Everyone is Still Stupid, but the Stupid is Getting Worse

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I have a very important question to ask as we begin.

Can someone put their finger on exactly when people became stupid? I mean, I realize people are generally stupid, but when did people just lose their minds in an era of epic stupidity?

You know how everything the left doesn't like is racism? If you live in a nice neighborhood and there aren't enough people of other ethnicities or races there, it's racism, defacto racism. If you send your kids to private school, it's racism. The second amendment is racist. Everything they don't like is racist. They've cheapened the word racism by saying things are racist that are not racist. Now conservatives are doing it with segregation and it's driving me crazy.

Marjorie Taylor Green, the QAnon Congresswoman, is shaming a restaurant in Atlanta. I think it's called Argosy or something like that. It's in Hipsterville, Atlanta. They put up a sign outside asking that only vaccinated people come inside. This happend after several of their staff got COVID and they had to shut down. My understanding is they believe that it was patrons at the business who caused it, not the employees bringing it to work. But maybe it was the employees who were unvaccinated, but nonetheless, the restaurant now says, "Don't eat here, if you're not vaccinated" and a bunch of conservatives are claiming this is segregation.

No, no, it's not segregation you idiots. It's not remotely segregation. Segregation involves immutable characteristics given to you by God. Segregation is God made you male, you’ve got to sit over here. God made you female, sit over there. God made you black, sit in the back. Segregation is not who did or did not get the vaccine. Segregation was based on police powers of the state that businesses used.

You know there are plenty of other restaurants. In fact, I Googled around this particular restaurant people can go to. If you're alternative is the business should be forced to allow me in and should have no say, then you're on Team Bake The Cake Bigot. Do you want to be on Team Bake The Cake Bigot? Do you want to force the Christian baker to bake the cake? Do you want to force the Christian photographer to be forced against their will at the risk of losing their business to show up and photograph the gay marriage that they don't want to photograph because they believe it violates their deeply held religious beliefs? Do you want them to do that? If you say no then you’ve got to let the business decide if they do or do not want people who haven't been vaccinated.

When did people become such self-centered idiots? I didn't actually intend to start the show here, but I noted on social media that the restaurant should be entitled to say, "Hey, if you don't have the vaccine, we don't want you to eat here", and a bunch of conservatives said, "This is segregation." No, it's not segregation, you idiots. Segregation is a word that actually means something. You are no better than the leftist screaming racism about everything. When did people become so stupid and not very thoughtful?

You can go elsewhere. And by the way, there's a bajillion restaurants you can go to around there so don't give me the, “it's just like segregation”. There's a big difference. You can distinguish a nuance, but if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And by the way, it's not conservatism. It is populist reactionary-ism. Conservatism actually tends to mean the individual should be able to pick and choose for himself and deal with the consequences of that choice. You don't get to make choices in life and then escape consequences.

If I take my paycheck tomorrow to Las Vegas and lose it at the casino, I don't get to demand my money back to pay the rest of my bills. It's a consequence of my choice. I have the right to go do it and then if I lose my money, I have to live with the consequences. If I decide I believe the crazy conspiracy cranks online about the vaccine and don't want it, well, then the business has the right to refuse my business. I don't know how this is hard. It's only hard because you want it to be hard. You want it to be difficult. It's not actually difficult. It's actually very easy, to live and let live.

These are strange times. When the abortionists are screaming, “my body, my choice,” and now the conservatives are screaming in “my body, my choice,” but the business owner doesn't get to scream my business, my choice. I should point out that the major difference is that with the abortionist, it's not really their body they're talking about. They're actually talking about the third party in the relationship who has no voice that they just want to kill. Everybody else, it should be your business, your choice and the government should stay out of it. I am against the government imposing mandates for vaccines. I don't think they should, but you’ve got to live with the consequences.

There's something else I'm opposed to. It's the shaming that the media is doing in how they're covering the people who didn't get the vaccine and are now dying. I do think an increasing portion of the media is malevolent when it comes to these topics. I suspect that their thinking is that if they highlight the stories of the vaccine skeptics who are now dying of COVID, it may pressure vaccine skeptics to get the vaccine. But what’s happening is the opposite. It's just inviting delight and ridicule from the Horses of Mordor against the people who aren't getting the vaccine and is convincing no one to get it.

