It Is BS, but They Pretend

So Musket girl--sure the second amendment pragmatically only referred to muskets rather than some principle designed to avoid a totalitarian state--still is pretending to answer my plea to show me where to find an automatic weapon.

She has ignored her 13.3/sec lol BS.   This time she did not lol, but posts in reply a big link to where I can find semi-automatic weapons.  She states dryly, It will shoot as fast as you can pull the trigger.  Gee thanks Annie Oakley, who would have dreamt it.

I did not let her off.  I replied that there would be no sale since that is not the 13.3 round/sec unit she promised I could buy.  This is how it is trying to even hold a wild eyed progressive, who is more interested in being a progressive and accepted by peers than telling the truth.

There is an angry hysteria to it.  People like musket girl will simply pretend the question was never asked, or twist it into some false story with a well place lol or two.  Annoying as can be.

 I never said what I thought about gun laws, just that it is a lie that A. Orlando murder man had an automatic weapon, and B. That a person can just walk in and buy a select fire weapon with auto mode.

Maybe she can pull the trigger 700 times in a minute.  I know that is beyond my ability.

What is it with people who get suckered into the Soros backed political agenda?  One commenter on Musket lady's thread assured that the point of the false meme was totally valid.  But based it upon lies.  The facts are just minutia that get in the way of what they want to be true.

It happens all over the political world.  It is just so easy to point it out when hysterical democrats get all wound up about guns.  All of a sudden we have machine guns everywhere, and anyone can just walk in to Walmart and buy fully automatic weapons with armor piercing bullets.

I have never been much of a gun guy, but these people have sold me.  I want one of those guns they keep talking about.  But the bastards won't tell me where they are.  Musket girl pulled a bait and switch; tried to pass of a semi automatic on me.

Well, we lie for a good cause, so that makes it all OK.   After all, WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!!!!!!  Who cares what, as long as it involves stepping on someone else's rights.  It just isn't any good if it doesn't screw someone over.

And on the hold-a-quarter-between-your-knees-for-birth-control crowd comes up with other nonsense.  People are suggesting cause and effect where doesn't exist or there is no evidence to suggest a correlation.  
The insistance on publishing blatant lies because for some reason, to be a progressive you must trust government officials more than your neighbor or yourself--let's put all power in hands of the state.  I really do not get these people at all, and I am related to a few.

Dang It. Facebook and musket girl

So musket girl, after I ask where I can get a weapon that fires 13.3 rounds per second in response to her propaganda meme off a koolaid site, responds that I can just hit my local gun store or gun show  "Dude, and they'll hook you right up. lol"

Right here is what separates me from conformist progressives, lol.  LOLing without a clue that she is not spouting anything approaching truth, and it only makes her look smart in her eyes.  And maybe her fellow parrots.  Some guy came to her rescue, claiming the meme point was valid and I was just delving in details.

Yea.  Like the truth.  You are raising hell claiming we need to ban weapons which are already banned.  You are telling people this guy used what, by your description, would be what has been called a machine gun.  Similar in that one pull of the trigger and the rounds go one after the other too fast to count.  Well, much faster than you could pull a trigger over and over.  You good for 13.3/sec?  Not I.

But why, oh why was I dumb enough to call bullshit on this totally fooled person.  She really thinks it is all true.  Whatever they say on moveon or daily kos is gospel.  Throw in some huff post and yeeha, I can let them think for me. I chose a team and , right or wrong, I am sticking with it.

Fresh daily supply of talking points, ridicule tactics against opponents, justification for why it is OK to forcibly interfere with their rights.  Because you are a victim and owe no morality here, besides you know best.

I am not too heavy in any camp.  Sick of propaganda and obvious lack of understanding of the Constitution.  That is nothing new though.  Ignoring the law of the land has served democrats and republicans and their cronies for longer than I've been on the planet.  It has just tended to snowball so it has become worse, more blatant.  And the public argues in favor of the nonsense.

