I was not going to write about this. I was going to let it slide. I was going to ignore all the jackasses whose only mission in life is to ruin the remainder of the day for the rest of us. Not that there are very many of the rest of us left. Everyone is either a conservative or a liberal and they’re all nuts.
I consider myself to be neither. I do not blindly back democrats or republicans. Conservatives may plant their lips on my right ass cheek while the liberals are busy making mouth love to the left one. I am a realist. The second you step foot to either side of that imaginary political boundary you lose sight of reality. Unfortunately, that includes almost everyone.
Anyway. There has been a lot of horse shit floating around about the president’s speech involving small business owners. Horse shit that has mainly been propagated by the media in a transparent assault on what little remains of the integrity of the medium. The primary method is clever use of video editing. They cut out the parts that are actually important and you’re left with “You didn’t build that!”.
The fact of the matter is YOU AREN’T GETTING THE FACTS OF THE MATTER. The president is trying to celebrate the environment that has been created by all of us as a nation, the things that have happened over the last century to empower small business owners and give them the chances they need to survive, and in rare occasions, thrive. He was not trying to say that your business succeeds or fails based on the federal government’s whimsy, that your hard work means nothing. He was asking us to look at what we’ve created together, small business and government.
Unfortunately, the average American is too fucking stupid to bother looking up the facts. They just assume that the major news broadcasting corporations wouldn’t dare lie to them. Here’s your news: the media lies. The media probably lies more than the government ever has and ever will, yet assholes still glue themselves to the television and pretend that what they’re hearing is the truth.
I suppose it’s most upsetting to me because there are a number of people I know–knew, grew up with, would still like to maintain friendships with, etc–who are among those aforementioned asshats who can’t be bothered or don’t want to know what the facts really are. No one cares about the truth, they only care about what they believe, or what they think they’re supposed to believe. They will then hold onto that belief in spite of anything that points to the contrary. Gravity, love, and stubborn ignorance. These are the most powerful and mysterious forces on Earth. Be afraid.
Maybe if the news aired impartial commentaries to help educate the public about current events we would have fewer slack-jawed mouth-breathers jamming their heads up their own asses by repeating what the paranoia machine tells them. And maybe I shit gold nuggets every half cycle of the moon.
Take this guy, for example:
He’s so proud of his business that he hangs a banner outside for everyone to see how much of a dipshit he is. I don’t even have to meet this person to know that they lack the capacity for cognitive reasoning. This is not someone I would be capable of having a conversation with because deep down I already know they’re just too stupid to help.
I challenge you to find the president’s unedited speech and watch it. Understand it. Then tell me the media aren’t just trying to blow smoke up our country’s ass to make people like Ray Gaster look like a fool. Maybe he is a fool, or maybe he’s just as gullible as the rest of us.