Michael Kindt's Blog, page 18
November 22, 2016
Eh. I was just tired of being told what I was, how I was, how I should think about this or that, how I should vote if I was "intelligent" or "educated". Trump was my big Fuck You. We'll see how it goes.
^The above constitutes my final comment on the election and Trump or Hillary, until January 20th. I’ve never voted for a Republican president before. I’m actually kind of excited how it all turns out.
*makes popcorn*
November 21, 2016
So far today, I have eaten pad thai for brunch, late lunch...
So far today, I have eaten pad thai for brunch, late lunch (llunch?), and now dinner. It’s been a good day, and I still have enough for a 3 AM “midnight snack”. Fuckin’ A.
November 20, 2016
Anger and shock replaced by soul-searching and, dare I say, reaching out
Now that we are officially in week two of Trump-a-geddon, the people who are wrong seem to have calmed down a bit. They lectured us, called us names, made fun of us, and then were completely flabbergasted when we voted against them. On a personal note, it was really one of the more delightful moments of my life. Seriously, have you ever seen such a giant “Fuck off”? Dayum.
I forgive them, though. The are child-like in a way, coddled and isolated away from the rest of America in their two coastal citadels and the various daycares masquerading as colleges.
But I see good signs: “How can we reach these people?” they wonder all of a sudden. “They used to be ours but we lost them. Why? How? What can we do to get them back?”
“Maybe,” they are finally starting to think, “Trump is all our fault. Maybe we’re doing something wrong, not them.” Gasp!
These are all good signs.
You go, girls!
Millennials are not a monolith.
I give Millennials shit all the time, but I actually like them a great deal. They have passion. You can’t deny that. My generation, Gen X, had no passion, at least not like the Millennials.
Hell, my son is a Millennial.
I often wonder how we, Gen X, grew up so jaded and sarcastic, then I remember “Oh, right. We were raised by Hippies.”
The fabled anti-Trump protests don’t bother me all that much. I get to tease them, though. We have free speech and you people are so obviously throwing tantrums, oh my fucking god.
I actually know a lot of Millennials irl, and they are just like everyone else. Lots of them supported Trump around here. Some are saying FUCK COLLEGE. One Millennial even told me he wasn’t going to college because “Why would I go into debt for the rest of my life just to be indoctrinated?”
Hm. Now, that’s a thinker.
Perhaps if I was Wink Martindale, I would’ve turned out...
Perhaps if I was Wink Martindale, I would’ve turned out somewhat normal.
Wink Martindale, what a fabulous name. It sounds like a village south of Hobbiton or a wrestling move. “I was winning the match, but he unleashed the Wink Martindale and pinned my ass to the mat.”
Why didn’t my parents name me Wink Martindale? I don’t even need the Kindt after it. I always have to spell it after I say it or I become Kent, and I have been called Kinn Dit thousands of times. All through grade school I was My Cunt (and I still bear the scars of that deep down in a secret and squishy place in my heart). Perhaps if I was Wink Martindale, I would’ve turned out somewhat normal.
I like that line: “Perhaps if I was Wink Martindale, I would’ve turned out somewhat normal”. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a title.
I wonder if Wink Martindale is Wink Martindale’s real name? Hopefully it isn’t, like, Brad Martindale or something, and he just turned into Wink Martindale because he got something in his eye one day. Brad “Wink” Martindale. No. Just no.
Brad is a boring ass name, just like Mike. The place a boring ass name would really work, I think, is on a dog. Dogs always have fabulous names. I’ve personally known Hooter and Sam and Shadow and Freckles and Barney and Max and Pedronov and Shitferbrains and Keela and Shunka and Brutus and Daisy and Duke. Wouldn’t it be hilarious to get a dog and name it Brad? Male or female, screw it. You’re Brad the Dog. Or Kyle. Oh my God, Kyle the Dog!
Is the ASPCA open on Sunday?
Wink Martindale, though. That’s the shit.
November 19, 2016
First of all, I'd like to say 'fuck you' to Tumblr for taking away the ability to easily respond to replies publicly. Stifling. Way to go. What, are you liberals?
@hailether said about THIS:
“Agreed. Where along the line did people become so polarized that they can’t tolerate any sensory input of opinions that don’t sufficiently reflect theirs? Do you see anything that this cultural shift hinged upon?”
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All I got to go on, man, is time. It wasn’t like this in the 90s, the decade I became truly politically aware. Republicans and Democrats were battling each other then, too, like always, but it seemed more civil.
Hate, it seems to me, has crept in. Republicans and Democrats didn’t especially like each other in the 90s, but they didn’t HATE each other.
It all seemed to change after 911. I would pin a bunch of it on the left’s assumption that they are absolutely right on every issue, that their political positions and ideas are not only correct, but morally correct. That PC shit feels like religion to me, not politics.
The right isn’t without blame. They egg the left on. The sarcasm on the right is endless. They are bullied with the ‘racist’ label and many of them embrace it as a matter of 'fuck you’, even though they aren’t really racist. An older woman once counselled me: if you constantly accuse your woman of cheating, she will. They start saying racist shit just to bug the delicate, easily offended left.
Then you got the starkness of the main stream media’s bias toward the left. I’m not even talking about 'news’ outlets. Who is the butt of 99.9% of jokes on late night tv? Yeah.
People who are right-leaning aren’t dumb, even though they feel like they are being told that constantly by the news and tv shows and movies and everything really.
At the same time, you have a Democratic Party that abandoned the the working class and its union members for identity politics bullshit.
It was a great convergence. Looking back on it, I don’t see how Trump could’ve lost. I mean, think about it.
The whole ‘fake news’ thing is starting to bother me more and more.
Who gets to decide what is fake news? You? Me? Zuckerberg? Is fake news simply news we disagree with? And the very fact that it is possible to agree or disagree with news says something about supposedly real news, don’t you think?
And what about satire? That’s fake news. Even the Onion occasionally makes fun of enlightened, all-knowing, sacrosanct liberals. Will the Onion be banned?
I think what will happen is our division will carry over into our social media: a right and left Facebook, a right and left Twitter (which is already under way).
There will be no more discourse, just echoes and everybody sucking each other’s dicks because they all think alike.
Clones out the ass, in other words.
November 18, 2016
Good God in heaven.Joan Jett is a goddess. They’re all...
Good God in heaven.
Joan Jett is a goddess. They’re all goddesses.
*sigh*
First concert I ever saw was Joan. Walked away dizzy and erect, ngl.
30 years later, still dizzy and erect, ngl.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Trump Says Ford Called to Say It's Keeping SUV Plant in Kentucky
Fucking A, Skippy. Good already happening. Some working folks in Kentucky get to keep their jobs.
“Hallelujah”, as Leonard Cohen and SNL say.