I almost suckered even more and put out a facebook post, offering to buy a select fire/automatic weapon that shoots 700 rounds per minute for the person who can show me where such easy pickings on machines guns are to be legally had.  I deleting and did not post it.  Too many over the top democrats and stuff around the family.  Some them have no blood left--pure koolaid in the veins.  No hope.  If you are not with them, they think you should be dead.  And they call it self defense.

Seriously, you think a bunch of the right is delusional?  Lockstep progressives can boggle your mind.  Like the one insisting, in friggin california, that I can walk down to the gun store and pick out a fully automatic AR 15 or similar.

I never have liked the progressive approach, or the democrat approach much.  Laws out the wazoo and corrupt as the day is long.  Constantly finding excuses to supervise and serve as arbiter of people's personal choices.  Sorry but that is just the game.  Republicans just pretend to be opponents.  So it seems.

And they get really great subgroups like evangelical this or that who invariably shoot themselves in the foot because they confuse how one conducts himself with how he wants to force others to behave.  They get confused.  You really have to let go of some things and work through attraction to elevate the culture.   So far I do not see that happening.

All is well and good, but these groups often piss off most of the population which in effect usurps opposition to the other jerks.

Oh well. I can't believe musket girl.  Because the daily kos thing to do is post ridiculous misleading propaganda, she got right on it, then lol's me because she is parroting a lie without ever checking it out.  She refers me to some progressive site meme. Took up a whole page but only a paragraph or two.  It repeated that Congressman's 700 round lie.  Bold face, intentional lying going on, and bold face clueless, moron parrot lying going on.

So I told her the things have been banned for years.  Offered to buy her one if she could legally find it for civilians.  Now maybe she'll pretend to be cartel, and the fast and furious team at justice will hook her up.  I think I offered.  Maybe not? Don't want to check.  I am sick of the twisting of facts by rah rah democrats, mostly, and republicans too.  Due to lies and ethnicity politics the dems have managed to manipulate Latinos and Blacks into silencing opposition.

They are like brown shirts, in a way.  Their ignorance allows them to be victims so that makes them special, and gives excuse for any fit of anger or anti social behavior.  Now way they want to acknowledge or even hear any facts.  Ignorance is not only bliss, it is more lucrative, and the path of least resistance.

Besides attacking people for no reason, and destroying property, the bastards hurt a horse.  Now I like people but I am not big on cops.  However they did not start these fights and they are being forced to be complicit with riffraff in most of California.  In another state the SOBs hurt a police horse.  And see, here is where I side with cops.  Those people could have legitimately been shot as far as I am concerned.  But I wouldn't do it or order it.  But if someone did, I would not condemn them either.  But better be real damn sure.

When you stop traffic or disrupt the potential flow of life saving services, you at least deserve to be physically moved, forklift, heavy roller...  It is violence.

I'm in disbelief at the faulty logic making the rounds and I am sad that so many people I know are right there on the band wagons being fooled and manipulated.  But it is still a real coup top pretend that Trump is somehow more dangerous than a Hillary Clinton, or any other veteran Washington DC politician in the upper power echelons.

How many died in Viet Nam?  50, 000?  Something like that.  Democrats and Republicans.  Although  Johnson was getting them killed right and left.  And you think Trump is more dangerous than the people who brought you that debacle?  Even if you were all for it you got screwed because they refused to win.  We won stuff all over the place but we had all these hold backs and suicidal rules of engagement for fighters on land and air.

If getting that many people killed after kidnapping them and forcing them to go, a good many were drafted.  The draft is like the hand of satan in my book.  I will fight if there is a legitimate threat.  Today's soldiers fight to protect the lives of one another.

Dangerous is the point.  You get 50k young men, mostly, killed, and do not even secure the damned place, then you suck and you are dangerous.  They have tried to deflect that to Nixon.  Sorry.  Nixon finally suspended the draft and said screw and quit the war.  He knew he was forbidden from actually winning, or whatever best case is in a war like that.

