Someone I know on the other side of the political aisle sent this to me.

https://www.tiktok.com/@supermantodd132/video/6994429118423026950?_d=secCgYIASAHKAESMgowHnAvd2N9zp0%2B8PbLdgMkOFFE3X3YI7j3igwxVNhaCwykDQHn%2F7d3E4RbO1O7L3uWGgA%3D&checksum=ff942ec53f716e193c655125046923dc625db944f00ee1680a56314f0b1a762f&clips_cover_ab=v2&enable_clips=1&language=en&preview_pb=0&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAAJyb1Twm4sDtKW8-ER3IGQfjNJMiy3I6xJidvLnrd4xi4mzs_22LBBGrWgMZkeVMc&share_app_id=1233&share_item_id=6994429118423026950&share_link_id=7F68C5BF-1121-448B-BC37-1E2328B9D3A1&source=h5_m&timestamp=1628563561&tt_from=sms&u_code=db78hmalcbi4fl&user_id=6800567033995871238&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=sms&_r=1

By the time I got most of the way done watching it I was fed up.

This asshole’s thesis, and the thesis of a lot of people on the Left, regarding America and COVID is this:

If only Americans had simply given up their freedoms willingly, had only we immediately acquiesced to every government suggestion and mandate, if Americans were less interested in their individual rights and more focused on the good of the collective and be willing to sacrifice their happiness for the collective good, fewer people would have died and America would not be an embarrassment to the rest of the world.

Never mind the changing and contradictory narratives and mandates.

Never mind that lockdowns destroyed the livelihoods of people who don’t have the privilege of being able to work from home via VPN and teleconferencing.

Never mind that our children have been so damaged by lockdowns that more have committed suicide than died of COVID.

Never mind that alcoholism and drug abuse skyrocketed and more young people overdosed than died of COVID.

Never mind that COVID spending has driven record, economy shattering, inflation that is going to crush the working and middle classes.

Never mind that restrictions and mandates in other countries weren’t any more effective in reducing per-capita COVID deaths, and America is not a radical outlier in COVID deaths per 100,000 people, especially considering the number of major cities we have which is where the worst spread has occurred.

Never mind that our kids fell a year behind in school or more.

Never mind all the unintended terrible social side effects we’ve experienced.

No, the problem is that Americans are just stupid, selfish, boorish assholes who just can bring themselves to consider the common good for a year and obsequiously obey restrictions on their lifestyle of shotgunning Bud Lites while screaming “freedom, fuck yeah, ‘Murica!”

This belief is little more than using COVID to justify your hatred of America and advocating for totalitarianism, no matter how ineffective or inept it might be.

I’m just fucking tired of this.

Benjamin Franklin said: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

He was right then and he’s right now.

These fucking people need a helicopter ride.

Which is why I did not marry one and went Southern Girl, just two degrees less crazy.

And then some. Our buddy Kevin Creighton goes full nerd/Mythbusters-Intensive investigation on tactical flashlights and presents us with a very complete result.

And let’s face it: we are secret tac light sluts. We just don’t advertise it like with guns or knives.

The Best Tactical Flashlight – Torch Testing Results (ammoman.com)

I’ve seen this meme posted on a few differ Twitter accounts.

I understand that in this day and age that a wife can make more money than her husband.

What o do find objectionable, grotesque is probably more accurate, is a grown man asking his wife to buy him a lego set like he’s a 12 year old boy.

The horrifying thing is how many people I’ve seen, both women and man-children, say how great this is.  How many husbands want this and how man wives would use this to get their husbands to do more chores or domestic tasks.

This is not a husband and wife relationship. This is a child in a weird oedipal relationship with a surrogate mommy.

What happened to manliness in this country?

Why is this any way socially acceptable?

It’s a sad state that this gets more praise than condemnation.

It is long overdue, but I want to thank all of you who donated to keep Troglodite services under the ruling of AWA as our Webhost Magician for another year. I believe you all have noticed how smooth the site has been running and we owe it to him.

I went to the post office to finally mail him his check and I had to come home because the place was packed and the usual Federal slowness was in progress. I can print my USPS labels online thankyouverymuch, so I grabbed a Priority Mail envelope and returned home.

After I got the label and envelope ready, I realized I had to cross the street to the mailbox and I was still fully geared but without cover garment… and I remembered that I was in OC Country, so, I OCed. About 17 cars went by (OK, only 3 but felt like that many) while I placed the envelope in the box and I returned back inside with my wife looking and smiling as if saying “Good boy!”

No, I did not pant.

And that is what OC represents to me: A convenience to be used in specific and temporary moments. And to stave off any fights, you carry the way you want and prepare accordingly.

What the hell is this pic.twitter.com/frPmVYMxiT

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) August 9, 2021

This is not about sexuality or freedom or anything Civil rights. This is a reality show and should be named America’s Top Ass Clown.
The sad part is that there are too many winners.

But there are rare cases in which the landlord doesn’t want to go through the commission process and instead wants possession of the property.

There were a handful of such cases during [Judge Gale] Robinson’s court Tuesday.

When a landlord wanted possession, Robinson would ask if they also wanted the back rent, pointing out that the commission would be the best way to get that money.

“[The commission] has millions and millions of dollars,” Robinson said during one case.

In that case, the landlord’s lawyer said the property owner wanted possession but also “didn’t want to waive the right to pursue damages in the future.”

Courts anticipating wave of eviction cases with moratorium over in TN (tennessean.com)

The whole feel of the article is obviously against property owners because they had the gall to demand what’s owed to them and the return of their legal property. “But there is free money from the Federal government!” seems to be the cry for “reason” which ignores the fact that is not government money but taxpayer’s money and that the same emotional appeal used to get funds to pay for the rents of a lot of assholes who could pay but refused to do so under the protection of a mandate,  can disappear if the political winds change and the property owners are stuck with an occupied structure that they cannot make money out of it.

I read in another article that some owners are evicting no-paying tenants and then turning around and selling the property: How dare they! (Part 2)  And again, do what you want with your goods is somehow shameful and immoral, but somehow not paying for services provided is morally righteous because there is a pandemic excuse. My take is that the owners got a nice fat offer and being tired of dealing with the fact that the monies owe were not coming in, they would rather get rid of the headache for a tidy profit. And I cannot blame them for that since they are not in the public housing business.

I am amazed that some lefty in congress has not come out with a proposal to expand Eminent Domain to seize private rental housing and give a chance to the poor families that “cannot pay [coughbullshitcough] rent” to live with dignity and all the accompanying flowery horseshit.

Then again maybe is hiding in that Infrastructure bill that we need to approve to read it and know what’s in it,