are probably a decided voter or an already-voted voter or maybe a sh!t, I forgot all about it voter. That’s okay, plenty of time. We’re not going to know who won until Memorial Day, anyway, what with all the shenanigans to follow.
So, rather than get ourselves all worked up about it this week, the Missus and I have been collecting absurdities to share. For instance,…
If you can look at this picture and not think that we’re being taken over by weird, evil aliens, you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din. Appearing (more or less) before Congress the other day to explain why they won’t let us read stuff were Julius Caesar, Rasputin, and Jeff Goldblum.
In the Age of Zoom, it’s entirely possible these entities no longer even have corporeal bodies.
She’s baaaack.
Funniest Motto from our new favorite site, host of our new favorite article.
The site is Frontpage Mag, and the story that caught our attention is here: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/10/ideological-stripe-covid-19-john-waters/
Funniest T-shirt seen on a recent stroll along the Boardwalk with visiting Daughter F.:
I’m not gay.
But $20 is $20.
Funniest T-shirt seen in a recent online ad:
Don’t piss off old people.
The older we get, the less “life in prison” scares us.
Guaranteed to put a smile on your face, and possibly green fairies in your kitchen, from our buddies at Maddafella.com: https://www.maddafella.com/blogs/food-drink/death-in-the-afternoon
Last Word before Election Day. I’ve seen this cited a couple of places: A recent poll by Gallup says that 56 percent of respondents think they are better off today than four years ago. Given what everybody agrees has been a particularly bizarre year (or three years), that’s an extraordinary number. Conversely, another recent poll asked whether the country is better off than four years ago; only 39 percent said yes.
There are truisms about politics that have been proven over decades if not centuries. All politics is local. People tend to vote their wallets. It’s the economy, stupid. Many, many of the rioters in those news videos are young and white. They are not oppressed; they are bored and have been recruited to “a cause.” Voting for an interest that is not your own betrays the logic of the individual having a say in selecting his or her management team. The country fares better when voters stay true to their own self interest. If everyone, the well off, the oppressed, the employed, the jobless, the poor, the sick and the healthy, voted for what would make their lives better - and not some abstract issue that needs an earth-shaking solution - the results would better reflect the needs and values of all 350 million of us.
The funny thing is, with all the noise, this is feeling a lot like 1968. Young people rioting in the streets, subterfuge and confusion on the Democrat side (with Bernie Sanders filling the crazy extremist/comic relief role then played by George Wallace), and a law-and-order candidate (with obvious personality flaws) on the Republican side. The Silent Majority struck then. We’ll have the last laugh when this is all over, too.
Keep smiling. It drives them nuts.
Guy and Mrs. F.