Going on forever. Playing the stupid fair again tomorrow afternoon.  I pray and hope I have no attack in reaction to heat outdoors. Sun. It used to be that I thought the band had my back on that.  No more do I think so.  I doubt they even believe I have any real issues.  That's OK.  If I feel bad, I will hit the road.

Hate Crime? Koolaid Addled Nonsense

Salon jumped immediately to claim this Orlando massacre was a hate crime, all about the lbgt community.  This community, that community. It gets old.

It is especially lame when some hack jumps out there with zero info and starts trying to direct the narrative to suit his end goal.  I'll never understand the goals of some people.

It just shatters their credibility when they jump up and down demanding that their team get victim status, regardless of fact.  You do not make such pronouncements with no info unless you are, yourself, a propagandist, spouting unsubstantiated pronouncements in order to shape opinion.   That is not reporting.  

If the orlando guy was a gay muslim who wanted the approval of ISIS and the Prophet, pbuh etc.(That's what many of the faithful do.  I communicated with an American muslim for awhile. Many can't even think about you-know-who without expressing peace be upon him. Seriously, what he considered moderate was spooky)

Oh yea muslim murder man is turned on by Achmed.  He is not popular no matter how hard he tries.  Can't get no satisfaction.  Certainly can't get rid of the wife and announce his preference.

So, he resolves it all.  He serves ISIS and pleases you-know-who, pbuh, by slaughtering people in a gay bar.  Allah will now forgive him for being no good.  It's his best shot. Redemption.  

He only hated gays for not dating him.  He did not really hate them, so find some other PC cause to wrap in propaganda as if it is bacon at the fair, Salon, you koolaid factory for fools.

Martyred while killing those who he wished would have sex with him. 

So, as much as the idiotic progressive koolaid drinkers wish they could say hate crime, they may have trouble getting it to stick.  

It is more like a self-hate crime.

Can you choose your own virgins?  Wonder exactly how that is defined over there.

Forget Fact, I'm Jumping On The Bandwagon

Come on!!!  Look, just because I find Hillary to be the most annoying candidate since John Kerry does not mean I am all in for Trump.

Just because I call people on their nonsense does not mean I am all in for whoever they consider to be their opponent.  That, though, is most common with progressives--either you agree or you are a racist nazi who needs killing to save the rest of humanity.  For people who pretend peace, I find the hard core koolaid drinking progressive frightening due to their extremes of what they claim they wish on their opponents.  More hateful than those they claim are hateful. Bizarre.

So now we have a petition circulating to "ban assault weapons".  They go on about how no one needs military grade weapons, etc.  They have people convinced that little Johnny can go to 7-11 and purchase a fully automatic weapon.

They are already banned, freaky people.  What you can get is analogous to those mini bikes tricked out to look like a Harley.  It is not a soldier's weapon.

If they have to deceive people in their crusade to put yet more power in the hands of the few--government--and again infringe on the individual's life and choices, then maybe they are not as sincere, honest and altruistic as they pretend.  Or else they are just stubbornly stupid.

assault rifle definition:
a military rifle capable of both automatic and semiautomatic fire, utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge.

Automatic,, like  Tommy gun.  Get it?  No, you can't.  Like I said, if you could I'd have three.  

I hate liars who try to make laws and mess with people who are doing no harm.  If your gun looks like a military weapon, because maybe the design just makes sense, then you must be bad.  You don't need that gun.  Because I say so.  And I know what everyone needs and should have.  

America has never been perfect, but it used to be a lot more free in ways.  And more fun.  I think our idea of making it up to Blacks and others was to make everyone equally miserable, rather than equally free to be happy.  Because people are trouble I guess.  And they think there is something holy in government so they allow abuses that would get us roundly thrashed or murdered if that is how we treated our neighbors.

It is insane.  Do the talking point people just parrot everything they see as their team's stance?  It is nuts, mindless, and dangerous--far more dangerous than Trump is the herd mentality and insistence on totalitarianism.

