It doesn't matter that your thoughts and prayers are not enough because nobody thought or prayed about it once.

Maybe the families of the victims, but for the rest of us it’s just something you say as a pleasantry. It’s bullshit.

The ordinary internet dipshit who reblogs and shares other people’s thoughts in lieu of his own didn’t think or pray once. Instead he rubbed his hands together like a fly sitting on a big turd and immediately sought out his opinion on the matter so he could share and reblog it. If he was a gun control buffoon who thinks gun control is needed, he sought out his opinion on that and shared and reblogged it. It was scanned and liked and reblogged and shared by other gun control buffoons and together they all had a dandy ol’ time in their echo chamber, convincing nobody of anything. If he was a pro-gun buffoon, same shit, only more memes and less articles.

They’re both buffoons, but the gun control people think they’re smarter than everyone else, thus they have more article titles that they’ve read and agreed with and subsequently liked and shared and reblogged. They didn’t read the articles, mind you, because nobody really reads anymore, even though they insist they do. The pro-gun buffoons know they’re not smart, at least not in the snooty “I know better than you” liberal way. Subsequently, you see a lot more humor, a lot more crudeness, a lot more fuck you. It’s like the pro-gun buffoons don’t even bother to pretend to read articles they agree with (or maybe can’t).

Whatever. Nobody thought and prayed once, but everybody postured and here in a little bit it’ll all blow over until the next one comes along and then this Stupid American Life will fire up the carnival of bullshit once again.

Round and round we go…