Viruses, Dead Celebrities, Democrats

Random thoughts.... random thoughts... random thoughts.

● The left is desperate to get Trump no matter what, so they are pulling all their usual nonsense tactics out of their collective rear ends. The Atlantic is claiming that the GOP won't call witnesses because they are seeking to protect "white power." Just like The Atlantic avoids inconvenient articles to hide the fact its staff is into pedophilia. Ironically, my BS claim actually has a better chance of being right than The Atlantic's BS claim.

● So apparently the Coronavirus can be gotten from a toilet seat. For real. It can pass from contaminated surfaces.

● I saw an article at Yahoo last night basically suggesting that the left should blame Trump for the virus, or as they put it "make Trump the face of the virus." I guess they missed that this came from China and that everyone already knows that. Personally, I blame The Atlantic. In any event, think about how low that makes the Democrats that they would try to exploit something this potentially terrible to wrongly attack a political opponent. They truly have no shame, not even an ounce.

● I'm finding Kobe Bryant's death interesting in several ways.

First, there seem to be two type of celebrity deaths. On the one hand, you have people like David Bowie or Prince. When either of them died, the public was shocked. Everyone talked about it... everyone. It was everywhere, with people sharing why they had been important to them, and everybody was sad. Only then did the media seem to realize the importance of the story to the public and try to race to the front of the grieving bandwagon. Of course, they did it wrong. They obnoxiously stuck microphones in the faces of pointless celebrities and asked them how this has affected them: "'I was shocked. Darren Bowee meant the world to me,' responded Dumbass Waster, the 18 year old actor/oxygen thief."

Kobe's death has caused the other type of celebrity death: the exploitation. The moment his death hit the news, the celebrity world started shedding fake tears and trying to outbid each other on grief. The late night guys cried on their shows. Every actor virtue signaled how sad they were while very aggressively name-dropping how they "knew" him. See, I'm important! Then, within hours, the great corporate exploitation machine turned its jaded eye to this precious little morsel and started proclaiming tributes and promotions all in his name. Even the NFL, which has squat to do with Kobe, will now honor him at halftime of the Superbowl because that's great PR he meant so much to us. Nike announced they would stop selling (poorly selling) Kobe gear "out of respect for him"... until they can reissue it and make a real splash. I wonder if using the word "respect" caused anyone at Nike to burst into flames?

Anyways, there's another reason its interesting.

I don't know much about Kobe the man except that he wasn't really a pitchman, which makes me think the public didn't take to him (see e.g., Tom Brady, Steph Curry, George Clooney... media loves, public despises). One thing I do know is that this Jesus-like family man had "an affair" with a woman while he was still playing. Only, the woman claimed it was actually rape and Kobe did buy her silence. What really happened? Who knows. Not the point. The point is that the left tried to make it a thoughtcrime to mention this. It went so far that a female reporter for the Washington Post even got suspended for mentioning it in a tweet and is getting death threats. I find it interesting that in the supposed age of the #metoo movement, the people who claim fealty to the movement would try to crush this admitted fact which lies at the very heart of what their movement is supposedly about. What does that tell us about the #metoo movement? It tells us it's a fraud when even the people in it can ignore its principles whenever they want.

Thoughts?