Wait wait, I Can Do Better---inane insights

OK.  Never let a good mass murder go to waste.  So, even trying to avoid the maudlin melee of platitudes and pronouncements, I encountered pleas for Congress to "just DO something!!!", for bans on "automatic assault weapons' [wtf], bans on 30 round magazines for rifles, woeful laments about why 'we' can't accept those not like 'ourselves', and more.

And I was seriously avoiding a lot of news.  This is just facebook.  That is what I get for having far left field family and friends, and some seriously intellectually challenged people who are unaware of their dimness, and some more right leaning friends too.

The simple memes pretending profundity, pasted over pictures of famous actors or scenes of soldiers or who knows what.  These are posters you'd see in a class on propaganda techniques.  Classic.

I don't want to miss my chance to express pretended emotions and profound wisdom (in my own mind), like so many others.

My meme:

It is high time that we, as a society, arm our LBGTQ,etc., brothers, sisters, and other, to the teeth so that they can finally take their place in our culture, and pop a cap in those trying to cap them.  This is not about islam, this is about a well armed rainbow.  It can never be about islam, because.

Maybe put that over a picture of flamboyant folk from a gay pride parade.  Maybe they could be stoning a guy who looks like the latest shooter, buried to the waist like they do to women over in the hard core hotbeds of religious zealotry which includes throwing rocks and tossing humans from high places.

Couldn't find anything better than this on short notice.  It will do.  Just claim this person is transgender.  Who can argue?

Good God, KoolAid People, Really?

Like was predicted in the last post, people all over news media and social media are running amok with inaccurate, ridiculous talking points supplied by their local koolaid distributor.  Pictures of "assault rifles"  which can't even fire full automatic (which technically means it is not an assault rifle) are posted with dire, hand wringing memes, which, in reality, are totally off point and ridiculous.

Here's the deal.  If you are a good progressive you have to want "common sense gun control", and you have to pretend that our gun laws are something other than what they are.  If it was that easy to get a machine gun, I'd own at least three.  But the real pretense is that citizens having weapons is the problem.  Islam on the war path is in no way a problem.  That is what you have to believe.

It is the gun.  Or the magazine that holds more rounds than people who have never confronted the real scum of the world think you need.  People who not only do not own weapons, but who know nothing about them.   But the progressive's insistence upon being the arbiter of how much, or what you need--whether it be bullets, money, children, calories, you name it--is what makes me not a progressive.  That attitude of deciding for others annoys me to no end.

But that has long been the way of public school and our government.  Diversity is a value all by itself, and you better conform to the preset stereotype of an idiot who thinks ethnicity is a character value, or else.  Just one example of the bizarre pretense which is our public life.

The usual gun arguments are nuts.  Granted, maybe one in ten is even slightly safe to trust with deadly weapons.  The reason I oppose pretty much all weapons restrictions is because, in my view, maybe one in fifty government people can be trusted with any sort of power whatsoever, and probably one in a hundred of those who direct where government guns are pointed can be trusted.

Guns in the hands of citizens won't do much against the government, local or otherwise, but it does help give a feeling of some hope against riffraff groups and thugs.  Why people get so worried about non criminals having fire power is beyond me.  The sticky part is in their insistence that they decide who gets to have a gun and under what conditions.  Does this not shriek of totalitarian police state in the making?

Well, I suppose the important thing is that we don't get all biased against lunatic muslims and ISIS supporters just because of one rotten apple.

The usual facebook parrots are posting nonsense from their talking point sites that tell them what to think.  Or what to pretend to think.  What they think is they hate certain types of people and will do anything to ridicule and express self righteous hatred.  But they pretend the 'other' is the hater.

Really?  There are people who actually listen to Hillary as she does the usual charlatan demagoguery on the gun thing.  They just want more power and control.  They could care less about people being shot or harmed.  Gun experts in DC.  Let's get the congressman who thought Guam would capsize from too many troops being stationed there.  He'll know what we should do.

