once again, Tom, your lovely rage has added plenty of velocity to your writing. I figure that's a pretty good thing to say to someone who loves flying.
there is really nothing to add, except possibly the completely obvious fact that you are being in no way hyperbolic. there's this "friend" I keep mentioning who lives upstairs who manag…
once again, Tom, your lovely rage has added plenty of velocity to your writing. I figure that's a pretty good thing to say to someone who loves flying.
there is really nothing to add, except possibly the completely obvious fact that you are being in no way hyperbolic. there's this "friend" I keep mentioning who lives upstairs who manages to subscribe to every fucking piece of weirdness out there. and he knows that 1) I reserve the right to throw him out if he breaks MY rules, which are pretty much that he is not allowed to mention politics in my place and 2) I have no tolerance for ANY of his miserable ideas because he refuses to pay attention to "mainstream media" and every item he brings up is something that's shown up in his feed which he doesn't know is precisely the day's rightwing talking point. on HIS end, he tells me that my hatred of TFF is a splendid example of "T***P derangement syndrome" and that I lack critical thinking skills by not accepting the fact that virtually everything anybody did about Covid was wrong, wrong, wrong and evil and fascistic...you know the drill. this naturally includes the vaccines (and I think he's graduated to a full-on anti-vax position about ALL vaccines)..a moronic position. tonight, he tried to rile me by trashing anyone who thinks that Kanye West (in his estimation, a "genius," whatever the fuck THAT means..I have no way to determine the truth of this since I don't know his music and am not interested) is antisemitic and then on to trashing Zelensky. he didn't finish that last sentence before I told him that now he had to go home, that I consider his behavior to be one of the shit ways he manages his extra time (he has nothing BUT extra time) and that I don't appreciate his hostility (which is what it is, especially given my current health concerns. he told me that I was acting like Stalin and I said yes, in my apartment I am free to be Stalin if I want to be. why have I just said all this? I guess because I'm still irritated. no, FURIOUS is a better word. this fool just decided to become a citizen to avoid having to renew his fake green card every six months, but he needed me (and my longtime best friend) to coach him for his test questions, as he had--and has--no idea how the most basic aspects of this political system work. but he has LOTS of opinions. it strikes me that he might be the walking definition of a "useful idiot." but (again, as I keep saying), he's a really sweet guy. I think all of us know people who answer this description...you know, very nice guys with horrifying (and completely uninformed) political opinions.
I think I've gone into this excruciating detail to confirm my complete, enraged agreement with you.
I also think that, with the "new normal" being the refusal to accept ANY defeat in ANY election, we might just be doomed. it's certainly gonna get ugly. when these folks operate as a group, it doesn't matter how nice they might be on an individual basis. this is from someone who directed a group of a few hundred people to cross First Avenue to the UN and "get Dean Rusk" in the Fall of 1968. the result was getting a good ass-kicking from a bunch of waiting NYC TPF cops, resulting in my appearance on TWO network evening broadcasts. since I was running as fast as I could to get the fuck out of there, I hadn't exactly covered myself (or my cause) in glory. but I did manage to learn a valuable lesson about "crowds and power." actually reading Canetti's great and essential book came much later.
thanks to everybody for being so patient with me and with this rather incoherent post.
but shit, I'm just mad. and not a little terrified....
You are infinitely more patient than I would be. He'd be out on the street if I knew him. I've already kicked out two QAnon crazy cleaning ladies and a yard helper who lied about having his shots. I'm pretty protective of my space, especially due to my own health issues. No one is allowed inside unless fully vaxxed and boosted and NO ONE is allowed inside if a MAGAt.
oh, I kick him out all the time...to get home, he just takes the elevator to the sixth floor. sometimes I feel like George Burns firing Harry Von Zell; his problem is that he thinks it's funny that he can get what's become a stereotyped response from me.