The level of shaming and ridicule and contempt by progressive's on those who didn't get the vaccine and are now dying or dead is appalling. There is another study out over the weekend showing that progressives are less likely to have friends who are conservative than conservatives are progressive. Conservatives more often than not have progressive friends than progressive's have conservative friends. And progressive's online are reacting to a reporter who said, “I can't imagine not being friends with people I disagree with politically.” Progressive's are pilling on the reporter saying you shouldn’t be friends with conservatives. They're all dishonest. They're all contemptible. And so progressives have no problem shaming people who are dead because of COVID because they conclude that they are Trump voters.

It's really contemptible behavior of people on the left. I realize at this point, I hate everybody. I'm infuriated with everybody. The level of tit for tat, nobody has principles anymore. Everyone just lives in reaction to the other side. And if the other side says, "You all have to get the vaccine.", then my side says, "No, the hell we're not." And the other side says, "Well, you shouldn't be able to go to a restaurant if you haven't got the vaccine." We're like, "We're going to storm the restaurant and infect everybody!"

Can you not just think for yourself and have some level of principle and value without being caught up in a herd mentality? When someone echoes the stupid talking point, that it's segregation, you don't have to parrot it in the same way people on the left should stop parroting the stupid talking point that everything is racist. I saw the ACLU's social media account tweeted out that the Second Amendment is a product of racism and was put there to maintain slaves, which is historically not true. Whoever tweeted that is an idiot. There are words I want to say on this program that because we're on terrestrial radio, I cannot, so we will go with idiot. That person is an idiot.

It is historically and factually not true. The Second Amendment is derived from the glorious revolution and the English Bill of Rights in 1689. The English Bill of Rights in 1689 had a right to keep and bear arms. Why? Because the king of England had decided to confiscate the arms so that they could not do to him what Charles the First had happen to him by Oliver Cromwell. So they put it in the English Bill of Rights. It had nothing to do with slavery. And yet the left has taken up this talking point. I'm sure Nicole Hannah Jones or some other liar out there on the left came up with it. And they all say, "Hmm, sounds compelling. I guess it's true because I read it on the internet from someone I agree with."

There isn't a whole lot of difference between the people who believe the Second Amendment is a product of slavery and the people who won't take the vaccine because they believe there's a microchip in it. They're all the same level of stupid. And I am really tired of dealing with the stupid people out there. Here's the thing, people on the left have decided to scare the bejesus out of everyone about the vaccine and about the virus. The result is that everyone's crying wolf at this point and no one's taking it seriously. I suspect most of the vaccine hesitancy out there now is not real hesitancy about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, it's about whether or not it's that bad out there.

Case in point someone is out there and I will give credit to the idiot who did it. Bob Wachter is the chair of the University of San Francisco Department of Medicine. He tweets this out, “Let's look at hospitalizations. On June 1st, we had one COVID patient in our 700 bed at UCSF hospital. None were in ICU. Today, we've got 28 hospitalized, 15 on the floor, 13 in ICU, seven on vents. A staggering increase.” For perspective there are 4.7 million people in the metropolitan San Francisco area and only 28 of them are in the hospital. Maybe give a little perspective there, Bob so people get a sense of reality as opposed to freaking them out needlessly. Again, 4.7 million people and only 28 have COVID, that's not so bad.

In fact, for all the scare and nightmare over the Delta variant, it appears there's a downward trend already in parts of the world, including in parts of this country that had seen COVID explosions of the Delta variant. So when people are blowing up the numbers like that and scaring people over the data, I can understand why people are hesitant to get the vaccine thinkingit may be overstated all together. Maybe if people were a little more honest, straightforward, and truthful, and put things in better perspective, there would be less hesitancy. Maybe if conservatives were honest and didn't call things segregation that wasn't segregation, we could actually have rational conversations. Maybe if progressives stop calling everything racist, we could have honest conversations. But you know, that's probably not going to happen. So instead we'll be reminded daily of stupid people on the internet believing stupid things that we have to get on here and rebut so that you do not get infected by the stupid gene.