And that is why, as dangerous and troublesome as life and my fellow citizens are, I would rather not have government people controlling everything from my diet to my self defense decisions.   I fear them more than my neighbors, and my neighbors are heavily armed.

I read some second hand account of Trump's reaction.  They were all aghast because he said I told you so, more or less.  I guess he did if they say so.  That is worse than insisting that people in the USA can go anywhere and buy an "assault rifle".  Not so.  And again, they pretend you can get fully automatic and all that, which you cannot.  So the common sense babble by people who have no idea what that means is worse than Donald somehow using it to say he predicted it so he is omniscient.

Let no good massacre go to waste.  That is one thing on which both republicans and democrats agree.  Bipartisan demagoguery.  yay

Hiding From The Spin

There is no doubt in my mind that the most recent shooting of innocent people by some aberrant lunatic will be used by every special interest lobby in the book to further their efforts to claim money and power.

It is how it is. The groups who seek special victimhood are seeking power.  It is obvious.  But somehow the Great Pretense tends to enable people to mask their desire to wallow in tax dollars and make others do their bidding.

I cannot make myself even look at any stories on this shooting because I do not want to hear all the "we need to..." talk.  "Common sense blablabla".  Nonsense is more like it.

I saw a comment, on a facebook post expressing sadness at the loss of life,  in which the lady said, "we all need to be more tolerant of those not like ourselves".  Excuse me madam/and/or sir, I am tolerant of anyone who does not infringe upon my basic natural rights.  I will cooperate.  Social contract and all that.  But I pretty much do not grant you boundary jumping privileges so don't even think about it.  They want to pretend that what you do privately and personally has social consequences, if they don't like it,  therefore they can control you.  If you buy their "we" talk, they really mean "you".  And it is nonsense.\

Like those throwing rocks at cops and horses claiming Trump has no right to have a rally because they decided he's "dangerous", so it is all just self defense.  I didn't make it up.  I think that is the LaRaza con artist, racist line.  That is the LaRaza koolaid.

My tolerance is only short for those who lump me in with their moronic selves, and try to tell me what to do, directly or by implication.   Geez, lady, "we" aren't shooting up people by the score.  Perhaps it was religiously motivated.

Now, are we to be tolerant of sociopathic murderers for not being like ourselves?  What a typically air headed, koolaid drinker drivel of a thing to say.   So, if it wasn't a gay place would there still be this ridiculous call for tolerance?

Now is a good time for Obama's imaginary son to make an appearance; looks like Trayvon,  O won't let him play football.   But I expect he is more likely trying to worry about people blaming the shooter for his aberrance, in this case.  That would be the koolaid drinking progressive response.  Maybe blame talk radio.  If we are lucky they will switch to some senator explaining how pregnancy can be prevented by putting a quarter between your knees.

Is that sick, or what?  I forget the repub that said that awhile back.  More than one no doubt.  Of course if the guy held a quarter between his knees, it would also make it more difficult for those zany kids to make babies.  Those people are paid with tax funded checks.  Really.  That should cause me to conclude the whole thing is hopeless right there.

We pay idiots to fix the problems they idiotically create and exacerbate.  It is how cronyism and corruption work.  Those things make for problems, believe it or not.

Then, with a gun to our heads, we implement their unworkable plans to "fix" things.  Like immigration.  If they had enforced the laws this would be not the problem it is.  You go years pretending, and sooner or later, the facade gets dissolved.  But there are layers. Getting to the real truth, the real beneficiary in these matters is very tough.  So much deception.  It is a magic show, and pea under the cup.

And the people are sure they know where the pea is, but they do not.  Nothing more dangerous than people who think they know what they don't and who don't know what they think they do.   Well, there are probably plenty more dangerous things, but that is what enables the insane tax supported endeavors and wars..