I just wish he wouldn't do it. and since Tom mentioned his blood pressure, I'm in the middle of some "issues" and not-very-well-controlled hypertension is one of them, although the least serious.
once again, Tom, your lovely rage has added plenty of velocity to your writing. I figure that's a pretty good thing to say to someone who loves flying.
there is really nothing to add, except possibly the completely obvious fact that you are being in no way hyperbolic. there's this "friend" I keep mentioning who lives upstairs who manages to subscribe to every fucking piece of weirdness out there. and he knows that 1) I reserve the right to throw him out if he breaks MY rules, which are pretty much that he is not allowed to mention politics in my place and 2) I have no tolerance for ANY of his miserable ideas because he refuses to pay attention to "mainstream media" and every item he brings up is something that's shown up in his feed which he doesn't know is precisely the day's rightwing talking point. on HIS end, he tells me that my hatred of TFF is a splendid example of "T***P derangement syndrome" and that I lack critical thinking skills by not accepting the fact that virtually everything anybody did about Covid was wrong, wrong, wrong and evil and fascistic...you know the drill. this naturally includes the vaccines (and I think he's graduated to a full-on anti-vax position about ALL vaccines)..a moronic position. tonight, he tried to rile me by trashing anyone who thinks that Kanye West (in his estimation, a "genius," whatever the fuck THAT means..I have no way to determine the truth of this since I don't know his music and am not interested) is antisemitic and then on to trashing Zelensky. he didn't finish that last sentence before I told him that now he had to go home, that I consider his behavior to be one of the shit ways he manages his extra time (he has nothing BUT extra time) and that I don't appreciate his hostility (which is what it is, especially given my current health concerns. he told me that I was acting like Stalin and I said yes, in my apartment I am free to be Stalin if I want to be. why have I just said all this? I guess because I'm still irritated. no, FURIOUS is a better word. this fool just decided to become a citizen to avoid having to renew his fake green card every six months, but he needed me (and my longtime best friend) to coach him for his test questions, as he had--and has--no idea how the most basic aspects of this political system work. but he has LOTS of opinions. it strikes me that he might be the walking definition of a "useful idiot." but (again, as I keep saying), he's a really sweet guy. I think all of us know people who answer this description...you know, very nice guys with horrifying (and completely uninformed) political opinions.
I think I've gone into this excruciating detail to confirm my complete, enraged agreement with you.
I also think that, with the "new normal" being the refusal to accept ANY defeat in ANY election, we might just be doomed. it's certainly gonna get ugly. when these folks operate as a group, it doesn't matter how nice they might be on an individual basis. this is from someone who directed a group of a few hundred people to cross First Avenue to the UN and "get Dean Rusk" in the Fall of 1968. the result was getting a good ass-kicking from a bunch of waiting NYC TPF cops, resulting in my appearance on TWO network evening broadcasts. since I was running as fast as I could to get the fuck out of there, I hadn't exactly covered myself (or my cause) in glory. but I did manage to learn a valuable lesson about "crowds and power." actually reading Canetti's great and essential book came much later.
thanks to everybody for being so patient with me and with this rather incoherent post.
but shit, I'm just mad. and not a little terrified....
and thanks again, Tom.
That guy's lucky you're as nice a guy as you are David. He would get a different response here.
thanks, Tom, for not buying into that "Levine=Stalin" shtick.
You are infinitely more patient than I would be. He'd be out on the street if I knew him. I've already kicked out two QAnon crazy cleaning ladies and a yard helper who lied about having his shots. I'm pretty protective of my space, especially due to my own health issues. No one is allowed inside unless fully vaxxed and boosted and NO ONE is allowed inside if a MAGAt.
oh, I kick him out all the time...to get home, he just takes the elevator to the sixth floor. sometimes I feel like George Burns firing Harry Von Zell; his problem is that he thinks it's funny that he can get what's become a stereotyped response from me.
I just wish he wouldn't do it. and since Tom mentioned his blood pressure, I'm in the middle of some "issues" and not-very-well-controlled hypertension is one of them, although the least serious.
I completely understand those HP issues. "Essential hypertension" by chance? Or something like this?
well, I've had EP for something like 35 years, but I've had recent spikes so the cardiologist awaits....
and thanks for asking.