Old Man Rants

That's true that anything can kill you but odds of being killed or bitten by a pitbull are much, much, much, much, much, much, much higher. Just buy another dog and you won't have to worry about it. When I'm king I'm banning the breeding of pitbulls. I won't kill them straight out but it will be illegal to breed them for any reason. In a decade we won't have much to worry about on the pitbull front anymore.

It's not so much whether they're handled properly or if they have good owners. I'm sure there are plenty of golden retrievers who have terrible, neglectful and abusive owners but you never heard of them busting through fences or roaming in packs mauling women walking to work or children playing in their own yards. Pitbulls specifically were bred to be aggressive, to lock their jaws and injure/kill. We don't need that in society especially when there are dozens of other dog breeds that you can choose from.

You've clearly never had cum shot into your eye.

Eyewear, you say....

Whatever you're outraged about, I can guarantee it isn't worth your time.

I had a thought while reading your paragraph then you answered your own question which I agree with; the silent majority is a mirror of the social climate. I'm right there with you in that I'm not an angry twenty-something who screams at rallies and hangs posters of politicians above my bed but I never really was that person. I've always had my opinions but I never thought to wave them around like a flag. In fact even in college all the people who cried when Kerry wasn't elected seemed pretty pathetic to me. Now that I'm in my 30s and still see people my age typing paragraphs about Hillary Clinton and how Trump is literally going to blow up the earth makes me want to hit someone. Like you said, just vote. Also of note, I love how passionate the young people are about politics yet they're the ones who hardly vote in the first place. If they came out in 2010 and 2014 the way they did to polish Obama's knob in 2008 and 2012 we wouldn't have a Republican Congress right now.

As for Trump. I think I can speak to this seeing as how I was raised in a pretty affluent, white conservative area and know the mindset. Most, I'll say most conservatives/Republicans despise Trump. They don't like him, they think he's a buffoon, they think he's going to cost them an election that has been handed to Republicans on a silver platter and they're right to be frustrated. They just hate Clinton more than Trump just like liberals don't like Clinton but they'll take her over Trump. But Trump isn't a product of a 'huge, racist, xenophobic' section of our society. You can spin it that way if you choose but Trump is a product of the past few years of (mostly white) people being told that everything bad in society is their fault, they all have 'white privilege' i.e. they didn't earn anything they have and it was all handed to them, they're racist even at an unconscious level that they don't realize, and that any opinion they have is tainted by their whiteness. 'You're white so you can't comment on immigration.' 'You're white so you can't say anything about racial tensions, you just can't relate.' Compounding that is constant media coverage of students on college campuses and even high schools nationwide saying how 'racist' the colleges are and need the 'safe spaces' and 'mandatory diversity seminars' and a certain percentage of the faculty and student body being minorities. Finally, add the Black Lives Matter movement that has helped draw racial lines even deeper than they were already regardless of the original intent. So with your average working class white person seeing all that on an almost daily basis they've collectively gone 'fuck it, I'm done. I'm tired of being told I'm a bad person because of my race (which is somehow not racist), I'm tired of being told I don't deserve what I have and haven't worked hard for what I've earned, I'm tired of being told that I'm a bigot for having an opinion on just about anything and I want someone who's going to change that.' So here comes Donald Trump, a household name with a ton of money (meaning he won't be tied to lobbyists, theoretically) and says he's going to take a hatchet to all of this. He won't but that's what he says he'll do. That's appealing to all these people who are tired of being told that we live in this hugely racist society when most Americans are anything but racist.

At least that's where I think Trump-ism has come from and I think I'm pretty dead on. Are there some racists who back him? Sure, but 98% of them aren't motivated by racism, they're motivated by a sense of wanting to change things that they think are taking us on a downward spiral. Not saying I agree with all of it, just merely my observation.

Yeah, that's what I meant by a "fuck you" vote. The women's liberation movement went through a similar thing in the 1970's. Radical feminists attacked housewives and that cost them elections and laws. Roe v Wade is, really, the only major accomplishment by feminists of that era because it was supported by men as well. Don't let Christian fundamentalists fool you, men love abortion rights as much, if not more, than women. Moral of the story is, don't turn politics into a pissing contest. Most functional adults are centrists. They can hear both sides and vote on what they feel is best for the country at the moment. But if you attack people, you're gonna very quickly force centrists to choose the other side. Many of those working class white people probably do hate Donald Trump but will vote for him as a middle finger to the haters. Just like housewives in the 70's voted against the greater good cause radical feminists called them traitors to their gender.

If cargo shorts are now supposedly not acceptable, what the fuck am supposed to wear?

Boating shorts look irredeemably stupid.

First they came for my jorts, then they came for my cargo shorts. The man won't let me live my life in comfort.

They do in 100 degree weather.

Isn't that a Rihanna song?