They Could Sell Us Anything

You know how people are all wound up as if, all of a sudden, our society if rife with pedophiles and muggers?   Maybe not all of a sudden, but as if these crimes are way out of hand, compared to 30 or 50 years ago.

It just is not true.  The news, such as it is, and the population, such as it is, has promoted this view, and these acts, by constant clamoring, exaggeration and fear mongering.

This is a large country.  It is like they find one white cop shooting a black person and all hell breaks loose but the kids and others caught in Chicago's gang fueled murder fest get little mention at all.  So the impression is that cops are going open season on Blacks, when in reality, Blacks have gone open season on Blacks, and pretty much everyone else.  Relatively speaking.

My view is that the vast majority of cops are sadists and bullies who enjoy the chances to exercise their hobby with impunity.   Must be pure frustration for the sanest of cops.  "Oath Keepers", I guess. All that means is that those cops understand and defend the fact that their reach is and should be limited.  The try to adhere to the limits of the Constitution in stepping on citizens' rights.  Not a ton of them around.

Hell, citizens and cops, alike, are usually woefully ignorant of constitutional guarantees and such.  Does a citizen no good when faced with guns and billy clubs.   But most people think a dystopian police state is not only normal, but a good idea. grrrrrrrr

The pointy is, news stories can give the appearance of things that aren't so.  I know no one who wanted Hillary in the primary.  I am shocked it was even close.  The press was on Trump 24/7 leaving little hope for the others.  He was on our minds because we love media and he was everywhere on all media.  Easy to forget who else ran.

Now, if they were consistent, the news would be full court press investigating the Saudi Arabian-Clinton connection, the Bush-Clinton connection, every scandal and apparent breech of regulations which litter the Clinton wake as they barrel ahead like steam roller.

Now who knows what happens.  I sincerely believe that the nomination has been flat out stolen from Bernie through fraud and intimidation, or it was all a show from the start.

I hardly know what to do re voting.  Probably go for some other person.  But I cannot imagine the Trump machine being any more "dangerous" than Hillary and the Clinton outfit.  She is like a deranged gangster.   And I cannot for the life of me understand why Trump is running, and why he says annoying things that tend to make even the most ignorant skin head stop and ask, "WTF?".

Either one of them may be capable of  delivering the final death blow to any pretense of following the Constitution.

Trump is at least half right on several issues.  It is the crazy half that shoots his team in the foot.  Hillary is too duplicitous to tell what she really thinks about anything.  I know I don't buy a word she says when she goes into her impersonation of Black speech and southern lingo.  But pure progressives will pretend she has integrity, even though they may believe she crookedly used her insider influence in the party to screw Bernie.

For those who are all into first Latina this, first woman that--standard garden variety politics of physical characteristics--(are you African-American, woman or other than white man?  Nothing to do with plan, philosophy, competence or sound law)--then I would think if all you want now is The First female president of the USA, you'd go for a much better representative.   The Hill is a screaming, entitled shrew, and people know it.  Find someone who will reflect better on the gender, if you must do politics of gender and ethnicity.  And people do that because they are mostly way stupid.

Took me years to believe and admit that.  Probably because I was convinced everyone was smarter and more aware than I am.  Family imprint from day one, I suspect.

Now after most of my life is done, I get it.  They are stupid and I pretended the weren't much to my own peril.
 

The Race to Victimness is Littered With Racists

This should be kept short.  I know it is a waste of time.

Fact: the name "La Raza" is, by definition, racist.   It just goes downhill from there.  It is the mix of Spanish and aztec, mostly.  A marriage born of rape.  So these morons decide history starts and stops where and when it is convenient to their narrative of greed cloaked as something holier.  Like being a VICTIM.  There is no juice if we aren't victims with clear enemies.

If they want to bemoan the disruption of the pristine Aztec utopia, they tend to ignore the brutality that won the Aztecs their territory.  They were bullies and jerks.  The other tribes were the ones who created the technology as such. Aztecs simply conquered them and made use of their ingenuity.

