So they’re having the presidential election in the US. I love following these elections, they make for some nice escapism from the depressing stupidity of my life, they can be scary though, you have to ignore the reality of the power this person is going to have and what they could do and learn to just enjoy the race.
What I love most is the ridiculous stuff on either side. An interesting thing lately is what’s happening with this guy Obama.
Yeah the big deal with Obama is that he’s black! OH MY GOD! It also looks like he’s going to win so there’s that. He seems decent enough for a politician but I’m not gonna pretend I’m smart enough to know what’s what in regard to this stuff. He talks about change a lot but you know at the end of the day politicians are politicians
Anyway at some event a while back Obama and his wife bumped fists, you know like how guys used to in the hood or how you’d do with your friends in a kind of jokey way. It seems like a pretty cool thing and is probably symbolic of how times are changing and stuff. So that’s cool. Except then Fox News, this hilariously ridiculous propaganda network who support the guys who won the last couple elections, decide they’ve never even heard of this fist bumping, that maybe it’s a, a… terrorist fist jab!
Terrorist fist jab.
Tonight on Fox: He claims he was saluting the American flag, a moving display of patriotism? Or a pedophile arm attack?
“Here to explain this to us is author Mitch Burgenvale, so what exactly are we seeing here Mitch.”
“Well I’ve heard people refer to it as shaking hands, but some viewers might be more familiar with the term Satanist hand grasp, or rapist, evil, un-American.”
“Interesting, and what do you know of the origin of this strange, foreign custom?”
“It’s hard to say, some people say it was originally a coded message used by Muslims, the idea being that a non Muslim would recoil at the touch of pure evil. When they found someone out to be a non Muslim they would of course stone them to death before raping a bible.”
“And liberals want these people to run our country? Now, she’s our hottest young star, but is she going off the rails? Here are photos of 18 year old singing sensation Cindy Whatserface drinking with friends! Here she is not wearing make up! Here she is coming to the realisation that her life in the public eye has been draining her, sucking her soul out of her body so that all that’s left is an empty shell which can be manipulated and used by whoever has money.”
“Here she is, watching Weekend at Bernies and being struck by the realisation that that’s all she is, a dancing corpse that everyone thinks is alive inside.”
“Here she is desperately trying to block out the world with drugs.”
“Here she is looking at her friends and realising she doesn’t know who any of them are.”
“Look at her lying in the gutter, surrounded by photographers, the laughter of the crowd and the click of the cameras all she can sense. Desperately wishing she could have peace, knowing it’s impossible”
WE SHOULD ALL BE LIKE HER. THIS IS GOOD. THIS IS WHAT LIFE IS ABOUT. SHE MADE IT. LOOK AT HER LITTLE GIRLS. THIS IS WHO YOU SHOULD BE. THIS IS WHAT WE REWARD.
Wait, I guess I should get back to Obama.
So they called it a terrorist fist jab. They are ridiculous, the phrase is ridiculous.
Then the New Yorker magazine went with a cover of Obama and his wife bumping fists, while he’s dressed as a terrorist and she’s a black panther.
They’re putting all the rumours and implications about Obama from the people at Fox and others like them into one picture, this is the image that people are spreading with their words except, well, it’s an image.
I think that’s a cool thing to do but I’m wrong because it’s offensive. I don’t really understand the logic behind what’s offensive and what isn’t so I’m not going to say anything.
Anyway, and we are very nearly at what could be considered my point here, I read about this picture in the newspaper. Here’s part of what they said:
The picture shows Obama bumping hands, which some commentators have called a terrorist fist jab.
So now I realise I don’t have a point, that’s it. You can try to find a point, a reason for this horrible garbled mess, if you want.
Oh well, anyway yay elections, yay democracy.
You know I really start these with the intention of writing something informative and interesting. The problem is for every opinion I have on a subject I often have many other, often contradictory, opinions depending on when you ask me. It makes it hard to write coherently. Well I guess I should focus on fiction in the hopes that someday I’ll get good. What’s important is I’m putting some of my thoughts on paper and that’s for the best.
99% of life is confusing and stupid and arbitrary and it doesn’t make sense and if you think you can make sense of it you’re a fool but we all try to make sense of it anyway so I think I’m just going to keep writing stupid things and try to enjoy myself whenever I can and not worry about it.
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