This is kind of a follow-up to my last post (I Hate Politics). And to several other past posts. Because I’m done. I’ve had it up to here. We’re being screwed over six ways from Sunday, and we’re just letting it happen. (And just so you know, I’m not going to filter my language here, I’m that fed up).

There’s an old joke that’s ringing pretty true right now:

You know how to tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving.

And that extends to most media outlets now, too, since all they cover are the lies and controversies, ignoring facts that might actually educate the public.

So stop listening to them. Stop listening to the government, stop listening to your favorite talking head, and please, please stop accepting any input from faceless Facebook pundits. Just – stop. It’s all lies, if only by omission, and twisted to conform to a narrative chosen long before; in other words, misinformation.

Stop listening to Sleepy Joe. Screw the Covid mandates. Get the facts straight in your own head and you’ll know what needs to happen without the political establishment having to hold your hand, pat you on the head, and tell you you’re a good boy. Or girl. And get scratched behind the ears.

You’re told to do your research, then told you can’t understand the research if you don’t understand nucleic acids and microbiology. Bullshit. You don’t need to be a biologist to know enough about how viruses work to know what to do about them; we’ve had viruses for millions of years, we’ve known pandemics and epidemics since before recorded history, and we learned the best ways to minimize the death that came with them, eons before we learned the infectious agents weren’t evil spirits but sub-microscopic bits of fatty DNA.

You don’t need an advanced biology degree to know that Covid – like most other inimical viruses – is spread by close contact with an infected person; hell, a Middle-Ages witch doctor knew that. You don’t need to know what protein it is in the virus’ receptors to know that an infected person’s breath spreads the virus. You know the fog you see when you exhale on cold days? If you’re infected with a virus – cold, flu, Covid, whatever – every single microscopic droplet, suspended in that pretty cloud of millions of weightless microscopic droplets, has thousands of sub-microscopic bits of fatty DNA in them. Each droplet.

And no, Einstein, that doesn’t just happen in the winter. Every time you exhale, you exhale that cloud of vapor.

Every.

Time.

As independent as we are as Americans, we still have a responsibility to our family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and all the other people we encounter to do what we can to NOT be a spreader of a new and, as a result, deadly disease. Ignore the goddamn government! Do what’s right of your own volition. If you don’t give a fuck about other people, don’t wear a mask. I mask up as a sign of respect for the people around me, because I know the facts and I don’t listen to the bullshit spewed from the White House. If you know the facts but still think it’s too much of an infringement of your personal freedom to help protect your family and neighbors from a deadly contagion, well, then, you’re a fucking sociopath and need to go live alone in the mountains.

And as far as I’m concerned, you have to be a special kind of stupid to believe some of the absolute God-awful shit that’s been spread about the vaccines. Become magnetic? They’re injecting trackers? Please. It injects you with mercury, or aluminum? FYI, if you cook with aluminum pans, you get more aluminum in your dinner than you do from this shot, and your body is fully capable of ridding itself of trace amounts of metals, anyway. And FYI, the “mercury” in a vaccine is a minute amount of a preservative compound (← important word, “compound”) that doesn’t stick to anything in the human body, it flushes right out.

It’s always been like that, even before the newest mRNA vaccines.

If you get the vaccine you’ll shed virus? That’s a little more plausible, until you realize that no modern vaccine actually uses complete viruses, so they can’t replicate inside you, so you can’t shed them. The only time you can shed virus is if you’re actually infected.

And there are people who CAN’T be vaccinated! What about them, Mr. President, how do you acknowledge them in your fucking mandates? Like Aaron Rogers, who’s allergic to them, but something of an idiot in interviews… Why doesn’t CNN include them in their stories?

All this is basic stuff, available if you want to look for it. But it’s so easy to be outraged if you don’t clutter the landscape with facts, isn’t it?

We just had another school shooting. 4 kids dead, more injured, because another kid with stupid parents went hunting in a “Gun-Free” zone. And before the gun was cold came more fevered calls by radical politicians for more gun-control legislation.

Understand something. The current political leadership – which you-all elected, I didn’t vote for them – wants school shootings. They want shopping malls shot up. Of course, they’ll vehemently deny it, but they want the uproar and the hand-wringing and the finger-pointing, all the while making it impossible to take the first intermediate steps to end school shootings. They want to recoil in horror and loudly blame the 99.99% of the gun-owning population who find school shootings as abhorrent as they do, while actively preventing the very measures it would take to protect our schools, and eliminating what limited protections are already in place.

Like Chairman Mao, they want control of the guns. It consolidates their power and accentuates the divisions. I’ve written about “Divide and Conquer” before.

This latest murder spree is another case like the Sandy Hook tragedy, except the mother wasn’t killed this time. Once again, we have parents who refused to see the obvious signs the child wasn’t right in the head, even when presented with incontrovertible evidence, and authorities – like that deputy in Florida – who didn’t have the spine to act in the students’ best interests by banning this kid from the campus until he got the help he needed.

But in the eyes of the opportunistic elitist politicians, it’s the fault of the NRA and all the gun owners who had nothing to do with it.

Stop listening to them. About anything. Think for yourself.

Then do what’s right.