Anyway, it is a group whose common thread is greed for power and money, seeking special privilege by claiming to be victims.  And they are not too concerned about integrity or decency.

It is so bizarre how the guilty white idiots have encouraged every non white entity to become obsessed with race and ethnicity, as a way of correcting what they see as improper racism.  So we cure cruel and impolite racist policies with racist policies and hatred.

It is not working.

Also most of these people are too young to have experienced anything but special treatment in schools, government, and the modern work place.   But they know they are downtrodden victims.  They also know they can always get special privilege in order to compensate for the white privilege that just seems to follow white people wherever they go.  And if they get violent with those who disagree with their views, they call it self defense.  And get away with it.

Of course, unlike many friends and others, I do not care if people "get away with it".  I believe the aberrant should be stopped or put down. I am not dead set on "making them suffer".  That does not help anything.  Getting the aberrant out of the mix does.  Another story for another day.

For the time being I will just bask in my privilege.

Police never bounce us around or stop us in traffic.

Police never ask white people walking down the road at 2 in the morning in odd areas what they are doing.

Lies.

I have experienced all of that.

I am forming a group called La Privilege.  It is a group where we can be victims of our privilege and advantages, and how white privilege has made us lonely because everyone hates us and it isn't fair.


I cannot believe the thugs like many of the La Raza gang are able to coopt the honest, hard working immigrant's plight.  Some illegals just followed the path to safety and a fuller stomach.  They aren't often very educated so they don't know from international law.  Nice people who bear no ill will, want no trouble.  They exist.

That is not who the racist outfit called La Raza is.  Not by any stretch.

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K and Wait for IT

Those are my peeves of the moment.  I hate it when I am texting someone about something for some reason, taking my time not to type gibberish, confusing anagrams and abbreviations, or uninteresting slang, and the other person comes back with "k".

I let them know.  "What?  Did you just f^&**ng K me?"  Really.  How dismissive, while pretending to be current, savvy, and too sophisticated for manners.  Don't be K'ing me.  That is the long and short of it.

And another thing; why do people feel it necessary to post a video with the caption "Wait for it..."?  They often have the ellipsis.  Is the video so bad and unnecessarily long and boring that the only way you get anyone to watch it is to advise them they need to wait for the punch line?

It is because people are sheep and like that sense of power.  Anyone can post anything.  So the first to figure that out somehow saw themselves as speakers in front of a huge auditorium of adoring fans.  They took to calling this invisible multitude "folks".

If you say "folks" when you want to sound as if you are addressing thousands, maybe millions, people realize you are a big leader and probably an expert.  One thing for sure, you know the answers.  "Folks.  Be afraid.  Be very afraid."  Thank God that one petered out for the most part.  Ha. Perhaps there IS a God after all.  Yay.

OK.  So a chubby kid at the beach makes a running dive toward the waves and stages a belly flop on the wet sand.  And they tell you to wait for it.  It is a GIF for crying out loud.  A few seconds.

But it is so bad that the author fears his audience has reflexes you would not expect from "regular folks".  Lightening fast.  So quick are they that they can realize, after only half a second, that the next 3 seconds of this GIF aren't worth it.  But wait!  They told you to wait for it, so you give it a shot.

Your initial instinct was right.  Quite often, I am able to ignore the "wait for it" trick and I do not even run the video.  This is a new skill on my part.  I used to wait for it, sublingually cursing whoever posted the wait-bait all the while.

I am not sure on these things if the original idea is even close to as annoying as the repeaters of the ideas.  It is like a double whammy; arrogant nonsense based on a false notion of importance and reality, coupled with the piteous spectacle of the unoriginal parroting that which they think gains the most peer approval while pretending to be deep clever, intellectual and creative.  Barf city, folks.

I do not K people.  The very least they get is an OK.  Even that is rare.  I affirm in ways that let people know I am paying attention and understand the fact that they may be human and actually deserve to be treated as such.

It is an odd life

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